The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-08 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. _ Yesterday the Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty resumed and brought to a conclusion their official inspection of the dockyard and other esta blishments under their control at Chatham, taking up the inspection at the point finished on the pre vious day. Their lordships slept and breakfasted on board the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, in the har bour, and during the interval which elapsed previous to their landing yesterday the subjects under con sideration related to the proposed new undertakings intended to be carried out at the dockyard—the drawings and plans for which bad previously been inspected —together with the enlarged works in pro gress and contemplated for the extension of the dockyard eastward, and the construction of addi tional basins and docks large enough to admit ves sels of the largest size which may be constructed. Sir J. Pakington and the other members of the Board landed from the Enchantress in their barge, and at once proceeded to the extremity of the dock yard where the extension works for the enlarge ment of the dockyard have been in progress for several years past. The members of the Board were received and conducted over the works by the offi cials to whom the superintendence of the undertak ing has been intrusted, including Major Clarke, General Director of Admiralty Works ; Major Pas ley, Superintendent of Admiralty Engineering Works at Chatham ; and Mr. Bernays, Resident Engineer and Superintendent. Hitherto the princi pal work here has been the reclamation from the sea of nearly the whole area of the fiat tidal marshes known- as St. Mary's Island, covering an extent of about - 300 acres, together with such parts of the creeks at Gillingham as are required to form the site of the three large basins intended to be con structed. With the large convict establishment close at hand the labour of the convicts has been utilized in this respect, and up to the present time nearly the whole of the works have been executed by the con victs. Sir John Pakington and his colleagues in the course of their inspection yesterday traversed the portions of the island on which the works have been pushed forward with the greatest energy, and here the progress made during the past 12 months is very apparent. Upwards of 2,000 feet of massive sea wall across the western end of Gillingham Creek has been finished, a length of 3,000 ft on the north side been embanked and reclaimed from the sea, while two massive embankments formed of earth and clay, strengthened by piling, have been thrown across the creek to the eastward, between the sea-wall and the present dockyard. The effect of these under takings, whtch have been steadily carried on during several years, have been to lay dry upwards of 200 acres of hitherto waste and unproductive land, and here it is intended to form the site of the basins, docks, factories, and other establishments for the construction and repair of ironclad ships proposed to be built. The works have now arrived at that state that the Admiralty have wisely determined on having the remainder executed by contract, and a number of the leading contractors have already been invited to' tender for the execution of the works. These, as at present contemplated, include 1, the repairing basin, with an area of 22 acres ; 2, the fac tory basin, covering a space of 20 acres ; 3, two graving docks, each 500 ft. in length, adapted for the reception of the largest class of ironclad ships ; and 4, the engine-house and machinery, together with the other arrangements for pumping the water into and from the docks when required. Each of the above works will form a separate tender, and, from the terms insisted upon by the Admiralty, the con tractors intrusted with the execution of the works will be required, under heavy penalties, to complete the repairing basin, the two docks, and the engine house in three years, and the factory basin within four years from the date of the tender being accepted. Their lordships yesterday visited and inspected the sites of each of the above works, the space they will occupybeing clearly seen by means of a line of flags, while in the case of the basins and docks the exca vations are already being made by the convicts not required on the other portions of the works. The whole of the bricks required to be used in the works will be supplied by the Admiralty, who will also furnish the contractors with the cement and Port land stone, the bricks being made and the stones dressed by the convicts on the works. Already a large brickfield, covering an area of 16 acres, has been formed on one portion of the island, where several millions of bricks have been manufactured by the convicts, two brick-making machines being employed for the purpose, which together turn out 30,000 bricks in eight hours, the economy of con - vict labour in this respect showing to considerable advantage. After spending some time on this por tion of the works the members of the Board visited the site of the fitting-out basin, the largest of the three new basins intended to be formed, the area of which will be about 33 acres. The sea wall which will form the embankment for this basin is now in course of construction. Among the works already executed and inspected by the Admiralty yesterday was a portion of the massive work of the repairing basin, a length of 600 ft. of which has been com pleted, principally by convict labour, chiefly for the , purpose of showing the contractors a specimen of the woik to be done, and at the same time to ascertain, by actual trial prior to the contracts being decided upon, how the difficulties in the way of getting in the foundations in a very treacherous soil could be effected. After completing • their inspection of the works connected with the formation of the basins and docks, their Lordships proceeded to the buildings in progress to be used as factories for the manufacture and repair of steam machinery. The foundation walls of these build ings have been completed by the convicts, the build ings themselves forming a qUadrangle, and covering an area of some 14 acres, about half of which will be occupied in the first instance. During their in spection their lordships had under consideration the desirability of having a second contract for the exe cution of this portion of the undertaking, in order that the buildings may be completed and ready for use jointly with the first two basins and the two docks. During their progress over the wor k s yes terday the importance of having the new basins and docks by as early a date as possible was insisted upon by the members of the Board, it being impo s sible to overrate the advan t ages of having lm.g, basins and docks available for the refitting and re pair of the largest ironclads, remote from the pos sibility of injury from hostile guns of even the longest range, as is the case with Chatham, in the event of this country being engaged in a European war. With the view of forwarding as much as pos sible those parts of the works at Chatham intended to be executed by convict labour the prison at St. Mary's is now being enlarged to enable it to contain 1,500 prisoners. At present only about 900 convicts are employed, but in a few months about 1,400 hands, in addition to the contractors' workmen, will be engaged on the dockyard extension works. Before leaving the dockyard their lordships trans acted official business with Captain Superintendent IV. U. Stewart, C. 8., and the other heads of de partments, and subsequently visited the several estab lishments, 'wharves, slips, and buildings not inspected on the previous day. At the termination of their visit yesterdaythe Enchantress, of the Board re-em barked in the Staff-Commander Pet ley, and inspected the fortifications t at Folly Point and Bishop's Marseene. h r ,af ss erwards proceeding down Sheerness. the harbour to After the inspection of were todi the dockyard they Walk n e e r la N st av ev l er c iing with Vice-Admiral Sir B. W. Comman der-in-Chief, returning to the Admiralty a to-day. The crew of the screw steam gunvessel Sparrow, 5, Commander St. Clair, in Plymouth Sound, re cently returned froln the West Coast of Africa were mustered and inspected on Monday by Capt. Seymour, of the Royal Adelaide. Yesterday rho went into Hamoaze, and was placed on the j e t ty alongside the Devouport dockyard, for the pur pose of being dismantled and placed iu the third division of the Steam Reserve. Her crew will be paid off in a few days. The armour-plated screw steamship Zealous, 20, belonging to the first division of outside Steam Reserve in Hamoaze, went yesterday Ply Breakwater, to test her engines and machinery. A court-martial was held yesterday on board the Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze, for the trial of Mr. Thomas William Johnson, assist.