The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-11 00:00:00

rllE. SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, lEEE. The Earl of Clarendon and Sir E. B. Lytton, M.P., at Watford. WATFORD, Tuesday. The first anniversary of the West Agricultural Society was celebrated last night by a public dinner in the Corn Exchange. The attendance was very large. The Earl of Essex presided, and amongst the guests were the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Rokeby, Lord Chesham, Lord Malden, Sir E. B. Lytton, the Hon. Henry Cowper, M.P., Mr. i\i'Greach (the high sheriff), Mr. Alderman Mechi, Mr. R. Clutterbuck, Mr. Jones Loyd, the Rev. R. Gee, &c. The Noble CHAIRMAN proposed in succession the toasts of " The Queen ;" the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the other members of the royal family ;" " The Army, Navy, Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers." The latter toast was responded to by Lord Rokeby, Lord Malden, Major Foskett, and Lieut. Humbert. The Rev. R. GEE responded to the toast of " The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese." Mr. W. JONES LoYD, in proposing " The House of Lords," observed that at no period during its exist ence had it held a more satisfactory position than it did at this moment, and he trusted that it would long continue to exercise a beneficent influence on the country. (Cheers.) He looked upon the House of Lords being as necessary to the well-being and welfare of the country as that every locomotive should have its safety-valve for the security of the traveller. On the present occasion he felt a special interest in proposing the toast, for they had the pleasure of the presence of one of the most distin guished members of that high assembly, and not only a member of that assembly, but one who held office under her Majesty. (Cheers.) Although he did not make much of the office, he did make much of the man. There was no office in the countryfor which he was not fitted, and he hoped to see the day when the noble earl would be ad- vanced to some position more fitted to his capacity. (The toast was received with great enthusiasm.) The Earl of CLARENDON, in responding to the toast, said—My lords and gentlemen, I am very grateful to you for the kind manner in which you have received the mention of my health, and to my hon. friend for the manner in which he has con nected it with the toast of " The House of Lords," a toast which I am always glad to see received with cordiality by all classes of my fellow-countrymen ; and I say this, not because I happen to be a member of that house, but because I know that in this coun try praise is never bestowed and cordiality is never exhibited except when it is thought to be deserved. (Cheers.) I claim no superiority for the members of the House of Lords over any other class or any other set of well-educated men ; but I believe that nowhere, or in any assembly, can be found a greater amount of talent, of honesty, and of integrity. (Cheers.) It has been said, and truly said, that in that assembly are to be found men of antiquated notions, the ad vocates of exclusive privileges, and the opponents of popular rights. And if that be true, so far from regretting it, I think these men are in the right place, doing harm to none but themselves, and serving as linger posts pointing to bygone times, and landmarks high and dry to indicate the rapidity of the advance of the age. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, composed as the House of Lords is of men the majority of whom have a great stake in the country, and therefore an individual interest in its prosperity and good govern ment—recruited as that house is from the ranks of men whose intellect is immense, whose successful in dustrial or great public services entitle them to the highest rewards the Sovereign can bestow—the House of Lords has earned the respect of the country, and I hope it will continue to do so by ably and faithfully discharging its duty. The House of Lords, by its numbers and the elements of which it is composed, is practically a popular assembly—not so popular an assembly certainly as the House of Commons, but one is as much as the other under the same influence —that of public opinion, which is the result of free thought, of free discussion, of a free press, of that conflict which reason wages against prejudice and passion, and by which truth is separated from error. The opinion so created is no bad master to serve and no unsafe guide to follow. (Cheers.) It is true that the house of Commons, from its more popular origin, may be more ready to receive and more prompt to act upon impressions from without, while the house of Lords may occasionally doubt and hesitate ; hut that doubt and hesitation has many a time prevented undue haste in that greatest of all matters, the making of laws. But in giving effect to real and true public opinion—in consulting the wishes and promoting the interests of the public —the hist9ry of the last 30 years affords abundant evidence that prejudice and self-interest will never prevail, and that the country will never be disap pointed by the House of Lords. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, once more I beg to thank you for the manner in which you have received the toast, and if it would not be trespassing too much upon your patience I should like to say a few words upon a subject very different from that on which I have risen to speak. (Hear, hear.) I am not about to expose my ignorance of agriculture, and entitle my self to a share of the commisseration that the Times has lately bestowed on persons who are in the un fortunate predicament of having to speak on sub jects of which they know nothing before audiences who know all about such subjects. (Laughter.) Nor am I about to propound any theory on the great cattle calamity with which we are now visited, and which I am sorry to say shows no signs of abate ment, and for which noremedy has yet been found. But I want to say a few words on the position of the Government in respect to that subject, because we are all more or less dependent on the Government, not so much for assistance as for authority; and at a time when the wildest schemes are pro pounded which men can imagine —while on the one hand the Government are blamed for apathy, and on the other for displaying too much vigour —it may not be useless to state what the Government have been able to do. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, as you are well aware, the cattle plague made its first ap pearance in June last, and that it was practically unknown in this country. It is proved to have existed upwards of 100 years ago, but the circum stances connected with itwere forgotten. It is proved that the plague had raged in as far as the East of Europe, but we were unacquainted with its symp toms. There was very little law, and still less ma chinery applicable to such a crisis, and Government were compelled to grope in the dark for the best mode of dealing with the disease, which, it appeared, too soon was more inveterate than any other which had been known. It was absolutely necessary to proceed step by step. Even if there bad been data on which to form regulations for the whole country, it was impossible to apply them until we knew the extent of the disease, and how it would develope itself. Thus, for instance, it was more disastrous in the dairies of the metropolis than in any other part, and it was thought sufficient at the time to issue an order in Council requiring the cowkee Pera to report any ease of disease, in order that the Council might consider the matter. At the same time, most strin gent orders were given at the outports respecting the importation of cattle, enabling the officers to detain a whole cargo if any one of the cattle ap peared to be infe e t e d . Letters were wr itt en regu lating theimportati on of cattle. The disease spreading, an order was issued enabling local authorities to appoint inspectors in different parts of the country. This order was afterwards ex tended to the whole country. The Government