The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Duke of Cambridge, Governor of the Royal dis_ Military Academy at Woolwich, y esterday awarded by the tributed the half-yearly prizes Council of Military Educationbtaowthe gentlemen Col. cadets. The Duke, attend ed Aide-de -Camp, drovedown in thisteryyprivatebrougham, la ck a.marouncing his the guns of the Green-hill Gen. Sand arrival, precisely at 11 o ham, Lieutenant-Governor, c c ommanded the com on the parade within O pang, which was drawn up the Academy grounds. n the Duke's entrance they performed a general salute, the regimental band of the Royal Artil lery, under the leadership of Mr. Smythe, playing the national air. After in specting the company, the Duke retired to the front d. witnessed the marching past in slow and quick a t i n me . They were afterwards put through a course of manual and platoon exercises, in the first in stance by Col. Yorke, R.E., Inspector of Studies, and afterwards (by the Duke's desire) by Mr. Wat son, responsible under-officer, Mr. Jekyll, Mr, Rigg, and Mr. Christie, sub-divisional under-officers, the Duke repeatedly signifying his approbation of the' various movements, as well as the apt and ready manner in which the orders were given. There was a large and brilliant attendance of officers present, in cluding Gen. Sir J. Burgoyne, Gen. Sir G. Pollock, wearing his Star of India, as well as other well earned decorations ; Major-Gen. Warde, command ing the district, accompanied by Capt. Williams, A.D.C., Capt. Naugle, Deputy-Assist.-Quarter master-Gen., and the entire staff of the garrison ; Major-Gen. Hamilton, Vice-President of the Coun cil of Education; Major-Gen. Abbott, a member of the Council; Col. Chap man,D eputy-Adjutant-Gen. of Engineers; Col. Maxwell, commanding the local division of Royal Marines; Col. Ken nedy, Com mauclant, and Major Shervinton, Brigade-Major, Military Train; Col. Huyshe, Royal Horse Artil lery; Col. Anderson, Royal Artillery, Col. Wode house, Col. Price, Major-Gen. Sir Hope Grant, Col. Ranamersley, Superintendent of Gymnasia at Alder shot; Col. Gambier, Deputy-Adjutant-Gen., R.A.; Col. Symons, Col. Leach; Major-Gen. Taylor, In spector-Gen. Royal Artillery; Col. Smythe, Royal Home Artillery, and many others, besides a nume rous assemblage of ladies. Having completed his inspection of the parade, his royal highness pro ceeded to the east wing of the academy, and looked over the landscapes and other drawings executed during the past half-year by the drawing class. The whole of the cadets were in the meantime marched up to the gymnasium at the back of the academy, and were posted in double file on each side of the school of arms. A table arranged at the further ex tremity contained the prizes awarded. Major-Gen. Hamilton then read the following letter : " Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Dec. 21. " Sir, —I have the satisfaction to report to your royal highness most favourably of the conduct, dis cipline, and drills of the Ist class of gentlemen cadets who have qualified for commissions at the recent examinations under the Council of Military Educa tion. Throughout the term there is not an offence of a severe character against one of the class: The emu lationin study in all the cla.sseshas been mostmarked, the general conduct of the whole company, both in and out of study, has been highly satisfactory; 'this is shown by the monthly returns submitted to your royal highness; and my best acknowledg ments are due to the professors, instructors, and masters, to the military officers of every grade con nected with the Academy, to all the responsible under-officers, with one exception, and to the cor porals, with but few exceptions, for the manner in which the duties of the establishment have been conducted. The cadets of the Ist class now about to leave the Academy have gone through a series of drills and practice with shot and shell for heavy ordinance of all calibres and construction, at Shoe buryness, with zeal and attention. The riding drill has been satisfactorily carried out both in the Ist and 2d classes. The usual drills, infantry and re pository, mortar practice and gymnastics, have been satisfactorily conducted. The voluntary class for instruction in the art of photography, established last term, has in no way fallen off. I regret to have to add to my report that three failures to qualify for class promotion have occurred—one from the 3d to the 2d class, one from the 4th to the 3d class, and one from the sth to the 4th class, neither of them having failed on previous occasions.—l have the honour, &c., " 11. SANDHA3I, " Major-General Royal Engineers, Lieutenant- Governor." The Duke then delivered the prizes in the following order :—The Pollock Gold Medal, on which is in scribed—" The Pollock Medal Prize, Royal Artil lery ; presented by the British inhabitants of Cal cutta to commemorate the eminent services of Ma jor-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., and awarded to one of the most distinguished cadets in the :service." The medal was placed in the hands of Mr. Watson by Sir George himself, who com plimented the recipient on having so thoroughly earned it. Mr. Watson also obtained four other prizes, in addition to the above-named, which was awarded for distinguished proficiency—namely, for first Artillery, a beautifully bound work, en titled, " Etudes sur le Passe et l'Avenir de l'Artillerie ;" for first fortification, an aide me moire ; for first photography, a double telescope, and for geology, King's " Precious Stones and Gems and Antique Gems." To Mr. Jekyll, for exemplary con duct, was given the regulation sword ; for second fortification, a prismatic compass ; for chemistry, a microscope, and a fourth prize for practical mechanics. Mr. Howard was presented with a small aneroid barometer for second artillery; Mr. Christie received a prize for natural philosophy ; Mr. Butler a pris matic compass for second topography ; Mr. Jones, for first French and first German, received a couple of French and German works, entitled " Memoires da Marechal Marmont" and " Schiller's Sammtliche Welke ;" Mr. Wemyss, for second French, " Les Etudes sur la Literature Francaise au 19me siecle;" Mr. Mackellar, for second German, " The Life of Frederick the Great ;" Mr. Duthy, for first Hin dustani, " The Life of Sir J. Malcolm ;" Mr. Martin, for second Hindustani, " Gleig's Lives of Clive and Munro ;" Mr. Pottinger, for first mathematics, a case of mathematical instruments ; Mr. Turnbull, for second mathematics, a prismatic compass ; Mr. Blake, for third fortification, a pocket compass and scale; Mr. Bruce, for third topography, a pocket sextant; Mr. Lewis, for first practical geometry, a pocket sextant, and fo r second landscape drawing a box of colours and a sketch-book; Mr. Home ' for second practical geometry, po cket c ompass and scales ; and Mr. Atchison, for first landscape draw ing, a box of colours and a sketch-box. Amemoran dum of considerable length from the Council of Education was read by Major-General Hamilton, in which the Council stated that the first class con sisted on this occasion of 38 cadets, and they have much pleasure in reporting that they have all quali fied for commissions in either of the scientific corps of the army. His royal highness having decided that one-fourth of the numbershould receive commissions in theßoyal Engineers and three-fourths in the Royal Artillery, the Council have recommended for appoint ment to the Royal Engineers the ten highest on the list who elected for that corps, the remaining gentlemen cadets are recommended for commis sions in the Royal Artillery. The remainder of the document gave a detail of the various grades and the denomination of the studies through which the classes have passed and in which they were examined, and remarked in an exceedingly favourable manner as to the result, showing that great improvement has been obtained during the past half-year. His royal highness Lthen addressed the company, informing them that he was well pleased with the very favour able report which he had heard read to him. " gratified with the statement relative to the Professors and masters who were so well spoken of by the Council. As regards the conduct of the cadets, he said that was, on the who le, ver y sati sfactory. Th ere was, however, one exception which he was very sorry to have it in his power to point out. lie should allude to it in a very few