The Sun. — London, England, 1865-06-22 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BIRKENHEAD. The friends of Mr. John Laird, the present mem ber, held a crowded meeting in the theatre, on Monday night, and unanimously adopted a resolu tion to support his candidature. BRISTOL. Mr. T. F. Fremantle, eldest son of Sir T. F. Fre mantle, chairman of the Board of Customs, having been on Tuesday introduced to and accepted by a meeting of the Conservative electors of Bristol as their candidate at the approaching general election, issued an address to the constituency generally yes.. terday, in the course of which he avows himself to be I a moderate Conservative, desirous of maintaining the constitution in Church and State, but favourable to amendment where amendment seems to be required, and to steady progress with the times. Mr. Fremantle will support such a settlement of the church-rate ques tion as will relieve the scruples of conscientious men, while it secures an adequate provision for the main tenance of our church fabrics. With regard to the extension of the suffrage, he concurs in the proposals of the Conservative Government of 1859, but adds, " the question is too important to be handled other wise than by a measure for which a Government shall be responsible. It should be the subject, not of a hustings cry, but of patriotic inquiry." Mr. Fremantle further states his readiness to support a proposal for the early abolition of the law of set tlement. He also thinks there is room for retrench ment in the public expenditure, without interfering with the efficiency of our national establishments ; and that, whenever the lightening of our burdens is possible, a balance should be observed between the remission of direct and indirect taxes. The contest is expected to be a close one. The return of Mr. H. Berkeley is considered safe, and the struggle will be between Mr. Fremantle and Sir S. M. Peto, who quits Finsbury to offer himself for Bristol. At the last election the majority for W. H. Gore Langton, who retires, over Mr. (afterwards Sir) F. W. Slade was only 72, and the Conservatives boast that they have since gained strength on the register. They seek at present only to share the representation, and ants. +hat their number and influence in the city entitle them to r c vox. t I _on s t nno. member. The connection of Sir M. Pete with the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company is being much canvassed, and the question as to whether the hon. baronet is or is not a member of the Liberation or Anti-State Church Society is also debated. On the one hand a friend of Sir Samuel's publishes a letter, stating that he has the hon. baronet's authority for declaring that he is not a member of the society in question, and on the other hand a speech made at a meeting of the society by the hon. baronet in 1859 is quoted, in which he is reported to have said that he had no hesitation in thoroughly identifying himself with it. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Mr. C. G. Du Pre, of Wilton-park, and Mr. R. B. Harvey, of Langley-park, have issued their address to the electors of this county. Mr. Du Pre says : " The long connexion which has existed between us makes it unnecessary for me to offer a detail of my political iews. It may suffice to say that I have strenuously resisted he attacks which have been incessantly directed against our most valued institutions in Church and State, but which have hitherto been baffled by the union and energy of the Conservative party. While opposed to a policy of inaction, and anxious to support all measures conducive to public and local improvement, I entirely disapprove such a lower ing of the electoral franchise as would give an undue pre ponderance to the least educated class, and enable an unchecked democracy to dictate to the property and intelli gence of the nation. Much as has been done to remove the pressure of taxation, I cannot admit that the agriculturists have had the consideration which is their due, and, should they urge their claims on a new Parliament for a largo reduction of the malt tax, they shall have my hearty con- currence." Mr. Harvey says : " Since I have been your representative in the House of Commons, 1 have earnestly endeavoured to support those measures which I conceived would strengthen and promote the interests of the agricultural, commercial, and industrial classes of this great country, and I have opposed any at tempts to sever that union of Church and State to preserve which has always been the anxious care of a Conservative policy. Such were the intentions I proposed when I first solicited your support, and my recorded votes will show how those intentions have been carried out. I most readily admit that the agricultural portion of our population have been unfairly dealt with in respect of ono part of the production of their labour, and I shall hail with plea sure the arrival of the time when so serious a burden as the present tax upon malt may be dispensed with. I think that recent legislation has pressed hardly on the interests of those engaged in the manufacture of paper, and would gladly see any measure brought forward that may tend to give them redress." BURY ST. EDMUND'S. Lord Alfred Hervey has issued an address, in which he states that he has now had the pleasure of a personal interview with almost every elector of the borough, and that the result of his canvass proves that he did not rely in vain on their justice and generosity, and affords him every reason to be lieve that he shall again be placed in the proud position of one of the representatives of the town. COVENTRY. The polling was carried on with much spirit from the commencement up to between 1 and 2 o'clock ; at that time it became evident that Mr. Eaton's majority was too great to be materially affected, and the friends of Mr. Mason Jones relaxed their efforts, that gentleman having polled a larger num ber than could have been anticipated, looking at Mr. Eaton's position in relation to the trade of the city. His friends had exerted themselves zealously to secure his election, almost every vehicle flying about the city during the day carrying the Eaton colours. At 5 o'clock the Mayor declared the final close of the poll as follows : Eaton Jones ... 2,395 .., 2,142 Majority for Eaton ... 253 Mr. Mason Jones has polled nine more votes than Mr. Arthur Peel at the last contest. The election closed with the " rally" peculiar to Coventry on these occasions. Mr. Eaton, seated in a carriage drawn by four greys—his colleague, Mr. Treherne, by his side—underwent the usual in fliction bestowed on the successful candidate at a Coventry election. He passed through the principal streets, receiving the ovations of the populace, with a vast mob before and behind his carriage. DERBY. Messrs. Bass and Beale, the present Liberal mem bers for Derby, seek re-election, and it is understood there will be no opposition to their return. Mr. Bass, in his address to the electors, says— " After spending 17 years in your service it would be idle in me to offer any declaration of political opinion. I have no new principles to profess, no old ones to abandon. My guiding object has ever been to improve the physical and elevate the moral and intellectual condition of the People. I adhere with all my heart to the maxim of the greatest happiness for the greatest number,' confident that such a result promises the greatest happiness to all. I find pleasure in reflecting that, from the first, I have taken a lively interest in and, by your favour, have given a cordial support to those measures of finance and free trade which have so greatly increased the prosperity and happiness of the country. I need scarcely add that I am in favour of a liberal and trustful extension of the suffrage, but that I should not object to arrive gradually at that object by means which w ou ld temper progress by prudence, and so