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East 2umy Agricultural Association. The annual meeting of this association was held at Croydon, on Wednesday. Owing to the cattle disease having made its appearance in the neighbour hood the usual show of horned cattle did not take place. In the afternoon the members of the society dined together at the Greyhound Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. J. Cressingham. Among those present were the Hon. J. P. Locke King, M.P., the Hon. G. L. Leveson Gower, M.P., Sir J. Anson, Mr. Lewis Loyd, the Rev. F. Benyon, the Rev. J. Farrer, &c, The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been drunk, Mr. LEVESON GOWER, M.P., in proposing the health of the members for the county, expressed great gratification at seeing Mr. Locke King among them. Without attempting to enter the field of politics, he might say there were many important subjects which must occupy the attention of the new Parliament when it should be called together for the despatch of business, and foremost among them would be the cattle plague. (Hear.) Legislation could not accomplish everything, and so long as the farmers continued to buy and sell cattle, and were constantly driving them through their lanes and farms, they could scarcely hope to see an abatement of the pestilence. The whole subject, however, was one of the greatest importance, and he believed that all members of Parliament would be glad to have an expression of opinion upon it from meetings of this character. Another important question was the edu cation and improvement of the condition of the labour ing classes. The subject was not altogether unnoticed in Parliament last session, and he had no doubt that before long something would be done to effect an al teration in the law of settlement. He admitted that a serious responsibility attached to thelandlords, and that it was their duty to provide better cottage ac commodation for their labourers ; but that would not do everything. There must be a disposition on the part of all classes to unite in carrying out mea sures of improvement, and there would be some hope of ameliorating the condition of the agricultural la bourer. Without travelling further into the discus sion of agricultural questions he would propose the health of the members for the eastern division of the county, Mr. Locke King and Mr. Buxton. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with loud cheers. Mr. LOCKE KING, M.P., responded. He said— I am obliged to my hon. friend for the kind manner in which he has proposed the toast, and to you, gen tlemen, for the manner in which you have received it. I can with truth say that I feel an honest pride in having the privilege of standing here to returnthanks again as one of the members for the county of Surrey. I am here also in a somewhat enviable position, as I can now say with truth that I have represented this county for a longer period than either division of the county has before been represented since the passing of the Reform Bill. (Cheers.) lam not going to enter into a political discussion. You know me too well for that, although at the proper time and season I can fight as well, I trust, as anybody. (Laughter, and cheers.) An hon. friend on my right has invited me to enter into the question of tenant-right and the game laws. Now, although remarks on such topici would fall harmlessly enough from my hon. friend, lam afraid that if Iventured to make them I should raise a very stormy debate indeed. This is, however, one subject to which my hon. friend the member for Reigate alluded, which is at present uppermost in the minds not only of the agriculturists, but of every thanking man in the country. I allude to that great calamity which at this moment is afflicting all classes in the country. (Hear, hear.) Prior to the out break of the cattle disease we had arrived at a period of such prosperity that the article of meat was no longer what it was to the working classes some years ago—a luxury—but to many it had become a neces sary of life. lam proud to say that many of them —some from increased wages, and others from adopt ing habits of abstemiousness—have been able to spend a portion of their earnings in meat, and their families have enjoyed a better class of food than formerly. Under those circumstances I do not think this calamity could have befallen this country at a worse time than in the present year. (Hear, hear.) Our difficulty is great in the extreme. Although we look naturally to science and the medical skill of personsversed in diseases of different kinds for relief, as yet they have been able to give us no comfort. They tell us that the disease is not now confined to cattle, but that it is fast spreading among the sheep, and yet the only comfort and advice they give us is to have a kind of indiscriminate slaughter. (Hear.) As they have recommended no cure it seems to me that it is our business to have recourse to prevention in every possible way we can. We ought to urge upon all persons who keep stock, and particularly cows and other animals which are brought into buildings, the necessity of cleansing those buildings by the most efficacious mode, either by lime washing or by applying to the animals themselves, if it can be done, the most powerful disinfectants. Some say that you should wash their noses with vinegar. I do not know whether that is successful, but I have no doubt that many things might be done with the greatest success. Hitherto the disease has mastered all our scientific knowledge, and medical men can hardly tell what ought to be done. Yet all are cer tain of one fact, and that is that the disease is highly contagious. I believe that strong evidence has beer( brought forward to show that it has been widely spread by the railway carriages and trucks used in the conveyance of cattle. Now, it appears to me that when all are suffering to such a great extent, anti when the farmers are almost compelled to slaughter their cattle by wholesale, the railway com panies should be compelled to apply to the trucks and carriages used in the conveyance of cattle some powerful disinfectant. In this society, in our own small way, we have felt the effects of this disease. I allude to the show of stock which we have at this meeting, and which is by far the most important part of our meeting, but which we have been obliged to forego to-day. As to the ploughing match I re gard it as a matter of minor importance. Indeed I consider that the days of ploughing by horses as now practised are almost numbered. I look upon ploughing very much in the same way as some years ago we looked upon stage coaches. I plough with a steam plough myself, and I know something about it ; and I think that ploughing in the ordinary way is so inferior that in the course of time it will be confined only to small fields and small farms. [t is a thing that cannot last, as the work is done by the steam plough in a much more efficacious way. (fear, hear, and cheers.) There is one question connected with the cattle disease which is becoming of great importance. We are now destroying the stock which oug h t to have been reserved for pro ducing other stock. The loss we are sustain ing at present is not the only suffering we shall sustain, but we shall feel the effects of the disease for years to come. The cows are bein. , killed off by the disease, and the calve s are being rapidly slaugh tered, so that it becomes a question of considerable importance to know what we are to d o f or meat hereafter. In the meanwhile we ought to d evo t e our attention to the production of crop s for grazing and keeping cattle. There are a considerable num_ ber of hill sides in the neighbourhood, which grow very inferior corn, and it will be a question whether it would not be profitable to prepare them for isthe production of grass and green crops. if But this to be done, leases ought to be universally granted —(cheers)—except upon those sites that arein tended for building land, and which no landlord would like to lock up for too long a time. My own opinion is that leases ought to be granted much more frequently than is now the custom. (Cheers.) Since I had the pleasure of meeting you last year one matter has occurred upon which we may con gratulate ourselves, namely, that the unfortunate war which then existed on the other side of the Atlantic has now ceased, by the people of the South laying down their arms. This must be a source of rejoicing to this country, and especially to that great industry which was so seriously affected by