The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

The War in New Zealand: (From the Times Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 14. The Wereroa pah—that constant bugbear for months past-u-has at last fallen into our hands, and under such peculiar circumstances as to warrant my entering into more than ordinary detail. When I last wrote Governor Grey had gone to Wanganui, in the expectation of receiving the submission of the rebels, who, notwithstanding their professed desire to capitulate, were daily haggling as to the terms. Their offer of unconditional surrender, if the Gover nor came in person to receive it, proved, however, as illusory as those previously made to the friendly natives. As after offering them a free pardon (any murderers only excepted) the Governor learnt from undeniable evidence that their only desire was to gain time, and that their agents were actively and not unsuccessfully scouring the country for help, there appeared to be no other alternative for his Excellency but to be willing to be befooled by their insolent caprice, or to carry matters with a high hand. To get immediate possession of the pah somehow or other, by cajolery or menace, by grant ing terms however favourable, or by force, was alike the absorbing desire of Governor and Ministry. In dependently of their both entertaining the strong conviction that " the worst possible effect was being Produced by the murderers, fanatics, and turbulent natives being permitted to remain unmolested for so many months in close proximity to a British settle ment, and in the presence of a large British force," the Governor was anxious for its possession, because General Cameron could not, or would not, take it with the troops at his present disposal ; and the Ministry were no less anxious, because they looked upon its continuance in the hands of the rebels as the main obstacle to the close of the campaign. The unfortunate antagonism which had for months per sonally and officially existed between the General and the Governor nerved the latter to task his powers to the utmost, while the desire to intimate to the approaching Assembly that one great obstacle, inthe mind of his Excellency, to his agreeing to the practica bility of the removal of the troops had been overcome stimulated those of the Ministry. After due conside ration, the Governor resolved that at all risks the pah should be captured. Having formed this determina tion, the Governor took stock of the means at his dis posal, and found them scanty enough—too scanty to warrant his proceeding unless he could get the assist ance of the military, real or pretended. On the 19th July he wrote to Brigadier-General Waddy, in com mand of the Wanganui district, inquiring whether General Cameron's instructions would permit the in vestment and reduction of the pah without the delay of &reference to head-quarters at Auckland. On the some day General Waddy replied that he could not undertake that operation without such reference being made. This would have effectually damped any less resolute man than Governor Grey can be, when he wishes to play his own ace or draw that of a political opponent. If the troops could not act, he would do the work with them, but fall the pah must. The risk to the small colonial force was, however, so great. that he determined to make a second appeal, and accordingly requested Gen. Waddy to move up a force of 400 men as a " moral support, and also a detachment of artillery with heavy guns and mortars for the purpose of .breaching and keeping do w n the _ _ _ _ fire of the pah, while the colonial forces assaulted it. " Without you do this," wrote the Governor,— " I fear a large and absolutely unnecessary loss of the lives of the Queen's subjects, natives and Europeans, will be incurred, which would seem to be wrong, when a large force nndet your•command, intended by the Queen's Government fur the suppression of rebellion and the preservation of the peace in her Majesty's possessions, is close at hand." Gin. Waddy consented to comply with this re quest, but it does not appear that the whole of the troops arrived sufficiently early to be of essential service. Late that night (19th) reports came up from Wanganui that large numbers of hostile natives had made their appearance at Pipiriki, a post 65 miles up the Wanganui river, held by Capt. Brassey and a colonial force of 271 men, and that, taking advantage of the absence of the loyal natives at Wereroa, they had occupied a position commanding the river and preventing the sending upcommissariat supplies. While every confidence was felt in Cap tain Brassey and his men, the necessity for send ing relief was imperative, and, as that could not be done until the force before Wereroa was at liberty, there was nothing else open but to push on the attack as quickly as possible. The Governor was fortunate in having a native orderly who knew the country about the pah from boyhood, and the information already gained from him enabled the Governor now to arrange his plans with the greatest promptitude. The - pah had been constructed, as they.ahnost invariably are, to resist only a front attack, the rear being comparatively unprotected, and Affording outlets for retreat. To gain the rear a force must make its way through several miles of difficult bush, a feat the . natives have learnt by ex perience to feel.confident soldiers would not be per mitted to attempt. The escape of the rebels by the rear was to a large extent protected by a small re doubt they had thrown up on what is called the Karaka ridge, and entirely so by it and a position across the ""aitotara river. The Govegnor resolved to occupy these two positions, and so, by hemming the rebels in and cutting them off from their potato grounds, place them completely in his power. The - whole force on the ground consisted of 25 Wanga nui cavalry, 139 Forest Rangers, 109 natives, of what is called the Native Contingent, and about 200 efficient friendly natives, with a few old men. At 2 a.m. of the 20th the chiefs were roused from their sleep and the plan explained, and orders were given to them and the remainder of the force to be ready to start at 12.30, with the view of taking poses sion-of the Karaka heights, by which hour Lieut.- Colonel Trevor and 100 of the 14th, and Captain Nobblett and 100 of the 18th, were expected to arrive—part of the 400 promised by General Waddy as a " moral" support. They arrived earlier than was anticipated, and took up a position about 1,300 yards from the pah, the colonial forces moving off at the hour fixed, leaving only a portion of the friendly natives in camp. It rained heavily, and, although some of the men had had no rations that morning, and it was doubtful when they would be able to get any, yet the prospect of there really beii4g work to do started them in capital spirits. In the afternoon a supply of biscuits was obtained, and some of the natives who had been left behind carried 1801 b. in the direction of the Karaka heights —a scanty allowance for the nearly 400 men already steadily making their way thither. "I, however, knew," writes Sir George in his despatch to Mr. Cardwell, " that next morning they would obtain on the Karaka heights the supplies intended for the pah:" The result proved the correctness of his Ex cellency's information and judgment, for at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 21st news was re ceived that Major Rookes and his force has oc cupied the Karaka heights, surprised a party of uatives on their way to reinforce the pah, and after a alien resistance, captured 50 men and some some women, 50 guns, and two kegs of ammunition, besides supplying themselves with provisions., The messengerapplied for an escort to bring these pri soners in, which force, composed of an equal num ber of the 14th and friendly natives, was at once sent, leavin g on l y about 170 men o f both races in front of the p a h, and obli • d to the nearest camp for obliging the Governor to send ar rived in a few ho urs at the "doubleiresoldiers, who no The quick," under the command of Major Roche2oo soldiers from Wanganui, a moi e t y of the assistance origin ally promised by Brigadier-General Waddy, do not appear to have arrived, and t h e second means escape, the position on the Waitot ara river already d of alluded to, could not, therefore, be cl ose d . Mean while orders were sent to Major Rookes to har ass the rear of the pah at once, and to assault it at noon of the next day (22d), at which hour a s h am attack would be =fie by the troops in front, and such few friendly natives as could be gathered by the return of