conciliate apprehensions which more sudden changes might excite." Mr. Beale, in the cou rse of his address, says— ,, The votes I have given a rea t sufficient exposition of m y political opinions ; they fiavwebehn in exact conf o rmity w ith the principles of progr ess recommended me to your favourable consideration. Those principles I still as I believe bold, and shall, if re-elected, steadily Bu them to be not only just, but conducivePtortti; safety and . we ll-being of the country. The personal libe e r t and the present state of freedom which the natiro:tehiamesnjaoty tained have resulted from a wise adaptation from time of its institutions to the changing state of socieettey. I can imagine nothing more politically dangerous than the . habit of regarding our institutions as stereotyped formulas, so perfect as to admit neither of change nor modification. I cannot close this address without thanking you for the kind forbearance with which you treated my imperfect services during part of the session of 1t364." DEVONPORT. The nomination took place yesterday. The Town Hall is now being painted, and the proceedings were earned on outside, where the heat of the sun was most oppressive. Mr. J. C. Smyth, the Mayor, presided. 1 Mr. METHAM, of Devonport, proposed Mr. Brassey, and Mr. H. B. SNELL, of Stonehouse, seconded the nomination. Mr. J. BEER, of Devonport, proposed Mr. Fleming, and Mr. J. C. THIEREITS, of Stonehouse, seconded the nomination. In doing so, he said that Mr. Brassey was trafficing on the reputation of his father, who was a member of the Conservative Club in St. James's-street. Mr. BRASSEY, who was received with loud cheers, said his father had been so much occupied with business throughout his life as not to be able to con cern himself much about politics. He was a Liberal Conservative, and there were many members of the club who were not strictly Conservatives. The Libe ral principles which had been advocated success fully for so many years were those he meant to support. He was in favour of the extension of Re form, both vertically and laterally ; on this subject he endorsed the opinions expressed by the Chancel lor of the Exchequer at Chester. Mr. FLEMING, who was received with cheers, said he had advocated free trade in corn, because it was better for all classes. The real benefactors of the working classes were those who carried on com merce and created employment. He had carried on more trade with Plymouth,Devonport, and St3ne house than all the members for the last 50 years. It was said that Mr. Gladstone was a great financial Minister, and that we owed the prosperity of the country to his administration. It was not so, it was owing to the intelligence of the people and the enterprising spirit of our merchants. We owed to the Whigs the jobbing and bribery which existed. Jobbery is at a Whig's birth ; it attends him at his maturity, and he goes down in jobbery. No faith was to be placed in Mr. Gladstone's economy ; he was no friendto the working man. Was it not the Lords of the Admiralty and Mr. Gladstone who opposed the present member for Devonport when he endeavoured to get 6d. a day for the widows and children of the dockyard artisans, and said the coun try could not afford it ? Why, there was sufficient money wasting in Hamoaze to give every one is. a day. The MAYOR declared the show of hands to be in favour of Mr. Fleming, and the friends of Mr. Brassey demanded a poll,which will be taken to-day. DURHAM (SOUTH). Mr. J. W. Pease and Captain Beaumont, the Liberal candidates, and Captain Surtees, the Con servative candidate, for the southern division of Durham, are making a most diligent canvass of the electors. Mr. Pease and Captain Beaumont in the southern, like Mr. Shafto and Sir Hedworth Wil liamson in the northern division of the county, have coalesced and are conducting their election proceedings jointly. Mr. Pease and Capt. Beau mont addressed meetings at Hartlepool on Tuesday, and had a very cordial reception from the Liberals. Captain Surtees has addressed meetings at Darling ton, Bishop Auckland, and Crook, and has been equally well received by the Conservatives of those towns. There are all the appearances of a very spirited contest. EAST RETFORD. Viscount Galway (Conservative) and Mr. F. J. S. Foljambe (Liberal) will not be opposed for East Retford, better known as the Hundred of Bassetlaw. Viscount Galway has long served the constituency, and from his attention to local matters there is a desire to retain his services, although it is believed the majority of the constituency is Liberal. FALAIOUTII. The Liberals of the united borough of Falmouth and Penryn having ascertained that the Conserva tives are in communication with the Carlton Club, with a view to the introduction of a candidate, are preparing themselves for attack, and fully expect an opponent in the field in the course of a few days. The two present Liberal members, Messrs. Baring and Gurney, will again come forward. They are very popular, and the Liberal electors are deter mined to keep them as their representatives. The Liberals do not consider that the Conservatives have a shadow of a chance to gain either of the seats. The addresses of the Liberal members arc expected in a day or two. HARWICH. On Monday evening Capt. Jervis, the Conserva tive sitting member, and Mr. J. Kelk, the Conser vative candidate brought forward to fill the vacancy which will be caused by the resignation of the Hon. Col. Rowley; addressed the Conservative electors at the White Hart Hotel. Mr. 0. J. Williams occu pied the chair. lIEISTON. Mr. Young, the Liberal, and Major Grylls, the Conservative candidates, have arrived in Helston. There is considerable excitement in the borough. The Liberals, who are thoroughly united, are sanguine of success ; while the friends of Major Grylls, who have hitherto taken very high ground, and ridiculed the attempt to wrest the seat from the Conservative party, admit that the fight will be severe. LISKEARD. Sir Arthur Buller was elected yesterday for this borough, on the nomination of Mr. Sanders, se conded byMr. Moon. He said he was determined to support the present Ministry, even at the sacrifice of minor differences. He had voted for the ballot and an extended franchise, and against church rates, which no doubt would soon be abolished. Sir Arthur declined to refer to any personal matter connected with recent events. Preparations are in progress to secure his seat at the approaching general election.; LYME REGIS AND CHARMOUTH. Election matters are progressing steadily. Mr. Hawkshaw and Mr. Treeby have completed their canvass, and it is said that Captain Jones, the third candidate, will shortly make his appearance. Mr. Hawkshaw, in his address to the electors, says : " My views and feelings on political matters are such as will lead me to support those measures that are calculated to uphold civil and religious liberty—that will promote education and freedom of change—that will simplify and amend the laws, and that will tend to strengthen and im prove the constitution of this country. lam sufficiently interested in L 3 me and Charmouth to make me at all times ready to promote every measure calculated to improve the borough, and add to the prosperity of its inhabitants." MALT ON. Very general surprise was occasioned in Malton on Tuesday by the announcement that the Hon. C. W. Fitwilliam would retire from the representation of the borough in order to contest the southern di vision of the West Riding. There is a proposal to invite Lord Milton, the eldest son of Lord Fitzwil- Ham, to occupy the seat vacated by his uncle. There are also rumours that the Conservatives, who would not oppose either of the sitting members, will be likely now to test the feeling of the borough. SOMERSET (WEST). The Liberals do not intend to disturb the repre sentation of the western division of the county of Somerset. The Conservative members—Sir Alex. Hood and