The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

(From the Times' Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. The various political parties in the North are at length drawn up in array for the Fall campaign, have adopted their platforms and chosen their can didates, and the contest is beginning. It is almost the first time in the history of the country that the Administration has not been interested in the result, and thrown its weight for one side or the other. It matters little which party wins—President Johnson will neither gain nor lose by a victory either way. Both parties support him in some things and oppose him in others, and it will be the last Americanpoli tical battle in which parties will be divided as they have been during the war. In Maine, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, the Democrats go into the contest with the advantage on their side, and have an excellent chance of carrying all the elections, excepting that in Maine, where, however, they will greatly reduce the Republican majority. In Ohio the Republicans have the best of it, and will certainly elect their Governor. In the nomi nations for office all over the country both sides have shown their preference for the soldiers, taking them for candidates in nearly all cases. The principles upon which the parties are divided are somewhat singular. Both support Johnson's reconstruction policy, with exceptions. The Democrats endorse it, but qualify their endorse ment with the announcement that they still oppose with bitter hatred the suspension of the habeas corpus, the extensive use of paper money, unequal taxes, and the subordination of the civil to the . military power. Everywhere but in Ohio the Republicans take exception to Johnson because he has not established negro suffrage, and proclaimed a wholesale confiscation of Southern property for the purpose of paying the national debt and pension list. In Ohio the platform adopted by them was one in which the issues of the day were rather avoided than mentioned, but General Cox, the can didate for Governor, has settled the matter by boldly announcing his support of all Johnson's Policy, and his opposition to negro suffrage. There are local causes that will influence the elec tions in every State. In Maine the present Repub lican Governor is a candidate for re-election, and will use the entire machinery of the State Govern ment to secure it. The Republicans oppose John son's negro suffrage policy, while the Democrats sup port it. There will be large Democratic gains, but not enough to overcome the Republican majority, which has been as high as 25,000. In. New York the Radical and Conservative Republicans threaten to part com pany before the election, and a fierce intestine con flict is raging between Greeley and Weed, the champions of the two sections. The managers hope, by judicious no-policy resolutions at the coming Convention, to keep the party together until Christ mas, but can do it no longer. The quarrel is now so serious that the Republicans will be very much hampered in the campaign, and there may be an open defection to the Democrats ; for Thurlow Weed is now thought by all to be labouring for Democratic The Democrats are jubilant and har monious, excepting a small faction i' New York city, whose ultra-Copperheadism may not permit them to bend the least to achieve a victory. The probabilities are strong that the meagre Republican majority of 11,000 in 1864 may be overcome. In Pennsylvania the Democrats have the advantage, and are confident of success. They have but 5,000 majority to overcome, are perfectly harmonious, and have great spirit and enthusiasm. General Davis, who is at the head of their State ticket, is considered the strongest man in the State, while his opponent, General Hartranft, is regarded as a Radical, and, being the officer who hanged Mrs. Surratt, is un popular among the Catholics. The Republicans will split after the election into two factions, led by Cameron and Curtin, and the factions even now are engaged in fierce newspaper conflict. In Phila delphia, for the first time in ten years, the Demo crats have a good chance of securing the city go vernment. The Republicans have nominated a city ticket, the majority of whom have been in office for the past three years. Some, if not all, of the Demo cratic city ticket will be successful. In Ohio the Republicans, although threatening a division on the negro suffrage question, will hang together until after the election. Their candidate will be chosen by at least 40,000 majority ; for the Democrats are hopelessly divided, and have two can didates in the field—Alexander Long, of the ultra- Copperheads, and General George W.,Morgan, who supports Johnson's policy. There is no hope of uniting the factions, and the election, hard to gain at any time by the Democrats, will be lost most decidedly. The division in the Democrats extends throughout the West. They agree on but one thing —Free Trade—and differ on everything else. In lowa the Conservative Democrats call themselves the "Anti - Negro-Suffrage party," and in Minnesota they are so hopelessly divided that their late Con vention determined to run no State ticket and lay down no policy, but let the election go by default. President Johnson is contributing by his conduct to add to the great party that is gradually closing around him in support of his measures. lle has success. given the Associated Press authority to announce that the restoration of the writ of habeas corpus will be ordered at an early day ; has telegraphed to the Mississippi Reconstruction Convention that the military will be removed from the State as soon as the new Government is in successful operation ; has turned several Radicals out of office, closed up the Provost-Marshals' offices in Wisconsin and North Missouri, and turned the Marshals adrift ; and is gradually reducing the mili tary force all over the country. Much of the clamour against him for keeping idle Generals in office at an enormous expense has been stopped by an order discharging 85 Generals of various grades, among whom are Banks, Butterfield, Casey, Heintzehnan, Doubleday, Hartsuff, Peck, Ferrero, Griffin, S. A. Meredith (of Paducah, Kentucky, fame), Allmann, and Slemmer (who held Fort Pickens). All these actions, done in obedience to popular sentiment, are gradually thinning the ranks of the Radicals. They can only succeed by con tinued excitements, while the Conservatives need quietness and a resumption of peaceful pursuits to swell their ranks. The Radicals hope to keep up the excitement by manufacturing stories of outrages upon negroes ; giving horrible pictures of the bar barities at Andersonville, by securing witnesses with glibe tongues for the Wirz trial ; and by attempting to deprive the Southern States of their representa tives in Congress. Gen. Schenck, of Ohio, already announces that at the next Congress he will pro pose an amendment to the Constitution, making the number of voter s in each State, and not the total population of the State, the basis of its Congressional representation. By this operation such Southern States as do not enact negro suffrage will have their congressional delegations cut down at least one-half by counting out the negroes, and as everything that clips the wings of the South pleases the people of the anti-slavery North, Schenck's amend ment meets with great favour. lie can scarcely secure the votes of enough States, however, t o carry it. Another attack on the South is contemplated by excluding their members of Congress already elected. It is announced that the Republican majority in Congress will exclude every Southern, no matter how large a vote he may have received, who during the war did not take sides with the North. On this ground the five Democrats just chosen in Tennessee will be refused their seats. Such a course, while it may for the titne maintain the( - heal supremacy at Washington, is so notoriously unjust that it will weaken the party everywhere. Of course the test of "loyalty" applied to a, Southern member presenting himself for admission is the sheerest nonsense, for the most notorious rebel would be welcomed with open arms if he promised to vote for Radical mea- sures. In Missouri the religions troubles continue with out abatement. It appears that Archbishop Kenrick has not only forbidden the Roman Catholic clergy to take the oath prescribed in the new State Constitu tion, but has notified them that any one taking it will be suspended from his functions. Every other religious denomination in the State has taken the cue from the Roman Catholics ; the Presbyterians and Methodists have resolved not to take the oath ; and the Episcopal clergymen of St. Louis have issued an address to their brethren throughout the State, advising them not to take it. Every subject of discussion in Missouri is eclipsed by this, and we find the entire religious community arrayed against the State Government. 