The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Cruiser, 4, unarmoured screw slooop of 60 horse power of engines, Commander Morgan Singer, went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to Spit bead, preparatory to sailing on foreign service. The Cruiser was originally commissioned for service in the West Indies, but the new Board of Admiralty during their recent visit to Portsmouth, taking into consideration the fact that the Cruiser can neither steam, sail, nor fight any other known vessel of war in the world, changed her destination to the Medi terranean, where she may be usefully employed in showing the British flag in small ports in the ab sence of a better ship, and where Commander Singer, a gunnery officer of more than ordinary ex perience and talent, will be available for more im portant duties than so insignificant a command should his services be required. The Tamar, screw troopship, Capt. Sullivan, C. 8., went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and made a successful trial of her machinery, prior to being reported again fully ready for further troop service. After the trial, the Tamar anchored at Spithead, to swing and ascertain the deviation of her compass. The Danae, screw unarmoured corvette, building at Portsmouth, from the designs of the Chief Con structor of the Navy, is ordered by the Admiralty to be completed with her present fine form of bow, and without any attempt at alteration of any kind whatever. In this the Admiralty have done Mr. E. J. Reed an act of justice, notwithstanding the in terested outcry raised against him on the present Board first entering upon office. At a meeting of the merchants and others of the European community of Hongkong, held at the Clubhouse, on the 11th of June last, Captain N. S. Nolloth, R.N., commanding her Majesty's ship Princess Charlotte, and naval officer in command of the port, was presented with an address on his giving up the command of the Princess Charlotte and the port and returning to England. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, K.C.8., Port Admiral and Naval Commander-in-Chief at Ports mouth and the south-west naval district, left Ports mouth yesterday GM lis steam yacht Fire Queen, Staff Commander Paul, accompanied by his staff, for the Channel Islands, on his annual visit of in- spection. Her Majesty's paddle yacht Alberta, with their Serene Highnesses the Prince and • Princess of Leiningen on board, sailed from Portsmouth yes terday for Boulogne. The Supply, screw storeship, Staff Commander Bowden, arrived at Spithead during Wednesday night from the westward, and sailed again yester day for Woolwich. The Royal Alfred, iron-plated frigate, Capt. Turn our, fitting for service at Portsmouth, is completed in the alteration of her rig from a barque to that of a full ship. The frigate's appearance has been much improved aloft by the change, and the mizen mast now affords a means of exercise and training for the midshipmen and naval cadets which the ship did not previously possess. The area of sail given to all of our ironclads is, however, insignificant if considered only with reference to the displacement of their hulls at the load-water line. The Bellero phon is, perhaps, the most efficiently fitted with canvass of all the ironclads now in commission. The iron-cased ship Lord Warden, 24, in charge of Capt. G. 0. Wil les, C. 8., commanding the steam reserve at Devonport, went outside Plymouth Break water on Wednesday to test her engines at the measured mile. She is fitted only with her lower masts, and her draught forward was 23ft. bin. ; aft, 26ft. Her engines, by Maudslay, Sons, and Field, are of 1,000 horse-power; the propeller is four bladed. On the trial the safety-valve was loaded to 251 b.; pressure of steam in boilers, 251 b; vacuum in condensers, forward and aft, 26in. ; mean num ber of revolutions, 60 per minute. After six runs the true mean speed produced was 13.1385 knots. The engines are of the three-cylinder kind—known as Maudslay's patent expanding three-cylinder en gines. They are reported to have worked most satisfactorily ; no hot bearings. This being only a preliminary trial for testing the engines, the half boiler power was not tried. The weather barome ter Mood at 30.30 ; wind, southwest ; force, 2 to 3. It is reported at Plymouth that the ironclad screw steamship Caledonia, 31, flag of Rear-Admiral Hastings IL Yelverton, C. 8., will remain in the Sound until after the close of the viit of inspection of the Lords of the Admiralty to Devonport, when she will leave for Ireland or Scotland, and return to Plymouth for the winter. The crew of this ship have for some time been discontented with the of ficers, in consequence of the alleged deficiency of leave on shore. This discontent appears to be very general, for on the Monday some of them perpe trated an act which must have been done with the connivance of a larger number. One of her Arm strong guns, a 10-pounder, is placed on the port side of the upper deck. At 9 o'ciock in the evening it was lifted off its carriage and thrown down the fore hatchway ; the gun broke nearly every step of the gangway ladder, and then landed on the main deck. Here the gunnery lieutenant, accompanied by the ship's corporals and other petty officers, was going his rounds to clear up. The noise attracted his attention, and on ascertaining the cause he had all the petty officers who were in their hammocks called aft on the quarter deck. On asking them as to the cause of the extraordinary disturbance, no satisfactory answer could be obtained, each petty officer fearing that, through speaking, he should be come a marked man. Lieutenant Digby, second officer of the watch, then went forward, and the men cheerfully replaced the gun on its carriage. On Tuesday both watches had special leave on shore. The Woolwich Division of Royal Marine Light Infantry was yesterday inspeoted by Major-General A. B. Stransham, Inspector-General, who arrived from town about 10 30, and, after a careful investi- gation of the Paymaster's, Quartermaster's, and barrack departments, visited the men in their mess kitchens during their dinner, putting to those who seemed the most intelligent questions which elicited answers showing the actual state of messing and ' general life in b arrac k s, Captai J. Travers noting down those from which enlightenment mig ht be gained.' At 2 30 the whole division, .tin of three battalions, was formed on the Common n r liner of battalions, the men being in marching or der , and having each 15 rounds of blank ammunition. After customary salutes the General rode down the ranks, and when the second battalion had performed the bayonet exercise under Col. Louis, Col. Max well, who commanded the brigade, put them through a series of manceuvres, all of which were executed with steadiness and precision, and called forth warm expressions of approval from the General. On ar riving in barracks the men were asked if any of them had any complaint to make. No one came to the front,—a most unusual circumstance, as there are often several who avail themselves of this privi lege. The satisfactory state of the division may be gathered from the fact of there being only seven men in gaol at the present moment, and not a single .11 _ on -commissioned-office r o r p r i va t e h as b een t r i e d by court-martial since the Ist of May last, which, with a force of nearly 1,500 men at head-quarters, is almost without parallel. The Commissio n appointed by the Portuguese Government to consider the question of military small arms have decided to re-arm the whole of the troops of th a t country with breech-loaders. The armament at present consists of Enfields, which they have determined not to convert. a They have also wisely determined upon ha vingsmall-bore. The arm chosen is that invented by Messrs. Westley Richards and Co., of Birmingham, to whom the contract for the manufacture has been intrusted. The commission deserves credit for the promptitude they have shown in the matter, a n d are unquestion ably right in adopting the .450 bore, for, in addi tion to its superior accuracy of shooting (something under 2ft. mean radial deviation at 1,000 y ar d s ) , its low angle of elevation, 2.55 deg., at the same rang e , and its great penetrating powers, the weight of the ammunition is so reduced that a large quantity can be carried. The gun itself is also lighter and stronger than the Enfield, while the barrel is more durable and better adapted for the rough usage of military service. The Portuguese will now be the first nation armed with a small-bore breech-loader. It is to be hoped that our own Government will follow their example, and not delay any longer than is absolutely necessary in deciding upon a rifle of equal efficiency for our own troops. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. Neilson to the Hector ; Lieut. A. Warry to the Racoon, for service in the Whiting ; Sub-Lieuts. T. L. Mallory, G. Usborne, and R. T. B. Bruce to the Lord Clyde ; C. Harding, midshipman, to the Ocean ; C. G. Michaelson, G. Moore, T. B. Lacy, J. D. Nicholls, and A. M. Gar diner, midshipmen, to the Lord Clyde ; F. C. Gar vey, naval cadet, to the Caledonia ; W. C. Forrest, naval cadet, to the Ocean ; A. L. Murray, L. E. Dick, and G. Raggett, naval cadets, to the Lord Clyde. The following have been nominated naval cadets G. V. Hegan, P. H. E. Hungerford, G. G. Phillips, and J. H. S. Bruce. The Admiralty intend to resume the entry of cadets of the second class in the course of next month. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. The directors of this company will recommend to the proprietors the following dividends for the six months ending the 31st July, 1866 :—On Great Western Original Stock at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum ; on Great Western (West Midland) Oxford at the rate of 17s. per cent. per an num ; on Great Western (West Midland) Newport at the rate of 17s. per cent. per annum, and on Great Western South Wales Ordinary atthe rate of £3 ss. per cent. per annum ; carrying for ward a balance of about £7,500. SOUTH-EASTERN. The directors of this company have resolved to re commend the proprietors, at their half-yearly meet ing on the 30th inst., to declare a dividend at the rate of £2 17s. 6d. per annum. The report of the directors states that the gross traffic receipts for the half-year ending 31st July amounted to £658,696 (including £29,093 for steam boat traffic), as compared with £630,435 for the corresponding period of 1865, being an increase of £28,261. The ordinary working expenses during the half-year amounted to £276,121 ; the rates, taxes, tolls, and Government duty to £40,355 ; and the working of the steam-packet service to £14,240. After providing for all preference and fixed charges, and for £32,944 for past compensation, there re mained a net balance of £111,161, out of which the directors proposed a dividend of £2 17s. 6d. per cent. per annum on the ordinary consolidated stock of the company, payable on Thursday, the 6th Sept., leaving a balance of £1,397 to be carried forward. The number of passengers carried during the half year was £8,495,435, against £7,878,970 for the cor responding half of 1865, showing an increase of 616,465 passengers. The receipts for passengers amounted to £412,064, and for the same half of 1865 to £400,304, showing an increase of £11,760, of .which £8,872 was derived from third-class, £2,033 from second-class, and £855 first-class. There had been an increase of £10,163 in the receipts for merchandise and minerals and cattle. The ordinary working expenses showed an increase o £9,226 during the half-year, due principally to the increased number of train miles run, and to increased law charges. The very large sum of £32,943 had been paid as compensation, making, with the sum of £39,345 paid in the half-year ending the 31st January last, a total payment far compensation in the year of £72,288, or, adding law charges, equa to a dividend of 1 per cent. on the company's ordi nary consolidated stock. The claims in respect of the recent unfortunate accidents have now been all settled and charged in the half-yearly accounts, with the exception of a final sum of £l,OOO, the payment of which had been arranged since the close of the half-year. The company's steamboats had crossed the Channel 792 times during the half-year in the regular course of service, and with their accustomed regularity, the average speed maintained by the three large new passenger boats in all the voyages made by them having been nearly 171 statute miles per hour. The directors have decided to open the Cannon-street station on the Ist of September, although some of the works at the terminus were still incomplete. The Dartford Loop of the North Kent Railway would also be opened on the same day. The works between Chiselhurst and Tunbridge were proceeding satisfactorily, and were expected to be finished in the course of next year. The total cost of this line (which was the only work of con struction now in progress) would be abouti9oo,ooo, of which £730,000 had already been expended. Under the agreement for the division of Continental traffic the London, Chatham, and Dover Company had, in the earlier part of the last half-year, to credit this company with an excess of receipts taken by them above the proportion due. Since then thi company had carried somewhat more than that pro portion. The capital account to the 31st of July showed that £17,628,641 had been expended, including £549,432 during the past half year. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND. The directors of this company state that the re venue account furnished by the lessees showed that the receipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June last amounted to £25,387, and the expenses to £17,972, leaving a balance of £7,415. The returns of passengers, tolls, and proportions of goods' re ceipts derived by the Great Eastern and North London Companies from the traffic of the line dur ing the half-year amounted to £11,320, which, added to the £25,387, made the gross receipts for Tilbury , traffic £36,707 for the half-year. The capital ac count showed that £794,744 had been expended, leaving a balance of £456. WARE, HADHAM, AND 13UNTINGFORD. The directors in their report state they are far from being satisfied with the accommodation afforded the district by the manner in which the Great Eastern Railway Company work the traffic. 'They contrasted the facilities which the Great Northern Company gave in the district for the development of traffic with the disadvantages the Buntingford railway laboured under in consequence of an inefficient mode of working the traffic. Even the carriers upon the public road from Royston, through Buntingford, to London, were now carrying a great deal of the traffic that ought to come by the Ware, Hadham, and Bun tingford Railway. The balance-sheet showed that £123,008 had been expended. The traffic receipts for the past half-year amounted to £2,579, against £2,559 for the corresponding half of last year, show ing an increase of £2O. SOUTII YORKSHIRE. a The directors' report that £128,300 had been expended on capital account ah during the half year. The revenue account showed that £24,784 for on had been required for interest on debentures o and dividend loans and for rents, and £43,36: the 5 preference stock and shares, and per cent. minimum dividend on the ordinary stock guaranteed by the Manchester, , Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail way Company, making together £68,152 which was received from the latter company. The total expen diture on capital account was £3,111,578. NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION. The report states that the receipts for the half year ending the 30th of June last, after deduction of working expenses, amounted to £5,761, against £4,893 in the corresponding half of last year, show ing an increase of £B6B. During the half-year con siderable expense had been incurred in renewing the bridge carrying the company's line over the Great Western Railway, and also the bridge over the Grand Junction Canal at Willesden. The gene ral result of the working was a disposable balance of £2,716, from which the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, leav ing a balance of £6l. The capital account showed that £114,869 