Mr. N. H. P. G. Langton—will, there fore, be returned unopposed. NORTHUMBERLAND (SOUTH.) Mr. H. G. Liddell, the Conservative member for South Northumberland, issued an address yester day. Mr. Liddell says : " Abroad, notwithstanding a foreign policy not unfro quontly open to criticism, our relations aro peaceful, and clouds which only recently threatened to obscure the future have, for the most part, disappeared. The mainte nance of a cordial alliance with France and an unobtrusive foreign policy are the best securities England can provide for a continuance of the blessings of peace and an allevia tion of the nation's burdens. At home prosperity and con tentment prevail, and the result is that the national desire for progressive improvement is tempered by veneration for those institutions which are the real sources of Eng land's g rea t ness and present well being ; how to improve without imp a i r i ng those institutions is the stateman's pro blem, and legislation may readily adapt itself to the wants of a highly-civilised age, and assist progress without in curring the risks of precipitancy on the one hand, or the reproach of prejudice on the other. A duo regard to the dignity of the country and the interests of our wide do minions and gigantic trade involves the maintenance of large armies and powerful fleets, but how to combine naval and military efficiency with economy in adapting the in- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1865. ventio ns of science to the purposes of war, are questions whic}4 urgently demand the attention of Parliament." There is no appearance of a contest in this divi sion. Mr. Liddell, the Conservative, and Mr. IV. B, Beaumont, the Liberal member, will be re elected, in all probability, unopposed. Imprisonment of British Subjects in Abyssinia. Yesterday the papers on this subject presented to the House of Lords, in pursuance of their address, were issued as a parliamentary paper. The first document, dated Feb. 2, 1861, consists of the in structions to Captain Cameron, British consul at Massowah, upon his proceeding to his consulate, and a list of the presents which he was ordered to deliver to the King of Abyssinia. These instruc tions were very general. Captain Cameron was to make Massowah his headquarters, inform himself of the political state of affairs in Abyssinia, with which her Majesty's Government were imperfectly acquainted; and ordered, if he found the civil war still going on, not to become the partizan of either side, but to promote amicable arrangements be tween the rival candidates for power. He was to keep her Majesty's Government at home fully in formed of all matters of interest, and, in addition to concerns of a political or commercial nature, to pay particular attention to any traffic in slaves which might be carried on within his district. The second paper is a short letter to Consul Cameron, dated November 13, in which Earl Russell states that the Queen having heard that the King of Abyssinia paid a ransom for the late Mr. Consul Plowden, and being desirous of making some ac knowledgment for the act of kindness, had directed that a suitable present should be sent to the King. A rifle and a pair of revolver pistols accompanied this message, and Consul Cameron was to deliver them to the King as soon as possible after his arrival in Abyssinia. The next letter is of singular composition ; it is a copy of an autograph letter of the King of Abyssinia to her Majesty the Queen, and it is as follows THE KING OF ABYSSINIA TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. (Received February 12, 1863.) In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, one God in Trinity, chosen by God, King of kings, Theodoros of Ethiopia to her Majesty Victoria, Queen of England. I hope your Majesty is in good health. By the power of God lam well. My fathers the Emperors having forgotten our Creator, he handed over their kingdom to the Gallas and Turks. But God created me, lifted me out of the dust, and restored this empiro to my rule, He endowed mo with power, and enabled me to stand in the place of my fathers. By His power I drove away the Gallas. But for the Turks, I have told them to leave the laid of my ances tors. They refuse. lam now going to wrestle with them. Mr. Plowden, and my late Grand Chamberlain, the English man Bell, used to tell me that there was a great Christian Queen, who loves all Christians. When they said to me this—" We are able to make you known to her, and to establish friendship between you," then in those times I was very glad. I gave the my love, thinking that I had found your Majesty's goodwill. All men are subject to death, and my enemies, thinking to injure me, killed these my friends. But by the power of God I have exterminated those enemies, not leaving one alive, though they were of my own family, that I may get, by the power of God, your friendship. I was prevented by the Turks occupying the sea coast from sending you an embassy when I was in difficulty. Consul Cameron arrived with a letter, and presents of friend ship. By the power of God I was very glad hearing of your welfare and being assured of your amity. I have received your presents, and thank you much. I fear that if I send ambassadors with presents of amity by Consul Cameron they may be arrested by the Turks. And now I wish that you may arrange for the safe passage of my ambassadors everywhere on the road. I wish to have answer to this letter by Consul Cameron, and that he may conduct my embassy to England. See how the Islam oppress the Christian. The 4th, sth, and 6th letters were dated respec tively April 22, August 13, and September 8, 1863, and express Earl Russell's disapprobation of Consul Cameron's conduct in intermeddling in the Affairs of Abyssinia, and directing him to return to his post. The remaining papers consist chiefly of copies of letters sent to the Foreign-office, con taining offers of assistance to obtain the liberation of the British subjects imprisoned in Abyssinia. On the 28th April, 1864, Dr. Charles Beke wrote to Earl Russell, stating that a messenger from Massowah, with letters from Europe, had fallen into the hands of the King, who had the letters translated to him. Dr. Beke was of opinion that the effect upon the King of the letter from the Foreign-office, directing Consul Cameron to leave the court and return to Massowah, would be most unfortunate, and expressed doubts whether the con sul would be permitted to take his departure. On the 18th May in the same year Dr. Beke wrote to the Foreign-office, renewing the offer of his services, observing that he had resided three years in Abys sinia, visiting its remotest provinces, and was fami liar with its language and intimately acquainted with its political, religious, commercial, and social affairs. On the 4th of June, 1864, Major Plowden, first cousin of the late consul, made a similar offer of his services. On the 4th June Mr. Henry Dufton, of I , Leeds, wrote to the Foreign-office, stating that his son, who had spent four months at the Abyssinian court, and had good opportunities of judging of King Theodore's character, was ready to be the bearer of a despatch from our Government to his Abyssinian Majesty. An extract is also given from the Leeds Intelligencer, in which Mr. Dufton offers his views of the cause of the King's strange conduct. A memorandum by Brigadier-General W. M. Coghlan on the Abyssinian difficulty and how to get out of it, dated February 8, 1865, gives the opinion of that officer substantially as follows. King Theodore is a parvenu, a powerful despot of high aspirations and strong will, but he is not a savage. The chief cause of his altered demeanour towards Captain Cameron is the long delay in reply ing to the letter w hich he address e d t o h er M a j es ty in January, 1863. It is understood that his dignity is grievously wounded by this silence, which he accepts as an affront, and a se nse