The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. PEACE PRESERVATION BILL. The Times thinks that in the early part of his speech on Thursday the Chief Secretary for Ireland proved more than he intended, and perhaps more than he desired. Mr. Chichester Fortescue sought to shew that exceptional legislation to preserve peace and order in Ireland was both just and necessary. He shewed that this justifi2ation, if we may not add this necessity, has existed for many months past. The amount of agrarian crime last year was in excess of the agrarian crime of any year since 1552. This in itself is sufficiently lamentable but it is a feeble statement of the fact. What is more remarkable than the amount of agrarian crime in Ireland is the unparalleled rapidity of its increase. There is no need to dwell upon the case for legislation against crime in Ireland. Mr. Fortescue's facts come down to last week, and no denunciation of the reign of terror in Mayo could be more precise and emphatic than that contained in the charge of Mr. Baron Deasy to the Grand Jury at Castlebar on Tuesday last. Nor do we desire to harp upon the delay of the Government in coming to Parliament for additional powers. Everyone can understand their motives, and if they are now determined to hesitate no longer, we shall be content to think that the mischievous notion that law can exist without rigour has at last been discarded. The practical question is whether the measures proposed by the Government, promise to secure life and property in Ireland. We are free to acknowledge that they seem better fitted to attain this end than the meagre statements of Lord Granville and Mr. Gladstone last Monday had encouraged us to hope. The discussion on Tuesday sufficiently proved what Mr. Dowse repeated on Thursday night, that the Irish magistracy does not command the implicit confi dence of the present Government, but it is not easy to find a substitute for them, and the recommendations of the Ministry do, in fact, limit the action of the unpaid magistrates in ahnost every instance by checks and counter-checks. These are points, however, to be dis cussed more fully when the bill is before the House, and they may be modified if necessary without affecting the Principles of the measure. It is sufficient to remark now that an audience of Irish members properly jealous for the liberty of their countrymen found little or nothing on Thursday night beyond questions of details with which to quarrel. The Standard declares that the measure which was in troduced on Thursday night by Mr. Chichester Fortescue for the better preservation of peace in Ireland, may be said to justify everything that has been urged against the policy of Mr. Gladstone's Government. It was doubtless a conviction of this fact which made the Irish Secretary appear more than usually ineffective as he propounded, at tedious length, the details of the new coercive bill. He could not but be aware that every argument he used was a blow a t his right hon. friends the Prime Minister and the President of the Board of Trade. To prove the necessity for some extraordinary measure of repression in Ireland it was inevitable that Mr. Fortescue should quote a series of facts and figures most damaging to the Minis terial policy. The new bill, if it is put in force, will mean coercion ; and if it does not mean coercion it had better not have been introduced at all. Whatever efficiency it may have will depend entirely on the manner of its administration. Any Government, on these terms, 33 Mr. Bright used to tell us, can of course govern Ireland if they will ; but we wish we could believe that Mr. Gladstone has the will to carry out in spirit the measure he proposes. In many respects we prefer that the Government should use its old and constitutional right of suspending the Habeas Corpus Act rather than it should resort to exceptional legislation for the occasion. The spirit of the Constitution, we believe to be more re spected by those who, when they have occasion to break it, do so openly and broadly by suspending it altogether, than by those who give the formal sanction of the law to a series of invasions upon personal liberty, such as those which are included in the Peace Preservation (Ire land) Bill. THE QUESTION OF THE COLONIES. The Post takes it for granted that the Cannon-street Committee is not only dead and buried, but that its acts are repudiated by the colonies and that we shall hear of it no more. One of its contentions was that our indiffer ence was tending to drive the colonies into a declaration of independmce. The Executive Council of Queensland are clearly not of this opinion. They say that when ever a serio3s intention shall be shewn in the British Parliament to break the Imperial tie, the colonists " will claim their right to be heard against a deprivation of their position and rights as Englishmen without their consent." This is not the language of men who are being weaned from their attachment to the mother country by a policy either of indifference or injustice. The Colonies know the value of their connection with the mother country, and they are unwilling to forfeit it for the empty honour of independence, by which they would gain nothing more than they possess, while they would be likely to lose much. We, for our part, should be sorry to witness the severance of ties which are honour able to us, and which have not been without utility ; but we are confident that the greatest service we can render to the colonies is to leave them as much as possible to their own resources. If war comes, it will be time enough then to determine what armed aid we can render them. Neither the will nor the power are iikely to be wanting. Till then, h )wever, they will find their best help in self-help, and Iwe should rather injure them than serve them if we did anything to divert their attentirn from this the safest of all reliatc:s. WELSH BISHOPS FOR WALES. The Te 7 egraph says the appointment of a genuine Welshman to a Welsh Bishopric is an event which deserves more than a simple passing notice. At the present time, Welsh is the living language of seven hundred thousand dwellers in the Principality, and is understood by a great many more who do not habitually speak it. In a remarakble letter addressed to Mr. Gladstone by a Welsh clergyman, the Reverend H. T. Edwards, we find it stated that nine weekly newspapers, eighteen monthly magazines, and two quarterlies, all pub lished in the native language, enjoy a prosperous circula tion in Wales; and, what is still more striking, that " the majority of these are almost exclusively read by the work ing classes." It must be borne in mind, too, that many of the natives who profess to speak our language can boast nothing more than an imperfect colloquial knowledge, and are, therefore, utterly at sea when listening to a set ser mon in English. Yet, in the face of these facts, we have for the last two centuries been guilty of the astounding folly of appointing Englishmen to Welsh . Sees! The natural result is before us, in.the alienation of a majority of the population of Wales from the Es'Ablished Church. Those know little about hr nvan nature who make light; of the influence on the heart and mind exercised by the tones of what is called, with fitting, pathAs, a mother tongue. The impressions - of childhood are proverbially the most indelible. The mind of a man is like one of those ancient manuscripts that are covered with successive layers of writing, of which the last alone is visible; but the application f a chemical test reveals all the rest. There is a well-known story of the Swiss troops in foreign service, who were constrained by home sickness to desert in numbers whenever they heard the melodies of their native valleys, so that it was found ne cessary to prohibit the playing of Swiss airs by military bands. In sending among the Welsh, therefore, genera tion after generation of bishops