words, and then he hoped it would be forgotten. They all understood that he referred to a recent act of unpardonable indiscretion. It was not a mere freak, he said, but a deliberate and most foolish act, which they must be blind to have committed. However, it was past, and he had no doubt they would act in future on a wiser and more commendable principle, and set a good exam ple to their juniors and those around them. They were not schoolboys, but seeking to become soldiers. He hoped they looked upon it as he himself did—as a most serious offence. He should say no more on .e was the subject, and would advise them to endeavottr to keep pace with the studious and scientific progress of the age. After having witnessed a series of gym nastic exercises by the Gentlemen Cadets, conducted by Sergeants Bell and Purt, the instructors, his royal highness proceeded to the Royal Artillery mess quarters, and having partaken of refreshment with Major-Gen. Warde, he returned to London shortly before 4 o'clock. Private letters received at Portsmouth from her Majesty's screw-sloop Archer, dated from Sierra Leone on the 24th November, state that at that time the ship had been cleared of her officers and crew, with the exception of the men left as shipkeepers, and that the sick were encamped up the mountain in quarantine, in charge of Dr. Cohen. The best fresh provisions procurable were supplied for their wants daily, and Dr. Cohen is spoken of as untiring in his constant attention to the sick in the Archer's improvised hospital on the mountain. Two more deaths only had occurred since the last letters were sent tot England on the Bth of November, and the fever was generally subsiding in all the cases still under treatment. The nights and mornings were found very cold on the mountain, and fires were therefore kept burning through the night. The orders were for the officers and crew to re-embark on board their ship and sail for England, calling in at Plymouth Sound for orders on arrival in the Channel, on the 30th of November. Since these orders were issued, however, five fresh cases o fever, of a much milder form than any of the pre vious cases, had occurred among the men left on board the Archer as shipkeepers, and this might prevent the return of the officers and crew to their ship on the day named. The senior lieutenant andl the surgeon had been invalided and sent home. The Archer was commissioned in March, 1863, and of the officers who proceeded to the coast of Africa in her only the master and one midshipman return in her to England. The Malacca, 17, screw corvette, 1,034 tons, 200-horse power, commissioned at Portsmouth for foreign service, has bent sails, and yesterday hauled off from the dockyard to buoy midstream moorings, to clear up and clean her decks prior to het crew going ashore on leave for their Christmas holiday, in common with the crews of others of her Majesty's ships in the harbour. It is understood that leave will be given from Saturday next until the follow ing Tuesday. The dockyard and other public naval establishments in the port will remain closed from Saturday night until Wednesday morning, the extra day allowed to the workmen—Tuesday— being afterwards made up by the men working extra hours. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Captain W. H. Stewart, C. 8., to the Wellesley, when recommissioned ; Captain Astley C. Key, C. 8., to the Excellent, when re commissioned ; Captain Leopold G. Heath, C. 8., to the Excellent, for special service when recom missioned ; Capt. Frederick A. Herbert, to the Ex cellent, when recommissioned, for service in the Royal Sovereign; Commander C. G. Lindsay, to the Buzzard, vice Masters, promoted ; Comman der Edward Stubbs, to the Pandora, vice Ranton, promoted; Commander Frank T. Thomson, to the Victoria and Albert, vice Simpson, promoted; Com mander F. H. Stevens, to the Ganges, when recom missioned as a training ship ; Commander E. M. Leycest on, to the Saturn, additional, for packet and transport service at Liverpool, for one year service; Brevet-Major Henry B. Roberts, Royal Marine Ar tillery, to the Excellent, when recommissioned, ad ditional, for service as instructor in Fortifications, at the Royal Naval College ; Lieut. H. F. Hoven den to the Terian, as Lieut. and Commander, vice Selby, promoted ; Lieut. H. M. Corn to the Bos cawen, additional, for service in the Ferret, vice Mansel, promoted ; Lieut. John A. Fisher to the Excellent, when recommissioned, for service in ten ders; the Rev. T. R. Holme, M.A., chaplain and naval instructor, to the Ganges, when recommis sioned as a training ship ; the Rev. J. W. Grimes, 8.A., chaplain and naval instructor, to the Excel lent, when recommissioned ; the Rev. T. J. Main, M.A., chaplain and naval instructor, to the Excel lent, when recommissioned, additional, for service at the Royal Naval College ; J. 11. Bond and Charles R. Tompkins, naval instructors to the Excellent, when recommissioned, additional, for service at the Royal Naval College ; Thomas Brown, inspector of machinery, to the Excellent, when recommissioned, additional, for service at the Royal Naval College ; George Mair, assistant-surgeon, to the Formidable, for service in the Lizard, and Dr. John Simpson, assistant-surgeon, to the Fisgard, for the Royal Marine Infirmary, Woolwich. Extraordinary Proceedings of Farmers. It will scarcely be credited that there is now standing, or rather lying, in three fields not a very great distance from Birmingham, crops of wheat which should have been harvested nearly four months since ; nevertheless, we can vouch that such is the fact. The scene of this waste—for such it undoubtedly is—is the Holt End Farm, in the parish of Beoley, near Redditch, and it may not be uninteresting to our readers to shortly relate the reasons why the crops have not been duly harvested some time ago. Before doing so, however, we may mention that the three fields contain an area of about 24 acres, and the crops which bore this year were said to have been the best in the parish. The circumstances of the case, as far as we have been able to glean them, are as follow :—At the com mencement of the present year the farm—which is a rather large one, and of which the three fields above referred to form part—was occupied by a farmer (whom we will call the offgoing tenant), but as he and the landlord could not agree relative to several matters respecting the farm, a notice to quit was served upon the offgoing tenant by the landlord, and possession was to be given up on the 25th of March last. Previous, however, to the expiration of the notice another farmer (whom we will call theincomingtenant) applied to the offgoing tenant for an inspection of the farm, and ultimately the two tenants arranged that the valuation usually made in such cases should be made; and it was made by two valuers, one being appointed by each tenant. An agreement was made by the incom ing tenant to take the crops and other things on the farm at such valuation, provided the offgoing tenant guaranteed to pay the current rent due to the landlord, or make satisfactory arrangement with the landlord in reference thereto, to prevent the crops being seized for rent. On being applied to by the landlord to waive his right of distress on the crops, he of course refused, unless the rent due at Lady-d a y was paid him, and as the matter could not be amicably settled the incoming tenant declared thevaluationto be void. In order to prepare the land for spring crops, the incoming tenant went on the farm some time previous to Lady-day, on which day the offgoing tenant delivered up the key of the farm house to the landlord, and an action was commenced by the offgoing tenant against the landlord for the amount of the valuation made between the two tenants. The landlord, in his turn, commenced a cross action against the offgoing tenant for rent and damages to the farm, and both actions were, by consent, referred to the arbitration of a local bar rister of high standing in Birmingham, the result of which was, the offgoing tenant failed in his action against the landlord, owing to the valuer of the in coming tenant swearing that he had not been em. ployed by the landlord to value on his behalf, and the landlord recovered the rent due to him and some other claims in his action against the offgoing tenant. Immediately after these two actions were settled the offgoing tenant demanded payment of the incoming tenant of the amount