were advised by the law officers of the Crown that an y person placing an infected animal on a truck, by which it might be liable to spread infection, was guilty of an offence at common law ; and the Go vernment, desiring to avoid the imminent ri s k o f spreading infection, took upon themselves to pro hibit the conveyance of cattle in large numbers. The disease spreading still more widely, it was thought desirable, as the d ifferent Orders in Coun cil might produce confusion, to revoke them as to Great Britain, and to consolidate them in one ; and two additional important powers were given— one Prohibiting the bringing to London of animals, except for immediate slaughter, the other allowing the local authorities to prohibit animals from being brought to fairs or markets. (Hear, hear). A royal commission has been approved by her Majesty. That commission is already at work, and I think the names of the scientific men acting under that commission are a sufficient guarantee that, with the least possible delay, we shall be in possession of all the information which can be obtained as to the cause and origin of the malady, and the measures that may be required for its protection. (Hear.) The Government have been blamed in two ways— in one, for not being vigorous enough ; in the other, for being too vigorous. With respect to the first, I own that if we had lived in a despotic country very different measures would have been taken. Every infected district would have had a cordon of soldiers placed round it, every animal would have been killed, and every man suspected of violating the regulations would have been put into prison. So stringent are the regulations in Germany that only a few days ago a stuffed wolf was prevented from crossing the frontier for fear of spreading the infection. (Laughter.) But no despotic measures can be attempted or succeed in this country unless they carry public opinion with them; and it would have been in the highest degree imprudent if anv arbi- trary provisions bad been issued before they were necessary. (Hear.) The Government have been strongly blamed for the forcible prevention which enables inspectors to slaughter cattle without the consent of their owners ; but I contend that some such measure was necessary if any such attempt was to be made to stop the progress of the disease. I have no doubt that many of these inspectors have given great cause for complaint ; but it is not the fault of the Government or anybody else if, in a great crisis like this, a sufficient number of men possessing veterinary skill should not be able to deal with the disease in any other way. As yet no remedy has been discovered for this dreadful malady except by isolation or the destruction of the animals affected by it. The Government have felt reluct antly compelled to resort to the experience of foreign countries to stop the progress of the disease. Knowing the anxious care which the Government have bestowed upon the subject—knowing the dili gence with which they have sought for advice or in formatioet—l venture to hope that all reasonable men, making allowance for difference of opinion, will admit that more could not have been done, and that that which has been done could not have been done better. (Cheers.) My reason for making this brief statement of the proceedings of the Go vernment is to invite criticism and suggestions from assemblies of practical men, and also to point out the indispensable necessity of cordial and zealous co-operation, without which the Government will be powerless, and the Order in Council absolutely null and void. (Hear, hear.) And in order to show this necessity, I will ask you to consider the difficulty in which the Government have been placed, particularly with respect to the metropolis. It has been ordered that all infected animals shall be immediately slaughtered and buried on the premises. That is very desirable when it can be done. But all the animals that die in sheds, if buried where there is not sufficient convenience, would tend to perpetuate the infection ; and wher ever an attempt has been made to bury elsewhere we come upon gas pipes and water pipes and sewers, and even if the danger, which is very great and seri ous, be overlooked, of carrying hundreds and thou sands of these animals through densely-populated districts, you could find no place to bury them. (llear.) Almost every square yard of ground is built upon, and the land that is still open is marked for building purposes, and there is every reluctance to the establishment of such a nuisance on building ground. (Hear.) I would also call your attention to the holding of fairs, which is a very important mat ter. Now, what happened only last week ? At a town near London the magistrates prohibited the holding of the fair, and the police were posted at different places to prevent ar.y animals from enter ing the town. Next day the town was covered with placards stating that the cattle were to be sold on such-and-such farms—that Mr. So-and-So had con stituted himself a freeholder —and thus the precau tions which had been taken for the public good were entirely nullified. (Hear.) I could relate to you an infinity of other cases in which similar selfish inge nuity has been exercised, and I would now venture to suggest that every man in his own sphere and locality should endeavour to prevent such proceed ings. I wish now to make one or two suggestions founded on the reports which have been sent out. The first is, that there ought to be uniformity of ac tion amongst the magistrates. (Hear.) My attention was called a few days ago to a circumstance which occurred in a particular district in which three ma gistrates were concerned. Two of them agreed to prohibit the holding of a fair ; the third, whether moved by a desire of popularity or want of inclina tion, I know not, declined to join in the prohibi tion, and the consequence was that all the animals were huddled together in the district without the adoption of any common precaution. (Hear hear.) Another suggestion is that the magistrates' and other authorities should remember how much rests upon them, not only in the choice, but in the supervision, of the inspectors. (Hear, hear.) The inspectors cannot act properly unless they receive prompt information from the owners of cattle, and from the whole neighbourhood. The importance cannot be exaggerated of separating any cattle likely to be affected from the existing stock, for at least ten or fourteen days, until no further inspection is necessary. It is also hoped that herdsmen will have impressed upon them the importance of carefully watching their cattle, and that the railroad authori ties will not fail to take every possible means of dis infecting their tracks ; and I have great pleasure in stating, on authority, that the railway companies generally have set an admirable example, and de serve the thanks of the country for the zeal and cor diality with which they have supported the measures of the Government. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I can only plead as my excuse for detaining you so long the magnitude of the danger that has come upon us, particularly when we remember that in the last cen tury in Europe 200,000,000 of cattle have perished from disease, and I have no difficulty in believing that in more recent times—between 1841 and 1845 —not less than 400,000 oxen and other cattle perished in Egypt, and about 1,000,000 in Russia in the course of one year. The best chance of check ing this formidable disease is by a hearty co-opera tion, not only with the Government, but amongst yourselves, each man evincing a proper regard for the public health, and using every precaution in his power to check the spread of infection. (His lord ship resumed his seat amidst loud and protracted cheers.) Mr. ITGEACHY (the high sheriff), in highly eu logistic terms, proposed " The County Members— Sir Bulwei Lytton and the Hon. H. Cowper." Sir E. B. LYTTON, when the cheering had subsided, said—My lords and gentlemen, in rising to return thanks for the kindness with which you have re sponded to the toast which has been proposed in such flattering terms, respecting myiielf I might almost imagine that, instead of being a knight of the shire, I was one of those warlike knights in the old days of chivalry, who, during the suspension of arms, found the warmest welcome amongst the heroes of the hostile camp. (Loud cheers and laughter.) Gen tlemen, it is a proof of the soothing effect of rural occupations that we can so readily, upon every occa sion in commemorating the progress of agriculture, reconcile our party differences and feel only the brotherhood of kindred interests and similar objects. (Cheers.) And, gentlemen, coming from the distant parts of Hertford and Triug, is seems almost as if the extremities of the county met and shook hands on these occasions in the persons of their represen tatives. (Cheers.) I cannot doubt that the associa tion which you have established this day will be flourishing and successful, seeing that it is formed under the auspices of your noble chairman, who, in addition to his advantages of rank and fortune, and of a character which unites manliness and simplicity with the endearing qualities of a kindly heart, brings to bear all those qualities in the exercise of the skill and experience of a practical agriculturist. (Loud cheers.) I have heard it whispered—but that would seem incredible, except perhaps to his next neigh bour (Mr. Alderman Mechi)—that although a gen tleman farmer, he has contrived to farm not only with honour, but with profit to himself. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I think IN e must all be sincerely obliged to my noble friend Lord Clarendon for the very succinct, very lucid, and very useful account he has given of the labours of the Government in the present very serious calamity. I have no doubt, from what he has so ably stated, that her Majesty's Government have taken every precaution which it was possible for them to take in a stage of experi ence when facts are not sufficiently classified to enable any man of prudence to pronounce a positive theory as to the origin, nature, prevention, or cure for the cattle disease. I do not, however, perhaps take so gloomy a view as—l do not say my noble friend—but some of those gentlemen to whose ad vice her Majesty's Government have attended. As I said the other day at Tring, it is not by indiscri minate slaughter—it is not by adding famine to pestilence that a Government can be hailed as our protector, or science be received as our guide. (Hear, hear.) And I think commonsense should tell us that when all the medical science of England is concentrated upon the investigation of this pest, and when her Majesty's Government have been ad vised to appoint a commission, consisting of gentle men whose names are a sufficient security for the confidence of the public, I say commonsense ought to tell us that in the course of a short time we shall be much wiser on the subject than we are at the present moment. (Cheers.) I recollect that during the last days of the great American war, Lord North, with his usual dry humour, said, " I am sure I don't know if our generals frighten the enemy, but I do know that they frighten me." (Laughter.) Well, gentlemen, this time our enemy is the cattle disease, and our generals the veterinary surgeons. I am not quite sure that they will frighten away the cattle disease, but I am sure that they are suffi cient to frighten the cattle keepers. (Cheers and laughter.) When Professor Gamgee tells us that we have no remedy, or hope of remedy, except the slaughter and burial of the animal attacked, a man would be more afraid of sending for the cattle doc tor than of sending for the executioner. (Laughter and cheers.) There is not a single instance—and I defy any man to point out one—in the history of the world of any epidemic attacking either man or animals in which every man or animal so attacked has perished. It is very clear, therefore, thet the disease is not in itself incurable ; and when a man tells us that as soon as disease breaks out in the earliest stage there is no remedy but slaughter, all I can say is, that he tells us some thing which is against the universal experience of history, and, as I believe, against the laws of na ture. (Cheers.) Pray pardon me if I repeat what I have twice said elsewhere—that it would be pru dent to avail ourselves of such precaution against individual loss as an insurance company affords. I am glad that an insurance company has been formed in this county with the requisite capital ; and I think that no man ought to allow any minor objections to the details of the company to prevent his securing himself against thd possibility of any considerable loss. (Cheers.) Not only as a county member, but as a county gentleman, I feel a lively interest in the success of this branch association. Amongst the other benefits to be conferred by it, not the least will be that of bringing familiarly together not only landlord and farmers, but farmers and tradesmen. And, gentlemen, when I was listening to the state ment of my noble friend I thought how advan tageous it was upon these occasions to have this familiar intercourse with men of the highest minds, and occupying the highest station, and I was re minded of the fact that it is to the felicitous combi nation of that progressive knowledge which charac terises the inhabitants of towns, with the attachment to old ways which may be somewhat slow and cautious and prudent, and with the hearty love of the old native soil which characterises the husband man—it is the combination of these qualities, I be lieve, which has secured to England a marvellous empire, and given to her such marvellous resources. (Loud cheers.) That combination becomes still more harmonious and complete by social kindnesses like the present, when each section of English society is thus brought familiarly to the others, and becomes more indulgent, more aware of the requirements, and more alive to the noble qualities of the great Anglo-Saxon race. (Cheers.) I beg to return thanks not only for myself, but for my absent colleague, Mr. Surtees, who is unable to attend on the present oc casion, but who hopes to be able to do so another year. For myself, I hope I may have the good fortune to attend many meetings in this town ; and, judging from my feelings towards yourselves, I could almost flatter myself that when I quit this assembly I shall not leave a single enemy behind ine. (Loud cheers.) The Hon. 11. Cowen briefly responded to the toast, expressing a hope that he should have fre quent opportunities of attending such anniversaries. He trusted experience would show extermination was not the only cure for the cattle plague, and he could not help saying that it was somewhat re markable that those who were in favour of exter mination were those who were possessed of many cattle. (Hear, hear.) The Noble CHAIRMAN, in proposing " Prosperity to the West Herts Agricultural Society," expressed a hope that the society would not confine itself to showing fat stock, but that it would direct its atten tion to the breeding of stock in the neighbourhood. (Cheers.) Any man buying a good animal, and feeding it judiciously, might be able to produce it at Christmas to his own satisfaction, but that mode of proceeding was not calculated to improve the breed of stock in the district, and he trusted that next year there would be certain classes for competition in breeding and store stock. (Cheers.) The toasts of " The President," "The Judges," " The Donors of Special Prizes," " The Vice-Chair man and Committee of Management," 44 The Treasurer and Honorary Secretary," and " The Successful Competitors" were afterwards given, and the proceedings did not terminate until a rather late hour. ALTERATIONS IN THE STRAND THEATRE.