had been expended, leaving a balance of £2,031. DUBLIN, WICKLOW, AND IVEXFORD. The half -yearly meeting of this company was held in Dublin on Monday; Mr. W. Dargan in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption f the report, said he th oug h t the receipts of the past THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1866. half-year ought to have been more, and, that not being the case, he believed the fares had been re duced below the proper standard. (Hear.) They had reduced the fares to Booterstown 50 per cent. since the line came into their hands ; to Blackrock about 35 per cent., and to Monkstown about 25 per cent. They had issued about 158 different kinds of season tickets, and, owing to some unfair play, re quired modification and correction. They might have to raise the fares a little to compensate them to some extent for the great reductions they had made in fares to some places. The Hon. G. HANDCOCK, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which, after some op position from Sir G. Preston, in respect of proposed extension lines, and against raising money on prefer ence shares, was carried. The dividends on the 5 per cent. and 6 per cent. preference stocks and shares were declared, and at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock for the past half-year) payable on the 31st of October. After some other formal business, the proceedings ;erminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. NEWQUAY AND CORNWALL JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at St. Austell on Tuesday. The chairman, Mr. W. L. Martin, announced that nearly a mile and a half of permanent way had been laid, and that negotiations were in progress for the purchase, on satisfactory terms, of all the land required for the construction of the railway. The report was unanimously adopted. ; of it was in Bohemia—a part of it was in Italy, but so small and so remote that it could not act as a • reserve in time to support the larger portion in Germany. Austria was, indeed, "in the camp of Benedek," and she emerged from the wreck and crash of Koniggratz only to find that the sceptre of the German Caesars had been stricken from her hand, and that, at home or abroad, she could find no hope of regaining her Imperial glory. In Bohemia and Moravia she had no troops, and no means of resistance to an enemy could be found in a mere peasantry of small cottiers and agricultural labourers. Hungary made no response to the cry of her King; there was no " insurrectio," no fervent promise, " Moriamur pro rege nostro." The Sclaves only saw in Austria's weakness Sclavonia's oppor tunity, and, of all the hosts furnished by forced military service, not 150,000 men could be as sembled in the front of Vienna for Benedek to fall back upon, or for the Archduke to march forward to unite with the Army of the North till it was too late, and the enemy had established themselves in the Marchfeld, within sight of the capital. That was of course no fair representation of the military strength of Austria ; it only represented her want of system and of preparation. Could the Prussians have been delayed a few weeks longer Austria might have put 500,000 men between them and the Danube, with a reserve of 250,000 more, and further levies could have been made to furnish her with a second reserve of at least 250,000 men by the end of August. But hypothetical warfare can never be suc cessful, and in seven weeks, just as Austria was con scious that she had been very late and very much mistaken, the Prussians had gained their point, and it will need more strength than she possesses and the aid of alliances not now tangible to enable her in some future campaign to reverse the degree of July 3. Benedek has been censured for taking up a position on the right, instead of the left bank of the Elbe ; but, in fact, he could not help himself as soon as he had failed to clime the passes at Nachod and Trautenau, and had his left exposed by the de feat of Clam Gallas and the Saxons at Gitschin. He could not possibly get over the Elbe in time to get into position before an attack could have been made on him, and he might have been caught en flagrant delit in the act of cross ing the river. Besides, had he even suc ceeded in doing so he must have lost his rail way communications which ran on the right bank of the river, and in that case his army would have been left without supplies. He could not cover the whole of the ground between Josephstadt and Ko niggratz, and he therefore selected the line of the Bistriz, and concentrated his army on the latter fortress as the least of the evils to which his failures had conduced. It is said that as soon as the Prus sians had fairly entered Bohemia Baron Edelsheim asked leave to take all the light cavalry and dash into Lower Silesia, so as to cut off their communi cations, but Benedek would not give his consent, and the Austrian horse had no part in the great conflict except the ungrateful task of covering a re- treat which it saved from becoming a rout. - The result of the defeat of the Prussians would have been by no means so decisive against them as was that of the Austrians, unless the cavalry of the lat ter could have done more with their retreating columns than the Prussians did at Koniggratz, and that is not likely, for not only would the Prussian horse behave with courage, but the formation of the country and the Bistriz valley and river would h ave offered great obstacles. Then, the Prussians had great reserves ; they would not have fallen to pieces in one battle, and the only grave consequences might have been the increase of the discontent with the war at Berlin and iu other places, which was trans ferred to Vienna, and the vigour imparted to Aus tria and her allies in - their campaign. The more we know of the battle of Koniggratz, the more extraordinary it appears to be in its ante cedents, its incidents, and its results. The van quished were beaten before they fought. The battle lasted nearly nine hours, and was characterised by a most liberal use of rifled artillery on both sides, and of a novel and terrible weapon by one of the combatants. Before the news of the day was well considered by Europe, Austria, which had been con sidered one of the greatest military Powers in the world, hastened to surrender her Venetian provinces and to con fess that she was vanquished. If we take (190,000 by 235,000 425,000, including the the number engaged in the battle on both sides at re serves and regiments not in the fight, and the bag gage and rear guards, and accept the Prussian statement of the losses as accurate, it would seem to have been a protracted, but by no means a san guinary encounter. Prussians put the total loss at 50,000—viz., 40,000 Austrians and 10,000 Prus sians ; but in the former number is included a batch of 18,000 prisoners, which ought to be deducted from the number, so as to leave only the killed and wounded. Then there are only 30,000 to be reckoned as the actual loss, for the Prussians had some pri soners in the early part of the day. The whole loss on the number engaged, therefore, was on the side of the Prussians 1 in 23, and on the Austrians 1 in 9, in round numbers ; if we add the prisoners it be comes, however, nearly 1 in 5 of the Austrians. Now, at the Alma we had more than 1 in 10 killed or wounded on the number engaged in an action of three hours' duration, and at Inkermann our loss was 1 in 5, and far more if we take the number ac tually fighting. The only way of accounting for such a small proportion, and, as I believe, the true way, is that artillery was largely used for a long time on both sides, and that rifled or long-range ar tillery is far less destructivethan the old smooth-bore in many cases, and particularly against masses of troops. It may he that our own Armstrong field artillery is far superior to either the Prussian or the Austrian rifled guns, and I think it is, but it is still questionable if artillery can be brought near enough whether rifled guns are as good as smooth-bore. There can be no doubt concerning the very demoralis ing effect of fire on reserves and troops not engaged who are reached by shot and shell ploughing