The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-08 00:00:00

The West Ricling Reform Demonstration. The Leeds Mercury says that this gathering, which is fixed for to-day, will be one of great dimen sions. The railway companies have refased to grant special facilities for travelling to Leeds ; and it is understood that from several towns at a distance, and it may be inferred from all close at hand, those intending to take part in the demonstration will march in procession with bands and banners, each body being swelled by others at various points on its route. Bradford, Dewsbury, Cleckheaton, &c., will furnish processions; Pudsey, Stanningley, Farsley, and Bramley will unite in one procession ; and Morley, Churwell, Beeston, and liolbeck in another. Permission has been given by numerous manufacturing firms to their men to take holiday on this occasion. At the request of the central com mittee the mayor of Leeds has made arrangements for the preservation of order in the town, and has sanctioned the route to the moor which they pro posed the procession should take place. It is ex pected that if the weather should prove auspicious Mr. Bright will visit the moor during the proceed- inns. At the evening meeting, Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. E. A. Leatham, Mr. B ea les, Ur. Ernest Jones, Mr. G. Potter, and others will speak. Mr. Stansfeld has informed the committee that he will be unable to attend. The chair will be taken at 7 o'clock in the Victoria Hall, by Mr. Alderman R. M. Carter, the president of the Leeds Manhood Suffrage Association. The same re solutions as those which will have been discussed on the moor will be submitted, with the exception of the latter part of the second resolution, in place of which a brief address will be presented to Mr. Bright. In making the arrangements for the demonstra tion the central committee thought it advisable to send to the Right. Hon. R. Lowe, M.P. for Caine, the following letter : " To the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P. " Sir,—You are perhaps aware that the working men of West Yorkshire are arranging for a reform demonstration to be held at Leeds, on Monday next, Oct. 8. At a meet ing of the committee of management in the Leeds Town Hall last evening, it was unanimously resolved—' That the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P. for Caine, and the Right Hon. Edward Horsman, M.P. for Stroud, be invited to visit Leeds on M onday next, to witness the reform demonstration by working men of the West Riding of Yorkshire.' The committee, in passing this resolution, aro actuatel by a desire that you and Mr. Horsman shall have an opportunity of judging of the character of the working men of West Yorkshire. According to present indications, there will be a muster of upwards of 100,000 men next Monday, nearly the whole of whom are bona fide workpeople, in the receipt of weekly wages, and who are at present excluded from voting for members of Parliament. It is calculated that no less a sum than of £60,000 or £70,000 will be the cost of this great meeting to those whom you have stated are unfitted, and have no desire for the franchise. The com mittee can give you the fullest assurance that you shall have fair and peaceable opportunities of mixing with the unenfranchised of thin district ; and they believe that, if you accept this invitation, you will, when the next reform bill conies before the house of Commons, be in a position to speak of the working classes as a body with less bitter ness than hitherto has been your custom.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, "IL M. CARTER, Chai rman, and Alderman of the Borough of Leeds. "Leeds, Oct. 2, 1866." A similar letter has been addressed to Mr. Hors man, M.P., but up to the present time no answer has been received from either of these gentlemen. Naval and Military IntelliL-ence. The half-yearly inspection of regiments have been actively carried on at Aldershott during the past week. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Major-Gen. Hodge, C. 8., commanding the cavalry brigade, inspected the 3d (King's Own) Ilussars, the 15th' (King's Own) Hussars, and the 17th Lan cers. On Tuesday Brigadier-Gen. Renny inspected the 66th Regiment, under the command of Lieut.- Col. Garrett. On Wednesday Brigadier.-Gen. Sir A. Horsford, K.C.8., inspected the- 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment, under the command of Col. Boyle. On Thursday Brigadier-Gen. Campbell, C. 8., inspected the 28th North Glocestershire Regi ment, under the command of Col. Masters, C.B. On the same day Brigadier-Gen. Sir A. llorsford inspected the 71st Highland Light Infantry, under the command of Col. W. Hope, C.B. The regiment was next exercised by Capt. Bonham in battalion movements, and by Major Gore in Light Infantry manoeuvres. On Thursday the 81st Regiment, under the command of Col. G. A. Gildea, was in spected by Brigadier-Gen. Renny. Several other regiments as well as batteries of artillery have been inspected both with regard to interior economy and drill, and have given great satisfaction to the in specting Generals. The Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, has also testified to the efficient state of the division, the following complimentary order having been issued after the field movements in the Duke's presence reported in The Sun a few days ago :—" The Lieut.- General commanding has been directed by his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief to publish in orders the satisfaction which the appearance and drill of all branches of the service, as seen by him at Aldershot to-day, has given him. In making this expression of his Royal Highness's approbation known to those under his command the Lieut.-G - en. Commanding takes the opportunity of thanking the brigadiers, staff, and officers command ing regiments for the support he has received from them, whereby he was enabled to show to his Royal Highness the division in a state to deserve the high encomium he was pleased to bestow on them." The 24 battalion of the 3d (the Buffs) Regiment has been removed from Dublin to Belfast, where it will be for the present quartered. The half-yearly inspections of the depot batta lions of infantry and other corps in Chatham gar rison will be held by Major-Gen. Sir Robert Wal pole, K.C.8., during the present week, commencing with the Ist depot battalion. The War Department transports Bomarsund and Marlborough arrived alongside the Ordnance Wharf, Chatham, yesterday, with a portion of the armament, shot, shell, and other War Department stores belonging to the screw frigate Leander, 39, 400-horse power, Capt. W. M. Dowell, C. 8., and the Rosario, 11, 150-horse power, Commander Louis H. Versturme, both of which are being dismantled in the steam basin previously to being put out of commission. The mechanics employed on the ironclad frigate Hercules, 12, 1,200 -horse power, in Chatham dock yard, are working at that establishment during extra hours, morning and evening, by order of the Admiralty, for the purpose of pushing forward the construction of that vessel, which is being built more rapidly thah any other ironclad ship yet con structed, either at the public or private shipbuilding establishments. A portion of the largest guns for the screw sloop corvette Reindeer, 7, 200 horse power, together with the carriages, platforms, slides; &c., have ar rived at the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, from the Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich, in readiness for shipment, as soon as the vessel is completed and fit for undocking. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :— Commander A. Morrell, to the Duke of Wellington ; and Dr. W. 11. Sloggett, additional, to the Fisgard. ATHLETIC TRAIND7G---------GROUND FO OXFORD ITNI VERSITY.