of the valuation before alluded to, which amounted to about £lBO ; but the incom ing tenant refused to pay the amount unless a sum of about £5O, for grass keep and other thingswhich he had not had the benefit of, or which had been paid on his behalf by the landlord, was deducted from the amount claimed. This the offgoing tenant refused to do, a n d comm e n ced an action against the incoming tenant, which action is now pending. The incoming tenant feeling sure that he was not rightly dealt with, and should doubtless be prejudiced by taking possession of the wheat and cutting and har vesting it, refused to do so. The offgoing tenant being of the same opinion as regarded his own case, and alleging that the wheat no longer belonged to THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 18b5. him, he refused to meddle with it. When the crops were dead ripe, however, overtures were made by the incoming tenant to the offgoing tenant for the crops to be gathered and sold, and the proceeds invested in the joint names in some bank, to await the issue of legal proceedings, but this, for some reason or other, the offgoing tenant refused to accede to, and thus the crops were left to waste, and as food for the birds of the air. When we saw the crops the other day, one of the fields, contain ing about eight acres, seemed to stand excellently well, especially round hedges, which were a protec tion from the wind, but the birds had apparently taken nearly every grain out of the ears, and hun dreds of birds —nay thousands—were busily feed ing upon the remnant. On observing the second field, containing five acres, situated some distance from the first, around the hedges the corn, or rather straw, stood well for the birds, but the centre of the field was as flat as if it had been rolled, and pre sented the appearance of a young onion bed, the grain having commenced rapidly to shoot forth, some to the extent of several inches. The third field, containing about 11 acres, was somewhat similar to the second, and all of them, we were in formed, were excellent crops ; in fact, as forward and, as we stated before, as good as any in the parish. Seeing several pear trees in the centre and in the hedges of the fields, we inquired how their crops had been gathered, and were told that the fruit had been gathered and carried over the wheat in the same manner as if no wheat crops were on the land. A few days ago about 14 poor women belonging to the parish entered one of the fields, and commenced cutting the best of corn off at the ears, leaving the straw ; and on being asked who in- I structed them to do it, said the Queen had sent them a letter instructing them to do it. The crops at maturity were reckoned to yield about 10 bags to the acre, making a total of 240 bags.—Manches 'er Guardian. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. company, and in winding up the affairs of the com pany with as little delay as possible. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's lines, 490 miles in length, for the month of November, amounted for passengers to $180,428, and for goods, &c., to $550,842—t0ta1, $731,270, against $381,810 on 322 miles in November, 1864, showing an increase of 168 miles and $349,460 in the re ceipts. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the end of November amounted to $6,042,594, against $3,352,414 for the corresponding period of last year, showing an increase of $2,690,180. GREAT NORTHERN. The new locomotive engines specially constructed for working the local traffic of this company's rail way have now been running between Hatfield and the Farringdon Station of the Metropolitan Rail way for about two months. The great object in the construction of those engines which Mr. Stur- rock, the locomotive engineer of the Great Northern Company, had in view was to dispense with a sepa rate tender and to obtain as much tractive power as possible, together with the facility of running safely on the steep curves and steep-gradients of the Metropolitan and the London, Chatham, and Dover (Metropolitan) lines. It was also considered ne cessary that the engine should run equally well backward as forward, carrying its fuel and water, so that the weight on the driving-wheels should also remain about the same, whether the tank por- tion be full or nearly empty ; and it appears tha all these requirementshave been successfully accom plished. The new engine is well proportioned and compact, having;six wheels, two under the tank and fuel portion, and four under the engine and boiler portion, being placed between the firebox and the smokebox. The latter are the driving-wheels, the axles of which are about 7ft. 6in. from centre to centre, and are coupled together by side rods in the usual way. The axle of the other pair of wheels for carrying the tender portion of the enginebehind the fire-box is placed at a distance of about 12ft. from the nearest axle of the driving wheels, making a total wheel bearing of 19ft. 6in. The four driving wheels act together ; but the two end wheels under the tank portion of the engine are worked on the radial system patented by Mr. W. Bridges Adams, having a lateral self-acting motion, which instantly adapts the position of the wheels to the curves, passing smoothly round them, keeping the engine steadily on the track, and allowing the driving wheels to exert freely their full power in propelling the engine and train forward. The lateral play of a few inches from side to side of the radial axle boxes attached to the separate pair of wheels being on a transverse curve, has the effect of moving the axle in a line with a radius of any curve of the rails along which the engine is at that moment passing, and of course always keeping those pair of wheels parallel to the line of rails, and consequently safe from get ting off the line. The wheels of the engine there fore run with great freedom from flange friction, avoid the usual obstructions in that respect, and prevent a deal of wear and tear as compared with other engines. The arrangement of these radial axles is very ingenious, simple, and effective. The cylinders of the eligine are 16iin. in diameter, the tank holds 1,000 gallons of water, equivalent to a supply for a run of 30 miles. The engines run freely round the sharpest curves, for which they are de signed, and the weight upon each pair of wheels is 13 tons. The chief difficulty with tank engines hitherto has been the lessening of the adhesion of or weight on the driving wheels, by the gradual con sumption of the water from the tank, but in the ar rangement of those engines the difference of weight on the driving wheels is estimated at only about a quarter of a ton out of 26 tons. These engines run every working day to and from Farringdon Station and places on the Great Northern line. Mr. Stur rock reports that the patent radial axles of Mr. Adams answers admirably, both at high and low speed, the engine running perfectly steady at above 50 miles an hour, and that the new engine therefore has given entire satisfaction. METROPOLITAN. The Government inspector having approved the arrangements for opening the Finsbury extension of this company's line, the directors intend to open it accordingly for public traffic on (to-morrow) Satur day, the 23d inst. The communication with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway is expected to be ready for traffic on the Ist of January next, when trains are to run through from the Great Northern Railway to the London, Chatham, and Dover line. PROPOSED COLLECTING LINE. Yesterday, at the meeting of the vestry of St. Marylebone, held at the Court-house, Mr. Churchwarden Poland in the chair, a numerous deputation of the inhabitants of York-place, Baker street, Portman-square, and Orchard-street, pre sented a memorial, praying the vestry to co-operate with them in opposing the bill for constructing a railway from the Baker-street station of the Metro politan line, under the streets specified, to Oxford street. The deputation urged that there was no question of public convenience to justify the vast amount of injury which such a line would inflict. The proposed length was about half a mile, which could be walked in seven and driven over in three minutes, a space of time that when changes of car riages were taken into consideration no railway could lessen. After some discussion it was resolved unanimously that the vestry should take the same course as they did with regard to the Oxford-street Underground Railway Bill, which was thrown out in standing orders two Sessions since, to take every possible step in conjunction with the inhabitants to oppose the bill of the Metropolitan (collecting lines) so far as the Baker-street Railway was concerned. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. The adjourned meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at Glasgow ; Mr. P. Blackburn in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that since they last met the decision of the Court of Session had been given against the voting of remuneration to the officials as had been proposed. He did not concur in that view of the case, but the Board did not intend to appeal against the decision of the Court of Session, and he would propose that the meeting be dissolved. _ - A long discussion ensued, in the course of which it was resolved that as the decision of the First Division of the Court of Session made it illegal for the meeting to vote an allowance to the officials as had been proposed, and, as the Board had resolved not to proceed further in the litigation, it was ex pedient that the meeting he dissolved. The meeting then separated. At a meeting of shareholders held subsequently (Mr. P. Clouston in the chair), a committee was appointed to co-operate with the directors in ad justing any claims that might be made against the THE WRECK OF THE DUNCAN DOT BAR. The following correspondence has passed in re 'erence to the loss of the above vessel : "Board of Trade, Whitehall, Dec. 21. • " Sir,—With reference to your report on the wreck of the Duncan Dunbar, I am directed by the Board of Trade to inform you that they were so dissatisfied with some of the evidence that they thought it desirable to take the opinion of the Hydrographer to the Admiralty, " I now enclose his report for your information, and I am to add that the professional officers of the Board of Trade entirely agree with the Hydrographer. " His report states the facts of the case so fully, and points out the errors in the evidence of Captain Jasper Selwyn and Captain Trivett so distinctly, that it is unnecessary to enter at large upon these subjects in this letter. "The Board of Trade have only to observe that the wit nesses in question (upon whose testimony the conclusions of the Court seems to have been based) not only assume ' hypothetical currents (of the actual existence of which there is no evidence whatever) in order to account for a wreck which the course steered is quite sufficient to ac count for, but they pronounce and give credit to the opinion that a master of a first-class ship in the merchant service, when within two or thzee hours' sail of a dangerous reef, and steering directly for it, is justified in neglecting the obvious precaution of taking an afternoon observation. "The Board do not believe that such an opinion obtains among the intelligent officers of the mercantile marine ; but if such an opinion were by means of the evidence in ques tion to receive a credit which it does not now possess, the result of the inquiry would be to do serious harm and to increase the dangers of shipwreck. " In order to prevent the evidence in question from hav ing this effect the Board of Trade think it their duty to publish this letter and the enclosed report from the Hydro grapher.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " T. H. FARRER. "To James Trail, Esq., Police-court, Greenwich." " ' Dec. 16. the question of the right of the Assembly to levy taxes without its assent to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, but the Assembly has refused the invitation, " has declined to submit its rights and powers to a mere court of law ;" which sounds very like claiming to be the expositor of its own powers, and determining to overrule any body which shall venture to resist its action. The Assembly of Victoria, in its omnipotence, presumes, probably on the ground of being elected by universal suffrage, to be placed above powers by which the English House of Commons is content to be guided, and, had the case of " Stockdale and Hansard" taken place in Australia, would no doubt have committed the Judges of the Queen's Bench to prison for ven turing to decide anything about its privileges. In the meantime the matter is further complicated by legal proceedings. The amount of duties collected without sanction of law is about £130,000. At the same time the Government has received about £109,000, which it retains in its hands, being the excess of certain taxes still legally due over the amount to which they have been reduced by the resolutions of the Assembly. Thus the colony is taxed doubly on two distinct tariffs—the one which is legally enforced, and the one which illegally pur ports to repeal it. It is, probably, unique in the history of the world that the same community should be taxed by two tariffs at the same time. We, in England, beggars that we are, grumble most grievously at the imposition of a single scale of Customs' dues, but our wealthy colonists cannot, it should seem, be relieved of their superfluous cash without a duplicate scale of this very unpleasant nature. We had thought that, whatever else may admit of improvement, the most depraved in genuity of man could invent nothing more onerous than we have already experienced in the way of taxation. But we confess our error, and give all the credit which is due to Australia for the invention of two rival tariffs at work at the same moment — an upper and a lower millstone, between which the taxpayer must be ground very fine indeed. The effect is that, if the Assembly is defeated, the Go vernment has to return £130,000 of duty unlawfully received, and £109,000 if the Council is defeated, —the person who is sure to lose in either case being the consumer, who has already paid the double duty. Nor is this all. The Customs have, since October, given up collecting duties under the existing Act of Parliament, and legal proceedings have been commenced against the officer for collecting less than the amount imposed by law. The penalty to be recovered in the action is double the amount of the sum collected. It would seem as if the Assembly must either yield in the conflict, or give further effect to its lawless career by shutting the Courts of Justice ; for a body claiming to be above all law, and a body sworn to declare the law without respect of persons, cannot long co-exist in the same com munity. Things could never have arrived at this pass, however, had it not been for the assistance to the Assembly given by the Governor, Sir Charles Darling. This gentleman seems to have thought it was. his duty to prevent matters coming to a dead lock, at whatever price, and so, probably with the very best intentions, he has entered into what looks very like a conspiracy to levy revenue, by the Reso lutions of one branch of the Legislature, in fraud of the other two, and thus to deprive her Majesty's subjects resident in Austrialia of the safeguards by which their property has been surrounded by their free Constitution. We are not so absorbed in the wrongs of the blacks as to have lost all sympathy for our fellow-countrymen in Australia. Governor Eyre has been superseded, without the opportunity of defending himself, for alleged excess of power in putting down a formidable outbreak. We wish to know what course has been taken with Sir Charles Darling, who has been lending himself to means of collecting revenue in Victoria which have not been heard of in England since the time of Strafford. We have at least a right to expect that the representa tive of the Queen shall confine himself within the strict precincts of legal and Constitutional duty, and that, limited as may be his powers for good, he shall not arrogate for himself an omnipotence for evil by the abuse of of the power with which he has been intrusted, not for the benefit of the Assembly at Victoria, but for the empire at large. In these days of deputations, can nobody be found to ask the Government, not how long this revolutionary state of things is to go on, but how long the revolu tion is to be headed by a governor whose function is worse than useless if his duty be not to inculcate, both by precept and example, obedience to the law as declared by its authorised expounders ? It is probably of little use to address any remonstrance to the Government and the Assembly who have committed themselves to these lawless and deplor able courses. They know well they have little sym pathy to expect from this country, and will probably neither be surprised nor abashed to find that its opinion is against them. But they must remember that Sir Charles Darling will not always be Gover nor of Victoria, and that the present contest, if car ried much further, must inevitably assume the form of a conflict between the Assembly and the mother country. One condition of the relations between the Colonies and England is that they should ob - serve the law. If these communities are to remain parts of the British Empire, they must be content to render that obedience to law from which no man and no body of men in these islands claim to be exempt. They must not seek for a licence which we do not claim for ourselves, nor believe that they can obtain allegiance to the Queen while setting up the authority of a single branch of the Legislature in defiance of the ordinances which have been passed in her name. POST.