through them from guns so far distant that the smoke is scarcely visible ; but at the same time it must be re membered that nothing is so feeble as an artillery which, after a time, loses its terrors, and that nothing so much emboldens troops as to perceive the enemycan not hurt them. And in the significant, but perfectly reliable, statement which follows let our authori- ties at home find something to think about. It is The Austrians one and all declare that the Prussian shells scarcely did any harm, because gratz after the battle. A large party retreated to Pardubitz along the right bank of the Elbe ; the rest crossed by the bridges below the city, and re treated by Hohenmauth. Neither could have got away had the Prussians possessed an overwhelming cavalry or had the Austrians had none. very many of them did not burst, and were merely _ _ bad solid shot without ricochet. The Prussians assert that not more than one in six of the Austrian shells burst properly, or at all. That is a grave statement, but I am sure it will be verified on in- quiry, and, if so, the deduction is that for practical purposes rifled shell on these two systems are no- ,ping better than plunging solid shot—shot with- out ricochet, and therefore almost harmless against lines of infantry or cavalry except where they actually strike. This does not afford a position to be occupied by the reactionary party in our artillery. All it means is that the shells of rifled artillery ought to burst properly, and that the fuses which are the most certain are the best, and that bad fuses neu tralise the advantages of rifling guns most effectually. The rifled musket renders the use of smooth-bore cannon very dangerous and doubtful, and if men could only be trained to such'a degree of stoicism that they would fire as well under a pounding can- nonade of smoothbores as they would at a target, no battery of smoothbores coull be unlimbered and brought into action at an effective distance in front of infantry armed with a good rifle. But there are cases in which ricochet fire is invaluable, and if any one could invent a system by which the range and accuracy of rifled p ro j ect il es co uld be combined with the good points of the old system, he would be, if not a benefactor to the human race, a great improver of modern practice in the field. Koniggratz again illustrates the value of cavalry, an arm of the service which many seem inclined to bury down among the dead men or to deprive it of its full force. But for the Austrian cavalry there is no good reason to be assigned for the escape of their army, large as it was, because a brisk pursuit and a short one must have brought them to bay on the banks of the river without any chance of retreat, and the guns of the fortress could not have covered them. It is a mistake to suppose that any part of Benedek's army passed through or by Konig- The Fate of Sir Gilbert East. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The inquest on view of the body of the deceased was held before Mr. F. Blake, coroner, at the Town Hall, Hyde, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. John Henry James, the deceased baronet's solicitor, was in attendance to watch the inquiry on behalf of Sir Gilbert East's family. The first witness examined was Mr. John East Hunter Payton, of Wakehurst-place, Sussex, now residing at Sea view, Hyde, and he recognised the body as that of his uncle Sir Gilbert East. He knew Sir Gilbert very well, and last saw him alive in July. Witness also recognised a gold guard and chain, with a finger ring and a pin, as a portion of the deceased's property. Tho deceased was witness's guardian, and from this obligation he had recently been released. Mr. John Lambert, steward of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, said ho remembered the deceased coming to the club house on the evening of Saturday, the 13th inst., and leav ing again about 10 minutes to 1 o'clock the following morn ing. The deceased appeared to witness to be in good spirits, and when ho left he was accompanied by two gentlemen. He had only two glasses of brandy and water at the club to witness's knowledge. When the deceased left it was very dark, and it was raining. Mr. G. Roe, of Dublin, also spoke to seeing the deceased at the Royal Victoria Yacht club-house at 10 minutes to 1 o'clock on Sunday morning. Witness saw Sir Gilbert sign articles to sail his yacht against another. Mr. Alex. Barnard, jeweller, of Pier-terrace, Hyde, said that Sir Gilbert and a woman came to his shop about a quarter to 9 on the Saturday night, the deceased returning again about 10 minutes to 1. The deceased hadbeen drink ing, but witness did not consider him ;very intoxicated. He remained in the house about 20 minutes and then left. During a conversation Sir Gilbert told witness that he had just made a match between his yacht and another yacht. Michael Collins was next examined—He deposed-1 am a servant in the Hyde Pier Company's service. I knew Sir Gilbert Ehst, and saw him pass through the tollgate early on the Sunday morning. The deceased was not sober,; and walked in rather a stupid manner, but as a woman was with him who walked very steady, I thought it quite safe for him to go on the pier. The woman had hold of deceased's arm as long as I saw him. About 5 minutes after that I heard a woman scream. I at once called Capt. Crask, who was in my room, and we went together to ascertain the cause. We came upon the woman about 250 feet from the gate. She was then screaming violently, and said, "My husband's in the water. Save him ! Save him ! Savo him !" In a minute or two afterwards I heart! a voice in the water say " Save me ! Save me !" I then ran down towards the end of the pier for assistance. and not having been able to obtain it I returned again, when I , saw two men belonging to the Caroline yacht rowing by in a boat. I ran towards the end of the pier and called to the men, and afterwards returned to the woman, whom I still found screaming. I think she would have gone over herself if I bad not held her. It was on the west side of the pier from which the noise proceeded, and it was too dark for me to see into the water, although it, was but a few yards from me. There are some steps near where the woman was standing, and there are also some railings; and if a per son wanted to go down the steps he would not have to open any approach to them. I do not think a man would fall over it if he fell against it. I know there are some seats along the pier, but I do not know if there are any near that point. It was high water that morning about a quarter-past 12, and the depth of the water, as near as I could tell, would be about Bft. or 9ft. in the place where I heard the noise proceed from. I brought the woman to my room at the pier gate, where she remained till about 4 o'clock, and a few minutes after she left the room I found a pair of gloves (produced) on the floor. The thumb of one of tho gloves was separated from it, as it is now. There is a life-buoy at the lower end of the pier, but when I ran for assistance I was in such a hurry that the existence of the buoy did not occur to me. The water was quite calm at the time. The next witness was announced to be Miss Braham, and the crowd in the hall at once directed their attention to a fashionably-dressed person, apparently about 26 or 28 years of age, who approached the table with an air of perfect in difference to the nature of the inquiry. As soon as she was directed to a seat facing the Coroner she rather loudly ex claimed, "Well, here I am. What do you want with me ?" Tho Coroner: If you will sit down quietly I will tell you. I want you to take an oath. Witness : Take an oath ! Well ? Coroner : Yes. I want you to swear that you will tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you Jehovah. Will you kiss the book ? Witness : I have kissed the book, and now you must give me one second or so to collect myself. Coroner : By all means. Witness was then examined. She deposed—l have been acquainted with the late Sir Gilbert East between eight and nine years, and have lived with him during the whole of that time, and have passed as his wife. I came with him