who could not address their flocks in their native lanz,ua,ge, we have done our best to make Episcopacy a thing of no power among them ; and the wonder is that it maintained its influence so long. A REFORM WANTED. The Daily News observes that the public is waiting for Mr. Bruce to redeem his promise to bring in a bill to deal with the system by which licences are now granted to public-houses and beershops. Meanwhile, that this subject has not escaped the attention of the Government was shewn by a remark recently made by Mr. Gladstone, who spoke of the forthcoming measure as one to diminish the temptations to crime. Whatever the contemplated bill may be, it will at any rate not be open to the charge of prematurely dealing with the subject. The system under which the trade in intoxicating liquors is now carried on satisfies nobody. The traffic is fettered without being regulated, and is kept in leading strings without being kept in order. The magistrates who administer the law are dissatisfied with it ; the publicans who are under it complain against it ; and the public, who look on and suffer, agree that it must be altered. The beerhouse keepers have a grievance against the licensed victuallers, and the licensed victuallers have a standing quarrel with the grocers ; while a large part of the public, even omit ting the teetotallers, have a controversy with the whole system under which the trade is regulated. Without attempting to indicate what a new system might be, we may at once say that no system can be worse than the present. A kind of inexplicable caprice runs through all the decisions of the magistrates. Sometimes there is a division, and the license is carried or lost like a bill in Parliament ; once, at least, a license was granted on a casting vote of the chairman. This is not regulating a trade—it is something like leaving it to chance. The magistrates, of course, act to the best of their ability ; but as they have no:; clear principle to guide them, and not often a distinct -policy to act on, they drift aimlessly into confusion. Our licensing system needs, in fact, to be re modelled, and the, remodelling must begin by finding some better, more resPOnsible, and more intelligent body to ad minister and enforce the law. THE BALLOT AND ITS SUBSTITUTES. The Pall Mall Gazette is disposed to believe that if some years ago three changes had been made in the conduct of elections, the end which it is now proposed to attain by the Ballot would have been so far secured as to content most reasonable people. 'The disuse of nominations would have removed the-occasion on which the riotous element principally shows itself ; :the. closing of public-houses would have done away. with treating ; and the pro hibition to pUblisli the" state of the poll until all the votes had been taken would have closed the door against the most•reckless and extravagant type of bribery. We do not say that upon the introduction of these changes all corruption and intimidation would have fled away. One condition would still have been wanting, the necessity of which to a really pure and free election is too often lost sight of: We suspect, however, that the ballot will be equally ineffectual in this respect. It will not, any more than the other remedies we have named, create political convictions in the voters. This is the real cure and the only adequate cure for electoral vice. Once teach the voter to regard the franchise as a means of bringing about a political object that he cares for, and the problem is solved. We understand that the Mines Regulation Bill is not likely to go into committee until after Easter. This intimation hae, we believe, been given by the Home Secre tlry to the Mining Association. We are glad to find that a little more time is to be given to the consideration of this important measure. As it at present stands, we have no hesitation in characterising it as a most unfair and one sided measure, and one that would in many respects b: impracticable, —lron and Coal Trade., 14evie w. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1870. PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. The Select Committee on Parliamentary and Municipal Elections has agreed to its report by a m ajor ity o f b u t one . It is to some extent based upon the Marquis of Harting ton's draft report of last year, but differs in many essen tial particulars. It states that corruption prevails at municipal elections to a very great extent, both in the form of bribery and treating. Many electors will not vote unless they are paid. Serious riots are frequent. In some cases the corrupt practices which are at work in a municipal election are made use of with a view of influencing the Parliamentary elections, which, the case of the last general election, followed the former almost immediately. In most cases, however, p arty spirit on local questions appears sufficient t cause an extensive use of corrupt practices.. Pun' shments by means of fine are provided by law for bribory at municipal elections ; but it is rarely indeed that an indictment is preferred. Nor are there any means of testing the validity of a return, except by quo scarranto in the Queen's Bench ; but this course has never been resorted to ; and the trouble and difficulties which beset such an appeal, render it unlikely that it will ever be used. It has been suggested that some more simple procedure for recovering penalties for bribery should be provided. These penalties are, however, at present recoverable in the County Courts, and the corn. mittee can find no more simple tribunal. It has been suggested that a special officer be appointed for prose cuting offences at municipal elections ; the committee cannot endorse this suggestion, for they do not think that any of the present difficulties in the way of collecting evidence, &c., would be thereby diminished. It has likewise been re commended to the law relating to the evidence of muni cipal elections through corrupt practices be as similated to that relating to parliamentary elections. This proposal the committee endorse, adding " but it would probably be deemed unnecessary that municipal petitions should be tried before a Judge of the Superior Courts." Secret voting is also recommended, and is dealt with under the head of parlia mentary elections. With respect to these, the committee are of opinion that in boroughs the intimidation of workmen by masters, tenants by landlords, tradesmen by customers, and working men by each other, does exist, though not perhaps extensively. "It is certain, at least, that, whether intimidation is extensively practised or not, the fear of it widely prevails among that class of voters who are liable to its influence. There exists during the canvass in most boroughs a system of working upon voters through private considerations, whether of interest, hope, or fear, for political purposes, and this system en ables undue influence in a mcdified form to be constantly practised." County elections are in the main free from bribery. The inquiry respecting intimidation in counties has not been satisfactory. "It is certain, however, that an influ ence exceeding in a greater or less degree the legitimate influence which a popular and respected landlord must always exercise in his neighbourhood is often brought to bear on tenant farmers and other voters in agricultural districts. The agent frequently holds language which the landlord would shrink from using, but which the latter does not think it necessary to disown." In England and Ireland the constituencies are often extremely corrupt P but bribery is almost unknown in Scotland. There is a higher standard of education in the Northern province, and the constituencies are new. In Ireland the influence of the landlord and the priest are often opposed, and mobs are a recognised part of electoral machinery. "We are convinced that, under the present system of conducting elections