The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-12 00:00:00

Violent Gale, A fearful gale from the south-south-west burst over London yesterday morning, and continued to blow throughout the day in gusts more violent than any we have experienced even in the course of this unusually stormy winter. It was accompanied by a heavy rain, which swept in blinding torrents against these who had occasion to face the blast. The wind whistled wildly over the roofs and past the open passages, making our ill-built houses tremble to their foundations. The cabmen and omnibus drivers, blinded and confused by the wind and rain, seemed at times scarcely able to remain in their seats or keep their vehicles clear of the footpaths, and the horses seemed unable to drag their load against the wind and rain. From all parts of the town accidents are reported. Chimneys have been blown down, houses unroofed, leads and signboards torn from the walls, and temporary wooden erec tions thrown to the ground. In Dulwich-lane a part of the roof of a stable was carried away, and a boy named Edward Parsons was badly injured about the head. A Mr. Symonds was proceeding along the New Cross-road when a quantity of slates from the roof of a house struck him on the head and knocked him down. On being raised it was found that he was insensible. He was taken to a surgeon's, where his injury (a scalp wound) tvas attended to. In the Old Kent-road a scaffold in front of a house in course of erection gave way with a loud crash, and two men named Edward Coe and Geo. Sand man, who were passing,. sustained injuries so severs that they had to be taken to the hospital. In the Westminster-road part of an outhouse was demo lished, and several persons narrowly escaped injury. At South Lambeth a house was completely stripped of lead, and in Larkhall-lane a man named Stephen Fountain was much cut about by some falling frag ments. A man in passing along Clapham-road had a very narrow escape ; a piece of leaden gutter came down, but it fortunately caught the point of his umbrella, which warded off the blow, but caused him to stagger and fall. About four o'clock in the afternoon a most alarming accident occurred. A cottage partly used as a workshop and partly as a dwelling-house at the back of the pre mises belonging to Mr. Valentine, bookseller, 34, Alfred-street, Bedford-square, and in the occupation of Mr. Ranvaud, bookbinder, was blown in. Mr. Ranvaud, his wife, and three little children, as well as a visitor, were completely buried under the ruins. Mr. Ranvaud, not losing his presence of mind, suc ceeded in extricating his family from under the fall ing rubbish. In this he was most fortunately assisted by two foreigners living close by. The house is com pletely destroyed, and although no loss of life is to be feared, the consequence of the accidents will be severely felt by Mr. Ranvaud. The storm has com mitted considerable havoc down the South-Western and South-Eastern lines, and the engine -drivers de scribe the gale as having been of unprecedented vio lence. Owing to the heavy rains, the land about Tottenham and other places on the Eastern Coun ties line was inundated, and much damage done. On the river the scene was truly alarming, the water at high tide being forced over the low-lying shores and deluging the basement of houses ; whilst navi gation was carried on with considerable danger, the steamers being scarcely able to make headway. The vessels in the Pool suffered considerably in the injury to rigging, and some violent collisions are reported. PORTSMOUTH, Sunday. The fine summer weather of Thursday last was succeeded on Friday by a strong W.S.W. wind, with continuous rain throughout the day, and a falling barometer. On Saturday tho wind was generally fresh from the same quarter, with fierce hail and rain squalls from the IV.N.W., and passing over at abort intervals, the mercury in one of .Negretti's sea coast barometers being steady from 10 a.m. until sun set at 29.55. At midnight the mercury began to fall rapidly, with the wind veering to S., and at 4 a m. to-day a furious gale from the south was sweeping over the Channel and raising a tremendous sea on the English coast line. At 9 a:m. the barometer had fallen to 29.0 --half an inch in 12 hours, and the squalls which occasionallysWept over added materially to the strength and dangerous character of the gale. No communication was possible with the shipping anchored off Spithead, the Motherbank, or St. Helen's, many of which rode heavily at their anchors. No fears were felt, however, for the safety of any of the vessels moored on such excellent ground, so long as their chains and anchors did not part. Among the vessels anchored at Spithead was a large vessel brought up there late on Saturday evening, - which was believed to be the Tweed, hired troop ship, with the headquarters of the 72d Regiment on board, from India. At 1 p.m. the barometer was 28.72, with the wind veering in to S.W., and blow ing furiously. Throughout the afternoon the gale raged with unparalleled violence, the wind veering in further to the westward. The streets of the town were rendered utterly impassable to carriages or foot passengers, not only from the fury of the gale, but from the continual downfall of destroyed house roofs and chimney stacks-, the very house in which this report was written being partially destroyed, and but two rooms left in it habitable. The vane of the ancient tower of St. Thomas's Church, a gilt metal full-rigged ship, 6 feet in length, placed there in 1710, has been partly dismounted, and the spin dle on which it revolves bent out of its perpendicular to an angle of 30 degrees, notwithstanding its great strength. A french brig has been driven ashore un der Haslar Hospital walls, but the crew have been taken off and brought ashore safely. The injury in flicted on house property must be very great already, scarcely a building or house standing adjacent in Portsmouth adjacent to the sea beach but has re ceived more or less damage. Since 1 p.m. the baro meter has stood at 28.72, the wind now (5 30 pan.) being slightly north of west, but the gale is still as violent, and sunset closed with every promise of a fearful night at sea and to some extent also on shore. CHATHAM, Sunday Evening. A tremendous gale with rain broke over this port and neighbourhood this morning, preceded by a rapid fall of the barometer. During the gale the wind, which had the force of a hurricane, shifted from the south-west and southward to the westward, and back again, while the rain descended in sheets of water. The vessels of war and other shipping in harbour have adopted necessary precautions to pre vent casualties, and nearly all have an extra anchor down. The Wellesley, 72, has sent down her royals, while the other ships have their yards braced to the wind, the gale having every appearance of continu- ing. On board the Great Eastern steamer the usual precautions have been adopted to enable the huge vessel to ride out the gale at her anchorage. Steam has been got up in some of the boilers in readiness for any _ emergency should the violent gale cause her T ' ° drag her anchorf, There is a large fleet of ves sels l y i n , b . inside thCsle of Grain and near the Little Nore. which • _ ' , - , u have brought up during the day to await the gale moderating, many of them having lost spars and bow s p r it s , with othe r m i nor d amages . The barometer has been falling throughout the afternoon and evening, and at the time of this de spatch the m ercury had descended to 28.25, the gale still raging, but the rain t having ceased. Numerous vessels continue to arrive their position for the night at the entranceeiot ,rbeing o taketont up the harbour, Up to the moment of this r g . forwarded our cor respondent had not received intelligence ser i ou s casualties, although it i t , of any feared that the morning's reports will show a considerable amount of damage having been sustained. PORTLAND, DORSE T , Sunday.