The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. CAMBRIAN. The adjourned meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Westminster Palace Hotel ; Cap- Johns in the chair. _ .. The report stated that the receipts for the half year ending December entitled the proprietors to the distribution as dividends down to 1863 on the inland section, of ter paying all prior outgoings, and that the securities and property they held justified such distribution. They accordingly obtained a temporary advance on the securities to that amount pending their realisation, which realisation, so far as it had proceeded, showed that they were justified in paying those dividends. A portion of the amount included in the revenue account had not yet been received, and that part was disputed. All interest on debentures, rentcharges, and other outgoings had been paid as they became due, and although it was the worst six months of the year, and the stoppage of the cattle trade, and the financial crisis, seriously affected the receipts, still they considered it advis able to recommend dividends on the Llanidloes and Newton and Newtown andMachynlleth Guaranteed Stocks, and on the Oswestry and Newtown Prefer ence Stock, down to and including 1861. The obli gations which the company had had to meet since the sth of February had been heavy, while, on the other hand, the difficulty of converting such securi ties and property as were held by the company had been very great. They had consequently been com pelled to apply temporarily such ready money as eame into their hands in meeting pressing claims on capital and other accounts. The company had been able to proceed uninterruptedly with the works on the coast section, and the railways connecting their main line with the lines northward of Aberdovey, and to Barmouth, Harlech, Portmadoc, and Pwllheli, including the viaducts over the Barmouth Estuary, the Traethbach, and the Treathmawr, have been com pleted, with the exception of some slight alterations which the Government Inspector had required to be made before they were formally opened. The opening of these portions of their railway gave an addition of about 40 miles. The Carnarvonshire and Nantile Companies had also completed their lines. The CHAIR3IAN said that certain of the debenture holders in the critical time of panic and want of confidence had decided to have the principal re turned to them, and it was a question the board had under consideration. The debenture holders had up to that time been very considerate, and the cre ditors had also exhibited the same feeling. He was in hopes that a very short time would see the com pany in a good position. With regard to the de benture interest, it had been paid up to the present time, and there was a large surplus from revenue after payment of all charges. The amount of re venue received by the company was just double the amount required to cover the debenture interest. The traffic returns continued to increase largely. About 40 miles of the Welsh Coast Railway were almost ready for opening. Since the last meeting the board had had communication with the Carnarvon shire and another company, both of which occupied very good districts. They had agreed to work those lines on reasonable terms. This would bring a large amount of traffic on to their line from other districts, which they could not otherwise obtain. He then moved that the meeting stand adjourned until the 20th of December. In reply to questions by Mr. Fildes, M.P., it was stated that there were debentures over due, and the holders had asked the company to pay them, and the company was as sound as it possibly could be. A large amount of the debenture had been issued at 4f per cent. Some of them were over due, and it had become a legal question whether they could pay the money to the proprietors at a time when the debenture holders wanted their principal. The pro posed adjournment of the meeting was on account of that question. The adjournment was then agreed to unanimously, and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. TURIN AND SAVONA. A general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Gresham-house, Old Broad street ; Mr. 11. Kituberley in the chair. The CHAIRMAN explained that the London Com mittee had received proposals from the Council of Administration at Turin to the effect that the corn- pany should make over all its rights and assets to the contractor, who had obtained in the Italian courts judgment against the company for £50,000, he undertaking to complete the line and to form a new company, the present company being dissolved, and provided that the Italian Government would give him a subvention of £240,000 and a guarantee of £BO,OOO a year. The London Committee had presented a memorial to the Italian Govnrnment in September last stating the facts of the case, and the causes which had prevented the company from being able to raise the necessary funds to proceed with the works. They had also induced General Tremenheere to go to Italy and represent the in terests of the English shareholders ' with a view to obtain such terms as wou ld enable the company to complete the railway, and, if not to obtain compen sation for those shareholders who had paid up all their calls. The proposed agreement with the Ita lian contractor stipulated that the new company were to give the present shareholders 57,500 obli gations of £2O each for their interest in the con cern, subject, however, to the claims of Mr. Murray, the original contractor for the line, w hi c h it was supposed werevery large. If the Government would give the company the terms the contractor de manded they would get other contractors to finish the line in about 18 months. The Italian contractor had claimed £BO,OOO as being due to him, and had threatened to ruin the company if he was not paid, Or the proposed terms agreed to. The reason the funds could not be raised was that the guarantee of £BO,OOO a year was a deferred guarantee, and made contingent on the opening of the line for traffic. Owing also to delays in obtaining the guarantee, and the depreciation that took place in such securi ties, it became impossible to raise the money neces sary to complete the works. A long discussion ensued, in which Mr. Cony beare, Mr. Hartridge, Mr. Walker, Mr. Maxwell, and other shareholders took part, and from which it appeared that the company had expended £500,000 on the railway. The English•shareholders had paid £240;000 on their shares, including £150,000 re ceived from shareholders who had paid up all their calls. It would require £1,260,100 to complete the line, according to the estimate by Mr. Abernethy, the company's chief engineer. If the Government would give them an immediate, not a deferred, gua rantee of £BB,OOO a year, it would enable the com pany to complete the whole of the line, which would be of great advantage to Italy in developing some of its great resources. The Government had pre vented the Italian contractor from enforcing his claim, and had advanced the company £40,000 to go on with the work, which they would have to ac count for when a settlement took place. Mr. FIELD said that £450,000 would enable the company to finish the main line, which was 91 miles in length, and the works were in a forward state. Resolutions wore passed unanimously to the effect that the meeting, having heard the proposition for transferring the rights and property of the company to the Italian contractor, were of opinion that it should not be accepted ; expressing an opinion that if the proposed terms were given to the company by the Italian Government they could successfully carry out the undertaki ng, and that the adoption of the proposed terms by the Italian contractor would be injurious to the compa ny and unjust to the English shareholders ; and requesting the London committee to urge on the council of administration at Turin the