there exists in many boroughs and counties in Ireland no real freedom of election." The committee then proceed to discuss the various remedies which have been proposed for improving the conduct of elections. The following is the passage of the report which contains these final conclusions and recom mendations :—" The question of the abolition of the pre ; sent system of nominations and declarations cannot, in our opinion, be treated as one. It appears to us that the declaration of the poll might be made as well in some other way, but as regards public nominations, there is much to be said in favour both of the retention and discontinuance of the practice. At some places of election, both in counties and in boroughs, the addresses which are d e li v e re d are rende r ed inaudible by noise, tumult, and wilful interruptions ; and occasionally serious disturbances begun on the nomination day are continued throughout the election. On the other hand, the abolition of the present system would, as it seems to us, tend to fetter the free choice of the electors, and would deprive a candidate of an opportunity of setting himself right with a constituency in the event of misstate ments as to his opinions or his character, and it would make it extremely difficult to prevent the putting forward of persons as candidates for mere purposes of annoyance, or the fraudulent withdrawal of others who were in favour with the electors. Again, it must not be forgotten that in the majority of cases proceedings at nominations are conducted in an orderly manner and without any attend ant evils, and that in the case of an uncontested election the whole proceedings are concluded and the return is made on the day of nomination. The evidence of the majority of witnesses that have come before us is no doubt in favour of a change, but no practicable substi tute has been proposed by any of tnem, nor has any suggested itself to ourselves, which, while removing , existing causes of complaint, would preserve those advan tages of the present system to which we have referred. We do not think that it would be possible to prohibit absolutely the employment of paid agents for the purpose of an election, and there would be much difficulty in enforcing the prohibition of the use of paid canvassers. Although the employment of paid agency is sometimes carried on to an unreasonable and improper extent, so as in some cases to assume a corrupt character, an election cannot always be conducted without paid agents of some kind. We are of opinion that the use of rooms in public houses for committee-rooms for the purpose of an election is a fruitful source of expense and of corrup tion, and should be forbidden by law. The closing of public-houses on the days of nomination, if it is to be conduct-el on the present system, and on the polling-day during the hours when the poll is opened woud tend to the tranquillity and purity of election. The wit nesses whom we have examined have naturally looked upon the question almost entirely from this point of view, but we fear that the inconvenience to the public gene,- rally of such a measure would be so great as to outweigh its advantages. We consider that at present the law re lating to the recovery of compensation for damage done by riotous mobs to propertyis not in a satisfactory state, and that it is desirable to improve it, so as to enlist, as far as pos sible, the inhabitants of the district in the support of law and order. We have received evidence to show that the present provision of the law which requires a return of the expenses of candidates is insufficient for its purpose, and fails in many cases to secure a full statement of such expenses ; and we think that any payment made by a candidate or his agent, on account of the election, and not included in the return of his election expenses, should be declared to be a corrupt payment, within the meaning of the Corrupt Practices Act. Ant such re turn should include all expenses incurred by him oft his agent on account of the election, from the date at which he or his agent had publicly announced his in tention to become a candidate. A few witnesses have recommended the system of voting papers. Their chief recommendation is that the risk of riot on the polling-day would be diminished. In our opinion, they would tend to aggravate some of the evils of the present system, by the facilities which they would give for bribery, for fraud, and for certain forms of intimidation. The multiplica tion of polling places in counties has been suggested as a means of promoting the convenience of voters, of increasing the tranquillity and diminishing the cost of elections. And with a view to putting all electors, so far as circumstances admit, on an equality, we recom mend a considerable increase ; this would tend to obviate the necessity of providing conveyances for voters. Much evidence has been given by witnesses not exclusively con fined to any political party, to shew that the discontinu ance of open voting, and the substitution for it of secret ' voting, or vote by Ballot, would be of great advantage in Parliamentary and municipal elections. We have endeavoured to extend our inquiry beyond the theoretical arguments which are usually employed by the advocates and opponents of the Ballot, and to ascertain how it has worked in the Briti s h colonies, and in foreign States where it has been adopted. With this view, we have examined witnesses from Victoria, New South Wales. South Australia, Tasmania, and have also re ceived evidence as to the systems in use in France, Italy, and Greece. The effect of this evidence has been to prove that in these countries, under a system of ballot, the poll is taken without intimidation, riot, or disorder, while in Australia bribery and treating have been greatly reduced, and personal canvassing discouraged. It remains to be considered whether it is desirable that the ballot should be adopted in this country. The princi pal objections which have been anvanced against the ballot as applied to our own elections are—that the act of voting is a public duty, and should involve a public responsibility ; that it would lead to hypocrisy and decep tion • that it would do little to restrain the practice of treating ; that it would increase bribery, by making it more difficult to detect ; that it would be wholly inopera tive in the case of spiritual intimidation such as that which is alleged to exist so extensively in Ireland ; that it would afford facilities for personation. While we admit that there is force in many of these objections, we are on the whole of opinion that the Ballot possesses many great advantages, and that the weight of evidence leads to the conclusion that this change in the modd of voting would not only promote the tranquillity both of municipal and parliamentary elections, but will also protect voters from undue influence and intimidation, and introduce into elections a greater degree of freedom and purity than is secured under the present system. But in recommending the adoption of the Ballot, we desire to ex press our opinion that, in order to secure the benefits we anticipate from its introduction into this country, it is necessary that the secrecy of the vote should be inviolable, except in the case of any voter who is found guilty of bribery, or whose vote in. due course of law, has been adjudged invalid. • We have referred above to the extensive employment of troops at Irish elections. It could not be safely discontinued under the present system ; but we must express our con viction that no freedom of election can exist where so large a part in the proceedings is taken by a military force. In our opinion, the ballot offers the only means by which the practice might effectually be put an end to ; but under any circumstances .we are of opinion that the employment of the civil and military forces of the country should be confined to keeping order and