—W f , e understand negotiations gress for the formation of a training gr:unni are in p ro _ athletic s ports at Oxford, which will be quito distin c t ( frot h the college cricket grounds that have been used any of such the purposes. The project has received thesanction Elrl of Jersey, the great patron of old English also the leading pedestrians of the University, an d it and a nd a very desirable ono, considering the growth and importa nce f o f athletic sports at the University of ()afoul. It h as b een sports, o h rumoured that there is a desire on the part of the authori ties to put down the sport as much as possible, which, if true, may be accounted for in a measure by the fact that athletic sports were hardly in vogue at Oxford when the present generation of "dons" were in stain pupillari, and consequently they have not that sympathy for them which they entertain for the more orthodox pastimes of cricket and rowing. An attempt is being made to get the Oxford and Cambridge meeting to the metropolis, but as this would somewhat destroy the amateur element of the gathering, create a larger field of "speculation" 'than has hitherto existed, and suppress that interchange of ,hospitality and good feeling which return visits to the universities 'have engendered amongst the undergraduates of our two great national seminaries, it is hoped that the attempt will fail, and that the Oxonians will next spring meet the sister university on her ywn soil at Fenner's Ciround• MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS. Private advices at Nev; York from Mexico state that San Luis Potosi is being evacuated by the Imperialists. The Liberals were fast arming new troops. Americans were constantly arriving and swelling the ranks of the Liberal army, and every effort is being made, and with much success, to promptly pay for shipments in coin or merchandise. Large orders had been forwarded to the agent of the Republic in the United States, mostly for heavy artillery and ammunition, for both the Gulf and Pacific coasts. The Liberals will immediately for tify all important seaports. The case arising out of the seizure by the Ameri can Government of seven vessels at Liverpool as the property of the Confederates was brought before the Right lion. Dr. Lushington on the 2d instant, on Notice of a Motion by the defendant, Mr. Chas. Kahn Frioleau, in respect of damages and costs of three vessels—the Penguin, the Owl, and the Lark —and on an application of release as to the other four—the Wasp, the Badger, the Fox, and the Ariel. The case, after being argued by Mr. Mill ward, Q.C., on behalf of the plaintiff, was ordered by his lordship to stand over to Michaelmas Term, the American Government giving security for the damages claimed. Both parties were to go before the Registrar to fix the amount of security to be given, unless the sum could be agreed upon. The President concluded his disastrous elec tioneering tour, arriving at Washington on the evening of the 15th September. On the previous day a terrible calamity added to the gloom of his failure. When passing through Johnstown a crowd assembled to greet his arrival. But their joy at welcoming the party was suddenly cut short, and the whole place converted into a house of mourning by one of the most calamitous accidents that ever befel a community. The railroad at this place runs . on the north bank of the old canal (now dry), about 30 feet from its channel. The canal was bridged over for several rods in front of the spot where the train stopped, and was used as a platform for busi ness. A bridge for crossing one of the streets and two raised sidewalks were improvised. In consequence of being slightly elevated above the ground between the bank of the canal and the cars, the audience could obtain a tolerably fair view of the rear plat form of the train on which the President and others were standing, and, therefore, crowded on it in a mass so dense that there was no standing room left n wasabou ar t ou to nd mo th v e e unoccupied. Just as the trai away, and those on the bridge and depot were rending the air with cheers for Johnson, Grant, and Farragut, an awful crash rose above the roar of the huzzas that startled all within hearing, and silenced many voices for ever. The timbers in the centre of the bridge, fully a foot square, sud denly snapped in twain, precipitating every soul on it to the bottom of the canal, a distance of at least fifteen feet. The balance of the sidovalks and platform over the canal came down with the bridge, and filled the bottom of the canal with timbers, planks, and the struggling mass of men, women, and chil dren, all hurled together in an inextricable confu sion. Those on the bank between the now yawning gulf and the railroad track were frightened into a stampede, and added to the confusion by scream ing, yelling, and trampling each other into the mud in their frantic efforts to escape. A more fright ful scene_ :was scarcely ever witnessed. A few moments sufficed to reveal what had actually tran spired. Men, women, children, fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters were now rushing in every direction, seeking relatives and friends, and crying aloud with grief and terror. As soon as the sinking falling debris had settled to the bottom those in the neigbourhood sprang to the bed of the canal by scores, and commenced assisting those least hurt to extricate themselves, and to pull away the rubbish and timber that had covered and confined the others. As the bridge broke in the centre its two halves formed an inclined plane, along which all were slid with lightning speed, and pitched on the top of those who stood in the middle and went down first. Probably not less than four hundred persons were on the main bridge, and one thousand on the whole structure. The killed were mainly crushed to death by those who fell upon them ; but few were hurt by the timbers or planks. Splinters darkened the air in every direction, and caused a large proportion of the flesh cuts and contusions. From the manner in which the mass of people was precipitated, struggling, clutching, and grasping to the ground beneath, a great many arms and legs were broken. The women generally fell head fore most, owing to their inflated style of clothing ; and their contusions were chiefly confined to the head, face, and shoulders. One remarkable fact was that no in fants or small children were known to be hurt in the slightest, although many infants were among those who fell to the bottom, and still a larger num ber of both sexes ranging from six to ten years of age. As soon as partial order could be restored lines were formed to protect the sufferers from the outside pressure of the crowd, and to extricate them from the wreck of the bridge and platform. One man was found dead, with a huge beam resting across his neck, and his eyes protruding from their sockets. A large delegation of Pennsylvanians, headed by Senator Cowan and Representative Ancona, are in Washington, engaged in consultations with the President and heads of departments, with reference to such a distribution of the Executive patronage in that State as will operate beneficially apon the pre sent canvass. Senator Cowan has had several in terviews with the President, and Mr. Ancona was also closeted with him. The result is that the fol lowing important Philadelphia appointments have been agreed upon :—William Milward, Director of Mint, formerly mem b er of Congress and United States Marshal under President Lincoln ; Treasurer of the Mint, Chambers M'Kibbin ; Postmaster, Charles M. Hall, vice C. Walborn, removed ; Naval Officer, J. R. Flanigan. Baron Hock, a well-known Austrian writer and politician, has just completed a work of eight hun dred pages octavo on the financial and political af fairs of the United States. It is now in press by one of the publishing houses of Vienna, and will probably , be out within a month. He was for some years collector of customs at the p or t o f Trieste • has sub sequently held several emi nen t positions Under the Austrian Government, and is regarded as the chief adviser for the re-establishment of the financial af fairs of Austria. The work of which we speak has been some time in preparation, the author having had placed at his disposal statisti cs f rom a ll parts o f the country. It is divided into six parts, with an elaborate appendix. Among the 'subjects treated will *be financial 'legislation and administration, duties, indirect taxes, land taxes, public lands, the postal system, the mint, and other sources of public income, national and State ; the national and State debts, tariff, banks, and general statistics. The work is well calculated to circulate in Germany a just idea of the development of the United States in national wealth. Each of the six parts will con tain an historical analysis and critical review of the progress made in that department, both from a popular point of view and as regardsitsthree author, among political economy. Baron Hock is among other standard publications, of one on the financial administration of France, and another on public taxes and debts. The present work will be useful in disseminating correct information in Eu rope as to the monetary affairs and general con dition of the United States, and might even be translated with advantage in America. yearsh NV e extractold hundred a,d five one the following notice from the Phila delphia I nqu i rer: —" D ISAPPEAR ED.