the war—the cotton manufacture. I am sure we must all rejoice that the operatives who bore their sufferings with such exemplary patience are now enabled to resume their work with every hope of obtaining in future afair supply of cotton. The ques tion, however, is not one which affects those en gaged in the manufacture of cotton alone, but it is one that affects the whole of the working clams of this country to a very great extent. lam told, al though I never experienced it personally, that there is nothing so uncomfortable as to be cc•mpelled to wear an old ragged shirt. (Laughter.) But the war is now over, and I trust that all classes will soon have it in their power to obtain „cod comfort able calico under garments again at a price reason able and accessible to all. (Cheers.) As to the Americans themselves, I hope they will be able to adjust matters over the water in such a way that they will find it impossible to pick a quarrel with any other nation. I believe that, so far as we are concerned, we are desirous of living at peace with all the rest of the world, and particularly America. (Cheers.) In conclusion, allow me to thank you for the cordial manner in which you received the toast proposed to you by my hon. friend. Several other toasts were subsequently honoured, and the proceedings did not terminate until a very late hour. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BAHIA AND SAN FRANCISCO (LIMITED). The board of this company have recommended a dividend to be paid at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the half-year ending the 30th of June last. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, We9tminster chambers, Victoria-street ; the Earl of Devon in the chair. Mr. R. EARLE, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report of the directors was submitted. It stated that during the last half-year the directors had been engaged in raising the capital of the company, in letting the contract for the works, and in purchasing the pro perty required for the construction of the line, in all of which they had made satisfactory progress. They had proceeded in the first instance with the construc tion of the line between Kensington and Cannon street. A contract had been entered into with Messrs. Sir Morton Peto, Betts, Kelk, and Waring Brothers, for the construction of those works for the sum of £1,710,000, the contractors engaging to work the sections of the line as they were completed, until the whole length was opened to the public, taking the profits of such working and paying in terest upon capital during construction. The ac quisition of property for the line had been carefully proceeded with, and the works had been commenced at several points, and would be pressed forward with vigour. During the last Session of Parliament the directors obtained an act authorising an amended junction with the West London Railway, and for acquiring further property in Tothill-street, neces sary for the convenient formation of their railway in that locality. As it was of the utmost importance to complete the connection with the existing Metro politan Railway as rapidly as possible, steps had been taken with a view to enable the directors to proceed with the remaining portion of the undertak ing between Cannon-street and Trinity-square. The half-year's interest guaranteed by the contrac tors was paid by them on the 13th instant. The report of Mr. J. Fowler, engineer in chief, and Mr. T. Marr Johnson stated that the works were in active progress in all parts of the line where the property had been purchased and possession ob tained. The station at High-street, Kensington, was in active progress, and a considerable portion of the excavation and brickwork had been executed. A commencement had been made near Victoria street, Westminster, and various preliminary works of drainage, &c., were in progress along the line. The brickwork required for passing the railway under the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway viaduct at Blackfriars was very nearly completed, and the wrought iron girders were in place. It was originally contemplated that a very early commencement of the works might be made between Westminster sta tion and Cannon-street ; but the progress made by the Metropolitan Board of Works with the Thames Embankment, and the clearance of property for the new street between Blackfriars and Cannon-street had not hitherto been such as to permit this to be done. They were busily engaged with the detailed drawings and preparations for the works of the rail way between Cannon-street and Trinity-square. The capital account to 30th June last showed that £755,130 had been received and £172,215 expended, leaving a balance of £582,915. Since June 30 there had been received in advance of calls £400,140. The CIIAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, said he hoped the statements it contained were satisfactory to the shareholders. The directors had called their attention to three points—the raising of the capital, the letting of the contract for the works and the progress made. He thought the gentlemen who had undertaken the works were a sufficient guarantee that they would be carried out efficiently and satisfactorily for a sum which, in the opinion of the company's engineer, was moderate. The pro gress in the acquisition of property had been made on fair and satisfactory terms. With regard to the portion of the line from Cannon-street to Trinity 'square, that had been postponed in the first instance; but steps were now being taken to carry on the works there also, so that when the Metropolitan Company completed their eastern extension line from Finsbury to Trinity square, the Metropolitan District Company's line would form a junction with it, and thus complete the " Inner Circle Railway." It was intended to complete those portions of the two companies' lines simultaneously at the earliest possible period. The directors had made arrange ments for the issue of the new capital to construct the portion of line from Cannon-street to Trinity square. The contractors had agreed to subscribe for the whole of the new capital, but the Board had reserved the right of the existing shareholders to subscribe for one-third of the new capital at par, in proportion to their present holding ; but if the one third should not all be taken up by the shareholders the contractors would take the rest. The directors , believed that was the most effectual and likely way to secure the completion of that section of their line. He trusted that considerable progress would be made with the works, and that when the inner circle line was completed by the two companies that it would not only be of great public utility, but highly remu nerative to the shareholders. (Hear.)• The Board was desirous of acting in the most frank, open, and unreserved manner towards the shareholders, so that there might be established unreserved confidence be tween the shareholders and directors. In reply to questions it was stated that the new capital would be issued at par, and that no liability to the contractors would be incurred by the company if the price of shares in the market should afterwards fall below par. The payment of £1,100,000 to the contractors would be in cash. In the item of £47,000 for preliminary expenses was included a sum of £10,600 -which was paid to the promoters of the Metropolitan Grand Union Railway, to withdraw their oppataition in Parliament, and in consideration of a portion of their scheme being granted to the company. The report and statement of accounts were then unanimously adopted, and the proceedings con cluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. Yesterday AND SOUTH WALES UNION. was held thehalf-yearly meeting of this company u t : e t s offices , Bristol that the in the chair.ces, Bristol ; Mr. C. J. Thomas The acc gross e trafficreceipts, exclusive of the and the net receipts, exclusive b of ferry,the f were £7,549, erry, £3,852, and period showing an, increase over the corresponding of 1864 of £1,396 gross receipts, £1,112 net. The report stated that the insertion of clauses in the Severn Bridge Bill, in the event of the scheme being carried out, would prevent the traffic of the Bristol and South Wales Union line being diverted, and. afford means of carrying minerals and heavy goods, -which could not be carried across the ferry without a large additional outlay. The CHAIR: lAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said th at although the directors advised the proprietors not . to enter into a