'The prudent Republicans regret very much that a Constitution should have been forced upon the people by bayonets that was repugnant to the feelings of all but a handful of Radicals. The Governor says he will enforce the oath, and defiances are flung at him from nearly every pulpit in the State. The clergy compare themselves to :the martyrs of the Church in the time of James 11., and their flocks rally around them with intense enthusiasm. In a very few days the limit of time within which the oath must be taken will expire, and then all clergymen who have not taken it will be dragged from their altars by the military and deprived of the right of preaching. The follies of our sad war are all united in this greatest folly, which threatens Missouri with a renewal of strife. We have some additional information about cotton. The receipts at New Orleans show a falling off as compared with the early part of August, and the price is somewhat stiffened. Some people consider this an ',indication that the old stock is being ex hausted. Bales of this year's crop are making their appearance at New Orleans and Mobile, but no reli able estimates of the amount of the crop have yet been published. On August 24th the ship Francis B. Cutting cleared from Mobile for Liverpool with a cargo of $460,000 value, chiefly cotton. This is is the first clearance for Europe from any Southern port since the close of the war. The Treasury De partment has not lately published any cotton esti mates, and devotes itself solely to finance. The Sec retary considers that he will be able to get through without difficulty until the meeting of Congress, as the receipts from customs and internal revenue are much greater than were anticipated. The Govern ment loans maturing before the end of the year will not be taken up, so that the only extraordinary de mand upon the Treasury will be for certificates of indebtedness, of which $50,000,000 mature before October 1. At present very few new certificates are issued. The internal revenue receipts for the quarter ending October 1 will be $65,000,000. In order to prepare for the troubles that may arise after Congress meets, the Secretary is about to ne gotiate a long loan, for which compound interest notes and certificates of indebtedness will be re ceived. The bonds will have 40 years to run, and the Secretary wishes to withdraw as many legal tenders from circulation in subscriptions for them as he can. The amount of the loan about being put upon the market will not exceed $50,000,000, how ever. The New York Evening Stock and Gold Exchange has been closed in deference to the strong expression of popular opinion. It was devoted to stock and gold gambling, and was under a ban as soon as the Ketchum frauds were discovered. Ket chum himself was arrested on Aug. 26, having never been out of New York since his sudden disappear ance. Although the losses he has occasioned by his forgeries amounted to $4,200,000, it is very doubt ful if he will be prosecuted, and soon we may see the great swindler of the time as free as any of his victims. Where rich folk are concerned American law is sometimes addicted to strange freaks. Strong efforts are being made to mitigate the condition of both Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens. Petitions for the pardon of Mr. Davis are being signed in all parts of the South and for warded to Washington. Among the principal ones is a memorial from 4,000 ladies of Mississippi, and another from a large number of the ladies of Savan nah. It is very seldom now that we hear tirades against Mr. Davis, and his pardon is not an impro bability. For the pardon and release of Mr. Stephens direct personal intercession is made at Washington, and the President listens patiently to all petitions in his behalf. His brother, Linton Stephens, is in Washington, and, together with many friends from New York and Boston, is interceding for the release of the distinguished Georgian. As the rigours of his imprisonment have been much mitigated since peo ple have taken interest in his behalf, an early par don is anticipated. The President, ho xever, is very chary of his pardons. He refuses, so the story goes, to pardon Southern clergymen, " because they fanned the flame of secession," and civil officers because they did not fight ; every one has respect for soldiers, none for those who stay at home ;" and when the pardon of soldiers is asked for he refuses without assigning any cause. The principal pardons granted have been of those worth over $20,000, and this fact is so well known that on the 26th of August, among the throng of visitors at the White House seeking an interview with the President, was one who had a letter from a distin guished politician to the following effect :—" The bearer is a poor man, not possessed of the $5OO which he understands are necessary to obtain a pardon, and he trusts to the generosity of the President to grant it." On reading this the president became ex ceedingly angry, denounced it as an insult and an outrage, and ordered the man to be shown the door. Some excitement has been created in Virginia among the wealthy men who have produced pardons by General Terry causing Alexander Dudley, a citizen recently pardoned, to surrender his pardon. No cause is given, but bribery is supposed to be the reason, and the others who have been pardoned are fearful of losing their documents. Dudley is one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, and is president of the Richmond and York River Railroad, of which he owns nearly all the stock. The Freedmen's Bureau at New Orleans has re cently confiscated the lands of several Confederates for the benefit of the negroes. Some of the owners having been pardoned, the Bureau at Washington issued a circular of instructions directing the officers at New Orleans to retain their lands. The Presi dent, however, annulled the circular, and the lands will be restored ; and as the seizure of the estates of pardoned Confederates has been attempted in Ten nessee, no doubt the President will follow the same course there. The President has laid down the rule that where a pardon is granted it secures the per son's right to all his property, and already in more than one case the officiousness of under-strappers in the South who attempted to give trouble in this matter has been rebuked. In several parts of the country the Freedmen's Bureau is publishing orders designating the abandoned plantations that have been taken possession of for the benefit of the negroes. In Louisiana a recent circular announces the seizure of nearly 25,000 acres, and the lease of various portions to white and black tenants. In Virginia 17,000 acres in the countries bordering on the York and James Rivers have been similarly seized ; and in both States these orders are but the beginning of a series that will confiscate hundreds of thousands of acres. In South Carolina a negro insurrection is apprehended. All the blacks are to be liberated on January 1, and will then have to shift for themselves. A letter from that quarter says :-- "As all the negroes are to be turned loose upon the country on the Ist day of January next, the question is, How are they to live ? Poor creatures ! their doom is sealed ; they or the white race must perish—which will it be ? Will the North stand by and see their own flesh and blood perish at the hands of the negroes ? We are sure they are preparing for the cr i s i s . Th ey are arm i ng themselves now, and I think they have more weapons than the whites." I n ord er t o prepare the negroes for their condition after the Ist of January, General Saxton has issued what are styled ti cm ie l ‘Le r l y t e h ven matrimonial command ments, " 'which re blacks, and threaten all sorts a k r o r f i marriage things rite if amongthey a the re have at s d o i c ff ie er ty en is t not obeyed. times had a half-dozen husbaandss General considerably mixed up in South Coarrwli'ves' Saxton hopes to unravel it by militarlynao.rd sipid hence the " matrimonial commandments,,, 11 in number, which have been the joke of the Week. For some time past the President has had many applications from distinguished Confederates asking permission to go abroad. After considering the subject for some time, he has finally issued an order which states that paroled Confederate prisoners against whom no special charges are pending will be furnished with passports to go abroad, upon condi- tion that the applicants do not return to the United States without the permission of the President. Confederates not in the army must make applica tion for passports, " which will be disposed of ac cording to the merits of the several cases." It is re ported that Generals Lee, Beauregard, • and Taylor will avail themselves of the privilege of going abroad, riiE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1865. The Cattle Disease. MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOITSE. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the Compensation Company was held at the Mansion-house, Mr. Gibbins in the chair. The following members were present :—Dr. Stiff, Mr. H. Haines, Mr. Rudkin, Mr. Burkett, Mr. Heeps, &e. Dr. Sun , said he believed all sorts of applications would come before the committee unless they defined the class of persons to whom compensation would be given. The CHAIRMAN said cowkeepers should give informa tion as soon as possible of the existing symptoms of dis ease in their shed; and a competent person would be ap pointed to go and ascertain if the animals were afflicted with the cattle plague ; and, if so, to arrange as to the price which the committee would give for them. After the purchase of the animals they would be sent to the sana torium for treatment. Dr. STIFF wished to know if the principle adopted by the committee would apply to unlicensed cowkeepers. The CHAIRMAN replied all cowkeepers were included. Mr. RUDKIN said a lot of private cowsheds had been winked at by the inspectors. Dr. STIFF said it was important to know if those who had cows for sale would be entitled to compensation. The CHAIRMAN said every man, whether he had 5 or 50 cows, would be entitled to compensation, provided he gave notice of the existence of disease in his shed. Dr. STIFF thought the owners of fancy cattle should receive compensation. The CHAIRMAN said the committee should enlarge the principle with which they started, namely, to give com pensation to all parties giving information of the disease. Mr. HAINES thought the first thing to be done was to provide carts or ambulances for conveying plague-stricken cattle. There was a large number of carts in the metro polis for conveying wounded cattle, and the committee might hire them. Mr. RUDIUN said they should first appoint two compe tent veterinary:surgeons, whose duty would be to go about and report the existence of disease in the sheds and deter mine the price of the animals which would become the property of the committee. He would suggest to have an advertisement put immediately in the papers for two such inspectors, and they should also advertise for the carts as proposed by Mr. Haines. Mr. limps asked if it would be desirable to wait until they got notice of disease. He knew a case in which an infected cow was kept in the shed from Tuesday till Thursday. Mr. RUDKIN said they should not give compensation to any except those who gave information of the disease at the earliest stage. After some conversation Mr. RUDKIN proposed the appointment of two veterinary surgeons to act as inspec tors under the committee. Mr. lIEEPS seconded the motion, and it was unani mously adopted. The CHAIRMAN suggested the advisability of investing the inspectors with the power of a Government inspector. If an official were divested of this authority he would not have the power of allowing the diseased animals to go through the streets. Mr. RUDKXN said no opposition would be offered to the driving of the cattle through the streets. It had been done in Scotland, and he believed the Government inspectors would be only too glad to alllow them to do it. It was then agreed that the committee should advertise for cattle carts, and the business concluded. and R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, who is con fined at Fort Pulaski, on the Savannah River, has already forwarded to Washington an applica tion for release and permission to leave the country. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, applied for pardon on August 26. The President has decided that Governor Wells, of Louisiana, is a " Provisional Governor," and addresses all letters to him as such. No decision has been made, however, whether this remands Louisiana to the nondescript condition of the other Southern States. Whatever the character of her Government, however, she and the other States bordering on the Mississippi River are just now the Mecca of a heavy tide of emigration which has set in from the north and west. Every steamer that sails down the river carries hundreds of people who wish to settle on the fertile plantations of the south-west. Nearly all the lands of that region are offered for sale and they can now be purchased cheaply. The demands from the South to have the troops removed, especially the negroes, continue unabated. After a long deliberation the Government had de cided not to withdraw the blacks, but in the gradual decrease of the military establishment to disband the white troops first. The white soldiers are now being dismissed at the rate of 5,000 a week, and all who wish to remain in the South are paid off and discharged there. By this manoeuvre the Radicals hope to plant Yankee colonies all over the South, but as the worst Secessionists have always been people born in the North, in time these new settlers will become as ultra-Southerners as if they were born on the soil. The foreign immigration into the United States during the six months ending June 30 amounted to 75,000 persons. This is a falling off from the num ber reported for the first half of 1864. The immi grants scatter all over the country, and comprise all conditions of men. It is stated that, in addition to the seven paymas ters who have already proved defaulters to the Go vernment, 14 others are implicated in the frauds perpetrated by Amoy Binney, the Chief Paymaster of Virginia and North Carolina. We gradually be gin to see into some' of the transactions of Govern ment officers, and as the frauds already discovered have caused a general investigation of the accounts of all Government officers, the most astounding de falcations may soon be brought to light. A movement has begun among the working men in Philadelphia in favour of eight hours a day as a lawful day's work. They have held one or two large mass meetings, and are very enthusiastic in the cause. Nothing has yet resulted from the movement, however; the employers have given no opinion upon it one way or the other, and no measures are taken to coerce them. : The war steamer Fusiyama, of 1,000 tons burden, carrying a battery of one 100-pounder and three 30- pounder Parrots, four 9-inch Dahlgrens, and four 20-pounder brass smoothbores--12 guns in all—will sail from New York for Japan at an early day. She is the first vessel built in America for the Japanese navy. The Government sales of horses, mules, and wag gons have been stopped on account of the warlike demonstrations of the Indians. Large bodies of troops are marching against them, and all the Go vernment stock may be required to supply these soldiers. The Indian war may be said to have begun on an extensive scale, and, as its first result, the overland mail coaches have stopped running, and the overland telegraph wire is broken. Operations against the Indians are in charge of General Pope. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WATERFORD AND KILKENNY. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the London Tavern, Mr. Colman in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that the meeting had been convened for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken for the future working of the line after the 28th of January, 1866, on which date the lease held by the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company would expire. Mr. DELMIUNTY explained that the directors in Ireland, having before them the fact that the lease held by the Waterford and Limerick would expire in January next, deemed it best to call the share holders together, so as to confer with them as to the best plan to be adopted in the interest of the coin- pany when the present lease lapsed. A few years ago an agreement was entered into between the two companies, by which the Waterford and Limerick undertook working their line for 43 per cent. of the traffic receipts. There was also an arrangement by which, in the event of the traffic arriving at a cer tain standard, the price for working was to be re duced to 40 per cent. He would approve some similar arrangement being entered into, providing it could be brought about without sacrificing the in dependence of this company. He could not approve any arrangement which did not leave them entirely independent. He objected to having their hands tied, because in that case they would be in so much the worse position for making arrangements with the great English railways for a division of the traffic receipts. The Waterford and Limerick also undertook in the agreement to work the extensions (which, when completed, would act as feeders), but they now declined to do unless- at cost price ; and therefore he considered tri' if they could not other wise be independent, the best thing for them to do would be to work the line themselves. (Hear, hear.) No doubt they would be able to get neces sary plant from some of the rolling-stock companies. It was the opinion of some of the Irish shareholders that if the dividend was to be increased it could only be brought about by working the extensions. He thought that if an arrangement could be made with a company on this side of the water, it would result to the advantage of the shareholders. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. DELAHUNTY said the extension line would be completed at a cost of about £6,000 per mile. He himself would invest £5,000 in shares for that purpose, and if other shareholders would do the same there would be an end of their difficulties in that respect. Mr. ADAMS was of opinion that the feelings and interest of the Waterford Company were inimical to their own. It was to the interest of that com pany to divert, if possible, the traffic from them. Mr. W. SMITH moved that from the importance of maintaining the independent position of this com pany, so as to enable it to make advantageous traffic arrangements with other companies, it be left to the Board of directors to determine whether this line should be worked by another company, or whether the necessary rolling stock should be pro cured to enable this company to work the line from Waterford to Maryborough. Mr. R. ALL 4M seconded the resolution, which was adopted unanimously. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. NORTH-EASTERN. It appears that the dire c t ors o f this company in tend to apply for Parliamentary powers to greatly improve the station at York, or to build a new one upon a large scale, in which ample accommodation would be given to passengers, and trains passing north and south would be enabled to run through without delay. TEES VALLEY. On Saturday the ceremony of cutting the first sod on this line at Middleton-in -Teesdale was per formed by the Duke of Cleveland, in the presence of a large number of persons resident in the district. The event was celebrated at a banquet given on the occasion, and at which the Rev. T. Witham, the chairman of the company, presided. Various loyal and other toasts were given and reponded to, and the proceedings terminated. 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The Metropolitan Cattle Plague Committee, consisting of he Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Markets' Committee of he Corporation of London, medical officers of health in the metropolis, the representatives of the Commissioners of Sewers, and each of the vestries and district boards of works,Professor Simonds, and other eminent professors and medical 'men, together with cattle salesmen and others in terested in the question, have presented a memorial to Sir George Grey, conveying to him the importance of their being empowered to establish in such places in the metro politan district as they may deem desirable, sanatoriums, where animals, in the early stages of the disease, may be sentunder a certificate from the inspector acting in pursuance of his Ordersin Council, and also under such supervision as may be sanctioned by the medical officers of health in the district in which the case may occur. The committee state that they consider such sanatoriums should be established for the following among other reasons, namely :—lt is con sidered that the Orders . in Council by compelling the de struction of animals on the premises in which they are first attacked prevent any effectual attempt at cure by the owners of such cattle, and thereby tend to propagate the disease by keeping such animals in a very confined space. It is also coneidered thet the present Orders in Council are sufficient to prevent the removal of diseased cattle from the sheds to slaughterhouses, and the sale of the carcases for food, as the inspectors do not at present visit sheds unless their attention is called to the fact of the disease prevailing therein. This information is seldom given by the pro prietors, and is only obtained by chance. The proprietors of course withhold giving any information to the inspec tors as long as possible, and in the meantime secretly convey the animals to slaughterhouses where the least efficient inspection prevails. But if sanatoriums were established, and at the same time, as is proposed, a system of compensation is organised, it would be to the interest of the proprietors to send their cattle to such sanatoriums upon their observing the first symptoms of the disease. As an objection had been raised to the establishment of such places as were proposed, on account of the danger of removing the diseased animals, the committee had tho roughly examined the question, and had no doubt that means could be provided for the conveyance of such cattle from the places they may be in to the proposed sanatoriums without fear of spreading the contagion. At the same time facilities would be offered for the carrying out of the Orders in Council respecting the destruction of the carcases of such animals as might die, and also for thoroughly disin fecting and destroying the manure and offal which, under the present arrangement, is very imperfectly carried out. It is also considered that while the separation of the dis eased cattle directed by the Orders in Council may be practicable in the country, on farms and such like places where plenty of space is to be obtained, such a course is not practicable in the confined cowsheds in the metro polis; and therefore it is absolutely necessary that a proper place should be set aside for recei v i ng the animals in an early state of the disease. Should tho committee be em powered to carry into effect the establishment of sanato riums, as proposed, it would in their opinion, in conjunction with the proposition of compensating the owners who give information to the committee of any beast infected with the cattle plague, have the effect of staying the progress of the disease, and at the same time prevent the wholesale destruc tion of animals which may ultimately prove to be in a healthy condition and fit for human food. As an instance of which it has been found necessary, under the existing Orders in Council, to slaughter a drove of forty cows from one of the London dairies, in consequence of three or four of their number being infected with the disease. The permission has, we believe, been already conceded by Sir George Grey, and the committee have promptly established sanatoriums in various parts of the metropolis, where animals suffering from the disease can be taken and attended to with a view to their ultimate recovery. lIORNSEY. Yesterday, at the Highgate Police-court, Mr. Potter, of the Hornsey Highway Board, informed Mr. Bodkin and Col. Jeakes that the cattle plague had broken out atChurch bottem Farm, Hornsey. Mr. Farmer, the sanatory inspector, had mentioned last week that the plague was at Highgate, and asked for the appointment of additional inspectors, as stated in this journal on Tuesday. Mr. Bodkin said the matter was of public importance, and Colonel Jeakes said promptitude was essential, and suggested the immediate appointment of inspectors. Mr. Scarfe, the magistrate's clerk, said a petty sessions had power to appoint