The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelli,;ence. Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.H., the General Commanding-in- Chief of her Majesty's Land Forces, is expected to arrive at Portsmouth on his annual autumnal tour • of inspection of the troops and the various works of defence at Portsmouth and in the south-west military district on the Ist proximo. The celebration of the prize shooting of the Wool wich division Royal Marine Light Infantry took place on Thursday at the extended ranges of the Plumstead marshes, below the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. The proceedings, which commenced at 8 a.m., and continued, with an interval for refresh ments, until sunset, included a variety of amusements for the men, for which the spot, luxuriously coverer with green award, aided by the sunshiny and magai'• iicent weather of Thursday, is eminently adapted. . Lieut.-Gen. Stransham, Inspecto-General of the Corps, Col. Maxwell, Commandant of the Division, and the available officers, together with their wives and families now in garrison, were present, and par took of an elegant luncheon, served up by Mr. Bar rett in a spacious marquee, while the regiinental band, conducted by Mr. Winterbottom, performed a selection of operatic airs. The firing was carried out both before and after luncheonat various ranges, the registers of which were checked by Sergt. Lock yar, second instructor, assisted by the shooting com mittee. The performances were under the command • of Capt. Julius Bunce, Brigade Major of the Divi sion, to whom all reference was made on the field, and whose decision was final. The firing was accord ing to the Hythe regulations. The competition was "as follows :—First stage, 300 yards, 3 shots. Two . bits obtained qualified the competitor for the second stage, 500 yards, 3 shots. A total of 10 points in the two stages qualified the cotnpetitorfor the third stage, 600 yards, 3 shots. The total number of points of the three stages were added to decide the best shot. The Ist prize of £2lOB. was gained byColour-Sergt. Elton, 25 points; 2d prize of £2 2s. 6d., 23 points, by Sergt. Smith; 3d, £1 17s. 6d., 22 points, Private T. Adams; Private G. Cannon, 22 points, £1 15s. ; sth J. Doyle, 22 points, £1 12s. 6d. ; 6th, Sergt. J. ehu, 21 points, £1 10s.; 7th, Corporal C. Meakins, 20 points, £1 7s. 6d. ; Bth, Private W. Coleman, 20 points, £1 ss. ; 9th, S. Bloomfield, 20 points, £1 2s. 6d. ; 10th, C. Cheshire, 20 points,£l; 11th, Sergt. II: Lock, 18 points, 17s. 61 ; 12th, Private William Rowley, 18 points, 153. 6d. ; 13th, J. Hill, 18 points, 12s. 6d. ; 14th, Corporal J. Revell, 18 points, 103. ; 15th, Private Peter Hughes, 18 points, 7s. 6J. ; 16th,. Corporal Cuthbertson, 17 points, ss. ; and 17th, Private J. White, 17 points, 2s. 6d. The General's prize, at the close, of 205., was won by Private Isaac Allen, 10 points. Before taking their departure a number of the officers engaged in an impromptu match, in which the Commandant, Col. Maxwell, and his Adjutant took part, the Adjt. Lieut. Straghan, firing on horseback and making two remarkable shots, one a good outer on the corner of the target over the 300 yards' range. The men then mustered to return to quarters, and it having become known that in all probability this would be the last occasion of the kind at which the Lieut.-Gen. and also Capt. Bunco, their musketry instructor, would be present, as they are about to retire in rotation, after five years' service, the corps I gave them a parting salutation of three rounds of cheers each. During the absence of Col. Tidy, Col. Pattie, C. 8., commanding Ist Dragoon Guards, will assume the command of the troops in the eastern district. The division at Aldershot under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., has been exercised on different days during the past week. On Monday the cavalrybrigade, under the command of Major-Gen. Hodge, C. 8., and consisting of the 3d and 15 Hussars and 17th Lancers, with the Royal horse Artillery, was formed up on Eehnoor, and, after marching past, was put through a series of field-day movements, all of which were executed in a most satisfactory manner. On Tuesday the Ist in fantry brigade, under the command of Brigadier- Gen. Renny, formed up on the common at 10 a.m., when the 66► h and 81st Regiments, with the Grey battery, Royal Artinery, were exercised for about two hours. On Wednesday afternoon the whole division turned out for field manoeuvres, and at hal Fast two o'clock formed up on Eelmoor-hill in line of contiguous columns. Shortly afterwards Lieut.- Gen. Scarlett arrived upon the ground and inspected the ranks, after which the division marched past. the artillery and cavalry in open column of batteries and squadrons at a walk, and the infantry in open column of grand divisions in quick time. Prepara- tions were then made to check the progress of an enemy supposed to have advanced from Farnham via Crondall, past the west of Beacon-hill, and to be in position in Bickley-copse and Cocked-hat-wood, with his left resting upon Miles's-hill. A number of skill ully-executed manceuvrcs followed, in the course of which the Ist infantry brigade, under Brigadier- Gen..ltenny, took Miles's-hill by storm, while the cavalry, under Major-Gen. lodge, drove the enemy from Biekley-bottom, and the artillery made havoc in his centre. Eventually, with the co-operation of the 2d and 3d infantry brigades, under Col. Peel and Brigadier-Gen. llorsford, the enemy was driven from his positions, and retired upon I3iekley-copse, whence, however, apparently reinforced, he subse quently rallied and made a fierce attack upon the division, which necessitated a retrograde movement. The whole fell back, 'well protected by sl(irinishers. and by the fire of the artillery. As the foe came on the artillery retired, and the three infantry brigades in line poured in a deadly fire, which caused him to retire in disorder. The artillery then came to front again, and the cavalry, dashing past, made a splendid charge in line across the valley, effectually putting to rout the already discomfited and shattered forces of the e n e my. T h i s concluded the manoeuvres of the day, and the troops returned to quarters shortly before six o'clock. The 52d Regiment at Ardershott has vacated its quarters in A, B, and E lines, S re moved to quarters in the Est o ß u l I South Camp, and barracks, lately Occupied by the 63d Regiment. 'permarlent Clemgiment. The 15th Hussars have left the Norih occupy quarters in the East cavalry A new bayonet drill, introduced, it is „; b3 by Lieut. Hutton, of the Ist Royal Dragoon Guards, bar,ra, cl a , :d now is under consideration at Aldershott. Lieut.-Gen. Scarlett has insr ected the drill, of which he has pro nounced favourably, with the exception of two guards. Twelve non-commissioned officers are to be taught the drill and dismissed. The instructors at the Military Gymnasium are likewise to be made proficient in it, and a report made to Major Ham mersley, Director of Military Gymnastics at Alder shott. The gardens around the huts at Aldershott Camp belonging to the men connected with the Staff have just been examined by Col Elgee, IRA., and a prize, consisting of a set of gardening tools, given by Capt. W.. 8. M. Wolfe, RA., Deputy-Assist.