—The Strand Theatre, so long the perennial source of laughter to thousands, has been shut up for some months undergoing repairs and alterations, considerable in extent. The writer takes a peculiar interest in this droll little establishment, the architect of which he knew well — Charles Broad, formerly prompter at the Dublin Theatre, and in the season 1831-2 acting manager under Monck Mason, of the King's (now her Majesty's) Theatre in the Haymarket. Poor Broad, who was unfortunate, it may almost be said hardly treated, in respect of some plans pre pared by him for Braham for the St. James's Theatre, has left behind him in London this single specimen of his constructive genius. The writer well recol lects the critical moment, now more than thirty years past, of the cutting away of the central pillar which sup ported the roof of the building, formerly applied to the purposes of a panorama, and which roof, despite many ominous warnings by on-lookers, Broad was determined to preserve. He was right in his calculations, and successful in the constructive precauticns he had prepared ; the old roof stood in its place, weathering storms of wind and rain from without, and of laughter and foot-stamping from within, till the other day, when it was removed by Mr. Foster, of Whitefriars, the contractor, who is also, by the way, the builder of the new Surrey Theatre. Besides the new roof and some necessary strengthening of the assisted by iron stanchions, the present improvements are restricted to the audience department, and chiefly the gal lery, which will be calculated to hold some hundred per sons more than heretofore.—Building News. MR. CARLYLE ON NATURAL HISTORY.—We read in the Edinburgh Courant :—" Our townsman, Mr. Adam White, for many years in the Natural History department ' of the British Museum, proposes to introduce the teaching of natural history into boarding schools and private fami lies. On his project, and on the general introduction of that delightful science into the curriculum of ordinary edu cation, Mr. White has been favoured by Mr. Thomas Car lyle with a characteristic letter, from which the following is an extract For many years it has been one of my con stant regrets that no schoolmaster of mine had a knowledge of Natural History, so far, at least, as to have taught me the grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbours that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are ! Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which aro always over head, and which I don't half know to this day ? I love to prophesy that there will come a time, when not in Edinburgh only, but in all Scottish and European towns and villages, the schoolmaster will be strictly required to possess these two capibilities (neither Greek nor Latin more strict !), and that no ingenuous little denizen of this universe be thenceforward debarred from his right of liberty in those two departments, and doomed to look on them as if across grated fences all his life. For the rest I cannot doubt but, one way or other, you will by-and-by make your valuable indubitable gift available in Edinburgh, either to the young or to the older, on such conditions as there are, and I much recommend a zealous and judicious persistence till you do succeed.—Believe me, yours very sincerely, T. CARLYLE." Naval and Military Intelligence. Yesterday Major-General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., commanding the troops at Chatham, com menced his half-yearly inspection of the Royal Artillery forces under his command, consisting of the Ist divison of the Depot Brigade and the H battery 9th Brigade Field Artillery. The whole of yesterday was devoted to the inspection of the H battery, under the command of Major H. T. Fitz hugh. In the morning Sir Robert Walpole in spected the men's quarters, stabling, offices, and other buildings at the North-square, Brompton barracks, occupied by the troops of the battery, and in the afternoon, the weather proving favourable, the whole of the officers and men, with their light field Armstrong guns, ammunition waggons, &c., were taken to the Great Lines, where they were put through an extended course of artillery manoeuvres, the guns being served with the usual number of blank cartridges. The inspection of the remainder of the Royal Artillery will be resumed to-day. The operation of placing the old wooden frigate Terpsichore in dock at Chatham, in order to per mit an examination to be made to ascertain the extent of the injuries she sustained from the explo sion of one of the torpedoes beneath her bottom, was effected late on Monday afternoon, the work being attended with considerable difficulty in con sequence of the frigate barely floating. Early in the day upwards of 100 of the largest size empty barrels had been placed on her main deck, and these on the rising of the tide helped to increase her buoy ancy. Two of the largest of the mooring lighters were also placed at her stem and stern, and with the assistance these afforded she was safely hauled over the dock sill of No. 4 dock, the blocks of which had been removed so as to increase the depth of water therein. Yesterday morning the water was pumped out of the dock, and the frigate having in the meantime been shored up, the whole of her hull was exposed to view, allowing a careful examina tion to be made of her bottom by the dockyard officials. The injuries effected by the torpedo are all on the starboard side of the hull, slightly abaft of the fore chains, the port side of the bottom show ing no injury whatever, with the exception of the loosening of a few of the sheets of copper. The full explosive force of the torpedo appears to have caught the frigate about Bft. upward from her keel, blowing in her timbers and planking, the opening thus effected being somewhere about 10ft. square. A close examination shows that few of the timbers are broken off, the separation being at their points of junction. Proceeding on board the frigate the effects of the explosion are still more apparent, the planking of the main deck for a length of above 20 feet being ripped up, while the deck beams are broken in various directions and forced upwards to the upper deck. Even had the explosion not sunk her the tremendous shock she sustained would have rendered her useless, while some idea of the effects of the shock may be formed from the circumstance of the whole of the iron knees on the port side which carry the upper deck beams being wrenched and broken off. The frigate was inspected yester day by a large number of persons, including several of the officers of Royal Engineers. The Terpsichore will remain in dock until instructions have been received from the Admiralty respecting her, but the injuries she has sustained are such that she is only fit for breaking up. The Basilisk, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 1,031 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. W. N. Hewitt, V.C., left Sheerness on Monday for Portsmouth, en route for China. Previously to leaving she was inspected by Capt. Fulford, of her Majesty's ship Formidable, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Chas. Talbot, K.C.B. Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.B.,:Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, made his annual inspec tion yesterday at Portsmouth of the police force employed in the dockyard, the Royal Clarence Vic tualling-yard, the gun wharf and Arsenal, and the Royal Naval Hospital and gunboat yard at Haslar. Sir Richard also made, in the course of his inspec tion of the force at each of the establishments, a most minute investigation of the Police Fire Brigade arrangements. After the inspections were con cluded Sir Richard complimented the Superinten dent (Mr. Grey) on the appearance and efficiency of the men under his command, and of the very admirable arrangements of the Fire Brigade. Railway and other Companies• -*- - - CARLISLE AND SILLOTII. The report states that the contingent rent paid by the North British Company this half-year amounted to £2,426. This, with the fixed half yearly rent of £l,OOO, less income tax, after pro viding for the interest upon debentures and pre ference stock, left a balance of £B4B available for dividend on the ordinary stock of the company. The directors therefore recommended that a divi dend of 1 per cent. per annum, less income-tax, be declared at the ensuing