The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-30 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING• - - _ The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Caledonian Railway (Barrhead and Paisley Branches, &c.), the Keysham Pier, Fulham Railway, Acton and Brentford Railway, and Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway Bills were severally read a second time. The following bills were read a third time and passed : —The Rochester Oyster Fishery, the Southern Railway, Ryde Pier (Tramways), Galway Water, Dundee Roads and Streets, Forcett Railway, Great Eastern Railway (Somer shan to Ramsey), Heaham and Allendale Railway, Great Eastern Railway (Additional Powers), and Manchester Improvement. THE CASE OF CATHERINE GAUGHAN. Lord LIFFORD drew attention to this subject, which was brought before the house by the Marquis of Westmeath, and in the course of the noble lord's statement it appeared that the recommendation of the Inspector-General of Police in Ireland had not been carried out is respect to the removal of certain members of the constabulary who, it was alleged, had exceeded their duty in regard to the treatment of Cathe rine Gaughan. After some remarks by Earl GRANVILLE and the Marquis of WESTMEATR, it was arranged that the subject should be brought under the consideration of the house to-morrow. WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Marquis of WESTMEATH called the attention of the house to this subject, and brought before their lord ships the information promised in the debate which had recently taken place, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, respectinginfractions of the authorised worship of the Church of England, which were particularly men tioned as having been practised in the Church of St. Alban, Holborn, as well as in other churches, and the solemn oath alleged to have been taken by the Rev. J. Going, incum bent of St. Paul's, Lorrimer-square, and his curate in a pastoral address issued by him respecting confession, and called the seal of confession. He said at the request of the Bishop of London he consented to postpone his motion. The Bishop of LONDON said that he trusted the noble lord would postpone the motion until after Whitsuntide. The Marquis of WESTMEATH assented. COMPANIES WORKMENS' EDUCATION BILL. On the report of the amendments being brought up, _ _ _ Earl GRANVILLE moved the omission of clause No. 1, to the effect that children educated in the schools which would be established under this bill should be so educated, in conformity with the doctrines of the Established Church. The Archbishop of YORK strongly objected to the amendment in question. He considered that if the altera tion were agreed to it would destroy the value of tho bill. Altor sonic remarks from the Earl of CARNARVON and Earl GREY, their lordships divided— Contents 53 Non-contents Majority —ls The first clause accordingly stands part of the bill. The report as amended was then agreed to. DIVISIONS IN THE HOUSE. The Duke of RICHMOND called attention to the man ner in which divisions were taken in the house, which he contended was unsatisfactory, and necessitated the intro duction of a standing order which would fix the time be tween the question being put by the Lord Chancellor and the members voting to two minutes, instead of leaving the time as at present undetermined. Earl GRANVILLE did not object to the proposition, but thought it desirable that it should be printed and further eonsidered. After a few words from Lord REDESDALE and the Mar quirs•of -BATH, Earl STANHOPE supported the motion, and said he had the authority of Lord Eversley for stating that the system adopted in the other house worked remarkably well. Lorl EBURY thought some definition ought to be given as to what was the house and what was not the house. The Marquis of BATH observed that a discussion took place on that subject some years ago, and it was then un derstood that every peer who was in a position to hear the question put was within the house. The Duke of RICHMOND then withdrew his motion, and moved that the standing order be printed and further considered after the recess. WAR DEPARTMENT TRAMWAY (DEVON) BILL. This bill passed throu g h committee. PARSONAGE BILL. This bill also passed throu g h committee. - CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION BILL. On the order for going into committee on this bill, The Archbishop of DUBLIN moved, as an amendment, that it was not expedient, without the concurrence of the convocation of the Irish provinces of the United Church, to proceed with the bill, so far as it might set aside and supersede the canons of those provinces, and that an address be presented to the Queen, praying her to convene the convocation of the Irish provinces for the purpose of amending those canons which relate to the subscription of the clergy and to the oaths against simony, so as to assimila:4 the law of the Church of England and Ireland in relation thereto, and best to secure the united action of the pro vinces of the Church. Earl GRANVILLE remarked that the question of sum moning the convocations of Armagh and Dublin had been carefully considered by the Government, and tho- decision arrived at was that it was not deSirable that they should meet. Ile hoped the most rev. prelate would not persist in his amendment. The Archbishop of YORK said the measure introduced many important changes, which if carried out were likely to produce a most salutary effect. Ito should therefore give it his support, but some of the provisions would re quire careful considoratiou in committee. The Bishop of KILLALOE was of opinion that, be fore a measure of this nature was decided upon, the synod of the whole United Church ought to have been summoned to consider it. Lord LYTTELTON also opposed the amendment. The Bishop of OXFORD thought it of importance that the bill should be proceeded with, but he had no objection to postpone that part of it which related to the Irish clergy. The canons of the English and Irish Church were different even on important points, and no harm would, therefore, be done by postponing legislation in reference to the Irish Church until another year. The Bishop of LONDON concurred in this view of the matter, and showed that the Archbishop of Dublin, in asking for justice to Ireland, claimed a great deal more than was at present conceded to England. . The Archbishop of DUBLIN said he had no desire to impede legislation upon this subject in reference to Eng land, and would, therefore, strike out the first part of his motion, retaining simply the motion for an address to the Crown. Subsequently the whole amendment was withdrawn, and the bill passed through committee. The Police Superannuation Bill, and the Pilotage Order Confirmation Bill, were read a third time and passed. - The County Voters Registration Bill and the County of Sussex Bill passed through committee. Their lordships adjourned shortly before eight o'clock. - HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : - - Aberdeenshire Roads ; Busby Railway ; Croesor and Port madoc Railway; Highbridge Markets and Gas; Hoy lake Railway ; Lancashire Union Railway ; London and North Western Railway (additional powers, Wales); London, Chatham, and Dover, and London and South Western Railway Companies ; Manchester and Milford Railway, Midland Railway (New Lines, &c.) ; School for the Indigent Blind Act Amendment ; and Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway. MIDDLESEX INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL. Mr. C. FOSTER moved that the order of the 11th of May, that the report from the select committee on the Middlesex Industrial Schools Bill be read, and that the bill be discharged. Mr. P. HENNESSY strenuously objected to such a course. The bill was now in the hands of the house, and contended that it was within the province of the promoters of the measure—the Middlesex justices—to withdraw the bill. He opposed the motion for the withdrawal, and said that in the event of the bill being retained, he should move its third reading on Thursday next. Mr. BARING thought the bill contained some exceed ingly useful clauses, and thatit was desirable that it should receive the further consideration of the house. The motion for the withdrawal of the bill was negatived. THE CAPE COLONY. Ur. WARNER asked the Secretary