The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Saturday, the 3d of February. Mr. Martin's peculiarly shaped patent sell-cant ing anchors, which were proved under thehydraulic machinery at Woolwich at 50 per cent. over the Admiralty test, for service on board her Majesty's ironclad ships Vixen and Viper, were yesterday submitted to a most severe fire-proof. The arms were removed from the shanks, placed in separate fires, and heated to a low red heat. Each section was then sprinkled with water, and examined with the most scrupulous care in order to discover any signs of weakness, flaw, or defect iu the metal, which consists of scrap iron of a select quality. The parts of the shanks and arms which had undergone the greatest amount of strain were scraped and filed over and minutely examined by Mr. Saxby, master smith, and his assistants, but no flaw nor imper fection could be detected. The anchors were there upon pronounced fit for service. Mr. Martin, the inventor, and various officers of the yard were in attendance. Commander Towsey, of the flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, in pursuance of an Admiralty order, went down to ;Greenhithe, in the steam tender Bustler, and inspected the movements of the Peru vian steam armour-clad ram Indipendencia, built and recently launched at the Thames Iron and Steel Works at Blackwall. Capt. Towsey found the ship swinging at the moorings off Greenhithe-pier, and the officers and men actively engaged in shipping war materials and stores of every description, and a large number of seamen of various nations crowd ing the pier in readiness to join her. The Bustler then proceeded to Gravesend, where Capt. Towsey communicated with the Custom-house officials, in formingthem he had no authority to stop the depar ture of the ship, and returned to Woolwich, re porting the result of his visit to Commodore Dunlop, for the information of the Board of Admiralty. The Indipendencia is stated to be a most formidable looking-vessel, equipped with a raking battery of guns, and a prow similar to that of her Majesty's ship Pallas, on Mr. Reed's principle. Her engines are of 600-horse power, supplied by Messrs. Penn and Sons. The steam dredging machine belonging to Chat ham dockyard, which was lent for some time by the Admiralty to the corporation of the city of Roches ter for the purpose of removing some shoals in the Medway, near Rochester-bridge, has been brought down the river, and is now at work opposite the dockyard, where it has been employed for several days past in removing a sand bank and deepening the river to enable the ironclad frigate Bellerophon to take up moorings alongside the dockyard on that vessel being undocked on the 31st inst. A numerous party of painters are employed on the frigate. All her masts and steel yards are in place, and the rig gers are employed in completing setting up her rig ging. According to orders received at Chatham she will proceed, as soon as possible after being undocked, to Portsmouth, where she will be completed for sea. The iron cased corvette Pallas, 6, 600 horse power, Capt. M. Connolly, having unshipped her four bladed screw, has been removed out of dock at Sheer ness into the steam basin, where she is completing her alterations and additions. She is to be furnished with a double-bladed Griffith propeller, with which some additional trials of her speed will be made, but some weeks will probably elapse before she is ready for this duty. The screw corvette Charybdis, 21, 400 horse power, attached to the Chatham Steam Reserve in the Medway, has been removed into the steam basin, where she has undergone a survey at the hands of the officials preparatory to being taken in hand for some extensive repairs to both hull and machinery. The Mullet, 5, 80 horse power, screw gun vessel, attached to the Chatham Steam Reserve, has nearly completed her repairs preparatory to being brought forward for commission. She has been newly cop pered, and her boilers unshipped and repaired. The Fox, screw storeship, Staff-Commander Mo riarty, arrived at Portsmouth yesterduy morning from Plymouth, with new boilers and machinery for the troop ship Himalaya. The following appointments"and promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Tom. B. Read, master, to the Doris ; Andrew MacFarlane, chief engineer, to the Topaze, commissioned ; Luke C. Masterson, paymaster, to the Doris ; Edward A. M. Chaffers, assist. paymaster, to the Doris ; William P. Taylor, assist. paymaster, to the Victory ; Wm. li.. Weatherley, assist. paymaster, to the Victoria ; %\ r m. Herd, engineer, to the Topaze, commissioned ; Thos. Scott, first-class assist. engineer, to the Topaze, commissioned ; John Critchley, in the Cum berland, promoted to first-class assist. engineer ; Robert Henry Lavers. second-class assist. engineer, to the Topaze, commissioned ; Henry Scoinf en Ball, acting second-class assist. engineer, to the Topaze, commissioned ; William N. Thomas, clerk, to the Doris ; and Wm. Elliot, assist. clerk, to the Doris. Royal Institution. There was a very crowded audience at theweekly meeting of the members of the Royal Institution yesterday evening, to hear Mr. Baker give an ac count of his exploration of the sources of the Nile. His narrative was for the most part a repetition of the paper recently read by him at the Geographical Society, but it entered more fully into some per sonal details. After some introductory remarks on the importance of the Nile to Egypt, and on the unsuccessful efforts that have been made at various periods to trace it to its source, he stated that one of the objects he had in view was tit) give assistance to Capts. Spoke and Grant, who had undertaken to trace the Nile to its source by proceeding from Zan zibar, on the eastern coast of Africa. He gave a de scription of the character of the population of Kar -toun, who, he said, are the most infamous wretches on the face of the earth--plunder, murder, and slave catching being the business of their lives. Ile was accompanied on his expedition by Mrs. Baker, And he took with him an equal number of horses, camels, and asses to try their relative powers of en durance, but they all died nearly at the same time, soon after his departure from Gondokoro, having been attacked by the fly. At Gondokoro he was re joiced by the arrival of Speke and Grant, though somewhat disappointed at the same time at their having, as he supposed, accomplished the object which it was his ambition to be the first to achieve. His hopes, however, revived on hearing from those travellers that they had not been able to trace the river from its outlet from the lake Victoria Nyanza all along its course to Gondokoro,having been com pelled to leave the stream at Karuma Falls, where it took a course directly westward. From Captain Speke, however, he heard that the natives had in formed him the river proceeded westward until it emptied into a lake larger than the VictoriaNyanza, and that it issued again at a short distance north wards and continued its course to Gondokoro. Mr. Baker determined to continue his exploration and to pursue the route indicated byCaptains Speke and Grant. Soon after he had been left by those travel lers difficulties arose enough to dishearten any man. All his men mutinied and threatened to shoot him, and positively refused to go any further south. He was obliged to humour them, and, accompanied by a party of traders, he proceeded eastward for a dis tance of 100 miles. During this jou rney he en countered many dangers, and was continually appre hensive that his mutinous attendants and the traders would conspire together to murder him. A fortu riate event for him, however, occurred at Latuka, where the traders, joined by many of his men, at tacked a warlike tribe, who inhabited the mountains, for the purpose of capturing slaves and carrying off their cattle. The natives, however, made a vigorous defence, and pursued their assailants to the edge of a precipice, over which they were hurled and killed. After this adventure the men who remained with him became more subservient, for they attributed the destruction of their comrades and the traders to the evil eye they imagined Mr. Baker possessed. The Latukans proved very friendly, and provided for the wants of the travellers, and with their assis tance they arrived without much further difficulty at Karuma Falls, having