o f thi s i n j ury , coupled with other circumstances, has led to the b a e ff he a v ir e s t n h o a w t tehnxisKinting at Gondar. King refuses the d T e h p o l r o o r a i s b i r e e a s t s a o t n e to e mission of Mr. Rassam, the assistant resident at Aden, as not being of sufficient dignity, regarding Mr. Rassam as a mere messenger and not an envoy. General Coghlan therefore recommends a military embassy, headed by an officer of rank, and including some members of a scientific corps, as Theodore is known to attach great importance to military rank and to scientific men. The embassy should carry a Queen'sletter indited in Oriental phraseology, highly emblazoned and sealed, and containing compliments and excuses, but no mention of the captives, whose case is to be supposed to have become known to the envoy on his way out. At Cairo the envoy should endeavour to secure the services of two Abyssinian monks, who, if not procurable there, might be got from Jerusalem, who should be treated with liberal consideration, impressed with the dignity of their mission, and induced to interest themselves in its ultimate object. One of them should be despatched from the coast of Gondar, carrying a letter from the envoy announcing his arrival bearing a letter from the Queen. Arrived at Gondar, the envoy might, as own his own responsibility, address the King on the subject of the captives, expressing the hopo that they had done nothing to incur his displeasure, and requesting that in any case they should be released, in order that the proposed interview might proceed on the most friendly footing. Supposing the British mission to be well received, and the captives to be released, there would then arise the more difficult task of obtaining from the King some apology as a reparation for the wrong committed on her Ma jesty's subjects. This would perhaps be the severest trial of the diplomatic skill of the British embassy. There is, however, no reason to despair of success; on the contrary, it may be hoped that a mission dignified in its constitution, liberal in outlay, mode rate in demands, and circumspect in conduct, will so gratify the pride of the King that he will make no difficulty in the matter of tendering such apology as may be acceptable to her Majesty's Government. General Coghlan believes that there is no alterna - tive process open by which this object can be ob tained ; he doubts the value of any warlike aid to be obtained from Egypt, if even it could be obtained at all ; and observes that Theodore is alleged to have sworn to put all his prisoners to death on any foreign invasion of his country to effect their release. In April last Major 11. A. Leveson offered his services to negotiate the release of Captain Cameron. On the 19th of May Dr. Beke ad dressed a long communication to Earl Russell. In his opinion it would not be consistent with the dignity of the British nation to replace Mr. Ras sam's mission by one on a larger and more magnifi cent scale. He considers that it is well established that King Theodore's ill-treatment of her Majesty's consul had been mainly caused by the altered policy of the British Government with respect to the rela tions between Egypt and Abyssinia, and that the King hopes to induce her Majesty's Government to retrace their steps, and continue to afford him ma terial aid against his enemies as was virtually done when Mr. Consul Plowden was alive, that officer having been an active partizan of the King, and having lost his life while bearing arms in his cause. This hope cannot be fulfilled, but Dr. Beke believes that it would not be difficult to make the Abyssinian monarch understand that by the policy now pro posed to be pursued towards him by the British Government, and recommended for his adoption, he might eventually obtain the object he has so much at heart, inasmuch as by the cultivation of the arts of peace he would so aggrandise himself as to be able to cope effectually with his powerful neighbour. Dr. Beke enlarged upon this subject, and dwells upon the advantages which could be pointed out to King Theodore in the capabilities of his country in cotton growing, and its resources in coal and iron. He is of opinion also that the telegraphic communication between England and India should be effected by continuing the Egyptian line from Khartum across Abyssinia to the sea coast. Dr. Beke would support his arguments by presenting to the King specimens of articles of British manufacture capable of being made from the cotton of Abyssinia, and specimens of the infinite variety of articles that might be manu factured from the fine iron which the King's terri tories contain in such abundance. Experiments at Shoebtu7ness. Yesterday some interesting experiments were made at this great school of artillery practice, to ascertain the resisting powers of the new kinds of ironclads which are about to be constructed from the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed. The target experi mented on represented an exact section of what is to be the new principle of construction in the Hercules and other vessels of her class, which are meant to be an improvement on the Bellerophon. The latter vessel, as our readers may remember, is coated with 6-inch iron armour on a most massive backing, and is pierced for 10 guns. The Hercules, of the same length as the Bellerophon (300 ft.), has two feet more beam, and is meant for only eight guns, six of which, however, are to be 300-pounders and two 600-pounders, whenever the Admiralty can get them. The thickness of the broadside of this intended ves sel is for a structure meant to float and be buoyant in a seaway something stupendous. The total mass which her sides oppose to shot is a combination of iron and wood no less than 4ft. 21in. thick, of which 111 in. are iron and 3ft. 3in, solid teak, all cross laid, and combined together in the most massive manner. It is curious to notice how as after each succeeding trial the guns gain the victory the thickness of plat ing and backing of ships are continually increased. Thus, with the first vessels of the Warrior class, 41in. of iron and 18in. of teak were thought to be as much as they could safely carry. In the vessels of the Minotaur class these weights were added to by making the plates 51in. instead of 4i-in. ; and with the Bellerophon class this has been increased again by having the iron bin. and the backing 24in. Nothing, however, has been attempted either here or abroad which at all comes up to the ponderous strength with which it is intended that the Hercules class shall be constructed. These new vessels are to be built on the plan of the Bellerophon as regards the general surface of their broadsides, but with their vital parts—that is to say, just above and below the water-line--strengthened with a thickness of metal which may be said to make them, almost invulner able along their entire length. alms the ordinary surface of the broadside is to be coated with slabs of iron Gin. thick, but for 2ift. above the water-line and 2ft. below it the armour is increased to a thick ness of no less than 9in., while for 4ft. more below this belt under the water the plates are 6in. thick, making her total depth of coating under the water line Eft. Gin., instead of sft., as heretofore. These • slabs of iron are throughout all their varying thick nesses backed up with teak beams 12in. thick, inside which come the iron ribs of the ship 10in. thick, the interstices between which are all blocked in solid with beams of teak 10in., thick by 12in. wide. Inside this mass again comes the wrought-iron skin lin. thick, and inside this are 17 inches of teak, with another iron skin 4in. thick, which rests on a wrought-iron inner frame of ribs 7in. deep. The total mass is thus, as we have said, 4ft. 21in., of which 3ft. 3in. are of teak beams and 111 in. of iron. In short, the backing to the armour is double the strength of all other iron-clads--a