The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-18 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague.—The Board of Trade and the Home Office. The Secretary of the Board of Trade presents his compliments to the editor of The Sun, and begs that he will be good enough to publish the enclosed copy of a correspondence that has passed between the. Board of Trade and the Home-office respecting the collection of returns of the number of live stock in Great Britain, together with a copy of the schedule to be issued by the Board of Trade, and of a letter that has been addressed by Sir George Grey on the subject of the Lord Lieutenants of the several coun ties. The form will be sent to, and is to be returned by, each occupier of land through the Post-office (wherever available), and the return is to be made by the occupier upon the day that will be specified in the schedule, probably not earlier than the let March, 1866, owing to the very large number of schedules that will have to be printed and distri buted. Whitehall, Dec. 16, 1865. Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, 6th December, 1865. " Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Com mittee of Privy Council for Trade to request that you will move Secretary Sir G. Grey to cause the magistrates in England and Wales (and the corre sponding authorities in Scotland) to be informed of the steps about being taken by the Board of Trade, for the purpose of ascertaining the number of live stock existing in Great Britain. My Lords rely much upon the good offices of the county magistrates, whose assistance will be most valuable in advising their own tenantry and the neighbouring farmers to give prompt and careful attention to the schedule to be transmitted to them by post, for a return of the number of live stock upon land in their occupation. The published correspondence upon this subject between the Cattle Plague Commission and the Board of Trade will explain the object of the in quiry, and my Lords entertain the hope that the required information will be successfully obtained by volunary returns from the farmers and occupiers of land. But it is very desirable that no means should be neglected of guarding against the refusal of information in consequence of misapprehension on the part of the farmers as to the intentions of the Government in making the present inquiry. The collection of returns from so large a class of persons as the occupiers of land in Great Britain can only be undertaken by the Government ; and it is of course desirable on the ground of public economy that officers already employed in the public service should, if practicable, be made available fo r collect ing the statistics of live stock. In order, therefore, to avoid creating a new and costly machinery, the distribution and collection of the schedules will be entrusted to the Department of the Inland Revenue, acting on behalf of the Board of Trade. The schedules will bear the Post-office stamp for transmission to and return by each occupier of not less than five acres of land. There will, therefore, be no occasion to trouble the occupiers by a personal application for the return, if they will be good enough to fill up the schedule and return it by post according to the address printed upon it. As the value of the information will depend upon the completeness of the returns, it will be necessary to make a further written or personal application to occupiers who neglect to fill up and return the schedule. It is to be hoped that this trouble to the occupiers and the officers employed will seldom be necessary, as it will occasion delay in the publication of the results of the inquiry • and an early knowledge of the supplyof stock in the country is manifestly most desirable. Every endeavour will be made to obtain the re turns with the least possible trouble and inconve nience to the occupiers of land, and it is the earnest hope of my Lords English agriculturists will show themselves as ready to afford information of such special national interest, as the agriculturists in Scotland, Ireland, and foreign countries. Copies of the correspondence between the Cattle Plague Commission and the Board of Trade, and of the form of schedule to be issued by the Board of Trade are enclosed, which my Lords suggest should be transmitted with the letters from the Sec retary of State.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, J. EMERSON TENNANT. The Under Secretary of State, Home-office. 4' Whitehall, Dec. 9. Sir,—l have the honour to transmit to you the copy of a letter with its enclosures, which has been addressed to this Department by the Board of Trade, and I have to request that you will be so good as to cause the purport of it to be made known generally to the magistrates of your county. Her Majesty's Government have no doubt that you will concur with them in the opinion that it is important to obtain with as much accuracy as pos sible the information which the Board of Trade is endeavouring to procure, and they trust that the county magistrates will readily give any assistance in their power towards the attainment of this object. —I have, &c., . . (Signed) G. GREY. The Lord Lieutenant of the county of -. Whitehall, Dec. 13. Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 6th instant, requesting that the county magistrates in England and Wales (and the corresponding autho rities in Scotland) should be informed of the steps about to be taken by the Board of Trade for the purpose of ascertaining the number of live stock existing in Great Britain, I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to transmit to you for the informa tion of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade, copies of the circular letter which has been addressed to the Lords Lieutenants of Counties throughout Great Britain.—l have, &c., (Signed) H. WADDINGTON. Sir J. Emerson Tennent Board of Trade. [Here follows the schedule referred to above.] loser; and it was resolved to solicit supplementary subscriptions from the landed gentry of the district. CAMBBIDGESHIRE AND THE ISLE ELY. The magistrates of the Ely petty s ;ssional divi sion have issued a caution to the owners of dogs re questing them to confine them as much as practic able from wandering about, and to co-operate with the justices in every way which may tend to check the spread of the disease. It has been represented to the justices by inspectors and others that dogs at tracted by the scent of animals dying or slaughtered, and buried in consequence of the disorder, are found prowling about yards in which animals have been buried, and it is believed that the disease is carried in consequence from place to place. The murrain prevails with severity in the neighbourhood of Chat teris, 29 deaths having taken place. Several losses have occurred in the Wisbech district, particularly in the Walpoles. In the Cottenham district the dis ease has spread to no fewer than 33 different farms. The disease has shown itself upon the farm of Mr. F. W. Newman, of Chippenham. BRADFORD. The disease is still spreading, though not so ra pidly nor so fatally as it was, in this district, espe cially in the East Morley division, around the borough. The report of Mr. Collins, the inspector of one part of the division, states that there have been eight deaths during the week, five being at Allerton, and three at Idle, and that ten animals are at present under medical treatment. Since the first appearance of the disease he had been success ful in the treatment of 20 cases. The report of Mr. Carter, the inspector of another part of the divi sion, stated that eight days occurred at Wylie and liartshead ; two cattle were recovering, and five remained ill. Mr. David Parkin, of Rodleyfold, Calverley, has been summoned before the magis trates of the East Morley division, on the charge of having, in disobedience of the Orders in Council, omitted to inform the inspectors of the appearance of the disease among his stock, and in consideration that he had lost all his cows (five in number) by the plague the,Bench mercifully inflicted the nominal penalty of ls. only and costs, altogethar amounting to 103., though they stated that in future the full penalty would be inflicted. The weekly return. presented to the Keighley magistrates was not BO favourable as in the previous week ending Dec. 8. Two cows died of the plague at the Myrtle Pasture, Bingley, on Friday, and other two were in such a condition of disease that they wen destroyed by order of the inspectors. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Though the report of Mr. Lepper, one of the offi cial inspectors, last published, stated that the Vale of. Aylesbury at last enjoyed a happy immunity from the ravages of the cattle plague, it would aPPear that the disease had broken out with dr eadful virulence in the immediate neighbour hood. It was stated on Saturday to the Aylesbury magistratestlaaton the farm of Mr. Hart, jun., at Askett, near seized fewer than 1G cows had on the previous day Win g, beanl w b y the r in derpest, that several of them had died a nd that the r emainder were in a hopele ss state lt was added that Mr. Hart was unabl e to account for the out break on his farm, unless it was th a t t h e disease had been communicated to his cattle b y the passage of stock along the London and N orth - Western line of railway, which runs close by. The report of m i .. Bond, the inspector for the Buckingha in di vision of the county, shows that the disease still rages as badly as ever there, and that not fewer than a dozen cases are within the radius of a few miles. In the Thorn borough and Thornton parishes there are no less than eight cases, and one case has occurred at Pad bury. The Duke of Buckingham was on Saturday elected president, and Mr. 8,. P. Fitzgerald vice president, of the newly-formed mutual protection society at Buckingham ; a large number of farmers paid their deposit, the amount of call being 10s. in every £lOO upon the value of stock insured, in case of death two-thirds of the value to be given to the CI7IIBERLAND. The cattle plague makes progress in Cumberland. In the Orton district, where it broke out in the beginning of November, it continues to spread, and several cases have been reported during the past week from farms in that neighbourhood which had before remained free from taint. In that district alone about 100 cattle have been condemned and destroyed, about 40 more have died of the plague, and about 100 more have been slaughtered for mar ket at considerable sacrifice. Five animals have recovered from the disease, and about a dozen are sick. Some cases have occurred at Norman, near Caldbeck, in another district in the county, where a farmer has lost 10 cattle. The Mayor of Carlisle has so far modified his proclamation as to allow the sale of healthy fat cattle within the city, upon con dition that they are either branded and slaughtered within 24 hours or else removed out of the town within the same period. DORSET. At the present time this county, happily, is free from the cattle plague. When it appeared at Wyke Regis a few months back it was effectually stamped out by slaughter. But great alarm was felt lest the disease should again be introduced, and the county magistrates for the petty sessional divisions at Dor chesteJ, Cerne, Wareham, Wimborne, Sturminster, and Bridport, have prohibited the sale of horned cattle at markets or fairs till March 1 next. The borough of Weymouth, however, is open to fat stock for immediate slaughter. Last week Messrs. Bris towe and Ogborn, contractors for supplying meat for consumption by the men employed at the Go vernment works at Portland, were summoned before the county magistrates for infringing the order, by taking 10 beasts to Wyke Regis, within the Dor chester division, but itwas urged in their defencethat the order had not then been published in the London Gazette, and therefore was not binding upon them, and the magistrates, though they felt that objection was invalid, as it was the first case, dismissed it. Last Saturday another case came before the Dor chester bench. Messrs. F. Slade and R. Hine, cattle dealers, on the previous Sunday drove 10 beasts they had brought from the Isle of Wight from Dor chester to Powerstock along the highway. They pleaded ignorance of any order forbidding the re moval of cattle. The magistrates said they were presumed to know the law, and inflicted a penalty of £2O on each of them. ESSEX. The Mayor of Colchester (Mr. C. H. Hawkins) has resolved to close the market of that town for eight weeks from Saturday, Dec. 16. This restric tive policy applies to cows, heifers, bulls, bullocks, oxen, and calves ; but the market will remain open for sheep and swine. It has also been decided that no beasts be ad omitted into town from London nor from any place within a radius of 20 miles there from, with the exception of fat stock for immediate slaughter. There has been no extensive spread of the disease in the neighbourhood of Colchester dur ing the past week. Two beasts belonging to Mr. Catchpool, of Ardleigh, have been attacked. HEREFORDSHIRE. The magistrates of the Petty Sessional division of Ledbury, in this county, have just issued a notice against the bringing or sending any cow, heifer, bul lock, ox, calf, sheep, lamb, goat, or swine to any place whatever within their jurisdiction, for the pur pose of exhibition or sale, until March 1, 1866. HUNTINGDONSHIRE. St Ives' market has been further closed by order of the local magistrates till Feb. 1. The disease is stated to be increasing in the neighbourhood. NORFOLK. At the weekly meeting on Saturday of the Norfolk Cattle Plague Association, Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., presiding, it was stated that the amount voted in compensations at the last sitting of the sub-commit tee was £l,llB 15s. 11d. The total sum granted in compensations during the last four weeks had been £4,420. The whole of the rate of 2d. in the pound made in August was now absorbed, but subscriptions to the amount of £6,500 still remained nearly intact. After a considerable discussion as to the best means of raising further funds, the subject was remitted to the sub-committees, who will present a report to a public meeting to be held in a fortnight. Mr. Forrester presented a report on experimental treat ment carried out under the auspices of the London Homoeopathic Association ; the general result was by no means favourable. Lord Bury, however, con tended that the experiment had not been fully car ried through, and that the treatment prescribed in respect to diet had not been strictly attended to. Many fresh cases of disease were reported. On the other hand, one or two districts in which deaths had occurred were now reported to be healthy. SUFFOLK. The disease has, it is feared, made its appearance in the Cosford division. It has also broken out at Lidgate. Cases of disease , have also occurred at Stoke Ash, Occold, Eye, &c. At the last Ixworth petty sessions Michael' Stubbings was convicted of hrving brought or sent into the Blackbourn district, on the 25th ult., certain bullocks for the purpose of exhibition or sale, and Edward Deeks, innkeeper, of Barnham, was convicted of having received the beasts for the purpose of such exhibition or sale, contrary to the orders issued by the local authority of the hundred in pursuance of the Orders in Coun cil. Stubbings was fined £2O and costs, £3 4s. Bd., and Decks was fined £3 and costs, £3 4s. Bd. More stringent WORCESTERSHIRE. More of cattl e in this notices with regard to the re movalcounty were issued on Sa turday by the rnagistr a Sessional districts. The Mayorofseveral of the Petty of Worcester has issued a proclamation prohibiting cattle into his jurisdiction, except f or the the removal of have t ssued b i purpose of being slaughtered, up to the Ist ofFlluary, a n d e au P d etty the magistrates of the Pershore division a similar notice, while the authorities of Sessional divisions of the Hun d r ed House of Worcester extend the prohibition also to sheep and swine. In neither of these divisions