The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-14 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES. (Prom the Times' Special Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Aug. 1. In the present straitened condition o? United States Exchequer it is natural that those who have the control of it should look with wistful eyes to twards those States and territories whose enormous mineral wealth has only recently been discovered. The course of legislation in America with regard to its territories has not always been of the most eco nomical kind. The Government has been lavish in the distribution of its wealth, forgetting that the hour might come when it would need all the re sources within its reach. Whether the extra pro duction of gold is an addition to the world's wealth or not, American economists hold that a time of great production has always been a time of great prosperity, and they point to the progress made by Europe and America during the last 15 years in corroboration of their views. "If our Govern _ment," they are accustomed to say, " had not given away its mineral possession in the Pacific States, it could have fortified itself against the strains it is now called upon to encounter. We need scarcely have been inconvenienced pecuniarily by the war, and our debt would certainly not have assumed its present proportions." Even now it is not too late for the Legislature to retrace its steps. What it has lavished already cannot be recalled, but it may cease to be prodigal. And as there is reason to be lieve that this subject will be one of the earliest to engage the attention of Congress, a review of it in its past and present bearings may not be without its uses. When in 1801 the United States Government bought the French possessions on the Mississippi, and purchased, or went through the form of Fir chasing, land belonging to the Indians, Congress passed a law authorising the sale of all such lands to colonists at a price not exceeding a dollar an acre. The Government undertook to defray the cost of surveying, and for some years the expenditure on this account was not counterbalanced by the receipts upon sales of land. But in process of time the Eastern States became overpopulated, emigration from abroad flowed towards this continent, and the tide soon turned in the direction of the West. Then the sales of land became so numerous that even at the low rates demanded a large profit was left in the hands of the Government. This surplus in creased so much that it became a source of weak ness rather than of strength to the Government, as it led to corruption, and proved a real embarrassment to the Administration. After long oonsideration it was resolved to lend the money in hand to the various States, the amount to be distributed pro rata, according to population, and to be devoted to educational purposes, internal improvements, and objects of the like kind. Some of the States declined at first to receive these loans, but they soon recog nized the folly of that course, and ultimately they were accepted by all. The money thus lent has never been returned, and although if the States were called upon to pay it they would be obliged to do so, yet their financial credit so involves the credit of the Federal Government that it is quite under stood no demand upon them will ever be made. Thus far the Government had merely been liberal, and doubtless the stimulus it gave to the progress and prosperity of the country fully compensated it. It was not until three or four years ago that, as some contend, it squandered its resources, and this hap pened in the following way : An Act was passed in Congress known as the " Homestead Law," by which any person is em powered to claim 160 acres of the territories, or " wild" land in the West, without paying a fraction to the Government for them. It is only imposed as a condition that the land shall be put under culti vation. Since that time it has been discovered that these territories abound in gold and silver, which comes into the hands of the first emigrant who is adventurous enough to seek his fortunes in the remote West— the tract which used to be called. the " Far West" being long since passed. This " Homestead Law," as I began by remarking, is now much regretted by many financiers in the country. More than one public man has openly deplored its existence, and one of the foremost wrote two letters recommending that it be repealed. To this, however, there would be many and grave objections. On the faith of the guarantee given by the Government miners have gone in large numbers to the mines of the Pacific States--as for convenience they may be called—and it is too late to withdraw from any engagement with them. But might not all lands as yet unoccupied be claimed by and on behalf of the Government ? Congress would be reversing its former policy by assenting to such a course, for so recently as its last session, it made a law respecting the new State of Nevada, which was as follows : " No possessory action between individuals, in any of the courts of the United States, for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land on which such mines are, is in the United States ; but each case shall be judged by the law of possession." " The - law of possession" is no other than the laws made by the States—i.e., by the miners themselves. Thus, then, the right of the miner to take up land and claim it as his own has been reaffirmed, and those who advocate his interests contend that no alteration in the law can now be made with any sense of justice. " At least," they say, " 150,000 of the miners of the Pacific have, for the last 15 years, devoted themselves exclusively to explora tions. All they ask, and all they expect to receive, is a mine when they find it. No money can buy this kind of labour. Whatever action Govern ment may take, one thing is certain, that the miner's possession and the miner's right will never be disregarded." Yet during the last four years the necessities of the Government have forced it to disregard more than one " right," and even to take a liberty here and there with the Con stitution, which would have shocked the people of the United States in 1860, but which, by common consent, they shut their eyes to in 1865. This being the position of legislation with regard to these States and territories, it is necessary to glance at the extent of the resources which are in volved. The chief mineral districts are Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico. Ari zona comprises New Mexico between the 109 deg. of longitude and the Californian line, and, accord ing to Mr.M'Cormick, the secretary of the territory, it embraces 120,912 square miles, or 77,383,680 acres—a district three times as large as the State of New York. Besides the enormous mineral wealth of this region, it is described as having splendid arable, pasture, and timber lands. It is a quartz mining country, and only men, therefore, who go with a little capital can hope to succeed. It is, how ever, already largely populated. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, in a report submitted to Congress in December, 1863, states that Arizona is probably richer in minerals than any other territory of equal extent, and he goes on to say, ‘, The rich silver mines of Nevada on the north, of Sonora on the south, which latter have been traced into and successfully worked into the southern part of the territory (Arizona), recent discoveries in the valleys of the Upper Colorado and its tributaries, and in Western New Mexico and Eastern Arizona, all p o i n t to this territory as the grand centre of the immense mineral deposits of this region." The wealth of Nevada, the last State added to the Union, is even g reater than that of this territory. Nevada lies north of Arizona, and west of Utah—the Mormons being somewhat discomposed by the presence near them of a rude and unholy mining population. It is computed that Nevada could produce twelve and a half millions of dollars a day—provided there were a thousand quartz mills at work, " of a capacity - for reducing 50 tons each per day." This result is at present probleniatical, but what is actually being done may be inferred from the fact that in Septem ber of last year the product of the silver mines of the district known as Washoewas no less than about $75,000 per day. In October, 1862, one of the counties in this State, Storey County, sea a contri bution of 1320,226 22c. to the Sanitary Commission of the United States. The chief mines are silver, but quicksilver, lead, and antimony are said to be abundant. It may be interesting to state that Ne vada sent two