meeting. ing the North-Western station. The - width and height of the tube were 4ft. 6in. respectively, rails being fixed in it for the carriage -wheels to run upon. At the central station in Holborn two tubes were carried beneath the foot-way and ground floor of the building ; one connecting Euston-station with the central station, and the other being intended to connect the latter with the Post-office in St. Mar tin's-le-Grand. This tube has only been carried to Holborn-hill. In the Holborn station the back por tion of the building was occupied by the three boilers, each of which could be worked up to a pres sure of 301 b. per square inch. As a rule only one boiler will be worked at a time, though all three could be used if necessary. Between the boiler room and the arrival and departure platform is the engine-room, fitted with two 24-horse power engines, Which work the shaft of the circular disc or fan, 22ft. in diameter. This, revolving rapidly upon its axis, having enclosed air chaimbers, could be used either for propelling the laden trains forward by atmos pheric pressure behind them, or for drawing them back through the tube by forming a partial vacuum before them. The trucks of goods, accompanied by one of the attendants, were blown through the tube to Euston in about five minutes, show ing the ease with which a portion of the goods and parcels traffic of the metropolis would shortly be conducted. Wheatstone's telegraphic apparatus was used at the stations, and was found to act well. The entrances to the tubes in the stations were opened or closed as required. In the station there were two main lines of rails and three sidings, the distance between the rails being 3ft. Biin. There were also two traversing plat ' forms for shifting the trucks from one part of the station to another. The Duke of Backingham, the chairman, and some of the directors of the company, were blown from the Holborn station, under the supervision of Mr. Rammell, the engineer, through the tube to Euston, which distance was accom plished in the short space of five minutes. The tube between Holborn and Euston station is now complete, and ready for opening. SPIRIT OF THE PITBLIO JOURNALS. TIMES.—The secondary symptoms of Fenianism are now setting in, and promise to be not less dis- tressing and more intractable than the original at tack. The " conspiracy of bagmen" has collapsed, but a sense of distrust and insecurity has been effec- tually diffused throughout Ireland; and long after the " men of 1865" have been consigned to some lower . region of the same limbo as - the "men of 1848," the effects of this fatuous and purposeless movement will be felt by the whole country. If the evidence already taken has revealed the want of any reasonable aim amongst its leaders, of military or political strength among its adherents, and of that dash of true patriotism in its spirit which has en nobled many a wild and abortive insurrection, it has also disclosed the extent of its popularity in the lower ranks of Irish society. It is consolatory to know that neither the peasantry, nor the farmers, nor the artisan population of the towns, nor the well to-do shopkeepers are, as a body, Fenians, and it is most satisfactory to find the priests ranged with the landlords on the side of order. But then it is dis- couraging to .hear that among the Fenians already in custody are persons of unsuspected character be longing to all these classes, and especially to that of young employes in shops and offices, while the in fluence of the priests, so powerful when exerted against the Government, has proved inadequate to check the spread of these revolutionary doctrines. The most remarkable, because the rarest, feature of Fenianism is the quiet and businesslike manner in which it has been organised and propagated. There has been, of course, a vast deal of noisy bravado on the part of its younger recruits, but the secret springs of its elaborate machinery have been worked by no unskilful hand. Within the last few weeks the in- telligence communicated to the Government by the informers has been verified in most essential re- spects. The very sort of men for whom the police were on the look out have duly made their ap pearance by the American steamers. They seldom bring with them any papers - which are worth seizing, they commit no overt acts of treason, and they successfully disguise the bearing of soldiers with the air of inoffensive civilians. There they , are, however, with no good account to give of them selves, ready for mischief as soon as they are wanted. The same generalship is shown in the distribution of arms. No large depots have been discovered, but here, there, and everywhere five or six muskets, or a consignment of pikes, keep arriving from Dublin, Cork, or Liverpool. All these and similar tokens of complicity with the plot in unexpected quarters naturally excite and partly justify the feeling of alarm which still prevails among the gentry. This alarm may be more or less reasonable, but it is a fact in itself, and a fact which may con tinue to bear evil fruit when the very name of Fenianism is almost forgotten. Until we learn how the news of the Dublin arrests was received by the American Fenians, we cannot judge what further measures of repression may be needful. At present there is not the slightest sign of a Fenian fleet coming to the rescue, and the reports of Fenian cruisers on the Atlantic have turned out to be the merest canards. It will greatly surprise us if the 200,000 American Fenians give their Irish brethren anything beyond moral and pecuniary assistance ; and for the sake of the latter we heartily hope it may be so. It is impolitic, as well as unfeeling, to employ more force than is necessary in crushing a rebellion or a mutiny, but there is no real kindness in employing less. Napoleon always denied that his artillerymen fired blank cartridges before open ing with grape and canister on the memorable 4th of October, which ended the French Revolution, alleging that it would have involved more bloodshed in the end to do so. He was doubtless right, and if, after the lesson already given, a Fenian out break should take place in any part of Ireland, public opinion would support the Government in putting it down with the utmost vigour. Such an outbreak, however, appears to be highly im probable. In addition to the Irish constabulary, to which no police force in this country is equal in efficiency, some 18,000 regular soldiers are posted, by troops and companies, in all parts of Ireland. The demands for military protection which have been received from the great Protestant landed pro prietors would, indeed, overtask the resources of the whole Empire if the Lord-Lieutenant should accede to them, but the truth is that, surrounded as they are by an atmosphere of suspicion and dis affection, the panic of these loyal gentlemen is very natural. In the North the apprehension of a Fenian rising on a certain day seems to have been compli cated by the rumoured intention of the Orangemen to attack the Catholics beforehand "in self-defence." Probably this fear was at least equally well-founded, and it is one salutary consequence of the Govern ment intervention that it has diminished the danger of a Donnybrook Fair on a large scale, wherever the two parties were pretty equally matched. As it is, we may hope that Fenianism, though not ex tirpated, will have been thoroughly discredited by the exposure of its objects, and the ease with which most of its chiefs in Ireland have been taken into custody. What is wanted is not so much a display of military power by the Executive, which would only give the movement an artificial prestige, as a display of determination to uphold the law by the wealthier and educated classes in Ireland. The Chartism of physical force never survived the de monstration of superior strength made by the re spectable householders of London, as special con stables, in 1848. If these Fenian Socialists could once be made to feel that all their own country men are against them, except those who have little or nothing to lose, they