double skin and double framing, with double beams be tween ; and it must not be forgotten that, though the thickness of the plates varies from Bba. to 9in. at the water-line to Gin. on the broadside, the solidity of the backing is uniform throughout. The weight of this mass per foot is about 5201 b., the weight per foot of the Bellerophon being 3891 b., and of the Warrior 3471 b. Their Highnesses the Prince de Joinville, the Count de Paris, and the Duke de Chartres were pre sent yesterday to see the target tried, with Admiral the Hon. F. Grey, Admiral Robinson, Lord Lau derdale, Chairman of the Turret-Ship Committee; Lord Selkirk, Admiral Yelverton, Admiral Hal stead, Gen. Lefroy, Sir W. Armstrong, Mr. E. J. Reed, Major Pallisser, &c. The target, which was 18ft. long by Bft. high, was composed of two rows of plates, one half of which were fastened with the ordinary through bolts, 3in. in diameter; an ad mittedly bad and inefficient method. The other half of the plates were secured by 2iin. bolts on Major Pallisser's system, having the threads of their screws in relief instead of cut into the substance of the bolt. The massive target, as might have been expected, came off perfectly victorious from its contest with all the guns which were brought against it. It is needless to recapitulate the order of the firing when the result in every case was almost identical—namely, that the outer armour-plate was more or less deeply penetrated, sometimes gone through, and always deeply bent in, but the backing throughout re mained absolutely unhurt. At the close of the day's firing not a single rivet in the backing had been displaced, or even the point cracked, except in one place, where, under the terrific blow of a 300- pounder, fired with a steel shot, propelled by the enormous charge of 601 b. of powder, the inner fram ing ribs were slightly bulged. Beyond this, there was nothing at the back of the target to show the ordeal it had gone through, and, as the result proved; all the visitors present might have safely stood be hind it throughout the whole course of the experi ments. That these trials were unusually severe may be guessed from the fact that the firing was begun with a 2201 b. steel shot, with 401 b. of powder, and continued with gradually increasing charges till, as we have said, the tests culminated with a 3001 b. steel shot fired with 601 b. of powder. Most of these shots still remain half embedded in the iron of the target, though some were thrown out by the violence of the shock with which others struck. One most interest ing part of the experiment, and one of the utmost importance, also, was to ascertain how far Major Pallisser's bolts are superior to those now used in securing ships' armour. Of their comparative supe riority there is no question, and it is only the per centage by which they excel that is a matter of doubt, and this cannot be known till the target tried yesterday is taken down, and the bolts of both kinds withdrawn examined. So far, then, as the trials of yesterday are con cerned the victory remained conspicuously with the target, yet it is beyond a doubt that the very reverse of this result would have happened if the 600-pounder had been tried against it in place of the 300-pounder. As far as the 600-pounder has yet been used it has simply swept away every target opposed to it, and for the present, at least, it is admitted that it would be almost impossible to expect flotation from any vessel built strong enough to resist its force. Yet it is not too much to say that it is almost only in this country that the 600-pounder is an exceptional gun. Mr. Krupp, at Essen, is now making 300 and 600 pounders for foreign Governments, not in small numbers, but literally in scores. Captain Blakely, whose system of rifled ordnance has always been held in high esteem abroad, and has, in the last few years, slowly but surely risen in the estimation of our own most experienced artilleryists, has made between 30 and 40 of these 600-pounders for the Russians, and is not only engaged on more, but is actually beginning 900-pounders for the same Go vernment. Up to the present, however, the English people only possess one 600-pounder at Shoebury ness, and this an experimental gun, which, in spite of great performances, is admitted to be capable of great improvement. In the face of these facts it would seem to be only a prudent measure to give one of Capt. Blakely's 600-pounders a trial at Shoe buryness, in order to ascertain what are the merits of a gun which is so much prized abroad, but which, strange to say, has never even been allowed a trial at Shoeburyness. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (NORTH). There is every probability that the Northern Di vision of Nottinghamshire will not be contested. The Righ Hon. J. Evelyn Denison, the Speaker, who is very popular here, will again be brought for ward, and to supply the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Lord R. P. Clinton from ill-health, it has been determined to bring forward Lord Edward Clinton, his nephew, and brother of the Duke of Newcastle. Lord Edward is a Liberal in politics. The popularity of the Speaker and the influence of the Newcastle family will, it is expected, prevent any contest. Lord E. Clinton is now on his way from Canada, where he has been on duty with his regiment ; and it is understood that, if the electors desire it, his lordship will resign his commission in order to devote himself to Parliamentary duties. STAFFORDSHIRE (NORTH). The Liberals of the northern division of Stafford shire held a meeting at Stoke-upon-Trent on Tues day, and decided upon once more bringing forward Mr. E. Buller in opposition to the present Conser vative members, Mr. Adderley and Viscount Ingestre. Mr. Buller, who has already represented North Staffordshire in three Parliaments, has issued an address, in which he pledges himself to give an independent support to the present administration, and to vote for the repeal of the Malt Tax " for the advantage of the occupiers of land, but still more for the sake of the labouring classes, to whom good beer is a necessary of life." The following passages also occur in Mr. Buller's address : " Extension of suffrage and the whole subject of Parlia mentary Reform can only be successfully dealt with when undertaken by Government acting under the responsibility of office, and the best mode of promoting the progressive dovolopmont of the institutions of the country is to strengthen a Liberal Administration, and enable it to bring forward and carry such measures as may be required by the increase of education and intelligence. Adverse divisions in the House of Commons indicate the improbability, if not impossibility, of the total and unconditional abolition of church-rates by a change in the law ; and it is much to be desired that this irritating question should be settled by a measure conceived in a conciliatory spirit, which, while it relieves Dissenters from the compulsory payment, will still make adequate provision for the maintenance of the national churches." STOCKPORT. The present members, Mr. J. B. Smith and Mr. E. W. Watkin, both Liberals, are to be opposed by Mr. Tipping, of Brastead-park, Kent, in the Con servative interest. At a meeting of the Liberal party on Monday night, Mr. J. B. SMITH addressed them at considerable length, protesting against the assertion that the Liberals were going to the country without any election cry to boast A. Let the Liberals be tested by what they had done. The question was well answered by a Parliamentary document, issued on the motion of Mr. Baines, showing the relative condition of the people in 1831 and 1861. On Saturday a paper was issued, having been called for by Lord A. Churchill, showing what the present Parliament had done, and it showed that there was a decrease in the expenditure of £3,533,000, and a diminution of taxation, including the present