The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The light draught trial of the iron frigate Valiant, 4,063 tons, and 800 horse-power of engines, was made at Portsmouth yesterday, under the super vision of the steam factory and dockyardofficials, the ship being in command of Commander Brett, of her Majesty's ship Asia, and Rear-Admiral Superinten dent G. Wellesley, C. 8., exercising a general super vision. Mr. Warrener, of the firm of Maudslay, Sons, and Field, the makers of the ship's machinery, was on board to control and be answerable for the working. The Valiant, having no guns or crew on board, and being incomplete in stores, drew but23ft 6in of water forward and 24ft 6 in aft on leaving the harbour for the trial ground in Stokes Bay. The weather was very favourable for the trial of the ship's speed. There was a light wind and smooth sea. Under these conditions the Valiant made six runs over the measured mile, which brought out the following results as to the speed of the ship :—First run, 13.284 knots ; second run, 11.863 ; third run, 13.844 ; fourth run, 11.009 ; fifth run, 14.516 ; sixth run, 10.814 ; the mean speed of the ship at full boiler power was 12.670 knots. At half-boiler power the ship attained a mean speed of 9.6 knots. The pressure of steam was 221 b, and the mean vacuum 23in. At fullboiler power, to port, the ship made her full circle in 6min 13secs ;to starboard in smin 6secs. At half-boiler power, to starboard, the full circle was made in 6min 53sees ;to port in 6min 19secs. The engines of the Valiant are constructed on Messrs. Maudslay's well known horizontal screw pattern, and yesterday dis played all the power and efficiency in their working which might be justly expected from a firm of such reputation. The Valiant is a sister ship in every respect in tonnage, form, and disposition of armour, to the Hector, iron frigate, now commanded by Capt. Preedy, C. 8., and attached to the Channel squadron. No exact comparison can, however, yet be drawn from the results of the trials of the two ships, owing to the difference in their draught of water when put over the " mile." The only true comparison, indeed, which can be made between the performance of ships over the measured mile is when both are tried with the same weights on board— that is, with guns, crew, rigging complete for sea, six monthi' provisions and stores under hatches, equal quantities (according to tonnage) of coal in bunkers, and in all respects ready to proceed on service on a foreign station. The Hector, on her trial, drew 24ft. liin. of water forward, and 25ft. aft, as against the 23ft. 6in. forward and 24ft. 6in. aft of the Valiant, and made a main speed of 11.843 knots as against the 12.670 of the latter ship yester day. The hull of the Valiant being a counterpart of the Hector's, requires no lengthened description here. Both vessels differ from all others in her Ma jesty's Navy in the disposition of their armour, inas much as they carry a band of armour plating round the gun-deck at the bows and stern, aswell as amid ships, but have a portion of the hull at the water line at both the bows and stern unprotected by armour. Athwartships armour-plate bulkheads, however, rise up from below to the level of the gun deck planking, where the water line armour breaks off at each end. Both the Hector and Valiant are vessels of but moderate speed, which, while exces sively ugly in their general appearance, have a look about them of 'being anything but "lively" in a sea way. The Arethusa, 35, screw frigate, Capt. Reginald J. J. G. Macdonald, arrived at Spithead yesterday, from the eastward, and on anchoring saluted the flag of the Naval Commander-in-Chief, Sir M. Sey mour, G.C.B. The Arethusa will sail from Spit head in company with 'the Octavio., Capt. Hillyar, for Madeira, on a comparative trial of machinery, picking up the Constance, 35, screw, Captain Bar nard, on the way down Channel. The screw steam sloop Greyhound, 17, at Devon port, will shortly be commissioned for active service by Capt. C. Sterling. She is of 880 tons burden, and has engines of 200 horse power. Her:chief engineer is Mr. G. F. Boothe, borne on the books of the Indus, guardship of reserve at Hamoaze. The Greyhound was placed yesterday in No. 3 dock in Keyham steamyard, for the purpose of having her bottom cleaned. She will have a complement. of 175 officers and men, and will probably be set to join the squadron on the west coast of Africa. p l The screw steam corvette Satellite, 21, Captain Crofton, recently returned from Montevideo, was hauled yesterday from Devonport dockyard to the sheer hulk in Hamoaze to have her masts taken in, after which she will return to the jetty. Her crew will probably be paid off on the 22d inst., when she will be placed in the fourth division of the steam reserve. Capt. C. P. 'Coles, RN., has been presented by the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, Lord High Admiral of the Imperial Navy, with a massive gold snuffbox, set with diamonds, and bearing the initials of the Grand Duke in diamonds on the centre of the lid. Such an acknowledgment of the worth of the turret principle, which has been so long and per sistently advocated by Capt. Coles, must be highly gratifying to him now that the turret is already , fitted to about a dozen vessels of the Imperial Rus sian Navy in the Baltic, and has been tested under all possible conditions of wind and weather. The funeral of M. Michael Sysoieff, an officer of the Russian Imperial Navy, took place yesterday at Portsmouth, with military honours. In The Sun of yesterday it was stated that " F. B. Mathews" passed first out of .9 candidates for clerk's assistant, " from Mr. 'Eastman's school." The name should have been F. B. J. Mathias. Mr. Mathias was educated at the Royal Naval School, New-cross, whence he went direct to pass his ex amination for clerk's assistant annually placed at the disposal of the council by the Admiralty. The London Royal Naval Reserve. Yesterday the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty, inspected the London section of the Royal Naval reserve attachei to her Majesty's drill ship President, lying in the Canal or South Dock of the West India Dock. This being the first official inspection of this popular service by the Lords of the Admiralty, the event created much interest, and numbers of well dressed people lined the bank of the dock to witness what they could of the pro ceedings. The Duke of Somerset, who was attended by Admiral Hanshaw, and Captain Hall, the First Lord's private secretary, went down from the Ad miralty by boat, and landed at the canal pierhead on Millwall. His Grace then proceeded on board the President, and was received by Captain Mould, R.N., the commander of the President, Commodore Ryder, R.N., M r . M a y o , th e R eg i s t rar -G enera l o f Seamen, Capt a i n G ar d ner, I nspector of the Royal Naval Reserve, the officers of the Reserve, and a guard of honour, composed of a portion of the men now on chill, who formed in open rank and pre sented arms. The officers of the Reserve in at tendance, viz. :—.4 leuten ants John Howe Brown, John F. Trivett, Stephen Jarman, Sam. H.Wright, the officer in charge of th e guard, T. C. C. Kerr, T. J. Walters (the drilling officer), Sub-Lieutenants W. Curtis Coulche r, Robe rt Maynard, Cuthbert. Vaux, John Wright, J. T. S. Green, and C. IL Palmer (also an officer in charge of the guard) were presented to his Grace. The Duke then made a bri e f survey of the upper deck, and the very clean appear ance of the frigate and the general arrangements showed the care and attention that were taken in the management of the ship. He then went on the main deck, which carries 28 68-pounder guns and the men commenced exercising at the guns. They acquitted themselves in a manner that probably could not be surpassed even on board the Excellent. The men first manned both sides, cast loose the guns, loaded and ran them out, fired one round, and stood easy for further orders. They then manned the starboard guns, and fired three rounds of broad side firing. The enemy was next supposed to be on the port side. It was afterwards imagined to be crossing the frigate's bow, and the order was given to secure for raking ahead. The order " Up to your quarters" followed, and then the starboard guns were fired with remarkable steadiness and alacrity. Next a second and fourth gun carriage were sup posed to be disabled, The two guns were raised, the disabled carriages removed, two others trans ported across the deck and put into their places, and the guns run out, the whole being accomplished in one minute and 48 seconds. There followed three rounds of quick firing, and, after a very brief pause, while the enemy were supposed to be coming down on the port bow, the order was given to man the port guns and double shot them. Four rounds oflindependent firing, port, beam, quarter, and beam again were discharged. The men displayed the good drilling they had gone through in shifting breech ing ; they also manned both sides, prepared for raking, and fired on starboard beam. Lasitly both sides were manned and the guns were secured for sea, which brought the gunnery practice to a close. The Duke of Somerset, with the rest of the party, were then conducted into the drill shed, where a large number of the Reserve were drawn out, and they went through the usual musket and cutlass exercises in a very creditable manner. The Duke of Somerset then informed Captain Mould, the Commander of the President, that he was much pleased with all that he had witnessed. The men had performed their duties in a way that reflected not only credit upon themselves, but upon those who had instructed them. The manner in which they had worked at the guns, and gone through the exercises in the shed, gave satisfactory proof of the care that had been taken in their drill. At the same time he also spoke of the hearty feeling with which the men had joined the service. He desired that what he expressed should be communicated to the officers and men. This having been done by Captain Mould, the men were dismissed. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, in Glasgow ; Sir A. Orr in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in lie Sun, was taken as read. . _ _ The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said the directors felt confident that the shareholders would be satisfied with. the present position of the com pany's affairs, and they had great pleasure in pro posing an increased dividend, notwithstanding the additional expenditure on capital account, a large portion of which was at present unproductive. In the last session of Parliament they had obtained power to construct a direct line to Kilmarnock, which would have the effect of shortening their line to the South, and, by means of the Glasgow Union, would give them a direct line across to Edinburgh and Leith and the east and north of Scotland. They had also obtained access to the important town of Greenock by means of the Greenock and Ayrshire. They had got powers to make lines from Ayr to the main line from Kil marnock to Dumfries, and in connexion with their mineral line from Muirkirk, and also a line from Dairy Junction towards Largs. They had also ob tained running powers and increased facilities over and Scottish Central Railway to Perth and Dundee in the act amalgamating that company with the Ca ledonian, and they had arranged with the North British Company for mutual facilities over their re spective systems. They had thus become one of the great lines of communication between England and Scotland, and therefore they hoped to obtain their fair share of the large and increasing through traffic, of which they had hitherto been deprived. During the last session they had also got the entire control, by amalgamation with the Castle Douglas and Dum fries, the Maybole and Girvin, the Kirkcudbright, and the Bridge of Weir. Those four companies being now part of their system would be worked ad vantageously for the benefit of the company. The contracts for the works on the City Union had been settled, and the contractors were ready to commence the portion of line forming a junction between their line and the college so soon as arrangements could be made, and the bridge over the Clyde would be begun forthwith. The addition of traffic which the new lines would give them would, he had no doubt, help them onwards to greater strength and increased dividends. The company's railway was in excellent order, and portions of the line were being relaid where it was necessary to do so. The report was unanimously adopted, and a divi dend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was de clared on the ordinary stock of the company, in which the preference stock participated to that amount. VALE OF TOWY. The half-yearly meeting was held last week at Llandovery—Mr. D. Jones, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that £5,000 had been paid under the agreement for leasing the line to the Knighton, Central Wales, and Central Wales Extension Rail way Companies, and this and other sums had been applied towards paying the debts of the company, and out of the balance it was recommended that a dividend be declared at the rate of 2I per cent per annum. The opposition to the Swansea and Aberystwith and Brecon and Llandovery Junction Bills in the last session of Parliament was successful. The report was adopted, and the dividend re commended was declared. The meeting was then made special, when the agreement for leasing the line to the Knighton, Cen tral Wales, and Central Wales Extension Companies was approved, and certain shares upon which the calls had not been paid were declared forfeited. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN. The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from July 1 to Sept. 10, 1865, amounted to £89,179, as against £82,786 for the corresponding period of 1864. The proportion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from July 1 to Sept. 10 amounted to £8,329, as against £8,161 for the corresponding period of 1864, and the expenses to £3,513, as against £3,310. CASTLE DOUGLAS AND DUMFRIES. The traffic receipts for the half year ending July 31 amount to £8,997, as against £8,218 in the cor responding half of last year, and after paying de benture interest, working expenses, and other claims, the balance was £4,537, out of which the directors recommend a dividend of 5 per cent. on the prefer ence stock, absorbing £1,693, and of 4s. 6d. per share on the ordinary £lO shares, which would absorb £2,689. The company had been amalgamated with the Glasgow and South Western Company, and the directors believed that the union would prove beneficial to both companies and the public. LEARNED PHILOLOGISTS.—The statementrecently made in the newspapers that Prince Lucien Bona parte, the eminent linguist who resides in this country, would conduct the proceedings at the Welsh Eisteddfod now taking place at Aberystwith, turns out to have been incorrect. At the meeting on Tuesday it was stated that the cause of the absence of the Prince was indisposition, and that his Imperial Highness was at that moment lying at Torquay' in a very precarious state; but there were others present who stoutly averred that the Prince had made no promise whatever to be present, and that the council simply gave out the announcement with a view to increasing the number of visitors. It appears that last June the Prince allowed himself to be nominated one of the adjudicators on the principal (£100) prize offered for competition, and that from this circumstance arose the announcement of his intention to preside at the meeting. The following is the letter from the Prince on the occasion of his accepting the invitation to adjudicate :—" London, June 22, 1865.—1 have perused with considerable atten tion the Welsh essays on the Origin of the English Nation,' and I find all more or less weak in their arguments, and not by any mean s c omin g u p to th e s t an d ar d o f mo dern mguistical science. I felt my s elf obliged, however reluctantly, to decline recommending either of them for the established '. the whole of BrpilloLße. writing, but, as f ar ans. I have not been able to read tiannicus's' essay, owing to its bad parts, I find no reason for not judge from. the intelligible the prize,-Z,Laptlying to it, as well, the exclusion from his magni ficent Prince Lucien Bonaparte, so well known Speaking library of books on European dci)awlenclfsorl a observetson that a Scotch doctor of medicine of the name of I v ; re cently died at Rome, leaving a collection of works, all bearing upon the dialects of Eastern Europe, which sub ject ho had long mad e his s p ecial stud y . The P ope, hear ingurcthhaaste d M i r t, and l7a tdsi:nt;busi familyte desired to sell th e lib rary, the p books among the different public libraries of Rome, including the Vatican. I ADTERTISEMENTI Holloway's Pills.— Remedy and Regimen.