-Quarter master-General, has been awarded to the mounted orderlies of No. 22 hut for the best kept garden. A 9-inch 1 1 2 t i l - v ton gun, on Major Palliser's system, has arrived , Works at ooilwich from the Els wick Ordnance Ne wcastle-on-Tyne, and has been suc cessfully Proved previous to being rifled. It has fired 18 rounds-wPithev charges of 431 b. of powder and 2501 b. shot each, aannadt2wsoolbrounds with Charges of 551 b. of powder charges are the same shot each. The first which h o l se employed in the 121- as th • ton Woolwich gun, did so much ex ecution when firing Major T i t: h a - e e l l l !sees chilled shell at the 8-inch plated target. n is mad e o f cast ircin, which is cast rouni an inner ,e, dt t urbfneed of coiled at onc e wrought iron. The g un i s to be u to the Elswick works to b e rifl3:l a in It is an object of considerable interest ished off. and witnirt tion, and does the manufacturers much credit. Five hundred rounds of 2501 b. shot and shell have been prepared for its trial, which, it is believed, from the practical judgment and well-matured experienc e dis played by Major Palliser in his various productions, cannot fail to-render a satisfactory result. The War Department have directed that the pro visions of the 27th and 28th Vic., c. 85, which passed in July, 1864, shall be brought into force in the gar rison of Woolwich on the Ist of October next. It places all women of disreputable character under the medical supe r i n t e nd ence o f the aut h or i t i es a t th e Military Hospit a l , an d g i ves compulsory powers to the police over contumacious persons, Woolwich, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1866.1 Plumstead, and Charlton are included in the garrison Inquirer thus sclescribes the s cene :—" Y ester d ay for the purpose of this act, and a regieter of names is the goodly Quaker City welcomed to her hearth prepared / stone the S ou th ern l oya li sts, who, throughout the l‘laj at ; weary l ong years o f t h e late rebellious strife, insti or-boye. t n l . le E. C. Government iv arde, detectives.c.u. commanding Woolwich, will commence the usual half-yearly in- gated by their traitorous countrymen and neigh spection of his district this morning, when the depot hours, _never faltered in th e i r a ll eg i ance t o t h e i r brigade Royal Artillery, in command of Col. E. I country and their Government, and, despite the Wodehouse, C. 8., will be mustered for the occasion. many disasters to the Union cause in the earlier The paddlewheel despatch vessel Helicon, Corn- campaigns of the war, they could be neither bought, mander M. Singer, from the Channel squadron, ar- nor coaxed, nor driven from their self-immolating rived in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday last, and left devotion to the Union ; and though the heart of again on Friday with men for the squadron. I the North ever throbbed in sympathy for their The armour-plated screw steamship Zealous, 20, I sacrifices of property and life, yet no aid could Capt. R. Dawkins, was towed on Thursday from the : then be extended. But yesterday was a day on Steam Reserve in Hamoaze to her sailing moorings 1 which the pent-up affections could most appro off Devonport dockyard, where she will receive her priately be allowed to gush out from the over complement of seamen and marines. flowing hearts of their brethren. Thus the city The crew of the paddlewheel steam frigate Leo- turned out its representative 'citizens in all depart pard, 18, Capt. Charles T. Leckie, in Devonport, ments of life to keep step with the many attendant will be paid off on Saturday next, delegations from all the Northern States, gathered The whole of the shot, shell, guns, and other War in our city, to do honour and reverence to the men Department stores belonging to the screw sloop who unflinchingly had welcomed a baptism of blood Swallow 9, 60-horse power, Master-Commander E. as sweeter than an apostacy from their faith in Wilds, have been received at the Ordnance stores Republican institutions. The whole city gave evi- Chatham, and the vessel is now being dismantled dente of its joyful sympathy with the patriotic previously to being put out of commission and objects of the loyalists. A great display of flags placed in the third division of the Steam Reserve in and bunting was seen on all sides, flung out to the the Medway. breeze by those who thus sought to testify their The screw two-decker line-of-battle ship Rodney, appreciation of the services of the city's guests. 78, 2,770 tons, 500-horse power (nominal), in dock Along the route of the procession the streets were at Sheerness, has a large number of shipwrights and lined with thousands of enthusiastic citizens,• who other workmen employed on her in effecting the heartily cheered the leading participants. The various alterations and making the necessary re- escort was of a character never surpassed in the pairs to adapt her for a flag-ship for service - in history of our city. The out turning of the Union China. From the extensive nature of the repairi League, National Union Club, Republican 'mine ordered to be carried out, she will be in the ship- ibles, Boys in Blue, Firemen, and other city escorts, wrights' hands for some considerable time to come. alone would have ranked the procession a great one. The screw sloop Cameleon, 17, 200-horse power, But a peculiar feature of'honour was the presence attached to the third division of the Steam Re- of so many high dignitaries of the nation, thus serve in the Medway, is still in the shipwrights' testifying their absorbing devotion to a cause. An hands, and is undergoing an extensive repair to unequalled sight in our city was the marching on both hull and machinery, the alterations and re- foot of ten Governors of States, nine Senators, pairs now being effected rendering her almost a besides well-known generalsandleading literati. The new vessel. The whole of the machinery has been entire demonstration was a perfect success, beyond taken out and removed into the steam factory for all just cavil or condemnation." the customary overhaul and repair. If the Dumb Convention suppressed with a high •In consequence of the slackness of work now hand every attempt at oratory, the Convention of prevailing at the joiners' department in Chatham loyal Southerners suppressed as forcibly all ob dockyard, owing to the circumstance of iron being noxious sentiments. Senator Wilson, of Massa now chiefly used as a material for shipbuilding, chusetts, was interrupted in his speech, and notwith an Admiralty order directs a considerable amount standing the interrupter was a Union soldier he was of work to be sent to the Chatham yard from the summarily ejected. The Senator's address was as dockyards at Woolwich an d Sheerness, by which follows :—He said that the delegates from the North arrangement the services of the hired hands now were not there to make platforms, but to meet the working at the establishment will be retained. truly loyal men from the South. There was, he The Irresistible, 68, screw, Coastguard line of- said, a sort of organised raidbeing carried ha through battle-ship, Capt. John Borlase, C. 8., arrived in the country, sshere speeches were made, and boast- Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Southampton ings as to what was going to be done. (Laughter.) Water. She will be placed iu dock for repairs and They had thought, in their simplicity, that they refit. lived in a country where the people were masters of Intelligence has been received at Chatham of the President, of Congress, and of the Supreme Court, arrival at Constantinople of the Imperial Ottoman and that they lived in a country where the-voice of war - frigate Orkhan, Capt. sinned Bey, one of the the people was to be heard and obeyed. But now newly heavily armour-plated iron frigates built for they were told by the President that he had a policy, the Sultan at the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. and meant to carry it out. (Laughter.) He could Napier and Sons, Glasgow. The Orkhan is of 4,222 tell the President, however, that Congress was tons burden, British measurement, and is the third master of the situation. (Cheers.) Here there was vessel of the same kind which has been constructed some disturbance in the Hall, some one exclaiming by the firm for the Turkish Government. her sides that he was .an American soldier, and did not wish are of the same thickness of iron as those of her to hear the President reviled. There wer shouts re- Majesty's iron ship Minotaur, 26, 6,621 tons, 1,350 commending his being turned out, which was soon horse power, and she is pierced to carry 40 guns of done, and then Senator Wilson proceeded with his heavy calibre. Her armament at present consists of remarks. 