The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies. LYNN AND HUNSTANTON. The half-yearly meeting was held at Lynn on Saturday ; Mr. L. Simpson in the chair. 'The report stated that the receipts on revenue account for the six months ending Dec. 31, 1865, amounted to £5,454, and after providing for work ing and other expenses and debenture interest, a balance of £2,033 remained available, out of which the directors proposed a dividend at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £B3. The capital account showed that £80,669 had been ex pended, leaving a balance of £1,064. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, and the dividend for the corres ce p nt. ond p e ing period of 1864, was at the rate of 5 per annum, now proposed. The Midland Company would promote excursio ns to ll un stanton from their whole district during the coming season. The opening of the Lynn and Sutton line would also bring a large district into communication with Hunstanton, at which place it was important that additional accommodation should be provided. Mr. DURRANT seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report, which was carried unanimously, and the dividend, at the rate of 6i per cent., de clared. Mr. E. Self was re-elected a director ; Mr, Thorley was re-elected auditor. WEST NORFOLK JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting was held at Lynn on Saturday ; Mr. L. Simpson in the chair. The report stated that an agreement had been concluded with the Great Eastern for working the line for a period of 10 years at 50 per cent. of the gross receipts. The engineer (Mr. J. S. Valentine) reported that great progress bad been made with the works, and that the whole line would be finished by the Ist of June, or three months before the pe riod named in the contract. The capital account showed that £77,980 had been expended, leaving a balance of £2,641. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the motion was adopted. Major Hare and Mr. H. E. Blyth were re-elected directors, and the auditors were also re-appointed. SOUTHAMPTON AND NETLEY. itis short line, which places the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley in direct communication with the London and South-Western Railway, was opened for public traffic yesterday. Its length from the Portsvrood Junction, where it leaves the main line, is five miles and five chains, the total length from Southampton to Netley being nearly seven miles. The river Itchen is crossed by an iron girder-bridge with three openings of 108 ft. each. The foundations are in some instances bedded in concrete at the depth of 6Oft. below the surface. About 270 tons of cast iron have been used in constructing the cylin ders for the piers, and above 300 tons of wrought iron in the girders. The entire cost of the bridge has been about £14,500. The works generally have been heavy, necessitating continuedbridges, embank ments, and cuttings, but the Itchen viaduct is the chief engineering feature of the line. Eight trains are to run each way daily, and three or four on Sun days. Mr.W. R. Galbraith, of the firm of Galbraith and Tolme, is the engineer of the line, the, whole superintendence of the engineeering work having been entrusted to Mr. T. 11. Nicholls, and Mr. J. B. Snowden has officiated as superintendent engi neer for the contractors. It is contemplated to con tinue the line from Netley, over the Ramble river, by a swing bridge, and through Warsash and Titch field to Fareham, joining the South-Western at that place, the bill for this extension being before Par liament in the present session. WEST CORNWALL. The half-yearly meeting was held at Penzance on Wednesday—Mr. L. Vigurs in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, regretted that up to the present time the amount which they were to receive as 35 per cent. of the receipts for the last half-year had not been agreed upon with the associated companies. The question was what should be deducted from the receipts before paying the percentage; it was pro posed to submit the matter to arbitration. If the associated companies paid the amount claimed they would have a disposable balance of £2,448 ; out of this the directors proposed to declare the usual 5 per cent. dividend on the preference shares, and leave the surplus in abeyance. The associated com panies proposed to deduct £1,720 from the receipts, which would diminish the proportion to be paid to the West Cornwall Company by £6OO. The report was adopted, and a resolution passed at a special meeting held at Bristol was confirmed, presenting Mr. Vigurs, in recognition of his services, with 250 of the £lO preference shares of the com pany, fully paid up. MANCIIESTER, STIEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SIMIE. The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from Jan. 1 to Feb. 25, 1866, amounted to £78,241 as against £69,759 for the corresponding period of 1865. The proportion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from Jan. 1 to Feb. 25:amounted to £6,005 as against £5,228 for the corresponding period of 1865, and the expenses to £3,530 as against £2,668. TENDRING HUNDRED. Traffic has been commenced this month on this company's extension to St. Botolph's-street, Col chester. DIIBLLN AND DROGHEDA. At the ordinary general meeting of this company a dividend, free of income-tax, was declared at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the half-year end ing the 31st of December last. PARIS AND ORLEANS. The receipts on the old lines of this company amounted for the week ending the 18th of February to £57,420, against £50,540 for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £6,880. The receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £388,403, and for the same period of 1865 to £349,659, showing an increase of £38,744 ; the increase on the new lines amounted to £19,698 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending Feb. 10 amounted for local passengers to £4,385, for foreign passengers to £1,448, for mails, &c., to £976, for local freight and live stock to £14,027, and for foreign freight and live stockto £3,397—t0ta1, 24233, against £29,985 for the cor responding week last year, showing an increase of £3,248. The total receipts from Jan. 1 to the above '..ate amounted to £135,641, and for the same period 144 1eart0£125,647, showing an increase of £9,994. DEMEAA. The traffic receipts on this R company's line for the fortnight ending Feb. 3 amounted to $4,970, against $4,931 for the c orresponding fortnight last year, showing an inc rease of $4B. ItA IL - TvA. - y - 11:111. BILL S . Yesterday, before Mr. smith, t o h i ere were only four bills for hearing. In the ease s the o Somerset and D or set, and Bristol and North Somerset, lines),et: and the Bristol and N orth Somerset (B standing orders w ere not com p lied with, the tol and North So merset (Southern Extenl ei t e le onris adjourned sine die, and the Andover, Radstoelc,l\a'nads Bristol until the 20th inst. Before Mr. Frere there was one railway bill only —viz., the Skipton and Ilkley—for which there was no appearance. In the Referees' Court yesterday the railway bills considered were the Elham Valley, Bromsgrove and Droitwitch (objections to the locus standi of Wor cester and Birmingham Navigation Company), Bromyard and Hereford, and the Stourbridge, which, with the exception of the Bromyard and Hereford, being unopposed, were passed. The case of the latter will be reported. _ e ß d efore the Standing Order Committee ( Lord R esdale, Chairman) on Friday the following rail waywith bills certainwere aliomod to proceed upon complyi n g conditkas :—Anglesea Central, pro- vided that all powers for the construction of new works be struck out. Swansea General Station and Hotel (Railway) provided that clause 10 be struck out, unless proof be given that it has been approved at a meeting of the Great Western Railway Com pany, and provided also that clause 11 be struck out unless a similar proof be given in respect of the Vale of Neath Railway Company. Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction (Southern Lines), provided that the powers authorising the construction of the railways Nos. 6 and 7be struck out. Ryde station (Railway), provided that all compulsory powers over a certain coalyard and store be struck out of the Bill. The Mid-London, provided that clause 29 and all compulsory powers over certain fore courts be struck out. The London, Chatham, Dover and South-Eastern (Kennington, Clapham, and Brixton), provided that the powers authorising the construction of Railway No. 3be struck out. That the standing orders not complied with in the cases of the Aberdare Valley and Caerphilly Junction, the Ely Valley and Vale of Neath Junction, and South-Eastern ought to be dispensed with. In the case of the Metropolitan Tramways, and the Ryde Pier Tramways, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. In the case of the Birkenhead and Liverpool, and the London, Chatham, and Dover (New Lines) the standing orders ought to be dispensed with. AGRICULTURAL HALL (LIMITED). The report states that the net amount to the credit of revenue was £2,982. The results of the year had not been fortunate. The horse show took place in the midst of a general election. The cattle show was seriously affected by the cattle plague. The visitors at the horse show were 18,000, and at the cattle show 41,000 under the attendance of the .preceding years. At the same time the rents ob tained from the various exhibitions held at the hall had been satisfactory. Having regard to the re duced income of the past year, the directors were willing to reduce the fees voted to them at the last general meeting by 25 per cent. They had also made arrangements for reducing the working ex penses. The directors recommended the payment of a dividend of £5 per cent., clear of income tax, leaving £l,OOO. The capital account to the 31st of January showed that £ll,BlB had been received, and £8,977 expended, leaving £2,841. IRELAND. DUBLLN, March 6. One of the detective officers, Mr. Cooke, who had given evidence during the Fenian trials, and had just returned from Cork, where he had been as a witness at the court-martial, was assaulted in the Lower Castle-yard on Saturday night, about 11 o'clock. Having reported his arrival at the office, he was proceeding homeward, accompanied by another offi cer, named Carey. A remark of his was jeeringly repeated by a person whom he had not seen as he was standing in the shade at the corner of the Chapel Royal. He was at the same moment jostled off the footway by a soldier, who was accompanied by two civilians. Before he had time to speak he was struck on the head with a military belt. He then tried to grapple with his assailant, but was struck again and knocked down, when the two civi lians ran off with his hat. The soldier also:ran away, but was pursued and arrested by Carey. He gave his name as John Hurley, Ist Battalion 60th Rifles. He was brought before Mr. Wyse at the Head Police office yesterday, when the assault was proved. The prisoner's defence was that Cooke was beastly drunk at the time, and that he had another man by the throat whom he hadrescued from him. This was false, as there was no one with him but the other officer, and he was walking along with his port manteau in one hand and an umbrella in the other. He supposed that the civilians had told the soldier who he was, and that he had a spife about the arrest of the soldier in James'-street. An officer of the regiment, who was present, said the prisoner had a bad character, and as the regiment was to embark last night for Gibraltar the magistrate did not send the case for trial, but ordered the prisoner to be handed over to the military authorities on paying a fine of ss. The fine was paid during the day, and the soldier was taken into military custody. Another violent assault on the police was perpe trated on Sunday night, in Mary-street, for which three persons named Mooney, Molony, and Bren nan were charged at the Capel-street office yester days Constable Doyle deposed that while he and Constable Morgan were on duty in Mary-street, between 11 and 12 o'clock, they noticed a num ber of disorderly persons on the footway, quar relling among themselves. As witness was passing the corner of Capel-street, the prisoner Mooney stepped up to him and said, " You are a - de tective." Witness said, "lam a policeman," and, putting his hand against the prisoner's breast, he pushed him off and told him to go home. Mooney then seized witness by the coat, and said, " Come on, boys, we'll whack him." The prisoner Bren nan then came forward and gave witness a severe blow in the face. Both Mooney and Brennan called witness a - detective, and kicked him on the ankle. Witness then struck Brennan a blow on the head and knocked him down. He was 'instantly struck by some one from behind, and knocked down. Two other constables then came up and arrested the prisoners. Mr. O'Donnell remanded the prisoners for the present, in order that inquiries might be made as to their character. Yesterday morning the 92d, or Gordon High landers, landed at Kingstown, from her Majesty's screw steam troopship Simoom. The numerical strength of the regiment which arrived by this trans port is 24 officers, 673 non-commissioned officers and rank and file, 126 women, and 164 children, with eight horses. The men were divided into two detachments, which left Kingstown for Dublin by special trains at 9.15 a.m. and 11.15 a.m. respec tively. On arriving at Westland-row terminus they were met by the band of the 2d Battalion, 60th Rifles, which played them in. The men marched to King's-bridge terminus, whence they were con veyed by special train to the Curragh Camp, there to be stationed until barrack accommodation can be provided for them in Dublin. It is precisely 15 years to -day since the 92d left Cork for foreign service. They were last quartered in Dublin in 1847, arriving here from Enniskillen on the 2d of June. ' In less than six months they were ordered to Limerick, in consequence of some apprehended disturbances connected with the "Young Ireland" agitation. During 1848 they formed the garrison of Clonmel along with the Scots Greys. In 1851 they left Cork for the lonian Islands, where they served until ordered to the Crimea, which they reached immediately after the fall of Sebastopol. On the evacuation of the Crimea by the allied armies the 92d proceeded to India and rendered efficient service under Lord Clyde in the suppression of the mutiny. In 1863, their term of foreign service hav ing expired, they were ordered home, and since then have een quartered in Scotland and at Alder shott. Three men who had been in custody for shooting at the Glenbane policeman have been discharged. Some arrests have been made in Galway—namely, James 0. Flynn, victualler ; Patrick O'Connor, gunsmith ; James Henahan, blacksmith ; John Cunniffe, employed in the paper mills of the Messrs. Tallon aid Murray; John Burke, corn buyer for Mr. R. N. Somerville ; and a, plumber named Green, Ncho was concealed under a bed when ar rested. Most of those persons are rather respect able in their line of business, and their arrest has caused considerable excitement in the neighbour hood. The rural districts are almost entirely free from the taint of Fenianism, except in a few cases where they are contaminated by emissaries from the neighbouring towns. At tke opening of the Waterford Assizes yester congr congratulated nay, Byron Deasy the lightness of th e calendar the e tranquillity on the county. Similar congratulations were ad dressed to the grand jury of 'Westmeath by the Chief Justice of the Common Plc as. At the Monaghan Assizes yesterday, Edward Warirg Gray, son of the late I' r. Sam Gray, of Ballylay, who has been in gaol since last July— stood forward, charged with h ovine wilfully and maliciously murdered Peter Shev lin on the 22d of July last, in the town of Castleblaney. The pri soner came into Castleblaney with a large number Til.E SU.N,"A,ONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,. MARCH 7, 1866. one of the champion four-oar crew), met at the house of Mr. James H. Baird, Star Hotel, Northumberland-street, to make a third deposit of £7 for a race for £5O a-side, from the High Level Bridge to the Meadows House, on Easter Monday. Both the competitors put in an appearance, and amongst the large gathering present were Messrs. Hogarth, Kennedy, Waters, Wakefield, Bright, Gallon, &c. The money was duly staked, making the sum now in the hands I of the stakeholder amount to £2O a-side. There was no betting; indeed, much speculation on the event cannot be looked for until the nearer approach of the eventful day. Both men go into training this week. Taylor will have his quarters at the Dun Cow, Dunston, where he will re ceive the benefit of the advice of Hall Nichol. Winship will take up his residence at Harry Clasper's, and in his preparation will be guided by the experience of the veteran oarsman and his brother, Edward Winship. The fourth deposit of £lO a-side will be made on the 17th of March, at the house of Mr. Wm. Blakey, Adelaide Inn, Newgato street, Newcastle. BRIGHT AND TULIP.