taken a south-westerly direction. From Latuka to the falls, the country, though within. two degrees of the equator, is finely diversified with mountains, valleys, and streams, the country presenting throughout beautiful land scapes, and the mountains reaching a i elevation of 5,000 feet. On crossing the river Karuma Falls all kinds of obstructions were placed in Mr. Baker's further progress by the King Karnuta, who watched the movements of the party with the utmost suspicion. They were forced to make a , 10 days' journey to his capital to obtain an inter . view, and then a sympathetic system of plundering , commenced which threatened to deprive Mr. Baker of everything he possessed. The King gave false , accounts of the distance from the lake, which he represented to be three months' journey to the • west ; but more correct information was obtained from some traders in salt who had come from the lake, and said it was distant only 10 days' journey. Mr. Baker determined to make a last effort to obtain the King's permission to depart, and offered him his sword, which the King had often anxiously wanted to get. This offer won the King's heart, and he became suddenly as friendly as he had before been hostile, but he said, as a token of mutual friendship, they must drink each other's blood. It was in vain that Mr. Baker remonstrated, but the matter was compromised by having the ceremony performed by deputy ; Mr. Baker's head man and the principal chief acting on behalf of the two principals. The arms of those men were bared, a lancet was applied, and they licked each other's blood. The King then appointed a number of men to escort the party to the lake .; but before Mr. Baker's departure he made the parting request that he would give him his wife. Mr. Baker felt so indignant that he drew a pistol and threatened to shoot the King if he dared repeat the request ;* but his Majesty treated. the matter very coolly. He said it was the custom of his coun try to ask a friend at parting to leave him his wife, and he offered to give Mr. Baker another wife in exchange. They parted friends, and Mr. and Mrs. Baker pursued their course westward. They were, however, so oppressed with fatigue °and the heat that it was with the utmost difficulty they could continue their journey. Mr. Baler suffered from a coy de soleil, which rendered her senseless, and She was car ried on a litter in that state for some days. At length, on the 14th March, their guide told them that on the following day they would see the lake. Mr. Baker was so much excited at the prospect of realising his ardent hope that he could not rest. He said he had often dreamed that he was searching for the sources of the Nile, but that he had always failed, and he could scarcely conceive that he was then within a few hours of actually accomplishing it. On the next day's journey a lofty hill was before them, and he hastened on to the summit, from which he was delighted to behold the long-expected lake. Distant mountains could be just seen across the large expanse of water from a height of 1,500 feet, and to the south no land was visible. Mr. Baker hastened down the mountain, and, rushing into the lake, he drank from the source of the Nile. The lake extends from 2 deg. north latitude to 2 deg. south latitude, or about 260 miles, and at the southern extremity it bends towards the west, but how far it reaches in that direction is unknown. It is a much larger lake than Victoria Nyanza, and from its comparatively low pDsition it collects the water from an immense tract of mountainous coun try. Mr. Baker called it appropriately Albert Nyanza. He procured a boat and coasted along the eastern shore until he came to Magunda, where the river from the Victoria Nyanza falls into the lake, as Captain Speke had anticipated, from the in formation he received from the natives. Mr. Baker and his party ascended that river in their boat un til they came to a magnificent waterfall which barred their further progress by water. This is the only waterfall in the whole course of the Nile, and he called it the Murchison Falls, in honour of the the president of the Geographical Society. From the high land in the neighbourhood of Magunda, the outlet of another river, a little further north, was perceived, and that, there could be no doubt, was the White Nile. Mr. Baker observed that it is im possible to say which is the source of a river that has so many large affluents as the Nile, but there could be no question that the Albert Nyanza is one of the principal sources, and that it is owing to the immense body of water it contains that the river is not dried up either by absorption in passing through the Nubian desert, or by the evaporation of an equatorial sun. Mr. Baker went along the banks of the river to Karuma Falls, and thence to G ondoroko, homewards. The narrative of his perilous adven tures and of his final success was received by the audience with frequent applause, and not the least weariness was expressed, though the lecture ex tended far beyond_the usual time. The Houseless Poor in Stepney. An official inspection made by 11. B. Farnall, C. 8., the Poor-law Board Commissioner on Thurs day, of the casual wards of the Stepney Union dis closed a most debasing and inhuman treatment of the houseless. It will be remembered that the " Amateur Casual," in his concluding letter gave Mr. Farnall a hint that, in the opinion of the work house frequenters, the Poplar and Tottenham casual wards were the worst in London ; but there are no Tottenham wards, and the Poplar wards, as was proved by the report in the papers of the visit of Sir George Grey, Sir Richard Mayne, and other gentlemen, were good and sufficient, while in other wards, not mentioned, the people were found hud dled together in the most disgraceful manner. These " other" wards, and, doubtless the wards meant by the homeless critics in Lambeth, may be supposed to be identical with those of the Stepney Union. These are the old Ratcliffe Workhouse, and form the wards from the parishes of Stepney, Shad well, Limehouse, and Ratcliffe. An inquiry of the officials proved that th e y were v i s i te d a b ou t a fort nig ht since by Sir George Grey and his party on the "Midnight Ministerial Inspection." A description of these wards from personal inspection and an ac count of the mode in which the poor are treated will give the public another insight into the manner in which the Poor-law is administered by the so-called " Guardians of the poor." In the yard of the old workhouse is a row of worksheds with a loft overhead, and this loft, which has a sloping roof, is about nine or ten feet high in the best part, and is reached by a ladder. All round the floor, on the floor, as closely packed as possible, and without any division whatever, are the beds of the men, made of mere hay-bags and stuffed with a handful of hay or straw—just enough, in fact, to keep the sleeper off the ground. Incredible and in human, debasing and demorali;ing as it may, ap pear, it is a fact that the men have to lie upon these hay-bags stark naked, for all their clothes are taken away, and no shirts are supplied to the men or night gowns of any sort to the women, and all the cover ing the wretches have is a rug and a worn out blanket, and this in a place not built for human habitation, and unlighted and unwarmed. The women's " beds" are not made up so close together as the men's, but each is doubled, and misfortune thus makes the unpitied, houseless women—most of whom, it was stated by the official, were of a somewhat decent class—acquainted with strange bedfellows, the old being thus " pigged" with the young, the fever-smitten London tramp with the healthy girl from the country, and the clean way farer with the parasite-covered denizen of the street. This is no overdrawn picture. The ordeal which the recipients of relief have to undergo is as revolt ing as the sleeping arrangements. The casual is admitted at the gate by a porter, a pauper, and in troduced to the paid official, who fills the office of clerk as well as superintendent, and whose wife looks to the female casuals. The casual is searched, and then handed over to a pauper, who has charge of the lower shed, where he is kept until it is his turn to b e b a th ed. If he is the first in order, he goes into an apartment the floor of which is paved, and which is in charge of a