The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-27 00:00:00

AMERICA. (From the Correspondent ff the Times.) PHILADELPHIA, OCt. 13. On October 10 the first fall elections were held in the Northern States, but their results, so varied in different localities, cannot be considered as settling anything with regard to the future policy of the Government. As a general thing very light votes were polled, showing that the people did not take much interest in the result. In Pennsylvania the Republicans carried the State by about 1,000 majority —very nearly the same as last year. Both parties having endorsed the President's policy, this result can only be considered a Democratic defeat, net a rebuke to the Government. In Ohio the Re publicans carried the election by 25,000 majority. Last year . they had 59,000, so that the Democrats have gained largely: The Democrats endorsed the President's policy ; the Republi6ans said nothing on the 'subject, but their candidate for Governor, throwing off all party `shackles, came out boldly, and not only endorsed the President's policy, but denounced negro suffrage and equality to an un imited extent. The result in Ohio is an emphatic endorsement of the President's policy, and must be gratifying to the' Democrats, as it shows the strong drift of the people in their favour. The third ticket, headed by Alexander Long; and supported by the peace wing of the Democracy, received so few votes that it has scarcely been reported. In Indiana no Democratic i ticket was*nominated, but the Republi cans,"though at first disposed towards Radicalism, during the campaign underwent a great change of feeling. They not only cordially endorsed the Pre sident's policy, but in every possible way opposed negro suffrage. Although in Indiana not more than one fourth of the people voted, the endorsement of the President's policy was unanimous. In lowa every thing was different. The issue was the President's policy and negro suffrage. The vote was light, and the Radicals gained the election hy 20,000 majority, and lowa is the first Northern State that has de clared in favour of negro suffrage and against the President. _ The result in the other States, however, is most favourable to the President, and has strengthened him greatly in his determination to continue the conciliatory course he has pursued towards the' Southern States. He has taken them under his protection, is reconstructing them in a way that meets the approval of all their people, and in spite of the efforts of his Radical enemies in the North will continue4the good work. President Johnson daily gives evidence that he in tends to reorganise the South as the people of the South wish. Yesterday he answered their universal prayer, and released many of the Southern leaders who have so long been confined in the Federal forts. Alexander H. Stephens, Judge Campbell, of Alabama ; Postmaster-General Regan, Secretary Trenholm, and Governor Clark, of Mississippi, have all been released, simply giving their parole of honour not to go beyond the limits of their respec tive States. The President, in his order of release, says he does this because " the authority of the Federal Government is sufficiently restored in the aforesaid States to admit of the enlargement of these persons from close custody. Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay are now the only political pri soners of note, and there is no longer a doubt of their lenient treatment and ultimate release. Such generosity of course meets the approval of the entire South, and from all parts we hear praises of the wise policy that has caused so much gratification. The President this week informed a Southern gentleman that bet one thing was neces sary to the complete restoration of any Southern State—that slavery should be abolished and the freedmen protected. If this were done the State could do as she pleased with regard to everything else. Her people could decide as they chose about negro suffrage, the right of negroes to sit on juries, &c., and their decision should be the law ; and the President would protect them in it with all the power of the Government. There is no doubt that the President regards the Freedman's Bureau, as at present constituted, as an expensive despotism, which must soon be abandoned. He wishes the negroes in the South to be under the control of their State Governments, just as the white men are. Although the Bureau was established by Congress no appropriations for its support were made, and it must collapse for want of funds. No one will be sorry when it is broken up, for it is not only the cause of all the trouble between the Southern plan ters and negroes, but it is responsible for the harsh enforcement of the confiscation laws in many parts of the South. On the subject of confiscation the President is diametrically opposed to it. Ile follows it closely, and releases whatever its officers seize. lle strikes off the shackles before they are fastened, and by his generous conduct, perhaps in violation of the letter of the law, gains high praise. To a regiment of negro troops which had returned Washington for disbandment, the President on the 10th of October, took occasion to address a short speech. It is the first time the President and the negroes have been brought face to face, and as the meeting had been arranged to entrap him into something that might be tortured into an endorse ment of Radical views on negro equality, and great in terest was felt in the result. Yet the President said that nothing that could lead the negroes to think he favoured their equality or suffrage. His address was an exhortation to them to labour, and not live in idleness. They had become citizens, and must behave themselves as such. They were no longer a dependent class, whose wants would be provided for, and whose very footsteps would be guarded to keep them from injury, but they had become free men, and as such must support them selves ; if they did not they would starve. The President's speech was a kind but firm enforcement of these ideas. People who listened to him in ex pectation of hearing some word of comfort with regard to suffrage or equality were sadly disap pointed. The President was silent, and his silence is an additional proof of his determination to make this a " white man's Government." The pardon of General Humphreys, of Mississippi, was considered a strong evidence of. the regard of the President for the wishes of the people of that State. They indicated Humphreys as their choice for Governor, and at once all disqualification was removed. The President has since given much stronger evidence of his wish to gratify the South. The South Carolina Reconstruction Convention, it will be remembered, contained many members who, being unpardoned, were disqualified from acting in the Convention. The President has pardoned them all. He has sent every member the precious document that restores him to the rights of citizen ship. If he will do this for South Carolina, the most rabid of the Secession States, what will he not do for her sisters? In Richmond he has not only released the Commercial Bulletin newspaper, which was seized by the military, but he has permitted, Pollard to resume the publication of the Rich- Inond Examiner, which has always been under a ban. He has cut the Gordian knot that caused so much trouble in Kentucky, and on October 10 issued an order commanding the - withdrawal of the negro troops from the State, re scinding martial law, and restoring the civil autho rities to full power. The negroes, excepting some 3)000 necessary- to garrison the seaboard forts, are to be disbanded in all parts of the South. The en tire 23 d Arm y C orps, containing 20,000 blacks, and now guarding the Rio Grande, is to be brought home and mustered out, thus convincing the people, not only that the blacks are no longer to compose the largest part of the Federal armies but that the Government has no thought ,of fighting a Mexican war. In Missouri the troops, both white and black, have been withdrawn from two-thirds of the State, and south of the Missouri River the civil govern ment is in full operation. In the city of Washing ton the President has given an additional evidence that he wishes to restore the supremacy of