—The second meeting for deposit was at the house of Mr. Hunter, Blue Bell Inn, Ouseburn, Newcastle, where the friends and backers of John Bright, of St. Laurence, near Newcastle, and Robert Tulip, of the Felling-shore, assembled in considerable numbers to wit ness the posting of the third deposit of £3 a-side, making the money down £9 a-side, for a race from the High Level Bridge to the Meadows House, on Easter Monday, for £2O a-side. All went on harmoniously, and the requisite sum was duly deposited in the hands of the stakeholder. The men have not as yet gone into training, and there was no betting on the result. The next deposit of £3 each comes off at the house of Mr. Miinight, Greyhound Inn, High Felling, on the 10th. BoYD AND SCURFIELD.—The match between James Boyd, of Gateshead, and Smith Scurfield, of North Seatpn, to row from the High Level Bridge to Scotswood Railway Bridge, on the 14th April, for £5O a-side, is progressing satisfactorily. The men and their backers met at the house of Mr. Wm. Blakey, Adelaide Hotel, Newgate-stroet, New castle, to make a second deposit of £9 a-side. Amongst those present were Messrs. Robert Cooper, J. Percy, T. Winship, Robert Boyd, Robert Chambers (Wallsend), and other rowing men. The money was all ready, and was paid over, making a sum of £l2 a-side now in the hands of the stakeholder. The men have not gone into training as yet. The third deposit of £lO a-side comes off on the 17th March, at the house of Mr. Richard Fawcett, North Seaton, Low Quay. SCULLERS' HANDICAP.—Mr. Robert Dewitt, of Dunston, the well-known skiff-builder, is arranging a handicap for scullers, to come off at Dunston, on the Tyne, March 31, for a money prize. Entries, ls. 6d. each, close on the 26th, and acceptances, is. 6d. each, on the 30th. Mr. Jewitt's handicaps are generally very successful. A four-oared race came off on Saturday afternoon for five models of pair-oared boats built by T. Smith. Four crews entered, but only three contended, which were as follow :—Messrs. Rice, Guest, East, C. Taylor (stroke), Carpenter (cox.) ; Greonsheils, Thain, J. Cunis, Mann (stroke), R. Hunter (cox.); Scales, Steel, Pymm, T. Cunis (stroke), Williams (Cox.). The course was from Chelsea to Westminster. They effected an even start ; if there were any lead Taylor's crew got it. Mann led his crew with too quick a stroke, and pumped it all out of Green sheils by the time they got to Pimlico Pier. Taylor's crew got to the front soon after starting, maintained the lead all the way down, and came in a winner by a length; Mann's crew second ; and T. Cunis third. A finer race has seldom been witnessed, considering it was an off-handed affair. The prizes were given up the same evening at Pritchard's, the " Two Sawyers," Palace-road. of voters on the day of the election. Most of the Ballybay electors were stanch supporters of the Conservative candidate, and they were escorted to and from the polling-booths by a strong party of the 9th Lancers. In the evening, when the train was in readiness to take them home, stones were being thrown, and several shots were fired. The unfortu nate deceased received a fatal shot at the station, and the prisoner was arrested a short time after wards. Several witnesses for the prosecution have been examined, some of whom depose to having seen the prisoner take aim and fire at the deceased. Sergeant Armstrong, Q.C., with Mr. Law, Q.C., and Mr. Hamill prosecuted. Counsel for the pri soner, the Right Hon. James Whiteside, M.P., Q.C., Messrs. H a rrison, Q.C., and Kaye, LL.D. ; attorney, Mr. Wright. The case is still proceeding. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.--TuEsbAv. The Tyro Stakes of 5 sous each, with 100 added, for two year-olds ; colts, Bst 51b; penalties and ma iden allow ances. T.Y.C. 23 subs. Mr. Mackenzie's Sycee , Bst slb (Morris) 1 Mr. Gordon's Bracken , Bst 101 b (Challoner) 2 Mr. Lunel's Thisbe , B s t 51b (A. Edwards) 3 Peggy and Knightsbridge also ran. Betting-9 to 4 agst Sycee, 3to 1 agst Thisbe, 7to 2 agst Bracken, and 5 to 1 agst Peggy. Two or three failures occurred in consequence of Knightsbridge refusing to join his horses, and upon the flag falling he was left with in the rear. Sycee and Peggy was the first away, Thisbe, on the rails, as their next attendant to the distance, where Mr. Saxon's filly gave way, and Bracken gave up to Sycee, whom, however, he could never reach, and was defeated by a length ; two lengths separated the second and third, and a neck the third and fourth ; Knightsbridge beaten off. The Spring Flying Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 100 added, for three-year-old and upwards ; winners after the publication of the weights extra. T .Y.C. 39 subs. Mr. Warrington's Flying Jib, 3 yrs, Est 21b ...(Kenyon) 1 Mr. Ti. H. Jones's Skylark 5 yrs, 7st 81b (Carroll) 2 Mr. Hodgman's Venturesome, 3 yrs, Est 21b (Murray) 3 The following also ran :—Persuasion, East Lynne, Radcliffe, Loughrea, Early in the morning Betting-3 to 1 agst East Lynne, 4to 1 each agst Ven turesome and Flying Jib, 6 to 1 agst Skylark, 8 -to 1 agst Persuasion, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Persuasion quickest on her legs, was first away, and made play in the centre of the course, followed by Flying Jib and Venturesome, with East Lynne next the rails, well up till nearing the dis tance, when the latter and Persuasion beat a retreat, and Skylark joined Venturesome ; the three placed finishing an exciting race from the half distance, which ended in favour of Flying Jib by a head, the same distance separat ing the second and third ; East Lynne was a bad fourth; Persuasionlfifth, Radcliffe sixth, and Loughrea last, beaten off. THE ANNUAL HURDLE HANDICAP of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 50 added ; winners after the publication of the weights extra. Two miles, over six flights of hurdles. 35 subs. Mr. T. ilughe's Real Jam, aged, '.lst 121 b... (D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Savile's Clairvoyante, 5 yrs, 9st 81b (inc. 101 b ex.) (W. White) 2 Mr. W. Copeland's Queen of Trumps, 5 yrs 9st 101 b (Knott) 3 The following also ran : —Benazet, Lucette, Little Frank, Skiff, and Dermot Asthore. Betting 100 to 30 each agst Queen of Trumps and Clair voyante, 4 to 1 each agst Skiff and Real Jam, Ito 1 agst Benazet, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Skiff was the first away, followed by Bonazet, Little Frank, and Real Jam to the first flight of hurdles, where Lucette took up the running, and , B enazet being pulled back, she was followed past the stand by Little Frank, Skiff, and Real Jam in close company ; Dermot Asthore, at an interval of several lengths, being next, Queen of Trumps and Clairvoyant® bringing up the rear. Going along the far side Real Jam improved her position and ran alongside of Skiff, who was close in waking on Lucetto to the mile post, where the latter pair exchanged positions, but Lucette almost immediately resumed the lead, and at the Canal bridge turn Skiff was passed by Real Jam. Before making the bend into the straight, Clairvoyants, who had gradually run by her horses, took close order with Real Jam, in whose rear was Bonazet. These three charged the last flight of hurdles nearly abreast, when Real Jam drew away, and stalling off Clairvoyants, won cleverly by two lengths; Quoen of Trumps finished four lengths in rear of Mr. Savilo's mare ; Little Frank was a bad fourth Dermot Asthore fifth, Lucetto sixth ; Skiff and .Benazette (who were pulled up at the stand when pursuit was hope less) were last, and did not pass the post. THE MERSEY CuP of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft; winners extra. One mile. 28 subs, 14 of whom delarod and paid 2 sovs each. Mr. C. Peck, jnn.'s Exceller, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Carroll) 1 Mr. Russell's Elastic, 4 yrs, Gst 21b (Murray Lord Westmorland's Echo, 5 yrs, 7 st 111 b (inc 101 b ex. (Kenyon ) 3 Mr. Gordon's Three per Cent., 3 yrs, Gst 41b (Cameron) 4 Mr. Barber's The Clown, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (Challoner) 5 Betting-5 to 2 agst Echo, Bto 1 agst Throe per Cent., 4 to 1 each agst Elastic and Tho Clown, and 6 to 1 agst Exceller. The Clown made play followed by Echo and Exceller for about a quarter of a mile, when Mr. Barber's horse retired and Elastic drew up, and Echo giving way at the distance, a fine race home ended in favour of Exceller by a head, two lengths separated the second and third, Three per Cent. an indifferent fourth. The Grand National Hunters' Cup of 100 sovs; weight for age; winners extra. Two miles on the flat. Mr. Summers's Woodbury Hill, 6 yrs, 12st 71b, (Rickaby, jun.) 1 Mr. Turner's King Alfred, 5 yrs, list 31b (Castle) 2 Mr. Dymock's Ely, 6 yrs, list 91b (Malley) 3 Mr. R. Calder's Marksman, 5 yrs, 13st (Owner) 4 The following also ran of the West, Brighton, Lady Port, and Oustwick. Betting—Even on Markman, 4 to 1 each agst Woodbury Hill and Oustwick, and 10 to 1 any other. Won easily by three lengths; four lengths between second and third. A Handicap of 40 sovs, and a Selling Stakes did not fill. Melton Hunt Steeplechases will take place at Burton, near Melton, on Saturday, March 17, under most distin guished patronage. CORK RACES, April 25 and 26.