The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

.. I HOLYDAY-MAKERS. (From the Times' Correspondent) BADEN-BADEN, Aug. 31. . cR' Nous appelons cela Bade." Why it should be tie lamat a loss to say. Prussians and English, Italians and Spaniards are content that it should be Baden ; but the French have a peculiar knack of clipping and crippling foreign words, and, withal, of grandly patronising the natives till the latter are fain to submit and accept the French spelling and utterance as correct. I shall never forget the anec dote I heard from an accomplished Prussian diplo matist. He was once at a large dinner party, he said, where he was asked by his French colleague, " A propos, Chevalier, quel est le nom de votre maison regnante de Prusse ?" " Mais, c'est la dynas tic de Hohenzollern," answered the Chevalier. " Justement, je m' en souviens," replied the French man ; nous appelons cela Hohenlohe." What could the Prussian say to that ? Why, what else but what he did ? He bowed his head on his plate and acquiesced. Nous appelons cela Bade." And Bade let it be, for the French muster strong at this " house of call for all nations," and are thoroughly at home in it. The Grand Duchy borders on their own Imperial territory, and was for a long time a hotbed of Gallic notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity, which tarried on the spot, like all fashions taken at second hand, long after they had been thrown aside, as cast-off garments, at the fountain-head. At the pre sent moment a Parisian more or less pure is the language spoken by every third person you meet here on your way. Bade or Baden, I confess I do love the place, and fully understand and appreciate the attrac tion that brings hither no less than 500 new visitors daily, to take by storm its over-crowded hotels. Something to be idle about hero, at least ; something to do towards helping the idlers, and keeping them in countenance. It is not the mere be-studded and be-ringed bourgeoisie of Frankfort, Mayence, Manheim, and Cologne that makes up the majority of the assemblage here as it does at most of the Taunus Spas. We have here a good sprinkling of the upper ten thousand of Lon don, Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg ; every phase of metropolitan life throughout Europe ; all its glare and glitter, without the misery that constitutes the dark side of the picture, though not without some of those somewhat questionable features and shapes which the lover. of the good no less than the beauti ful would rather were left behind—two score thou sand people, most of them burdened with a redund ance of wealth, of which they are at no loss here for the means of ridding themselves. Along the verdant ale'e of the Lichenthal, on the bank of the shallow but pure bubbling stream of the Oos, you have here, in the cool hour of the afternoon, a miniature Hyde Park and Bois de Boulogne, a corso of stylish equi pages, with groups of gallant equestrians and gaily dressed baronesses, princesses, and fraulein, both the genuine and the counterfeit articles, tugging forvery life at the reins of their playfully restiff or fidgetty steeds, from the low seats of their elegant basket pony phaetons or more pretentious barouches. We have concerts in the evening with Patti, at 20f. ; the last of Verdi's operas, with half the Paris, half the Vienna orchestras, in a golden theatre, the lustre of which is out-dazzled by the diamonds of a hundred ladies' tiaras; we have all that taste and luxury can contrive to drown care or beguile sorrow by dint of light, sound, and beauty. But for those who are too familiar with the world's jewel, and rather sick of it, is there not charm enough in the mere casket in which these few months' holiday season sets in ? Is there in the world a spot more highly favoured by nature than Baden? lam a grateful, and perhaps over-dutiful child of the Great Mother, and rather apt to think the charms she exhibits at the present moment un matched by anything she displayed before me yes terday or may feast my eyes with to-morrow. But really this is the Happy Valley, and he must be a very fretful Rasselas indeed who would quarrel with his present abode by dwelling on the recollections of grander sights enjoyed in the past, or indulging vague longings for lovelier scenes in store for him in the future. A town creeping up the side of a hill, so situated as to allow every one of its dwellings as much of God's air and light as heart can desire ; on its heights a lordly residence, barely visible through the glori ous foliage, shading grounds entertained for the de light no more of the Sovereign than of the meanest subject ; and, further up, the dark fir wood, spread ing far and wide over the broad side of a real moun tain, with the ruins of an old castle at the summit, a grand feudal castle, which the tapering stems and the spreading roots of the lofty timber as old as itself have vainly striven to overgrow and to obli terate for centuries —such is the town of Baden. Out of town, up the valley, on every ledge and knoll, on the hill sides, lovely villas which the wealth of Europe has reared, on gardens and parks which the wealth of Europe has spread and tended, delight ful homes far away for miles, everywhere diversify= ing and enlivening, nowhere encumbering, the land scape ; and above all, all round, south, east, and west, the great mantle of the Black Forest, its smooth, rounded hills, with here and there the rifts of its narrow glens, the dusky evergreen of its dense pine woods, enhancing the more vivid verdure of the lower grounds, a verdure just slightly varied here and there by the first brown tints of the nipping autumn. I went up to the Alte Schloss yesterday towards evening. The ascent from the new to the old castle is about one hour's walk, and the summit may be gained by carriages over a long, winding road. I went up on foot and alone, along smooth but rather steep paths, always in the shade of those grand fir trees, which seem to attain greater age and more luxurious growth the higher You go. I went through the portals of the ancient stronghold of the Margraves, passed on from court to court, climbed from one high tower up to a loftier one, and then further up, up, up endless flights of stairs, wonder ing, as the ascent took away my breath, at the giant power of the lords who could pile up such massive structures, one upon another, half-way up to Heaven—wondering whether the stupendous mass so boldly defying the work of Time could be really the same that I had been gazing at from below, and which seemed but a handful of broken stones and rubbish, and seen from afar in the valley. Glorious relic of colossal mediaeval power ! The lord who stood on the platform of the topmost turret surveying the whole valley of the Rhine from Spire to Strasburg, with a view over the vast plain, and the broad river winding through it like a silve r riband th rough a green 'cloth—a view bounded in front only by the French Vosges, and at the back by the mountains of his own Schwartzwald home— the lord who could build his home upon this pinnacle of rocks had no sooner provided for security than by an irresistible impulse he aspired to dominion. All those broad level lands, all those many-spired cities, were his natural prey. To perch on this hawk's nest and not to yield to falcon instincts was beyond human power. The Margr aves of Baden were indeed birds of prey. They were robber knights on a large scale, and the tales of the torture chambers which are even :now thrown open to the curiosity of strangers tell of their ruthless deeds ; while the traditions of the Fehmgericht held in their halls betray their longing to create an imperium in imperio, to give local jurisdiction full develop ment at the expense of the Imperial authority, and pave the way for that sovereignindepen dence of the members which weakened the whole body, that particularismus which doomed the broad Fatherland to endless division and anarchy. Yet the power of the Margraves was not wholly groundel on blood and violence. The time was when the red-and-gold banner of Baden waved fore most in the ranks of the combatants who drove the Turks from the boundaries of the common country. The valour and genius of the Margraves held up against adversities before which the Hapsburgs fell prostrate, and among the tomblthat the stranger is advised to visit at the Pfarrkirche are the monu ments of that Ludwig and of that Leopold Wilhelm who deserved so well of the cause of humanity and of Christendom, and