The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1866. „-...---- Mr. T. TAughes, M.P., and his Constituents. Last night the electors and non-electors of Lam beth were invited by Mr. T. Hughes to meet him in the lecture hall of the Walworth Institute, Carter street, to hear his first annual account of his steward ship as member for the borough, and to take coun sel together on the present state of public affairs. The hon. gentleman, who was accompanied by many of the most influential electors, met with a very cordial reception. Mr. W. R. SELWAY (chairman of Mr. Hughes' election committee) was called to the chair, and briefly asked Mr. Hughes to address the meeting. Mr. T. HUGHES, on rising, was greeted with re newed and prolonged cheering. When silence was restored the hon. gentleman said he came there in conformity with what he called the good old custom of representatives in the House of Commons meeting their constituents once a year. He called it a good old custom, because he found nowadays that that opinion was not universally shared by members of Parliament, and he had even been remonstrated with by some members, who said they were sorry he was about to take that course, because it had a ten dency to make members the mere mouthpieces of their constituents. On the contrary, he thought it was important that members should keep in sym pathy with those they represented, keeping at the same time an independent mind, and he believed that just in so far as any member did so would he have power either in the House of Commons or elsewhere. (Hear.) He could not see how that sym pathy was to be kept up unless a member came once a year to tell those who sent him to Parliament what he had done in the past, and to discuss with them on the basis of existing facts what was best to be done in the future. (Hear.) The question was how to make that meeting most useful, and the method by which that could be done was most diffi cult, because there were so many questions con nected with the Government of this immense em pire that it was utterly impossible to compress them into a speech, however briefly touched upon, to be delivered in one evening. One difficulty, however, he had escaped, which other members told him they felt, namely, that their constituents were so indif ferent to political matters that it was useless to meet them. (Laughter.) He had never opened his mouth in Parliament without having many letters sent to him, either approving or disapproving of his speeches, and not a few had been sent to him when he had been silent, asking him why he had not spoken. (Laughter.) Perhaps the best course he could pur sue would be in fact to follow that correspondence; and in the first place, as to keeping silence, he would observe that nothing paid for keeping better than talk, and that if a man made many speeches he was sure to come to grief. (Laughter.) He had, there fore, made it a rule not to speak unless he had some thing to say which nobody else would say. (Cheers.) If he merely got up to say what others had said be fore him it would be:a mere waste of time, which belonged to the nation. (Cheers.) The only disad vantage of that course, however, was that the mem ber who adopted it had to say unpleasant things, for there were always plenty of members who were ready and willing to get up and say what the House of Commons wished to hear. (Laughter and hear.) That was his answer to the gentlemen who had pro tested against his not speaking enough. (Cheers.) lie would refer to the speeches which he had thought it his duty to make. The first was in the second week of the session on the subject of the eviction of the working classes and the pulling down of their dwellings by the railway companies. (Loud cheers.) In his mind that was a most important question, and he told them so when he first sought their suf frages. (Hear.) When he made his first speech he was very green in Parliamentary tactics, but he thought the best thing he could do was to oppose the very first private bill that came before the house vithout a clause or clauses in it making it binding upon a railway company to erect as many dwellings for the ,corer classes as they pulled down. On that occasion he succeeded, and the bill was triumphantly thrown out. (Cheers.) When the next private bill made its appearance he got up and opposed that too, but the chairman of the committee said if that course were pursued it would be detrimental to the interests of the country at large, and suggested that it would be better to pass some general rule applic able to the whole of the country. That suggestion was concurred in by Col. Wilson Patten, whoadded that if he (Mr. Hughes) would consult with the rail way people interested in these bills, and with their consent frame some clauses which could be adopted as a standing order, no doubt the house would agree t it. Well, he took that advice in good part. He thought it was better to cut off all the heads at once than to take them one by one, and therefore he went to his chambers, and, after careful considera tion, drew up clauses, the great object of which was to insist upon railway companies erecting as many dwellings fcr the poor as they pulled down. (Cheers.) He must say that he met with the utmost sympathy on the part of the railway gentle men, who admitted the gravity of the question and the extent of th e ev il, an d pro f esse d th emse l ves willing to accede to any fair and reasonable proposal. (Hear.) When, how,#ver he brought his clauses for ward in the ho use , to his horror and astonishment Col. Wilson Patten got up and said they were far too sweeping to be embodied in a standing order, and that he had better get them inserted in the Go vernment bill on the subject which had been intro duced by the President of the Board of Trade. That seemed a good suggestion, too, and therefore he waited for that bill, with this result that at the end of the session Mr. M. Gibson withdrew it, leav ing him (Mr. Hughes) out in the cold—(l aug h ter) . but in the meantime, between the introduction of his clauses and the end of the session, no less than 20,000 houses of the poor had been pulled down. (Shame, and hear, hear.) Why, the strongest-h an d ed bill of the whole session, the Cattle Plague Bill, wa s passed in the first three weeks of the session almost at the point of the bayonet. Look at that, as an in stance of the value of direct representation in the House of Commons. The working classes were told that they did not need any further or direct repre sentation there. Plenty of members sat in the house who understood their views and could advocate their interests. But look at the fact. The country party, with a powerful direct representation, carried their bill in three weeks, but it took a whole session to prevent 20,000 houses of the working classes from being pulled down, and then the effort was abortive. Other members laboured equally uselessly, for the same object, notably Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens— (cheers)—who had a measure on the same subject, and was compelled to withdraw it at the close of the That, to his mind, was a proof that there was considerable good in a party being directly re presented in the House of Commons. In order to get anything done in that house, it wanted a reso lute party directly connected with the people to keep driving persistently at a clearly-defined and tan gible object. (Cheers.) The next speech he made was session. when the question of maritime law was before the house. Nobody else spoke upon it but Mr. Oli phant. The Government contended that the ques tion was one entirely of municipal law ; but he (Mr. Hughes) suggested that it was no question with the Americans whether our municipal law was sufficient to Prevent such vess els as th e Al a b ama f rom destroy ing their ships and commerce, but how to stop such ships from issuing from our ports, and carrying de struction nnal.arFe scale, without being interfered and, with by us, indeed, permitted to do so, until the Alabama was destroyed by the American ship Kearsage. He sug that they should send the whole question befogreestVn independent and