— Yesterday the wind blew from W., f resh, with hail and rain squalls, but during last night it shifted into S., increasing to a heavy gale with rain. There are about 150 vessels in this harbour and in w ey _ mouth Roads riding out the gale. Through the wind having shifted to a more southerly quarter, and having blown so violently all night, a very heavy sea rolls in from the Channel, and most of the vessels are riding with anchors down. At 10 o'clock this morning the barometer read as low as 28.80 in., and still seemed to fall. The Mis sionary ship John Williams, bound to Mel bourne, Australia, which sailed hence last Monday week, has again returned fo r s h e lt er , having expe rienced very severe weather since she left here. There i are also several large steamers which were outward bound again at anchor in the harbour, having put back through the heavy weather which has prevailed in the Channel for so many weeks past. No serious casualties have occurred either to the shipping, the breakwater, or any buildings on land up to the present time (1 p.m.), but the wind is now blowing with the force of a hurricane. Fearful Collison in the Bay of Biscay. PLYMOUTH, Saturday. This afternoon the ship Queen of Beauty, Capt. Chapman, from London for Melbourne, put back to the Sound, having on board the crew and passen gers of the Wanata, lost in the Bay of Biscay, when on her passage from Liverpool for Melbourne. The Queen of Beauty left the docks on Jan. 2, and in consequence of heavy weather brought up in the Downs, which she did not leave until the 23d. On Feb. 6 at noon she was in lat. 46 13 N., and long. 10 15 W. Towards midnight she was a little to the westward, standing, with her bow north, under single reefed topsails, foresail, mainsail, jib, spanker, and staysail. The wind Was from W. to W.S.W., with a very heavy sea running from N.W., and a thick haze hanging low on the horizon. The captain was on deck. A ship was reported on the lee bow, and the Queen of Beauty's after yards were thrown aback immediately to avoid a collision, but this was impossible. The force of the blow was, however, diminished, and the stranger was struck on the port side just abaft the fore rigging, and was cut down nearly to the water's edge. She proved to be the ship Wanata, 1,437 tons, Capt. Todd, be longing to Messrs. Baines and Co., of Liverpool. The Wanata left on Jan. 26 with 183 passengers, chiefly Government emigrants, including 60 single women. Among the passengers were two clergymen, Messrs. Walker and Lawson, Miss Markham, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Gourley, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Withington. Her crew consisted of 45 officers and men all told, of whom 28 were seamen, including 10 or 12 Swedes, Italians, and other foreigners. The Wanata had experienced very heavy weather, and just be fore the collision was standing on the port tack, with her bow south, under double-reefed topsails, foresail, main trysail, and fore topmast staysail. The col lision took place during the second mate's watch. The proper lights were exhibited, one being a red light on the port side. Immediately after the colli sion the carpenter was lowered down to try to patch the hole, but in this effort he was unsuccessful, in consequence of the heavy sea running. The ship was laden with iron, and a general cargo, and towards the morning the crew broke into the hold, and be came drunk, disorderly, and mutinous. Previous to the collision one of them had to be placed in irons for disobedience. On the morning of the 7th the doctor was assaulted when preventing some of the crew from going among the single women. During Wednesday the weather was so boisterous that no attempt could be made to transfer the passengers to the Queen of Beauty, which con tinued near. The pumps were kept going chiefly by the aid of the passengers. On the morning of the Bth it was considered that the Wanata could not be saved, and at 9 a.m. preparations were made for conveying her passengers and crew and some pro visions to the other ship. For this purpose the long boat was placed in charge of the boatswain, and the two lifeboats under the command of the mate, Mr. M'Clelland, and the second mate. They were kept on duty until nearly dusk, Capt. Todd and Dr. Stone, the surgeon, being the last to leave the Wanata ; their boat was nearly swamped. At 730 p.m. the Wanata was observed to be on fire, apparently aft, 1 and her mizenmast was supposed to have been burnt out. It is conjectured that when the crew went be low to rummage the passengers' cabins they set the ship on fire accidentally. The Queen of Beauty is what is termed a " short ship," and had but one passenger. Owing to this. circumstance to second cabin and saloon were fortu nately unoccupied, and were appropriated to the use of a portion of the passengers of the Wanata. By the collision the Queen of Beauty lost her jibboom and cutwater, and had her bulwarks damaged. At 8 p.m., on Thursday, she bore up for Plymouth. Captain Stoll, R.N., the Government emigration officer here, has made arrangements for the reception of the passengers in the depot at Stonehouse. Messrs. Wilcocks and Weeks have taken charge of the Queen of Beauty, and the crew of the Wanata have either been sent to the Sailors' Home or despatched by rail under the authority of the agent of the Ship wrecked Mariners' Society. The crew of the Wanata appear to have made great depredations. One woman passenger has lost a purse containing seven sovereigns ; another lost a gold watch. Dr. Stone has missed a package of very valuable papers. It is supposed that had the ships locked at the time of the collision both would have gone down immediately. Each was aback. The Queen of Beauty, 1,235 tons, was built at St. John's in 1861, and is under charter by the Black Ball line. The Wanata was built at New Brunswick in 1852. SUNDAY. All the passengers belonging to this ship were safely landed last evening from the Queen of Beauty in the Sound. The emigrants are in the depot at Stonehouse, and express themselves well satisfied with their quarters. They make grave complaints of the conduct of some of the crew of their ship, especially of White (an Englishman), Kennedy and illicinan (Irish), and a man named Cox, all of whom were frequently intoxicated after the collision. Among the men two Spaniards, one of whom quar relled with a shipmate on Sunday, the 4th, and was put in irons. They state that on the 6th, about two hours after the collision, Captain Todd sent some whisky to the steerage passengers, who were working at the pumps, when Alicman and another seaman knocked the messenger down, stole the bottle and drank its contents. On the 7th, Cox struck the second mate on the quarter deck, and was put in irons ; but he broke from them and freed himself. On the 9th, when on board the Queen of Beauty, Micman was discovered in possession of 141 b. of tobacco, and some of the passengers' clothing ; he was put in irons by Captain Chapman. In reference to the Wanata, the passengers state that previous to the collision she was pumped every watch, about a quarter of an hour each time, and that the collision did not cause much leakage. The hole was stopped by the carpenter with boards covered with oakum, canvas, tar, and two or three coats. They consider that had she been British built and not so old the master would not have abandoned her. The officers of the ship say that when put on the starboard tack she made six feet of leakage in ten minutes, and that it was necessary to keep her constantly on the other tack. There is a statement by the passengers that the Queen of Beauty was seen half an hour before the collision ; that the Wanata's port light was not burning briskly, and was taken in to be rectified, and then replaced. The Queen of Beauty's stem broke into the steerage berth of Jonathan M'N e il, who, with his wife, was asleep at the time ; h e i s a returning Australian, and was slightly injured. The young women emigrants, about 60, chiefly I r i s h, are in charge of Mrs. M'Avoy,:,matron. Many of them are badly supplied with clothing. With the exception of the master, chief officer, second officer, and doctor, all the crew of the Wanata left Ply mouth at 6.45 this morning for Liverpool. FREEDMEN'S LABOUR. —The Memphis Avala nc h e dares to say that the experiment of freed men's labour has proved a success. The field of industry is so wide and diversified that accounts from it are naturally various and con flicting ; but there can be no doubt that the average of results is that of success. There are difficulties to surmount ; there are prejudices to overcome of reome ; but it is th e l esson o f w i s d om an d t h e part policy to make all the virtue we can of neces sity, and not to abandon what is already in our hands for rash and visionary adventures. The labour of the negro is ponderous and