16 guns, including one 300-pounder 12-ton gun on People seem to suffer throughout the Union from the forecastle, 14 150-pounder rifled Armstrongs on the extortion of vendors of food much in the same the main deck, and one 150-pounder Armstrong on way we do here. The Pittsburgh Commercial sug the upper deck. Her engines, manufactured by gests that the price will increase as long as they can Messrs. Napier and Sons, are of 550-horse power get it. This is the established rule laid down by nominal, and at the official trial realised a mean market dealers .for exacting exorbitant prices for speed of 12.75 knots, or nearly 14 statute miles, their commodities. Under this rule the reign of per hour. high prices will continue as long as the people will Pending the report to be made to the Board of pay them. Nothing is plainer than this. And it Admiralty by Mr. L. E. Fletcher, C.E., on the re- is scarcely to be expected that those who profit by cent boiler explosion at Chatham dockyard, no deci- the arrangement will be the first to modify it. A sion has been arrived at by their lordships as to the New York paper, for the complaint is a wide nature of the further inquiry to be undertaken on spread one, suggests, as the only remedy, that people the part of the Admiralty into the circumstances exercise some temporary self denial in the articles connected with the late accident. lel the meantime, of butter, butchers' meat, &c., declining to pnr however, the officials connected with the several de- chase or purchasing sparingly till some yielding of partmeuts concerned have been called on to report prices is effected. This would be sure to remedy the on the various points on which information is re- evil, but will people adopt it? quired by the Lords of the Admiralty. The reserve of General Grant is maintained, and The Bornarsund and Petrel, War department the position he has assumed, or is about to assume, transports, have arrived at the Ordnance wharf, has given rise to much speculation in the press. He Chatham, with the guns shot, and shell from the has accompanied the President in his Western tour, Swallow, Master-Commander E. White. and in all grand occasions has stood by his side. The Lord Warden, sailing Indiaman, one of Yet although he supported Andrew Johnson by his Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet, embarked at Spit- presence, he has carefully abstained from commit head on Wednesday the following troops, which ting himself to any political opinions. In this re arrived the same afternoon at Portsmouth from Win- spect he has shown a marked contrast to the blunt, chester, for transport to Madras :—Capt. N. J. outspoken statements of his chief. The general be- Pauli, 3d battalion 60th Rifles; Lieut. R. C. Robin- lief is that he stands where Henry Ward Beecher son, Rifle Brigade ; Ensigns Fund, Dick-Lan ler, does, about m id- way b etwee n Congress and the Smith, and Doyle, 3d battalion 60th Rifles ; Staff Executive. By nature he is Conservative in his Assist.-Surg. Alexander; 3 sergeants, 143 rank and ideas, cool in no ordinary degree, without sentiment file, 7 women, and 8 children, 3d battalion 60th and without enthusiasm. He disapproves of the Rifles. The Lord Warden was appointed to sail from course taken by the President in the New Orleans Spithead for Madras yesterday morning, but up to affair, and the chances are that both parties when sunset shs remained at anchor, detained by the strong they come to their senses after their wild excite south-west winds prevailing in the Channel. ment will find Grant master of the position, having The steam transport Thames, Captain Pickering; never lost his prudence, nor committed himself to belonging to the firm of Templey, Darke, and Co., extreme views. Sensible and moderate men will of London, has completed shipping a heavy cargo then know holy to appreciate the course taken by of war stores, &c., for Quebec, making a total of this most distinguished officer. 1,576 tons measurement and sailed from Wool- The Union State Central Committee have selected with-pier by the four o'clock tide on Thursday. the following gentlemen as delegates at large to re lies cargo consists of 21 field battery 9-pounder present West Virginia in the Convention Of Southern guns; 8 24-pounder howitzers ; 10 20-pounder loyalists, called to meet at - Philadelphia, on the 3d guns; 1 light battery of 6-pounders for the Artil- of September next:—His Excellency, Governor A. lery Militia, and 5 carronades for the bastion walls ; I. Boreman, United States Senator W. I'. Willey, 7CO sets of harness and various appointments for United States Senator P. G. Van Winkle, General cavalry; 4,000 boxes of shell ;. a large amount of B. F. Kelley, General I. Hardin Daval, General T. 2oz. shot in tin cases, known as case shot; and a M. Harris, General J. A. J. Lightburn, General D. number of b a l e goo d s f rom the Tower. She also has H. Strother (Porte Crayon), lion. B. M. Kitchen, 9 cabin passengers —namely, 6 adults, 2 children, Hon. James Burley, Hon. John Atkinson, lion. W. and 1 servant. Notwithstanding the advance of the E. Stephenson, Hon. Greenbury Slack, Hon. Edwin season, it is to be hoped that the passage may be Maxwell, George W. Norton, Jacob ,Hornbrook, still sufficiently free from ice to admit of the Thames J. C. M'Grew, Nathan Goff, and D. S. Pinnell. slaking her voyage in safety. At about two o'clock on Sunday :;morning, 26th August, a train of some 45 cars, loaded principally with coal oil and hides, stopped at the Narrowburg (New York) station to wood and water. Many of the cars contained the oil in huge tanks, two on each car, holding probably 50 barrels of oil each, in open bulk; the rest being in barrels upon box cars. At the end of the train was what is called a " ca laboose," or rough carriage for second-class passen gers. After stopping here awhile the conductor, James Fredenburgh, distinctly heard the whistle of an " extra" freight train, which was following, closely approaching. He hurriedly ordered the en gineer to " start the train immediately," and was obeyed, but pulling out the valve too far for so heavy a train, to use a railroad phrase, the train "broke," or, in other words, the coupling which bound some of the cars parted, and a portion of the train stood still on the track. Discovering the acei dist e eon n ndg t .i,edr while unis e i he g ae i ts n hc e aet e lh r acebyo s o v no a wds s eeu s rer i et g uod n irio a , pbl e gr d taoks t o moc s back atntkhaeent o,h t u eah p nec , rod w n pnh traineai c cs l t came upon them, but having slowed for the purpose of stopping at the depot had very little momentum, and simply ran the engine under the caboose, and nearly covered it se lf up with the debris. An ex ilp l a o m s i e o s n i took place, very d i t r h e e c e n t r . o 1 e D u e c b t e l y i p t p h o r s o i t w e n th in e spot where the first explosion occurred, on one side stood three comfortable country cottages, two of them belonging to Mr. A. S. Hendricks ; the other to Mr. Joseph Bevins, the village blacksmith, in which he and his family resided. The most distant one was occupied by Mr. Hendricks, while the lower part of the other was occupied as a joiners' shop. In the upper part lived Mr. Charles C. \led liains, his wife, and two children, the latter aged respectively about two and a half and five years. The oil and flame was thrown about in such quan tities that before Mr. Williams had time to become thoroughly awakened the fiery brands were falling in his sleeping room. Then other explosions were heard in quick succession, and it was the impression of all that their houses had been struck and set on fire by lightning. Mr. Williams sprang from his bed, seized his two children, and shouting to his wife to follow him, ran down the inside stairs to the stoop or porch, with steps which led down by the side of the house. In his excitement he evidently never saw that the whole street through which he wady plunging wag one living mass oh blazing oil MISCELLANEOUS ANERICAN NEWS. The following story illustrates the wild doings in the State of Arkansas. The