companies of troops for service in the war, altogether about 350 men. Colorado, lying upon the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, was made an organised territory in 1861, and in 1863 its mines yielded about $12,000,000. When the Pacific Railroad is completed Colorado, in com mon with the other mineral districts, will find its property greatly increased. In Idaho, gold, platina, copper, and iron are said to be very abundant. A semi-official statement informs us that " gold has been discovered on nearly all the tributaries and head-waters of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, and still north, reaching to andgoing beyond our national boundaries." New Mexico is in a more unsettled state than either of the above states or ter ritories, but its mineral resources also are known to be very large. Altogether the prognostications of those who affirm that the day is not far distant when the product of American mines will reach the sum of $500,000,000 per annum, however distant of realisation they maybe, must not be pronounced al together visionary., or even extravagant. It is not necessary to enter into further details to show that the prize which the United States' Go vernment has relinquished is no light one. That its revenues might be immensely increased by re pealing the Homestead Law, and selling its land at a high rate, cannot be doubted. The question is whether such a measure would not place a restriction upon enterprise, and turn aside the capital which is necessary to bring into use the hidden riches of these regions. This matter Congress will probably be called upon to consider, and in the meantime the financiers may be forgiven if they maintain that in dealing generously with miners and other pioneers the Gcvernment forgot to be fair to itself, or just towards the people of the United States as a nation. The. Mexican difficulty continues to wear an omi nous look, and the shrewdest amongst the public men here regard it as the most serious of the troubles now before the country. As I remarked in a pre vious letter, there is no doubt whatever that the American people are wedded to the Monroe " doc trine," and I have since been informed on very high authority that the Government is fully resolved to be content with nothing less than the withdrawal of French troops from Mexico and the retirement of Maximilian. It will not be precipitate ; it is ready to wait for months ; but its earnest hope is that Napoleon, finding that his anticipations of the success of the Southern Confederacy have not been fulfilled, will voluntarily abandon Mexico. The Cabinet believes he would never have gone there at all but for his confidence in the ultimate establish ment of the Confederacy. However this may be, they hope and think that he will now, in the lan guage of the day, " clear out." I doubt whether the Government has sufficiently considered the fact that the Emperor Napoleon has not as yet shown a readiness to " clear out" of any place or position where he has once established himself, and it is impossible not to perceive that the confident ex pectation which is here entertained that he will quit Mexico immediately the United States motions to him to go, may possibly prove fallacious. " The Emperor," I hear on every side, " will never go to war with us. Ile knows that we are too strong for him. He will go quietly; if not, our Government will compel him." That is the state of feeling, but of course nothing will be done until the meeting of Con gress. I repeat, however, the important fact that the Cabinet is resolved to insist upon carrying out the Monroe principle, and if it keeps its purpose, and Napoleon does not change his, it is evident that there are yet formidable trials before the Republic. The only news about Mr. Davis is that he is better in health, and that no official announcement has been made up to the time I write concerning the date of his trial. Naval and Military Intelligence. -- a - The Lords of the Admiralty concluded their an nual inspection of Portsmouth Dockyard on Satur day, and returned to town in the evening, the Duke of Somerset having held a lev6e at the Naval Col lege in the morning. Their Lordships were ex pected to return to Portsmouth last evening to embark on board their yacht Enchantress for Cherbourg. The Osborne and Vivid, paddle yachts, returned to Portsmouth on Saturday from Antwerp, and will most probably accompany the Lords of the Admi ralty to Cherbourg. The armour-plated screw frigate Agincourt, built by Messrs. Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead, for the Government, left the Mersey on Saturday at noon, under the command of Captain Poynter, of her Majesty's ship Donegal, for Plymouth, where she will be formally handed over to the Admiralty officials. Among those on board were Mr. Henry Laird, who represented the builders -; Mr. Field, who represented Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, the makers of her engines ; and Mr. Johnson, the Government inspector. In passing slowly down the river she received a salute of twenty-one guns from the battery attached to Messrs. Laird's works. Shortly after she had passed Bell-buoy she was joined by the National Steam Navigation Com pany's steamer Queen, built by 'Messrs. Laird onthe slip next adjoining the dock in which the Agincourt was constructed, and launched a month after the Agincourt. The Queen, which is 3,500 tons burden, 475-horse power, and 400 ft. long over all, accom panied the Agincourt for a short distance at full speed, but it appeared that the Agincourt had the advantage. The Queen has, however, been built for carrying capacity rather than for speed. After leaving the Bell-buoy the Agincourt, with the tide in her favour, ran a distance of 55 nautical miles in 4 hours 20 minutes, or at , the rate of 121 knots an hour. Making the usual allowance for the tide, the actual speed would be at the rate of 11} knots. This corresponded with the register of the patent log. The engines are of 1,350 nominal horse-power, and are on the double piston-rod principle, having return connecting rods. The cylinders are 101 in. in dia meter, and have a stroke of 4ft. Gin. The steam is supplied by 10 boilers, heated by 40 furnaces, which will consume on the average 100 tons of coal a day. The engines made from 48 to 50 revolutions a minute, with a vacuum of 26in., and a pressure of 191 b. of steam. There was no inconvenience or stoppage of any kind, and no .indications of heated bearings. The vibration, too, promises to be very slight in proportion to her power. She answered her helm admirably. She anchored in Holyhead harbou'r at 6.38 p.m., and would, It was understood, resume her voyage at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. Her internal fittings are now completed throughout, and the ,only additional work required is the raising of her masts—her five lower masts are stowed away on the upper deck—and the addition of her rigging. This will be done by the Government officials at Plymouth. The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. T. B. Lethbridge, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from Quebec, with the 63d Regiment and detachments of troops on board, a detailed list of which was given in The Sun of Saturday. The Himalaya left Quebec on the 2d inst. The 63d Regiment will disembark from the ship this morning and be forwarded on to Aldershot by special South-Western train via Farn borough. The time-expired men and invalids will disembark at the same time, and be sent on to their depots and Netley Hospital. The Himalaya is now ordered to be held in readiness to embark by the 28th inst. Canada s a t n . nifles.e s from various regimental de pots and returnHi malaya t o co n Spitheadcontinues e l s vit u h nd th er e the command of Capt. T. B. Lethbridge (who was temporarily appointed to the command by the Ad miralty owin g t o t h e i llness of Capt. Lacy)an officer highly esteemed by th e m i litary authorities for the energy and discrimination of his character and mea sures in the somewhat difficult position of A captain of one of her Majesty's troop ships. Major- Gen . Lord George Paget, C . 