preserving the public peace, and that care should be taken that neither the constabu lary nor the military should be employed in escorting voters other than those who willingly place themselves under their protection." On 'Wednesday Alajor 7 General T,ysons, C. 8., com manding the Ist Infantry Brigade at Aldershot, re ceived orders to hold the head quarter, and the re mainder of the 2d battalion 23d Royal Welsh Fusi liers in readiness to proceed to Ch4t''aill on the 24th instant. COUNT BISMARCK ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Count Bismarck spoke in the debate in the Reich stag o❑ capital punishment, supporting the majority of the Federal Council, who, after mature delibera- tion, decided on retaining the death penalty. The Count considers its opponents exaggerate the value of life, and attach too great importance to death. People might Le influenced, by their belief or non belief in the iininor• laity of the soul ; but in either opinion his proposition holds good. In the lattei case he would envy the man who attaches so great a value to the enjo\ meat of this life, and the satis faction lie must derive front the work in which he is engaged if, while believing his personal cxistence to end with the death of the body, he still thinks it worth his while to live on. He who is convinced that no other life follows would not advocate for the criminal what a man of science has called the phos phoriz:ng of his brain within a prison cell, robbed of all that makes life dear. Count Bisinarek's next argument is that the opponents of capital punish ment entertain a moruid inclination to treat the criminal with greater consideration than his victim. It may be when death was more usually inflicted iu the Middle Ages, crimes were more common, but the decrease may be the result of the stern justice then dealt out. Civilization and knowledge undoubtedly have exercised an active influence, but they have been accompanied with the death penalty,while abo lition of capital punishment has only the experience for short periods of small districts in its favour. He would not feel justified in exposing peaceful citi zens to the dangers of such an experiment, nor is there need for haste ; for capital punishment can be abolished after accepting the criminal node, whenever the majority in that House and in the Federal Council, think it desirable. Even those who advocated its abolition think it advis able to retain the punishment in particular cases, such as in a state of siege,and in the army and navy ; indeed where necessary to secure quiet, order, and unquestioning obedience to the law. Then, if it be the more effective, if it affords only one hair's breadth more protection for the peaceable citizen, the law is bound to give him that additionsl secu rity against robbers and murderers. Again, it ap peared to Bismarck inconsistent to deny the autho rities the right of taking away life to repress, yet granting it to prevent ; the reverse of what is advo cated in legislating for the press. The authorities are not denied the right of taking life in their de fence, or in protecting the property of individual citizens, or to prevent a crime; yet there are cases of merely possible criminality, whereas the other is with convicts whose crimes have been proved. In a riot, men attacking a baker's shop may be shot down, yet who can tell whether those who are killed are guilty or had any intention of commit ting murder. The lives of human beings are surely of not less importance than the protection of pro perty, and to be consistent, the authorities should be deprived of the right of taking lifealtogether,or allow it to be employed for purposes of rep ession, other wise the protection of property is placed, at least it, theory, higher than that of life. After noticing that the age was by no means so tender of life as this sen timentality might indicate, for men were recklessly exposed in mines and in the manufacture of poisonous gases, or in the producing whatever might add to comfort, the Chancellor turned to the origin of the agitation I seek some explanation of this in the remarkable fact, already frequently noticed in the course of yesterday's debate, that the oppo nents of capital punishment are chiefly lawyers, and the whole movement originated in that profes sion. It may be, a judge is naturally inclined to feel that it is impossible for any human being to be perfectly just, that it is _impossible for any man equitably to apportion the amount of punishment, to the heinousness of the crime and the circum stances which diminish its atrocity, that it is im possible so fully to realise the condition of the man before him as to be able to answer this question : if, after the same education, I had been exposed to the same temptations might not 1 have been guilty of the same crimes? He may frequently be mo dest enough to answer in the affirmative ; if so, I hope he will be just enough to add—and in that case I should have nothing to urge against my exe cution. But the chief reason why judges and juries are opposed to capital punishment seems to ine to be somewhat different. It is one of the diseases of our age, a dread of responsibility—a dread of the responsibility of sentencing a man to death, in accordance with one's own conviction of his guilt, and on the part of juries the dread of returning a verdict in accordance with their con victions, when the law justifies them in supposing it will lead to the execution of the criminal. This di ead of responsibility is a d'sease which pervades the whole of our period, and extends e,eu to the highest summits of human society. Even the So vereign feels the responsibility of wielding the sword of justice a heavy and painful burden, and how much more must it weigh on the judges, who are less accustomed to deal with interests of such moment as the erasure of one of their fellow-men from the number of the living. I can therefore easily understand why judges are desirous of freeing themselves front this responsibility by means of the paragraph you need no longer condemn any one to death,' particularly in an age like ours, when every one is ready to criticise, but, on the whole, so few are willing to undertake an office with heavy responsibilities. And yet this, which I cannot but consider a weakni ss in our high, honourable, and noble bench of judges, this weakly disinclination to exercise the fullest powers of the office, really arises from a misunderstanding. For am I not just as accountable if I imprison a man for life ?—Nay, I sill go further—is not my moral respon-ibility just as great if I unjustly imprison a man for eight days, as if I condemn him to death ? I cannot tell what influence eight days' unjust punishment may have on him whom I sentence to it; his whole life may be perverted into a bitter contest with the law, he may be driven on into crime. And so I would say to our men of law Do not shrink from the high task Providence has placed before you.' Do not fear to perform the most extreme duties of your office. Do not cast away the sword of justice."