—A meeting of the race committee was hold on Saturday last, when it was decided on having the same course as last year, subject to some alterations. The big banks are to be cut down, and largo dykes made to each fence, and the fence where Swiper was killed last year is to be levelled. Neither money nor pains will be spared to make the course a first-class steeplechase one. 250 sovs clear will be added to the Grand National and 50 sovs fora military race. AQUATICS. THE INTERNAT lONAL SCULLING MATCH. This affair at last begins to assume a more business-like complexion, and as far as we can judge there is every pros pect of the match being satisfactorily arranged. The fol lowing appears in the New York Clipper of Feb. 24 : On the 19th inst. we received the annexed letter from Hamill, accompanied by a draft for $1,250 in gold, to cover the sum of £250 said to have been deposited by Kelley, which is conclusive evidence that he is " dead in earnest," and must convince the sceptical London journalists that Jimmy is not the man to seek notoriety by an .indulgence in "empty bounce." Hero is the letter : • "Pittsburgh, Feb. 17,1866. "Friend Queen,—To show that I mean business in re gard to getting up a match for the championship Of the world, I send enclosed a draft on Maxwell and Graves, No. 85, Cedar-street, N.Y., for twelve hundred and fifty dol lars ($1,250) in gold, for which you will please send re ceipt and give credit through your columns. I want Mr Kelley and his friends to know that I am in earnest, and that his reported two hundred and fifty pounds (£250) has been covered. lam bound to go to England this season I will send on articles for Mr. Kelley to sign next week, probably. Hoping this will be in time for your next issue, I remain yours respectfully, "JAMES HAMILL." THE WEST LONDON ROWING CLUB. The newly-clected officials of this club are evidently bent on taking time by the forelock, and even thus early active preparations have been made for opening the forthcoming season with eclat. In addition to several cups, Scc., which we understand will be given by individual members for the encouragement of club rowing, the president and captain have announced their intention of offering handsome prizes for outrigged pairs, and the two secretaries, Messrs. Shepherd and J. Tyler, jun., for junior sculls. It is hoped that this year the club will be worthily represented at all the leading regattas, and with this view arrangements have been made for the purchase of a new racing eight and four. A new cap and uniform will also bo issued shortly, and a revised code of the rules, which will contain a full account of the various matches and regattas in which the club has taken part since its establishment in 1855 is in course of preparation. BELLE SAUVAGE BOWING CLUB. The annual meeting of the above club took place on Sa turday, the 3d inst., in the large room in Bello Sauvage yard, T. J. Crafter, Esq., in the chair, when the following officers were elected for the ensuing season :—Mr. J. A. Campion, as captain ; Mr. T. K. Jeffery, as treasurer ; Mr. Horace Grattan, as secretary ; and the following gentle men the committee :—Messrs. Bonney, Richardson, Cooper, Bedingham, Lawrence, and Wheaton. Other important business was then transacted, and a vote of thanks to the chairman and late treasurer brought the meeting to a close. QUATICS ON THE TYNE. The preliminary stages of coming aquatic events on tne Tyne are going on most satisfactorily. On Saturday night three consecutive deposits in as many matches woro made at three several sporting houses in Newcastle. WINSHIP AND TAYLOII.—The friends and backers of James Taylor, of Ouseburn, and Thomas Winship, of Dor i wonthaugh (brother of the well-known Edward WinfilliP, PUGILISM. Aph------- MIKE M'CABE AND MICK MALEY, DP BIR- MINGUAM. This pugilistic encounter at 7st 91b, for £2O, was yester day (Monday) brought to a successful termination, after a great amount of enterprise by the parties concerned, who were regularly "hunted" down by the officers of the law• Both have previously contended in the ring. M'Cabe, most promising lad of the Collinson school, is 24 years of age, stands Mt. 41in., and has a victory over Pat Duffey, of Birmingham, some three years since to his account. Since that time he has been at Derby on a sparring exhi bition, during which he fought a draw with one Monk Smith, after an obstinate battle. Mike, from his quiet manner and cleverness, was always a favourite with Mr. Collinson (late host of the Thatched House Tavern, Dud. deston-row), and assumed the sobriquet of Collinson's Pet Maley (nicknamed Bluey) is a year junior of his opponent, stands sft siin, and has performed in the ring as follows : A victory over J. Crogan of Birmingham, also overJ. Cutler. Teddy Teirney, however, turned the tables, and punished " Bluey" severely. M'Cabe stuck to his old quarters for training, the Thatched House Tavern, from which he was backed by Mr. Roe, the spirited proprietor, and took his lessons under J. Parkinson, who certainly deserves much praise for his fine condition. Bluoy trained from Mr. J. Halliday's, Golden Cup, Livery, from which house he was backed. Truth compels us to state here-that he did not take kindly to the " collar," and on more than one occasion transgressed the bounds of prudence sufficiently to (for a time) prejudice his chance. On weighing, both were found but a few ounces under weight. Yesterday morning early found many patrons of the P.R. on the qui vine, and the Plough, at Minworth, was reached by seven o'clock, a move being at once made for the scene of Jinks and Mar shall's late encounter, when a ring was formed. M'Cabe threw in his cap at 7 30, quickly followed by his opponent, when offers at 5 to 4 on the former went begging, Bluey's partisans holding out for another point. The fight commenced at 7 43, and after mutual measure ment, M'Cabe twice visited the left cheek, and away again sparring. Mutual counters on the face, when M'Cabe par tially slipped down, but at once renewed the combat. After some exchanges they closed at half arm, and M'Cabe fought his man down. M'Cabe was first up, smiling, but Bluey looked sorely puzzled. After exchanges in favour of M'Cabe, the round finished by his fighting his man down. A claim of first blood was here made by M'Cabe's second, but not allowed. Fourteen minutes had elapsed. In the third bout they closed at once, and some good half-arm hitting ensued, Bluey getting down at the finish. Rattling exchanges followed, much in favour of M'Cabe, both com ing to grief. M'Cabe now made a target of the abdomen, and Bluey rushed to business, but was caught under Mike's arm, and some half-arm work terminated in favour of M'Cabe, after a capital rally to the ropes. 