to Rydo during the present summer, and I was on board his yacht with him. I do not know when it was, but it was the "proper season," I expect. On Saturday evening, the 11th of August, I came on shore with him between 8 and 9 o'clock. Wo went together to Mr. Barnad's, and he left me there while he went to the club. It was about five minutes to 9 o'clock when he left me. He was not at that time, lam sorry to say, quite sober. He returned to me at Mr. Barnad's at ten minutes or a quarter to one, and ho was then not sober. He had a glass of brandy and soda water at Mr. Barnad's, filled his pipe, and appeared to be in very good spirits. Ho said •he was pleased that he had entered his vessel and given a cup for the match. I did not find fault with him for being late. About ten minutes afterwards we left the house. It was a dark night, and although it was raining neither of us had an umbrella. I took his arm before 1 got to the pier gate, and as the large gates were shut I released his arm to go through the narrow gate. After we got through I did not take his arm again. Coroner: Are you sure of that? Witness: Yes. Coroner: Never afterwards? Witness : Never. I am quite sure of that. I walked rather fast, a little in front of him, down the pier. I said, " I must walk on a little faster, as lam afraid 1 shall get so wet," and he said he would follow me. That was all that was said between us on the pier until I heard him slip. Coroner : You had no quarrel or any words with him ? Witness : No. Coroner : Nothing of the kind ? Witness : No. I heard him walking behind me, as I knew his foot steps naturally. About two or three minutes after we got on the pier I heard his foot slip, and I heard him cry out, "Oh, oh !" I turned round and followed his voice, but I could not soe any one. I ran to the spot from which I supposed his voice proceeded, and I felt his hands clinging against the woodwork of thepier, and he said " I am right !' His body was then inside the railings. Coroner : Was he' hanging from the outside ? -Witness : No. I am certain his body was inside the pier. He said to me, "If you don't let me go, you must come over ; I can swim." I kept hold of him as long as 1 could; but I cannot say what part of him it was, as I was so much excited. Coroner: At the time he said "I am right," where was he ? Witness (sharply) : How do I know ? He was swimming from me, I suppose. I had previously heard him drop into the water. Coroner : How long before that had you hold of him ? Witness (again answering sharply): I don't know. I can't tell. I did not see him drop into the water ; I heard him. Coroner : How did he get on the outside of the railings? Witness : Ho was not outside. Coroner : Then, how did he fall ? Witness : Why, the same as any other person, of course. In answer to other questions , during which the witness appeared much excited, she ex plained that the deceased was on the side of the railings facing the water, and therefore on the outside. She continued : I don't remember how long it was after I heard him slip that I saw him clinging to the rails. I screamed for assistance after I heard him drop into the water. I do not remember whether I saw him when' I was close to the rails, and he was cling ing to me. Coroner : But you felt him ? Witness : No ; I can't tell, and it's no use asking me. Coroner : Did you struggle at all ; did you attempt to save him ? Witness : Of course I did. Coroner : Did he catch hold of your hand ? Witness : I can't tell whe ther he caught hold of mine, or I caught hold of his, but I felt him. Coroner : Did you see the steps ? Witness : I think ho thought his boat was at the steps. Coroner ? But if he was clinging to the side of the pier how could he slip down the steps ? Witness : I can't tell. That's as much a mystery to me as it is to you. I expected to find hisboat at the end of the pier, but we had not got half way when I heard him slip down. The last words I heard him say were, " Oh, Lina, what will you do ?" Coroner : You never had hold of his arm after you got on the pier, then ? Witness : No. Coroner : Was there any reason for that ? Witness : No ; only that I thought I should get wet, and wanted to walk fast. Foreman : Wal§ it usual for you to go in front ? Witness : - No. Foreman : Was he cheerful ? Witness : Yes. Foreman : Then why did you not assist him down the pier? Witness: Lord bless the man, how can I tell ? By a juror : When 1 had hold of his hand I was not standing on the water-box, but on the pier. Coroner : Are thoso your gloves ? Wit- ness : I don't know. Coroner : What became of those you wore that night ? Witness : Oh, yes, those are the same. They were wet, and that is the reason the thumb came off. In answer to a juror, witness said—l heard him swim after ho fell into the water. Coroner : Had you passed the steps when you heard him slip ? Witness : No. A juror : Have you ever heard him threaten to commit suicide? Witness : Never. I never heard of such a ridiculous thing. By Mr. James : Sir Gilbert had only two glasses of "very nearly neat" brandy before ho left the yacht. The jury retired, and after a short consultation, an nounced that they were agreed that the deceased was drowned, but there was no evidence to show how ho came into the water. Coroner—Do you mean to say he was found drowned, or that on this particular day ho was drowned ? Of course, the verdict is yours ; but upon that will depend the man- manner in which it is framed. The Foreman-=-We believe that he was drowned. A verdict to that effect was accordingly returned. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. (From the Special Correspondendent of the Times.) PARDUBITZ, Aug. 17. It was at this town the beaten Austrians who could not cross the Elbe concentrated on the night and morning after the battle of July 3, and some of the cavalry who covered the retreat and were under fire till night set in, did not reach it till 11 o'clock in the forenoon of July 4. The train by which I came on left Brunn at 9 45 a.m. this morning, and has been travelling at the rate of about nine miles an hour for the greater part of the day. It is filled with officers going to Prague, and with soldiers re joining their regiments or going to hospital, and there are very few civilians indeed, and I have en joyed the extraordinary spectacle of an army more than 150 miles long, and not yet ended, for the whole line is thickly occupied by the Prussians, and not a village or town has escaped the guar dianship of a body of the blue coats. At • Brunn there was a singular gathering of railway carriages —Saxon and Bavarian, Prussian and Austrian, were coupled together in a friendly " unifica tion," and the " K. K. Priv." of the Kaiser were yoked in locomotive embrace with " Kolu and Mun den" and " Lindau and Augsburg," "Berlin and Lobau," " Dresden and Nuremberg," but they were all marked with the tokens cf present poZsession by the Prussians. Men of the 3d, 10th, 18th, 42d, 44th, 50th, 58, 62d, and other regiments came on as passengers, and were apparently much envied by their comrades as the train bore them northwards. Through the charming valley of Zweittawa the rail way passes with much tunnelling out into the open country towards, Zwittau, and the inclines are steep upwards, so that the train took 1 hour 15 minutes to go over 14i miles. As we approach each station the path by the railway generally presented a lively appearance, for the countrywomen in short petti coats, and handkerchiefs over their heads of gaudy colours, trotted along the baskets of dairy and farm produce to feed the little g arrison of Prussian sol diers, chatting and laughing as they went in the hope of a good market. The Austrian Government is to pay now for the maintenance of the troops, and the billeting orders and receipts are sometimes used as currency among thepeasantry and small shopkeepers. The arrival of the train was the great excitement of the day, and, as it approached, the soldiery could be seen coming across the fields and out of the cot tages to assist at the reception. Some of them ap peared to be quite domesticated on the premises ; one great fellow was busily employed in shelling peas for the good woman of