—Anglo- American Times. There was a debate in the House of Representa tives on the 22d February on the abuse of a privilege by Mr. Mungen, who published a speech is the Globe which had not been read in the House, reflecting on Senator Sumner. Mr. Dawes moved that it be expunged from the Globe, and that Mr. Mungen be censured by the House. The feeling of the House on both sides was against the practice of publishing in the Congressional Glcbe speeches not delivered in that House, and this case furnishes the members with a good instance of the abuse of the cus tom. Mr. Mungen spoke vehemently in his own de fence, or rather in abuse of Senator Sumner, to whom he did not allude as a Senator, but as a public lec turer. It his remarks could be applied by the Sena tor to himself, he was not.responsible ; nor that he should wear them if they fitted. Mr. Mungen was ut tering a common report reflecting on the Senator, when be restrained himself, and suddenly observed he would not finish what he was about to say, as he might be called to order. Then referring to former scenes in the House, he asked if lie was to be gagged in discussing the doc trines of an impertinent lecturer to show their absurdity, and how illogical and injurious they were. That pre sumptuous lecturer set himself up as a god His lecture on caste bad been exposed by him in his speech, and for this, he (Mungen) had been charged with violat ing the rules of the House. The gentlemen from Massa chusetts had indulged in abuse of President Johnson, but he was forbidden to criticise the sayings of a man who was eternally thrusting himself in the face of every one with his impudence. Mr. Schenck then drew a clever picture of the style of debate coming into fashion in tha House. Mr. Jones of one State was represented in his room nibb!ng his pen, scratching his head, and writing an essay ; while Mr. Smith, of another State, was cudgelling his b ains on another subject, and both essays were printed, and passed in the country for debate. He doubted whe ther words thus published could be called in question by that House. --- Jo URNA LISM.-- Frank Leslie, Feb. 26, says- -Amon g the newspapers published in London for transmi,s!on abroad, and designed to convey such information as other countries and tho colonies aro chiefly intere,t3d in, the best aro the Anglo-American Times and the Eu ropehn Mail. The first is more distinctly American, as its name implies, but both give much .useful infor mation on all subjects, and are, iu every sense, valuable. AI r. Parke Godw,n, formerly managing editor of the N York Evening Post, a gentleman of tried literary ability, has taken the editorship of Putnam's Magazine.—Why should Horace Greeley wax so wrath that the restaurant keeper Windust saved him from the fury of the mob in the celebrated July riots, by hiding him under a table ? The Warld, aware, we presume, of his weakness on this point, though we cannot imagine why, even if t •ue, though known to be untrue, root-educed the story when telling how Windust scaled perishing in a snowstorm. Immediately the Tribune boiled over with utterable indignation, for it is evident from the following that language failed to give it express'on:—" The author of the above assertion that wo have planed in italics is a liar—a graceless, shameless, villainous, detestable liar." TUE WICKLOW PEERAGE CASE. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY. This case was resumed before the Committee of Pri vileges, Lord Redesdale in the chair. The counsel for the claimant were the Solicitor-General (Sir J. D. Coleridge), Mr. Albert Smith, and Mr. Charles Clarke. For the present earl—Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., Sir J. Karslake, Q.C., Dr. Ball, Q.C., and Mr. Fox Bristowe, Q.C. For the Crown—the Attorney- General (Sir R. Collier). and Mr. Archibald. Sir It. Palmer addressed their lordships upon the ne evidence, which had been adduced, and called particular attention to the circumstances, under which the alibi had been brought forw ar d, an d th e position of the case before that evidence was called. It was bieught f6rward in con sequence of a petition presented to their lordship's house. at the beginning of the session by Mrs. Howard, who as serted that the evidence adduced was untrue, and that she had been taken by surprise. The whole case, how ever, went to shew that she must have been fully ac quainted with the subject, and he contended that it was usnsense to say Mrs. Howard was unprepared. They had evidence as to -M r s. H owar d' s v i s it t o Dr. Baker growli on several occasions,•and these books had been the subject of pointed attention by Mrs. Howard, and before anything came to Dr. Brown's knowledge he was visited in order that more information as to dates might be obtained. Dr. Price spoke of visits from Mrs. Howard on the 27th, 29th, and 30th of June 1864, and on the sth July, which was a most important date in this case, she was there, and on the Sth, another important day in tire present inquiry, they had evidence of visits both to Price and Brown. The only question hero was, then, whether the evidence of these two gentlemen had been in any way discredited, and he argued that it had not. He believed the best course he could adopt would be to treat with the statements as to date. He then proceeded_ to review the evidence of Mr. Butterfield, Mrs. Howard's father-in-law, and that of the other witnesses, with the view of testing the value of what he termed this supplementary alibi evidence. He then proceeded to observe that the state ment of Mary Best now was that she took out of the work house and treated as her own a child that was not her own. If ho previously had had any information of this fact he should have presented it ; but, as their lordship: would remember, it.came out only in cross-examination at the bar of the House. He should be very wrong if he did not at once say, with regard to a case presented in that remarkable manner—he should be wrong if ho did not at once say, that it appeared to him that , the credit of a witness' statement might be submitted to a very severe test when it was not brought out in its integrity, and in all its parts at the be ginning. He should endeavour in dealing with it to shew as far as he could how the case really stood, and should in no way attempt to . make the least of it. He would place before their lordships the reason they would have to weigh as to the suppression of the facts and circumstances disclosed by Mary Best yesterday. In the first place they had it that the Matthews's were people who would not have let the subject go over without inquiry had Mary Best left the workhouse without' a child. There was a reason which would induce her to seek for another child after having parted with her own. Then they had it that she was fretting for the loss of her child, and that another woman named Sarah Hayes was disappointed that her child was not selected instead of Mary Best's, clearly shewing that she wee anxious to get rid of her child. Could it for a moment be supposed that the whole story was a fabrication? With regard to the workhouse officials, they must of necessity be perfectly i n d e pendent. Was it likely they would form a conspiracy and come there determined to commit perjury at all hazards? The only thing they could have done was to have been mistaken as to Mrs. Howard's identity, but that was a theory which he would not argue upon. It was certain they would not come there for the purpose of ruining and doing a lasting wrong to a perfect stranger without any reasonable motive, and no attempt had been made to say that anyone had used corrupt means to induce them to give the evi deuce they had done. Further than that, Mary Best in her first evidence did not say anything which was not perfectly consistent with her statements made yester day. They indeed in some particulars corroborated each other. She first of all said that after giving up her own child she never saw it again. She said so now. She first said she never saw the lady who took her child again ; she repeated that statement now. In her first evidence she declared she never received any money for the child, and that she still maintained. There was not one point of contradiction between her two statements ; and the same might be said of -the evidence of Mrs. Higginson, Mrs. Stuart, and Eliza O'Hare. There was not a single point of contradiction in the evidence they gave yesterday with what had preciously been taken, it fact it could hardly be said their evidence had been supplemented at all, because their statements simply were that they did not know anything of the circumstances which had been disclosed. The evidenee was that some woman who Mary Best did not know nut tha'second child to her, and the inference he drew