year, of £16,000,000 during the five years. Be sides this, £10,789,000 of the national debt had been paid off. Was not this a good election cry? Let the Tories show what they had done. Out of all that had been said on the question of reform some thing must result. The present system could not be for a moment advocated, and he was not sure that the most important question was not redistribution of seats. Mr. WATKIN also made a long speech. He was as much opposed as any one to entrusting a particular class of the community with predominant power, and was not unfavourable to " lateral" extension of the franchise; but it was fallacious to talk of reform without also a lowering of the suffrage, which would likewise be its enrichment, for it would admit within the pale a large amount of intelligence, thoughtful ness, and prudence. Ile would support any Ministry which would carry out " peace, retrenchment, and reform." There was nothing which threw a better or a greater light upon the value and consequences of self-government, with all its mistakes, than to see that at the end of their vast civil war the United States were rapidly reducing their establishments to a peace footing. The public opinion of this country would no doubt go with any great statesman, of whatever party he might be, who would lay down as one of the new mottoes of the national party, as one of the new purposes of the next Parliament and Go vernment, the initiation of measures having for their object a general agreement for disarmament between England, France, and the United States. It was not necessary to wait for a reformed House of Commons;; Parliament in the next session ought certainly to take up the question of expenditure. A resolution in favour of the re-election of the hon. member concluded the proceedings. TRURO. It is probable that a second candidate will be brought forward on the Liberal side—a step which must certainly endanger the cause. Much ill feel ing exists in the Liberal ranks, one section of the party being dissatisfied with the treatment of Mr. Augustus Smith, the present member, by the supporters of the Hon. Capt. Vivian. WARWICKSHIRE (SOUTH). Lord Duncan's prospects are more favourable than ever for this division. W HITEHAVEN. Mr. Lyall, the present member for the town of Whitehaven, has issued a farewell address to his constituents, announcing that he intends to retire from the representation of Whitehaven at the next general election. He hopes that during the eight sessions he has been their representative he has dis charged his duties faithfully, and alludes to two subjects in which he took more than usual interest —the Poor Laws, and retrenchment in India. Upon the first he says : " Many of my constituents are aware how deeply I was impressed with the injustice with which Whitehaven, as well as many other parts of the country, had been treated by the operation of the old law, and how constantly, both in and out of the House of Commons, I have urged upon the Government that change now so happily accom plished." The address continues : " The other subject to which I may refer with some satis faction is the part I have taken with complete success, by motions in the Sessions of 1862, 1863, and 1864, to get rid of an unnecessary charge of £lOO,OOO per annum on the Imperial Exchequer for the military expenditure of Ceylon, as 1 felt it was one of the first duties of a member of Parlia ment to promote duo economy in the public expenditure wherever it could reasonably be effected." The hon. gentleman states that he has become a candidate for the representation of the City of Lon don, which his father represented for many years in former Parliaments, and bids his constituents fare well. Mr. G. Cavendish Bentinck will be his suc cessor in the Conservative interest. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton June —. Ditto, via Marseilles June —. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pac..et July 4. Ditto, by French packet June 23. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou.hampton June 13, Ditto, via Marseilles June Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton. June 18. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... June 18 Ditto, via Marseilles June 23. India (Bombay), via Southampton. June `..'5 Ditto, via Marseilles .. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marscil e • July rt. Newfoundland June 21. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton . • Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry June 23. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe July 12. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico June 23. Bahamas, via New York. June 29 Bermuda, ditto Cuba and Mexico June 1.8. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Tms.--There is one feature in the revelations elicited by the late accident at Staplehurst which is, perhaps, as alarming as anything ever brought to light respecting railway management. The points, indeed, upon which we commented yesterday are of themselves sufficiently unsatisfactory. It is bad enough that the very existence of the railways at any given moment should be allowed to depend upon the arbitrary pleasure of a man in the receipt of less wages than a carpenter. It is bad enough, again, that the very system of signals devised by the Company for counteracting any mistake on this man's part should, as we have shown, be completely and elaborately insufficient for its purpose. It is alarming, again, to see to what an extent individual carelessness can go even in the discharge of the most momentous duties. The carelessness which has pro duced this accident is a sort of ideal carelessness. It reaches a height to which no one would have ven tured to predict that human nature would ever go. But even these considerations are far from being the worst suggested by the accident. Directors will occasionally make unsatisfactory rules, and will have to be convinced of their error by painful experience. Men will occasionally be careless, and we shall cease for the future to be surprised at any extent to which this may go. But these individual failures might fairly be considered exceptional, and not, therefore, to be looked upon in the light of common dangers. Experience in the one case and the certainty of sharp punishment in the other might be expected to be sufficient safeguards. It would be a very diffe rent thing if it should turn out that, whatever the Company's rules may be, there is no security what ever for their observance at any moment. It was conclusively proved, as we showed yesterday, by the admission of the guilty parties, that the platelayers had habitually disregarded every one of the regula tions respecting signals, and that the district Inspec tor was either ignorant of the fact or had himself also disregarded the rules. In order to under stand what is implied in saying that this neglect was habitual it is to be observed that it had existed for ten weeks, and there is every reason to believe that it had existed for years. Now, let it be observed what this establishes. It proves that the lowest servants of the Company, its very hands and feet, as it were, may absolutely neglect their duties, and the Inspector, whose business it is to prevent this, may either be not aware of it or in different to it, or both. Again, this Inspector may himself thus habitually neglect his duties, and may leave his subordinates completely unchecked, and he may do this without being observed or called to account by any one. This being the case, what security is there that the rules of the Company should be ever observed ? An unenlightened pas senger would comfort himself with the supposition that the workmen were kept to their rules by the constant presence of the Inspector, the Inspector by the supervision of the Engineer, and the Engi neer by the Directors themselves, or by some officer responsible to them. On the contrary, each