the house, and another was helping to fill a sack full of apples, the German tongue being so far common in the country that it serves to establish a means of communication be between the " enemy" and the people. At Bob misch Trubau the branch line to Ohnutz strikes off to the right. The buffet at the station was stormed by the hungry officers in the train, and a halt of 20 minutes took place, during which some of the staff of the Berlin Association for the Relief of the Sick and Wounded went round among the soldiers distributing supplies of food and medicine to those in need of it, and looking after the bandages of those who had been taken up at the different stations. Two or three Austrians, who were apparaently on parole as prisoners, came in for a share of the good things, but if they were at all patriotic their personal feelings must have been ex cited by the crowd of famished looking wretches at the station, some of them partly clad in old Aus trian uniforms, stripped probably from the dead at Koniggratz. These were said to be people who had been driven out of their houses by the operations of war, and who had returned to find only ruins. It was nearly 5 o'clock before the train reached Par dubitz, a place only important as the spot at which the line to Koniggratz and Josephstadt branches off from the line to Prague. I intended to proceed to either of the two fortresses, but it appears the train when it does start—and that is not certain— does not stop at either, but halts at Smiritz, a village between the two, some distance on the right of the road, where there is no accommodation for travellers. It is doubtful if any stranger will be permitted to enter either of the towns, and all the surrounding villages are filled with sick and wounded, but as I am very anxious to see in what condition they are I hope to be able to get through the two lines of Austrian and Prussian patrols and visit the neutral ground marked out for the work of the surgeon and the nurse, and, at the same time, to go over the field of Koniggratz, to clear up, if possible, the great Klum enigma, which is the mystery of one of the most celebrated and signal victories we are likely to see in this century. What is the use of history at all if such a vital point cannot be determined at the present moment, when the actors are all alive who took part in the drama, and when recollections of what occurred must still be fresh and vivid ? And yet, here is Field-Marshal von Benedek, in an official report—here are all his Staff and his officers to a man, under a confident belief, which the Prussians assert is quite destitute of foundation. If I ever could trust my eyes on any point, it would be, and it is, on the fact that the village which I take to be Klum was left undefended, and that it was occupied by the Prussians coming from the Austrian right without a struggle, though a short. struggle took place between them when they were in possession of it and some Austrian battalions from below the rising ground. Klum must be identified. I now hear that the big tree mentioned in my account of the battle was selected by the Crown Prince as the leading point of his attack, and that he actually t o g d s h Prussiansur im directed the march of hi s b atta li ons b y i t. I t stands on the rid ge , near wh i ch a fold in the ground runs towards a right. The n why B ridge of which I saw so many guard his ri g ht more effectually.splendid Tenheeodreadk answer did f e r r o m his not simple. Ile had no more men to put there than he could actually place towards the Crown Prince, and his reserves were not adequate to enable him to supply his deficiency. Let it always be remembered that in this crowning fight the Prussians were not merely superior in arms, but vastly superior in numbers and in artillery. They had at the lowest estimate 235,000 men engaged, against 190,000, and their artillery was to the Austrian three to two guns at the least. Benedek hoped to beat Prince Frederick Charles and the King before the Crown Prince arrived, if he hoped to do anything at all; but the attack was made with a force and vigour which demanded the whole weight of his army to meet it with a'fair chance of success, and about noon it was evident that be was to be exposed to the attack of another army almost equal to the whole of his own troops, who had been already engaged for more than four hours with the enemy. When he was beaten Austria was prostrate. The simple reason of her wreck and ruin was that she had no reserves. She had one army, and one only. Part SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—In one of the early numbers of Punch it may be read how " On Friday last a respectable tradesman residing in Bishopsgate-street suddenly rushed off to the Shoreditch station of the Eastern Counties Railway, and took a through ticket for Yar mouth. No possible cause can be assigned for the rash act." That was 20 years ago, when a succes sion of mishaps and a terrible character for mis management had exposed the unfortunate railway to general ridicule. The line, it must in justice be said, outlived its follies, if not its reputation. For many years past it has been, as far as the public is con cerned, a very fairly conducted line, with as few accidents as most, and with more than average pre tensions to convenience and punctuality. If it did not stand so high as it should have done in popular esteem, that was owing to the difficulties proverbi ally,in the way of a dog with a bad name. Perhaps the directors perceived the damage of a name. At any rate they changed it, and the Great Eastern, in place of the Eastern Counties, made its appearance before the public. Fairly speaking, the public has little to complain of, but very different is the case of the unfortunate shareholders. Financially, this ill fated line has gone on from bad to worse, until at length its Report informs us that the Company can hardly get half way towards the satisfaction of the various claimants on its revenues. The docu ment in question, which appeared in our columns of yesterday, affords an excellent illustration of all the varied shapes which railway indebtedness may assume. There seems to be no species of incum brance known to financial struggles with which the Great Eastern is unacquainted. Originally, and in the pure simplicity of abstract theory, it is conceived that a railway is constructed for a certain amount of money, representing what is termed the capital account. When the line is opened, the expenses of working it are first defrayed, and then the net revenue remains to be paid over as interest on capital to the shareholders in the concern. But all that is theory only. Such an example of finan cial simplicity in real railway life is not, we imagine, to be found. Independently of the expensiveness of a capital account, which, somehow or other, can never be " closed," but is perpetually open for en largement, there are fifty other roads to ruin on which railway companies can embark. They issue new shares at a high fixed rate of interest, and give them precedence over origins! shares. When they have carried share capital in all its branches to the utmost attainable limit, they can still put out de bentures, effect mortgages, or descend for the exi gencies of the moment to mere temporary loans. By all these methods money may be got in, but the day of reckoning comes at last, as it has come to the .Great Eastern ; with what results mill now be seen. The directors inform the shareholders that the total receipts of the company for the half-year ending at Midsummer last amounted to the handsome sum of £887,092. And this income, be it observed, is for the worst six months out of the twelve. The re ceipts during the second half of the year usually ex ceed by more than £lOO,OOO those of the first half, so that altogether the annual earnings of the Great Eastern Railway really fall but little short of two millions sterling. However, to deal solely with the half-year before us, let us proceed to state that while the public paid over the counters of the company during the past six months the sum of £887,092, the company expended in the service of the public for this value