of the county, up to this time, has the cattle p la g ue appeared. BREAKFAST PEVERAGE. —Homoeopathic practitioners, and being the medical profession generally, recom mend cocoa as e.ng the meat healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of homoeopathy was first introduces into this country, there were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or acceptal le to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn ills attention to this subje t, and at length sue ceded, with the a , :sistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, aid so refined by the pert. et trituration it re - elves in the process it passe3 hrough, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps' cocoa is distin:uished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma. i Dr. liassall i n hi s work, " Food and its Adulterations, " s ays — " Cocoa co n t a i ns a great variety of important nutritive pnciples; ev ery ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the bedy." Agate, "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc lions: - I wo teaspoon.uls of the powder in a breakfast CUD, filled up with b)iiing water or milk. Secured in tin-lined ob., Fib , and I.b. labelled pac.ets, and sold at Is. 6d. per ib. by grocers, confecti oners, sad chemists. THE VOLUNTEERS. Lieut.-Colonel M'Leod. Mrs. Freak distributed the prizes. Colonel M'LEOD, in opening the proceedings of the evening, said they were in a much larger place this year than last, and it had the merit of being their own. The prizes were also more numerous than last year, and he was sure that their value would be greatly enhanced from the fact that a lady (Mrs. Freak) had undertaken to ;distribute them. (Cheers.) The corps was in a very satisfactory condition. PRESENTATION OF PRIZES TO THE LONDON SCOTTISH. On Saturday evening the annual distribution of prizes to the successful competitors in rifle shooting attached to the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers took place in Westminister Hall, in the presence of some three or four thousand spectators. The prizes, which, although not very numerous, appeared of a costly character, were displayed on tables placed right and left of a dais erected on fie grand flight of steps leading to the House of Lords, at the eastern extremity of the hall, in the vicinity of which seat accommodation was provided for some 500 or 600 of the immediate friends of the officers and honorary members of the regiment. Prior to the presentation the corps were formed up into battalion by Captain and Adjutant Page, at the northern end of the hall, to undergo the annual in spection by its colonel, Lord Elcho, in the presence of Lieut.-General Sir Hope Grant; G.C.8., the suc cessor of the late Lord Clyde, as honorary colonel of the London Scottish. Mrs. FREAK then came forward and remarked— These prizes are given as a graceful admission of your skill ; and the prizes were distributed. A few of the principal prizes were :—Lieutenant- Colonel M'Leod's Challenge Vase, won by Colour, Sergeant Scorer; the Hon. Mrs. M'Leod's Challenge Vase, won by Sapper Bowler ; and Surgeon Dick enson's Cup for the best drilled company, won by No. 4 Company. Great amusement was created by the presentation of a plated mug for' short hair" to one of three competitors who had been in the habit of wearing long hair. At the conclusion of the distribution, Colonel WRIGHT, volunteer inspector, addressed the corps, and said he had been most happy to report to the Secretary of State for the War Department that they were in a most efficient condition. (Cheers.) Lady Hope Grant undertook the presentation of the prizes, and shortly before eight o'clock, accom panied by General Sir Hope Grant, Lady Elcho, and Miss Hope Grant, Captain the Marquis of Aber corn, Lord Elcho, and other distinguished per sonages, arrived, and ascended the dais, and the regiment then formed up in square in front. Lord Euxo opened the business of the presenta tion by entering into the statistics of the corps for the past year. The report for 1865, dated the Ist December last, showed the muster-roll of the regi ment then to be 28 officers and 661 members ; total 689, of which number there were 315 efficients against 327 in the previous year. The number who had fired in their classes this year were 226 against 240 last year. The number of marksmen were 36 against 64 last year. First-class last year 41, this year 51; second class last year 38, this year 59 ; third-class 13 in 1864, and 16 this year. There had been but 27 resignations as against 49, and the recruits this year amounted to 105 as against 94 last year. Dur ing the year the regiment had engaged in six batta- lion matches, four of which had resulted in their fa vour. The report then statedthe names of the mem bers who represented the regiment at the National Rifle Association meeting of 1865, and Lord Elcho remarked that at the last meeting the London Scot tish in the aggregate carried off no less a sum than £421 from Wimbledon-common in the shape of prizes given by the National Rifle Association,which was pretty good evidence of their efficiency in rifle shooting. A third kilted company was now formed, of which the Marquis of Lorn, son of the Duke of Argyll, was about to take the command, and he trusted that they should soon have sufficient recruits to make a fourth kilted company. His lordship then congratulated the corps on having such a distin guished officer as General Sir Hope Grant to be their honorary colonel. The London Scottish in its earlier days had had the good fortune to have at their head one of the most distinguished generals in the British service, Lord Clyde. They had to mourn his loss, but it was a happy circumstance that, as the late Lord Clyde's successor, their choice should have fallen on such an officer as General Sir Hope Grant. Following in the footsteps of Lord Clyde, they now saw the gallant general on that platform in the uniform of the London Scottish. This was a matter of the highest gratification, as showing how heartily the generals and distinguished officers of the regular service identified themselves with the volunteer movement. After congratulating the regi ment that Lady Hope Grant had consented to do them the honour to present their prizes, he observed that although not so large an array as might be seen on the occasion of presentations to other volunteer corps in that hall, still they had not been less worthily competed for and won by merit on the part of those who were about to become their fortunate possessors. (Applause.) Lady HOPE GRANT then presented the prizes, the names of the respective winners and the character of the competition in - which they had won them be ing announced by Capt. Page. At its conclusion, Lord ELCIIO proposed a vote of thanks to Lady Grant and to Gen. Sir Hope Grant for their attend ance, which was carried by acclamation. Gen. Sir HorE GRANT briefly thanked the assem bly for the honour done to Lady Grant and himself. He could assure the London Scottish that he fell proud of being called upon to become the successor as their honorary colonel of so distinguished a gene ral as the late Lord Clyde, From what he had wit 'nessed of the London Scottish he was thoroughly satisfied with their efficiency, and if ever they should be called into active service he felt thoroughly assured that the London Scottish would be found doing its duty. (Applause.) Three cheers were then given for Lord and Lady Elcho, and the National Anthem having been played by the excellent band of the regiment, the vast assembly broke up. Gratitude of Paris to their Majesties Napoleon and Eugenie. The Prefect of the Seine entertained at dinner on Monday at the Hotel de Ville the members of the Municipal Commission of Paris on the conclusion of their annual session. The Minister of the Inte rior, the Prefect of Police, and several civic func tionaries were among the guests. At the dessert the Prefect of the Seine proposed a toast in the follow ing terms : " Gentlemen —I have the honour to propose the