the civil authority. Ever since the assassination of President Lincoln guards have been stationed at the Whit e House and the residences of the Cabinet Mi n i sters. The President has dispensed with his guard, and all the Cabinet officers have followed his example, ex cepting Seward and Stanton. They are still afraid to trust themselves in direct contact with the people. The removal of these guards, the withdrawal of tdrooual ps from th e South, the universal, thoug h gra , restoration of civil authority, the closing of I Provost Marshals' offices throughout the North, the freedom with which the President pardons all appli cants, the release of Vice-President Stephens, and, more than all, the evidences, both North and South, that the people approve these actions are the strong est proofs necessary to show that the President's wise and conciliatory policy will in a very short time restore the Southern States to a close and harmo nious communion with the Government. It cannot be supposed that the Radicals quietly permit the overthrow of their darling project. They have raised a terrible outcry against it, and call loudly for the impeachment of the President. As a specimen of the sentiments of their orators and news papers, I send you the following, cut from the Boston Commonwealth, Senator Sumner's organ :—" There should be some chivalry somewhere, enough to fight the President and his Cabinet, one aid all, to the death, and pluck the spoil out of their teeth. Shame on them, one and all—on Johnson, who has basely betrayed those who placed him in power, and the negroes to whom he offered himself as a Moses ; on Seward, on Stanton, on the whole set, who have not the honour to resist him ; and, alas alas ! shame on the whole North, who not only permit for one moment this wrong to go on, but actually hesitate to arraign their infamous agents at Wash ington." I doubt very much, however, if, in the present state of affairs, there is a single Radical Republican bold enough to initiate the proceedings necessary for impeachment. Such a thing might safely be done in Massachusetts, but not in Washington. The Radicals might be willing to sacrifice themselves in an effort to get possession of the spoils of the South, but they will scarcely do so for love of the negro. General Banks, recently nominated for Congress in Massachusetts, says he is in favour of negro suffrage; but he deprecates any unconstitutional or violent measures to procure it. Banks is quite shrewd, and, while he wishes to adapt himself to the present atmosphere of Massachusetts, he keeps a sharp look out for the future. The negroes have recently had several conventions in different parts of the country to urge the adoption of negro suffrage ; but they have been so languid and desponding that they must be convinced their case is hopeless. In Alexandria one of those assemblages changed itself into a * coal protective association" to take measures to buy coal cheaper than the Alexandria merchants sell it. But a single outrage by the negro troops is recorded this week. At Bowling-green, Kentucky, they rescued from the sheriff a negro who had been convicted of murder, and was being taken to the penitentiary. The negro is still at large, and will no doubt remain at liberty until the President's order removing the negro troops is enforced. It was currently reported at the beginning of this week that the Alabama Reconstruction Convention had refused negroes the right of testifying in the civil courts. This was an error. The Convention established the right, and in Mississippi Governor Sharkey, about the same time, secured it by procla mation. Both these States have thus conformed to the wishes of the President, and have protected the freedmen, so that the dependent condition of the negroes need no longer be an excuse for keeping the Freedmen's Bureau in operation in Mississippi and Alabama. This bureau, by its attempts at con fiscation, in opposition to the avowed policy of the President, is causing endless trouble. $200,000 worth of property in Loudon, county Virginia, have just been restored to its owners from the clutches of the bureau, and in all parts of the South the superintendents are compelled to disgorge. The President has also done another act of justice for Virginia. On October 11 her Congressional elec tions were held, and under the inspiration of the President an order was issued commanding the military to keep away from the polls. Consequently there was no illegal interference, the voting was done quietly, the poll was large, and the people selected representatives of their own choice. It was the first fair election held in any loyal portion of the South since 1860. In Richmond Robert Ridg way, editor of the Richmond Whig, is elected, and Alexander H. H. Stuart is returned from one of the inferior districts. There were no less than 38 candidates in the eight districts of the State, and it is said those who are chosen are willing to take the test oath adopted by the last Congress, upon which the Radicals rely for keeping the Southern members out. Some trouble has arisen from the ill-feeling that exists throughout Virginia and West Virginia caused by the division of the State. Jefferson County, in West Virginia, persists in electing mem bers of the Legislature of Old Virginia, and Go vernor Boreman, of the new State, has issued a proclamation warning the people of the county against such " seditious practices," and ordering the arrest of all the offending parties. Jefferson County, however, loves old Virginia so well that she defies the Governor, and as the people of the old State are unanimous in regarding the divisions as illegal, they will treat the members sent to the Legislature from Jefferson County very kindly. Tennessee is having a happy time of it. Because President Johnson will not " punish traitors," her Legislature refuses to endorse his policy, and as Governor Brownlow is supposed to be at the bottom of the matter, several members are preparing ar ticles of impeachment against him. Neither the Governor nor the Legislature represents the people, however--not more than one-tenth of them having voted at the election, which by means of bayonets resulted in the choice of Brownlow and his Legisla ture. The people of Tennessee, almost without ex ception, endorse the President's policy. The North Carolina Convention is discussing at great length a proposition to repudiate the Con federate debt, but there is great reluctance to make a decision. Kenneth Rayner writes from North Carolina that while the State is willing to abolish slavery it is opposed to negro suffrage, and wishes the separation of the white and black races, and the colonisation of the blacks in one of the territories of the Far West. This project has many advocates both North and South. The shipments of muni tions of war to the Southern States are as large as aver, but consist principally. of powder and shot, very few muskets being sent. Last week the expor tation from New York alone was 15,8`231b. of gunpowder, 123,6751 h. of shot, 438,500 percussion caps, and 70 fowling-pieces. These go principally to the South-West, very small amounts being sent to the Atlantic States. The present whereabouts of some of the principal Confederates will no doubt be of interest to Euro pean readers. W. 11. Trescott has been appointed Agent of South Carolina, and will hereafter reside in Washington. Pierre Soule intends to return to New Orleans. Gen. Lee is at Lexington, Virginia ; J. E. Johnston is an applicant for president or su perintendent of a Georgia railroad ; Gen. Loring intends to become a New Orleans merchant ; Gen. Gardner is also in New Orleans in business with Gen. Bragg. Gen. Hardee lives on a plantation in the interior of Alabama; Longstreet has been par doned, and is in Mobile ; Forrest is managing a sawmill in the interior of Mississippi. Gen. Stewart, one of Hood's corps' Commanders, intends to prac tise law at New Orleans. Hindman, Kirby Smith, and Magruder have left th e country. Beauregard is in New Orleans, and W. Gillmore Simms is at Columbia, South Carolina, where until lately he has been the editor of a newspaper. During the three months ending June 30, 1865, the receipts of the Government were as follow: From customs and internal revenue 8 80,289,786 From loans .. 