—On the 10th Se p te mber, un agentleman residing in the suburbs , 35 feet six inches high, weighing y to one hundred and forty pounds, with light complexion, full whiskers and mustacl.e, near-sighted, and with a habit of leaning forward while walking; came to this city on busi n ess, having $2,000 with hi m, neth en wore a (lark frock coat, light pants an d straw hat, travelling-baghim.linen duster, and had a s blaek rer from a s th mat i c attack s-sol-sometimes a be gr eo e s ufferere ing delirious from them. He wes last seen at Third and Chesnut stre e t s , at six p.m., th a t d ay. Chief Detective Franklin will pay liberally for any infor mation of him." It is understood that the office of Commissioner of the Revenue will, during the Present month, be at the Custom House of New York. The following letter of instructions has been Addressed to that THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1866 functionary by the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the proposed revision of the tariff at the next session of Congress :—'• WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Hon. David W. Wells, United States. Com missioner of Revenue.—Sir,—ln view of the fact that the revision of the tariff is certain to engage the attention of Congress at the next session, I consi der it especially desirable that the Treasury Depart ment should be prepared to furnish as much infor mation pertinent to the subject as can be obtained and collated within the limited time available for the necessary investigations. You are, therefore, hereby instructed to give the subject of the revision of the tariff especial attention, and to report a bill which, if approved by Congress, will be a substitute for all acts imposing customs duties, and which will render the administration of this branch of the revenue system more simple, economical, and effec tive. In the discharge of this duty you will consider the necessity of providing for a large, certain, and permanent revenue, keeping in view the fact that the existing tariff has proved most effective in this direction. You will, therefore, endeavour, first, to secure for the Government a revenue commensurate with its necessities ; secondly, to propose such modi fications of the tariff laws now in force as will better adjust and equalise duties upon foreign im ports with the internal taxes upon home productions. If this last result can be obtained without detriment to the reveille by reducing taxation upon raw materials and the machinery of home production, rather than by increasing the rates of imports, it would, in my opinion, by decreasing the cost of pro duction and increasing the purchasing power of wages, greatly promote the interests of the whole country. In the prosecution of this work, you are authorised to call upon any officer of the revenue for such information as you may require and he may be able to furnish.—l am, with great respect, yours, HUGH M'CULLOCH, Secretary of the Trea sury." - The Cincinnati Commercial, of the 14th September, has the following despatch from Columbus:— " General Grant, while in Columbus, did not hesi tate, in conversing with those with whom he is intimately acquainted, to express his utter disgust with the whole performance of the Presidential troupe, with which he is in company by command of the President, as his superior officer, but with the political aspects of which he has not one par ticle of sympathy. He has been excessively bored by the persistent efforts of John Hogan and other Copperheads to identify him with themselves or their political prospects. While in Cincinnati this man Hogan proposed to introduce to General Grant a gentleman connected with the Enquirer, mentioning as a reason the fact of such connection, and that the Enquirer was an ardent supporter of the General. He responded that he had no sym pathy with the Enquirer. He remembered its course during the war, and it was very obnoxious to bim. But,' said the persistent Hogan, this is one of the editors of the Enquirer.' That,' replied the General, might have prevented me saying what I have, but it is out now.' He complained that the Enquirer had published a garbled account of his remarks in Cincinnati. The General says that he accompanied the expedition, feeling that the manner with which he was invited and pressed by the Pre sident to do so amounted to an order from his Commander-in-Chief. He expresses extreme dis gust with the manner in which it has been con ducted, and that he feels, though physically strong enough, as tired as though he had been absent from 'Washington six months. These statements are not derived from rumour, but are entirely trustworthy and reliable, and their publication is believed by the military and personal friends of the General to be due and acceptable to himself. Admiral Farragut was equally outspoken upon the subject, and con demned the whole affair as unworthy political fili bustering, for which he had r.o taste." The Philadelphia Inquirer tells the story of the loss of two men over the Falls of Niagara on the 12th of September, as follows :—" This afternoon, while a terrible wind was blowing up the gulf, two men were discovered in a small boat in the rapids south of the Three Sisters. They were struggling desperately with the waves, but human power was utterly unavailing. Hundreds of persons were on Goat Island and saw them, but of course were un able to render any assistance. The terror-stricken men rowed with frantic efforts to the very verge of the precipice, and finally went over, still clinging to the oars. It seems Mr. Cooper s _ the Postmaster at the town of Chippewa, on the Canada side, two miles above the Falls, started with Frank Leutze, the ferryman, to cross the river in a small boat. Usually the course is to pull about two miles up the river before attempting to cross, but on this occasion the unfortunate men seem to have imagined that the heavy wind blowing up the stream would counter act the force of the current, and consequently at tempted to cross in a direct line. The result was the same as it had been on three former occasions when similar attempts have been made, and their lives paid the forfeit of this mistake. The sad end ing of this last mad attempt should teach a lesson of carefulness to all who live along the river's bank. The rapids of the Niagara are too awful in their power to be trifled with. It is singular that Leutze, the ferryman, who bad crossed and re-crossed a hundred times in all kinds of weather, should have so sadly misjudged the force of the current, and over-estimated to such a degree the strength of the wind. The National Union Executive Committee have issued a lengthy address to the American people. It is signed by Governor Ward, of New Jersey, Chairman, and the Representative of every North ern State, West Virginia, North Carolina, Mis souri, Virginia, and Florida. After reviewing the cause and course of the rebellion, and the Pre sident's plan of reconstruction since the rebellion was suppressed, the Committee recommend and support by argument the following five condi tions of reconstruction : —First, That all persons born or naturalised in this country are henceforth citizens. Second, That representation shall here after b , 3 based on the number of people, of what ever race or colour. Third, ex-rebels shall not hold office till Congress remove disability. Fourth, The National debt shall not be repudiated. Fifth, Congress shall have power to enforce the above. The committee find encouragement in the recent elections in Maine and Vermont, and urge their friends in other States to go and do likewise. Madame Ristori is creating a great furore in New York. The theatre is crowded, and speculators have succeeded in raising the price of box tickets. to £2O each seat. The season is to comprise 18 per formances at New York and six in Brooklyn. It appears that the liabilities of the Bank of Up per Canada are placed at $2,700,000, the assets $4,600,000. $1,200,000 are due to the Govern ment, and $750,000 to the public. The Toronto Globe attributes the suspension to the coercive policy commenced by the banks of Montreal. An „application was made by Mr. Cassell, manager on the Bank of Upper Canada to the Government for assistance. The knowledge that such an applica tion had been made got abroad, and the public rushed to the bank to get its notes turned to gold, and the bank stopped: UNITED STATES MINT—EX-GOVERNOR POLLOCK'S LETTER OF RESIGNATION.—Ea-Governor James Pollock has addressed the foll3wing letter to President Johnson : —" Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1866.—His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States.