The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-08 00:00:00

Articled Clerks' Society. The third inauguration meeting of this society, which was established two years ago, was held yes terday evening in the great hall, King's College. Mr. COLERIDGE, M.P., occupied the chair, and, after some formal business had been disposed of, delivered the inaugural address. Havinr , thanked the meeting—which comprised several ladies—for the warm reception they had given him, he proceeded to say that his professional life had been influenced so much by chance, and that his professional success —partial as it was—had been so unexpected by him self, that he had but little hopes of being able to communicate to his audience anything which could be of value to them as the result of his own experi ence. As to the professional education, indeed, of those to whom his remarks were specially directed, he could give them but little information, because he did not pretend to understand the subject. He had not, as was the case with many barristers, passed any portion of his time in an attorney's office, and be had not, therefore, save in so far as common sense might be supposed to give it, any practical knowledge of the details which were then to be mas tered. The only advice, then, which he had to offer on the subject of purely professional education was comprised in the obvious precept " make yourselves thoroughly masters of your work. Do not for a moment suppose that you are above it, or feel that you condescend to do it as a matter of grace—a feeling which is certain to end in slovenliness and negligence." (Cheers.) What ever was worth doing at all was worth doing well, and as the work of an attorney beyond that of almost any other man was important, not only to himself, but to other people, a sense of solemn re sponsibility ought to come in aid of the sense of self-respect by which he should always be animated. That poor pretender to gentility who affected to de precate and look down upon the profession by which he had to live could excite, and ought to excite, in every manly mind no sentiment but that of disdain ful pity. (Hear.) He was the truest gentleman, as well as the best attorney, who thought no details too small and no labour too great which might enable him to become master of the profession which he had adopted. With respect, therefore, to the purely pro fessional education of those young men whom he saw around him he had little or nothing to say. He of course assumed that they had done their best to make themselves masters of the few great text writers, that they had tried to present clearly to their minds the outlines and the principles, at least, of law and equity, of real property and equity as applied to pro perty, of assurance, of contracts, of easements; as well as of the poor law and criminal law. That, however, which he wished chiefly to insist on that evening was the great importance to themselves and to society at large that they should be something more than mere well-intentioned and honourable practitioners. It was important to themselves that besides being all that they should be a great dealmore because it seldom happened that a man without wide and general cultivation could attain the first place in any liberal profession. If by force of mind or auda city or by means less credible, he did succeed in at taining the first place, there were but too many ex amples to show that he often discredited the emi nence which he had reached. He did not mean to say that cultivation would do alone, but he did con tend that it made success greater ; that it gilded, as it were, the laurels of the conqueror, and poured some precious drops of consolation into the cup which the vanquished had to drain. Most of us, he feared, at some period of our time wasted invaluable time, but no single moment could be regarded as wasted which had been spent in the real, wide, and thorough cultivation of one's mind. Those hours, they might depend upon it, had been the best spent which had been passed in the diligent study- of the works of the great men of our own and other countries which had been passed with Homer, Aristotle, Cicero, Vir gil, Dante, Montaigne, Shakspere, Milton, Words worth, and Bishop Butler. From such men they might learn that there were things better than pro fessional success, and worse than professional failure; other objects in life than to win a verdict or reverse a decree. (Hear, hear.) From them we might learn to arrive at a sound and sober judgment about our selves and other people, and to know what poor crea tures most of us were side by side with the great giants of our race, and to avoid that vulgar vanity, that tire some egotism and self-display which be was afraid was sometimes so justly laid by men of the world to the charge of the legal profession. It was not, perhaps, unnatural that the great and successful lawyer, knowing nothing outside his profession and knowing that excellently well, achieving by its means great worldly wealth and rank, should sometimes be ridiculously vain. Let such a man be brought into the presence of really great and noble minds ; let him be made if he could to feel the grandeur and beauty of such minds ; let him be shown the vast fields of thought and knowledge, entirely new to him, which the work of those minds open to his view, and he would begin to suspect that he was not after all quite so great a person as he had been accustomed to think; he would be rendered more humble, which would be good for himself, and silenced, which would be good for others. (A laugh.) The cultivati on which those whom he saw before him would not fail to derive from the course which he had pointed out, they would look for and value in other men, and it - was of the greatest importance to the Bar, and through the Bar to the country, that they should act upon that view. "The interests of the Bar," a wise and higb_ rn i tided country gentleman, a friend of his, had once said to him, " are the real interests of everybody who may have occasion to employ one of its members—ihatis, they are the interests of almost every subject of the Queen." In short, the higher, the purer, and the more elevated they could make the character of the Bar, the better would it be, not only for their com mon profession, but for the great country of which they h a d the privilege of being citizens. (near, hear.) But the members of the Bar looked to, and were, as it were, u pheld by the attorneys, and just in proportion as the latter valued justness of thought, largeness of view, refinement of mind, and elevation of character, so would they seek out and appreciate those very men in the other branch of the profession who were distinguished by those great characteris tics. It was, he might add, a great mistake to sup pose that such men did not make the best practical advocates. In his opinion, they made the best ad vocates of all. But he would not base his argument on considerations derived from mere worldly success. In that of which he was speaking, as in all things, it was their solemn duty to aim high and to do the best they could to elevate not only their own characters, but the characters of all those with whom they had to deal. " Aude, hospes, contemners opes, et to quoque dignum " Pingo Deo." Thus said Virgil, and Aristotle wrote to the same effect ; while in that sublime aspiration, Sursum Cortla, we heard the voice of the Christian Church. In proportion as they acted upon the responsibility - which these words implied would they purify and elevate the character of their common profession ; while in proportion as they forgot that responsibility and poured out their favours on such specimens of low-bred vulgarity, insolence, and ignorance as had in his recollection from tifn e to time flourished, like bay-trees in our courts, would they degrade and dis honour the comm on hear.) Let to which they be be misunderstood. Let it him not at the same time not be supposed that he looked upon one as uneducated b eing t. because he did not happen to kno w G reek orLa 11,7 was aware that had not passed through one