received the sum of £496,128. This pro portion of working expenses to receipts, being at the rate of 56 per cent., is rather high, but we are wil ling to suppose that it indicates, at any rate, a liberal treatment of customers, and it leaves, after all, a net balance of revenue over expenditure to the amount of no less than £390,964. Now, as the capital of ,the company is £23,000,000, even these large earnings would-not provide any very high interest upon the investments of the shareholders, but, unhappily, that question cannot be so much as entertained. Between the shareholders and the revenue stand more than one rank of claimants, whose demands must firstbe satis fied, and even this preliminary satisfaction in the present case cannot entirely he provided for. The directors, as we have said, find themselves with all but £400,000 in hand as the actual surplus of re ceipts over expenses for the past half-year. Out of this they first allot about £lOO,OOO for rents due to other companies ; then they set aside £123,000 for payment of mortgage and debenture claims, and then £30,000 more for interest on temporary loans. These assignments still leave a sum of £140,000 dis posable ; but, unhappily, the creditors of the com pany are but half satisfied. We have not yet come to the preferential shareholders, who are all to be paid before the original shareholders, and whose claims amount, or amounted but the other day, to a good £250,000. As a net result, therefore, we dis cover, and indeed the directors announce, that the company can only satisfy a .portion even of those preferential charges which take precedence over the claims of the first proprietors. The Great Eastern can still pay interest on its debentures, which is more than the London, Chatham, and Dover can do ; but it cannot discharge all its debts, and, as a matter of course, has no ordinary dividend forthcoming If we are to moralise on - these calamitous conclu sions we must trace the mischief a long way back, and distribute the responsibility over a great num ber of years. There was hardly a time, we fear, when the company did not suffer more or less from either mismanagement or extravagance. The first blow was given to the prospects of the con cern when the line from Cambridge to Lincoln was lost in Parliament, and the field opened to the dangerous rivalry of the Great Northern. This decision confined the Great Eastern to a compara tively sterile district ; and though its actual receipts, as we see, are very large, its mileage is extensive, and it does a good deal for its money. But the ruin of the line has been the extravagance of expenditure by which the capital account was first made so large, and incumbrances to such an overwhelming extent were accumulated afterwards. The directors pro mise, and no doubt with all sincerity, a pacific and economical policy for the future; but the mischief is done. Any reader can calculate for himself what the earnings of the line must be to provide for the charges, first of the mortgage and debenture debt, then of the temporary loans, then of the prefer ence shares, and, after all, of the original shares of the concern. At present, as we have seen, an income of near a million in six months will not suffice ; and yet it seems that the company had until very lately fresh schemes of extension and expendi ture in hand. It is, of course, conceivable that a new development of traffic may not only pay its own expenses, but contribute a welcome surplus to de ficits in other quarters, and certainly we may well wish, in the interests of the metropolitan public, that the coal trade undertaken by the Great Eastern may be effectually extended. But it is uphill work, in the best of cases, to fight against debt, and the path before the Great, Eastern must appear very steep indeed. If there is a spa r k of co nso l a tion in the report, it is in its candour and plainness. Things are certainly not " made pleasant" now ; and if there is a way out of the financial slough, plain dealing offers the best chance of finding it. HERALD.—In any debated question the right of public speech and meeti ng ma y b e c l a i m ed as fairly for one side as for the other. If those who disapprove of the conduct of the late Governor of Jamaica, and consider that he has betrayed the trust reposed in him by the Crown, have availed themselves of this freedom so far as to hold one public meeting after another for the purpose of denouncing him ; have publfghed pamphlets in which his conduct is criti cised with extreme severity ; and have actually formed themselves into an association, with the avowed object of bringing him to condign punish ment for his imagined crimes—surely those among us who take a more lenient view of his conduct, who disapprove of this persecution, and consider him worthy of praise rather than of censure, have a right to put our protest on record in such manner as we may choose. A banquet in their honour at the E glish port of landing has always been a favourite method with us of receiving distinguished foreigners and governors of colonies. Those who organised the Southampton banqiiet to Mr. Eyre had no more inten tion of feasting in triumph over the putting to death of several hundreds of negroes, than our countrymen who welcomed Kossuth and Garibaldi had of danc- ing over the carnage of the Hungarian or Italian campaigns. To put the matter in this light is an absurd misrepresentation of the motives and feelings which actuate English gentlemen. It was the public servant who, in their opinion, had passed with honour through a long and arduous career; it was the man who had saved a colony from anarchy and horror ; it was the Englishman who had been ruined by a most un-English outcry, who had been sacrificed to popular clamour by a pusillanimous Government, who would be hounded to the death by his enemies had he not friends to plead his cause, that these noblemen and gentlemen at Southampton were thus delighted to honour. Why should the blacks have so many friends, and the solitary white man none ? It is begging the question to assume that he has been in the wrong, when even the report of the Commissioners only blamed him for the undue prolongation of martial law, awarding almost unqualified praise to his behaviour in other respects. It is because his friends and sympathisers do not consider him disgraced, it is because they refuse to believe in his " lamentable fault," because they re gard him as an upright and distinguished officer who has been shamefully ill-used, that they wel comed him at Southampton. The dismissal of Mr. Eyre was of a piece with the rest of the conduct of the late Government, who, in their treatment of public servants, as well as in their abortive scheme of so-called Reform, truckled uniformly to the tyrannous demands of the Radical faction led by Mr. Bright. If Mr. Eyre was recalled on account of the misdoings of certain officers entrusted with the suppression of the rebellion in remote districts, why was not Lord Canning disgraced on account of the seventies which attended the suppression of the mutiny in India? If the circumstances of the Jamaica rising were to occur again, there is not a gentleman in England who would not endeavour to act as Mr. Eyre did, th oug h f ew w ould carry cll!t their intentions with his disc re tion and ability. is i the almost unanimous opi n i on in Jamaica that his firmness saved th e w hit e i n h a bit an ts of the sland,. from destruction, and the p eo pl e o n the spot. must surely be better judges of what was necessary in the emergency than any of us over here can b e ' The company which met at Southampton to welcome the ex-Governor were of opinion that his conduct, under these circumst ances , was such as to do him honour, and it is to insult them to call in question their right to give expression to their opinion. Rewards to a Lifeboat's Crew: The Fiench Emperor has presented a first-ras a gold medal and certificate to Mr.IN. Levett, cox swain of the St. Ives lifeboat, belonging to the N ational Lifeboat Institution, and a fi r st-class alT er medal and certificate to each of the crew, consisting of eight men, of the lifebo a t, i n acknowledgment °f their