of State for the colonies whethe r it was t rue, as s t a t e d i n newspapers, th a t the Governor of the Cape Colony was pursuing a policy in regard to the Caffres of which the responsibility has not been assum e d by the co l on i a l L eg i s l a t ure ; an d w h et h er, in the event of war arising, it would not be difficult under these circum s t ances to enforce upon the representative Go vernment of the colony its obligation to bear the whole burden of inter na l defence ? "Mr. CARDWELL said he proposed that the policy re ferred to was that which the governor had thought fit to adopt with respect to the quietly disposed natives. He did not think that it was a policy likely to load to war; but quite the reverse. The governor in such matters always acted on his own responsibility. The d e f ence of the colony up to the present time had always rested ou thi s country): and for the present it would continue to do so. TIE RED RIVER SETTtEMEiTs. • Sir E. GROGAN asked the Secretary of State for the. Colonies if any and what, steps had been taken by th e , Government, since the report of the select committee was presented to that house, for opening up the Red River dis tricts and the valley of the Saskatchevan, to settlement under the Crown, and putting an end to the exclusive privileges heretofore claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company in these districts; and if the claim of ownership, put forward by the Hudson's Bay Company in the territory lying between Canada and' British America, b e i ng a lc ou t two-thirds of our possessions on that continent, was admitted by the Government as well founded? Mr. CARDWELL said it had been the desire of tho Secretary for the Colonies for years past to obtain the settlement of the question, and various proposals had been made to Canada. It was to be hoped that Canada might be induced to undertake the settlement of the colony, especially as the law officers of the Crown hid given it as their opinion that the rights of the Hudson's Bay Com pany were such as could not be resisted. CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND) AMEND MENT ACT BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Mr. 0. GORE moved that the measure be referred to a select committee. Mr. BRADY seconded the proposition. Lord J. BROWN did not think a select committee of the house a good tribunal to inquire into this measure. He thought the executive Government was best fitted to deter mine the exact number of constables to be appointed to each county. Sir R. PEEL hoped the house would allow him to pro ceed with the bill, because no practical good could result from sending the bill to a select committee. He had made an alteration in the measure which would enable the Lord- Lieutenant to increase the parliamentaryquota of constables in any county that he might think necessary. He had been asked what the object of the bill was. The object of the measure was to prevent a repetition of certain proceed ings which took place in Belfast last year, which were a disgrace to the whole country. (Hear, hear.) It was of the utmost importance that the bill should pass. (Hear, hear.) If July should come upon them without this measure being the law of the land, the 165 policemen would be found quite incompetent to preserve the peace, and there would be a repetition of those scandalous and disgraceful orgies that produced such lamentable results last; year. - Sir H. CAIRNS thought it highly injudicious on the part of the right hon. baronet to open up a debateable subject, and he hoped no person would express his opinion. He denied that the persons who waited on the Government last year from Belfast with the intention of getting the police superseded and martial law proclaimed were the " authorities " of the town.. He had no desire to impede the measure ; on the contrary, if certain amendments, which he thought the bill required, were agreed to, he should give the right hon. baronet his cordial support in passing it through the house. Mr. 0. GORE said as it seemed to bo the desire of the house to proceed with the consideration of the bill, he would withdraw his motion for referring the bill to a select committee. The motion was then, by leave, withdrawn, and the house went into committee on the bill. GREENWICH HOSPITAL BILL. Lord C. PAGET moved that the Greenwich Hospital Bill be read a second time pro forma, in order to introduce certain amendments, discussion to be taken on tho motion for going into committee on the bill. Sir J. PAKINGTON admitted that there were defects in the management of the hospital which called for reform. For example, the system of double government was very objectionable; but the existence of such defects was no reason why changes should be introduced that would so materially alter the original foundation that it could no longer be regarded as an object of national pride and ad miration. The right hon. baronet criticised at somelength the provisions of the bill, and suggested various improve ments with a view to rendering the hospital more generally useful and popular, and its administration more efficient and satisfactory. Mr. AYRTON regarded the measure as a comprehen sive one that struck at the root of an evil, but he com plained that it did not do justice to the seamen of the merchant service, who, he contended, were expressly in cluded as objects of the charity by the original charter, and by every act of Parliament that had subsequently passed relating to Greenwich Hospital. He hoped, when the bill went into committee, the Government would give the house an assurance that the unoccupied part of the hospital should be appropriated to the use of distressed seamen of the mercantile marine. Mr. LIDDELL, after discussing the details of the mea sure, observed that if ever a sweeping reform was required it was in the case of the administration of this hospital. Although he might agree to the conversion of the institu tion into a mere infirmary with some remorse, yet he thought that a liberal scale of out-pensions for deserving seamen, as proposed by the bill would be regarded as a boon that was preferable to the monotony of living in the hos pital. Mr. J. J. POWELL apprehended that the meeting of the terms of the charter was that any seaman, whether officer or man, who was incapable of further service at sea, was entitled to the benefit of the charity. But if it were contemplated by the bill that pensions should be granted out of funds originally intended for this purpose not only to common sailors but to officers generally, he feared it would turn out that Greenwich Hospital would share the fate of those educational institutions which, being founded for the sons of poor men, had in process of time been diverted from their original objects and their benefits conferred exclu sively upon those for whom they were never designed. Admiral WALCOTT advocated the claims of officers to participate in the advantages of the institution, and strongly objected to turning a magnificent asylum into a mere in firmary. The discussion was continued by Mr. C. W. Howard, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Childers, and Sir J. Elphinstone ; and the bill having been read a second time was committedpro forma and ordered to be reprinted with amendments. On the order for the second reading of the Colonial Go vernors' Retiring Pension Bill, Mr. B. COCHRANE complained of the illiberal charac ter of the measure, inasmuch as no pension was to be allowed to a colonial governor until he had served 18 years, and not even then if he had not attained the age of 60. He suggested that a service of 12 years should be sufficient. Sir W. JOLLIFFE thought that gentlemen who had passed their lives in filling these offices were entitled to be rewarded ; but the bill was so exclusive in its nature that Sir Francis Head, who had so eminently distinguished him self in Canada, would receive no advantage whatever under its provisions. Mr. MOOR also mentioned as one of hardship the caso of Mr. Latrobe, who, after faithfully serving the Crown as the superintendent of a colony for a long series of years, had been informed by the Under Secretary for the Colo nies, in a cold-blooded dispatch, that, not having been a "lieutenant governor," he would not be entitled to a pen sion under the bill. Mr. ADDERLEY made a vigorous attack on the