-engineer, first- class, her Majesty's ship Indus, for drunkenness on board the Seahorse, while in temporary charge of her engines. Capt. Ewalt, of the Ca nbi idge, pre sided. ' The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sen t tenced to be dismissed from her Majesty's service. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) In the week that ended on Saturday Aug. 4, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,086 ; the deaths registered, 4,499. The annual rate of mor tality was 38 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,049 boys and 939 girls, in all 1,988 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding week of ten years 1856-65 the average number, corrected for increase of popula tion, was 1,914. The deaths registered in London during the week were 2,661. It was the 31st week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,395. The deaths in the present return exceed the estimated number by 1,266. There is a slight increase in the high rate of mor tality that ruled in the previous week. 1,053 per sons died of cholera, 354 of diarrhea, making 1,407 deaths from both forms of disease. The deaths returned in the four last weeks from cholera were 32, 346, 904, and 1,053 ; from diarrhoea, 150, 221, 347, 354. The deaths from cholera ex ceed by 149 the deaths in the previous week ; the excess in the total deaths is only 61. Of cholera and diarrhoea 573 children under five years, 114 boys and girls of the age of five to ten ; 79 of the age 10 to 20 ; 255 men and women of the age 20 to 40 ; 248 of the age 40 to 60 ; 127 of the age 60 to 80 ; and 11 old people of 80 and upwards. Deaths from diarrhoea or cholera in small num bers occurred all over the London districts ; in Kensington, Marylebone, Pancras, Islington, Hol born, the numbers were considerable. In the West districts of London 12 persons died of cholera ; in the North districts 46 (including 19 in Islington, 20 in Hackney) ; in the Central districts 31, in cluding 12 in St. Botolph ; in the South district 47, including 21 in Deptford and Greenwich ; while in the East districts 916 persons died of unequivocal cholera. Only 16 of the deaths from cholera occurred in one of the largest of the East districts, Shore ditch. The violence of the attack is still expended on Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, St. George-in-the- East, Stepney, Mile-end Old-town, and Poplar, including Bow. There is some subsidence in Pop lar and Stepney, but increased virulende in Beth nal-green and Whitechapel. The attack has been circumscribed by nearly the same lines for three weeks in succession. This is no accident; the phenomena are due to some specific cause. These violent outbreaks are almost invariably in England the result of contamination of the waters; and the question is subsequently noticed. Upon the assumption that the waters were at some time impure, there is this further aggravation that in the lower districts the water is not carried away. "It is unfortunately," says Mr. Bazalgette, " the locality where our main drainage works are not complete." A temporary pumping station is to be erected forth with, and will be in operation in about three weeks at Abbey Mills. The East London waters have been analyzed by Dr. Frankland, whose report is reassuring ; and Mr. Greaves, the engineer, is fully alive to the extreme importance of pure water at the present moment. The waters of shallow wells and pumps are polluted ; and in this crisis the health of London is very muck in the hands'of our hydraulic engineers. The local authorities, who had not instituted generally house-to-house visitation, are now on the alert. The sympathy of the whole nation with the sufferers has been touchingly expressed by her Ma- jesty, and has been proclaimed by the Prime Minis ter. Under these auspices, and with the intelligen exertions of the people themselves, we may hope ere long to see the destructive progress of the plague stayed. The annual rate of mortality last week was 45 per 1,000 in London, 23 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dub lin ; '22 in Bristol, 22 in Birmingham, 53 in Liver pool, 38 in Manchester, 30 in Salford, 24 in Sheffield, 34 in Leeds, 24 in Hull, 41 in Newcastle-upon- Tyne, and 28 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 33 per 1,000 during the week ending the 21st ult., when the temperature was 18.2 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 31 per 1,000. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-556 in. The barometrical reading increased from 29-37 in. on Sunday to 29.77 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 58.8 deg., which is 3.6 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 72.9 deg., on Friday. Thelpwest night temperature was 46.0 deg. on Tuesday. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 26.9 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 62.6 deg. ; that of the lowest was 61.9 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point tempera ture and air temperature was 6.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 79, complete satu ration being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.51 in. THE WATER SUPPLY OF THE EAST DISTRICTS. The cause of the epidemic of cholera consists, as is well known now, of a zymotic matter in various degrees of activity all over the London . area, affect ing the people in various ways, through air, contact, and water.. llitherto, in all great outbreaks here, the cholerine, which this stuff may be called, has been distributed chiefly through water, as was shown in the Registrar-General's reports on the previous epidemics. When it was observed, therefore, that the present fatal explosion of cholera fell in the east districts in the first week suspicion was roused, and that was strengthened by the observations of the week ending July 28th, and by personal inspection, which showed that the attacks were diffused over a wide area, among many people in bad hygienic condi tions, and also among many in ordinary conditions, often well to do, living in streets by no means so poor or so dirty as the streets of the south and of other regions of London. The population was principally in the port of London, but not exclu sively ; and little more exposed to infection than the districts along the south side of the Thames, which had formerly been decimated by cholera, when the water supply on that side was polluted. The air of East London is often charged with im purities, which are undoubtedly noxious ; and so are other parts; but any impurity of the air is ra pidly diffused all over London. disicts are suppli e d b y Nearly all of the infected districts one water company, which now derives its water, not a s was stated last week, at Lea-bridge, where its filtering beds lie out about 21 miles higher up the river, and above Tot tenham. As far a s Enfield the river is protected from sewage by an intercepting drain ; but it receives the drainage of all the coun try and towns in its basin. * The New River take s a lar g e p ortion of its su pp l y higher up the Lea, and engages to deodorize th e water. There is no suc h p rotect sewage of Hertford before it,is discharged into the ion the sewage of Ware. Upon t he whole, waters of the tributary Lea are not won s t e h t e ha u rth er e waters of the Thames, which .are exposed to similar contaminations ; and the filtering arrangements of the East London Company 'are elaborate, and pro bably as effective as those of the Thames companies. The 13 filter beds at Leabridge cover au area of 12 acres. A part of the water is distributed from the well of those beds by the most powerful engine of the company ; the rest of the filtered water is car ried three miles down to a covered reservoir of about 21 acres at Old Ford, where it is distributed over the area now suffering so much from cholera. The water in this reservo i r l oo k s per f ec tl y pure. Cl ose by its side, which is well-built, flows the tidal end of the Lea, black and full of . the foulest impurities. The company in its first years drew its waters mainly from the Lea at this point, and the first im- * Dr. Radcliffe has remarked that the Cobbin, which flows into the Lea through Waltham Abbey, drains Epping where the late small outbreak of cholera was observed. That stream is said to be dry. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AtTGETST 8, 1866. patients in the house. An entire ward has been set apart for male patients suffering from the disease, and they are under the care of Dr. Champneys. The White chapel district has been very severely visited, and the extreme poverty of a portion of the population has united with the pestilence to produce scenes of the greatest misery. Some cases of Asiatic cholera, which in a few in stances have proved fatal, have occurred in St. Philip's and Redcliff Mead, two districts of Bristol, in which sanitary reform is sadly needed. The Local Board of Health and the guardians of the Bristol and Clifton Unions are taking prompt measures to stay the spread of the disease. In the few cases where deth has ensued the beds, bedclothing, and clothes of the deceased have been destroyed and com pensation made, and the tenements have been white washed. Altogether the steps taken for meeting and staying the spread of cholera in Bristol are highly creditable to the authorities of that city. provement was effected by carrying its intake up 'the river to Lea bridge beyond the tidal range. The water was brought down an open canal by the side of Hackney cut, and terminated in two large reservoirs on the other side of the black Lea. This canal and these reservoirs of about nine acres still ex Ist ; they are marked in the most recent map by Stanford as the " East London Waterworks canal" and the " East London Waterworks reservoirs." one of these reservoirs was recently emptied and was filled again perhaps by springs or soakage. These old. reservoirs are not, it is said, used, the covered reservoirs containing the only water fit for use ; but the old reservoirs retain their old channels of commu nication with the pumping wells, and the company has the power, in an emergency, to distribute the water from the old reservoirs all over the region of the cholera field. But this the company professes not to do— and it could scarcely be the result of accident, otherwise the diffusion of the waters of the old reser vairs over the area would afford a probable explana tion of the sudden outbreak in East London. It is a notable circumstance that the parts north of Victoria-park supplied by the East London Company direct from their filter beds have not hitherto suf fered from cholera, notwithstanding contiguity to the infected districts, more than other districts supplied by other companies. This implies that the East London water, as it leaves the filter beds, is as good as any other water in London. It is natural, as land is valuable in East London, to inquire why a commercial company has for many years retained some miles of a canal and nine acres of reservoirs for no purpose ? Mr. Greaves replies that the canal serves to carry off the wastes of the filter beds, and that the company proposes to con vert one of the old ponds into a covered reservoir. When this is done, and the other pond, which, we are told, is of no use, is filled up, or has no longer any connection with the pumping wells of the com pany, the public may well rest satisfied, until some great general reform is effected in the water sup , ply of London. In the interest of the public health the country has a right to demand this security. THE CHOLERA. MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. Yesterday, at three o'clock, a most influential meeting of bankers, clergymen, and other persons of consideration in the city of Loudon, with the Lord Mayor at their head, was held at the Mansion house, to raise a fund to be expended primarily in measures calculated to arrest or mitigate the prevail- ing epidemic, and in relief of poor patients and of persons suffering from the 'ravages of the disease. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, and there were present, among others, Mr. Thomai Baring, M.P., Mr. Joseph Hoare, Mr. R. N. Fowler, Mr. G. G. Glyn, Sir Mordant Wells, the Rev. W. Rogers, rector of Bishopsgate, the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Mr. Richard B. Wade, Mr. W. J. R. Cotton, Mr. Currie, Mr. R. Wigram, Mr. W. J. Maxwell, Mr. Andrew Johnson, Mr. William Needham, Mr. H. W. Ripley, the Bishop Designate of Nelson (Rev. A. B. Suter), Mr. John Harman, and Dr. Andrew Clark. In the course of the proceedings it was stated incidentally that between £1,200 and £1,300 had already been•subscribed as a beginning among the persons concerned in promoting the meeting, and its objects, and letters addressed to the Lord Mayor by the Governor and the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England were read, stating their willingness to co-operate in the movement. A long conversation ensued as to the manner in which the fund now being raised should be dispensed, the pre vailing opinion being that it should be administered, as far as practicable, through local authorities, rather than through individuals, and that no part of it should go in the relief of ordinary pauperism. The Lord Mayor interposed in the course of the discus sion, and reminded the meeting that they had now to deal with the epidemic directly and at once, and not with theories. The first object was to provide meat, drink, and other necessaries for the wretched people who were suffering from cholera, and to re lieve the destitution consequent upon the loss of ' heads of families. Mr. Suter, he said, had observed that there were about 9,000 houses in Bethnal-green which required disinfection ; but that was a work which, however necessary or desirable, was quite beyond the province of this committee, which was called into existence to save poor people from destruc tion. Disinfection was the work of the Government. If the public responded to the invitation to subscribe to the fund now being raised, which he knew they would do, the committee would get to work at once and woull do an enormous amount of good. ➢lr. Thomas Baring, M.P., said it would be desirable to expend some part of the money at their disposal in disinfecting and preventive measures. The main object was, if possible, to get rid of the disease, and he did not see how they were to get rid of it if they only buried the dead and relieved the sufferers. Impure water was one of the, greatest causes of the disease, and it was important to ascertain in what state the water was, and to warn people against it where it was impure. The Rev. Wm. Rogers argued that one of the principal means of arresting the disease was to provide poor people at all likely to be liable to it with the means of obtaining good whole some food. Gin and pickles would be found to have something to do with almost every case of cholera. It was a matter of stomach, after all, and if they could inject a mutton chop and a glass of brandy every day they would soon stop the disease. Eventually, on the motion of the Rev. F. G. Blom field, seconded by Mr. Joseph Hoare, it was resolved in effect that the fund be used for the prevention of cholera, for the relief of cholera patients, and of sufferers from the effects of the disease, and that it be distributed as far as possible through local boards and committees. At the suggestion of the Lord