impar tial arbitration, instead of becoming judges in their own cause, and if it was decided that we wore wrong, then let us pay fair damages. It was said at that time that there wouldbe a difficulty infixing the terms of arbitration, but what were lawyers and judges appointed for but to get over such difficul ties ? At all events the suggestion was not tertained, but now Lord Stanley bad agreed that Commission on the subject of maritime law was to be issued immediately, which meant that the Ala bama claims were to be considered, for if that was not the case the Americans would not come into our commission. He saw, too, that the Premier had been saying some very civil things of the Americans at the Mansion-house, and with reference to this subject, he was very glad that Lord Derby bad ar rived at this conclusion, and could only say that if he had done so five years ago there would have been no Alabama claims to arbitrate upon. (Laughter.) The speech of the noble lord was a capital one, but at the bottom of it all there was the feeling—very likely it was the feeling of that meeting—that Britannia ought to rule the sea. (Cheers.) The noble lord said that because we had laid the Atlan tic Cable at the bottom of the sea we had proved Britain's maritime supremacy. (Cheers.) Well, there were two sides to this question, and the other side had been put by an American poet in some verses, entitled " Jonathan to John :" "We own the ocean too, John; You must not think it hard, If we can't think with you, John, It's just your own backyard. Ole Uncle S. (that's Uncle Sam), Sez he, I guess, If that's his game, sez he, The fencing stuff • Will cost enough To bust ole J. B." (Laughter.) That was just what he thought, the ocean was not our backyard. (Hear, hear.) Next he came to the Reform Bill. (Hear.) In his speech on that bill he endeavoured to show, as he had already said, that the people were not directly re presented by referring to existing legislation. In the case, for instance, of the Masters and Servants' Act—what was a civil offence on the part of the masters was a criminal offence on the part of the workmen. Was that fair? (No, no.) • Then, were the people satisfactorily lodged and housed ? Were they properly educated and trained, as we could wish to see them? It had been said with great truth during the recessthat we were all squabbling abouttheologi cal questions, and meanwhile the people had no proper schools provided for them ? Was that right ? He thought that if the people were fully represented that matter would be speedily dealt with. He believed the time had come when we must make up our minds to have compulsory education. (Cheers.) At the meeting of the Social Science Congress, which he attended, he found that there was a growing opinion among all who had given that subject any attention that the principle of the Factory Acts must be ex tended, and children must not be allowed to work until they are educated in some reasonable degree. Then there was the question of the adulteration of food and drink. Was any one of those questions in such a state as any honest Englishman would like to see them ? He was sure they would say with him that they were not. (Cheers.) But they might say, as was said by others, that these were things to be regretted and deplored, but that Government could not alter them. In reply, he would say, they had all seen that the Government could alter many things when they were willing to do so. They altered the corn laws, for instance ; and if Govern ment could not deal with such questions as those he had enumerated, then Government must be much less important than he took it to be ; and if it was of so trifling a nature, why not let everybody have a share in it? (Cheers.) He thought the people, looking at these things, had a right to say, " You have failed most miserably. You have allowed these abuses to come to a head. We, as the people, are deeply interested in having them remedied, and we claim a share in the Government in order to try our hand at it." (Cheers.) Therefore he said the people were entitled, gradually it might be, but surely, to participate to a larger extent in the legislation and administration of this great country. (Hear, hear.) They had a right to ask to be put in harness to drag the State coach—and it was a mighty one—along the road it should go. They were willing enough to do so, but there were others who had got in harness and they pulled to the ditch and not along the road. (Laughter.) With re spect to the bill of last session, he believed that if some Liberal members bad observed the rule of silence it might have passed, if not altogether, at least another stage. One night, when Sir Rainald Knightley's motion was on, the house had gone to dinner, and the Ministerial whipper-in came to them and said, "If you'll just let this speaker finish on the other side we'll have a majority on the division." But unfortunately a Liberal member got up to air his vocabulary, the Opposition now came back, the debate was adjourned that night, and that stage was lost. With respect to the probalo!e future he would just say a few words. He thought it probable, from all be ear and heard, that the present Government would try its hand at a Re form Bill. If so, and it embodied household suf frage, he should vote for it. It was no joke to sit through such debates as those of last session on the Reform Bill. Revenge was sweet, and he knew no revenge that would be so sweet as to see General Peel, Lord Craubourne, and all the rest of them, walking into the lobby to vote for a Reform Bill brought in by their leader, and that bill including household suffrage. (Loud cheers and laughter.) The honourable member said his views on the general question had not altered since the last elec tion. He still adhered to the plan for the representa tion of minorities. He was not opposed to the ballot, but he was not an advocate of it. He pre ferred voting papers, which were not necessarily secret, and if anything liked open voting. The disclosures of the election commissions led, in his opinion, not to the ballot, but to disfranchisement. What he would like to see was an educational test, not so severe as that of Mr. Clay's bill, but that the person who claimed to vote should write his name in a free current hand, and further, that he should be called upon to go to the registrar every year for that purpose, because the man who would not once a year take the trouble of showing himself and writing his name did not evince sufficient inte rest in politics to make a useful voter. He now came to a point on which there had been a great deal of very fierce letter-writing disapproving of his conduct in writing to the papers at a certain time to say that if the League persisted in holding meet ings in Hyde Park he would be one of the first to Oppose them. What were the facts ? He under stood that the Government had offered to the league every facility f or t ry i ng t h e quest i on o f r i g h t i n a legal way, an d that pending this trial the League insisted upon holding those meetings in the park. (No, no.) That was his impression of the facts, and under that impression be wrote the letter which had brought upon him so many remonstrances. No man was more stanch than he was in defence of the right of public meeting, but the question was whether these meetings should be held in a Royal (No, no, the people' s par k .) That was th the parkvery. question at issue, and until it was settled by a proper tribunal he doubted the propriety of bringing to gether crowds so large and of such a character Aa to be beyond the control of the League. (No, no.) They must pardon him for differing from them. He saw enough in the street in which he lived to prove that fact. No doubt, so far as the demon stration which was directly under the management of the League was concerned, all was right enough ; but there were others, and by far the larger portion, who were not under that control, and he saw a neighbour of his, a fine liberal fellow, knocked down, kicked, and then thrown into the air, simply because seeing a policeman ill-used be r H us e he w d as fro tr m eat h e i d s drawing-room to his assistance. thus amidst cries of " Let's kill this fellow," and but for the intervention of a clergyman, a neighbour, he might have been killed. In these matters they ought to know what the law was n abide by it ; and here be could not help quoting again from " Jonathan to John" some lines which he thought it would be well to remember— " Our folk believe in law, John, And it's for her sake now They've loft the axe and saw, John, The anvil and the plough. 