The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-13 00:00:00

First Report of the Commissioners upon lute or limited, the com m i ss i oners sugges t th a t no the Cattle Plague. cattle should be allowed to be turned on common or uninclosed land. 5. The commissioners suggest that steps should , be taken for obtaining periodical returns of the horned cattle and sheep within the area of every parish of Great Britain, and of their sanitary condi; tion, with especial reference to the present disease. 6. The commissioners deem it their duty to make some reference to the peculiar circumstances of Ire land. The disease, they state, has not yet broken out in that country, therefore there is no necessity for the measures which have been recommended by Great Britain. It is still possible, by the adoption of suitable precautions, to avert the calamity from Ireland altogether. The importation of cattle into that country has already been prohibited for some weeks past. Considering, however, the destructive character of the disease, it will not be judicious to reply upon that precaution alone for escaping it. The evidence which has been laid before them leaves little doubt that it can be conveyed by persons who have been in contact with infected animals, as well as by the animals themselves. In case it should by any accident be carried over, the Government should be in readiness to eradicate it from any spot in which it may appear ; and unless preparations are made for doing so before the plague shows itself, the authorities will hardly be in a condition to act with the necessary speed and vigour when the emer gency arises. In Prussia, upon whose eastern frontier the disease frequently appears, a system of precaution has been adopted for stopping its further progress which has hitherto met with invariable suc cess. It would probably not be difficult to make provision for the application of similar measures to Ireland, and so to secure to it a permanent immunity from the calamity under which Great Britain is at present suffering. But the extreme rapidity with which the disease spreads makes it important that all arrangements for stamping it out, in case of its possible appearance, should be made without delay. A separate report, signed by Earl Spencer, Vis count Cranbourne, Mr. Read, and Dr. Bonce Jones, is appended, stating that these commissioners are unable to join the other members of the commission in recommending the total stoppage of all move ment of cattle in Great Britain. If such a measure were practicable, they say it would be more effectual than any other in extirpating the disease. But they do not believe it to be practicable. It would involve an interference with the course of trade at variance -with our national habits, and it would demand sac rifices from large numbers of people, who are re moved from the presence of the disease, and who will therefore not see the necessity for so stringent a measure. The sudden transformation of the enor mous cattle trade, by which the large towns are supplied, into a dead meat trade, would involve difficulties and dangers of the most formidable kind. The foreign trade, which at this moment furnishes a considerable proportion of the meat consumed in the large towns, would be seriously interfered with. The price of meat would in consequence rise mate-. rially, and suddenly these difficulties would lead to the evasion of the prohibition ; and if it is largely evaded, as they think possible, it will become then useless. Earl Spencer and Mr. Read are, however, of opinion that store animals maybe permitted to move from the farm of the seller to that of the buyer, provided they have a certificate from a justice of the peace, acting in the district where the sales takes place, showing that they are free from disease, and that they have been located for a certain time on the farm of the seller. There is also a separate report of Mr. M'Clean, who is opposed to the interference with the trade in cattle ; and who states that the evils arising from it would be greater than those arising from the disease itself. The commissioners have likewise give some sana tory recommendations to prevent the spread of the disease, certain remedies when the disease had at tacked a locality, and measures for disinfecting sheds and cattle. The first report of the commissioners on the cattle plague was held on Saturday afternoon. After a few preparatory remarks upon the purpose of the commission, the report states that the disease was first observed and recognised in Great Britain towards the close of the month of June. Two Eng lish cows had been purchased on June 19 in the Metropolitan Cattle Market by a cowkeeper resid ing in Islington, in whose shed they were when the symptoms of disease attracted, on the 27th, the no tice of the veterinary surgeon in charge. Similar symptoms of disease were observed on the 28th by the same surgeon, in a cow belonging to a dairy man in Hackney, which had been purchased in the same place, and on the same day. Two Dutch cows in a Lambeth shed, likewise bought in the market on the 19th, were attacked on the 24th. The malady broke out immediately afterwards in many London dairies, and spread with extreme rapidity, destroying great numbers of animals. The Islington cowkeeper lost her whole herd of 93 ; she afterwards bought more, and lost them also, making 106 or 107 in all. An inspector who had charge of a great part of the north and north-east of London states that in his own district more than four-fifths have either died or been slaughtered, and the 'general average within the precincts of the metropolis is probably at least as high. Very early in July it appeared in Norfolk ; a little later in Suffolk and Shropshire ; then in one county after another, and before the end of the month it had invaded Scot land. In all the earlier cases, at least, it seems to have been directly traceable to purchases made in the Metropolitan market ; but Norwich-hill and other country markets speedily became, in their re spective districts, subordinate centres of infection. On the 14th of October it had extended to 29 coun ties in England, two in Wales, and 16 in Scotland, and was still advancing. From the Metropolitan market the disease appears to have crossed the sea to Holland with some oxen which had been shipped from Rotterdam to London, and had been exposed during three.successive marketdays, and, not finding a sale at an adequate profit, had been reshipped from London to Rotterdam. The commissioners come to the conclusion that the disease is contagious, and that the contagion is extraordinarily swift and subtle, being most destruc tive in its effects. The commissioners also conclude that it is the same disease as the rinderpest, or steppe murrain, the symptoms during life, the results of post mortem examination, and the whole train of general characteristics leading them to that conclu sion. Nor is it the first time the disease has made its appearance in this country. As early as 1348-9, after the Black Death had produced great mortality among men, a grievous plague attacked cattle, which perished by thousands. Again, at long intervals, in 1480 and in 1715, 1745, and 1757 it decimated our herds of cattle, and appeared to have taken deep root in the country. A commission for Middlesex was appointed on Nov. 25, 1745, to inquire into,the disease, and they appointed cowkeepers and butchers as inspectors of cattle, and instructed them, among other things, " to certify to the destruction of cows, for each of which the Treasury gave 405." Orders in Council of a very rigid nature were issued ; and in 1746 one of these orders declared the disease of " an incurable nature," and framed regulations to prevent its spread. In 1757 an act was passed de claring " that sales of cattle should only take place when the seller had them in his possession for 40 days; calves not being allowed to be sold, in order that they might be preserved for breeding purposes, and severe restrictions were put on the sales of the hides of diseased animals. Various orders were issued stopping local fairs, and the plague, in con sequence of these orders, was extinguished where the local authorities acted with vigour, but lingered in other places, from whence it spread, after a time, as rapidly as ever. The recommendations of the commissioners for the suppression of the disease are six in number :- 1. They recommend that Government should have the power to suspend for a limited time