Jacksonport Era, of the 11th August, says that a man named 'McKinney, an overseer hired by a planter in that county, was stopped on his way to the plantation the Tuesday ' vei ling Previous, by four men, who robbed, blind ' folded, and tied hi m to a tree. The Era says that as soon as released he went to Cotton Plant and obtained a State warrant for the two lie recognised— Stracener and Berry were th e i r names —who were arraigned before Justice L of Cott on Pl ant. The evidence for the State was in accordance with the above facts. But one of the accused parties_ Bcrry—adduced evidence, by which lie proved that he was at another place at the hour the outrage w as perpetrated. It is believed that the witnesses who deposed this testimony were the accomplices of Berry. Upon this evidence both partiesiwerinenreey , leased. When the trial was concluded, McKinney and his friends left Cotton Plant for their homes—. some in waggons, and some,on horse back. About five miles north o f C o tt on Pl an t the Stracener and Berry party overtook them. One Eli Staggs, a brother-in-law to Berry, and a witness for him, rode up to McKinney and commenced abusing him, and finally challenged him to a pistol combat, or duel, on the ground. McKinney readily ac cepted, and leaping from his waggon, pistol in hand, about twenty feet apart, the firing between the parties commenced. Each party fired three shots, any one of which would have pro s ved fatal. Stagg3 received the first shot in the mouth, the next in the throat, and the third in the breast. McKinney was shot three times in the breast. When these shots were fired, the parties turned their backs upon each other, walked about the sane .3 distance from the scene, and both fell about the same instant, one upon his back and the other upon his face, and died with pistols in hand. This occasioned a ( - rood deal of pro m i scuous shooting —about twentyb random shots-_between the respective friends of both parties. But fortunately no other damarfe was done. Philadelphi a has lately been living on :sensa tions," First, there was the great Union Co_ vention—next, the arr i val of the President and his distinguished supporters, and now we have the pro ceedings of the loyal Southern delegates. The half knee deep; and onward he went, dashing into the fire in almost a nude state, having on nothing I;ut his night garment. In travelling through this sheet of flame one of his children dropped f ro m his arms, and he went back and picked it up. Ills determination and strength sustaining him, he reached a spot where the fire had not yet spread and fell. He was picked up by his neighbours, and with his children was taken to a hotel near by, where, as has been previously stated, the children both died and have since been buried. Besides the (tars, oil, houses, shops, and stores which were swept away, as it were in a moment, the trees, shrubbery, and garden, full of green things, were actually burnt to a crisp by the burning oil. The ties of the track were entirely consumed, awl the iron rails were bent and twisted in every conceivable shape by the extraordinary heat. Mon were imme diately put on the work, and the next day the road was again in running order. The proceedings and findings of the Military Commission before whom was tried Major Gee, formerly in command of the rebel prison at Salis bury, North Carolina, on the charge of cruelty to Union prisoners, have just been made public. The Commission find that Major Gee, while in command of the prison, failed to provide for th e pr i soners, about ten thousand in number, either food, clothing, rations, fuel, shelter, water, or hospital attendance, sufficient to preserve health or sustain life, that the prisoners were not supplied with sufficient water for culinary purposes, or even for satisfying thirst, or with food, except in very small or inadequate quan tities, and this though an ample supply of water and wood could have been obtained in the immediate neighbourhood of the prison. The findings enu merate at length the privations and outrages to which the prisoners were subjected, and say that the hospital accommodations and medical attend ance furnished prisoners when sick were so slight and inadequate that when once sent to the hospital of the prison they rarely returned alive, and that by reason of that failure a large number of said pri soners, about 500 a month, whose names are un known, died from disease, starvation, and exposure during the months of November and December, 1864. The Commission, however, on the ground that the accused.was to blame only for the weakness in retaining the position when unable to carry out the dictates of humanity, and that the rebel Go vernment were fully responsible for all these in humanities and outrages, acquit the accused both on the charges and specifications. In approving the proceedings and findings of the Commission, Major-General John. C. Robinson, commanding the department of North Carolina, dissents from the conclusion of the Commission, that the only respon sibility of the accused was weakness in retaining the w.sition as commandant of the prison. He says that, while the evidence clearly establishes the fact that the higher authGrities of the rebel Government were fully responsible for their violations of the laws and customs of war, Ind the accused was constantly calling their attentiol to the condition of the prison, and asking for supples, it is believed that he had it in his power to ielieve much of the sufferings of the prisoners tinier his charge. Not only were prisoners starved, but suffered from want of water and fuel, ffhich they might have pro cured for themselles. Because it was feared that they might have effected their escape, prisoners were shot down in cold blood, and the perpetrators of these murders were allowed to, go unpunished. There seems to have been more anxiety to prevent tie escape of prisoners of war than to preserve their lives. Pennybaker. The following named officers are ap pointed as an auxiliary committee, to act one for each State, in the order as named :--Maine--Colo nel Albert W. Bradbury, Portland, Me. ; New Hampshire, —; Vermont, —; Massachusetts— Major-Gcn. Dennis N. Couch ; Corinecticut— Major-Gen. Wm. B. Franklin ; Rhode Island, ; New York--Major-Gen. Slocum ; New Jersey— Major-Gen. Gershom Mott; Pennsylvania—Major- Gen. Joseph 11. Knipe ; Delaware ; Maryland— Brig.-Gen. J. C. Sullivan ; Kentucky—Major-Gen. 'F. L. Crittenden ; Missouri—Brig. -General C. B. Brown ; Tennessee--Major-Gen. Alvin C. Gillom ; Ohio—Col. Len. A. Harris ; Indiana—Major-Gen. John Love ; Illinois—Brig. -Gen. Charles Black ; Michigan Major-Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox ; Wis gonsin —Major-Gen. Hobart; Minnesota—Colonel John Ball ; lowa—Major-Gen. Fitz Henry War ren; Kansas—Major-Gen. Hugh Ewing. West Virginia Durbin Ward, Chairman. Thos. Kilby Smith, Secretary. Mr. Oliphant, M. P., arrived at Boston a fortnight ago, accompanied by two young Japanese gen tlemen of high rank, who were sent to England to obtain an education. They propose to pass their autumn vaca tion in a tour through America. The editor of the San Francisco (California) 0117=3 Letter announces that " Ecce Homo" was written by Mr. John Hamilton Thom. Mr. Beckwith, the American Commissioner for the Paris Exposition of 1867, is making efforts to have sent to it the model of an American school-house, with all its app] ia44ces. General Beauregard has left France for New York. TIMES.