8., Inspector- General of Cavalry, has finished an inspection of the cavalry regiments at Aldershot, these being the 3d (King's Own) Hussars, the 14th (King's) Hus sars, and the Bth (Royal Irish) Hussars. The regi ments were put through the customary manoeuvres, which were performed very creditably. The follow lowing regimental order was subsequently issued by Col. Thompson, commanding the 14th Hussars : " The commanding officer has much pleasure in con veying to all ranks that the Inspector-General of Cavalry, Lord George Paget, C. 8., was much pleased with the soldierlike and very clean appear ance of the regiment on parade this day. He also favourably mentioned the improved condition of the horses, and expressed himself highly satisfied with the manoeuvres of the regiment in field this morn- THE SUN, LONDON, . MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1865. ing." The commendatory remarks of the Inspector. General are understood to have equal application to the 3d and Bth Hussars. 'The troops at Aldershot under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., had a field day on Wednesday. They were formed up on Eelmoor-hill, in line of contiguous columns, at 10 o'clock, supplied with ten rounds of blank ammuni tion, and shortly afterwards were dispersed in order of battle. The movements seemed to imply the advance of an enemy from the north-west. After preparations had been made to dispute his progress, his threatened attack was discovered to be a feint, and the troops were ordered to march past. This over, the enemy was discovered strongly posted in Bickley-copse, and a series of manoeuvres took place to effect his dislodgment. This proved a work of some difficulty, and for a considerable time the battle seemed to rage with varying success. At length the enemy, out-generalled on all sides, was thrown into confusion, and the cavalry completed the dis comfiture by a succession of brilliant charges. The troops on the field were B and F batteries 9th Bri gade, R.A. ; D battery R. EI.A. ; 3d, Bth, and 14th Hussars; A and B troops Royal Engineer Train, 2d battalion Grenadier Guards, Ist battalion 13th Regiment, Ist battalion 17th Regiment, Ist batta lion 21st Royal Scots Fusileers, 31st, 69th, 74th, 85th, and 92d Regiments. The 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment, under the com mand of Col. Munro, C. 8., marched from its quar ters at Aldershott on Thursday morning to the North Camp station of the South-Eastern Railway, and proceeded thence by special train to Dover. The A battery B.Brigade Royal Horse Artillery left Aldershott Camp on Tuesday for Dorchester. The E battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery left Aldershott Camp on Thursday for Hilsea. The prizes to the soldiers for the best kept gar dens around their huts have just been awarded. A silver medal has been given to Sergeant-Major Por cher, F Battery 9th Brigade, R.A., for the greatest variety of vegetables, and a bronze medal to Cor poral Price, 85th Regiment, for the most attractive flower garden. With reference to the court-martial on Lieut. Denny, reported in The Sun of the 10th inst., we are requested to state that Lord Frederick Kerr was not examined, and that it was not three weeks ago Lieut. Denny saved a man from drowning at Lul worth, but on the 28th of July, the day before the offence with which he was charged was committed. The steamer was close to the shore, and he put on shore the man referred to. The Double Murder at Ramsgate. RAMSGATE, Saturday Evening. To-day, at 11 o'clock, Stephen Forwood, who stands charged with the wilful murder of Mary his wife, and Emily his daughter, a child eight years old, and who is also suspected, partly on statements of his own, to have been concerned in the murder of the three children in Holborn, was brought up on remand before the district magistrates sitting at the Town-hall. The magistrates present were Mr. Crofton (acting as chairman), General Sir Wm. Coglan, K.C.8., the Rev. G. W. Sicklemore, Mr. T. Whitehead, Capt. Wilkie, Mr. B. Sicklemore, and Mr. G. E. Hannam. They were assisted in the examination by their clerk Mr. Snowdon, and Mr. Livick, the head constable, rendered material aid. The prisoner had been brought earlier in the morning from Sandwich Gaol, about seven miles distant, in the custody of Mr. Hill, the governor of the prison, in a close fly. Long before the hour appointed for the examination a crowd had assem bled outside the Court-house, and on its being opened the people rushed tumultuously in. Through the courtesy of the magistrates the representatives of the press had been previously admitted. When the prisoner appeared in dock ho was wonderfully calm and collected. He is a tall, muscu lar man, about 40 years of age, and he had much improved in appearance since his first examination on Thursday. Ho has a pompous manner of speaking. He held in his hand a statement in writing covering several sheets of foolscap paper, and which he occupied himself in reading and amend ing in the short interval before the examination was re sumed. For a moment he winced and blushed as the crowd rushed into the hall, but he never looked round, and, recovering his composure, he resumed his writing. On the magistrates taking their seats, the prisoner, ad dressing the Breach, said he had a request to make before the examination was re-opened—namely, for legal assist ance, and he had to utter a protest against his having been deprived of such assistance, by which, ho said, his power of proving his innocence hail been greatly reduced. The Chairman told him that was his own fault, and that on the first examination ho had strongly urged him to ob tain such assistance. The Prisoner—l ask that a gentleman who is now, pre sent may be allowed to act as my legal advisor. Ile has been sent here by a poor publican, who is now the only friend I have in the world, and who has done for me what Zaccheus, that sublime man, did on a former occasion. A clerk from the office of Messrs. Gold and Son was then admitted to act for the prisoner at his request ; and the Chairman told the prisoner that if he followed the recom mendation of his legal adviser he would hold his tongue. This was said in reference to a written statement the pri soner was about to read. Mr. Robert Hicks was called and examined. Jle said—l am a surgeon practising in Ramsgate. I was called to 38, King-street, on Thursday last, at 15 minutes past 9 in the morning. I went. I first saw the child lying in a back room, but as it had been moved I went upstairs, and there found the body of a woman in the front sitting room lying on the floor on her left side. There were several people in the room. The left arm was slightly bent under her ; the legs were also a little bent, the right arm lay on the body, the head was bent, and the face lay in a pool of blood. There was a wound two inches behind the right ear, circular, and about a quarter of an inch in diameter ; another about an inch in front of the same ear; a third, irregular, under the right lower eyelid, the eyelid itself being very much swollen. The prisoner was in the room. Some one asked in my hearing and in that of the prisoner who had done it. The prisoner made no reply. He mentioned the name of the child. I asked gene rally what the pistol was loaded with, and the prisoner, getting up from a sofa, handed me a ball cartridge, but said nothing. The cause of death was a gunshot wound. I have since examined the head of the woman more carefully. The Chairman—Have you altered your opinion as to the cause of death.? Witness—No. The Chairman—Then we don't want that. Witness (resuming,)—l after Wards saw the body of the child. Blood was issuing from the nose and mouth. On removing the child's hat I saw a gunshot wound, which had completely traversed the head, and I found a ball, which had been used, close to the child. Wm. George Tappenden, a porter at the Camden Arms Tavern, Ramsgate, repeated the evidence he gave at the inquest on Friday as to a man, whom he now identified as the prisoner, having asked him to take a message to the deceased woman on Wednesday evening about 8 o'clock that he wanted to see her ; as to her having written her address on a pieco of paper, and as to his having taken the address to the prisoner, whom he found walking backward and for ward before the Camden Arms, and who then went away. At this stage the prisoner, pointing to a photographer's camera which had been put up in the court and directed towards him, said with great solemnity of manner, address ing the Bench—" I have to protest against my photograph being taken in this court. lam an innocent man." Mr. Crofton, the chairman, said his photograph should not be taken if he objected to it, and ordered the apparatus to be removed. Mr. Livick, head-constable of Ramsgate, was the next witness. Ile said—On Thursday morning, about half-past 9, I received information that a murder had been committed at Mr. Ellis's house in Ring-street, and I went there imme diately. I saw a female child lying dead in a back room. I then went upstairs to the front sitting-room. On the landing I saw a pool of blood, and