010 Uncle S., Sez he, I guess, If 'twern't for law, sez he, There'd be one shindy From here to Injy, Which wouldn't suit J. 8., When not 'twixt you and me." (Laughter and cheers.) The hon. member then defended the course which the Jamaica Committee had pursued in instituting the prosecution of ex- Governor Eyre. If the Government failed to do its duty there •were serious questions at issue—the rights of colonial governors over our fellow-subjects, and especially of different races; the rights and powers of those tribunals sarcastically called judi cial courts-martial, and many others of the utmost importance. It was for the interest of the whole empire, which included 200 millions of other races than our own, that these questions should be settled; and it was for the sake of our own character and the perpetuation of that empire that they should be settled in the spirit indicated by Him who said, " In smuch as ye did it not unto the least of these, my brethren, ye did it not unto me." (Hear.) In conclu ' sion, Mr. Hughes called attention to the number of convictions which had taken place in South London for the possession of false weights and measures. (Laughter.) It was no laughing matter. When he saw these things in the papers they made his ears tingle, and he hoped that their ears would tingle too, and that an enlightened public opinion would put an end to such dishonesty and fraud. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN having invited questions, There was a cry of " Where's your brother chum ?" Mr. HUGHES—I can give an answer given on a graver occasion, "Am I my brother's keeper ?" (Great laughter and cheering.) Other questions were put, to which Mr. HUGHES replied briefly. The time had come when he must state to what extent he agreed with the temperance movement and the Permissive Bill, and he had ac cepted an invitation to do so at the Lambeth Baths on Thursday, where he invited all who felt inte rested to attend. As to the separation of Church and State, he was a member of the Church, and upon the whole he thought the advantages of that union preponderated. With respect to the allow ances made to her Majesty's children on their mar riage with German Princes and the reason why he did not speak against them, his reply was, that to speak against the opinion of nine-tenths of your hearers was a mistake. (Oh, oh.) That was his opinion, but his interrogator had of course a right to his own. On the motion of Mr. Granville, seconded by Mr, Meehan, a vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Hughes, for his manly and honest speech, for the consistent and independent manner in which he had represented the borough, and expressive of the fullest assurance that he would in future deserve the con tinuance of that confidence. The motion was carried amidst enthusiastic ap plause, which was renewed and prolonged when the hon. member briefly acknowledged it, and stated that so long as they sympathised with each other he would be happy to be their representative ; when he failed to do so, let them part in peace and good friends. (C heers. ) A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro ceedings. John Bull and the Alabama Claim. The following letter has been addressed to a con temporary : Sir, —Typically, John Bull is supposed to repre sent an individual who loves ease and comfort, and consequently is opposed to all excitement, whether natural or artificial, the pugnacity of his disposi tion having wondrously subsided during the present century, and only manifested its dormant state in two or three exceptional cases. Since the Crimean War, in which he expended so much money and blood, and obtained so little substantial glory, Mars and his occupation have had very little in terest for him. Such trifling affairs as the Trent and Alabama breezes may have disturbed his equa nimity for a moment and called him away from his ordinary avocations, but he summarily dismissed them after he had given his ultimatum and relapsed into his former habits. As long as he was contented he supposed all the world must acquiesce in his wise decision. John Bull, by experience, has learned that he has never made anything out of interfering with other people's business. It was all very well when he was young, fiery, impetuous, and so forth, but he has bought that experience dearly ; he even feels the weight now. No, he would and did devote his time to peaceful employment, and his aim and object was to preserve a respectable neutrality ; in fact, to mind his own business. lie was very sorry about poor Denmark, and the loss of Schleswig-holstein, but he comforted himself with the assurance that he did not understand the merits of the case. The late combat in Germany, " short, sharp, and deci sive," was shocking to read about. The absorption of llanover was, he thought, rather a liberty on the part of Prussia, and the conduct of Mr. Von Bis marck was anything but according to the recognised rules of international propriety. his sympathies were with .Austria, Italy, Saxony, and Hanover. But he conceived it was a very different thing con doling with a friend who had received a discoloura tion of the eye from a bully antagonist, and endan gering his own ease and safety by knocking or attempting to knock down the pugnacious bully. No. his mission was peace, to develope the wealth of the country by promoting the agricultural, mechanical, manufacturing, and commercial elements which enriched the nation individually and collectively. Now if there was one thing annoyed John Bull more than another, it was to allude to the shop after he had turned his back upon it, and was en joying the comforts of his well-earned repose. We will suppose, for example, he has attended to and transacted the business of the day. Everything has gone on satisfactorily, his letters show that mine, manufactory, warehouse, and marine have all been successfully conducted, his advices from abroad all tell the same tale, and he departs at the close of the day in a peaceful, contented state of mind. Arrived at home, he is full of hilarity, casts aside the cares and anxieties of business, and enjoys with his family those comforts which he has provided for them. His dinner has been partaken of to his satisfaction, the last glass of port has disappeared, and then happy, easy, benign, peaceful, neutral John Bull takes his nap. " Forty winks" have not yet elapsed when the sharp and sonorous bang, bang, of the postman is heard at the door. The worthy gentle man is startled from his slumbers, an expression of displeasure overspreads his otherwise genial coun tenance. He has not much time for considering what was the cause of the disturbance before the dining room door opens, and the servant hands him a letter. He rubs his eyes for a moment, fumbles in his waistcoat pocket for his spectacles (John Bull never uses eye glasses in the evening), carefully wipes them, places them on his nose, draws his chair closer to the table, and then, after examining the caligraphy, removes the letter from its enclosure, and reads the contents. The knitting of the brows, the compression of the lips, the shaking of the head, sufficiently evince the contents are not of the most pleasant nature. " Presumptuous!" ejaculates Mr. Bull. " Annoy ing in the extreme, awl Lu b diaturboa of. thin time of night about an almost forgotten affair ; the fel low's mad, impudent beyond bearing." " Nothing wrong, I hope, my dear uncle, that will call you out to-night ?" said Miss Britannia, his niece, who was seated at the opposite side of the table. " Wrong, of course there's something wrong. I never get any peace or quietness. Here's a fellow whose