—The First Lord of the Admiralty will have something to explain in his first public speech on the affairs of his department. His statement to wards the close of the session that the reserves of the navy were in an unsatisfactory condition pro duced a natural, effect on the public Mind, and has led to a discussion not easily settled. That the state ment was true, literally, is not to be doubted, but the fact admitted, perhaps, of some explanation, while something was also to be said in qualification of the results. We have already observed that our ironclad fleet did receive very considerable augmentations under the late Government, and this was doubtless regarded as the most important object of all. The chief deficiency is probably in good cruisers of a smaller class, for which our heavier wooden vessels, of which we have an ample stock, cannot well be substituted. As the reader, however, has seen, an entirely new phase-af, the question has been opened by the results of 'recent artillery experiments, and we are led to inqiiire whether our old wooden navy is indeed so worthless as all theSe calculations, whether on one side or the other, have hitherto assumed. It appeared to us, as we remarked this day last week, that the case has been in. some de gree modified; it appears to an able correspondent, whose letter we published on Saturday, that matters remain exactly in state quo. We said that the re lative capacities of ironclads and wooden ships had been affected by the production of a gun which could be carried easily in a wooden frigate, and which could, beyond all question, send anyi rouclad now afloat to the bottom. Capt. S. Osborn main tains that "a very good gun and superior projectiles on board a wooden ship do not alter the conditions of the fight between a wooden fleet and an iron clad." So the issue is plainly stated, and can be as plainly tried. The very essence of an ironclad, as originally designed, was that it should be impreg nable to shot, and this condition was actually se cured. When the Gloire was launched she was invul nerable. When the Warrior was launched she was in vulnerable also: The Monitor was impregnable to the shot of the Merrimac, and the Merrimac to the shot of the Monitor. _So long as no improvements were made in artillery the cannon balls rebounded from the sides of the new fighting ships as harmlessly as hailstones, and it was this quality which gave iron -clads their importance. Between them and wooden ships there seemed to be no comparison whatever. The guns of a timber-built vessel were not only relatively but absolutely useless, and the ironclad might do the work of destruction at her leisure. Even when the power of guns was gradually in creased the defensive strength of ships' armour was increased in proportion, and - each hew target .represented a ship's broadside impregnable for the time. Now, however, all this is changed. A gun has beer manufactured of no immoderate weight or calibre, but equally portable and manageable, before which, when charged with a certain shot, any iron clad known is just as helpless and as unprotected as an old wooden frigate before an old 68-pounder. The sides of the Warrior are simply as vulnerable as so much basket-work. The sides of a vessel of twice the Warrior's strength would afford little bet ter protection. he turrets of the Royal Sovereign would be no safer. Armour is no longer an effec tive defence against a gun which will soon be one of the ordinary guns of our sea service. About these facts there is no question, and we say that they may materially " alter the conditions of a fight" between armoured and unarmoured vessels. A few months ago an armoured vessel was invul nerable ; she might now be sent to the bottom by a single shot. Our correspondent still claims the advantage for ironclads ; but that much we fully admitted.. All that he says on this point we said too. It is only within a certain range, and under certain conditions, that the wooden vessel can inflict fatal injury,upon her ironcased antagonist, whereas the latter can exert an equally destructive power with fewer limitations. All this is true, but. it does not affect the main proposition, which is this : That, whereas only the other day the captain of a wooden vessel "could not possibly expect to sink an ironclad, he now knows that such a proceeding is very possible indeed. Capt. Osborn takes the case of the Achilles, and the Liverpool, each carrying the new Woolwich gun and the Palliser shot, and he shows that the advantage would still be greatly on the side of the Achilles. No one • doubts it ; but with the armament which-the Liverpool would now carry she might send the Achilles to the bottom, whereas with her old armament she could never have hoped to do so. Captain Osborn, too, omits the very vital question of relative speed. Of course the comba tants may be assumed equal in this respect ; but armour, as our correspondent himself intimates, is apt to be " cumbersome," and if the wooden frigate were swifter than the iron c l a d, the "conditions of the fight" would be altered still more materially. All Captain Osborn's opinions on this subject are valuable, and the attentive reader will have discerned that he inclines not to the absolute protection of a fighting ship by very ponderous armour, but to the partial protection of the vessel by such plating as would keep out shot and shell except at short range without impairing the handiness or speed of the ship. But that view of the case opens a very wide question, and it has led some good authorities to a conclusion far more faVourable to wooden vessels than any that we have expressed. Where is the line to be drawn between the protection coveted and the impediment condemned ? One of the best of the American commanders gave it as his opinion that the armour of fighting ships would not only be gradually reduced, but ultimately discarded, exactly like the armour of fighting men. And it was certainly remarkable to observe, throughout the Civil War, what a preference the American captains gave to their old wooden frigates. Admiral Farragut uni formly hoisted his flag on board a wooden vessel, and took his wooden vessels into action against iron clads and shore batteries with a confidence justi fied by the result. I n f ac t, if our correspon d en t will review the experience of the last five years, be may perhaps be surprised to find what very little proof has been actually given of the helplessness of wooden ships when engaged with ironclads. To be sure, the experience is not very extensive, but Admiral Farragut never lost, we believe, a single-one of his old frigates, though he fought both ironclads and shore batteries at twenty yards' range. The Kaiser was not destroyed at Lissa, though one 300-pound sh e ll, a t l eas t, was f a i r l y l o d ge d i n h er sides: The Merrimac destroyed the Congress and the Cumberland, not by shot or shell, but by ramming. Of course none of these examples prove that a wooden frigate may not be disabled by the first shell fired, but as a matter of fact that cata strophe has been very often escaped. The Tennessee, the strongest ironclad built by the Confederates, did not destroy the Hartford, a wooden frigate engaged with her at close quarters, but if the Hartford had carried such guns and shot as were recently tried at Shoebury she must infallibly have sunk the Ten nessee. However, we can assure our correspondent that we have not the slightest idea of advocating any retrograde policy in the construction of our navy. We fully admit, and have already acknow ledged, the superiority which he claims for ironclads, even though they be no longer impregnable. But to multiply these fabrics so as to reinstate us in our old maritime strength by virtue of ironclads alone must be a work of time, while any discovery that can communicate a provisional increase of efficiency to our old wooden fleet may well be hailed with satisfaction. It wou ld b e b es t t o h ave a sufficiency of ironclads, but, pending that consummation, it is something to ascertain that we could send even wooden ships to sea with guns which, at close quarters, no ironclad could resist. SPIRIT OF TEM PUBLIC JOURNALS. We understand th.t her Majesty's Government. have agreed to give the Imperial guarantee for a sum of £4,000,000 tc be raised on the security of the revenue of the confederated British colonies in NOrth America. Of the sum to be thus raised £3,000,000 is to be applied to the construction of the long-talked-of liternational Railway between Halifax and Quebec, or rather to the junction of that line with the G mud Trunk at Riviere du Loup. The remaining 11,009,000 