on entering the room I saw the prisoner' sitting on a sofa, and a woman lying dead on the floor. The prisoner was pointed out to me, and I asked him his name. When he spoke I recognized him by his voice. He replied Stephen Forwood, and that he had of late gone by the name of Walter Southey. He said it was his own lawful married wife. I inquired her name. Ho said Mary Ann Jemima Forwood. On my asking the name of the child he replied Emily Sarah Frances Forwood, and that the child was eight years old and the mother 35. I told him I was going to charge him with the wilful mur der of them, and that he need not say anything unless he pleased. Addressing me by name, he said if I knew all I should not think him so bad as he appeared to be. I asked if he had been searched. He then produced a razor from his pocket, and before him on the table were lying six pistol ball cartridges, and two pocket books. He also pro duced some papers and keys, half a sovereign, ss. 3d, in silver, and 3d. in copper. I directed the constable to take him to the police-station, and while there he asked if I had received any information respecting the death of the saidn collected t a o ke do a s o s . t a t i e r e e f t n m bu a t three children. I sa id I h a d not, but I might. He then hi n w d as ret n n o rn t etdheinn about au hour afterwards. On my return he asked for pen, ink, and paper. I gave them to him and he wrote the statement produced, which he wished to be sent to Sir Richard Mayne, and which he gave to me in his cell. (Tho document appeared at length on Saturday.) I told him ho was also charged with the wilful murder of throe children at the Star Coffeehouse ',Holborn, upon which he asked which charge he would be tried upon, and whether he could make his election. That was all that passed. Police-constable Drayson, who on Thursday morning was also called to the house of Mr. Ellis, gave corroborative evi dence as to the state in which the bodies were found. Ho was asked by Mr. Ellis, he said, to take charge of the five chambered revolver produced, the pair of false whiskers and moustache, a pair of green spectacles, with sides, and some pieces of paper with blood on them. The pistol was then quite warm, and there was blood on the barrel. Adelaide Ellis was called—l am a daughter of William Ellis, dyer at Ramsgate. On the evening before the mur der the prisoner and his wife called at our house. They came together, and they had some conversation, and he made an appointment to come next morning. He then went away. About 20 minutes past 8 next morning he called. His wife was then taking breakfast with us. The wife and he sat a few minutes in the parlour. The child was there, and I told her to ask the gentleman if he knew who she was. He did not know her. I then said they might go upstairs, and they went. The child, who had left, was sent for, and it went upstairs also. In a few minutes I heard two reports, and after the second I heard a heavy fall. I ran upstairs to see what was the matter. I saw the child rolling down the stairs, and the prisoner following her with a pistol in his hand. I said, " Forwood, what are you doing ?" and rushed downstairs and called my father. The prisoner made no reply. My father came and ran upstairs. I went after him, and brought the child down. It was quite dead. I ran upstairs again, after sending for Mr. Curling, a surgeon. On entering the sitting-room I saw Mrs. For wood lying dead. _ Cross-examined—When I saw the prisoner following the child ho did not ask her to send for a policeman. This being tho evidence for the prosecution, Mr. Snowdon, the magistrates' clerk, addressing the pri soner, gave him the usual formal caution as to anything he might say, reminding him that he was not obliged to say anything, but that whatever he said would be taken down in writing, and might be used against him on his trial. The prisoner, through his adviser, said he wished to ask for a remand. The Chairman said the prisoner must assign some reason to justify a remand. The prosecution had no further evi dence. The adviser explained the reason to be that the prisoner might be allowed on a future day to produce certain docu ments and evidence. The Chairman refused, telling the prisoner that on the first examination he had warned him against reading a statement he had then prepared, thinking it was very in judicious for him to do so. As to documents, every docu ment that could bear on the inquiry had been seized by the police when the prisoner was apprehended. Any other document would be quite unavailing there. The Prisoner—The documents are not understood by you, nor their character, nor the ground of my asking for a remand. The ground is this—that I charge the guilt of the crime charged upon me against others, and that a per son brought to justice is entitled te show the truths which conscientiously convince him that the guilt with which he is charged devolves upon others, before being committed for trial. The Chairman—you are now alluding to the London charge, with which we as magistrates have nothing to do. Prisoner—No. The Chairman—This Bench is going to send you to be tried by a judge of a superior court and a jury of your country. We peremptorily refuse to remand you. You stand committed to Sandwich Gaol, to be tried at the next Maidstone Assizes for tho murder of your wife and your daughter. (Addressing the prisoner's legal adviser)—The prisoner applied to me the other day to know whether ho should be tried in London, alluding to the offence com mitted there, or at Maidstone. He had no option in tho matter. The option lies entirely with the Government, and if they wish to try him in London for the crime he Is alleged to have committed there, the mode in which they would have to proceed would be under the Habeas Corpus Act. The prisoner's adviser remarked that he could be tried under Palmer's Act in London, even on the Ramsgate charge. The Chairman said he could, adding that the Bench had communicated with Sir George Grey on the matter, and that was the answer they had received. The Prisoner—l should be glad to address the Bench again. I must act upon my own judgment. The Chairman—you have had the benefit of a legal adviser. The Prisoner—Thank you. My conscience is my own guide. I wish to address the bench. Mr. Snowdon, the magistrates' clerk, ordered prisoner to bo removed, and he was removed accordingly. As ho was leaving the dock he said he should not be doing his duty to himself or to the cause of justice if he did not pro test against the committal. Sunday. Yesterday, after the prisoner was removed from the Court-room he was taken to one of the cells in the base ment of the building, and at his own request was visited by a person who had met him some few years back. They had nearly half an hour's conversation, Forwood explain ing his views very earnestly, especially as to the reasons why he committed the crimes for -which ho then stood committed for trial. He said that the contumely and frowns of the world would only have been showered upon his wife and child for his misdeeds, and he considered the best thing he could do was to put them out of the world first. He also said. that he had carried the revolver about with him for several days with the whole of the chambers loaded,and that ho was within ayard or two of Lord —, more than once having - made up his mind to shoot him. lie appears fully to have made up his mind for the worst, and expressed great anxiety to bo tried in London, as his defence will be very long on account of the documents ho had to bring forward, showing the acts of those who had driven him to ruin. He wants no efforts to be made on his behalf, as he does not wish his life to be saved. His only desire is that•he should be set right with the public. Fie very earnestly repudiates any notion of his madness, or that his acts have proceeded from any other cause than the great wrong he conceives himself to have suffered. The following telegram was sent yesterday to a person with whom he was•formerly acquainted:— "Do not judge. To judge at present is to misjudge. Do not condemn." • The following are extracts from a long document which Forwood has prepared, and in which ho attempts to justify his acts : "Is the national system of social justice in Groat Britain a recognition of the Old and Now Testament, and of those teachings as a Divine revelation from God to man ? and what is justice between man and his fellow man and all mankind ? "Does the law of Great Britain justify a private citizen in killing another citizen either in defence of himself or in defence of law and justice? " If a private citizen feels himself conscientiously called upon to perform a certain act, not knowing that act to bo *rong in the eye of the law, does the law hold it justice to inflict punishment for such - act, in which no wrong was knowingly done ? " What is the exact definition of that which in the eye of the law makes one man an accessory before the fact ? " I ask to see the public papers, so that I may see what false reports go to the public, and have an opportunity of refuting, disproving them. Why should it be allowed that any lie should be propagated and dispersed to the public, and Ibe denied the opportunity of answering? These same lies will reach the jury, which is to be taken from that public, and predispose their minds. Why am I, who, even in the eye of the law, am yet innocent, whatever my actions may have been, deprived of all social rights and those supports and comforts to the mind which are so ab solutely necessary to the retention of power to defend 4yself. 