—Sir, —I hereby tender to you my resignation of the office of Director of the United States' Mint, which I hold under the appoint ment and commission of our late and ever to be lamented President, Abraham Lincoln. I cannot approve your policy,' as defined by yourself in your late public speeches and practically illustrated in deeds of violence and blood by its advocates and defenders in Memphis, New Orleans, and elsewhere. I cordially and unhesitatingly approve of the constitutional amendments proposed by Congress. They embody the true policy of conciliation and recon struction—are just and more magnanimous than trea son had any right to expect or in justice to demand. Their adoption, in my opinion, would at once restore harmony and peace to every section of onr country. I desire the earliest possible reconstruction of the Union upon the basis of truth, honour, justice, liberty, and equality. This will be done ; and I will labour earnestly for its accomplishment ; but in the name of the patriot dead of the late war, and the living and loyal children who then stood and still stand by the nation's flag, I protest against giving to the late rebellious States a premium for treason and rebollion, by increasing their political power, or grant ins to unrepenting rebels the right to make laws for their Itntagoniets to soma the true frionde el the Onion ; whilst in their hate of freedom they disregard the rights of emancipated millions, and deny to the loyal citizens of the States the ordinary privileges of American citizenship. I cannot sacrifice my manhood for office, nor will I approve under any circumstances that which every sentiment and feeling of my heart condemns. I regret the necessity that compels me to address you thus. I could say more, I can say no less. Longer silence would be dishonour. I will delay sending this until your return to Washington.— Very respectfully yours, JAMES POLLOCK." Intelligence has been received at Trieste from Bombay, dated September 8, confirming the news of peace between Russia and Bokhara. The King of Burmah has been deposed, and a conflict was being carried on between four different princes for the possession of the throne. The Lowestoft-Norderney telegraph cable was successfully completed yesterday afternoon, and is in per fect working order. The insulation of the four wires com posing the cable is said to be excellent. Direct communi cation is established with London, and the line will be opened for traffic immediately. NAVAL. —Th e United States' steam sloop Canan daigua, Capt. R. N. Stcmbel, from Cherbourg and Lisbon, arrived at Gibraltar on the 20th, and proceeded to the eastward on the following day. In a lead mine in 'Tennessee, on Thursday, Sept. 13, some specimens of red sandstone were broken open, and one was found to contain a petrified human hand, in a perfect state of preservation. In other cases parts of animals were found, and one black snake, some five feet long, was found, of the consistency and weight of the stone. Eminent Catholic clergymen are already arriving in New York from the Pacific coast, to attend to the Second Catholic Council, which is to be held in Baltimore during October, and over which Archbishop Spalding has been delegated by the Pope to preside. The object of this Council is to regulate the discipline of the Church in this country, and to arrange some systematic plan for the edu cation of Catholic youth. Forty-one bishops and other prelates, and 100 priests will take part in the delibera tions. Jos. C. Butler and Lewis Worthington, wealthy Protestants of Cincinnati, have purchased the U. S. Marine Hospital in that city for 870,500, and presented it in fee simple to the Sisters of Charity. Rev. Norman. Macleod, the missionary of the American Society at Great Salt Lake City, has been preaching a course of lectures on polygamy, attacking the system in its stronghold. The Mormons have attended in considerable numbers, though the leaders threaten the preacher's life. At Portland bricks and pieces of iron taken from the ruins sixty days after the firo was almost too hot to handle. A Massachusetts paper company is dividing one hundred per cent. out of the profits made from newspaper publishers. The price of paper is too high. The Boston Transcript is now print e d on p aper i m ported from England. It is a significant comment on the manufacturers in this country that paper can be imported at a saving to con sumers. A PIRATE ARRESTED.—Oar readers have not for gotten the circumstances connected with the seizure of the steamer Chesapeake, on a voyage from New York to Port end, in December, 1863, by a party of disguised Rebels, headed by one John 0. Braine, who came on board in the character of a passenger, and consummated the act of piracy, killing Oran Shafter, assistant engineer, and wound ing the chief engineer while at sea. .The ship was eventually recaptured in Nova Scotia, where the bucca neers had gone. The whole party were assisted to escape by a mob at Halifax, and afterwards warrants of extradi tion for them were refused to the United States. Braino was allowed to run free, and leaving Nova Scotia, he under took, in the succeeding year, a similar enterprise against the steamer Roanoke, plying between Havana and Nell York. He also came ou board of this ship, with others, as pretended passengers, seized the vessel at sea, and headed her for Bermuda. Hero they sent the crew and passengers on shore by another vessel, took out a portion of the cargo, and set fire to the steamer. After this feat they went on shore, where they swaggered immensely upon the strength of the exploit. In orderto make a show of justice, Braino and his associates were arrested, and the farce of a trial was performed, the result being of course au acquittal to all the offenders. There was some corres pondence upon the subject between Mr. Adams and Earl Russell, but the latter defended the outrage upon the plea that the pirates had a Confederate commission, and were, therefore, to be treated as belligerents. The same man, Braine, is believed to have organised the attempt to take the steamer Salvador, on the Pacific, in a like manner, an enterprise which was foiled by the activity of American naval officers at Panama. The acts of Braine were so ligitious, and opposed to the "ordieary licence of war, that it would have been thought that he would have imitated the caution of Waddell, of the Shenandoah, and kept away from the United States. But he supposed he could come and go, just as ho pleased. Unfortunately for him he was discovered in New York, by James Johnston, the first engineer of the Chesapeake, who had been wounaed when the steamer was seized. The latter swore out a complaint against him for murder and piracy. The United States Marshal found the bold buccaneer, and he is now in durance vile. Wo do not think that his Rebel commis sion will avail him now. lle committad his crimes in the disguise of a peaceful citizen ; was not in command of any vessel, and was acting under false pretefices in order to ac complish his object. His offence is clearly piracy, and justice will nut be done to hint if he is not banged for his transgressions.— The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Alabama Question and our American Alliance. - - A writer in a contemporary says : It is but a few short weeks since I took occasion to call the attention of the public to the question of the liability of the British Government in reference to the Confederate cruisers. At that time exceptions were taken by two or three of your correspondents to some portions of that letter. But if you will remember my main argument was, that whether right or wrong, according to direct technicality of intn national law as interpreted by Wheaton and Mattel, yet the American people would ever consider that England was morally responsible for the building, equipment, and manning of the Confederate cruisers. That whatever apparent friendly and social intercommunication might take place, whatever might be the extent of commercial relationship, there would never be that entente cordials 7 which was at once desirable and necessary. In address ing that letter to you, Sir, I had but ono object in view— an honest, practical, and lasting alliance. I know th e A th r e n i e r ri n ca a n tion pe al op pe people, their sensibilities, their jealousies, an d, at the same time, their im pulsive, generous nature ; and I know that though half a century may elapse, when once they are convinced, whether erroneously or otherwise, that they suffered a wrong, or that an advantage was taken of them in the hour of the nation's peril, it is a bitter memory, which at any moment may set the whole body politic in such a fever of commotion that the danger -signal may be hoisted. If you may remember, I directed attention to the fact that President Johnson, and General Grant, and the army, by their prompt action at the last threatened Fenian outbreak, had saved Canada ; or, at least, if they did, not