538,175,034 Total The expenditures were : Government expenses, including interest on debt Redemption of loans 177,987,308 Total 675,767,411 There is a great demand in America for Govern ment loans on foreign account. Every steamer from Europe brings large orders, and it is estimated that at least $4,000,000 worth of bonds go out this week by the various steamers sailing from New York and Boston. Trade is very active in allparts of the country, and the speculative fever is as high as it was at any time during the war. The rapid rise this week in cotton has added greatly to the excitement. It is proposed to hold a convention of cotton -growers in New York some time inNovember in order to procure a large crop next year. It is e stimated tlaat 25,0001, 'ales of cotton were grown this year along the line 9. 1 , the Illinois Central Railroad. The Fenians, as I have already written, have sus pended all their movements and expressions of opin ion until the meeting of their general Convention, to be held in Philadelphia on October 16. The call for the meeting of the Convention is as follows : " Head-quarters, Fenian Brotherhood, 22, Duane-street, New York, Oct. 4.—To the State Centres, Centres, and Circles of tho Fenian Brotherhood in the United States. —General Order, No. 12.—Brothers,—You are hereby ordered to send delegates to represent you at a special Convention, to be held at Assembly-buildings, south-west corner of Tenth and Chestnut-streets, Philadelphia, on Monday, October 16, 1865, at 9 o'clock a.m. Each circle is entitled to one delegate, and to an additional ono where they are in excess of 100 members. No proxies allowed. Centres and delegates will require their credentials to be endorsed by State centres at Philadelphia.—By order of the Central Council. W. R. ROBERTS, President C. C.— Approved, J. 011AHONY, H.C." In the meanwhile the " Brothers," instead of rushing to arms, exhaust themselves in com plaints. They say their letters are intercepted in the English post-offices, and they intend to com plain to our Government in the hope that it will remonstrate against interference with the mails. The capture of letters containing remittances of money has caused great fright among the Fenians, who were so foolish as to send their means on such a wild goose chase. There are said to be spies in the English interest all over America, and in New York a " Vigilance Committee " of Fenians has been appointed to discover who these informers are. Some of the spies have even gone so far as to be come members of the Brotherhood, and they weep as dismally as the most frantic Fenian over the woes of Ireland. There is great mystery yet upon the question whether Secretary Seward did or did not inform the English Government of the movements of the Fenians. He keeps very quiet, and, as he is now at his home in New York cannot be questioned on the subject; but people who are about the State Department in Washington, and who ought to know, say he did notify the English Government, and gave the information because England had notified us of the St. Alban's and other raids from Canada. There is a great deal of discussion about the truth of the report that Jurez has left Mexico and is now on his way from Santa Fe to St. Louis. The Liberals indignantly deny it, the Imperialists at Mexico believe it ; but, as no one at El Paso del Norto, on the Rio Grande, says anything about Jaurez's presence there, I am inclined to believe it. The war in Mexico is over, and Maximilian is firm on his throne. The damage done by the earthquake at San Fran cisco, California, on October 8, was very great. The shocks were felt in all parts of the State, but the principal destruction was in the city. Several buildings were shaken down, and nearly all in the city were injured. The motion was apparently from east to west, and the ground along the rivers opened into fissures, from which water spouted, like the geysers of Iceland. Wells were filled up with sand. The tide in the harbour rose very high at the time of the shocks, and fell very low immediately after wards. There were 12 distinct shocks. Several per sons were injured, but no one was killed. This was the severest earthquake ever felt in the United States. A new planet has been discovered. J. C. Watson, the astronomer at the observatory at Ann Arbor, Michigan, discovered it at half-past 10 o'clock on the evening of October 9. It shines like a star of the 9i magnitude, and was situated in right ascen sion 14 deg. 44 min. and declination of 6 deg. N. There is no confirmation yet of the discovery from any other part of the country, and many are inclined to doubt its correctness. I have already advised you that the House of Bi shops of the Episcopal Convention, now in session in Philadelphia, has passed a resolution confirming the ordination of Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama. Yes terday the House of Delegatesunanimously adopted the resolution, ,and now all difficulty in the way of a reunion of the Church is removed. As soon as it can be done, the reunion will be consummated, and the Southern bishops will re-enter the House of Bishops. The unanimity with which the resolutions in favour of Bishop Wilmer were adopted will con vince the Southern Church of the sincerity of the Northern body, and its anxiety for a return to the happiness of other days. Railway and Other Companies. WEST FLANDERS. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, .Moorgate-street ; Mr. R. T. Frere in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The San, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said this was the first ordinary meeting since the line had been in the hands of the Socitlte d'Ex ploitation, and they were interested in the success, the credit:and the prosperity of the company. It was satisfactory to them that the sockit6 seemed to be gaining by the good position they had got the line into, and by which this company was assured of their contract with them being carried out. He might mention that they had expended a consider able amount of money in improving the line and in providing additional plant to work it to advantage; and it was satisfactory to know that they had re ceived the reward of their outlay in increased traffic. In reference to the repairs of the line by that com pany there was a paragraph iu the managing direc tor's report, and also with respect to the new lines, in which it was stated that the works of the Thou rout and Ostend portion of the Armentieres,Ypres, and Ostend line were commenced a few days ago. This was a line that would materially interfere with the West Flanders traffic. It seemed a cruel thing just at the time their line appeared to be remunera tive to the shareholders that a concession should be granted for making another line to cut the ground from under them. It was said that where one could live two might starve. He thought that the sociae d'Exploitation could work the line profitably, but they might lease the new line when it was com pleted, and thus prevent the injury that might otherwise arise. The ordinary dividend they pro posed to declared was 4s. per share, leaving a balance of £1,560, out of which it was intended to take £1,560 for the liquidation account, and to carry over the £6O. Mr. HERAPATII supposed that by the liquidation account was meant the Chubb account. The CHAIRMAN said it was ; they estimated that the various items of defalcation on that account amounted to a loss of £11,500. Towards liquidat ing that sum they had appropriated out of net re venue £2,627, and also £1,500 on the present occa sion out of revenue. They had also taken £6,100 realised by the disposal of old shares belonging to the company, making together £10,277, and there was a balance of £1,133 still remaining to be cleared off. There has been 249 shares over issued, of which 143 had not yet come in, and 106 of them had been registered. With regard to the new line from Roulers to Ypres the works would be com menced when the plans were approved. The other new line from Poperinghe to the French frontier by the Belgian Government, but the other portion of it, from the latter point to the Hazebrouck, had not yet been sanctioned by the French Government. The