the move ment of cattle from one place in Great Britain to another ; that they should extend or shorten such period, and renew the prohibition as often as circum stances may render necessary. IA. The commis sioners suggest certain regulations as to cattle traffic, should recommendation 1 not be adopted. These, they believe, are the only means to eradicate the disease, and that the end fully justifies the means suggested :—First, a periol to be fixed, and which might, if necessary, be extended ; no lean or store stock should be permitted to be sold at any fair or market ; and sale of such stock by auction or ad vertisement, or in any other manner whatever, should be prohibited. Second, cattle might be moved for immediate slaughter to a market, or to a slaughter-house licensed for use, but only under a license for transit granted by the magistrates in petty sessions. The licence for transit should cer tify to the healthiness of the district from which the cattle came. With this exception, the transit of cattle over any public road should be prohibited. Third, precautions should be taken that every animal sold for butchers' meat be slaughtered within a short and fixed period. For the convenience of this purpose no slaughter-house should be used without a licence from the local authorities, and no such licence given except on the butcher under taking to have all cattle which may be sold or con signed to him driven direct to the slaughterhouse or premises attached to it, from whence they are not to be removed alive. Cattle sold at a fair or market should not be allowed to leave the precincts of the borough, or other place where the fair or market is held, alive. To in sure this object it might be required that cattle entering a fair or market should be branded on entrance, and cattle sold elsewhere to a butcher similarly marked at the time of sale, and that it should be penal for any one but a butcher to have a marked animal in his possession. In every place where a public market is held lairs should be provided, in which unsold animals could remain from one market-day to another. Fourth, it would be desirable to draw some di st i nct l i ne between infected and uninfected districts, so that whenever a case of infection is discovered the district should be " pro claimed" as infected in the Gazette and the country p a pers. The egress of cattle from a proclaimed district should be strictly prohibited, but cattle slaughtered within it and certified by the inspector to be fit for food might be sent out of it under proper safe ds for disinfection. Provision should be made for en abling districts which had been proclaimed to be publicly set free on proof being furnished that all risk from infection was at an end. The Financial Condition of Mexico• The following account of the financial condition of the Mexican Empire is given by Mr. Middleton, her Majesty's secretary of Legation iu Mexico, in a Foreign office commercial report which has just been issued : As near as I have been able to ascertain, the following is an approximate calculation of the amount of the revenue and expenditure of the Mexican Empire for the present year : 2. The commissioners are of opinion that the pow er to seize and slaughter vested in inspectors by the consolidated order may properly be withdrawn ; or that, if retained, it should be exercised only in cases where the inspector's directions as to the separation of sound from diseased stock, &c., or any general preventive or sanatory regulations issued by the Government are not complied with. This power is right and useful when the disease has appeared only at isolated spots and attacked a few animals ; the public benefit is then very great, and the private sacrifice very small ; but in proportion as it extends the hope of thus arresting its march diminishes, the inevitable Waste increases, and the sense of hardship tends to become insupportable. In principle a sys tem of compulsory slaughter should be complemented by a system of c ompensation, and the objections to promising compensation to individuals out of the pulilic treasury on an extensive scale appear to us insurmountable. c attle, the co mm i ss i oners 3. As regards foreign state that, should their first recommendation be en tertained, and an absolute embargo placed on ali traffic in cattle within Great Britain, they think th a t imported cat tle should be slaughtered at the ports of landing. They are further of opinion that cattle should be allowed to land at certain Ports only, where proper facilities can be afforded for inspection and transport. In the other aliernative, it will be sufficient to say that foreign cattle, if passed by the Customs insrectors, and notcomingfrom an infected district, may be sent by railway to any market in Great Britain, but shall then be subject to the same regulations as British cattle. 4. During the period of prohibition, whether abso- REVENUE. Maritime Custom-houses Provincial Custom-houses 3,500,000 Direct taxes Stamped paper, post, and other small taxes 1,000,000 Total dolllrs 516,500,000 EXPENDITURE • . T _-- Interest of the Foreign Debt--- -- $5,000,000 Interest of the Internal Debt Imperial House 4,000,000 Works at palaces and publi c e difi ces Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its depen dencies Civil and military pensions .. 1,500,000 Ministry of Finance and offices Other ministries and their offices 1,000,000 Army and navy Extraordinary expenses 2,000,000 Total dollars $29,500,000 Total amount of expenditure Total amount of revenue Total deficit, dollars 513,000,000 With reference to this statement, it may be observed that next year it is highly improbable that the maritime Custom houses should produce as largo an amount of revenue as that year, namely, $,9,000,000, on account of the large ac cumulation of goods existing in the different seaports, as well as in the different warehouses in the capital, so few purchasers arriving from the interior, owing to a general want of confidence and universal feeling of insecurity. It is reasonable to suppose, also, that the Custom-house of Matamoras, especially, will produce much less, on account of the termination of the war in the United States, which caused so much cotton and other merchandise to be im- Ifrom thence into the empire. The chief measure as yet adopted by the Emperor for Idiminishing the financial embarrassments of the country without foreign aid is embodied in a decree of the 26th of February last, by which the secularisation and nationalisa tion of the property formerly belonging to the Church was confirmed; the first article of which states that all sales and operations connected with the secularisation and nationalisation of ecclesiastical property as yet effected in conformity with the laws of Juno 25, 1856, and 12th and 13th July, 1859, must be subjected to a revision by the Council of State; and thus, although such a revision is doubtless necessary in consequence of the fraud, injustice, and violation of the very laws, in virtue of which the opera tions were effected, which were carried on, it will cause a most prejudicial delay, and of considerable length, owing to the vast numberof titles and documents which will have to be submitted to the examination of the Council ; not withstanding this, however, from the great activity with which the work is being proceeded with, the opinion of the Government officials is that in a year and a half or two years the Emperor will have acquired at least $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 in property, independently of the pretended or fraudulent sales which may bo annulled by tho revision of the Council of State. The number of operations connected with the sales in question which were sanctioned by the Department of 5 1; 4 7 0, of w t h h i e ls d t e i pa n rt th u e re ad o j f act I.inance, in the c it y o f M ex i co alone, amounted, up to the t i la t s o t w P n r:s o i f de i n ,i t, ai J p u a a m re a z n , a to T a a b c o l u i- t baya, where such operat ions, although of minor importance, will require equal time for their revision, they are stated to be no less than 1,000 ; and these solely connected with the amounts appropriated to the maintenance of public worship and endowment of religious establishments, and those which have been received by different individuals under various pretexts, and which will now have to be accounted for, to be about 2,100, giving a total of about 8,500 in the capital and its immediate