could not but awake to the desperate nature of their enterprise. Hitherto we are not aware that a single journal or politician of respectability, English, Irish, Conti nental, or American, has seriously embraced their cause. One of our Italian contemporaries, adverting to this very circumstance not long ago, invoked the s ympathy of Europe for the " long martyrdom of poor Ireland," but even this stanch advocate of op pressed nationalities candidly warned Ireland that she would gain very little by separating from us. Such practical advice, however, may possibly be lost upon the credulous readers of the Connaught Patriot, who were informed in the article read by Mr. Barry, as " an undoubted fact," that " on the Continent every Irish lady or gentleman that can supply un doubted proof of her or his Milesian blood is admit ted into, and accepted by, royal families as acquaint ances and as marr i age a lli ances. " It mus t ha v e been from an equally verac i ous source th a t th e Fenians derived thei r re li ance on th e a id o f th e E m peror Napoleon, whose base desertion of them is said to be deeply resented by the fraternity. Now, there is just one consideration which ought surely to be intelligible, even to those deluded persons, whether lin America or in Ireland, who can believe such stories as these. This consideration is the peremptory and inevitable necessity of the connection between Ire land and Great Britain. We entertain the firmest conviction that it is identified with all the true inte rests of the weaker country, but we also recognise and do not scruple to state plainly, that it is of vital importance to ourselves as a nation. For good or for evil the destinies of the two islands are inextri cably bound up together, and the maintenance of that tie must ever be to us a matter of State policy. There are many open questions with regard to the government of Ireland, but it is not an open ques tion whether Ireland shall continue to stand to England in any political relation whatever. The so-called independence of Ireland would be neither more nor less than anarchy under a foreign protec torate. If such a state of things did not lead, as it infallibly would, to a clamorous reaction in favour of annexation to this country, it is one which it would be impossible for us to tolerate. He who would establish an Irish republic must first conquer England. This is perfectly well understood abroad, and is the reason why no one but an Irishman has ever indulged the idea of Irish emancipation. We can hardly believe, indeed, that any sane Irish man has ever indulged in it in earnest, nor do the Fenians themselves appear to have considered for a moment what was to become of Ireland after the plan of confiscation and extermination should have been duly carried out. POST.—No society professedly desirous to pro mote the introduction of legal reforms could N enture to peril its reputation by remaining silent about the numberless defects of the law of bankruptcy. Chambers of commerce, municipal corporations, and mercantile boards, have all united to deplore the evils from which creditors are now daily suffering, and to make suggestions, more or less valuable, for their mitigation or removal. It is therefore only natural to find that considerable prominence has been given to this subject by the friends of social science assembled at Sheffield. Lord Brougham touched upon it in his opening address, and Sir Robert Phillimore had a few words of lamentation to bestow:upon it when he took the chair of the jurisprudence department. After these incidental notices the matter was formally brought before the association by Mr. Moffatt, the newly-elected M.P. for Southampton, a gentleman, it must be admitted, who has some claim to be heard with respect upon the working of the existing law. He took part in the deliberations of the City men who gave Lord Westbury the benefit of their advice and assistance when preparing his unfortunate measure, and he has had ample opportunity as a merchant in exten sive business of testing the value of his own recom mendations. The experiment has probably been tried by only too many of his " shaky" customers, greatly to the prejudice of his own cash balances, and he must have been exceptionally fortunate if he has not had very good reason to understand the way in which the changes introduced by the act of 1861 have affected the interests of creditors. He has for two sessions presided over the House of Commons committee of investigation, and that he has paid a great amount of attention to the subject was suffi ciently evident from the carefully prepared paper of which we gave an abftract in our Saturday's im pression. We are not much surprised, and but very little disappointed, to find that all this research has added nothing to our previous information. Mr. Moffatt, it is true, mourns over the miscarriage of successive Administrations in their endeavours to provide a good code of bankruptcy. He sings a jeremiad over each abortive attempt, and con fesses by implication that Lord Westbury's bill has made confusion worse confounded. He sees in our present system a constant inducement to reck less trading, fraudulent concealment, and positive dishonesty. He mourns over our multiplyingbank ruptcies, our geometrically progressing deeds of assignment and composition. He furnishes some • highly edifying statistics showing how the law now works, and he only too strongly fortifies his posi tion by an imposing array of figures. In 1863 six hundred and thirty-five debtors wound up their affairs by means of composition deeds, and 331 of these paid not more than ss. in the pound. But in the following year the results were still more un satisfactory. The number of compounding debtors was 1,176, and in only 468 instances, or little more than one-third, did the creditors get one-quarter of the amount of their debt ; while out of three hun dred of these deeds 12 were for less than is., and ten of that number less than 2s. in the pound. But bad as are these results " they may be counted honest and desirable, compared with the frauds per petrated under the deeds of arrangement and assign ment" introduced by Lord Westbury. No pre liminary proof of debts is required to render valid these precious instruments. A dishonest debtor , may always make, and virtually compel, a settle- ' ment which shall virtually benefit no one but him self. The creditors grumble, the meeting is adjourned and adjourned again, till the debtor gets his own way, because no one will take the trouble ' to sift the matter to the bottom. The trustees are often in collision with the bankrupt, and the result of proceedings to compel them to do their duty is not encouraging. The fruit of all this is shown by a Parliamentary return made last session. In the year ending 11th October, 1864, there were no less than 7,224 bankruptcies. The assets realised were only £677,000, or less than £94 in each case, while the official costs of collection came to £140,000, leaving only £530,000 available for ' division ; 6,600 persons were made bankrupts on their own petition, and 848 of them paid less than half-a-crown in the pound, while 5324, or three-fourths of the entire number, paid no dividend at all. But the closing figures of Mr. , Moffat's statement are, as he truly says, even more startling. A return obtained at his instance shows with what frightful rapidity the facilities of dis honesty are sapping the foundations of commercial morality. The amount of debts due from bankrupt estates wound up under deeds of assignment was, kin 1863, £1,015,000 ; in 1864, £5,725,000 ; and in six months of 1865, at the rate of £13,450,000. Composition and inspectorship deeds show a corre sponding increase, and the totals for the respective years show an increase of debts dealt with under these three kinds of instruments of from £1,586,000 ' in 1863, to little short of £9,000,000 in 1864, and if the, existing rate be maintained, to the astounding total of £33,000,000 in 1865—a sum more than - sufficient to pay the interest of the national debt, and about half