—Crimes such as that of which Ernest Walter Southey has been convicted, though com paratively rare, still occur sufficiently often to satisfy every one that they do not proceed from the promptings of an insane mind. When acts are committed for which we fail to discover an adequate motive, or, so far as we can judge, any motive at all, we are inclined to suppose that the agent must be insane, and therefore irresponsible for his con duct. This principle is notoriously adopted almost universally in cases of self-murder; and so motive less does suicide appear to a rational mind, that the act itself is regarded as presumptive, and in many cases accepted as conclusive, evidence of at least a temporary aberration of reason. The policy of adopting this course is at least questionable, as we know that a tendency to suicide has been not un frequently checked by imposing some species of posthumous degradation. It may seem barbarous to impale the corpse of a felo de se, as was usual in this country, or to bury it, according to the present custom, at midnight without Christian rites ; but, as the main object of punishment is prevention and not vengeance, it may be doubted whether coroners' juries exercise a sound discretion in acquitting almost every person who falls by his own hand on the ground of insanity. But, however reckless juries may be in this respect, it would be very dangerous indeed if they were to adopt the same views when the murderer is charged not with slaying himself but others, even though his victims are persons towards whom he not only entertains no animosity, but to whom he is attached by every tie of relation ship, natural affection, and love. When we hear of a man deliberately murdering a wife with whom he has no quarrel, and children who have never injured him, and whose existence offers no impedi ment to his happiness, our first impression is that the supposed criminal must be an unhappy lunatic. But we must be careful how we give effect to this impreseion when, as jurors, the question of his guilt or innocence is brought judicially before us. Of late years there has been a growing tendency on the part of the medical pro fession to extend the meaning of the term insanity, a tendency which the common sense of juries has, however, done much to check. A man, we are told, may be afflicted with moral insanity which, without manifesting itself by any of the ordinary symptoms of mania, would nevertheless exonerate the subject of it from legal responsibility for his wits. The ver dict returned yesterday at Maidstone furnishes a satisfactory proof that the novel doctrine has not yet found favour with the mass of the community. It will not be necessary to enter into any detailed account of the circumstances under which Southey, alias Forward, murdered his wife and child at Ramsgate, because the facts were admitted on the trial, and the only issue left for the jury to deter mine was his state of mind at the time when the crime was committed. But the various facts con nected with the prisoner's appearance and conduct in Ramsgate, and more especially the history of his proceedings immediately before his arrival in that town, are particularly valuable as furnishing data for determining the question of his sanity at the time when he committed the offence with which he was charged ; and for this purpose alone we will briefly refer to them. After his arrest in Ramsgate on the 10th of August he made a written statement which we are justified in accepting as correctly de picting his state of mind during the three preceding days. In this he declared that he had taken three children to a coffeehouse in London on the 7th of August, entertaining for them the feelings of a parent, but after having " worn out and exhausted every power of mind and body in efforts to secure a home, training, and future for them." These children were found murdered in their beds after Southey had left them; and, although he did not in express terms confess his guilt, he admitted that he " could struggle and bear up no longer ;" that his " last support had been withdraw n ;" hi s " suf ferings were no longer supportable ;" his " very last hope had perished by bitter and painful experi ence of our present iniquitously defective social jus tice;" adding, " and for th is I shall be char g ed for murer, for criminal murders as we ll, in the truest , strongest sense of the charge." Having left Lon don he proceeded to Ramsgate, where his wife, whom he had eight years before deserted, resided, im ..."". together with their child, a girl of about 13 years of age. Their interview appears to have been such a one as might have been expected under the circum stances. The woman reproached him with having left her during so long a period unprovided for, and told him that but for the assistance of friends she and -her child must have perished of destitution. These friends were persons of the name of Ellis, and in their house the interview took place ; and it is worthy of note that Southey was particularly anxious that his wife should accompany him to some place where they might be alone. This request, however, apparently from some instinctive forebod ing of danger, she refused to comply with, and it was arranged that on the following mornin g he should again meet his wife in Ellis's house. The meeting took place, and Southey having again re quested a private interview with his wife, they pro ceeded to an unoccupied room, accompanied by the child. A short time afterwards, the reports of two pistol shots having been heard, Ellis entered the room and found the woman and child lifeless on the floor, and Southey with a revolver, two of the cham bers of which had been discharged, in his hand. A few moments later he saw that Southey had removed a false moustacheand beard which he had worn since his arrival in Ramsgate. The defence relied upon was the supposed insanity of the accused, and that plea was sought to be established by the motiveless nature of the murder, by the evidence of medical men who had examined the prisoner, and by the extrava gant conduct of the accused at the time of trial. As regards the first ground all that can be said is, that if the inadequacy or apparent absence of a motive were to be accepted as an apology for homicide, any one who should chose to indulge in the freak of taking life might do so with impunity, by simply showing that the life or death of the person slain was an object of indifference to him. But it is not correct to say that either the murders committed by Southey in London or those in Ramsgate were ab solutely motiveless. He killed his natural children at the coffeehouse in Holborn because he thought that it was better for them to die than to live in a state of destitution, and because he despaired of being enabled, either by industry or beggary, to secure the means of supporting them. The motive, we are prepared to admit, is inadequate for such a grave crime as murder, but it is only so in the same sense as a desire to appropriate a traveller's purse is inadequate as a reason for shooting him through the head. Both motives appear trivial to God fearing, law-respecting men ; but both are motives which, nevertheless, may find a field of operation in a rational mind. In the celebrated soliloquy in "Hamlet," Shakspere sets forth the pros and cons of suicide, and the same motives which he says would induce many to terminate their existence would equally prompt them to take the lives of those