6to 4 was here: laid on M'Cabo. On facing each other Bluey showed some marks on the left cheek and forehead M'Cabe planted on the mouth, Bluey short in the return. Bluey retired, looking very eager, but puzzled as to his next move. He visited the left ear, however, Mick returning on the loft cheek, but again shot over the shoulder, which brought them together, and a close ensued both rolling over. Time, 32min. Bluey in sparring in the seventh bout accidentally spiked Mick, but landed on the chest. In a second attempt he was neatly parried, when M'Cabe shot over the shoulder; he visited Bluey's nose, however, Bluey spending his efforts in the air. They had just got together again, when the cry of "poles" arose, and a hasty scamper cleared the field after a contest of forty-three minutes. Near to Sutton Wood a second ring was reared, and into this Bluey first threw his cap. Five additional rounds were contested, much in favour of M'Cabe, who pinked his man cleverly. In the middle of the twelfth bout the police again came up. After many moves a spot was found near Oscott, where the lads again got together at twenty minutes past two. Twenty-two additional rounds were hero fought, Bluey, from frequent visitations and being heavily thrown, going very weak ; while M'Cabe was surely working his way to victory. Towards the twenty-sixth bout Bluey inspired his friends with fresh hope by landing cleverly on several occasions on Mick's nose, which bled freely, and loft eye and ear; but from the thirtieth bout, in which M'Cabe visited that part very severely, and threvrßluey a "burster," the battle was over, and at the commencement of the thirty-fourth. M'Cabo proffered a douceur, which was accepted by Bluoy and the battle ended in favour of M'Cabe, after contending in three rings, 2h Bmin in all. On two occasions Bluey went down very suspiciously, and the referee was appealed to. WCabe has proved himself a thorough tactician and general, and more than a match for even the bull-dog courage of Bluoy. Anthropological Soc-ety. At the meeting of the Anthropological Society yesterday evening two papers were read on the best means to be adopted for the measurement of skulls. In one of the papers, read by Mr. Higgins, the geometrical method of measurement was advocated, and an apparatus was exhibited by which the out lines of a skull, placed in various positions, may be accurately drawn on glass, and thence transferred to paper. The advantages of this plan of measurement were fully pointed out, and it was stated that the geometrical system has been adopted as the most correct mode of delineating the figure of the moon and of the other heavenly bodies. In the second paper, read by Mr. Westley, a method of perspec tive drawing was recommended, as giving a better representation of the real character of the skullthan a series of separate outlines. A long discussion took place on the two papers, in which Mr. Bendysche, who was in the chair, the Rev. Dunbar Heath, Mr; Fraser, Dr. Gibb, and other gentlemen took part. A third paper, on certain " simious" skulls, with special reference to a skull from Louth Abbey, in Ireland, was read by Mr. Carter Blake. The skull was supposed to be that of a monk of the 11th or 12th century, and it presented most of the low cha racters of the celebrated Neonderthal skull, from Germany, which was conceived by the advocates of the theory of progressive development to be the missing link" between man and the ape. Mr. - _ Blake pointed out the peculiarities of the skull which had been presented to the society, and said that it was an abnormal formation. M. Pruner -Bey, the distinguished French anthro pologist, considers that the Neonderthal skull, so far from being the missing link, bears a re semblance to the normal Celtic skulls, and the one exhibited, when compared with a cast of the German skull, appeared to bear out that opinion. The peculiarities in the skull from Louth Abbey were attributed by Mr. Blake to pre mature ossification of the sutures in early life, and the same cause, he thought, might be assigned to the formation of the skull of the assumed missing link. He expressed much regret that such an ab normity should ever have been put forward as inch eating a connection between man and the lower animals. After a brief discussion of the paper the meeting adjourned. DEATH OF A HORSE FROM HYDROPHOBIA.-i horse, belonging to a gentleman of Mooriown, near Ring wood, was bitten by a dog about three months ago. The dog was killed at the time by a kick front the horse, and no further notice was taken of it. On Friday, however, the animal was seized with symptoms of madness, con tinually biting and tearing the leg that had been bitten by the dog. The animal became so violent in a few hours that it had to bo pegged down in a field, where it shortly afterwards died. . [AnyznTiszittErvr.]—That the fearful anneal mortality of 60 0 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be arrested, if. instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines, which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in reality no other tendency than that of increasing debility, and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study how to inc ease the vital force by imparting new and pure blood, upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame depends, has been successfully proved by On Barry's inva lids' and Infa .t.' Food, the Revalenta Ar.delca, and its thousands of cares annually. It yields three times as mut.th easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, and for children it i ; the best substitute for human mac Dr. Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children —the best authority on such matters —in his admir able public,Con on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub , stances, th .t which comes closest t ) milk in its composition is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con taining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle ts hich is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt fly, have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest advantage in such cases ; and so far as I may judge from my own experience, practice fully carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.— In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 61; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 228 ; 241 b, 40s.—Barry Du Barry and C0.,N0. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechureh-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court-road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che 111160.—BeWare of OPuricoui Imitations. PEDESTRIANISM. More than usual interest was shown, on account of the events set down for decision, on Saturday last in the metro polis and neighbourhood, on account of various contests being decided; the first in importance wore the contests decided at against him. At about 4 o'clock the pedestrian appeared at the scratch in walking costume, and at the signal given ho started of from the fourteenth to the fifteenth milestone on the London turnpike road, and accomplished the first mile in 10 min. 5 sec. Ho then turned back for whence ho started, and accomplished his undertaking easily in 21 min. 15 sac., thus winning with 45 sec. to spare. Mr. E. Smith of Bell's Life was referee and timekeeper. BROMPTON. Although the company was limited in numbers, yet they were of a most respectable character, more especially to wit ness the amateur race between MESSRS. D. M. O'LEARY AND K. T. DIGBY.—They had to run a quarter of a mile for a valuable cup and a heavy bet. Digby has won a 410 yards handicap, for which also O'Leary entered, but did not start. Digby won the toss for sides, and chose the one with his right hand to the turf, but in getting off he slipped, so that he could not quite succeed in catching his opponent, who came in first by four yards Mr. H. Woodstock was tho referee and starter. The bet ting was 6to 4, offered. Time 56 seconds. W. HARRISON, OF PIMLICO, AND H. IlunAreunsT, OF BATTERSEA.—This was a half-mile race between these two for a small stake, Broadhurst having 20 yards start, which advantage he maintained the whole of the distance he ran, but pulled up 50 yards from home, Harrison of course win ning easily. Mr. West, of Brompton, was the referee. Time, 2 min. 53 secs. J. CLAYTON AND H. BARER.—These two amateurs now came to run off their 200 yards race for £5 a-side. A good kart was effected, but in the finish Baker won by 5 yards. Mr. A. Ball acted as referee. There was a great deal of practising among the gentle men of the different athletic dubs. C. O'MALLEY (OF BERMONDSEY) AND H. SIMPSON (OF WALWORTIO.—This race of 100 yards for £5 a-side was the principal event for decision, and caused a vast amount of interest between their respective backers. In accord ance with the articles Simpson received three yards start, and they were allowed 15 minutes on the scratch, but if net off in that time then the pistol was to be fired. Just pre vious to the race O'Malley laid a soy even that he would win by two yards. Simpson got a good start, but O'Malley soon came to the front, and won a good race by 2-} yards, so that he won his bet by a good half yard. J. M. was the referee. J. ARNOLD AND E. DENNIS.