whose swords dried, perhaps, more tears than the tyranny and rapacity of their forefathers had caused to flow. At the back of the old castle, along the brow of the hill, I clambered over the rocks which give so much grandeur to the spot, and which afford so great a delight to the lovers of the picturesque. Like every thing else about Baden, these rocks are set out for the best convenience of strangers, acce3sible in all their steep places by rough but safe stirs, penetra ble in every direction above and beneath, affording as much frolic to the flocks of French girls who were tripping up and down them as they are calculated to inspire with awe a beholder of more earnest mood. From the rocks immediately close to the castle there is a path leading to the Angel and the Devil's Pul pits, two perpendicular ledges, on the brink of which the great advocate and the great enemy of mankind hold forth their perpetual harangues, and plead the never-ending suit, though it is hardly doubtful which of the two disputants has the best of the argument, and which occupies the higher platform and gathers at his feet the larger congregation. SEPTEMBER 1. This is race week at Baden, and I attended the first meeting yesterday in the afternoon. The race course lies at the distance of about one hour's drive down on the plain at Iffesheim, not far from the bank of the Rhine. It is a pleasant, open spot, with green, dry, solid turf, on one side of which rise the Grand Stand, the Royal Pavilion, and that of the Jockey Club, while it is on the other side bounded by white chalky ravines that give it somewhat the look of an amphitheatre. The stand and pavilions were all, more Germanico, decked out with masses of festive evergreen. On the summit of all these buildings waved the colours of Baden, gules and or ; on four posts on the course itself, in long streamers, the same banner of Baden, that of .Prussia, the French tricolour, and the union jack of England. No human wish gratified to the full could ever have contrived a day better calculated for the pur pose immediately before us, or for the mere enjoy ment of existence. The sun had risen in the morn ing perfectly cloudless, but its rays were later in the day so tempered by flitting clouds and by a fresh, healthy breeze, that every drop of blood in the veins of men and horses tingled with vigour and mettle and eagerness for exertion. At a quarter before 2 the first notes of the Baden military band from the top of the Grand Stand were heard, and by 2, or half-past, all the company that intended to grace the festival with their presence had been brought together. There was no very crowded assemblage. Hardly any one had come here except in a carriage, and if I number the vehicles at about 500 I shall not probably be greatly below the mark. That would give an attendance of about 2,000 per sons, and I rather think that was all. They were, however, all that would be called below stairs in England " carriage company." The multitude of Baden, many of its middle ranks, and not a few also of the bathing people, apparently took no interest in the proceedings of the day, and did not show. Anything more enjoyable than a stroll up and down the green before the course, in the midst of those gaily-attired groups, with that lively air fanning one's cheeks, could not be easily con ceived. Draw just such a number of such persons out into the open air, no matter for what object, and you make them sufficiently happy in each other. It was the first time in my whole life that I happened to walk about in an assemblage of both sexes with out heartily, in the inmost of my soul, anathema tising the crinolines. Here we had ample room for the broadest of them, and the sweeping of silk and muslin trains was by no means suggestive of un cleanness here, where they only trailed on the green turf, as smooth and compact as the best drawing room carpet. Seen from a height, as, for instance, from the top of the Grand Stand, all those moving masses of pink, green, and lilac of the ladies' dresses had the effect of an animated parterre of flowers. I will not say anything as to the taste with which the greater number of those stylishly-robed beauties were got up, but the fitting of most dresses was per fect, and reflects the highest credit on the tailor or man-milliner, who in Germany, as elsewhere on the continent, to a great extent supersedes the bungling mantua• maker. The men looked for the most part fresh and tidy. Shooting-jackets and wide-awakes had the upper hand, but white and light colours were frequent, and wore no traces of such little dust as they night have gathered on the road. I saw few or no race-veils or race-coats. None were needed. Mixed with the crowd were groups of officers in glittering uniforms, Prussians, Badensians, mostly Austrians from the neighbouring garrison at Rastadt. All along the ravines on the opposite side there were soldiers of the latter-named nation lying on the ground, and looking at a distance not unlike so many rows of tents pitched on the green. the King and Queen of Prussia drove up in car riages drawn by splended black horses, and took their places in front of the Royal Pavilion. With them were Prince Charles of Prussia, Prince Fre derick William of Hesse, and their suites. I saw in the crowd that notable king of men, Count Bismark Schonhausen, a personage any man, no matter of whatsoever opinion he may be, would at the present day go many miles to catch a glimpse of. I saw the young Duke of Hamilton, and several English gen tlemen riders, and others well known in the sport ing world. The arrivals at Baden in these latter days have been unusually numerous. lam not sure all or many of them were present at the races, though, no doubt, these were a main object of attraction ; but among those who came in yesterday or the day before were the Hon. G. J. R. Gordon (her Majesty's Minister at Stuttgart), Gen. Sir F. Love, Col. Fraser, Capt. Macdonald, the Marquis of Blandford, Captain C. D. Manning, Viscount Dunlo, Sir Watkin Wynn, Captain Rowley, &c. Conspicuous among the crowd were Count Lagrange and a Maltese who broke the bank the other day. Soon after half-past 2 they were making ready for the first race, and an attempt at betting was made before the Jockey Club Pavilion. I heard frequent bidding of a louis, or cinquante francs, moderate sums, which can be won or lost without great emo tion. " Ponies" and " monkeys" seem to be un known words at Baden-Baden. Five horses ran the first race, Prix de la Favorite, three-year-olds, for 1,500 f., 25f. sttkes, 1,500 metres' distance. They were M. Desvigne's Perle, M. Delamarre's Anecdote, Count Dampierre's Jar nicoton, M. A. Lupin's Vaucresson, and Count La grange's Brioche. The bets against the latter were 7to 4. Anecdote and Vaucresson took the lead, followed by Brioche at two lengths' distance, and came in almost together, Vaucresson best. The second race, Prix de la Foret Noire, three year-olds, 2,400 metres' distance, for 2,000 f., was contested by four horses —M. IL L. Noblee's Go ram, ex (Enone, Count G. Lehndorff's Said, M. Delamarre's Coloquinte, and Count Lagrange's Le Fronde. Said, the favourite, won, easily, in ad vance of his rivals by about 20 metres, from first to last, with hardly any strain on his powers, which would fit him for a nobler contest. The third trial was made by five horses. This was the Prix d'lffesheim, 3,000 f., three year olds, 3,200 metres in length. The horse were Count Lagrange's Doge, Count Lehndorff's Fontenoy, M. Delamarre's Vera Cruz, M. A. Voisin's Le Dieu Mars, and Major Fridolin's Touriste, who kept it up with great spirit from beginning to end, and came in s o c l ose l y toget h er t h at th e nearest spec tators proclaimed Touriste as the winner, when the erumpiresContinental, gave s en t ence i n f avour o f D oge. It was not merely neck-anda n o T se h - eansdt-.notLg race. neck, it was almost a ontinental, for 10,000 f three year olds, 3,000 met res distance , " e, was the great race of the day. Only three horses were entered, Count Lagrange's Mandarin, M. Fridolin's Gontran, and M. A. Lupin's Tourmalet. Gontran and Tour malet stretched out at a grand pace from the out set, and tried to outdo each other, to the intense delight of the spectators, the suffrages of most of whom were evidently in favour of Gontran. Al an _ 7 f o llowed at about three darin, ridden by Grimshavi , lengths behind, close to the ropes, husbanding his forces, and watching the chances of the game. When at about 20 metres from