The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-08 00:00:00

HOLYDAY-MAKERS. arm the Times' Correspondent) BADEN BADEN, Sept. 4. What is to become of Baden if, at the expiration of the present convention between the Grand Duke and M. Benazet, the gambling tables are to be put down ? I remember that I put this question at the beginning of my last letter, but then I rambled on to other subjects and forgot to answer it. The pro blem, however, admits of an easy solution, and Baden will do without gambling, not only to the edification of all good people, but also to the profit of the hotel and lodginghouse keepers of the place. Baden, in fact, is, perhaps, the only one of these German spas that does not live by gambling alone— that does not live by gambling at all. Take away the green cloth from the upstart Homburg, and you take the soul from its body. But Baden stands on its high reputation, on its gradual growth and de velopment, on the crowd of high-born and fashion able habitués, for -whom life, if they could not spend' a month or two here, would lack one of the ele ments that complete it. There are Parisians who, during August and September, actually prefer Baden to Paris; for whom Baden at this season is as necessary as Paris for the rest of the year ! Then, again though many people, when they are here, will " just go and have a fling at the table," there is no doubt that the vast majority do not care a kreutzer for all the florins and napoleons on those tables ; an immense number never by any chance go near those tables at all. Roulette and Rouge-et Noir are not the only attraction ; they are by no means the chief attraction. The visitors to this place were in 1815, 2,460 ; in 1863 they were 42,000. This year we shall certainly exceed the latter num ber ; we had up to yesterday 38,987 ; and the arri vals daily average about 400. Among the crowds that have filled the hotels within the last week or two, there is not the slightest doubt that at least four-fifths have come in for the races, not for the gaming-tables. In that indisputable fact, in the tremendous, unprecedented influx of strangers at this particular period since the races were first insti tuted, six years ago, one may read the future des tinies of Batten, should it so fargive in to the outcry of all good people as to do away with what so many set down as a public nuisance. You have only to supply as great a variety of harmless public amuse ments as the races evidently afford to the majority of people here assembled. This is what persons interested in the prosperity of Baden begin to con sider, and the result of their cogitations will soon be apparent. They say :--" If we have horse-races nt Iffestzheim, close to the bank of the Rhine, why should we not have boat-races on the waters of the Rhine? Where would be the great difficulty in engaging a few of the veteran members of the Ox ford and Cambridge clubs to bring here the boats and oars which assemble all the pride of London and England to see the glories of a Putney regatta ? Why should not cricket-matches be attempted here as We have seen them lately tried at Hom burg ? A tendency to adopt their neighbours' games to beat their neighbours at their own weapons, is rapidly developing itself among the peace-blessed, pleasure-seekine nations of Europe. People arc becoming unprejudiced, eclectic in their tastes ; they display a vast amount of Roman ac commodativeness and adaptability. Nothing in cos mopolitic Baden should be considered out of place. We should have German Turner-Vereine, Swiss rifle matches, English archery, Spanish bull-fights, Pallone. That athletic Pallone which lingered in Italy during the long period of the utter emascu lation of that noble Latin race is likely enough to make the tour of the globe, now that it is taken up by the more energetic English. If people come hither for health, means should be afforded not less for its utmost preservation and development than the waters supply for its restoration. Such are the thoughts of those who busy them selves with the capabilities of Baden. Amusements of a more common place description—ltalian operas, the French drama and vaudeville, illuminations, fire works, are already provided, and altsuch things are to be enjoyed here in the greatest perfection. To those who love the world for its own sake, the mere looking at each other in such crowded and motley Ttlynions as we have here is of itself unspeakable de light. What could be more. enlivening, more inspi riting, than the well-dressed, well-behaved aristo cratic mob whom we had yesterday (Sunday) after noon on and about the Conversationhaus ? What a muster of great names, what a galaxy of unmatched beauties ! Later in the evening the crowd became a crush, for excursion trains brought in multitudes from Strasburg, and breathing in the open air be came matter of difficulty. But the odi-profanum vulgus-et-arceo set well know that such Philistine in vasions are few And far between in this place, and they have their sancta-sanctorunt besides, secure from intrusion. Go to their subscription balls, attend their private receptions, and you will be able to tell us something about Parisian fashions, about the gloss of silks and the blaze of diamonds. - Well might old Blucher gloat over shop windows in Ludgate-hill and along the Strand with his naive " Was fib' Beate !" But here it is not under glass cases and behind counters that we see the frippery and trinkets. We see the use and fitness of things. We have lace shawls on shoulders, necklaces round throats, upon which those even who stripped the shrine at Loretto would deem it too great a sacrilege to lay hands. Now, there are people who fatten upon the mere sight of such dross ; and for such all I have to say is, here they will have such things to their hearts' content. But for those who have had enough of the world and its baubles during a long lifetime, for those who have known sorrow and vexation, and those worst of all evils,. satiety and weariness, where can escape from their sickness be found more readily at hand than on the very outskirts of this gay Baden world ? If loathing for your fellow-beings seizes you in Pall mall or the Boulevards, how many miles of railway journey will be required before you be allowed to fall back on yourself ! But here at Baden you have only to go 20 yards away from the din of the Conversa tionshaus, and under the shades of the Lichtenthal, or up the slope of the hills, you may enjoy all the musings of a Marius amid the rubbish of Carthage. Never despair of yourself till you are dead to the charms of nature. Wait to cut your throat till you can look upon so pearly a sky as we had here last evening as the sun set behind the pine -crested summits of Hohenbaden, and the eye pierced through the heat dissolved air till you fancied you could look into the world beyond, and the strains of the Kursaal music reached you, softened by dis tance,—wait till you can look on this God's world SO fresh and so new in its eternal youth, and see if you can still feel inclined to quarrel with it as you do with man's world. Or put off quaffing your cup of laudanum till you have taken your early coffee here, out of doors, at one of the tables in the garden of this Stephanien-Bad, surely the sweetest of all European caravanserais, where, hardly at three minutes' walk from th e heart of Baden, you may fancy yourself in Eden, and where the sp r i ng fourt breaks in upon you in the midst of such calra ness and silence, as if nature had worked for yo ur _ self alone—wait till you' have such a breakfast, an d then say whether you are not t ntful to yourAtak er , for suffering another day to dawn upon you. Sept. 5. Napoleon, it is well known, flattered Talma's pro fessional pride by gathering together at Dresden for his benefit a parterre de Rois. I wonder if race horses are greatly stimulated in their exertions by running in the presence of a standfull of "swells." For decidedly, as far as attendance is concerned, Long champs or Chantilly, or even Ascot or Goodwood, are not to be named in the same breath with the race-course at Iffetzheim. Yesterday was the third meeting and grand day of the Badm races, and, to say nothing of the elite of the frequenters of those renowned French and English meetings, we had the pick of all the people in Europe that delight in seeing and being seen: - The number again, I should think, was limited to about 2,000, but they happened mostly to be those 2,000 who do not grudge a ticket at 30 francs and a carriage at 