of our U n i vers i ties. men who had enjoyed th e advanta'e extremely of our public sc hools and University wereeducation' apt to overrate the benefits which had thus been conferred upon them. Such an education had it was true, certain positive advantages, and, having o thers, that it was, as it were, forced upon th ose who were submitted to it, whether they wished it or not. It was, at the same time, absurd to say that other means of cultivating the mind were to be un dervalued. If it were otherwise, it would follow that as such a public school and University training as we possessed was known only in this country, an Englishman alone could be looked upon as odu cated, whereas some persons, like his friend, Mr. Matthew Arnold, were of opinion that we in Eng land were entirely devoid of what was termed geist. But, to put the point more plainly, he supposed that no one would denyithat Burns was a man of thorough refinement and cultivation of mind, while it would be difficult to name two men of greater refinement than Burke or Erskine, although as Greek and Latin scholars they might have hi. l many better. There were, besides, many living m3n who furnished proofs of the justice of that which he wished to con vey. What he contended for was that every man who had a proper sense of what was due to himself and to society should, so far as lay in his power, cultivate the mind which he had received from God, and that the lawyer should never forget in the du ties of his profession the larger and more extensive duties which he had to discharge as a man and a citizen. (Cheers.) In almost every assembly in this country a sneer at the rapacity and the unscrupu lousness of members of the legal profession was cer tain to meet, with a too ready acceptance. He was, of course, aware how shallow, how ignorant, and how ill-bred such comments for the most part were; but he feared, nevertheless, that they sometimes were founded in truth. A wise, a calm, and a very great man—Wordsworth, in one of the most famous of his poems had pointed his finger at the legal pro fession with a fierce scorn, altogether foreign to his ordinary character— " Tho lawyer, art thou ? Come not nigh. " 0o carry to some fitter place " The keenness of that practised eye, " The hardness of that sallow face." (A laugh.) That such an impression as that to which he adverted should exist, in however slight a degree, with respect to the profession to which they had the honour to belong,was a humiliating state of things, and it became the duty of every one of them to render it as far as possible unjust. He, for one, had good means of knowing that a great lawyer must be a man of stainless honour, of spotless purity of mind, and of the highest cultivation ; and what nobler object, he would ask, could pre.sent itself to any of them than to aid in wiping off every stain and every prejudice which now dimmed, or seemed to dim, the honour and fame of a great profession, founded in the necessities of human nature, conse crated by the memories of tyranny resisted, inno cence protected, justice vindicated, and containing among its members a long list of great and good men, whose names and works were the glory of their own times and the delight of succeeding ages. (Loud cheers.) A t the conclusion of the hon. and learned gentle man's address the " Davis Prize" was presented to Mr. P. W. Drummond for the best essay on the subject of capital punishment. A discussion followed, in which Mr. Drummond, Mr. H. E. May, Mr. H. E. Stenning, Mr. J. R. Col lins, Mr. W. Woodall, and Mr. W. S. Prideaux took part, on the question, " That the responsibi lity for any libellous matter contained in a correctly quoted paragraph (when the authority is given), or in an accurate report of a public meeting, should not (unless malice in fact be proved) rest with the proprietor, printer, or publisher of any newspaper, or other periodical publication so quoting or report ing : but with the originator of such libell ous ma t ter alone." Naval and Military Intelligence. On Tuesday morning a Court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Formidable, flagship of Vice Admiral Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.8., Com mander-in-Chief at the Nore, to try Thos. Neville, of her Majesty's ship Pylades, captain of the after guard of the ship, for deserting her at Halifax on the 4th of Feb., 1866 ; and, secondly, with making away on the 2d of Feb., 1866, with the sum of £7 175., the money of a mess in which the prisoner was the caterer. The Court consisted of Capt. S. L. Crof ton, additional to her Majesty's ship Cumberland, for service in the Naval Barracks, Sheerness, president ; Capt. D. M'L. Mackenzie, of H.M.S. Formidable; Commander J. P. Sherburne, of H.M.S. Wellesley; Commander W. L. Partridge, of H.M.S. Cumber land; and Commander E. Nares, H.M.S. Reindeer. Mr. H. Knight, of the firm of Essell, Knight, and Arnold, Admiralty solicitors, Rochester, was deputy . judge-advocate. Capt. A. W. Hood, of H.M.S. Py lades, prosecuted. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and threw himself upon the mercy of the Court. Capt. A. W. A. Hood said that previous to Feb. 4, 1866, his character was very good, and that he was satis fied with the manner in which he did his duty. The Court then was cleared, and after an hour's delibe ration, and on the Cot re-assembling, the prisoner was sentenced to be reduced to an able seaman of the second class, and to undergo two years' impri sonment, with hard labour, in Lewes Gaol. Additional particulars have been received at Chat ham respecting the final trial of the ships comprising the Channel squadron, under steam, during the run from the coast of Ireland to Plymouth. On leaving Bantry Bay, on the Ist inst., a short trial of the squadron at full speed took place, when in the course of the trial, which lasted only two hours, the Achilles beat every other ship, the shorter vessels acquitting themselves remarkably well, with the exception of the Bellerophon, which on this occasion took the fourth place only. The ponderous Lord Clyde, which represents in the squadron Mr. Reed's class of wood-built frigates, completely clad with thick ar mour, took the second place, while the Pallas, which has gained the palm for sailing in all trials, and under all circumstances, followed next. The Pallas, it may be remarked, is 50ft. shorter than other fri gates of the squadron, and by thus taking the third place, beating even the Caledonia, Ocean, and Hec tor, and coming so near the Achilles, has vindicated the character of the new ships as steamers, which the momentary failure of the Bellerophon might otherwise have compromised. The low speed at tained by the Bellerophon at the commencement of the trial was attributed to the circumstance of one of the bearings of the engine having been screwed too tightly, and to the sudden priming of the boilers, w hich resulted i u her steaming, fora short time, at 11 knot s only, while there is littl e d ou bt s h e wou ld have been beate n the de yt f h ec e ts wh n o o l t e o b f ee t n he r v em es e s c e i l id s e o . f the l consequence of these accidents during the short race a further trial oftohuh the Belleroph on was or d ere d on her way to Portsm at zulting in a s p ee d o f rat h er more than 14 k nots, rn achieved in August last at theequalling, in fact, that Bay. It is sc arce l y casured mile, Stokes Possible to importance of th e l ong series of suecessOver estimate the whichduringPallas has attain e d during the cruise of the squad ron, inasmuch as they completely dissipate the opinion universal in the ship-building world to a year or two since, that enormous length w as th e leading desideratum iu our d ironcla ships. Durinc, the cruise the Pallas succeeded in b • eating every thing under canvas, and followed close upon the heels of the Achilles, which proved herself the fastest vessel of the squadron under steam, and that not withstanding the Pallas is 155 ft. shorter than the Achilles. Since the trials the Pallas has proceeded to Galway for a short time. The screw corvette Pylades, 21, 