neighbourhood alone; whilst in the districts of Puebla, Vera Cruz, Ori zaba, San Luis de Potosi, Zacatecas, Oajaca, &c, they are computed to be about 11,500, giving a total of about 20,000 to be submitted to the revision of the Council ; and how ever large the amount may appear at first sight, it only gives an average of $lO,OOO per operation, tho amount of property possessed by the Mexican clergy previous to the promulgation of the law of 1856, having been, accord ing to the lowest computation, about $200,000,000, yield ing an annual income of about $20,000,000 ; nor must it bo lost sight of that the future operations to be effected connected.with what has now become the property of the State must be equally presented for revision to the Council of State, increasing its labours to an almost incalculable extent. The operations already effected in connexion with the sale of ecclesiastical property amount to the sum of $24,822,321, of which those effected by foreigners amount to $9,020,131 ; and the immediate effect of the promul gation of the decree of the 26th February last, however beneficial it may prove in its ultimate results, will almost inevitably be a certain paralysation of all industry co nnected with agr i cu l ture, building speculations, or any spirit of en t erprise which may con sciousness exist, based upon a con s of undisputed ownership and of absolute pos session. rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, lEEE. Mr. G. C. Bentinck, M.P., at Taunton. The high constables of the borough of Taunton, Messrs. Evans and Chapman, invited the high bailiffs of the borough, the civic officers and their friends, to a banquet on Thursday evening at Patti son's Castle Hotel, to inaugurate their year of office. After the usual loyal, patriotic, and local toasts, Mr. H. BADCOCK said that the toast which hehad the honour to propose certainly had the charm of novelty. He never heard it proposed at a civic banquet before, still he was quite sure they would receive it with acclamation on account of the name connected with the toast—" The Houses of Lords and Commons," coupled with the name of Mr. George Cavendish Bentinck. (Prolonged applause.) By their applause they admitted he was a true pro phet. (Hear, hear.) They knew what the compo sition of the House of Lords would be, but they did not know what the composition of the House of Commons would be in the coming Parliament. Although they had the misfortune to lose two very good representatives for the borough of Taunton, yet in the member for Whitchaven they had a man who, whatever might happen, would be honest to his principles, and do his duty as became him. (Great applause.) Mr. G. C. BENTINCK, on rising to respond to the compliment, was greeted with a perfect ovation. He said he begged to return his most grateful thanks to his esteemed friend Mr. Badcock, and to his numerous friends for the manner in which they had spontaneously responded to the compliment paid him. The toast was " The Houses of Lords and Commons ;" but for the House of Lords he could not say much, as he had not the hon our of being a member of that august assembly, nor had he the least chance of being so, either by his own individual merits, or by other means. (Laugh ter.) As a member of the House of Commons, which never mentioned the House of Lords, but always referred to it as " that other place" (laughter), he begged to say that he had great confidence in " that other place," and they would always be found to do their duty, and defend that constitution which had made England great, glorious, and free. (Applause.) It gave him the greatest pleasure to meet them on that occasion, because it afforded him an opportu nity of acknowledging the very great kindness he had always received at the hands of the electors of that borough—from those who had supported him, as well as those who were opposed to him. (Hear.) A spirit of good fellowship always seemed to hover around their connection, and he hoped the same feel ing would be extended to those who had succeeded him and his late colleague. (Hear.) His duties as a member of Parliament, as far as Taunton was concerned, were light, but he had endeavoured faith fully and honestly to discharge them towards his constituents. Whether he did so or not to their satisfaction it was not for him to say, but of this he was convinced, that since he had been a member of Parliament he had never either forfeited a pledge given or departed from any one article of his politi cal creed. (Applause.) He was quite sure that every one then present would join him in lamenting the death of that eminent man, Lord Palmerston. (Hear.) It was his (Mr. Bentinck's) lot to differ from that noble lord in politics ; at least he did so nominally. He had enjoyed the honour of Lord Palmerston's personal friendship, and any man who knew Lord Palmerston was aware that a more hos pitable host, a more congenial companion, or a kinder friend never existed. With regard to Lord Palmer ston's political conduct, he (Mr. Bentinck) was pre pared to admit that his death at the present time was a national loss, for Lord Palmerston, during the last few days of his life, had endeavoured, and success fully endeavoured, to resist any change in the con stitution of the country. It was true that he had ejected Lord Derby's Government upon the cry of Radical Reform, and that his Government was pledged to carry a bill to that effect ; but no sooner was he securely installed in office than he saw the intelligence and education of the country was op posed to what he termed " organic changes," and he therefore courageously shelved the obnoxious measure never to be revived during the existence of the last Parliament. Session after session Lord Palmerston " scattered the enemies of our ' constitution and confounded their politics." (Loud applause.) He shut up the ballot box—laughter)— and drove his (Mr. Bentinck's) friend Mr. Berkeley to the opposite side of the house to agitate the ques tion. Ile extinguished Mr. Baines's bill. He silenced the fire of Mr. Locke King's ten pounders. (Cheers and laughter.) By this policy Lord Palmerston had in his (Mr. Bentinck's) opinion condoned many past errors of a political life, and deserved well of his country. Lord Palmerston was no more—a great crisis bad arrived—Lord Russell was at the head of the Government., but it was. doubtful whether he could longer "rest and be thankful." By his side, in the Cabinet, sat the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a restless spirit, who . for 28 out of 33 years of poli tical life had been Tory and Conservative. He was now before the public in a new character. Rejected byOxford he stood unmuzzled and untrammelled— a ready instrument in the hands of Birmingham, and prepared, if they might judge from his recent speeches at Glasgow, to advocate, with all the unscrupulous zeal of a renegade, the doctrines which the Glasgow Reform Union commended to his notice, and with which that illustrious but unwashed body proposed, in their own expressive words, to " sweeten the breath of society." (Laughter.) He (I%lr. Bentinck) saw breakers ahead, but still he had confidence in the new Parliament. The Ministerial party claimed, it was true, a gain of some 20 or 25 seats, but when it was remembered that many candidates succeeded merely to support Lord Palmerston, and that cer tain investigations, which always follow a general election, would have to be conducted—(hear)—he thought the state of parties in the present Parliament would be found not to differ materially from that in the preceding Parliament. Under these circumstances we should again have a weak Government, depen dent for its majorities either upon an extreme poli tical section whose views it did not profess to repre sent, or else upon the independent support of 300 gentlemen who occupied the Opposition benches. Now he (Mr. Bentinck) desired an end of this state of things. He wished to see a coalition of those men who ; thinking alike upon all matters of importance, were now separated either by idle party cries or by motives purely personal. He trusted those to whom he referred would put their shoulders to the wheel and form a great constitutional party, As great effects sometimes sprang from trifling causes serious evils arose from the indiscriminate use of the terms " Liberal party " and " Liberal." It was his mis fortune not to be able to understand the term " The great Liberal party," for he saw its so-called mem bers holding opinions as widely distant as the space which separates the poles. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Lowe, for instance, was said to be a member of the Liberal party, and yet in the last session he had delivered a speech against any lowering of the suffrage —an out and out Tory speech, the best on the subject that had been heard within the walls of the late House of Commons. Again, Mr. llorsman, Mr. Gregory, Lord Grosvenor, Lord Elcho, Mr. Augustus Smith, and many others held the same views. Could it be said, then, that these gentlemen belong to the so called Liberal party, of which Mr. Bright and his followers are members ? Wile, the conclusion is pre posterous! (Loud applause.) The same principle ap plied to those entrusted with the elective franchise. There was a constituency not 100 miles from Taun- ton which he had canvassed frequently, and when soliciting certain voters he would perhaps be asked to state his political opinions. The voters would then admit they concurred in his views, but when he was about to book their votes as a matter of course, he would be met with the rejoinder "I beg your pardon, I vote for Mr. Somebodyelse, the rival candidate. I agree with you and disagree with Mr. Somebodyelse, but then I am a Liberal, and so is he, and I must go with the great Liberal party," and thus the vote is given to Mr. Somebodyelse, who is often ready to stand in for extreme doc- trines, and may be possibly even a revolutionary socialist. Now he (Mr. Bentinck) had no hesita tion in saying that such conduct was not straight- forward, that it was an un-English, that it was " illiberal" in the strongest possible sense. (Great applause.) He should like to find all men openly backing their political opinions by deeds as well as by words. He was very glad to hear from Mr. W. A. Sanford that the aristocracy were best fitted to represent the country, and he had no doubt, there fore, that if two democratic gentlemen were sent from Birmingham or elsewhere to contest the Western Division, Mr. W. A. Sanford would sup port the aristocrats and vote for the present mem bers. (Much laughter and applause.) Another com plaint he (Mr. Bentinck) had to make of the so-called Liberal party was their want of liberality. He would cite the cases of Mr. Bernal Osborne and Mr. Augus tus Smith, of Truro, who were ousted from their seats because, to use Mr. B. Osborne's expressive phrase, " they were disobedient to the crack of the official whip," and thus eminent men were lost to the country whose place could not easily be sup plied. It would be admitted, he thought, that so called Liberal gentlemen at election times ofteri said more than they really meant ; but now that they had been allowed their say on the hustings he trusted that, on taking their seats in Parliament, they would throw off their muzzles and join with the Conservatives to form a great constitutional party which should advocate the cause of real progress, and cease to meddle with subjects that led only to agitation and discontent. (Applause.) Mr. Bentinck concluded by saying that when he first had the honour of meeting the men of Taunton they were good friends—they had continued to be good friends —they parted as good friends, and he trusted, when they should meet on some future occasion, that they should be better friends than ever ; and although no longer representing them in Parliament, he should always do his best to further their cause to the utmost of his ability. (Cheers.) The Postman and the Increase in the Price of Provisions. On Saturday night a general meeting of letter carriers was held at the school-room, Aldersgate street, to take into consideration the necessity of applying to the authorities for an increase of pay, on account of the increase inthe price of provisions. Mr. Baker, who was stated to be a first-class letter carrier, was called to the chair, and in a few earnest remarks reminded th,e meeting that they were called together for the purpose of considering a question of vital importance to the welfare of the men, and he hoped that no one, by travelling out of the strict business of the meeting, would make observations that might tend to defeat rather than to advance the object they had in view. Mr. Padfield then moved, and Mr. Lockfield seconded, a resolution to the effect that, owing to the increase in the price of pro visions and also of rent, the existing scale of remu neration to letter carriers was inadequate to the sup port of themselves and their families, and that a deputation should be appointed to wait on the head of the department, for the purpose of representing their case, and urging upon him the necessity of an increase of pay commensurate with the rise in pro visions. Both to speakers in guarded and temperate language called attention to the fact that necessity alone had induced them to come forward to advocate ' the claims of themselves and their fellow-men. From their statement it appeared that the present rate of wages was on a graduated scale, commencing at about 18s. a week, and reaching after about 12 years' service to 255. per week ; and the mover of the re solution entered into statistics to show that with the present high price of provisions a man with a wife and four children (which represented the average position with regard to families of the London postmen) could not support himself in decency even at the highest rate. Proper house accom modation for such a family could not be obtained under 6s. per week; bread cost ss. 3d. ; meat, reckoning 11b. per day at the low price of 9d., cost ss. 3d. per week ; butter 2s. ; coffee and tea, Is. ; sugar, 7d ; vegetables, 4d. per day ; coals, 1 cwt. per week, Is. 6d. ; candles and wood, 9d. ; and soap and soda, 6d. He thought on examina tion this would be found little enough for six per sons, and if the various items were added together it would be found that these, the mere necessaries of life, would cost more than the whole of the wages of the first-class letter-carriers. It was indeed well known that if the letter carriers had to depend solely upon the wages that they received from the Post office they could not exist. The seconder of the resolution controverted the assertion that a sum of money sufficient to make up for the scantiness of their wages was received by the letter-carriers from the public in the shape of Christmas-boxes, but quite acknowledged that the public were liberally disposed towards a class of servants so generally meritorious as the letter carriers. Ile was sure that any increase in their wages would meet with the approbation of those who were so largely interested in the removal of all temptation from the letter carrier. The reso lution was agreed to unanimously, and a deputation having been nominated, the thanks of the meeting were given to the chairman and committee, and the proceedings terminated. The Resources of the South kTo -day the one universal cry going up from the South is for an infusion of our energy, originality, in dustry, and ambition—as in ancient times old men dropping feeble and palsied into the grave were wont to infuse into their thin and watery veins the rich blood of some youthful and stalworth slave, and thus their current of life might continue to ebb and flow a little longer. From every state in the South—from the pine forests of North Carolina, with their wealth of turpentine ; from the rico swamps and cotton islands of South Carolina ; from the grain fields and exhausted tobacco plantations of Virginia; from the cotton lands of Georgia, from the cedar swamps of Florida, where even now bright Northern axes are beginning to hew their way to independence —from every quarter the lands are calling for Northern capital, skill, and industry. The Valley of the Shenandoah, one of the richest farming countries in the world, now lies desolate and fruitless. Near Brunswick, in Georgia, the most valuable ship timber in the country is waiting to be cut. Mines of wealth beneath the earth remain hidden for want of Yankee enterprise to develope them. In Georgia only one-sixth of the area devoted to farming is improved, and to-day even that is almost value_ less for want of means. The tobacco lands of Virginia and other States which have been thrown out as exhausted could readily be renewed by proper treatment, such as every Northern farmer understands. Daily 'our cities are filling with Southerners —extensive land owners, but otherwise penniless—who come here to offer portions of their