was that the child remained very much as her own from that time. If that wee the case, however, it ought to have been leneam to Higginson or Stuart, and as Mary Best went out without even knowing the name of the child's mother, that part of the case was rather difficult to deal with. in answer to it, however, they had evidence that the cir cumstances could easily have been brought about .by an arrangement between the two women, and without its beinar known to the officials of the workhouse. If Sarah Hayes was willing to part with her child, and Mary Best was anxious to have it, there was frothing to Bono a out of the workhouse on the same day , and then it might ot e h h i o n u g i dtoapccroeinvepnitisthhtehtiisvo wish. mak 'Theych have been done without creating the lea st suspicion. He such n ght ar h thought Mary Best had put the case to their lord ships in a manner which would forc e them to the belief that she was speaking the truth , and that on lier part it was a perfectly complete and truthful disclosure. He thought their lordships would be impressed with the general truthfulness of the case attempt had been made to divert attention from Sto ensle y , No where Mary Best was known, or to prevent the fullest inquiry being made of her through her friends and family. He believed the Liverpool and Stokesley wit nesses to be perfectly honest and upright, and he had no disposition to suggest any idea unfavourable of what they had said. They then were told that the child which was wanted by the lady was to have a fair complexion and light eyes, and the evidence of Mrs. Higginson, was that the real child of Mary Best was " a very fair child, with light blue eyes and an excellent fair skin." They also had it that the child Mary Best took from the work house with her was not so fair—that it had dark blue or hazel eyes and light brown hair. It might be urged that the books of the workhouse ought to contain an entry of the visit of Mrs. Howard if she went there, and also the name of the person she called to See. But, however, strict the officials might be, anyone going on such an errand would not be very likely to be very ready to give their name or the name of the person they wanted to see. He therefore thought that too much weight ought not to be given to that matter, as the absence of anything definite upon the matter might very easily be accounted for. Having dis posed of that part of the case, he would again revert to Mrs. Howard. It would be remembered that she left her husband in Ireland on the 20th October, 1863, and nine months from that time would bring them to the 20th July, 1864. She also was with her husband at the Grosvenor Hotel, on the 30th November, 1863, and nine months from that date would bring them to the 30th August 1864. It was, therefore, perfectly possible that after a short period a child born about that time would do for the purpose of passing off. For in stance a child born on the 16th of August might reasonably pass after a short time for one born at tbe end of July. Having dealt at some length with the alibi, evidence as to the month of August. The learned counsel puoceeded to the third and last part of his obser vations, namely, with reference to the general light which, had been thrown upon Mrs. Howard's case by the evi dence which had now been adduced. He concluded by saying he thought he had proved to their satisfaction that the child which was now claiming to be the Earl was taken from Liverpool as the Liverpool witnesses had said. The Solicitor-General said he was not about to disguise from their lordships, because he could not disguise from himself or from anyone who had heard or had studied the care, the extreme disadvantage at which Mrs. Howard had placed herself before their lordships. Neither would he disguise from them that they were bound, if he might presume to say so, to look at this case and do justice on two grounds. Firstly, because he could not disguise that Mrs. Howard had mimed herself up with a person against whom he would prefer not to say anything—he would rather leave him to the judgment of high-minded men like their lordships—and, secondly, because Mrs. Howard had declined to present herself for examination at their lordships' bar. Therefore, he repeated, she had placed herself at a great disadvantage by her own conduct, aud all he asked or expected was justice at their lordships' Bands, remembering it was not Mrs. Howard's case, but the case of an infant child, who, if he is Mrs. Howard's child, is fairly entitled to succeed to this great earldom of Wicklow. It was not because ho was the child of a mother who had miscondueted her pelf in a manner to which he would rather net further allude, that justice should be withheld from him ; and he knew that in their lordships' hands his case was sure to receive the deep and earnest attention they were so well able to give it. The Solieitor-General commencedtthen to take a view of the facts of the trial, and the case was adjourned until. Thursday next. The carrving out of Mr. Walpole's Factory Act will, it is said, cause the discharge of 160 girls at Dowlais. Mr. W. 11. Dixon, better known es " The Druid," the author of " The ost and the Paddock," " Scott and St:bright," "Silk and Scarlet," and other works, died 'on Wednesday. THE LATE INSUBORDINATION AT - WOOLWICH.— All the men enraged in the late military fracas at the Woolwich garrison were on Thursday released from the Royal Artillery Barracks, and informed that orders had been received from the War Office that they were to be discharged from the service at once. The Free Trade party in the United States nro making vigorous efforts to promulgate their views. An other organ has- been started in New York, devoted exclusively to the advocacy of Free Trade opinions. We gather from it that advanced views on the tariff question ere rapidly gaining ground in all parts of the United ;gates. A. Pnouric Ting.—A correspondent in the Builder. signing himself " Prodigious,' and having evi dently the old aphorism in his eye, "Jack of all trades, muster of none,"complains that a firm advertises in a local aper as architects and surveyors, auctioneers, dealers in bricks, slates, chimney pots, gravel, garden mould, paints, oils and colours, bakers confeetionerS, corn merchants, and dealers in chaff. "Prodigious," who, it is so beipre sumed,.is an architect pure and simple, askk—Z What je. the raciewma wming tor. DISASTROUS _ COLLISION IN THE/ CHANNEL. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. Puller particulars are to hand of the collision between the Normanby and the, Mary in the English ChanneL The Normandy, a fine paddle steamer of 252 tons, and 425 full tonnage, with engines of 238-horse power, left Southampton docks at midnight on Wednesday, under the command of Captain H. B. Harvey. well known as one of the senior and among the bravest of the South-Western Company's commanders, bound for the Channel Islands, and carrying altogether, it is believed, about 35 passengers-26 of whom arrived by the night mail train—and about 30 crew all told. About half-past three o'clock on Thursday morning, during thick weather, the large screw steamer Marv, of Grimsby, Cap tain Strannock, bound from the Danube to London, laden with 3,000 quarters of maize, ran stem on to the Nor mandy, cutting her down just abaft lier midship section, and carrying away her lifeboat and davits. She imme diately began to fill, and Captain Harvey having verified her condition, gave orders to man the two remaining boats, and called to the captain of the Mary to stand by him and man his boats so as to save the lives of his passengers and crew. The orders to his own men he accompanied with strict injunctions that the ladies were to be placed in the boats and saved first. The two boats were accordingly manned by five seamen and one fireman, (who are saved), and contained eleven lady and seven gentlemen passengers, who were