very noble and persevering services in saving' at great risk of life, four men belonging to the brig Providence, of Granville, France, w hi c h was woke" last winter, during a fearful storm, on Hoyle Bart Cornwall. When seen the sea was making a com plete breach over the wreck, and the crew were SIP: posed to be in the rigging. The St. Ives lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was at once launched. In crossing the bar with the drogue 0r drag bag in tow, which carried her safely over two heavy surfs, a tremendous sea broke over her stern? and the drogue-rope breaking from the immens e . strain on it, she flew before the c res t o f the surf In almost a perpendicular position, and running he r bow under water broached to and upset. She soon , however, righted, and all her crew managed to get on board. Two oars, grapnel, anchor, and rope we re lost, and two crutches broken. Although rowing four oars only, the crew persevered, and contrived to ge t her under the lee of the vessel, which was the French brig Providence, bound from Cardiff for Dieppe wi th coal. With a heavy sea and strong under current, hole ever, the lifeboat's crew found it impossible to get alongside. Nearly an hour passed in signalling to the French crew to send a rope by means of a spar or raft, and when this at last was done, the CO' swain signalled to haul on board the life-buolo tending to take the men off through the water, he" he could not make himself understood. Two of the crew now endeavoured to reach the lifeboat by means of the connecting rope ; one was being dragged on board, and the other was within four or five yar ds ' when a fearful sea broke on the broadside of th e boat and upset her a second time. She righted in' stantly, but the poor fellow who was on the rope lost his hold and was never seen again. The other held fast to the boat, and the crew once more g ot into her without accident. The communication lot h , the vessel had not been broken, and the lifeboa b again hauled up as near as possible to her. The cap' taro and the remaining two men then took to their boat, when the second wave capsized them. Through a fearful sea the lifeboat was hastily hauled ahea d ' and the three men were most fortunately picked up . The crew of the lifeboat landed at Hayle thoroughly exhausted. A more heroic service was perhaps never rendered by any boat. In admiration of it a lee' j contribution was raised to present a suitable acknoW" ledgement of their bravery and endurance to th e lifeboat's crew in addition to the rewards of the Lifeboat Institution, consisting of a s il v er med al and £2 to the coxswain, and a beautiful illuminate' , testimonial and £2 to each man of his brave Crtili• COUNTRY MARKETS. BIBMINGHAII—ThuusnAv. At this day's market there was a fair supply of Englilt s wheat, and both new and old gave way in price is to per qr. Foreign nominal. Barley is higher. Old oa . firm, new 6d to is lower. Beans tending downwards' Peas firm. . BRISTOL—THURSDAY. of On our market to-day there was a limited supply t English wheat, and the quality much complained of, bu prices rather lower. In foreign nothing doing. Grin barley is per qr. dearer. Oats at last week's prices. 13- dian corn 6d to is per qr. higher. BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEDNESDAY. To-day's market was fairly attended ; wheat and flour quiet and the turn lower. Barley, beans, and peas fife'' fine oats unaltered secondary as well as oatmeal cheaper ; Indian corn Weaker. •• White wheat, 58A to COs; old red, 49s to 51s; new re d ' 44s to 48s ; grinding barley, 35s to 38s; Page's prolific lo ley, 39s to 40s per qr. Averages :—Wheat, 625 quarters, at 47s llid ; barley, qrs., at —s Od ; oats, qrs, at —s Od. MANCHES TER—TnunsDAY. n et The attendance of buyers at this day' s m ar ket was 11 4 , numerous, and sales proceeded slowly. Old wheat,. b°" i English and foreign, declined is per qr. • while new sold a irregular rates, according to quality and condition. F l° _,. llr is per sack lower. Oats and oatmeal in favour of sells , '" Beans and Indian corn 6d to is per qr. less money. EDINBURGH-WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, ls . 3d up average, Os 3cl 11 1 7 " Barley on the top, is 6d up ' average, is 3d up Oats on the top, is Od up average, as ld UP. Beans on the top, is Od down average, is id doWI3. Total supply and sales. Wheat OO6 qrs sold 630 Barley 24 qrs sold 23 Oats 406 qrs sold 375 Beans 192 qrs sold 33 Average prices. Wheat, 48s Od I Oats, 32s 6d Barley, 37s 5d 1 Beans ... 51s 8d ra Town-made flour sells as follows: —White. 41s 6d; 05t superfine, 40s Od; superfine, 38s 6d; fine, 37s Od. GLASGOW —WEDNESDAY. To-day's, market was well attended. Wheat was Ili! at Monday's quotations, b u t th e b us i n ess d one w as sr° Flour was rather cheaper. Barley and oats remain. WI altered. Beans and maize 6d cheaper. DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—Miss Emma Rose Pag e ; sister to the Rev. Vernon Page, rector of St. Tudy, out walking in a field a few days since, when she bec a alarmed at seeing some bull oc k s runn i ng a t a littl e dog s lio had with her. On sitting do wn in a pl a c e o f sa fety, slie t . asked her little niece to go t o a h ouse f or a g l ass o f vol ° but before she came back Mi ss P age h a d f a ll en d o wn de 3,l" • Her death was supp ose d t o h ave b een cause d by spasrO ulo affection of the heart. _ _ A National Horse Show, patronised by the W t. ; quis of Abercorn, is to be h e ld i n D u bli n on the 26th of September and two following days, when all classos horses may compete. The prize list, which is being raiW by subscription, at present amounts to £5OO. This 0 11° 1 is under the auspices of the Royal Agricultural Society' ° Ireland, and is meant to recompense in some measure f or the non-holding of the usual autumn exhibition of cattle+ which was abandoned for this year at the time when the spreading of rinderpest in Ireland was generally feared. Births. ALSTON—On the 23d inst., at 4, Buckland Villas, Bel park, the wife of Thomas R. Alston, of a daughter. CLARKE.—On the 23d inst., at St. Margaret's, Twick °/14 . ham, S.W., Mrs. James N. Clarke, of a son. HILL—On the 22d inst., at Leinster-square, Hyde-park, the wife of Captain Hill, 34th Regiment, of a son. MONTGOMERY—On the 21st inst., at Grey Abbey, the D ad/ Charlotte Montgomery, of a daughter. ut h STEPHENS —On the 22 inst., at Holewm, Ferry Side, S ° oc i Wales, the wife of Capt. Stephens, Royal SherW° Foresters, of a son. Marriages. DuimpoßD—DEVON—On the 21st inst., at Addb-Pb - roi Kent, Arthur G. Durnford, Esq., Royal Engilqw. youngest sou of Col. Durnford, Commanding Royal gineers, Malta, to Victoria H. Louisa Devon, yollq°,,a daughter of C. Devon, Esq., of Rackenford, Devor t, ' Teddingt O on Place, Middlesx. o'4 SMYTH—MRTIEAU— On the e 22d inst., at St. Stepp;o,, Church, Bow, John F. Smyth, Esq., of Tredegar - sq Bow-road, to Marian Alice, second daughter of 1 " Mortieau, Esq., of Coborn House, Bow. Deaths. CIATITIE.—On the 22(1 inst., at 429, Lawnmarket, Eden.e ' burgh, Nicholas , son of Mr. Nicholas Cathio, &alo aged nine years. EASON-0 n . the_2oth inst., at Rose-hill, Ask-next-Sl' with, Kent, William Eascin, Esq., aged 60. m in EDWARDS—On the 22d inst., at Richmond, Surrey, , -, 9 E C. Edwards, of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, age d ' BO - 4 GURNEY—On the 22d inst., at Northolt, Middlesex , 'l6 Gurney, aged 75. , 4 GILL—On the 21st inst., at Bournemouth, Hants -1,'"; Wm. H. F. Gill, of Eashing Park, Godalming, GROTE—On the 21st inst., at the Vicarage, Trump ine iV the Rev. John Grote, 8.D., Senior Fellow of TrVoi. College and Professor of Moral Philosophy in th° versity of Cambridge, aged 53. Ossons—On the 22d inst., at 11, Camden-street, Oakl°l square, Mrs. Mary Osborn, aged 90. SMITH—On the 21st inst., at the Cherry Orchard, Broraler common, Kent, Mr. Thomas Smith, aged 80. • • _ London : Printed and Published byWILLIAM 1 of No. 112, Strand, Punter. at THE SUN °Moe. '" . .„ (l. tf Of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in ito% CO"'" Aliddlece&—Friday, Auguet 24, 1866. °I the o t , 1 3 "1 teethe th, l ' a to- 14) '; tia 11 , ~1~