—The most serious subject on which man can meditate is the maintenance of good health in himself and in the dear ones around him. Whenever and wherever illness assails us it always sends before it unmistakeable symptoms of its approach ; subdue these by Holloway's corrective and purifying medicine, aided by a plain, simple, digastible diet, and the attack deprived of its powerful allies within the body passes harmlessly by; pain, discom fort, and danger are alike averted, and when epidemics rage whole households aro spared a mournful visitation. Disease is always occurring at all hours of the day—at all seasons of the year; prudence, therefore, gives the warn ing to keep this remedy ready to remove instantly defective actions. Cattle Disease. DEPUTATION TO THE LORDS OF THE COI7NCIL. Yesterday at 3 o'clock, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Hale), accompanied by Mr. Gibbons, the chairman, and other members of the Corporation Markets Committee, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health for the City of Lon don, Dr. Aldis, holding a similar office for the district of St. George's, Hanover-square, Dr. Ansell, Dr. Iliff, and Dr. Barvia, other medical officers of health for districts of the metropolis, proceeded from the Mansion-house to Whitehall, by appointment,to an interview with the Right Hon. the Lords of the Council in reference to the cattle plague. The deputation represented the Metropolitan Cattle Plague Committee, of which they are all members. The Lords of the Council present at the interview were Earl Granville, the Lord President; the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Earl de Grey and Ripon, Secretary of State for War ; Mr. Cardwell, Secretary of State for the Colonies ; and Mr. Hutt, Vice-President of the Board of Trade. Mr. A. Helps, clerk to the Council, was in attendance, as were also Professor Symonds, and Mr. Brand, Controller of the Corporation, London. The deputation was introduced by the Lord Mayor. Mr. GIBBINS, the chairman of the City Markets Commit tee, said they had asked for the interview in consequence of having received from their lordships a draught copy of an Order in Council about to be promulgated. In that it was provided that " during the continuance of the cattle plague within the city of London, or that part of the me tropolitan police district which'is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, no bull, cow, or calf shall be brought or sent for sale, or for any other purpose, from or out of any shed or other place within the said city or district to the Metropolitan Cattle-matket, or to any other cattle-market whatsoever in any part of Great Britain." He apprehended that would prevent any cattle being removed out of any shed whatever for sale, and that :all the railway termini in London would come under such a regulation. He presumed that was not the intention of the Privy Council. (The Lord President said it was not.) The Order in Council, of Aug. 18, if pro perly carried out, would avoid the necessity for the new regulation, because there it was stated that no person with out the license of a Government inspector should send to market any infected animal. If that order were carried out no such cattle could be removed;without the sanction of an inspector. The Corporation of London, having charge of the Metropolitan Cattle-market, had a great difficulty to contend with in the present emergency, for they knew that hundreds of infected cattle were being sent to the metropo litan market without the order of any inspector. The LORD PRESIDENT—Do you receive those cattle, having no such certificate ? Mr. GIBBINS said they were not able to prevent it, for until the cattle came actually within the precincts of the market the corporation had no jurisdiction, and when they did enter the market, all their inspectors could do was to seize all that were infected; but then much of the mischief likely to arise from their going there had then been done. It was understood that cattle when first affected by the dis ease were not unfit for human food. It was difficult to make men honest, but if the inspectors appointed by the Govern ment would only do their duty the spread of the disease might be materially checked. The LORD PRESIDENT—We cannot make mon honest by an Order in Council. (A laugh.) Mr. GIBBINS—If people could be stopped from sending their cattle when infected to the market a great deal of the disease would be prevented. They had no compensation for the loss of infected cattle, and they said in eincted that if they could only sand their cows away at once to market when attacked by the disease, before the inspector saw them, they might hope to get something for them. Unfor tunately, in cases where the inspectors had seen them, dis eased cattle had been allowed to pass into the market and to be sold there; and in every instance where the Corpora tion had sought to prosecute, the magistrates had been dead against them, and had declined to interfere. The LORD PRESIDENT.—As far as I understand, you do not quite relieve us from the inherent difficulties of the case. Mr. Gm BINS replied that, when hundreds and thousands of cattle were driven to the market from all directions, the authorities there had no means of knowing which were diseased. The LORD PRESIDENT said he quite agreed that the num bers entering the market were enormous, but that rather tended to show that all regulations were useless. Mr. RUDKIN suggested that the Government inspectors were too few, and that the services of the police might be resorted to for preventing cattle leaving sheds without the certificate of an inspector. Mr. GIBBINS said it appeared to the Corporation Markets Committee that the Orders in Council involved the de struction of a very large number of cattle, which, in the opinion of different medical officers of health whom they had consulted, might be avoided. Dr. LETItEBY said the present wholesale system of slaughtering animals was to his mind not only contrary to the dictates of science, but the means also of diminishing very largely the supply of meat hereafter to the London markets ; and it was, of all means, the very means of scat tering the disease abroad in all directions. At present an animal infected with the disease was sent to ono or other of the neighbouring slaughterhouses, and the matter taken from the alimentary canal was put with other dung and taken away to be scattered over the land. There was no supervision of those places. In the first place, there was not a sufficient supervision of the cowhouses in London, and the consequence was that cowkeepers were thrusting into the market animals in a state of disease. The present system of slaughtering was objectionable, be cause it was unscientific, excessive, and dangerous, and he believed it would in the long run tend to the de struction of a large number of cattle that ought not to be destroyed. Some effort should be made to treat the infected animals. At present, on an average, two tons of diseased meat were brought to London weekly. It was a practice with some farmers as soon as an animal was infected, to send it to the metropolitan market. It would be a merciful thing to the animals, as well as a public ad vantage, if they were subjected to some treatment instead of being slaughtered wholesale. What would have been the result if in cases of typhus or typhoid fever in the human species the practice had been adopted of not treating it at all? Treating that disease in hospitals there was now only one death in ten, and applying that reasoning to this particular case he came to the conclusion that it was a barbarous, unscientific, and cruel thing to send the animals to be slaughtered without any attempt to cure them. If nothing but the pole-axe must be the remedy, there would be a great hindrance to the progress of knowledge and a sacrifice of food, while the slaughtering of such animals in the public slaughterhouses of London, of all means, would be the most effectual for spreading the disease throughout the whole of the metropolis. Ho would therefore suggest the appointment of more inspectors, and a more careful supervision of the cowhouses. The LORD PRESIDENT supposed Dr. Letheby was aware that there were many veterinary surgeons who did not hold his opinions as to the curability of the disease ? Dr. LETIIEBY said the general opinion of his own pro fession, oven among those who said they had no hope in the treatment of the animals when the disease was con firmed, was that the disease, like the disease in the human subject, was amenable to treatment. The LORD PRESIDENT told Dr. Letheby that two of the most eminent men in the medical profession did not hold the opinion which he did on that point. Dr. ALDIS, Medical Officer of Health for the district of St. George's, Hanover-square, said ho had been somewhat surprised at the summary treatment adopted in some dis tricts by finding 103 cows disappear from one yard in about a week. In another case he had found only one diseased out of 12, but yet the whole 12 had been condemned, though the remaining 11 had not shown any symptoms of the disease. It appeared to him hard that those animals should be summarily destroyed, and no means adopted for their cure. He was not a partisan for the establishment of sanitariums in every district, for it had been his duty to op pose ono in the district of St. George's, namely, in Kinner ton-street ; but it appeared to him that it would be a great bar to scientific progress if some means were not adopted for the trial of the veterinary art in this emergency. A