Mayor the gentle men present formed themselves into a committee, - with power to add to their number, and a smaller committee, with the Lord Mayor as chairman, was appointed to meet daily at the Mansion-house, with power to receive and entertain applications for as sistance and make grants in the spirit of Mr. Blom field's resolution. The Laid Mayor and Mr. Joseph Hoare, banker, were appointed treasurers to the fund, and Mr. Joseph Gibbs, the Lord Mayor's private secretary, undertook to act as the secretary to the committee. Before departing the Lord Mayor announced that he would be happy to receive donations at the Man sion-house from the public for the objects in view, addinghe was satisfied that the right thing had been done in setting the subscription on foot, and that it only remained for them to enter into the matter with willing hearts. The number of patients suffering from the epide mic admitted to the London Hospital during the 24 hours terminating at noon yesterday was 22, being six more than had been taken in during the previous 24 hours. Of these 16 persons, all males, were at tacked with cholera; six, of whom four were women, suffered from choleraic diarrho3a. The deaths dur ing the period mentioned amounted to 11, as against 12 on the previous day. The recoveries were, from cholera, 4 ; from.diarrhcea, 6—total, 10. About a dozen convalescent children have been removed t c l a ir n o t u s gh fo p r riv o a u te t b d e o n or efic t e r n ea ce tra to on a t ho fo m r e. prrermheonaiptoplri y diarrhcea fell to 200 yesterday. From about the 11th of July, when the outbreak first set in, the number of such patients steadily increased from three or four in the day to the maximum of 554, which was reached on the 23d of July ; then a corn apba o r autti u 270 ; ll b took ut th e pl ( a li c s e e , as a e n a d g a t i h n e n n e u r m e a b s i e n r sg. , on h t o e 31st ult. 497 persons were prescribed for. A gra dual falling off was observable after that date, and it is ascribed, not to a diminution in the number of those attacked, but to the opening, in various loca lities, of dispensaries where medicine and advice are given gratuitously to all who present themselves. In the week ending yesterday the total number of deaths in the hospital from the epidemic was 80, exactly the same as during the preceding week. It is, therefore, evident that the disease is not at present increasing in virulence. Indeed, the resident medical officer, Dr. J. Jackson, is inclined to think that there are signs of an abatement in severity - . In the work house of the Whitechapel Union about 70 cholera cases have been treated—a number that would have been far exceeded but for the proximity of the Lon don Hospital. At present there are about 12 cholera THE "CHoLERA MIST." Mr. James Glaisher has seen the' cholera mist" again, to which he called public attention in July. " Last Monday," he says (July 30), "on looking from the grounds of the Royal Observatory, Green wich, under the trees, towards the boundary walls of the park, I saw the same dense blue mist, which has continued without intermission to the present time, though somewhat less in density this morning. Ordinary mists pass away when the wind blows with a pressure of Vb. on the square foot. Since last Monday we have had pressures of the wind varying from +lb. to 91b. on the same area, blowing continuously for 60 to 70 hours, yet there has been no change in this blue appearance. I have examined the atmosphere daily for this blueness, particularly during the last 12 months, and have never seen eny thing like it since the year 1854. This blue mist is apparent on all sides; it extends fully to the top of the trees, though it is not then so easy to distinguish. It is most east easily discernible through as much atmosphere as possible, viewed from under a tree, looking under other trees. Thus seen, the boundary walls of Greenwich Park and all objects near them are coloured blue ; or through gaps in trees, if there are others at a sufficient distance to form a background, when it resembles thin smoke from a wood fire. The intensity of the blue is increased when viewed through a telescope with a low power. It is of great importance to know whether it is general over the country. The only other tint of i mist I know connected with the prevalence of epidemic is that of a yellow mist perceptible in like manner when scarlatina is prevalent ; in neither case is there any excess of humidity in the air." Mr. Giggler adds for our consolation that with the exception of this blueness, and a mist, as seen over London and Essex, there are no other of the pecu liar atmospheric conditions which prevailed in 1832, 1849, and 1854, such as an excess of heat, stagna tion of the atmosphere, extreme high readings of the barometer, &c. ; and this holds out the hope that the present visitation may not extend or be of long continuance. The Diseases Prevention Act. The following are the arrangements that have been made in St. Giles's district for carrying into effect the provision of the Diseases Prevention Act: The Sanitary Committee of the Board of Works sits daily at half-past 9 o'clock, and has alzeady met 12 times. They receive each morning a return, compiled from infor mations obtained from their own officers, from public in stitutions and private medical practitioners, of all cases of diarrhoea and cholera that have occurred in the previous day. The new cases, so far as known, now amount to 600 or 700 a day, in a population of 54,000. Only one caso of real cholera is known to have occurred hitherto. The committee have mapped out the district into six subdivisions, one comprising the greater part of the parish of Bloomsbury, the other five being parts of the poor parish of St. Giles, and. each part‘contains from 6,000 to 9,000 people. In the five poor subdivisions it is the rule for a family to live in each room. To each subdivision a medical staff is assigned, consisting of one medical practitioner and two assistants. The medical visitor is in all cases young and highly qualified ; his assistants are usually medical stu dents who have had much hospital experience, but have no legal qualification. Each medical visitor is held responsible for his own and his assistant's work. His pay is two guineas a day ; his assistants' half a guinea a day. Every morning before 9 a.m. the medical visitor makes to the Medical Officer of Health a return of the number of houses and of families visited by himself and his assistants; of the number of cases of diarrhoea, choleraic diarrhoea, and cholera that have been newly met witk in the subdi vision of the district assigned to him ; and of the result of his treatment of old cases of such sickness. It is found that 1,000 families can be efficiently visited each day in each of the six districts. For the supply of medicines to the poor, the committee have engaged the services of four druggists in various parts of the district, who supply—(l) concentrated medicines for immediate administration by the visitors in their rounds ; (2) medicines for all persons presenting prescriptions from the visitors ; (3) medicines, made up according to certain prescribed formula), fcr persons applying to them at. any hour of the day or night without visitors' prescriptions; (4) disinfectants, on the order of the visitors, together with a paper of instructions for use. The disinfectant, unless another b e spec i a ll y or d ere d, i s chlorido of lime. The Committee, after seeking in vain for any other place in their district which could be adapted to the purposo of a cholera hospital, have had a large school-building put at their disposal by the rector of St. Giles's. The building has l a .a n g d "l oth sc o b r o c o h l aritable operations, which will s, mission -rooms, workmen's suspended or carri e d on i n some b r b : e a e t d n e i m n u g s p r d ra o or for. , neighbour ing houses. The school building thus obtained is at this moment being prepared by some few structural alterations to receive cholera patients in a day or two. About 40 such patients can be received, with ample space for each bed. The