who were dear to them. The excuse offered by a parent for murdering his children, that he is unable to sup port them, is every whit as rational as the excuse of murder with a view to robbery. And it would be equally incorrect to say that the murder of his wife and child was motiveless. He must have felt confi dent that he could not escape justice, and he may have wished to spare them the pain of knowing that he perished on the scaffold. Many of the admissions made by him would seem to justify this presumption. It is, at all events, manifest from the fact of his disguising his appearance, that he meditated the crime when he left London, and probably hoped, if he had been enabled to decoy his wife to some lonely spot, to escape detec tion by removing his false beard after he had murdered her. As to the medical evidence given in support of his insanity, it was simply puerile, and calls for no comment ; and the pretended madness of the prisoner in the dock was so transparent a sham that at times Southey himself appeared to be ashamed of it. The only question which the jury had to determine was whether, at the time Southey killed his wife and child, he knew that he was do ing that which was wrong, and the verdict affirming that knowledge upon his part will be endorsed by the entire country. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, Dec. 21. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) THE TRIAL FOR MURDER. The Court re-assembled at half-past nine. Mr. Justice Keating then commenced the sum ming up of the case. His lordship said that the jury would not regret that in a case of so much import ance he had deemed it best to adjourn the proceed ings until their own and his natural energies could be refreshed by the night's repose, notwithstanding the great inconvenience to which they had been ne cessarily put by being kept from their families. That all their faculties in a vigorous condition should be applied to the case was the more requisite because of the particular character of the defence. They must dismiss from their minds all considera tion as to the consequences of their verdict, what ever they might be. If they allowed themselves to be influenced by such considerations, they would be unworthy of their oath ; and if he did not tell them so, he would be unworthy of the oath he had taken. One portion of the defence was, that the deceased cut her own throat, and that the prisoner was so greatly affected by the act on the part of one to whom he was so greatly attached, that his mind became deranged, and in his distraction he attempted self-murder. But they would have to consider whether such a state of things was credi ble. If she committed suicide no one else but the prisoner could have been near her at the time. If he was near her, he did not attempt to prevent the act, nor did make any alarm. That he did not make any alarm was clear, from his going upstairs. Thenihis statements when he came downstairs were all of a character opposite to the supposition that the deceased committed suicide. To one he said, " I've killed her ;" to another, " I shot her ;" to another, "It was the drink." The learned counsel for the defence had reminded them that if she had been killed by some person coming behind her she must have screamed, and that as her involuntary act would be to put her hands up to her throat, her fingers would have been cut by the weapon of the murderer ; but there had been no screaming, nor were her hands wounded. The jury must, however, remember that the wound in her throat was one gash only, and that it was such as to occasion instant death. If the gullet and all the other organs were cut through, right back to the spine, what was therefor the poor girl to scream with ? The death wound was inflicted either by the girl herself or by the prisoner. Assuming that it was the prisoner who took Harriet Seager's life, then came the question as to the state of his mind at the time that he took her life, because it was the law of England that if an act which was murder was committed by a person whom that law called insane, then that person was not responsible, and their verdict would be not guilty on the ground of insanity ; which would enable the Crown to take charge of the prisoner so that be might not again commit such an act. That intelligent witness, Dr. Hewson, said that which was now the general opi nion of scientific men—and it was a most humiliat ing consideration—that sometimes the line betty een sanity and insanity was difficult to be distinguished. That seemed to be the opinion of all medical men who had devoted their time and attention to that mysterious disease. But the opinion of medical men was not to be substituted for the verdict of a jury, whilst, of course, a jury would give every attention to the evidence of such men. They all knew that the shades of insanity were various. It was one of the most mysterious diseases with which humanity was afflicted ; and it appeared in so many forms and shades that one hardly wondered that men who had studied it all their lives should some times be perplexed. But what the jury had to con sider was what the law of the land said upon the subject. The question of insanity had given rise to considerable consideration in the legislature. At length, the Peers submitted certain questions to the 15 judges, who, in reply, laid down certain con siderations that had now become the law of the land. The question propounded to the judges was, " In what form should the question be left to the jury ?" The reply of the judges was, "The jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason be responsible for his crimes until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction, and that, to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the doing of the act the party accused was labouring under such a defective reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and guilt of the act he was doing, or if he did know, then that he did not know that he was doing what was wrong." It was not every mental disease or shade of mental disease that would free a man. It must be such a disease that he did not know the nature of the act ; or, if he did know, then that he did not know that it was wrong. The popular form of the expression did not badly embody the case. It was—was he in that insane state of mind which caused him not to know the difference between right and wrong as to the guilt of the act. And that was the case for them to consider. Bear ing that in mind, it was his duty to tell them that when the evidence showed that the act was commit ted by the accused, it then lay with the accused to satisfy them upon the state of mind. Mr. Justice Keating then called the attention of the jury to cer tain of the evidence produced for the defence in sup port of the plea of insanity, and then said that they must consider not so much the prisoner's previous state of mind as his state of mind at the time that the act was committed. His lordship was remarking upon the evidence of Mr. Wilkes, the commissioner of insanity, who had had under his charge, when he was at the head of the medical staff of the Stafford shire Lunatic Asylum, the woman, Ann Fairbanks, cousin of the prisoner, and noticed the comparatively unimportant character of the testimony, when Mr. Motteram (for the prisoner) reminded his lordship that Mr. Wilkes's notes of the case of Mrs. Fairbanks, entered at the time in the books of the asylum, stated that there was " a considerable taint of insanity in the family." Mr. Justice Keating said that the statement was of very little value, because Mr. Wilkes must have obtained his information by hearsay. But it was one of the incidents of the disease that, like many other diseases, it ran in families. Respecting the evi dence of the cabinetmaker to whom the prisoner was apprenticed, and who spoke to some eccentri cities by the prisoner and his neglect of work, the learned judge said it would be for the jury to say whether the conduct of the apprentice was that of an insane person, or whether it was not compa tible with the statement of Josiah Fisher, the pri soner's guardian, who said that about this time the prisoner remarked that he had enough money with out working, and he should not work. Dr. Hewson, a man of great eminence and skill, had still under his care in the Stafford asylum a half-sister of the prisoner who was decidedly insane, and it was said that she much resembled