great advantage would accrue to science and to the community if a commission were appointed consisting of eminent veteri nary surgeons, aided by members of the legal profession to sift evidence, in order to determine a means of cure if pos sible. If people waited for a cure of any disease they might wait to infinity, but he thought a rational mode of treat ment might be arrived at which would be alike beneficial to the animals and to science, if a scientific commission were set on foot for the promotion of such an object under the auspices of the Government. Mr. RUDKIN said one mischievous result of the present Orders in Council was that cowkeepers were induced to send even healthy cows to be slaughtered, and a dearth of milk was being occasioned. He observed from a report by Pro fessorSymonds that out of 56,784 cows in a certain number of Russian villages, 30,237 entirely escaped infection when the disease was prevalent, 25,778 suffered from the disease and died, and only the rest were slaughtered. After some further conversation on matters of detail, in which the LORD MAYOR, Dr. ANsELL, and other members of the deputation took part, The LORD PRESIDENT said his colleagues in the Council, with himself, had been desirous of having the advantage of the practical knowledge of the gentlemen composing the deputation, and he gathered that it was their unanimous opinion that the Orders in Council now in existence were not sufficiently carried out ; that the Metropolitan market authorities had not the means of preventing a certain num ber of diseased cattle from entering the market ; that they suggested the employment of a larger number of inspectors, aided by the police, and a more complete supervision of all the cowhouses. Dr. Letheby had given a very interesting account as to the wanton manner in which cattle were de stroyed, instead of the knowledge of treating the disease being furthered. The establishment of hospitals had been suggested. The Government had not taken on themselves to do that, Professor Symonds and othors skilled in veteri nary science being of opinion that sanitariums would rather tend to spread the disease than otherwise. He (the Lord President) did not think it would be wise to have recourse to them. The Council would not, however, offer any objec tion to any one sanitarium where a cure might be tried. He might say (turning to Dr. Aldis) that they (the Council) had been occupied within the last few days in organising TEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 180. a Royal commission to inquire into the origin, the nature, and the remedies of the disease, and he thought that before long they would be able to complete the commission, and that it would enter on its labours as soon as possible. With that assurance the deputation took their leave. The Charge of Murder against a Surgeon. SALISBURY, Sept. 18. This morning, at eleven o'clock, John William Storer was brought up on remand, charged with having murdered Emily Sophia Blake under circumstances that have been already reported. The magistrates present were Messrs. J. H. Rigden, the mayor (chairman), Tames Hussey, and J. O. Wheeler. The accused was brought up in custody of Sergeant White, and walked through the streets handcuffed, fol lowed by a great crowd of people, who thronged the court on the door being opened. On the accused being brought up, the Mayor said— John William Storer, are you expecting any professional gentleman to appear on your behalf ? The Accused—l understood that I should only be asked a few questions, and that it would not be necessary for me to have aßy legal adviser here ; but I can send for Mr. Kelsey at once if the case is to be further gone into. _ _ Mr. Hussey—This is to be merely a formal remand. Superintendent Caldon—ln tho absence, your worships, of Mr. Whatman, who has been employed by Mr. Blake to conduct this case, and who is not able to attend, I have to apply for a further remand. I may say that I have now sufficient evidence for a further remand, but I should de sire not to bring it forward to-day ; but I shallbe prepared to go into it fully this day week. The accused was then formally remanded. A paragraph having appeared in one of the local papers that since the inquest Dr. Alfred Taylor has written " letters," stating that he has found strychnine in the in testines, and in " all" the pills, and that throe of the pills would destroy life—the strictest inquiry fails to discover to whom such communication has been made. Even if the analysis was complete, which it is not, the absurdity of supposing that a man of Professor Taylor's professional standing would make the result prematurely known is apparent. Fatal Accident to a Late Senior Wrangler at Cambridge. CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 18. This afternoon an inquest was held at a public-house known as the Red Bull, in the parish of Grantchester, on view of the body of Mr. Henry John Purkiss, 8.A., scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and senior wrangler for that university in 1864, who met his death under the melancholy circumstances detailed below. Francis Barlow, Esq., coroner for the county, presided ; and the Rev. J. C. Ellis, fellow and tutor of Sidney Sussex College, appeared to watch the case on behalf of the university authorities and the friends of the deceased. The deceased was the son of the late Mr. John Purkiss, of Distaff-lane, City. In 1850, when little more than seven years of age, he was en tered at the City of London School, and in his passage through the various classes he carried off a number of prizes, including the gold medal for proficiency, and two silver medals. He was elected a scholar on the Carpenter foundation in 1857, and five years afterwards succeeded in gaining a minor scholarthip at Trinity College, Cambridge, whither he proceeded in 1861, with the Beaufort Scholar ship of the City of London School, being one of the first batch of minor scholars elected at Trinity, and he was elected a foundation scholar at the first examination after he became eligible. He had previously matriculated at the University of London, where he attained the first place in Mathematical honours, and gained the University Exhibi tion ; having also gained the exhibition in the first and second examination for the degree of 8.A., ho was at length enrolled a permanent scholar of the University of London. He likewise won the Queen's prize for proficiency in the natural sciences at the South Kensington examina tion. Pursuing his career at Trinity College, he maintained his supremacy until his name was greeted. with roars of cheering when announced in the senate-house on Jan. 29, 1864, as the senior wrangler of his year—the head of a list of wranglers for numbers almost if not quite unprecedented. Such is an epitome of the brilliant career so prematurely brought to an end. Mr. Purkiss's presence at Cambridge at this particular juncture was owing to his intention to proceed to further honourable strife in the intellectual arena by sitting for a fellowship at Trinity College. The first witness called was Arthur Cockshott, member of Trinity College, and BA., who said—l was acquainted with the deceased, who was also of Trinity and B.A. Deceased was senior wrangler in 1864. He came up on Friday or Saturday night to read for the fellowships at Trinity. On Sunday ho and I walked out with Mr. Gillespie towards " the Gogs" (Gog-magog Hills), and then returned by Grantchester to the bathing sheds in the fields there. We all bathed there. The depth there is mostly out of our depth, but not in all. He (de ceased) never complained of any pain or ill health whilst walking, and appeared in perfect health. We reached tho bathing-sheds about a quarter past one. Mr. Gillespie and I wont in first, and immediately swam clown the river towards " Paradise" according to previous arrangement. We left Mr. Purkiss in the shed undressed, and I believe I heard the splash as he dived in. We asked him to come with us, and he had not made up his mind whether he would do so or not. I and Mr. tlillespie had swam down to the (osier) island, and then got out on to the bank ; that would be about 150 yards from the shed. Had noticed be fore that deceased was not following, and thought he was staying at the shed on purpose. Were about two minutes on the bank, and then plunged in again and continued a downward course towards "Paradise ;" turned, about the middle of the wood, and again got out at the same place as before. We both knew the deceased could swim, but he was not a very good swimmer. He learned to swim about two years ago. I and Gillespie were on the bank on the second occasion about four or five minutes. I and Gillespie returned to the shed, which I reached a little the first, and noticed that deceased was not about the place. It was, as near as I can