inaccurate ; it lacks the skill and the moral stimulus of educated industry; but after all that can be said on the sub ject, it must be admitted that a labour naturally tractable, trained in long habits of servitude, and accustomed to the soil, is much more serviceable to the South than any imported and strange labour can possibly be. The Unitarians in New York city have lately raised $300,000 for missionary purposes. -~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1866. trate, who had been cashiered. He drew attention to the difference of the system pursued at the refuge and that followed at the casual wards of the work houses, and the successful precautions taken to de tect deception, prevent abuse, and to enforce order and good conduct. Another important benefit afforded by the refuge, was the effort made by the committee to find employment for those who were compelled to become recipients of the charity. It had been said that recent legislation had prevented the necessity of these refuges, but that was not the fact, seeing that the class for whom the refuge was provided was altogether a different one from that which resorted to the workhouses. In conclusion he moved that the report be adopted. Mr. W. H. GLADSTONE, M.P., seconded the motion, and congratulated the institution on the improved position, both in funds, influence, and usefulness, the refuge occupied now as compared with last year. There were various opinions as to refuges, but his view was that they should re gard them as supplemental to the workhouse. The casual ward was the great difficulty of the work houses. There were two classes who availed them selves of the casual wards—the outcasts of society, the criminals and vagabonds of the metropolis, and those whom misfortune had reduced to destitution, and who by a little help might rise again to a posi tion of honest industry. The great objection was that those two classes were herded together in casual wards, and thus the moral and decently con ducted were exposed to the disgusting ribaldry and profanity which characterised the morally degraded who under this system were their companions. It was for the most deserving of these two classes that the refuge was intended, and until police or other regulations were introduced for the purpose of effec tually separating those classes in the casual wards, refuges like that at Newport-market would continue to be necessary. The motion was adopted. The Bishop of OXFORD moved that the results of recent legislation, as at present carried out, had not diminished the claims of the existing voluntary night refuges on public support. The motion was seconded by Commodore RYDER. Sir H. HOARE moved a resolution in favour of making further exertions towards establishing an industrial school for the boys received into the re fuge. This was seconded by Mr. RANKIN, and carried. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. Army Schools in France and England. The following remarks, which will be read with interest, are taken by us from a very able paper upon the subject in the current number (February) of Bentley's British Army and Navy Review : The pressure of public opinion on Parliament and the military authorities has already produced the most satis factory amelioration in the condition of our soldiers— almost all the grievances of which they had, until lately, but too just reason to complain have been redressed. The degrading torture of the cat is now never had recourse to, except as punishment for the most serious crimes, and even in such cases the maximum of lashes had been re duced from 500, heretofore not unfrequently administered to 50, so that we may reasonably hope for its total aboli tion at no distant day. The meritorious soldiers too have had their pay increased, by means of good conduct allow ances, attainable by all, to an amount beyond which it would perhaps be injudicious, having a duo regard to the preservation of discipline to augment it. The sanitary condition of their barracks has been greatly improved. Their sleeping-rooms are well ventilated, and their food is good and abundant—while such of them as happen to be married, are either provided, or about to be so, with separate lodgings, which will relieve them from the indecency of the manner in which they were hereto fore compelled to live, so that it may be truly said, that everything re luired to minister to the personal comfort or well-being of our troops, has been already, or is in process of being, secured for them. Neither was the cultivation of the soldier's mind over looked, during the progress of these most desirable and admitted improvements in his means and method of living —au expensive (when estimated by the amount of infor mation it professed to communicate) system of regimental education was devised for his intellectual improvement, Parliament willingly and liberally supplying the necessary , funds ; but its efficiency has been destroyed by radical de fects in its organisation, add founding our opinion on the facts revealed in the second report of the Council of Mili tary Education, we regret to say, that it appears for so far, and after a trial of now some year's duration, to have resulted in an undoubted and deplorable failure. Educa tion is not and never can ho made so acceptable to tho British soldier, who rarely ambitious and still more rarely attains military rank, through his own personal mei-A . 4 and exertions, as it is to the French ono, who on entering his service has the highest honours of his profession held out to him, as prizes surely to be won, by perseverance, good conduct and courage ; and who accordingly labours assiduously, in his humble sphere, to profit by the instruc tion, which will render him capable of correctly perform ing the duties of the high military rank, should it be his goad fortune to reach them. Yet in the French ser vice, notwithstanding that much diligence and attention to their studies might reasonably be expected from the soldiers (who aro taught that they carry " La Baton do Marshal dans leers Gibernes") on account of the ultimate benefits which they may probably derive from them—at tendanee on the regimental schools is made compulsory— while in ours, where no such stimulants to exertion exist, tho soldier is loft at perfect liberty to avail himself, or not as he pleases, of the educational advantages, which the country provides:for him, and to this cause may mainly be attributed the failure of our regimental schools, to accom plish the objects for which they were designed. The very composition of our army should have taught those having control over its education the futility of making attempts to extend its, benefits of learning, while leaving it optional with the class of men, who, for the most part, fill its ranks, to indulge in the idleness or intemperance which where the main causes of their en listment, or voluntarily to undergo the slightest degree of mental exertion ; the more irksome, because never before enforced upon or practised by them. It is unfortunately the fact, that the vast majority of our recruits volunteer for service, only when they find them selves unable to gain their bread by other pursuits, or are entrapped by the recruiting sergeant when in a state of intoxication. The expecation of leading an easy life, while enjoying good food, is the sole motive which induces the former to become soldiers, and the latter, quickly repent ing the step they have taken, desert, if :they can auom plish their evasion, or, failing in their attempts and being unable to buy themselves off, retire from the service, upon the termination of their first engagement. Now it is evi dent that men actuated by such motives or enrolled by such means will have no taste for mental improvement, that those who can already read and write will rest satis fied with requirements which they consider sufficient for their purposes, while those who can do neither, seldom feel inclined to submit to the labour necessary for acquir ing a knowledge of the simplest rudiments of learning, which might exercise some influence on their future pro spects. The number of those who enter our army in the hope of obtaining promotion is extremely limited, and such persons, as a matter of course, have already received an education very far in advance of that afforded by the regimental system, which is in truth, as at present carried out, useless to all classes we have enumerated —to the illi terate and unwilling to learn or partially instructed, be cause they are not compelled to attend the schools—and to those desirous of enlarging the sphere of their know ledge, because the scope of the instruction which the re gimental teachers impart, is far below that by which they have already profited. A bachelor and a young lady bought some tickets in partnership in a lottery at the recent Sanitary Fair at Milwaukee, agreed to divide the proceeds equitably. They drew a double bedstead, a baby-crib and lunch basket, and the question is, how to divide them, or whether they shall not use them jointly, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortalay of 60,000 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines, which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in reality to o.her tendency than that of increasing debility, and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study how to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood, upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's inva lids' and Infa..ts' Food, the Revalenta Arabica, and its thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as much easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, and for children it is the best substitute for human milk. Dr. Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and children—the best authority on such matters —in his admir able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub stances, th .t which comes closest to milk in its composition is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con sluing both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of potasflum ; it also includes casein, the same principle which is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt ity, have completely recovered. I have given it with the Areatest advant.,ge in such cases; and so far as I may judge from my own experience, practice fully carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.— In tins, lib., 2a. 9d.; 21b., 48. Cd ; 5:b., lls. ; 121 b., 215. ; 241 b. 405.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;, also Phillips, tea deale rs , 8 , R ing W i ll i am - s t ree t ; lik ew i se at 61, Graceehurch-strut ; 4 , C heaps id e ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court-road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, C 5, high-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che mists.—Beware of BDuriolus imitations. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The report of the directors states that the net re venue for the six months ending the 31st of De cember last, after deducting interest on loans and all other preference charges, amounted to £213,033, to which was added £746 from the preceding half year, making £213,779 available for dividend. From this sum the directors recommended a divi dend at the rate of 5i per cent. per annum, payable on the Ist of March, leaving a balance of £1,103. The interest on the company's mortgage debt stood at 4.28 per cent., as against 4.26 per cent. for the same half of 1864. The total traffic receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December amounted, on 4934 miles, to £787,143, against £749,905 on 4704 miles for the corresponding half of 1864, show ing an increase of £37,238. The expendi ture amounted to £386,367, against £368,571, showing an increase of £17,796. The net revenue of the half-year amounted to £400,776, against £381,334 in the corresponding half of 1864, showing an increase of £19,412. The report of the locomotive engineer showed an in crease of 206,100 train miles, the rate per mile being 9.85 d. as compared with 10.24 d. per mile for the corresponding period of 1864. This increased mile age principally arose from the opening of the An dover and Redbridge and the Alton and Winchester lines, together with a portion of the Devon and Cornwall line (about eight miles in length) ; the Weymouth and Portland Railway, worked jointly with the Great Western Railway Company, and the new service of trains between Kensington and the Waterloo and London-bridge Stations. The South ampton and Netley Railway and the junction with the Metropolitan Extension of the London, Chat ham, and Dover Company at Clapham mght be considered as completed, and it was hoped they would be opened for traffic on the Ist of March. By the latter, and the connection it would form be tween Ludgate-hill Station and Clapham Junction via Brixton and Camberwell, a new system of trains would be organized between Ludgate-hill and the Richmond, Twickenham, and Kingston lines. The further arrangements contemplated could not be carried out until thedoubling of the line of the Chat ham Company, the Brighton Company's works on the Tooting and Sutton line, and the opening of the Tooting, Merton, and 11 , imbledon Railway were finished. Those works were all making satisfactory progress. The capital account showed that £14,762,867 had been received, and £14,738,365 expended, including £519,391, during the past half year, leaving a balance of £24,502. HULL AND SELBY. The half yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at Hull, Mr. J. R. Pease in the chair. The C lIAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which stated that the- amount available for dividend was £34,475. Out of this the directors recom mended a dividend of £2 9s. 6d. on each £5O share, and in likeproportion on the half and quarter shares, less the Income-tax. The chairman remarked that the expenses for the past half-year had been un usually light, and he therefore hoped the directors would soon be in a position to pay the full dividend. Mr. J. Loft and Mr. J. Whitaker, the retiring directors, and Mr. J. Buckton, the retiring auditor, were re-elected. The proceedings then terminated. DUBLIN, WICKLOW, AND WEXFORD. The directors of this company state in their report that the accounts for the half-year ending Dec. 31 show a profit on revenue of £33,771, and a total balance available for dividend of £34,024 ; out of which the directors recommend the usual dividends, at the rate of 6 per cent, and 5 per cent. per annum on the original stock of the company, and on the sums paid in advance of call on the stock of 1864, leaving £9,687 to be carried forward. The returns of traffic show an increase over the corresponding half year of £13,514, of which £10,679 has been derived from passengers, £1,218 from minerals, and the remainder from goods, cattle, and parcels. While the increase in the traffic receipts has been so consi derable, the total expenses of working and manage ment were only £28,536, or about £3OO less than the corresponding half of 1564. The works on the Wexford Extension line were being proceeded with, but not very rapidly, as the present time is not favourable for the issue of the shares required to raise the capital for its completion. The capital account showed that £1,717,439 had been expended, leaving a balance against the account of £192,831. The revenue account for the half-year ending Dec. 31 last showed that £95,290 had been received, and £32,176 expended, leaving a balance of £63,114, out of which £19,378 was deducted for rent of Kingstown line and £9,965 for interest on loans and debentures, leaving a balance of £33,771. Newport Market Refuge. The annual meeting of the subscribers to and the friends of this practically useful charity was held on Saturday afternoon at Willis's Rooms, the Earl of Carnarvon in the chair ; and there were present the Bishop of Oxford, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, Commodore Ryder, Sir H. Hoare, Mr. Rankin, &c. The Rev. Mr. CHALmEßshaving opened the meet ing with payer, Mr. SHAW (the secretary) read the report of the committee, of which the following is the substance : This refuge has been in full operation during the whole of 1865, with the exception of the period between June 6 and Oct. 3 ; 18,707 nights lodgings have been given, and 46,059 rations distributed. During the summer months the large upper ward was occupied as a ragged school by the poor chil dren of the market. The committee have kept steadily before them one special object of this refuge, viz., that of providing work or situations for those in mates whose characters will bear investigation. 