The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-03 00:00:00

J-.••••' jMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. THE DEVONPORT ELECTION PETITION. The Duke of SOMERSET made a personal explanation in reference to this subject. He said a statement had been made that he had received a letter in reference to this matter, which he denied, as no such letter had been writ ten to him. An application had been made in the usual way to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and the naval lords of the Admiralty telegraphed in the usual way that facilities should be afforded to parties signing the petition against the return of the sitting members. lle repudiated any improper connection with the matter. Tne Earl of DERBY gave the noble duke full credit for all that was honourable and straightforward, but he must say there was something most objectionable in reference to the proceedings in this matter. lle could not under stand why the warrants should have been issued two months before the committee appointed to try the petition. The object was to obtain information in an ticipation of the proper time. He called their attentien to the suspicious fact that the petition was in favour of Mr. Phinn, who was counsel to the Admiralty, and under the circumstances he considered that a full enquiry should be made into the whole matter. The Duke of SOMERSET agreed with the noble lord that there should be an enquiry, but in justice to Mr. Phinn he must state that that gentleman had objected to the presentation of the petition. THE TRUSTEES OF THE LATE KING CF THE BELGIANS. The Earl of DERBY laid on the table of the house a statement with regard to the funds vested in the trustees of his late Majesty, the King of the Belgians; and asked her Majesty's Government how soon the trustees would be relieved from their responsibility in connection therewith ? The noble lord said that, as one of the trustees, ho was desirous to render a satisfactory account of their stewardship, in the course of which they had to deal with no less than .£2,5004'00. At the time of the marriage of the late King of the Belgians with the Princess Charlotte Parliament granted them £60,000 a year, which was to be reduced to £50,000 a-year to his Ma jesty in the event of herdeath. His Majesty surrendered this amount into the hands of trustees, subject to certain charges after defraying which the balance was to go into the na tional exchequer, and none of which his late Majesty had received. The noble earl then went into different details explanatory of the disbursement of the funds placed at the disposal of the trustees. The noble earl, after inviting the generous consideration of the Government to the cases of persons who had been receiving:small pensions from the late King, referred to the future disposal of Claremont, and expressed a hope that Queen Mario Amelie would con tinue to make that place her residence, in accordance with the understood wishes of the Sovereign, and with the hearty approval of the people of this country. Lord RUSSELL observed that the facts just stated preyed how judiciously the trustees had been selected. With respect to Claremont, tt would be painful to the So vereign and to the people of this country if Queen Marie Amelio were now to quit it. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took tho chair at four o'clock. GREENWICH AND WOOLWICH LOWER ROAD BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. LOCKE moved as an amendment that the bill should be read a second timo that day six months. He said the turnpikes, speaking generally, had on the south side of the metropolis been abolished at a gr6at cost of taxation to his constituents, and because a debt still remained unli quidated the trustees of this trust came to Parliament and asked for a prolongation of their trust for six years. Mr. LAYARD hoped the house would agree to his hon. colleague's amendment. Mr. BRUCE thought the bill ought to be allowed to pass its second reading. It would be inadvisable to adopt the recommendation of the hon. !member for Southwark, especially as a portion of the debt belongs to Greenwich Hospital. The bill was read a second time without a division. IRISH FISHERY PIERS. Sir IL W. BARRON asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer if he proposed to replenish the exhausted fund for making fishery piers. Mr. CHILDERS said there had been about £90,000 voted for these piers, and as it was nearly all exhausted, he was about to propose an additional vote, but there being an Act of George the Third, by which it was thought t',ooo per annum ought to be set aside for th© pur pose referred to by the right hon. gentleman. The opinion of the law officers of the Crown had been asked on the matter. In the event of the opinion being against the £5,000 being paid, then he should ask the house to agree to a limited vote of money for making the piers. Mr. ROEBUCK asked if any piers at all had actually been built out of the £90,000 which had been expended. Mr. CHILDERS said he believed so. (Loud laughter.) PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. Sir G. GREY said he proposed to take the second read ing of this bill on Thursday evening next as the first order of the day. RATING OF MINES AND WOODS. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. S. CAVE asked the President of the Poor-law Board whether he intended to bring in a bill during the present session for tho rating of mines and woods to the relief of the poor ? Mr. KEKEWICH also asked the President of the Poor law Board whether he proposed, during the present ses sion, to bring in a bill for the purpose of rating woods to the relief of the poor, and any general measure for the amendment of the poor law, founded on the report of the select committee presented during last session. Mr. VILLIERS expressed his opinion that both mines and woods were rateable, but as there might be a strong opposition to any legislature, he proposed to pursue the same course as had been followed in the case of the Mersey Docks. He intended, however, to bring in a general measure for the amendment of the Poor-law. PRIVATE PROPERTY AT SEA. Mr. GREGORY rose to move that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be gra ciously pleased to use her influence with foreign Powers for the purpose of making the principle that private pro perty should be free from capture by sea a maxim of in ternational maritime law. Sir F. GOLDSMID criticised the vagueness of the mo tion, which ho opposed as tending to deprive England of the advantages of her maritime supremacy. He quoted the opinion of American statesmen against the proposal, and denied that it was a necessary consequence of the Declara tion of Paris, which he showed to be rather in favour of the stronger than the weaker Power. He asserted that no such international obligation could be devised which would not be dissolved by a state of war, and pointed to General Sherman's ravages as a proof that private property on land waanot spared if it suited a hostile commander to destroy it. He condemned the proposal as calculated to rob war of its terrors, and protract the conclusion of peace. Mr. LIDDELL referred to the position of the privateer ing question as an argument in favour of the proposal, show ing that the United States, if we conceded it, were, on their side, committed to the abolition of privateering. He quoted commercial statistics to prove the immense interest Eng land had in establishing this maxim as a part of interna tional law, and, after some remarks on the futility of blockades, contended, in opposition to Sir F. Goldsmid, that it would render war less likely. Mr. BAXTER argued that as by the Declaration of Paris we had allowed any Power with which we might be at war to carry on its trade in neutral bottoms, the adop tion of this principle was only a matter of time. He can vassed Sir F. Goldsmid's arguments, asserting that the sparing of private property by land was an established maxim of modern warfare, and that this humane proposal was a necessary