of these limbs of the machine works, as it appears, separately, and does, or does not, its duty at its pleasure. It is this which is the climax of the recent revelations, and which we recommend to the reflec tion of every member of Parliament, or of any per son of influence who may have occasion to travel on the South-Eastern Railway. He is travelling on a line where all the rules upon which his safety depends are, for all he knows, absolutely in abey ance. Nor can this appalling consideration, in the present state of our information, be confined to the South-Eastern. alone. This line has hitherto had a good reputation among railways for the care of its management. If on a careful line the most im portant rules may be disregarded without anybody interfering, what may be the case on a careless line ? After such a revelation, we, too, like Mr. Milner Gibson, are astonished that accidents do not happen oftener, but to this admission we must acid that such a condition of things is terrible and dis graceful. It is, if possible, more amazing still that such a state of things should be acquiesced in by any one ; yet even this phenomena has occurred. The Resident Engineer appears to look upon it as quite a natural and proper arrangement, and the jury which heard the condemnatory evidence views the matter with perfect complacency. It only remains for us to hear that Mr. Milner Gibson is of the same opinion, and " only, wonders" that any regula tions should ever be observed on railways. We con fess to being less patient, and if, as Mr. Eborall said, it is the duty of the engineer to exercise super intendence over the inspectors, we do not see upon what grounds Mr. Gallimore can be condemned which will not also inculpate the engineer. The idea which this gentleman—Mr. Ashcroft—enter tains of the duties of an inspector may be sufficiently indicated by the following extract from his evidence : " I think Mr. Gallimore might have discharged his duty during the ten weeks the works were in pro gress, and yet not happen to be aware of the fact that the sending the signal to a proper distance had been habitually disregarded. If it had been habit ually neglected, Mr. Gallimore ought, perhaps, to have been aware of it, but he might possibly have overlooked the circumstance without absolutely hav ing been guilty of a neglect of duty." If this repre sents Mr. Ashcroft's notion of the manner in which he ought to discharge his own duty of inspection, we are not surprised at any amount of neglect in his subordinate officers. If this extraordinary state ment could be admitted, a consequence would follow still more alarming than the supposition we have dwelt upon. We have supposed that the officials of the line may neglect their duty without being called to account; but Mr. Ashcroft would have us to know that they may discharge their duty without being of any use whatever. To one of these two results, in short, we are absolutely reduced, and either of them is enough to warn every one off the South-Eastern line who can possibly avoid travelling on it—either everybody may neglect his duty without anybody being the wiser, or everybody may discharge his duty without anybody being the better. In short, a jury never pronounced a more incomprehensible opinion than when they excited Mr. Eborall's satisfaction by recognising " the general sufficiency of the company's rules to insure public safety." It is evident, on the contrary, that the rules are entirelydeficient in that condition without which all rules are worthless —the power, that is, of en forcing them, and this, we take it, is the great and special danger of these vast concerns. The share holders trust everything to the directors, and the directors trust everything to a manager, and the manager trusts everything to an engineer, and the engineer to the inspectors, and the inspectors to the workmen, and thus everybody considers his respon sibility shifted to his superior or subordinate, and the rules sooner or later fall into abeyance. Com mon sense would suggest this danger, and the rules therefore ought to provide against it. It will be evident, moreover, upon reflection, that the whole system must ultimately depend for its efficiency upon the Board of Directors. The men will sooner or later grow careless if not kept up to their work by the inspectors. The inspectors will do the same if not kept up to their w ork by the engineers, and the chief officers should be required to make the most constant and accurate reports to the directors. It is only by such a system that regularity is effectually maintained in the only other instances in which it is equally important,—in the army and in the navy ; and we believe that the only reason why it is effec tually maintained there is because the heads of the army are themselves responsible to the nation. If railway directors continue to permit such a state of things as this accident reveals, it may become a ques tion whether they should not similarly be rendered personally accountable for the consequences of their neglect. At all events the only way in which such a state of things as we have noticed can be effectu ally remedied is by the directors requiring the most rigid and constant supervision of every department of their service, and this they will never have done unless they set the example themselves. HERALD.—We confess to some surprise and not a little mortification at the manner in which the Publichouses Closing Act Amendment Bill has been treated in the House of Lords. Its supporters in that house have been completely jockeyed by the Government, and induced to give their consent to a provision which renders it totally useless for all the purposes it was intended to serve. A short history of the circumstances which rendered the measure necessary will be sufficient to demonstrate this. When Mr. Knox, the police magistrate, in his laudable attempts to put down the Bacchanalian orgies of the Haymarket, persuaded Sir George Grey to pass the measure for closing all places of refresh ment between the hours of one and four in the morn ing, alarm was taken by those classes whose lawful avocations compelled them to be on the streets at those prohibited hours, and representations were made to the Home Secretary that such an indiscri minate closing of all means of refreshment would punish the innocent along with the guilty. Their plea was then admitted, and a clause was inserted in the bill-that special licences might be granted by the police authorities for keeping open those houses that were bona fide frequented in the otherwise prod hibited hours by those classes of whom the mornin newspaper compositors and the market gardeners may be taken as the accredited types. The bill passe' with this proviso, and had the police acted upon it, and done their duty fairly under it, there would not have been a word of complaint heard on the subject , and the act, in removing a great stain and blot upon our modern civilisation, would not have itself in curred the scandal of puritanical rigidity. But WI since the passing of the act the provision it con tained in favour of these exceptional classes has re mained a dead letter. Not a single license has boo granted, and Sir Richard Mayne has been at ng pains to conceal his determination that none shall be granted. It was to compel him and those unde r him to do their duty that the amendment bill was introduced. This and no other purpose was itS direct aim; and accordingly the House of Commons! in order to secure that their intentions should againTlT be defeated, took the licence out of the lianas of the police, and, in spite of all the efforts of Sir George Grey to the contrary, vested the power in the hands of the magistrates. In committee of the Lords Earl Granville succeeded in substituting th e police for the magistrates; but he was warned t ha " ,. on bringing up the report the clause, as it first WO up to them, would be restored. The