making of the line to the frontier was condi tional on obtaining the concession to Hazebrouck. The Belgian Government had extended the time for commencing the works to the 3d of April next, and the directors had no doubt by that time the conces sion for the French portion would be obtained. The interest on the bonds for tthe construction of the new lines would be paid by the Societe d'Exploita tion. The directors had created 15,000 bonds, and 6,000 of them had been already issued, leaving 9,000 bonds ready for delivery, when required. Financial arrangements were being madefor the issue of those bonds, so as to raise the money on the best terms they could. The issue of the total number would be spread over a considerable time. The bankers had made some arrangement of giving the share holders the option of taking up 2,500 of those bonds, which were not to have been dealt with until 1868. As this was in reality a small matter and might affect the advantageous issue of the bonds by the Societe d'Exploitation, the directors proposed that the power or option to claim the 2,500 bonds should be rescinded. It was the interest of the West Flan ders Company that the bonds should be negotiated on favourable terms. Mr. V. RICHARDS, a director, seconded the mo- rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, lEEE. tion for the adoption of the report and statement of accounts. In reply to questions by Mr. Herapath, it was stated the item of £19,300 for sundry receipts had appeared in the accounts for the last ten years. It was derived from the sale of old materials and other matters carried to capital. The annual expense of the offices, salaries, &c., in London, and Bruges, in Belgium, was estimated at £3,200 a year. They were obliged to have a gentleman and offices in Bruges to represent the company in Belgium, and it was not probable that the expenses would be less for the next two or three years. Mr. GOEZ suggested that the defalcations should be made good out of the sale of surplus lands, instead of being taken out of revenue. If the £1,500 had not been taken out of the revenue for the past half year, the dividend would have been ss. instead of 4s. per share, and there would then remain a balance of £2OO for next account. He thought it hard on the old shareholders that large sums should be deducted from the available sum for dividend on the original shares to make good the defalcations of their late secretary, particularly when the company had assets which might be made available for that purpose. He thought the dividend should be 4s. 6d. per share, free of income tax, instead of 4s. After some further observations, the report was adopted, and a dividend of 4s. per share was ap proved. The directors were authorised to rescind the arrangement respecting the optional distribution of 2,500 bonds among the shareholders. The retir ing directors, Mr. Frere and Mr. Blunt, were re elected. Mr. HERAPATII presented his protest against any alteration being made in the nominal value of the shares ; and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. T. Baring, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was held pro formel to adjourn the proceedings until the presi dent returned from Canada, and any explanations which the proprietors might require would be afforded at the adjourned meeting in November. Mr. ADAMS said that several gentlemen, desig nated as merchant princes, were at present in Ame rica on railway business, and as he strongly sus pected there was something in hand, he thought it would be desirable that the shareholders should see the agreement with regard to the International bridge before the meeting came off. The CHAIRMAN said they would have a report embodying everything that came under discussion at the meeting. Mr. ADAMS said he would be satisfied if the agree ment were given with the report. The CHAIRMAN had no doubt the subject would be introduced in the report. The motion for adjournment was seconded by Mr. K. G. HODSON, M.P., and agreed to, when the proceedings terminated. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 7th inst. amounted for local pas sengers to £7,692; for foreign passengers to £3,190; for emigrants to £299 ; for mails, &c., to £829 ; for local freight and live stock to £16,129 ; and for foreign freight and live stock to £3,649—t0ta1, £31,788 against £27,663 for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £4,125. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £383,532, and for the corresponding period last year t0£327,956, showing an increase of £55,576, or 17 per cent. SOUTHERN AND WESTERN OF QUEENSLAND. On the 31st of July last the first section of this line from Ipswich to Bigges' Camp, 21 miles in length, was formally opened by his Excellency Sir G. Bowen. Three trains from Ipswich conveyed the Governor, the Ministers, the members of the Legislature, and a large number of ladies and gentlemen invited to the opening. On the arrival of the trains at Bigges' Camp the engineer-in -chief (Mr. Fitzgibbon) ex plained that the line was constructed on a gauge of Bft. 6in., being exactly half the width of the Great Western broad gauge line. The great object of the engineer was to construct a railway, which should have ample power to develope the resources of the districts it was intended to accommodate at the smallest possible cost. This object, it appeared, had been most successfully attained in the construction of the line and rolling stock. By the end of this year they hoped to have 40 miles open for traffic, in less than two years from that date 78 miles, and by the end of 1867 about 130 miles to Dalby. Upon the first division of 78 miles in length they had two ranges to surmount of 700 feet 1,400 1 i n feet 50 respectively,, and Q l the steepest gradient being longest incline 16 miles. i The Governor stated that the Legislature of Queensland, after full inquiry and discus sion, had decided on adopting the sys tem of • construction recommended by Mr. Fitz gibbon, and that there could be but one opinion among all impartial observers as to the energy and perseverance with which that decision of the Legis lature had been carried out by the Secretary for Public Lands and 'Works (Mr. Macalister) ably se conded by the engineer (Mr. Fitzgibbon), and by the contractors (Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts), so worthily represented by Mr. Wilcox, their agent. He congratulated those gentlemen on the success of their work, and the Parliament which authorised that work and other works of a similar character. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA. The report of the directors states that no further portion of the railway was opened for traffic during the half-year. The number of miles worked over was 588 as compared with 553 in the corresponding half of last year. The receipts for the half-year ending June 30, amounted to £557,121, or £947 per mile, against £325,008, or £5BB per mile in the corresponding half 1864, showing the large increase of £232,114, or £360 per mile. This could not fail to be gratifying to the proprietors as it had been to the directors. It proved that the anticipa tions formed of the traffic to be obtained upon the opening of the railway across the Ghats were well founded, and it showed that the facilities of transit thereby created were being rapidly taken advantage of by the natives and others in India interested in the development of the trade and resources of the country. The higher rates of passenger fares were in operation throughout the half-year. The increase in the receipts from passengers was equal to 54 per cent., of which 41 per cent. arose from the third class. The total number of passengers carried during the half-year was 1,561,314, against 1,803,064 in the corresponding half of 1864, showing a decrease of 241,750 passengers. The decrease in the number of third-class passengers was 261,246, but there was an increase of 4,155 in the first-class and of 15,341 in the number of second-class passengers. The agent's attention had, however, been called to the expe diency of making special arrangements suitable for the conveyance of the poorer classes. The tonnage of goods and other traffic amounted to 499,784 tons, against 377,506 tons in the same