30 florins, besides I know not how long a bill at their milliners' and glove shops. Eyes get used to the splendour of royalty in a place where members of half a dozen royal 4naili;= mingle with the va:i,;us groups,unm cognisable by any outrrazl mirk, ;:avi; only Fri-14p ;~: in some instances by loftiness of stature or " trans parency" of countenance. Of the English Royal Family we only had the Duke of Cambridge, who came in by one of the morning trains, and accepted the hospitality of the Duchess of Hamilton at her villa. But even were I to fulfil my chronicler's duty by an ab-Jove beginning, I do not think I should close my muster by a mere catalogue of royal names. There are pages in the second part of the Almanach de Gotha hardly yielding in interest to the long pedigrees blazoned forth in the first ; and there are other celebrities, besides, whose names will be read in the perpetual almanack long after the last number of the Gothaischer Hof Calender shall be out of print. Men great by rank, by valour, by genius, are all very well in their way, but what shall we say to handsome women ? What crowds of young, blooming faces ; what wealth and profu sion of fair hair, false as well as real, as the dam nable fashion requires; what mad luxury of lace shawls and gold-embroidered skirts ! Shall I say which of the one thousand and one beauties bore the palm for lavishness and taste in attire? Shall I say who came to bask in her smiles, and who dallied by her side ? I suppose the eye will get accustomed to it all in time ; but, to my rustic greenness, the sight is still somewhat bewildering. The whole of the feminine Grande Monde and the whole Demi-Monde were sauntering up and down before the Stand and Pavilions. For some time it seemed as if the two elements laboured under some repugnance at amal gamation. The "Athenian" damsels instinctively clustered together to the left of the Grand Stand ; but soon the excitement of the hour broke the bar riers and levelled all ranks. Princesses, grafinnen, and marquises crossed the bohemiennes in their strolls up and down, and many were the critical and emu lous glances the two opposite poles of womankind cast at each other—and then, oh ! for a touchstone to tell gold from tinsel, diamond from paste ! Well, this modern civilization makes us acquainted with strange race company The day was glorious. One tires almost of the repetition of the beauties of this summer weather. The heat was overpowering, there was neither cloud nor haze, and the thickly-wooded ridges of the sur rounding mountains rose one behind another in distinct outlines, and their last skirts came down in graceful slopes to the level of the race-course. Surely a gayer scene never was exhibited on a more fitting stage. Naval and Military Intelligence. ----40,- Notwithstanding the intense heat of yesterday, the thermometer ranging up to 112 deg. Fahrenheit in the sun, a general muster and sham fight was held at Woolwich, the proceedings occupying the entire area of Woolwich-common and the extent of Shooter's-hill wood and its approaches. The troops assembled on the Common in review order, knap sacks being left in barracks owing to the great heat of the weather, and, after forming in line of con tiguous quarter distance columns, they received the Commandant, Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, with the usual salute. They then took ground to the right in fours and marched past, the mounted troops at a walk, and afterwards at a trot ; the infantry, in grand divisions, in quick time. The battalion of Royal Marines, in command of Col. Lambrick, A.D.C. to the Queen, and the Second Commandant at Woolwich, then took post on the north side of the Common, and represented the defending force, flanked by batteries of Royal Artillery, and resisted the advance of the sth brigade of Artillery, who were flanked by guns and formed the main portion of the enemy. The Royal Marines deployed into line, the batteries on either flank advanced at a gallop and, taking up a good position, opened a vigorous fire on the enemy. The Royal Marines here displayed a discreet and well-directed device, no doubt highly legitimate in war, of lying down to escape the shot and shell which were then poured in upon them. Skirmishers were then thrown out, and the body of Marines advanced in direct echelon of companies at wheeling distance from the right, but, staggered by the murderous fire, they again halted and lay down, again rose, formed line on the leading company, advanced through their skir -1 1 mishers, fired a volley, an d c h arge d th e enemy ' s gulls, driving him in disorder to a fresh and appa rently impregnable position on Shotter's-hill-Wood, when, after an obstinate encounter, and being un able to dislodge him, the defending force withdrew in good order, covered by the Royal Marines in skirmishing order. The wholeforce then formed ou their original ground, after advancing in review order in line of 'contiguous columns, and marched to barracks in fours from the right of battalions. Be fore their dismissal the Major-General emu - pending was pleased to notify his marked approval of the whole of the proceedings, and the undaunted spirit and energy with which they had been carried out, in j spite of the overwhelming state of the atmosphere. He mentioned with especial commendation the charge of the Royal Marines on the guns, and their skirmishing among the furze on Shooter's-hill, and added that each officer and man had acquitted him self with the highest credit through the most labo rious test to which a,-soldier could be well proved. Gen. Sir James Fergusson, G.C.8., Col. 43d Light Infantry, whose death took place at his house, 14, Marlborough-buildings, Bath, on the 4th inst., was the sonof Mr. Charles Fergusson, by his cousin, daughter of Mr. James Fergusson, of Craigdar rock, Dumfriesshire ; which has been in possession of his ancestors uninterruptedly for ages past. He entered the army in 1801 as ensign in the 18th Regi ment, from which he was removed to the 43d, then traiuingwith the 52d and 95th under Sir John Moore at Shorncliffe, and which afterwards became the famous Light Division. Sir Jas. Fergusson served in the campaigns of 1808-9, Vimiera, Corunna, and subsequently Walcheren ; the Peninsular campaigns, from March, 1810, to the end of the war in 1814, during which time he was never absent from his re giment except from wounds; was five times wounded, and " Who can sufficiently honour the resolution of Fergusson, of the 43d, who, having in former assaults received two deep wounds, was here (Bada jos), ' third siege,' with his hurts still open, leading the stormers of his regiment ; the third time a volun teer, and the third time wounded ?"—" Napier," vol. iv., page 432, book xvi. Though his promotion was rapid compared with many others, strange to say he had to purchase all his steps. He served with the 43d Light Infantry during nearly the whole war, till he was appointed major, 79th Regiment, Dec., 1812, but was removed to the 85th Regiment, and served with that regiment up to the investment of Bayonne ; was appointed Lieut.-Col. 2d batta lion 3d Regiment (Buffs) May, 1814, and after the close of the war, when the battalion was reduced, was placed on half-pay, when he went to study at the Military College, Farnham, for some time. In 1819 he was appointed to the command of the 88th, of which gallant regiment he always spoke in terms of high regard. In 1825 he was removed to the command of the 52d Light Infantry (one of the old Light Division, with which he was so gloriously connected). In 1830 he was appointed Col. and King's Aide-de-Camp. He continued in command of the 52d Regiment till 1839, when he retired on half-pay, Gen. Lord Hill, then commanding the army, remarking, " that, after commanding regi ments for more than a quarter of a century, he was at liberty to do what he thought proper." He b e . came Ilt•illad waslBsl, or:Gen. in 1841, and Lieut.