propriety of abandoning those proposals and supporting the memorial of the English directors. The meeting expressed its confidence in the Italian Government and the King that under the circum stances they would not suffer the property of the company (£600,000) to be forfeited. The proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the chairman and directors, and to Mr. Aber nethy, the engineer in chief. RAILWAY TICKETS. In reply to a suggestion by Mr. Barrett to the London Railway Companies that it would be very convenient to many travellers on the lilies between SEVERN BRIDGE. It is intended to apply in the coming session of Parliament for powers to cross the Severn at a point near Lydney by a 'compromise railway bridge,' pro moted with the view of serving the purpose of both the Severn Junction and High Level bridges, already authorised by Parliament and supported respectively by the Midland and Great Western Companies, but not as yet carried out. The short ening of the distance between the South Wales and Forest of Dean coalfields and the metropolis and the west of England is the chief object sought to be attained, and it is generally agreed that if a bridge can be successfully erected over the Severn the mi neral traffic would be so large as to amply repay the capital outlay. To the two bridges already autho rised it is objected that one is too high up the river to accommodate South Wales, and the other would nvolve too great an expenditure. The compromise bridge will cross at mid-distance between the High Level and the Severn Junction, and it is estimated that the outlay, including the construction of branches, will not exceed half a million of money, which is below the estimated cost of either of the other two bridges. Messrs. Liddell and Ward are the engineers of the scheme. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES Secretary McCuLLocifs letter to the Honour able W. MURPHY, Consul-General from the United States, to Frankfort-on-the Maine, dated Washing ton, October 18, 1866, and published in our last number, is, though a private document, of the highest interest and importance to large numbers of investors in Europe. The Secretary of the United States' Treasury says " that the policy of the Go " vernment in regard to its Bonds is well understood " in America, and there ought not to be any mistake " about it on the other side. The principal of all 44 our Bonds, the interest of which ispayable in coin, 44 will be paid in coin. Our interest-bearing notes 4 , are payable in currency." This is the most con- elusive answer to the assertion that the Governmen of the United States are not bound to pay the principal of the 5-20 Bonds, when due, in-coin In the fewest words the Secretary constructs a sen tence which annihilates all doubt on the subject There are many persons who endeavour to throw discredit on everything American, because they hate American Institutions. Such persons are aided by speculators, who, operating for, a fall, use the most unscrupulous means to attain their end. The timid public are made the victims of the former's hate and the latter's fraud. The public should learn that the Government of the United States has been the most scrupulously honourable in meeting its engagements. Whether legally bound or not, to pay these bonds when due in coin, the engagement when the transaction was concluded, was a distinc understanding between the borrower and the lender that the Bond. - 5 were thus to be liquidated. To sup pose that the Government of the United States would avail itself of a shuffle to lessen its liability is to suppose the wildest absurdity, grounded on singular ignorance. The Union is the only great nation, with but one or two exceptions, that has not con tracted a debt the principal of which it cannot see its way to pay. Nearly all other first-rate Powers have borrowed money with the prospect only of meeting the interest when due. Many great Go vernments use every means to increase their liabili ties—to borrow more and more, and to saddle coming generations with a burden they can never honestly cast off. There are two points which European investors should carefully note in the financial transactions of the United States if they wish to be on the safe side in lending their money to foreign countries :-- 1. The United States have met every engagement contracted before the war—principal and interest. 2. The United States have contracted no debt the principal of which they are not as well able to pay as the interest in the terms of their engage ment. If we look over the world we will see how singu lar is this exception in Government financial trans actions. Take every first-class Power in Europe, and, excluding Prussia, all are hopelessly involved in debt. The highest aim of most of these Govern ments is to meet the semi-annual liability for inte rest. Some, even in this particular, fail. With few exceptions they are engaged in i„zreasing the already hopeless burden. The task of 'financial Ministers is to devise means of raising new loans, not to devise means of paying those already contracted. Great Bri tain enjoys the highest credit of all Governments, yet on her shoulders lies a debt which the people have grown to regard as a burden they were born to bear. Financial pretenders occasionally propose ridiculous schemes for relieving the English public of their National Debt, but the people know the age of miracles is past, and such plans excite the contempt they deserve. Spain is in a position of acknow ledged bankruptcy. Turkey endeavours by fitful efforts to revive a credit almost wholly lost. Aus tria and Italy hold the place of men living far be yond their means, whose estates are known to be mortgaged over their value. France and Russia d co eb lo t n hies.:oblettemadd year by year to their heavy burdens. A great contracted pi by British India, and the r a e s lo h s o e r n ro o w o e p r p s o . rtu s n o i m ti e es o o f f tchoemse ing on th e market Governments have sinking funds which are mostly delusions to entice lenders ; B nd s e x b e y i t annual t l o o t te t h r e i e s s u, addwhich h ome reduce their bstantial- s security i r t i t t l y e ofgam bling the guaranteed interest. Each year, however, but adds to their encumbrances, and whether in peace or in war there is but one result, the sacrifice of the future to the present, the continued call for more and more. Surrounded as we are by such financial transactions as these, it is refreshing to turn to' the United States. No sooner does the Government emerge from war than every effort is directed to liquidate as quickly as possible the liabilities in curred by the great contest. Twenty millions of dollars—equal to four millions sterling—of the na tional indebtedness was met by the Secretary o f the Treasury during last month. Each month leads to a material reduction of the United States Debt, and if the present rate be maintained, the liabilities of the United States Government will be extinguished before they are due. Although nearly £5,000,000 in specie was disbursed on the Ist inst., the gold balance in the Treasury was £14,000,00 0 . The estimate for the year 1866 of the gold and silver product of the United States is £21,000,000. The production of the precious metals increases, and under a new crushing process lately introduced into California this increase will probably receive a fresh impetus. The vitality of the nation is won derful, and unbounded as is the confidence of the Americans in their own resources, the ease with which the enormous sums are levied in taxes, excites even their own surprise. A Government so placed would, one might well suppose, be above even the breath of suspicion. But the English cling tenaciously to prejudices, and there are precedents in the action of one or two of the individual States which gives some colour to the suspicions of those who cannot un