the escort and from other sources would have reached the Waitotara river position, should the troops expected not have arrived and taken it up. Further and authentic intelligence was received from Captain Brassey rela tive to .his critical position, and the necessity of acting decidedly induced the Governor to send off to Patea for a reinforcement from thence of 200 troops. The heavy guns and artillery now arrived, THE SUB, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENItG, OCTOBER 17, 186 E, and the plans for attack on the morrow being completed, the beat was hoped for, although the uncertainty as to the number of the rebels by whom the pah was held was a source of considerable anxiety. Pehimana, one of the principal rebels, who had come over to the Governor's side during the preparatory negotiations of th e 17th an d 18th, s t a t e d __ _ it was 600, a number which all knew to be false, but which he maintained to be correct. No sooner had Major Rookes begun a dropping fire, towards sun set, than the rebels began to be alarmed, fearing a night attack, and under cover of the darkness made their escape by the opening intended to have been previously secured by the soldiers had they arrived, and to guard which friendly natives had been detailed for the coming morning. At half-past 1 that morning (22d) a message came from Major Rookes to say that the natives were evacu ating the pah by the unguarded position, and at day light the friendly natives took possession of the pah and handed it over to Lieutenant-Colonel Trevor, of the 14th, who still holds it. A blind man and a woman were the only occupants when it was entered, and thus Wereroa, which had been a humiliating menace for so many months, was ours without the loss of a single man. It is a matter of great regret that the rebels escaped, especially as it was not from ignorance as to the mode by which they could have been prevented. It is unfortunate that the capture should only have been that of an empty pah, butthat it was so reflects no discredit on his Excellency, who planned the attack, or on the regular and colonial forces engaged in carrying it out. That too high praise cannot be given to the Governor for his skill, to the colonial forces for their pluck and en durance, and to the troops engaged for the ready co-operation they gave to an undertaking in which, under ordinary circumstances, they ought to have been the principal agents—that too high praise can not be given to the whole—is admitted on all sides. The pivot of the whole affair was evidently the bush march of the colonial forces. No officer of the Im perial troops would have been permitted by his instructions to undertake it; and this fear of the bush is an element on which the rebels have always reckoned. The number of natives actually in the pah was afterwards ascertained to have been from 70 to 100. Five of them took a circuitous route, and endeavoured to mix themselves up with the friendly natives, and were taken prisoners. These and the 50 captured on the Karaka heights are now on board a hulk in Wellington harbour. Three of them are morally certain to have been concerned in the mur der of the Rev. Mr. Volkner, but it is extremely improbable that sufficient evidence of their having been so can be procured. In his speech opening the Assembly, the Governor, after complimenting the colonial forces engaged in the reduction of the Wereroa pah, proceeded to say : " I also recognise the readiness with which Brigadier- General Waddy, C. 8., Colonel Trevor, and the dfficers and men under their command, afforded me all the assistance that was in their power, though precluded by their orders from taking any active part in the operations against the enemy's stronghold." This has caused General Cameron to send to the Auckland newspapers the copy of a letter written to the Governor denying its truthfulness. He says:— "It is my duty to inform your Excellency that I posi- tively deny having given any orders to Brigadier-General Waddy, Lieutenant-Colonel Trevor, or any other officer, which precluded them from taking any active part in the operations against the enemy's stronghold." Whether it is General Cameron or Brigadier- General Waddy who labours under a misconception, or whether the instructions were ambiguous, I can not say. They have neither been communicated to the Governor, who is Commander-in-Chief, nor to the public. All that is clear is that " some one has blundered." Pipiriki has been relieved. Immediately after leaving the Wereroa pah, Major Rookes proceeded with a party of 500 men (including natives), and a supply of rations and ammunition. Owing to a fresh in the river and other causes, the relief occu pied seven days in reaching Pipiriki, arriving there on the Ist of August. Captain Brassey's force had been besieged for 12 days by some 300 or 400 natives under Pehi, the chief who took the oath of allegi ance and gave tokens of submission to the Governor after the engagement between his people and the friendly natives at Ohoutahi in March last. One of the three European redoubts had to be abandoned, being commanded by the rifle-pits on Cemetery hill ; but the hill itself was at length gallantly car ried, with only three wounded. The want of ammunition, m►d the ignorance in which Captain Brassey was kept from none of the letters sent reaching him, obliged the force to act with the greatest prudence, and prevented it doing more for several days than occasionally returning the fire of the rebels who had succeeded in occupying rifle pits within one yard of the redoubts. The rebels themselves began to get short of ammuni tion on the eleventh day, and were desirous of proposing terms ; but the intelligence of Major Rookes's force being close at hand dis persed them on the twelfth. Although our loss was only three wounded, letters received by the Colonial Secretary from natives in the neighbour- hood state the rebel loss to have been 50. From Patea we learn that Lieut. Waring, 50th Regiment, was shot on the 10th instant, while out fowling. He and four men were up the river in a boat, and were fired upon from scrub one ball passed through his head, and another wounded a private. All the privates escaped, but the boat, with the officer's body, fell into the hands of the mur derers. At Warea, further north towards Taranaki, Capt. Close, in charge of the redoubt there, and a corporal, were shot on July 28, a party of his men who were engaged in cutting firewood having fallen into an ambush ; two privates and a friendly native were also wounded. On the following Wednesday, Capt. Cay and a detachment of the 70th, part of a force out reconnoitring in the neighbourhood, surprised a body of rebels, bayoneted 11, shot several others, and took five prisoners, three of whom, attempting to escape while being escorted to the camp, were also shot. As soon as the rebels recovered from their surprise they again showed fight. Our loss during the whole affair was severe. Lieut. Bally and four privates were killed, and Lieut. Tyden and five pri vates wounded, two of whom have since died. On the east coast the loyal natives about Waiapu and Turanga, assisted by 80 of the Volunteer Rifles from Napier, are still fighting the Hauhaus. The friendly natives were pressed on one occasion, and left five of their number dead on the field. The Ilauhaus ale them. None of the murderers of Mr. Volkner have yet been captured. It is intended to occupy Opotiki, the scene of that revolting murder, b as our so h o o n o a d s o p r s T ib a l u eos. ran Further m north t rac, , e in dy t h h a s e nteaiteh n s t m h e a l l eveningcutter, t o h f e t K h e a t 2 e l , s arrived ju a t l y l ahnad pklaatcaen. next m e o oA rn n ing a boatload of visitors came off, and, after partaking of breakfast, rose at a given signal, and began murdering the passengers and crew, all of whom were on deck, except a Government in terpreter, young Captain Fulloon. The captain and mate were killed ; Captain Fulloon was shot in his bunk, where he was unwell and asleep. Two other passengers and the sailor were, after a struggle, spared, and through the exertions of the principal chief, who is a man much respected by the traders, they were sent to the military camp at Maketu. The interpreter, Captain Fulloon, was a half-caste, for many years in the service of the Government, and was commissioned by the Governor a few months since to raise a native force on that coast, but this he had been unable to do. The cutter was burnt, after being stripped of every article that was movable. The news only came on Saturday, but I hear that it has been determined