half of 1864, showing an increase of 122,278 tons, including 62,109 tons of public merchandise. Twelve per cent. of the total of the goods' receipts arise from the carriage of the company's own materials, against 10 per cent. in the corresponding half-year. The expenditure of the half-year amounted to 1326,209, or 58.55 per cent. of the receipts, leaving a balance of £230,912 to be carried to the credit of the com pany's interest account with the Government, against £94,506 for the half-year ending 30th of June, 1864. The net profit of the half-year was equal to 6 per cent. per annum on the outlay to the present time upon the railway opened for traffic. The expenditure for the past half-year amounted to 58.55 per cent. of the receipts, against 70.92 per cent. for the corresponding half of 1864. The at tention of the agent and the executive officers was being closely given to the details of expenditure, and the arrangements in progress were calculated to se cure the greatest economy of administration con sistent with the upholding of the line and stock in a state of thorough efficiency. The Governor in Coun cil of the Bombay Presidency had sanctioned for this company, and for the Bombay, Baroda, and Central Railway Company, a scale of maximum tolls, terminal charges, and rates of insurance for the goods traffic. it would be the duty of the agent to adjust the actual rates, within the limits of the maximum, in a manner which he considered likely to prove remunerative. The continuation of the Nagpoor branch from. Sheagaum to Budnaira (701 miles) was in a very forward state, and would shortly be ready for opening. On the line to Jub bulpoor the Taptee viaduct had been finished, and a contractor's train hadpassed over it, along the line as far as the 57th mile from Bhosawul. The site for the passenger terminus in Bombay had at length been settled, that of Moodie-bay having been finally sanctioned by the Government. Under an arrange ment with the Government the company were to execute the necessary reclamation works, and the Government would repay the cost of the works up to one foet above high-water level. Measures had been taken for prosecuting those works vigorously. The net revenue account showed that £1,024,079 had been paid into the treasury on account of in terest paid on capital. The capital account showed that £12,227,565 had been expended, leaving a balance of £393,833. Court of Common Council. A special court of Common Council was held yesterday at Guildhall, for the purpose of considering a report from the General Purposes Committee, having reference to the question of the supply of gas to the City, and as to the propriety of the corporation taking into its own hands the du' y of supplying gas to the citizens of London. The Lord Mayor presided, and there was a full court. THE FUNERAL OF LORD PALMERSTON. The LORD MAYOR, before the commencement of the re gular business, rose and said that a number of leading gen tlemen in the City had waited upon him and suggested that, as a mark of respect to the memory of the late distin guished statesman, whose funeral was to take place on the following day, the Royal Exchange should be closed. (Hear, hear.) Tho Stock Exchange Committee had already decided upon closing that establishment, and he thought it right to state that he at once acceded to the application. (Hear, hear.) He had also given directions that the Guild hall should be closed. (Hear, hear.) He would at the same time state that it had already been arranged that him self and the sheriffs should represent the corporation, and the Remembrancer had received a communication from Mr. Ranting, who had the management of the funeral, to the effect that if any members of this court desired to attend, they would be at liberty to do so, but the nature of the arrangements would only admit of this being done to a limited extent. A discussion then took place with closed doors upon the matter, and eventually it was arranged that, in addition to the Lord Mayor and sheriffs, the corporation should be represented by four aldermen, namely, Messrs. Rose, Finnis, Waterlow, and Besley, and by the following members of this court :—Deputy De Jersey, Deputy Fry, and Messrs. Warton, Gibbins, Heath, Terry, J. Parker, and Isaacs. THE CATTLE PLAGUE. Mr. Mums said be should like to be informed by Mr Gibbins, the chairman of the Markets Committee, whether. he was in a condition to report any diminution in the amount of the cases of cattle disease in the metropolis. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GIBBINS said that as chairman of the Markets Com mittee he was not in a position to give any information upon this subject with regard to the metropolis generally ; but so far as the market itself was concerned, he was able to say that very few diseased cattle wore sent into it. On last Monday and the previous Monday only one diseased ani mal was sent on each occasion. (Hear.) He believed he might also say with regard to the metropolis generally that from the information he had received the disease ap peared to be decreasing. (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that perhaps Mr. Gibbins would be good enough to inform the court whether, since this disease had existed, there had been any sensible diminu tion in the number of cattle sent to the Metropolitan Market? Mr. GIBBINS said there had not. On the contrary, there was a larger supply than ever each market day, both from abroad and the home districts. (Hear, hear.) SOUTHWARK BRIDGE. Deputy HAWTREY brought up a report from the Bridge House Committee recommending that the committee should be empowered to negotiate with the Southwark-bridge Company for continuing the opening of the bridge to the public free of toll for a further period of six month.; upon the same terms as those upon which the bridge was opened for the last six months. The report was agreed to. THE GAS QUESTION. Mr. H. HAINES, the chairman of the General Purposes Committee, then brought up a report from that committee "On the reference of 22d June last relative to the supply of gas, and for authority to engage professional assistance in obtaining the information necessary in connection with an application to Parliament for powers to erect worksand engage for the supply of gas to the citizens, should such a course be adopted by the court." He moved that the report be agreed to. The public is aware of the controversy that has been going on for a very considerable time between the citizens of London and the three City companies—the Great Central, the Chartered, and the City Gas Company, and the complaints that have been made as regarded the quality, the quantity, and the price of the gas supplied. These complaints have become louder since the passing of the Gas Act of 1860, under the provisions of which act the city was parcelled out into districts, one being allotted to each of the three companies ; and this, according to the opinion of the gas consumers, has entirely destroyed every thing like wholesome competition, and enabled the com panies not only to supply an inferior article, but to charge whatever price they pleased for it. The arguments upon all these points have been so frequently laid before the public in the discussions that have taken place in this court and before the Commissioners of Sewers that it will be unnecessary to repeat them at any length on the present occasion. Mr. E. D. RCCGERS, in the course of a speech of coasider able length, said that at Manchester and other large towns the governing bodies had taken this matter into their own hands, and they were enabled to supply a much better article than that furnished to the citizens of London at a - great deal lower price, and he said that only over the water' in the South London District, the inhabitants were sup plied at 3s. 4d. per 1,000 feet, while the citizens of London were now paying 4s. 6d. for an inferior article. He con cluded by moving what was in terms an amendment, but which in reality was a stronger resolution than the one agreed to by the committee, for it was to the effect that the matter should be referred back to them to be at once carried into effect, and that they should immediately take the necessary steps to give the usual notices, with a view to an application being made to Parliament next session to enable the citizens of London to take the supply of gas into their own hands. Mr. Ruraux seconded the amendment. Mr. RONVE was the only member who addressed the tour that defended the proceedings of the gas companies, and said that so far as the one he was connected with was con cerned they had no desire to charge a high price for their gas, but desired to make their profit by an increased con sumption. (Cries of " Oh, oh," and laughter.) He then proceeded to argue amid a good deal of laughter and ironical cheers from different members, that the different gas companies had done more, both with regard to the quality and the illuminating powar of the gas supplied by them, than they were required to do by the act of Parlia ment. (Cries of " Oh, oh.") He also reminded the court that at Christmas next the price of gas would be reduced from 4s. 6d. to 4s. per thousand feet. Mr. R. N. PHILIPPS supported the amendment, and he expressed a hope that if the corporation should not decide upon having works of their own, the agitation that had been made would have the effect of inducing the different companies to reduce the price of gas. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DE JERSEY, the chairman of the Commission of Sewers, said that from his own experience he was enabled to gainsay both the propositions of Mr. Rowe, namely, that the gas was purer and of better quality than was required by the last Gas Act, and the reports that were made every week by competent persons to the Commissioners of Sewers proved that fact. (Hear, hear.) It Was true that the gas companies promised to reduce the price of gas sixpence per thousand feet next Christmas, but this was not a willing act on their part, but was solely owing to the pressure that had been put upon them by the gas con sumers. (Hear, hear.) In answer to a question put by Mr. 3lEDwirr, Mr. DE JERSEY stated that the increase of £5,000 during ' the last year in the cost of lighting the street lamps arose from the increase of cost that had been charged since the City had been districted under the last act of Parliament. Deputy Emorr said he could not help thinking that the citizens of London were acting under a feeling of panic during these discussions, and they were doing so on the present occasion. Ho could assure the court he was no friend of any of the gas companies, and with regard to the Great Central, his opinion was it was conceived in sin and shapened in iniquity. (Laughter.) He believed, however, that if they went to Parliament they would be looked upon as great commercial speculations, and the amount of capital they had invested in these undertakings would be consi dered, and they would be treated equitably, and Parlia ment would not allow them to be interfered with, unless very good grounds were shown for doing so. Mr. IL LowmAN TAYLOR said it appeared to him that the time had arrived when it had become absolutely neces sary for the citizens of London to endeavour to destroy the unnatural coalition that had taken place between these three companies, and to abolish the power given them by what he could not help calling the iniquitous act of 'lB6O, to charge what price they pleased forthe gas they supplied. (Hoar, hear.) With regard to the Great Central, he must say that they seemed to have abandoned every pledge that they made when they were called into existence by the ex ertions of the citizens of London. By a deed they entered into with the Commissioners, they undertook never to charge more than 4s. per 1,000 feet, and promised, as soon as thoy were able, to reduce the price to Bs. 6d., and even three shillings, but they had entirely broken the agree ment they had entered into. (Hear, hear.) He cordially supported the present movement, but reminded them that if they once entered upon the course they proposed they must do it in earnest ; there must be no shilly shally about their proceedings. (Hear, hear.) He believed that if they went to the House of Commons and stated what they bad to complain of, that house would not refuse to give them another act of parliament which would relieve them from being bound to use the gas of the existing companies. (Hear hear.) The amendment was then put and carried unanimously, and, upon the motion of Mr. MEDWIN, a special committee composed of 12 members of the court was appointed to carry it into effect. The court shortly afterwards adjourned. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ~-- TIMES.—The Emperor of the French is reported to be contemplating a financial reform, and any measure of that character proceeding from France is sure to merit attention. The acute and analytical genius of our neighbours never shows to greater ad vantage than in financial organisation. Whether their appreciation of financial principles be equally admirable is another question, but, taking their sys tem of taxation for what it is, it is impossible to conceive any more skilful presentation of results than is seen in the statements of their Finance Minister. Mr. Gladstone, on producing his own budget last session, described these accounts as per fect marvels of lucidity and exactness, although the actual rate of expenditure was obscured by the practice of additional and supplementary credits. The reform now proposed affects in the first in stance only the collection of taxes in a particular branch, but there is probably more in the proposal than meets the eye. The direct taxes in France, which are now very considerable, are gathered within certain fixed districts by collectors, who pay over their collections to particular receivers, by whom in turn the moneys are again paid over to receivers general. There is one of these latter officers in every department, and it is with him exclusively that the Treasury keeps account. He is answerable for his subordinates ; so that, in fact, he is the paymaster of the department in the eyes of the State. This office it is now proposed to suppress, not, indeed, abruptly, but by allowing it to expire. It is thought that the intervention of the receivers-general is un necessary, and that the receipts in each department might as well be paid into a branch of the Bank of France. It will be evident that this is either a piece of administrative reform palpably suggested by arithmetical computations, or a scheme carrying with it certain ulterior effects, and the latter is per haps the more probable hypothesis. At the present time a French receiver-general is a very important public officer. His salary, to be sure, is but £240 a year, but his perquisites derived from percent ages are very large. Still, we are not told that any economy will be effected by transferring his duties to other agents, nor is anything promised as a re sult of the reform, except " simplification" of the machinery. This, no doubt, is worth securing ; but it does not appear on the face of things that three grades of collectors are too many, or, indeed, that they will be reduced in number by the proposed change. We hear that, instead of a Receiver, 'a Paymaster-General is to account with the Bank for the sums collected by subordinates, so that the ma chinery would appear to be unaltered except in names. The salaries of the finance agents are cer tainly not extravagant, though the poundage may be high, and admit, perhaps, of reduction. We are not, however, told that any retrenchment at this point is expected, and it seems obvious, at any rate, that economy is not the chief object in the proposal. There are other motives • at work, connected curi ously with usages of bygone times. The truth is, a Receiver-General is, or was, a great deal more than an officer of the revenue. M. de Tocqueville has shown how very many institutions of modern France date from the old Monarchy, and this is one of them. Under the Bourbons the two great branches of revenue were superintended by two sets of officers, the Receiver-General taking the direct, and the Farmers-General the indirect taxes. The latter functionaries, as their name implies, rented or farmed the taxes from the State, paying the Treasury a fixed sum by contract, and making what they could out of their bargain. These were the men who became so obnoxious to the people in the Great