111 want nothing for myself from this world. I defy any pain which it is in the power of man to inflict upon me ; but, if accused, if I am to have justice do not let it be a mockery : do not break down a mind, destroy physical power, and so obtain a conviction, and call it justice. The holiest, noblest of men have been accused, have perished. It is for the sake of the thousands which our so-called civi lisation, our rotten laws, will yet convert into degraded, wretched criminals that I speak for the sake of justice and truth. "Lord Palmerston says public opinion is often wrong in action. Our legislators aro as supine; personal interests engage too much of their time to study and amend this in justice. Where, then, is the Minister of Justice, who ought to be to remedy such things, whose want in our social system is a disgrace to English judicature, a shame ful blot to be looked on by the people of all coming ages ? I seek to remedy this crime. " Can I acknowledge the acts and defend myself from the charge of guilt, imputing the guilt to those whose criminal neglect of their duty has brought it about ? "Is there none who can read what must be the formation of a mind which could under its own strong sense of right offer up for their and the public good the lives of others for whom he had lived faithfully and struggled through many years of the bitterest suffering—whose love and right and deeply-tried affection for them had been the only support which enabled him to enduro and battle for them ? ----- "How easy, after all, to commit crimes and to evade the hell ! Weep for the living. One poor dear soul must suffer. Mine is past. "What is it to die? The worthiest have died as igno minious a death as I shall, and have lived honoured and beloved in the hearts and souls of men for hundreds of years after. If I am unjustly condemned, I shall not be the first victim of injustice. "A jury is supposed to be selected from a man's peers— his equals. What constitutes this equality ? The mind is the standard of the man, the, controller and director of his actions. The severe trials which I have passed through in life—the out-Of-the-way course my life has taken—have quickened me and expanded my mind far beyond what would or could ordinarily be experienced by any one in the usual way following such mode of life as I have—have driven me from much of ordinary belief." In the other p ar t s o f the documen t the prisoner contrasts his position with that of Tell, Virginius, and Abraham, and he calls on the Government to provide the means for his de fence, and the press (whose power for good or evil he strongly urges) to give all his statements entire, and repair the injustice done him in previous reports. TEACH YOUR. GRANDMOTHER, &C.—A specifica tion has recently been filed at the Patent Office for improvements in boili ng eg gs. This was shortly after wards followed by a paten t f or a m achine for removing the tops from eggs previous to eating them. We hope next week to be able to announce that a patent has been secured by somebody's grandmother for sucking the above delicacies.--Mechanics' Magazine. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—Before these lines are read all uncertainty as to the accident which has befallen the Atlantic cable will probably be ended by the arrival of the Great Eastern or one of her consorts. But it scarcely needs this final evidence to enable us to say that the cable is broken, and that about two thirds of the way across to Newfoundland the severed end lies, with or without a buoy attached, 2,000 fathoms deep at the bottom of the ocean. The scientific methods for determining the position of a fault are thoroughly reliable within a small percentage of the whole distance ; the operators can discriminate between the signs of a total rup ture and a partial loss of insulation, and the tele graphs from Valentia leave little room to hope for any but the worst news. It is no wonder that this report has been received as the announcement of a national calamity. While the Great Eastern was staggering round on her stormy passage to Valentia she was followed by the hopes and fears of thou sands who had no interest in the adventure beyond that which every one must feel for a magnificent effort of courage and science in what is pre-emi nently the cause of civilisation. The shock of the first temporary failure added to the anxiety with which the further progress of the Great Eastern was watched from day to day. Each successive telegram helped to revive the confidence of all, until, just before the final accident, the belief that the voyage would end in a prosperous issue became almog universal. If 1,200 miles of the rope that was to bind together the Old and the New Worlds could be laid in safety at the 'bottom of the At lantic without a defect that the most delicate in struments could detect, it seemed unreasonable to doubt that the remaining third of the work would be completed with equal success. The course of the adventure had been watched with the same anxious interest with which a nation awaits the reports of a pending battle, or the bulletins from the sick bed of a man whom the public cannot spare. The worst news has come at last, but the course already taken by the Telegraph Company is a guarantee that the enterprise will not be given up, and that this fresh failure will serve only as a stimulus to renewed exertion. That sooner or later the Atlantic cable will be successfully laid is almost a matter of certainty, and our regrets at this unex pected mishap need not be mingled with anything that savours of despair. It would be a rather doubt ful consolation to those who have had the conduct of the enterprise to be able to say that no default of theirs had contributed to the disaster. If the cable was lost from an error of judgment, or from the neglect of any possible precaution, the misfortune will bear good fruit in the warning which it will supply for future guidance. If, on the other hand, the failure resulted from what in the old legal phraseology is styled the act of God, the complacency of directors and engineers might be less disturbed, but the danger of a repetition of the same disaster would remain inevitable and unmitigated when the next attempt was made. There is no doubt that at nearly every stage of the undertaking all the safe guards which science and experience could suggest were employed to secure a prosperous issue. Not a yard of the cable was accepted without the most searching examination, and not a day passed with out repeated te s t s to assure the continued soundness of the core. The very material of which the wire was composed was required to come up to a standard of conductivity which had never before been ap proached. Scarcely anything that vigilance and skill could do had been neglected to insure the abso lute perfection of the cable. The singular accident by which the first defect was occasioned—the drop ping of a fragment of wire into the cable-tank-- shows, it is true, that vigilance may sometimes fail, but at the same time it indicates a risk which, now that it is known, is certain never to be incurred again. But for this fault—repaired as it was almost as soon as discovered—the cable may be said to have been shipped in absolutely perfect condition, or as nearly so as human care could secure. The same anxiety to guard against every imaginable danger was displayed in the choice of the pattern for the rope. The core was increased in diameter as far as was feasible under the conditions of the ' undertaking, and the rate of signalling attained was sufficient proof of the wisdom of this departure from the former model. The most serious danger of all, that of rapid deterioration from the