-G en . i n appointed to the command of the during the early part of ' the Crimewanas troops at Malta in 1.85'), where h e I s v ta ai ti ,, on h ed is. inability front the diseased state of his lungs, caused by a former wound, alone preventing him from againolunteering his ser v i ces in the field. iiereceiv v d the thanks of tphrecnDiduekdefoofr Ntheewtrootples i f n or m t a h l e ta tn , aitnine:hiinchwhhiechwhase so zealously and ably assisted by the Governor, Sir William Reid, and Admiral Sir Houston Stuart. He was appointed K.C.B. on the sth July, 1855, in a and on the Go he2 v B e t r h no o r f August in the same year was sworn and Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar, where he re mained until 1859, when his increasing infirmity obliged him to apply to be relieved. He became Gen. on the 21st February, 1860, and was appointed G.C.B. on the 18th May, 1860. • Col. J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., late cor_mar-cltng Ikyal Engineers atAlderahot, who has been ap pointod to sues _tut Cl. E. D. harness, director of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chat ham, has taken up his appointment, and gone on a few weeks' leave of absence, during which the duties of the Director-General are performed by Lieut.-Col. T. B. Collinson, second in command. The appointment of a successor to the late Major F. H. De Vere as instructor in field fortifications at head-quarters has not yet been made at head-quar ters, the two officers named as being likely to succeed to the appointment being Lieut.-Colonel G. Graham, V.C., and Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, C.B. On Wednesday Vice-Admiral Sir C. Talbot, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of the Nore, with his staff, arrived at Chatham dockyard, where he landed, and embarked in a state barge, accompanied by the Captain Superintendent of the dockyard, for her Majesty's ship Wellesley, which ship received him with manned yards and other honours. The Admi ral first inspected the boys in divisions, and then examined the arrangements of the ship's deck and holds. Subsequently there was a match at great gun exercise, and one of rifle and cutlass. After wards the royal yards were crossed and all plain sail set, sail being shortened and furled, and topgal lant and royal yards and masts being sent on deck. The inspection, which had lasted an hour, ended by fire quarters and manning boats. Sir Charles Talbot having expressed to Commander Stevens his entire approbation at the general good order, the cleanliness of the ship and boys, andalso for the excellent system prevailing on board, and mentioned more particularly the silence main tained while all the several evolutions were performed, left the Wellesley on his return to Sheerness. The work of fitting the fine screw frigate Bristol, 39, 600 horse power (nominal), intended to carry the broad pennant of Capt. G. T. P. Hornby, now of the Edgar, 71, 600 horse power, as commodore of the squadron on the West Coast of Africa, as successor to Commodore A. F. E. Wilmot, C. 8., is now being pushed forward with all despatch by the numerous hands employed on her, in readiness for her being placed in commission at an early date. The work of superintending the fitting out of this frigate is being supervised by Capt. L. E. H. Somer set, who is borne as additional in the Formidable, 84, for service in this vessel. The Bristol is having a poop constructed, together with the necessary offices and cabins for a flag officer and his retinue. She is fitted with a pair of the ordinary horizontal engines by Messrs. R. Napier and Sons. The Diana, 42, sailing frigate, lieutenant-ship of the sailing reserve in Chatham harbour, was yester day brought down the harbour and took up moor ings off Upuor Castle, the corporation of Rochester, who are the owners of the river Medway, having re quested the Admiralty to remove her from her late position, which was represented as interfering with the navigation of the river. Gradually the smaller class of sailing vessels which have been so long lying idle at Chatham are disap pearing, but a complete squadron of large vessels still remains, encumbering the entrance to the har bour, at what, from the character of the ships lying there, is termed " Rotten-row." Few, if any, of these will ever again be required for the service, al though each vessel yearly absorbs a considerable sum in the shape of wages. Her Majesty's steam frigate Euryalus, with Rear- Admiral Sir Augustus Kuper on board, arrived at Plymouth yesterday afternoon from China. 'Her Majesty's steam corvette Satellite has also arrived at Plymouth from South America. Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, who was appointed to the Aboukir, was appointed a " second-class" Commodore, instead of a "first-class," as announced by mistake. The French Government and the Cattle Plague. PARIS, S ept. 7. The following report of the Minister of Agri culture to the Emperor upon the subject of the cattle plague has just appeared : Sire,--Since last July England has been suffering from a contagious epizootic disease, which, owing to the propor tions it has assumed, is now invested with the character of , Iserious danger. Since I have been a ware of this epizootic malady, I have requ e st e d MM. B ou l ay an d R eyna l, t wo pro fessors at the Imperial Veterinary School of Alfort, to re pair, the former to Great Britain, the latter to Germany, to collect all the particulars which could enlighten us upon the nature of the malady, and upon the manner in which it might have been introduced into England. At the same time I desired a special commission to study everthing re lating to this disease, and to propose the measures which ought to be taken in case French cattle were threatened by the malady. I have now to report to your Majesty the re sult of the labours of the commission, and to submit to the Emperor's approval the arrangements which circumstances appear to me to require. The epizootic disease at present raging in Great Britain is that to which the English have given the name of " cattle plague," which the Germans call Rinderpest, and the French typhus contagieux du Bros 1s tail. Originating in the steppes of eastern Europe, the contagious typhus of horned beasts never develops itself spontaneously outside those regions, whatever may be the bad hygienic conditions to which the herds of cattle may be exposed. This etiological question, now completely cleared up by the investigations of professors of veterinary medicine in Ger many and Russia, formed the object of a memoir addressed to my department by the late inspector-general of veteri- I nary schools in France, the learned and regretted M. Re nault. In that memoir the difficulties of this problem are treated and solved with a correctness of view and an abund ance of proof which leave no doubt whatever upon this point. Contagious typhus of horned cattle is, therefore, a malady exotic to western Europe. It can never develop it self there under the influence oe geneml and common causes, to which it had been wrongly attributed when its history was less known. The present attack in England is due to the importation into that country of beasts of Russian origin, embarked at the port of Revel in the Gulf of Finland, and disembarked in the docks of the Thames. But if the cattle plague has only one original country, its eminently conta gious properties render it, upon the other hand, an essen tially migratory disease. Its history bears witness, in very numerous instances, to its repeated appearances in Ger many, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Egypt, and even in England herself, notwithstanding the privelege of her isolation. In all preceding ages, it has been almost in variably in consequence of the movements of the armies of the north that the cattle plague has spread be yond what may be called its native country ; for the dis placement of the large bodies of men which compose armies necessarily implies a corresponding displacement of large bodies of cattle destined for their provision. In addition to times of war, the cattle plague has sometimes been in troduced into the western regions of Europe by commercial channels ; but, in past times; this method of introduction has always been exceptional. " And when, owing to the re searches of German and Russian veterinary savants, the fact of the endemic nature of this malady in the steppes of the Russian and Hungarian provinces had been decisively ascertained, the Governments of Prussia and Austria have, up to a recent date, been able to take efficacious measures to protect from it those of their provinces in which typhus is not endemic, and, through them, all the other regions of Europe. In fact, owing to this very ac flee protection, a period of fifty years has passed without typhus having come to visit us, while in the lest century this epizootic disease presented itself in our own country nearly every twenty years. But the preservative measures employed by Germany only produced their effects because the migrations of the steppe herds were carried on