save Canada, they saved an invasion, nipped Fenianism in the.bud for a time, and showed their respect for international law and the comity of nations. Can we tell what might have been the result to the British possessions —what loss of life and property, what an expense entailed in the support of the military, what fright it would have caused the community, what stagnation —yes, utter cessa tion—of all business would have resulted if their action had not been prompt and decisive ? I will not draw a darker picture. I will not paint in colours dramatic the scenes thiit such men as those composing the Fenians would have enacted. It is only necessary to read the threats they have published and spoken. Fenianism is wide spread; it is an organisation that in the peculiar position of the: present political parties of the United States acquires increased importance, and, sorry am I to state it, increased countenance. I do not believe that either the Radical or Conservative party, if fi rm ly in power, would coun tenance the acts of any marauders, but if I read the sign on the political horizon aright, the coming battle is one in which fusion and partizanship will overrule all thoughts of settled platform or Principle. Therefore , e ver y eleme nt which can give either on e s id e or the other strength will be flattered, cajoled, and wh ee dled into the ranks. There it is where Canada's danger lies now; while the Govern ment and the people of the North are engrossed in their elections there will be no restraining agents placed on Fenianism. I do not believe, for one moment, that the sensible portion of the American people would threaten England, through Canada, with an invasion. But unfor tunately elections are miniature revolutions, and words aro spoken, threats are made, and deeds committed during a campaign which astonish even the perpetrators after the storm has blown over. The English people do not understand this ; they take all the outpourings on the hustings, all the harangues from plat forms, all the phillipics from the rostrum, all the lam poons, denunciatory leaders, and sparkling attacks and re torts as the dignified, laboured utterances of a deliberative body. Many think the Americans, now they have tasted war, cannot do without it. This is a grand mistake. The Alabama hobby is a good excuse, a capitarone for the Fo nians to arouse a certain class of people, and it is a dan gerous one, or it may ultimately be. How easy to disarm, then, that class ? It is too much the habit of many of the English news papers to assert that Americans dislike us as a nation. I do not believe this. The constant current of travel be tween the two countries, the social intercourse which takes place as a result, must impress both with the conviction that there is no real antagonism ; but, on the contrary, an assimilation not only of language, but of ideas and views. Remove the irritating cause, and see how soon the inflam matory state of the American mind will subside. Manifest a generous disposition in reference to a subject of irri tability to them, and see how soon they will ac knowlege and reciprocate the act. If it is not thought compatible with the dignity of the -British Govern ment to retrace their steps, to withdraw from their positive at this moment, let them do what the Times suggests in its leading article to-day. And here I may, perhaps, be excused from stating that the views which I enunciated two months since are exactly in unison with those of the Times of to-day. " The Alabama would never have gone to sea but for the inopportune ill ness of the Queen's Advocate, and this consideration, though it may clear the Government from the charge of neglect, does in some degree affect the moral aspect of the case. The loss sustained by American commerce in con sequence may bo daninurn sine injurid, and therefore no ground of legal action ; andyet it may be a wise act of cour tesy to waive the benefit of this plea. The time has come when such a concession is no longer open to misconstruc tion, and would be accepted by the United States as a spontaneous act of goodwill. At all events there can be nothing derogatory to the honour of England in offering to.submit her Neutrality Laws together with those of the United States to revision by a mixed commission. No country has more to lose by a lax interpretation of these laws, and justice compels us to acknow ledge that, had the United States Government connived at their evasion, the Fenian expedition might have inflicted much greater mischief on Canada." And now I ask was not this substantially the line of argument which I maintained in my first letter ? And I do hold that it seems impossible, in all fairness to the United States, that England can refuse to submit this case to arbitration. Here is an opportunity of deciding the justice of the claims on one side and the defence on the other. But Igo fur ther, and say that England can afford to pay this claim ; the money does not go into the coffers of the United States Treasury. It is of no national benefit; but the persons who would benefit by this act of justice. or liberality, whichever people chose to call it—l will not cavil about technical phrases—l say the persons or parties who would be benefited would be those who aro closely allied to the mercantile and commercial community. The present sufferers, many ruined, aro those who wore engaged in the peaceful avocation of commerce ; besides nearly all the valuable prizes were ships bearing grain as food to our shores. The amicable settlement of this most unpleasant sub ject of controversy would not only be received by the American nation as a proof of our desire to do them right and justice, but it would be recognised and accepted as a compliment to their own honourable conduct in reference to the Fenians. Once let this claim bo settled, and what is there to stand in the way of a perpetual alliance ? When 1 hoar people preaching about the approaching alliance between Russia and America, and the terrible results which will ensue to Europe ; when I read all the fine plans about the mapping out of the world, and how America will help Russia in Europe, and Russia America on her own continent; I simply call to mind that ono represents the freedom of peoples, and the other is an antagonism so great that oil and water in mixing would be as nothing. America wants peace; she wants the few remaining bil lows of the late storm smoothed down ; she wants the last echo of the thunder to die away in the far-off valleys of passing time; she wants the last whisper of the frightful tempest to gather itself together and to be no more; she wants the last memory of the sad, sad days that were so mournful to be forgotten; and, finally, she wants to be true to herself, that each and all may comprehend each other, that embittered feelings may give place to words of for givenness and promises of mutual support. Yes, America wants no alliance for purposes of self-aggrandisement. She has a mission to perform, she has a God-gifted natural theatre to perform it upon, such as earth has no equal. There she stands, stretching from ocean to ocean, and from lake to gulf, with a world of inherent wealth surpass ing that of even the old Roman Empire. If she wants al liances, they should be those of the olive branch ; and I trust there may be ever an alliance between people of the same tongue, between Great Britain and America, and their aim, their object, and their purpose may be the ad vancement of the arts of peace and everything that apper tains to the progress of man. Gresham House, Oct. 4. T. RAWLINGS, F.R.G.S. The Atlan is Telegraph. The Times holds that those who look upon Eng land's abnegation of continental influence as only a proof that other interests are more important to her may derive an argument or an illustration from the Atlantic cable. It is our achievement of the year, our contribution to the doings of the world, which we may set against Prussian military glory or French diplomatic influence as shown in the events of the past summer. While the continental nations are engaged in those discussions or struggles out of which we may hope that a peaceful and permanent settlement of European limits will arise, England turning her back on the Old World, has performed a w,ork as grand, as important, and as wonderful as any that has been done elsewhere. And there are few who-will fail to make the reflection that the people whose genius, enterprise, and perseverance have achieved such a work are able not only to hold their own, but to assert their due influence when ever the occasion shall demand. The eminent and courageous men who have done this service to their country well deserve the compliment which