calculate, twenty minutes from our departure to our return to the shed. I and Gillespie had probably got about 30 yards on our start when I heard the splash of what I took to be the deceased diving in. When we returned we found de ceased's clothes in the shed. and some other gentlemen, who had arrived after us, were in the water. We asked them if they had seen deceased, and they said, "No." I im mediately , dived into the river, and swam down again, thinking ho must have followed us. I thought there was something wrong then, or we must have met him as we came up. I got out and walked along the bank part of the way, thinking I could see into the river better. I sent for drags, and Gillespie went to Sheep's-green for a boat. An alarm was raised, and parties went up and down the river on search. After a little I got dressed, and kept looking about, and about 40 minutes afterwards I saw some weeds in the immediate neighbourhood of the shed moving about in an extraordinary manner, and I threw in a drag, and pulled them on one side; den saw something white; called others, and the "something White" was identified as the arm of the deceased. Two or three men came, and deceased was pulled out. The place where his arm was is only about four feet deep, and about a yard from the bank. It was about 50 yards from tho shed, Dituctlylhe was pulled out a sur geon arrived. Should suppose that if deceased dived in when I heard the splash and swam after us he must have been in the water an hour. The weeds wore so thick there as to impede a man's motion through the water ; there was a peculiar description of tango-weed there. Witness swam over them. Has known deceased and been intimate with him since they were "freshmen" in 1860. Never heard he was subject to heart disease, or apoplectic or any other kind of fits. Deceased was a strong muscular man, about 23 years of age. Have frequently bathed with deceased before. Never knew him complain of cramp. It was a shelving bank where deceased was found, and probably would be about six ket in the middle. A member of the jury suggested that the weeds should be more regularly cut, a suggestion that met general ap proval ; but it appeared that the ownership of the river in the place where the body was found was not in the Uni versity Bathing Club, of which deceased and his companions were members, but was private property—the property, in fact, of the Society of King's College. Mr. David Gillespie, 8.A., of Trinity College, who accompanied - deceased, and Mr. Cockshott, confirmed the latter's evidence in every particular, but differed as to the depth of water where the body was found, which he gave as five feet. Tho parties they found at the bathing shed on their return said they had been there some time, and had not seen deceased while they were there. Mr. James Hough, surgeon, of Cambridge, deposed That he had not previously known deceased. Was cAlled about a quarter past two on Sunday, and deceased was taken out of the water just as he arrived. Mr. Hough proceeded to give technical evidence to the effect that every means were taken to achieve resuscitation but without effect, every assistance being freely rendered by those present, though Dr. Marshall Hall's "Ready Method" was pursued. Once there was slight encouragement to proceed, and artificial inhalation was attempted. Galvanic apparatus was sent for, but could not be procured, and at last witness opened the windpipe and inserted a quill. Attempted by that means to inflate the lungs, with partial success, but all to no purpose, and witness was obliged to give up the case as hopeless, though every appliance except the galvanic apparatus was at hand. Mr. Hough finally gave his opinion (no post mortem examination having been made), taking into consideration the evidence and the appearance of the body, that death resulted from actual drowning, and apart from any other cause. The jury at once found a verdict of "Accidental Death" whilst bathing. It need hardly be added that the melancholy occurrence has cast a gloom over the whole University. THE SUNDAY TRAINS ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—Sunday being the third Sun day on which passenger trains have been run on the Edin burgh and Glasgow railway, the trains were again used by a large number of travellers. The morning and evening trains leaving Edinburgh carried about 150 and 200 pas sengers respectively ; the mail train in the morning car ried 15 or 18 passengers. The numbers arriving at the Edinburgh station were nearly the same. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—If we may rely on the text of a despatch which we transfer to our columns this friornir*frtim the Independance Belge, the language in:which Lord Russell has commented upon the Gastein Conven tion is most decided. He does not appear to have addressed a direct remonstrance to the partitioning Governments, as we may now, - without hesitation, designate Austria and Prussia. Such a proceeding would, indeed, be useless, and until the final act of spoliation has been accomplished it may be more dignified to avoid exposing the claims of public law and the formalities of civilisation to unnecessary contempt. The numerous protests which have already been made have expressed to Prussia and Austria both the general obligations of European law, and the individual rights of the great Powers and of the German Diet. All such protests have been set aside either with duplicity or with open contempt, and it would for the future be paying too high a compliment to the German Governments to assume that they will be in any degree influenced by appeals either to justice or to courtesy. Accord ingly, the despatch of Lord Russell appears only in tended to instruct our representatives in what sense they are to speak of the Gastein Convention when the occasion arises. For this purpose Lord Russell points out, briefly but distinctly, the main charac teristics of this now notorious proceeding. The matter, indeed, lies in a nutshell, and no amount of that diplomatic art which consists in using words so as to conceal their meaning can possibly explain it away. It consists of a few very simple facts, which it is only necessary to state in order to ex hibit the native ugliness of the transaction. The Dukedom of Holstein, with a seat in the Germanic Diet, was assigned to the King of Denmark by. the Treaty of 1815—that is, by the same autho rity in virtue of which alone the Germanic Diet itself exists, and from which alone Prussia and Austria themselves derive possession of many of the territories they now occupy. A subsequent Treaty in 1852 bound all the European Powers to recognise the present King of Denmark as the legi timate Sovereign of that country, and, therefore, also as Duke of Holstein. With the alleged pur pose of vindicating the prior and inherent rights, first of the Germanic Diet, and, secondly, of the population of the Duchies, Austria and Prussia declared war against Denmark and conquered the Duchies. As Lord Russell reminds them, they in the first instance professed that they intended to vindicate their rights without violating those which were created by the Treaties of 1815 and 1852. They subsequently, however, announced that they considered the war to have abrogated those Treaties, and that they were at liberty to make future ar rangements in entire disregard of their stipulations. The plea was sufficiently violent, but it could not be technically denied. The Duchies, therefore, were taken from Denmark, and the conquerors were free to consult the rights of the Diet and of the popula tions, with the advantage of being completely un fettered. Europe had for some time been expecting to see these rights established, when the Gastein Convention informs us that they will not be con sidered at all. Having served their turn like the Treaty of 1852, they will, like that Treaty, be thrown aside. Prussia and Austria now proclaim themselves the sole possessors of the Duchies, and assert their intention of disposing of them by ar rangement between themselves, without reference either to the Germanic Diet or to the population. " All rights," in short, " old or new, whether based upon a solemn agreement between Sovereigns or on the clear and precise expression of the popular will, have been trodden under foot ' • the authority of force is the sole power which has been con sulted and recognised. Violence and conquest— such are the only bases upon which the dividing Powers have established their Convention." This is strong language to be applied in the year 1865 to the conduct of two civilised nations ; yet, after the facts which have been enumerated, it cannot be considered too strong for the occasion. Lord Russell has exactly hit the characteristic which forms the unpardonable element in the Gastein Convention. That element is that in reliance upon mere