land on our own terms. Property can be bought in any locality desired for less than one-sixth of its value before the war. Land that sold for fifty dollars an acre then can now be had at from five to seven dollars. These parties will make any possible arrangement, so that their lands may be again worked to advantage. There is even an organis e d co m p an y, having for its object the introduction of Northern energy and capital into Southern States. They have one million three hun dred thousand acres of mineral, grazing, bottom, and timber lands in Virginia; over seven hundred thousand acres of timber, turpentine, cotton, and mineral lands in Georgia and North and South Carolina. Factories, furnaces, granite quarries, cotton gins—in fact, every conceivable natural or artificial wealth heretofore appertaining to the great Southern interest can now be had for a song. Im migration and capital are now the two great wants of the South, and within the past two years shrewd men, who discovered the fact, have realized immense fortunes by putting it to a practical test. But another most important feature in this great awaken ing in the minds of the South is their desire and demand for the means of education and machines for labor saving. Our publishers state that so great is the Southern demand for the old standard books for education that their presses can hardly supply it, while it utterly precludes the pos sibility of introducing anything new.in that line. Our establishments for the sale of agricultural implements and every known invention for labor saving aro daily filled with Southerners, who examine everything of that nature with the eagerness and- curiosity of a child, but also with the appreciation of minds that are just discovering what asleep. One " cultivator" is equal to ten negro hands, we have been at during all these years that we have been and one " coffee roaster" an ingenious little invention—will save the labor of one stalworth African per diem ; and as the old system of a dozen men doing the work of one is wound up, it is discovered that any inven tion which saves human labor and time is rather a useful and beneficent article. All these facts are portentous; they show that the Southern people are at length outgrowing the old John Randolph sneer about' Yankee pedlars and mechanics ; they show that a great uprising and mental illumination is in process of incubation among our Southern brethren, needing only to be fructified by a little nursing on our part to become a great and potent result. By these means the South will be truly reconstructed, restored, and redeemed ; a noble and beautiful country now laid waste will become vivified and fruitful for ever, while new fields of labor for the emigration of Eu rope , an d ne w avenues for the use of capital, will eventuate in rendering this the most powerful and richest country and people on the face of the earth, bound together by ties of such intimate agreement that only eternity shall ever dissolve them. —New York Herald. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE EXAMINER ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE.---The panic on the subject of the cow pest begins to show some symptoms of abatement, for the more it is in quired into the less formidable does it appear. The actual number of horned cattle that have died of it, or that have been destroyed on suspicion of the in fection, amounts to no more than 18,000, and the cattle of Great Britain being reckoned at 7,000,000, the loss amounts to a fraction of one quarter per cent. But as more than half the number destroyed were sent to the shambles and the markets, the loss is reduced to one-half even of that trifling fraction. But the loss, estimated at the highest figure, has been far more than counterbalanced by the increase in the number of foreign cattle. By the returns of the Board of Trade it appears that the number of bulls, cows, and calves imported in the first seven months of 1864 was 88,082, but it amounted in the corresponding months of the present year to 119,591 ; the difference amounts to 31,509, and therefore, supposing the whole 18,000 horned cattle to have been lost as food, the im portation exceeds it by some 78 per cent. At one time it was given out by the cow doctors, and we are afraid believed by the Royal Commissioners, that the sheep had caught the cow pest from the cows. Of this, however, we hear no more, the believers being, we should hope, ashamed of their credulity. For our own part, we never for a moment believed in this ridiculous story, and would as soon as have fancied that the illustrious Gamgee had caught the farcy or the glanders by visiting an infected stable ; or that his horse, if he had one, had died of hydrophobia from the bite of a mad dog. The truth seems to be, that all kinds of cattle have suffered more or less from the atmospheric influence. of a very unseasonable summer, and those subjected to an artificial life, the dairy cows of London, in the greatest proportion. Whatever mortality may have taken place in sheep, if any beyond the natural rate, it has, as in the case of horned cattle, been more than compensated by in crease of importation. In the seven first months of 1864, the sheep and lambs imported amounted to 189,334, and for the corresponding months of this year they have risen to 322,074. We may add that the supply of flesh meat has been increased, in a comparison of the same times, by an importation of swine and hogs, which has increased from 26,000 to 49,422. An allegation has got abroad that the carcase butchers of London, taking advantage of the pest panic, have raised their prices from 25 to 35 per cent. There is evidently no falling off in the supply to justify such a rise, or indeed any rise at all ; but certain it is that somebody is taking a dishonest profit. Even London tavernkeepers, who charge 2s. a head for ' dinner from the joint,' have added, on the plea of enhanced price of meat, from 3d. to 6d. to their charge on every dinner. But now as to the source of the murrain. It must, like every other plague, have , sp rung u p i n some special, favourable locality, and we think now, as we did from its first appearance, that the London .cow sheds were of all points of origin the most likely. O ur con ti nen t a l ne i g hb ours certainly trace it to England. At all events, there must now be an end to ascribing the cattle plague to Russia ; for in consequence of the charge male against it in England of being the source of the disease, the Russian Government has instituted an inquiry, and finds that since the year 1859, or for six long years, the Empire has not been visited by what Germany , calls Rinderpest, or an y o th er f orm of cattle mur rain. We are sorry for the prophet Gamgee, and for those who believed in his soothsaying. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE RECONSTRUC TION OF TIIE MINISTRY.—Lord Russell cannot have thought of tendering office to Mr. Bright. If ability and eloquence were the only qualifications for power, the question would be, not whether Mr. Bright should be a Secretary of State, but how it was possible that a cabinet could be formed without his co-operation. It would indeed be a triumph to reduce into the condition of a docile colleague so formidable an auxiliary or opponent. When Mr. Bright consents to waive his opinions, to command his prejudices, and even ostensibly to forgive his enemies—though he will scarcely be any longer Mr. Bright—he will be an ornament and support to the Government; if the House of Commons can be per suaded to believeprovisionally in his conversion. It would perhaps be difficult to find a suitable office for the assailant of almost every English institution. Mr. Bright would scarcely be contented with a sinecure, and he has heretofore urged the abolition of the Keepership of the Privy Seal and of the Chancellorship of the Duchy. A s Presi dent of the Council, he would have to administer the denominational system of education which lie has loudly condemned, and at the War-office and the Admiralty he would be providing means for the warlike practices which he only tolerates when Republics have empires to conquer or reclaim. The Home-office would place Mr. Bright in official rela tions with the country gentlemen whom he has in cessantly reviled ; as Colonial Minister, he would think that the colonies ought to be abandoned; and as Secretary of State for India, he ought in consis tency to propose to split up the Indian