extension of it. Mr. B. COCHRANE condemned the Declaration of Paris, quoting the opinions of Lord Russell, Lord Palmer ston, and Lord Derby to the same effect. Re expressed a hope that it would be rescinded, and deprecated any fur ther progress in the same direction. ldr. AfiCULLAGLI TORRENS argued against the in justice of throwing on the mercantile community the bur den and suffering of a war udertaken for imperial inte rests. lie warned the house of the consequences of a war while the private° • nn g question was in its present p os iti on , and ho challenged the opponents of the motion to menti on an instanc e of a war being end e d by th e p ill age of private lie individuals. defended the Declaration of Paris, and described this proposal as an i nev i ta b le consequence of it. Mr. BIJX.T O zT pointed to the extensive commerc i a l ope rations of this coutryasa reason why we s h ou ld b e the first t 3 support this rule, and argued th a t th e present state of things was a positi ve temptation war. He scouted the idea that a state of vaarveuld t dissolveo any interna tional:.: obligation of this character, argued in favou r o f reducing war as far as possibl e t o d uel between Govern ments and armies. a The LORD ADVOCATE, in reply to the arg ument that England as the grea test commercia l nati on chiefly interested in this chang e, p ointed out that th:i a increase our vulnerability had been accom p anied b y an increase in in . our power to defend ourselves, and he objected to this proposal as tending to cripple our strength for attack an d defence. He maintained that all war was of necessity a violation of private property, and the rule of exemption—. which depended much on the discretion of the com manders, and did not spring from conventions—was that the property of individuals should be spared when the military advantage of its destruction was out of all pro- portion to the individual loss. Mr. LAING asserted that in the event of a war breaking out in the present state of maritime law the 7,000,000 tons in which British commerce was carried would be anni hilated, and that commerce would be transferred to the neutral flag. Lord CRANBORNE denied that there was any esta blished rule of warfare which exempted private property on land from capture, and illustrated his argument by re ference... to the camp a i gns o f N apo l eon, t h e B an d a an d Isarwee prize -money case, and Gen: sherman'a After discussing some of the questions of maritime law . which had arisen during the American civil war, hem sisted that it was impossible to establis h a law of this kind, as in the case of war no ono would be interested in en forcing it but the belligerents, whose strength would be already tasked to the utmost. The O'CONOR DON made some remarks in favour of the motion, as tending towards an amicable settlement of the difficulties which have arisen out of the Alabama case. Tho ATTORNEY-GENERAL argued that the rule exempting private property on land depended, not upon any positive law, but upon public opinion, and was, there fore, of a flexible and indeterminate character, whereas this rule was inflexible and introduced an entirely new principle into naval warfare. Ile pointed out some mis takes into which Mr. Laing had fallen, and, laying down the principle that the capture of private property was a systematic belligerent operation to weaken the public re i sources of the enemy, he showed, by an examination of the character of trade by land and by sea, that the inci dence of the loss by captures at sea was more upon the general commercial community than on the individual. He referred to the blockade of the Southern States as a proof that this was a most powerful instillment of warfare, and I maintained that the ri g ht o f bl oc k a d e, w hi c h it was not proposed to weaken, was as great an interference with pri vate property as the right of capture. Pointing also to the experience of the American war to show that powerfully built mercantile vessels might easily be turned to warlike purposes, he urged that this was an additional reason why an enemy should not be permitted to enjoy undisturbed the advantages of a large mercantile navy. He mentioned a variety of cases in which if the rule were adopted merchant men would be seized, and asserted that so much suspicion would be excited, so many practical. difficulties would arise, that it would ultimately bo swept away by both belligerents. "He denied that this change was a corollary of the Declaration of Paris, or that we had by that Declaration sacrificed a powerful instrument of war fare. It was a balance, he said, of disadvantage whether we would cripple our naval power in time of war, or would submit to a temporary interference with our commercial operations, and he energetically repudiated the insinuation that the United States would take the opportunity of our being involved in a war to revenge themselves for the Alabama as an unmerited inTutation on that Government. After giving some further explanation as to the overture which had been made to the American Government for the revision of the neutrality laws, he went on to urge that this danger to commerce was a strong security for peace, and concluded by expressing his conviction that even if this change were not made war would be met as it had been met before, and would leave uutouched the sources of our power and prosperity. After a few remarks from Mr. Oliphant, who maintained that the change would incaease our maritime power by relieving the navy from the necessity of defending our wide-spread commerce, The motion was withdrawn. The Princess Helena's Annuity Bill passed through committee. Tho Qualification for Offices Abolition Bill passed through committee. The other business was disposed of, and the house adjourned at 25 minutes past 12 o'clock. Railway and other Companies. REUTER'S TELEGRAM COMPANY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday at noon, at the London Tavern—Mr. D. Dent in the chair—for the purpose of considering the steps taken by the direc tors to utilise a valuable concession obtained by Mr. Reuter from the Hanoverian Government for lay ing a telegraph cable between the English and Ha noverian coasts. The secretary read the report, an abstract of which appeared in our impression of yesterday. The CHAIRMAN moved the following resolution : —" That the directors be at liberty to borrow any sum of money not exceeding £lOO,OOO, with such powers or securities as are authorised by clause 74 of the articles of association of the company." He said the project of the directors had been contem plated for many months, but the state of the money market and the bringing out of companies which involved the issue- of shares of every kind, had been so unfavourable to the accomplishment of their purpose, that they had deferred it to the present time. It was now necessary that they should proceed with:the scheme, because the parties who had granted the concession would not allow it to be held in abeyance longer. As so many companies had been brought out within the last eighteen months—good, bad, and indifferent—the public were rather chary in investing their funds in undertakings with orii nary recommendations. It required something of a tempting character to attract proper investment, and the directors of their company were firm in the conviction that they had an undertaking of the very first class, and in placing it before the public they had not only endeavoured to give them the guar antees of their names as vouchers for the fact, but they had placed the whole of their papers in the hands of Messrs. Quilter and Ball, the well-known accountants, whose integrity and social status pre vented the possibility of anything like dictation from the board in the preparation of the report which they had since issued. With regard to the concession given by the King of Hanover to Mr. Reuter, he begged to say that it extended to a period of thirty years, and that its acquisition was entirely owing to the powerful personal interest which Mr. Reuter possessed