force the two Governments have disposed of the Duchies without any consideration of existing rights. It is scarcely so much that they have violated rights; they have refused to consider them. They possess the Duchies, and they do with them, not what they ought, but what they can. Lord Russell has perhaps wisely confined himself to exhibiting this flagrant offence in its most naked guise, and has abstained from remarking upon its accessory circumstances. We may, however, not unfittingly point out how greatly the character of the act has been aggravated by the duplicity which it has been accompanied. There is one circumstance, in parti cular, which it is impossible not to consider in this light, of which even Germans have not hesitated to express the strongest reprobation. If there was one thing more persistently asserted than any other by Prussian lawyers and diplomatists, it was that the King of Denmark had no sound title to the Duchies, and that the Duke of Augustenburg was the legiti mate possessor. This was so much relied on that in the London Conference of last year the Plenipoten tiaries of Prussia and Austria actually made the following distinct proposal, which we quote from the summary officially presented to Parliament—it " had for its object to demand a complete separa tion of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the kingdom of Denmark, and their union in a single State, under the sovereignty of the Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg." Nor was this assertion of the rights of the Prince of Augustenburg made hastilyor in ignorance. The ques tion of the succession to the Duchies had been discussed by all the learned faculty of Germany for years, and the right of the Duke of Augustenburg had been as sumed as an axiom. No sooner, however, had the Duchies been wrested from Denmark than the ques tion of the succession was referred by the Prussian Government to the Crown lawyers, and these sagacious authorities have now announced that all their former decisions and the unanimous verdict of German Professors are wrong, and that the King of Denmark is the only person who had a sound title to the Duchies. The practical conclusion is that this title having been by war made over to Prussia and Austria, it is now Prussia and Austria who have the sole right to the Duchies. Such is the end of this fresh investigation, and he must be charitable indeed who can avoid the conclusion that it was also the final cause. As we have said, the duplicity of which this circumstance is but an instance, aggra vates the offence ; and it may be added that it in creases also the alarming character of the prece dent. It seems to show that the forms of civiliza tion, being in the ha n d s o f unscrupu l ous persons, actually serve to facilitate instead of to obstruct unprincipled designs. Unwilling as the Gavernments of Europe were to interfere by force in so insignifi cant a quarrel, it can hardly be doubted that if Prussia had from the beginning announced her in tention to act as she has subsepuently done the other Powers would not have endured the outrage. She assumed, therefore, a respect for establishing obligations, with which she tricked Europe into a reluctant neutrality. We could not believe but that she must pay some regard to right, and we thought it the least of two evils in some measure to trust her. We shall not soon be guilty of such a weakness again. Lord Russell justly observes upon the insecurity of arrangements thus established by mere force, and founded upon no right either of formal law or natural justice. This is, indeed, the aspect of the question which is so momentous to the whole of Europe. The progress of civilisation taught us, as we believed, some centu ries ago that the only security, whether for individuals or for nations, lay in a strict ob servance of established law. It id upon this prin ciple that our liberties have been founded, and we may add that it is upon this principle alone that any man feels secure in the enjoyment of his possessions. It is this principle which is the permanent reality of the balance of power. The substitution, in fact, of law for violence, of right for might, constitutes the whole difference between civilisation and barbarism, between Europe and Central Africa. That Prussia should disregard such a principle is, indeed, not sur , prising. Her greatness was originally founded by violence, and in defiance of established rights, and by military force she exists. But that Austria should lend any countenance to such an example is perhaps the most extraordinary circumstance in the whole transaction. Austria, a heterogeneous mass of nationalities, which receive their connecting links solely from public law and solemn treaties—a Go vernment which protests against the natural rights of Italian nationalities on the ground of formal treaties alone—Austria by such an act might seem to have signed the instrument of her own dismem berment. We shall not attempt to look into the future, and to speculate upon the ultimate issue of this disgraceful transaction. As the genius of Fre derick has partly obliterated the memory of his spoliations, so the success of M. von Bismark's audacity may for a while throw a veil over his inso lence, and he has, indeed, already been rewarded with the title of Count, and has been appropriately honoured with a long visit from the successor of his Royal prototype. But, as we are certain that no State was ever yet established by iniquity or has prospered by violence, we are equally sure that some signal retribution will sooner or later vindicate the supremacy of law, and teach Europe that it must be observed and upheld. POST.—The overland mail just arrived brings us the intelligence that vigorous preparations are being made for a second campaign in Bhootan. About a month since a rumour somehow or other reached Europe that the war forced upon us by the Bhooteas had come to an end, and that pledges had been given by their Government that in future no depredations should be committed on that portion of the English territory adjoining their dominions. Thin report, however, tarns out to be unfounded ; the Government of Bhootan remains as obstinate, as heretofore, and no choice 13 left to us, if we wtivild vindicate our own authority and protsrct those who live Undid citir rule; but to continue hos tilities until we have obtained sufficient reparation for past outrages, and secured adequate gtia±antees against the commission in future of others of it similar kind. Our quarrel with Bhootan is of long standing, and however eager we may have been in other regions of India to avail ourselves of any plattsiblo pretext for invading or annexing the ter ritory of our neighbours, it cannot with justice be said that we have pursued a similar policy on the present occasion. The Bhootans inhabit a hilly range which runs down, in a south-easterly direction, from Thibet towards the plains of Assam ; and, ,availing themselves of the inaccessible nature of the country in which they live, they have for many years been in the habit of making incursions into the lowlands and carrying off the cattle, crops, and other pro perty of the inhabitants, and in many instances consigning the latter to hopeless captivity. Against these outrages the Indian Government again and again protested with no other result than to receive from the Government of Bhootan assurances of future good conduct —assurances, however, which were violated as soon as made. At length the Indian Government decided on despatching a special mission to Bhootan. Mr. Ashley Eden was selected as the envoy, and this gentleman, together withhis retinue, despite the serious physical difficulties presented by the country he was compelled to traverse, succeeded in penetrating to the capital of Bhootan. The jour ney, however, proved worse than unavailing ; for not only did the Bhootan Government refuse to make the required reparation and liberate their cap tives, but they made the envoy himself a prisoner, and liberated him solely on condition of executing in the name of his Government a treaty which pur ported to cede to the Bhooteans the territory which had been the scene of their previous depredations. When Mr. Eden returned to Calcutta, it is needless to say that the instrument thus obtained by coercion was forthwith repudiated by the Government, and that preparations were at once made to avenge the insult offered to the Ambassador, and to secure the population of the plains from future incursions. Owing to the mountainous and, for all military pur poses, practically inaccessible nature of the country occupied by the freebooters, the Indian Government at first resolved on merely taking possession of the several passes opening from Bhootan into the ad joining plains and annexing them to the English territory. For this purpose a strong