Empire into petty independent provinces. The Board of Trade is occupied by his only political adherent in the Cabinet, and, by un i versa l consent, no c h ange is to take place at the Exchequer. It would be unjust to complain that Mr. Bright's newspaper organ urges his claim to office, although the announcement of such an alliance wo u ld b r i ng Lo rd D er b y into power within a fortnight after the meeting of Parliament. A Conservative Administration, and a break up of the Liberal party, would be not unacceptable to the representative of extreme democracy. If Ihe rumour of the Duke of Somerset's resignation is well founded, and if any ally of suitable Parliamen tary rank can be found in the House of Commons, the departments represented in the house by Under- Secretaries will be reduced to two. At present the Cabinet is 'almost equally distributed between the Lords and the Commons. The Prime Minister, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretaries for War and Foreign Affairs, are balanced by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer and the three remaining Secretaries of State. Lord Hartington, Mr. L a yard, and Lord Clarence Paget, are no t in a position to be placed at the head of the respective departments which they represent with considerable ability as subordinates ; and if a new member of the Cabinet becomes First Lord of the Admiralty, he will have some difficulty in satisfying the house and the country of his administrative superiority to the Duke of Somerset. Lord. Granville, (A he necessarily loses the lead in the House of Lords, may naturally feel inclined to exchange his post in the 'Government for a foreign Embassy. The managers of schools, the inspectors, the clergy, and the schoolmasters will hear not without alarm of th e D u ke of Somerset's probable succession to the P res id en cy of the Council. Vigour and industry are useful in the conduct of every public department ; but when voluntary co-operation and private pecuniary sacrifice are of the essence of an organisation, a tolerant, considerate, and conciliatory disposition is not without its value. At the War-office, the unbending character which is attributed to the pre sent First Lord of the Adiralty might have a bene ficial effect on the relations of the civil Government to the professional administration of. the army. The efficiency of the Cabinet is not like to be largely in creased or diminished by any internal changes. At present it is in some respects weak, but it is impos sible to foretell the duration of a Government. The Tory Cabinet, after the death of Mr. Perceval and the extrusion of Mr. Canning, was supposed to be hoplessly weak, yet it remained in power for 15 years. Lord Melbourne's Government survived for seven years the withdrawal from the Whig party of Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham, although both its former supporters took an active part in the opposition which was conducted with unequalled skill and vigour by Sir Robert Peel. If Lord Rus sell can either pass a tolerable Reform Bill or per suade the House of Commons to dispense with a change, he may not improbably remain in power until the time arrives for Mr. Gladstone's entry on a vacant inheritance. Major-General Sir C. Van Straubenzee, who has been acting Commander-in-Chief in Bombay, re turns home on the arrival out of Sir Robert Napier. His divisional command will, in all probability, be filled by Brigadier-General Frank Adams, C. 8., now commanding a brigade at Aldershot. Brigadier Adams had formerly commanded a brigade in the Bombay Presidency, which he gave up last spring, on the return of his regiment, the 28th, to England.—Army and Navy Gazette. A monument, to cost $B,OOO, is to be erected in Genessee county, New York, in memory of General Wads worth. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —lfoniceopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as be n; ttte most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subje t, and at length sue 'ceded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the pert , et trituration it receives in the process it passe] through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps' cocoa is distin;uished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delirious aroma Dr. Hassan in his work, "Food and its Adulterations," says--" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive principles; every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined 1-Ib., i-lb , and lib. labelled packets, and sold at ls. 6d. per lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists. Movements of Cotton in America, The New Orleans Price Current, of October 14th, has the following : Our leading staple has fully maintained its previous improvement. An availeble rise in Red River has mate rially increased our receipts from that source, but they do not appear to have had any influence on the market, or to have shaken the general confidence in the correctness of the recent low estimates of the growing crop and of the old left on hand in the interior. For the purpose of reference we repeat our record of the amount that has come to hand from all sources, including Mobile and Galveston, since July last : RECEIPTS SINCE JULY 27. Week ending August 3 Bales. 10 24,321 17 22,732 24 2,748 31 15,607 7 19,638 14 14,364 21 17,618 28 16,018 Eight days ending Oct. 6 30,055 Week ending IL 13 25,801 Arrived since the 10th instant, of Louisiana and Missis sippi, 9,312 bales; Mobile, 254 ; together, 9,566 bales. Cleared since the 10th inst : for Liverpool, 4,541 bales ; New York, 5,510 ; Boston, 1,022 ; Providence, 458; Phila delphia, 346; together, 11,877 bales. Stock in warehouses and on shipboard, not cleared on the 13th instant, 112,585 bales. We left the market, at the date of our last issue, excited by telegrams from New York, which reported an advance of Bc. per lb. in that market, predicated on favour able advices from Liverpool, where there had been a corre sponding improvement, but still so unsettled with regard to prices that we were compelled to confine our quotations to 47c. for good ordinary, 50c. for low middling, and 52c. for middling. On Wednesday the movement was checked, and prices rather depressed by the receipt of telegrams quoting the New York market at 55c. to 56c., against 57c. to 58c. and 60c. on the day previous, while an unfavourable influence was also caused by a further decline in New York exchange ; but still the demand continued fair, although on a less liberal scale, and the sales comprised 1,500 bales at prices in accordance with the quotations of 41c. to 43c. for ordinary, 45c. to 47c. for good ordinary, 48c. to 50c. for low middling, and 52c. to 53c. for middling. On Thursday, one day's later accounts from New York, quoting middling at 58c., inspired factors generally with renewed confidence and made them still more stringent in their pretensions, but as, with the accumulation of stock, there was no inconsiderable quantity in the hands of parties who were compelled to realise, at least to the extent of their advances, to meet the heavy charges on a part of the recent receipts, prices ex hibited unusual irregularity, buyers, in some instances, being able to operate at easier rates, while for all desirable lists of any magnitude they were compelled to pay outside figures. Yesterday the market opened under the favourable influence of the quotation of 59c. at New York on the pre vious evening, and although it was partially neutralised b 3 increased stringency in monetary affairs, and a further decline in foreign exchange, and prices were conse quently extremely: irregular ; yet, on the whole, the advantage was on the side of the factor, who was enabled to realise a partial advance of ic. on oven running lists of good ordinary and low middling, while the sales summed up 2,600 bales. This makes an aggregate for the past three days of 6,350 bales, and, with the addition of 1,050 bales to Tuesday's business, not reported until sub sequently, a total for the week of 14,650 bales, against 23,750 last week and 8,800 the week before. STATEMENT OF COTTON. Stock on hand, September 1, 1865... Bales 83,239 Arrived past three days Arrived previously it Sept. Cl ac 206,778 Export past three days Exported previously 82,316 94,193 Stock on hand and on shipboard ... Bales 112,585 A letter from Now Orleans of the same date as the fore going contains the following extract : In the young cotton planted on overflowed lands, or