—Both are of Marylebone, and next came to run off their race of 300 yards for £5 a-side, Dennis having three .yards start. They had to go by first report of pistol. Dennis bounded away with the lead given him, which he held to the end, and won a splen did race by 7 yards. Mr. Nicholson performed the office of referee, whilst Mr. Brown acted as starter. MAY AND - GERMAIN.—The next spin calling for notice was between May (of Peckham) and Germain (of Billings gate), tho distance being 210 yards, for £4 a-side. They were on the scratch 8 minutes, when they got off, May with a slight lead, but was soon passed by Germain, who won a good race by a yard and a half. Mr. E. Jones was referee. MARSH AND SANDEBSON.--This was a spin of 100 yards for a small stake. Perry ofilciated as referee. Marsh won by two yards. The race between Grey and Howditt is postponed. HACKNEY-WICK. Another of the great gatherings took place yesterday for which the popular Hackney -wick has been famous, fully 2,000 persons having assembled to witness the sport set down. There was also, .independent of the great Four mile Handicap and the One-mile Novice Handicap (the eatures of the day), the race between Tuck and Hudson and Mr. Tether's Half-mile Handicap. The following is a brief return : PETHEIt'S HALF MILE HANDICAP.—The 26 entries were divided into four heats and the final. The first heat was won by W. Francis, who went from scratch ; C. Green, 30 yards start, was second. Won by 20 yards. Second Heat.—J. Winter, another scratch man, came in first; and young Hartley, also at scratch, was second. Won by 15 yards. Third Heat.—Again the scratch man. E. Byrne, clime first ; and J. Harnhan, 30 yards' start, was second. Won easily. Fourth Heat.—J. Martin, 30 yards start, came in first by a couple of yards ; and J. Nicholls, who went from the mark, was second ; there were three other starters. The Final Heat.—Francis, Byrne, H. Winter, and J. Mar tin now came to run off for the prizes, when Francis mine in first by ton yards ; Byrne was second, and Winter third. The regular business of the day now commenced, and Mr. W. Price's Handicaps wore decided as under : TILE ONE MILE HANDICAP.—This was for a silver watch for first, and a money prize for second. Sam Sutton, who wont from scratch, passedall his opponents, namely, Webb, 40 yards start ; Tidy, 40; Young Book, 60 ; Smith, 60 ; Watson, GO ; and Prior's Novice, 60, and won a determined race by 10 yards ; Smith was second. GREAT FOUR MILES HANDICAP. —This was the race of the day, and the whole of the en tries, with the excep tion of Barney Hayden of Manchester, put in an appearance. The famed Young England (Teddy Mills) at scratch ; Sam Barker, 260 yards start ; Harry Andrews, 340 ; W. Mills (Teddy's brother), 400; G. Golder, 400; Vertue (Patten's Lad), 400; and W. Markham, 520, were the starters. More interest was at tached to the contest as they all ran in colours. Vertu° was made the favourite at 6 to 4, 5 to 2 agst Golder, 7 to 2 agst W. Mills, 4 to 1 agst Markham, 5 to 1 agst An drews, and 20 to 1 agst Barker. This was one of the best contests ever witnessed. Teddy Mills showed his fine stlye ; but eventually Golder won in good style ; W. Mills was second, and Markham third. Sam Barker ran in his usual good style ; and were the varia tions in the race given, it would take more room than our space will allow. J. Tuex AND Hunsos.—These men ran half a mile for £3O aside. Hudson jumped off with the lead, and for more than three parts of the distance led at a tremendous pace. The latter having run himself out in e ndeavouring to cut down his opponent, Jo e Tuck, who had bided . his i time, in the last lap rushed t o the fore, when, n , coining into the straight for hom e, and Tuck leading ey ha dozen yards, Hudson fell, and Tuck ran in an easy winner. AMATEUR WALKING MATCH AGAINST TIME.-011 N© l- day the long - pendi n g match, in which Mr. Newby, a wel known sportsman in racing circles, undertook to walk for a bet of £56 two miles in 22 min., was decided in a satis factory manner at Harlington Corner, about five milesfrom Hounslow. The feat, which would have been but a mode rate performance for a commoner was not deemed a very easy task for Mr. Newby, who is 52 years of age, and we ight full 16st ; having le d a merry London life for up wards of 30 years, and, moreover, having seen the gas off requently behind his own counter as a publican , he had no chance of getting into condition ; 60 to 40 was holy offend SPIRIT OF T, TOMES.—The Scotch borough constituencies and their members have good reason in insisting that if the business of reform is to be done at all it shall be done well. The deputation which waited on Lord Russell about a fortnight since professed various opinions upon points of detail, but upon this cardi nal proposition they were agreed. The delegates from Glasgow and Col. Sykes, representing Aber deen, declared that the men for whom they spoke would be content with no half measure, and more lately the constituency of the Ayr boroughs, dissa tisfied, as it would seem, at the ambiguous response of the Premier, have sent their member to him to protest that what they want is not merely a reduc tion of the franchise but also aredistribution of seats. Never was a protest more seasonable, and never were men more worthy of being heard. The boroughs of Scotland enjoy a unique position in the body politic. Their opinions are sober without be ing reactionary, and advanced without being fan tastic. There is not a single member for a Scotch borough who is not a Liberal, and we do not re member any Scotch borough being suspected of cor ruption, much less any member for one of them being unseated for bribery. While Berwick is one of the most notorious of English constituencies, we have only to step across the Border and we find ourselves amid groups of boroughs whose purity is above suspicion, and where the only contests which arise turn upon the greater or less degree of Libe ralism professed by the candidates. It is impos sible to dissociate this comparative perfection of the Scottish boroughs from that practice of grouping together three or four towns to form a constituency which is at once their leading peculiarity and the readiest means of meeting the difficulty of dis franchisement, which is the sole excuse for avoiding a redistribution of seats in England. If we were to unite together the small boroughs of the South and West, we should raise their cha racter, and have some additional seats to bestow both upon the enlarged county constituencies and upon the unrepresented inhabitants of the more progressive towns of the North. We might, in the case of such composite constituencies, adopt a plan for the more perfect representation of the associated voters like that proposed by Lord John Russell in the Reform Bill of 1853. To disregard all such considerations, to press on a reduction of the f ran chise, and a reduction of the franchise alone, is to expose ourselves to the charge of hypocrisy, which has been often brought against all recent Reform agitators. The plan betrays a complete ignorance of the drawbacks of our present system. No one who has seriously studied the subject can for a moment justify a proposal which will work no amendment, and on some points will induce a posi tive increase of evil. The three great defects of our electoral machinery are the exclusion of a large pro portion of the adult male population from any part in its action, the capricious distribution of power among those who are intrusted with votes, and the inducement to corruption found in the fact that a few unscrupulous electors ca n decide the event of an election. A reduction of the franchise will, in appearance, but in little more, do something to re move the first of these defects , but it will aggravate the other two. The feelings of those who are now excluded from the franchise may be gratified by a reduction which will give them votes, but if consti tuences are left as they are the gratification will be a very empty one. It would be little worth were 100,000, or 200,000, or 500,000 voters added to the register to-morrow, if they only shared with fellow voters the privilege of sendin g the same men as before to Westminster. The additions made to the metro politan and other great constituencies would in any case be small, but, were