derstand the Constitution of the Great Republic. The action of the Secretary of the Treasury is the best answer to statements we have heard, and which in truth are not worth discussion---that the object of America, is to pass as many of the 5-20 Bonds as she canto Europe, and then repudiate the tdwebetn.tieAsfsrolomnN York instead as ew there is o a s profit te ad of in g sending,ld merchants F i v e - will avail themselves of this means of remittance. But the moment the price rises in N ew Y or k to THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 186 G. London and stations within ten mides of it to be able to purchase at a time 10s. or 20s. worth of tickets (single and return) instead of being obliged each time to take tickets in the usual way, the Lon don and North Western stated that the company's arrangements did not include the issue of any tickets whatever in the mode advocated, and therefore were unable to comply with the application ; the Great Western stated it was not their intention to make any alteration in the existing arrangements for the issue of tickets to the suburban stations ; the Great Northern did not consider it expedient to adopt the suggestion, saying it was to a great extent met by the issue of season and periodical tickets, and that the system would be very inconvenient if not im practicable ; and the London and Brighton stated that the suggestion had been found quite impossible to be carried out. leave a margin of profit on the return of these bonds they will as quickly go back. Europeans may rest assured that American investors prefer their own Securities to any other,, and the main portion of their debt will, under almost any circumstances, be due to citizens of the - United States. A certain portion of these Bonds are merely used as a medium of exchange, and become circulated throughout Europe. But their drift is into the hands of permanent holders in America, and to be used as a means for the investment of trust-money, and other purchases requiring undoubted secu rity. As the bonds floating between the con tinents become absorbed, the tendency will be to rise rapidly in market value ; and this process will be facilitated by the constant purchases on the part of the Government, with the object of extin guishing the debt.—Anglo-American Times. two-gun screw iron ship, 4,173 tons, and 700-horse power, built at Birkenhead by Messrs. Laird, one of the new class of veseels for the conveyance of troops to India. The double screw steam gunboat Vixen, 4, from the eastward, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday' She is now at Devonport, undergoing some slight alterations. The iron screw steam storeship Buffalo, 2, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday evening. It The armour plated screw steamship Orion, 24, Capt. C. S. S. Stanhope, was placed on Wednesday in No. 2 dock, Keyham Steamyard, to have her bottom cleaned and screw adjusted. The iron armour plated screw steamship Achilles, 26, Capt. E. W. Vansittart, is ordered to be docked to-day (Friday) in Keyham Steamyard. She will be followed by the Caledonia. The screw steam corvette Satellite, 17, Capt. Edye, left Plymouth, on Thursday, for China. The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. H. W. Hire, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Kingstown, Ireland, with the depots of the 64th and 73d Regi ments on board. The Orontes went into Portsmouth harbour on arrival at Spithead, and will disembark her troops this morning at the dockyard. The de pot of the 64th Regiment will proceed to Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, and the 74th depot to Shorncliffe. The keel of a small gunboat, to be driven by twin screws, with independent working engines, has been laid down under No. 4 building shed of Portsmouth dockyard. She is to be named the Ringdove, and will be of 663 tons, and of similar dimensions to the Plover, now building at Deptford yard.: The Ring dove's frame is being converted from that of the Harlequin, a partly built 17 gun corvette, recently taken down from one of the building shipways of Portsmouth yard. The Hector, armoured iron frigate, at Portsmouth, Captain W. G. Luard, has sent down her foretop mast and other upper spars alongside Portsmouth Dockyard, in process of refit for sea by the 28th inst. The Research, armoured wooden sloop, Com mander R. Scott, and the Helicon, paddlewheel despatch vessel, Commander E. Field, are also push ing forward their refit for sea at the same port, to complete on the same date as the Hector. The Vulcan, screw iron troopship, was taken into dock at Portsmouth yesterday for survey and repair. The Prussian screw frigate Gazelle, Capt. Henk, sailed from Spithead yesteiday, at 3 a.m., for the Mediterranean. The entry of lads for the Royal Navy has cons derably increased during the past month at Woo' wich. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. T. Brooke to be flag lieut. to Rear-Admiral the Hon. Geo. F. Hastings, C.B. ; Lieut. Hunter Kent to the Lion ; Hon. Harry de V. Pery, naval cadet, to the Zealous ; Henry Cook, chief engineer, to the Indus, for charge of the machinery of the Malabar ; Henry Perry, pay master, to be secretary to Rear-Admiral the Hon. Geo. F. Hastings, C.B. ; Wm. 11. Hyde, assist.- paymaster, to the Pembroke ; John N. Colborne, assist.-paymaster, to the Donegal ; Frederick C. M. Sadler, assist-paymaster, to the St. George ; Michael L. Gedge, assist-paymaster, to the Excellent ; Matthew Wellington, assist.-paymaster, additional, to the Zealous, for Rear-Admiral the Hon. Geo. F. Hastings's office ; Chas. R. Drew, assist.- paymas ter, to the Zealous, as secretary's clerk ; Jas. T. A. White, master's assistant, additional, to the For midable, for the Lizard; and Frank E. G. Dent, clerk, to the Zealous. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :—H• G. Sanders, Edgar Willbeck, and Wm. C. K. K. John to be Sub.- Lieuts. Protection versus Free Trade in America. The most remarkable writer amongst the hosts of New York correspondents of the London news paper press is the gentleman who styles himself " A Yankee," and writes as the special cor respondent of the Spectator. His letter, dated New York, October 19, 1866, is a strik ing document on " Free Trade and Democracy." In England Americans are said to be hope lessly ignorant of the laws of political economy. It is accepted as a conclusive proof of this assertion that the Americans drift year by year further and further into the errors of Protection. The principles of economical science are universal, and applicable alike to all nations. These principles support the system of Free Trade ; and, add the English, we have tried both Protection and Free Trade, and have found practically that the laws of political economy are true. "A Yankee" does not attempt to con trovert the arguments said to prove that Free Trade is based on sound political economy. He steps alto gether out of the line usually taken by Protec tionists, and clearly shows what the feelings and objects of the American people are in adopting so strongly the principles of Protection. First, he shows that the arguments brought forward on both sides of the question are better understood in America than in any other country. He admits the full force of those in favour of Free Trade, and adds that they are never seriously disputed in America, except by newspapers, and people who are rabid on the opposite side. Then he breaks away from the question, to prove that the American people are actuated by other and higher motives than mere present gain. Admitting that Free Trade is simple —so is despotism. Free Trade is cheap—so despotism might be. Free ex change is a great desideratum, but not the greatest. Labour is best rewarded—other things being equal —in the freest commercial communities. But other things are not equal. Americans see that they could not compete