bill, some of the provisions of which he described as wholly indefensible. Amongst other things it would confer a pen sion upon the governor of the new British America Colo nial Confederacy, provided they retained him for 18 years, or until he was GO years of age. The pension, too, was shabby in amount, and useful and distinguished services were unrecognised, whilst a man who had misgo verned a colony for the stipulated period would come within the terms of the bill. Sir J. PAKINGTON approved of the principle of the measure, but suggested that distinguished as well as lengthened services ought to be rewarded, and that such cases as that of Sir Francis Head should be treated in a generous and liberal spirit. Mr. CAVE approved of the bill as tending to make the service popular, but recommended that its scope should be enlarged. Mr. A. MILLS supported the bill on the same ground, and because it would make the colonial governors inde pendent as representatives of the mother country. A clause, however, ought to be introduced to meet such cases as those of Sir F. Head and Mr. Latrobe. Mr. CARDWELL justified the proposal to reward for long rather than distinguished services by reference to the practice followed under the Superannuation Act. As to the case of the British North American Confederacy, it was impossible that one person could remain in the office of governor for 18 years, the rule being to serve for six years only in each Government. The duty of conferring a pen sion for distinguished services was a function that belonged exclusively to Parliament, and ought not to be intrusted to any individual Minister. The preparation of a clause ap plicable to the case of Sir F. Head or Mr. Latrobe would be attended with this difficulty, that they might not be able to provide sufficient guards. The bill was then read a second time. _ _ Sir J. PAKINGTON stated that, owing to an attack of illness, Mr. Disraeli would be unable to attend and take part in the debate on the Roman Catholic Oaths Bill this day. He appealed to Mr. Monsell, therefore, to postpone the order for a future day. Mr. MONSELL replied that he had been in communi cation with Mr. Disraeli on tho subject, and that as the right hon. gentleman had not given him an assurance that he would be prepared to propose in committee a common form of oath to be taken by all the members of the house, and which should contain none of the phrases that the bill proposed to omit, he must decline compliance with his re quest, and proceed with the measure according to arrange ment. The remaining orders having been disposed of, The house adjourned at twenty-five minutes to two o'clock until noon this day. WEIGHING THE WEIGHTS.—A South African paper, Grciaff-Reinet Herald, states that a wool farmer who came into town lately to sell his wool, having heard that there had been no assizing of weights for four years, went into a store and brought up the subject of weighing people. Stepping on the platform scale he said, " I wonder what I weigh now ?" Ills weight was quickly read off ; a few siniilar trials were nutdo, and away ho went to the next store, and S c io n t o others. When he carne hack he knew \rho hail the iightest Weights, and there ha went with his wool. • * - • • [ A DVERTISEMENTJ—EMIoway's Pills and unitment.— Derangement of the Stomach and Bowels.—ln all cases of irregularities of the liver, the stomach, and bowels, Hollo way's celebrated pills are a safe specific. Dysentery, biliousness, acidity of the stomach, sick headache, debility, loss of appetite, drowsiness, and incapacity for exertion will all pass off before a course of these pills, which purify the blood and give tone to the whole system. In external injuries, such as burns, scalds and bruises, and all skin diseases, the ointment is wonderfully efficacious. Both pills and ointment are composed of rare balsams, unmixed with a grain of mercury or any deleterious substance. any cl They can te be used with safety b y b oth sexes at all ages in ima. THE ENGLISH IN CHINA. (From the Ames Correspondent.) SHANGHAI, April 8. In the early part of the last century the existence even of Shanghai was known to few, except Jesuit missionaries, and the few who happened to be in correspondence with them. Du Halde speaks of it casually as one of the cities under the jurisdiction of the Foo of Soochow, and awards it a certain amount of importance, as possessing a considerable junk trade with Foochow and Japan. But it is lost amid other cities, to which he awards equal praise, and for some time even after it was opened to foreign trade by the treaty of Nanking little was heard of it out of commercial circles. The expedition to Pekin first brought it into prominent notice through the columns of the limes. It was reserved for the rebels to attract to it an attention second only to that commanded by the capitals of our three prin cipal Indian provinces, and since their repulse from its neighbourhood its commercial importance has guaranteed a continuance of the interest first awak ened. In no part of the world probably have so rapid fortunes been made, and in few places probably have greater fluctuations in prosperity been observ able. The gigantic fortunes which have been amassed by some of our leading merchants, though nominally derived from Hongkong, are attributable in a great degree to Shanghai tea, silk and land, and not a few heavy losses during the past year have been refer able to the same source. It seems to have been be lieved that the foreign capacity for the consumption of tea was inexhaustible, and that the margin for profit was so wide that no competition could re duce.it. So implicit was this confidence that teas were shipped for Shanghai last year when the prices paid for them necessitated a loss of 2d. per lb. according to home advices ; and although hard experience has lately tended to destroy the hallu cination, a certain belief still appears to exist that any persov in business at Shanghai must necessarily make a fortune. Similarly, three years ago the price of land had reached a fabulous height, and not making allowance for the exceptional causes which had led to its rise, speculators invested recklessly, and held on madly, apparently under the impression that the demand for Chinese houses was inexhaustible. The population of a province had been swept into Shanghai before the advancing tide of the rebellion. Hundreds of unfortunate wretches lay dying, starving, and houseless along the roans leading to it, and in the very streets ; and hundreds more had brought with them means which would have enabled them to rent houses if there had been roofs sufficient to cover them. The value of land na turally rose to a fabulous sum, the demand for houses appeared unlimited, and street after street, block after block was erected, and let at rentals.which re turned exorbitant interest on the outlay. The sup ply reached a climax, and exceeded the demand ; the repulse of the rebels commenced, and gradually continued, and the demand correspondingly decreased as the refugees were able to return to the sites of their former homes, and resume cultivation of their paddy fields. Prices of land fell, and profits on ren tals followed the example, as, gradually, family by family, individual by individual, the fortuitous po pulation dwindled away. Blocks of houses became empty almost as rapidly as they had been built, and incomes fell from hundreds to fifties. At the height of the flood it was computed, I believe with reason, that the city, suburbs, and foreign settlements of Shanghai contained a million and three-quarters of inhabitants. At present, I suspect this number might be halved, without danger of under-estima tion. The census, to which I alluded in my last letter, as having recently been taken, shows a popu lation of 146,227 Chinese, and of 3,248 foreigners, to exist in the English, French, and American quarters. Probably half-a-million would not be an excessive estimate of the population of the city, suburbs, and junks. The classification of the fo reign residents is not devoid of interest. Out of the total, the French claims only 460, the English settle ment 1,164, and the American 871. Occupants of villa residences in the environs, tide-waiters living afloat, &c., contribute to swell these figures, and the British army and navy raise the grand total to 5,129 foreigners who