to station a company or two of soldiers on the coast, and send a colonial force of 400 or 500 to co-operate with the friendly natives in securing the rebels concerned in these treacherous --------- murders. The General Assembly was opened at Wellington on the 2Gth of July by his Excellency in person. I quote the only portion of the speech likely to be of more than local interest, except perhaps it may be satisfactory to some to know that additional taxa tion is to be imposed in order to enable the Govern ment to feed the drain on the revenue which the suppression of the rebellion will continue to cause for a long time to come In opening the fifth session of the Parliament of New Zealand, I am able to congratulate you upon the partial establishment of peace and the suppression of insurrection in several of the disturbed districts in this island. I trust that, while devising means for the suppression of outrages which still occur, you will at the same time consider how to insure the future peace of the country, and promote the union of the two races by facilitating the admission of her Majesty's subjects of the native race to a full and equal participation in the principles of self-government. It is my intention to invite certain native chiefs to meet at Wellington, and a bill will be laid before you enabling me to appoint from among them a commission to report and advise upon the best means of obtaining parliamentary re presentation of the native race. The resolutions passed by your respective Chambers in the last session of the General Assembly, relative to the withdrawal from the colony of her Majesty's land forces, were duly transmitted by me to her Majesty's Secretary of State. From the tenour of my most recent despatches I am led to infer that the policy agreed to by you has been approved, and will be fully adopted by the home government. The Taranaki and Wanganui country has long been a focus of disaffec tion and fanaticism. Peace cannot be real or lasting which is not preceded by the establishment of her Majesty's au thority in these districts, to be permanently secured by the opening of roads and the formation of self-defending set tlements. Pending the decision of the home government, I determined therefore to avail myself of the services of a portion of the imperial troops, so long as they remained in the colony, for the establishment of older in the district between Taranaki and Wanganui, and I issued instruc tions accordingly to Lieut.-Gen. Cameron, which will be laid before you. Contrary to my anticipations, delay took place, which involved consequences fraught with disaster and which led to fresh outbreaks in other parts of the co lony. I therefore ordered the colonial forces to advance against the Wereroa pah, a movement which has resulted in its capture. The thanks of the colony are due to Major Rookes, commanding, and to the officers and men of her Majesty's European and native colonial forces engaged in this important operation. I also recognise the readiness with which Brigadier-General Waddy, C. 8., Col. Trevor, and the officers and men under their command, afforded me all the assistance that was in their power, though precluded by their orders from taking any active part in the opera tions against the enemy's stronghold. I am able in the meantime to congratulate you on the improved state of the settlement of Taranaki, and on the immediate prospect of it ceasing to be a source of weakness to New Zealand. For this result the colony is mainly indebted to the zeal, energy, and ability of Col. Warre, C. 8., commanding the district, and to the conduct of her Majesty's forces, imperial and colonial, of both races, under his command. Additional proof has been afforded throughout the operations at Ta ranaki and Wanganui that the colony may rely with con fidence on the skill and gallantry of its own officers and men, while the devoted courage evinced by the loyal na tives has placed beyond doubt the attachment of a large portion of the native race to the Crown, to their European fellow subjects, and to the cause of order against turbulence and fanaticism. I shall now at once issue orders for the re turn to England of five regiments, which I trust and believe may be quickly followed by the remainder of the imperial troops. The conditions imposed upon the colony for the full attainment of constitutional government in native as well as in ordinary affairs will thus bo fulfilled." The Native Commission is intended to supersede the proposed appointment for. the present of chiefs to the Legislative Council, that intention having met with general disfavour, and is to consist of not less than 20 nor more than 35 natives, and not less than three nor more than five Europeans, who are to report on affairs connected with the Maori race, the duties of the commission to cease by the end -of the year. This commission may be politic as leaving no means of pacification untried, yet it is scarcely probable any good result will follow. None followed from one held by Governor Browne at Kohimarama five years ago ; indeed, it produced much harm. The influence of the chiefs has passed from them, and there is no means of binding a tribe to any decision a conference might come to. Several rebel conferences have been called by Thompson and others iu various placesthis year, and have been largely attended, but the decided peace views thereat expressed have been acted on or disowned just as the individual of each tribe thought fit. The politi cal state of excitement in which the native race has been for the last five years has so unsettled all the habits of their old modes of industry that a return to the monotony of their former life is only in a slight degree immediately practicable, and none know and feel this more than do the most enlight ened of the natives themselves. Difficult as it is to bring about peace, it will be still more difficult to maintain it, unless preparation is made to repress and punish the insulted acts of outrage that may be expected to occur. The ordering home of five regiments will, no doubt, be very satisfactory to the home authorities, and it ought to prove that the self-reliant police of the Weld Ministry is a reality, and not a mere paper pretence. The documents laid before the Assembly fully show three things—first, that the Weld Minis try.regarded the West Coast campaign mainly as a means of usefully using the troops during the period they were instructed to remain, and in no way to serve as an excuse for keeping them indefinitely in the colony ; secondly, that it has been owing to- General Cameron's political views that that cam- paign was not over in less than as many weeks as it occupied months ; and, thirdly, that the five regi ments (or some of them) would have been under orders long ago if the home authorities had vested the power of control in the Governor, instead of leaving it entirely in the hands of the General. It is a point that ought distinctly to be borne in mind that Earl de Grey placed the discretion of keep ing or sending home any portion of the troops solely in the hands of the General, and that it is only by a despatch of Mr. Cardwell, received last month, that the discretion has been transferred to the Governor. Having, previously to the change, in vain urged General Cameron to withdraw a por tion of the troops, and offered to provide such a colonial force as might be deemed necessary, Mr. Weld and his colleagues informed the Governor of their intention to resign when they had stated the case to the then approaching Assembly ; but on the power of removal being by last mail vested in the Governor, his Excellency at once consented to adopt their advice, and the preparation for the return of five regiments now only await the arrival from Australia of the new Commander, Major-General Chute. The colonists are not insensible to what they owe to England for the generous manner in which troops were poured into the colony in their time of need. Nor are they ungrateful for what those troops have done, and while they consider that more ought to have been done they know that what has been left undone is mainly the fault of the system. 