pauper, only one degree re moved from being an imbecile. In this apartment is a large copper, an d a b ath, the latter fitted with taps for hot and cold water. The casual having stripped and bathed, passes into another apartment, where be leaves his clothes and receives a blanket, wrapped in which he goal into the shed where the other waiting casuals are, and having mounted the ladder leading to the loft he drops the blanket to the next candidate for a bath, and skips off to bed coverless. The old man in charge of the bath-room was asked how many people he bathed in the same water. lle looked vacantly into the face of his interrogator, and, after touching his forehead with his forefinger for a few moments, as though he felt the thinking appa ratus to be out of order, replied, " Oh, six on 'em." He was asked if he did not mean " ten on 'cm," and after shaking himself hopelessly, he announced that he thought the number was six. It must be under stood that in this loft, so overcrowded with beds, there is no supervision during the night, and the quiet and helpless, the young and the old, are leftto the mercy of the ruffians who, thrust from the neigh bouring wards of Poplar by the supervision of the police there, crowd to Ratcliffe, where, if they have had beds and a place to sleep in which when full must be pestilential, they have what all the ruffian class highly appreciate—the liberty to indulge un checked in whatever brutal and vicious sports they think proper. There was a meeting of the Stepney guardians in the afternoon, and the Commissioner attended the meeting, which was held, be it remarked,' in a room luxuriously furnished, and the fittings and ornamen tation of which were of the most elaborate charac ter, showing that the administrators of the Poor law in this part of the town have a proper regard for their own comfort. On the entry of the Commis sioner, one of the guardians jocularly observed to to him, " You don't like our wards, I hear," or words to that effect, to which the Commissioner re plied, " They are shocking, shocking, indeed." The Commissioner proceeded to read his minute, founded upon the observation he had made while going over the wards, and just as this was finished the chair man, pointing to the writer, who was seated at the opposite-end of the room, requested to be informed who that gentleman was. The reply that he was a reporter, who had attended in the ordinary course to report the proceedings, had an effect not easily to be described, and he was at once informed they had a minute on their books excluding all re presentatives of the press from their delibera tions, but it was hinted that if he made a written request to be present this would be taken into consideration. On leaving the room for this purpose he was soon informed by the clerk that the applica tion would not be acceded to if made, and he was requested to consider the business he had heard dis cussed while his object was unknown--he having taken it for granted that the " Board," like nearly all meetings of London guardians, was an open one —should be considered as private. Under these cir cumstances the Commissioner's minute cannot be made public, but conclusions may be drawn as to what its contents were when these other facts are stated. The original wards certified by Mr. Farnall were in the lower shed, and the beds were then all separate, men and women having proper sleeping places. Without consulting the Commissioner, and without informing him of what they were doing, the Guardians pulled down all the sleeping places, thus inflicting not only a wrong on the poor, but a wrong on the metropolis generally, for this lodging of the houseless is paid for out of the general rate, and when a certificate is once given to a ward no change whatever should be made in that ward without the Commissioner's sanction. One thing may be stated, and that is, that the certificate of the Guardians for these wards has been withdrawn, and the expense incurred by the four parishes of the " union" for housing the poor will not be refunded out of the general rate, which it would have been had not this discovery been made by the Commissioner. It may be added that all the casuals are treated in the man ner here described, and that the only effect the visit of Sir G. Grey had upon the Guardians has been to make them study what powers they have with re spect to keeping out of their doors all who arc likely to " inquire too curiously." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE SUN, LON_CON, SATURDAY EVENING, !UNITARY 27, 1866. In Mr. Frere's Court (No. 16) the Maidstone and Ashford, Rochester Docks, and London and North Western and Midland Counties coal line passed standing orders. The bill of the Dublin Trunk Con necting Railway (City extension) was adjourned un til Monday. In the case of the South Eastern (Lon don, Croydon, and Caterham Junction) Bill the orders had not been complied with. The further consideration of the Hyde Station, East and West Junction (Hitchin extension), London and Worthing Direct, Skipton and Wharfdale, and the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction (Southern Lines) was adjourned. The standing orders were not complied with in the case of the Wimbledon lines. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, Mlles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1- 1865. 1864. 1865 1864 4 4 Belfast and N. Counties . 9)4 994 1,729 1.548 Belfast and County Down.... 441 4i 1 564 552 Blyth and Tyne • 35 30 1,959 2.118 Brecon and Merthyr ..... 6l . 61 1,034 803 Bristol and Exeter 1214 1215 5,384 5.341 Caledonian, Scottish Central 415/ 408 20 7uB 21.587 Cambrian Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 314 351 Cockermouth and Workin .. 9 9 296 382 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 333 272 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l c 4 1.0 97 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 651 655 1,424 1.33 ) Deeside l7 17 262 263 Do Extension Dublin & Belfast J unction ... • 63 63 1,275 1.231 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,397 1.231 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO5 911 2,321 0.971 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 59 3,515 2,575 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk~&E.Union Great Northern 404 401 36,373 34,944 Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,889 1.5 0 Do Branches 42 41 1:1,060 1,0,2 (3 t. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 714 711 448 357 fit.Southn. & Westn.(lrlud-). • 387 4 3874 8.2 4 6.915 Great Western l2BO 1270 65,895 63...84 Hull & Hornsea Highland •.. 246 246 2,959 2,395 Irish North-Western........ 145 145 1,6 JO 1,416 Lancashire & Yorkshire...... 403 403 38.958 31.840 Limerick and Ennis... ....... 21/ 241 189 1.8 Limerick and Foynes ........ 261 264 103 92 Llanelly 461 461 512 466 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2671 10,785 15.596 London, Chatham, & Dover; j 134 12/ 1 7,140 6.6<3 all Metropolitan Extension 112 115 1 1,950 1,575 Do. Kent Loast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheilield.& Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham.. 9 4 95 1,522 1,350 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,281 1,26) Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6775 6511 48,971 46,35 Midland Gt. Westn. of hind 2601 2601 4.232 4.162 blonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,84 i 2,715 North British, Edin., Perth _ _ . and Dundee 7021 .6561 23,445 21.848 .. . . .... N-Eastern and Stock. Az DarL 1206 i 1160:1 61,814 59,044 North London ll 9 4,559 2,955 North Staffordshire 258 258 8,178 7.764 Pembroke and Tenby lll 11 i 8 i 58 Rhymney l9t 10 1 911 I,oe, Scottish North-Eastern . . 138 138 5,6.1 5,052 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 949 722 South Devon South-Eastern 315 306 19,983 19,827 Taff Vale 6l 61 4,811 5,689 Ulster lO5l 1051 2,5,7 2.2.-9 Vale of Ciwyd. . . lO 10 425 143 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 3 8 1.01 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,322 1, , 83 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 587 575 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 823 31,803 31,963 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 26i 261 321 316 Bombay, Baroda, &1. en. India 306 1851 10,331 2,800 Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 189 5,070• 5.110 Dutch Rhenish ion 1( 81 5,609 4,332 Eastern of France .. 