reside on the banks of the Wangpoo. To look after our legal wants, there are no less than seven solicitors ; to administer spiritual food, there are five clergymen, besides missionaries ; and to pre serve our bodily health we possess 18 physicians and five apothecaries. To the diversity of races I alluded last week ; no less than 19 different nation alitieg, exclusive of Chinese, can boast representa tives at Shanghai. Among these England has sent forth 2,160, exclusive of her troops, France 299, and America 471. There are no less than 14 Turks, while Peru and Mexico can claim one subject each. The census of Shanghai is not like a common census, for it is a very uncommon place. In few ports are there congregated so many divers nationalities, and in few does so small a number of persons represent such vast commercial interests. Shanghai is the depot of the Yang-tze ports and of Ningpo, and Hongkong is the depot of Shanghai and Foochow. The other ports scarcely deserve mention in compa rison. I have dilated on the subject at the risk of becoming tedious, because interest must always attach to a place so singularly circumstanced in re gard to inhabitants and Government as Shanghai. But in China a place could hardly fail to be peculiar. Shanghai merely accords in its characteristics with the country in which it is situated. The Consular Court has inflicted another of those light sentences which show how difficult we find it to look on a breach of Chinese regulations in the same light as we should an offence against the laws of our own country. The British steamer Mer cury, Bayton, commander, was discovered by the Ninpo revenue cruiser in a suspicious position amid the Chusan Archipelago. She was warned at the time, and on her return to Ningpo a formal complaint was laid before her Britannic Majesty's consul. Baynton, however, was let off with an admonition, on his explanation that he had been hired by some Chinese to protect fisheries in which they were interested from pirates, and on his distinct promise not to venture again into forbidden waters. Immediately afterwards the Mercury cleared for Foochow ; but when the revenue cruiser again visited the same neighbourhood she found the steamer in its old position, and learned that it had in the meantime fought an action, in which it had captured several junks and killed several of the crew. Bayn ton, of course, asserted that the junks were pirates, but the trial has not shown distinctly whether or not such was the case. However this may be, the Com missioner of customs ordered the Mercury to be ar rested and brought to Ningpo. Baynton, however, without actual violence, contrived to avoid surren dering his vessel when called on to do so, and went to Foo-chow. On his subsequent return to Shanghai he was arrested, and has now been tried on the dis tinct charge of resistance to the Customs' officers in the execution of their duty, and of having contra vened the ninth article of the treaty byvisiting ports not open to foreign vessels without a passport. At first his trial for piracy and murder, in consequence of the action I have spoken of with the junks, was spoken of as likely ; but this was subsequently al lowed to fall through, and the lesser faults alone brought forward. Baynton's only excuse was a de nial of violence in avoiding the Customs' officer, and a plea that he returned a second time to the spot, when he was arrested, to get a sum of money due to him by the Chinaman who had engaged his services ; that he was fired on by the junks, and re turned their fire. The sentence of the court was six months' imprisonment on the first charge, dating from the time of arrest, several months ago ; and on the second no penalty. Eccentricities of "braves" appear at present to absorb the attention of foreign residents on the banks.of.the Yang-tze: A body of these gentlemen who: afro now eneampd at Kinkia,nk,, on their way to-the scene of the Mahoniedan rebellion, are making themselves objectionable in every possible way. They have broken windows, injured fencings, and pulled down the Grand Stand for firewood. Their own countrymen came off still worse ; in fact, as is usually the case with Chinese soldiers, they behave more like a conquering than a protecting force. At Hankow another large force is encamped; but, for tunately for tl foreign residents, the opposite side of the river, Wuchang, is the principal scene of their depredations. An outbreak, which resulted in the extinction of one small Mandarin, occurred there only a few days ago, in consequence of an attempt by the authorities to cut off a portion of eight months' arrears of pay which was due to them. Objecting to this measure, they raised a general riot, and, as I mentioned before, annihilated one small Mandarin pour encourager les autres. The measure was per fectly successful, impelling the authorities to extra taxative exertions, which enabled them in a few days to satisfy their claims. A Shanghai paper says Han kow was recently the scene of a duel, which it would require the pen of a Marryatt properly to describe. Two drunken rowdies, far too gentlemanly to resort to the usual weapons of their class for the purpose of settling a dispute, arranged through the medium of seconds, a meeting with fowling-pieces --distance ten paces. The seconds, more sober or more sensible than their principals, loaded the guns with rags, but at the short distance these proved sufficiently de structive to blow out the eye of one of the com batants, who forthwith fired his piece at his second in the blindness of his rage. With a gross lack of appreciation of the chivalrous feeling evidenced, her Majesty's Consul deported the gentlemen to Shang hai, where they will no doubt be received with open arms by congenial comrades. The reinforcements which came down from the interior of the province en route to Amoy have left, to the number, I believe, of some 8,000 or 10,000. Their departure was hastened by news which arrived overland of a severe defeat experienced by the Im perialist force, at present besieging Changchow, in an attempted assault. Trade is duller, if possible, than ever, in conse quence of telegrams received by the last mail re porting the fall of Wilmington and Charleston. The opening of the Kurrachee and Persian Gulf line brings us within less than a month of England, and enables us to receive news two mails in advance. The silk market is almost nominal, except in reference to Japan, whence 750 bales arrived by the last Peninsular and Oriental steamer, nearly all of which goes forward by the present mail. Only bales of Chinese have been settled during the past fort night, and the stocks on hand are estimated at 150 bales only against some 3,500 at this time last year. Cotton is down to 413 50 taels per picul. Ex change is at 6s. 21d. for banks bills, and 6s. 3-0. for private paper. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Charybdis, 21, screw corvette, 1,506 tons and 400-horse power, Capt. Edward W. Tumour, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon from the Pacific, and on entering the roadstead saluted the flag of the Port-Admiral and Naval Commander-in- Chief, Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., which was re turned by the three-decked training ship St. Vin cent, flagship pro tern., during the refit of the Vic tory, the permanent flagship of the port. The Charyb dis sailed from Vancouver Dec. 14, from Valparaiso March 2, and from Rio de Janeiro April 11, and has brought to England two warrant officers, one naval engineer, 80 naval supernumeraries, and five pri soners from her Majesty's fleets on the Pacific and Brazil stations. The Charybdis made the passage round Cape Horn, the weather being unfavourable for going through the Straits of Magellan. On the 21st of May she passed the Azores, strong westerly winds prevailing at the time. On the 26th, when north of Cape Finisterre, she encountered a hurri cane from S. to W.S.W., which lasted ten hours— seven of which the ship lay nearly on her beam ends. The ship has been in commission since November, 1860, and will require heavy repairs before she can be again pronounced fit for foreign service. She will be immediately dismantled and paid out of commission, probably at an eastern port. Yesterday the workmen at Chatham Dockyard commenced the slip from which the iron-plated fri gate Lord