350-home power, of was yesterday put out commission, and her crew supervision of Capt. W. K. paid . off under the s Hall, C. 8., superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard. She has been in commission within a few weeks of four years, during which period she has been at tached to the squadron on the West Coast of Ame rica. On being paid off yesterday the crew were granted six weeks' leave of absence. Capt. A. W. A. Hood, who commissioned the Pylades, and re turned to England with her, has been appointed to the command of the Excellent, gunnery ship at Portsmouth. The Lily, 4, 702 to ns , 200-h orse power, having been dismantled on h er re t urn f rom the North America and West I n di a stat i on, was yesterday put out of commission, and placed in the third division of the Steam Reserve in the Medway. Yesterday the B Battery, 4th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, with the whole of the horses, Armstrong guns, animunition waggons, and other materiel, left Chatham garrison, en route for York, where the battery is to be stationed for the winter. Two officers, two sergeants, and 48 rank and file of the Bth depot battalion have been withdrawn from Landguard Fort, Harwich. Sergeant Wo o d an d Corporal Glover, o f t h e 84th Regiment, h av i ng qua are held in readi ness to lifted at the gymnasium at Aldershot, as i nstructors, proceed to Malta to join tl, e gymnasium:at that station,where also their reiLnent of tke 100th is quartered. Lan ce -corporal Brown, r E SUN, LON CON, THURSDAY EVEN EN G, NOVEMB R 8 1 366. Foot, and Private Hughes, of the 35th, have also qualified as gymnastic instructors, and are attached to the gymnasium at Colchester. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. J. O'Roskets, to the Reindeer; Lieut. C. H. Farquharson, to the Rinaldo; Lieut. H. F. Cleveland, to the Hibernia ; Sub- Lieut. Alleyne P. Pascoe, to the Reindeer ; Sub- Lieut. J. E. Bowly and Sub-Lieut. A. C. M. Coul son, to the Racoon ; J. M. M'Kuahe and P. C. Underwood, midshipmen, to the Racoon ; T. A. Brand, midshipman, to the Lord Clyde ; H. A. Askew, midshipman, to the Reindeer ; H. Archdall, naval cadet, to the Rinaldo ; and B. W. Slater, naval cadet, to the Racoon. Meanwhile, the despatch of the Secretary of State, approving our recognition of the de facto ruler who killed his father, and is likely to be sacrificed by uncle, has been received. So in Burmah, front the frontier of which Colonel Pha . yrd is still watching events, matters have ben complicated, not only by the formation of a second faction under another son of the dethroned King, but by the King taking ad vantage of the divided counsels of his sons, to engage 40 or 50 European sailors in Rangoon, and two steamers. Should they be allowed to arrive at Man dalay, the King may once more obtain the ascendant." A Sample of Joint-Stock Enterprise 1 Two or three weeks ago we described a meeting of the proprietors of some Assam tea estates, as sembled in the East India Avenue, Leadenhall street. Since then all we have alluded to have been moving swiftly on to ruin. So extensive are the interests concerned, so wide-spread the disas trous loss, that the subject is likely to be brought forcibly before the public, and to furnish the law courts with additional work. Perhaps there are few better instances than these to expose the mode of promoting and launching on their road to ruin many joint-stock concerns. The story is not, then, without its interest even to our American readers, as it describes the groundwork on which the super structures were built, which have lately fallen with such a frightful crash, involving thousands of families in poverty, and damaging most fatally the hitherto high commercial character of Eng land. Assam, the most beautiful province of British India, lies to the north-east of Calcutta, at the foot of the great ranges which separate our territories from the Tartar dominions. The country is intersected by noble fivers, the hills are covered with dense forests, and being watered by constant showers the verdure is ever green. For many years it has been known that the tea-plant was indigenous, attaining to the dimensions of a tree, which furnished the planters with the best seed. The great Assam Tea Company, after an enormous expenditure, which brought them to the verge of destruction, succeeded under an able manager in establishing themselves as one of the most successful undertakings in India. As the tide turned with them, and the profits of the pursuit became known, several adventurers appeared in the field. Among these was Mr. G. R. BARRY, who suc ceeded in appropriating to himself some of the aban doned gardens of the Assam Company, and working them to a profit. Time passed on, and brought with it a Chinese war and Chinese revolution, which threatened the destruction of the great tea export of that land. The attention of the Indian Government was drawn to the resources of their own country, and opinions were given by competent persons that a large por tion of this staple might be produced in India. The Government established gardens, imported Chinese workmen, and proved that in various parts of their dominions the shrub might be cultivated with profit. Private enterprise was not slow in following in the direction indicated by the Administration, and the formation of tea companies became a mania in Cal cutta. Those who had early established themselves in Assam seized the opportunity, and turned the gardens they had formed into joint-stock enter prises. Mr. G. R. BARRY saw that what had given fortunes to so many planters in the limited market of India might be worked to greater advantage in the boundless field of London. He came to Eng land, induced a few respectable gentlemen to take up the subject, and brought out under their aus pices the Upper Assam Tea Company. The returns under his skilful manipulation were prodigious. The shares went to a high premium, and the pro prietors congratulated themselves on their splendid investment. With such a magnificent sample of what tea could do, Mr. BARRY found little difficulty in getting up and disposing of other estates. He went back to Assam, purchased blocks of land, and such gardens as were open for sale, and made these the basis on which be proceeded with his concoc tion of fresh companies. The Eastern Assam was launched shortly after his return to London with a capital of £250,000. This was followed by the Now gong Company, and the shares Df both were readily taken. When the share mania was waning the Chubwa was introduced, and found a sufficient number of dupes to purchase the necessary amount of shares. Thus Mr. BARRY on such slender foun dations skilfully built up these four companies, en tailing on the proprietors a liability of one million sterling. Mr. BARRY, now in possession of a splen did fortune, purchased an estate in Ireland, and was returned at the last election as the member for Cork. But the day of reckoning drew swiftly on ; the panic which culminated in London in May last ramified over the British dominions, and was felt with great severity in Assam. The inherent rot tenness of these concerns gradually became known. The shares fell heavily in the Stock Exchange ; calls to save the property became frequent. The returns proved to be little or nothing, and the alluring bubbles one by one burst, leaving the dis mayed shareholders gazing on the empty air. A few days ago the Upper Assam—that ignuies fatuus that had lured so many to destruction, with its 30 per cent. dividend—was thrown into Chancery by the directors to be" wound up." This was followed on Tuesday last by a meeting of the Nowgong Company, when a report of the committee of in vestigation, appointed at a former meeting, was read. It appeared that Mr. BARRY had drawn out the prospectus, and though unsupported by any docutnents in proof of the,statements it contained, the directors accepted it, Mr. BARRY being hirhself the chairman, and exercising much influence on that body. Mr. BARRY'S co-vendor was at the time in India, and this gentleman saw with dismay the statements put