15":1 1453 62,393 55,749 Eastern Bengal •• - East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 20 5613 22.427 Great Central of Belgium 285 261 • 6,391 1 ,592 Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 3,883 15,315 Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,926 4. 01 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 343 315 10,665 12,409 Madras 6ll 533 8,932 6,195 Madrid, Saragossa dtAlicant 778 713 14,07 13,146 Northern of Cantina ... ..... Northern of France ... ... 724 724 57,0 , 7 54,882 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman . __ _4Bl __4Bl - - - Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 2006 1970 - 13 0 ,231 116,503 Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 68,388 56,212 Recife and San Francisco. &c. 77& 77i 1,41 , 0 1,004 Sc.ncle. . Do. Punjab, .Scc 253 45 1,700 503 South Austrian, .ac ..... Southern of France 863 823 26, , 24 23,076 Victoria ___ 25 270 264 Welland 25 West .1L N-%l'n. of France A Plain Talk with General Grant. We aro glad to know that General Grant has left New York. Not but that we deem his presence an honor to any city, but for his own sake we rejoice that he has gone elsewhere. Proud of him as our Lieutenant-General, ad miring him as the deliverer of his country, at a time when it seemed almost doubtful whether its armies would suc ceed or trail their banners into the dust, reverencing him as a moral hero in that he showed that he could be mag nanimous in the hour of victory as well as brave in the day of battle, we regretted more deeply than we have the heart to express his conduct during his stay in the metro polis. We are no negro-worshippers, but there was that in this man that could not but win our respect. There is certainly stuff in him that heroes are made of. Less than five years ago ho was a plain tanner fn the West, respected by all with whom he came iu contact, beloved by those who knew him best. To-clay his name is mentioned with honor by the civilised world. He ranks with the com manders of history. Henceforth ho will be mentioned in the same category with Napoleon, and Wellington, and Washington, as a general who led great armies to victory and ever stood ready to treat a vanquished foe with mag nanimity that only great minds are capable of. And when he had won his labt greatest triumph and a nation was re joicing over the overthrow of .one of the vastest rebellions of history, instead of entering, in the role of victory, the city which had for four years resisted all assaults, he quietly hastened to his office in Washington, and made arrangements for the reduction of our armies. There was something grand in this. What wonder, then, that the' people regarded him with such high respect. • It would have been a greater marvel if that measure of respect had been withheld. Latterly, however, his course has pained the better class of the community. When first he left the capital and re ceived at every step the ovations of a grateful people, there was reason for believing that he accepted them reluctantly, and was simply travelling about on business connected with his position as Lieutenant-General. But since then he has been on other tours, and lately has paid a visit of several days' duration to tho metropolis. This was well enough in itself, but there were incidents connected with it which do him no credit. 'lt would have been well for him, well for the position which he fills so ably, and well for the country which holds him in such high esteem, if the daily press had not recounted them to the public. Would; that he had possessed one true friend to dissuade him from yielding to the allurements which were so adroitly placed before him. But he yielded, and the scandal has ere this coursed along the electric wires throughout the length and breadth of the land. Who were the men with whom. Lieutenant-General Grant consorted during his stay in New York? Pro minent among them was one Geo. Wilkes, a notorious "sporting man," and editor of a so-called "sporting" paper published in this city. This is the person who, a few years since, went to England as the champion of a low fellow by the name of Heenan, and backed him in his fight with an equally low fellow named Tom Sayers. The last mentioned person has never been in this country that we aro aware of, and as for Heenan and Wilkes, we are sure that neither of them ever gained admittance into the society of gentlemen, still less of ladies. Concerning Wilkes, we have never heard a word against his personal character. All we know or care to know about him is, that he is not a person of whose acquaintance a true gentleman would venture to boast. We hear of him as figuring at prize-fights, billiard matches, and horse-races, rather than in the society of the intelligent and refined. Yet this is the man with whom Lieutenant - General Grant went out to ride. Together they viewed a display of what a daily paper terms " the crack horse flesh of the vicinity." The prominent sporting men of the city, we learn from the same paper, were present, as might be ex pected. Reading of this we instinctively recur to Washing ton, and wonder if he would have lowered himself so far as to consort with the leading "sporting men" of his day, and with the " crack horse flesh of the vicinity." We think of Lieutenant-General Grant's honored predecessor in office, and ask if the venerable Winfield Scott would accompany such a man as George Wilkes to a popular race track to see a lot of horse-jockeys show off a pack of race horses. We recall the name of Abraham Lincoln, and resent as a personal affront the thought that, with all his peculiarities, ho would have allowed himself to be chaper oned about New York by a "leading sporting man." We are not unmindful of the fact that a public man is, by virtue of his office, oftimes compelled to meet those whom he would spurn in private. We make all due allowance for the persistency with which persons of low associations will foist themselves upon their betters ; but we are un able to excuse the Lieutenant-General of the United States for meeting, on terms of familiarity, men who have yet to cross the threshold of decent society. Those who seek his society are not to blame. Dogs will follow men, and show signs of delight at the recognition of their presence. The responsibility attaches to the men, not to the curs. So it is as regards the human species. A man is known by the company he keeps, and he who consorts with characters whom good society eschews must expect to be judged accordingly. We speak thus plainly because of the high esteem in which, in common with the American people, we hold General Grant. The country owes him a debt, for the payment of which no emolument that it can offer him is too great. But he owes it to himself, to the country, and to his high position, to keep at a respectful distance the men •whom he has allowed to associate with him in this city on terms of such familiarity. True, ours is a Demo cratic Government, but that is no reason why a proper degree of respect should not be paid to our rulers on the one Land, and the rulers on the other, should not maintain the COLCHESTER AND STOUR VALLEY. The report of the directors of this company states that the balance available for dividend, after pro viding for interest on preference shares, salaries, &c., is £3,917. Out of this sum the directors re:- commend a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of £3 Bs. per cent. per annum, clear of income tax, leaving a balance of £B9 to be carried forward. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN AND PHILA DELPHIA AND READING. An agreement has been entered into between these companies for 90 years, dated the 10th inst. for the prompt conveyance of goods and passengers over the respective lines to their destination, and also for facilitating the interchange of traffic at the various places without unnecessary delay. The object is that the several railways belong ing to or leased by those companies should be so worked and managed as to form one great through route from the cities of Cleveland, Cincin nati, and Dayton, and all other points to or with which the Atlantic and Great Western Railway . Company might have access, to the city of Phila delphia, via Catawissa Railroad, and the Philadel phia and Reading Railroad and its tributaries and a line to New York, via the latter railroad, the East Pennsylvania and the Morris and Essex railroads. The agreement provides for the joint or separate construction of junction lines, bridges, and other works, and the laying down of a uniform gauge on certain lines, to complete continuous routes over the two systems ; also for the fixing tolls and charges for passenger and goods traffic. There is also a proviso to be carried out as far as practicable for affording equal facilities for freight and passengers to and from Philadelphia and New York, east and west and an arrangement between the two coin , panies that whenever the citizens of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania shall together provide and fur nish one-half the money necessary to build and equip a satisfactory line of steamers to run between the port of Philadelphia and England, the two com panies to the agreement each undertake to furnish one-half of the remaining sum for that purpose. The agreement commences from Jan. 1, 1866, and is to continue for 99 years, and it contains a provi sion for arbitration in case of dispute. It appears that the agreement has caused consi rable consternation in America among railroad com panies, as being one of the results of the visit of English capitalists to America in the autumn of last year. The system of leasing, working agreements, and amalgamations carried out on a large scale will no doubt absorb several American railroads that have had a separate existence since their formation. The Philadelphia and Erie and the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies have applied to the Supreme Court for an injunction to restrain the Catawissa, the Western Central, and the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Companies from carrying out the joint agreement, and if possible to render it null and void ; since which the Philadelphia and Reading and the East Pennsylvania Railway Companies have intervened, and been made parties to the suit as defendants. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's railway for the month of December last were $600,262, against $357,566 in the corresponding month of the previous year, showing an increase of $242,696. The receipts on the line for the year 1865 amounted to $1,884,585 for passengers and to $4,758,271 for freight, total $6,642,856, against $3,709,980 in 1864, being an increase of $2,932,876, or 79 per cent. NORTHERN RAILWAY OF BUENOS AYRES. The traffic returns on this company's line, 19 miles in length, amounted for the four weeks ending Dec. 9 to £2,731, or £35 19s. 2d. per mile per week, against £2,164, or £3l 16s. 2cl. per mile per week, on 17 miles open for the corresponding four weeks of 1864, showing an increase of £567, or £4 3s. per mile per week. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the examiners on standing orders re sumed their sittings. Mr. Smith (who held his Court in the Members' fea-room) decided that the standing orders had been complied with in the cases of Lancashire and Yorkshire (North Lancashire loop line) and of the Buckley (docks at Connah's quay). The further consideration of the City, Kingston, and Richmond ; Birkenhead and Liver pool ; Vale of Crickbowell, and Breeon and Mer thyr Tydfil Junction (Northern) lines was postponed, self-respect that is duo to their office. Tho existence of the former is, in great measure, dependent upon the latter. And if the highest officer in the army sees fit to hob-nob with horse jockeys and "sporting men" generally, how can any one complain of the people for not paying to high officials the deference due to their position, if not to them in person.—. New York Round Table. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Throughout the long discussions on the insurrection in Jamaica the British public have never been able fully to realise the opinions and feelings of those who were engaged in suppressing the out break, the apprehensions which pervaded the island society, and the dominant motives which impelled all concerned to treat the negroes with such extra ordinary severity. Even with the despatch of the Governor and the narratives of the Jamaica press in our hands it is difficult for us in England to form a notion of • the temper in which the murder of the white people at the Court-house and the subsequent risings in the eastern part of the island were re ceived by men of European race, whether British or Jamaicans. People at home were informed at the same time of the outbreak and its repression. They never heard of Gordon till they learnt that he had been executed. The vast majority of them knew nothing about the state of the negroes and the growing animosity which had long prevailed among them towards the whites. But it is evident that to judge fairly of the conduct of the authorities it is necessary to become acquainted with the opinions prevalent in the island before and at the time of the insurrection, and to obserre the impulses which the white population obeyed. We are enabled in some degree to give our readers a notion of the circum stances under which Gordon was tried and executed, by publishing an account of the arrest, written by Mr. Bowerbank, Custos of Kingston, who himself, under the Governor's order, took Gordon into his custody. It is well known that on the first news of the rising Mr. Eyre devoted himself with great energy to the task of repressing it. He was away at Morant Bay, and almost every available soldier in the island, together with the militia, which could be got together, had gone with him. King ston being thus comparatively defenceless, there prevailed a strong opinion in favour of proclaiming martial law. This opinion, as we shall see, was held by the chief persons in the place, and in the end produced important results. Mr. Bowerbank says that on Saturday, the 14th of October, a special session of the magistrates of Kingston was called. "On this occasion it. was unanimously re solved by the magistrates present, some 40 in num ber, including several members of the House of Assembly, that Kingston was in a very critical con dition, and required to be placed under martial law. A resolution to this effect was passed, and I was requested to forward the same to the Governor at Morant Bay, which I immediately did." This com munication brought the Governor in haste back to Kingston. He must naturally have been much im pressed by so urgent a request unanimously made by the legal Guardians of the Peace, after the city had been especially excluded from the proclamation which was issued when the first news of the out break was received. We know from other sources, and the Governor mentions it in his despatch, that in the Morant Bay district the testimony was general that Gordon was implicated in the risin g . It is equally clear that the people, high and low, in Kingston no sooner heard of the massacre than they said that it was Gordon's doing. The Governor arrived in Kingston to find his own prepossessions confirmed by every one he met, and to receive the assurance of the whole body of magistrates that the danger which Gordon was causing could only be averted by extending the area of martial law so as to include the city. We are not, therefore, sur prised to find that almost the first question the Governor addressed to the Custos was whether Gordon had been arrested. On receiving an answer in the negative, he said he was sorry for the delay, but that the arrest must be made. Subsequently both the Governor and Mr. Bowerbank went to General O'Connor, and the Governor again expressed his regret that Gordon was at large. The General objected to the arrest at that time, though, be it remarked, not from any doubt of Gordon's complicity with the re bellion ; but, on the contrary, from a belief that he was too powerful with the negroes to be taken, unless the peace could be maintained by a sufficient force. " The General then stated what had oc curred, and reiterated his opinion that Gordon should not be arrested till more troops arrived." The Governor maintained a different opinion ; he considered it " essential to the safety of the island" that the arrest should be made, and asserted that though the rebellion in St. Thomas-in-the- East had been crushed "more was requisite to deter other districts from rising." This description gives us an idea of the