rusting and weakening of the iron coating, was met by coverirfg the metal strands with an impervious casing which probably more than doubled their prospect of longe vity. The chance of such a mishap as that which has probably occurred—the fracture of the cable in the process of paying out—was counteracted by in creasing the strength and consequent weight of the rope to the utmost point which the carrying capacity of the Great Eastern allowed, while at the same time the strain was diminished by reducing the specific gravity so much • that a mile of the cable, though twice as heavy in air, scarcely weighed more in water than the same length of the former cable. A rope which would bear eleven miles of its own weight in water was not unreasonably thought to be tolerably safe against accidental fracture ; and, but for one peculiarity, the risk of this kind would probably not have been one-tenth as great as in the case of the cable of 1857, which, whatever its other faults, proved at any rate strong enough to be suc cessfully laid across the Atlantic. The one difference to which we have referred was worthy perhaps of more consideration than it received. The exterior coating of this last cable was comparatively rough hemp, while that of the old one was smooth iron. The increased friction against the water may have been no disadvantage while the paying out went on without a hitch ; but it must have enormously in creased the strain when the cable was subjected to anything like a jerk, as it could not but be when ever it became necessary to stop the paying out in a rough sea, or to attempt the still more difficult task of hauling in, to recover and repair a fault. It was in this process that the final accident will pro bably be found to have occurred. Every pull upon the rope caused by the pitching of the ship or the winding in of the cable was resisted by the friction of two miles of rough rope in addition to the weight of the cable itself. Nothing but the most elastic play in the machinery could neutralise the danger of an irregular strain, which might at any moment reach the breaking point ; and the want of any pro vision .of this kind in the paying-out apparatus had been long since pointed out as the one defect in the arrangements for the enterprise. It was from a sudden jerk, caused perhaps by injudicious handling of the'breaks, that the failure of the first cable of all arose. When the second attempt was about to be made, a proposal to introduce an elastic break into the machinery, so as to give a free play of 40 or 50 feet, was considered, and ultimately re hected; on the assumption that with proper andling the ordinary breaks • would supersede the necessity for any such contrivance. The suc cess, such as it was, of that cable was thought to confirm this opinion ; and on the present occasion the paying-out . ship was fitted with the same ma chinery that had sufficed before, and the notion of guarding by elastic action against the chance of a jerking strain was abandoned as a wholly uncalled for precaution. When the full details of the acci dent are known, it will probably be traceable to this unfortunate determination, and should this prove to be the case, the cost of the late expedition (not much more after all, it is said, than £200,000) will not have been wholly thrown away. Each succes sive failure has taught its lesson, and taught it so effectually that on this last trial all the defects which rendered the former cable useless were com pletely excluded. If our judgment as to the cause of the recent accident should prove correct, this danger too may be stopped out with equal certainty on the next experiment, and, costly as the lessons of experience may be, the enormous income which long lines of telegraph invariably earn would suffice to pay a good percentage on •the expense of half a score of failures. THE 44 LONDON REVIEW " .ON CLUB TYRANNY.— The morals of club government require to be re duced to something like definite form and legality. Scandals are constantly arising, which show how loose and vague are the relations existing between clubs collective and their members individually. A few months ago the Garrick Club lost some of its most distinguished members, owing to a very ques tionable exhibition of temper on the part of that body ; and since the Conservative Club has got itself into hot-water by an act which can only be described as one of would-be despotism, combined with contemptible weakness. On the 13th of July, Mr. Charles Hopkinson, one of the members of the club, received a lette r from the secretary, setting forth that, " it having been reported to the com mittee " that he, Mr. Hopkinson, had given his pledge " to vote for the three Liberal candidates for Berkshire, Messrs. Walter, Bouverie, and Crame r ," the secretary was inst ruc t e d to inquire if such was the fact, and to request the favour of an early reply. The committee seem to have been very much in the dark with regard to the whole proceeding. In the first place, there was no such candidate as Mr. Cramer, the third candidate being Lord Uffington; in the second place, Mr. Hopkinson had not formed the intention imputed to him. The latter gentlemen, however, did not choose to deny at the moment the allegation that he was going to vote for the Liberals at the coming election, because to have made such denial would have been an admission of the committee's right to ask the question. He there fore took high ground, and requested that the com mittee would give him the name and address of the person who had " reported" the alleged intention, the precise words used, when and where they were used, the words in which the resolution stood on the minute-book of the committee when the secretary wrote on the subject, where and when the minute instructing him to write was made, where and when it was confirmed, and " the names of the members of the committee who voted the resolution embodied in the minute." To this the secretary replied that the letter thus addressed by Mr. Hopkinson to the committee should be laid before that body at their next meeting on Thursday, the 20th of July (the letter was dated on the 14th). It was on the 20th that the election for Berkshire took place ; so that, as Mr. Hopkinsion remarked in a subsequent letter of the 17th, he was to be kept under the influence of a species of intimidation until after the election was over, since any further resolution to which the committee might come could not be communicated to him until the evening of the 20th at the very earliest, or more probably, the morning of the 21st. " You have, then," continues Mr. Hopkinson, ad dressing the committee, " assumed powers, and held yourselves out to me as possessing powers, which you knew you did not possess, in causing to be written to me an inquisitorial letter on the subject of the exercise of suffrage for Berkshire, founded on an anonymous malignant falsehood, the author of which you knew, but dared not avow. In directing this letter to be written, you have been guilty of a flagrant abuse of your office of committee-men, and of a serious offence against me and all the members of the Coilser Dative Club." Furthermore, Mr. Hopkinson stated that, up to the 13th of July, on the evening of which day he received the first letter of the secretary, he was uncertain whe ther he should vote at the B er k s hi re e l ec ti on at at all, or, if he did so, in what direction he should vote ; but that the attempt which had been made to intimidate him left him no alternative but to vote for one or more of the three Liberal candidates, thus vindicating his electoral independence, and challenging the committee to establish the powers which they claimed to possess. The response to this bugle-note of defiance is sufficiently meek. The committee " express their pleasure" at the denial of the original report, and hope that that report has not been the means of inducing Mr. Hopkinson to vote for the Liberal candidates. The hope, how ever, came too late. Two days after the deed was done—viz., on the 22d of July—Mr. Hopkinson again wrote to the committee, and thus vigorously took them to task for their ineffectual attempt at tyranny:—" Rebuked, discredited, humiliated, you have not the manliness, or good sense, to offer one word of regret, of apology, or of reparation. Having used a falsehood for your own purpose (and in this case the immediate purpose was electoral intimida tion), you have indorsed it, made it your own, and incurred all the liabilities of it. I require of you— a public acknowledgment of the falsity of the ' re port '—a public apology to myself and the members of the Conservative Club—a public disclaimer of the power of electoral intimidation. I shall be obliged by your informing me at your early conve nience whether you will comply with these reason able and moderate demands." We can well under stand that the poor committee must have thought the demands anything but " reasonable and mode rate," as they involved the swallowing of some bitter words, and the performance of a public act of hu miliation. Mr. Hopkinson was, perhaps, a little cruel in that last remark. The schoolmaster, after administering a severe flogging to an offending pupil, might as well require him to admit that the punishment has been mild in its nature and just in its object. The secretary of the Conservative Club, however, merely acknowledges the receipt of Mr. Hopkinson's letter, and informs the writer that it shall be laid before the general committee at their next meeting. 