with the King of Hanover and with many other influential person ages on the Continent. It might be asked had any money been given for this concession ? His reply was—not a shilling. It was the offspring of Mr. Reuter's own imagination, and he had been success ful because he was a man of the most unimpeachable integrity. Mr. Reuter might have sold his infor mation on several occasions for untold sums, but he had never travelled from the path of uprightness, and he had obtained a reputation which he (the chairman) had not the slightest doubt would enable them in this case to float the shares successfully. The term of the concession was longer than had ever been previously given. They had also obtained a concession for laying land lines. He need not say that their telegraphic communication with the Hanoverian coast was of the greatest import ance to their business, inasmuch as it connected them with Hanover, Bremen, and all the towns of note in the north of Germany ; and the proposed expenditure was rendered doubly justifiable by the fact that messages which had hitherto often occupied four and twenty hours in their transit, from the crowded state of the wires, would, after the laying of the cable, reach their respective destinations in a few minutes, totally unattended with mishaps of any kind. They had given a part of the concession to the Electric and International Telegraph Company in return for a handsome sum which that company promised them. The treaty extended to five years, and it might be asked —where was the money for that period ? Ile might say that the Electric and International Telegraph was one of the most thriv ing and important companies in England or Europe, and besides having its shares at the large premium of 40 per cent., they had a reserve fund of £70,000. An offer had been made by the directors of Reuter's Company to take the concession for a longer period than five years, but they were so convinced thatthe profits would augment before the expiration of the existing contract that they refused to give their compliance. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company had obtained the contract for the construction of the cable, one-fourth of the value of which they agreed to take in paid-upshares. The specifications for the cable had been prepared by Mr. Jenkin, one of an eminent firm of engineers, and they had been submitted for ccmpetition before they were given into the hands of the present contractors. Sir J. HAY seconded the motion as to the adoption of thereport, and it was unanimously agreed to. Mr. REUTER said that the new scheme was of the greatest importance to the company. Being anxious to improve the property of the shareholders, he had endeavoured to add additional income to their revenue, and unless he was disappointed in his expectations, their shares would be as lucrative as those of any existing company. After the laying of the cable they would be able to send messages direct without loss of time, and mistakes would be avoided. A re duction in favour of their company had been made by the King of Hanover in the transit of the messages, and they would henceforward be 10d. in stead of 14d., which was a reduction of 33 per cent. Mr. JENKIN (engineer) said that he had been asked for the specification of a cable without refer- once to cost, and he informed the chairman that the highest priced cable would be cheapest in the end. The cable under contract at present for the com pany would be covered with a coating to prevent the existence of rust on the outer wires, and it was similar in every respect to the one laid in the Persian' TILE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1860. G u y. He had no doubt that it would last as long as t h e cable between Dover and Calais, which was 15 yeai old. The R. Mr. LANGDON proposed a resolution to th e e ff ec t ;that the proposed extension of the busi ness of the company would be highly profitable and advantageous .. 1- o the shareholders, and they pledged themselves to stipport the scheme by every means in their power. Mr. W. ITANcocK seconded the resolution, which was carried nem. con. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business. rules concerning horse racing in general, which was in tended when the rule was passed. OCT York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter 2l Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O MBER. .Richmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall IBER. ---- Vincennes ll, 18 IL. Bordeaux l9, 22, 26, 28 Bruxelles Vissembourg 2l Paris (Summer) 26, 27 rE. Toulouse 24, 28 Abboville I Lo Pin 22 1 Ch a lon-sur-Saone ... 22, 23 Saintes 2B, 29 Caen LIST. I Le Mans - - SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The letter of our Jamaica Correspondent, which we publish to-day, enables us to follow the proceedings of the Commission up to the 7th Feb ruary. The inquiry had then been carried on con tinuously for a fortnight, and, although the Com missioners had not economised their own labour by sitting in separate Courts, great progress had already been made. No less than 130 witnesses had been examined, including Governor Eyre himself, and the evidence, of which our correspondent furnishes a summary, ranges over the whole period comprising the origin and suppression of the outbreak. The general impression it conveys is almost exactly such as we had been led to anticipate. It leaves no rea sonable doubt that not only wide-spread discontent, partly connected with agrarian grievances, but a mutinous spirit ripe for rebellion, had prevailed for some time in the district surrounding Morant Bay. Illegal drilling, especially, and the administration of illegal oaths, seem to have been practised, and there are abundant proofs that an " organisation" of some kind existed among the disaffected blacks. It is clear, moreover, that the massa cre a t M orant Bay cannot be regarded as, in any sense, an unpre meditated mode. The mob came down upon the town, " armed with cutlasses, pikes, and bayonets fastened on the ends of sticks ;" they began by plun dering the Police Station of the few muskets, hap pily useless for want of powder, that it contained. and advanced to war d s t h e Court-house " with drums . and fifes playing." There is still a conflict of testi mony upon the material question whether they first pelted the Volunteers with stones before the order to fire. The description given by the witnesses of the scene which followed differs little from the accounts already published in this country. It is, however, right to mention that, while many of the barbari ties attributed to the rioters are confirmed, the alleged mutilation of Messrs. Price and Herschell's bodies has not been corroborated. On the other hand, the supposition that some of the worst atro cities were committed by released criminals is nega tived by the discovery that the gaol was not broken open until later in the evening. It has been shown that after the massacre marauding bands scoured the country, pillaging and burning, actually reach ing a point 20 miles distant from Morant Bay in one direction, and a point 40 miles distant from Morant Bay in another direction. In short, the formidable spread of the disturbance is amply established, but it has not been proved that it was the result of a conspiracy extending beyond the parish of St. Thomas, or that it had been concerted by Gordon. The case of Gordon, indeed, has been postponed by the Commissioners to a later stage of the in quiry, but Mr, Eyre was incidentally examined with respect to his own part in it, and it is due to him that we should report, without comment, the substance of his answers. According to Mr. Eyre, Gordon's ordinary residence was within the pro claimed district, where a search was first made for him, but, finding that he was "hiding" in Kings ton, the Government determined to arrest him at all hazards. Being asked by Mr. R. Gurney what paramount reason he had for taking this course, Mr. Eyre appealed to the universal belief in Gordon's guilt, to the seditious proclamations