the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, representing in this matter the public at large; paid them by the banquet on Monday evening. Never were honours better deserved than those which her Majesty has been advised to bestow on them. As to the work itself, the Times scarcely dares to predicate its magnificent effect upon the civilisation of the world and the happiness of the human race. It may be that at last the promised pacification of the world will tend to be realised ; that patriotism will give way to universal philanthropy, nationality to what may be called internationality, and that the magnitude of the interests created by immediate and incessant intercourse will make war almost im possible. The Daily News finds that the speeches delivered at the Liverpool banquet on Monday even ing in honour of the layers of the Atlantic cable were creditably free from the exaggerated rhetori which the subject seems almost invariably to pro voke. We stand at the beginning of vast enter prises, the full scope of which it is impossible to forsee, but which promise to bring into communion the uttermost parts of the earth. One cannot, in deed, share the confidence which the American Consul at Liverpool expressed on Monday, and to which his audience responded enthusiastically, that ocean telegraphy is destined to accomplish what Christianity has not yet achieved, . and to bring about the " peaceful time predicted 3,000 years ago, when the wolf and the lamb shall dwell together, and the earth learn war no more." At the same time it would be erroneous to divest it of all moral effects whatsoever. The printing-press is as neutral between good and evil as the telegraph. Truth and error, an honest and a malevolent purpose, use it alike. Yet who can deny that it is a powerful agent of morality and civilisation ? The Atlantic telegraph will be of great value in the hands of sagacious and right-minded statesmen ; and we must hope that the majority of our public men de serve these epithets. In the hands of reckless poli ticians, or at those happily rare crises when party or national feeling carries away men otherwise sober-minded, the opportuflities which it offers may be fraught with mischief. So with regard to com mercial enterprise. Upright and prudent merchants will draw only good from it ; reckless speculators will make it an instrument of evil. The enthusiasts who anticipate a millennium from the Atlantic cable, and the sceptics who say that it will leave the balance of good and evil just as before, both see only half or some smaller fraction of the truth. The Post also cannot altogether agree with Mr. Dudley. Recent events in Bohemia have shown that the telegraph may be made quite as powerful an agent in the promotion of war as it is of peace, and those who have the best means of making known their desires and opinions to each other have not yet learned to do so in such a manner as to preclude all chance of disagreement and quarrel over them. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of 60,01 0 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be arrested, if. instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines, which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in reality no other tendency than that of increasing debility, and with it the clangor of life, we were simply to study how to Inc ease the vital force by imparting blood, new and pure upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's inva lids' and luta, te' Food, the Revalenta Ardblca, and its thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, and for children it 14 the best substitute for human mils. Dr. 'tout'', Physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children—the best ant horny on such matters —in his admir able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub stances, th.t which comes closest t') milk in its composition is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revatenta Arabica Food, con taining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle which is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there fore, that under its Influence many children affected with trophy (wasting away of the bodyl, and marked debi its ave completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest advantage in such caeca ; and so far as I may judge from my own experience, practice fully carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.— In tins, 11b, 2a 9d; 21b, 4s 81; 51b, Ils ; 121 b, 229; 241 b, 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, tea dialers, 8, Wing William-street; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 830, Strand; 54, Upper Baker-street ; IC3, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St, John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che- OligPS. -- 71)1Ware of epurious imitation& SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The prospects arising from the Treaty of Peace lately concluded at Vienna are less favourable to Austria than they are to Italy. The difference does not merely lie in the fact that the vanquished Italians are enriched to the full extent of the losses of their Austrian victors. It is not simply because Austria has been compelled to part with Venetia and renounce her place at the head of the German Con federacy that her condition inspires her well-wishers with serious apprehensions. The uneasiness pro ceeds from the extreme difficulty created for her by the late events of determining her proper position for the future. The Hapsburg has ceased to be a German and an Italian Sovereign. What.place will he have in Europe simply as an Austrian monarch ? The time has come at last for men to get at the mean - ing of the word " Austrian." The petty feudal lord of some of the south-eastern circles of Germany, the Duke of Austria, became a Mighty Prince by a series of auspicious events which brought Bohemia,- Hun gary, and other non-German la n d s un d er his sway. By the aid of these non-German possessions he se cured supreme power in Germany, carried Imperial elections, and fixed the Empire on almost hereditary rights in his House. The ascendancy of the Empire in its turn enabled him to strengthen his sway over the non-German dominions. The work of so many centuries is now at last thoroughly undone. In Ger many the Emperor Francis Joseph counts for even less than the petty feudal chief, his ancestor. But he is still the lord of a small separate and indepen dent German State, the head of a vast extent of non-German possessions —perhaps 8,000,000 Ger mans against 25,000,000 non-Germans. The posi tion is wholly reversed; the basis of empire displaced. Up to 1806, or 1815, or even 1848, so long as Aus tria was at the head either of the German Empire or of the Confederacy, she ruled by the aid of a German majority, if not of numbers, at least of political and social strength and intelligence, with her seat of power at Vienna ; but, since Sadowa, the Kaiser finds himself with his Germans in the minority, and his State shows a tendency to gravitate to the east ward, to look for a new centre at Pesth, if not fur ther down to Szegedin or Belgrade. There is at the present moment apparent calmness in the Austrian Empire, especially in its light-hearted capital, and the Government have at last deemed it expedient to raise the state of siege, acknowledging thus the improvidence of a measure of rigour for which those easy-going Viennese had given no pro vocation ; but under that smooth surface the Empire is no less a prey to helpless anarchy, an anarchy in every branch and order of the administration. There is as little Government in Austria at this moment, as little mind and will to frame a policy for the future, as there was in the worst days of 1848, when General Perrone, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sardinia, being urged to profit by the disorder of Austria to rene w th e con test in Lombardy, answered, with what seemed then sound wisdom, " that he thought it folly to meddle with a mad dog sure to die of its own rage." The knots which the sword managed to cut in 1848 present themselves again now, awaiting a peacefal solution. The nationali ties are once more let loose. The position of 1848 is reproduced in 1866, but with two main points of difference. In 1848 Germanism was still strong enough to stem the tide. It first enlisted national pride in the overthrow of a foreign aggressor. It bore up the old Hapsburg standard against Sardinia. It then turned its regained strength to the suppres sion of home factions; it reorganised the central power at Vienna, and hence proceeded to the _sub jugation of th e non -German Provinces. But there was even then one of these Provinces for which Germanism was not a match. Hungary