Warden was launched on Saturday, to prepare for laying down the keel of the Blanch, 4, 1,081 tons,3oo-horse power (nominal), one of the new class of Alabama frigates, designed by Mr. Reed, which is to be constructed at that establish mentwith as much rapidity as possible. The follow ing are to be her principal dimensions—Length be tween perpendiculars, 187 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 158 ft. 3M. ; extreme breadth, 36ft. ; breadth moulded, 35ft. tin. ; breadth for tonnage, 35ft. 10in. ; depth in hold, 19ft. 4in. ; burden, 1,081 16-94 tons; launching draughtforward, Git. Sin. ; do. aft, 12ft. The screwcorvette Reindeer, 17, 250 horse power, laid down on No. 2 slip at Chatham Dockyard five years ago, and partially completed, was yesterday again taken in hand by a party of shipwrights, in accordance with instructions from the Admiralty directing her to be forthwith completed according to the amended drawing and plans received at the master-shipwright's department from Whitehall. According to these the Reindeer is to be slightly lengthened aft, and to be fitted with a poop as well as with a topgallant forecastle, the plan of complet ing, her as a small ironclad having been abandoned, as her frame would not be sufficiently strong to support the armour she would be required to carry. The instructions from the Admiralty direct her to be completed and launched before the close of the present year. The work of taking to pieces two of the un armoured wooden vessels in frame at Chatham Dockyard—the Belvidera, 51, 500-horse power, and the Menai, 22, 400-horse power —on which no hands have been employed for several years past, will be commenced this week. A number of ship wrights and labourers were detailed yesterday for taking asunder the frames of both these vessels, the timbers of which are to be used in the general ser vice of the yard. There will be thus only one wooden vessel standing in frame at Chatham Dockyard— the screw two-deckerßulwark, 91, 800-horse power, laid down between six and seven years since, and rather less than half completed. The military and naval.invalids brought to Eng land in the Racoon,22, screw, Capt. Count Gleichen, from the Mediterranean, as reported in The Sun of yesterday, were disembarked from the corvette at Spithead by means of a Government steam tender, and sent to the Naval and Military Hospitals at Haslar and Netley, and to the depots of the respec tive regiments, &c. The Racoon remains at Spit head. The Maori, hired sailing transport, which arrived at Spithead on Saturday from New Zealand with military invalids, time-expired men, and a few mili tary pensioners, discharged her troops yesterday into a Government steam tender for conveyance to the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley and the re spective regimental depots. The screw steamship Revenge, 73, recently paid off at Devonport, is preparing for Coastguard ser vice, to relieve the Blenheim, 60, at Pembroke, ordered to be broken up. The screw steamship Hawke, 60, formerly in the Coastguard service, will be broken up at Devonport, where a dock is ready for her reception. Painters are busily occupied on the iron-cased screw steamship Zealous, 20, in the basin at Key ham Steamyard, and she will soon be ready to be placed in the stream in Hamoaze. The crank shafting of the screw steam gun-vessel Serpent, 4, Commander J. Bullock, has been taken out and tested at Devonport. She will probably be ready to proceed to sea to-morrow. The lighter ilamoaze, J. Patton, master, left Ply mouth yesterday, with stores for Portsmouth Dock yard. The artisans of the Devonport Dockyard are making progress with the old sailing ship Ganges, 84, which is to be converted for the training of boys at Falmouth. The Austrian steam ram Kaiser Max, which left Plymouth on Saturday for Ferrol, put back to the Sound, in consequence of encountering strong wes terly winds. The 87th Regiment (Fusileers) were yesterday cd_ficially inspected on the Sonthsea-ommon by Major-Gen. - Lord - Paiileti, 1...C.11., Command •ing the South-West Military District, preparatory to the regiment leaving Portsmouth garrison for the camp at Aldershott. The local pensioners belonging to the Chatham district, having completed their annual period of training under Col. R. Jenkins, were yesterday inspected on Chatham Lines by Major-Gen. Sir R. Walpole, K.C.8., commanding the forces in the district. The entire body of pensioners, forming six companies, and numbering about 400 men of all ranks, assembled in front of the Casemate barracks, St. Mary's, and were marched, headed by their 30, 1865. band, to the Lines, where, under the direction of Col. Jenkins, they were put through the manual and platoon exercises, after which they were exer cised in a number of company and battalion move ments, the marching past of the veterans, and their steadiness under arms and in the various manoeuvres gone through, being very satisfactory. The pen sioners will re-assemble to-day to return their uni form, accoutrements, and arms. The Atlantic Telegraph. Yesterday the last mile of this great cable was completed, and wound through the last of the cover ing machines, in the presence of a large number of distinguished visitors who had assembled to do honour to the occasion. Beyond recording the fact of its completion, very little took place at the works of the Telegraph Company yesterday to call for special remark. All the most distinguished electri cians and engineers, and all the leading scientific gentlemen who had so long watched and aided to the utmost of their power the promotion of this great scheme, were- present ; together with all, or nearly all, the directors of the Telegraph Mainten ance Company, Mr. Glass, as usual, receiving the visitors. As a mere sight there was, of course, very little to be witnessed—much less, in fact, than might have been seen at the works any day this twelvemonth past. Only one machirie had half a mile to complete—that is to say, to case the core with Mr. Wright's most ingenious and simple patent of wire enclosed with strands of hemp which form the outer covering. When all the visitors were assembled this was started, and the core wound regularly and slowly through the centre of the machine, which, revolving round at a great speed, completed the outer case of hemp and iron. Working at 14 hours a day, each machine is able thus to cover four miles an hour, the average rate of manufacture for the four machines having been about 17 miles per day. As the cable is drawn out of the machine it passes through a gauge, which compresses it firmly, and then out of the manufac tory away to the tanks, where it is coiled under water, and every change in its electrical condition noted with a care and minuteness that have cer tainly never yet been applied to any other cable. From first to last, indeed, it has been subjected to a series of the most searching electrical tests, the standard of insulation being fixed at a resistance per nautical mile equal to 150,000,000 of Sieman's units, at a temperature of 75 degrees—a standard wholly unprecedented in any former work of the kind. In actual practice these tests, great as they were, have been considerably exceeded, and the pre sent Atlantic cable has come out successfully from a series of trials of the most crucial character. The results which have been obtained have been due mainly to the searching investigation into the quali ties of insulating substances which is now practicable by means of the beautiful mirror galvanomet er o f ____ Professor Thompson. Another of the tests em ployed was soaking separately each joint of the gutta-percha covering for 24 hours in warm water previous to passing the electric current through. A third, and perhaps the most trying and continuous test, was that of allowing no part of the cable to be out of the water, except while merely in transitu from one reservoir to the other; and in connexion with this it may be mentioned that the wrapping of jute yarn, which forms the padding around which the external wires are spun, instead of being soaked in tar, as in other cables, which has the effect of temporarily stopping up and concealing minute flaws, has been simply tanned to preserve it from decay, thus admitting the water to search out every part of the cable, and keep it, in fact, con stantly surrounded with a wrapping of