the prisoner in personal appearance ; but Dr. Hewson and . another physician had twice together examined the prisoner without tracing insanity in him. The jury retired to consider their verdict. After a prolonged absence they returned into court with a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Keating then assumed the black cap, and addressing the prisoner by name, said, that after a patient inquiry, and every exertion that human ingenuity and skill could make on the part of the learned counsel who had conducted his defence, the jury had given their decision upon his case. They had found him guilty of the crime of murder—of murder committed under circumstances of painful aggravation that he could have brought his hand to do the deed he did upon such a person. It was a cruel, a cowardly murder. It was not for him (the Judge) to aggravate the horror of the position in which he then stood, but to entreat him to think seriously of that position, and to seek, and earnestly seek, for that mercy which, although he did not show it to Harriet Seager, he might yet hereafter obtain ; but he must not expect it in this world. The learned judge then passed sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner received the sentence standing, and with very little apparent emotion. 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" ' In regard to the loss of the Duncan Dunbar on the Rocos Shoal, I have to remark that supposing the ship to have been in the position as stated in the evidence at noon —viz., lat. 2 56 S., long. 33 11 W., and to have subsequently steered as stated, from S.W. half S. to S.W. by S., and gone at a speed of between 7 and 8 knots—moreover, to have experienced the usual westerly current, as shown on the Admiralty chart —then she should as nearly as possible have been on shore on Los Rocos at the moment she was, and her grounding proved that her chronometers wore in no appreciable degree in error, and that the current as shown on the chart, and stated in the Admiralty sailing directions, really did exist. "' It seems very improbable that the witnesses examined did not give the extreme westerly course made by the ship, and the more so as it appears the log book was altered some days after the wreck to give the ship a more westerly course than had been assigned to her at the time. " ' As regards the evidence given by Capt. Selwyn, R.N., and Capt. Trivett, of the Mercantile Marine, to which the Board of Trade desire to draw special attention, I have to observe that in regard to the southerly and easterly cur rent described by the former officer as existing from 16 to 20 miles N.E. of Los Rocos there is no evidence whatever of such a current in the records of this department ; but on the contrary all the documents bearing on the subject go to prove the existence of a westerly current. In the plans of Los Rocos made by Capt. Parish, R.N., in 1856, and by Capt. Selwyn, in 1857, no current is mentioned, and in the remarks of the latter officer which accompanied his plan he notices the fact of the shoals lying to the heart of a westerly current, but communicates no information in regard to the southerly and easterly current stated in his evidence to have been established by him. " 'ln regard to the remarkable difference in the latitude and longitude observed by Capt. Selwyn, I have only to say that Lieut. Lee, of the United States' navy, fixed the posi tion of the shoal in 1852, that Capt. Parish, R.N., made a survey of it in 1856, and planted 100 cocoa nut trees, and that Capt. Selwyn again made a plan of it in the follow ing year, and planted seven trees, three of which appear to have survived ; that the observations of these three offi cers in regard to latitude agree within five seconds, and that the difference in their longitude amounts to two or three miles, which is no more than was to have been looked for in results obtained by ordinary ships of war not speci ally supplied with instruments for the purpose. " With reference to the statements of Capt. Selwyn and Capt. Trivett, that they would have pursued the course adopted by the master of the Duncan Dunbar under similar circumstances, I am obliged to say that I entirely differ from them as to the prudence and safety of such a course, and it is, I think, a dangerous doctrine to disseminate that a shipmaster in charge of life and property is justified in abstaining from making all possible observations to ascer tain his position when in the neighbourhood of danger. " A single observation for longitude at 4 p.m. of the 7th of October ought to have prevented the catastrophe which occurred only four hours later. "In regard to the recommendations of Capt. Selwyn, re ferred to in the letter from the Board of Trade, which, I presume alludes to the desirability of the establishment of a lighthouse on the Rocos, I am of opinion that, however valuable such a light might be to the local trades, and ad mitting in an abstract point of view the utility of a light on any small low island in the middle of the ocean, it is not necessary for ocean ships, which would assuredly never adopt so westerly a route as the Rocos unless compelled to do so, which would very rarely be the case. "It is submitted that these observations should be re :erred for the information of the Board of Trade. " ' GEO. H. RICHARDS, Hydrographer.' " SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TI M ES. —Jamaica and New Zealand, to the almost total exclusion of the rest of our Colonial Empire, have naturally attracted the attention of a piMk which is not wont to occupy itself with too many things at a time ; and yet there is now playing out in the colony of Victoria a drama possessing inci dents of interest, perhaps more real and permanent than the fierce struggles of the Maori or the savage outbreaks of the negro. In these two colonies blood has flowed in profusion, and there is something in these scenes of horror which rivets and fascinatesthe attention of a nation happily far removed from such terrible excitement. But in Victoria we bee, in the midst of profound peace and of daily increasing pro l sperity, a contest going on which is destined to exer cise immense influence over the future not only of Victoria but of the Australian Continent at large. The question at issue is nothing less than whether the Constitution which the colony has established for itself under the provisions of an act of Parlia ment shall be observed or not ; whether Victoria shall be governed under a Constitution, democratic indeed in its provisions, but still respected and obeyed by the democracy which it has created ; or whether the popular will, as expressed by universal suffrage, shall overbear and sweep away everything that opposes it, and claim to be absolute, not only within the circle marked out for its exercise, but over the laws, the Courts of Justice, and the privi leges of a Legislative Body intended to curb and con trol its excesses. By the Constitution of Victoria the two Chambers must agree to the Appropriation Bill, which must then receive the assent of the Crown, and without these three assents no public money can be lawfully spent. The Council has laid aside the Appropriation Bill because a Tariff Bill has been tacked to it. The Assembly claim to levy and appropriate the revenue under the Tariff and Appropriation Bills respectively, as if they had passed the Council and received the assent of the Crown, and they persevere in this course, though the Supreme Court of the Colony has declared it to be illegal. The Constitution of Victoria deserves the most implicit obedience from its colonists, for it is their own work. It is no foreign scheme forced upon them by overpowering influence from without, but an article of native manufacture. If it is found to work badly, it is capable of amend ment ; if it is unsuitable to the condition of the Assembly, it is capable of repeal. The one course which nothing can justify or excuse is exactly that which the colony has taken, of leaving the Constitu tion standing and openly disobeying or fraudulently eluding its provisions. The body whose business it is to make laws ought surely to be among the first to obey them, for, if not, it annihilates its own func tion by practically demonstrating the worthlessness of having any laws at all. If the Government and the Assembly do not obey the law, to what quarter shall we look for obedience ? Why should private individuals be