building is isolated, and there is no chance of disease extending from it to the adjacent houses. Arrangement have been made with the Clewer Sisters, who carry on many charitable works in the neighbourhood, to give to the hospital thus extemporised the essential advantage of wise female supervision, and thup are at present actively at work with the Committee in getting ready the building, pro viding nurses, and anticipating every requirement for the sick. An engagement has been entered into with the 'Woking Necropolis Company by which the dead body of any poor person dying of cholera shall be removed within three hours of notice given and deposited until interment at the com pany's mortuary. Twenty thousand handbills have been distributed about the district urging on householders their responsibility at the present time to keep their premises in the wholesomest condition, urging on the poor the need of cleanliness and watchfulness against diarrhoea, and informing them whore to go for medicine and how to get the services of the sani tary staff of the district. The poor are very accessible to the medical visitors, and very grateful for their care. Extra assistance in the sanitary department has been had for some months. The inspectors of nuisances now examine on the same day into all nuisances reportod by the medical visitors, and take the best and most immediate action for the removal of what is injurious. To every subdivision of the district a workman is at tached to. do any disinfection or cleansing that cannot otherwise be immediately done, and to assist in distributing handbills and collecting returns. The street sewers have been throughout the summer flushed with disinfectants at short intervals. Last winter, in view of the necessity that has now arisen, several important constructive works were made. Lastly, the clergy and magistrates, and tho parochial medical officers,.aro affording the committee every assist ance in their power. Tho whole of the arrangements now described are inde pendent of the Poor-law organisation of the district. When the cholera hospital is complete it will take in all poor patients, whether receiving parish relief or not. August 6. The reign of the roughs in Hyde-park has been of short duration. Arrangements are now in pro gress for the transfer of the keeping of the park from its ordinary guardians to the police authorities, and as many of the former as aro efficient will be enrolled in the police force.. Whether the main avenues will bo lighted by gas is not yet decided, as there aro obvious difficulties in tho way; but the drives at least will receive that additional security. We understani that ono useful result will fol low from the destruction of the old park railings. The opportunity . Will bo seized for the carrying out of a very much-needed reform—the widening of Park-lane.—Herald. [ADTERTISEiVENT.j—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— by these detergent a n d Notable Facts.—lnt e n se h e at augments the annoyances of skin diseases and e ncourag es the development of febrile disorders, wherefore they should, as they can , be re m oved purifying preparation s. In stomach complaints, liver affections, pains and spasms of the bowels, Holloway's ungu en t we ll ru bbed over the affected part hu mediatoly gives the greatest ease, prevents congestion and inflammation, checks the threatening diarrhoea, and averts incipient cholera. Tho poorer inhabitants of large cities will find these remedies to be their best friends when any pestilence rages, or when from unknown causes eruptions, boils, abscesses, or ulcerations point out the presence of taints or impurities within the system, and call for instant and effective curative measures. Execution at Stafford. STAFFORD, Tuesday. The last dread sentence of the law was carried into effect at eight o'clock this morning, at Stafford, on the body of William Collier, aged 35 years, a small farmer, who resided' at Johnston Eaves, near Cheadle, in Noith Staffordshire, and who was found guilty of the murder of a young gentleman named Thomas Smith, the eldest son of a gentleman of the same name, who resided on his own estate at Whiston, at the last Staffordshire Assizes. The murdered gentleman was only 25 years of age, and was much respected in the neighbourhood of his home. He was known among the peasantry as the "young squire." He lived with his father, who was the lord of the manor, helping him to farm and manage the large extent of land belonging to him. It will be re membered that the back portion of the deceased gen tleman's head was beaten in in a terrible manner, apparently by some heavy blunt instrument, and scattered about the grass near to the body were picked up several pieces of the stock of a gun, two gunlocks, and a broken trigger, with also a ramrod. Subsequently Collier was observed by the wife of one of Mr. Smith's servants to go in the direction of a ditch in one of his fields, carrying something under his arm, and from time to time casting furtive glances on either side. This woman told her hus band a what she had seen, and he, suspecting that all was not right, went to the mouth of the ditch, and found the double barrel of a gun broken off at the stock. This gun was identified as that belong ing to Collier, and, upon comparing with it the trigger, locks, and ramrod found in the wood, they were found to correspond exactly. Collier was then arrested. A few days after his condemnation he took farewell of his brother (who is a respectable publican at Cheadle), and his wife and 7 children. As may be imagined, the interview was most heart rending. Subsequently, however, the convict re covered in a great measure the composure which had so characterised him. As he was a Catholic, he was attended by the Rev. Canon O'Sullivan, the recently appointed Catholic chaplain to the gaol. It is understood that he confessed his crime to the rev. gentleman. He also made a statement to the chief warder of the gaol, in which he acknowledged his crime and the justice of his sentence. The crowd present at the execution this morning was not so large as usual. The rain had poured down nearly all night, and doubtless prevented many persons in the potteries from undertaking a pedes trian journey to Stafford. The hangman was Smith, of Dudley. The wretched man had to go through the agony of being twice suspended, for the rope, at first slipped from the beam. When he was brought again to the drop the spectators hooted and cried, " Shame." His con fession fully confirmed the evidence for the prosecu tion. The Mormon Settlement at Utah. The American Government have issued a report made by the " House Committee of Territories" on the condition of Utah. The commissioners ap pointed to make an investigation say that the tes timony discloses the fact that the laws of the United States are openly and defiantly violated throughout the territory, and that an armed force is necessary to preserve the peace and give security to the lives and property of citizens of the United States resid ing therein. The only witness introduced at the request of the delegate from Utah admits the ne cessity of maintaining United States troops in the territory, in order to secure protection and safety to persons and property. The committee have been unable to adopt the suggestions made by some of the gentlemen examined for the abolition of the pre sent territorial government of Utah, and the estab lishment of a military government. They also re gret to state that they have been unable to agree upon and submit for the action of the louse a plan which seemed to them to promise a practical solution of the abuse and evils complained of, and which are admitted to exist. They do not deem it advisable either to divide the territory and annex it to Nevada and the territories adjacent, nor do they favour the establishment of a military government. They have therefore been compelled to postpone the further consideration of the matter until December next. On the 18th June, Mr. Hooper, the delegate from Utah, addressed a letter to the chairman of the committee, in which he denied the statements of some of