they ever so large, they would be absolutely powerless in determining the choice or increasing the power of metropolitan repre sentatives. And it is in such large constituencies that the men live whose exclusion is a special griev ance. The body of artisans congregate in the great towns, where, moreover, few of them attain the dignity of separate householders, partly on account of its expense, and partly because of the nomadic habits forced on them by their employments. A re duction of the franchise in smaller boroughs would admit numbers bearing much larger proportions to the existing constituency, but the privileges which in large towns would be worthless would in their case be too valuable. Every one knows what a small and compact body can do in a borough of limited size, and all experience points to the conclu sion that a reduction of the qualification in such a case would aggravate the corruption already too prevalent. The boroughs where freemen exist are already such as all boroughs not overwhelming in size would become ; the freemen are the men who live in houses of less than £lO rental, and there is no town in England having a large number of free men among its electors which has not been over and over again the subject of an election petition. Not tingham, Norwich, Dover, Coventry, Maidstone, Canterbury, Lincoln, Glocester, Hereford, Berwick, Stafford, Maldon, these are a few found on the roll of the Parliamentary return issued on the motion of Mr. Baines, and every name is eloquent of con tests in committee-rooms. These are the boroughs which are dear to Parliamentary agents, and there are many of the number about which an election petition is at this moment . pending. If the way to improved government he through corruption, n o better plan could b e devised than that of reducing all the boroughs of England to the level of these constituencies, but the hope of get ting at a better result by brutalising the machi nery is, to unsophisticated reasoners, unpromising. The maintenance of anything like purity of election, to say nothing of the redress of the present gross inequalities of representation in the different parts of the kingdom, demands that a reduction of the franchise shall be coupled with a redistribution of seats, which shall secure to the newly enfranchised some share of legislative influence, and shall take away the temptation to bribery, which is and must be in small constituencies too potent to be resisted. Reform has been before the country for fifteen years, but though Lord Russell was powerful enough to raise the spirit, he seems, like children in fairy tales, to have forgotten how to undo the spell and to lay it at rest. In his despair he proposes to cut it in two, not knowing that each half will prove as troublesome as the undivided whole, and that the result will be an increase instead of a diminution of mischief. We speak of Lord Russell as the head of the Ministry, though it may be that he has been vainly struggling against influence too strong for his control. He himself, in the recent edition of his work on Parliamentary Government, proved himself still a genuine reformer, although charac teristically incapable of receiving new impressions and benefiting by new thoughts. But whoever may be to blame for the result, the voices which herald the coming bill are confused and unpromising. We are assured one day that we are to have two bills, and we are told that there will be but one the next. The bill is to reduce the property qualification, and nothing more ; it is to create a lodger franchise, it is to be supplemented by another dealing with the redistribution of seats, and perhaps by a third in troducing some novelty in the method of voting. The supplementary bill is to be introduced at once, it is to be put off to the next session, it is to be left for a new Parliament. All these rumours coming in quick succession, or we may say all at once, only prove that the bill or bills to be introduced will vary directly as the pressure exercised on the Ministry. If the House of Commons be sincere in its determina tion to settle the question, we shall have a complete scheme brought forward, and the several branches of it pressed on simultaneously ; if it be lukewarm, - the second part will be deferred as long as possible, and when introduced will be languidly promoted ; if it be absolutely indifferent, the second part will not make its appearance at all. Under such cir cumstances, it behoves members and constituencies to determine whether they will accept a measure which would unsettle instead of settling, which would create a just resentment among those who found themselves endowed with an empty privilege, would rouse the passions of those who might remain excluded, and would demoralize constituencies which have as yet escaped the taint of corruption ; which would, in a word, under pretence of re-edify ing the political system of the nation, endanger its stability by exposing it to ruder and more violent attacks than before. POST.--It is probable that the Reform Bill which is now in process of elaboration will prove, when in troduced on Monday next, to be of a more complete and satisfactory character than,• from the composi tion of the Ministry, might at first have been ex pected. It cannot be too often repeated that the introduction of a bill bearing palpably the traces and exhibiting all the weakness of a compromise between the desire to do everything and the wish to do nothing, which are known to be opposed in the Cabinet, would result in nothing but failure for the bill and ridicule for its promoters. The ques tion of Reform, if treated at all, must be met frankly and settled decisively. " L'appetit vient en man geant" is more true of political power than of any other thing, and to give half a loaf instead of no bread, although for the moment it may satisfy the recipient, is but to weaken the hands of the donor in meeting the next demand, which is certain to be made for a whole loaf and something more. Re form has peculiar capabilities of being used in any agitation of class against class, and since the ques tion is raised it will argue infinitely more wis dom to give all that is proper and just now, rather than, by giving only .as much as can not be denied, to leave to the agitators the power of coming again shortly with further demands which would include much more than would be either just or proper. If a stand against reform is to be made, it were better to make it now, once for JOURNAL a , e all, and to deny any extension whatever, rather than • to give a part of the ground on which to erect bat teries which would command the rest. The danger of the present Government appears to lie less in being too bold than in being not bold enough; and the desire of fusing into one trimming bill the oppo site opinions of a Cabinet composed of such hetero genous elements may yet prove fatal to it, unless there exists sufficient authority among it leaders te., enable them to procure the adoption of a billfra mea more with a view to the merits of the question than to the diversity of opinions on the subject. A ib° fter all, reform in this country is not revolution. r adoption of a £6 franchise would not entail either socialism or anarchy, and any reform bill o°l may be passed in 1866 is, at any rate, not likely to be followed by more serious consequences tha n that which was passed in 1832. The important features of the Government bill are, we believe, not Yet finally settled, but the statistics have, it is under stood, not been without their influence on the mea, " sure in determining the adoption of a rental tile will admit a fair additional number of voters to franchise. The bill introduced by Lord Palmer ston, who was not likely to propose an excessiv e extension, would, if adopted, have added ser e ,!. 