and placards issued by him, to his notorious intercourse with the rebel leaders, and to the confessions of some pri soners afterwards executed. A stronger piece of evidence, if it be authentic, is to be found in a letter addressed to Mr. Cardwell on the 12th of last December by Mr. Edenborough, lately a lieutenant in the Confederate States' Navy. This gentleman deposes to a conversation last June between himself and Gordon, whom he represents to have negotiated for the purchase of a war schooner, with her arma ment and ammunition. No reference was made by Mr. Eyre to this statement, which it must be con fessed does not sound very probable. Being requested to state any special grounds for attributing to Gor don anything more than acts of a political agitator, he pointed to the suspicious fact of the victims being Gordon's personal enemies, while the chief rioters were his followers, if not his friends. He failed, how ever to supply the missing link between direct in stigation of a particular outrage and the use of language calculated to produce a state of feeling which might lead to the outrage. No cross-exami nation beim- , allowed, excepting through the Court itself, Mr. Eyre was not pressed further at the time on this point, nor does the rest of his evidence throw much new light on the history of the crisis. He adhered to his expressed conviction that Dr. Underhill's letter, of which he entirely disclaims the publication, had been one main cause of the disaffec tion. The cruelties imputed to some of the military officers employed against the insurgents, and in particular to the Provost-Marshal, have yet to be fully investigated. Little sympathy can be felt with people who wilfully expose themselves to just sus picion of such complicity when the peace of the community is at stake. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON THE Two DEBTS OF THE UNITED STATES. The restored Republic of North America finds itself involved in an immense debt, counted by hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is one of the first aims of her statesmen to sustain the credit and uphold the currency of the country by safely and surely providing for the liquidation of that debt. Vast and onerous, however, as is this obligation, it is a " trifle light as air " in contrast with the debt the country owes to justice—to justice incalculably outraged for scores of years in the persons of mil lions of human beings—men, women, and children —to whose very humanity even the pittance of re cognition has in times past been denied. Thomas Jefferson in his time, contemplating in the hope of its gradual diminution, the remorseless despotism of the white man over the black, gave utterance to a sentiment which attests his claim to the greatness accorded him, in the declaration, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just !" Washington, Franklin, Madison, and all the fathers of the Republic, with scarcely an exception, shared in this sentiment, and held that the black man's titre to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi ness is as sacred as the white man's. Religion, with higher authority and deeper emphasis, proclaimed the same truth in lessons condensed to one terse indictment by Wesley, when he anathematised " the sum of all villanies." Yet, such was the subsequent growth of that hated " sum " in wealth and in consequent influence, that it subsidised* statesmen, the Press, courts, churches, theology and theological institu tions, and, despite the experience of the last five years, still rules in the breasts of thousands when ever they are asked to recognise the humanity of the coloured man. The sentiments of thousands more are biassed and poisoned against the negro to such an extent that they can scarcely think of him free, save as an intruder upon God's footstool, on which he has no right " between the wind and their nobility." How pitiable still is the condition of the millions of the coloured people now emancipated amid the superior race that has had it "bred in the bone" to own and to command them as absolute chattels ? Will not any one who can reflect, instead of sneer, upon this subject, agree with us that in simply dc-chattelizing these people the American nation has discharged but a portion of the sacred claims of justice ? Our belief is, that in days to come the atrocity of slavery will be looked back upon with a universal feeling of astonishment and horror, and that the lapse of time and the march of progress will perpetually intensify this feeling. Our conviction is that the sooner the popular masses and political leaders of America begin in earnest to thoroughly wipe out the infamy resting upon the escutcheon of the Republic for these terrible decades of wrong, the better will it be for the country. At present there is devolved upon the nation a duty of the first magnitude and most press ing importance—mad e suc h by the very bitternes, of the contempt in which thousands in the North and hundreds of thousands in the South hold the very suggestion of the duty—which is to protect, and shield, and strengthen the Freedman. He is to be protected in the rights of common manhood, amid communities that are incredulous even of the existence of such rights. He is to be placed and defended upon the platform of the free labourer of the North. The benefits of education are to be con ferred upon him and his children. If nearly a cen tury of abject bondage has not entitled him to this poor compensation, it has been earned by his valour in arms in behalf of the imperilled Republic. In his present weakness, debasement, ignorance, and in feriority, let his needs excite commiseration, and his virtues be the more honoured for the very lowliness from which they have shone forth. In saying this much for the emancipated slave, however, we do not wish to be understood as claim ing for him the immediate exercise of the elective franchise. The franchise is a privilege— not an in herent right ; and should only be extended to those classes of the community who arc capable of using it rightly. Whether the coloured man is or is not sufficiently elevated in the scale of intelligence to vote rightly is a question which can only be deter mined by those with whom he is most in contact. It seems that President Johnson, in whose judgment and patriotism we have the most implicit confidence —thinks that it would not be advisable to confer the franchise on the negro at present ; and doubtless he has very good reasons for this conviction. One thing is certain—the emancipated slaves in the United States have no better friend on earth than the PRESIDENT, who has.imperilled life and fortune in their cause ; and we, at least, feel sure that their interests, and the interests of the whole people, are safe in his hands. THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NAVIES. The Daily Telegraph declares that England has the whip hand of France and of united Europe upon the sea, but adds, deprecatingly, that the Englishman who thinks that the maritime superio rity of these little islands is secure so long as m e GREAT WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at the Paddington Station—Mr. D. Gooch, M.P., in the chair. The report was unanimously adopted ; dividends at the rate of £2 per cent. per annum were declared on the Great Western Consolidated Stock, of 18$. Gs. per cent. per annum on the West Midland (Oxford Stock) ; of 17s. Gd. per cent. per annum on the West Midland (Newport Stock), and £3 ss. per cent. per annum on the South Wales Con solidated Stock. The new chairman, Mr. D. Gooch, was unanimously elected a director of the company, and the retiring directors were re-elected. RAILWAY BILLS. Before Mr. Smith yesterday the only two bills for hearing were the Andover, Radstock, and Bristol, and the Somerset and Dorset and Bristol and North Somerset, which were both adjourned until Monday. Before Mr. Frcre the West Cork, Cork and-Ban don, Cork and Kinsale Junction, and Cork and Macroom Direct was the only railway bill heard, in which case the standing orders were complied with. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STOCKBRIDGE—FRIDAY. The races are postponed till the 17th March. MANCHESTER BETTING.-YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 12 agst Cortolvin (taken) 11 to 1 agst Laura (taken) 11 to 1 agst Alcibiade (taken) 11 to 1 agst L'Africain (taken) 100 to 8 agst Creole (taken) 100 to G agst Mistake (taken) 18 to 1 agst Merrimac (taken) 22 to 1 agst Real Jam (taken) 30 to 1 agst Garotter (taken) 100 to 3 agst Philosopher (taken) 40 to 1 agst Stella (taken) 40 to 1 agst Little Frank (taken) 40 to 1 agst Innellan (taken) G 6 to 1 agst Lightfoot (taken) WARWICK SPRING MEE. Weights for the Great Wa: mil Age st lb/ Cambnscan 5 9 0' Moulsey 5 8 10 Archimedes Pearl Diver .. 6 8 4 Kangaroo Dr. Syntax 6 7 9 The Clown 5 7 9 Buckfoot 5 7 7 Attache Redcap Filbert 4 7 2 Auditor Aline Pirate 4 7 2 ild man Wel hock 5 6 12 Bradamite Lima f 4 6 13 Weights for the Grand An: four TING.—TUESDAY, March 13. rwickshiro Handicar. Two Age st lb [Signalman 5 6 12 ' Nu ' 'Merry Hart 6 6 10 Pelios 5 6 9 Valiant Sidewind Voigtlander Cedric 4 6 6 Storm gelding Eudsleigli Convent 4 6 4 Helen 5 6 2 Forester 4 6 0 Life Guardsman 3 5 12 Staghound 3 5 10 Tina 3 5 10 Jezebel tnual Steeple Chaso. About miles. Age st . lb Effenberg Aleiblade Emblematic Penarth a 12 2 Laura 5 11 7 Cortolvin: a 11 7 Mistake 6 11 6 Lightheart Dick Turpin 6 11 2 Church Militant Old Oswestry Knave of Trumps 6 11 0 Accident Age st lb Globule a, 10 8 Sinking Fund L. S. D. Glasgow Marengo a. 10 6 Ibex. Jack o' Newbury 6 10 6 Manchester Balder Cloister Apethorpe a 10 4 Gamecock lO 4 Lord George a, 10 4 Acolyte lnnellan a 10 3 Overton a 10 0 Overton a 10 0 Ivanhoff a 10 0 Salamander St. Lawrence Cutler a, 10 0 Sutton Skiff Joe 3laley a 10 12 3lenimae 1, 10 11 Cabin Roy a 10 10 Blood lloyel t 10 10 Portland Creole % 10 9 Meanwood a 10 9 Turcos Rhodomontade 5 10 8 Ace of Hearts NORTHAMPTON MEETING. TUESDAY, MARCH 20. Weights for the Sulby Iran& added Ono mi: Age st lb Merry Hart Juliet ' 8 6 Echo • 5 8 6 Fisherman's Daugh 5 8 4 Bigot° Scheldt Idler Double Stout imp of 10 sovs each, with 50 le and a quarter. Age st lb Lady Lollo Kingmaker Polka 3 7 0 Loaf Sugar Slender 3 6 8 Silenus 3 6 4 Belzoni 3 6 4 If the highest weight accej be raised to that weight, and ;ting bo under Bst 101 b, it wit: the others in proportion. SCRATCHINGS. Feb. 24, at 9 a.m. Church Militant and Overton, out of Nottingham, Derby, and Liverpool engagements ; Wolf dog, out of all engagements. Feb. 26, at 9 a.m. Lucy Long, out of the Flying Stakes and Sefton Handicap, at Liverpool ; Slender and Miller's Maid, out of Stobkbridge Spring engagements. Feb. 27, at 9 a.m. Steamboat, out of the Flying Stakes and Sefton Handicap, at Liverpool ; Queen of Trumps and Dean Swift, out of Liverpool Spring engagements; Dean Swift, out of. the Nottingham Handicap. After 8 p.m Tancrede, out of the City and Suburban Handicap; Be douin, out of the Doncaster Spring Handicap. Feb. 28, at 5 42 p.m. Agag (dead) out of all engagements Virginia (own sister to Regalia) three years old, by Stockwell—The Gem, has arrived at Mr. C. Peck's, Grove House, Mallon, for training on Langton Wold.—At Raw cuff Paddock; Mr. Peck's bay mare, Heedless, has:dropped a colt foal by Ben Webster, and will be sent to Claret• Mr. J. Frail having advertised in the Racing Calendar of Feb. 22, that the Windsor Spring Meeting would not take place, and that unless the subscribers of the Spring en gagements intimated to Messrs. Weatherby to withdraw their nominations, he would consider the said engagement to stand good ; and, as in the same Calendar, Mr. Verrall, in announcing the Lewes Spring Meeting to be adjourned to the 22d March, states that all nominations received for the former fixture will be retained unless specially ordered to the contrary ; the Stewards of the Jockey Club remind Messrs. Frail and Verrall that by racing law, when a meet ing is changed from one week to another, every engage ment becomes void. If the origin al subscribers decline to re-invest, their :silence is sufficient ; and if they wish to renew, it is legally necessary that a fresh nomination should bo made. The Stewards, therefore, warn Messrs. Frail and Verrall not to republish engagements without due authority from the horse owners. CROYDON GREAT METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE, Nov. 1865.—We are informed by the Clerk of the Course that a majority of the Stewards have decided this race in favour of Cortolvin, the horse that came in second, whose owner claimed the stakes on the ground that Old Oswestry was in the forfeit list. TILE LATE MORTON-IN-THE MARSH STEEPLE CHASES.— We hear that Mr. Rolt, feeling satisfied that The Swallow could have won but forhis fall, offered to run any hors 3 in the race, owners up, at next Warwick Spring Moot ing, three miles over the Steeple Chase Course, for £5O horses to carry as in the race 12st 71b each. The Jockey Club. (From the Racing Calendar.) At the next general meeting of the Jockey Club tho stewards will bring forward the following proposals:— Whereas, it is enacted by the 65th Rule that in estimat ing the value of any prize no deductions shall be made except by the winner's own - stake, and any sum or sums required by the conditions to be paid out of the stakes to the owners of any other horse or horses in the race ; and a practice has been introduced of advertising prizes in money with dedustious varying from 25 to 10 per cent. to be returned by the winners, to their double injury, inas much as such subtractions cannot be recognised in esti mating the value of prizes, and a winner of a £lOO plate with 20 deducted is obliged to carry the extra penalty of weight imposed upon winners of £lOO ; we propose that the Jockey Club should appeal to the stewards of country races, the racing committees, and the lessees to discon tinue this obnoxious and unfair system, and to advertise the real net addition only. Also, that the Jockey Club should recommend that in races to which no public money is added there should be no condition requiring the winner to pay any sum to the race fund or the expenses of a meeting. And that Rule 40 of the Jockey Club on the subject of hauidceppere receive presents, ecc., be transferred to the In the Ways and Means Committee, held in the members' tea-room of the House of Commons on Thursday, the following bills were passed :—Beddge lert, Drayton Junction, Liverpool Station ( Railway) ; Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay (Deviations) ; Wrexham and Minera, and the Bradford, Eceleshill, and Idle. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. MARCH. Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring AP Newmarkot Craven 2 D urham Blacltheath Woolwich 2 Cattenick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B ill,. Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 2l Ascot; Spring 1 Salisbury Batb .... 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer Windsor Summor _ 5 Newton . 6 Hampton. 7 Wiliam Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 Worcester UL Y. Carl islo - i Newmarket J illy Pontefract Abingdon Reading N ottinghtun Down Royal Corp lB Stamford Radcliffe l9 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 95 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l AUG Brighton. 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham l4 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPT. Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh NOVEMBER. Lincoln Liverpool IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. APRIL. Traleo MAY. Currngh Baldoyle Spring B, 9 JUNE. Curragh 26, 27, 28, 29 JULY. Carlow SEPTEMBER. Curragh ..._ 4,5, 6 OCTOBER. Curnigh _ 16, 17 18 CONTINENTAL RA' :NG FIXTURES FOR MA . La Marche 4, 25 AP: Vincennes .................. 