the witnesses, and asks that no report be made to the House until the people of Utah could be heard in reply to the charges made against them. Ile also asked for a copy of the testimony already taken, which the committee declined to furnish him. He subsequently appeared before the committee, and requested that a select committee or a sub committee from the Territorial Committee be sent to Utah by direction of the House, with authority to examine and report on all the allegations made by the witnesses examined, and also on the condi tion of all classes residing in the territory. The committee were unable to satisfy themselves that any material facts could be obtained even if a sub committee should go to the territory; they therefore declined to ask the house to make an order, which would necessarily involve a large expenditure of moneyin sending such a committee to Utah. Among the witnesses examined was Joseph Smith, the son of the founder of the Mormon Church, who says that the Book of Mormon explicitly condemns and forbids polygamy, which was not known, acknow ledged, or held as an article of faith until Brigham Young became the leader of that part of the church which went west with him. The church did not, under the presidency of his father, nor does it now under his. The witnesses testify that the Presidency teaches hostility to the Government of the United States. Gen. Connor, who hasbeen mili tary commander of the district of Utah since 18G2, testified that polygamy is taught as a fundamental principle of the Mormon religion, and disloyalty and treason to the \Government is a practice enjoined by its tenets. It is regarded by good Mormons not only allowable, but meritorious, to assail and despoil the Federal Government in every way. Gen. Connor has no doubt the Mormon leaders have assumed to authorise and justify homicide. He believes it from their own record, from current report among them selves, and from a Mormon who confessed to him that he had committed murder by direction of the Mormon leaders, and believed at the time he was doing right as taught by them. As further evidence the witness submitted the following copy of a special order issued by Brigham Young for the murder of 80 innocent men, discharged teamsters of General Johnston's command, then at Fort Bridger, Utah, who were en route for California. Fortunately the officer designed to execute the order was a humane person and did not execute it, and lately gave the original order to a Federal officer in Utah, and it.is now in Gen, Connor's possession. The signature of James Ferguson is authenticated by the affidavits of two respectable merchants of Salt Lake City : (Special order.) " Salt Lake City, April 9,1858. " The officer in command of escort is hereby or dered to see that every man is well prepared with ammunition, and have it ready at the time you see those teamsters a hundred miles from the settle ments. President Young advises that they should be all killed to prevent them returning to Bridger to join our enemies. Every precaution should be taken and see that not one escapes. Secrecy is required. —By order of " DANIEL H. WELLS, General. " JAMES FERGUSON, A.A.G." Other witnesses testified to the demoralised con dition of the Mormons. THE ANCIENT ORDER OP FORESTERS AND THE LlFEBOATCALTSE.—TheitheientOrdor of Foresters have just sent to the National Lifeboat Institution, as a contribution for the current year, the munificent sum of £3431s 11d. in aid of the suppott of their lifeboat stationed in Cardigan Bay, and of the general purposes of the Lifeboat Institution. Altogether the order, to which upwards of 300,000 persons belong, has contributed to the institution, through the prin cipal and able Secretary, Mr. Samuel S ha.wcross, £ 689145. 2d. The contributions have varied from a penny to ono shil ling from members of this great body, and a more substan tial token of sympathy and support for a great and national work has probably never before been recorded iu the annals of any benevolent institution. It should be remembered that the Lifeboat Society contributes every year to the sav ing of between 600 and 700 lives from shipwrecks. Pro= bably many of the persons thus snatched front a watery grave aro members of this beneficent and popular order, which accomplishes so much in mitigating the sufferings of its members, their widows, and orphans. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The debate in - the House of Lords on. the continuance of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act in Ireland, deserves notice on account of the opinions expressed by the two chief speakers, Lord Derby, the head of her Majesty's Government, and Lord Kimberley, the Lord-Lieutenant who recom mended and put in force the Act which is to be re newed. Lord Derby could not add to the force of the reasons which have convinced every prudent man that it is absolutely necessary to maintain the present powers of the Executive. A conspiracy born and nourished in a foreign country, and at this very time receiving new encouragement from the Federal Legislature in the relaxation of the neu trality laws, has for more than a year past filled Irish society with disquiet, and checked the rising prosperity of the country. Those who are best ac quainted with it agree in the opinion that, though it does not extend to so high a grade of society as the treason of 1848, it is, or has been, more deter mined, vindictive, and dangerous. The impulsive people, whose only inducement to join these half alien agitators is a traditional hostility to England, are likely to be kept in a ferment so long as they see the apostles of treason coming and going and plotting at will in the island; when the Government shows itself resolute in dealing with such people they who would be their followers subside into tran quillity, and perhaps inwardly rejoice that they are not called upon to act as well as to talk and threaten. Lord Derby avows his sense of the responsibility that weighs on a Government which assumes the power of imprisoning without trial, and we may be sure the Act will only be enforced with the same good sense and moderation as heretofore. Lord Kimberley has in the judgment of men of all par ties acted with singular discretion ; he watched the conspiracy throughout the winter ;* in spite of the uneasiness which it caused him and every one connected with the Irish Administra tion, in spite of the panic among the gentry and the pressure of those who desired an earlier and more summary action, he would not depart from the ordinary course of law, or give an occasion for disaffection by conduct that dema gogues might denounce as arbitrary. The most audacious of the leaders were apprehended, com mitted for trial, and sent before a Special Commis sion, but it was not until the middle of February, at a time when from trustworthy information it was known that the Fenians contemplated an actual outbreak, and when arms were-being daily brough into the country, that he urged upon the Ministry the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in the case of persons arrested for treasonable practices. Since that time a large number of persons have been imprisoned ; but more than half have been re leased, and the whole might have been set at liberty if they would give any reasonable pledge that they would live quietly and abandon the conspiracy. The moderation of these measures will no doubt be strictly imitated by the present Ministers. Lord Derby said, "It is the earnest desire of the present Government to extend that system, and to allow the dismissal from prison of all persons who can give any security, and who can hold out any prospect that they will act for the future as loyal subjects of the Crown." The most scrupulous Constitutionalist need have no fear that the public.liberty willsuffer by the continuance of the Act. Any man now in confinement may walk out of prison on a simple un dertaking that he will cease to be a member of a conspiracy for murder and pillage. That more than three hundred desperadoes actually refuse to make such a promise is sufficient proof that further secu rity for the