claim I have over and over again refused to pay, and whom I thought, after my last letter, would drop the matter forever. After a lapse of twelve months he now writes to me that he has sent an agent to England, that he has brought additional and overwhelming evidence to substantiate his claim, and that if I don't settle it at once he will take sum mary proceedings. Hang him, though, but I won't be bullied." Here Mr. Bull brought his fist down upon his mahogany in such a forcible manner as caused the decanter and empty wine glasses to ring again. " But, my dear uncle," interrupted his niece, -" what is the nature of his claim ? You know I do not pretend to understand much about business, yet you have often given me credit for sensible counsel and advice. Now, won't you tell me all about it, and let us talk it over ?" Miss Britannia had spoken in her usual quiet, unobtrusive way that always won on the old gentleman. After perusing the letter again he removed his spectacles, reclined himself once more in his comfortable arm-chair, then, with preliminary " h'ems," he commenced as follows : The story is a long one, and very intricate, even for a lawyer. You see, my dear girl, a good many years ago (although not as large as now) I still car ried on a most extensive promiscuous business ; in fact, there was no firm who had so many agents abroad, still my home establishment did not present as roomy an appearance as many of my neighbours'. I had a clerk who evinced more than ordinary shrewdness and capacity for business ; he seemed intuitively to comprehend all my ideas and carry them out without any extended directions. When he had finished his term of apprenticeship, I pro posed to give him what I supposed was a fair salary. What was my astonishment when he declined my offer and demanded twice the amount. I refused. He gave me notice. I told him the sooner he went the better. In a few days he called upon me and asked for a recommendation, saying he hoped he had been of use to me. Of course this was not to be de nied. You know, my dear niece, lam not natu rally unkind, only I do like to have my own way, and I did'nt like the air of independence in which he had spoken to me. But now that I looked in his manly face, and read and knew the truth was in his honest eye ; when I remembered, too, that he had served me faithfully; that oftentimes, when I had been harsh, and perhaps overbearing, he had never answered even by a look, I could'nt, now that he was going away, help feeling a little interest in him. So I said, as I handed him his recommendation, "Where do you intend going, Mr. Jonathan ?" for that was his name. "Do you intend procuring a situation near here; are you going abroad ; or have you any fixed plans as yet ?" " Well, Mr. Bull," he as I was youn g , a n d h a d a longreplied, life eeb I thought, efOreme,that with resolution, applica tion, and a will, I might in some locality have a chance to get a situation in some new established house, and by and bye work myself up into a part nership where I should be independent." As the young chap said this, he was standing tall, firm, and erect before me, and I thought I saw in his whole manner that self-confidence which in the end nearly always insures success. I now remembered that I had long contemplated establishing a branch in the newly-discovered country of America. I had heard of other houses who had succeeded very well in barter trade with the Indians, and I thought here was the opportunity I desired. Remaining intent a short time, and turning the matter over in my mind, I finally concluded to make him an offer. " Young man," I remarked, " how would you like to go to America, if I will supply you with a stock of goods, and a small vessel to carry them over. Remember, it is a new country ; you will be on your own resources, you can take out two or three com panions to assist you. I will pay the expenses and supply you with the goods, which you must repay me for when sold." Young Jonathan folded his arms, bent his head down as if considering the matter, and then, after a few minutes, he said, " 1 will go." Well, I loaded a little vessel called the May Flower, and, after seeing him safely off, I re turned to my business. During the space of many years I heard from him, received his remittances, sent him goods at my own prices, and I am ashamed to say I think now that I charged him rather heavily, though at that time I did not think so ; for you see I had supplied him with the goods, started him in business, and gave him credit when no one else knew him. His letters soon changed in their character, he was becoming ungrateful, he charged me with being exorbitant in my prices. He stated he could purchase the articles much less at other places. Then we became mutually angry. I told him he should pay what I charged, or I would ruin his credit, prevent his purchasing anywhere else, and in the end break up his business. He defied me, and informed me that he should an nounce to all his friends that he had no connection with my house. I had no conception of the strength and extent of the firm. Alas, since then I have learned to my sorrow I lost the best customer I ever had. At last I succumbed. I had money, he had credit. Since then he has been a good cus tomer of mine, but I no more enjoy the monopoly. He trades with the very houses I do, and has esta blished manufactories in America equal to those that supply my house with goods here. It has always been a sore subject to me, the senseless quarrel between Mr. Jonathan and myself. After a time there was a partner admitted in Mr. Jonathan's, who owned one-third of the busi ness. He was a fiery, hot-headed gentleman, who did not like much work. He despised Mr. Jonathan, although Jonathan was the richest, because he attended to all branches of the establishment, was there early and late, supervising, directing, improv ing, and extending, never hesitating at any employ ment, even though it spoiled his hands, so long as it was for the general good of all. Mr. Reb, the junior partner, disliked all this; but he was fond of dictating and demanding certain experiments should be continued, which Mr. Jonathan, wiser than he, believed would probably prove detrimental to the general good. And, con sequently, whenever they were proposed, he firmly but courteously opposed their extension. They had, besides their factories, vast estates north, south, east, and west. Mr. Reb had owned all the cotton branch, and from his extended fields and planta tions he brought, as they say, " a good deal of grist to the mill." He knew the full value of the por tion which he had added to the common stock, and knowing this, one day, feeling a little more inde pendent than usual, he thought he would again pro pose his favourite scheme to the senior partner. " Mr. Jonathan," remarked Mr. Reb, " You must be aware that my experiments have proved remune rative, and also that there is less trouble, less labour, and less anxiety in the working of my share of the business than yours. Now, as you won't let me carry on the experiment in any new property, I propose to smash the concern ; and smash it I will." Mr. Jonathan replied—" Mr. Reb, this is a per petual partnership. You have signed the papers, all profit is to go into the general concern, and neither you nor I have a right to dissolve it ; and I give you fair warning that if you attempt it there will be trouble." Mr. Reb said nothing more, but sullenly and angrily he was leaving the counting-house, when Mr. Jonathan, holding out his hand, said, " Don't go, let us talk things over. I will prove to you that your theory, and the extension of any part of the establishment for the purpose of carry ing it out, will prove injuri ous t o us . Y o u know it has caused a great deal already. Let us close the experiment. What it has caused us already I am willing by degrees shall be taken out of the general reserve fund. Is not that fair ?" " No," replied Reb. "If you do not choose to let me carry on the experiment in this establish ment, remember I claim one-third of the property ; and if I cannot have it by fair means I will have it by foul. I'll split