485 1 men and women have thus been provided for; and 40 girls who sought shelter in the refuge have been placed in penitentiaries. About 70 gallons of soup have been supplied weekly from the refuge since the commencement of winter, at Id. a quart to many of the destitute families in the crowded districts ad joining the refuge ; the work has been greatly aided by the kindness of the committee of the Union Club in giving a liberal supply of broken victuals. In ac cordance with a resolution passed at the last annual meeting an effort has been made to found an indus trial school for destitute boys in connection with the refuge ; and a sum of £5OO from the fund collected by the public appeal of Dec., 1864, has been allotted in aid of this object. The committee, however, re gret to state that, owing to the geat difficulty and expense in securing suitable premises, they havebeen unable as yet to open the school. The committee ac knowledge the continued sympathy shown by the press and the public generally in the condition of the houseless poor. One happy result of this interest attaching to the work of nightly refuges, and of the publicity afforded to the wretched state of those who apply to them for relief, has been the passing of the Houseless Poor Act. Thanks are specially due to Capt. Walter, of the Commissionaire Corps, for help in finding employment for several cases of this de scription ; also to Mrs. IW. E. Gladstone for adding to the refuge funds a sum of £5OO, being a moiety of the munificent gift placed at her disposal by the libe rality of the Messrs. Sassoon, in memory of their father. This sum has been invested in Consols. The committee wish to remove a very common miscon ception. It is generally supposed that many pro fessional beggars frequent the refuge, but this is not the case ; the tickets supplied to them by subscribers are not presented here. As a class the beggars fare better, and spurn our meagre accommodation, and the pittances of bread and coffee so gratefully re ceived by a more deserving class ; we therefore re spectfully claim a share of that support so profusely bestowed upon professional mendicancy." The CHAIRMAN, in a brief address, called atten tion to the objects of the society, pointing out the classes of destitute poor to whom it opened its doors as those whom misfortune, illness, or the vicissitudes of trade or calling rendered destitute. Quoting from the appendix of the report, he mentioned several extreme cases of persons who had once moved in re spectable society, and had been driven to apply for relief at the refuge—one being that of a draughts man, formerly employed in a government office ; another, a surveyor ; and a third, a colonial magic- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW " ON MR. GLADSTONE'S LEADERSHIP. —The papers inform us that on the first day of the Session the new leader of the House of Commons slipped into his place unnoticed and uncheered. Modest exordiums have generally characterised Mr. Gladstone's speeches, and it is not inconsistent with the probability of a future career not less striking than his past career that he com mences a new phase of Parliamentary life in the most undemonstrative fashion. Apart from the sagacious modesty which did not court notice, there are other considerations which suggest reasons why he should not excite enthusiasm. Mr. Gladstone's nature is, not to excite enthusiasm, but rather to repel it, except in the heat and glow of vehement de.' bate. It is only when he is warmed by the spirit of advocacy or attack that he inspires his followers with sympathy. It would be erroneous to say that his is a cold temperament. Undoubtedly he has feel ings both strong and warm ; but the heat is latent, and has to be conducted through many devious and conflicting channels of calculation and refinement before it comes into contact with other natures. In the tempest of debate he kindles a glow in his sup porters which, however, rarely outlasts the occasion that called it forth. It is this absence of a uniform and permanent sympathy which, above all things, distinguishes Mr. Gladstone from Lord Palmerston, and which bids fair to give a peculiar character to Mr. Gladstone's leadership of the house. No one would describe Lord Palmerston as a man of strong emotions. He did not belong to the class of men who are remarkable for the gushingness of their feel ings and for incontinence in their expression. No one ever could imagine those moments, precious to a certain kind of disposition; when Lord Palmerston would interrupt the even flow of his speech with spas modic outbursts of sentiment or with a p a i n f u l e ff ort to command feelings which he was unable to express. Neither is it easy to recall occasions on which the late Premier soared into the higher regions of Par liamentary eloquence. The ordinary style of his speech was conversational—indeed it was very generally commonplace. But commonplace as it most frequently was, free as it almost was from eloquence, and free as it always was from any emotional element, it did certainly find its way to the hearts and feelings of his hearers. Not often heated, and never excited, by his theme, Lord Pal merston could at times create in his followers an enthusiasm which to the external world must have been wholly inexplicable. The truth is, that the character of the man himself was so well known, his instincts were so fafniliar, that a.very few words sufficed to conduct his meaning s to his audience. They had already anticipated the purport before the words were fairly out of his mouth, and the form of the words was a secondary matter. In his case there was an understanding between the speaker and those whom he addressed—such an understanding as must always subsist between a frank and genial man and other men who are in habitual intercourse with him. On any great sub ject it was not difficult for members to know what Lord Palmerston's sentiments would be ; their enunciation in the house, therefore, touched a chord which was quite ready to respond. Was it a sub ject of foreign policy which affected the honour of England ? Then Lord Palmerston would speak as a patriotic English gentleman. Was it a matter of delicacy to which it was expedient for the time to give the go-by ? Then Lord Palmerston gave it the go-by in the light and easy way in which men of the world dismiss questions which it is inconvenient to treat at length. Whether he was explicit or re served, he had a sympathetic following, because both his reserve and explicitness were characteristic of a disposition thoroughly known and intelligible to the house. Now this is the very reverse of Mr. Gladstone's character. He can both edify and amuse the house by a disquisition on finance such as Lord Palmerston had neither the power nor the wish to attempt. He can interweave figures of rhetoric and flowers of poetry with the details of a budget with a success which Lord Pal merston could never have attained. And in some of the greatest conflicts of modern debate he has shown himself always equal, and sometimes supe rior, to the greatest debaters of this generation. Still, with all these advantages, the success with which be will lead the House of Commons is a pro blem equally to his friends and his foes. It is not enough to constitute the leader of the Government in the House of Commons, that he should be the most forcible or the most graceful of speakers; neither is it sufficient that he should be the most felicitous of financiers. A knowledge is required greater than the science of finance or the art of speaking—the knowledge of mankind and the know ledge of one's own self. In both these Mr. Glad stone is eminently deficient. Had he known more of human nature, it is only consistent with common charity to suppose that he would not have seized so many occasions for irritating it; that the escapades of the Exhibition buildings question would have been avoided, and the inauspicious attack on Mr. Sheridan foregone. And if Mr. Gladstone's eccen tricities have furnished grounds for the belief that he has little of that knowledge of mankind without which no one can hope to be, we will not say an orator or a statesman, but even a great member of Parliament, they have fostered in a still greater degree the conviction that he is eminently deficient in that knowledge which the Greek sage averred had descended from heaven. Of course, it would be hypercritical to censure any modern statesman for having modified his political doctrines in the course of a long political life. None of the statesmen who have held high office within the last