the winning post, Mandarin seemed to wake up suddenly, and by two or three mighty strides closed the gap between him and his competitors, coming up with them. There was now a cry of " Mandarin ! Mandarin !" from the entranced spectators, and the noble crea ture, as if inspirited by the shouts, and answering the call, bounded past both his wearied antagonists, and carried a victory which was certainly due no less to the powers of the horse than to the consum mate skill of the rider. The fifth and last race, by gentlemen riders, Prix de Rastadt, for 1,500 f., three-year-olds, 1,200 metres distance, was run by five horses—Count La grange's Yamuna, ridden by M. de St. Germain ; M. G. Flersheim's Schooner ; Count Dampierre's Benjamin, ridden by Captain Hunt; M.de Reiset's Tambour de Basque, ridden by Mr. C. Howarth ; Count Lehndorff rode his own horse Gaulois. This gentleman, tall, strong-built, and well adapted by nature to all manly exercises, with a set of features and the hair of a real son of Arminius, came up at the head of the troop, his good horse securing in his favour an advantage of which the rider seemed scarcely aware. Up he came in a state of hot ex citement, severely lashing the noble animal, which seemed scarcely to need such punishment and was brought to the winning post an easy conqueror, enjoying, no doubt, his success with an exultation which would have been in some measure damped had he heard, as I did, the comments that were passed on his style of riding by competent judges about me. The meeting was over at five o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1865. Murder of a Woman. At the Southwark Police-court yesterday, Henry Rick man, 31, labourer, employed at Hartley's Wharf, was placed at the bar before Mr. Woolrych, charged with the wilful murder of Sarah Scott, a widow with whom he resided, at No. 3, White's-grounds, Bermondsey. The prisoner, who seemed to feel his perilous position very acutely, was allowed to be seated during the examination. Mr. Philip Raymond was the first witness called. Ho said,—l am an inspector of the M division of police. On Saturday night, about 6 o'clock, I was on duty in the Bermondsey station-house, when the prisoner was brought in by 308 M, charged with causing the death of Sarah Scott. After I had entered the charge on the charge-sheet the prisoner commenced making a statement. I cautioned him not to say anything unless he liked, and told him that whatever he said I should take down in writing, and it might be used against him at another place. The prisoner said he wished to make a statement, and I wrote down as follows : "The deceased Sarah Scott has lived with me at 3, White's-grounds, four years. Her husband died four years ago. On Saturday evening we had no dispute. When I came in I saw she was the worse for liquor, and that there was no fire. I said, ' Why don't you get my tea ?' She mut tered something which I could not hear, and I could not tell what she said. I said to her, ' Any ways, you will suffer for this ; 'tis not the first or second time you served me so.' While she was trying to light the fire I got out of temper, and struck her, when she fell and I kicked her with my foot, and I think that the heel of my boot must have made a gash in her head and caused her death. I then went into the yard, and when I came again into the house I found she had not moved. I lifted her up and found that she was in sensible. I found life was gone from her. I laid her head on a small block of wood and sent for a doctor by my next door neighbour. I fancy she was led away by Mrs. Lapthorne, living at No. 2, White's-grounds. The deceased had two children by her husband." Mr. Woolrych—Were these voluntary statements, with out any questions from you ? Inspector Raymond—They were, Sir, as I strictly cau tioned him before I took it down in writing. Mr. Woolrych—Who keeps the house ? Inspector Raymond—The prisoner pays the rent, and occupied it with the deceased and her children. After I had taken down his statement I proceeded to the house and saw the dead body of Sarah Scott. Dr. Evans, the divisional surgeon, was sent for and examined the body while I was there. I saw bruises and wounds on her head. Mr. Woolrych (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask the inspector any questions ? Prisoner—No, Sir. It is just what I told him. Inspector Raymond—When I returned to the station house the prisoner told me that the deceased had been cutting wood with a knife (produced), which I found had blood on it ; but I don't know that the wounds were caused by that. I took the boots produced from the prisoner's feet, and I found blood on the inner edge of -the iron heel of the right foot. Samuel Congdon, police-sergeant, 16 M, an old Crimean officer, said—On Saturday evening, a little before 6 o'clock, I was on duty in Bermondsey-street, when I received in formation that a woman had been murdered at No. 3, White's-grounds. I proceeded there And saw a woman lying on the floor with her head resting on a block of wood. She was quite dead. I saw an incised wound on her right forehead, and on looking round I found at her feet a small table knife, the blade of which had blood on it. There was some wood lying about, which appeared to have been re cently cut. I took the knife to the police-station, and while showing it to the inspector in the prisoner's presence, he said, " I did not do it with that, but with a kick." James Haynes, 308 M, said—On Saturday evening, about a quarter to 6, I was on duty at the police-station in Ber mondsey-street, when a gentleman came to me, and, from a communication received from him I went to N 0.3, White's grounds. A Mrs. Gregory admitted me into the house, and I asked her what was the matter, when she pointed to the floor, and I then saw deceased lying apparently dead. The prisoner was sitting on a chair by her side, holding herright hand in his. I said, " Who did this ?" The prisoner ex claimed, "I did." I told him to be careful what he said, as whatever he said I should have to say again before the ma gistrate. The prisoner said, " I know that, but I want to tell you all." He then said that deceased was drunk when he came home, and had neither provided his tea nor had any fire. (Witness then repeated the statement taken down by Inspector Raymond at the station-house.) After he had said so I took him into custody. Sarah Ann Gregory, wife of Richard Gregory, said—l live at 4, White's-grounds. On Saturday evening a little after 6 o'clock I saw the prisoner coming to my door. Ho came up to me and asked me to step into his house for a minute or two. I accompanied him, and in the front room I saw Mrs. Scott lying on the floor, and the prisoner raised her head. I said " Dear me, what have you done ?" as I thought she was dead. The prisoner called out, " Run for a doctor 1" I went out and sent for one. I know prisoner to be a very hard- working, sober man, but the deceased was very intemperate in her habits. Mr. Woolrych—llad you seen her alive in the course of the day? Witness—l had not, Sir. Mr. Thomas Evans, the divisional surgeon of the M division, said—l was called to No. 3, White's-grounds on Saturday evening a little after 6 o'clock, when I saw the deceased, Sarah Scott, lying on her back on the floor, with hor head resting on a block of wood. She was quite dead. I made a superficial examination of the deceased, and found severe contusions on the left brow, just above the eyo, and a wound on the back of the head. It was au incised wound an inch and a half in length, penetrating to the bone, the scalp being separated from the cranium. There was not much bleeding. Mr. Woolrich—Can you tell the cause of death ? Mr. Evans—No, Sir ; not until I have mado a post mortem examination. It may possibly be congestion of the brain. Mr. WooliTch—Are you going to make a post nzortent examination of the body ? Mr. Evans—Yes, Sir; I have just received orders from the Coroner, and directions to report the same at the in quest. I have examined the prisoner's boots, produced, and on the inside part of the right heel I have discerned blood. I think the wound at tho back of the head might have been caused by the iron heel of that boot. Mr. Woolrych (to the prisoner) —Have you anything to say why you should not be remanded until after the inquest ? Prisoner—l have nothing to say, Sir. Mr. Woolrych—Then you are remanded. The prisoner, who seemed very much depressed in spirits, was then removed to Horsemonger-lane Gaol. The Frauds on the Birmingham Banking Company. Yesterday Benjamin Taylor, of 67, Camden-street, Bir mingham, boot-uppermaker, and Henry Kelly, 18, Grove street, Camden-town, builder, were brought up on remand before the Lord Mayor, at the Justice-room of the Mansion house, on a charge of having, in the month of May last, in the city of London, unlawfully conspired, combined, and confederated together, by divers false pretences, falsely and fraudulently to obtain to themselves, and in pursuance thereof unlawfully did obtain, from the Birmingham Bank ing Company large sums of money, about £2,400, with in tent to defraud them of the same. Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Lewis and Lewis, solicitors, of Ely-place, appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. M. Williams, barrister, defended Taylor, and the other prisoner was undefended. The circumstances of this case have been brought so fre quently before the public that it is unnecessary to say more than that the prisoner Taylor obtained the assent of the Birmingham Banking Company to pass into their establish ment good trade bills to a large amount, with liberty to draw upon them to an equal amount. lie then, in conjunc tion with Belly, opened several offices in London, and drew several bills which purported to have been accepted by somo genuine and by many fictitious firms, all of which have turned out to be worthless. The names of the genuine firms have been proved to be forgeries. These bills werepassed into the bank by Taylor, who drew cheques for their full amount, and these cheques were duly cashed, and in the result the bank alleges that it has been defrauded to the extent mentioned—about £2,400. There was a great deal of evidence taken yesterday with the view of showing the ramifications of the fraud. Mr. Wm. Smith, an engraver and printer, of 33, Alder manbury, said that two persons, whom he could not iden tify to be the prisoners, had taken an office from him in October last, at a rent of 255. a month. They paid him up to March, and left in June. They did not carry on any business so far as he could see. They called themselves Sitchell and Forster, and put up a plate on the doorpost of " Sitchell, Forster, and Co., artificial stone agents." They merely called for their letters. Mrs. Mary Rogers, of 2, Winchester-buildings, said a person named Davis took a room from her as an office, at a rent of £l4 a year and £5 for cleaning. It was on the third floor. The name " Albert Davies and Co." was put up on the door. lie said he dealt in fancy goods from Ber lin. He left in June last, but only paid her a quarter's rent. That was paid partly in money and partly in 1 cwt. of soap. A great many parties came to see him every day, and a man named Streamer seemed to be the factotum of the concern. Mr. E. Parker Champion said that in January last a per son named Brewer, who was accompanied by the prisoner Kelly, had taken an office from him. Mr. Charles 0. Burgess know the handwriting of Wm. Farnham, who was connected with tho prisoners. The two acceptances now handed to witness were signed by Brewer, but were in reality written by Farnham, and it now ap peared that Brewer was Farnham. Mr. G. W. Wyman, of Sussex-street, Plumpstead-road, Woolwich, said he was engaged by Kelly to manage a boot and shoe shop at 285, High-street, Camden-town. The namo "Ross and Co." was placed over the door, but there was no Mr. Ross connected with the business. All the let ters which came for Ross and Co. were handed to Kelly. Mr. J. G. Coke, of Laclywood-grove, Birmingham, saw an advertisement in the Birmingham Daily Post for a tra veller and agent, and was induced by it to come to London and visit 36 and 37, Langbourne-chambers, Fenchurch street, where the name of "Frederick Reeves and Co." was Railway and other Companies• PEMBROKE AND TENBY. The half-yearly meeting was held at Tenby on Wednesday, Mr. W. Owen in the chair. The report stated that the line had been satis factorily worked under the agreement with Messrs. Davies and Roberts, and the traffic had largely in creased. A dividend was recommended at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the half-year. The works on the Whitland extension were being rapidly pushed forward, and the line to the Begelly coal field was expected to be opened in October. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they were negotiating with the Great Western Company to lay down a narrow-gauge line on part of the South Wales, and unless they succeeded they must have an independent line of their own. Mr. HULME seconded the adoption of the report, which was agreed to. A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was unanimously declared for the half-year ; Mr. Owen and Captain Jackson were re-elected direc tors of the company, and Mr. Greenish was re elected auditor. PENART 11. The half-yearly meeting was held at the offices, Penarth, Cardiff, on Thursday—Mr. J. H. Insole in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, stated that the docks were in the hands of the Taff Vale Railway Company since the Ist of July, and the interest of 41 per cent. on the ordinary capital expended in construction would commence from that date. The report was unanimously adopted, and a divi dend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was de clared on the preference shares, leaving a balance of £ll4 to be carried forward to the next account. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, and LINCOLNSHIRE. The total expenses of this company's railways, and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from the Isc of July to the 27th of Aust, 1865, amounted to 71,869, as against £66,702 for the correspond ing period of 1864. The proportion of the South Junction receipts according to this company from Ist of July to the 27th of August amounted to £6,703, as against £6,542 for the corresponding period of 1864, and the expenses to £2,736, as against £2,735. LAMBETH-BRIDGE. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Great George-street, Westminster ; Lord Torrington in the chair. The Secretary read the notice convening the meet ing, and also a statement in reply to recent inquiries of shareholders, from which it appeared that only one auditor had signed the accounts, the other audi tor being absent in Scotland. The bridge was in a sound state, the only requirement during the last six months being the painting the underneath part of the roadway. The expenditure on capital account to the 30th of June was £45,749, towards which they had received from the London Gas Company £2,276, leaving £43,473 as the net expenditure. The receipts amounted to £31,684 on shares and £lO,OOO on loan, together £41,684, showing an ex cess of expenditure over receipts of £1,789. The assets were 924 shares of £9 each, making £8,316, on a certain number of which the £9 per share could not be recovered, leaving £4,948 assets being reco verable, which, with surplus lands and other mat ters, amounted to £6,214; the liabilities amounted• to £6,183, leaving a surplus of £3l. The engineer had estimated the cost of the bridge at £41,000, but the actual cost would be nearer £50,000. The un paid calls would form a fund to pay off the liabili ties. The present lease of the tolls would end on Nov. 17 next, and the directors were of opinion that the tolls would never pay less than 5 per cent. per annum to the shareholders. Mr. DAVIES, the lessee, said he doubted that statement. The Secretary stated they had a reserve of £2,000 in hand, which would be available to make up that dividend if requisite. There were only two direc tors on the board since the death of Mr. Wodehouse, and the company had not suffered any loss from this, but rather gained as far as fees were concerned. The books were open to the inspection of the shareholders. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report (an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun), said he was very much surprised on his return to London, after an absence of nine days, to hear that a few little differences had arisen between some of the shareholders, and that they had expressed dissatisfaction as to something that required expla nation. The company had been established about five years, and during that time the shareholders had at various meetings expressed satisfaction at the policy of the board. The directors had on this occasion recommended a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and expressed a belief that the dividend of the company would never be less than 5 per cent. Mr. DAVIES said the net revenue would not pay 4 per cent. He contended that they should have three directors instead of two, and two auditors instead of one, in order to make their proceedings legal. The calls to the amount of £9 per share should be made on all the shareholders alike, and be paid by them. He moved an amendment to the effect that themeet ing be adjourned until the requiremants of the act of Parliament as to the number of directors and au ditors were complied with. He held £5,000, or one sixth of the capital, and had lost £7,000 by the gua rantee of tolls to the company, and if he should have to pay £l,BOO more on shares which he was told when he took them would never be called up beyond the £1 deposit, he would hold one-fourth of the capital of the company. He had shown his books from time to time to Mr. Barlow as to every half penny that had been received from tolls on the bridge from the commencement, and he could prove his statement. Mr. GOSSET seconded the amendment. He said that, as Mr. Barlow and Mr. Davies were the largest shareholders in the company, he was anxious to prevent the squandering of money in law, and if possible to bring about an amicable and equitable settlement of differences at present existing in the company. He thought there should be "five directors instead of two, and that their remuneration should not be more than £l5O per annum. A very long discussion ensued, in the course of which it was agreed to withdraw the amendment, and to adjourn the meeting to that day three weeks, with the understanding that no call should be made The e e in the i n t erva l . T t proceedings conclud e d w ith a vo t e o f th an k s to chairman, and the meeting adjourned ac cordingly. ADIrERTISEMENT.]-110119 1 complaints 7erU b ß i i le tou a s nd an li d ve L r way's Pills: 2 A Remedy for Complaints.—Those who suffer from doses a ld nf tr l y vhi t c h h e l e v ff il e l e m ts ak of e this the removean all t impurities, continue the valuable remedy, a few d allowed ed to s t re ngthen sufferer feel elastic and vigorous, give a heal f th h y ilie n u et s io a n tta t e o ka th he e stomach. with out using such a preventive more serious casual l j e esma arise, and the sufferer may be consigned to a bed of sick ness. Holloway's Pills are an extraordinary remedy, acting immediately in the removal of acidity of the stomach, indigestion, debility, and nausea, preparing food thoroughly for assimilation, rendering each tributary organ perfect in its functions, and stimulating the kidneys. painted up. He there saw Kelly, who represented himself to be Reeves, and he also saw a tall clerk, who was said to be Mr. Hamilton. Kelly engaged him to purchase general hardware goods and the manufactures of Birmingham and the surrounding neighbourhood. Witness asked for refer ences, and was given the name of the prisoner Taylor, who was represented to be in the indiarubber trade. He went back to Birmingham with instructions to purchase goods to the amount of £l5O or £2OO for Reeves and Co, He gave an order for £l5O worth of iron bedsteads, but as matters at headquarters did not appear to go on satis factorily, he gave no further orders, and he stopped the bedstead order from being executed. He called at Taylor's place, Birmingham, but failed to see him, as it was said he was in London. On July 12 he received a letter from Hamilton, dated Langbourne-chambers. Hamilton was about 85 years of age, with a nose a little on one side. In cross-examination, witness said he had never seen Taylor before the present time, and that he (Taylor) was said to be the employer of 200 hands in Birmingham. Mr. Edmond W. P. Taunton said he carried on business in electro-platod articles at 46, Broad-street, Birmingham. He received an order on the 30th Juno last from Reeves and Co. for an assortment of electro-plated goods to the amount of £BO or £lOO. That order came direct from Lon don through his agent. The reference in it was to the pri soner Taylor. Witness wrote to Taylor to know something of Reeves and Co., but received no reply. Ho then offered to deliver the goods for cash, but he never heard anything more from Reeves and Co., and the order was not executed. Mr. Thomas Lamb Smith stated that he carried on busi ness at Worcester with Mr. Macnaught as a carriage manu facturer. He received an order from Reeves and Co., on the 22d of June, for a phaeton or a dogcart, and a set of plated harness, with a reference to the prisoner Taylor, and also to a person named Winkworth, of Northampton. Witness wrote to Taylor and Winkworth to inquire about Reeves and Co., but answers were not returned, and the dogcart and harness were in consequence not sent. Mr. Frederick Hughes, who is in the employment of his father, a carpet manufacturer, at Kidderminster, received an order from Reeves and Co. for goods suitable for ship ment to Canada. He was in London at the time and saw Kelly, who was introduced to him as Mr. Reeves, and he gave an order to him for about £6O worth of carpets, with a reference to the prisoner Taylor. Witness wrote to Taylor to learn something about Reeves, and there was no reply, and the goods were not forwarded. Mr. Burgess was recalled, and he proved that the letter purporting to have been sent by Hamilton to Mr. Coke was written by Farnham, and that the several orders given for the electro-plate, harness, and carpets by Reeves and Co. were also written by Farnham. He also proved that the letter-book found in the office of Reeves and Co., and which consisted entirely of orders for goods, was entirely in Farn ham's handwriting. Detective Henry Webb said that two days after the ap prehension of the prisoners he went to the office in Lang bourne-chambers and searched it. He found there a letter book, four ledgers, a cash-book, and an index-book. He also found a great quantity of stationery, with the name of Reeves and Co., Langbourne-chambers, on it, and there were besides in the office the Directories of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Derby. The man Hamilton, alias Farnham, whose nose was crooked, as described, was in and out, and he was also seen at the residence of Kelly, at Grove-street, Camden-town, but he had since disap peared. On searching Taylor, six letters were found upon him from parties asking about the respectability of Reeves and Co. There were also found upon him several copies of a prospectus for the formation of a company to purchase his upper-boot establishment in Birmingham, and guaran teeing a dividend to the shareholders of 10 per cent. A copy of the agreement was also found upon him for the taking of the office in Langbourne-chambers. Mr. Lewis here intimated that it was not his intention to produce any further evidence for the prosecution. Mr. M. Williams said that at the proper time he should be prepared to prove that Taylor was a mere dupe in this conspiracy, but now he presumed it was intended to com mit him for trial. The Lord Mayor said that was undoubtedly his Inten- Mr. M. Williams asked whether Taylor would be admit ted to bail. The Lord Mayor replied—Certainly not, and remanded the prisoners until Thursday, in order that the whole of the depositions, which are very voluminous, might be read over and signed by the various witnesses, previous to the pri soners being committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.