11 O'CLOCK A.M. Although not publicly announced, I understand that Mr. Fitzgerald has accepted the Ministership of Native Affairs. Mr. Mantell resigned three weeks ago, really, though not professedly, because . General Cameron had used language in writing of him to the Governor such as no gentleman would brook. The office has been strongly pressed on Dr. Featherston, who declined it because he can at present do more for the pacification of this portion of New Zealand by exerting his influence as superintendent, and also because General Cameron had made some gross, though absurd, imputati9ns on his motives in re ference to the Waitotara block. Mr. Fitzgerald is the author of the letter to Mr. Adderley that ap peared in the Times last November or December. He is extreme in his views on native matters, ex treme in the sense of treating them precisely as if they were Europeans in everything. It was generally thought that the views expressed in his letter to the Times would have rendered it incompatible for him to work with Governor Grey. It is, however, more than whispered that Governor Grey will not long remain in New Zealand, having applied by last mail, in a very earnest manner, that he might be relieved from the governorship. On his successor very much will depend, and it is to be hoped that what I have on former occasions written in reference to this subject will not be lost sight of. THE EASTERN FISHERIES.--The Great Yarmouth boats hare been prosecuting the herring fishery with vari able success. Some boats have already realised £4OO, while others have only realised £5O. Prices have ranged at from £9 to £22 per last. At.Lowestoft prices have ranged from 3s. 6d. to 6s. 10d. per 100 (132). SPREADING OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE AT HIGH GATE AND HORSEY. --Yesterday, at the Highgate police.. court, Mr. Farnall and Mr. Potter, the inspectors appointed by the justices, attended to make their weekly report. Mr. Farnall regretted to state that the plague was spreading in the district, and mentioned several places where it had broken out, and the means adopted to prevent its spread.. ing. Mr. Skaife (the clerk to the magistrates) said there were some new Orders in Council which the magistrates had not as yet had time to consider, but the inspectors would be informed when they wore to make their reports. A new regulation would be adopted on the subject. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Oct. 16. The October adjourned quarter sessions of tho peace for the county of Middlesex commenced this morning at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Joseph Payne, Deputy Assistant- Judge, and the following magistrates :—Dr. Jervis, Mr. Woolsey, Mr. Rankin, Mr. Stutfield, Sir James Tyler, Mr Healey, Mr. John Bentley, and Mr. Warren. The calendar, considering the short time which has elapsed since the last session, is numerically heavy, there being 109 prisoners committed for trial. The Grand Jury having been sworn, the Assistant- Judge very briefly addressed them, and they retired to their room. George Hodley, 20, shoemaker, was indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of William Bastin, and stealing lerein two quilts and other articles, his property. From the statement of the irosecutor, it appeared that he was a cabinetmaker, residing in Gibraltar-walk, St. George's-in-the-East. On the night of the 20th of Sep- tember he saw the prisoner outside his house, and he ap peared to be watching him. The prosecutor was away for a few minutes, and on his return he heard cries of "Mur der" and " Thieves" proceeding from persons who were calling out inside the house. He immediately ran in, and found his sister lying at the bottom of the stairs, and appa- rontly very much injured. A short distance from her, also at the bottom of the stairs, he found the prisoner struggling violently with his (prosecutor's) wife, and she was also calling out "Murder." He went to her assistance, pulled the prisoner away, and held him until a policeman came, and he was given into custody. While he was holding the prisoner, ho said, " I am very sorry I had not given you three inches of steel." When the prisoner was gone he went into the front room and found the drawers open and the contents ransacked. Two quilts, four shawls, and the other articles produced, were packed up ready to be taken away. Mrs. Lamb, sister of the prosecutor, and who resided next door, seeing a light in her brother's house, called out, but getting no answer she went to the front of the house, and while there Mrs. Bastin came up and they entered the house together, and upstairs they found the drawers all open and the prisoner standing behind the door. The women both caught hold of him to detain him, but he at first threw Mrs. Lamb headlong down stairs. Shortly afterwards he threw Mrs. Bastin down stairs, but she struggled with the prisoner and called out "Murder," and in the midst of the struggle Mr. Bastin came in, and the prisoner was secured. Patrick Moran, police-constable 21 H, on going to the house took the prisoner into custody, and on searching him found in his pocket a screwdriver, spring-back knife, and a bunch of skeleton keys, and the prisoner said he opened the door with one of those keys. This constable also heard the prisoner say he was sorry that ho had not given the prosecutor three inches of steel. The jury immediately found the prisoner guilty. A number of previous convictions were ready to be proved against the prisoner by Mr. George King, school master at Coldbath-fields prison, but The Assistant Judge said he regretted the former con viction had not formed the subject of a separate indict ment, and,then he would have been able to have dealt with him in a more adequate manner. As it was he should sentence him to the full extent that he was able to do, and that was that he be kept to penal servitude for five years. He ordered the two women to receive a reward of £1 each for their courageous conduct in detaining the prisoner. John Healey, 19, wad' indicted for stealing wearing ap parel and other articles, the property of Bridget Murphy, in her dwelling-house. Mr. Ribton prosecuted; Mr. Orridge defended the pri- soner. The prosecutrix was a poor washerwoman, living at. No. 10, Horace-street, Lisson-grove, and it appeared that during her absence the prisoner had made his way into the woman's room and carried off all the articles he could lay his hands upon. The prisoner having got possession of the articles, employed a boy who lived in the neighbour hood to go and sell them at a wardrobe shop, and the owner, knowing the boy, and also his parents, bought. them without hesitation. The prisoner was not taken into custody until the Brd of October. Mr. Orridge addressed the jury for the prisoner, and he was found guilty. _ _ Thos. Hughes, police-constable 86 D, and Mr. George King, schoolmaster at Coldbath-fields prison, proved seve ral convictions against him. The Assistant-Judge said this was the last time he would have any sentence of imprisonment, and the next time ho would be sent away. The sentence on him was 12 months' hard labour. George Deller, 24, and Edwin Price, 24, were indicted for stealing 561 b. and upwards of lead, the property of the Right Hon. Henry Charles, Earl of Cadogan, the said lead being fixed to a public building. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Lumley Smith, who appeared for the prosecution, said this robbery was committed while the house was un occupied. Nunn and Ryall proved a previous conviction against each of the prisoners. The Assistant-Judge sentenced Price to imprisonment for two years and Deller for one year. John Brooks, 22, carman, was indicted for embezzling the sum of 30s. received by him for and on account of W. Henry Smith, his master. There was a second indictment against him for stealing a gold ring, value £1 125., the property of Wm. Lucas. The prisoner pleaded guilty to both indictments. Mr. Orridge said the prosecutor in this case was Mr. W. Henry Smith, the extensive newsvender in the Strand, and the prisoner was in his service, and was one of the men employed to take out newspapers in carts, deliver them, and receive the money for them. On the 25th September ho took ont . papers for nine customers in the district of Bel gravia, but only paid the money for six of them, and ho absconded with that received from the other three. Infor mation was given to the police, and four or five days after wards Sergeant Ackrell, 15 F, succeeded in apprehending the prisoner at a coffee-shop in Drury-lane, and on search ing him found sewn up in the lining of his waistcoat a pawn ticket for a gold ring, which the prisoner had stolen from a fellow-lodger. The Assistant-Judge said had there been any previous con viction against him he should have sent him away to penal servitude. He sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. Mary Brien, 30, was indicted for stealing a pair of trousers and other articles, the property of Michael Ryan. The prosecutor is a man-of-war's man, belonging to the Racoon, and on the sth of October he came up with other shipmates by railway trom Portsmouth. On arriving at London-bridge all the sailors adjourned to a public-house adjacent, where they had something to drink, and it seemed that some time after, being then in a very muddled state, he fell in with the prisoner, and was induced to accompany her to a house in Glasshouse -yard, Whitechapel. Accord ing to his account, immediately he got into a room - he fell asleep on a bed, and on his awakening in the morning he found he was minus his trousers, containing £2 10s. in gold and 4s. in silver, together with his blue shirt. He went down stairs, where he saw the prisoner, and asked her to give him up his trousers ; but she said the landlord had got possession of them for the rent of the room. The prosecutor borrowed a pair of moleskin trousers and went to the station, and it was found that the sailor's trousers, his shirt, and two neckties had been pawned in the neigh bourhood by a companion of the prisoner. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and a previous con• viction of 18 months' imprisonment at this court was proved against her. _ Police-constable Andrew, 262 H, said he had known the prisoner for the last ten years as a prostitute and thief, and she went about late at night picking up drunken people. During that time she had been locked up more than thirty times for felony and assaults, and was connected with a most notorious gang of thieves. The house was a common brothel, and one of the lowest places at the east end of Landon. The Assistant-Judge said that the prisoner was one of those persons who had been known for ten years as having decoyed persons to this den and then robbing them. When she was last convicted and sentenced to 18 months impri sonment she was told she would next have penal servitude, and the sentence on her now was that she be kept in penal servitude for seven years. (Before Mr. Payne.) Edward Durham, 30, French polisher, was indicteel for stealing a purse and the sum of ss. 6d., the moneys of Henry Gentery, from Mary Gentery. William Gordon, police-constable 33 C, said at 9 o'clock on the night o tho sth of October, ho was on duty in plain clothes in St. Martin's-lane, and there saw theeprisoner and three others following the prosecutrix, who was drunk, into the Crown and Thistle public-house. He wont into an adjoining compartment, and saw the pr Boner and his companions fumbling about the prosecutrix's pocket. As soon as the woman went into the public-house, who knew him, he left the house and stood in a doorway. In about a quarter of an hour the prisoner and his companions came out and ran away, and he pursued them for upwards of half an hour, and, after a violent struggle, the prisonv was secured. While this was going on the prisoner and witness were two or three times down on the ground together, and the prosecutrix's purse was picked up near the spot where they fell. Police-constable Philip Shrives, 82 C, corroborated this evidence. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Gordon and George Lockyer, officers at the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, proved several previous con victions against the prisoner. Mr. Payne sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. [ADVERTISEMENT:]—HoIIoway's Pills.--Worn-out suf ferers may hope for remedy from these purifying and strengthening pills after physic and physicians have failed to effect a cure. 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Carter, the coroner for Surrey, re sumed an inquiry at the Duke of Devonshire Tavern, Balham, respecting the death of Mrs, Mary Young, the wife of a florist residing in the neighbourhood, who died from the effects of injuries sustained by the collision at the Colney Hatch Station of the Great Northern Railway. Mr. Wontner appeared for the Great Northern Railway Company ; Mr. Sleigh, the barrister, for the Midland Rail way Company ; Mr. Besley for the relatives of the deceasbd lady ; and Mr. Lewis for Nutt, the driver of the Midland excursion train, in which the deceased was travelling. The proceedings occupied the whole day, and a large amount of evidence was received, but the following narra tive will be found to contain the main facts :—On the afternoon of the 30th of August the deceased was return ing to London from Nottingham, by an excursion train which was stated to be in charge of the Midland Railway Company. The train stopped at Hitchin for a short time, and then went on, passed Barnet, and came in collision with some coal trucks which were being shunted at the Colney Hatch Station. The deceased sustained some serious injury to her leg, and was removed to her own residence at Balham, where, after a month's suffering, she died on the Ist of October, from the effects of the injury which she had met with in the collision. It appeared that the coal train stopped at the Colney Hatch Station, at twenty three minutes past seven o'clock, to shunt a cattle truck. The signalman hoisted the danger-signal both at the station and at the distance signal, the latter being 200 yards from the station. The shunting of the truck occu pied three minutes, and the coal train was about re-start ing when it was discovered that the bar of ono of the trucks had broke, and it was necessary to shunt the train again. The signalman at Barnet had been telegraphed that the line was blocked at Colney Hatch, and to put the danger-signal so as to stop the approaching train passing on towards London. In the course of six or seven minutes after the coal train had been first brought up at Colney Hatch, the Midland excursion train came up and ran into the coal trucks, which had not all been shunted. Henry Allen, the signalman at Colney Hatch, said ho 1 was positive the danger signal was on both at the station and at the distance when the excursion train approached. It was coming very fast and he did not hear any whistle to indicate that an attempt was being made to slacken the speed. William Goodman, one of the guards of the excursion train, said they passed Barnet at from 30 to 40 miles an hour. They slackened speed as they passed through the tunnel between Colney Hatch and Barnet, and he applied the brake, but he had no signal given him to do so. Ho looked out, and saw there was 'the danger signal up. He then heard the whistle to apply the brake, and shortly afterwards the collision took place. He saw Nutt, the driver of the engine, and said it was a bad job, and asked him how ho managed to run into the coal train. The driver replied that he was unable to stop. Nutt subse quently remarked that ho was under the impression that the line would be clear at Colney Hatch, because he only received a caution signal (green signal) at Barnet, his im pression being that they would not allow him to pass one station if all was not clear at the next. The driver should have slackened his speed on seeing the green light, but he did not notice any reduction until they had passed into the tunnel. Ho could not account for the train not stopping, unless the driver did not observe the signal in time, or that the speed was too great for him to bring her up. Mr. Lewis then proposed that the coroner should exa mine Nutt, the driver of the excursion train. Joseph Nutt, the engine-driver, was accordingly sworn, imd after being cautioned by the coroner to the effect that he was not bound to criminate himself, he said that he was now living at Derby, and had been some years in the ser vice of the Midland Railway Company. He had charge of the engine of the excursion train which left Derby on the afternoon of the 80th of August for London. He stopped at Hitchin to take in water, and re-started at 6.50 p.m.. On coming to Barnet the green caution light was on the sema phore. He went on because as he understood the green (caution) light, it intimated that the line was clear, and that there was nothing between Barnet and the next sta tion. There was nothing up at Barnet but the green light, which working on the block system, as practised on the Midland Railway, would mean that there was no obstruc tion on the line.. When he saw the distance signal at Colney Hatch on red and the semaphore the same, he opened the whistle, and the fireman put on the brakes in stantly. He kept the whistle going for the guard to put on the brakes, and when he found the train was not stopping he reversed the steam, but he was unable to pull up before striking the trucks. After passing Barnet he reduced the speed. After the accident he found that the brake on the first van was on the block. James Brice, the fireman of the excursion train, gave