state of feeling iu the island. All these people,—the Governor, the General who had passed all his military life among negroes in Africa or the West Indies, the Custos, who had the best oppor tunities of knowing what was going on in the city, and to whom communications were continually being made—the 40 unanimous magistrates, the Executive Committee, the members for the city— in a word, everybody who had anything to do with the maintenance of order, fully believed that King ston and the rest of the island were in the greatest u daner, and that Gordon was the cause. In this belief the Jamaica authorities and Legislature have persevered in the most extraordinary manner. What ever discontent may have been excited by the mea snres of the Government before or since, whatever opposition may have appeared in the House of Assembly or the press, the idea of asserting that Gordon was innocent never seems to have been en tertained. Yet it must be admitted that there are grave doubts as to this guilt, which people high and low, white and black, appear to have taken for granted. According to Mr. Bowerbank's account, Gordon came to the General's voluntarily, and probably to surrender to the warrant. When be was arrested and told that he was to be taken to Morant Bay he expressed his belief that he would be condemned. It is fair to infer that by this he only meant that the odium in which he was held was so great that he would not have an impartial trial. But he also appears to have been aware that there were suspi cious circumstances against him, the chief of these being that he was closely connected with the leaders of the insurrection, and that though a constant attendant at the vestry meetings he had absented himself on the Wednesday of the massacre. With regard to the latter of these remarks, it appears he told Mr. Bowerbank before leaving Kingston that he bad been ill, and that a Dr. Fiddes was attend ing him. Though Mr. Bowerbank does not believe this, he indirectly confirms it in another part of his narrative by saying, "As I was leaving, the Hon. Mr. Freeman said to me, ' Gordon is not in St. Andrew's ; he is in Kin g ston at his mothe r -i n -l aw ' s . Dr. Fiddes, who is attending him, told me so a few minutes back.'" However, no one will deny that there were grounds for arresting Gordon The fatal mistake was in sending him to a spot where he could not communicate with the persons who might have given evidence in his favour, and then bringing him suddenly before a court-martial to answer for a capital crime. A man whom everybody in a moment pointed to as a traitor and murderer must have given ground for suspicion, but unless there be further evidence of Gordon's wilful connec tion with the outbreak, we must hold that he ought not to have suffered death. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.—By far the most ab sorbing topic of newspaper discussion since the close of the slaveholder'o. rebellion is that which has arisen by the present attitude of the United States with regard to the so-called Mexican Empire. It is assumed by a portion of the English press that the late diplomatic correspon dence between the United States and France dis closes, on the part of the first-named power, a dis position to adopt a new and dictatorial course with reference to Mexico ; whereas the fact is, that the United States Government has simply re-affirmed, in Mr. Seward's correspondence, a doctrine which has been an essential part of its political creed for the last forty years. It is well known, and it is felt by every individual member of the Government at Washington, that the Mexican question cannot be decided either by President Johnson or by Congress. That question is one which concerns the American people, and any action on the part of the Government or Congress in favor of the Austrian usurper in Mexico would be met by the whole people of the United States with such indignant remonstrance as would not only settle for ever the whole question, but also the political future of those who could be mad enough to oppose them. For the feeling among the Ame rican people is deep. It does not express itself much in words, because they know that the policy of every Administration must of necessity be opposed to all interference on the part of European powers with the North American Conti nent. Neither President Johnson, nor any other chief magistrate, would dare act in antagonism to this sentiment, even if they desired to do so. But we know that the feeling of the American Govern ment on this subject is strictly in accord with that of the American people—namely, that come weal or woe, peace or war, life or death, no Monarchical or Imperial Government shall ever be established on American soil by the aid of foreign bayonets. If the Mexicans deliberately choose an Imperial ruler•--be he even an Austrian—the United States will oppose no objection ; but if France will force an Austrian prince upon the people of the Mexican Republic, then the United States will feel impelled to protect and defend Republi canism on the American continent, at whatever PAL It is not, we think, strange that Europeans should fail to understand and appreciate those pecu liarities of the American people which show them selves in this Mexican embroglio. In Europe the people have become accustomed to Monarchical and Imperial institutions; they love and admire them, and are generally loyal to their sovereigns ;- still, it is almost universally felt that the European phase of society is destined eventually to pass away or be transformed. The great doctrine of political equa lity is growing more and more potent iu Europe, and it is felt here that although a pure and unsullied monarch like that of England, or a powerful and magnanimous one like that of France, are worthy of respect and veneration, yet that monarchies and empires, per se, are unne cessary. In America, on the contrary, the people believe that the political and social system under which they live is destined to endure as long as civilisation endures, and at last to embrace all men —a state of society in which religion shall be free ; in which there shall be, as fir as possible, no ine qualities of property which are not due to the exer tions of living owners ; in which every man, white or black, shall stand as far as law is concerned with an equal chance in the race of life. In a word, the American people believe, and if necessary will fight in defence of that idea, that man, as man, shall be most valued, most cherished, in the State ; and that all the resources of society shall be concentrated, not in educating, and polishing, and ennobling the few, but in bestowing upon all a fair degree of culture and comfort. This is the " idea" of the American people. But they do not -wish to impose their belief upon Euro peans. They are willing that the people of Europe should choose their own forms of government ; and we think we are not overstating the case when we declare that no Englishman venerates the Royal Lady of England, and no Frenchman admires the Imperial Ruler of France, more than the Americans. They know how to respect virtue and intelligence, but they also know how to estimate Royalty and Im perialism at their true worth. And in determining that Republicanism shall have a fair trial in Mexico, they are only deciding in favour of their own cherished ideas in favor of Republican institutions generally. In conclusion, we must express our conviction that the present difficulties will not result in a war between the United States and France. We have great faith in the determination and persistence of the American nation—we have equal faith in the peaceful purposes of the French Emperor. His late speech to the Legislative Assembly is more than pacific—it is friendly and frank—and we be lieve Napoleon will profit by the lesson which his uncle learned at his cost—and that Mexico will never prove another Moscow. The Relations Between France and the United States. The doctrine which passes by Vie name of President Monroe is an article in the creed of every American. Monroe himself cannot, indeed, be held responsible for the exaggerated form the doctrine has assumed in the last generation. He was content to protest against the inter ference of any European power in any part of America. His words were, " That the American continents, by tke