placed on board the Mary, but upon the boats pulling back again to the scene of the wreck, the Normandy had sunk, as it was but too evident when they left her she would do very soon, her forepart being just •out of the water and her stern fast settling down. When the boats left,Capt. Harvey was standing on the bridge giving orders to the men at the engines to keep the Normandy's head to sea, so as to keep her afloat as long as possible, but the water was then all over her decks aft, and one of the saved passengers informs .us that but for this at least one more lady might have been saved, as he begged her to wade across the midship-section, but she seemed afraid to do so, and remained on the forepart, which was then high out of water. The chief mate, Mr. Ockleford, several of the c re w and passengers, Mr. Cox, the chief engineer, the other engineers and firemen—one only of the latter, indeed, being all of the engine room staff saved, all went down with the captain. The commander of the Mary thought his own vessel was sinking, and ordered out the lifeboats, but the exceeding short time which elapsed between the collision and the sinking of the Normandy rendered any assistance to that vessel exceedingly difficult, if not im possible. The Normandy foundered in ten minutes after the accident. The Mary, whose cutwater is badly damaged, with both her bows stove in, remained about the spot for two or three hours, and then steamed slowly to Southampton, the nearest port where any substantial assistance could be afforded her in her crippled condition, and reached there about 4 p.m. The rescued passengers, who included a little child, were at once landed in the docks and conveyed to an hotel where every attention was paid to them by direction of Mr. E. K. Corke, the South-Western Company's superintendent. The ladies were in a pitiful plight indeed ; most of them were without shoes, some without stockings, and three or four were wrapped in blankets, supplied by the crew of the Mary. One of the ladies saved brought back a favourite dog which was thrown to her, we are told, by her brother, who, poor fellow, was lost. Another lady is saved whose mother has perished in the ill-fated vessel, and a third whose husband and two children perished. - The following is a list of those lost :—Captain Harvey, commander of the Normandy ; Mr. Ockleford, chief mate ; Mr. Richardson, carpenter; Mr. Cox, chief engineer. ; Mr. Marsham, second engineer;, seven firemen, three sailors, and the ship's boy ,• three gentlemen in the after cabin — viz., Advocate Westaway, General Grantham, and Mr. Kinlock—lar or five passengers in the fore cabin, inclu ding two ladies, also ten deck passengers. The exact number could not readily be ascertained, but this number —3l—is believed to be correct. VERSIONS OF THE CREWS. The account given by the survivors of the Normandy, as to the cause of this disaster is that sighting the mast head and red side light of the Mary, and.seeing that a collision was inevitable, the chief mate called to starboard and hard a-starboard her helm, and had not this been done the collision must have proved even more disastrous. It is believed that had the lifeboat of the Mary pulled direct to the Normandy—as those in the two boats meet ing her urged they should do, as the Normankly was fast sinking—in all probability more lives would have be en saved, but seeing these two boats they pulled back again to the Mary with them, and before they could return the ship was lost. They add, however, that all willingly pulled about for upwards of two hours, and blue lights were burnt on board the Mary with the view of rescuing those .in distress. So pleased were the passengers with the conduct of Captain Strannock, that they presented him with an address of thanks. The crew of the Mary say that their vessel was coming up Channel under steam dead slow. The head of the vessel was E. by S., half S., when they saw, apparently about a quarter of a mile distant, on the port bow, the green light of a steamer. The engines were at once stopped, the whistle blown, and orders given to turn astern. Finding that there was no headway upon the Mary, the helm was put hard-a-Dort. whereupon the Normandy came on at full speed, and never stopped, but starboarded her helm, and crossed under the bow of the Mary. At once the collision took place, creating a large hole in the bow of the Mary, whose lifeboat was immediately sent away to assist, bat could not find the Normandy. A SURVIVOR'S STORY. An account by one of tlio survivors is given in the Hampshire Inclependen, as follows :—" I was lying in my cabin, with my coat and boots off, and heard a tremendmus crash. Rushing on deck I found we were in collision. The Normandy had been struck such a blow abaft the paddle-box that the captain at once saw the ship must inevitably founder. He immediately ordered out the two boats remaining, the lifeboat,. it transpired, having been carried away in the collision, and a portion of th e p assengers an d crew t h us succee d e d in reaching the Mary, all the gentlemen • standing back, and making no attempt to get into the boats until the ladies were in them. The captain of the Normandy be haved with the greatest coolness and judgment under such trying circumstances, and the last I saw of him he was on the bridge, giving orders as to the mana ge m en t o f the boats and working of the engines, and during the whole occurrence an extraordinary amount of order and quietness prevailed, and the greatest fortitude was shewn. The captain of the Mary gallantly stood by, and did all in his power to render assistance, firing blue lights, sending up rockets, and three boats were put out, and the Mary stood by the scene of the disaster for about two hours, but without result, the Normandy having gone down whilst her two boats were reaching the Mary. The Mary her self was so badly injured that some of us doubted whether he would reach port, there being an immense hole in her bow, the iron torn away, and the fore compartment flooded, and had not the bulkhead stood well the pressure put upon it, the Mary must have gone down. As it was, she was lightened at the fore by the corn being hove over board. She arrived safely in tne Southampton Water at last, and her captain deserves great thanks for the kind ness and attention shewn to us, whom he had done his best to rescue from the grave. Many of us passengers came ashore as we were in our cabins of the time of the collision, some of the ladies with only their night-dresses ; and I believe there were only two articles saved, so sudden and rapid was the break-up. I should think that not more than ten minutes elapsed bet ween the collision and our hearing the cries when we suppose the Normandy went down." . VIPERS AND HEDGEHOGS.— A correspondent "of the Journal des Connaissances Ilfedicales, writes to say that vipers have multiplied enormously in France during the last few years, and that this is owing to the merciless destruction of the hedgehog, which is the natural enemy of all snakes, the venom of which produces no effect upon it. A DATE FOR TESTORY.—The Supreme Court of the United States on the 28th ult. decided a point which has long been mooted, but never before legally deter mined. The point was brought up in several cotton cases, and was, in brief, " When did the war close ?" The Court fixed it as the 17th day of August, 1866, that being the date of President Johnson's proclamation to that effect. - - Nature is informed that it is probable that Dr. Sharpey, Professor Huxley, and Sir John Lubbock will be among the members of the Royal Commission to in quire into the present state of science in this country. The Society of Arts has resolved to hold a morning con ference on the proposed parliamentary inquiiry into the present state of science, and it will probably take place next Friday, Her Majesty the Queen is expected to leave Windsor Castle about Tuesday next for Buckingham Palace. The Queen will reside in London till about Fri day, the 25th inst., and then proceed to Claremont-house, near : - Esher, the late residence of the ex-Queen of the French. Her Majesty will probably reside at Claremont till the following Wednesday, and then return to Windsor Castle. - - LORD SMITH !