'What the general committee will do in the matter we do not know ; but, if they ac cept Mr. Hopkinson's reproaches meekly or in silence, their credit for the possession of spirit and self-respect will not stand very high with the out side public. "LONDON SOCIETY" ON FIVE O'CLOCK TEAS.— There are indeed some men who are said to object to five o'clock teas, as robbing them of just that portion of the day which was erst particularly their own ; in which they either attended to their " busi ness" (vague and unintelligible word), or rode, or played racquets, or what not. With such I cannot sympathize ; and the more moderate of men, who are neither intensely commercial nor rabidly muscu lar (or what not), find in the afternoon hour of ladies' society a peculiar charm, characterized as it is by far less restraint and ceremony, and far more familiarity than the evening ever knows (not to mention the increased facility for tete-a-tetes in con servatories and balconies), and gain from it an an tidote to the dulness of the morning which is so in evitable a result of last night's four o'clock cotillon , and a gentle stimul an t enabling them to work up to the point of brilliancy for the conversation of the evening's dinner. And so I protest that I am de lighted with tea, and not only on general principles, but also for my own special reasons. In the first place, it dispenses me from a great deal of journey ing about to produce the illusion that I have per sonally " been and appeared" by delivering two pieces of representative pasteboard to a footman who probably loses them before his mistress comes home. This is one of society's duties which I have always held in abhorrence, as being a shade more foolish than any emanation from the brain of the wildest Bedlamite. It is intelligible to leave a card upon new acquaintances, because it teaches them one's address and how to spell one's name, which they would never learn from a footman's announc ing. But it seems to me to be the height of human extravagance to suppose that my friends who know both my name and address should be gratified by not seeing me, but by inspecting the result of Mr. Ortner's skill in line-engraving on a card. And so as tea takes the place of pasteboard I honour it. Then, too, it enables me to wear my lavender kid gloves a second, or even (with care) a third time ; and besides that, the most regular attendants among the ladies at Lady Mena Maltyre's Thursdays, whose afternoons I most affect, are, as I notice, those whose complexions look as well in the cold daylight as in the warm flood of brilliancy shed by wax tapers. Indeed the only members of the sex who have a second opinion on the subject are those who labour under an imputation (unjust of course) of importing into their charms either as to their cheeks a loan from the rose, or as to their eyes " a touch of the hair-pin," and who, if they are to show at all in the day, prefer to do it in a barouche in the Park under the cover of a distance, a spotted veil and a pink parasol. Then what can be more de licious than the making of the tea ? Miss Maud Maltyre and I have been practising it ever since the " Thursdays" began, and though we have studied hard, we have not yet quite learnt how many spoon fuls are necessary, or the exact quantity of green required to make a perfect mixture. Many consul tations we hold too over cream and sugar, and who takes either or both, and I live in the hope of im proving under her tuition. What a delicious soft stealing charm I find, too, in the music which is always so good (for Lady Mena is a great musician herself), and which we sit and listen to in a quiet corner and admire so much, and always manage to applaud at the wrong time I do not know much about music myself, but somehow I love to sit and listen :to it by the side of Miss Mena's tea-table. Yes, those Thursdays are very charming, and would be more so, if it were not for that great clanking plunger Adolphus Bridoon, who hangs about like a heavy, stupid giant as he is, and will talk to Maud. His regiment is quartered in Ireland, where, if the military affairs of the country we re p ro p er ly attended to, he ought to be made to remain. I wish I were his colonel, wouldn't I refuse him leave ! Perhaps the suburban tea is the nicest form of the thing altogether, and it furnishes a sufficient reason for the original invention of Richmond and Hampton court. Croquet there takes the place of music, not without occasional advantages either, for there is such an esprit de corps in each of the opposing sides, such a delightful clinging together of "friends," such intense, uncompromising hatred of " enemies," such consultations, and such glimpses of tiny feet, and withal, such immense fun in cheating, that the London afternoon, with so much more people and music crowded into small rooms than they were ever intended to hold, pales before it. Miss Maud always looks lovely, playing at croquet, even if she plays it badly—and we do both of us somehow manage to get croqueted a long way off from the game, and generally in the same direction—but to my eyes she, does not look nearly so lovely playing the piano, even if she plays it well, which she does, for she gets surrounded by a pertinacious crowd of admirers, who engross all her attention, and whose one idea of pleasing her is to make her play a second time, which leaves me raging on a remote sofa. ABD-EL-KADER IS THUS DESCRIBED BY rese A Cnce ORRE-f SPONDENT OF " THE READER :"—The p Abd-el-Kader in London recalls to m e his p assa g e through the south of France. I belie ve that it will not be without interest to your readers to know the details. One morning—it was in 1848—I was_ on my way to Spain; and in p assin g through Bor denaouwxs thatl chancednomore meet to eet A dreamtb d - o e l f - a n d e et meeting g He a e k Abd-el- Kader than the Grand Turk himself ! I was going out of my hotel when I saw a great number of people standing before a house watching it atten tively. The Emir had arrived but five minutes be fore. Some Arab heads presented themselves from time to time at the windows ; one especially, a negress, who nad thrown back the curtains of a window on the first floor that she might the better see the crowd below, drew their attention, who, on catching sight of her, began to cheerand_hipsis.oaltteemr-. alter nately. She was Abd-el-Kader's wife Bordeaux, the city of the South, where they manu facture enthusiasm the most, h as t ened to do homage to Abd-el-Kader with a fervour not to be surpassed. The windows of the houses which looked upon the hotel ceased not to display beautiful pictufes of the most beautiful faces that a man could ever wish to see. The exhibition lasted three days. I say no thing of those who crowded the streets, in carriage or on foot. M an y o f th e f a i r sex h a d given much for their places —many would have given more to be allowed to kiss the naked feet of the Emir, which are, they say, o f grea t b eau t y . I saw Abd-el-Fader. In London, probably, I should not have regarded him any more than if he had been Mr. Tupper: perhaps not so much. But here I had nothing bet ter to do. The Emir is short of stature and slightly built, with a white face of a pleasing expression, and has the appearance of having been delicately reared, rather than brought up in the cavernous re treat of Arabia. He inclines his head a little, and his eyes, which are of a bluish grey, have a pleasant smiling aspect. I admired his teeth especially, which were of a whiteness and transparency sufficient to drive a nun of twenty-eight to despair. Only one pearl makes a spot, as it were on this marvellous string : it is the tooth of Mahomet, perfectly yellow, but a golden yellow, and which they say with reve rence is his, because Abd-el-Kader is the