is to be applied by the Confederated Goverment to the purchase of the territorial rights of the Hudson Bay Company, leaving to that comjany still the right of trading over the territory find holding the trading ports which are necessary for carrying on its trade. The delegates from Canada are expected in England daily to complete the arrangements with her .Majesty's Government. The governors of the Hudson Bay Company are, we believe, prepared to recommend to the proprietors the acceptance of the £1,000,000. as the purchase-money of the terri torial or sovereign tights which they hold under their charter. We are also informed that the claim of the cornpaity against the United States' Government arising Jut of the Oregon question is likely shortly to be settled, and that the amount to be received under this head will be somewhere about £250,000. In the New York Senate a resolution had been adopted, welcoming Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and General Grant and Admiral Farragut to the State. This was reconsidered, and for the avowed purpose of showing that they would give no honour to Andrew Johnson, his name was stricken out, and the " President " was welcomed with " the other distinguished personages accompanying him." Afterwards an additional re solution was adopted welcoming General Grant and Admiral Farragut by name, but the Senate refused, by a vote of 7 to 13, to include the name of William H. &wail In the course•-of the discussion Senator Low denounced the President in the most violent language, and MIS followed on the same side by Senators Kline and Williams, the latter of whom made a coarse attack upon the President, and stated that two young men from his office had been killed in the New Orleans riot. He held the President responsible for their murder, and " their blood cries to Heaven for vengeance." Senator Godard declared the President had attained an in famous reputation, and said his object in desiring to omit the name of the President, was, first; be cause he refused to do homage to an individual whose course could not fail to produce another civil war ; and, secondly, because he did not desire, by the mention of that individual's name, to stir up the dangerous passions of the outraged union men of the western part of the State. Mr. Lent inquired what this meant. Was he to understand the Pre sident of the United States was not to be protected, and would not be safe as he passes through the western part of this State ? Mr. Godard did not say there was any danger. But if the Senator did not understand the feeling of the West he did ; and he would say that they hate that man. • The Pre sident could hardly be expected to avoid all allusion to pending political questions in the speeches lie made during his recent trip to Chicago. He must necessarily say something about the condition of the country, and it would be difficult for him to do this without indicating his own decided opinion's. The difficulty with him is that he is too frank ; he can conceal nothing, and he lets out not only his poli tical views, but his own personal and partisan feelings. In his reply to the welcome by the Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, he could not finish with out the exhortation, " Now, when the issue has come, believing, as I do, in the integrity of the American people, you are invited to come forward, and at the ballot-box discharge your whole duty." Secretary Seward also showed that his thoughts were moving in the same channel, and he thus en forced the President's appeal :—"FelloW citizens, I have just come along with the President in this my own section of th e coun t r y. I find things are not going on ex ac tl y right here. You let the .re presentatives of thi r t y - s i x S ta t us c o m e to Philadel phia, to confer together. I want them to come to Washington, but they are not allowed to confer to gether in Washington. I want to see them brought into Washin g ton . Will you attend to that ?" At a meeting of the soldiers favourable to the published call fo r a S oldier and Sailors ' C onvent i on at Cleveland, Ohi o, on the 17th of September, held at Willard' s H otel on Monday evening, 20th August, Gener a l D urbin Ward being called to t h e chair, and Ge neral Thomas Kilby Smith hav i ng been elected S ecretary, upon motion of G enera l James B. Steadman the following named offrcers at Washington u n til t h e 15th Septem b er :— G enera l were appointed an Executive Committee to remain George Y. Este, Col. A. 11, Markland, Col. C. D. THE AMERI'JAN PRESS. The Philadelphia inquirer says James Stephens, the Fenian leader, seems still to be working away with the energy of fs man in a quagmire who cannot get out, Ile is travelling about the country " oz ganising" whenever he can get up a meeting and collect some money. Having nearly used up his influence with the masculine friends of Ireland, he is trying his powers of blarney with the women, and organising a Fenian Sisterhood. The fair daughters of Erin 9.re requested to come up and deposit their contributions, and as they are enthusiastic in any cause which they espouse they may add much to the amount of funds in hand. Stephens will be a lucky man if he does not soon get into a quarrel with the Sisterhood, as he seems to have an unfor tunate temper, and is impatient of advice and con trol. In a recent speech made at Troy, N. Y., - he said that "three times has the knife been plunged into the breast of Ireland by those who ought to have been faithful to Irish independence." Ac cording to Mr. Stephens the first of these barbarous acts was the secession of the Senate party from the O'Mahony (government. But, while censuring the seceders, Mr. Stephens contrives to admit that there was good cause for the withdrawal in the abuse and mismanagement at the Moffat Mansion by O'Ma honey and hi 3 cronies. The second terrible stab was the Campo Bello campaign, a most melancholy and ludicious failure. Then came the third terrible blow in the Canada invasion, not so contemptible as the rival assault upon the independence of Ire land on the coast of New Brunswick, but infinitely more disastrous. There is no hope for the liberty, of Ireland but Stephens. Like Doctor 011apod, in the play, he is continually cry ing " Keep your eye on me." He is going to heal the wounds of Erin himself, and the mighty feat is sure to be accomplished this year. Yes ! before we eat our Christmas dinner, Stephens is going back to Ireland, and to dispute the vigilance of British myrmidoms, and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, he " will greatly do and grandly dare." The time is short, and the Sisterhood must work, otherwise we fear that in six months or less Stephens will denounce them as having inflicted the fourth stab upon bleeding Ireland, by keeping their purses closed and depriving the modern Finn Macoul of the opportunity of achieving immortal glory. The Springfield Weekly Republican says ex- Governor Eyre of Jamaica, whose needless severity in the suppression of the riot in that island, in October last, gave him an undesirable notoriety, is received with honour by the Conservatives of Eng land. His successor, Sir J. P. Grant, it is feared, has no better idea than Eyre of the policy needed in the government of the island. He told a deputa tion of the British anti-slavery society, who lately called upon him, that he hoped they would endea vour to impress the negro population of Jamaica with the necessity of order and subordination to lawful authority, adding that it must always be the first object of every Government to suppress, on the instant, such commotions• as those which have taken place in Jamaica. This is true and right, and if the new Governor had united with it a promise of such reforms in the government of the island as would secure to the negroes their rights and take , away the inducements to insurrection, there would have been nothing to complain of. As it is, the' British abolitionists- fear that the negroes of J ama i ca have gained little or nothing by a change of go