matter was again discussed on Tuesday night, and there `vas every prospect of the bill being restored to itS pristine integrity. There was a clear majority against the Government, when Earl Granville, Wis. e in his generation, suggested a compromise, wh ich we suppose their opponents were compelled to accept. The compromise proposed by Lord Gran ville was to the effect that whereas the bill applie s in its provisions both to the metropolis and to tne country, the magistrates should be allowed to giTe, the licenses in _the country, but the police sho uld have the matter in hand in town. Was there eve!, such a perverse evasion of the great object of a as this ? Why, the grievance exists only in t' L l. town. We have heard absolutely no compla in ° whatever from the country. It was to benefit Lon don and not the country that the bill was brought in at all, and as Mr. Henley truly said, in the debate in the lower house, had the police done their dilty there would have been no occasion for a new bill. And now it is gravely proposed, because the police have thwarted the intentions of the Legislature in one bill, that the power shall be put into their hands of thwarting their intentions in another. But the mischief is now done, so far as the House of Lords is concerned. The practical question to be now considered is, what is the House of Commons n O " ., to do ? Will they imitate the conduct of the Lord and accept this glaringly one-sided compromise • Deliberately, and after long discussion, they lieg e ; tived the proposition that the power of licensint: should be placed in the hands of the police. ,„..-A" that time there was no thought of the country. 1 ' 4 2, one talked of the operation of the measure ul t he country. The whole gist and scope of the previ sions of the bill were considered as it affected LOO don and London only. Will they now consent tot a measure by which their deliberate resolution is s e at nought, and they ar e moc ki n gly told that th eir principle may act very well in places where they never intended, but that it is wholly inapplic able in the place where alone they desired:; it to operate ? We cannot believe they will s e tamely see their opinions set aside. If there Nve r . any valuable .provision still left in the measure 1t might be worth while to postpone consideration s of dignity to those of public utility. But this not the case. To put the power into the hands the police is simply to refuse the power altogeth er i ; How can it be otherwise ? Parliament says It e desirable that certain houses shall be opened for to refreshment of certain classes at hours when other wise it could not be obtained, and then they propor o to leave the discretion of opening such houses 1, parties who have over and over again declared ; the most emphatic manner that so far as dePen ii. on them such houses shall not be opened at a t , If the two houses choose thus, with their eyes 0 1 3 e - a t to elect a master that shall override their O W, solemn decisions, it is their own concern, and th ey have doubtless well weighed how far that is li kely to advance their own dignity in the eyes of tot country ; all we have to say is, that they will 11 : 55 benefit the classes for whose welfare they pro f „ o themselves to be so anxious. The bill will pass doubt, and add one chapter more to those that alt ready fill the statute book; as to any practical effe, e i. it will be as dead as the Ecclesiastical Titles 131 " But if the House of Commons shall reject the COni_' promise, and insist on the restoration of their ovi o clause, good is sure to result. It may be that t. P . Government, which has already shown itself rathei: elastic in the matter, may yield under the firm f ront and strong will of the House of Commons, and re store the clause in its integrity in spite of the plausibilities of the President of the Council. bland that were to happen we venture to think that everr • body would be satisfied except Sir Richard Alar l° and those under him, who would find themselves 10 the disagreeable position of having their dignity lessened and their duties increased. And if the • worst should happen, the Lords remain obstinate/ • and the bill be thus suffered to fall through, "' v . e venture to believe that those who first asked for i° • would not break their hearts. For if the pre sent sham measure be rejected they will have an milted standing ground from which to approach A _ new Parliament with a new measure, intro duce , ` 6 l under happier auspices, and, we may hope, • with more success. attended COUNTRY MARKETS HULL.—T lIESDAY. At our market to-day there was a small show of wheat from the growers, and fresh parcels of red realised la 5 6 qr. beyond the rates of la week. Barley and, t o turn dearer. Oats and peas unchanged. F or linseeu market was rather firmer - . lish old white wheat, 43s to 47s ; old red, 405 to 2 4: Barley, chevalier, 32s to 335. Oats, Russian, 22 s to -4515 Beans, new English, 41s to 425. Peas, English blu e, to 36s 6d ; grinding, 35s to 35s 6d per 36 stone. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. At market to-day a short supply of wheat was offe r In and a free sale effected at an advance of is per g r li o uS grinding barley scarcely anything doing, and c1 11 ° t ,, 3 vre are almost nominal. Oats in moderate request, all' ; J O, vious values fully supported. Beans met a limited d en ' but unchanged in price ; peas about the same as bef ° 4 o o l The following are the quotations :—Wheat realise u ' 4 os 36s to 44s ; barley, 26s to 30s ; oats, 21s to 30s ; betu- 15 ',„ to 46s ; and peas, 34s to 48s per qr. Winter tares , frc " — ed to lie per bushel ; Best bread, 10d ; household ditto, per 81b loaf. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—ThEsDAY• r 36 Now white wheat, 40s to 45s ; new red, 37s to 41s Pe, gr. stone. Barley, fine, 35s ; other kinds, 26s to 29s P O D id, Oats, now, 21s to 23s ; old, 25s to 280 per qr. Bea ns; 40s to 425; new, 34s to 38s per qr. NEWCAS T LE-ON- T YNE.—T ITESDAY. but There was a small show of wheat from the counirn o ot. a moderately good arrival from abroad and th e ,_ c , o rS, Trade ruled firm. There was a better attendance of buy and an advance of from 6d to is per qr. was obta ined English and better descriptions of foreign. LYNN.—TUESDAY. S u lr The weather during the latter part of last week usually cold for the time of the year. At our c° l- s ati change to-day the show of wheat was small; there 030.ver active inquiry, and all descriptions realised is per 'l t ' s , last Tuesday's prices. Spring corn in favour of selleroo New wheat, 45s to 47s ; new red, 40s to 42s ; for 42s to 43s ; old red, 38s to 41s. per 36 stone. Ba tt % malting„32s to 34s ; secondary, 30s ; ordinary, 2 65 0 , 30 per qr. Oats, 20s to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, l arg " to 38s ; small, 36s to 40s per 38 stone. BRIS TOL SUGAR—WEDNESDAY. Da° The sugar market remains quiet but firm. S a les o • been chiefly in Barbadoes, at former prices. Hol del l re m ticipate better prices by and by, and therefore will 'n or duce their demands, while the trade aro holding ci ff , foit time, hence the business has been small. Rum 10 request at previous rates. Births. Nird • BAUER.—On the 20th inst., at 64, Oxford-street, W. Bauer, of a daughter. il borli° -fa PILKINGTON.—On the 18th inst., at Chevet, Lady ,-- Swinnerton Pilkington, of a daughter. Oe 1 1 ' PAIN.—On the 20th inst., at 8, Phillimore-terrac_e, of sington, the wife of Thomas Pain, of Lincoln's -13w' daughter. Marriages stain l4 CHRISTIE—BUTLER. — On the 20th inst., at Soutu Church, Yorkshire, John Stedman Christie, 61:1"-nittlet, ton House, Lanarkshire, to the Hon. Charlotto an youngest daughter of the late Hon. Henry Pltien sister to the present Viscount Mountgarrett. org RIDEOUT — BENNETT. — On the 20th inst , at S , - G X O 3 Hanover-square, William J. 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