military force was despatched about a twelvemonth since to the frontier, and not without some little difficulty ; and on one occasion at the cost of a discreditable, if not a very damaging, repulse they succeeded in making themselves masters of some of the principal defiles. The commencement of the hot weather, however, necessitated a suspension of hostilities, whilst at the same time the ravages made by fever were such as to threaten almostthe total annihilation of the troops engaged in the campaign. Every succeeding mail brought accounts of the heavy losses incurred through pestilence, and it became apparent that if the war was to be prosecuted with success, the Government should resolve on annexing, not only the lower defiles, but the higher grounds above them, where the troops might enjoy that health which was denied to themm the jungles at the foot of the hills. For the ap proaching campaign a force has aiready been told off which many seem to consider too large and numerous for the duty which it will be called upon to perform, but as probably a considerableportion willbe retained as a reserve, whilst the remainder is employed in the hills, the numbers will not prove to be unnecessarily great. The Government have not yet decided on the choice of the commander of the expedition ; it is, however, believed that the post will be given to Gen. Showers, an officer well versed by experience in all the dangers and difficulties of Indian campaign ing. Of the final result of such apetty war as that in which we are now unfortunately engaged there can, of course, be but one opinion ; the only doubt which it or any wars of a similar kind can ever excite in the mind is whether the price we may be compelled to pay may not prove rather extravagant, consider ing the smallness of the returns we can- reasonably hope to expect. Confident in the natural strength of their country, the Bhooteas have not only set us at defiance, but have within the past few months refused to pay the usual annual tribute to the Thi betan Government, and treated its envoy with the same disrespect that they showed to Mr. Eden. It is therefore scarcely probable that we shall reduce them to submission if we merely content ourselves with taking possession of a few of the outlying passes which mark the boundary of their moun tainous home. It is considered at Calcutta that an attack should be made on one of the most important of their posts, known as Punakha, but which, from its elevation above the plains, and the rugged nature of the approaches, cannot be taken by troops with out much difficulty and danger. With Punakha in our possession, it would be unnecessary to garrison the lower defiles, and the important advantage of obtaining healthy quarters for our troops would be secured. But Puuakha, it is conceded, will not bo taken without a struggle, and military men do not require to be reminded of the difficulties which be set the path of an attacking force in a narrow mountainous defile. But if we had nothing more serious to contend with than the prowess of the Bhooteas we might well be satisfied with the pros pect before us. Disease, however, not unfrequently destroys more than the sword, and our experiences up to the present have not been encouraging. Some of the regiments have suffered so severely from the ravages made by what is termed the jungle fever that they are said now to be merely regiments in name. Added to this, the supply of medical offi cers in India is so scanty that, in their extremity, the Indian Government have been compelled to telegraph their wants to the authorities. The Government, however, have only themselves to blame if they are now without an efficient medical staff. If they refuse to offer suitable inducements to educate gentlemen to enter their service, they must not be surprised if, as on the present occasion, their troops are left nearly destitute of medical I assistance. ‘; The Saturday Review" on the Bristol Disappointment• No one who has a human heart to feel will doubt that the Bristol operatives have been very hardly used. A cus tom which in this age may be called venerable, as it has now exAnded over ten years, has established that a Prime Minister's vacation is the lawful property of provincial audiences. It is evidently only by a piece of extreme mal administration that Lord Palmerston has had the gout at such a time. It is a defiance of the lawful prerogative of the working-man, and an interference with his most im portant interests. A Prime Minister may be useful during the session of Parliament in passing measures which faci litate the workman's labours. But his business during August and September is far more vital, because he then interferes with the workman's enjoyment of his holiday. To those who have no sympathy with the spirit of the age it is, indeed, a strange kind of holiday. The only salient point of the speech which the Prime Minister would have made, if he had gone to Bristol, would have been a bad joke about the young women present, and the probability of their being soon married. A joke of equally good calibre would probably have been furnished them by their own rector, whenever he undertook to improve their minds by a suburban lecture. But it is something to hear a great Prime Minister make a very small joke. The conscious ness that a man for whose decision France and Russia have looked with anxiety is improvising small chaff to grinning females for your amusement, is ennobling to humanity, and raises a man in the scale of sentient beings. Besides, the appearance of a Prime Minister as part of an autumn raree-show is in itself a sublime testimony to the progress of civilisation in our great country. There was a time when the working-man was content with far loss elevat ing sights. The agility of a long-tailed monkey, or the conjuring tricks of a mountebank, used to furnish the holi day enjoyments of those who now insist upon Prime Mi nisters and Chancellors of the Exchequer. Every symp tom of a more fastidious and more delicate taste in the working classes is to be hailed as an improvement, no matter what the, nature of the enjoyment upon which it is exercised. That distinguished politicians are now required to excite the same curiosity which used to be easily raised by the grosser performers who preceded them, shows that the working men are becoming thorough connoisseurs. The fact ought to take its place in the catalogue of merits by which Mr. Baines annually establishes their right to the six-pound franchise. The regret, however, has not been confined to the in habitants of Bristol alone. Their loss is easily. repaired. There are plenty of younger "lions" about, even if the king of autumnal exhibitors is away. They have already made an attack (though an unsuccessful one) upon Mr. Gladstone, who, if he cannot provide jokes for the women, can preach a lay sermon as well as any man ; and there still remains Sir Charles Wood, whose speeches, if they do not charm the ear, impose a severe and profitable exer cise on the understanding. The Bristol folk will make a great mistake if they do not send for Sir Charles Wood, for they hardly know what a Minister really is until they have seen and heard him. Whoever they may succeed in trapping, their show will be just as lively. But this refusal of Lord Palmerston has an ominous look. Graver interpre tations are affixed to it than the newspapers care to print, and doubts aro freely expressed whether he may not be compelled some months hence to forego a meeting of more importance than the Bristol gathering ; and the substitute proposed by the men of Bristol naturally suggests the in quiry whether Mr. Gladstone will be "sent for" to replace his chief at a more distant period. The position of Mr. Gladstone in reference to the succession of the leadership of the Liberals, which must fall vacant before long, has altered a good deal within the last few months. His mis hap at Oxford was due to a variety of causes, soma of them creditable to the University and some of them very much the reverse. But it has had one effect, little intended pro bably by those who brought it about. It appears to have convinced Mr. Gladstone that his declarations in favour of universal suffrage, and his open flirtations with Mr. Bright, Were not so popular as one time he imagined they would be. The fact that a majority of the lay portion of the con stituency has rejected him is a fact which cannot fail to tell upon his mind. Though they may be very sincere Christians, the laity are not usually so sensitive to ques tions affecting ; the Established Church as the clergy. They are apt, rightly or wrongly, to treat the seiisitiveness of the clergy upon such points as exaggerated, and to set down the questions upon which clerical appreheraSions are the liveliest as mere questioxi of detail. It was no ecclesi astical quarrel