wet yarn. Towards 5 o'clock yesterday the last few fathoms of the great coil began to be drawn into the machine, and in a few minutes after the end was wound up a self-acting bell rang to give notice that the machine was empty, and almost at the same moment the end came down into the tank, and the last coil of the cable was stowed away. The next great object of interest was the inspection of the paying -out ap paratus, which has been already fixed up, and, by means of an endless band, kept constantly running. This beautiful machine is an improved and extended copy, as far as general principle is concerned, - of that used on boaid the Agamemnon during the first memorable attempts. Its improvements and modi fications, however, are very great. Though stronger and much larger, it is very much lighter, being made almost entirely of wrought-iron. It has six leading wheels, round which the cable passes in deep grooves before reaching the main wheel or drum, from which it will be finally submerged. Each groove in these six wheels is surmounted by what. is termed a jockey-pulley--that is to say, a solid wheel, which keeps the rope down in the groove and prevents it over-riding or getting out of place. The main drum is about 7ft. diameter, and in pay ing out will have three coils of cable round it, with a guiding piece of wrought-iron pressed on them sideways to keep them compactly together. AS the friction on the guider is great and constant a duplicate is provided in case of heating, which can be put in gear with the rest of the machinery without the slightest stoppage of any part. A second drum has also been fitted in case of any thing going wrong with the first. Each of these drums is fitted with a distinct set of simple and most ingenious brakes, invented by Mr. Appold for the first expedition. The ordinary condition of these brakes is to maintain a sufficient check upon the drum to keep a strain of say 30 cwt. or 40 cwt. upon the rope going out, but it constantly happens that a sudden rise of the ship's stern from a wave gives the cable a strain that requires instant re moval of the brakes to relieve it. This is accom plished by a dynamimeter placed on the cable after it leaves the paying -out machine and before it passes over the wheel astern into the Atlantic. This dyna mimeter is only a heavy wheel resting on the rope, but fixed in an upright frame, which allows it to slide freely up and down, and on this frame are marked the figures which show exactly the strain in pounds on the cable. Thus, when the strain is low the cable slackens, and the dynamimeter sinks low with it ; when, on the contrary, the strain is great, the cable is drawn " taut," and on it the dyna mimiter rises to its full height. When it sinks too low, the cable is generally running away too fast, and the brakes have to be applied to check it ; when, on the contrary, it rises rapidly the tension is dangerous, and the brakes have to be almost opened to relieve it. The simplicity of the appara tus for opening and shutting the brakes is the most beautiful of all. Opposite the dynamimeter is placed a tiller-wheel, and the man in charge of this never lets it go nor slackens in his attention for an instant, but watches the rise and fall of the dy namimeter as a sailor at the wheel watches his com pass. A single movement of this wheel to the right puts the brakes on, a turn to the left opens them. A good and experienced brakesman will generally con trive to avoid either extreme of a high or low strain, though there are few duties connected with the laying of submarine cables which are more anxious and more responsible while they last than those connected with the management of the brakes. The whole machine yesterday worked beautifully, and with so little friction that when the brakes were removed a weight of 2001 b ., was sufficient to draw the cable through it. In order to guard against any possible sources of accident, every preparation has been made in case of the worst, and, in the event of very bad weather, for cutting the cable adrift and buoying it. For this purpose a wire rope of great strength and no less than five miles long, having a distinctive mark at every 100 fathoms, will be taken in the Great Eastern. This, of course, is only carried in case of desperate eventualities arising, and in the earnest hope that not an inch of it will ever be required. If, unfortunately; its services should be wanted, the cable would be firmly made fast, to its extremity, and so many hundred fathoms of the wire rope according to the depth of water the cable was in measured out. To the other end of the rope an im mense buoy would be attached, and the whole then cut adrift and left to itself till better weather. In the experimental cruises which were undertaken before the starting of the last Atlantic expedition this attempt at buoying the cable was often tried in the deep water of the Bay of Biscay, but never with any great success, and in very deep water it would be a most forlorn hope indeed to try it at ail. After going all over the works yesterday, and in specting all the apparatus, the visitors left the 1 buildings shortly before 6 o'clock, and were enter tained by the directors of the Telegraph Compan3r at a banquet at the Ship at Greenwich, when " Suc cess to the Atlantic Telegraph" was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS - - TIMES.—The first thought which arises in the minds of men on reading the revelations of the management of the Patent-office found expression in the inquiry, Are similar abuses possible elsewhere ? The career of Mr. Edmunds, we may hope and be lieve, cannot be paralleled in other branches of the public service ; a rare mixture of cool unscrupulous ness and audacity is necessary before such a success as his can be achieved ; but we are all interested in knowing whether a man of the genius of the noto rious ex-Clerk of the Patents could find in any other public department equal facilities for appropriating to his own use, without check or fear of detection, moneys received in virtue of his office. If such a department can be found, it is high time that it be reformed. Its continued existence in its present con dition is unjust to the taxpayer, who is the ultimate sufferer by every defalcation, and unjust to the men engaged in it and exposed to such temptation. Un fortunately, it would seem that the Chancellor of the Exchequer believes similar delinquencies to those of Mr. Edmunds to be possible. The committee of the House of Lords sought to discover from Mr. Gladstone the nature of the checks to which the several departments of the public service are sub jected, and he gave an answer which showed that he at least was not satisfied with their efficiency. The career of Mr. Edmunds himself is a striking illustration of the mischief of the present plan of intrusting a man with uncounted money and of never coming to a reckoning with him. Repre hensible as the arrangement was under which Mr. Edmunds entered upon his office, there is no reason to suppose that he intended at that time to make up his salary by the improper method he afterwards adopted. His first payments to the Exchequer corresponded apparently with the sums he received. When he found that his ac counts were never audited, his payments became irregular and deficient in their amounts ; and when the affidavit verifying his statement of receipts was no longer required, the payments became still more irregular, and then for 12 years ceased alto gether. There was a gradual decline under the influence of temptation until the offender became perfectly callous. But, as our contemporary the Economist has pointed out in an article which will be found in another part of our impression of to day, the whole system was bad from the beginning. Even when the affidavit was regularly tendered, blifore the Masters in Chancery were abolished, and the duty of Mr. Edmunds to verify his accounts be fore one of them was overlooked, there was no audit. The statement produced by the Clerk of the Patents was drawn up by himself, and he swore to its cor rectness.' No one had the power, even if any one had the inclination, to verify its items. When the affidavit was made it was taken to the Controller of the Exchequer, who was authorised by an Act of Parliament to receive the sums stated in the balance sheet which the affidavit verified. The