in manufactures against the pauper labour of Europe, which produces an artifi cial inequality, in consequence of a false, oppres sive, artificial state of society in the Old World. Free Trade would tend to perpetuate this system in Europe they so condemn. If abundance of labour be supplied to the population of European countries, emigration would be checked, and the artificial system now in force preserved. America would become the gra nary and raw-material-producing country for the mills and workshops of Europe. The political economists of Europe say this is what America ought to be—what the true principles of political economy say she must be. But it is precisely what the American people say they won't be. It is better, on the whole, for the country as a whole to have Protection or Free Trade. That is—putting the question to an individual—will you buy your clothes and tools cheap, or encourage home manufactures by buying them dear? Do you wish the country to be reduced to the production of raw materials only—cotton, grain, tobacco, sugar, wool, beef, and pork, a purely agricultural country ; or one with a diversified interest of manufactures and agriculture? The citizens of the Union have answered that " We "are ready to protect our larger interest against " our little needs and cravings. We see and know " the price we pay for such legislation ; but we see " also our gain as a nation. As individuals we of "this generation suffer, that the nation may secure "in the fature the ends we have in view. As a " people, we seek something better than to get all "we can and keep all we get." " The bulwark of " Protection in America," says the Spectator, _ _ commenting on this letter, "is a belief diffused " among the whole ruling class of freeholders that " without it America would assume her natural posi " tion as a great producing country occupied by a " single class, while they want it to be occupied by " many—would become a country of simple civilisa " tion, while they want it to be one of complex. " Society would be natural, whereas they want it "to be highly artificial. The Americans are all " wrong, as wrong as women would be who, assert " ing that dress can aid beauty, drew thence the " deduction that tight lacing and art in dress were " naturally indispensable. Protection no more " multiplies the forms of industry or of social life " than confinement in a pipe multiplies the ripples "of a stream." But what about diverting the stream, with regard to the ripples? If a portion of the stream itself be turned aside, the ripples of the stream will certainly be lessened. Americans assert that Protection, as applied to their country, fosters nume rous paths of industry,insures to workmen high wages, and thus draws from Europe the under-paid artisans, at the same time that it promotes those branches of industry which, whatever may be the present sacri fice, will become 'looted in the country, and eventu ally tend to national prosperity. Then, in the future, when the position becomes equal—that is, when manufacturing industry in America is able to compete on equal terms with the manufacturing in dustry of Europe, and the diversified interests of the country are secured, no further sacrifices of the people will be necessary—the true principles of po litical economy will become applicable, and Free Trade be adopted. At present the adoption of Free Trade by America would vastly benefit Europe, and might benefit the present generation of Americans. But America will not legislate for the benefit of Europe ; and is willing to submit to individual loss to secure in the end a great result. It is in vain to argue on ab stract principles to prove Free Trade right and Protection wrong with people who admit the truth of the principles advanced, but declare that they are actuated by other motives into which these prin ciples only casually enter. The circumstances are peculiar, and Americans hold that they are better judges of these circumstances than European poli tical economists. They have the example of the Southern States before them as to what became of a purely agricultural system. They are equally opposed to erecting any one State into a purely manufacturing district. They maintain that agri culture and manufactures should go hand in hand— that the mill should stand in the neighbourhood of the farm, and that every community should be within itself as complete as it can possibly be made. They hold that nature alone should place limits on the productive industry of each State of the Union, but that no artificial restrictions in favour of any oreign country should be allowed.—Anglo-Aineri- can Times. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.--The Recruiting Commissioners were brought at the close of their report to a very gene ral but very necessary conclusion, on which, though it was the most important subject of their inquiry, they found themselves with but little room to expa tiate. They had remarked, truly enough, that the military forces of this country were organised in two distinct establishments—the army for general service, and the militia for service at home. They bad further remarked that recent events had taught us the necessity of maintaining a far stronger force for home service than formerly, and of keeping it in greater readiness for action. Now, as they did not propose to increase the strength of the regular army, it was obvious that they must come to some reform of the militia, and that, in fact, was their conclusion. They had, however, devoted almost the whole of their report to the comparatively limited question of providing with greater ease and certainty for the periodical recruiting of the regular force ; so that when the momentous question of a reserve appeared for consideration it was despatched iu the following words :—" We are of opinion that it is to our militia we must look for the solid and constitutional reserve of the country, and we would earnestly recommend that more attention should be given to its organisation ; that its numbers should be maintained up to the full legal quota, and that, so far as is possible, the period for drilling the re cruits should be more extended." In , those very general terms is comprised all that the commis sioners have to say about the maintenance of an efficient reserve for the protection of the kingdom under the conditions of modern warfare, and we shall best understand the insufficiency of the sug- gestion if we imagine the actual realisation of the contingency against which preparations are to be made. Let us suppose, then, that an invasion of England has been attempted, and that an enemy has landed on our shores with such an army as powerful monarchies now bring into the field. We should be called on, therefore, to meet this army on the instant with an organised force of at least 100,000 men, and we should require at least 100,000 more to sup port them. What means do we possess for such a purpose ? The regular army, to which would be our first appeal, might supply, as the Commission ers observe, a contingent of some 40,000 or 50,000 effective troops of all arms, and this calculation is certainly as liberal as possible. If the militia, in stead of being, as it is, imperfect, were all that the Commissioners recommend, we might possibly have 80,000 or 90,000 men of this force at our disposal ; but it is still certain that under our present system even this army could not be immediately brought into the field for active service. If any military commander were asked to state upon paper what he would require for a month's campaign against an invading army, his requisitions would be simply equivalent to a catalogue of our deficiencies. The only way to look at this subject is to imagine the reality of the presumed occurrence. We should have to march against the suppos:d enemy exactly as the Prussians marched against the Aus trians—only with