inspectors, and Mr. Allen, a veterinary surgeon at Kentish Town, who was present, would accept an appointment. The Bench preferred an officer in the neighbourhood. Mr. Potter, Mr. Merry (inspector of nuisances), and Inspector O'Loghlen, gave evidence that a farmer named Bateman had diseased cows, and so great was the stench that, near Church-bottom Farm, Hornsey, the inhabitants sat up all night. The Bench at once appointed Mr: Potter inspector, and urged upon him immediate action. Additional inspectors would be appointed, if necessary, at a divisional sessions, and prompt measures adopted to prevent the spreading of the plague in the locality. British Association for the Advancement of Science. BIRMINGHAM, Monday. In Section A this morning Mr. GI AumEnread the report of the Balloon Committee. The business suggested for Mr. Glaisher at the meeting last year was to examine the elec trical condition of the air, to verify the law of the decrease of temperature, especially in winter, and to take observa tions at night. In the first no progress had been made ; but with regard to night ascents a miner's Davy lamp, of superior construction, has been furnished by Mr. Watson, of Newcastle, under the direction of Mr. E. Potter, of Tynemouth. As this lamp has been taken up by day in the gas of the balloon with perfect safety, it is reasonably believed that observations at night may be read on the instruments with safety. The importance of these ascents will be seen when it is understood that high mountains are not climbed after nightfall, and that few atmospheric ob servations at high altitudes have hitherto been made after dark. It is therefore quite intended to make the night ascents. Three winter ascents have been made from Wool wich, all tending to confirm the previous conclusions of the scientific aeronaut, that the decrease of temperature on leav ing the earth is not the same in winter as in summer. These ascents also proved the constancy of the south-west wind in the winter months. Magnetic observations of a valuable character were likewise taken, as well as successful experi ments with the spectreoscope and with a thermometer. Following up this subject, Mr. F. W. BREARE gave some remarks upon aerial navigation, and suggested the organis ing of a company, and the payment of subscriptions, for carrying out investigation s and observations upon the practicability of making balloons navigable. Mr: WELDON proposed a fish-shaped balloon, divided into vertical cell; as being a form capable of being propelled horizontally through the air. The economists and statisticians gave their full attention to the subject of cotton and machinery, a paper on these matters being introduced by Mr. David Morris. Lord STANLEY, the president, said it would have been better for all parties if there could have been an absolute guarantee at the commencement of war that no cotton would come in from America for six years, because in that case purchasers would have turned their attention to the cultivation of cotton in those countries where it could and would be produced. His lordship did not anticipate that the supply of agricultural labour would be materially di minished by increased demand for hands in the cotton fac tories. Mr. EDWARD VIVIAN, M.A., in a paper " On the Admis sion of Illegitimate Children into Workhouses as a Means of Preventing Infanticide," suggested, first, that discre tionary power should be given to guardians to admit those children without the mother, the costs to be paid by one or both parents ; and secondly, that it should be the duty of relieving officers to do their utmost to find out the fathers of the children and obtain orders of affiliation, so that the expense, might not fall exclusively on the mother or on the union. This system, he thought, was intermediato between foundling hospitals, with their temptations to im morality, and the cruelties which were practised by paid nurses. With reference to recent cases, he had ascertained that the woman Winsor was not, as had been represented, a specimen of an industrious man's wife, but was the keeper of a brothel, of which her own daughters were in mates. Harris, although she had an illegitimate child, had so far recovered her character as to be received into do mestic service. In reply to Lord STANLEY, who inquired whether, in all cases, the mothers of illegitimate children should be allowed to send in their children while the mothers of legi timate children could only be received in some cases, Mr. VIVIAN said the discretionary power should be strictly exercised. In the course of discussion a medical gentleman gave it as the opinion of a considerable portion of his pro fession that there should be a change in social views with respect to the disgrace of illegitimacy. Public opinion, he said, should be more in accordance with physiological laws. The offence in these cases was really less than that of less excusable crimes. He believed the system proposed by Mr. Vivian would add to the amount of illegitimacy. Another medical gentleman present declined to endorse the social. views of this gentle man as those of his profession. Mr. WILLIAM WILSON said the real question was as to whether or not this country was over -populated, and hence life not so valuable as in more thinly-populated lands. If this were the case, a system of nursery emigra tion for the children of those parents who did not acknow ledge them to countries where they would be more useful and more happy might be considered. The DEPUTY -CORONER of BATH spoke on the legal view of infanticide, coinciding with the dictum of Mr. Justice Willes. Sir JOHN BOWRING spoke in terms of strong condemna tion of the receptacles for the bodies of toothless children in China, and of the legal protection given to mothers who murdered their offspring. He had often seen dogs devour ing the bodies of children in China. And yet in all the large cities there were orphan asylums. Lord STANLEY said it was a question as to whether there had really been an increase of the crime of infanticide, or whether, owing to several recent cases, this was not one of those periodical panics which, like garotting, sprang up at intervals amongst the community. There had been in stances where the facilities afforded by burial clubs had tended to increase this. He condemned foundling hospi tals, and remarked that, in the present state of the law, a punishment of two years' imprisonment could be given for concealment of birth. There was also a discussion in this section on patents and copyright, on a paper by Professor Rogers. It was maintained during the debate that nearly all the manufac turers in Birmingham, if polled, would be found in favour of laws on these questions. The Geographical Section presented a very strong paper, and attracted a large meeting. North Polar expe ditions first came under notice, Mr. C. R. Markham advo cating the Smith's Sound route, and Admiral E. Ommaney the Spitzbergen route. Admiral BELCHER supported the latter course, remark ing that for 22 years nothing new of any note had been discovered in the Polar Regions. The PRESIDENT observed that it was probably in conse quence of the difference of opinion that the Government declined to do anything at present. Mr. T. WRIGHT, in discoursing on the true assignation of the bronze weapons, &c., supposed to indicate a bronze age in northern and western Europe, held that the division of prehistoric time into stone, bronze, and iron ages, was contradicted by archreological science. Sir J. LUBBOCK defended the views contained in his book on the subject, and pointed out data to show that there was clearly a period when bronze was used almost to the exclu sion of iron. No doubt when a Koman found a bronze sword he would prize it highly, and retain it as long as he could; and he thought it was an argument against Mr. Wright himself to show that a few bronze implements were found in the iron age. All else that had been advanced might be referred to the period of transition from bronze to iron Mr. EVANS supported the conclusions of the hon. baronet. Mr. BURKE advocated the importance of the services rendered by the northern archaeologists. The name of Mr. Edward Whymper, the survivor of the accident on the Matterhorn, appeared on the list as the reader of a paper onAlpine subjects, but the paper was de ferred until to-morrow. It was privately rumoured that Mr. Whymper was shaken by a railway accident on his way to Birmingham