by land routes. Now that the means of communication between different countries have become so rapid and so easy, the chances of typhus overleaping or evading the barriers Germany has hitherto been able to present to its invasion have greatly increased. Thus, for example, in the present instance its introduction into England has arisen from the fact of speculators in cattle having found it profitable to draw their supplies from the Russian provinces, and to transport them by steamboats to the English markets, which have offered them sufficiently remunerative prices. Germany having thus been turned, and the voyage from the Gulf of Finland to the docks of the Thames having re quired less time than is neceasary for the period of incuba tion of typhus, it is in this manner that cattle, carrying within them the germ of this fearful malady, have been able to be introduced into England, and that that country is again subjected, after 120 years, to the disasters the im portation of this plague inflicted on her in 1745. In this state of affairs all efforts ought to be combined to prevent its invasion of our frontiers, and if it should unfortu nately succeed in passing them, to prevent its spread and confining and extinguishing it in the loealities first infected. The danger exists ; England and Scotland are invaded, and according to the latest news the scourge has been imported into Holland by a vessel laden with cattle intended for Great Britain, and returned with her cargo into a Dutch port, not having been able to disembark it in Eng land, no doubt because the officers charged with the surveillance of the ports perceived the diseased state of the animals the Dutch ship attempted to introduce. Whatever may be the reasons which have prevented the debarkation of the cargo, it appears certain that it is by this means the typhus has been imported into the Netherlands, and might just as well have been brought into France if the Dutch ship repulsed from the port of England had been drawn towards one of eoitu::::::: shore of the Channel by the attraction of o sufficiently remunerative price. It is therefore urgent to forbid entry into the Forte of the Chail. filE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1865. nel an German Ocean to all vessels laden with cattle of whatever origin, or to subject the introduction of cattle which shall be:brought into those ports to such measures as should be necessary to guard against the invasion of .the malady, and it is important that similar 7 tirrangements should be applied to our northern and eastern frontiers. However, notwithstanding all these precautions, the epi zootic malady may any day be introduced into our depart ments, and the government must therefore be upon its guard against this eventuality; but it is not necessary to have recourse to new orders for this purpose. The sani tary police, in its relations to domestic animals, is in fact regulated by a series of decrees of the King's Council, of royal ordinances and clauses of laws promulgated at dif ferent periods, and inspired by the necessities of the time, which constitute a complete body of legislation on the sub ject. Among these decrees and ordinances are a certain number which have been exactly dictated with a view to combat the epizootic malady by which we are at present threatened. These are the decrees of the King's Council of April 10, 1714; March 24, 1745; July 19, 1746; Decem ber 18, 1774 ; the decree of the Executive Directory of the 27th Messidor, in the year 5, and the ordinance of the King of January 21, 1815. These special acts: which are always in force, have fore seen, ]aid down, and prescribed all the measures necessary to prevent the spread of the evil in the empire ; such, for instance, as the obligatory declaration imposed upon the holders of diseased animals ; the visit of the cattle sheds, the slaughter of diseased animals and of animals of the same species which have been lodged with them, in consideration of an indemnity granted to their owners ; the sequestration of diseased or suspected beasts ; the designation by a special mark of those which have been momentarily unable to be removed from the places in which they are lodged ; the prohibition of fairs and markets ; the surveillance of pastures and watering-places —all these being measures which, applied with discernment, permit of the restriction of the epizootic malady to such localities, and thus prevent the considerable losses its propagation would entail. The experience of past times testifies to the efficacy of these arrangements. The administration is therefore sufficiently armed to combat typhus at home. But, under the present conditions which obtain in foreign commerce it has not the necessary power to prevent its importation by way of our frontiers, and it is with the object of investing it with this power that I have the honour of submitting the =nosed decree to your Majesty's sanction.—l am, siro,&c., AnmAwD BERIC, Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works. The decree alluded to above was signed by the Emperor upon the sth inst. After the usual for malities, it proceeds to order 1. The importation into France of domestic animals, the entrance of which should present dangers of contagious typhus shall be forbidden, or subordinated to such measures as may be necessary to prevent the invasion of the malady. 2. Decrees of our Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works shall determine the frontiers or portions of frontiers, over which the introduction and passage by tran sit of domestic animals shall be forbidden, and the condi tion upon which this introduction and passage shall be authorised. The Minister of Agriculture has thereupon issued the following orders : 1. The introduction into France, and the transit of ani mals of the bovine species, as well as of raw hides, and other raw poitions of those animals, by way of the ports of the sea coast, from and including Nantes as far as Dunkirk, and by the frontiers upon the north and east from the sea to the Rhine, are absolutely forbidden. 2. The introduction into France, and the transit of ani mals of the bovine species, as well as of raw hides and other raw portionsof these animals, coming from England, Holland, and Belgium, are absolutely prohibited into all the ports and custom houses of the empire. 3. In other ports and custom houses than those to which clause 1 of these present orders applies, animals of tho bovine species imported from any other source than England, Holland, and Belgium shall be provisionally in spected by special agents. Those which are perceived to be healthy shall be admitted. Those which are found un healthy shall not be admitted. Those which shall only be suspected, or shall have been lodged with animals found unhealthy, shall be placed under observation for ten days in a sufficiently isolated place, and shall , not be admitted until it shall be declared that they do not present any symp tom appertaining to contagious typhus. THE METROPOLIS. The Maas steamer, which is constructed expressly for the cattletrade, arrived at Brown's-wharf, Black - wall, in the course of Wednesday with a large cargo of live stock, consisting of several hundredsheep and pigs and some 280 head of oxen. Mr. Simonds, the veterinary surgeon appointed by the Customs, and the examining officers were in attendance, and made the usual survey before the landing of the cattle was proceeded with. The beasts were generally in avery healthy condition, but the state of a cow among the oxen excited some attention, and a belief being en tertained that the animal was suffering from some disease, the veterinary surgeon directed that it should be at once slaughtered. That was quickly done in the shed near tfie wharf, and on the surgeon making an examination of the carcase, traces were found of an early stage of the prevailing disease. The Com missioners of Customs directed that the whole of the oxen should be placed under quarantine, in order to see whether the disease would develope itself among any of them. On being landed the cattle were driven into an extensive and open piece of ground or lair near the wharf, between the river and the east wall of the West India-dock. They appeared in very good condition, and it was stated that there was not the slightest sign of disease about them. Several cartloads of hay were distributed among the beasts, and there was a fresh and liberal supply of water in the tanks within the lair. The customs also took other precautions, in having the wharf