forth, and telegraphed to London to cancel the sale of his gardens. "No cultivation," he said, " so old as two years ; none will be pro ductive till next year." To this Mr. BARRY replied, " Sales cannot be cancelled, agreements " are signed, possession must be given." Mr. BARRY, when the truth began to ooze out, resigned his seat as chairman in favour of Mr. MoRAN ; but the directors refused to allow him to retire from the board, and he was compelled to appear and listen to one of the most damaging re ports ever read, and substantially to admit its truth. He stated that he had no more means of knowing, the exact state of things than ,they (the other mem bers of the board) had. Mr. MORAN said that for 12 months the board were kept in the dark, and that they had every reason at that time to feel confidence in those with whom they were dealing. Dr. LECKIE, the chairman of the committee of investigation, spoke iu a complimentary manner of Mr. MoRAN. "It needed no words of his," he said, " to insure " for that gentleman the continued respect and con " fidence of his many friends in this country and in " India." We sympathise strongly with this gentle man and the other honourable men associated with him at the board in the painful position into which they have been betrayed. After an honourable career, while involved with his brother shareholders in heavy losses, he finds himself compelled to stand up and say, " It was not with very calm feelings that " he rose to address the shareholders, inasmuch as the " report of the committee made him appear, at first " sight, a greater rogue than he had conceived it " possible to be." The greater publicity that is given to this story, the better it will be for him and those who have acted with him in honour and good faith. We cannot refrain from some degree of admi ration at the boldness with which the hon. member for Cork, the vendor of the estates, looked on through a pair of spectacles at the wrathful and victimised shareholders. We trust he will display equal spirit in meeting his constituents. He failed, however, in enduring to the end. Mr. BURROWS rose and directed on him a battery which appears to have been overwheming in its force. In vain the Hon. Member cried for protection to the Chairman of the Board—no protection was extended. Shot after shot from the speaker demolished, like a chilled projectile, the slender defence the- Hon. Member could raise, and he was compelled to beat a hasty retreat, carrying with him the good wishes of the assembled gentlemen. The Courts have now opened, and an overwhelming mass of such busi ness as that furnished by the Hon. Member for Cork will be brought before them. A few ga rotters frightened London out of its propriety, and induced most stringent laws of repression. But what did these garotters do compared to the awful injury wrought by unscrupulous promoters? Pro perty is said to be guarded more sacredly than life in England —yet London, within late years, has been beyond all question the most dangerous place for those with any means, without one ex ception, all over the world. It may be said that people should learn to take care of themselves— the very argument that ROB ROY or any other highwayman would use. The law protects the per son from a treacherous assault—it should protect property also from unscrupulous designs, unblush ing fraud, and gross misrepresentation. Anglo- American Times. SPIRIT OP THE PDBLIO JOURNALS. -0- TIMES.—King Victor Emmanuel crossed the Lagoon yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, and Venice, at last and for the first time in the history of the world, becomes part of Italy. For the last fourteen centuries, from Attila to Napoleon, Venice has been in Italy, yet not of Italy. Europe has not such another instance of completely isolated exist ence as that of the City of the Doge, up to the last Dege's time. Rising from the water at a time when hardly one square inch of the mainland escaped the destroyers of the Roman world, Venice beheld every wave of invasion break at the foot of her sea wall. Herulians and Ostrogoths, Longobards and Franks built up Italian kingdoms, but their sway never reached the Rialto. The Eastern Empire fell, the Western Empire rose, but Venice never properly acknowledged either Exarch or Vicar. Through 'Carlovingian, through Saxon eras, under Swabian, under Hapsburg dynasties, Venice held her own. Caesars and Pontiffs strove for the world's mastery. Italy and Germany fought for sceptre or crosier; Venice alone was unmoved, neither Papal, nor Imperial, neither Guelph nor Ghibelline. Popes and Emperors met within her walls as on neutral ground, never exacting her tribute, never claiming her homage. Lombard Leagues arose ; a new Italian life, a life of feud and faction ; Venice stood alone, strong, orderly, free. Ezzelini and Este, Scala, and Visconti, crushed her inland sisters; Doges seldom attempted, never achieved, tyranny. She was " so framed by God, thanks to His mercy, that any sufferance of others' misery touched her not." Yet, though apart from Italy, Venice was not a stranger to Italy. She me t Pi sa an d G enoa on the high seas. She grappled with Milan on the mainland, she fought long and hard for her Conti nental possessions, she stood the brunt of French, German, and Spanish onset—the onset of each of them, of all of them combined ; but her home in the Lagoon was still inviolate, inaccessible to Italian passion, out of reach of foreign inroad. The whole of that fitful Italian life, mediaeval and modern, began and ended, cities declined, States were ab sorbed, dynasties became extinct ; Venice abided. Down to the last French catastrophe, Venice had nothing in common with general Italian vicissitudes. But that catastrophe at last associated Venice to Italian destinies. Attila's work was undone by Napoleon. That community which was severed from Italy when the first tide of invasion set in was restored to Italy when the era of invasion was draw ing to a close. For the last 70 years Venice had, indeed, become Italian, involved in all the miseries, overwhelmed by all the calamities, of the rest of the country. She came in only for the last drops in the cup, but those were the bitterest, and now can it be said that the cup has passed away? that the hour of rejoicing has come for all the cities of Italy, and that Venice comes to muster with the rest ? There are few, we fancy, who will grudge the Italians their national jubilee, were it even prolonged for a week or a month, were it to transcend the extremes of frantic enthusiasm, or to degenerate into an ex hibition of carnival mummeries. This is a case, if ever there was one, to justify even madness ; and if the well-wishers of Italy abroad look more soberly on the event, it is because they are still overcome by its magnitude, and only take it in with some a happy, yet a solemn, moment effort. It is, indeed, for Italy ! After a hard trial for fifteen centuries, during which every foreign horde was more at home in Italy than the Italian himself, he sees now the backs of the last Austrian and Frenchman with the consciousness that it must be no one's fault but his own if he ever beholds their faces again. How it was all brought about, how he succeeded in con quering his country, or who conquered it for him, will never be quite clear to himself or to the world. The liberation of Italy during these last fifty years is an epic in which heaven and earth bore a hand. A few men of genius and valour bore up nobly and manfully, yet hopelessly, in the struggle : but the Deus ex machina, in the shape of European opinion, looked down from the clouds, and, for once, a suffering nation was dealt with in conformity with the rules of poetic justice. The Italians have got their country—nothing less, nothing more. All the rest is for them to do. A wayfarer had fallen among robbers, who had just cut and bruised him within an inch of his life when resale came ; he is writhing on the ground, all stunned and dismayed, and barely conscious ; but it is for him now to be up and doing, for his deliverers cannot stanch the blood