similar evidence as to the speed being slackened after pass ing Barnet. The Coroner summed up, and left the jury to say whe ther the engine-driver had been guilty of such an amount of negligence, in the way he performed his duty, as would make him criminally responsible for the death of the de ceased. if they should be of opinion that he had exercised ordinary care and skill in the discharge of his duties, they would exonerate him from blame, but if, on the other hand, they came to the conclusion that ho had shown such a want of care and attention as would amount to cul pable negligence, then it would bo their duty to send the case before another tribunal. Tho Jury, after some consultation, returned a verdict of Accidental Death, imputing no blame to the driver. The Late Mysterious Death in Bloomsbury. Yesterday Dr. Hardwicke, the deputy coroner for central Middlesex, resumed the adjourned inquiry respecting the death of Philip Jacob Minden, an Hungarian interpreter, who, it will be remembered, expired suddenly and under very suspicious circumstances at the St. George's Coffee house, Orange-street, Red Lion-square, on Friday week. The landlord of the L'Etoile Hotel, Great Windmill street, was first examined, but he was unable to speak to any of the circumstances of the case of his own personal knowledge. It was at the above hotel that the deceased, with aman named Pagannis, drank some white wine. Quatrine Caesar, waiter at the hotel, having been sworn, stated through an interpreter that he remembered deceased and another man (Pagannis) entering the hotel and calling for a bottle of the best white wine. Before drinking any of the wine deceased sat down and complained of being ill, and then got up and went to the water closet. When he returned he poured out a glass of wine and immediately went back to the water closet. When he returneda second time he drank part of a second glass of wine and no more, and ate a small sponge cake. The two (Pagannis and deceased) then left the house, having stopped altogether about 20 minutes. 'They went as they came, in a cab, but witness did not know whether-they went away in the cab - that they came in. -A stranger in court here interfered and asked if Pagannis draitk any of the wine. Witness replied, through the interpreter, that Pagannis drank all the wine except part of a glassfull, which de ceased drank. _ _ _ _ _____ Dr. Septimus Gibbon, medical officer of health of St. An drew's district, said he had received several jars from Dr. Roberts containing portions of the stomach and other parts of the body of deceased, together with the wine the latter left in his glass, for anal) sis. He had hot found any traces of poison, and had not formed a decided opinion as to the cause of death. The symptoms deceased exhibited were those which would result from aconite poisoning, but he could not discover any of that poison. One of his tests was unsatisfactory, exhibiting slight traces of poison, but his after-experiments did not verify the result of that test, as he administered portions of the suspected part to two cats, without in the least affecting them. The symptoms were those of poisoning, but he did not find any poison. He should say that death was caused by congestion of the brain, brought on by injudicious feeding, ho being led to that view by the distended state of the stomach, which contained meat, the greater portion of which was hard and gristly. The intestines were in a loose state. The Deputy-coroner, in summing up, said he did not think the jury need inquire any further. To his mind the case was perfectly clear. All the appearances were those of an attack of epilepsy, or brain disease ; and that attack was fully ac counted for by Dr. Roberts, who said that it was caused by injudicious feeding. A circumstance which would favour such an attack was, that upon deceased saying he thought ho was poisoned, an emetic was given him which, in his debilitated state, would seriously affect him. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict that deceased died through congestion of the brain, brought on by injudicious feeding. Dr. Gibbon incidentally mentioned that he discovered traces of zinc poisoning, but that was accounted for by the emetic given. THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHI CAL SOCIETY.—At the last meeting of this society, a paper was road "On the internal heat of the earth as a source of motivealower," by Mr. G. Grooves, M.R.C.s., o f which the following is an abstract:—lt has been very gene rally admitted that coal will not cease to be furnished be cause of the exhaustion of the stores of the mineral now existing in the coal measures; and further, that the obstacles to the continued working of the mines will not be engi, neering difficulties. The increased depth from which the coal will have to bo brought may add to the cost, but at that increased cost it will still be for a long time obtainable. The author considered the real insurmountable obstacle to be th 3 high temperature of the lower portions of the car boniferous strata. The temperature had been shown to be at a depth of 4,000 ft. at least 120 deg.Fah., a degree of heat in which human beings cannot exist for any length of time, much less use any exertion. It had occurred to the author to inquire whether the very agency which will prevent the continued supply of fossil fuel might not be the means of rendering that supply unnecessary—whether, in short, the internal heat of the earth might not to some extent be uti lised. Ono or two modes of doing this had presented them selves to his mind. One of these might, he conceived, be the direct production of • steam power by bringing a supply of water from the surface in contact with the heated strata by means of artesian borings or otherwise. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.--The invasion of Mexico by a European army, the overthrow of the republic and the esta- blishment of a monarchy in its place, the hunting of a President from province to province while an Em- peror of the liberty-hating line of Hapsburg displays old-world pomp in the capital, are events which naturally have caused no little soreness throughout the United States. One of the influences which mainly impelled the Northern people to persevere in the late war was the belief that in the invasion of Mexico they saw the natural consequence of dis union, and that there was before them the alterna- tive of restoring the republic to its old dimensions and power, or submitting again to the interference and tutelage of Europe. These feelings have, it seems, already found expression in the communica tions of the Washington government to France. Whatever may be the precise form which the re- monstrances of Mr. Seward have taken or will take, whatever may be the declarations of the President to Congress or his demeanour towards the new iem pire, it s certain that a coolness, to use no stronger term, has arisen between the United States and France, and that the occupation of Mexico by Euro pean troops may possibly lead to some troublesome differences. Such a prospect is much to be regretted. Although the settled policy of England forbad us to join the French Emperor in his enterprise, although there is much in the principle of these armed inter ferences which we look upon with suspicion and dis like, yet, taking the foundation of the Mexican Empire as a work now completed, it is impossible to deny that it has been beneficial to Mexico and to the world. It is the merest abuse of terms to speak of the Mexican Republic and of Mexican freedom as if they presented a political condition similar to that of the United States and other orderly popular Governments. Mexico was in a state of perfect anarchy. The war with the United States seems to have destroyed the little political vigour that re mained in the country. At last it was a disgrace to itself and the world. There was no security for life or property. As one adventurer rose to power after another, everybody who possessed anything was plundered over and over again, and the robbers did not even respect the rights of foreign residents. Indeed, there was hardly a mercantile country in the world to which Mexico had not given cause of offence through the outrages committed on its citi zens by successive de fact:Governments. According to received principles of public law, these wrongs, for which no redress could ever be obtained, jus tified foreign nations in resorting to hostile measures. The Emperor of the French, however, whether rightly or wrongly, did not content himself with demanding indemnification, but set about