the total expenditure of the nation ! Though our readers will not be altogether surprised to learn that Lord W estbury's greatly puffed but ill-advised measure has introduced these evils, they will, perhaps, be somewhat astonished at their alarm ing extent and development. But our wonder is that Mr. Moffat should now announce them as if they had not from the first been foreseen by many whose judgment was entitled to respect. Again and again, while the bill was before the house, did we indicate its weak points. Actual experience has shown that our apprehensions were within the mark, and the only error was in somewhat underrating its multiplied mischiefs. We know not whether Mr. Moffat was able to preserve his gravity when attri buting the failure of the act to satisfy the commu nity to the refusal of the House of Lords to sanction the appointment of a chief judge in bankruptcy. Certain it is he discreetly avoided any endeavour to show how a judge of appeal was to have remedied the in ate defects of the measure, to have exacted proofs the law did not require, to have exercised powers the law did not give, and generally to have kept debtors, trustees, and every one else in order, without any proper machinery for the purpose. And after the, late Lord Chancellor's endeavours to abolish county court commitments it is rather rash to de scribe him as having indicated a conclusion at all likely to satisfy the mercantile community. The fact is, as we have often asserted already, each suc cessive bankruptcy bill has been more or less a scheme of -Whig Administrations to make fresh places and grant fresh pensions. That Lord West bury's measure was no exception to this rule has been. more than abundantly shown by the disclosures which involved the present Government in disgrace and brought their highest legal dignitary to his down fall. Really to ameliorate the law of bankruptcy we must in a great measure reinstate the syste m, which the first Reform Ministry abolished. We must leave the settlement of affairs as' much as pos sible in the hands of the creditors, and must give them a ready access to the Court whenever it shall seem desirable to invoke its powers. Th e plan pur sued in Scotland, of leaving issues in ban krufrtcy to courts of ordiCary judicature, is productive of delay and injury there, and if introduced here would still further impede the trial of causes in our courts of equity and common law. What is wanted is that business details should be left to business men, and that questions of legal or equitable doctrines, of fraud, concealment, or other misdeeds, should be administered by a court with ample powers, perma-. nent sittings, and competent judges. When once these essentials are secured the growing love of bankruptcy will be effectually checked, and the reproach now cast upon our law will be speedily removed. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At this day's market there was rather a thin attendance of the town and country trade, and business limited, and of a retail character. Wheat and flour held for full prices, and little business done. Oats and oatmeal at barely late rates. Barley, beans, and peas 2d per 601 b. and is per qr. lower. Indian corn freely offered, and a decline of 3d to 6d per qr. was established. CAPE TOWN. The directors in their report allude to the efficient and safe working of the line for the half-year ending June 30, with a steady increase of traffic and conse quent profit, notwithstanding that it had been found desirable to reduce the goods rates. On the Wel lington line 57,458 passengers and 11,641 tons of goods had been carried, as against 38,484 passengers and 9,688 tons of goods in the previous half-year ; the receipts having been £16,142, as against £14,219. On the Wynberg line 157,786 passengers and 471 tons of goods had been carried at a gross return of £6,666. This line had been only lately available for goods traffic. During the same period there had been a reduction of 22.53 per cent. in the company's working expenses. This result was due partly to in crease of traffic and partly to reduction in working expenses consequent onimproved managementin the colony. The gross receipts for the past year had been £22,418, and the expenditure, exclusive of the out lay of £2,797 on renewal of decayed sleepers, which was as before charged to capital, had been £17,889, showing a profit of £4,528, in addition to the amount guaranteed by the Colonial Government, thus leav ing a balance of £12,080 available for dividend. Out of this sum it was proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum free of income tax, and to carry over the balance—£l,9l3—to the next account to meet renewals and other contin gencies. The dividend warrants would be payable on and after the 20th inst. Since the last meeting the Local Government had acceded to the request of the company to refer to Mr. Hawkshaw the question of the decayed sleepers. Under this head there had been hitherto an outlay of £10,830, and it was estimated that for a further sum of £3,000 the whole of the sleepers in question would be replaced. The expenditure of the company in England, on construction account, had been officially examined by the Crown agents for colonies, in accordance with instructions from the Colonial Government. Their auditor reported that from his investigation "he is able to certify that in point of amount the charges are strictly correct, and, having regard to the recognised principles which govern the charges applicable to the construction of railways in this country, the items appear to be of a nature fairly chargeable to capital or construction account." The necessary steps having been taken by the company's solicitors to refer all the questions at issue between the company and the contractor to Mr. Hawkshaw (the standing referee) for his decision, the contrac tor filed a bill in Chancery against the company for the purpose of restraining this reference and taking the accounts in that Ccurt. The directors would resist this attempt to put aside the authority of the standing referee. Mr. Secretary Cardwell had de clined to advise her Majesty to annul the Wynberg Railway Running Powers Act. It appeared that 475,068 passengers and 57,567 tons of goods had been carried over the line since their opening in February, 1862, without injury either to person or property. The capital account showed that £708,392 had been expended.. PNEUMATIC DESPATCH. Yesterday, a small goods train was driven through the company's tube from the central station in llolborn to the terminus at Euston station, passing beneath Holborn, New Oxford-street, Tottenham court-road, Hampstead-road, and Drummond street on to the Euston station, a distance of about two miles, having some sharp curves on approach- The Cattle Disease. AYLESBURY, Monday.—A cow belonging to a milkman named Haystaff died here yesterday from the disease. The animal was under treatment by Mr. Sepper, veterinary surgeon, the inspector for the district, assisted by the advice of Mr. R. Ceeley, one of the members of the royal commission. The symptoms of the disease were unmistakeable, and the animal was buried with all due precaution. This is the first approach of the disease to the valuable herds of cattle in the vale of Aylesbury. The ma gistrates, at their - meeting on Saturday, issued an order, under the provisions of the recent order in council, prohibiting the bringing of horned stock to all fairs and markets within the district for the next five weeks. SUFFOLK.