and ground properly cleansed and using disinfectants. As yet no symptoms of disease have appeared among the oxen. The owners of some 20 or 30 of the cattle have ap plied to have their stock slaughtered at the lair, and the carcasses sent to the market for sale. The other portion of the cargo of the Maas—the sheep and pigs —not being liable to infection in the same degree as oxen was landed, and sent on for yesterday's market. The carcase of the diseased cow, after being rendered quite unfit for human consumption by carbolic acid being poured over it, was sent to a knacker's to be boiled down for fat. At the meeting of the vestry of St. George, Han over-square, yesterday, a report was read from the medical officers of health showing the progress of the disease in that parish. The report contained this statement On the evening of the 30th of August Mr. Grant, the inspector, who commonly visits all the yards twice or thrice a week, missed several cows from the sheds of Chas. Hatt in Ebury street. This led to an inquiry, from which it was ascertained that the disease had appeared not only at Mr. Hatt's, but likewise on the premises of Mr. Dexter, in Kinnerton-street. On the following day we visited Mr. Dexter's yard, in company with Mr. Grant, and observed in one of his sheds two cows seriously ill. We were then told that one cow had been noticed to be unwell on the 21st of August, but as the symptoms were aot decided she was sent away and killed that same night. On Thursday, the 24th, we are told one other cow sickened, with decided symptoms, and on Friday, the 25th, two others, which three last mentioned soon died in the shed. The two which we saw 111 - were sent away under the directions of the Government inspector the same night. Since that time up to September sth six others have sickened, of which four haie been destroyed and two have re covered. It thus appears that Mr. Dexter has 10 out of the 32 which we saw healthy on the 9th of August. We may observe that Mr. Dexter's premises are scru pulously clean, airy, and well -managed, and that from the first appearrnce of the disease great pains were taken to disinfect the premises and the dung before it was removed. The cowyard of Mr. Hatt, in Ebury-street, is certainly not a model, and leaves something to be desired as regards neatness. Still there has been nothing which could account for the terrible visitation which has taken place. On Aug. 26 he had 103 cows in this place. According to the best information we can get, 30 of these were sent away on the 28th, 29th, and 30th Aug., some to market and some to slaughter-houses. Early on the morning of the 31st 40 were sent to the Islington Cattle-market, in addition to one from Mr. Hatt's cowyard in Brewer-street, where he keeps 35. The whole 41 were seized at Islington by the inspector. On the 315t.33 cows were left, but this day (Sept. 6) the number is reduced to 12, every one of which is ill and condemned by the inspector ; so that this cowyard - Is virtually emptied of 103 . cows iu less than a week. On Sept. 6 we also learn that Mr. Gilbert ; who had nine cows in a shed on the pre mises of Mr. Dexter on Aug. 9, has sent away seven, and that the remaining two are ill, notice of which has been sent to the Government inspector." At the Clerkenwell Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Oibbins, the chairman of the. Metropolitan Mar kets Committee ; Mr. Rudkin, a member of the committee ; Mr. Tegg, veterinary surgeon to the market ; and Air• , clerk - to the -market) "a1)- plied for summonses against cowkeepers for send ing diseased cows into the market. They stated that during the course of yesterday and Wednesday no less than 19 cows had been seized in the market and lairs and condemned. The summonses were granted. LIVERPOOL. At the meeting of the Liverpool Health Committee, held yesterday, Dr. Trench, the medical officer, stated that on the Ist inst. a number of cattle were landed at Liverpool from Dublin in apparently ex cellent health. They were taken to a field at Aller ton, and the next morning one was found dead from an attack of the prevalent disease. DEVONSHIRE. The cattle disease has broken out at Dartmouth, and has apparently been communicated by foreign animals. At a meeting on the subject of the plague held at Newton on Wednesday last, Mr. Cumming stated that within the last few days the inspector of the district had certified the appearance of the dis ease among the .cattle at Dartmouth. It appeared that a man in the town owned four cows and four yearlings, and the whole of them, with the exception of one yearling, had died, it was alleged, of the cattle plague or rinderpest. The only reason that could be given of the disease being communicated to the beasts was that Mr. Holberton, the Government contractor, had one or two head of cattle sent to Dartmouth for the use of persons serving on board her Majesty's ship Britannia, and that these cattle had beenplaced in a slaughter-house by which the animals had to pass every day. One cow sickened a day after pas sing the place, and after lingering for eight days it died. The others had followed in like manner, until they were all dead but one. ABERDEENSHIRE. A central committee meets weekly in Aberdeen, when reports by skilled inspectors and veterinary surgeons are presented and discussed. The dairies and killing shops about town are regularly visited, and whenever intimation is given that anything like the rinderpest has made its appearance, steps are at once taken to destroy the animals affected, or to keep them from coming into contact with others. Nearly 100 animals have died in Aberdeenshire within the past six weeks. The district country cattle-markets have dwindled down to almost nothing, the breeders and farmers being fearful of approaching them with beasts, in case of infection. In fairs and stances, where usually 300 to 400 head of stock are shown and sold weekly, not a couple of dozen are at pre sent to be found. The consequence is that butchers have to procure supplies by private bargains from persons known to possess sound beasts ; but as these persons for the most part demand long prices, busi ness is very difficult and stiff. Naturally, therefore, the retail price of all kinds of butcher's meat is rising fast. The quotations on the 6th inst. were :—Roast and steak, 10d. to 100 per lb. ; mutton, 8d to 10d. ditto ; boiling meat, 7d. to 9d. ditto ; lamb, 10d. ditto, and veal the same figure. Shocking Case of Infanticide. ---.llo— ae Mr. F. S. Langham, the deputy coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at St. Martin's Vestry-hall, on the body of a. female child, found in one of the drawers in a bed-room at Charing-cross Hotel, and alleged to be the offspring of one of the domestic servants, named Amelia Southerwood, who is at present in the infirmary at St. Martin's workhouse under the surveillance of the police, and will be charged with the wilful murder of the child. Mr. InspeCtor Brennan, from Bow-street, E division, was present to watch the case for the police authorities. The jury having been sworn, with Mr. Richard Foulkes as foreman, the body, which had been 13 ing in tho cata combs undo St. Martin's Church, was brought in in a shell. Mr. M. J. Verdon, surgeon, of 4, Craven-street, Strand, said—On Friday evening, about five, I was sent for to the Charing-cross Hotel, to see a female whose name I do not know, and I found her iu bed in a room nearly at the top of the. house. I accused her of having had a child and asked her where it was, but she denied having had one. I told her she must have had a child, and it was no use her using any deception, as it must be here. I did what was necessary for her state, and then examined her box which was in the room, but found no child there, and searched the drawers in her room, but did not find any child, and just then she called the attendant, Martha Mack, and told her she had had a child. I put the question to her, after she had spoken to Mack, and I asked her, "What did you da with it ?" She pointed out to Mack a chest of drawers belonging to another girl who slept in the room and said she had put it there, and had put some clothes over it. I looked there, and found the body the jury. have seen. I took up the child and examined it. It was.quite dead. It appeared to be fully matured and healthy. There was a lacerated wound on the neck, a little above the collar-bone, about an inch in length, and au inch and a half in depth. There was also a darkish discoloured mark round the neck, and