vernors. We have something t.o learn from the history of Jamaica since emancipation, and it will be well for us if we comprehend the lesson and apply it to our own circumstances. If the negroes there have not absolutely degenerated since 1831, which is a disputed point, they have confessedly failed to make any marked progress, and are still wholly unfit for se lf- g overnment. A Massachu setts man, of decidedly Radical opinions, And who has always sympathised heartily with . the col oure d race, has lately spent considerable tine in Jamaica, and taken pains to inform himself as to the condi tion of things, and he is satisfied - that th e bl ac k population of the island will inevitably lapse into the lowest barbarism unless a different policy is adopted towards them. The only element of pro gress that has obtained to any extent among the negroes is Christianity, and this is so little above heathenism as to have almost no connection with morality. The most devout church members do not consider lying, theft, and promiscuous inter- • course at all inconsistent with a creditable profes sion of religion, and many of the missionaries con fess their inability to impress moral distinctions upon their converts. They are not yet educated up to an appreciation of the first principles of morality, and the little time that the preachers and missionary teachers can do in this direction does not promise much for the future. What the negroes of Jamaica must have, if they are to be redeemed from bar barism, is education, and this the British Go vernment ought to secure to them by a system of common schools, which the negroes themselves should be compelled to support. If such a syst em had been established when emancipation took place, thirty-five years ago, the present generation of blacks would have been very different from what they are, and the white population would have had no occasion to fear insurrections among them. If the people of the Southern States do not wish to see the history of Jamaica repeated among themselves, and on a larger scale, there is but one course for them to take. The negroes are to remain where they are and to constitute the bulk of the working population. If we want to see them industrious and peaceful, contributing their share to the general welfare, they must be secured in their rights and must be educated to a proper knowledge and use of them. Something to this end will be done by benevolent organisation, but the work will not be half done unless the Southern States establish for them selves a common school system for both races. Let this be neglected, and the next generation of negroes will have added to their ignorance and brutality the vices which slavery formerly placed beyond their reach. Let one-third of the population consist of negtoes, not only ignorant and vicious, but idle and intemperate, and the prospect of future society at the South is anything but pleasant to contemplate. There is but one preventive, the education of the negro. Make a man of him by developing his manly faculties, and training him to self-3ontrol and self respect, and stimulate him to effort by the promise that he shall enjoy all the prerogatives of citizen ship as soon as he can understand and use them. This is the lesson Jamaica reads to us. This is the I voice which wisdom utters in the streets. It mus not be disregarded. GENERAL BUTLER AND WENDELL PHILLIPS ON TILE RAMPAGE. We publish this morning two important docu ments, showing the drift of events on the Radical side in this political contest. One is the speech of General Butler at Gloucester Massachusetts, the other a letter from Wend e ll Phillips, published in the Anti-Slavery Standard. They are both charac teristic documents, and just such as we might have expected 'from these men. Of the two productions that of Wendell Phillips exhibits the greatest tact, shrewdness, philosophy, and honesty. They are both filled with venom and extreme bitterness against the President, and call for the adoption of extraordinary measures to put him out of the way, or, to use the language. of Phillips, " to find some measure fit and efficient to serve their purpose— the deposition of the perjured and usurping traitor." This is the language used against the Chief Magis trate of the nation, who has the firmness to stand by the constitution in this trying hour of the nation. The Philadelphia Convention and the South form, however, the burden of both these manifestoes. Butler endeavours to show that the Convention amounted to nothing, yet in his very argument he proves it was a formidable affair. Wendell Phillips, on the other hand, starts out with the declaration that it is of the greatest importance—if not in im mediate results, it will " prepare a way for a des perate conflict in 1868," and calls upon ttie Radicals to prepare for a struggle, pointing out as one of the means the deposal of Andrew Johnson. From the tone and temper of the speech of Butler we infer that he is ready, at lent in the use of words,- to carry out this doctrine advo cated by the old abolition apostle. Ilis courage, which failed him at Fort Fisher and prompted him to testify before the Committee on the Conduct of the War that Fort Fisher could not be captured--and that, too, when the committee had in their possession a despatch stating that it had been captured—has all of a sud ' den returned to him, now that there are no more forts to capture or armies to confront. Butler is a brave man when he has a few defenceless women and unarmed people to govern and plunder in New Orleans, or is on the stump in Massachusetts, where he does not have to confront the men whom he de fames. His courage knows no bounds on such occa sions. He is then full of pluck, and can order a raid upon the vaults of some bank, direct the seizure of some family spoons, or harangue a crowd of Massa chusetts Radicals with the coolness of a philosopher. We never knew until his speech at Gloucester what principle he based his administration at New Orleans upon. He there tells us that the people were public enemies, and in their capture by the war " we cap tured men and property, their slaves, their rights, constitutional and otherwise, except the right to be hung." This accounts for his appropriation of pri vate property,. and the seizure of all valuablesliethat l war,he could find while at the Crescent City. according to his interpretation, having accomplished all this, he now proposes to hang all the people in the South, unless they will permit the slaves which Butler captured *to rule them. "If," says Butler, " I am asked how long I would keep these men out of the Union, I say, keep them out until the heavens melt with fervent heat ; and if it 'should not come in this generation we will swear our sons to keep them out." His speech throughout is of this violent character. He is evidently trying to convince the people of Massachusetts that he has crawled out of the bottle which - General Grant placed him in, and thtit he is read) to fight, 'now that the South has laid down their arms and there is no danger of their firing back. `That Butler says in regard to the issues has an important bearing upon the contest. He is one of the acknowledged high priests of the Radical party. He is in that respect a repre sentative man--the same as the leaders in the French Revolution were in their-day. Ile has all the inso lence and cowardice of Marat, the bloodthirstiness , but not the magnanimity, of Robespierre, and all the audacity of. Danton when there is no danger. lie proclaims in his manifestoes those theorieS and dog mas that he intends to force the Radical party to carry out, and, by an adroit argument, leads the party up to the adoption of his plan. What he fails to present to the public Wendell Phillips makes I W. Hence the utterances of the two which we publish to-day form a complete chapter in the events of the day. Both denounce Congress, and proclaim iu favour of immediate universal negro suffrage, on' that, too, by Congress forcing it upon the South ; and, if necessary to accomplish that, they urge tha t the President shall be deposed. Here, then, we have the programme of the Radical faction. There is nothing in the history of this country that compare s with the atrocity of their schemes or is one-half s ° diabolical. These manifestoes exhibit the desperat e schemes that the Radicals are about to resort to for, the purpose of keeping the m s e l ves i n p ow er,.no° they Show to the people the dangers that threaten the country if the Radicals continue in power. 