yesterday. Mr. F. BUCXLAND gave the zoologists a dissertation on the culture of the oyster. The substances to which the young spat wore inclined to attach themselves were pre ferred in nearly the following order—the shell of a live ()Ater, the shell of a dead oyster, shells of the mussel, the periwinkle, whelks; and clams, pieces of crockery, glass, tiles, tobacco pipes, iron, and wood. They accu mulated in largo groups, of which the elder oysters were the centre. It was important that the clutches of shells should be kept clean, and free from mud and weeds. He did not think facines were so attractive to the oyster as they were said by the French to be. At present there was great danger that the oyster beds of Britain would be depleted, and that in a short time the oyster would be re garded as a curiosity, instead of being an ordinary market able commodity. Dr. Grnn submitted to physiologists a refutation of the view recently propounded, that the food comes into contact with the vocal cords in deglutition. • Professor ROLLESTON read a paper on certain points in the anatomy of two animals from the Mammoth Cave Kentucky. One was a little fish, from which the abdominal fin was absent, and the other a small crustacean, so pel lucid that the brain could be seen—a phenomenOn which, as the professor humorously observed, if it occurred in man would save the necessity for competitive examina tions. The geologists were engaged nearly all day in discussing features of Staffordshire. The chemists were engaged on abstruse subjects, and were up early. After the rising of the section; at three o'clock in the afternoon, the mayor gave a banquet in the Town Hall to about 300 members of the Association. It has been decided that the Association will hold its meeting for 1866 at Nottingham. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. L TIDIES.—The poll book of the late election for the University of Oxford has been published within the last few days, and will be studied with more than usual interest. No one can fail to be struck by the extraordinary number of votes polled in proportion to the constituency. On no former occasion, we believe, have more than about half the electors on the register presented themselves to vote in person, and if we add to these the pairs, we may probably state the average number of those who declared themselves under the old system at some two-thirds, more or less. The result corresponds pretty nearly with the percentage of votes recorded in borough and county elections as estimated roughly by Lord Stanley, and tends to show that a keener interest in politics compensated in an university constituency for the disadvantage of greater dispersion. This disadvantage, whatever it may have been, was com pletely neutralised by Mr. Dodson's act, enabling votes to be tendered on paper. Notwithstanding the clumsy wording of this act, which rendered a compromise between the two committees of Messrs. Gladstone and Hardy absolutely necessary, its effeet has been to raise the whole number of votes re ceived from less than 2,000 to 3,669. If we look to the official returns of former contests, we find that in 1847 Mr. Gladstone polled 997 votes, and Mr. Round 824 ; that in 1852 Mr. Gladstone polled 1,108, and Dr. Marsham 758 ; that in 1853 Mr. Gladstone polled 1,022, and Mr. Perceval 893; and that in 1859 Mr. Gladstone polled 1,050, and Lord Chandos 860. In the election of this year Mr. Gladstone polled 1,724, and Mr. Hardy 1,904, being 3,628 in all, or more than double the number polled by Messrs. Gladstone and Round in 1847. The contrast is almost equally striking if we compare the number of Sir Robert Inglis's supporters with that of Sir William Heatheote's, the former having polled 1,700 votes in 1847, and 1,369 in 1852 ; while the latter polled 3,236 in 1865, although no less than 415 plumpers were given for Mr. Gladstone. Now, the exact number of quali fied electors for the present year, strange to say, cannot be ascertained, but it is believed to amount to between 4,200 and 4,300. The aggre gate of votes being 3,669, we cannot be far wrong in assuming that six-sevenths of the constituency actually took part in the election ; and when we have made allowance for sick persons, those who were resident or travelling abroad, and those whose voting-papers were rejected, we can only marvel at the vigour of the canvass which left so trifling a residuum of obstinate neutrality. Upon the policy and constitutional merits of Mr. Dodson's measure opinions will continue to differ widely, but no one can deny that it has effected its immediate objects. The next feature which claims attention in this poll book is the remarkable distribution of votes between Mr. Gladstone and his opponent. To the public outside the University may appear to be a body of tolerably uniform composition and texture, but such is far from being the fact. Those who know Oxford well are aware that it combines at the pre sent time the most antagonistic elements of thought and action, and is divided, both vertically and horizontally, into sections which perhaps no other society could amalgamate. There is nothing invidious in pointing out, what it will surprise no one to learn, that an immense preponderance of those who represent Oxford before the world stood by Mr. Gladstone, while Mr. Hardy was largely indebted to the vis inertia of numbers for the first time put into effective motion by the voting-papers. To appreciate this, we have only to examine the last page of the Poll-book, which contains an ab stract of the votes in each College. - It is not too much to say that in every College of high educa tional reputation, with rare and doubtful exceptions, Mr. Gladstone obtained a majority. Balliol, Corpus, University, Oriel, Merton, Exeter, Queen's and Wadham, all proved f a ithf u l t o hi m ; New College, Trinity, Magdalen, Christ Church, St. John's, Pem broke, Worcester, Brasenose, a n d Magdalen Hall were the strongholds of his opponent. To members of the University this simple enumeration speaks volumes, for it exhibits almost all the best Colleges, which happen also to be the oldest, on the one side, and almost all the inferior Colleges, which-t happen also to be less venerabl e , on the other. Yet this is but an inadequate statement of the real case. Pur suing our analysis further, and distinguishi ng th e Heads and Fellows of Colleges from other members, we come upon still more significant statistics. Out of 19 Heads of Colleges, 8 only voted for Mr. Gladstone, and 10 for Mr. H ar d y, b ut t h e former comprise the names of Dr. Liddell, of Christ Church, Dr. Scott, of Balliol, Dr. Hawkins, of Oriel, Dr. Lightfoot, of Exeter, Dr. Cradock, of Brasenose, Dr. Plumptre, of University, M r . P a t t i son, of Lin coln, and Dr. 'Williams, of Jesus. Here, again, com ment is needles s , espec i a ll y as a far more conclusive and less embarrassing illustration of the same fact is furnished by the votes of Fellows. It is well known that most Oxford Fellowships are now open, and constitute the highest reward of academical distinc tion. The Fellows of Colleges are thus, beyond all question, the elite of the Uiversity, and in this picked body Mr. Gladstone had a majority of 205 to 92, or more than two to one. There are three Colleges-- Merton, Oriel, and Corpus —in which not a single Fellow voted for Mr. Hardy, and only one—St. John's—in which he gained a majority. Considering that in most Colleges a good deal of the old leaven still works in senior Fellows elected for other reasons than merit, and ever inclined to high and dry poli tics, the value of this testimony in Mr. Gladstone's favour can hardly be overstated. But an equally important test remains to be applied. If the rising energy and intellect of Oxford be embodied in the Fellows, the mature learning is assuredly concen trated in the Professors. Twenty-three out of thirty-six voted for Mr. Gladstone, ten only for Mr. Hardy, and, to say the least, this numerical dis proportion very feebly represents the impression which an inspection of the two lists will convey to our initiated readers. Every page of the poll book tells the same story, and it is impossible to rise from a perusal of it without a conviction that, however respectable a candidate Mr. Hardy may have been, it was the dunces who rallied round him and suc ceeded in swamping the votes of the classmen. Other reflections of a different nature are suggested by this