--We are neither contagionists nor non contagionists, and should be very sorry to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the champion of either theory. We may even go further ; for we have already committed ourselves to measures of exclu sion and insulation—insisting, however, at the same time, that our principal security must be in keeping ourselves and our cattle healthy and strong, and in a general war with all manner of nuisances. This is to accept what is reasonable of both theories, and not to mount one hobby in order to ride down the other. We are ready to admit that there are specific poisons, and that there may be one in the case of this cattle disease, which, under conspiring circum stances, and in a predisposed state, may produce a disease difficult to cure. The very evidence offered by the gentlemen who are loudest for the theory of a Russian pest proves that the exciting cause, that is, the infection, has very little influence in a healthy and undisposed state. According to this theory a particular cargo has entered the country from an infected quarter, and has diffused itself so far and wide over the country, infecting herds, stables, rail way trucks, sidings, fields, and common roads, as to be accountable for all the losses we hear of. If it has done so much mischief, why not more, and why are any of our cattle spared to us ? The loss is certainly trifling compared with the whole stock, and the plague is certainly not increasing, though the weather is unusually hot and close for this time of the year. It is evident that an overpowering proportion—say, forty-nine out of fifty, have with stood an infection which we have been told is uni versally disseminated. The reason of this exemp tion must be in themselves, and not in accidental circumstances. The cattle are healthy and strong, and the supposed virus is only a fleabite compared with the whole stock of vitality. There is a quantum of health and strength, combined, pos sibly, with special powers of resistance, which will enable a man to move about in a plague and take no harm. No doubt there is some degree of mystery in such escapes. But the great thing is health and strength, and the outward circumstances that produce health and strength. It is sheer folly, if not worse, to let the earth reek with deleterious gases that lower the system and envenom the blood, to neglect personal cleanliness, to let the pores of the skin be closed, to leave the body by a low diet and an excessive use of stimulants liable to fits of pros tration and collapse, and then to charge on an un known utterly impalpable agent the natural results of a bad system. It may not be possible for any one man to secure perfect immunity from the pest that destroys all around; but it is a fact that the saine pest that decimat es th e m i sera bl e popu l at i ons of filthy cities will only strike a few score, and those not so fatally, where there is not so much misery and dirt. O i n the extre me th eory o f con t ag i on Eng land itself s an infected house, in which insulation is almost impossible as between one inmate and another. Within its shores it is impossible to pre vent contagion or infection. Any individual might, perhaps, insulate his own stock by an amount of care and precaution incompatible with profit, but very few individuals will do this, and the very wind, it is alleged, carries the infection. Undoubtedly one may smell a cigar a hundred yards at least, and so far travels the breath of the smoker, with all the less fragrant but perhaps equally substantial matter with which that breath may be charged. So far as regards the present epidemic, by this time the disease is naturalised. This compels us to direct, practically, all our attention to the sanitary part of the matter. Accordingly we are not surprised to be reminded by a vigil an t f unc ti onar y, th a t if there be noim provement in the state of the dairies and cattle stalls about the metropolis, the disease will pro bably break out afresh, with increased fury, when they come to be filled again to their proper comple ment. In fact, all now depends on the disposing causes, and where there exists the magazine of lethal influences the plague sparks flying about are sure to give it deadly activity. For our part we can truly say that we are only surprised there is not always a cattle disease in this country, and particu larly in this country. People talk of Siberia, of the swampy banks of the Volga, of Southern Russia and the Danubian Principalities, and no doubt a marsh must be bad lying by night, and a burning sun with swarms of venomous insects un pleasant by day. But we should doubt whether they are much worse than the continual closeness, the stench, and the very artificial food of a London dairy, and a good many stables, where there is less excuse for heat and dirt. If, as is suspected, it should turn out that these abominations are the nest of in fection, and the disease is fostered in them, revived in them, and disseminated from them, it is time to put them under proper control. It is of no use to place inspectors at landing quays and at markets if there is to be no inspection at the very manufac tories and reservoirs of the plague—carried, as we are told it is, and as we can well believe, by the saliva, the excreta, and the far-travelling breath of the diseased cattle. There is another point to which it is high ti me our sc i en tifi c agr i cu l tur i s t s s h ou ld give a little attention. They boast, not without reason, that they ha v e achie ve d marve l s i n the crea tion of the varieties best suited for human use. All our cattle are now forced to a premature develop ment, a precocious obesity, and a f orm that chimes in with a rather artificial idea of animal beauty. This is done by suitable feeding and crossing, and by a manner of life which certainly is not natural. Now, the case of animals cannot be so very different from that of human beings. So we may venture to ask how this treatment would answer in their case. What if human beings could, by any diet and ma nagement, be made men and women, as to bulk, at 14 or earlier ? What if they were pampered and stuffed, shut up in a high temperature, kept without exercise, and, if possible, without even passion or excitement ? We cannot think this would be favour able for health and strength, and we should certainly think it not unlikely that such beings would fall early victims to some dangerous epidemic. The breed would certainly become weaker, and even if the favoured specimens flourished after their fashion, the less fortunate, inheriting constitutions weakened by this treatment, would not be so well able to resist morbid influences as a more hardy class. We ask, then, whether there may not be this danger in the present direction of agricultural science, which is to produce the greatest quantity of food in the shortest possible time. The consumption of fresh meat is enormous and still increasing, for every class will get meat if it can, and thinks itself hardly used if he cannot. The price of meat is the chief reason of " strikes," as neither bread, nor clothing, nor even lodging, is high enough to make a griev ance. Meat is almost the only thing that is appa rently safe from the fluctuations that old house keepers tell us of. So how to make meat cheaply and expeditiously, and how to turn over the capital quickly, is now the great object of scientific hus bandry. Be it so. We shall not presume to cri ticize a process in which John Bull is supposed to be so deeply interested, and in which we certainly should have all his family against us. We only ask the question as we have been asked it,—Are animals thus forced and thus unnaturally developed as likely to resist deleterious influences—are they as likely to be safe from typhoid infection, as animals more in a state of nature, and therefore more hardy ? We should only be too glad to find that the misgiving is quite groundless, and that what is commercially profitable i s also favourable to physical health - and strength, POST.—The autumnal railway " campaign" seems to set in again with its usual excitement,- inconve nience, and fatality, Indeed, if a dispassionate examination of the casualties is made—as disclosed in an appalling list of killed and wounded—which this year have signalised the endeavour of directors to swell their dividends by the questionable pres sure of " excursion trains," the military term which we have applied to their proceedings will convey but a mild idea of the disastrous dangers incurred in what ought to be pleasant journeys, characterised by a due combination of speed and security. But the recurring approach of those periods of the year when the great mass of the working classes are allowed their scanty holidays, and are supposed to have laid by a little hoard devoted to their gratification exercises a fatal influ ence. There are railway directors unable to with stand the temptation of directing a partial flow of that genial stream over their own pastures. Excur sion trains become more profitable than ordinary traffic, usurp their place, and disturb their order. Increased business on the line produces inevitable confusion, confusion ends in disaster, and the results of Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, and the " Dog days," may be confidently traced in immediate in quests, subsequent actions for compensation, and the half-yearly confession of mistaken economy in reduced dividends. What the Staplehurst accident altogether cost the South-Eastern Company, what was " set off" first and last for the terrible disaster on the Shrewsbury line, has been hitherto shrouded in prudent mystery. But onlylastweek