that is fast ebbing from him. It will be well to guard against illu sions. This Venice from whose limbs th Austrian fetters have just fallen, and which is thus miracu lously restored to the embraces of her Italian sisters, has nothing in common with old Venice. Of that Queen of the Adriatic, who wedded the sea, who stormed Constantinople, and extended her sway over " one-fourth and a half of the Roman Empire," little more than the corpse is left, and it remains to be seen whether deliverance comes in time to recall it to animation, or simply to screen its lingering death from that foreign outrage which hastened and embittered it. Neither is Venice all of Italy that is half dead. Pavia and Pisa, Ferrara and Piacenza, Ravenna, and a score of others, are mere spectre cities. It was ungenerous on the part of the French poet to describe Italy as the " Laud of the Dead ;" but it is for the Italians to prove that " she was not dead, but sleeping." It is with no little expectation that the world will be looking forward to Italy's awakening. The wedding of the Adriatic Bride will be a five days' ceremony, and the turn of the Papal city, with or without the Pope's blessing, will closely follow. The question will be, What next ? The Italians will have full possession of the land of their fathers—a land of beauty and re nown, of health and wealth, of wondrous achieve ments, crying out to them from her ruins, from her monuments, " Noblesse oblige !" The land is theirs ; may it for ever be theirs ; may it be for gotten that it ever was other than theirs ! The land is theirs to do with it as they please, to do with themselves as they please. Should they aspire to do no more for themselves than Solferino and Sadowa have done, should they wrap in a napkin the talent that has been confided to their steward ship, the world would, of course, have nothing to say to it. A great wrong bas been redressed in their case, and the ends of justice are fulfilled. But the cry of distress which went so straight to the world's sympathies was less for Italy's actual suffer ings than for her forced inaction. The complaint was not so much that the Austrian tortured the body as that be killed the soul. The Italian panted for freedom, not as a source of enjoyment, but as a stimulus to exertion. Were the vows of adversity not to be forgotten in the hour of prosperity, what a vast field for activity would now be open to the e mancipated people ! The very soil of the country is more than half to be redeemed from long ages of neglect. No one grudges the Italians these days of festivity, but they surely bear in mind that it is not by banners and tapestry, by stars and spangles, by lights and fireworks, that air and water, and fresh ness and sweetness, can be re s t ore d to Venice ; that it is not by shouts of joy and songs of triumph that the deathlike silence which inhabits her choked-up harbours and her stagnant canals can be efficiently banished ! The Austrian is gone ; the Pope,—át least so far as he is a King, —will follow ; but what a gang of other tyrants, as grim and ruthless—King Dirt, Queen Beggary, and all the dynasty of Sloth, Improvidence, Superstition, and Bigotry—still re main to be hurled from the throne ! With these hideous monsters it behoves the Italians to grapple for themselves, for in such a contest it is little they can hope either from French chivalry or from Prus sian community of interests. The Italians are a gifted race. The cause which, after half a century's struggles, is now triumphant required no less than the high character, the devotion, the endurance of their leading patriots, aided by the moderation, the docility, the sense and tact of the common mass. Give the Italians an object, and they will lack neither wisdom nor heroism for its attainment. The difficulty will lie now in their just appreciation of what has actually been achieved and what remains to be done. The cry has hitherto been " Italy for the Italians." It should now be reversed into " The Italians for Italy," and it should impose upon every man the duty of exerting himself to the utmost to restore the land to thatdegree of material and social wellbeing, and to raise the people to that intellectual and moral eminence, which may cause even the French poet to acknowledge Italy as a " land of the living." POST.—Statesmen as well as ordinary politicians who are educated to believe in the necessity of a " balance of power" inlEurope will watch with con siderable interest what is now taking place in the Austrian empire. The next few months may tell us in all probability whether the Austrian empire ruled by Francis Joseph is to be effectually reconstituted, and to remain one of the great Powers of Europe, or whether her polyglot millions will become power less from division. The two important facts of the day are the convocation of the Hungarian Diet on the 19th of this month, and the nomination of that eminent Saxon diplomatist, Baron von Buest, as Minister of Foreign Affairs. This appointment appears to have given great satisfaction at Vienna, and created a dawn of confidence amongst the friends of the House of Hapsburg. Called upon to direct the domestic, internal, as well as foreign po licy of the Austrian empire at a most critical moment, Baron von Beast's diplomacy will be fol lowed at each move by the statesmen of Prussia, who cannot fail to discover in the nomination of this active spirit of the late German Confederation an attempt to dispute the ambitious designs of King William and his Prime Minister. In a circular note lately issued by the new Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs he tells his own agents abroad that he will immediately give his attention to the inter nal or domestic affairs of the empire. This is a supreme necessity, for it is not until Austria is consolidated at home that she can hope to hold any influence even over a Southern Germany, whilst internal discord weakens her voice at every European Court. If the Emperor and his de spoiled friends ever hope to regain what Prussia has conquered, Austria must first make herself strong and united politically, whilst her financial condition must be very different from that which her budgets now display. The first and most vital question is, How to bring about a reconciliation with Hungary and Croatia 7 We all know that negotiations have been going, on between the Vienna Cabinet and the leading patriots at Pesth in order to enable the Diet, when its meta" bers come together, to accomplish a solid and per manent incorporation with the rest of the empire. Now, if we are correctly informed, up to a very late date the Emperor and his advisers at Vienna have shown great hesitation and vacillation in treat ing with the Magyars and those leading political men in whoa, the Hungarian people have full con fidence. Francis Joseph may be willing to accord the Hungarians a national administration and an unlimited municipal authority ; but the Emperor cannot be persuaded to let the Hungarians manage their own affairs as regards finance and war. Th e Hungarians have hitherto kept away from the lteichsrath, or Council of the Empire, and have consequently never voted the ruinous taxation in' posed upon them. The Diet of 1861 was little short of a protest against the past and present frauds and injustice traditionally practised on the nation by the Hapsburgs, and which Baron rod manicky and Count Alexander Carolyi intend to be heard in sympathising and constitutional England. The Hungarians are a conservative and loyal people ; they really desire to put faith in Austria, although the representative so long of absolutist , feudal, and Church oppression ; but, unhappilit they have no faith in the integrity of Austria ; that is the great difficulty of the moment. Past history has taught them that the House of Hapsburg i s more generous and just in the hour of fear and humilia tion than in the hour of prosperity and power. The leading men of Hungary ask that the concessions Austria may be disposed to make shall be protected bY guarantees. The Hungarians may have made up their minds to