at the back of it. The umbilical cord was untied. The bead appeared to be only held to the body by skin, the spine having been apparently broken. I have made a post mor tem examination, and, on applying the usual tests to the lungs, I found that the child had breathed. The soft parts of the neck were injured and the spine dislocated. The other organs were healthy. From the appearances I have no hesitation in saying that the child had a separate and independent existence. It was of full term. The lacerated wound was caused by drawing the head against something. The cause of death was from dislocation of the spine by violence. After I foUnd the body I said, " You have acted very badly to destroy life. It is a terrible thing to take away the life of a child." She made no reply. She was very weak from loss of blood. The child may have died from loss of blood. The Foreman of the jury —Did you notice anything as to the state of her mind ? • The Coroner—We have nothing to do with that here. If there is any ground for such a defence it is a question for another court. Martha Mack deposed—l am the head chambermaid at the Charing-cross Hotel. On Friday, about a quarter to 5, I went up to see Amelia Southerwood, one of the house maids, in her room, and asked her what was the matter with her, and she said, " I shall be better presently." I was in the room when the doctor came the second time. I did not then hear anything she said to the doctor. After the doctor had been the first time I changed her clothing, and from what I saw I sent for the doctor immediately and he came. He accused her (Amelia Southerwood) of having had a child, but she strongly denied having had one, but upon my pressing her again she spoke to me. I could not hear what she said, but she pointed to the drawers, and in the top long drawer I found the body of the child. She begged me to put it out of sight, and let no one see it. I left it in the drawer till the doctor came. I asked her next morning what she cut it with—how the throat came cut, and she said she did not cut it with anything, but squeezed it between the drawers ; and I then asked her whether she put the head or the body in the drawers. She said she put it in with the head hanging outside. I also asked her if the child cried, and she said yes. Mr. Verdon recalled—The way in which the last wit ness has described the child being put into the drawer with its head hanging outside would correspond with the marks on the child. Martha Mack recalled by a juror—Southerwood has been in the service about two months ; there was no suspicion that she was enciente. Thomas Cartwright, living at 54, Noble-street, St. Luke's, who had been at work on the top of the hotel fitting som e ironwork, deposed - to having witnessed the birth of the child through a window. Alice Freeman deposed that she had been housemaid at the hotel about a week. On Friday she had occasion to go into Amelia Southerwood's room in the afternoon, and see ing blood on the floor asked her whit it was, and Souther wood said she thought she had broken a blood-vessel. She seemed very bad, and witness did not think of sending for a doctor, but she heard that others had done so. Thomas Tabey, detective officer at the Charing-cross Hotel, said he received the body from Martha Mack. Inspector Brennan said that was all the evidence that was forthcoming. The Coroner said that it was but seldom that a case of infanticide was clearly proved. Infanticide had risen to a fearful height, and was still on the increase, and legislative enactments were loudly called for. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Amelia Southerwood, and the usual - arrant having been made out, it was handed to Brennan to put in force. FOUR MEN DROWNED IN THE THAMES.—A de plorable accident took place on the Thames on Wednes day, by which four lives were lost. It appears that about one o'clock the Zephyr, screw steamer, bound for Rotter dam, was proceeding down the river, and when off Dept ford came into collision with a small skiff, which had nine persons on board. The whole party were thrown into the river, and five of them were picked up by ballast lighters, which immediately put off to their assistance. The other four persons were drowned. F ADTE RTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment.— Be not Deceived.—There is a giant marching onwards from the east who threatens to invade our prosperous country—his name is cholera, and his cohorts consist of impurity, irregularity, debility, and despondency. Each of these provocatives of this dire disease may bo overcome without danger by Holloway's remedies, provided they be resorted to without delay the moment listlessness, loose ness, feverishness, or pain betrays disordered action. The " directions" will enable the least cultivated to treat suc cessfully and subdue completely these warning symptoms of cholera. When c onfid ence in Holloway's preparations has once been es!ablished, each believer in their virtues will humanely reco mmen d them to his acquaintances, that fortrees. none may foolishly harbour thu fag friends withiahib own SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TRIES.--There has been au unfortunate tendency of late years to punish crimes of 'violence against the person with but slight severity in comparison with crimes against property. Everybody, perhaps, feels himself endangered by crimes of embezzlement, but judges and magistrates have appeared hardly to realise the amount of injury which is inflicted on society by acts of violence. It is not, indeed, very long since the prevalent leniency in this respect was rudely shaken by an audacious outbreak of violence on the part of our convict population. The alarm which was created when garotte robberies were com mitted in the open street has left permanent traces even upon our criminal legislation. When ticket of-leave men found so little to terrify them in the consequences of their crimes that they made nothing of knocking down passengers in such thoroughfares as Oxford-street, and brutally maltreating them for the paltry value of their watches, we felt that it was time to adopt some sharp measures of repression. The judges took to passing severe sentences, and such crimes were rapidly checked. But it is rather with regard to crimes of mere violence, committed for no other reason than the indulgence of brutal passions, that this leniency has of late been so con spicuous. In the case, especially, of cruelty com mitted by husbands against their wives, the mostin adequate punishments have been dealt out to - the most brutal offenders. This is a class of crimes, indeed, as to the degree of which it is often difficult to obtain exact legal evidence. The wife, as a rule, avoids complaining till the last extremity; and, after she has once obtained the protection of the law, she constantly endeavours as far as possible to extenuate her husband's offence. Moreover, in too many cases, it is only the last piece of brutality, and by no means the worst, which breaks the poor wife's patience ; and the husband is punished for only a common as sault, when he is really guilty of an aggravated series of malicious cruelties continued for years. It is with great satisfaction, therefore, we ob serve from the report of the Middlesex Sessions in our impression of yesterday that a very diffe rent course was adopted by Sergeant Dowling in some cases of this character which came before him for sentence. There was, in the first place, a rob bery, accompanied by the most open and undisguised violence. On a Sunday afternoon, in broad day light, a gentleman was descending the steps of the steamboat-pier opposite Essex-street, when he was attacked on the top of the steps by two young men with canes, who felled him with a blow on the temple, robbed him of his watch, gave him a serious fall on the steps as he was attemptingto follow them, and eventually made their escape. They were ob served to belong to a gang of notorious thieves and pickpockets, and they were subsequently arrested. Their accomplices were placed at the bar with them, and they were convicted of several violent robberies in Holborn and Gray's-inn-lane. We shall, hap pily, be freed from these ruffians for a long time by the sentences which were passed by Sergeant Dowling. Three of them were sentenced to penal servitude for ten years, one for seven, and another for five years, and a sixth was condemned to a year's imprisonment with hard labour. This, how ever, is a class of crimes with regard to which our Judges are not again likely to commit the errors that were so disastrous a few years ago. The other two cases were instances of that brutal and object less violence to which we are principally referring. In the first of these a man and woman, with their daughter and a young man, who was their daugh ter's paramour, were convicted of what the Judge called the most " outrageous and murderous" violence upon a respectable man who lodged in the same house with them. It seems he had corn plained, and with justice, of the indecent behaviour 1 of the daughter, and in revenge for this they all attacked him one evening, dragged him into a back court, threw him down and beat him, and the young man kicked him with such violence that he has permanently lost the use of one of his arms. 