health of their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, and his Highness the Prince Imperial' A few days since the Municipal Council of Paris, acting as the interpreters of public gratitude, and expressing the desire of the members of the departmental commis sion of the Seine, resolved that a medal should be struck, at the cost of the city, to perpetuate the memory of the visits paid by their Majesties to the cholera patients in the hospitals of Paris when the dreadful epidemic which has just ceased was pre cisely in its greatest intensity. Besides so many monuments which will to the latest time bear testi mony to the glorious deeds during the Emperor's reign, our modest medal will help to throw light on one of the striking characteristics of this great historical figure —his profound love of the people—his ardent desire for their welfare—his warm sympathy for all their sufferings. It will tell of the indefatigable anxiety of her Majesty for the labouring classes, to which we already owe a number of institutions, of which I will merely mention the Asylums for Convalescents at Vincennes and Vesinet, and which lately induced the Emperor to rebuild the Hotel Dieu at a moment when it was proposed to transfer the splendour of the Opera to a theatre really worthy of modern Paris. At a moment when the disease, which was still raging at the opening of our session, has so much declined that we may believe it has completely disappeared, it seemed to me, gentlemen, that it was under the influence of the feeling with which each of us was inspired by the pious solicitude and gene rous devotion of their Majesties that it became us to express our respectful homage to the Imperial family. 'To the Emperor !' May God protect and prolong a life so dear to his people, and so valuable for the greatness, the prosperity, and the happiness of France. To the Empress !' whose courage is equal to her charity, and who in her person com bines the solid virtues of the Sovereign with the elevation of mind, the perfect grace, and the affecting kindness of an accomplished lady. 'To the Prince Imperial !' whose heart formed by such examples, and whose intellect developed by the spectacle of this grand reign, will be equal to the great destiny which Providence reserves for him." This speech was received with loud applause, and followed by repeated cheers of " The l'Empereur !" " Vice l'lmperatrice !" " Vice le Prince Imperial!" The band of the Garde de Paris performed several popular airs during the dinner. Wreck of the Barque Gazehouud. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN, April 7, 1865. Sir,—l do myself the honour to forward the en closed report of the inquiry into the wreck of the barque Gazehound at Oamaru, made by the Sub- Collector of Customs at that port. I have, &c., CHAS. Lo GI E, Collector. The llon. the Postmaster-General,:Wellington. Report as to the loss of the barque Gazehound at Oamaru, Otago (N.Z.), on the morning of March 13, 1865. The inquiry held by T. W. Parker, prin cipal officer of customs at Oamaru, under the In quiry into Wrecks Act, 1863 : —The Gazehound was barque-rigged, and of 383 tons register, and was owned by Messrs. Redfern, Alexander, and Co., of London, W. Andrew, master. Sailed from:Lon don for Oamaru direct, with a cargo of general mer chandise consigned to Messrs. Train, Roxby, and Co., of Oamaru, where she arrived on Jan. 9, 1865. On the day following her arrival the ship was caught by a heavy gust of wind from the southward, by which the anchor shank was broken, about a foot below the stock. Heavy moorings laid down by the provincial government now becoming available by the departure of the wool ship Star of Tasmania for London, the Gazehound was removed on Jan. 28, for the purpose of being made fast to these moor ings, but Capt. Andrew found that the buoy mark ing their position was held only by its own chain, which had become detached from the moorings, and they could not be recovered. Capt. Andrew accordingly secured the ship with his own gear— letting go his best bower, with 60 fathoms of chain —and she continued so moored until March 9. In the meantime he had discharged his inward cargo, and was taking in a return cargo of wool, of which about 600 bales were on board. During this period Captain Andrew had taken the precaution (a necessary one in an open roadstead) of sight ing his anchor, to see that it was clear and all right. In doing this the ship shifted its berth from 50 to 100 fathoms inside of the position of the government moorings. On the morning of the 9th March, Captain Andrew, finding the sea increasing, gave the ship more chain—from 60 fathoms, at which she had been lying, to 75—the barometer standing at 29 85. The wind and sea continuing to increase, a coir spring was put u pon the cable to ease the ship, but as they continued to increase Captain Andrew let go his second anchor, and veered to 30 fathoms on the small and 105 fathoms on the best bower. The ship continued labouring very much, and on the morning of the 11th it was found that she dragged her anchor about 100 fathoms. The sea having become easier about day break on the 12th, the small bower was weighed and the ship hove into 60 fathoms on the best bower ; but at 11 a.m. the sea appeared to rise im mediately, and became worse than ever. The small bower was again let go, and the best bower veered out to 105 fathoms, with a spring attached of four parts of nine-inch coir rope, great care being taken that both chains bore an equal strain, allowing for the spring. The sea continued very bad, and at 8 p.m. the small bower parted close to the hawse hole, and the vessel rode by the best bower until the morning of the 13th, when at 6 30 the chain parted in the hawse hole. Heavy rollers' were coming in from the S.E. to E., and the ship lay with her head in shore when the chain parted. The head sails were immediately set, and she paid off, when all available sail was made to take advantage of what light air there was; but it shortly died away, and the ship was completely at the mercy of the rollers, as she was now without anchors or any means of bringing her up. The ship came on shore about 8 a.m., and although everything was done that could be done under the circumstances she became a total wreck in about four hours afterwards. The witnesses examined were the master, chief offi cer, and Captain Sewell, of Oamaru, who holds the office of Beach Master under the Provincial Govern ment, and acts as pilot. I have incorporated nearly the whole of Captain Andrew's statement as to the sea, and the management of the ship between the morning of the 9th March and the day of the wreck. Captain Sewell, in his evidence, states that he con sidered the ship to be in a safe position, although she had shifted when the anchor was being sighted; and he adds that during his four years' experience at Oamaru he has never known the sea to continue up for so long a time. I should have availed my self of the services of a nautical man to assist me in conducting the examination, but there was not one in Oamaru at the time, with the exception of Capt. Sewell, and he had been summoned as a witness. In conclusion, I beg to add that the ship appears to have been well found, with suitable cables and an chors, and that the master seems to have done all that skill and prudence could suggest for the safety of the ship, and that the disaster could scarcely have happened had the Government moorings been in a state of efficiency. In fact, had the ship's gear held for a few hours longer the loss would not have oc curred, as the sea began to subside on the day of the loss. T. W. PARKER, Sub-Collector of Customs. Department of Customs, Oamaru, Otago (N.Z.), March 31, 1865. • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1865. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE: - LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. A special general meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Euston-station—Mr. R. Moon in the chair. Mr. R. Savill, assistant secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said the first resolution be had to propose was that, in pursuance of the London and North-Western (Additional Powers, Wales) Act, 1865, an additional capital of £60,000 be created, for the purpose of converting the shares of the Con way and Llanrwst Railway Company into shares of the London and North-Western Company. The ob ject of the resolution was to enable the company to use the powers given them under the act. Mr. lIROWN-WESTHEAD seconded the motion, and it was adopted. The CHAIRMAN said the second resolution was that in pursuance of the London and North-Western (Additional Powers England) Act, 1865, an addi tional capital of £400,000 be created for the purpose of converting the shares of the Hampstead Junction Railway Company into stock of the London and North-Western Railway Company. The object of the resolution was not to provide any new capital, but merely to convert one stock in their possession into another. Mr. BROWN-WESTIIEAD seconded the motion, and it was carried. The third resolution was also carried unanimously, to the effect that in pursuance of the St. George's Harbour Act, 1861, an additional capital of £62,500 be created and entitled to a preferential dividend (without further participation of profits) of 4 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly at the same period as the dividends on the ordinary stock of the London and North-Western Company were payable, such stock to be applied in the redemption of the rent payable to the St. George's Harbour Company. The Solicitor stated that the additional capital created under the resolution would be applied to the redemption of £2,500 a year paid as rent to the St. George's Harbour Company. The proceedings then terminated. FIRST MIDDLESEX ARTILLERY. . On Saturday the Duke of Buckingham, hon. colonel, invited Col. Creed and the officers of the Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry to a grand entertainment at Stowe, special trains on the North-Western Rail way being provided for their accommodation. The annual dinner and presentation of prizes to No. 8 (Capt. Monckton's) Battery took place on Thursday evening at the headquarters of the re giment, formerly the Hunterian Museum, in Leicester-square, and the proceedings were of con siderable interest. Capt. Monekton presided, and was supported by General Alexander, C. 8., R.A. ; Col. Creed, Commandant of the Ist Middlesex Ar tillery Volunteers Brigade ; the Rev. H. Jones (chaplain), Col. Gregory, of the Railways Volun teer Engineer Corps ; Capts. Hunt, Mullens, Rut ley, Sharpe, and Stanley ; Captain and Adjutant Adams, Drs. Harling, Ridsdale, and De Lisle Allen; a number of officers of other volunteer regiments, honorary members, &c. Lieut. Whichcord occupied the vice-chair. After the loyal toasts, General ALEXANDER, in responding for the army, alluded to the active service he had seen, and to the extraordinary efficiency he had witnessed in gun drill by No. 8 Battery that evening. From the way in which the volunteers of that battery handled their guns he considered they were treading very close upon the heels of the Royal Artillery service. (Hear, hear.) Such a state of efficiency could only be attributable to their having good officers and good instructors. Colonel GREGORY, in responding to the toast of " The Volunteers," alluded to the new arm of the volunteer service to which he belonged, which re lated more particularly to rapid railway transit for troops in the event of any emergency. • He might say that they had now so complete an organisation that in the event of any point of our coast being threatened with invasion, troops, whether volunteers or regulars, could be concentrated at that point from almost any part of the kingdom in an incre dibly short space of time. (Hear, hear.) Colonel CREED, in response to the toast of his health, referred to the new era in artillery practice which, under the auspices of the National Artillery Association, had opened up to them this year at Shoeburyness. After expressing his high and com plete satisfaction with the efficiency of the battalion generally, Colonel Creed concluded by proposing " The Health of Capt. Monckton," which was en thusiastically responded to. highCa p c o t a m i m lo e N n C t K t T o ON th , e i nareturning of t h the a n k r s e g p i m a i e d n t a , Captain Adams, and to the instructors, as well as to the attention of th e non-commissioned officers and privates of the battery, which, out of a strength of between 50 and 60 men, had returned 43 eflicients. The healths of the adjutant, Capt. Adams, the medical staff, the captains of other batteries, and Lieut. Whichcord were given, and the prize tankards for best attendance at drill were presented to the winners by Colonel Creed. The toasts of " The Press," " The Visitors a n d Hon. Members," " The Ladies," &c., concluded a most interesting evening. FIRST MIDDLESEX ENGINEER VOLUNTEERS. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. On Saturday evening the distribution of prizes to the above corps took place in their new drill-hall, College-street, Chelsea, under the presidency of SOUTH-EASTtRN. The gross traffic receipts on this company's lines • amounted for the four weeks ending 18th of Nov. to £89,233, less £2,941 for collecting and deliver ing goods, &c., leaving £86,282. To this was added £2,222 for rents and sundries, and £3,953 for steam packet service, making the total receipts £92,457. The expenditure, including rates, taxes, tolls, Go vernment duty, and expenses of steam packet ser vice, amounted to £52,881, leaving a net sum of £39,576. The total receipts for the 15 weeks and 5 daos ending as above amounted to £466,700, and the expenditure to £221,062, leaving a balance of £245,638. DEMEItARA. The traffic receipts for this company's line amounted for the fortnight ending 11th of Nov. to $6,003, and for the corresponding fortnight of last year to $5,360, showing an increase of $643. American Financial and Commercal News. (From E. F. Satterthwate q• Co.'s Weekly Circular, Dec.l3.) By the "Persia" we have received our usual advices from New York, they are to the 28th ultimo, and report an inactive Stock market, with a declining tendency. The uncertainty which prevailed as to the future policy of the Government with regard to a contraction of the currency, and consequent early return to specie payment, was in ducing unusual caution on the part of those who had un employed capital ; and loans, other than at call, or for short engagements, were difficult to obtain ; the conse quence was that considerable sales of Government Stocks had been made, causing some depression in all descriptions. Tho same cause was operating to check business in rail road securities, the chief part of the operations being effected by speculative parties; the entire list, with the exception of Chicago and North-Western, and Michigan Southern, exhibits a slight decline, which would have been enhanced on any forced sales. The Directors of the Michigan Southern Railroad bad at last come to an arrangement with the Preference Stock holders with regard to the long-pending question of arrears of interest. The terms were generally considered satis factory. Railroad Bonds and State Stocks were neglected.' Gold had advanced rather more than one per cent., closing at 118. ,„ Via " Greencastle" we have received the following quotations, being to the 2nd inst.:— United States 5.20's 101/ Erie, Common 92 Illinois Centrals 139 Gold 148 k The following is the return of the New York Banks : Discounts. Specie. Circulation. Deposits. $ Nov. 18, 224,741,853 12,449,989 14,333 5 ,168 173,640,46-1 Nov. 25, 225,345,177 12,313,542 15,34C,542 175,588,073 We have received the subjoined letter, which will, we think, be read with interest by such of our friends as are Stock or Bondholders of the Reading Railroad ; it has also much interest as showing the mode in which the Americans get over the difficulties imposed by the rugged character of the country ; and also as showing the great state of