the " report " of another company admitted that £50,000 had been devoted to an " unto ward event" of this nature. Though it is true that the train which flew over the bridge at Staplehurst was " tidal," and not " excursion," it detracts but little from our proposi tion, for it is notorious that nineteen out of every twenty calamities of this nature, which of late years have spread dismay among railway travellers, have been, either directly or indirectly, traceable to the immoderate and careless use of this dangerous expedient for profit. If not happening to the excur sion trains themselves—though that has been gene rally the case—the "accident," or rather the " moral certainty," is always to be tracked up to the delay, the haste, the confusion, and, above all, the unfair strain upon the strength of the officials, which this additional and precarious work entails. We should have imagined that the losing game which has thus unequivocally been played by so many companies would open the eyes of all to the necessity of reducing their hand at speculation within rational limits. It might have been taken for granted that the lives and limbs of her Majesty's subjects would thus obtain some further security from the commercial prudence even of railway boards. But the facts will not bear us out. The excursion season is again in full swing. The columns of the public journals teem with advertise , ments on the subject. Gigantic posters on every hoarding offer a transit to anywhere almost for nothing, and it would be marvellous indeed if the weary London citizen could withstand such tempta tions to gaze even for a few hours on the blue sea, or to revel, but for an afternoon, among hills and valleys, rocks and woods, of " real country." But those to whom the public interests are a care can not but see the danger inevitably contingent on the abuse of this system. They have a right to demand that it shall be so limited and supervised that, whilst it provides recreation, fairly enough earned, Heaven knows, for the working classes, it shall not en danger the safety of any. Their interference with that view is only too apropos of the present period, since within the last few days of these dreaded events, the one directly, the other indirectly, pro ceeding from this increasing system, have occurred. On Wednesday, at the Colney Hatch Station on the Great Northern line, there occurred a" colli sion." The word has become familiar enough; but only those so unfortunate as have been included in one can picture to themselves the awful reality of such an incident. On Wednesday a train, luckily reduced by the imminent danger to a speed of only 12 miles an hour, ran into a coal train standing at the station. It smashed the coal trucks all to pieces, and scattered them all over the line. .Of course, in doing so, it inflicted frightful damage on its own inmates. In one instant, between 50 and 60 indi viduals lay lacerated and stunned amongst the chaos of wood and iron. Some were jammed in the broken timber of the carriages, others unable to move from the frightful nature of their injuries, and many, alas ! stricken with that spinal " shock" which so frequently, on such occasions, ends in paralysis,oblindness, and loss of all mental vigour. Now, the train was an excursion train. The coal train in front of it had evidently but just time allowed to precede it in safety. But in attempting to start from the station, some thing gave way, and before there was time to shunt it the excursion train dashed into it. As far as can be at present ascertained, no blame can be traced to either the drivers of the respective trains or to the officials at the station. All did their utmost in the way of signals and breaks to mitigate the inevitable collision, and the breakage which caused it was clearly beyond their control. But a deep responsi bility lies with those who allowed the two trains to travel so close to each other—a proximity plainly owing to the intrusion of an excursion train—and nothing short of a judicial investigation into the matter, in all its bearings, with a view to future remedy against such disasters, ought to satisfy the public mind that a due regard is accorded by the Government to their interests. The second calamity of the same nature to which we allude presented still more painful features ; for it was caused not only by the unwarrantable crowding of the line by the managers, but also by the most reckless and re prehensible behaviour on the part of one of their servants. On Saturday last a train from Liverpool was due at Wolverhampton at 10.5 p.m. It was a quarter of an hour late. Nearly at the same time was due, at the same station, a train from Walsall. But that was late also. Naturally in this crisis two trains both late, and both momentarily expected— one would have supposed that some extra means or other would be taken to prevent the possibility of a collision, which otherwise would only be too pro bable. The ordinary signals, however, seem alone to have been used, and these, by some unaccount able madness on the part of the driver on the Wall sall train, were utterly disregarded. Though he was bound to stop at that station, and though the ordinary danger signals were " on," he ignored all, and dashed at full speed into the Liverpool train, which had arrived there a minute or two before him. The return of the " killed and wounded" in this instance has not yet been re ceived, but its extent may in some measure be inferred from the fact that some eight or nine of the sufferers are lying at different hotels in the town. Now, this is rather a wholesale commence ment of the autumnal " campaign." What it will arrive at if the weather continues " settled," the hospitals and the Registrar-General alone will be able to tell. That it all arises from the overcrowd ing of the lines, is as plain as the bright sun that is blazing over our heads, and which lures on the directors to " more excursions." For it is the reckless and injudicious intrusion of the excursion trains which are the last feather that breaks the managerial back of the best conducted lines. We are far from objecting to the institution of them itself. On the contrary, we hold them to be a bounden duty on the part of railway companies, a privilege due to the working classes of the realm, in return for the privileges granted to these com panies by the Legislature. But their ordinance ought to be regulated by a discretion far more felicitous than any which has yet been extended to them. They have, doubtless, been designed as sources of enjoyment, but it is no exaggeration to say that they have proved the origin of more per sonal suffering and domestic misery than could be conceived possible from a scheme so well adapted both for profit and pleasure. It is all owing merely to mismanagement, but that mismanagement is becoming too serious to be overlooked. If the directors will not extend due care to the interests of their shareholders, but will continue to lay such odds against an event which is more than probable, and which, if it does happen, is next door to ruin, it is high time for the guardians of the public in terests to interfere on behalf of life and limb, which are sorely perilled in the venture. But whether railways gain or not, it is clear that neither excur sionists nor ordinary travellers should be subject to the hazard which a reckless auri fames thus imposes on them. The excursion season is on ; if the direc tors will not employ it discreetly and judiciously, they must be compelled to do so. tion. Sunday Trains in Scotland. On Sunday, in accordance with the public announce ments, three passenger trains were run each way on the Edinburgh and Glasgow section of the North British Railway, and the results so far show that these trains are likely to be appreciated and used by the public, while the number, respectable appearance, and quiet and orderly de meanour of the passengers, prove, at the same time, the utter groundlessness of the fears professed in certain quarters. The first ordinary train from Edinburgh, which left at 8 o'clock, took about seventy passengers of all daises, set down and took up passengers at the inter mediate stations, and arrived in Glasgow with about sixty passengers. The express train, in continuation of the night express from London, left at 9 a.m., with several passengers who had booked through from England to Glasgow, and about twenty other passengers who booked at Edinburgh. The evening parliamentary train from Edinburgh started with rather a larger