accept the national debt of the empire as it now stands ; but they say—For the future let us have some guarantee that the taxes we pay to the State shall not be expended in useless wars to maintain thrones and systems of government we desire to see rather swept away than perpetuated by militaryde spotism. Another demand made by the Hungarians is that they should be permitted to possess a limited national guard. There are no doubt other minor questions to be disposed of, but the above form the more prominent difficultiesfor negociation. If Baron von Beust can bring more confiding and g enerous counsels to the Court and Government he may in duce the Emperor to abandon the advice of those who have lost him Venetia and destroyed Austrian influence among the German people, if not amongst the small Princes of a Royal German Confederation , in which Austrian ' influence often triumphed at Frankfort. He commences his difficult task with more promise than any recent principal adviser of the Crown could indulge in. There is no Venetian question to encumber domestic rule and oblige a large standing army. Austria is not only free of Venetia, but she is thoroughly' disentangled from the politics .of ;the Italian peninsula, and we may presume, at least, relieved from the exigencies of the Papacy. Austria, too, is no longer the protector of those German States whose princes and armies wer e of so little use to her in her late struggle with Prussia , But there are yet enough discordant elements to be reconciled and ingeniously patched into an imperial and harmonious political mosaic. Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Galicia, Austria Proper, Styria, Carinthia, Buckowina, Transylvania, Silesia, Moravia, the Tyrol, Istria, &c. Such var i e d di s t r icts and people, have to be yet governed f r o m Vi enna , ma de loyal and confident towards a dynasty which is just not suffering under a cloud of gloom and distrust. But n Hungary is reconciled the main work is accomplished. Already the various provincial Diets have, with th, certainly important exceptions of Hungary an? Croatia, subscribed to the Constitution of 1860-611 and, after what has taken place in 1866, we WO' expect the Court of Vienna to show more respect an- , consideration for the various nationalities than 01 old. We should witness with regret the destruction of the Austrian empire, and we should regret even, its fall from a great Power to a disjointed and went amalgamation of small States. The treaties of 1 81 ' placed Austria in a false position, and she never was able to right herself. She has lost many Sovereign,s their thrones and considerably damaged the legiti mate influence of the Roman Catholic Church ; but we can ill spare her as a great Power in the centre of Europe in days like ours. We hope Franc's Joseph will sincerely make friends and consolidate a real friendship with Hungary, and even remove the Court to Pesth f or a f ew mou th s every year. It , he takes to himself ne w an d i n t e lli gent const it u tional Ministers, and turns his back on those who have brought about so much disaster to his dynasty, the Austrian empire may be renovated, and become one more of great political value to the European family of nations and the people over whom Francis Josep h is called to rule. THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have advices by the arrival of the above mail from Bombay to Oct. 13, and from Calcutta to Oct. 7. THE FAMINE. Lord Cranbourne, Secretary of State for India, had addressed to his Excellency the Governor-Gene ral in Council the following despatch, dated London, Aug. 16, 1866 : " I have considered in Council your letter dated June 16, 1866, forwarding a resolution recorded by you on the 14th idem, with accompanying telegrams and documents on the subject of the distress pre vailing in Orissa and in some of the districts of Ben gal in consequence of the failure of the rice crops from want of rain. The information thus placed before me, being derived almost entirely from tele grams, is insufficient to enable me to form an ade quate opinion, either as to the extent of the pre vailing distress, or as to the measures taken under orders of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for relieving it. It is manifest, however, that a serious scarcity of food, if not absolute famine, exists in many of the districts affected by the drought, and her Majesty's Government, deeply deploring the consequent sufferings of the people, are most anxious that the utmost liberality should be shown by your Government in extending relief to the suf ferers. The measures sanctioned by your resolution of the 14th June seem judicious, and have my ap proval, and I sanction the adoption of any further measures you may deem necessary. I will in the meantime only express my satisfaction that local relief committees have been constituted in the suf fering districts, and my confidence that, should it be thought desirable to form a central committee for the collection of subscriptions at Calcutta, all classes of the community ill cordially unite in car rying out the charitable work." The limes of India comments on the despatch thus : " From this despatch it is evident that Lord Cran bourne, as well as so many in India, considered the reports of the state of the suffering districts supplied by the Board of Revenue to be eminently unsatis factory. Having only a string of vague tele grams before him, what could bis lordship do but express his inability to form any adequate opinion regarding the state of the country or the sufficiency of the measures of relief adopted by the Ben gal Government, and express himself as most anxious that the utmost liberality should be shown by the Government of India in extending relief to the sufferers, sanctioning, at the same time, the adoption of any further measures that might be deemed necessary. It will be readily understood how his lordship, having allowed the Government of India the utmost latitude in the exercise of liberality to relieve the famine, and having received a reply assuring him that the wants of the suffering dis tricts had been abundantly met, should hold the opinion expressed by him to the deputation that waited on him in London the other day, to the effect " that further help was unnecessary." We have had sent to us from Balasore a specimen of the rice supplied to the starving population, and which a Calcutta paper thus truthfully describes :—" A worm-eaten cake, looking as if it were composed of dust, chalk, and the sweeping of a rice gollah, a nauseating agglomeration of nastiness which calls up visions of cholera, and an extremity which renders a man utterly reckless as to what he eats, providing he eats something. It looks like rice, coarse at the beginning, rained into a pulp, then sun-dried and sun-baked, then re-washed out, re-sun-dried and re-sun-baked until all sem blance of its original quality has been lost, and from an article of food it h as b een conver t e d i n t o c h o l era, visible and solidified, for convenience of admini stration." The Calcutta Englishman fears that it was some what premature in stating, in its last summary, that the famine might be considered at end : " The distress, it admits, has certainly diminished to a very great extent, owing to the organised sys tems of relief which have been established, and we do not now hear of numbers dying on the roadside and in the villages from starvation. The latest re ports from the out-stations, furnished by the Board of Revenue, are dated the 15th of September, and give a somewhat cheering account of the diminu tion of the distress and the prospects of the har vest. But the board did not seem to recognise the terrible extent of the scourge until very lately. The local Committee of Relief in Calcutta are doing great good, but as they consider that it will be necessary to keep up the pauper hospitals for six months longer, they have suggested that further subscriptions be earnestly invited from the public. This being the state of things, it is distressing to find that the Government here have led the Home Government to believe that no further subscriptions are required, and that the funds at the disposal of the Relief Committee are ample. It cannot be wondered at that incorrect and misleading informa tion should come from the Government of India, with the Viceroy at Simla, and the Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal at Darjeeling, seeing nothing for themselves, but trusting for truth to official re ports. This famine has furnished a very bad but practical commentary upon the advantages of the heads of the Government, especially that of Bengal, being away from the capital the greater part of the year. Great distress prevails in Dharwar, in the Bombay Presidency, in consequence of the high price of grain. Ten thousand famine-stricken natives are fed daily at Balasore, yet numerous cases of death occur. A Sepoy riot arising from the dearness of food has occurred at Kamptee, in the Madras Presidency. The troops were turned out and the disturbance was soon quelled. The total amount at present contri buted by the Bombay Presidency for the relief of the Bengal famine is .