was too strong for Austria, and had to be brought to alle giance by Russian interference. In 1866 Germanism constitutes a feeble minority in the Empire ; but, on the other hand, and by way of compensation, the loss of her position in Germany and Italy enables Austria to throw all the weight of her power into the settlement of internal difficulties. The main difficulty, now as before, is, of course, Hungary, and as the German element must needs have lost so much of its ascendancy it has occurred to some that the - safety of the Empire could best be provided for by a compromise between Germanism and Magyarism — a partnership of power between Vienna-and Pesth. Under a scheme of per sonal union these two leading races, it is supposed, could keep all the minor nationalities under subjec tion. But it is, in the first place, very questionable whether the German and the Magyar will either agree to an equal share of power or bow to one an other, and it is still more doubtful whether the minor nationalities will be easily amenable to the rule of either or both of them. Were the Austrian Empire composed only of three or four distinct members, or were one, at least, of its members so compact and homogeneous as to be able to take a central position and maintain it, the cohesion with and subordina tion to it of the minor fragments might be easily obtained. But out of the German element, which has lost its main stay in the Confederacy, and con stitutes now, as we said, a small minority, there is no such possible basis. The Magyar is the domi nant, bnt by no means the only, race in Hungary ; the Czech does not occupy the whole soil of Bohe mia, and all the East and South-east is swarming with Slavonic tribes, so mixed up and interspersed with the German, or Saxon, and the Magyar, and so constantly pressing and tramplin g u pon one another, that it would be idle to attempt to trace either distinct or permanent limits between them. So long as Austria was an absolute State, and Ger manism her centre, not only was her rule unre sisted, but hailed for its highly beneficial, civilising influence ; but any attempt on the part of . the Government to organise itself on free PrinciPk's' to introduce representative forms, and, above all has things, to admit the justice of national claims, had hitherto no other effect than to raise a storm of sub-national counter c laims, and brin g the State to the verge of utter dissolution. It is in consideration of these supreme dangers that the Government of Francis Joseph, if any thing like Government may be said to exist in - Austria, seem staggered in their schemes for the re construction of the Empire, either on the principle of a Dualism between the German provinces and Hungary, or of a federation of the main national divisions of the Empire. Anything like a constitu tional plan, either general or partial, or the forma tion of a real Ministry, is in abeyance, and the ma nagement of military and diplomatic affairs alon e engrosses the attention of the rulers. The Archduke. Albert, the only man of energy, as it appears, about the Emperor's person, seems to put all his faith in the army, and the only measure of importance in the appointment of Count Goluchowsky to the Go vernment of Galicia, and of Count Rothkirch Pan then to that of Bohemia; the former te l t a o ti t e h r e to gr t e h a e t sa tisfaction of his Polish subjects, the great indignation of the Czechs. The mere creation of satrapies, with 'power to deal with local Diets, upon more or less independent or autonomous prin ciples, might, perhaps, produ ce th e form of govern ment best suited to the mi nor Provinces, and' might transform the Empire into a Confederacy with a strong military centre ; but the larger kingdoms, especially Hungary, aspire to an entirely separate government, and are bent on actual independence. either with or without the Hapsburgs. There is very little show of disloyalty as yet on the part of the Magyars ; but they may be less determined be cause they are not clamorous. An outbreak in Hungary would involve no slight danger to the Monarchy ; but the Emperor and the Archduke Albert are straining every nerve to keep the army in the utmost state of efficiency, and as the armyis quite German by reason of its strong organisation, they rely upon it as the most conservative element in the State. The peace concluded with Italy, and the removal of the garrisons from the Quadrilateral, enable theta to concentrate their forces round the seat of Empire, and to act with undivided energies upon any given point. In any dispute with Hun gary, in any difficulty in the East, Austria will no longer have to be on her guard against the South. Her mission in Europe " no longer leads her in that direction," standing many as she informs us, and, notwith petty demonstrations of it is not likely that she can harbour any serious thought of a new quarrel with Prussia or of the recovery of her lost ground, in Germany. Her life or death now depends on the solution of the home question, on the settlement of the great na tional difficulty. It is in all probability with a view to prepare against internal disorders that the army is being set in order, not for a new appeal to the fortune of arms in Germany. Austria should be as anxious to cultivate a neighbourly feeling towards Prussia as she exhorts Italy to entertain towards herself. In all her complications on the Danube, in her conflict with, rebel races, or in her advance upon Turkish or Russian borders, she can have no better ally than the new North German Confederacy. The animosity between Austria and Prussia, how ever natural under present circumstances, should not be long-lived. The ground. of between them is for ever removed, and the two countries need never again cross each other's path. They may still have, both in the East and West, community of interests, but scarcely any ground for rivalry and hostility. ANGLO-A3IERICAN TIMES. The Pall-Mall Gazette is a very young thing in an antique garb: Ably conducted, young though it be, it is already a great success. The Spectator— through its spectacles—has perhaps become con scious that a vacant place has been filled. The " Weekly" will be the more sensible of this, from the sharp slap given to it by the young " Daily." The Pall-Mall alleges on the part of the Spectator the most painful ignorance of the Eastern question. It warns its venerable contemporary off that ground; till it has made itself acquainted with the commonest facts of Turkish history. But though the smart young daily in the antique guise, pulls up its con temporaries for errors, with what the sailors call " a round turn," it' stumbles sometimes while so jauntily tripping along. On Thursday last it told a story under the head of "Military Law in Bengal," a well-known story, considering hat three years ago it made as much noise in India as the Jervis case does now. It is affectation, therefore, to give dashes for the names. The Pall Mall Gazette tells the tale as having occurred in 1853, while it puts into the mouth of one of his actors the words, "in " these days of Sir CHARLES WOOD, one must think of oneself. If I tell everything, Sir CHARLES will abolish my appointment." In 1853, and for years after, Sir CHARLES had nothing to do with the officers of the East India Company's Army. The East India House was flourishing in Leadenhall street, little dreaming of its end then so quickly approaching. We would not notice this mistake if the questions of fact were correctly told. The story is simply as follows:--Col. Burney commanded at Dinapore in 1863. lle was a very gallant old officer, and assiduous in his attentions to young and pretty women. The friends of a lady construed a note written to her by the brigadier as being insulting. It was a curious production but it might not ha ve meant anything. Th e husband of the lady being absent, the adjutant of the regiment to which he belonged and another gentleman called for an ex planation on the brigadier. Their tone, considering they were addressing their commanding officer, was anything but respectful. They gained their point and left the old officer, having extracted a promise that he would not again address the lady. A scandal like this could not in India remain in such a half developed state. Further cor respondence and interviews took place. In one of these Captain EYRE openly spoke of himself as having called on the brigadier and threatened to horsewhip him. He stated that Colonel BURNEY submitted to this insult, and de scribed himself as sitting on the stool of repentance. The real question hinged on this interview, at which no one was present but the two principals. Cap tain EYRE was not the young sub. as represented by the Gazette, but an able