free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation by any European Power," and this declaration was occasioned, as Mr. Calhoun, a member of the Monroe Cabinet, afterwards explained, by the threat of the Holy Alliance to intervene and help Spain in her wars with her revolted colonies. But the Monroe, doctrine has grown from a protest against foreign intervention into a determination to tolerate nothing but Republican Governments in the Continent of America. The distinction between the original form and the subse quent development of the doctrine is of the utmost conse quence with reference to the future conduct of the Mexican question, but it is wholly immaterial with respect to the past. State it as moderately as we may, it cannot be denied that the Emperor of the French rode roughshod over it when he first pushed on his Mexican expedition. When he overstepped the programme of the allied Powers and upset the Republican Government under President Juarez, he was committing an act of the very character against which President Monroe protested. And he did this at a time when the Federal Government was unable to take any active steps to prevent him. Their hands were full, the restoration of the Union seemed doubtful, and it was held certain that, if restored at all, its powers would be very much crippled. We cannot be surprised that the resentment excited by;ft French intervention in Mexico, undertaken under such circumstances, should be excessive, or that it should occasion menacing remon strances the moment the return of peace enabled the Government to speak its mind freely. It has, in fact, driven the President and Mr. Seward to the adoption of the Monroe doctrine in its most extended interpretation. They are not content with denouncing the forcible expul sion of Juarez from power, the introduction of Maximilian into Mexico, and the maintenance of his throne by the as sistance of foreign bayonets. If this had been all to which they objected, it would have been sufficient to insist upon the withdrawal of the French troops, leaving to the Mexicans thmiselves the determination of the form of Government under which they shall live. But the propa gandism of Republicanism is as intolerant as the propagan dism of autocrats. The Republics of the New World aro looked upon by the citizens of the United States as banded together in a now Holy Alliance, and a threatened extinction of one of them in a calamity which justifies the forcible interference of all the rest. Unhap pily, too, at this conjuncture the unjustifiable conduct of the late Spanish Envoy towards Chili has provoked a storm of resentment against European interference on the American Continent which may drown the voices of those who speak of moderation. The best hopes of the maintenance of peace between France and the United States lie in the deep feelings of friendship and sympathy which Americans have towards the French people. If the Emperor Napoleon were obsti nately to persist in upholding the Mexican Empire by force these sentiments might doubtless be overpowered„ but the belief of Americans in the ancient friendship of France is strong enough to endure much provocation. We cannot, however, but feel that the lino taken by the American Government is but ill calculated to preserve the alliance dear to American citizens. However desirous the Emperor Napoleon may be of retiring with decency from Mexico, the chance is almost denied him. The Imperial Government have always declared that the French occupation of Mexico was only a temporary measure. They have said that as soon as the Emperor Maximilian had been inducted . into his position all auxiliary troops would be withdrawn, and it would be perfectly consistent with these declarations were the French troops recalled to-morrow. It is, however, an obvious condition of their withdrawal that no other foreign Power should immediately afterwards intervene in Mexico. The Austrian protegO of the Emperor Napoleon has in some fashion been adopted by his subjects, and he has a right to a fair trial. If his Government is such that the Mexicans desire to keep him as their Emperor, it is not easy to see why their wish should not be gratified. Mexico is not the only Republic which has become an Empire, and the United States have recognised in Europe what they refuse to tolerate in America. The objection lies in that exaggeration of the Mexican doctrine for which Mr. Monroe is not responsible. Let President Johnson recur to the most moderate proposition enunciated by his pre decessor, and the task of coming to an agreement with France is at once indefinably lightened. Mr. Monroe pro tested against European interference in America, but left each American community to choose its own form of Government. If France retires from Mexico, this protest is satisfied, whether the Empire of Maximilian be retained or abolished. It is true that the Empire will have owned its origin to European influence, but if Mexicans acquiesce in it when this influence is removed the vice of its origin ought to be forgiven. Tho language of M. Drouyn do Lhuys leads to the belief that the auxiliary corps would be recalled to Europe at once if the American Government would give a pledge that Mexico would be left to settle its own future destiny, and we hope so moderate a solu tion of a most embarrassing question will be accepted by President Johnson. England is interested in Mexico, but our only desire is that good order and settled government may be established throughout her rich provinces. Indignation against the anarchy of a generation, and a hope that something might be done to make the wealth of Mexico a benefit to the world, excuse the favour we at first showed to an enter prise so unpromising as the Mexican expedition. The United States are interested in Mexico, and the citizens of the Union have long looked upon themselves as heirs in reversion of ber mines and minerals. But neither the inte rest of the States nor of ourselves in Mexico can compare with the interest we should feel in the maintenance of peace between France and the Union. We are almost as much interested in peace between them as we are in main taining peace with each of them. And the Government and people of the United States must be conscious that nothing would be more deplorable than a rupture with a great European Power immediately after an end had been put to their Civil War. The difficulties which they have to contend with at home are of a magnitude to task the utmost wisdom and energy of their rulers, and nothing but a spirit of wanton mischief would add to their actual em barrassments. We believe that the American Government are mindful of these considerations, and of their unbroken friendship with France, and we have confidence that they will be eager to accept a pacific solution of the Mexican difficulty compatible with the dignity of both nations.— Times. CADVERTISEMENT.i—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Cold Weather.- The sudden severity of the weather has sadly disturbed the general health. Affections of the throat and chest are found in every household, and the quickest means of cure are Holloway's renowned remedies. They prevent congestion, inflammation, ulceration, hoarse ness, and cough. This soothing ointment only requires to be well rubbed twice a day on the afflicted parts to effect a marked and immediate improvement in all the symptoms of disease. Both ointment and pills are devoid of danger. Both medicaments are compounds of the finest balsams, intimately allied by nature and accurately combined by art. They conduct to restoration, and curd with unfailing certainty. The Fenian Brotherhood—How to arrange all Difficulties. The Fenian Congress, now in session in this city, seems at last to have arrived at some satisfactory conclusion. President O'Mahony's accounts have been examined and have been found quite correct. The Congress is entirely contented with the exhibition. It appears that none of the Fenian funds have been expended for cigars and cham pagne or patent leather boots. Indeed it is stated that the salaries of thoso persons employed at the Fenian head quarters know not how they can afford to wear any boots at all. The kid glove canard of course falls to the ground with the rest of the stories about the misappropriation of the money received for the liberation of Ireland. The books foot up squarely ; all the