to cure the ills of the unfortunate country by putting at. end to its revolutions and giving it a stable Govern ment. This he has accomplished. The present Government may have begun in usurpation, but it has turned out to be practically a benefit. The readiness with which it has been received by the Mexican people, their acceptance of Maximilian as their Sovereign, their abandonment of the cause of Juarez, and the assistance they have almost every where given to the French troops in their operations against him show that the Imperial system is suited to the people, and that they feel no indig na ti on a t the presence of a foreign Prince and a foreign army. Nor is this at all wonderful. The Mexicans are not a great people, and they know it. The whites recol lect that the large majority of their countrymen are simply Indians and half-castes, and they doubt the competence of such a .community to carry on Re publican government, at least in their present stage of civilisation. Out of seven millions and a half of people which the country contained some years ago it was estimated that only one million were whites, where there were four millions of full-blooded Indians, the remainder of the population being half castes and mulattoes of various shades. As for these native races we believe that, on the whole, they prefer the monarchy to their former Govern ment. They are simply an unintelligent, unlettered, priest-led population, and it is vain to talk of them as if " they were the population of Massachusetts. They want a Government which will allow them to keep a few dollars in their houses, or to buy a little stock of goods for their shops, without threatening them with forced contributions. It is not a ques tion of better or worse institutions, but of order or anarchy, and Napoleon's battalions having given them the former they are perfectly satisfied, and ac cept the gift with thankfulness. With regard to foreign traders and settlers the advantages of the new state of things are equally decided. There is the undeniable fact that a European or American merchant can now conduct his business in perfect security, whereas three years ago he could not. This, it seems to us, is a better argument than any that can be based on the abstract merit of republican or monarchical rule." There can be no doubt that, if Maximilian's Empire be firmly established, the en terprise of the world will be largely directed to Mexico, that capital will flow into the country, that its immense resources will be developed, and its miserable people civilised and enriched. If, on the other hand, the present settlement be overthrown and military violence letloose again under the abused name of a republic, the country must go on from bad to worse, until every trace of civilisation vanishes and the land await conquest and occupation by a stronger race. For these reasons we should regret to learn that the United States were using their in fluence to weaken the present Mexican Government by depriving it of what is for a time necessary—the support of France. The Cabinet of Washington seem, indeed, to exaggerate the designs of the French Em peror. On the information of a consul they have concluded that France was about to despatch a large force of Egyptian troops, called by the consul " an army of negroes," and have been correspondingly in dignant. Whether or notlfr. Seward has mentioned this matter in a despatch to the Minister at Paris, it is beyond a doubt that information of this kind was received at Washington. But we cannot imagine that any such purpose was ever formed by the French Emperor. To send Mussulman Africans to keep order in the dominions' of a Catholic Sovereign is a design so extraordinary that we may at once dismiss the rumour as false. All that the French Emperor can desire is to keep his French regiments in Mexico some time longer, until the new Government has taken firm root, and it will be possible to withdraw them without throwing the country back into anarchy. In this moderate purpose we cannot see why the United States should not assist rather than thwart him. The Monroe doctrine has nothing whatever to do with the present matter. Though European States have never accepted this principle, yet it is, perhaps, not an unreasonable one for the Americans to main tain. It is for the benefit of both the Old and New Worlds that the European Powers should not create new dependencies on the American Continent, nor, in the words of Monroe, " extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere." But France has in the most positive manner disavowed any intention to acquire any part of the Mexican territory, or even to make a prolonged military occupation. All that the Emperor desires, all that his people would sup port him in undertaking, is to stay the frightful an archy. of Mexico, and restore one of the finest coun tries of the globe to civilisation and commerce. In this work the United States may well acquiesce, for they will be among the chief gainers. The President has himself laid down the principles which will guide his Government in dealing with other American States, and in their moderation and good sense they certainly do not correspond with the design of driving the French from Mexico. He told theßrazilian Mini ster the other day that the policy of the United States was simple and easy to understand ; that it was the desire to aid the progress of civilisation in the Western hemisphere by aiding the development of internal resources and commerce and the introduction of free and intelligent labour into the virgin fields of the continent. In place of weakening the new American States, his country sought to give them strength by placing a generous confidence in them, and not by indulging jealousies of their prosperity. These prin ciples apply equally to Mexico and Brazil. If the President's Government will merely leave Mexico alone, it will confer the greatest service upon that State. If, on the other hand, it sets itself resolutely to wrk to undo what has been effected, then, even in case of success, it can only expect to earn the boast of having checked a great European Empire at the cost of a ne i g hb our ' s prosperity. rost—The admirable report on the sanitary con dition of the City issued by Dr. Letheby, the medi cal officer of the City of London, on Friday last, and which we published yesterday, is calculated to allay whatever remnant of apprehension might linger in the public mind relative to the advent and the spread of Asiatic cholera in the metropolis, or in these isles generally, this season. It is a circum stance not a little unfavourable to a temperate esti mate of the chances of cholera prevalence, that the disease has hitherto come, and may henceforth be expected, at a season when, the dominant topics of newspaper comment being scarce, mere rumours are expatiated upon to an extent more amplified than usual : therefore, w hen the public mind is more than ordinarily di s posed to take alarm. Th e re mark is one that pertinently applies to the autumn just ended; for notwithstanding the rumours of cholera present, and the alarming vaticination of more deadly accessions of cholera on its way, it would now appear, from an investigation of Dr. Letheby's quarterly report, that there has never happened a season subsequent to 1831—when Asiatic cholera first came amongst us—in which the premonitions of this disease have been in number so few, or in character, so unmenacing. Reviewing the British history of Asiatic cholera—as gathered from the consideration of its two accessions in 1831-2, and in 1848-9 respectively, taking cognisance of antecedents and concurrents which then ruled, and which may be rationally accepted in the sense of precedents for future guidance—it will be perceived that there has been far less warranty for general apprehension this autumn than might have been in ferred from the note of alarm that has gone forth. On the two occasions referred to there were, as Dr Letheby remarks, three facts which came prominently before us. First, there was an unusual outbreak of the disease in India, where it showed itself in an epidemic form ; and this lasted for a year or two be fore its appearance in Europe. Secondly, the course of the disease was always from India in a north westerly direction ; through Russia, and by the Baltic, into one or more of our eastern ports. And lastly, at the time of its appearance amongst us there was a large amount of zymotic disease, especially diarrhoea and dysentery. On the present occasion there have been none of these significant forewarn ings of an approaching epidemic. During