Revolution ; the Receivers-General had less to do, and they subsist to this day. They receive, as we have said, in the last instance the direct taxes of the several Departments, and ac count for these with the Treasury ; but their transactions with the State go far beyond these limits. They conduct within their own Depart ments the operations of the Treasury, and their account with the Exchequer is an account current. They sometimes advance what they have not re ceived, and are allowed interest upon the loan ; or they are permitted to be in arrear, and pay interest on what they owe. To facilitate such transactions they are licensed to become private bankers, to re ceive deposits from customers, and, in short, to carry on a general trade in money. Now, in the days when State loans were negotiated withi bankers and capitalists exclusively, a servant of Government in the position of Receiver-General might be exceed ingly useful, and would, indeed, be the natural agent in such transactions. Of late, however, this system has been abandoned for a more open and popular practice. Loans are taken from a multi tude of small subscribers, and the mediation of an agent or "promoter" becomes of less importance. Nevertheless, it must be plain that the abolition of such an office as this will materially affect the rou tine of the Treasury, and it is reported, indeed, that the proposed reform is not entirely acceptable to that department. There is yet another question in volved in the case. The banks, as they may fairly be called, of the Receivers-General are to be super seded by branches of the Bank of France. But for this purpose the Bank of France must have a branch in every one of the 89 Departments, which is not the case at present ; so that one result of the change would be multiplied and extended. This, it is held, would be advantageous to the country, as promot ing the circulation of money and giving a stimulus to industrial enterprise. Already the Bank of France is under obligations in this respect which have not yet been fulfilled, but the scheme in prospect would both compel and encourage it to perform its under takings, just as if some great trunk line were induced to carry branch railways to districts unprovided with the accommodation. Altogether, we may pretty safely presume that the project now before us is suggested rather by a desire of adapting administration to circumstances than with a view of economising the public revenue. At the same time it must be owned that, in this par ticular branch of financial science, there is much room for progress. It is not uncommon to see the system of taxation far more perfect than the system of collecting taxes. Our own Revenue Estimates are but things of yesterday, and some recent de bates in Parliament, as well as a long correspond ence in our columns, have shown that in the opinion of many we have still much to do. We have officers whom some people would send the way of the Receivers-General, though, upon the whole, the charge for collecting the public revenue cannot be thought exorbitant. It will be interesting to see what the Americans are doing in the matter. Often as we have been referred to that country for in struction, it was probably little thought that its chief example would be in the way of taxation. Yet that is now the case. No country is doing, and we may probably say that no country has ever done, what the Americans propose to do at this moment. If Mr. M'Culloch's plans are actually put in execution, the Government of Washington will have the credit of raising the largest revenue from a given population of all the Governments in the world. As yet we know only the broad out lines of the scheme, not the distribution of imposts, still less the system of collection. For all these details we look with great interest, especially as the project, though arduous, is not chimerical. The Americans can achieve it if they choose to do so ; but if, besides providing a current revenue of £70,000,000, they extinguish a debt of £600,000,000 in half a century, they will be at the head of all the nations of the earth in financial resources and popular endurance. Po ST.--The Senate of Frankfort has, after mature deliberation, sent an identic note to the two great German Powers, energetically rejecting their de mand, and vindicating the independence of the Free City as a Sovereign Republic. This is pre cisely the course which the wijg Minister of the Prussian King anticipated wound be taken by the Senate, and we do not perhaps greatly err in suggesting that it was in the hope that the preten sions of Austria and Prussia would be disallowed that Count Bismarck penned the despatch which appeared in our columns yesterday. The great Powers, no doubt, desire to retain the minor Powers in such abject submission as to be virtually their vassals, but they probably desire still more to absorb them so completely as to destroy even the outward and visible signs of their independence. Frankfort is the capital of the Confederation and the seat of the Diet, but, being nothing more than a town, it is intrinsically one of the weakest mem bers of the Bund. It is by virtue of treaty a Sove reign Republic, but its sole protection lies in the respect which its powerful neighbours may have for public law. For many reasons, therefore, the Free City was specially calculated to be the first of the minor Powers against which any act of agg ress i on intended indirectly to affect all should be directed by the leading States of the Confederation. Hitherto, Austria and Prussia have vindicated their claim to represent all Germany by overruling the decisions of dissentient majorities in the Diet, by th e s i mple process of carryingout the policy o n w hi c h they • bad resolved. Now, however, they have gone step further. It is not sufficient that they should absolutely determine the course which shall be pm' - sued by the Confederation in its relations with the rest of the world, but they must also regulate the domestic policy of each particular State. A meet ing of a political nature, but as harmless in its wai, as could be well imagined, having been held at Frankfort, supplied to the Great Powers the much desired pretext for intervention. Through Frank , fort it was resolved that the minor Powers shout, u t be taught the new regime under which they mils, henceforth exist, and accordingly Austria an d Prussia instructed their representatives in the Free City to inform the Senate not to allow any future meetings of a similar kind to be held in their city A reply has now been given in which, as might have been expected, the Senate reminds the gre, Powers that Frankfort, although but a town, 'a l ' republic, and the groundwork has consequ ently been laid for that active intervention of the neces sity‘ of which the Prussian Mi n ister broadly hin t .'„ in his original despatch. It is n ot a little amus in g to hear that the Austrian Go v e r nment have b een both surprised and offended a t the contents of the identic note of the Frankfort Senate, which, esP e :, cially in its forms and language, they consider to at variance with diplomatic usage. We venture t° affirm that, amongst the collective archives of eve r) ; Foreign-office in Europe, one would search in n ai l , for despatches the language and contents of wal e would be found to be more compl e tely at varian ce with the established forms in which the representa tives of independent States address each other than those written by Counts Bismarck and Alensd° r f to the Senate of Frankf or t. Th e affectation o e offence at the language of the Senate is of eon simply a phase in a preconcei v ed d es ign, and th e next step will probably be the physical assumPtt. by the great Powers of that autho r ity which, in their despatches, they contented themselves wi th asserting that they were entitled to exercise. If t' ,B nt Senate, for example, has declared that it will il vd submit to the dictation of Austria and Prussia, an will excercise its own discretion in respect to per mitting political meetings to be held within the tow:: the latter Powers will no doubt declare themset t compelled to use forcible means to p rev ent pall, manifestations of a revolutionary character, anu,:,, which all Germany