costly opposition of the Severn Brig ige Bill, some of them did oppose it at their own ex, oense, and the result of the opposi tion was very us efcil to the company. Capt. TYLER, d irector, seconded the resolution, and congratulated - .the proprietors on their improv ing prospects. - ITU sk lid that a number of ill-natured THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1868, things had been said about the Great Western Com pany, and the manner they worked their line for them, but he had always found the officials try to do the best they could for the South Wales Union line. Mr. SPENCER said that they would have to double their present traffic before the original proprietors could receive 3 per cent. for their money. The report was adopted, and thanks to the chair man and directors terminated the proceedings. Lucknow, fbr which he was honourably mentioned by Lord Clyde, and publicly thanked by the Goiernor-General of India in Council. He served throughout the whole campaign in India. The Suspected Poisoning of a Lady at Greenwich. Yesterday afternoon Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, resumed an inquiry at the Ashburnham Arms, Green wich, into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Reeve, aged 40, wife of a veterinary surgeon, re siding at 52, Ashburnham-grove, Greenwich, and which, it is alleged, was occasioned by the administration of a cer tain deadly poison, known as veratria, or white hellebore, as reported in these columns on Friday last. Mr. Norton, solicitor, of Clifford's-inn, attended for the husband of the deceased. Mr. C. H. Hall, of 1, Charles-street, Clarendon-square, Euston-road, who was censured by the coroner for not being in attendance at the last examination, said—l had been dis penser to Dr. Hope for 18 months, but left him on the 31st August last, having given notice of my intention to do so on the Ist of the same month. Dr. Hope had been engaged to attend deceased in her confinement, and having left home for Margate he gave me directions as to his patients. On the morning of the 14th August, about 10 o'clock in the morning, the husband of deceased came to Dr. Hope's, and inquired for Dr. Hope. I told him that Dr. Hope had gone away for a day or two. He said his wife had been taken ill during the night, and was very poorly, not being better that morning. He asked me if I would come down. I had asked him the symptoms of the deceased, and he said she had been ,sick once or twice, but he did not think she had been purged, and he attributed her illness to having partaken of plum pie on the Sunday. He said he should like me to at tend as soon as possible, and having another case to attend I went to the deceased's house about half-past 12. Mr. Reeve asked me into the parlour, and his wife came down stairs. The deceased said she had been ill during the night, and attributed her illness to an attack of bile. She complained of a pain in her head. I asked if any of the vomit had been saved, and Mr. Reeve said it had been thrown away. I noticed that the complexion of the deceased was sallow, and she was desponding. I felt her pulse, which was then about 70 or 75. The deceased complained of having an affection of the liver. She asked what I intended giviiig her, and I told her a saline effervescing draught, and that it would be necessary to give one of the powders with the medicine I should send. The deceased said she had not eaten anything during the day, but her husband, in her presence, attributed her illness to having eaten a plum pie on the day previous. The deceased said that she had been in the habit of having a few pills for the affection of the liver before her confinement, and I told her I would give her some pills after she got over her then illness. I re mained about 20 minutes, and afterwards sent a saline mixture. (The witness here described the properties of the mixture, which it will be remembered was stated by Professor Rogers, in his analysis, to have been perfectly pure.) lam aware that there is a drug known as veratria. I have seen such drug, but never in Dr. Hope's surgery. At four o'clock the same afternoon Mr. Reeve again came to the surgery. He appeared breathless and pale, as if from hurrying, and asked me if I would go directly to his wife, as she had had fits about ten minutes after she had par taken of the medicine I had sent. I asked him if he had not been to any other medical man, our house being two miles from Reeves'. He asked me if I had made any mis take, and had sent the wrong acid. I told him I had never made any mistake in mixing medicines. He said he had called on Dr. Scott, and a brougham being ready at the door he and I got in and drove to the house. On our way he told me his wife had had fits. On arriving at the house I found deceased in bed insensible ; the pupils of both eyes were dilated, but then there was no convulsive action. Her husband then said he must go and fetch a friend from the Blackfriars-road, and left. There was a servant girl in the house, and I sent a note by her to Dr. Scott. I administered several spoonfuls of sal volatile to deceased, and let the blinds downito keep out the light. The deceased murmured " George" once or twice. Dr. Scott came down in about half an hour. The deceased had one convulsive fit while I remained. Her eyes were turned up and partially to the right. Her whole frame was convulsed, her arms stretched out, and her hands clenched. There was no noise and no screeching. I remained until seven o'clock, and then left her husband and her aunt, whom he had brought with him, with her. When I left she was apparently improved, the stertorous breathing which I noticed after the convulsions having ceased. I said I would attend again in the even ing, and went at half-past 9of my own accord. The de ceased was then slightly improved, and appeared sufficiently sensible to recognise persons in the room, but not to speak, except saying " George" several times. I proposed an injection of warm water, and her husband brought the water, and the injection was administered. I left at half-past ten, at which time the injection had not operated The next morning, at nine o'clock, I went to the house, and found that the patient was dead. I went into the house. Mr. Reeve told me he had been to see several doctors, and he objected to my touching the powders or medicine which were in the room, and I left them where they were. The deceased was in sensible when I saw her a little after four on the after noon of the 14th of August. She was sensible afterwards, so as to call "George," but could not utter anything con nectedly. The deceased got up in bed during the fit, and sat in a horizontal position and remained so. The husband appeared anxious about the condition of deceased, and also after her death. During the time I was there Mr. Reeve wished to give her something, but I told him that I had given her some sal volatile. He rushed up to the bedside and asked what he could give he:. I had the sal volatile with me. I had ordered brandy and soda water, but that had not been given her. Mrs. Elizabeth Benjerodt, of the Blackfriars-road, said the deceased was the wife of my nephew. On the evening of the 14th August he came to my house and said his wife was very ill indeed. I went to Greenwich and found de ceased in bed, and in an insensible state. I remained with her until her death next morning. During the night there was fit after fit at intervals, and from six o'clock in the morning (two hours before death) the fits were more fre quent. Her hands were not clenched until she was dying. There was hard breathing, and she would turn from one side to the other, but did not fall off the bed. The deceased had been married about 20 years, and there are five chil dren of the marriage living. During the night Mr. Reeve prayed for deceased, who put up her hand and seemed pleased, and then became unconscious. The deceased was not given to despondency, but she had a great dread — almost a terror of her approaching confinement. Had seen deceased and her husband frequently. He appeared a fond father and affectionate husband. Mrs. Mary Ann Green, a neighbour, said—A little before eight on the morning of the 15th August, a little boy (the deceased's son) came for me. I went into the house and saw the last witness and another female there. Deceased was in bed totally insensible and in a dying state. She died in about five minutes afterwards. By the Coroner—Mr. Reeve has told me that he thOught there had been some mistake in the medicine. He asked me to register the deceased's