1 Pau 2, 4 Paris (Spring) 2,8, 15, 22, 26, 29 MI Bruxelles 3, 6 Chantilly (Derby) 6, 10, 13 La Marche 2l Jl3l Vincennes 3 1 Montaüban JU. Toulouse St. Omer Rouou Metz B, 9 Amiens AUG 4,5, Rochefort 5 Bourge5... Valenciennes Moulins Cherbourg ... l9 SEPTE Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7 I Chantilly OCT( Paris 7 I Vincennes Chantilly 14, 181 Laon l9, 20 Tarbes l9, 22 Blois 26, 28 Baden-Baden 3l MBER. Paris (Autumn) 23, 30 , BER. AQUATICS. OXFORD UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. A week has now elapsed since the crews that are to do battle for the pride of the Thames began their course of training on the rivers at their respective Universities. The time of the race-clay is so near that wo may conclude that few, if any, changes will be made in either crew. The practice of both crews has also been sufficiently long to enable those old patrons of the oar to come to some conclusion as to the premiership of the Thames for this year. The crews consist of the following gentlemen OXFORD. 1. R. T. Raikes, Merton. 2. F. Crowder, Brasenose. 3. W. L. Freeman, Merton. 4. F. Willan; Exeter. 5. E. F. Henley, Oriel. 6. W. W. Wood, University. 7. H. P. Senhouse, Christ Church. 8. M. Brown, Trinity. Cox. R. Tottenham, Christ Church CAMBRIDGE, 1. C. E. Underhill, Caius. 2. J. B. Selwyn, Third Trinity. 3. J. Still, Caius. 4. H. J. Fortescuo, Slagdalen. 5. J. V. Bourke, First Trinity. 6. D. F. Steavenson, Trinity Hall. 7. H. Watney, St. John's. 8. W. B. Griffiths, Third Trinity. Cox. T. Forbes, St. John's. It will be seen when the weights of each appear which is the heaviest. At present the advantage of weight seems to lie with Oxford, who have in their number for the last year's winning eight, and the cox., who so much contributed to their success by his judicious steer ing, while the stroke oar is again manned by the same gentleman as l as t y ear , th e l ong sweep and neat recoverybein g still as noticeable a feature in his rowing as ever. The bow is again in his old place, while No. 2 of 1865 has been promoted to No. 7, and No. 3 now rows at No. 5. Both men seem to be in good form, the bow side suiting Mr. Senhouso better than stroke side. The rowing of the crew taken collectively is long and powerful, the four middle oarsmen being particularly so : there is hardly any catch on at present, but we may rely on their two valuable mentors, Messrs. Morrison and Woodgate, not forgetting such an essential part of a crow's rowing. The swing and recovery is very good ; and with the exception of one or two in the boat deferring the introduction of powder into their work until under public observation, there seems little for the most captious critic to quarrel with. With regard to the Cambridge crew the case is quite different ; they seem under the influence of some evil genius, who either frightens away the candidates for Putney by visions of daily rows to the fens in fogs and miasma, broken blood-vessels and premature old age, or else takes a more tangible form by placing paternal vetoes on 'Varsity physical renown. It is a matter of much surprise that after all the epistles indited by old oarsmen of the Cam to the papers, or to the president himself, couched in terms not only unpatriotic, but ungenerous, there should be no one who will come forward and practically remedy those defects which they are only too ready to point out. They wont allow the river as an excuse, they discard the idea of light boats necessitating an alteration of style, they even go so far as to impute favouritism and partiality; yet these very men would be the very first, if the crew should win, to take the credit of it from their useless suggestions. Notwithstanding every adverse point that has been raised against the C.U.8.C., they certainly deserve great credit for the persevering way in which they have sot themselves to their most arduous task. Since training began Mr. Cad man Peterhouse took the place of Mr. Selwyn at No. 2 for one day only. It is expected that Mr. Kinglake will soon take his place in the boat in place of No. 1 or No. 2. There are at present three of last ;ear's crew—Griffiths, Steaven son, and Watney; and Selwyn, who rowed stroke in 1864. If Mr. Kinglake rows there will be three of the Stewards' winners at last Henley regitta. Without entering into the faults of each man, we cannot but think that the four bow oars are not nearly up to par ; and if they do not improve greatly the chance of success will be much in favour of Oxford. ST. DAVID'S DAY AT ETON COLLEGE. Yesterday at noon the noblemen and gentlemen at Eton College opened their aquatic season on the Thames, by a first procession of boats, to Burley Hall. At the time fixed for this display the weather vas bitterly cold, while in the shallow ponds the ice was it least an inch in thickness. Nothing daunted, however, by the wintry appearance of things in genera], the various crews mustered on the floats opposite the establishments of the Messrs. Searle and Son, Goodman and Tolladay, nut, clad in new and bright coloured boating costumes, with straw hats gay with ribbons, were soon in readin3ss for the start, which was ably effected under the superintendence of Mr. Hall, the captain of the boats, Mr. E. Searle being in attendance on the part of his firm. The following boats started :—Upper boats—Monarch (10 oars), Victory, Prince of Wales; Lower boats—Dreadnought, St. George, Thetis, Defiance, and Britannia,. Most of the crews rowed with spirit, the col legers manning a new light-oared boat just built by the Messrs. Searle of Lambeth, for their especial use, after the model of the Victory. The boats, after reaching Surely nail, returned to Eton. UST. OIL can defy the combined fleets of France, Russia, Spain, Italy, and Germany, must be very ignorant or very arrogant. There has grown up on the other side of the Atlantic a brawny young giant—blood of our blood and bone of our bone—who carried with him to the rock-bound coasts where the Pilgrim Fathers landed the same Scandinavian blood that makes England the greatest among maritime na tions. Backed by the resources of a continent upon which the Creator has lavished in matchless prodi gality every gift conducive to the highest civilisa tion, our Transatlantic sons seem animated with no other desire, fired by no other aspiration, than to try conclusions and measure strength with us upon what we have hitherto loved to call our own element. hence the vital importance of abandoning com parisons with France, in order to watch with jealous vigilance the gigantic strides made by our American cousins within four brief years, and pur sued since the cessation of hostilities, nearly eleven months ago, without suspended effort or materially abated expenditure. It is too inuAi the fashion in England, because America is a long way off, and is to ninety-nine hundredths of Englishmen all but a terra incognita, to think that she has nothing to teach us. From so suicidal a delusion we shall probably be sooner or later roughly awakened. 'The pamphlets and letters upon English and Ameri can vessels which Mr. Donald M'Kay, a well known shipbuilder of New York, has recently written, are well calculated to wound our vanity and arouse our vigilance. With every abatement for exaggeration, there is enough in Mr. M'Kay's insinuation that one single vessel, the Dunderberg, is a match for the whole English navy, to arrest attention, if not to excite alarm. Mr. 2,l‘liay tells us that at the opening of the war the American war navy numbered 26 steamers of 49,700 tons ; and that at its close it numbered 558 steamers, with an aggregate tonnage of 408,000 tons. " Out of these 558 steamers," adds Mr. M'Kay, " 200 vessels, aggregating 241,000 tons, were built by the Navy Department. In no country, with such limited means, and under such difficult circumstances, has there ever been put afloat in the same time such an immense naval armament. Certainly it cannot be said that in the time of trial the Navy Depart ment has been found wanting." We have not space to make further extracts from Mr. Maay's letters, which we heartily commend to the notice of Lord Clarence Paget and of Mr. Reed. But in addition to the high speed sought in American ships, to the immense calibre of the guns they carry, and to the ceaseless activity and