still less choice of time or place. But the Prussians had behind their first line of troops a second line equally good, and behind this a third as able as the others. Of still greater importance is it to observe that all these troops formed so many portions of one homogeneous, well amalgamated army. Some were on active service ; some had been called out as reserves ; but all had been trained to act together ; all knew their places, and the whole machine could be put in motion II ith as much - ease and steadiness as a column marching out of Aldershott. Nor was this all. In attendance on those divisions were all the subsidiary forces which an army in the field requires, and every one of these departments was as complete and as effective as could be wished. Every inch of the country to be traversed was known ; every possible obstacle anticipated, and communi cations, under all imaginable circumstances, were infallibally insured. Food, ammunition,medical aid, and comforts were all secured in adequote supplies by services properly organised beforehand, so that the efficiency of the entire army was guaranteed. Nothing less than this should we also require in the event of an invasion, and how much of it have we got ? We have not got even the men to begin with. We may allow that our regular army of 40,000 men would be supported by as good an auxiliary force of Volunteers as could be desired ; but of the militia, or army destined by constitutional theory for this particular service, how much could we com mand ? Perhaps hardly 50,000 men ; but even that is not the most important point. These militia men—whether few or many—would certainly not be competent in respect of discipline or practice to enter the line with regular troops. They would bear no such relation to the men of the line as the Prussian Landwehr bear to the Prussian army. There would have been no previous association, and there could be no practical amalgamation. Accord ing to theory, there ought, for this particular kind of service, to be as complete an analogy between a regiment of militia and a regiment of the line as there is between one regiment of the line and ano ther. The militia, we repeat, is nothing but an army exempted from foreign service. For home service it is, or should be, as real, perfect, and dis posable an army as the regular army itself. We need hardly be at the pains of adding that in fact it is no such thing. The first step, therefore, after raising our home army to a proper numerical strength, is to assimilate its quality as regards its special duties to the quality of the line, so that one force may be competent to co-operate effectively with the other in the hour of need. After this how much is there that remains to be done in the subsi diary departments? Have we any organised means whatever for supplying an army of evenso,ooo men with victuals, munitions, and medical comforts at that " sudden call" which the commissioners find themselves compelled to contemplate ? We need not pursue these inquiries. Any person, whether soldier or civilian, will answer them quickly enough for him self. We must expand, therefore, the concise gene ralities of the Commissioners' Report into more definite considerations. True enough it is that the whole problem before us is involved in the " numbers" and " organisation" of the militia ; but the numbers, it is evident, should be increased ; while, as to the organisation, that is a term which comprehends in itself all the conditions we have been describing. There are two methods of" or ganising" the militia—one by making it mainly a force of retired soldiers, like the Prussian Land wehr ; the other by keeping it, as it is, a dis tinct army. The Commissioners incline to the latter; indeed, they wish to see re-engaged in the regular army all those time-expired men who, upon the other system, would fall into the militia. This, however, is a point deserving of serious attention. In times when the distinction between the army and the militia was preserved by the broad contrast be tween compulsory and voluntary service there might be good grounds for keeping the fact always in view. But at present, with the ballot for the militia in abeyance, the recruits for the two services are drawn from the same sources and in the same manner, and it is a question whether this recruiting might not be conducted more effectually by making ser vice in the line shorter and easier on condition of subsequent service in the militia. In other words, we should enlist men for both our armies at once—for the regular army up to a certain fixed period, and for the home army afterwards. This plan, we are aware, is not universally popular with militia officers, many of whom would rather see the militia feeding the line than the line feeding the Naval Intelligence. With the exception of the arrival of the Megtera, on the 7th inst. from Plymouth, with some 190 supernumeraries for the squadron and stores for the War Department and dockyard, there have been no arrivals or departures of her Majesty's ships since the departure of the last mail. The Gibraltar, 81, has been outside for 24 hours, for the purpose of gunner exercise. One or two inspections have been made by the Commander-in-Chief, and the ships generally are employed refitting after their sum mer's cruise. The assembling of the squadron has afforded the opportunity of holding several courts- martial. Mr. Alfred R. Wroot, supernumerary clerk of the Cossack, found guilty of embezzling mess money and making false entries in the gun room mess accounts, has been dismissed from the service ; and Mr. Robert H. C. Hebden, second master of the Victoria, found guilty of drunkenness, has been dismissed his ship, placed at the bottom of the list of second masters, and severely reprimanded. James H. Burrell, ordinary seaman of the Cossack, for using threatening and obscene language to and attempting to stab Daniel Denny, master-at-arms, has been sentenced to receive 48 lashes, to be imprisoned for two years, and dismissed the service with disgrace. William LoTelass, able seaman of the Cossack, having pre varicated in his evidence and behaved with contempt to the Court was sentenced to 84 days' imprisonment, with alternate weeks of solitary con- finement. Ginseppe Schembri, ward-room officers' servant of the Enterprise, found guilty of theft, has been sentenced to be reduced to the second class for misconduct, imprisoned for six calendar months, and dismissed her Majesty's service. The Magwra, after performing five days' quarantine, obtained practique on the 12th inst., and was then towed up ,he Dockyard-creek from Bighi- bay for the purpose of unloading. Depatch is being used to prepare her for sea, and it is expected she will leave for Spithead about the 26th inst., with a large rumber of naval and military invalids and time-expired men. According to the latest advices from Alex andria, her Majesty's despatch vessel Psyche, hav ing on board Capt. W. R. Mends, R.N., C. 8., di rector of transport services, may be looked for at Malta to-day. Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., and Lady C. Paget, accompanied by his Excellency Major-Gen. Ridley and Rear-Admiral K ?Met, paid a visit to Gozo on Friday in the steam tender Hearty, returning to Malta harbour on the same afternoon. Another American man of-war has visited our port during the week, the screw corvette Canandaigna, commanded by Capt. R. N. Stembel, a veteran of the late American civil war, who was was wounded while serving in the Northern navy. She arrived on the Bth inst. from Jaffa, and left on the 13th for Port Mahon. Some idea of the übi quitous nature of the services required of her may be formed from the fact of the limits of her station extending from Iceland in the north to the Equator, including the whole of the costs of Europe and the Mediterranean. The captain and officers were hos pitably entertained during their stay here by the naval and military authorities." The screw sloop Blanche, 4, 1,268 tons, 350- horse power, one of the squadron of wooden sloop corvettes, building from the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, is getting well forward at Chatham dockyard and should the hands at present employed on her not Le withdrawn to complete the ironclad ships Hercules and Monarch, she will be ready for leav ing the stocks early in the ensuing year. Now that the whole of the exterior planking has been completed, the fine lines, from the midship section, on which the Blanche is built are seen to striking advantage, while her stern, as designed by Mr. Reed, gives every reason to believe that she will prove a rapid sailer under both sail and steam. She is pierced to carry 6i-ton 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns, besides the usual complement of smaller guns, and in order to impart additional strength to her frame and at the same time to overcome the concussion from firing guns of so heavy a description from a vessel of her class, angle iron has been freely worked into the hull whenever found to be practicable Her deck beams are of wrought-iron, manufactured at the Butterfly Works, which, together with the additional knees and supports, render her more than usually strong. The Blanche is a sister ship to the Danae, building at Portsmouth, and the Sappho, just commenced at Sheerness dockyard. In the manufacture of the engines for these vessels it is stipulated that the mean speed to be attained shall be 13 knots an hour. The Amazon, which was lost in the Channel, was constructed from the same de signs as the Blanche, Danae, and Sappho, but in building these vessels several important improve ments, suggested sine the completion of the Amazon, will be adopted. Her Majesty's screw corvette Reindeer, 7, 200- horse power, Commander E. Nares, left Chatham harbour yesterday for the Pacific, in charge of Mr. W. Blakey, Queen's pilot, who navigated her to the Nore. On getting abreast of Upper Castle she re ceived her powder and shell from the Government magazines, and afterwards proceeded down the Medway in tow of the paddle-wheel steamers Adder and Sheerness. She will be swung at the Nore, where she will be inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, and afterwards proceed to Spithead. Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Fowler Hastings, C. 8., who has been appointed to succeed Vice-Admiral the Hon. J. Denman as Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific station, was born in November, 1813, and entered the navy in September, 1824. He ob tained the rank of Lieutenant, January 7, 1833, and, after serving at Portsmouth and the Mediter ra'nean, became Commander June 30, 1838. He commanded the Harlequin, 16, from August, 1841, to January, 1845, and while serving in that ship, besides sharing the closing operations of the Chinese War, obtained the public thanks of the Comman der-in-Chief for his conduct in landing her boats in conjunction with those of the Wanderer and the Diana in Qualls in an attack B ttucku at po to n , a th nd was promoted e piratical towns to ofMur o post rank, January 31, 1845. He commanded the En dymion, 44, from August, 1847, to January, 1848 ; the Cyclops, from July ? 1848, to the spring of 1851 ; the Curagoa, from August, 1854, to April, 1857, in the Mediterranean ; the Meander, 41, in Portland roads, May t o November, 1857 ; the Blen heim, 60, and the Hannibal, 91, at Portsmouth, November, 1857, to June 5, 1858, when he was ap pointed Captain-Superintendent of Haslar Hos pital, which post he held until he attained flag rank, April 27, 1863. He went down to Woolwich on Wednesday afternoon and hoisted his flag ou board the Fisgard, on his appointment as Com mander-in-Chief in the Pacific, in succession to Vice-Admiral Hon. Joseph Denman. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam storeship Dee, Commander George Raymond, having undergone a thorough adjustment of defects, yesterday sailed from Woolwich laden with a. lull cargo of steam gear for Devonport, for the supply of the steam sloop Daphne, 4 guns, built at Pembroke. The Dee is ordered to be swung at Greenbithe to-day to ar range the deviation of her compe.sses, and takes her final departure on Saturday. Capt. Montagu B. Dunn (2:3d June, 1862), now in command of the iron sterian storeship Megogra, which vessel recently sailed from Deptford and Woolwich with stores for thri Mediterranean, has received instructions from tb e Admiralty to return to England and take the cow tuland of the Euphrates, militia. But the former practice, though very good for the first army, is not good for the army of reserve, and the more the subject is dis cussed the more plainly, we think, will it appear that we cannot successfully organise our militia without connecting it practically with those troops by whose side and in whose company it must act if the hour of action were to come. In former days we had only to consider the efficiency of the regular army ; we have now to consider the efficiency of a second army, as large and as important as the first, and we can no longer impair the strength of the former for the sake of the latter. _ _ _ HERALD.--There has been a very successful Con servative gathering at Bradford. It is remarkable how, in the centres of working class activity, the opinion of the industrious classes is protesting against the Radical agitations of the day. At Brad ford, on Tuesday evening, a Working Men's Con- servative Association was inaugurated, in connection with similar societies throughout the West Riding. The meeting was, at least, equal in number to any Liberal concourse ever witnessed in the town. It was strong and it was unanimous. There was no space, indeed, for the thousands who desired to join their protests with the voices of the Conservative poli ticians attending. The names of the present Ministers were emblazoned on the walls, and were mentioned amid tumultuous cheering. We do not refer to this part of the demonstration as to any great evidence of a political fact. It simply shows that statesmen may be at once Conservative and popular, and that work ing men—the best instructed of them, at least— acknowledge the services and respect the characters of such men, high in the service of the State, as it is the business of Radicalism to revile. We count among them Mr. Ferrand, who has been, during the whole course of an honourable career, friendly to popular interests, the butt of Radical detractors. That gentleman has ever been an advocate of true working-class interests; in Parliament he always protected the social rights of his constituents ; out of it he never failed to be forthcoming on occasions of public importance—in fact, he has invariably been a man of fearless speech, honest principle, and consistentreasoning. And in the House of Commons the Whigs generally dreaded him. He was too can did to suit their morality. But, then, this good old English gentleman was too thorough to be put down. He had the blood of a spirited ancestry in his veins. As he told the Bradford people his grand father was, when this country was menaced by in vasion, the elected head of the Bradford volunteers, and he himself, a Conservative of Conservatives, is president of the local Working Men's Association, formed to defend the institutions of England against the conspiracies and attacks of unscrupulous dema gogues. He renders useful service to them when he explains how they might be deceived and robbed by their specious flatterers. He instances the case of Bradford itself. Could its important trade hold but for twenty-four hours against the despotism of the London committees ? Assuredly not. The fol lowing is a pregnant sentence :—" There is nothing so timid as trade ; and working men have nothing so much at heart as the successful trade of this