only one since the Prophet with whom this significant phe nomenon has been produced. The Emir lives with his mother and his wives, who are 40 in number. As to his father, lie has been dead now a long while. The next day I saw Abd-el-Kader again—it was at the " Grand Theatre," where they played two acts of the " Muette de Portici," and a Spanish ballet. All Bordeaux had secured places. Such a tumult I such an excitement ! such a crushing of toilettes ! It recalled to my mind the most brilliant of Covent Garden evenings. The first act was gone through without the least attention from the audience. All eyes were turned towards the Mayor's box, which had been reserved for the Emir ; and, as it was facing the stage, everybody listened to the opera with the back towards it. The interlude passed in the same manner, with unanimous disappointment. However, as the curtain was about to rise an at torney entered the box, which had remained empty up to that moment, and seated himself in the corner at the right, in an arm-chair of red velvet. The public, being in a laughing mood, received him with a volley of ironical bravo. The attorney, who was the Mayor's assistant, bit his lips, assumed an air of disdain, and appeared absorbed in hearing Auber's masterpiece. A little while after the Emir entered. He saluted the audience with his little hand, and smiled with somewhat of an air of sadness. This was the first time he had ever been in a theatre ; however, he appeared neither too dazzled nor too much astonished. Quite the contrary the Arab who accompanied him, who bore on his burnt physiognomy the ingenuous expression of his ad miration, and even laughed at the lustre which hung-over him. Abd-el-Kader seated himself in the fore part of the box, at the side of the attorney, who forth with began to do the agreeable, and look at the audience with an air of triurph. This at torney wore a coat of black cloth, which glistened in the rays of the lustre, and gloves of such a rich depth of the same colour, that I unconsciously began to dream of mortgages and bequests. I was indeed distressed as I viewed and thought over the picture before my eyes.—Abd-el-Kader and an At torney at the I. /ay. COUNTRY MARKETS. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. The weather has been more favourable for harvest work during the past week, and wheat promises to be about an average. Barley abundant. At our corn exchange to-day the show of wheat was limited, and firm at 2s to 8s per qr. advance. Little barley showing, and prices same as last week. Oats scanty, and demand ruled healthy at fully late prices. Beans commanded the full rates of last week. Old white wheat, 44s to 50s ; old red, 42s to 48s ; new white, 45s to 52s ; new red, , 41s to 48s per 36 stone. Bar ley, new malting, 27s to 355 per qr ; old grinding, 26s to 28s ; new, —s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 30s ; new, 21s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 26s per stone. Beans, old, 42s to 45s ; new, 40s to 43s per 88 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was limited at this market to r &y, there being but few farmers in the hall. The tradnay be considered 2s per qr. dearer than last week, but was dull at tho advance. During the past week the weather has been rather broken. White 631 b to 641 b), 48s to 49s ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 40s to 42s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 268 ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 378 to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; flour, 26s to 34.8 Od per sack. YORK-SATURDAY. The harvest is making good progress in this county. Our corn market to-day was moderately supplied with wheat. The tone of the demand was healthy at fully 2s per qr. advance. There was a limited supply of oats, for which recent rates were rather exceeded. Beans scarce, and demand ruled firm at late prices. . _ New white wheat, 45s to 50s ; new red, 42s to 45s per 86 stone. Barley, for malting, - sto —s per qr ; grinding, 27s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 258 per 24 stone. Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28s per qr. Flour, 33s to 34s per sack of 2801 b. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. In this county the crops are ripening steadily, and in forward places a tolerable breadth of corn has been cut. There was a small supply of wheat at our corn market to day, and sales were effected steadily at 2s to 3s per qr. more money. Barley came to hand sparingly, and the amount of business done was small at late prices. Oats a small show, at rather over late rates. Old white wheat, 44s to 50s ; old red, 40s to 44s ; new white, 45s to 49s ; new red, 39s to 43s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 32s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ; new, 22s to 25s per 24 atone. Beans, old, 42s to 45s ; new, 398 to 42s per 38 stone. DUBLIN.-FRIDAY. Currencies :—White wheat, 23s 6d to 25s Gd; red do., 21s Gd to 23s Od; grinding barley, 12s Od to 13s Od; malt ing do., 13s to Hs - Gd ; white oats, 11s to 12s; black do., 10s Od to 11s Od. CORK-FRIDAY. Tho following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 7s 6d to Os Od ; white, 8s 8d to Os Od ; barley, 6s 9d to Os Od ; oats, 8s Od to 8s 4d ; black oats, 6s 8d to 7s ld: here, Os 01 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Sept. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 12 Falkland Islands ....._........ ....._ Gibraltar, via Southampton A ug.lB. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug, 18. Ditto, via Marseilles • -.....Aug. 19. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. 25. Ditto, via Marseilles . Aug. 19. Mauritius, via Southampton Sept. 10. Ditto, via ii g arseil:e3 Sept. 4. Newfoundland Aug. 1 6. .. Portugal • , .....Sept. 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri- Usti packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton . Ditto, via Cork .... • Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Aug. 18. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife Sept. JO. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Aug. 14. Bahamas, via New York. Aug. 16. Bermuda, ditto Aug. 30. Cuba and Mocleo Aug. 29. SINGULAR CAB ACCIDENT.—As a fisherman of Alfort was rowing down the Marine a few days ago he was astonished at seeing, near the spot where that river falls into the Seine, the roof of a hackney-coach in the middle of the stream. With the help of some boatmen he managed to draw it to the shore, and found it was the car riage No. 1704, belonging to the Imperial Cab Company, with two horses attached, both dead. A fter a lon g search the body of the driver, named B rault, was also found. There is reason to suppose th at the driver was aslee p o n married away The -man by the current, w hi ch is is believed t o h ave his box, and that the hors es taking a wrong turn fell i nto vtheeryrisvterronagndin thatwere p made an attempt to save himself, as his coat and waistcoat were off.—Galignani. Births. DEA9.—On the 11th inst., at Hadar, Gosport, the wife of Dr. David Deas, C. 8., &c., Inspector-General, &c., of a daughter. GLOVER.—On the 9th inst., at St. Katherine's, Regent's... park, the wife Of the Rev. J. Hulbert Glover, of a son. WADMORE.—On the 11th inst., at Tunbridge, the wife of James F. Wadmore, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. AsTphEoßmsoaxs—RSeEnvErynsile.v—erOnn, Esq.the 12th inst., at St. Pancras, Henry C. And erson, C . E ., to E mma, secon d d aug h ter o f • Nic uoLsoN—HEIGHTLEY.—On the Bth inst., at the Chapel of the Charterhouse, Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., D.C.L. and LL.D., of 26, Devonshire-place, to Sarah Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Archibald Keightley, Esq. Deaths. BENECKE.—On the Bth inst., at Heidelberg, Frederick W Benecke, Esq., of Denmark hill, Camberwell. CUMING.—On the 10th inst., at 13, Gower-street, Bedford square, Hugh Cuming, Esq., F.L.S., aged 75. DUFF.—On the 7th inst„ at Pengo, George Daniel Duff, Esq., aged 33. FISHER.—On the 9th inst., John Fisher, Esq., of Croglin House, Mapperley, Nottingham, aged 40. GREEN.—On the 10th inst., at Tho Crescent, Hertford, W. Green, Esq., late of the Rectory, Ware, Herts. HENnzmANN.—On the 10th inst., at Ems, Alexis Heintz mann, Esq., of 91, Kensington-gardens-square, London. PAID ES.—On the 11th inst., at 17, Wimp Ole-street, Joseph Parkes, Esq., aged 69. London : Printed and' Published by WILLIAM ANDE Evir of No. 112, Strand, Pi inter, at Titz Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tbl CAvnty a Middlesex—Monday, August H, 1805. ~..