prosperity this road is enjoying. This prosperity we are the more gratified to notice, inasmuch as the At lantic and Great Western passing through the great coal fields of Ohio, may expect similar results from its coal traffic, and having leased for 999 years the Morris and Essex, and Catawissa roads, it taps by this moans the same coal fields of Pennsylvania as those tapped by the Reading, and it is beyond question that a very enormous coal traffic will be carried to New York direct over these leased lines, to accommodate which wharves aro to be constructed at Hoboken, on the Hudson River, just opposite New York, equal to those of the Philadelphia and Reading, at Port Richmond, on the Delaware. The monthly statement of the Reading is also subjoined, which gives the working for eleven months of the present fiscal year, and estimating the net profit for the remaining month, we arrive at the following result :—Net profit, as stated in return for eleven months, $4,288,520 ; one month, estimated at increased rate of freight, which took effect in October last, say, s7oo,ooo—total, $4,988,520. Deduct amount required for interest, same as per last annual report, $502,000 ; deduct amount required for sinking fund, sllB,6oo—total, $620,600. Leaving a balance of $4,367,920, being equal to a dividend of over 21 per cent. on the stock which stood at $20,072,323. This company paid last year a dividend of 15 per cent. it seems in fact quite to have got over the building of the Lebanon Valley, prior to doing which it had earned from 12 to 17 per cent. dividends. We have the pleasure to state that the most amicable relations exist between the Atlantic and Great Western and the Reading Railroads. New York, 24th November, 1865. E. F. Satterthwaite, Esq., My dear Sir,—Soon after your departure, and after a few days' rest, I made a run through the coal district of Pennsylvania, over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, previously making an appointment with Mr. Bulkeley, the gentleman we called upon together at Port Richmond, on the 20th ult. He is the superintendent of the Port Rich mond depot, and thoroughly versed in the company's business; he accompanied me to the mines. The extension of the wharves is being proceeded with ; they can now accommodate 125 vessels at a time. On the 6th inst., two days before I got there, they shipped 11,000 tons. Up to the Ist November, this year, notwithstanding a six weeks' strike, they have shipped 2,000,000 tons. Their yearly average is about 3,000,000. Next year, with their additional wharf room, they anticipate sending away 4,000,000 tons. The freight of coal from Pottsville to Philadelphia, 93 miles, is $3.50c. or equal to three halfpence sterling per ton per mile. The main line to Pottsville is double track, and in good order, though the iron shows sign of the heavy traffic ; 23 coal trains a day are now running usually, each of 125 waggons (small), carrying 5 tons each. This gives an average of say-12,000 per day. The joints are fished throughout with an iron and wood "suspended" fish. This is the only suspended joint I have met with in this country. Ours, at home, are all so. This Company use gas in their night trains, and, unlike our clumsy holders on the roof of the carriages, carry it in a finch iron cylinder, capacity ten cubic feet water (say 6-feet long by 10-inches diameter), into which is pumped 100 feet of gas, enough for one night's use. The cylinder: is carried under the car, and is removed when empty, and a full one substituted in a very short space of time. _ _ The new carpenter's shop at Reading is one of the finest I ever saw ; 700 feet long, and three spans of 55- feet each, or 165-feet broad : They have a large space of ground adjoining the town, which is going to be covered with buildings, to be paid out of the revenue I sup pose! From Reading to Pottsville, 35 miles, I travelled on the Ariel, a donkey-engine, with car built on the boiler, from which one gets a first-rate view of the line and country, Next day in the Gem, another donkey, I went over the Minehall section from Schulkill Haven to Shemokin, most interesting country. A few miles east branches the Tremont line and laterals, 38 miles in all, which furnish 1,800 tons a day. From Minersville, for nine miles, is a uniform ascending grade of 90 feet to the mile' (1 in 58), which takes you to the top of Broad Mountain, the road forming a horse-shoe bend round the mountain, five miles from heel to heel, of single track. Hero you arrive at the top of the first "plane ;" or descending grade, which is 4,800 feet long, with a fall of 355 feet, 1 in 101 ; and at the foot of this, at the second 4,900 feet, and 365 feet fall (1 in 10.6) ; in all, a fall of 720 feet in 1.83 miles, an average of 1 in 13.5, but at the steepest as much as lin 6. Each plane is worked by a 250 (nominal) horse power engine, and 2-inch (diam.) iron rope. Six full cars ascend, and eight empty descend. They are obliged to work day and night always. Attached to each end of the rope is a safety car, against which the train butts, so that there is no coupling required. This car runs on a track of its own, about 3-feet gauge, within the main 4-feet Bf-inch gauge, which, at the foot of the plane, conducts it into a pit below the surface, the train of cars running by their own impetus over the top of it, and into a siding ; a very •clever way of detaching the rope without loss of time. It is rather nervous work at first going down thes planes, for should the rope break, and it has done so, no power in the world could save you. The average life of a rope is about 31 years, towards the end of which time careful watch is kept for signs of decay, which show themselves in the form of broken strands, caused by crystalisation. A rich vein of coal was passed near the summit, being worked by the company. It crcps out on the surface of the hill, a black shining mass of solid anthracite, 6i-feet thick, slope 45 deg. Shemokin is a mining village in the heart of the moun tains, surrounded with coal " breakers." The burning mine was pointed out to me, a vein of coal which took fire twenty-five years ago, and is still burning. Next day, in another engine, the " Witch," I:went by Paloalto and Port Carbon, over the Mahanoy section. The former is the head-quarters of this section, as Schul kill Haven is of the other; both places have eight or ten tracks in and about them, workshops, engine sheds, &c. The ascent to the summit of the mountain is more gradual, but the descent heavier than the others ; viz., 400 feet in 2,400, or lin 6. A 2i-inch rope is usual here. At the foot of the plane I took the Mahanoy and Broad Mountain Railroad to Fisk's Colliery, through which I was conducted, going half-a-mile into the workings ; the vein is 9 to 10 feet thick, and yields 40 to 50 cars a day, to 140 to 150 men and boys. The " breaker " is peculiar to anthracite coal mining, and consists of a wooden erection some 100 feet high, to the top of which the cars of coal are hoisted by steam power, just as they come from the mine; at the top they are tilted over, the coal in its descent passing first over a screen, which sifts out the dirt (dust coal), then into the breaker, where it is crushed into lumps of all sizes, and on through a revolving screen, having gratings of different sizes ; thence it slides down iroa guides, past a lot of boys, who pick out the slate, earning from s2i to $7 a week, and is finally deposited into bins, under which the railway cars are shunted to load. We then ran "wild cat"---i.e., running on a single track in face of an expected train, rather ticklish work, to Mahanoy city, 1 miles; and a little further on passed the junction with the Catawissa, near Quakabe, and arrived at Tama qua, a thriving mining town of 6,000 inhabitants. Here we met a gentleman, Mr. George Cole, who owns a mine near the Fisk, in which the vein, or rather basin, of coal is 58 feet thick. Tamaqua is 18 miles east of Pottsville, where we arrived after dark, and next day returned to Reading. A. few miles from Reading, east, a breakdown, causing two hours delay, had blocked the line with coal trains ; I counted six of them, each of 125 cars, in a mile and a half. Two or three days later I returned here, after a very in teresting trip. . Mr. Kennard, engineer-in-chief of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, who is at present actively engaged with the Morris and Essex affairs, contemplates constructing four wharves for shipping coal at Hoboken, each of 1,500 feet, which will give a frontage of 12,000 feet. I find the Reading have between 13,000 and 14,900. Yours very faithfully, Txos. B. MOSELEY. PHILADELPILAIA ND READING RAILROAD COMPANY.