that induced the lay members of the Oxford constituency, speaking of them as a whole, to dissever the University from Mr. Gla,dstone:s splendid fame. That speech in favour of manhood suffrage told upon the edu cated classes with a fatal effect which no Pbsequent apologies or prefaces could dispel. But Mr. Gladstone, quick as his perceptions are in many respects, is slow to .recognise the movements of opinion, and especially of the educai,'d opinion by which in England all political issues are decided. The speeches, however, which he delivered at Manchester and Liverpool give a fair groundforhoping that, under the stem teaching of the Oxford election, he has at last recognised the danger of his course. Tnose speeches paid a deference to the feelings and apprehensions of the propertied classes which for many a year he had not displayed. The dulness, again, of his last oration at Hawarden seems to show — unless, indeed, like Addison, Mr. Gladstone has some special reason for being intentionally stupid—that he re cognises, in the necessities and prospects of the present moment, the policy, or at lean the safety, of humdrum. It is dangerous to predict anything concerning his futurO course. His moderation in Lancashire may be but a pass ing phase of opinion, such as many others by which hie political life has been marked. But he has arrived at a. time of life when "phases of opinion" should cease. If he again changes, and, in obedience to the fancied neces sity of the hour, holds out his hand once more to the ex treme Radicals, he will have created a deep-seated distrust which he is now too old to dissipate. There can be no doubt that the Bristol workmen were right; and that in fame Mr. Gladstone is only second, if second, to Lord Palmerston. But in England something more beside surpassing gifts of oratory are needed to qualify a ruler. No talent will reconcile the really powerful classes in this country to a democratic leader. Democracy has of late years achieved no success so brilliant as to abate the natural dislike which the possessors of property, be it large or small, entertain to the idea of consigning the power of taxation to those who have no property to tax. The dominant opinion of England desires progress ear nestly and intently, but it would wish it not to be left to the caprice of the uninstructed multitude. Progress, under the protection of the educated minority, is the end to which all that is best and most powerful in England tends. It is for Mr. Gladstone to say whether he will be the leader of such an enterprise or not. If he enters heartily into such conditions, it is not likely that any power will be strong enough to displace him from the primacy which his marvellous ability naturally claims. Personal antipathies or bitter memories will have lost their power against a position based on a foundation so secure. But if he persists in making himself the Minister of democracy, he will have raised against himself a phalanx of powerful interests and tenacious animosities against which no dis plays of talent will avail. The decision that he will form within the next few months will be momentuous for his own career, and not without grave influence upon the destinies of England. It will remain for him to decide whether the rank which the Bristol workmen have given I him shall or shall not be his rank in history. COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON-SErT. 16. Tho supply of wheat at our corn market to-day was tole rably good, and consisted of old and new descriptions. We had a heavy feeling in the wheat trade to-day, and prices generally must be written is to 2s per qr. lower than on the preceding. The supply of barley on offer not large, and a moderate business done at little alteration in prices. For oats a fair inquiry took place, and sales were mostly at late rates. Beans in tolerable request, and previous rateS were nearly established. New white wheat, 45s to 47s ; new red, 36s to 41s ; old white, 43s to 48s ; old red, 40s to 46s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 35s per 3 0 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ' • new, 22s to 25s per 24 stone . Beans, old, 44s to 48s ; new, 38s to 43s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 37s per 36 stone. COLCHEST al--SErT. IG. Wheat, white vv 40s 54s' Beans, Di5zagat1......331 384 red 36s 48s Middle and 5ma11..35s 404 Barley.. Oats ........20s 258 grey —368 105 CHELMSFO: ,D-SEPT. 15. Wheat, old white 458 51s Peas, Partridge re 304 new 44s 5 8 White ..308 30 old red 41s 41s B...iling .. ...... 380 4 25 new. 31s 12s Dun ...31s 35° 8ar1ey..... 25s 32s dit o, new....-8 Chevalier 26a 33s Beans, Tick, old ......3 is 37 ° Grind ng •Os 8s new....-8 - ° Malt 6lB 67s • Harrow 'ficks.3s B -8 Chevalier 648 68s new....—s -e Oats GRANT HAM-SErT. 16. -- --- Old white wheat, 45s to 495; old red, 44s to 48s; no/ white, 45s to 49s ; new red, 40s to 458 per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, —n to —s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 308 Pe r 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 27s ; new, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 475; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN-SEPT. 15. Here to-day large quantities of new barley wore offering: The best samples brought about last week's rates; inferior were lo fiver. New oats a fair sale at 19s to 21s per 4011,- old the same as last week. White wheat 36E Od to 40s 01 . 621 b l i i b u shel. Red wheat 34s Od to 36s Od Potato oats - 21s 6d to 22s 01 40Ib V bushe l Common oats 20s 6d to 21s 6d Bere 23s Od to 24s 01. 531 b v bushel' Barley 23s Od to 24s Od 10lb• - . Oatmeal 16s 6d to 17s 6d - boll of 14(4 Flour, fine 33s Od to 34s Od 10 sack of 280Ib' KIRKCALDY—SEPT. 16. Moderate supplies of all kinds of grain, which sold slowif at about last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...—. 4213.0 d 24e Od 2le Od econd.... 43e 6d 253 6d ,238 Od Tuird 148 Od 27e Od 24s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d• Carway and Duffryn -- Byass's Bebside West 18 ' Malting 24 0 Hartley Tees Hetton Lyons lB 9 Walls End Haswell... 20 „ Tunstall Kelloe New Belmont l9 6 Wylam l6 v Ships at market, 37 ; sold, 37. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton SePt• 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 11 Brazil and Cape Verde. by British paoset Oct. *• Ditto, by French packet Sept 22 ' t 21. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena ... . Sep , s , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Sep t. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 0 Faikland Islands Sept. 19. Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Sseeppti...l‘,4 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Sep t. t Ditto, via Marseilles Sep Mauritius, via Southampton Oet- Ditto, via Marseil'e3 4. Newfoundland ...... . ee" 21. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon .... United States and British North America, by Bri - . tish packet sept- Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via C3rk 0-- Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry. •sept. 0. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife...... Oct. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, 0, and Mexico ' Bahamas, via New - York. Oct. „"i . Bermuda, ditto SeP t " * s SeP t Cuba and Mexico B Irths. of BENIVELL.—On the 15 th inst. , at Cheltenham, the vrif 0 Captain Benwell, 100th Regt., of a son. C o lon CAREY.—On the 13th inst., at Southsea, the wife a F. Carey, of a son. tb ° R OSTO VIZOFF.—OR the 15th inst., at St. Peters burg, C oun tess Mary Rostovizoff, of a son and a daught 4 _ n St. SOUTHAMPTON. —On the 18th i ns t., at 1, Stabl e- r w,' James's, the Lady Southampt on , of a daughter. Marriages -goO t i daughter g H h e t h er ry 0 fG. Lieutenant-GeneralCOt t er el COTTERELL—AIREY.—On the 14th in t , at Grov.,,,e "etre" 'Bart"to Airey. , lot 01 SMITH—GLADSTONE.—On the 16th inst. at St4- 7 , il° Est' Upper Lewisham, William, only son of W. Slur l ,l o o' '- of Shardeloes-road, and Messrs. Barclay and r,or,' — ds to t e e : mily. Rebecca, youngest daughter of Win. he Esq., of Manor-road, Lewisham, and late of the . 1 . Department, General Post-office. Deaths.. m. s llrrel' ATTWOOD.—On the 17th inst. at at Dulwich 1 1 --- alsC.;ndthtehrionefituon'a.rl4o,o: Matthias Wolverly Attwood: Esq., aged 57. ~, 1/439 4 CLAY.—On the 17th inst ., Captain Clay, late 37t ' , rel aged 54. , O . ro 0 HALL.—On the 15th inst. at Cross-roads, EPP' ll t'ii, 06 Sumuel Godfrey Hall, Esq., of 130, London -10 t• 62. f , 0 3 , HUNTER.—On the 14th inst . at at Cheltenham Lierill"-:alu' Colonel Francis Hunter,. late of the Madras ,a aged 73. - - . vrA- London : Printed and Publis hed b y WIL LW! 0- - plo• of No. 112, Strand, Piin ter, at 'Du. 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