Controller was a mere receiver, bound to account for such sums of money as were paid to him, but he had no autho rity to require payments to be made, or to examine the correctness of the accounts which were tendered with them. As for the Treasury, it is the duty of that department to spend the money which comes to it, but not to inquire after what may not be forth coming. Such, at all events, appears to be the view of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, although it must be confessed that Mr. Gladstone's explana tions of the relations between the Treasury and the Exchequer are extremely obscure, especially when it is remembered th a t h e i s an officer in both de partments. The Exchequer, according to Mr. Gladstone, is an entirely distinct and independent office, having no relation what ever w ith th e T reasury except such as rests upon law or known usage. It is not very easy to discover what relation could exist between the public offices not coming within this exception ; but whether it was the duty of the Treasury or not to see that some amount was an nually paid into the Exchequer by the Clerk of the Patents—and the fact that the discovery of the de falcations of Mr. Edmunds was brought to light by the Solicitor of the Treasury supports the notion that it was the duty of that department to see that some sum was paid--it is clear that there was no machinery whatever provided by which Treasury, Exchequer, or Master in Chancery could discover whether the sum paid was or was not that which ought to be accounted for. The Clerk of the Patents had to answer to his own conscience, and to that alone, for the correctness of his annual statement, and had he been content with making some sort of annual return, reserving to himself only a share of the spoil, it does not seem that the deficiencies in his payments would ever have been detected. It is not necessary to point out the glaring defects in the management of the Patent office. The Clerk of the Patents was allowed to receive all the moneys paid into the office, and to deposit them at his own bankers, to an account the existence of which was known only to himself and them. The statements he tendered during the first years of his office were drawn up by himself with out any check besides his own affidavit of their accuracy. Such arrangements as these give every facility for malversation. The important points are, however, whether anything like them can be found in other public offices, and how should such abuses be rectified. We do not think it desirable or even prudent to attempt an immediate answer to the second question. The different departments in receipt of public moneys differ so much among themselves that it would probably be found impos sible to lay down a single rule for their control. Our well-informed contemporary has ventured to propose simple remedies to cure the maladministra tion of the several public departments ; but it can not be concealed that the writer has confounded together things essentially distinct from one another, and has discovered blots which are not really open to criticism. There is a constant danger in questions of this kind of rushing from one extreme to another. At one time it is found that considerable power lodged in one department leads to an abuse of it, and there is an outcry for preventive checks ; at another, the checks are found to interfere with the prompt action of the several services, and there is a cry for greater power, even though coupled with risk of its abuse. We are not convinced that the Treasury has proved itself worthy of the unchecked supremacy the Economist would accord it. At present, indeed, we are satisfied that what is wanted is more infor mation on the relations of the public departments to one another. Everything tends to show that the best-informed men are very imperfectly ac quainted with the functions of the different depart ments and the control which one office has over its neighbour. Take the following answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in this very matter of the Patent-office ; he said, " The root of the mis chief lies in this Act of Parliament, and not only in this Act of Parliament, but in a rather wide-spread system, under which there are vast sums of money in the country in various categories for which the public would be ultimately responsible, and with regard to which, nevertheless, the Treasury has no power whatever. La nguage of this kind emboldens us to confess our own ignorance. It seems tolerably certain that the root of the mischief cannot be at once in a particular Act of Parliament and in a wide-spread system, and we should be very glad to know for certain to which to attribute to it. The scandal of • the Patent-office will not have been in vain if it excites a searching inquiry into the con stitution and relation to one another of the several public establishments, as a first step to putting them on a better footing. HERALD.—Mr. Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, appears to be a man with a sublime faith in his star, and unlimited confidence in the resources at his command. In a democratic ruler, a man whose boast it is that he is sprung from the dregs of the people, and did not know how to read or write until he was middle-aged, we must expect some disregard of precedents fitted only for ancient and aristocratic regimes; we must look for some shortcomings in the little matters of courtesy which are customary between the rulers of civilised countries, which do not disdain to be governed by men of education and refinement. But we did expect in this President some mea sure of that rough common sense which is seldom wanting in those who have contrived to make their way in the world. Having inherited a shortlived triumph, which no merit or clever ness of his own had any share in achieving, Mr. Johnson demeans himself as if the nation over which he presides, now that the South is conquered, were facile principes in the world, and acknowledged as such by all. Because she has barely had the best of it;in a domestic war which has emptied the coffers and drained to the last 'drop of blood the veins of America, is she prepared, by way of mere bravado, to throw down the glove in Mortal defiance of Chris tendom? Andrew Johnson is determined, we are told, to put Mr. liavis to a cruel and ignominious death. By this act he will call down upon his head the just execration of every civilised community. But as this may not suffice to excite them to active opposition, Mr. Johnson has rushed into the readiest occasions of quarrel with the two most powerful empires of the Eastern world. By permitting the enlistment. of armed volunteers. for Mexico, he is levying constructive war upon the state which has been -so recently created by the Emperor of the French, and through her upon France herself. M. de Montholon at Washington is put off with puerile excuses and evasive answers while the ". emigrants" are embarking the Emperor Maximilian, in alarm for his throne, has sent off an'envoy in hot haste to Paris ; there is a ferment in the French capital such as has never been known since the days of 1859 which preceded theltalian war ; the newspapers have been bidden to keep silence, but men talk of nothing else on 'Change, and the Emperor has been hurried back from his tour in Algeria. An invasion of Sonora by a swarm of Yankee filibusters is momentarily ex pected, and the Government of Washington, which has never recognised Maximilian, but still regards Juarez as the President o f th e Mexican Republic/ cannot reasonably object to the legality of such a proceeding. The insolent defiance which the Ameri can Government hurled some time since, by a reso lution of its Legislature, at the Emperor Napoleon 111., seemed harmless and stupid at the time, but has now, inopportunely, found its practical inter pretation. The American people do not wish an empire in Mexico, and they offer to undertake its overthrow on their own account, now that their hands are united by the disbandment of their armies. Their government cannot and dare not oppose their will. The inevitable consequence of this collusion with a piratical enterprise must be, sooner or later, war between France and the United States. Andrew Johnson is not satisfied with this prospect of pro voking France to arms. Outdoing Erosistratus, he