11 they are successful there is to be no union between the North and the South, but a continual c onten; tion until the " heavens melt with f erven t heat.' The nation, the constitution, the peace and pros perity of the land, are all to be sacrificed for the benefit of their ambition and their hypocritical love for the negro. The picture is indeed a dark One; but the people are now forewarned, and let them profit by it, and see that the result of the next Con gressional elections- places these bloodthirsty men where they will be powerless, and cannot force upon the country their theories and the ruin that will follow, under the plea of legality of Congressiona l action.—New York Herald. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH - SATURDAY. There was a tolerable supply of wheat at this market to day, which met a fair demand at about the rates of this day se'nnight. The supply of barley is increasing, and the demand for all good malting qualities being brisk, prices ruled is to 2s per qr. dearer than last Saturday; grinding sorts also maintained extreme rates. White wheat (weighing 641 b), 54s to 56s ; old red ai tto weighing 631 b), 47s to 52s ; new red ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), 51s to 52s ; bast malting barley (weighinT 521 b to 531 b), 42s to 45s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 52 I b P 40s to 41s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 34s to 36s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, b7s to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr. Flour, 378 6d per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. Our market was tolerably supplied with wheat to-daY; Samples of old were held for recent terms ; new, gut `Barley was in tolerable demand at full currencies. T b et ," was a steady trade for oats at extreme rates. Beans fu l l' as dear. New white wheat, 48s to 52s ; new red, 45s to 50s ' • 01d ' white, 51s to 56s ; old red, 48s to 52s per 36 stone. II . : ley, 'for malting, 38s to 42s per.qr.; grinding, 31s to 3 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 24s to 30s per 2 stone. Beans, old, Ms to 53s ; new, 52s to Ms per 38 sto ne ' Fine flour, 41s ; seconds, 37s to 39s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. There was a fair attendance at our market to-daY, the supply of wheat was middling, fine old sorts suPP ° „ lt.. d ing their full value. Barley was sparingly shown, an parcels were held for higher prices. The demand for ruled firm, and top rates were obtained. In beans sales were effected at remunerative rates. New white wheat, 58s to 60s ; new red, 53s to 56sPeY 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 41s per qr. ; grinding, 34s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 34s per 24 sto ny, to Beans, new, 48s to 50s per 38 stone. Malt, 66S Flour, 38s to 40s per sack of 2801bs. NOT TINGLIAM—SATunnAv. At to-day's market the supply of wheat was moderato, and while old samples supported their value, new We l ! dull. Barley was moderately represented, and there w as ," steady inquiry, at about recent rates. 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Its tot a l d es t r uction is w 6"9'i- et o b' be imminent if something be not d one t o repair it- to thero will be no difficulty in raising sufficient rootioY put it into a sound state if the vi ca r o r the churchvorde will take the matter in hand.-Builder. hea lth' [ADVERTISE lIENT.] -Du Barry's delicious and three restoring Itevalenta Arabica Food, which contains its times the nourishment of the best meat, saves WY tini 7ong cost in other remedies, restore-, perfect digestion, ono nerv, s, round lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sle e P,'„ r tional r,gularity , and energy to the most disorder ea feeb!ed, removing speedily and effectually indigest ion liv er pepsla), habitual constipation, diarrhees, limmorrholds• ooro coinplaiuts, fla'ulency, nervousness, biliousness, te /erj a 'd 0 01 throats. catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impuriti es , eru ptions, by hea rt" ralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitst 0 0, lo os, burn, headache,' debility, dropsy, cramps, spasnlo, we" and sickness, sinking fits, c oug h s , as th ma , brollel lit ;ips at pient consumptibllnicrofula, tightness of the cheSt , P the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, la- n drei ( ficate No. 29,410. 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Miss Mizabeth 'D' er coor NasingVicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme 01,00. ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nerv o u s , ; 24 1D ' In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6EI ; 51b, 11s ; 121 b, nocio; iOs.-Barry . Du Barry and Co., No. 77, itegent-streetr )":rueivise also Phillips, tea dialers, 3, King Wiliiam-street sgate at 6t, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Dishltralld: street Within ; 6 . 3, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 3 ' 3° ' a; 9 `: Si, Upper Baker - street; IC;3, Tottenham-court -r°' ew' Upper-street, Islington, .N.; Harvey, Nottirla -I t il e i r i' ci t :, Brothers, 65, High-street ; an d Stubbs, Queen's"r e John's-wood. London; and all respectable I,:rw" - "' r° alicL mists.-Beware of spurious imitations. Births. "OOP , FE ILDING—On the 21 e t inst., at 39, Prince's - o ats ' '— Lady Louisa Fading, of a son. , act 0111 Do_WNES —On the 20th inst., at 25, St. Georgorgy of l'' Regent's-park, the wife of George 11. Dow ns ' -- -' dauhter. the goo* HoGGI— g On the 21st inst. , at 24, Wilton-creseenl7 , - e W if° . Mrs. Hogg, of a son. SOUTHGATE—On the 22d inst , at The Elms, — eel ' the of T. Southgate, Esq., of a son. Hussars,Chu rc Church, a L n a d n eldest son NT—......ORTIMER—On the 20th inst., ii. f I S W° Al the get DUREA 1U sp(l)anC ofe, IBlorraDucreraDntut74..to: olfirrioadociFi Hall, Broughton-in-Furness, * Lancashire, t _ pri., P. Mortimer, eldest daughter of A• gortinio, 62, Wimpole-street. A. ove ll, SEACOMBE HEWITT—On the 20th inst., at VI"- 401 . goal 0 Samuel Seacombe Esq., of Liskeard, to st i., eldest daughter of' the late St. John liewitt" Sudden Park Farm, Great Bedwin, IVilts. Deaths. Arklai t D. Ar lc ~ LAy—On the 21st inst., at Broughty Ferri' , 10• Esq., formerly of Boston U.S. rl "3 1 CLAYTON—On the 19th inst., at Souths a kAon e, j3tiel‘ S ' R. Clayton, Bart.,of B. 1 f d Greate'laarlow, ar ey oi , aged 81. ; . 1 , 0. 4.1 CRIPPS—On the 20th inst , at Brighton, C. C r ' r ` 5' 'll. of Clifton Villa, Tunbridge-wells, aged 6 7 . v , dl l, •ct ' EYltE—On the 17th inst at 61, Pulteuey-stie , 0 ~ Alla J. Eyre, Esq., aged 87. 11- I , tne 1 , GILMORE On the 21st inst., at Eto n Lodge, ..- _ if Gilmor, Es, aed 57. ti / 314uP'• gwood-etroo RUSHALL e — On t q. g he 22d inst., at Collin friars-mil, Mr. James Rushall, aged 72. ft London : Printed and Puhiinhed by WILLI/4-3' 0 ,,,, str 0. of of No. 112, Strand, Piinter. et Tur, SVri 01T6otin Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th bLiddleees.—Alyuday, Sept,cluber 24,1660• eorn o. , 801 b 3: ti *II of( And CAUTI ' the ,u for 11 1( ing pla ,__ COT TEN] B A.TUF Lng to B Aya 0 2tober Withi n i Partie 18 uncle Three laze that 411 1:TIT The di o,ntrae' 2f hay ( fraud or "ole to c The m Wlll hay Elections 11 subs ti r t at e i y „ "kat day ona fidi POs tabled nn c uetween 1.01 7114110 This / thnicsal ~Tender „ COM m 1 Co riE th, ITNITE" LAND D AY th t hey wil o , llling t her liaje P orts th( C urd of t: terta Aft there ri: Th Dubli ` ,s in M 14 , Pro, ire, 0", co FIT Pa rt /noun 5 , A ..._ I) ' of thi atd ay cliildri