—The traffic of tho Philadelphia and Reading Railroad for the month of October, 1864, is as follows :—Received from coal, 1865, $1,185,406.81; 1864, $565,114.65; received from mer chandise, 1865, $110,376.88; 1864, $74,351.73; received from passengers, &c., 1865, $123,448.28 ; 1864, $115,084.21; total receipts, 1865, $1,419,231.97 ; 1864, $754,550.59. Transportation, roadway, dumpage renewal fund, and all charges, 1865, $602,746.10; 1864, $474,478.90. Not profit for the month, 1865, $816,485.87 ; 1864, $280,071.69 ; net profit for previous ton months, 1865, $3,412,034.49; 1864, $3,523,011.45. Total net profit for eleven months, 1865, $4,288,520.36 ; 1864, $3,803,083.14. The Great Western of Canada traffic is for week end- ing Nov. 24, 1865, £15,507 6s. 7d. sterling on 345 !miles, or £44 19s. por mile per week; Nov. 25, 1864, £11,597 6s. ld. sterling on 345 miles, or £33 12s. 4d. per mile per week. The Grand Trunk of Canada, traffic is, for week ending Nov. 18, 1865, £28,857 sterling on 1,377 miles, or £2O 19s. id. per mile per week; Nov. 19, 1864, £24,623 sterling on 1,335 miles, or £l6 Bs. 11d. per mile per week. The Detroit and Milwaukee traffic is, for week ending— Nov. 23, 1865, £8,476 Os. 6d. sterling on 189 miles, or £44 16s. 11d. per mile per week; Nov. 24, 1861, £6,175 2s. 7d. sterling on 189 miles, or £32 13s. sd. per mile per week. American securities have not been exempt from the dull ness and depression which has characterised other markets during the past few days. Yesterday was the lowest day of the week, United States 5-20 Bonds having changed hands as low as 62: ; Illinois Shares at 80} ; and Eries at At the close of business to-day a manifestly stronger tone pervades tho markets, United States 5-20's closing 63f to a ; Illinois Shares, 80 to ; and Eries 57f to -I, with an improving tendency. All descriptions of Atlantic and Great Western securi ties remain steady, and prices exhibit but little alteration from last week. The new issue of Consolidated Scrip closes to 1 prem. Royal Naval School, New Cross. The annual entertainment by the pupils of this excellent institution took place on Saturday, in the great school-room, which, as usual, was tastefully decorated with flags, &c. Owing to the lamented death of the late King of the Belgians many illus trious personages, who were expected on this occa sion, were prevented from attending, which was certainly a disappointment, as his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, who is residing at Greenwich Park, was one of the anticipated guests ; nevertheless, the room was densely thronged. The performance took place under the patronage of the president, Admiral Sir William Bowles, K.C.8., Rear-Ad miral of the United Kingdom, and other members of the council, which fact in itself was sufficient to draw together most of the friends and old pupils of the school, many of whom are distinguished mem bers of that noble service which this school was founded to benefit. Although every arrangement was made for the reception of a large audience, long before the curtain was raised the room was so crowded that we regret to say many were disap pointed in obtaining admission, upwards of 800 being present. The head master and other officers evinced their interest by being present on this occa sion. The stage, for which the pupils are again indebted to the kindness and liberality of Mr. Alfred Eames, the secretary (who always takes great interest in all things tending to the recreation and comfort of the pupils), was fitted up by Mr. J. Harrison, of Bow-street, Covent-garden, who supplied the scenery and costumes, which in all respects were perfect. The programme consisted of Tom Taylor's comedy entitled " Still Waters Run Deep." H. J. Byron's Oriental burlesque ex travaganza, " The Bride of Abydos," and the laugh able farce of " A Thumping Legacy." The acting of Messrs. Poore, Davies, Pollock, Hall, Pilk ington, and Herbert deserves special notice ; indeed these young gentlemen displayed a talent which, with practice, would do credit to the boards of our West-end theatres. All the parts were sustained with such unflagging energy that the great applause which followed each fall of the curtain was well earned. Mr. J. Pender, M.P., who has purchased the late Right Hon. Edward Ellice's mansion in Arlington street, Piccadilly, is having it put in thorough repair against the ensuing season. 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We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr Harvey; I , r Wurzer ; Dr Sl.orland ; Dr Campbell. We quote a few out of the 62,0 0 cures :—Cure No. 57,314. Tittenson • I cannot express my gratitude for the benefit I have derived from Du Barry's food. My ap petite is perfectly restored, the pains in my leg, back, and chest are quite gone, and I am fast gaining strength and flesh. Mrs A. Owen.—Cure No. 51.812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advisers abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No. 49,832. Of fifty years' indescribable agony ism dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , flatulency , spasms, sickness at the stomach, at.d vomiting. Maria Joly, Wortham, Li n g, near Dias, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Ilerts, of extreme nervous , nese, indigestion, gather Inge, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Sad Death of a Gentleman at Brighton. On Saturday afternoon the Brighton borough coroner held an inquest on the body of Mr. Alex. Baring Bingham, a young man about 28 years of age, very highly connected, and who until lately held a commission in one of her Majesty's cavalrY regiment. The evidence showed that deceased had been stopping at the King and Queen Hotel, Marl borough-place, Brighton, for three weeks past, oc cupying a sitting-room and bed-room on the first floor front. About one o'clock in the morning of Wednesday last he returned to the hotel after being absent during the previous evening. Between that hour and half-past three, when last seen by Mrs. Funnell, wife of the landlord, he had two glasses of brandy and water. He then appeared tipsy. Mrs.Funnell could not say positively whether he was so or not. She and her husband slept in a room adjoining deceased's bedroom, but she did not hear him stirring in the house after she went to bed. The key of the front door could not be got by deceased if he wished to leave the house, but he might have opened any of the other doors of the hotel. About a quarter-past 5 o'clock a police-constable named Packham was told by a labourer going to work that a man was lying in the roadway opposite the hotel. He went there, and found deceased lying on theroad about 3 feet from the kerb, groaning and breathing heavily. He was dressed, but his waistcoat and troll' sers were unbuttoned. Packham thought he was drunk, and took him to the police station. Whe n seen by Inspector Barnden, he was quite insensible, and was sent at once to the hospital in a cab, reach ing it about a quarter to 6. The house-surgeo n applied the stomach-pump (having been told the circumstances under which the deceased was found), and then gave restoratives. By half-past 7 deceased had recovered his senses, and uttered the words, " Capt. Bingham, King and Queen." Upon this clue Mr.Blaker went to the hotel to make inquiries, and till his arrival it was not known that deceased had left the house. In the evening Dr. Carter, a medi