number of passen gers than the morning parliamentary train. The ordinary train from Glasgow in the morning brought nearly a hun dred passengers, many of whom, however, were persons from short distances, apparently going to church. The second ordinary train at night, arriving in Edinburgh shortly after seven o'clock, brought about 120 passengers, besides setting down and taking up at all the stations. The night express train from Glasgow, which arrived here at ten o'clock, conveyed about 30 passengers to Edin burgh, and nine or ten through passengers. In tho two ordinary trains each way there wore all classes of passen gers, but the greater proportion travelled third class. All the passengers were highly respectable in appearance and behaviour. The only appearance of anything like Sabbath desecration, and the only symptoms of any thing like disorder, arose out of the loud denunciations of three street-preachers, who about six o'clock gathered a large crowd of people around them opposite the entrance to the station, to hear them holding forth against Sunday trains with more noise and gesture than sense or effect. Pointing to the train that starts about six o'clock, one of the preachers—an old man, with two boards hanging on his shoulders, walking advertisement fashion, on which were printed, "Testimony against the Edinburgh and Glasgow apostate Railway Company," and several Scrip ture texts—cried out, " There they go to hell at a penny a mile." Cries of " Shame," " Over the bridge with him," loud :cheers, groans, and laughter followed this remark. After denouncing the railway company and the people who travelled by the Sunday trains in the most extrava gant terms, the preacher got the length of abusing the Scotsman. It was characterised as " that ungodly paper the Scotsman," " that graceless newspaper," &c., and woe unutterable was graciously prophesied as its doom. We are sorry to say that the crowd, excited by these observa tions, gave us a cheer. The well-known cabman, who frequents the races with placards containing Scripture texts, next delivered a harangue against the Sunday trains; and the crowd, by way of commentary on his re marks, got up a cheer at every cab that passed, and cries of " What about the cabs ?" About seven o'clock the crowd increased, and the bridge was almost impassable. The preachers, as they warmed. with their work, began to make personal remarks, selecting some one of the crowd, and shouting out, " There's a young servant of the devil," or, " Young man, you are a servant of the devil," &c. The crowd at this began to jostle the poor preachers and kick the "advertising boards," and two or three more dar ing youths rather ill-used the old man's hat. He natu rally got angry at this, and vented his rage by crying out, " The devil's a coward, and so are you his servants ! Police man, apprehend them !" The crowd laughed heartily and cheered ; but as the only policeman who appeared on the scene did not choose to apprehend any of " the servants of the devil," the preachers went away, and the crowd after wards quietly dispersed.—Scotsmcn:‘. COUNTRY MARKETS• COLCHESTER-SEPT. 2. To -day's market more wheat on offer, the greater part new, in poor condition, which sold at irregular prices. Old wheat unchanged. Moro barley, but scarcely a sample of fine quality. Beans and peas scarce ; both the turn dearer. Wheat, white 443 64s Beans, Mazagan......335 388 red 428 49, Middle and small.. 35s 40s Barley ... a s 348 Peas, white. 38a 42 $ .365 40S Oats ........20s 25s grey .. NORTHAMPTON-SEPT. 2. A tolerable show of wheat, a moderato quantity quantity of new samples being exhibited; the quality and condition of the latter were very irregular. Wheat quiet, and new sorts 2s per qr. lower; old quite as dear. A limited supply of bar ley, the demand for which was steady at late rates. Beans meagre, but prices rather higher. Peas quite as dear. New white wheat, 45s to 478 ; new red, 40s to 48s ; old white, 44s to 50s ; old red, 44s to 49s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 36s per 3 0 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 32s ; new, 22s to 25s per 24 stone- Beans, old, 39s to 43s ; xew, 35s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 37s per 36 stone. CHELMSFORD—SEPT. 1. There was to-day a very thin attendance, but many samples of new wheat, the greater part of which were ill sad condition. Dry ones sold 2s per qr. below last weeleS prices, and inferior qualities difficult to quit at any price' Old wheats is per qr. lower, although inquired for. f3prillg corn without alteration in value. - - --- Wheat, old white....46s 52s Peas, Partridge 378 394 new .46s 52s White • • • 3( 8 .." old red 4os 45s new. 408 418 Boiling ...... ..38s 420 Dun.... ..... -.318 3511 0 8ar1ey..... 258 328 dito, new....---6 ~., --0 Chevalier 26s 138 Beans, Tick, 01d......3is oi - 0 Grind.ng 208 :8s new. ...- 0 Malt.. 618 1574 Harrow licks.3sB -. -8 Chevalier 64s 68A Oats new -0 378 Mazagan .‘ -340 GRANTHAM—SEPT. 2. The quality of the new wheat is only middling. Barley has yielded well; quality varied. Pastures and turnips have a healthy appearance. Our exchange hall to-day WO pretty well supplied with wheat. New sorts varied much in quality, and sold at prices accordingly ; old maintained late prices. The supply of barley small, prices stationary. Old white wheat,! 50s to 535; old red, 44s to 48s ; nog white, 45s to 49s ; new red, 40 s to 455 p er 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, —s to —5 per qr. ; grinding,;2Bs to 80s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 278 ; new, 20s to 24s per 2 4 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 475; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 35s_to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—SEPT. 1. Farmers being busy at harvest work there was a small attendance at market, and little doing. Prices, however , are still tending upwards. White wheat 35s Od to 40s Od} 62/b bushel. Od to 36s Od Potato oats 20s 6d to 21s 6d? 40/1) bushel. Common oats 208.0 d to 20s Od Bere 238 Od to 24s Odt '311) bush el. Red wheat Barley 23s Od to 24s Od f Oatmeal 16s 6d t0217s 6d boll of 14011). Flour, fine 338 Od to 34s Od ?sack of 2801 N KIRKCALDY—SEPT. 2. Small supply of wheat and oats; a few samples of 1153 , 1 1 barley, and one sample of new oats. Sales close at te. prices of this day week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 41s 6d 23s 6d 24s Od econd 428 Od al 6d —s Od Third —s Od 2ds Od —8 Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. ui Carway and Duffryn Cowpon Hartley ...... 18 6 Malting 24 0 Eden Main ............ 6 East Hartlepool South Hartlepool l9 0 Stewart's Holywell Main l6 0 Framwellgate ..... . .... 18 0 Hastings Hartley l7 9 Walls End Haswell... 20 9 Tees Heughall Hetton l9 6 New Belmont l9 6 Whitworth l5 6 James South Hetton 2O 0 Ships at market, 62 ; sold, n Births. COMBE.—On the 3d inst., the 'wife of Charles Combo, P l.' Cobham-park, Surrey, of a daughter. c e t MILLES.—On the 2 d inst., at 28, Great Cumberland - P IA Hyde-park, the Hon. Mrs. Mulles, of a son. wont, STAMER.—On the 2d inst., at Cliffville, Stoke-upon"" Lady Stainer, of a son. Marriages. „, 1 01 ALABASTER—FAHEY.—On the 2d Inst., at Holy . ,,,k n r- g.a Church, Sloane-street, Henry Alabaster, Esq., 8• titer Consulate, Siam, to Palacia Emma, youngest daub of James Fahey,sq.. „ BAKER—HARTOPP.— E On , the 2dinst., Cadogan-place at St. PAM (4, 0 bridge, Francis Bramley, son of Francis Baker, A E of Hampton Court, to Maria Georgina, eldest daup"oo,ll, Edward Bouchier Hartopp, Esq., M.P., of P AK _ _ Melton Mowbray. .... . , ATKINSON.—On the 3d inst., at Death s 8, Clapham-rise , stockif en, Joseph Hartley Atkinson, aged 49. f 00 BURTON.—On the 3d inst., at 45, Grosvonor-squr),;„"tr ie rheumatism, caught while serving with his reglra v r7 o - id' the Crimea, Colonel Plunkett Burton, late of the v `:, - c ler stream Guards, son of Admiral and the lion. WS' '''''' Burton. n Org. KENDALL.—On the 3(1 inst. a t a t South Norwood, ,46/ Kendall, Esq., of 2, Basing.h a ll- s treet, city. 4, IS T ' WILLIAMS.—On the 2d inst., at 124, Oxford-streel John liams, Esq., aged 75 . IA jarne o WRIGHT Williams, the 30th ult., at Knightsbridge, Trobe Wright, Esq. irr - F.O . London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM .A.NLm — j ig. of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at Tru; SuN Office. 14°. f.s . oi Strand, in the Precinct of the S&VOY. In the Colin"' AtiddleseB,—Tuesday, September 5, 1865. f I