return. It has been noticed in a letter addressed to one of our contemporaries, that of the clergy 1,166 voted for Mr. Gladstone, and 1,328 for Mr. Hardy, whereas among the laity Mr. Hardy only headed Mr. Gladstone by 18. It is also stated by the same correspondent that of .Mr. Hardy's supporters 133 had voted for Mr. Gladstone against Lord Chandos. The presumption clearly is that most of these deser ters belonged to the rank of the clergy, and that presumption is entirely in accordance with what we should have expected. At all events this defalcation was more than enough to turn the election even without the aid of the voting papers, and so far con firms the opinion of those who maintained that Mr. Gladstone had nothing to fear from that innovation. It appears, moreover, that Mr. Hardy had a majo rity of 52 upon the votes of M.A.'s added to the re gister within the preceding year. Hence we might be tempted to infer that Mr. Hardy enjoyed the confidence of the younger graduates, were it not probable that greater efforts were made by his com mittee to induce B.A.'s to qualify, and that many such Bachelors of old standing were induced to re place their names on the books of their colleges. There is reason, indeed, to believe that the victorious party owed their success, in part, to superior organi sation ; but no superiority of organisation could have prevailed had not the voting papers brought the country clergy within its reach, and had not the battle been fought on a new ground. Hitherto academical have on the who'e outweighed political influences in Oxford elections ; henceforth it is to be feared that ordinary party spirit directed from London will for some time rule supreme. If so, the true friends of Oxford must be content to see themselves repre sented, as of old, by Tory country gentlemen, and to exercise, as best they may, the virtues of a minority, not holding aloof, like the Spanish Pro gresistas, from University politics, but devoting themselves with redoubled zeal to internal reform. In the work of education consists the true life of Oxford, and here the 400 who plumped for Glad stone may prove more than a match for the 1,900 adheren s ts of Hardy. The future belongs to them, for every year adds to their strength in the govern ing bodies of the College and of the University ; and if this power be in their hands, as it soon must be, it matters little whethe r th ey are outvoted once in five years by a number of non-residents on a political issue. HERALD.-It has been no easy task to follow the windings and changes of party politics in the Northern States of America, since the termination of the war. The old names remain ; the old party or ganisation is still in some parts entire • and, as com petitors for seats in Congre ss and offices under the Government, Republicans and Democrats seem still to be united among themselves and hostile to each other ; but upon the great public questions of this momentous crisis men are taking sides with compa rative independence of mere party ties, and it is sometimes difficult to say to what party such a man belongs, o#what course either party will take ; or, again, whether any party exists which can act to gether resolutely and consistently upon a definite line of policy in regard to the great problems of the hour. Secession and coercion divided the Democra tic party between the war and peace factions—be tween those who preferred the Union as the object of all their long struggles against Northern section alism, to the avowed principles in whose name those struggles had been made, and those who, preferring their principles to the Union, maintained consistently that doctrine of State rights which they had inherited from a political ancestry older than the Union itself. Conquest has again divided the Republicans. On the one hand the Abolitionists are mostly clamorous for a policy of favouritism to the negro and severity to the white people of the South. With them the object of the war was the destruction of slavery ; and they think slavery still but half extirpated so long as the negro remains in a state of political pupilage, and is not admitted to a full and absolute equality with the white man. Their hatred of the Southerners is intense and almost savage. It dates from a period long before the war, when Theodore Parker preached with a pistol on his pulpit cushion; when Mr. Chase harangued on the duty of commit ting perjury in the interests of abolition,when Demo cratic mobs threatened Abolitionist orators with tar and feathers, and Abolitionists taught that murder and pillage were the shortest road to emancipation, and that Sharp's rifles and Colt's revolvers were the only agency capable of converting the slaveowner. Now the South is prostrate, and these men would fain set the foot of military despotism on her neck, and hold it there till their vengeance is satiated. On the other side, the so-called Conservative section of the Republicans desires nothing so much' as the speedy oblivion of the war, and the reconstruction of the Southern States on a Northern model. They are perfectly willing that the Southerners shall go vern themselves, provided they will govern them selves on Republican principles ; and though they intend never to allow State rights again to interfere with Federal authority, and will, if they can, reduce the privileges of the local governments to little more than the shadow of what they were, they repudiate the proposal to keep the conquered States in sub jection to military pro-consuls, courts-martial, and the arbitrary la w l a id down for each occasion by commanding generals or Freedmen's Bureaux. The former section is led by Mr. Chase and Mr. Sumner, the latter by Mr. Seward. The well-known leaders in the cause of abolition, when Abolitionists were a hunted and persecuted sect, are active in the de mand for negro suffrage • but they refuse to go along with the politicians who have superseded them in command in clamouring for vengeance on the Southern people and for the blood of the chiefs of the Confederacy. In the meantime while victory has divided the Republicans, it seems to have united the Democrats. A few extreme men are accused of still denouncing the war, and of encouraging the South to persevere in a policy of passive resistance, with a view to acquire eventually from the weariness of the North what they failed to extort at the point of the sword. But if there really be any politicians SO obstinate and so ill-advised, they are few and insignificant. The great body of the Democratic party seem to be agreed upon the course to be fol lowed. They accept with satisfaction the restoration of the Union ; and claim that it is or ought to be restored in its integrity by the termination of the war ; that on the submission of the seceding States they become ipso facto entitled to.resume their rights and privileges, to re-establish their state govern ments, to regulate their own affairs, and to send their senato rs an d representat i ves to: Washington. As, however, these professions of faith are generally followed by a conditional resolution to support the policy of the President as against the extreme Abolitionist party, it would appear that the real policy of the Democrats is to " appropriate" (in the phrase of their opponents) as far as they can, the influence and policy of the President, and, in return for their support, to obtain whatever modification they can of those portions of his system which bear oppressively upon the feelings and interests of the South. What the President himself may intend it is difficult to say. Many recollections must embitter him against his countrymen ; the animosity of an apostate, and the remembrance of wrongs and in sults interchanged, separate him frdm that Demo cratic party of which he was once an active and even a violent supporter. But so far as he can be judged by recent acts and expressions, he seems to incline to a policy more lenient towards the South, and more nearly in accordance with the principles of the Democrats, than could have been expected from his antecedents and from the language which he used upon his accession to power. The respon sibilities of office seem to have sobered him ; and we hear of no more violent speeches about the duty of punishing treason, and no preparations to carry out the threatened confiscation of the property of all Southerners possessed of even a moderate com petence. On the other hand, he receives with great -favour the resolutions of the Convention of Missis sippi, which assert on behalf of the State ever y right which, under . present circumstances, any Southerner can hope to retain, and present a plan of reconstruction as favourable to the State and to the defeated Secessionists as could have resulted from the repudiated propositions of General Sher man's Convention. Mr. Johnson is, moreover, reported to have declared that he disapproved alto gether of the attempt to force negro suffrage upon the South ; that it was for the Legislatures of the several States to determine to whom the electoral franchise should belong ; and that he had no wish to deprive them of their right. If the President 'has really held this language it is clear that the present inclination of his mind is towards a just and liberal course • it is to be hoped that no error or accident may throw him back upon the extreme measures pressed on him by the Abolionists. The South has frankly accepted her fate, and consented to resume in good faith her place in the Union. The calm, dignified, and sensible letter of General Johnstone, which we printed on Friday, expresses the feelings and intentions of the men who, like him, fought to the last for their country's independence while the hope of independence re mained. They admit that their States are once more members of the Union ; they frankly aban don the whole system of slavery ; and they are prepared, though with saddened and humbled hearts, to do their part to render their several States as content and prosperous as her present situation admits. That their should be difficulties, that there should be collisions, and misunderstand ings, and offences, is natural and inevitable. The relations between conquerors and conquered will not at first run smoothly ; still less those between mortified masters and insolent slaves. If it were true, indeed, that there had been massacres of negroes by Southern whites, or even that a general disposition to ill-use and quarrel with them existed, we should see great reason for alarm. But we do not believe any more of these rumours than of former tales of roasting slaves alive or flogging them to death. The stories are almost always vague, general, and untrustworthy, and rest on the autho rity of journals wholly disentitled to credit. Here and there we light upon a probable story, which seems to explain the rumours—as in one case, where the negroes had seized a vacant plantation, were ordered to quit by the owner, and on refusing were • expelled by force, not without bloodshed. Such collisions as these are sure to occur in a country where as yet law is suspended, and where a white man has no hope of obtaining justice against a negro before the special tribunals to which alone the latter is amenable. But that there is any general conspiracy, or even any general feeling of illwill, against the negroes on the part of their late masters, we do not believe ; on the contrary, we regard all these rumours of negro massacres as fic tions invented to serve a purpose —to render the same service to the cause of negro suffrage that Mrs. Stowe's fictions performed for the cause of emancipation. The South, we repeat, has sub mitted to her fate ; she has given up slavery much more willingly than independence ; and she has as little idea of evading the former concession by fraud or force as of attempting to renew the struggle for the latter object, .which has cost her so terrible a • price. COUNTRY MARKETS COLCHESTER-Sm. 9. -• Good supply of wheat, principally new, trade dull ; new 2s and old is per qr. cheaper. Some of the new barleys wero exhibited, quality various. Beans and peas scarce, and quite as dear. Wheat, white 40s 54s Beans, 11iazagan......23s 281 red 36s 48s Middle and 5ma11...35s 408 Barley 'Bs 40s Peas, white. 38s 42i Oats ...20s 25s grey ...36s 168 NORTHAMPTON-SEAT. 9. At our market to-day there was a moderate show of bar ley, and extreme rates were paid. Oats sold readily at full prices. Beans fully is per qr. dearer. New white wheat, 458 to 47s ; new red, 40s to 48s ; old white, 44s to 50s ; old red, 44s to 49s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —8 to ---s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 36s per 3 0 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 320 ; new, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 398 to 43s ; kew, 85e to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 37s per 36 stone. CHELMSFORD-SEPT. 8. We had to-day a large supply of new wheat, but the greater portion so out of condition that few sales could be effected. A few dry samples were disposed of 2s per qr. less than last week. Old wheats met a reduction of is per qr. Spring corn unaltered in value. Very little business done in any description of grain. Whedt, old white 45s 518 new 44s st , s old red 41s 418 new 31s 42s Barley.... 2ss 32s Chevalier 26a 33s Grind ng %Os •Ss Malt 6ls 678 Chevalier 643 683 Oats Peas, Partridge 3 , 8 395 White —3oB 348 R.,lllng .. ..... .38s 425 Dun.... dit , o, new....—s —s Beans, Tick, old ...... 318 378 new....—s s Harrow I icks.3ss s new....—s -s Mazagan • . 34s 375 GRANT [-SEPT. 9. At this day's market business was languid, and new sorts of wheat were 3s lower; old fully is per. qr. down. There was a steady trade doing in barley, and prices were high. Oats were in request at remunerative prices. Beans were also dearer. Old white wheat,rsOs to 535; old red, 44s to 48s ; new' white, 45s to 49 8 ; n ew red, 40s to 45s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, —43 to --s per qr. ; grinding,'2Bs to 30s per 30 stone. O a t s , o ld , 25s to 275; new, 20s - to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 475 ; new, 36 s t o 38 s p er 38 stone. Peas, 35s to 398 per 36 stone. ABERDEEN-SErT. 9. The new samples offering were bere and barley, WO various in quality, and equally so in value, prices varying from 21s to 23s per a lb. The new oats are of fair qua lity, and selling from 18s 5d to 20s per 40 lb. Old scarce and firm at our quotations. White wheat 36s Od to 40 s Od t 621 b bushel. Red wheat 338 Od to 36s Od j Potato oats 21s 6d t o 22 s Od j_ Oommon oats 20 s 6d t o 21 s 6d j 401 ? bushel. Bere 23s Od to 24s Od I K Barley 23 s Od t o 24 s Odf °Bib 11 bushel. Oatmeal 16 s 6d to)l7s 6d 10 boll of 14 0 /t h ___ _. . . ... ll Flour, fine 83s Od to Odl sack of 280Ib• KIRKCALDY—SEyr. 8. Small supplies of all kinds of grain, which sold slowly at the prices of this day week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...... 41s 6d 1 23s 6d 2's Od tt econd.... 44s Od 25s 6d 258 Od Third..... 45s ud 28s Od —s 0(1 Births. CAMPBELL.—On the 28th ult., at Cork, the wife of Map Henry Wotton Campbell, late 79th Highl an d ers, 0 s' son. CONNELL.—On the 6th inst., at Fort Brockhurst, Gosport' the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Connell, Royal Artillery, of A son. EscoMßE.—On the Bth inst., at Greenhill, Harrow, the Wif e of William Escombo, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages DIRELL—EYRE.—On the 9th inst., at the Catholic Chap el, Warwick-street, by hi s Grace Archbishop Manning; assisted by the Rev. Monsignor Eyre, Major Ilen r b ", Darell, of Calehill, Kent, to Isab e ll a M ary , e ld es t daug ter of Vincent Anthony Eyre, Esq., of' Lindley Hall , Leicestershire. FLE'rquEn.—IIEMING.—On the 7th inst., at St. G ileB'f4 . ? _ Camberwell, George William Hewitt Fletcher, „. LL.B., of the Inner Temple, to Emily, youngest dal* ter of the late Robert lleming, Esq., of Banbury. Deaths. ALLISON.—On the Bth inst., at South Kilvington, net". Thirsk, John Pick Allison, Esq., aged 46. CnimP.--:On the 10th inst., at Perry Vale, Sydenh am ' Albert Cramp, Esq., aged 49. DUKES. —On the 9th inst., at 1, Chiswick-square, W., Gl°. Dukes, Esq., aged 63. FERRAND.—On the Ist inst. at at Jersey, Willi a m Ferri'l l st ci : jun., eldest son o f William. Ferrand, Esq, M.P. , 0f - Ives, Yorkshire. S•• SMYTH.—On the 9th i ns t. , a t St . J o h n 's L o d ge , near AV' s, bury, Admiral W. H. S my th, K.S.F., D.C.L., F.-"' &c., aged 78. YATES.—On the Bth inst., Matthias W. Yates, of llalhai w hill, Surrey, and Wood-street, City, aged 52. London : Printed and Published by WIL LIAM AN DREW S, of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at THZ Sim °ince, No. 112 t Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the Count ° Middlesex.--Tuesday, September 12, URA of th e Ott, 1 44 Th 4 ° 1 4 11 e o e bt r. I 814,01