'This ruffian was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for two years ; the father and daughter to a similar punishment for one year, and the mother for six months. The last case was one of those horrible instances of the maltreatment of a wife by her husband. The unfortunate wonytn had been so brutally misused, and the effects of the man's brutality were so manifest, that though he had at first pleaded not guilty, he changed his plea, and submitted at once to judgment. He had, in fact, almost murdered the woman. He had been constantly imprisoned for assaults and for other offences ; he had failed*to support her, and had then, as the judge said, " b e h ave d t owar d s her more like a wild beast than a human being." There were no considerations which could in any way mitigate the brutality of his crime, and he was sentenced to the utmost punishment which the law allows—to penal servitude for five years. These are just and necessary sentences, and we are glad to see a judge display such a sense of the enormity of these das tardly crimes. Nothing short of stern and sharp justice will make any impression upon the class of men who commit these cruelties. Such men are, like wild beasts, and like wild beasts they must be tamed. There is, it may be added, a peculiar neces sity for the exercise of befitting severity at the pre sent moment. It is impossible not to be struck with the fact that crimes of violence are becoming un usually prevalent. The public have been horrified lately by a succession of murders such as it is diffi cult to remember within a similarly short space of time. Some of them have been on the most whole sale scale, and all have been marked by one most revolting feature—they have been committed on the most slender provocation. An angry word, the most ordinary feelings of spite and jealousy, or even, it would .seem in one case, a desire for noto riety, have been sufficient incitements to the most cold-blooded murders. But it is seldom that such a crime as murder could be thus recklessly commit ted unless the mind had been first familiarised with lesser crimes of the same nature. Murder is the very extremity of violence, and the impulse to commit it would not generally be thus ripe and ready for action unless its seeds had been fos tered by long familiarity with thoughts and scenes of violence. Murders, in short, are but acts of vio lence full grown, and acts of violence, on the other hand, are• nothing less than incipient murders. They should be regarded, therefore, with similar indignation, and should be visited with a punish ment in proportion to their ultimate tendency. It is not, indeed, improbable that the pernicious leniency with which murders have of late years been too often regarded may have stimulated the whole series of kindred crimes. Every act of violence loses something of its heinous character when murder ceases to be execrated as the highest and most un pardonable of offences. We trust, however, that the period of this perverse philanthropy is at an end. Crimes of violence above all others, are absolutely in compatible with civilised society. Other crimes are an abuse of society ; these are its very annihilation. They area return to the most characteristic conditions of savage life. They are the crimes, moreover, against which the sufferers are most defenceless. In cases of fraud a man makes use of weapons which are, to a certain extent, at the disposal of his victims.lnge nuity and cunning may be baffled by acuteness and watchfulness. But by the very fact of civilization every one is deprived of those weapons and precau tions by which alone we could defend ourselves against superior strength. In these matters we place ourselves absolutely under the protection of the law ; and we have a right, therefore, to demand that we shall receive a more ample protection than in the case of dangerg against which v.:co are more or less able to take precautions for ourselves. POST.—The question of negro suffrage-stands on a footing so entirely distinct from that of negro emancipation that it is with difficulty we can bring ourselves to believe that any persons at all conver sant with the nature of political institutions can re gard the right of sharing in the administration of a State as a legitimate consequence of elevation from a state of servitude. That such persons do exist, and in great numbers, on the other side of the Atlantic, is, however, an incontestable fact, and it is no less true that they include amongst them men endowed with a fair share of sagacity, and pos sessed of no inconsiderable influence over those to whom they are placed by their social position in the relation of teachers. It would therefore be equally idle and unbecoming to assume that several millions of people, who, until the commencement of the present summer were mere chattels, incap able of acquirini or transferring the smallest articles of property, must be obviously unfitted for the discharge of high political functions, since there are men of unquestionable intelligence and large ex perience who think otherwise. The question whether a slave, who, until yesterday, knew nothing beyond the range of the plantation in which he worked, ought to be entrusted with the power of determin ing who shall be the rulers of a mighty Republic, and of indirectly dictating the policy which shall guide the State, is therefore one which is open to dispute, and which, like other controverted points, ought to be canvassed, without prejudice, on its own merits. Horror of slavery is a very humane and praiseworthy sentiment, but it must be apparent that there is nothing in the question now submitted which should, "however remotely, tend to bring it into operation. The civil war in the United States has now terminated. Slavery has been abolished. The negro is now a free man, and all that remains is to determine the precise political status he shall hold in the Republic. In States such as Great Bri tain, where the enjoyment of political privileges is dependent on the possession of a certain amount of property, the right of an emancipated negro to exer cise the suffrage would probably be determined in the same manner as that of his fellow-citizens. With us the possession of property is regarded rightly.% matters uoq_afit ON:laethe; deuce of industry and intelligence, and it is thought that the man who has a stake to lose will take a. warmer interest in the good government of a coun try than he who has none. But in the United States of America, and in those countries where the only qualifications for sharing in the administration of the State, by electing those in whose hands the executive and legislative power reposes, consist in being of a certain age and of the male sex, it would seem natu rally to follow that the slave, having acquired the status of citizen, would acquire with it the political privileges incidental to citizenship. It must be con ceded, then, that the Abolitionists, who protest against negro emancipation without negro suffrrage as a half measure, and as a fraud upon the liberated slave, are, at least, consistent in their reasoning, and compel their opponents to accept the alterna tive of admitting that the foundation on which manhood suffrage rests is unsound, or of according to the emancipated slaves those political privileges which are demanded for them. And, in truth, the question of negro suffrage now forced on American statesmen only raises, in another form, that of uni versal suffrage, and according as the first is deter mined must the second stand or fall. If those who have the conduct of public affairs in the United States find themselves in a dilemma, they must lay the blame at the doors of those who modelled their political institutions. It must never be