the last four years India has been less than usually infected with cholera ; for although the disease has neve been entirely absent from the Indian peninsula since its first appearance in the delta of the Ganges in 1817, and has on many occasions since then com mitted great ravages, not only amongst our troops but amongst our native population, yet, since the yearlB6l, it has not assumed an epidemic character. Though anterior to the present year India may be regarded as the sole incubation spot of the malig nant cholera—this so markedly that certain patho logists had almost come to entertain the belief that the concurrent circumstances favourable to its out break could not exist elsewhere—that opinion will now have to be treated with great reserve ; probably to be discarded. The testimony of Dr, Letheby, though consistent with the upholding of that opinion in its integrity, since he assumes the germs of cholera to have been carried to the holy Mohammedan cities by pilgrims from India—is opposed to other state ments that we have seen propounded. In the esti mation of many pathologists, who have studied the present cholera outbreak, its orign may be localised on the present occasion to Arabia ; having first• shown itself amongst the Mohammedan devo tees assembled to celebrate the festival of sacrifice, otherwise called the " Kourban Bairam." If this Arabian origin of cholera be well established, the fact will be of pathological interest, as demonstra ting a larger field of genesis than exists for either the yellow fever or the plague—diseases with which,._ although dissimilar in symptoms to both, cholera is often studied in connection. True yellow fever has only been known to take its origin within a comparatively limited area of the Atlantic region of America. The Pacific coast, even between the same parallels of latitude, not only does not origin ate the vomito, but something is present in the Pacific region that checks the disease like magic, if a yellow-fever patient be transferred to it. - Again, iii respect to plague, the generalisation holds good —universally, we believe—that it never breaks out except in some part of the Ottoman empire, and that from some portion or another of that empire it is never absent. Whatever may be the cause of these localisations, they are important to bear in memory, as comprising the conditions which may hereafter evolve laws. Relative to the chances of immunity from cholera as affecting these isles, though a favourable augury might have been in ferred, from consideration of the fact that the epi demic has not, been pursuing its wonted course this season,- yet a surer ground for confidence existed in a fact pointed out by Dr. Letheby. He states that during the summer and autumn past, the part of London under his cognisance, and we believe Great Britain and Ireland generally, have been more absolved than usual from those zymotic diseases which hitherto have heralded in the Asiatic scourge, and which present to it a general mild resemblance. Whilst the average number of diarrhoea cases for the period covered by Dr. Letheby's report is sixty three—the last year's number, indeed, being seventy six—it has this year risen to only forty-nine ;of which forty-three were among children of less than five years old. From these figures it will be seen that the choleraic train of diseases has been less than usually fatal. Records of sickness returns from the medical officers of City unions present concurrent testimony ; seeing that, according to them, though the average number of - diarrhoea cases attended among the poor of the city' during the summer quarter of the last seven years is four hun dred and seventeen, they have this year only risen to three hundred and seventy-three. All this testi mony, accepted in connection with the seasonable change of weather that has set in, may remove the last traces of apprehension as to any visitation of cholera during the year 1865 at least ; and, at the rate at which metropolitan drainage progresses, the year 1866 will find London better prepared than now to receive the Asiatic scourge if needs must come ; of which, however, w e see no i mm i nen t pre monitions. COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON—OcT. 14. New white wheat, 38s to 41s ; new, red, 368 to 39s ; old white, 44s to 47s ;, old red, 40s to 46s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 38s to 44s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 325.; new, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 44s to 48s mew, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 37s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER—Ocr. 14. A fair supply of wheat, for which last week's prices were , generally obtained. Fine barley in demand, and rather dearer, other sorts not cheaper, Beans and peas s carce , and the turn in favour of the seller. Wheat, white 40s 64s •Beans, 3fazagan......332 386 red 368 48s Middle and 5ma11..358 40s Barley ... 2Bs 40s Peas, white 38s 428 Oat. ...20s 25s grey ...36s 40s CITELMSFORD—OcT. 13. We had again a fair supply of wheat at market to-day, and best samples maintaining last week's prices ; inferior qualities were dull of sale. Barley, beans, an peas re main as before quoted. Wheat, old white...AU 5r s Peas, Partridge 37s 394 new ~4Zs 48s White ....30s 340 old red 403 43s Baling .. ...... 386 424 new 36s 40s Dun ...31s 350 Barley.... 256 32s dit , o, new....—s —u Chevalier 26a 13s Beans, Tick, 01d......3is 370 Grind ng ' kOs Ss • new. ...—s - 0 Malt 6ls 67a Harrow ficks.3s6 —0 Chevalier 64s 68s new....—s -0 Oats GRANTHAM—OcT. 14. Old white wheat, 49s to 535; old red, 48s to 488 ; new white, 44s to 50s ; new red, 36s to 43s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 33s to 36s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 288 ; new, 20s to 24s per 21 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 495; new, 10 s t o 43 s p er 38 s t o ne. 1 Peas 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—Ocr. 13. The doliverios were very limited, and at this day's mar ket the show of samples was short. Bero and barley are the turn dearer, and oats are very firm. White wheat 35s Od to 40s Od} Red wheat 35 s Od t o 36 s Od Potato oats 20 s 6d to 21s 01.. 40Th bushel. 621 b 10 bushel. 113 Common oats 20 s Od t o 20 s 6d Bere Barley 22s 6d to 23s Od} 53115 22s Gd to 23s Od Oatmeal 16s 6d to 17s 6d boll of 140Ib. Flour, fine ,3lct bushel. 34s Od to 35s Od Vsack of 2801 b. KIRKCALDY—Ocr. 14. Fair supplies of all kinds of grain. Sales quick at the full prices of this day week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...... 418 Od I 26s Od 23s Od becond.... 438 (41 27s 6d 24s 04 Tuird 458 Od 28s 6d 25s Od COAL MARKET.. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. El. cl. Hetton Lyons 2l 6 Russell's Hetton Carway and Duffryn Cowpen Hartley Malting 24 0 Holywell Main......,.. 20 0 Hartlepool Hastings Hartley 2l 3 South Hetton Hetton 23 0 East Hartlepool Byass's Bebside West Heugh Hall 22 3 Hartley ................ 21 6 South Hartlepool 2l 9 Kelloe ............... ... 21 9 Tunstall Cassop .. . ..• .. .. ... .... 22 6 South Kelloe Braddyell's Hetton.... 22 6 Walls End Haswell 23 0 Ships at market, 58 ; sold, 58. Births. EDGELL.—On the 13th inst., at Ellough Parsonage, Beeelefh the wife of Colonel Edgell, of a son. PRICHARD.—On the 16th inst., at 2, Albion-street, Hyde park, the wife of Iltudus Thos. Prichard, Esq., barrister at-law, of a son. SOTHERN.—On the 16th inst.. at The Cedars, Wright'a lane, Kensington, the wife of E. A. Bother; Esq., of s son. Marriages. 01 .TvER—KNOCKER.—On tho 14th inst., at St. John's Church, Lewes, Thos. Oliver, Esq., of Hull, to Augusta Ann, eldest surviving daughter of Wm. Knocker, Com mander R.N. POGSON—HARRISON.-011 the 11th inst, at Harrietshanit Kent, Lieutenant-Colonel John Pogson, BombaY Army, to Alice, eldest surviving daughter of the late Edmund Harrison, Esq. Deaths. ARoAI.I.—On the 15th inst., at his residence, 5, The Grove, Hammersmith, Henry E. Argall, aged 76. COMPTON.—On the 13th inst., at 85, Camberwell New-roA Charles Compton, Esq., late Accountant-General of the General Post Office. HULL.—On the 4th Aug., at Richmond, near Melbourne , Victoria, Ann, he wife of the Hon. Wm. Hull, M.L.C•i formerly of Wood-street, Cheapside, aged 71. KENDRA.Y.—On the 13th inst., John Francis Kendra)" , Esq. MAItTINDALE.—On the 15th inst., at 20, Brunswick-gar' dens, Kensington, W 1 Mrs. Martindale, aged 76. RAYMENT4—On the 15th inst., at 44, Euston-road, Sergeant' Rayment, late of her Majesty's 38th Regiment. 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