thirty years could hope to win a flitch awarded to undeviating consistency. Not to speak of the present leaders of the Conservative party, Wellington changed his creed, Peel changed his, Sir James Graham changed his. But in each of these cases the change was slow, painful, and reluctant. Who can conjecture the suddenness or measure the extent of his inconsistencies ? It is not his liability to change his mind which inspires his followers with alarm and his opponents with amazement, but the extent of his changes, and the subtle refinements by which he justifies his conversions. Young politicians of the rising generation are probably ignorant that Mr. Gladstone entered Parliament the child and champion of advanced Toryism ; that country rectors regarded him as devout French Catholics regard M. de Montalembert, and that country squires trusted in him as their fathers had trusted in Perceval or Eldon. But older politicians will ask themselves how it is possible to predict the muta tions of a statesman who, having in his y ou th c l a i med for the State the adjunct of a religious conscience, appears not unwilling in his riper y ears t o d o justice to Ireland by a abolishing her E s t a bli s h e d Church, and who, havi▪ ng in mature life volunteered Sh apology for pocket boroughs, not five years after wards courts and obta ins th e applause of the advo cates of universal suffra ge ? A n d i f this inconsis tency of action startles men, still more a l arm i ng i s that fatal facili▪ ty of argument, that ready enuncia tion of abstract doctrines applicable at the shortest notice to any purpose of the moment, which has often been remarked upon as a characteristic of Mr. Gladstone's oratory. That he will always find reasons for any line of action w hi c h it may su i t hi m to adopt with regard to any public question what ever, is probable enough ; but it is precisely this inventiveness of reas ons w hi c h makes his leadership so terrible to his followers. They do not know what he may be able to persu a d e hi mse lf o f at any given moment of his life. They are always living in fear of some fresh discove r y i n po li t i ca l p hil osophy as remarkable and as un ex p ec t e d as t h at o f the a b stract right of all mankind to vote at elections. Is it wonderful that his f o ll owers s h r i n k i n di smay f rom the guidance of a chi e f w h ose pecu li ar p ower o f seeing many sid es t o a quest i on prec l u d es hi s adhe sion to any one side, and who, having thrown off the mantle of Oxford Toryism, may, for aught they know, be about t o emu l a t e O'Connell in his Irish, and Mr. Bright in his English, policy ? THE SPECTATOR ON CABINET CHANGES.—The Cabinet is, we believe, the stronger for the resigna tion of Sir Ch ar l es W oo d. E ar l de Grey as his successor will probably do well. He has none of Sir Charles Wood's special deficiencies, he starts oddly enough with considerable Indian popularity, and he has one special qualification—immense expe rience in th e most i mpor t an t f unc ti on of his of . ce. The Times sa y s h e h as a ll to learn, but the Times forgets what the business of the Indian Secretary ship is. Its most important department, the one section of the work in which there is no room for blundering, no margin for mistakes, is simply War office work over again. The Indian Army has to be reorganised and contented, and if Earl de Grey, who built the Volunteer force, is not fit to do that, he is not fit to be a Cabinet Minister at all. We believe that he will do it, will set himself boldly to the wearisome task, and will if left long enough in office convert that huge, miscellaneous, discontented, inefficient machine into a smaller, highly paid, strictly disciplined, mobile organisation. Nobody except Lord Ellenborough could be expected to do it better, and he would be certain at the outset to break his official neck over some bizarre crotchet which all his eloquence could not explain away. The appoi n t men t i s unexcep ti ona ble, and with Mr. Stansfeld to explain the department in the Com mons, to make the Budget interesting, and B9o tauese despatches readable, to restore to Indian affairs th a t t ouc h o f co l ou r and romance which really belongs to them, and to bring the Imperial accounts out of the chaos into which they perma nently tend to fall, India will occupy a far more prominent place than it has lately done amongst successful departments. The coun try will probably be more surprised than the House at the sudden elevation of the Marquis i of Harting ton to the Ministry of War. It s not often that a man of thirty-three is appointed one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, still less often when he has previously won no Parliamentary campaign. The Radicals will mutter with justice that it is a great thing to be an heredi tary chief of the Whigs, that Cavendishes seem to be above experience, and that it is only commoners whose elevation excites a howl of annoyance. Still Premiers must take the world as they find it, par ticularly when it seems to them the best of all pos -ible worlds. England is governed in quiet times by its great proprietors, among them few have a greater place than the Duke of Devonshire, and if the heir of the Cavendishes will do, cceteris paribus he is sure to be selected first. If he is not, he has cousins enough and seats enough to make the slight very dangerous, not to speak of the sympathies of caste. Lord Hartington will do undoubtedly as Secretary at War, may do, for aught outsiders can tell, when on Earl Russell's retirement the Vice royalty of the Whigs falls, as it in all human pro bability will, to him. He has been three years Under Secretary, and though he will never be a good speaker till he has cured himself of an unfortunate habit of repeating one sentence while he thinks out the next, his term of office has been a considerable success. Very patient, very industrious, and with a prodigious memory, he can answer in succession a dozen savage interpellations, so that those who throw them are effectually put to confusion.. He has only to display some power of initiative to be an efficient minister, and if he is a minister earlier than he otherwise would have been, why England is a thousand years old this year, and has never broken either with the dynasty or its great vassals. He is, moreover, in name a commoner, and we have at last one of the great spending departments repre sented in the only house greatly interested in pre venting waste. Lord Dufferin will of course be the Under Secretary for War, an office for which the India House is no bad training ; and as to Mr. Monsell, he is as a representative man a distinct gain, the Liberal Catholics having been most un fairly neglected, and as an administrator can by no possibility make mistakes. On the whole, all cir cumstances considered, the changes now announced are beneficial, introduce younger blood into the Cabinet, and enable it to meet an excited and vigorous Opposition with less exclusive reliance on the abilities and popularity of a single man. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Goschen, Lord Ha r ti ng t on, M r. Villiers, ..r. Stansfeld, Mr. Forster, and Sir Roun dell Palmer, ought to be, and if well handled will be, a most dangerous phalanx to meet in Parlia mentary strife. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON LEGISLATIVE LIVERY. —Aristotle has written a chapter on hats, and, in later times, the learned Professor Tcufelsdrockh has developed, at considerable length and with great power of reasoning and wealth of illustration, his famous " Clothes-Philosophy." No one who has ever sipped (if it were no more) of the waters of wisdom from these sacred fountains, will think the question raised by Mr. Bright a light one, when he submitted to the judgment of the re-elected Speaker the proposition that members of the House should be permitted to pay their respects to that function ary at his levees, and share in .his official hospi talities, in the conventional costume which society at large recognises as the proper evening dress of a gentleman. The gravity of the subject was imme diately appreciated by Mr. Gladstone when he solemnly deprecated requiring an " off-hand" answer to a question that evidently demanded such serious and deliberate consideration. Pending the decision which it awaits, and will await perhaps a little longer, from the sole authority who is compe tent to solve so difficult a problem, it is open to men of speculative minds to consider it in some of its most obvious relations, and to submit, if they think proper, their reflections to those who are chiefly concerned as well as to the public at large, who are, on their part, at liberty to give them as much or as little consideration as they may seem to deserve. Into the general question of official cos tume, we do not now require to enter. It is true that the propensity to appear in " decorated ap parel," whether in the gorgeous uniform of a marshal, or the grande tenue of a senator, or simply with the little bit of red ribbon at the button-hole that marks its wearer as one who has been enrolled in the illustrious ranks of the Legion of Honour, is stronger amongst our neighbours in France, and in other continental nations, than it is in this country ; but we all at the same time habitually feel the propriety of having certain orders, and grades, and classes, dis tinguished by a peculiar dress, and no true British felon even could be hanged with credit to himself or satis faction to the spectators if the judge who tried hi m had appear e d i n court' without his wig, or had omitted to substitute the black cap for it when passing sentence. The narrower question which we are now endeavouring to discuss is simply that which has been raised by Mr. Bright, namely, whether members of the House of Commons ought to be excluded from the official receptions and en tertaiments of the Speaker, if they do not make their appearance in court dress or in uniform. On the one side, it is stated that the custom at present existing has been handed down by immemorial usage, and it is contended that, in still conforming to it, the members of the house are only perpetua ting an observance which maintains the high dignity of the gentleman who presides over their debates, and, by consequence, of that house of which he is the head. On the other side, it is argued that the dignity of the house or of its Speaker would suffer no diminution by the abolition or modification of a rule which excludes from the Speaker's levees and dinners many members of the house who are sin cerely desirous to show him every mark of respect, and who would be perhaps amongst the most agree able and welcome of his guests, but who either cannot afford the expense of providing a set of habiliments which they can wear but seldom, or object to make themselves ridiculous, no matter in how honourable a cause, by assuming a dress that better befits a field-officer or a flunkey, and in which they seem to lose the sense of their own identity. An eminent literary and political charac ter is said to have once advised a parvenu who asked him how he was to conduct himself in society, where many things were so new to him, to " wear a black coat and hold his tongue." A member of Parlia ment cannot justly be expected always to hold his tongue; and even the wearing of a black coat of the correct cut, accompanied by the usual white neck tie, is a test of real gentlemanliness which few can safely risk ; but it is better, after all, to look like a waiter than like a fool. The late Mr. Cobden committed himself to too republican a sentiment when he spoke of " the barbaric pomp of royalty ;" but he did a sensible as well as a bold thing when he appeared amongst the Commis sioners at the opening of the great Exhibi tion of 1851 in the simple costume of an English gentleman. He was Bien distingue ' as Talleyrand said of the unstarred and u nr ib an d e d Lord Castle reagh at the Congress of Vienna. It was consistent with this conduct that he should refrain on prin ciple from attending the Speaker's receptions, as he was not permitted to appear there in a dress which did not offend the eyes of his Sovereign on a great occasion of public ceremony. It is clear that no argument of an analogical kind can be drawn from the fact that an official dress is worn by the judges and members of the bar when they attend the levees of the Lord Chancellor, or by officers of the army and navy, when, under similar circumstances, they pay their respects to the Commander of the Forces or the First Lord of the Admiralty. Bar risters and officers have a professional and official costume, members of Parliament have none. If a Q.C. were to appear among his brethren in attend ance on the Chancellor in the uniform of the " Devil's Own" so astounding an innovation would expose him to universal reproach or ridicule. Yet, in itself, it would not be a greater absurdity than the figure a merchant, or manufacturer, or banker cuts when he arrays himself in military scarlet and gold. The "intelligent foreigner" who, from the Speaker's gallery, hears a member so apparelled dilate—when moving or seconding the Address— upon the blessings of peace and the horrors of war, is scandalised and perplexed. Such sentiments amaze him, coming from one whom he takes to be, at the very least, a general of division. The Speaker has several courses before him in solving the question which he has been called on to decide. He may leave things as they are, which will not only perpetuate but increase the dissatisfaction at present existing. He may suggest or prescribe the adoption of a peculiar official costume by members, which, though a logical proceeding, would make matters rather worse. He may leave it to the judgment of the members themselves individually whether they shall wear uniform, or court dress, or simple evening dress. This is all Mr. Bright de mands ; and if it be true that such a liberty was conceded by Speaker Abercrombie, we think it would be unreasonable in Speaker Denison to re fuse it. He may, if he prefers it, have two classes of receptions —grand or full-dress receptions, and ordinary ones. The first levee of the session, and the entertainments prescriptively given to the lead ing Ministers and leading members of the Opposi tion might belong to the former class; all other levees and dinners to the latter. Or, finally, he may "go the whole hog," and make it a rule to receive his visitors and guests on all occasions that they present themselves in the proper dress of gen tlemen. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON THE GOOD QUEEN.—The conductors of this journal have more than once explained to their readers that it is beyond their province to touch upon ordinary events in Europe, but that they propose to devote themselves exclusively to American topics. The present week, however, has witnessed an event which we feel called upon to nqtice, and that is the return of the Good Queen to public life. Aniericans are not accustomed to reverence royalty for the sake of royalty, but they yield to no other people on earth, not even to Englishmen, in their respect, their reverence, their love for Queen Victoria. They can understand, and they do understand, the de voted attachment of the English nation to their Sovereign, for she is a woman whose fame belongs not only to England, but to every household in Christendom where there is a Christian wife or mother. They are willing, therefore, to sympathise with the British people--to congratulate them and to rejoice with them—on her Majesty's re-appear ance among her faithful and loyal subjects. Had Queen Victoria lived in the mediaeval ages she would have been honoured in her lifetime and canonised after death for those sublime qualities which are so conspicuously illustrated in her life and character. "In that fierce light that beats about a throne and blackens every blot," she is spotless. Vi r e cannot understand that " luxurious sorrow" of which some English journals speak in connection with the long seclusion of their Queen. She has sorrowed like a true wife—like a true woman ; and although the matter does not concern us, still we cannot but feel that in some instances the English Press has committed an impropriety in alluding, in any other than the most respectful terms, to that great Grief I which, indulged in by the Royal Lady of Britain, gives her a new grace and a new dignity. Th e loss of the Prince Consort was no common loss —it deserved no common sorrow. He was, first and last, one whom the world could ill afford to spare. A patron and friend of art, a promoter of education, a statesman of rare ability, a pattern of moral excellence—if any man has ever lived to illustrate manhood and to ennoble it, surely that man was Prince Albert the Good. But he was more than this—he was a husband and father who should be a model to all husbands and fathers ; and the widow who still deplores his loss should be made to feel that Time, which gently assuages all griefs, cannot blot out or obliterate from the minds of the British people the remembrance of what he did for England, of what he did for civilisa tion. We have also to acknowledge on the part of the American people the ready sympathy of the Quee! with them, and her appreciation of the grand resin , which has been achieved by the American strug gle—the abolition of slavery in the United States. We feel assured that her Majesty's Speech, and that portion of the debate thereon which referral, to America, will be read with lively interest by Americans, and that they will cordially respond to the most earnest desires of the British people—and with them pray for the long life, peace, happiness; and prosperity of the Good Queen. COUNTRY MARKETS. 