—The disease has made its appearance at Sudbury ; one has been attacked, but rather mildly. At Melford the disease still prevails. It has carried off the remainder of the fine dairy of cows (20 in number) and one bull, belonging to Mr. H. Westropp, of the Place Farm ; Mr. James Beaumont, of Cranmore Farm, and Mrs. Joseph Byford, of Rowhedge Farm, have each lost several more in addition to those already published, making the loss df the former 20 beasts, and the latter 36. Mr. Deeks has also lost another cow, making his loss two cows. The disease has also shown itself among a portion of the stock of Mr. Woods, of Bridge-street Farm, who has lost one cow, besides slaughtering severalbeasts by order of the inspector. In the course of lest week the dairy belonging to Messrs. Potter, of Reingate-street, Bury St. Ed mund's, was attacked with the disease, and upon Mr. Taylor, veterinary surgeon, being called in, he found the symptoms such as to leave no doubt as to the nature of the malady. Four cows were killed forthwith, and two or three more , were separated in consequence of suspicious ap pearances. Every day others have been attacked, and 11 have been killed under the order of the in spector; indeed, there seems every probability that the entire dairy will be cleared off. At Wattisfield, during the past week Mr. Cason has lost two more cows. He has only two left out of his dairy of seven, one of which has recovered from the disease. At Rickinghall an entirely fresh case has occurred. Mr. Charles Norton called in the inspector on Friday, the 29th ult., and he at once condemned and destroyed six young beasts ; two more have since fallen victims. NEWCASTLE.—There seems to be no signs of the cattle plague having yet reached its worst in this town. On Saturday three fatal cases came under the notice of the inspectors ; and on Sunday there were four more deaths. Two of the cattle belonged to Mr. Hindson, who has now only one left out of twenty-two which were in his dairy a week - or two ago. Three of the deaths on Sunday oc curred in one dairy, making five fatalities since last week. These cows had been for some days under the treatment of Mr. Richardson, the manager of Messrs. Pleus and King ; but, as is universally the case, without avail. The animal which Dr. Alexander was treating by hydropathy has at length succumbed to the virulence of a disease which seems to have no remedy. This animal had been carefully attended by Dr. Alexander since last Sunday. Be sides these deaths, the plague has broken out in two fresh byres, in one of which there are six cows. One of the byres is in Gallowgate, and close to a dairy, in which there had previously been some deaths from rinderpest. The cows as they die or are destroyed are removed to the manure works, where they are thrown into a vat of sulphuric acid. One of the cows which died on Sunday was being removed just as the people were coming out of the churches, and the spectacle of a dead cow being carted through the streets at such an hour excited great attention. On Sunday 32 head of cattle arrived at Newcastle by the Lord Raglan, from Rotterdam. They were re moved to the yard on the New-road, where they were examined by Mr. Wilkinson, and owing to the appearance of two of them, Mr. Wilkinson ordered the lot to be kept in quarantine.--Newcastle Chronicle. EDINBURGII.—Seven new cases of rinderpest have been reported to Professor Dick, which have oc curred in city byres already infected, and two new cases in byres at Roseburn. Four new cases have been reported in the same interval from two byres in the south side of the city which have hitherto been exempt from disease. Seven cows have died in city byres, and two in byres at Roseburn. Total number of new cases reported since Friday, 13 ; number of deaths 9. Since the outbreak of the plague in the Edinburgh byres early in August, 390 cows have been affected. Of these, 320 have died or been killed to prevent infection of healthy stock, 36 have recovered, and 34 are still ill. The plague has been present in about 70 byres during these two months, and in some of them has carried off the entire dairy stock. The total number of byres within the municipal area was estimated by Dr. Littlejohn shortly before the outbreak of the plague at 171, and the number of cows, 2,085. — Scotsman. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality 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 no other 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 Infanta' Food, the Revalenta Arabica, and its thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as mush 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 potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle which is found in milk in its constituent part No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt ily, have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest advent :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, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; Mb., its. ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b. 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, Q, King William.-street ; likewi e at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, BishoMate strea Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 33,), Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham -court-road ; 90, Upper-st:eet, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close trothers, 65, High.street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. 'John's -wcod, London ; and all respectable grocers and else mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. BRISTOL-TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a fair attendance and a good business doing, principally in wheat, which fetched fully last week's prices. Barley dull. Maize scarce, and consequently above par. Oats very quiet. MONMOTJTIISHIRE—MoNDAT. The timely rain which has fallen since Saturday has re lieved the apprehensions of agriculturists. Wheat of fine quality maintained last week's pricer and inferior descrip tions without change. Foreign w h ea t' dull and sales limited. Malting barley more inquirod for, and large purchaseS made. Oats firm, and buyers take pretty freely. The following are the average quotations :—Wheat, 5s ld to 5s 9d per bushel; barley, 3s 2d to 3s 9d; oats, 2S ld to 2s 7d. LEEDS-TUESDAY. We have a fair show of grain this week. Although we are not able to report a brisk trade in wheat to-day, still last week's prices have to be paid on the sales effected. Fine barley quite as well sold ; other sorts slow sale. Oatil and beans without change. Tho average prices for the week ending Oct. 9 were :-- Wheat, 43s lid per qr. ; barley, 31s 11,d; and oats, 23s 3d.. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—T UESDAY. Old white wheat, 46s to Us ; new red. 43s to 49s per 80 stone. Barley, fine, 36s ; other kinds, 27s to 29s per qr. Oats, now, 23s to 25s ; old, 27a to 31s per qr. Beans, old, 40s to 42s ; new, 34s to 36s per qr. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY; Red wheat, peiiCtaol3inp. bushelB 16s 6d to 17s 61 White do do lBB 6d 208 Od New red do do • l5B d ]6s td New white do do !7s Od 198 Od Beans do do l7s Od 19s Od Peas, per qr. 4OB Od 42s 0,1 Grinding be,: ley, per qr 30s Od 32s Od Malting barley, co 32s Od 3SB Od Oats, do 248 Od 288 Od F10ur....1s 6d to 2 , Od per 1411,. Births. DIEKE.—On the 10th inst., at 17, York-place, Portman square, the wife of Thomas Dyke, Esq., of a daughter. PHILLIPS.—On the 7th inst., at 44, Westbourne-terrace, the wife of Major Phillips, late of the Bth Hussars, of a daughter. STRATHMORE.—On the Bth inst., at 24, Rutland-gate, the Countess of Strathmore, of a daughter. Marriages CLUNN—WARD.--On the 7th inst., at St. Paul's, Covent garden, George Rich, youngest son of Mr. Thos Clunu, of the Piazza, Cavent-garden, to Martha, eldest daugh ter of the late Wm. Ward, Esq., of Palmer's-hill, Mid' dlesex. ROBERTsON—GREATOREX.—On the 7th inst., at the Holy Trinity Church, Paddington, Graham Moore Robertson, of 21, Cleveland-square, to Marion, eldest daughter of J. Greatorex, Esq., of Cleveland-square, Hyde-park. Deaths. BURLEIGH.—On the 7th inst., at Rochford, Pyke Bur Welt Esq , aged 69. OUTHBERTSON.—On the Bth inst., at his residence, Upper Holloway, George Guthbertson, Esq., late of Aldersgate street, aged 88. DUNDAS.—On the 19th ult., at Quebec, Robert DundaSl Esq., Rifle Brigade , oldest son of Sir David Dundas, Bt- , of Beechwood and Dtuaira. LANCASTER.—On the 7th inst., at Warwick-road, UpPef Clapton, Major Henry Lancaster, late of '2oth Regimen t Bombay N. 1., aged 44. 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