the whole infernal establishment up, and carry on the concern myself ; we'll see who's got the power." " Now, my friend, Reb," said Jonathan," I have spoken smoothly to you, but if you attempt any of your mad business in our house you'll perhaps find yourself severely whipped before you get through ; so just beware, that's all 1" That night Mr. Reb, having prevailed upon a few friendly spirits to join him, having the ad vantage of a surprise, committed sad havoc in the head department. Many of the valuables were seized, articles necessary for carrying on trade were destroyed, the most important machines were mud lated, barricades were erected, cutting off one-third of the establishment, and so much good use did the malcontents make of their time that when morning came they had improvised an establishment of their own, Mr. Reb starting business with an immense show of activity. But how acted Mr. Jonathan when he was aroused from his slumbers? At first he was para lysed with astonishment ; he could not believe that Reb would either be so rash or suicidal as to attempt anything so bold, and commit a series of acts which would ultimately irretrievably ruin him, But he sounded the alarum, and those who were faithful to him soon rallied around his standard. He told them what had occurred, that he intended before he had finished he would let Mr. Rebknow that he could not be so easily trifled with. I am for war, open, terrible war, until he submits. One or the other must give way ; there is not room for two firms, Mr. Reb, carrying off the goods which he had seized from the central establishment, determined on defending his estates. Mr. Jonathan was equally determined to bring the wayward, hot headed youth back. Now Mr. Jonathan possessed some fine vessels, and he found it would be policy to be friends ; and so sending over he informed me of his difficulties, and asked if I could supply him with certain goods he was in want of. Of course I was too glad to do so. In the meantime Mr. Reb sent an agent over with the same request. Being a business man, I had nothing to do with their quarrels, and of course I filled both orders. But Mr. Jonathan had blocked the roads to Mr. Reb's new establishment, so that he couldn't obtain his goods. Many of them he seized and sequestered. Then Mr. Reb's agent swore with a terrible oath that Mr. Jonathan should have no vessels to carry over his goods. He would drive all his ships off the sea. I advised him not to do anything hastily. He then wanted to have built a pretty little craft in a ship-yard I was inte rested in. I told him my business was cash. That was perfectly satisfactory. But mind, I remarked, nothing unlawful. You must not play pirate, or put guns on board. "All right, sir." "I assure you, Britannia," said Uncle Bull, "at this time you couldn't have ever refused him. lie was a most insinuating young dog, and liberal as a prince. Well, here is where all my trouble begins. We built the vessel in one part of the establishment, and he goes to another branch and buys some other ma terials, which he puts into a small craft. Well, when the trim craft we have sold leaves, by some unfortunate coincidence she meets the other on the seas, and she is converted into a regular—but I wont mention it. I only know if my clerks car ried on the game with any mutual understand ing, I was ignorant. Now, unfortunately many of Mr. Jonathan's ♦essels with valuable goods connected with his business crossed the path of Mr. Reb, and he in a spirit of revenge and vin dictiveness burned them ; the loss to Mr. Jonathan was very great, who, hearing of it, says he will hold me responsible. .1 wrote to him and told him I was not responsible ; that if a customer come to my shop and bought some laudanum for the toothache, I couldn't tell whether he was going to commit murder or suicide. I told him if a person bought a gun of me I could not ask if he was going to kill the first gentleman he met ; if a gentleman bought a ship I couldn't tell that in every box he took on board were the materials for con verting her into a privateer. Finally, in my absence, I was not accountable for the conduct of my clerks, and with this I begged he wouldn't bother me any more about it. He then wrote me, and said he was confident he was right, and he would leave it to any one outside. I told him I knew my own affairs. It appears now he has settled with his former partner, and taken Mr. Reb in this time as a silent, not active member of the house. His business has prospered and increased ; he has leisure time on his hands, and he intends to put me through. In fact, he is trying to bully me." This concluded Mr. John Bull's story. "My dear uncle, may I ask this," said Miss Britannia, " were the things furnished from your establishment, and hadn't you some slight idea of what was going on ?" " I don't choose to reply to any impudent ques tions !" growled Mr. John Bull, evidently in no very agreeable humour. " May I ask, then, whether you would not rather pay this than lay yourself open to the same injury in case of a split in your firm ? Is the amount too large for you, Uncle?" " I must certainly say it's unpleasant, and I should not like it to occur to me. As for the amount, it's a mere bagatelle." " Now, Uncle," earnestly spoke Miss Britannia, " I know you arc sometimes gruff, but you are always just when you are convinced ; and I am sure that it is better, if you believe your case good, to leave it to the decision of a mutual friend. This continual bickering may yet lead to an open breach, the embers may be fanned into a flame, as you are aware. Mr. Jonathan may find means, if he desires, of injuring your business ; whereas, by giving him a fair hearing, by laying the case before chosen friends, an amicable arrange ment may be arrived at, and you will be better and stronger friends than ever, while the mercantile world, whatever the verdict may be, will give you credit for fairness and justice." Here Mr. Bull nodded acquiescence. And I agree with Miss Britannia. It is your duty, Mr. Bull, and all of us Bulls, to consider the case of the Alabama not only on the ground of right, but of expediency, policy, or whatever you may choose to call it. The commerce of our metropolis alone in a single year has amounted to three hundred and seventy-five millions (375,000,000) sterling. Tyre, Carthage, Alexandria, Byzantium, Venice, renowned for their commerce in former periods of the world, conducted a small trade in comparison with this. Our sails dot every sea and spread their wings over every ocean. Our colonies are scattered in every known quarter of the earth. Why lay up in store a pun ish►nent that may overtake us at any moment ? The rumblings that come across the Atlantic are not pleasing to the ear. Ido not say they fright your soul, Mr. Bull, for ages have testified to your valour and bravery ; but why not remove all cause of anger ? Let the message be of peace, instead of the defiant roar of the lion, and the shrill screech of the angered eagle as she soars proudly aloft. Let Columbia and Britannia be your ambassadors ; they have only one messenger, the dove. Well do I remem ber at the time of the Trent affair, when the clouds rose ominous and dark above the peace of the two countries, a cartoon in Punch. It represented Co lumbia standing on the shores of America looking across the broad blue expanse of waters to where Albion's white cliffs were. On her right shoulder, though chained, was the eagle, emblematic of war ; he was ready to bear any message of defiance ; but on the forefinger of Columbia's left hand was a dove; with her right hand she was softly stroking its head. There Columbia stood, hesitating, irre solute ; at last a smile of sweetness irradiates and illumines her countenance ; the little blue rib band is detached, and the dove sails away the messenger of peace ; and so now I hope John Bull will have as much sense. Leave it to Britannia ; chain the lion in his den ; but let the dove bear across the Atlantic a message, and let it be a draft in full. Then John Bull may sip his port wine, take his " forty winks" in security, and not be afraid of the rap-rap of the postman bring ing unpleasant letters at unseasonable hours. THOMAS RAWLINGS. 