wishes to make himself conspicuous as the arch' incendiary of a universal bonfire. He has chal lenged England as well as France. Among the earliest acts of his Government was the renewal, in a most precise and categorical form, of the demand which had only been hinted at by the Administra tion which preceded him, of compensation for the losses caused by the Alabama and her consorts. This preposterous claim was submitted to our Go vernment by Mr. Adams about a month ago. It was made peremptorily, and peremptorily declined by Lord Russell. It was renewed in similar terra about ten days ago, and about a week later Lord Palmerston admitted its reception, and stated that there had not yet been time to reply to it. The re lations between the Governments were still, he said, of the most cordial kind. The belated traveller, gasping at the sight of the highwayman who con fronts him with a modest demand for his money or his life, is naturally on the most amiable footing w ith him until he knows whether the pistol is likely to be discharged or not. We have reason to know that Lord Palmerston was either straining a point or spoke ironically when he described the relation between the two Governments as friendly. The Americans threaten us with war in case we do not promptly accede to a demand which is about the most absurd and the most unreasonable that was e ver preferred by one nation against another. WO cannot believe that even our Whig Ministers, with their known readiness to truckle down to strong Powers, would consent under any circum stances to undergo a humiliation the very suspicion of which would cause an outburst of indignation in the country which would reduce to a minimum the short term of office which remains to Lord Pal merston and his colleagues. Lord Palmerston has been twice ousted from office on accusations of over subserviency to the Emperor of the French. It i ° one thing that he should do what in him lies to serve a potentate who ha s p rove d hi mse lf a t rue and faithful friend of this country ; it is another thing that he should " eat dirt" at the bidding of a truce' lent parvenu, who has emerged from his tailor 'S shop to dictate terms to Europe. It is unnecessary that we should point out the absurdity of this Ala bama claim. Neither this vessel, nor any of its consorts, the Southern cruisers which were built ill England, left our shores so equipped for service se to come strictly within the terms of our Foreign Enlistment Act. Even had they done so it would have been our business, not that of the Americans . Their builders and equippers w ould h ave com t nitteu i , an offence against our municip a l l aw , but n° l ' against international law, which distinctly allows us to furnish armed vessels to belli geren t s . Th e Americans themselves have frequently asserted the right, and acted upon it during the revolt of the South American colonies from Spain, and in th e war between Russia and the Powers of Western Europe. - Our Government has already categori cally refused to entertain this claim, and canne l ' now reconsider their resolution without stultifying themselves. Andrew Johnson must rest content with this decision, and accept this rebuff, or he mkt prepare himself at once to enter the lists against the two great Powers which humbled the Colossus e t ! the North. France or E ng l an d, s i ng ly, are a mate° for any Power in the world. No state now exist ing can withstand thei r u n it e d s t reng th. The feel ing that while united they are irresistible shoal" make them firm in their dealings with semi-barba rous Governments. If there is one thing more clear than another as to the policy which it behoves then' both to follow in the future, it is that in all ques tions concerning America they should act in cow cert. The reckless people of that country have an eye upon Canada and Mexico, and believe that if they can attack them singly they will fall an easy prey. It is to our interest to baulk them in this ambition by resisting in unison the blow that may be first aimed at the territory held by ourselves or by our neighbour and ally. When menaced let ne , resist together, and America will quail. When attacked let us strike together, and strike hard, se that this phantom. of a resuscitated Republic mei vanish again, and disappear once and for ever crop' the face of the earth. COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON.—MAY 27. New white wheat, 38s to 43s ; new rod, 38s to 40s ' • 01 , a white, 39s to 44s • old red, 38s to 41s per 36 stone. 1 38 r 1° 4 • for malting, 31s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 31s per " stone. Oats, old, 25s to 26s ' • new, 18s to 24s per 24 ato ne. Beans, old, 36s to 40s ; new, 85s to 38s per 38 stone. re °' 33s to 38s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER--MAY 27. Wheat, white „„, g 00re 42s 46s Beans, Mazagan..,,..6. 0 4 red 36s 42s _ Middle and small_.3 s s , a , Barley ` Bs 35s Peas, white. 353 14 0 Oats —2os 25s grey ...36 3 ''''' GRANTHAM—MAY 27. Old white wheat, 41s to 465 ; old r ed, 37s to 425; , 1 1 elf „. whito, 40s to 44s ; ne w red, 87 8 to 40s per 36 stone. o'"; ley for malti ng , 29 s to per qr.; grinding, 24s to 26s P.A 30 stone. Oats, old, 25 s t o 27 s ; new, 22 s t o 24 s per 0 . stone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s; new, 36s to Ns per 38 atoll Peas, 34s to 36s per 36 stone. CHELMSFORD—MAY 26. a There was a fair attenda nc e of the trade to-day, .i tD o g last week's rates were fully i s lower for all descriptl.° 6o of wheat. Other grain unalt ere d in p r ice. Business S 4 dull. 380 Wheett, old white....4ls 48s Peas, Partridge 368 30 new 41s 48s Wh.te ...3 0 00 old red 406 42s Bailing 380 3 50 new. 386 42s ' ' Dun.... ..... 3lO .4 8ar1ey..... 26s 328 dit o, new --8 5 . 0 Chevalier 266 53s Beans, Tick, 01d......3 40 , 0 Grind.ng •Os :8s new._....... -15 „A Malt 6lB 678 Harrow ricks.. lo ! 4 Chevalier - 64s 68s Oats ••• 2os 28s Mazagan . ..... 333 ABERDEEN—MAY 27. The weather continues very warm, and forcing ral lll 4l much wanted. To-day the sho w o f gra i n was e xtreow ' limited, and quotations nominally as last week. White wheat 9 5s Od to 38s Od' Red wheat 34s Od to 36s Od Potato oats 20s Od to 21s Od Common oats 19s Od to 20s Od Bere 21s Od to 22s Od Barley 21s Od to 22s 6d Oatmeal 15s 6d to 16a 6d Flour, fine 31s Od to 32s Od 621 b ? bushel' 40th 1 1 bushel' 1 531 b W sh-- e]. 1 1 s ) a o c l k l o o f f 1 - 2840,th: KIRKCALDY—MAY 27. Small supply of wheat and oats, only one parcel of lt; Ley. Wheat declined 6d per qr. Oats advanced 6 a I- Wheat. Barley. First....., 85s 6d I 24s Od second.... 3is 6d 2es Od Third..... 40s Od 27s Od Oats. 22s Od 22s 6d 230 Od Births. , i •iio EVANS.—On the 28th inst., at Ri c h mon d, S u rrey, i“ ° ' of George Evans, Esq., of a son. •tr -p Ic, ;- FrrzuERBERT.-On the 27th inst., at Swynnerton -.- ' the wife of Basil Fitzherbert, Esq., of a son. 1 1 , ile SIIARMAN.—On the 28th inst., at Wellingboroufr , wife of Edward•Sharman, architect, of a son. Marriages. n m BIIOOKBBANK—SCIERGTER.—On the 27th inst., at F l j nee Church, Thomas Brooksbank, Esq., of Peng e ZieN Beckenham, to Jane Maria, eld e st d au hter of Fre" - Augustus Schroter, Esq., of Mottingham, Sent. Esq ,, CRAIGIE—FEILD.—On the 25th inst. -" John Craigi,, e 7 l 4 to M.R.C.S.,'L.S.A., son of Capt a i n David Craigio, 1: 0 11t 1 1 Frances Mary, eldest dau g ht er o f th e late job u Esq., of Milford, Pembrokeshire. Deaths. CHARLTON.—On the 26th inst., at Margate, Thos. choltolit Esq., of West Bank, Wrotham, Kent, aged 55. v CRAVEN.—On the 27th inst., the wife of Joshua Gra.° Esq., of Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, aged 62. . DAvv.—On the 28th inst. al Mansfield, Notts, Freeleli.ox Davy, late of Jessamine Cottage, Upper Clapton. joi_ JACQUES.—On the 27th inst: • , at Birstall House, nea r cester, James Jacques, Esq., aged 61. LucAs.—On the 28th inst , at Clifton, B u dd LucaS , late of Long Ashton, Somersetshire.. Wilt°7 PROSSER-HASTINGB.-021 the 26th . inst. , at Tisbury, - Charles F. A. Prosser-Hastings, Esq., aged 55. , 00 . STONOIt.-04 the 28th inst., at 11, Stratton-street, tir (1 %0. Thomas E. Stonor, eldest son of Lord Camoys , WATERTON.—On the 27th inst., Charles Waterton, of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, aged 83. 8.1. F. 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