country." It is a platitude .to say that industrial and political confidence are inseparable. But, Mr. Ferrand asks, what is the present state of the agi tation with reference to Mr. Bright's propositions —whatever they may be, for, we know nothing of them yet? Mr. Gladstone and the member for Bir mingham have talked upon the subject during many evenings for hours together. They have scorned all idea of preferring the educated, the frugal. and the industrious, before the idle, the drunken, the thriftless, and the ignorant. The former, Mr. Ferrand has the courage to affirm, are the very men whom Mr. Bright would dislike to see entrusted with power. Then what, if not revolution, is the purpose and hope of his advo cacy ? He wants to confer supreme authority upon the illiterate, and therefore dangerous, classes. But we agree with Mr. Ferrand upon another point. Mr. Bright's audience is exceedingly limited. It consists of the untaught and the prejudiced. We do not say that he fails to collect large gatherings; but those who listen must be distinguished from those who follow, and a stout of applause does not al ways indicate a compliance of opinion. Mr. Ferrand when in Parliament was at all times an active and useful member. His recentspeech at Bradford makes us wish to see him in the house again, if possible, before another session opens. For he has the real in terests of the community at heart. Who more per sistently than he has advocated what Lord Manners calls " the legitimate claims of labour ?" His protest against Mr. Bright is to the effect, virtually, that England will not submit to be socially conquered out of all independence by the working classes. That raises a very different question. Mr. Ferrand con cedes, as he has invariably conceded, the rights of trades societies and organisations and of- unions, with the object of defending their industry ; but will any artisan of independence or intelligence tell him that he may lawfully deprive another man of the liberty to sell his labour wherever or at what price he pleases ? This is the point which Mr. Fer rand puts keenly and effectively. But these orga nisations are to have a second purpose, at the insti gation of Mr. Bright. The trades are to unite as Parliamentary Reformers. Some of the most re spectable among them refuse to do it, or to obey the behests of Mr. Potter's deputations. In con nection with this subject Mr. Ferrand very fairly quoted from a speech of Mr. Gladstone's a remark ably mischievous passage, capable of a double appli cation. It ran to this effect :—" We are told that the working classes are given to strikes. I believe it is the experience of the employers of labour that these strikes are more and more losing the character of violence and compulsory interference with the freewill of their own comrades and fellow workmen." Is it true? Can the assertion be sus tained ? Was not Mr. Gladstone making use of a fallacious assertion as a party argument ? The public will be grateful, therefore, to a politician so well informed and dauntless as Mr. Ferrand, who does not hesitate to challenge these popular clap traps, and, further, who can render the plain truth intelligible to an audience of well-instructed opera tives. The employed and the employers, Mr. Fer rand says happily, should be entwined as the ivy upon the tree ; without that association there can be no commercial prosperity. Which counsel is best— that which encourages heart-burning and bitterness, or that which would promote mutual goodwill and amiability ? We can see the answer in the results. How many strikes within the last two years have rent the industry of England, have interrupted her manufactures, and have stopped her trade? But, urge the Radicals against whom Mr. Ferrand contends, we have nothing else to do when the capitalists combine. What are the facts, as he illustrates them ? There is a working man in the House of Lords. There are several in the House o f Commons. "I myself," said Mr. Brotherton, the late member for Salford, " worked in a factory when I was a boy." "Am I blamed," asked the late Sir Robert Peel, " because the Queen sent to Rome for the son of a cotton-spinner to make him Prime Minister of England ?" Mr. Ferrand is thoroughly in the right. All this talk about the aristocratic exclusiveness of our institutions is the most palpable and absolute trash. We accept, upon Mr. Ferrand's personal authority, the statement that Mr. Forster himself, the Radical member for Bradford, was originally a lad employed at a loom in Norwich. If so, all honour to him for it, and he may repeat the proud boast of a Judge—among the most distinguished who ever sat on the bench— " When I was a journeyman carpenter I dreamed that I might one day be head of the law in Eng land." Well, we will not dwell upon this topic, although Mr. Ferrand illustrates it by some pungent anecdotes, because he races on to other subjects, dealing with them in his own rapid, easy, and irresistible manner. With regard to Mr Bright, he says—and Mr. Bright :should be the last man to complain of freedom of speech on the part of a con temporary in Parliament—" a greater political coward never entered the House of Commons." That observation was received by the working men of Bradford with inextinguishable enthusiasm. Again, " in all my life I :never heard him make a speech which inculcated peace and goodwill among men." Mr. Ferrand has a blunt way of uttering hard truths ; yet can it be denied that however hard they are truths nevertheless ? We have no doubt that such associations as the Bradford Conservative Society, acknowledged and adopted by men of in dependence, eloquence, and sagacity, will go far towards the spreading °l a, healthy political opinion, and will far better represent the sentiments of the educated working classes than any noisy conven tions assembled to hear the declamations of a viru lent demagogue. The man may be admired for his talents, and by the exercise of them may attract , miscellaneous •audiences ; but meetings of this sort are more highly and - purely inspired, and more representative of the true heart of the country at large. A StTsPicrous VESSEL.—GREENOCK, Nov. 20. An Oban paper has the following :—" On Wednesday a large steamer lay in Chicken Head Bay, Lewis, and on the Custom-house officer wishing to go on board he was peremptorily refused and warned to keep off. As yet no person has been able to find her character and pretensions. The crew pretended to be ignorant of English." YELLOW FEVER.—Her Majesty's Government have received, through the Foreign-office, information that the mail steamer Empress Eugenie, which arrived at St. Nazaire on the 19th inst., had had during her passage from Mexico fourteen cases of yellow fever on board, seven of which had terminated fatally ; no case, however, having occurred among the passengers. The Empress Eugenie had been placed in quarantine, the duration of which had not been determined at the time when the information was nut by hor Majesty's ambassador at Paris. GRATUITIOUS SNEERS• The old, old question, " Who can confute a sneer ? " never was answered in the affirmative, and it never will be. Of all expressions of inter course among gentlemen, sneering is the meanest and most unbecoming. This is especially true as applied to presumed national peculiarities. You cannot convince those who practise them by ever so great an amount of sneers. It would be happy day among civilised nations when this obvious fact should be generally admitted. There is such all assumption of superiority on the part of the sneerer, that it is not to be wondered at that those who know and feel themselves tobe his equals should repudiate him and his sneers together. We are led to these remarks by reading the critique in a late number of the Daily News on the entertainment of Mr. BROWNE, known as the Arne' rican humourist tc ARTEMUS WARD." Our surprise is