103, Gresham House, Nov. 16. MR. D. FIELD'S ADDRESS ON JURISPRUDENCE.— On Monday, 12th inst., Mr. Dudley Field, a gentle man who has achieved a wide-spread reputation as one of the Commissioners for the Codification of the Laws of the State of New York, delivered an ad dress to the Jurisprudence Department of the Social Science Association in the rooms of the Society of Arts. The Hon. George Denman, Q.C., presided at the meeting, which was attended by those inte rested in the much-vexed question of Codification v. Digestion. Mr. Field is one of the ablest advo cates of codification, and he has it in his power to supply an amount of practical information on the subject, such as no one in this country can possibly possess. True, it by- no means follows either that the excellent compendium of the law of New York on which we lately offered some remarks will be found to fill the place required of a complete code, or that, if it does, the same course could be taken with equal success in this country ; but the ventila tion of the question will be greatly assisted, and the necessary field of discussion materially narrowed, by an accurate knowledge (such as Mr. Field can impart) of what has been done in the country whose laws and circumstances are, of the whole world, the most similar to our own. The ability displayed iu the introduction to the " Civil Code of the State of New York" is such that we would gladly transfer the whole of it to these columns did our space per mit.—Solicitors' Journal. LADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Biliousness, Dysentery.—There is no organ in the human body so liable to derangement as the liver. Food, fatigue, climate, and anxiety—all disorder its action and render its secretion, the bile, more or less depraved, superabundant, or scanty. Tho first symptoms should receive attention. A pain in the side or top of the shoulder, a harsh cough and difficulty of breathing are signs of liver disease, which are removed without delay by friction with Holloway's inestimable ointment. The pills should also be taken early. For all diseases of this vital organ the action of these con joined remedies is a specific by checking the over supply of bile, regulating its secretion, and giving nervous tone. * Note.—The Poussin came from the Colonna Palace, Rome. No work by Poussin now exists in Rome so fiuo as this was once. • of three Lancashire spinsters was required to furnish yarn for one weaver. The new inventions soon removed ever/ obstacle, and the weavers had an ample su; ply, for , ill wonderfully brief time the Jenny and the Water-frame could spin a pound of cotton to a thread 19 miles long, but the Mule to one of 950 ! The inventors of these wonderful machines were not men of education or rich men, but they were, notwithstanding, great men in the best sense of the word. Hargreaves and Crompton were ordinary operatives and still more unfavourably circumstanced was Arkwright for he was a barber distinguished from other barbers on l y • b y cheap shaving. " St ar tli ng ," says M r . A s hworth, " ne it may appear, discov er i es o f suc h i mpor t ance have bee n disclosed to the world by a few untutored men from th e ranks of labour. Thanks to them, the machinery thus constructed has completely revolutionised the arts of spin ning, and has put in motion an instrumentality and a sY e ' tom of manufacture where the fibrous products of nature are utilised to the service of man ; fitted alike to minister to the refined taste of the wealthy, and to supply the mor e Important and urgent needs of the poor!" The machines first applied to cotton, and which, had there been no cottout would certainly never have been invented at all, have sinc e been successfully applied to other textile materials, as the - wool of the sheep, the hair of the goat, the camel, and th e alpaca to flax, to hemp, to Indian jute—even to the Or e of the tropical Banana, and to the intestines of a cattT pillar. Other nations have borrowed our inventions. T he jenny and the mule are in Europe to be seen from Spain to Russia, from England in a westerly direction across th e , Atlantic, and in an east er ly as f at as th e eas t e rn shores nt Hindustan. All who do not manufacture themselves, and many who do, receive from us plain and coloured cottons, and cotton yarn to the extent last year of better than £57,000,000. We are the greatest consumers, but If we consume no more than £43,000,000 we have here 311 party of a hundred millions a y ear crea t e d in one hun dred years' time, an estate a good deal more valuable than our Indian Empire, which we began creating at the same thne• Nothing could stay the rapid advance of the cotton menu" facture after James Watt had improved, or for all Pran h „r - ,.. purposes rather had invented, the steam engine. . I .` 4 ` heaviest blow, short of the overthrow of our own in stitutions by a conqueror, was given to it by the civil w ar in America, which nearly destroyed our best and larg est supply, raising the price of the raw material fre l sixpence up even to five sixpences, and which is comp ute to have inflicted a direct p ena lty on us li tt l e short a £70,000,000, exclusive of enhanced cost to the consum er. We are, however, rapidly recovering from this grea t e 7; tastrophe, and soon the cotton manufacture will be gre a ter than ever. We have but one objection to offer to the Able and instructive essay of Mr. Ashworth, and it is this: 111 his admiration of the principles of freedom of commer ce ' with which we are entirely in unison, he makes no alleigui ance for—and, indeed, no mention of—another puvr er L promoter of the cotton manufacture as of every ntu— branch of British industry. This is the influx of the Pre diens metals. The influx has been to the amount of Mani millions a year now for 18 years. The silver brought to market has equalled the gold, for the two metals bear tilde same relative values which they did before. The old gol d and silver also come from the mines as they did before, yes this mighty addition has not depreciated the value of th is precious metals. In the 16th century the precious M ete were depreciated, because they flowed into a little slugg ieh market which could not absorb them. In our time they ' have flowed into a mighty one, and simply stimulate d creation of new wealth equal to their own amount. 31 Ashworth's own figures will, we think, show iudisp utab t l how gold has helped free trade. In 1840, before fre e ; trade principles were in operation, our exports goods were estimated in round numbers at £24,000,00 • i ro proVe: In the next five years, which included three years' went in the tariff, they rose to £26,000,000. In the follow' ing five years, ending with 1850, which included four Ye e „ of corn-law abolition, the exports rose to £28,000,000. tio that free trade, then, had done in 10 years time w as t° the produce an increase of £4,000,000. The influx' o 1 precious metals began in 1849 and 1850, so that the l ee n years of free trade especially had received 'some Sin , a assistance from it. In the first five years of free traubete helped by gold, our exports rose to £34,000,000, and in tee next five, ending with full supply of the raw material, t 11.0): amounted to £52,000,000, or in ten years' time they had creased by £18,000,000, against the £8,000,000 of the cor responding decennial period, when free trade had tln help of cottoo from the new gold. Mr. Ashworth has a mind that as readily grasp such subjects, and when he gives t he 61'1° ; tion his consideration, we are satisfied that he will Bgre with David Hume and Wm. Huskisson in thinking that a n influx of gold is a great promoter of national prosperity SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " WEEKLY DISPATCH " ON PICTURE-FLAYING AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—The value of a public collection of choice works by renowned painters is obvious. A fine picture, unlike a great poem, cannot be indefinitely multi plied. Its design, it is true, may be disseminated by en graving or photography ; but