on lands originally planted to corn and afterwards ploughed up, the catapillar continues to work badly, and generally the reports as to the crop now being gathered are fully cor roborated by latest accounts. The talk of the planters is exceedingly gloomy. The cane, however, continues to improve rapidly, end the planters are busy preparing for the grinding, which, however, will not probably com mence before the middle or latter part of next month. The planters in some of the parishes are also taking active steps towards the immediate partial repair of the levees— a far wiser policy than to await the slow and uncertain action of Government officials in the premises. From many of the planters we !egret to learn that unusual and unnecessary impediments are thrown in the way of mov ing their crops. It appears that provost marshals, com missioners of Freedmen's Bureau, &e., insist that nothing whatever, whether of cotton, rice, sugar, or - corn, shall be moved to market till first the freedmen's labour is paid iu full. We really do not see how this can be done at all until the crop is actually moved ; for that is the avail of the labor itself and its only possible reward. Beside; we never heard of a Louisiana planter yet who failed to meet his just obligations for labor if within the bounds of possibility. The Mobile Daily Times of the 13th says : At the close of our last week's review we retorted the market closing firm, at 42c. to 43c. for middling. On Saturday the sales amounted to 1,200 bales, the market being entirely cleared of cotton ; prices • firm. Monday there was a good demand, with but little good cotton offer ing ; sales 900 bales, the market closing firm ; middlings nominal. On Tuesday there was a general demand; market bare of good cotton; sales of 1,000 bales were made, with prices nominal, the market closing firm, with an upward tendency. The demand was also general on Wednesday ; stock on sale light ; market very irregular ; sales 1,200 bales ; prices nominal. On Thursday the demand was good, but factors were unwilling to sell ; sales of only 400 bales were made, the market closing quiet ; prices nominal. COTTON STATEMENT.—PORT OF MOBILE. Friday Evening, October 13, 1865. Stock in hand September 1, 1865 Received this week 11,509 Received previously 67,590 —79,099 Exported this week . 103,389 ... • 10,318 Exported previously .. . 35,486 Destroyed by fire Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared Tho Shreveport South Western of the 4th says:— The receipts of cotton are very light, though business with our leading merchants continues to be very good. We have not been able to perceive any falling off in any de partment, except in the receipts of cotton. The Columbia Enquirer of October 11th has the sub joined : Our market was active yesterday, with a good inquiry, and prices stiffening. Middling cotton freely brought 32c., and for a good even running lot of middling 33c. might perhaps have been obtained. We observed a flat fully loaded with cotton for transportation down the river, at our wharf yesterday, and another ready for a load. At the present stage of water, even " box" navigation is a difficult undertaking. The river has shrunk up like a fat man after a long spell of chills, and, as fall weather is " mighty onsartin," it is hard to tell when it will be on the mend. COLUMBUS COTTON STATEMENT-OCT. 7. Stock on hand September 1, 1865 Bales 5,000 Received this week 854 Received previously 1,854-2,708 Total amount received 7,712 Shipped past week 261 Shipped previously 1,212-1,473 Stock on hand October 7 5,239 From Augusta, on the 12th, we have the following : The receipts in the last two days have been large, coming in freely on wagon; and the transactions have been very heavy—quotations ranging from 42 to 48 for currency, and 28 to 31 for gold. From the same place, two days later, the following is supplied : The demand to-day for cotton could not be supplied. Sales made from wagons at 25c., 26c., 27c., and 28c.; and 30c., 32c., 34c., and 36c. were paid for some choice lots in gold ; and currency, 40c., 45c., and 50c. were paid. The demand closed to-day active. An Atalanta letter of the 14th says : The receipts of cotton by wagons are very light, and prices are decidedly upward. Strict middling will com mand readily 37 cents. Quotations might be made from 27 to 37 cents—low grades hang heavily, and repacked is dull of sale. It is now apparent to everybody that the amount of cotton in the country is even much less than was thought at the close of the war. The Aracon Daily Telegraph of October 14th says:— An unprecedented degree of activity has characterised the market throughout the week. The advance in the staple in the Northern markets, and the increase in prices here, consequent thereupon, have caused considerable ex citement, and given the market a somewhat unsettled con dition. The amount offered for the last three days of the week has not been equal to the demand. On Wednesday the price for middling reached forty cents; and these figures ruled throughout the remainder of the week. By the time, however, most that was on the market had been brought up, and holders refused to sell at these figures. The number of buyers is considerably in excess of sellers. Heavy orders have been received within the last few days from the western markets. The shipments of the week have somewhat exceeded the receipts, and the stock on hand is daily decreasing. We have heard of none selling at a higher figure than mentioned, and dealers express the opinion that there will not be much more done until the movements in the northern markets produce a decline or an advance in present prices here. Owing to the con dition of the river, no cotton of any consequence has been shipped by that means, and as the facilities for transporta tion by railroad are becoming better every day, and the rates of freight declining, there will not, probably, be much more shipped by means of flats down the river. We were told yesterday of one lot of 1,500 bales that had been seven ---.-- weeks on its way to Darien, and the shipper asserted that he had rather pay double the amount of transportation in future to have it shipped by other means. The amount brought in from the country is somewhat larger than that of the previous week, but it has not been so large as was expected the present prices would induce to market. The week closes with an unparalleled demand at the figures above mentioned. The transactions have been almost en tirely confined to the better grades ; and there is not likely to be much done in other qualities until it is exhausted. The same paper, two days before, said : Large fields of cotton are growing in California, over 100 acres in one field looking well. The State offers bounty of $3,000 for the first 100 acres of cotton; also, $3,000 for the first 100 bales of 3001 b each. Over $lOO,OOO is given by the state for bile encouragement of agriculture in the raising of various products. COUNTRY MARKETS ----_~.. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. Scarcely so much wheat as us ua l. The demand was less active, but the best samples were rather dearer ; other sorts as before. n evr Old white wheat, 53s to 575:; old red, 46s to 52 s ; var .. whitb, 50s to 55s ; new red, 44s to 48s per 36 stone. ' l 3O Icy, malting, 31s to 35s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to Ps per stone. Oats, old, 28 s t o 30 s ; new, 20 s to 24 s per 24 stu no Beans, old, 48s to 50s ; new, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. There was a tolerabl e s u pply o f w h ea t, an d the conditi on of the grain was pr e tty f a i r . F or fi ne d ry samples were rather higher ; oth er ki n d s ma d e l a t e ra tes. Ba rje ' wss about an average show, and the inquiry 'vas Ni of , II healthy character at i s p er qr . over l ate rates . There a 7, a moderate supply of oa t s , w hi c h me t a f a i r demand, at rather more money. Old white wheat, 50s t o 55 s ; o ld re d , 45 s to 498; ,n 7 white, 44s to 50s ; new ro d, 39 s t o 43 s per 36 s tone. P a i;; ley, new malting, 27s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 26s 28s; new, --s to —s p er 30 s t one . O a t s, o ld, 27s to 3 0 ; new, 20s to 25s ; old f ore i gn , 22 s t o 27 s per s t on e. 13 e 3ns ' old, 48s to 52s ; new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. Super fion r, 37s to 39s ; fine, 35s to 36s per 20 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat wa s scarce l y