items are endorsed by the Con gress, and the balance sheet presented is a model to our business men. This being the case, and the finances being in such an extremely rosy and balmy condition, the meeting would doubtless have adjourned in the very highest hilarity had not President O'Mahony, anxious to do something extraordinary to celebrate his vindication, entered the hall and read from same paper the bogus report that the Fenians in Ireland were actually fighting, an d had won their first battle. No such news, and no news of any kind, had reached this country from Europe during the day, but the credulous Congress accepted the report as gospel. The authors of this cruel hoax may congra tulate themselves upon its success. The members of the Congress indulged in cheers, and tears, and prayer s, and finally broke up with grea t exc it emen t to find themselves the victims of a stupid an d f oo lish practica l joke. But although this little in c id en t th rows a g l e am o f satire over the proceedings of the b ro th er h oo d h ere , yet thi s Congress has amply shown that the rank and file of the Fenians are in earnest, that they really desire to settle their differences, and that they wish to help suffering Ireland in some way or other. If they refuse to listen to our suggestion, and turn the money in the hands of their treasurer into an emigration fund, and if they still persist in their projects of rebellion, revolution, a war with England, and an Irish republic, let them arrange their quarrels and cover their plans and purposes with the cloak of secrecy. No conspiracy that ever amounted to anything was reported in all the newspapers from day to day. I t rebellion that everybody knows all about is fatal to no one except those who originate it. The circles that are repre sented in this Congres profess to be perfectly satisfied will O'Mahony. Very well, then, let them obey him implicitly, and make no further fuss in regard to the matter. As for those circles that have faith in Roberts, they can either yield to the will of the majority o r th e y ca n keep up their organisation, with Roberts at their head, and assistthe Fenian cause in their own way. Th ere is nothing to prevent two organisations from acting e ff ec tively togethe r in aid of the same object, provided th e y do not fall ou t about minor affairs and neutralise each o th er by a quarre l worthy of Donnybrook. It would, of course, be better if they could all act under the same head, and if O'Mahony, Roberts, General Sweeney, and the senators could shake hands and be friends ; but even at the worst the two organisations doing their work independently would be preferable to this constant and disgraceful squabbling, this crimination and recrimination, this mutual abuse an d slander. We have no great faith that the Fenians will ever be able to accomplish anything practical ; but if they are of a different opinion, for Heaven's sake let them go to work and show us some results. Far be it from us to object if any set of men choose to make fools of them selves in a manner that does no mischief to any one except the English. But in order to accomplish anything the Fenians must be quiet, reticent, secret, mysterious' Making loud speeches, and blackguarding each other will never free Ireland or render Fenianism respectable. We therefore advise concert, harmony, and mystery to the Fenian brotherhood ; and if we had no other motive for this counsel it would be enough to say that the adoption of our advice will relieve the public front a dispute of wh ich nobody seems able to comprehend the merits, and which has long since become a serious annoyance and a conunol l nuisance. If these are plain words they are also true ones, and the Fenians may thank themselves and their leaders that such words are both just and necessary.—New r 0741 Herald. COUNTRY MARKETS. L IVERP 0 OL.—FRIDAY. At our market to-day we bad a fair attendance ; wheat met a moderate demand at previous qu o t a ti ons . Flour u e.. dined is to 2s per barrel and sack. Indi a n c orn in mode . rate demand at 29s for mixed. DERBY—FRIDAY. Our corn market was moderately supplied with wheat; which sold at about late rates. Barley in fair inquiry, w it ' : a moderate supply, at top prices. O a ts an d beans same 8 ' last week. New white wheat, 49s to 55s ; old red, 49s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 42s pe r q r. ; grinding' 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 265; old, 280 to 30s per 24 stone. Bean; old, 50s to 525; new, 458 to 504 per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. There was a tolerable show of wheat at market to-dan but the demand was qui e t. Old oa t s ma d e last wee rates. Barley firm, and the turn higher. Oats at Into rates' Beans and peas no alteration. STAMFORD.-FRIDAY. The supply of wheat was limited, and last week's prices generally realised. Best sorts of barley made more money' other kinds unaltered. Beans the same as last week. New white wheat, 49s to 52s • red do., 45s to 48s per " stone. Barley, malting, 34s to 38s ; grinding, 28s to 324 per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 25s to 27s per 24 stone Beans, 44s to 508 per 38 stone. Peas as of late. LINCOLN.—FnIDAY. There was a fair quantity of wheat at to-day's mark et ' and sales were mad e a t ex t reme ra t es . N ot much barlel, on offer ; the inquiry w a s fi rm a t t op pr i ces. Oats not quotably altered. Beans at late rates; peas lower. 3 6 New white wheat, 51s to 56 s ; new re d, 43 s t o 47 s per stone. Barley for maltin& 34s to 42s per qr ; grindint; 31s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 325. Beans, 43 e 51s per 38 stone. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. 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We find it the safest remedy. Andr ew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr H arve y ; Dr Wurzer ; Dr Sborhal"A . Dr Campbell. We quote a few out of the 62,0 0 cures No. 57,314. Tittenson • I cannot express my gratitude w" the benefit I have derived from Du Barry's food. MY a l c i petite is perfectly restored, the pains in my leg, back, and chest are quite gone, and I am fast gaining strength flesh. Mrs A. Owen.—Cure No. 54,812. Miss Vir,l l % Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advil, abandoned all hopes of recovery.- Cure No. 49,832, 01 years' indescribable agony frem dyspepsia, nervouslles asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness the stomach, and vomiting. Maria Joly, Wortham, Ling, Il es 4 Diss, Norfolk.-Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jetcohot .. ; Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, eg extreme nerVor: ness, indigestion, gatherings, 1 ow spirits, and nervous faneleD7 In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b . , ll s. ; 121 b,, 2214 ; 2 , 4 1 a; 405.—Barry Du Barry and Co., N o . 77, Re gen t- s t ree t, Londo n, also Phillips, tea dealere, 8, King William- s t ree t ; at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopeg ate' street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strati!: 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court-road; UppPr-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Brothers, 65, High-strut ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace , e , John's-wood, London ; and all respectable grocers and 41 mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. CoßßErr.—On the 25th inst., at Broomsgrove, Mrs. C l ° f. ' bett, of a son. 1'4501 HENNIKEIL—On the 24th inst., at Newton Hall, "-- Lady Henniker, of a son. PORTSMOUTH. —On the 25th inst., at Eggesford North Devon, the Countess of Portsmouth, of a ( 1313 °' ter. WILSON.—On the 24th inst., at 17, B r id g e-t err ace, rks' -- „ro" road, Mrs. Wilson, of a son. Marriages. Orr' BATTINE—KING.---On the 25th inst., at Staunw- p - er s, Arrow, Wm. A. Battine, Esq., Captain 17th La.,,n - to eldest son of the late ajor-Gene ra l B a ttine, C.P• in ! Katherine Julia, fourth d aug ht er o f James JL Esq., M.P., of Staunton Park, Herefordshire. NIXON — HoDD.—On the 25th inst., a t St. Mary's+,,,- L of x both, Thomas, y ounges t son o f W . T . Nixon, qter Kensington-green, to Fanny Elizabeth, only dio i g of E. Hodd, Esq., of Morton, Surrey. Deaths. i v C. DUDLEY.—On the 23d inst., at Gloucester, the Rev. " L. 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