death, because I was present at the death. He gave me a certificate. He had previous to that, on the same day, said that immediately after his wife had taken the draught she became worse, and that he had asked Dr. Scott to taste it. He had written a state ment,giving it to me,and which I thought should have been made public, as a paragraph had appeared in the news papers concerning her death. Mrs. Sarah Kidd, another neighbour, deposed that after the funer4 but not before, her husband told her that he thought she had been poisoned through a mistake in the medicine. Deceased has told me that she would rather the child would die, as she had had so many children. I saw the body at 11 o'clock the same morning, and also on Wednesday evening, when it was so decomposed that it was fastened down in the coffin. Dr. Hope, of Deptford, who had been engaged to attend deceased in her confinement, was recalled. He said—on Wednesday, the 17th August, Mr. Reeve came to me and asked me for a certificate of deceased's death. I told him I could not give hii a certificate, as I had not seen her previous to or at the time of death, but that I would go and see Dr. Scott. I went and saw Dr. Scott, who de clined giving a certificate, but said he had no objection to sign it after Mr. Palmer, who last saw deceased alive. I went to Mr. Palmer, who, after some hesitation, signed a certificate, giving the cause of death, " Convulsions." I took the certificate to Dr. Scott, who signed it, and I then added " Mr. Hope's assistant," showing that he, too, had been in attendance. On the day following my giving the certificate, a Mr. Lloyd came to me and told me that Mr. Reeve had misrepresented the case altogether, and asked me how it was possible 1 should have given a certificate, not having seen his relative. I told him he was mistaken ; that I had not given the certificate, but that it was signed by gentlemen who had seen her. There are two descriptions of hellebore poison, black and white. I know that one of these is given for the purpose of pro curing abortion. Mr. E. Childs, pawnbroker, of Knightsbridge, was called, and produced the deed of a marriage settlement, dated Jan. 13, 1846, by which the deceased, who was then Miss Eliza beth Hill, of 8, Brunswick-terrace, Commercial-road East, was entitled during lifetime to the interest on a sum of £l,OOO 3 1 per Cent. Annuities, and in the event of William George Reeve (her husband), of Camberwell-road, Camber well, veterinary surgeon, surviving her, the money was to revert absolutely and solely to him for his own use. Mary Ann Lloyd, of Shirley, Surrey, said—The deceased was my cousin, and on the last occasion of seeing her at my house, in July last, she told me she expected her confine ment in September, and said, "If anything happens that I die quickly, will you see into it ?" I replied, "Go along with you—nonsense," not thinking anything of such re marks. The deceased had before told me her husband would not marry her until her money was settled upon him and that she expected her money would be her death. When she bade me " Good-bye" she said, " Perhaps you will not see me again." Eliza Marks, the servant girl, was recalled, and repeated the evidence given on a previous occasion. In answer to questions, she said it was a rhubarb and not a plum pie that her master and deceased had for dinner on the Sunday. Mr. Jas. Lloyd, of Shirley, husband of a previous witness, wassailed, and described a conversation he had had with deceased's husband as to the symptoms preceding the death of deceased, and which led to the present inquiry being held. The inquest room was then cleared, and on the public being re-admitted, the coroner said that the jury had again determined to adjourn the inquiry, an analysis of a certain powder and wafers found in a box of deceased's alter death not having been completed yet by Professor Rodgers. The husband of deceased was again bound over in the sum of £lOO to appear at the next examination. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. The adjourned meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Glasgow, for the purpose of re ceiving the result of a poll on a motion proposed by Mr. Orr Ewing, to the effect that the recommen dation in the directors' report for remunerating the servants of tho company be withdrawn ; Mr. P. Blackburn in the chair. The scrutineers reported that 188 shareholders were present at the meeting, holding £435,000 in stock and shares, and that 74 shareholders, holding £135,000 stock and shares, left the meeting before the vote was taken. The result was that £lO shareholders holding £182,132 ordinary stock, and £71,046 preference stock, representing 4,921 votes, were in favour of Mr. Ewing's motion, and that a number of proxies representing £311,052 ordinary stock, and £115,819 preference stock, and 8,464 votes were recorded against Mr. Ewing's motion. After a long dispute as to some of the proxies not being valid, the Chairman declared that there was a majority against Mr. Ewing's motion, and it was consequently negatived. The CHAIRMAN said he would be happy indeed if between this and the adjourned meeting they were enabled to call an extraordinary meeting and settle the matter at once. The meeting was then adjourned to the 12th of December next. CALLANDER AND OBAN. The first half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday in Glasgow ; Mr. J. W. Malcolm in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the only business they had to transact was to elect directors, and that having been done, he stated that they had commenced ope rations—the engineers were directed to push on with the completion of their plans as soon as pos sible, and he hoped they would soon be ready to advertise for tenders. With the assistance of the Caledonian Company, he had no doubt they would be satisfactorily completed. He concluded by pro posing that the remuneration to the directors be at the rate of one guinea per meeting for attendance, besides the actual expenses. This was agreed to, and the proceedings termi nated. TAMAR, KITHILL, AND CALLINGTON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. W. Morgan in the chair. The report stated that since the last meeting the arrangements then in progress with the different bondholders of . the company had been carried out, and the capital had been subscribed for in accord ance with the act of incorporation, the power to issue debentures was now exercisable. It was confi dently expected that sufficient funds could be ob tained on debenture capital to enable the line to be completed to Kelly Bray, which would insure the Callington traffic. The directors were glad to state that the contractor had shown his confidence in that expectation byrecommencing the works, which were again in course of construction. The contractor had engaged to prosecute the works with all speed, provided he was supplied with funds to meet his dis bursements, leaving his profits to wait until the line was open, and until the traffic had become remune rative. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report was adopted, and Mr. F. Winning, the retiring director, was re-elected. The proceedings then terminated. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Wivern, 4, two turretted ship,'l,Bs7 tons, 350 horse power, was commissioned yesterday for home service by Capt. Burgoyne, V.C. Both the Wivern and her sister ship the Scorpion, Capt. Corn merell, V.C., are ordered to complete their outfit as rapidly as possible. The Salamis, paddle steamer, Commander Suttie, and the Helicon, paddle steamer, Commander Singer, both of 835 tons and 250 horse power, are expected to start from Portsmouth on their competitive chan nel trial this evening or to-morrow. Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, Admiral Robinson, Controller, and Capt. Conolly, appointed to the command of the ironclad corvette Pallas, yesterday went down to Woolwich dockyard and made a lengthened inspection of the Pallas, their attention being especially directed to the im provements which have been made by Messrs. Humphreys and Tennant in the pitch of the fan, by which it is expected that a considerable increase of speed will be obtained. She is fast approaching completion, and will be unlocked on the 6th prox. On the following day she will be hauled into the fitting basin, where she will remain until Nov. 4. She will then be brought out of the basin, and will go down the river on an experimental trial; after wards she will go to Sheerness to be completed for sea. In order to secure the fulfilment of these arrangements a large number of shipwrights have been appointed to work over time. Great dis satisfaction, however, exists in consequence of the low rate of pay and remuneration for the required sacrifice of their time. On Wednesday evening, at 6 o'clock, the usual hour for quitting the yard, after having worked two additional hours, a number of established and temporary shipwrights assembled in a body of about 400 men on the parade fronting the house of Mr. Turner, the Master Shipbuilder of the yard, and conducted themselves in a boisterous - and turbulent manner. On Mr. Turner making his ap pearance and demanding the cause of their unseemly behaviour some of the foremost of the men stated that they were dissatisfied with the terms of their engagement, and would object to work overtime ex cept at an increased rate of pay. Their attitude was so mutinous that Mr. Turner was obliged to call in the assistance of the police, and the men were ejected from the yard with considerable difficulty, hooting and threatening to " strike" unless more favourable conditions were accorded them. Three of the ring leaders, named Thomas Radman, George Brown, and John Lovell, were given in charge 3f the police, and were yesterday morning sentenced by Capt. Biddle combe, the Commodore pro tea.—who is vested with magisterial powers—the first, to be suspended and lose all pay for one week; and the latter two, to two weeks' suspension each. The freight ship Barlow, laden with hutting ma terials and provisions for Bermuda, sailed yesterday from Woolwich Arsenal for her destination. The 18-gun frigate Calypso, attached to the sail ing reserve in Chatham harbour, having been sur veyed by the officials connected with the Master Shipwright's staff and found unfit for further ser vice, is ordered to have the whole of her stores and internal fittings removed prior to being sent round to Charlton to be broken up at the Admiralty ship breaking yard of Messrs. Castle and Beech. The Frolic 18, another of the sailing frigates ordered to be broken up, has had the whole of her gear and fit tings removed into the dockyard previously to being sent round to the Thames. The examination of candidates for entry into the School of Naval Architecture, Kensington, com menced at Chatham Dockyard, and will be con tinued to-day. Only those apprentices who are undergoing a superior course of instruction are eligible for admission into the school. It was yesterday officially announced at the head quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, that the appointment of principal in structor in field fortifications to the Royal Engineer corps, vacant by the death of Major F. H. De Vere, has been conferred by Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge on Lieut.-Col. W. 0. Lennox, V.C., now attached to the Quartermaster-General's De partment at Aldershott Camp, who will forthwith enter on the duties of his post. Col. Lennox has seen service eminently fitting him for the appoint ment. He was present during the whole of the campaign in the Crimea, the gallantry he then dis played entitling him to the Victoria Cross. He also served throughout the Indian mutiny, and com manded the Royal Engineer brigade at the r e li e f of Middlesex Registrations. Mr. Edmond Beales, the barrister appointed to revise the lists of electors for the several parishes and precincts of the county of Middlesex, held his fourth court yesterday, at Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead-heath, for the purpose of revising the lists of the parishes in the Hampstead poll ing district. As on former occasions, the liberal interest was repre sented by Mr. W. Albert James, of Parliament-street, Westminster ; Mr. T. Alley Jones and Mr. J. Alley Jones, his son, appeared for the Middlesex Conservative Registra tion Committee; and Mr. Henry Smith, of Norfolk-street, Strand, on behalf of the National Conservative Registra tion Society. The parishes revised were those of St. John, Hamptead, St. Mary, Hornsey, and Willesden. Samuel Thomas Belton, of 9, King-street, Portman street, on the Hampstead list for a leasehold house, was objected to by the Conservatives. The voter stated that his residence had been unchanged for 40 years, and that he built the house constituting his franchise 20 years ago, and still held it. Barrister—What is the ground of the objection ? Or have you more than one ? Mr. Smith—Only one ; that he had sold the house. The Barrister asked the voter what he claimed as ex penses. The Voter—.£l. I have to employ a person at home, and there is the expense of driving here. Mr. Smith—What are you ? The Voter—A fruiterer. The Barrister—Well, 1 shall award £1 as costs. It is an objection to the register. Mr. Beales then addressed the agents on the subject of costs—Before entering upon these _objections, I think it right to state that the cases which have occurred, and the questions which have been very properly and usefully raised before me in the course of the two days since the commencement of the revision, with reference to the ques tion of costs on objections to new claims, or persons on the list of claimants, together with the observations on the subject addressed to me ley Mr. Smith, at Uxbridge, on Friday last, at the commencement of the revision, and those addressed to me by Mr. James, on Wednesday, at Edgware, have induced me to carefully reconsider, on this point, the act of last session, and to refer to the report of the parliamentary committee on the registration of county voters as calculated to assist me in the interpretation of the act where it was in doubt, the act having, I presume, been more or less founded on that very valuable report ; and the result of such further consideration is that I have come to the conclusion that on this point the act of last session (the County Voters Registration Act, 1865) was intended to alter the practice, and does alter the practice, only as regards objections to persons on the register, and that it was intended to leave, and does leave, this practice unaltered as regards objections to new claims, or persons on the list of claimants; and I am also of opinion that it is not advisable to make any change, and that the act does not oblige me to make any change, in the practice which, after much deliberation, had been adopted by my prede cessors and continued by myself in the Middlesex revision, of not giving costs against the objector on such objections, except in the extreme case of the objection being perse vered in after satisfactory infornation received as to the particulars and validity of the claim. The committee, in their report of April, 1864, state it to be their opinion that it would be neither just nor politic to render the law of costs such as might deter or materially discourage persons from objecting to new claimants, but in order to assist such claimants in establishing their claim to be registered, without the expense or trouble of attending the revision court, they recommended that any elector objecting to any person on the list of claimants should send notice of his objection, stating the ground or grounds thereof, to the overseers and to the person objected to, and that the person objected to should be at liberty to make a statutory decla ration in support of his right to be registered, and inform the objector thereof, and that then the objector, if perse vering in his objection, should, unless he succeeded in keeping the name off the register, be necessarily subject to costs, leaving it to be implied that otherwise he ought not to be subject to costs. Now the act of last session has not adopted this recommendation, which appears to me to be a most just and salutary one, in any way or to any extent whatever as regards objections to new claims, but has adopted it in part as regards objections to persons on the register, by requiring the notice of objec tion to the vote of any such person to specifically state the ground or grounds of objection ; at least such appears to be the purport of the exception contained in the somewhat peculiarly framed and expressed 6th section of the act, which section, however, most clearly enacts that notices of objection to persons on the list of claimants may be given according to the provisions of the 7th section of the prin cipal act, that is, according to the old practice, without spe cifying the ground or grounds of objection. Tho subsequent clauses of the act relating to objections all appear to be limited, by mentioning or referring to several or separate grounds of