so goo d a t this ing ket to-day as it was this day week, and all dry samplef; as well as old, were taken off at fully late prices. Thele was a fair supply of barley, and of an improved qual it Y, which realised the full rat e s o f thi s d ay se ' nn i g ht ; s ° „ 11 , - instances advanced prices were obt a i ne d . I n o ats, beau" and peas little doing. . red White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s to 5 48 ditto (weighing 631 b to 651 b), 50s to 52s ; best ram " - v ditp barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (ve i g, i -r s mg 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; o a t s , 24 s t o 26 s ; beans, 'ls to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 31s to - Od per sack. YORK—SATURDAY. The show of wheat was by means abundant, and the itt .; tendance of the trade was moderate. Selected lots lcq t. in request and a shade higher • damp sorts difficult to qui Barley in request ; show not' large, and sellers were a°' abled to make rather improved rates. There was 3111111 show of oats, at prices in favour of the seller. per New white wh ea t , 5 0s to 568 ; new red, 48s to 86 stone. Barley, for malting, 34s to 38s per qr ; 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 24s r24st n r Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, N pe s ; rye, 2 8 s qr. Flour, 33s to 34s per sack of 2801 b. CORK—FRIDAY. nod The following were the quotati ons thi s morning :-",:gd wheat, 8s 9d to lOs • white, lOs Od to lO s 4d ; b ar ley, " s d ; to 8s Od ; oats, 6s 6dto 7s od ; black oats, Us Od to 6$ bere, 6s Od to 6s 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. is Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Nov. Ditto, via Marseilles Dee. 13 ' Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pauet Dec. 4 ' Ditto, by French packet Nov. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.... Nov. - 1. China. Penang, and Singapore, via Sou.hampton..Nov. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles Nov Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Nov. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles ....... Nov. 26 India (Bumbay), via Southampton. Nov. 11 ' Ditto, via /I arseilles Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil e 3. Newfoundland ,.,.,.....N0v. Nov ov 1 L NOV. 6 . 0 2, i . Portugal .•••• • • Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. Unwed ntates and British North America, byßri- fish packet ...... ...Nov. 16. Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp- tun Ditto, via C..:rk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Nov. 17 West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teueriffe Nov. 0 . West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico NOV. 1 3 Bahamas, via New 1 ork. Nov. 16 Bermuda, ditto..., Cuba and 31,xic0.. 2 JOT. 26' A NEW RAILWAY FROM NEW YORK TO TIIE WEST . —The New York correspondent of the Morning Star states that one of the results of the visit of the English cePit't ists toAmerica will b e th e construct i on of anothr road, with a double track, into New York, from a point which 1 . 311 further accommodate the traffic of the W es t. Thor'. 15 traffic enough t o occup y ano th er suc h li ne, an d knowl° s this, the existing companies feel little or no jealousy at tit° probable introduction of a competitor. Arrangoul ent.gi however, may possibly yet be ma d e b y w hi c h th e executi on of the contemplated design may be postponed for 01 present ; but sooner or l a t er th e ex i genc i es o f the W es , will require to be met, an d accommo d a t e d w i t h a dditiona l moans of access to this the commercial metropolis of the United States. THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE CompANY.- -1111 important step h as b een taken to improve 814 d increase the means of ra il wa y commun i cat i on b e t w een t l, - 0 i United Stat es an d t h e prov i nce of Canada in the fon constitution of the International Bridge Compalo 11 which Mr. David Ward Ch a p man , o f L on d on, has beet° elected President. This is a com p any w hi c h proposes to erect a bridge for railway and general purposes over Old Niagara river between Fort Erie in Western Canada an Buffalo in the State of New York. The engineer is 31r. T. W. Kennard, and the con t rac t or M r. James Mgennr,,i,j' both of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway. contract, which was signed s ome ti me ago i n L on don, ` 0 for £350,000, and the capit a l i s subscribed by the var ic : ii ti e railroad companies w h ose li nes w ill b e connected 11 " - . 1 bridge, and it i s es ti ma t e d th a t i t w i ll yield an anliti return of 20 per cent. or more. The work will be Coin plated in two years, and then there will be a complete 0011 ; nection between the Grand Trunk of Canada, the Gr e i ,, , a Western of Canada, and th e E r i e and Niagara l i nes on t„,"„- Canadian side, with the Atl an ti c and Great Wester n, tP" New York and Erie, the New York Central, and th° Lake Shore lines on the American side. It is repor ted . that works of the like c h arac t er are i n contemplation at various other points whete it is desirable in the interests of trade to connect the American and Canadian shores but at present the International Bridge is the only one !° which the capital has be en ac t ua ll y su b scr ibed. Some d a y or other, howeve r , Wi n d sor , i n C ana d a , w ill b e connecte d with the flourishing city of Detroit. It is impossible overestimate the a d van t ages lik e ly t o ar i se f ro m su ch undertakings. They will not be confined simply to the people on the opposite chores of the same rivers ; the,' furnish the means of a fuller and freer communicatie tt between whole nations. Ex-President Frank Pierce has purchased a Sill little place of 40 acres, ca ll e d th e Brown Farm, in Nor th Hampton, N.H., north s id e o f L ittle Bore's Head, a nd about a mile south of the Atlantic House, at Rye. wish is most certain l y to be well. How tolattaiu [ADVERTISEMENT. — Holloway's Pills. Everybc 4 r tea sirable state during winter fogs and changes Was a dispu ted question prior to the discovery of these purifying ±e e No one now need hesitate to take Holloway's medicine cast casionally during the dismal months ; his pills Will c out any noxious matter which may have entered the luJ and likewise prevent disease arising from checked pel e . ration, sedentary habits, or ill ventilated rooms, by rous e 1 the liver to unwonted activity and stimulating the kicil le J to abundant secretion. Holloway's pills act as youth aY i :; rients, agreeable alteratives, and powerful tonics, propen, or that °- which preclude this medicine from being unsuitable der any constitution or complaint, or proving harmful 1111 any known circumstances. Births. CATE.—On the 10th inst., at 3, Brooklyn Villas, recidlar the wife of M r . G eorge G or d an Cave, of 23, Fencherc street, of a son, stillborn. JENNINGS.—On the 10th inst., the wife of E. B. Jen nil3s6' Esq., Burton-on-Trent, of a daughter. MAIRE.—On the 10th inst., at 5, Bayswater-hill, the W if° of Charles Maire, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. HARRISON—CLARKE.—On the Bth inst., at Worlillgr:: Lawrence, sec on d son o f F re d er i c k Harrison, Esq' , r caster-gate, Hyde-park, to Mary Anna. second dang, of the Rey. Si r Ch ar l es Cl ar k e, B ar t of Worlingma Hall, Suffolk. PATERSON— HILTON.—On the 7th inst., at Nackin.,E,- 0., William Paterson, Esq., Capt a in an d Adjutant 13.."-i to Sandhurst, to Illizabeth, eldest daughter of C* Hilton, of Nackington House, Canterbury. ' Deaths. F r ls ' FENDALL. —On the 9th inst., at his residence, street. Kensington-gardens, George Pendell, aged 62. FnASER.—On tho 10th inst., at Osborne Villa, Folkeetennil Eliza Ann Roberta, eldest daughter of the late Sir W Fraser, Bart. rn iit- FELL.—On the 10th inst., J o h n F e ll, Esq. , of the icL e-- age, Uxbridge, aged 79. Rho d e ,, RHODES.—On the 9h inst., at TisburnWilta, Sam'. Esq., aged 69. TusoN.—On the 10th inst., at 6, Devonfhiro-street/ land-place, Edward William Tuson, F.R.S., F.ll.v''' • aged 64. WING.—On the 9th inst., at his residence, SL Cuthbert% Bedford, Samuel Wing, Esq.,J.P. • London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A.N 1 7,, of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at Tnz SUN OfficeL ' 4: O, of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. In the v 9 "'" fitit'Aleemi—Monday, November 13, 1865. R ll or( car the lin