£15,000—X5,000 having been collected since the departure of last mail. Reports from all parts of the lower provinces of Bengal state that the growing rice crop is one of the finest that has been known for many years. Upon this subject the Calcutta Englishman say The last few weeks w s t a n i n th of heavy ra i n, although they have told cruelly against the low lyi ng parts of Orissa, have ensured a noble h e early mostof crop isalready g the a ßengal. the In r ed the ryots a re sat i sf i ed with it. The, an B a u r r v d e staple d crop of the western districts, however, is the winter rice, and its abundance depends upon plentiful and pro tracted rains. This year every river is flooded, the tanks are swellin g above their embankments, and if the showers were now to cease altogether, there is enough water collected to keep the fields moist till December, when the harvest will be reaped. While great losses have been sustained from floods this year, great gains have also been de rived from them. The inundation that swept away the rice stalks and railway bridges of East Beer bhoom filled a thousand tanks, and insured the suc cessful cultivation of many a square mile of arid laterite in the west.' ANARCHY IN BURMAIL " Anarchy continues in Burmah and Affghanis tan, while it has again broken out in Muscat, where Syud Toorkee, brother of the late Sultan, and his heir, has risen against the pre sent ruler, who killed his father. Synd Toorkee, by the last official intelligence, managed to seize the principal part of Muscat, killed the Prime Minister, fired upon the town, and forced all British subjects to leave it a second time. Colonel Pelly, our resident iu the Gulf, who happened to be at Bushire, has hurried to the scene, and I sup pose our only possible policy, now that we have no navy, is to wait till a firm Goernmwat is established. THE TRIAL OF CAPTAIN JERVIS. The Oude Gazette says there is a rumour afloat that Sir 'William Mansfield leaves India for Eng land early next year : " Probably this has something to do with that scandalous trial of Capt. Jervis which, every one will coincide with us, has left an indelible impression on the minds of the public, at home as well as in India, not in the least favourable to the Commander-in- Chief. RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA. The Friend of India announces that the Govern ment of India has made arrangements to procure the most recent and reliable information regarding the progress of Russia in Central Asia from Russian as well as Asiatic sources. The diplomatic intrigues of Russia show that her design is ultimately to esta blish her suzerainty up to Peshawur. THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA. Particulars are furnished as to the death of this lamented prelate : "In stepping ashore from a river steamer at Koosh tea, a station on the right bank of the Ganges, over against Patna, Dr. Cotton missed his footing, and was drowned in the river. The bishop was on his return to Calcutta from Assam, whether he had gone on a pastoral visit about a month previously. Kooshtea is a railway station from which the line runs to Calcutta, so that his lordship had just com pleted his journey by river when the accident oc curred which resulted in his death. When the melancholy event became known at Simla a notifi cation was issued by the Governor-General of India in Council, dated 10th October, 1866, stating— ' There is scarcely a member of the entire Christian community throughout India who will not feel the premature loss of this prelate as a personal affliction.' " COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The Calcutta Englishman of Oct. 6 reports that— "ln the produce market rather a better business has been done. In the import market a better tone is noticeable for piece goods, but scarcely any per ceptible advance in prices has taken place. In the money-market no alteration has been made in the Bank of Bengal's rates, but money is still very easy in the open market at rates below those current at the bank. In Government paper there has been very little business doing, and prices have a downward tendency. In exchange business has been active for this mail, and rates have advanced. For freights a fair amount of business has beendone during the fortnight. The Bombay Gazette of Oct. 13 states : Our money-market has again been subject to depressing influences during the fortnight, but the more favourable intelligence from home has helped to check the uneasiness arising from the suspension of the Asiatic Bank. The stoppage of the Bombay branch of this bank was announced on the 29th ult., and on the 11th inst. we were informedof the closing of the London office and all the bank's branches. There have been a few native failures in the interval since our last, but the heaviest of those are now over; the posi tion of others will be to some extent improved by the re cent advance of cotton. The doaland for money cannot be said to have materially increased. In Government Secu rities a steady business has been in progress. In exchange rates have had a gradually advancing tendency during the fortnight. A considerable amount of bank paper has been bought by remitters. The market for imports opened steadily on the close of last mail. An active business has been done throughout the fortnight. During the past few days there has certainly been a partial slackening in the demand. Anglo American Mining. -- s Amongst the numerous indications of an ap proaching identity of feeling and interests between Great Britain and America, we may reckon that of the union of capital and skill in developing the mineral resources of the latter country. We are led to these remarks in consequence of having re ceived from a correspondent the first of a promised series of articles upon the subject of American mining and practical mineralogy. The waiter very appropriately commences the series with an article upon plumbago, or, as it is popularly called, " black-lead," which he is in duced to do in consequence of the great revo lution he anticipates will result, both in the Fine and industrial Arts, from the introduction, to an illimitable extent, of this sub stance from the celebrated Ticonderoga mines of Essex County, State of New York. When it is considered, first, that the yield of pencil lead is at present limited to one locality in England, a source so vastly inferior to the demand that a fabulously high price is obtained for it ; and, secondly, that the Ticonderoga mines yield a quantity sufficient for the requirements of the whole civilised world, and that too of a quality which is absolutely secur ing for it a preference over all other sorts, it can be no matter of surprise that ,the liveliest in terest is evinced in the prospect of its intro duction into the English market. Equally im portant is the fact that the other varieties ne cessary in stereotyping, electrotyping, and in the fabrication of stoves, furnaces, crucibles, stove po and numerous sources prospective, are