disapproves. Of course' Ansu„'; and Prussia can have no selfish motives to serl," o l their sole aim will be the good of Germany. In r interests of the common Fatherland, therefore, tu ri , e i e will probably deem it expedient to insist on w e, Senate of Frankfort exercising its sovereign N il a tions henceforth under the protectorate not of Federal, but of an Austro-Prussian garrison. True to their mission the great Po wers cou ld no t of CO' l ,'7 l tolerate, on the part of any othe r o f the m in " ct Powers, any assumption of autho r ity in rely, to their domestic policy w hi c h, i n th e i r might be used to the disadvantage of "'l l i many, and co nsequen tl y th e l esson tat l A to to Frankfort w ill not be without its rest' upon all. Whether the league known as the Get; manic Confederation serves any good end may be question fairly open to discussion ; but whether sow, of the members of that l eague, simply because ti! e il l o are more powerful than the res t, s h ou ld have " 0 right of so far interfering in their domestic polio/ if virtually to exercise a quasi -sovereignty in ° au dominions, can scarcely be said even by GerM . ,, professors to be a moot point. The present is age of non-intervention, and we hear much less L. the balance of power in Europethan we did formerly' but notwithstanding the apathy with w hich Sta te„ have learnt to look on at the anne xa ti on or aba°,„'-,,„ sootposed or extinction of others, it c an scarce ly be 0 1; posed that there is not some limit to forbearanoef i some point at which the insti nc t o f se lf-preserlti; tien will not assert its supre mac y. Wh e ther free city of Frankfo r t b ecame a P russ i an t o wn 1- 0 i morrow might, taken alone, be perhaps a matt er it s trifling importance, but whether Liberal- 4 % f , Count Bismarck would te rm it—D emocra tic . a many is to be trampled under foot by Austria tang Prussia, which pride th emse l ves on repre sen; nothing but a pure despotism, cannot but 1 3 1,,5t a vital interest for West ern Europe. Wit'e entering into a disquisition on th e co mPar B , iiir 4 o , merits of arbitrary and co ns tit u ti ona l governmerat, it is at all events pretty gene ra lly a d m itted tLi when a state relapses from constitutionalism roof despotism, the step is one of retrogression. 00 course every State has a right to determine nature of its own political institutions, and if Pril f " o f chooses to abandon a representative system government for a pure autocracy, sh e is unev - so tionably entitled to do so. But it d oes n ot foil that she has a right to comp e l o th ers to f o llow 11 40 example. We have yet t o l earn w h at w ill be ' ln course on which the minor Powers may r esolve/4G presence of the d anger w hi c h threatens t h em ; wvio we can hardly s u p pose t h at they will go one by A °, 4 like lambs to the slaughter. The existing Bun not the only Co n f e d erat i on o f G erman S ta tes w* to which history is familiar, and certainly, if any eve n d were likely to lead t o a un i on o f States resemble the Confederati on o f th e Rhi ne , they are tho' which are now passing in Germany. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL—THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a fair supply of 4f. wheat, which met a ready sa l e , a t an a d vance o f is Pe r cir For foreign a good consumptive demand, and is P e improvement was freely made. Malting barley mareol quired for, and is per qr dearer. Sweet qualities of gr ing scarce, and sold readily, at an advance of is Gd per 04 but the improvement did n o t ex t en d to i nferior and be, r ; A ll samples. Oats in good req ues t, an d 6d per qr higher 'l°OOA descriptions. Maize and beans each 6d to is per qr de with a fair trade doing. BIRMINGHAM —THURSDAY. s ign At this day's m ar k e t th ere was a f a i r supp l y o f wheat, which sold re a dily, a t a r i se o f 2 s per qr. F%-:101 barley is up. B ar l e y an d oa t s 6d to i s higher. —‘,opf and peas firm. The millers advanc e d th e re t a il Pr — flour 3s 4d per sack. 99 0 Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 50s ; to 48s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; gri n " per 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 308 ; Irish, 21s to 24 5 r. 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 458 ; and peas, 40s to 42s per R NCHE S TE—Tmatspey. 1/ (0 An active demand has benexperienced during ille c eo; for both wheat and flour, at gradually improving inor other articles have likewise been b e tt er t o se ll , an d o° Ao 'o what dearer. There was an average attend ance a t this ",tit market. Good dry samples of new E ng li s h w h eat bro" 01. is to 2s per qr more money, and foreign 3d to 4d per c e 'de Flour was held for an advanc e o f i s per sack, bu t the so s wand was not active. O a t s an d oatmeal were etc' rather dearer. Beans and I n di an corn maintain late BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEnNEsnAY- „get Farmers brought a f a i r supply of wheat to this 111 " - 0 0 0r to-day, - which met a d u ll sale, at an advance of is pe r bar last week's r a t es . There was a good sh ow o f malting to go ley, which was taken off freely, at an advance of 115 per qr. w ale , Talavera wheat, 58s to 60s ; red ditto, 44s to 480; 30s to 328; secondary ditto, 27s to 29s per qr. , 411 1 .1 averages :--Wheat, 976 i qrs, 41s 4d ; barley, 31s Od ; oats, 30 qrs, 28s Od. EDINBtTRGH_w.D.DAy. grof At to-day's market th ere were f a i r supp li es of and sold at fully is over last week's prices. Average prices. Wheat, 478 4d) Oats, 26s Od Barley, 32s 2d 1 Beans ........42s 3d Wheat on the top, 2s Od up average, is 3d 11 , 11. ' Barley on the top, 2s 6d u p average, 2s 5d 'Jr' Oats on the top, Os 9d up average, Os 2d 1 , 1 ,P;(11. Beans on the top, .3s Od d own average, Os 9d "41 Total supply and sales. 60 1 Wheat 663 qrs so ld Barley' 1475 qrs Oats 1329 qrs Beans 159 qrs Town -made flour sells as follows :—White, sss i dd s 6 11 1 362 : 6d° superfine, 37s 6(1; superfine, 35s 6d ; fine, 33s 6d. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. itb This day's market was well attend e d. Wheat, /c s t' a , good inquiry, further tended upwards. Bl ac k Seal o olb , 22s 6d ; red American spring, 22s 6d t o 26 s 6d per 010 barley, 6d higher per 3201 b ; oats, peas, and beans the dearer ; oatmeal and Indian corn atationar Births. HONTWOOD.—On the 24th inst., at Evington-Plac e l wife of Sir Co ur t enay Honywood, of a son. LOWNDES.—On the 25th inst., at 6, Portugal-street , r -, lane, the wife o f G . Alan Lowndes, Esq., of a di" stillborn. SOMERVILLE.—On the 24th inst., at 8, BelgraS Brighton, the wif e o f C apt. P h i l i p Somerville, B ' son. Marriages. 5 , 1 1, CONEY—HIVES.—On the 26th in s t., a t Westbury- °n; 61", Arthur IL Coney, Esq., Captain and BL-MgAlifi" Regiment, to Mary Annie , only daughter of • Esq., of Holmwood ,Honse, CD. RENN IEPAGET.—On the 25th inst., at the parisb f 3 /I ,o ll Pi e i Bagborough, George Rennie, second son of G. „al, Esq., 39, Wilton-crescent. to Charlotte Julia, V nie rie daughter of S. H. Paget, Esq., of Bagborough, 6° — Deaths. " orltho GAMBLE.—On the 23d i ns t., a t hi s res i dence, 47, r **" - A 76. street, Fitzroy-squ are , D r . H. G am b le, R.N., se - N st. P" . QUIN.—On th e 24th i ns t. , at Folkestone, the 11 ° 11 1,40 11 W. Quin, youn g est son o f t h e late Earl of Du' —O 4 aged 36. STANHOPE.—On the 21st inst., goth'7- at his residence, Hants, Admiral Hen r y St an h ope, aged 77. , STEWART.—On the 24th inst., at Somerset Villa, u l s a r t,fob road, Southfields, Wandsworth, Francis Stew merly of 46, Old Bond -street. $ 0 10, 4' SEwELL.—On the 22d inst., at 8, Ealing-comra°l3' Mr. F. F. Sewell, of 13, Charles : street Westhourne" aged 41. act . STon.--On the 21st in s t., at 23, Panton-street, v `"" r Stone, of 5, Norfolk-crescent, Bedford-square, age P 9 '4 London : Printed and P u bli s h e d b y WILLIAM 14-"' "vt/ so. ' o f of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at THE Sim Offic e ; l6 ,oosl Strand, in the Preoi no t o f the Savoy, in the `— kliddleseL—Friday, October 27, 1865. tON "1-4 :1 111E -88 ne of B hare 1g 7163 lELs' .allotte be all( 'rh o sil The p I he a." 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