the peculiar quality which distinguishes it from both sculpture and engraving —the subtle imitation of nature, by gradation of substance and harmonious blending of colours, no merely mechanical process can adequately tender. To the formation, then, of that accurate perception of beauty in nature and art, termed "taste," the study of pictures by the great masters is indispensable ; and it, of necessity, follows that sound judgment on the part of those deputed by the nation to purchase and preserve such works is of the very utmost importance. For fine pictures, from the subtlety of the method of which they were produced, are peculiarly sus ceptible of injury. The person in whose charge they may be can, if he will, alter them to suit his notion either of nature or of the artist's intention, and this by the process termed " cleaning." With regard to this term let us not be misunderstood. On a picture that has been painted for centuries dirt to some extent must inevitably ad here ; but this, if the work has not been ignorantly covered with bad varnish or oil, will be so small in quantity as not to materially interfere either with the _ _ effect of the work or the pleasure and profit derivable from it by spectator or student. Still, the removal of this dirt would unquestionably bo a gain, provided it were done withcut damage to the paint ; but cleaners almost always take off, with thedirt, that delicate coat of colour by which the great painters imparted finish to their works, termed " glazing." Their process of painting was broadly this. On a ground more or less dark or transparent they modelled the picture in tints formed by mixing white lead with co loured pigments, thus producing an effect which, as com pared with their ultimate intention, was crude, cold, opaque, and technically speaking, "dead coloured." To this pale preparation they imparted life, warmth, harmony and rich ness of tone by repeated coats or glazings of colours more or less transparent ; and a picture thus'produced has the additional and invaluable quality of luminousness, result ing from light and opaque tints shining through colour rich but thin. Now it must be evident that pictures pro duced by this complex process can be injured at will. Let the owner or curator consider lightness or paleness a merit, and the glazings are at once torn off as "dirt." Thus were treated a picture by Rubens and two by Guido in 1844 and 1845. Four more pictures were flayed in 1846, and so strong were the expressions of public indignation that in 1847 Sir Charles Eastlake resigned the keepership and Mr. Unwins took his place. Till 1852 the pictures had a rest ; then, seized with a spasm of destructiveness, Mr. Unwins tore off the glaz ings from nino fine works. Press and public were roused, Mr. Morris Moore taking thelead. A Parliamentary com mittee examined witnesses of repute, and the opinions given amounted to 149 condemnatory of the " cleaning," and but 45 in its favour, 31 of these being uttered by the parties implicated. Mr. Uuwins was now deprived of the keepership, and, strange to say, Sir Charles Eastlake, the inaugurator of the " cleaning" era was once more placed over the gallery with a large increase of salary. Warned, however, by experience, he, from that time till his recent death, avoided the rock on which he. had wrecked his re putation ; but Mr. Boxall, his Successor, is less cautious. Of the pictures " cleaned" under the direction during the late vacation and shown to the public when the gallery re opened on Monday, Nov. 5, two of the landscapes by Gaspar Poussin (No. 31) and by Rubens (No. 66), are of chief importance, though others have been flayed to which we shall allude hereafter. Through a system of ill-usage, the nature of which we will presently indicate, the sur face of the Poussin had become dull ; but the Rubens was in fine condition—that is to say, the colouring was rich, harmonious, and natural, whilst the dirt on it was so trifling in quantity as not to endure with the general effect. The dirt is now gone, and with it the master's rich and transparent glazings. To the cultivated eye the work is now, compared with what it was, inexpres sibly painful. To the young student it is worse than valueless, for it falsifies Rubens's intention and can only mislead. To the nation its pecuniary value is materially diminished. For " cleaning" the Poussin there was more pretext. Wo remember—for our intimate knowledge of the National Gallery and matters connected therewith dates back full twenty years —when this picture was in good condition, rich in tone, sublimely ideal in massive breadth of treatment, and worthy its Roman* fame as " the painter's masterpiece." Mark its decline and fall. The only varnish that can be applied to the surface of a picture without ultimate injury to it is that made by gum mastic dissolved in spirit. It preserves the paint from discolouration by foul air ; it is subject to little, if any, change of hue. The gum, when the spirit has evaporated, can either be revived by allowing it to ab sorb more spirit, or it can be removed by gentle friction, and fresh varnish substituted. This method of treatment, known and always used by intelligent experts, was not the one in favour with Mr. Seguier, who, on Sir C. Eastlake's first accession to office in 1843, and for some years after, was employed at the gallery and did to the pictures what he would. In his evidence before the committee of 1353 he states that " when the pictures first came to the gallery they were not in a bad state. They were in a fine condi tion; there was no oil or dirt upon them;" and he then, strangely enough, says—" I have been in the habit of var nishing pictures (the gallery pictures) with a mixture of boiled oil and varnish—my gallery varnish'— magylp ; particularly dark and absorbent pictures. It is my opinion that this oil varnish has a great tendency to attract dirt, and that, if it continuo any length of time on a picture, it will get yollower and blacker from day to day." Worse'.— he speaks of "occasionally rubbing them up with oil after wards"—an operation repeated, too, by certain of his sue censors. Now ; among the pictures thus scandalously used was the " masterpiece" of Poussin. We have watched for some years with painful forebodings the gradual en croachments on it of superficial obscurity, till at length the " cleaner" has torn off with the oil varnish all the painter's finishing work—all that gave the picture truth, tone, and sublimity ; and has left, only, to our astonished gaze the cold, dead, opaque preparation. Against this Vandalism we raise our voice—against this ignorant de struction of works which can never bo replaced we pro test in the interests of art, of the nation, and of the world. As Mr. Boxall—in contempt of the overwhelming evidence against the National Gallery process of "cleaning," given before the committee of 1853 —in contempt of the facts then deposed to by Isfr.Motris Moore, Mr. Wm. Coningham, Sir David Brewster, Mr. David Roberts, RA., and other competent witnesses with reference to the nature of glaze and the irreparable injury caused by its ignorant removal— in contempt of the universal condemnation of the Vandal ism of 1852 by the Press—has thought fit to recommence this method of destruction, thereby not only depreciating the value of public property to the extent of thousands of pounds, causing injury which no money can repair ; and as the " cleaning" is probably still in progress; two pictures —one termed a warrior adoring the infant Christ (No. 234); the other a Tintoretto (No. 16), known as " St. George," being absent from their frames when we visited the Gallery on Monday last—a proceeding which, the vacation over, is unusual, nay,we believe, unprecedented--we demand, in the name of the public that all operations that come under the head of "cleaning" be at once stayed, and that no more pictures be removed from public sight until Parliamentary inquiry has again probed this matter to the root. When this inquiry takes place evidence of a startling kind will be brought forward both with regard to the recent flayings and to the injuries from the use of the "oil varnish," which has been indiscriminately employed in the Gallery for more than 20 years. " THE EXAMINER" ON THE GREATEST OF OUR MANU FACTURES.