objection, to the mode of objection then re quired to be made to persons on the register, leaving un touched and unaltered the mode of objection to persons on the list of claimants, although in some cases, as in the 7th section, the language is somewhat confused, and although as regards the 14th section raising the maximum of costs from 20s. to £5, it may be open to doubt whether it does or not contemplate only costs in respect of objections to the votes of persons on the register, that is objections which may comprise several grounds of objection, as it enacts that the sum ordered to be paid by way of costs shall not upon any - one vote exceed the sum of £5. When, therefore, I find the attention of the Parliamentary committee, as fully appears by the evidence, repeatedly and pointedly drawn to the practice which had been pursued in Middle sex, of not giving costs in cases of objections to new claims not sustained, on the ground that the real purpose of the objection was to require the claimant to give some evidence prima facie at least of his right to a vote and to be regis tered beyond his own mere claim or notice, thus assimi lating claimants in counties to claimants in boroughs, who have to appear in court and substantiate their right to be registered, and when I find the act of last session not only omitting to adopt the recommenda tion of the committee as to requiring the objector to specify his grounds of objection to a new claim, and sub jecting him to costs only in cases of his persevering in his objection after notice of a statutory declaration made by the claimant in support of his right to be registered, but expressly continuing tho old general form of objecting, without the statement of any specified grounds, to persons on the list of claimants, I can come to no other conclusion than that the legislature did not intend to interfere with the practice as to the objections to new claims which had been in operation previously as regards Middlesex, and which I had myself laboured to render as fair and just and as little onerous as possible to the claim, by saving him the trouble and expense of appearing before me, if he would give by letter to the objector that evidence of his right to be registered which the parliamentary committee suggested should be given by the more formal mode of statutory de claration. I must, therefore, in exercise of the discretion given to me by the 46th section of the principal act, adhere to a practice which seems to have received indirectly, or implied at least, the sanction of the legislature, and which unquestionably, though apparently sometimes harsh in in dividual cases, has been productive of great public benefit and of great facility in carrying into effect the intention and express objects of the legislature, by rendering the register a far more pure and correct record than it formerly was of those who are strictly and rightfully entitled to form the constituency, according to the present system of the franchise. I may add that impartial justice would not be done by acting upon the 46th section of the principal act, so on one hand to give costs against the objector in case of his failing to support an objection to a new claim, and, on the other hand, to give costs in his favour in case of his supporting the objection, because I have not the same power of compelling the payment of costs by him, that is, where numerous objections are made, as in the case in Middlesex and similar largo constituencies, by the same elector as a political agent. In case of my ordering him to pay the costs of any objection he fails to support, I cannot under the principal act hear any other objection by him until he was paid such costs, which it is his interest therefore, and which, unless he is prepared to abandon all other objections, he is obliged to pay to the claimant at once ; but there is no such hold over the claimant in case of my ordering him, in addition to rejecting his claim and depriving him of a vote, to pay the costs of failing to support his claim, and the objector would in very many, perhaps in most cases, be put to the delay andtrouble of enforcing my order in his fa vour by further proceedings against the claimant. For these various reasons I consider it my duty to continue the former practice as to not giving costs in respect of unsustained ob jections to new claims, except in the cases referred to of ob jections persevered in after satisfactory information re ceived of the solidity of the claim. Mr. James said it might be satisfactory to Mr. Beales to be informed that Mr. Udal, revising barrister for Sunder land, had come to a similar decision with regard to the new act. His opinion appeared to be that although the legisla ture had increased the amount of costs which might be awarded from £1 to £5 in the case of objections to the re gistry, it would not be policy to interfere with regard to new claims ; but ho thought that where the objector litigiously continued his objection after reasonable answer had been made to the objection costs would be awarded. And, see ing the facility of making claims, the difficulty of proof and other circumstances, although Mr. West had given evidence before the committee to the effect that in his judgment the costs ought to follow the event, whether against the new claim list or against the register, still he thought it would be an erroneous practice to pursue in largo counties, and he therefore determinea to pursue a similar course to that which Mr. Beales had now determined on. Tho decision of the barrister applied to several cases in the course of the day. The court sits to-morrow at Bedfout. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.--It cannot be expected that the great civil war in America should be without its sequel of po litical strife. For some years the steps of American statesmen will be on the still heated ashes thrown up by that great eruption. Disputes will be as loud, party platforms will be as uncompromising, personal animosities will be almost as bitter, as in the days before the war. But there will be this difference, that real danger will have passed away. Three generations of statesmen have always had before them the spectre of their country's disruption. There is hardly a leading man, from the time of Washing ton to the present day, who has not contemplated a successful secession as a possible and even a pro bable event, and has not for the most part been of the opinion that when the time should come no re sistance should be made to an inevitable calamity. One class of politicians has spoken of the dissolution of the Union in terms of solemn warning; another has used it as a threat to carry out its own purposes. These thin g s now belong to the past. There a r e many and difficult questions to be settled by the American people. They have a devastated country to restore ; they are burdened with a heavy debt ; their financial system is far from sound ; four mil lions of men of an inferior race are within their borders, and the social and political relations of these to the community must ever be a troublesome question. But the prospect of a disruption is no longer before them. One side can no longer threaten it, the other no longer fears it. American parties may retain their combative spirit ; the leading poli ticians may seek to excite their respective followers ; Congress and the State Legislatures may resound, as of yore, with the noise of intemperate disputa tions ; but the terrible interest of the political cam paigns which preceded 1860 will no longer remain. The questions of slavery, of State independence, and of Nortern preponderance, were questions involving the very existence of the Union. It was this that roused the passions of the dispu tants, and kept American politics always at fever heat. If senators and representatives quarrel now, it will rather be from constitutional irritability or a remembrance of the old traditions than for any such legitimate cause. For these reasons we are not inclined to believe that the political campaign which is now in prospect will absorb the attention of a people who have been so highly excited for five years past. Our Philadelphia correspondent gives an interesting account of the state of parties in the Union, and speaks of the opposition which Presi dent Johnson will encounter in carrying out his policy of conciliation. The President, after a period of vacilation or of caution, has at length fully declared his intentions. He is a Southern man, by birth a north Carolinian, by settlement a Tennesseean, and