and gallant officer who had raised himself through every grade of the British army to the post of adjutant. A court of inquiry was directed to investigate the circumstances, and, acting on its report, Colonel BURNEY was advised to resign. The Brigadier resisted, and complied only on a strong pressure being brought to bear. He retired to Calcutta and filed a complaint in the Supreme Court, and the case shortly after was tried by Sir MORDAUNT WELLES. Unfortunately for Mr. LYRE, he had been sent home in charge of troops, and as the question was one which turned solely on the interview, the trial scarcely g ave hi m a fair opportunity of vindicating his assertions. To read the story in the Pall Mall Gazette, one would sup pose that Mr. EYRE had been cross-examined in court, and had not told the truth, when, unfortu- . nately for him, he was in England or at sea on his way there, while the court was sitting in Calcutta. Sir MORDAUNT WELLES had to weigh the testimony of Colonel BURNEY against that of Mr. EYRE. There was not a particle of evidence on ' either side beyond these statements. The Chief Justice had to make up his mind from the balance of probabilities. A guard was within call, a sentry in the verandah, and the judge held that no officer in such command would have borne such insolence as that Mr. EYRE alleged he had offered, and which Colonel BURNEY denied. On such points Sir MORDAUNT arrived at his decision, and it is highly improbable that he would have spoken of an absent man on evidence like this, as having per jured himself. The trial only deserves notice from the cross-examination of Colonel TURNER, Deputy Judge-Advocate-General. He stated that his sole anxiety " had been to carry out the Commander-in " Chief's wishes, bywhose breath only he existed, and " who could remove him from office in a moment if he ",were to forfeit his Excellency's confidence. That "he considered it his duty as Judge-Advocate " blindly to obey orders ; to obey orders first, and "then to do justice. He admitted that he " did not know exactly what the duty of a judge " advocate was, and that his chief anxiety in the whole " business had been to protect himself against the dis "pleasure of the Commander-in-Chief, which would be fatal to his future prospects." Injustice to this officer we must state that lie was ill at the time, and bullied by the plaintiff's counsel beyond Eng lish endurance in the climate of Calcutta. The Commander-in-Chief held that he wasquite as good a judge as Sir MORDANT WELLES as to who was likely to be right and who wrong in this military case. He promoted Mr. EYRE to a company when his turn arrived, showing that he differed both from Sir MORDANT WELLES and the Pall- Mall Gazette. Mr. EYRE'S offence consisted solely in having carried his defence of a lady to too ex treme a point. No doubt, between the evidence of Major-General BURNEY and Captain EYRE there was a wide discrepancy, and that the Chief Justice held the General to be right and the Captain to be wrong, but there were a great many people, very good judges, who thought differently- and, there fore, we consider the comments on that officer to be most unfair, which is our reason for following the Pall Mall Gazette in commenting on a story that had better be forgotten. COUNTRY MARKETS. ----- -*- NORWICH SATURDAY. There was an increased supply of wheat at market to day, but the millers not being eager buyers, and the far mers unwilling to make any concession, little business was done, at a slight reduction from last Saturday's prices. A larger supply of barley was offered, but the quality of many of the samples was very secondary, and the trade was slow. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 54s to 56s • old red aitto ,i) weighing 631 b), 47s to 525 ; new red ditto (weighing 6 01 b to 631 b), 51 s t o 52 s ; b es t ma lti ng b ar l e y (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 42 s t o 45 s ; runs ditt o ( weig hi ng 511 to 521 b), 40s to 41s ' • distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 34s to 36s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 37s to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr. Flour, 38s Od per sack. LEIOES TER - SATURDAY. Our market was fairly supplied with wheat to-day condition of new samples irregular. The turnip and man gold crops are looking exceedingly well around here. There was a limited demand for wheat, and late prices hard to realise. A fair demand for fine sorts of barley, at ex treme rates ; inferior kinds not much altered. Oats were a moderate show, and sold steadily at high prices. A small supply of beans, which met a ready sale, at prices about is por qr. over those of last week. New white wheat, 50s to 55s ' • new red, 46s to 53s ; old, white, 52s to 60s ; old red, 49 s to 56s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 39s to 43s per qr.; grinding,' 31s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 348; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 53s to 51s ; new, 53s to Ms per 38 stone. Fine flour, 428 ; seconds, 38s to 40s per 20 stone. YORK-SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat at our market to-day, the show consisting of old and new sorts. The supply of barley was fair, and there was a good demand for selected lots at a small advance in prices. Oats were pretty well taken off, and prices ruled very firm. Beans in limited supply, and fair demand, at au advance on last week's prices. New white wheat, 50s to 60s ; new red, 45s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s per 24 stone, Beans, new, 50s to 52s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to 70s. Flour, 38s to 42s per sack of 2801bs. NOT TINGHAU—SATunDAy. At to-day's market the supply of wheat was middling, principally new, the condition of which' was very varied. The pastures are looking very healthy in this locality. Turnips continuo to be favourably reported of. In barley a fair amount of business was transacted, and in some in stances au advance of is per qr. was realised. The show of oats was not large, and the demand ruled firm, at full prices. Old white wheat, 58s to 64s ; old red, 55s to 60s ; new white, 50s to 545; new red, 50s to 56s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 31s to 35s ; new, 23s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 52s to 555; new, 48s to 518 per 38s stone. Fine flour, 39s to 42s per sack. Births. RINGROSE—On the 4th inst., at Tillingham, Essex, the wife of Basil llingrose, Esq., of a daughter. WALPOLE—On the 3d inst., at 3, Queen-street, Mayfair, the wife of F. G. Walpole, Esq., of a daughter. WiLxix— On the 3d inst., at High Bickingston, N. Devon, the wife of Captain S. J. Wilkin, of a daughter. VICKERS—On the 6th inst., the wife of C. Vickers, Esq., of Farrborough, Kent, of a daughter. Marriages. ASTLEY —SCUREIBER—On the 4th inst., at the parish church, Ruslonere, near Ipswich, Frederick B. Astley, Esq., sou of the late Lt.-Colonel F. L'Estrange Astley, late of Burgh Hall, Norfolk, and 7, Cavendish-square, to Emma Augusta, elder daughter of Charles A. Schreiber, Esq., of thelioundwood, Ipswich. HARNAGE—EaREMONT-011 the 4th inst., at the parish church of Wroxeter, Sir Henry G. Damage, Bart., of Belswardyne Hall, Salop, to Elizabeth Sarah 'Maude, third daughter of the Rev. Edward Egremout, vicar of Worcester. Deaths. ALLEN—On the 2d inst., Wm. Allen, Esq., of Southgate, Middlesex, aged 71. BELL—On the 2d inst., at 4, Portland-place, Hammersmith road, B. J. Bell, of the Local Marine Board, port of Lou don, aged 66. FREEMAN—On the 3d inst., at 361, Mile-end-road, John IL Freeman, Esq., M.R.C.S., aged 54. LUDLOW—On the 2d inst., at Dulwich, John Ludlow, late of Chelsea, aged 96. RAITT—On the 3d inst., at Titclrfield-terrace, Regent's park, A. 0. H. Raitt, Esq., aged 42. SCRIVENER—On the 2d inst., at Theberton Hall, Suffolk, J. F. Pike Scrivener, Esq., of Sibton. Abbey, and 20, Bryanston-square, London. London : Printed and Pnbliehed by WILLIAM A.N Ifft of No. 112, Strand, Printer. et Trim SUN Woe, No. 114 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savly, in the County of sliddletez.-ISlQaday, October 8,1896. IV This Dula It i: 801110. Sok by th whole; 8,( 'King Obs One Palau Or con time. 14, ti[ l'ror free or FIJI Part month LE given 9 to 10 RA L( Fee, X c , ntin ralogy from 8 Fee to the in the ~I: sVci LTV :avow 17, N Add vi ncia It' (Eett Reber John Mark Ed veal Walla Tho m , Alexai Predk Charge Rivers ll'ran t ; ltobc. , NO9 of Pll expire FIR vantk , The Lorin 1 NO ( Stamp FAT Of Ste, Th 6 averag Equi PaYabl The Any Life. This Ii - Eta Irop the tac of ever To Pany'sf4 the ad , sqeh of The v to th e i Peculi ti Prosp e Ryer GATII Offlo . 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