forgotten that those who advocate universal suffrage rest their views on the assumption that every individual in a State should have a voicein its management ; that all are equally interested in its prosperity, and that all possess for every practical purpose intelli gence sufficient to guide them in the discharge of their political functions. Even supposing such an assumption to be well founded as regards the mass of a people possessing as between each other simi lar sympathies, and more or less influenced by the same patriotic feelings, and imbued with the same prejudices, it is clear that it no longer holds true if the component elements of the State are in antago nism to each other, and, though apparently guided by the same interests, are in truth diametrically opposed to each other. Now, it so happens that m the United States of America abundant oppor tunity has been afforded of estimating the rela tions in which a free negro population stand to those who have emancipated them. The process of emancipation in the Northern States has been slow, and never perhaps in the history of the world did circumstances to all appearance more perfectly conspire to cause a complete amalgamation between a servile class and its liberators. The white popula tion. of North America, instead of being stationary, has been month by month and year by year re cruited from States in which slavery is unknown, and it might therefore have been expected that the new corners would be uninfluenced by any of those prejudices which might actuate those who personally had been brought up to consider their coloured fellow citizens as an inferior race. But, nevertheless, it is unquestionable that the condition of the emancipated negro in the Northern States has been, in the opinion of the majority of thinking men, infinitely more galling than one of absolute servitude. The slave, at all events, has a recognised status; he is led to expect nothing, and'he suffers no disappointment. To be raised to the dignity of a free man, simply to suffer indignities to which no free man should be exposed, is a lot which a rational being in the condition of a slave could scarcely envy. It is therefore idle to suppose that the violent act of emancipation by which some millions of slaves have been suddenly thrust on an equality with those who have hitherto been their masters, can engender between the two classes feelings more harmonious than those which we have seen in operation in the free States of North America ; and the community of sympathy and interest which constitutes the sole basis of universal suffrage must consequently be wantilig. If, however, to this consideration be superadded those arising from the obvious incapa city of men not only without book education, but without that knowledge which can alone be gained by experience, and by the influences of civilisation, to take part in civil government, the absurdity of giving the emancipated slaves of the South the right of selecting the representatives of the people be comes transparent. The mistake the advocates o f negro suffrage commit consists in supposing that if they remove the fetters with which a man has been confined for years, his limbs may be used with the same activity as if they had been always free. The history of the world ought surely to satisfy thorn that it is not possible merely by word of mouth to bid a savage race be civilised. COUNTRY MARKETS ) BIRMINGIIAM—TuuRsDAY. At this day's market there was a large supply of nor English wheat, which found buyers at a decline of 2s to 81 per qr. ; old firmly h e ld, b ut to have effected sales a reduc tion must have been submitted to. Barley unaltered. Oats tending upwards. Beans is por qr. higher. Peas firm. The millers reduced the retail price of flour 3s 4d per sack. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 508; red, 3 94 to 48H per 36 stone.. Malting barley, 308 to 35s ; grinding, 22s to 258 per qr. Oats, 24s to sos ; Irish, 21s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qr. BRISTOL-THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a large supply of new English wheat, the condition of which was very irregular: and values gave way from 2s to 3s per qr. Foreign offered at is per qr. reduction, without leading to business. Mal t : ing barley quiet. For grinding but little inquiry at lam , week's prices. White oats, from scarcity, commanded e tr , -;me prices. Black plentiful, and 6d to 9d per qr. lover' Indian corn in fair request at full prices. MANCHESTER—TutatsDAY. Our market this morning WAS only moderately attended' Old English wheat sold slowly at a reduction of is per cll' , while new was generally 5s to 4s per qr. below last wee k' Flour 6d to is per sack cheaper. Old oats and oatmeal un: changed ; new cheaper. Beans arm. Indian corn without material alteration. BURY ST. EDMUND'S-WEDNESDAY. The supply of both new and old wheat eras -very CO siderable. The value of old is generally maintained, be o to effect sales a decline of is to 2s per qr. must be submit" ted to. Dry new sells slowly at 28 per qr. less money theta last week, while damp samples •were quite unsaleable. 'CO few samples of barley showing•were of inf4rior quality. Talavera wheat, 45s to 508; red ditto, 88s to 425; barley' 30s to 325; secondary ditto, 27s to 29s per qr. averages :—Wheat, 1,0051 qrs, 43s Od ; barley, 821.4 mt 29s Od ; oats, cgs, —s-Od. EDINBIIIIGH—WEnNEsnAy. At to-day's market supplies were small. Wheat iold slowly at 6d to is underlast week's prices. Average prices. • Wheat, " 44slOd Oats, " 25s sd" Barley, 27s 4d Beans 44s 10d Wheat on the top, NGd down average, Os 9d down* Barley on the top, is Od down average, 2s 9d down' Oats on the top, Os 9d down average, Os 7d dovfo• Beans on the top, 1s Od up average, is ld up. Total supply and sales. Wheat 438 qrs sold 205 Barley 969 qrs sold 733 Oats 1347 qrs sold 1050 Beans 44 qrs sold 44 Town -made flour sells as follows :—White, 40s Od; eXt ll4 superfine, 38s Oct; superfine, 36s Od; fine, 34s Od. GLAS G OW—WEDNESDAY. This day's market was thinly attended. Wheat an a flour were offered at a decline of 6d per boll and bar l without tempting buyers; barley scarce; beans wentll3 d 7 up to 21s 6d per 8201 b. • new oats receded 6d to is pe r 2641 ; oatmeal, is per 2801 b. ; peas and Indian corn WI . altered. HIGH TlDES.—Yesterday afternoon the tide roo t ' to a very miusal height at high water. Several wharves °II the Surrey side of the river were overflowed, and those 011 the Middlesex shore, in the neighbourhood of Shadwell an d Limehouse, did not escape unscathed. At Lambeth the low-lying premises were inundated, and much damage It t l done to market gardens in the vicinities of Battersea an Fulham. Births. BAGOT.—On the sth inst., at 7, Queen's-gate-terrace, the wife of the Rev. Fredk. Digo; of a son. FrENNES.— On the 4th inst., at 40, Queen's-gate -terrace, t he Hon. Mrs. IN , irgfield Fiennes, of a son. KELLY.—On the sth inst., at the Chauntry, Suffolk. 1441 Kelly, of a daughter. To Ks.—On the sth inst., at Packwood Grange, Snol cisi Warwickshire, Mrs. Edmund Tonks, of a son. Marriages HANizt—THonsHiLL.--On the 7th inst.. a t Riddlesivo r es, s . f , Norfolk, Sydney, youngest son of ThomasAlers Se na""' Esq., of Fenchurch-street, London, and Epsom, B to Louisa Fanny, second daughter of Thomas Tho Esq., of Riddlesworth Hall. „or, TROW—GEEtARDOT.—On th e sth inst., at St. James's, mv the Rev. I. W. Trow, curate of Bray, Berkshire, 0 01 1 0 of Isaac Trow, Esq., of Balsall Heath, Warwickshif e ' t p Charlotte Elizabeth, eldest daughter of tho late Li e Col. Giarardot, Coldstream Guards. Deaths. FERGUSSON.—On the 4th inst, at Bath General S -411.• 7ergusson, G.C.8., Colonel 48d Light Infant* 8. it °ll' HART.--On the 2d inst., at his residence, 52, Btirlin ot" r road, Bayswater, John H ar t, f ormer ly of Regent , aged 69. velAs'' JONES.—On the 3d inst at Duppa's-hill, Croydon, --- Jones, Esq., aged 88. • - (I,,tabel" Jomiso.N.—On the 29th ult., at . Walton House, land, Wm. Ponsonby Johnson, Esq., aged 77. g r o. MOORE.—On the 4th inst., at Sloperton Cottsgef ut bor Moore, widow of the late Thomas Moore, Esq., a of "Lalla Rook," aged 68. RICH.—On the 4th inst., at his residence, Peckbto 3- rie' 0 Arthur Saunders. Rich, Esq., late of H.3L's -Gusto aged 59. _....• . ......... ' 2 if London : l'rin ,Ed and Yubliehed bylV IL LIAM AN 1./.-- - ir k of No. irz, ,tr..nd, tif niter, at Tx ;, drig tan :e, •'''',.,,' 411 Strand, in the l'recinct of ill! Sappy, 14 tbo CO llO.l • laldditsel.,-;-I.rridaY, 3eotember 9, tea,