he has thrown his protection over the conquered population of the late Confede racy. He will preserve the States to their present inhabitants, and forbid any plans of extirpation and confiscation. The scheme of wholesale vengeance, which received the sanction of Congress during the heat of the war, is now virtually abandoned. It is announced that no property will be taken until the owner is duly convicted of treason, and as no pro secutions are instituted this amounts to a repeal of the whole act. Pardons are granted to all who apply for them. Civil government being gradually restored, the generals commanding the corps have orders to abstain from interfering with meetings and elections, and the corps themselves are rapidly diminishing in numbers. The negro troops are being withdrawn, those belonging to the Northern States being the first to move. The President, in answer to a deputation of Southerners, declares against centralisation and the interference with State rights. He will not; bring the leading Seces sionists to trial, and is suspected of a design to pardon even Mr. Davis himself. He has, in fact, pardoned some of the most noted civil and mili tary chiefs of the Confederacy. He will not inter fere with the Churches, and orders that all minis ters and congregations shall receive back their eedfices whether or not they swear and pray in his favour. In short, Mr. Johnson is, in the Ameri can political language of the day, a strong Con servative, in opposition to the Radical tendencies of the Republican party. That this party, or at least the extreme portion of it, is much incensed against him is evident to any one who reads the American papers. The old Abolitionists think that nothing is done unless the negro receives equal rights with the white man, and there are other politicians who go even beyond these, and thirst for vengeance on the fallen Confederates. President Johnson's accession was hailed with joy by those who thought that Lincoln was too mild and good natured for the work he had to do. To them the President is now a backslider of the worst kind. It is not only that he will not punish ; he actually intrusts rebels with power, and puts into their hands the means of repeating their rebellion. So a great demonstration is to be made in Congress. Both Houses are strongly Republican, by means of the elections that took place during the war. But still there is a Democratic party, and if he Southern representatives are admitted the Democrats may join them and again become powerful. Hence the Republicans see with extreme disgust the rapid organisation of civil government in the South, and will be glad of any excuse for keeping out the Southern representatives. The question is con nected, also, with that of negro suffrage. If the negroes vote all through the South, they may be expected, it is thought, to side against their late masters, and return a large number of Republican members. If, on the other hand, they are denied this right, the whole strength of the South will be given to the Democratic party, which then is not unlikely to govern the Republic for years to come. There is, therefore, the prospect of an active session. But its opposition is not likely to influence the Pre sident. He has by his office powers equal to those of a despotic Sovereign, and the will to use them. As events advance at present in America the recon struction of the Civil Government in the South is likely to be almost complete before the meeting of Congress in December ; the army will have been too much diminished to carry out any scheme of military occupation, and we have little doubt that the Southerners will have shown by their conduct that they are ready to accept in good faith the restoration of Federal authority. It cannot be con cealed, also, that the President's policy is popular with the mass of the people. There is always a tendency to side with power, and when power shows itself lenient and generous it is sure to carry with it the sympathies of the multitude. The cur rent of popular feeling is in favour of amity with the South, which has fought well, and now frankly accepts defeat. We may venture to assume, there fore, that within the next few months the Southern .States will again send their representatives to Con gress, and freely form whatever party combinations they may think proper. The question of negro suffrage is the only one which is likely to be seriously contested. On the one side is the dislike of the Southern whites, and, indeed, of all Americans, to admitting black people to equality with themselves ; on the other, there is the obvious difficulty of re fusing the suffrage to men on no other ground than the colour of their skin or their African ancestry. We need not speculate on the solution of these difficulties, but, whatever the decision, the people of the United States are too well satisfied with the result of the war and the Presidential policy to encourage any class of men in an acrimonious party warfare. POST.--Prince Couza, the Hospodar of the Danu bian Principalities, left Bucharest this summer to recruit his health at German watering-places, and indulge in the repose required after working hard at a new organisation of a country to which had been for years past applied a strange mixture of Oriental, Christian, despotic, and, latterly, consti tutional laws and customs. The reigning Prince had settled all differences with the Ottoman Go vernment, his coup d'itat was approved of at Con stantinople ; his liberal, and even demccratic, re forms appeared to be working well, and the rest of Europe had almost forgotten all about the rich corn lands on the banks of the Danube. About the middle of last August, to the surprise of most peo ple, the telegraph informed us of a disturbance at Bucharest to the cry of " Down with the Prince and Government !" and an attack on the Hotel de Ville. But the movement was put down by the military without much difficulty, and tranquillity was re stored after some 300 persons had been arrested. Prince Alexander John proceeded home, neverthe less, without delay, and, on arriving at Bucharest, his first acts were to grant a general and full am nesty to all offenders, and to compliment the army on their fidelity - . The cause of this movement has been accounted for in a variaty of ways. The new organisation of the country had offended many per sonal interests, amongst which were the new Rural Laws, which have taken much power out of the hands of the Boyards. Then there was the Greek Church question ; and, above all, the agitation of a number of dreamy, disappointed, ambitious, politi cians, who had formerly made government impos sible. This discontented mate r ial got together and made the made a foolish attempt to seize on authority in absence of the reigning Prince. The Government of Prince Alexander John has now addressed a circular despatch to its diplomatic agents abroad,in which the Danubian Minister of Fo rei g n Affairs accounts for the late attack on the sovereign autho rity, and takes occasion to record the efforts made by the ruling Prince for improving the condition of Cabinets the Roumain people. Foreign are re m i n d ed of the change which has taken place in the composedcharaeter W of the Moldo-allachian Chambers, now of popular representatives of the peopl e , rat h er than of the once self -holding Boy a rds. It has resulted that the more aristocratic landholders have become enemies of the existing Government, and han, used their influence,, it iz emertcd, at home and abroad to thwart the reforms - of Prince Ceuta, and render their application as difficult as possible. Here, then, is one cause of discontent in a class of much influence. The Rural Laws are intended to elevate the cultivators of the soil, and break up that forced labour system which the landholders formerly practised as in Russia. These laws naturally make many enemies ; and the circular referred to says the Boyards have not failed to treat discontent amongst the humbler Moldo-Wallachians, in order even to throw land out of cultivation, and thus make the Government unpopular. The Government, however, has in some measure met these intrigues ; and the success of free cultivation of the soil, accom panied by new roads, is looked forward to with confidence. The protecting Powers are reminded of the general policy of the reiging Prince. He has promulgated a very liberal constitution, which is essentially democratic in its general character. It is desired to elevate the masses out of their half- Oriental barbarity ; to give them education