all the greater at some expressions in this article, as the News has always shown an intelligent and manly spirit toward America and American institu tions. The lectures of Mr. BROWNE are legitimate subjects of criticism, and no one of his countrymen objects to his being placed in the usual ordeal. What he says and does as a caterer for the patronage of the public is properly amenable to review, and we are proud to be able to say that few men are better able to stand it than "ARTEMUS WARD." But when a newspaper steps out of its way to sneer at a whole people under cover of a criticism of a literary per formance, we humbly submit that it is not according to HOYLE. We quote from the News :—" Mr. WARD'S de" " scription of life amongst the Mormons is singularly " free from anything approaching a Yankee twang " in the delivery." Is the News aware that when it sneers thus at America it sneers at England? The word " Yankee was originally applied by the native Indians to the English settlers of 1620, who were called by them " Yengese," or " ..tinglise," (for English), and after wards Yankees. The original descendants of this class were mostly confined to the eastern slope of the Atlantic, known as New England, or Ne w Yengeseland ; and as they emigrated west and south they carried the designation with them. Among educated and refined people in the United States the word Yankee is never applied as a reproach, and is not received as such. The Yankee elemen t is one of the best in the American Union, and ha s done more to preserve it intact, to furnish its means' to fight its battles, to abolish its slavery, to secure its good habits, than any other. It is altogether too late in the day to sneer at Yankees. " 0, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony an evil free,us, An' fulish notion." What of the " Yankee twang? " It is comm on to imagine and then to sneer at it. But the imagi nation is as false as the sneer is gratuitous. There is no more " twang " among the people in the :Se" England quarter of America than there is in th e London part of Old England. There is not half 3S much of it as there is in Scotland, nor a quarter part as much as there is on the Continent. 111° French and German nasal pronunciation is a thou' sand times more marked than can be heard in 514 other quarter of the world. Take back your sneers' then, Mr. News. We shall not attempt to CO nfut them. They are false. Take them back. We quote the News again :—‘, We looked, bu t " found no traces in his lecture of that desire to r " play into the hands of Americans who hunge r aft % " the supposed wealth of Utah, and who decry wh3 .. 64 they call the vices of Mormonism to concea l the y " designs upon the fruits of Mormon industry an " thriftiness." oot This sneering insinuation that Americans es° express their opinions with regard to the illegal ° ill . adulterous practices of the Mormons, ninel, every hundred of whom are Europeans, Nrit' ° i ,i, being actuated by a thirst to plunder Mormon teres, tory, is unworthy so able a paper as the Nei at We did not look for it in those columns. it i° more becoming the Times. Are we to be lef t ' for return, to sneer at all the efforts of the English, of the regeneration of India and Africa, and a bee" other conquests and possessions ? Are we merely to call polygamy a vice, and not strive to nbeii,sh it ? Are Mormon industry and thriftiness se Pe,ti, ; e0 liar, that America, rich in territory and r esource as she already is, should covet all their lands ?, The sneers of the News are gratuitous, anal.,es, hope, will not be repeated.—Anglo-Anzerican TV" COUNTRY MARKETS. A—TuntsDAY. • n do At Gloucester and WoIRMING rc H ester M markets wheat of all Icl - c h „ iter i e advanced is to 2s per qr. Barley of all kinds V- l A nti ,° ' Oats rather dearer. Beans firm. Peas more Pe - , all During the present week the wheat trade has been 1 . - ce excited state, and the millers advanced the retail Fri v ia flour 3s 4d per sack. Barley the turn higher. Oa! o plf for 3d to fid per qr. more money. Beans and P ea ' taken in retail. BRISTOL—THURSDAY. iv f Pro On our market to-day there was a small suPP-.; of lish wheat, which sold readily, at an advance of per qr. Flour sold freely at an improvement of 2 0 P, Choice barleys scarce, and sold at advancing IoW weelg a active demand for grinding qualities, at fully Mat o, oi rates. Oats held for Gd per qr. advance. Beg ilS maize 2s to 3s per qr. dearer. --- BURY ST. EDMUNDS—WEDNESDAY. pat The quantity of wheat at market to-day was no ' n , itt .,4 o " Trade was brisk at an advance of 3s to 4s per q r ' o iev e o s" week's prices. There was a good supply of barl e y tr ite description, and farmers were able to clear out at q much money. MANCHESTER---T HURSDAY. ha s fr o During the week the upward tendency of pr.ces,dostiv ceived a further impetus from the excitement a P P : of t 130 most of the leading markets, but owin to ratt a J `.s dealers and bakers having already fair stocks jo t business done has not been extensive. Our ra al morning was numerously attended. EDINBITRGII—WEDSzsDAY. 0d do on the top, is Od down average, Wheat OS c`joil ry. a Barley on the top, 8s Od up average, Os 8 0 ti p• „, Oats on the top, is Od up Beans on the top, Os 6d up Total supploly6land 1 sales., v e r average,g e , Ol : 0 clO l ' Wheat Barley Oats 1984 qrs ............ so 1 Beans l2 qrs ............ sold 2091 q q r r : ............ ...".. . . . . . rol a d d 1 : 6 , 1 Average prices. Wheat, 60s 8d I Oats, 30s ° 3 Barley, 3Bs 8d 1 Beans 51s101 " . 00 1 Town-made flour sells as follows :---White, MI .. superfine, 40s 6d ; superfine, 48s Od ; fine, 46s 6 "' E O a GLASGOW—WEDN - ESDAY. 10- iieo The foreign arrivals of only 4,437 qrs. a Nv - , 0 0 1 ,• 1,120 qrs. of beans. By rail and coast-wise tb ° „;ie Oai fr e i were good of barley and fair of other articles. Al, a s. ' ness has been done during the week at rising 1 3 “"" day's market was well attended. d ,„ 0 pie, ~ NEWS FROM THE SEA.—A bottle has ti--..,0rd5.„ up containing a paper on which are the followilig710001"1 "Nov. 12.—The ship John Shaw, of and front 1.:5000 46 days out, waterlooged, dismasted, and in alle l P all boats gone. William —, mate." -----",.'''''' . .- ~. ~. . - --- Births. 1 ,01 aois—On the 21st inst., at Cockfield Sall, Stiff° Blois, of a son. luiv , s'' BRANDRAM -On the 21st inst., at Stokes gall, -.--- . je rey, the wife of Samuel Brandram, Escl ., „ °l $ lb ° sv- RICARDO— On the 21st inst.,at Gtc be Dtroticit of Henry D. Ricardo, Esq., of a a s on . ° ' irlift,ll‘4lV SOUTHALL—On the 21st inst, at 1, Montpelier , '•••• - road, the wife of N. Southall, Esq., of s °II. Marriages. rt ,cl ' , s, to Fox— lIEDIKE—On the 17th inst., at St. Stelol'e°W.ol.,, ington, Robert Fox, Esq., of Grenville-Street:lo / Sarah Juliana, youngest d aughter of G. Fil ° reri o of Great Portland-street. 4. tfoll ' 1(10 0, FERNIE—ATKINSON— 011 the 20th inst., a. f ye r i Church, Brompton, the Rev. J. Fernie, re ctor 0 00 he late 544 0 Beds, to Elizabeth' C h ester, daughter o f t. ps 0 , , E J. Palmer, Esq., and widow of Joseph Atki Liverpool. D ea ths. . gents 31151 CLARKE—On the 21st inst., at Willesborougo, V 44 Anne Clarke, aged 72. -,, galins, ore, MALINS—On the 21st inst., at Brighton,ll'lo„.• _ es tero late of the Manor House, Fershore, IN ° J.c aged 68. ROMANES —On the 21st inst ., at Sydenhare, - • e rbi , C.E., aged 26. j Y. $OO- SOWERBY —On the 20th ins t., at StokesleY, • Esq., J.P., aged 62. nesell;l -Ace, .11 , 0 WAUGH—On the 22d inst., at 7, Petershatnte„.Er,_„ooe i„i, gate, Josephine, Lady Waugh, wife , o f 11.030.1_, DePt," Sir A. Scott Waugh, F.R.S., Royal Lngin I aged 40. ..• g .0V JO' London: Printed and PubilaheebyVVlLLlA e Do. Ai - sus o u ' ° ' oil " of No. 112, strand. Dialer' at Tn.. t h e 0 Strand, in the rreolllot of the Sav2Y, in ' Pliddlesex.—Friday, Nove mber 23, OA n At 011,,0rn to th a n d the