180,000 to the 450,000 borough electors already " the enjoyment of the franchise, and there is ever reason to expect that the forthcoming bill will n" in this respect fall short of the standard of exten sion fixed by the late Premier. This would be all _ addition, so far as boroughs are concerned, of 40 per cent. to the present electoral body, but as the eel l % ties would probably not get the same proportion'_. extension, the relative aggregate increase ld the whole number of voters in the kingdom wa il of course be less. If, however, the bill proce ossi eds. °. e the basis above indicated, it will not be pbis even for Mr. Bright to say that the question had been trifled with, or for an agitation to be p ron l e o on the ground that enough has not been done. „ e redistribution of seats will, it is presumed, foil:111es subject of a separate bill from that which pro' e , ci for the extension of the franchise. The two n.e tions are, in fact, perfectly distinct, and , bel D founded upon different principles and supportedca'i different reasons, their separation is quite lofilf,he and proper, as well as being perhaps politic. , reasons for conferring a vote for members of Paolis liament upon an increased number of indivi dti fo r have no resemblance whatever with the reasons . redistributing the members among those indivi da ' , ; In a system of government which aims at rep rese s n tation, the constant changes of the population as constantly for a readjustment of the callreprese tives divided amongst it, but do not necessarily t a for increase in the numbers of the electors , so thadxie bill to provide for the one cannot properly be In the to go hand in hand with a bill to provide for d ig other. It is certain that the House of Commonsnor appreciate the difference in principle, andwi li di sc " t o an advantage in the difference of treatmentof the Iv, questions. The one one thing that is clear is , thtt the form is approaching a settlement, and if , and 'vent disadvantages it has to face, the present Govern,tio, succeeds in introducing a bill which is net I tha t and illusory, there is every reason to believ e of it will obtain sufficient support in the llonsemr. Commons to carry it. It is understood tha t . i . c le, Disraeli has announced to his own immediate e;iini, though not to the party at large, that, if th e t bel stern are driven from office on the mensure tbe will propose, he will be prepared to fell e , w , w ith policy Of 1859, to accept the Governmen t ,of its engagements," and to take up the ques':'' n ot Reform himself. The question, in fad, but whether Reform shall be accepted or rejeet e ' its whether it shall be carried by its friends or enemies. Mr. Disraeli, if the present inea i s a ti 0 ,11 rejected on the ground of insufficiency, 01 . 1.1 gill 17 3 hope for success by outbidding it ; and it vier for the House of Commons to say, before the r ern te has been lost, whether they will prefer a ref ) 0 . one but complete measure now or a more sweeP a lpeat hereafter; and it is in the power of the Gove rn tae to assist them to a wise decision, and a t the s ing time to strengthen its own position, by Pr°P°tioc measure calculated to settle the question sa 'orily and definitively. COUNTRY MARKETS. BUIS T 0 L—T VESDAY. i 6 0 1 Wo quote our wheat at market to-day dul l salV"„f°o $0- prices. Barley, is dearer. Oats, 6d lower. Pea" peas firm. Indian corn firm. NEW CASTLE—TUESDAY. P tilr ; A fair demand for the best samples of wheat 5t yete day's rates ; inferior and out of conditioned negotodi* Barley firm. Oats rather dearer. Beans and Pea s Flour unaltered, with a limited demand. LEEDS—TUESDAY. n o t P re 'r Not much wheat showing, and owners do odtem sales. Barley in better supply, but sells slowlY at rat less money: Oats, beans, and other articles a nal ` value. ' la c t' wh T e h a e t, a v 4 e B r s a g e 2l r c l c e p s e f i o . r qr.e; w b e ar ethk l e e y n , d i n a g s 31 11 a d re i 4 ~,,c1 v * 4 '' 26s Bid. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TuEOO. lo s l; A fair quantity of wheat on offer ; the demandou guid at last week's prices. Barley was not, 93 ,,,, 5 0S quest, and prices were unchanged. Oats and 08' firm at last week's prices. 3 6 - pet - White wheat, 52s to 56s red, 45s to:s2a P er t , SC° e l Barley for malting, 34s to 38s per qr ; feed, 2 ,,, Bs asi 30 stone. Oats , 22s to 395. Beans, old, 48 s "'" 40s to 44s per qr. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. tiendeel To-day's market was only moderately o',o buyers, and for wheat there was only a in odesu v ,,t at a repetition of late quotations. Flour dukieipoce remain nominally unchanged. Indian corn. Par' deck s the general dullness, all descriptions suffering s 4. 0 i illis o p value to the extent of 3d per qr from the figlirertracAl week. Beans, peas, and malt unchanged• and unchanged. Ai'. 0 0 MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TVW- t he 5 ", A steady trade in wheat, prices for which wer e eit e " as the previous week. Barley not much soug late rates. Oats and beans unaltered. to 56,5 v Old white wheat, 50s to 55s ; new red.:46s P er stone. Barley, fine, 38s ; other kinds, 290 to 31,;50 Oats, new, 22s to 27s ; old, 28s to 34s per qr. 49s to 525; new, 42s to 45s per qr. GAINSBOROUGH—TUESDAY' 100 0 • e to ore A tolerable supply of wheat, which caul. c ot 4 0 ,0 better condition . The demand was slow at le to• t og cies. Not much doing in barley at late r A e ot meagre show at late rates. Beans firm a t re cies. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. r, ...t $ Australia and New Zealand, via SouthamPt° ll• ‘ • :. ,, ;il ' Ditto, via Marseilles. ....................... • A,' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ...... " • IP' 4 ....... Ditto, by French packet .. • • 'lig' - 1 4 . Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. fiele lol %; . .3P; 1 6 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southaullo`...lo'. Ditto, via Marseilles ......... • .... .•••'• Falkland Islands ..... ........ • P. • • • Gibraltar, via Southampton .......... . ....... 1 t ou India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SouthamP'...lialPil Ditto, via Marseilles ............ .o • .)fftr• 10, .. 6 India (Bombay), via Southampton. ............. . t g, , Ditto, via Marseilles .................... • r. Mauritius, via Southampton ......... ............... • 0 4 , If Ditto, via Alarseille3 ......................... Newfoundland Portugal .... - . ........... . .... Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon ••• .. 1010:Wt. United States and British North A.merial, ' .. ••• tish packet . .... 111 : 02 . , Ditto, by United States packet, v i a Soo ... ton ........ 9. .. ..................... .....of, Ditto, via Cork • • ..... Ditto, by Canadian packet , via Londouu. c c os,, ,v , West Indies and Pacific (except Bahaala , ••• J - 17. P •*.r e it F' and Mexico ... ........y .... far'_r I Cuba and Mexico. ...... ................... . . • . ..., li Bahamas, via New York. ......................• • ...,o, Bermuda, ditto ..................... . ........ " ••• ..P West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tencriffe' fle r Births. v oa cl ' e i r" ASTE—On the sth inst., at 11, Upper r 3 ,r7„,, -I. glit e ',. 6 1 ,; 1 it , stead, the wife of John Aste, Esq., of t"' - i - e, ' ll v n aS' CLIFFORD—On the sth inst., at 2, CratileYarfila• t he gardens, South Kensington n, the 11 00. `--- . (w ool ford, of a son. v Y" „jj, HUGHES—On the sth inst ,at Bovey 'l s r aca ' ' j r wife of Colonel W. T. .Hughes, of a eon. , W. ll '' ' JANSON—On the sth ' tat Croydon,.--- ' ins t., of a daughter. LANE—FORD —On ßlandford Dors et, theW Xo o+ ° J °l' Marriages. of 7 Mr. B. Lane, seconi, to ,IF Lane,London, f p .6 Mary s Edward only daughter of Mr. James Ford , ° 44,4 Griffith, of theb -vo• Manor Farm. t s"fp f O'BONOGUUE—GRIP— On the sth inst, I t to Putney,same tehone:o:6lol,:tnhcoorts.iih.neuswte.:, Brewery, Fo r d , Frrtiirieleotiyot, 0 f liffri., 0 ! to 0 t iett Deaths. J f, BUTLER —On the 4th inst., at bis reSileneet Cll°. ''''fi' Esq., ex-Mayor of Reading, aged G. ls° l'' rf 1 1 0 0 4 BRWN— On the 4th inst., at Leamington, e a So. ileri'4' _ Esq., late of Kinwartou, Warwickshiro, t 'g i i o oo l ,41 DALRYMPLE—On the 3d lila ,at DelroW al. to , j 4 General Sir A. J. Dalrymple," Bart, sged ;40,1tg• DAVISON—On the sth •W. DO' 13 ' Bengal Th Fusiliers, youngest son o • ,scepe inst., CaPtail j Davi ° Ol N owdenham, Bromley, Surrey. li ss AT E C N :h D : E x p iI y I G e s— A t o t T N e c i ::: „ it sP li t f ti 4 o/° On the 6th inst at 31. Brifi3ietv-spo . F . Iv . Ic e w od l i te z nhg a e b e at the2 t e, h slt4a A htt ho g n ci e no s si td s S ., o; s p rlte li a i h a : iii s t ariu f oo e os :: :: : 70: a ti ;o d a. " ; 1 ! - I, i. ''' lane, Highgate, Charles J. Sanderson, s (l. ' oi yr , 7 , London 0 S i t u N rd y : , p a r i g n e t d . e : 4. a n 112, Strandd, ult., at ©ra h of .1 ,19 P 1 1 1 1 ' ~,,A., $O. Str a d, in the Precinct of the S‘voY. '" Middlesex.—Wednesday , Diarch 7,1E60• IP,lnihnitiesrh,edathyT‘iVirst,g:.:o-till:G, 0314