—Every one knows at once that this can mean no other than the cotton manufacture, the greatest that the world has ever seen or is likely to see. The raw mate rial of this mighty manufacture is nothing more or less than the pappus or flock of the seed vessel of an exotic plant which will not grow at all in our climate, nor very well in any European climate. Greeks and Romans and men of the middle ages knew nothlugabout it. We ourselves and the other nations of Europe received the raw material from the Arabs of Spain, as its name imports, and the Arabs had it, they knew not by what means or when, from the Hindus. This is the simple material out of which is pro duced the fabric which clothes half the population of the world, and of which we aro the principal manufacturers. The sketch we are about to give of the wondrous manu facture we take from a paper of great ability and enlighten ment, lately read at the social sience meeting held at Man chester by Mr. H. Ashworth, late chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester, himself an active labourer in the mighty hive of ingenious and indefatigable industry. The vastness of the cotton manufacture is founded on the natural cheapness of the raw material, and its peculiar adaptation to machinery. A garment of the cheapest fabric of wool, that is flannel, will cost 35., of linen 2s. 4d., but of cotton only 11d., and thus you can easily have two garments of cotton for one of linen, and three for ono of wool. But cotton, in the early period of our manufactures, was as dear as lint, or even wool, but skill in'growth and economy of transport in time altered all this. Sixty years ago, a pound of American cotton of an ordinary quality cost 25., and it fell to 6d., or one-fourth of this, still paying the planter and the merchant equally well. Down to the year 1767, barely a century ago, cotton and other thread or yarn was made by the distaff in every country of Europe, as it still is in India and China, and as it ever had been since the time when linen thread was spun for the weaving of Egyptian mummy cloth. It is in the preparation of the yarn that the chief economy is pro duced in the cotton manufacture. Lancashire is now, and always has been, the great centre of the trade, and it was here that sprung up the inventions which have made it great. In 1767 Hargreaves invented the "Spinning Jenny, ,, Arkwright, two years after, the "Water-frame,"Crompton, in 1775, the "Mule," so called because it was a combination of the two previous inventions. Thus, within eight short years, discoveries were made which had before baffled the ingenuity of the world, from the day man began first to clothe himself in a textile fabric. Before then the labour COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—Nov. 17. A small supply of wheat at market, which sold fres T Y i ii ' s an advance of 3s per qr on late rates. Fine barley vis s mo .. dearer, and other kinds sold well. Beans and peas in derato supply, and is higher in value. 400 428 Wheat, white (8a 70s ! Beans, Slazagam• •••• 482 red, 59s eSs . lillddle and small ~441 40 Barley .... Thi 51s Peas, white .......... 3 138 as Oats CHELMSFOItD—Nov. 17. goo d At tho market to-day wh e at was hardly so ap ad supply as usual, but the trade was very active, at „ t the vance of is per qr—barley also b e in g di s posed 0i " ric od same terms. Oats firm. Beans and peas rather auV" since last week. Wheat, old white....sos 644 new .st's 656 old red 434 58s uew. 48s 57s Barley . 2ls 328 (Amy:tiler -- —8 tirindaig ' , 55 30s Malt... sBs Ws Chevalier 60:s 62i Oats ••• 2's 26s Peas, Partridge ..... 403 ts,, Wlnte ...... 0 '; B Bing . ...... . 383 ....... . dit , o, -- Beans, Tick, old .....,400 455 new.... 380 4" Barrow 1k5.425 455 n r... ...:313: 4421 Mazaga GRANTHAM—Noy. 17. ev/ Old white wheat, 58s to 61s; old red, 54s to 58s; 1 3 / 0 .• white, Ms to 58s ; new red, 49s to 54s per 36 stone'„ As er ley for malting, 38s to 455 per qr. ; grinding, 30s to o't_r 2 4 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s Mona• stone. Beans, old, 42s to 52s ; new; 39s to 46s per 3 8 8 ' Peas, 35s to 40s per 36 stone. NORTHAMPTON—Nov. 10. g Old New white wheat, 56s to 60s • new red, 50s to 5 ,, „% r i 0 y white, 58s to 62s ; old red, 56s to (,9s per 36 stone- 30 for malting, 42s to 51s per qr. new,, 29s to 36s PL ue . stone. Oats, old, 26s to 33s • 23s to 32s per 24 o ' l . tis Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, ' 42s to 45s per 38 stone. 38s to 42s per 36 stone. BAERDEEN—Nov. g eed The attendance at the corn market l6. to-day Nva-. aeat't and there was a f a i r b us i ness do i ng Prices for " A flour, bore, and barl e y ra th er d earer; ' oa t s unchang e- * White wheat 48s Od to Ms Od t 62 1bil bash °l * Red wheat 48s Od to 508 0d) Potato oats bushel' Common oats `24s 3s s 0 6 d d t t o o 2 2 6 5 s Od s od k 40l b v Bere Barley 31s Od to 32s 6d t 53 ib .13 40 11°1 ' 32s Od to 33s 0d f 2 . Oatmeal 20s 6d to 21s 6d ) 131 boll Of OBOLE'Ih. Flour, fine 43s Od to 50s 6d Vsack ° KIRKCALDY—Nov. 17. Good supplies of wheat, barley, and oats, an d P rice° for wheat 2s up; barley and oats is up. Wheat. Barley. Oats First..- 568 Od ; 35s d 1 2 30 O d etiond 59s Od I 38s Od 21i0 Od Third Q3O 0,1 42a Od ;,Os 6d COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market- s. cl, s. d. a 22 Lambert's W.Hartley 17 9 Walls End Hetton ••• 17 0 Pittington l9 0 Wylam .... f . •_.,•••••••••• Original Hartlepool 22 3 C a rw a y and PuffrYn 23 6 Cassop ~„ 5 South Hetton Kelloe Tees 2 2 0 1 6 9 E A d co en rn M c a l i o n se ........................ , 5, 2 0 : 0 0 Kepier Grange Holywell Main Caradoc 2 1 17 9 0 Hartlepool ............ 44' Ships at:market, 73—sold, 68. DISTRESS OF THE DEI'TFORD OPERATIVES' public meeting has been convened at Lee, the V icar in th: chair, in aid of the fund for the relief of the larg e nign la.bei„ o of unomployod operatives b e l ong ing to the iron shipbt ing trade at Greenwich, Deptford, and Blackwall. On Sao' day last sermons were preached and collections made tcl ; wards the same object, at the churches of Greenwich; Paul and St. Nicholas, Deptford; St. James's, 115°1 ' 1'5 :: St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, Greenwich ; and annul" rous Dissenting places of worship in the locality. Births. ANDERSON—On the 19th inst., at Sydenhara, the wife (4 I. S. Anderson, Esq., of a son. BARCHARD—On the 18th inst., the wife of E. Barchar4 Esq., of a son. uar i t ata' CORBETT—On the 16th inst., at 35, Great C um. MU - pNDELL—O n lace, the Hon the 19th i . Mrs. Cbet, of t 16, a s _sq uare, on. the or nst , a Berkeley wife of Major Mundell, of ;son. Marriages. fist% DEAN—ASR—On the 17th inst , at St. John the BaP -- to Kentish-town, James Dean . of Leighton-grove.bm Matilda Ash, eldest surviving 'daughter of IV% As h ' '''''' 4 of Fortess-terrace, N.W. Eurs—CDAux—On the 17th inst. at at All Saints', jcingstor on-Thames, George S. Ellis, Of Harbertonford, 1)evo?1, to Elizabeth, third daughter of Jacob Clark, of rortlanG road, London. C 14, E J A O U h : Deaths. pros Epernay, Marne, France, ' Mon L. M. Ca - -- st O re n et t , l a te ge l a 7t 6 h 6. lust at the Chat n neaux, eau de DM GnAHAM—On the 19th inst., Robert, e ld es t son of R obol4 Graham, Esq., of Wimbledon, aged 21. 4 HEATHCOTE—On the 17th inst , at 5, Southwiek-erese..--4 Hyde-park, N. W. Heatheote . , Esq., aged 80. NOEL—On the 18th inst., L. 11. Nbel , of ate Adruiralp't Somerset-house, at 90, Wimpole-street, aged 54. • , PLUNKETT— On the 16th inst , at Dunsany Castle, IrelaPl the Hon. Julia E. Plunkett,. youngest daughter of Lb Dunsany, aged 15. WELD—On the 18th inst., at 25, Notting-hill-square, Sir sington, E. Weld, Esq., aged 85. Ion( - 0. tyi London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM .A.ND8141413t of No. 112, Strand, Printer at Tuft Sufi °Moe, No. # 2, , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savcy, in the Cetuatyol Afiddleie24—Tuesday, November 180. __-,~ ( 1) ' L NT: Bor n( Sc