to olifshi,tsluebirnipclaotyifiligiecnot:npprocusentidts, and be obtained in vast abundance from the same loca tion of very superior quality. The latter feature was most satisfactorily proved during the Exhibition of 1861 by the display of numerous large masses in the American Court, and has been more fully ver fied by the importation into this country from time to time since of specimens unequalled in bulk and quality. As, however, our readers will shortly be afforded an apportunity of judging of the correct ness o f th ese statements upon the issue of a prospectus of a com pany organised for the special puTnose of working the mine in question, we will content ourselves with referring them to the statistics contained therein, and claim an attentive perusal of the articles upon the subjects about to appear in our columns. One remark, however, in conclusion, we cannot re frain from offering—it is this. The Ticonderoga Golconda is at the present time, and leas been for a long period, in active and highly successful opera tion, and we reiterate the sentiment with which we started, that we look upon its introduction to the notice of English investors as a means of ;furthering the object prominent in the hearts of every well wisher of his country on either side of the , Atlantic —a closer union amongst the members of the Anglo- Saxon race.—Anglo-Anzerican Times. THE LATE MISS MATILDA WRENCII.—Our obituary a few days ago contained the announcement of the death of a lady so quietly useful in her generation that it only right that some notice of her life, labours, and character should be taken. By birth and family connection :Miss Wrench was English, but during the last 20 year.s the greater partion of her time had been spent in Scotland ; and while not confining her liberality to Scottish obj ects, her energies and her possessions were largely devoted to the advancement of the interests, spiritual and material, of the people in our Western Highlands, especially in Skye, where she builc and endow e d a sc hool, and where her rue mory will long bo warmly cherished. She'has left transla tions which attest the extent of her scholarship and her ad mirable English style. Among these we may mention Nean der's "Life of St. Bernard," an d portions of the very in teresting memoirs of her " Life and Times of Frederick Perthes." For many years Miss Wrench was the honoured associate and worthy successor of Mrs. Fry in visiting the prisons of London, and striving by the power of female sympathy and Christian truth to raise her fallen miters from the depths in which they lay. Some record of this portion of her life willbe found in a volume entitled "Visits to Female Prisoners at Home and Abroad," published in 1852. In 1816, the year of dreadful famine in the High lands, Miss Wrench's warmest sympathies were rousod, and as with her sympathy never remained a men, senti ment, she wrote and published an interesting narrative called "The Highland Glen," by the' sale of which, small as the work was, she was enabled to contribute a large sum for the relief of the sufferers. Miss Wrench died at73owden, in Selkirkshire, on the 18th of October.—Scotsmall :A young lady repr i manded her shoema k er • f or no t following he r di rec ti ons respecting a pair of shoe s she had ordered ; and, among other s , i ns i s t e d that they were not fellows Crispin replied th at he purpose ly ma de them so, . in order to oblige he r , we l l knowing the mo d es t y o f h er disposition ; and that she was not fond of fellows. COUNTRY MARKETS. SALISBITRY.—TUESDAY. To-day there was a small attendance of millers and dealers. Good wheat in moderate request, and about tbo, asual amount of b us i ness done, at a decline, h owe ver, 01 is per qr. S ome l arge purchases were made in wait ing barley. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fror, 56s to 66s ; b ar l ey, 3 7s to 54s ; oats, 24s to 30s ; b eaus , to 58s; and peas, 408 to 50s per qr. Tares, from 4s to 53 6d per bushel; Best bread, 14d; household ditto, 13 • - per 81b loaf. Flour, 39s to 45s per sack. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. no n Business at th e var i ous markets of the county is -x quite so brisk as it has been of late, b u y ers h o lding back in anticipation of a decline in prices. The following are the average quotations:—Wheat, Gs 3d to 6s 9d per bushel ; white, Gs 9d to 7s Od ; 4s 6d to 5s Od ; ma l t i ng barley, 38s to 43s per qr ; grind' ing ditto, 32s t o 35 s Od ; b eans, 445 ; white oats, 25s to 4 'o black ditto, 242 9d to 26s 6d. HULL.-TUESDAY. In this district the advance in the value of wheat con tinues, and good dry samples of both English and foreign were sold at fully last week's prices. At our market toi; day there was a good show o f E ng li s h w h e at, which met a rather slow sale. Good dry l o t s ma d e l a t e rates, damp parcels were difficult to quit. English white wheat, 60s to 6tts ; red, 50s to 69s ; Pan t " sic crud Kouigsbcrg, 62s to Os ; Baltic red, 57s to 6 0 sj Danish and Hamburg, 54s to 58s ; R uss i an , 48s to „ Barley, English, —s to —s ; grinding, M e diterranea n ' 31s to 31s 6d. Oats, new English, 27 s t o 28 s • Russian' 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 50 s t o 51 s; foreign/ to 475. Peas, English blue, 40". to 41s Od ; foreign white' 38s. to 40s; grinding, 36s to 378 Od per qr. MELTON MOWBRAY.-T lIESDAY. White wheat, 56s to 625; red, 52s to 59s per 36 stone ; t'' Barley for malting, 40s to 49s per qr ; feed, 30s to 36s Ef t 30 stone. Oats old, 29s to 335 ; ne w , 22 s t o 28 s per 2 Bean; old, 52s to 545; new, 45s to 48s per qr. GAINSBOROUGII—T UESDAY. A good show of wheat, and prices were about the sam e as last week—old, 62 s t o 63 5; now , 54 s t o 57 s per 36 stoou d Barley scarce, and sold at full prices. Oats were in go o request, with an upward tendency. Beans a meagre show' with little alteration in price. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. 0. u: Lambert's W.Hartley 17 3 West Hartley Plessy West Hartley. 16 0 K e ll oe 0 Original Hartlepool .. 21 6 Jonass o h n ' s W. Hrtl'y 1 6 3 Eden Main Cassop Kepier Grange l9 6 Ships at market, 29—sold, 23. _ Births. he LUCAS—On the 6th inst., at 5, Westbourne-terracel - wife of Horatio J. Lucas, Esq., of a son. Peon—On the 6th inst., at The Limes, Southminster, Dora William Page, jun., of a son. e SILLEM—On the 6th inst., at Law r i e -p ar k , Sydenhanh -- }h wife of Augustus Salem, Esq., of a son. vtel VERSCHOYLE —On the sth inst., at 23, Chapel-stree4 ,grave-square, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel VerschoY,e, Grenadier Guards, of twin sons. Marriages. BURROUGHS - HUMPHRIES —On the 7th inst., at the Pa l i,lll church, Broseley, Thomas Richard, second son of Mr. Burroughs, of Lady Wood Ropery, Jackfield, to BaL li ' v Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. J. Humphries, of 13rose" - a '; GUTTERREZ -S TAUFFER- 011 the 6th inst., at Tr i t";.. Church, Clapham, Henry Gutterrez, of the Stock change, to Evelina, third daughter of 'Jules Stew° Esq., of Cedars-road Clapham-common. Deaths. ANSTEY-011 the sth inst., at Paris, the Rev. A. An stel ' perpetual curate of Handley, Dorset, aged 51. „wer BARLOW—On the 31st ult., George Barlow, Esq., of ..-- Clapton, aged 73. FAUST—On the Ist inst., Mr. W. G. Faust, of 147, street, Borough, Southwark. GILBERT—On the sth inst., at. Tweed, near LymOg Hants, Gen. W. Gilbert, Indian Army, aged 85. . sto ROBERTSON—On the 3d inst., at Chewton-hill, near Cil le r church, Hampshire, Lt.-Gen. Wm. D. Robertson, of 76. Majesty's Indian Forces, Bombay Establishment, age d .„ SELBY—On the 6th inst., at Belle Vue, berlancl, Mary Ann, wife of Capt. G. Selby, R.N. e p. VERSCHOYLE—On the sth inst., at 23, Chapel-atre e " 001. grave-square, Alfred Edwaid, the infant son of Lt• - Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards. st London : Printed mid Pabhahed by WIL LIAM AN 9 Z' o j yt, of No. 112, Strand, Punter at Tan SUN O ,l ' O C , ' l3 iv of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C oup Middleeez—Thursday, November BoBe6. 71 .- ;