enterprise of their builders, we learn from Mr. M'Kay that our cousins have perfected an apparatus for swinging out torpe does from the yardarms of their vessels to be ex ploded by electricity upon the decks or under the bows of hostile ships possessing inferior speed. Without raising sensationrl alarms, we have said enough to indicate that neither France, Russia, Italy, Spain, nor all those countries combined, are the maritime competitors whom we have occa• sion to dread. EFFECTS OF NON-REC IPR 0 C ITT. —The Toronto (Canada) British Whig is pathetic over the termi nation of the Reciprocity Treaty between Canada and the United States. Our colonial contem porary discourses in the following lugubrious strain :—" On the 17th day of March next the Re ciprocity Treaty ceases, and the sun of American prosperity shines no more on our benighted Canada. No more shall American greenbacks provide us with the necessaries of life ; no more shall the American Eagle take us under the shadow of his protecting wing. The United States Senate has spoken, and Canada's place on the map is henceforth to be a blank. On the 17th day of March vegetation ceases north of the St. Lawrence. Grain will re fuse to sprout, and potatoes and turnips will turn into stones. The water will dry up in the streams, and non-reciprocity, like a plague, will attack the cattle, killing them off by thousands. The wells of Bothwell and Enniskillon will stop their flow of oil so completely that not even a sheriff's writ could find an indication, and the Tecumseh will be turned into a poor-house for the reception of destitute oil speculators and their families. Steamboats shall ply no longer on our waters, and the rails of the Grand Trunk and Great Western roads will be sold for old iron, to help to pay the war debt of the United States. The trees shall all disappear from the face of the country, and Senator Sumner will be found on the last stump, with a copy of the act annulling Reciprocity in his hand, advocating the Monroe doctrine, and explaining the beauties of non -i n t ercourse , an d a high tariff. Starvation will stalk through the land from Sandwich to Gaspe. Th e i n h a bit an t s w ill dwindle to skeletons, and so emaciated will they [ become that not even B r y an ' s P u l mon i c W a f ers, r Canadian Painkiller, nor Dr. Potts can restore their lost animation. There will be no property holders, no voters ; the vexed question of representation by population will be set at rest, and the lion. George Brown will retire into private life. There will be no more weddings, no whisky cocktails, no old maids, no cigars, no briberf at elections, no Mrs. 'Win slow's soothing syrup, no babies, no lawyers, no young ladies promenading the streets, no washing days, no 24th of May (except the 4th of July), no sun, no moon, no anything else. The cities of London, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, &c., will crumble to pieces, and Phineas T. Barnum will be found among the ruins picking up the bones of the inhabitants as relics for his museum. Canada will be a wilderness to be avoided by travellers, as they would the Sahara, and future explorers will look in vain for any traces of past civilisation. Angry mothers will quiet squalling babies with the threat of sending them to Canada, and political offenders in the United States will be sentenced to banish ment to this desolate region, as a punishment worse than death. Let us be prepared, then ; let us ex pect our fate with becoming resignation, and show Andy Johnson, and Seward, and the rest of them, that Britons may be starved, but they never, never, never shall be slaves. MINING INTELLIGENCE. NEVADA.--The latest mining intelligence from Nevada is of interest. The report of the Secretary of the Gould and Curry mines shows the total receipts of the company for the past year (1865) to have been $2,519,095 55, of which $2,395,242 31 were the receipts from the mine. $618,000 have been paid out in dividends. Total expenses at the mine, $609,135 97. Expenses of reduction works, $356,865 81. Liabilities, $71,206 83. Assets, $1,067,998 81. The assets include the buildings, ma chinery, materials, and ore unerashed. Ores extracted —First class, 11 tons ; second class, 4701 tons ; third class, 45,492 tons. Cost of extracting ore from mines per ton slo 84 Cost of reducing third class ores at Gould and Curry mill l4 46 Cost of reducing third class ore at custom mills Cost of reducing second class ore at custom mills 50 00 Average yield of all ores reduced, per ton 5O 76 11 second class ore 255 66 71 third:class ore at Gould and Curry 7 1 mill 44 26 51 all ores reduced at custom mills 45 12 From the annual report of the Secretary of the Empire Mill and Mining Co. we learn that during the past year the receipts have been $543,081 79, and disbursements $525,129 79, of which $120,000 have been paid in dividends to stockholders. The report says :—At present our prospects for obtain ing a continuous supply of good ore from the mine are very flattering. Our Superintendent estimates the supply found in the 160 feet level before referred to at from 10,000 to 12,000 tons, and in sight in other parts of the mine sufficient to give our mills about a year's supply. The Twin River district, according to the Reese Reveille, still attracts attention. Professor J. E. Clayton, Mr. Clink—agent for parties in London— Colonel Rust, and Mr. Herman Camp, of New York, and other persons of note, have recently visited and inspected the district with the view of purchasing mining property. COLORADO.—Some recent advices from this em byro State with regard to the yield of the precious metals from her abundant sulphurets surpass even the auriferous tidings from Montana and Idaho. We are assured that Mr. James E. Lyon, formerly of Ogdensburg, New York, who has for some time devoted his energy and capital to the application and perfection of smelting processes hitherto un used, is already turning out $12,000 in bullion per week, and expects soon to double this amount. At this rate his outlay of some $150,000 will soon be returned to him. We have already explained that the sulphurets which imprison the gold of Colorado are composed of or contain iron pyrites, copper pyrites, galena, zinc, sulphur, arsenic, antimony, &c., so obsti nately blended that they yield but a fraction of their value to the simple calcining, crushing, wash ing, and amalgamating processes which answer a tolerable purpose when the gold is " free." It is confidently asserted that the difficulty has now been surmounted, and that henceforth Colorado is to ad vance with great strides on the pathway that leads through energy and thrift to prosperity and wealth. Another account from Colorado says--We have one furnace of thirty-five tons capacity, and a small furnace for prospecting with, of four tons capacity. Business here is quite dull. Everybody is waiting for the results of the different processes now berg tested. We are qu it e sangu i ne of the success° the Mason Process, and expect to send on satisfac' tory results in a few days. There is quite a com petition between us and the Hagan party to see who will get the results first ; we are now ready, to give results wheneve r we ge t th e or d er f ro m MW York. MONTANA.—A local paper, reviewing the his ' tory of this important mining region, says'; Four years ago this entire region was uninhabite d ' except by wild sa vages . I n t h e fall o f 1862 was first disco vere d i n th e Bannach District. 111 ' 1865, accordi ng t o th e returns of the I n tern' l Revenue Bureau, the product of gold and sill er i was over $16,000,000 ; a resu l t w i thout a paralle in the history o f thi s country. The developme nt the coming season seems to promise great activith and the production of both gold and silver Will be largely increased over that of last year. Silver mines have gene ra lly prove d more pro fit a ble an d reliable than gold m i nes, an d t hi s terr i tory seems to possess more extensive silver veins than have b ee ; found elsewhere, and the richest of these yet foen o u are in Beaverh ea d coun t y. S everal new minim companies have lately been organised upon proper 4 in that county mainly for working the silver 10 0 ' which promise great success. KANSAS. - The " Yea Tar Spring," in Atliu ni county, discharges large quantities of petroleum It has been known for more than al it !, years Oil has been fou n d in the 310' wells at Ossawattomie and Paola. 