and in struction in manufactures; in fact, as the circular says, bestows on the Roumains the advantages o f modern civilisation. We are reminded that new rural and commercial laws are already in practice ; that there are new civil and penal codes, whilst financial institutions are successfully at work. With such statements the Prince and his Government ap peal for support to the protecting Powers who at the Paris Congress agreed to give the Roumains a fair trial at constitutional rule, under the sanction of the Ottoman Government. It is from Franct, rather than from England, Russia, or Austria, that Prince Couza has received encouragement in his difficult task. From England, nevertheless, the Principali ties have received, if not official, at least material support. Much capital and considerable British in terests are engaged in the Danish Principalities. English money is now employed in making roads and constructing bridges and organising a cheap navigation. Those engaged in trade and commerce are prophetic of a great increase of exports from Galatz and Ibraila. The left bank of the Danube is to be made richer with stores of wheat, tallow, wool, timber, and other products of these rich lands when roads are completed, and the Roumain people are elevated to a higher social scale ; when, in fact, the five millions of Wallachia and Moldavia appreciate the civilisation and progress which Prince Couza's Government institutes, points out, and encourages. Whatever may be the defects of the existing rule, it is quite evident that the Roumains are on the high road to nationality, independence, and progress. Bucharest is no longer the centre of Russian, Aus trian, and Turkish intrigue ; no invading army is robbing the peasantry under the polite term of " oc cupation." Liberal Europe can only applaud what has been done, and wish the Roumains success for the future. COUNTRY MARKETS BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a fair supply of wheat, which found buyers at an advance of fully is per qr. Bar ley sold slowly at previous rates. Oats the turn in favour of the buyer. Beans cheaper. Peas less in request. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 50s ; red, 39s to 48s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; grinding, 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 30s ; Irish, 21s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qr. BRISTOL-THURSDAY, At our market to-day there was a good supply of Eng lish wheat, for which the trade was firm, and in some in stances last week's prices were rather exceeded. Some in quiry for foreign, but was checked by holders asking more money. Malting barley with alteration. Grinding gave way 6d per qr. Oats 6d per qr. lower. Maize dull. Beans quite as dear. MANC HE S TER--THURSDAY. Our market this morning was fairly attended. English wheat in good condition sold pretty freely at an advance of is per qr., and foreign 3d per cental over last week's rates. Flour 6d to is per sack higher. Oats and oatmeal dearer. New beans at previous rates ; old unchanged. Indian corn steady. BURY ST. EDMUND'S-WEDNESDAY. There was a good supply of wheat at market this day. Both old and new realised an advance of is per qr. upon last week. A good quantity of barley was on offer ; dry samples made last week's prices, while dark and damp par cels were unsaleable lit a decline of is per qr. EDINBURGH-WEDNESDAY. At to-day's market the supplies of grain were very fair, and sold at 6d to is advance on last week's prices. Average prices. Wheat, 42s 3d 1 Oats, 24s 8d Barley, 27s 10d 1 Beans 42s Bcl Wheat on the top, is Od up.... ....... average, Os 6d up. Barley on the top, is Od up average, 3s Od up. Oats on the top, Os 9d down average, Os 9d up. Beans on the top, 3s 3d down average, is 4d down Total supply and sales. Wheat 799 qrs sold 696 Barley 1785 qrs sold 1294 Oats 1599 qrs sold 1334 Beans 146 qrs sold 31 Town -made flour sells as follows :—White, 39s Od ; extra superfine, 37s Od ; superfine, 35s Od ; fine, 335 Od. GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY. There was a large attendance. American wheat in good demand at is to is Gd per qr. over last week's rates. Baltic more inquired after, and is per qr. dearer. Barley and oats sold about late rates. Beans difficult to sell; maize dearer; flour Gd per sack higher. Foreign Mail Packet List. - - -4, . - MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct 13. Brazil and*Cape Verdi'. by British pacLet ...... Oct. 1. Dit.o, by French packet Cape of Good Elope, Ascension, and St Helena Sept. 22. China, Penang, and Sing , tpure, via Sou hampton oot. 2 . Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 26 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Oot. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Sept. 25. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Sept. —. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil ei.... Oct. 4.. Newfoundland • , Sept. 27. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp tui Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Sept. 29. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Oct. ii. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, . _ and Mexico Sept. 28. Bahamas, via New 'Y ork. Oct. 11 Bermuda, ditto Sept. 27. puba and Mexico Sept. 28. The O'Connell monument, in Clare, is to be inau gurated on the 3d of October, with great ceremony. The trades, with their banners, are to head a procession ; then will follow the Roman Catholic bishops any'. clergy, the Town Commissioner of Ennis, and "the people." Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bart., M.P., is to deliver the inaugural address, when the statue " will be handed over to the care and custody of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe and his successors, in trust for the priests and the people of Clare." The oratory will doubtless turn upon the diffe rent means by which O'Connell aimed at achieving the independence of Ireland, and those adopted by the lonians. ADVERTISENENT.I-llolloway's Ointment.—Turn which way you will, go where you please, persons will be found who have a ready word of praise for this ointment. For chaps, chafes, scalds, bruises, and sprains it is an invalu able remedy ; for bad legs, caused by accident or cold, it may confidently be relied upon for effecting a sound and permanent cure. In cases of swelled ankles, erysipelas, gout, and rheumatism Holloway's ointment gives the greatest comfort by reducing the inflammation, cooling the blood, soothing the nerves, adjusting the circulation, and expelling the impurities. This ointment should have a place in every nur ser y. It w ill cure t h e long l i st of skin affections which originate in childhood and gain strength with the child's growth. Bir ha. HUTCHINSON.—On the 27th inst. , the wife of Mar k Hut chinson, Esq., of a son. KLAPKA.—On the 26th inst., at Cognac, France, the wife of General Klapka, of a son. SCLATER-BOOTH.-- On the 26th inst., at The Priory Odi • - ham, the wife of G. Sclater-Booth, Esq., mdb .7 of a son. Marriages CLOWES—BURNs.—On the 27th inst.,. at Torw oo d, Dun keld, Perthshire, William Clowes, Jun., of Gloucester terrace H y d e -park, London, to Barbara Elizabeth, fourth daughter iucz_,l 7f A A s r G e L h E d s ..llu o r n n st,hEesq., 27thof Pinesrtt.h6 , at Seale parish c h u rch, Surrey, Frederick Swaine L e Grice, Lieutenant La cl Royal Horse E. Artillery, to Harriett, seco n d d aug ht er of Captain C. Mangles, of Poyle Park, Farnham, Sur rey. Deaths. BnvEnE.—On the 27th inst., at Keymer, Sussex, T. G. S. Bruere, Esq., late Madras C.S., aged 58. MELTILLE.—On the 27th inst., at his residence, 50, Baker street, Po r t man-square, William Melville, Esq., age d 74. STRONG. —On the 26th inst., at Englefield-green, the Rev. T. Li nwood Strong, Hon. Canon of Durham, and late rector of Sedgefield, aged 79. THOMPSON.—On the 26th inst., at Cheltenham, Vice-fi miral Sir Thomas R a ik es T r i gge Th ompson, Baronet, aged 61. TUCKER.—On the 26th inst., at Brentford, Middlesex, Mr. Wm. Tucker, aged 60. VINCENT.—On the 27th inst., at Bath, Lieut.-Colonel Geo. Frederick Frank Vincent, aged 72. .oudon : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANUREIVB* of No. 112, Strand, hinter, at Triz SUN ()ince, No. 1 0 ; Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the County of l iiddlelexr7Frlcisy, September 29, 1166. Si Ci T] Jc Ni TI Er DE IJr de] an, add: opi] ces, cits 4 vh cur uni tha one cat ille any of t cer tec tipc alcy TI( reei eve eec sail 'OD 'erg Dri and Bar !ley c;:c