public safety is necessary during the Par liamentary recess. The most important part of the debate, however, did not regard the continuance of the Act, about which there could be no serious dif - ference of opinion. Lord Kimberley made a frank exposition of his views, and there is no reason to suppose that he spoke under the influence of party feeling, or that any prejudices acquired in the land he has been governing blind his judgment. In the first place, the late Viceroy fully confirms all that has been said of the dangerous character of the conspiracy. It had not people of property and gentlemen at its head, like the rebellion of 1798 or the noisy movement of 1848 ; but all the other classes of Irishmen were more or less represented in it. " The persons who were most active in pro moting the conspiracy," says Lord Kimberley, " were not the poorer and more ignorant classes, but persons I can best describe as belonging to the artisan and small tradesmen classes." "As regards the farming classes, of whom I have frequently seen it asserted that they did not sympathise with this sedition, I regret that in its full extent I cannot repeat that statement." In the south and west of Ireland the farmers, though they did not take part in the conspiracy, would, in Lord Kimberley's opinion, have been perfectly ready to join a rebellion if it had proved successful. There is nothing unreasonable in this view, and it is confirmed by the course events have taken. The active Fenians may be few in number, and as long as the Govern ment can deal with them the country may be quiet. But there is a large class of society ready to take ad vantage of any reverse that may befall British rule, and a still larger class, probably amounting to a ma jority of Irishmen, who would acquiesce, not unwil lingly, in any authority w hich might contrive to over throw it. Let us, then, for a moment suppose that the Irish populationis alienated from its allegiance, and would gladly, or, at any rate, without resistance, see the political connection of the two islands at an end. It is an extreme supposition, but it is better to look at the worst boldly, and to consider what is to be done with a people who, living under the same Government, are so unfriendly to us. If they could unmoor their island and float two thousand miles to the westward, the question would be soon set tled, and they might become a State of the Ameri can Union, or an independent Republic, one and in divisible, withouthindrance from us. But they are on our coasts, and the political union between the two countries must at all costs be maintained. There are only two means of effecting this—coercion or con ciliation. There are thoughtless or unscrupulous speakers who assert that British policy has exclu sively used the former means ; but such assertions are hardly worthy of refutation. The removal of all the grievances which were urged by the orators of the last generation is a sufficient answer to such an assertion. The wish of men of all parties in England—we intentionally except Irish Tories is to do justice to every class and creed in Ireland, and to remove every real cause of discontent. The difficulty is to find the cause of the admitted disorder. Irish politicians have each their remedy, and, whereas a few years since the complaint was that Irish laws were not assimilated to those of England, we are now told that it is an absurdity to talk of " identical institutions" for the two countries. We may put aside as trifling the ques tions of the Lord-Lieutenancy and the payment by the nation of the creditors of insolvent Irish railways ; but there is a large agreement of opinion to the effect that the reform of the Irish Church, and some legislation on the tenure of land which shall protect the more defenceless tenants, would conciliate the Irish people. On the merits of the Irish Establishment we presume there cannot be two opinions among impartial men. The Church of 700,000 people, established amid a population of 5,500,000, is an anomaly which no one on this side of St. George's Channel attempts to defend. But, strange to say, it has always been more keenly felt by Englishmen than in Ireland, and the Fenians professed an equal hos tility to the Ministers of both religions. ne land question is more difficult, and we doubt whether any legislation will effect a solution which will be just both for landlord and tenant. The real evil of Ireland is the excessive" competition for land, arising from the existence of a large popu lation which lives exclusively by agriculture. So long as there are half-a-dozen bidders for every farm, landlords will be able to make their own terms, and it is not in human nature that those terms should be other than hard. The peasantry must have land at any price, and if one will not consent to the landlord's conditions, another will. The real reform in the tenure of land will come when emi gration or new employments have allowed the oc cupier to drive a better bargain for himself. But, undoubtedly, this question deserves all the conside ration Parliament can give it. We are bound as a nation to do all that may be justly and reasonably done to content the Irish people ; if they then still continue hostile, we shall know that their antipathy is beyond any legislative remedy. HERALD.—A public execution is one of those scenes which society only bears from a conviction of its necessity, and which it would very unwillingly see heightened by the addition of unaccustomed horrors. Sad and solemn as is the sight at all times it is especially so when the culprit is in the prime of life, respectable in position, and, up to the time when he committed a capital crime, of fair character and conduct, belonging to a class of society which furnishes but few perpetrators of offences against the person, and having taken upon himself those social responsibilities which generally tend to deve lope the qualities of the peace-loving and law-ob serving citizen. Humanity shrinks from fhe thought of putting a fellow-man to a violent death, except in cases of the sternest necessity; and even when that necessity has been demonstrated, it desires to make the mortal struggle as brief and as painless as possi ble. The unfortunate incident which took place at Stafford yesterday is therefore one especially to be regretted by those who regard the infliction of the death penalty in certain cases as a duty which society owes to its peaceful and well-conducted members. William Collier, convicted at the last. .assizes of the murder of Mr. Thomas Smith, was brought out to suffer his deserved doom. The fatal 110050 was adjusted, the drop fell, and of course the prisoner with it. Unhappily, how ever, through some bungling of the executioner, the halter had not been properly secured to the beam , and the wretched man consequently did not remain suspended in mid air, but fell to the ground, amid a thrill of horror from the spectators. lie was taken up again, the work of fastening the rope wa s per: formed a second time, and he was thus ° compellec.t, twice to taste the bitterness of death—the crowct meanwhile hooting and crying shame at the clumsl, ness of the official. The opponents of ca p tal, punishment will doubtless endeavour to create a little capital in support of their favourite crotchet out of this untoward and unfortunate occurrence. We must, however, protest against any attempt of this kind to make the abrogation of a particula r _ punishment dependent upon an occasiona l act of incaution or inexpertness on the part of the folic' tionary by whose hands it is inflicted. Sincerely as we should deprecate the repetition of such scenes as that which took place at Stafford, we regard it, not as an argument for abolishing capital punishments altogether, but for taking care that some more cow ' petent person than the Dudley cattle dealer, viTh ° officiated yesterday,shall be employed to inflict ther• We must not allow our sympathy for Collier's in, advertently augmented sufferings to warp our jud ment as to the great and peculiar atrocity of t , be, crime which he committed. He bad been for 2 0 , years a neighbour of his victim's