'The Lykifi s well is reported flowing oil in considerable qua il ' tities. The well is 275 feet deep. The work ll say that they " got oil all the way down." A Louis Company have got a well 101 feet deep lie 3 ' by. Indications good. lOWA. - Discoveries of petroleum have been t recently made in Alamak ee coun t y, lowa, abut three miles from H o pki ns F erry, nea r th e Mississippi. TENNESSEE.—An Exchange states that the Ten nessee Mining and Manufacturing CompanY which General H. D. Whipple is President, an u General R. W. Johnson Secretary and Treasure r ' has struck oil on Flint River, three miles from i t° mouth and twelve miles from Decatur, Alabam a ' The oil was found fifte en f ee t b e l ow the surf ace and flows in a steady stream. ENGLISH INVESTORS AND AMERICAN M11 4 E5 ... : The New York Mi n i ng _lndex says :—We are ale iowts that many mine o wners an d propr i etors o f valuable mines in our No r th- wes t ern country are nulL England, endea vour i ng t o negot i ate w ith capitalist and promoters for developi ng our va l u able Oi l ' . But we opine that their hopes may not be realis e " if we are to judge of the present state of affavirirs' It is doubtful, t oo , w h et h er any proper ty of .7t character has ever b een p resen t e d i n th a t mark which could produc e b e tt er resu l ts t h an the go:„: silver, copper, and gold m i nes , an d pe t ro l e um vre' e which, though yet in th e i r i nc i p i en cy, ha v i astonished the world for their metallic and mines value. COUB TRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOIDAY. of tb ° At this day's market there was a f fair attendance die town and country trade ; however, there was no gre a n d position to buy except for immediate wants. Wheatsc. flour, with a slow retail trade, maintained their Yalure Oats and oatmeal, barley, beans, and peas were 811 „7:rn inbuired for, and if anything the turn dearer. inai a ,rkor met with buyers at 28s 9d per 480 lbs. for fine rican, and a fair clearance was effected at the price. DERBY—FRIDAY. r B 6 New white wheat, 53 s t o 57 s ; o ld re d , 50 s to 52s P c e ros , stone. Barley for malti ng , 36 s t o 40 s per qr . ; g ri V s to 27s to 29s per 30 stone. O a t s , new, 22 s to 28 s; old, to 463 32s per 24 stone. Beans, o ld, 47 s t o 50s; now , 440 per 38 stone. ' WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. r ates, The wheat trade is steady t o -d a y a t l as t Friday'soov but millers buy very sparingly. Barley meets a vell d AII d sale, and prices are in fav our o f th e, b u y e r. 1 3031 ' oats unaltered. Averages, February 24—Wheat, 1,567 qrs, at 483 513 ' ; barley, 1,322 at 39s Bd . ; oats, 58, at 22s 81d. S TAMF ORD.—FRIDAY. r 3 6 Now white wheat, 49s to 52s ; red d o ., 45 s to 483 32s stone. Barley, malting, 34s to 38s ' grinding, 28s t o 0 per qr. Oats, n ew , 24 s t o 28 s; old, 25s to 27s per 24 st °o Beans, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. LINCOLN. —FRIDAY. 3 6 New white wheat, Ms to 56 5 " ; new re d , 43s to 47s re ;n r stone. Barley for m a lti ng, 34 s to 42s per qr ; 31s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 325. Beans, "" 51s per 38 stone. RIPON —FRIDAY. nd The farmers b roug ht a moderate supply o f w h e at a, e , other grain to market this day. There was a steady f mand at last week's prices. White wheat, 6s Gd to an° bushel ; red, Gs t o C s 34 ; beans, 6s to Gs 3d; oats, " 4 " 28s per qr ; ba r l e y, 36 s to 40s. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. 0. 4. Shaw' Hetton s. d. 1 6 D ... 18 6 Hetton Lyons .......... e 6 ~ -- - 11 Walls End Haswell 1 1 8 8 , iaw'sHartley N.S taffordshire 17 6 Eden Main ............ .';`,; 3 Wylam 66 H Bra oly dd w y e e i l l l; i s a ll in et . t . ....... .... .. ;tf, 0 6 South Hetton .-T : 3 6 18 0 Tunstall ..............• i''' . 6 Cowpen Hartley Stewart's Cassop • 17 3 West Hartley ........ !I; 6 0 Walls End Gosforth 16 3 Heugh Hall ............ ;., 0 South Hartlepool l7 0 Kelloe .. ... . ............. ;' 6 3 Tees Pensher Primrose Ships at market, 52; 501d,50 . Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. ' At . a Australia and New Zealand , via Southampton --4r 16 Ditto, via Marseilles gat ~,,r . O• Brazil and Cape Wide. by British packet A'''' -0: ' g ar. Ditto, by French packet ~..,,. ; - :4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. H e l e na.• • --f O r; 5. China, Penang. and Singapore. via Sou: hampton.•2la'. 5. ar' Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands a• Gibraltar, via Southampton ...... . . .... 3/ , 5 5 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampten••••• 3l ` -• id Ditto, via Marseilles 16 India (Bombay), via Southampton. .. 1 . ... ... .1 .... 3 35: 3 1: 4 1 . .. 6 . 1 1 04 ° . Ditto, via Marseilles Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseille? Newfoundland Portugal - Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ....... West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba , Feb 28 . A and Mexico Feb' :- Cuba and Mexico )Jar. ' ' Bahamas, via New 1' ork. :4 Mar' iz Bermuda, ditto r West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ...... 311 • o rd At the Tyrone Assizes on Thursday a - w bor ° named Darby was convicted of the wilful murd er °f o ff infant son, two years old, and sentenced to be ha n g ed the sth of April. ills rADTERTISEMENTd n —Holloway's Ointment d • All persons affected with bad legs, sore ulcers n u , d". o s e (4 diseases, who from want of means or other reason s Ivor' avail themselves of surgical treatment. may releas e A tyie4 selves of those complaints by using Holloways Pu ... 0 01 1: pills and soothing and healing remedies. In every n ti o afs° ailment this wonderful ointment brings about t he beneficial result by checking inflammation, cleallslor ceration, t. and restoring soundness. Internal pai ns 'a mae and gouty tortures, enlarged j o i n ts, scroful ou, dill Hugs and contracted sinews. may bo overcome 17 Y10 s 1 gently rubbing this cooling unguent into the skin.. 73 tb i s, maladies of unusual severity for length of ( 10 ;1 'oeev" pills should be taken internally to work out the 1 0 of the disorder. _O/ FORSTER—On the 28th ult., at Ryde, u Births. . r• rs. cbarleS J Forster, of a son. ~piseN Hurr—On the 28th ult., at the Royal lies "'- the wife of Major-General G. Hutt, C.B•, of 3 ° 1311 ‘ ,. f 0 6 LODGE RI,. —s Samuel e t l h the 0 1 d s g t o, i n o s f t . a , tit so n i . i orncas t 1 e, ' the w ife - WII v iclif Straw—On the 28th ult., at the Royal Arse nal, the wife of Lieut.-C o l. Shaw, R.A., of a daughter. COMPORT.— Marriages. "ob. St. Marylebone, Jelin 11. Comport Esq., 'White Jcifieopa MEERs—On the 2d inst., at the parishSlll st, Warburgh, Hoo Keut to Caroline Betsey, sto lie, daughter of W. ' S. Mee'rs, Esq., Mackays Court' Kent. burcb GLANPIELD—DEANE—On the Ist inst., at the parish ° Tor-' of St. Mary, Islington ' George Glanfield, scl , , of tf• quay, Devon, to Eleanor, th e younger daugho', Deane, Esq., of Park-street, Islington. Deaths. ..-rilliiar il BARRON—On the Ist inst., at Upper Norwood, gr. vr ..- 131. . rron, aged 68. /./ St Cox—On the 28th ult ,at Bath Lodo•e Reading, -• C° Esq., age d 79. • . 7 f ° r- Esq., r" JOBBIN . . s—On the 27th ult ,J. R. Jobbins, Esq., °- RE wielc-court, aged 68. • in—On the 28th ult., at Llantysilio 11311, Alen. Reid, Esq Llaegolleot AMA SIt London: Printed and nd, Pt PublishylVlLLM: I of No. 112, Strainter atbT S N Oflice,y,ty Ot Strand, in the Precinct of'ed the Sr.voy. in the °l— March 3,1E66. T e l Dop c Inter pai pay cat Th e Pat Th e Tic. Lem Lot kessr Ateg sr E•C R eSsr 1:40/ 1 1Onsi (z In t Cclnirell o ' fa . ,. 012 ; terms tef fc 4451 Ar ch Pro, titteZ