expected to govern their conduct with reference to the decisions of Courts of Justice, when those to whom they naturally look up for guidance and example act in ostentatious disregard of their judgments e The Supreme Court of Vic toria has decided that the levy of duties under Resolutions of the Assembly alone, without the assent of the Legislative Council, is illegal. But the Government continues to levy these duties, and not only levies them, but sends letters to persons seeking to try the point, telling them that it intends to carry the case by appeal to the Privy Council, which seems to imply that it believes what it has done is legal, and in the very same letter tells them that when an Act is passed to give form--that is, legality—to these proceedings, a retrospective clause will be introduced for saddling each litigant with costs ; so that in this single letter the Government condescends to threaten the litigant with the utmost of vexation and chicanery in order to worry him out of the prosecution of his legal claim, and, secondly, by a retrospective law to inflict upon him penalties for a perfectly lawful, and, in the land of Hampden we may be permitted to say, a meritorious and praiseworthy act—the act of a subject who resists an illegal demand, even when backed by all the weight and authority of 'Government. The intern . gence just received holds out no hope of any settle , ment of the quarrel. Attempts have, indeed, been . made to produce an accommodation, but hitherto without success. The Council has offered to refer COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL—THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a small supply of Eng lish wheat, and the trade ruled quiet at about last week S prices. Foreign declined in value. Grinding barley at barely late rates. Oats commanded full rates. Maize no change. BIRMINGIIAM—TntatsDAY. At this day's market there was a short supply of English wheat, with the turn in buyers' favour. In barley little doing. Oats dearer; beans cheaper; peas only taken in retail. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 50s ; red, 39s to 48s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; grinding, 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 30s ; Irish, 21s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qr. MANCHES TER--THURSDAY. Our market this morning was only moderately attended , and but little disposition for business was shown by buye r !' lu wheat, either English or foreign, no change. Flour if anything cheaper. Oats and oatmeal the turn lower. In beans or Indian corn no alteration. BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEDNESDAY. A fair quantity of wheat was offered at this market to day, for which there was no alteration. A large supply of barley, for which barely late rates were paid. Oats, beans, and peas met a dull sale. White wheat, 53s to 555; red ditto, 40s to 475; barley , 37s to 40s; secondary ditto, 308 to 32s per qr. Averages :—Wheat, 1,333 k qrs, 44s ld ; barley, 2,125 qrs., 33s lid ; oats, qrs, Os Od. EDINBURGH-WEDNESDAY. At to-day's market there was a small supply of country' wheat, which sold slowly. Wheat on the top, 38 Od down average, Os 7d up. Barley on the top, Os 3d up average, Os 2d up. Oats on the top, Os 6d up ..average, Os id dowrn• Beans on the top, Os 3d down average, Os id up. . _ _ . Average prices. Wheat, 49510 d I Oats, 25s 9d ' Barley, 33s ld 1 Beans 44s 7d Total supply and sales. Wheat 679 qrs sold 436 Barley 1892 qrs sold 1437 Oats 1541 qrs sold 1212 Beans 154 qrs sold 146 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 42s Od; e - stra superfine, 40s Od; superfine, 38s 6d; fine, 37s Od. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. At this day's market there was an averago attendance. Wheat and flour ruled dull, at a decline of 3d and 6d. Bar' ley steady, beans the turn dearer. Oats, oatmeal, peas, en' Indian corn without material change. ADVERTISEMENT.} -Avoid medicines: they always /LW's' vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Deliei"us Huelti Restoring Revalents Arabica Food, which yields three tim e the nourishment of the best meat, saves fluty times its coat in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion. strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the moot disordered or enfeebled. We. extract a few out of 60, 0 v 9 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan , of seven years' liver complaint, was in! away, debiliti nervousness, with a nervous paTitation all over, cad di4e o " Lion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervolla agitation.—Cure No. 1.771. Lora Stuart de Decies. Lord Li. , utenant of Waterford, ot many years' dyspepsia.- 10 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable a2ony from ilyspepab h nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatioa, flatulen• 1' spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly."—Cure 48,270 Mr. James Roberts , of F rimle y , surrey,of tuirt/ years' diseased lungi, spitting of blood, liver derang e ' ment, and partial dealness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizab eth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings. low spirits. and nervous fancies. -Cure No. 54,t , 16. The Rev. Ja e ' T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "ot indigestion and torpi; dity of the liver, which had restate all medical treatmentlh. In tins, 1 lb., 25. 9d.; 21 b., 4s. ; 51b., 11s.; ihlb., :213.; ' 4 10s.—Barry ~ u Harry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 9, King Wiiliatn-street ; e at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 49, Bishopago te ,; streA Within ; 63, 110, and 298, Oxford - street ; 33a, Straaa o. 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; Upper-at;eet, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; G le . e ; Brothers, 6'i, High-street ; and Stubbs Queen's -terrace, b: John's •wcod, London ; and all respectab le g rocers and Ole mists.—Beware of spurious Births. i 1 AIRLIE.—On the 20th inst., at Airlie Lodge, Campclon-11- the Countess of Airlie, of a daughter. MANVERS.—On the 21st inst., at 6, Til nek street, I' ol ' lane, the Countess Manvers, of a daughter. PEEL.— T, On the 19th inst., at 4 , Whitehall-gardens, I Emily Peel, of a daughter. of WELLER.—On the 19th inst., the wife of Wm. Weller , t„ South Park, Ilford, Essex, and 63 , Lower Tham es-stree of a daughter. Marriages. JOIA GOADON—PRINGLE—On the 19th inst., at Edinburgb, btei Gordon, Esq., of Cluny, to Emily Eliza Steele, daUgCivU of the late John Robert Pringle, Esq., Madras Service. vas' Lzwis—Lewis.--On the 19th inst., at St. James's, dilly, Edward Tyrrell Lewis, Esq., of The Aw b ter Piccadilly, to Frances Louisa Mariana, eldest &Lig rot of Edward Lewis, Esq., of 25, Upper Harley-street, vendish-square. eats. BROMLEY.—On the 19th inst., h suddenly, the fteV• ' lsl3:le° Bromley, incumbent of Lye, near Stourbriage. HoorEß.—On the 18th inst., at Dockhead, Berraoado e l ' Mr. Wm. Hooper, agd 71. PINCHES.—On the 20th inst., at Ealing, W., Wm. F illejle°' Esq., aged 70. FrOSS e e l's l PROSSER.—On the 18th inst , William Hugh P. Esq., of 20, Mark-lane, and of Mount Pleasant li °ll - Upper Clapton, aged 56. Tiller SIMONS.—On the 15th inst , at The Manor N o use, -- thorpe, William Simons, ' Esq., aged 83. 161 THOMAS.—On the 19th inst , George Thomas, sc i l . Alfred-place, Brompton. T i v cle", WOOD.—On the 19th inst., at 49, Sussex-g ar dens, ''''' of park, Nicholas Wood, Esq., of Hetton Hall, county Durham, aged 70 —00! London: Printed and Published by W1LL1.5.11 ANIJ?:" of No. 112, Strand, Ptinter, at Titz •StN .1 111,e, j- of Strand, in thf Precinct of the tl u voy. in the 0761.- alndleseL-FridaY, December 155. LOND ON „ EVR.OANS 031 f ' a Theatres. ICNAIL9 Y 4l ° celebral p •L'ze Medal. It is Pare, M 8 014 in B ottl the A 4 ...gent!' in i 8 , GIEtA7 observe the 4i ihlahan's L UTUA . (Imo 14, RUSSELL pkrS T ANCE; f r eehold or t t e ll , or any de d i r ee years, re ~g e ounted. t di„ ()war s Years —For `4Velopc. ,SUbscriptioi tu the supply "ench, and ( U huooth'a Ch fliited Libra 'ethnic Instit IRE IN henry J. Thiei taml s e and ot E,POSIT at vor the cox of Three Yea] The Associ C ached, payal 27 , Lombar IVIETRA. „NOTICE ,'ne rate of 1 4LF-YEJ °n 'end o N NI f O theD !till PAIL ` 7 ;Austin-fr rroTisiona ", the R eg i s i de lld war ran 27 , Austin. Ak.TANr. 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