father, a nd ba d known the unfortunate deceased from his infancy upwards. His poaching propensities had brought Wm under suspicion, and on the 4th of July last the young squire" went out to watch his father's cov.erf,4. While thus engaged he met his death at Collier hands, under circumstances which show the crime to have been of the deepest dye. Hot words, hasty blows, aye, even sudden shots, may be ex changed between watchers who have been unexPe° - 1' tedly successful in attaining the object of m an y weary vigil, and poachers suddenly detected in the pursuit of their dishonest and lawless occupatiol!. No one, not even the most rabid game-aboh tionist, can justify their resort to violence, but some slight extenuation may perhaps be allowed on aoeou nt of excited feeling and anxiety to escape, i f poasi ble, from apprehended punishment. But the crime which Collier committed was far more deliberate and dar tardly. An examination of young Mr. Smith's b o ° l showed that he must have been brought down by a couple of shots which pierced his hat, and struck , without piercing, the bone at the back of his heed• An ordinary poacher would have been content with this, and would have hurried away from the spot as quickly as guilt and fear could have carried Ino• But Collier's purpose was more fell and his reveng e more deadly. While his victim lay before klino stunned, bleeding, and helpless, he appears to ha ve attacked him mercilessly with the butt end of his guilt battering the head like an anvil until his weapon was shattered to pieces, and the victim's skull was con_ . ; pletely beaten in. The prisoner had borne a g ood character, and the jury on that account recommended. him to mercy ; but the judge very properly declined to give effect to the recommendation on beha lf of ad man against whom an act of such atrocious, an almost incredible savagery had been so conclusively established. The bungling at the execution is, Wl' ever, calculated to make us regret that among oth. her delays and disappointments, the late Ministry's it advised conduct of their reforming campaign has involved the postponement of an alteration of the law by which capital punishments are reguiaten• Policemen, as we have had abundant evidenc e dur ing the last fortnight, are never popular with th i s mob; gaolers, we are assured, are still more thorough i l disliked; while, by the mass of spectators at an et) i " cution, the person of the executioner is regarded w ith u ndisguised hostility. The knowledge that this sse must of necessity have its influence upon the hardeso nerves. Calcraft himself has been known on sor°_, occasions to tremble and become agitated at the critics ; moment ; and if the master in the art of hangingiso°.,, proof against such feelings his provincial disciple ); not very likely to escape them. Bence—happily distant intervals—we have to chronicle scenes 0 1 t unusually distressing character when the n oose is bolt con structed, when the rope breaks, or. as it haPP e il t yesterday, it was insecurely fastened to the beam . if executions took place within prison walls tit element of disturbance would not be present. Thor: would be no howlings and hootings to distract saes., tion, no nervous anxiety to hurry over the neF ea . sary preliminaries, no shock to public sensibilltio from misadventures which no one has so much rea m , to regret as those whose deliberate convictions , pel them to believe that society cannot entirely ow„ pease with the death penalty consistent with its OP, safety. The objections,urged against private 00,°%, Lions would not apply to punishments inflicted 1 the same building and before the same officers are charged with the carrying out of severe thou. go minor sentences ; nor would the suspicion of p0551,,b,,0 impunity attach when proper precautions we re for satisfying the public mind that the prisoner doom was not a whit the less certain because it / c „.. performed within prison walls, and not in the co u ld try try market-place or the area in front of the u'„, Bailey. The dangerous classes would of cou r .,), lose a spectacle on which they are wont to look an amount of gratification which it is hard to undere stand or excuse, and the pickpockets would lia°, l one the less opportunity for exercising their 5 14 .1 and ingenuity. But the decency and dignity WI which every process of law should be con dnete f would be greatly increased, while the exhibition II h a black flag and the tolling of the passing y,, would give a solemn notification to the world side the walls of the dread duty which the preserve: of peace were discharging within. We trust, the.r_.°, fore, that early next session the bill for effectu.atwoe, this much desired alteration may be again lotto duced, and that the discussions of the last few We e to and the occurrence of yesterday may alike tenctoi, sooth i its passage through Parliament, and to fa'og tate its progress towards a permanent place 3 10 our statutes. COUNTRY MARKETS. DS—TUESDAY. The arrivals this LEE week are not largo. We have, b oa'o deal of rain since Tuesday last, and tho weather tivery tinues unsettled • holders of wheat are consequently ;000 firm, and demand fully last week's rates, but the 1. 311 % in passing is not very extensive. No quotable chant spring corn. MARKET HARBOROUGII.—TuEsDAY - o f tlie At this day's market there was a fair attendance w hioll trade, and a healthy business was done in wheat, of there was a limited supply. Barley and oats scarce . a 36 Old white wheat, 52s to 568 ; new red. 48s to 54s P os t. stone. Barley, fine, —s ; other kinds, 28s to 38s Pe r , o ld, Oats, new, 26s to 32s ; old, 308 to 34s per qr. I 3a° ' 52s to 545; new, 48s to 50s per qr. NEWC..4STLE-UNDER-LYME-31oNDO . la ria t There was a moderate show of wheat at our corn bite to-day, for which recent prices we ted• re suppor sorts realised 58s to 625; red, 49s to 57s per 36 ail,' s bov barley nothing of importance was transacted. ' ll° l3o lo of oats was small, and recent rates were establisho u • about the same as heretofore. L IVERP 0 OL—T UESDAY. f ib ° At this day's market there was a good attendance °00,60 town and country trade, and a fair amount of busilleoar done. Wheat met with a moderate demand for coliroce• tion at full prices, and in some cases a slight au: 4 od Flour was in good request, and fully 6d. per bar l o `d tl l° sack dearer. Oats and oatmeal were neglected, and turn lower. In barley, beans, and peas there was n ° to note either in value or demand. Indian 00112,4 r cos_„ sr f good supply offering, was rather easier to buy , r 6d derable transactions were reported at about 2" 4801 b. for prime mixed. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TuESDAT. /DO` Not much wheat on offer, and prices wer e n°ll altered. Very little barley. Beans heavy. 3 6 E ff to White wheat, 54s to 59s .; red, 50s to 53s per 3 30 t . Barley for malting, 36s to 39s per qr; feed, 28 s to r 30 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 345; new, 22s to 300 Pe Beans, old, 48s to 525; new, 458 to 48s per qr. SHEFFIELD--TuEsuiT. 1 , tO r There was a fair attendance to-day, and wi-'1 3 1,00;', bo quoted at about late rates. A small show CO , 0 1 , n at late prices. Oats were not plentiful, and n last 0 previous currencies. A fair trade ie beans at OJ prices. „i 2 15 pi Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels...o9 B ut„ to g. 30 0 ,1 White do do bushels.. „218 Ou ,13 03 New red do do --0 pd --8 0 New white do do -0 "" 2 0 . od Beans do do l9O °d 4 (16 a Peas, per qr. 388 , 0d 370 p d Grinding barley, per qr 348 vu 420 - a Malting barley, do 3BB ?I 3'2 0 ° Oats, do 27s ,"__ F10ur....1s 10d to 23 bd per 141 b. vi go Of Births. BEAUMONT—On the 6th inst., at Grantham, the . the Beaumont, Esq., of a son. m st ol 3l PEEL—On the 6th inst., at Moore House, Bug -- wife of Captain Robert M. Peel, of a son. .11 4 Marriages. 11 0 ' 5, BASTIAN—ORME—On the 4th inst., at the parish,' V.l)*l Hampstead, Henry C. Bastian, Esq, M.A., 311 v*';c[' °II' ' to Julia Augusta, daughter of Charles 00 30 7 "--- -I st° ll Avenue-road, Regent's-park. „t W. 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