4` LEICESTER-SATURDAY. The show of wheat at our corn market to-day wa s tole rable, and sales were made at about is per qr. less money; There was a fair demand for barley, and prices in seller s favour. Oats ch ange d h an d s a t last week's rates. Bea n ' . realised fully late rates. Old white wheat, 55s to 56s ; old red, 50s to 52s ; new white, 49s to 52s ; new re d , 43s to 48s per 36 stone. Ba r i ; ley, malting, 33s to 37 s p er qr . ; gr i n di ng, 28s to 30 0 per 8v stone. Oats, old, 30s to 85s ; new, 24s to 28s per 24 stout ,. Beans, old, 47s to 518 ; new, 42 s to 46s per 38 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat offered to-day, and the trade ruled dull at a reduction of is per qr. There 1 8 a declining supply of barley, but prices are fully maintainedi and in some instances higher rates are paid. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s to 54s ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 651 b), 48s to 50s ; b es t malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 34s to 36s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 25s to 27s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 31 6 to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 338 to - - I/ Od per sack. Averages :—Wheat, 2,561 qrs., 458 Od ; barley, 5, 992 qrs., 33s 3d; oats, qrs., Od YORK-SATURDAY. The show of wheat was fair for the season, and prices are in favour of buyers. Barley only a moderate show prime qualities at extreme rates. Oats underwent Yell little change. Beans firm, and the rates of last week map be written. New white wheat, 48s to 54s ; new red, 45s to 49s Per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 34 s t o 38 s per qr ; g rinding , 30s to 32s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 248 to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 62s to 64s ; r7 c h 30s per qr. Flour, 36s to 38s per sack of 2801 b. NO T TINGHAM—SATuRDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, the dernani was slow, and prices barely maintained. The show al barley limited, and prices about the same. Oats a fair de mand, and prices maintained. Beans no change. Old white wheat, 56s to 60s ; old red, 50s to 54s ; new white, 52s to 58s ; new red, 46s to 50s per 36 stone. Ba r : ley, old malting, 36s to 42s per qr ; old grinding, 288 tO 30s ; new, - s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to 30s new; 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 29s per stone. Beans, old, 48a to 50s • new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. ' Super float 37s to 39s ; fine, 34s to 36s per 20 stone. CORK-FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 98 10d to lOs ld ; whit e , lO s 4d t o lO s 10d ; barley, °I! Od to Os ; oats, 7s 7d to 8s id ; black oats, 7s 8d to 8s bore, 6s Od to Us 6d. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. The market receded for lower grain. Wheat 6d and barley and oats 3d to 6d below the rates of last week ; foreign wheat in fair demand, and best qualities Gd lower, Indian corn 6d to is under this day week. Flour la° change. Oatmeal unaltered. THE END OF SLAVERY. - The Reader say s that, in accordance with the terms of th e amended constitution, the Southern States wil l not be able to re-establish chattel slavery in any form. In other words, no citizen of sal State in the Union can henceforth hold property in man. But the States will be undoubtedly at liberty. to pass any law th e y c h oose f or th e regu l a tion a the relations between black and white. The whole tenour of the advices from the South shows that this power of legislation is likely to be realised. T he educated Southerner dislikes the negro not only an African, but as the protege of the Yankee raeel and the uneducated masse s h ave a mor bid dread negro equality now that slavery is abolished. Th e° , in every Southern St a t e , b u t f or F e d era l contro l, laws would undOubtedly be passed designed to IV' hold the legal as well as the social superiority of the whites, and to keep the negroes permanently in t he condition of a subject caste. Stern vagrant lay's would probably be enacted ; inter-marriage between blacks and whites would be made a statatable offence ; negro testimony would be excluded from court ; the right of free labour accorded to th e negro would be hampered with so many restrictions as to render it comparatively worthless ; the right of holding landed property would be denied them ; and obstacles would be thrown in the way of ant system of general education of the blacks. The Paris correspondence of the Liverpool Daily Journal says—" The visit of the Yankee General Schofield to Europe has been so thoroughly sifted that we have dis covered its real motive, which is nothing less than the purchase of one of the islands in the Archipelago, named Spezzia, the most important of the Sperades, admirably situated for surveillance of both European and Asiatic coast, and possessing every facility for the formation of A marine depot, port, and dockyard beneath the American flag." ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills.— The trying weather of the last few months has laid many in churchyard who might still have been a blessing to theis families if they had, by some such means as these fam oil pills, kept the blood pure, the stomach sound, the liver ac: tive, and the bowels regular. Mild wet winters aln'eP press with heavy hand on the aged and infirm, who ~cons tantly require some balsamic tonic like HollowaY's pills to sharpen their appetites and to maintain -their strength. The pills cannot work wrongly nor weaken unnecessarilP The invalid, under all circumstances and in every' tion, should get a box of these n o t e d p ill s, a tt en tively et, the directions wrapped round it, a n d re l ease himself from his malady. sit Rd Births, BAItNARD.—On the 10th inst., at 63, Portland-place' the wife of Herbert Barnard, Esq., of a daughter. GREEN.— On the 10th inst., at 5, Woodlands-terrace) lilack heath, the wife of Samuel Green, Esq., of a son. SmYTH.—On the 4th inst., a t Sid cu p- p l ace , th e wife °Af Col. J. H. Smyth, R.H.A., of a daughter. Marriages. °" Aye 0 45 BEDDALL—FURRELL.--On the Bth i ns t., at St. 4, Church, Rochester, Edward Fit c h Beddall, Esq./ „t, Stockwell-park-road, Brixton, an d 28 , L om bard-str e- o f London, to Ada, daughter of Frederick Furrell, Fsql Eastgate, Rochester, Kent. •nts LOwitY — JENKINGS.—On the Bth i ns t., at All Pal °" d, Church, Gordon-squa re , W m . L owry, E sq ., o f Nor a ' to Fannie, eldest daughter of G. Jenkings, E s q . ' Gordon-square, late of Dover. Deaths. I l aro HAMILTON.—On the 7th inst., at .Helensburgh, Hamilton, Esq., late of Mivard, Argyleshire. HAY.—On the 9th inst., at Ford Hall, near Sunderland,W• Hay, E 9., aged 52. HOPKINSON.— At 29, Euston-road, N.W Wm. Hopkinson, Esq., aged 81. MEADS.—On the 7th inst., at 32, Belgrave-square, Lad/ Mary Meade, aged 23. Uppe r SALTER.—On the 7th inst., Mr. Wm. Salter, of 46, Baker-street, Regent's-park, N.W., aged 51. STONES.—On the Bth inst., drowned at sea, Win. St° lle6 Esq., of Haddo Villas, Blackheath. SHORTT.—On the 9th inst., at Folkestone, sent, Major - General Shortt, Bombay Army, aged 64. WARD.—On the 10th inst., Nathaniel Ward, F.R.C.S. , S OLI of N. B. Ward, of The Ferns, Clapham-rise. London : Printed and Pubiished by WILLIAM ANDRA. 2, of No. 112, Strand, Ptinter, a t THE Surf Office , 11° ' Strand, in the Precinct of the Fsvoy. in the Cetinty 0 ALiddieSeX.---Alenday, February 12, UM. _