cal attendant of the family, visited the deceased at the hospital. The unfortunate young man earnestly pleaded to be removed back to the hotel, and Dr. Carter complied with his wish. When he arrived there he was so far recovered that he was able to walk upstairs without assistance. He refused to e y how he got from the hotel to the street. Mrs. Fun' nell deposed that when she questioned him he said , " Pray, don't speak about it." He also said, " I wish I had not done it." The police-constable on the beat was called, and said he passed the hotel about half-past 4in the morning, and deceased Was lying in the road then. Deceased seemed progressing favourably till late in the forenoon of Thursday,whel l a sudden change for the worse set in, after which he sank rapidly, and died about midday. A post-morteM examination was made by Dr. Carter and Messrs• Blaker and Jowers, surgeons. It showed that three of deceased's ribs had been broken, and that there were two rents in his liver, one large and the other small. These lacerations and the internal hemorrh age therefrom were the cause of death. Th e question was how they were caused. It appeare d that the window of a room adjoining that occupied by deceased had been found open in the morn ing ; but as the parties who occupied that room had since left the hotel, it could not be proved that the window had not been left open the pre' vious night. There is an iron railing running along the front of the hotel, and a person either falling or jumping from a first floor window would almost for a certainty come in contact with the rail. The jury took this view of the case, and re turned a verdict saying that deceased died from laceration of the liver, caused by falling out of a first-floor window while in a state of intoxication• FOOTBALL.-ETON COLLEGE V. CIVIL SERVICE. —This match was played at Battersea-park on Friday last, and, after a most splendidly-contested game, resulted in a draw, noither side obtaining a goal. It is only fair to the Etonians to remark that they had somewhat the best of the game throughout, and on more than one occasion " penned" their opponents in a most uncomfortable man ner. The following is a list of the players :—Eton.—W• W. Phipps, E. Lubbock, T. H. Fhipps, K. Slanen Hall, S. Seymour, Parry, Hamilton, Muirhead, Nollna n, and Gibbs. Civil Service.—A. Bateman, F. Deacon, B. Freeth, J. Kirkpatrick, Q. Hogg, H. U. Malkin, M. Mac kenzie, G. Philipps, G. B. Voules, C.t G. Waudby, Wearne. LADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and There is no question whatever that rheumatism, neuralgia, and such like painful maladies, are. more r ife this seas on than for some years past. The number of testimonials of cures effected by Holloway's remedies• is unprecedented, and should be enforced on the attention of all sufferers from these complaints. The parts in pain should be fomented somo minutes with warm brine, dried, an d i mme diately_ well rubbed with the ointment. .It will pass into the pore,! of the skin, and give the greatest relief. Many v aluably lives are annually lost which might be saved if early re course in illness were made to these remarkable remedies, which must necessarily prove beneficial, and cannot do harm. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a very scantity supply of wheat at market to day, and prices ruled 6d per qr. lower than on this .d it Z o week. The supply of barley continues good, and pile" rather easier. ea White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s to 54s ; r, o _. ditto (weighing 631 b to 651 b), 50s to 52s ; best mal i u ,Z barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs h .. (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto 0v° 15 , 1 .,0 mg 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, "" to 39s°; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 33s to Od per sack. YORK—SATURDAY. o f There was more wheat on offer to-day than has bee late. A moderate share of business was done at lat e ra 'do Fine barley commanded extreme rates. Oats a 51° higher ; beans changed hands on former terms. New white wheat, 50s to 54s ; new red, 46s to 49s P e g, 86 stone. Barley, for malting, 338 to 36s per qr ; grin dkij o. 30s to 32s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 28s per 24 s ton Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 62s ; rye, 305 P e qr. Flour, 36s to 38s per sack of 2801 b. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. 5 1° There was a fair. show of wheat for the season• th o tone of the demand was steady, and buyers had to pay $ t full rates of last week. The best sorts of barley steal o o late rates ; inferior moved off slowly. Oats at otr quotations. Beans the turn in sellers' favour. De l Old white wheat, 55s to 60s ; old red, 50s to 53e - Aa r white, 52s to 58s; new red, 47s to 49s per 3 6 stone• ng ' s to ley, old malting, 32s to 40s per qr • old grinding, . 4 " 9 05; 28s ; new, -s to —s per 30 stone. 'Oats, old, 27$ t° new, 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 27 s per stone. lenor, old, 48s to 528 ; new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. Super 37s to 39s ; fine, 34s to 36s per 20 stone. LEICES . TER—SATURDAY• There was a tolerable supply of wheat, an d sows 1 samples were exhibited, The inquiry firm at late { ari d' cies. Late prices were made for choice sorts, but 1'1..1 m easier to purchase. Oats same as last week. Beaus 'l' ready sale at a slight improvement on late rates. n et Old white wheat, 55s to 56s ; old red, 50s to 520 7 1 30- white, 50s to 52s ; new red, 46s to 49s per 36 stone. r SO ley, malting, 34s to 39s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 30 or e. stone. Oats, old, 28s to 32s ; new, 2 0s to 25 s per 24 Beans, old, 46s to 51s ; new, 42s to 46s per 38 stone. CORK—FRIDAY. 1 The following were the quotations this morning or , 1 ! wheat, 98 9d to lOs ld ; white, 9s 9 d to 11 s 3 d ; boy la, to is 10d ; oats, 8s Od to 8s 6d ; .black oats, 7s 4d to IP bere, 6s Od to 6s 6d. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. 000' Steady market, with firmer tone than last market: i ng grain moved off at last weeks prices ; but foreieeeri lower. Indian corn unaltered ; flour slow of stile; 'lto' offer lower prices than sellers will adept. -Oatateo' altered. 't Bomix.—On the 14th in B st., irth S o uth a ' o'io Kensington, -11 of Mr. Bonham, of a daughter. / C O I f ' ) ELLis.—On the 14th inst., at 83, Cheapside, E.C.7 -ij of Lloyd Ellis, Esq., of a son. 1 , 3 Y FLETCIIER=On the 15th inst., at Eaton-terrace, Harriet Fletcher, of a daughter. Marriages. , coo: BREWER—SMITH.—On the 14th inst., at the Britineol; sulate, Ostend, Thomas Gibson Brewer, EA" itrelle bourne-park-road, to Selina, eldest daughter of Frederick Smith, of Bruges. 4 . D0.e e ., 1 5 ' SELBY—JONES.—On the 14th inst., at St. Cleme,:.':ciceooi Strand, John Caleb Selby, of Furnival's-inn a '' liter street, solicitor, to Eliza Lucy Alicia, 'eldest Clang G. W. Jones, Esq., of Essex-street, Strand. Deaths. are Oe il' BABNES.—On the 13th inst., at 43, Pembroke-nu— ' t' sington, Mr. Thomas Barnes, aged 61. Co rose f gt. BUNTING.—On the 14th inst., suddenly, at Prin' i v oi tage, Haverstock-hill, Mr. Bunting, fOrrae"' ti le Giles's-gates, Norwich, aged 64. 00 CHATrom—On the 13th inst., at his seat, SPe ll , - 11 ,, r PV Hall, Bed ale, Christopher William Carter ChaP' 0. J.P., aged 52. ivalter r.- ~ PORTMAN.—On the 13th inst., at Bournemouth, Po rt 8., second son of the Hon. W. 11. B . and I1ro• .1. " aeo aged 71 years. SIIEPHERIP.—On the 12th inst. , a t Abington, Be r° ' Shepherd, aged 69 • I} l3° 10 1 London: Printed and Pubiished by WILLIAAL,.,. -- 'JO -of of No. 112, Strand, Ptinter, at Tin - 3 Sm.; Ow ce ;. 0 00t 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Scvo9. in the "" Mlddleaes.•—Monday, December 18,18115. r.Ol 4,4 t iil' This c Prize 31 It 1s I t Bold 1 ilge Ott 8, E . nah ()hoer iwui li, RU; reehm t‘o, or three discount made to 14 Years "Velo,, h ° blished Place, A. 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