—Le GaUkn'S says that " while the notabilities of Paris were pressing into the Church of St. Clotilde at the funeral of Count de Montalembert another solemn procession was proceeding towards the Church of St. Philippe du Roule. The deceased was an extremely rich English lord, famous in the quarter in which he re sided for his bounties. Althoughof an ancient and illus trious family quartering thelilies of France upon a field gules, Lord Schmitt ha given to our Democratic country a laudable example of contempt for social prejudices by his marriage with a young work woman of very modest position." EPISCOPAL PROTEST TO TUE COUNCIL.—The Augsburg Gazette has received some communications from Rome on the nature of the Episcopal protest against the new rule. It affirms that the chief thing to consider in a Council is not to settle a question promptly, but to pro• coed with prudence and deliberation. The protest corn. plains of that part of the regulations which enacts that the votes in favour of a motion shall be taken before those against it. The dogmas it declares s h ou ld not he adopted by the will of a majority, but should be settled with the moral unanimity of those present, so that any doctrines should be rejected if a number of voices declared against them. The chief point in the protest is the declaration which relates to the number of suffrages t . c be taken for the solution of dogmatic questions, which 1., the pivot of the whole Council. The bishops fear that the character of the (Ecumenical Council will be affected, and that the enemi;. , ,s of the Holy Sec will find a pretext for attack, if the 13,..nnan Court persists in rcfusing to consider their requests, and that the authority of the Council may be diminished ja the sight of Christian nations thr ou g h its having failed to act on the principles of truth and MONETARY REPORTS -YESTERDAY. Uri the whole the tone of the Stock Exchange markets has been quiet to-day, and a weakness has frequently been manifested in the value of some securities. Consols, however, influenced by the favourable nature of the bank return, and of the. further large increase in the stock of bullion in the Bank of France, have been steady at all advance of 93. For. money the quotation has been 921 to 93, and 93 to 931 for the April account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 91a to 911 exd. India Five per Cents, hauc been done at 1121 to 1131, and India Bonds at 20s. to 235. prem. Exchequer Bills par., 4s. prem. For English railway stocks there has been only a mode rate demand. Metropolitan have been flat, and have re ceded to the extent of g. A weakness has also been noticed in Midland, transactions having been effected at a fall of Caledonian has receded 1. On the other hand, London and North-Western and Great Western, with n moderate inquiry, have risen 1. Very few transactions have taken place in Indian Rail way Stocks. and prices have been unaltered. No quotable change has taken place in the value of Canadian Shares, but with a slow sale the tendency has been unfavourable. In Foreign Shares a moderate business has been con cfuded at about .previous quotations. British mines have been depressed, and prices have ruled easier. Assheton have fallen and Tan-yr-Alt to a similar extent. In colonial and foreign shares very little business has been doing. There has been an improved demand for joint-stocA bank shares, and prices have ruled firm. City have risen In reference to the state of the bullion market, Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake remark : " The trans actions in gold have been very small during the week. There is no demand whatever for the continent, and of the limited amounts to hand it is expected the greater part will be sent into the Bank. An amount of United States gold coin has been purchased for transmission to New York. The arrivals of silver comprise £64,000 by the West India steamer, £9,800 by the Union, from New York, and £2,080 from Alexandria. With the exception of £5,000, per Neva, to the West Indies, and £15,000 to Bombay, the demand has been ehiefly for the Continent, although owing to the rise in the Exchanges, the price is not quite so firm. Mexican dollars : The French steamer has brought £B,OOO on French, and £5,000 on English account ; these amounts have been taken for China, and the price remains of last quoted, 59id. per ounce. A fair amount of firmness has been noticed in the market for Foreign Bonds, notwithstanding that pur chases have not been extensive. Italian 1801 have risen and a further advance of * has taken place in Spanish. 1867. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1865, have risen per cent., but Egyptian 1868, on realisations, have fallen per cent. American securities have been quiet. The Five-Twenty bonds have fallen and Erie shares The sum of £ll,OOO has been sent to the bank to-day. The money market has been rather easier, and three months paper has been taken in the general market, at 2,1 to 3 per cent. The Holmsdale, from Melbourne, has brought £lO,OOO. As regards the exchanges, bills on Italy have continued in demand, and the rates have been rather lower. Other wise no charsze has been noticed. At Mark-lane to-day wheat was quiet but firm. The stock Exchange Committee have appointed Tues day, the 22nd instant, special settling day in Hooper's Telegraph Works Company's shares. Telegraph Shares have been rather firmer. Anglo- American have advanced Anglo-Mediterranean, /, and British Indian Submarine but French Cables have fallen /. Telegraph Construction shares have further relapsed Hooper's and Silver's India Rubber have been without change. For Miscellaneous Securities the demand has been fimited, at about previous quotations. The Governor of the Bank of England announced, IA the General Court of Proprietors yesterday, that the directors had resolved to disuse the trade report of assays of bar gold, expressed in carats, grains, and eighths of grains, and to adopt a quotation expressed in thousandths and thirds of thousandths. The effect of this resplution will be that the pureness of gold bars sent into the Bank will be calculated to.l-3,000th part, instead of 1-76Sth part, as heretofore. It h understood that this new system will come into operation so soon as the standard tables which are in the printers' hands shall be ready to be issues. We are informed by Messrs. Mosses and Mitchell, the transit agents for the Suez Canal Company, that direct steam communication between Holland and her Eastern dependencies (Java, Sumatra, Lunda Islands, &3.), via the Suez Canal, is bring organised at Amsterdam, under the honorary presidency of Prince Henry of the Nether lands, brother to the King of Holland. The suspension is announced of Messrs. Joseph and Edward Laiisden, anchor manufacturers, shipbuilders and shipowners, of Monkwearmouth. The liabilities ars estimated at about £26,000. A prospectus has appeared of the Tavarone Mining Com pany (Limited) with a capital of £50,000, in £5 shares, to work some copper Mines about 30 miles from Genoa, to be purchased for £16,000 in shares and 22,00 in cash. The report of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvement Company (Limited), to be presented on the 30th inst., recommends a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, which will absorb £21,250, and leave £7,377 to be carried fcrward. The Great Western Railway Company have audited applications for the company's debenture stock to be created in substitution for the terminable debenture debt. It will be issued at par, bearing interest at the rate of 4i per cent per annum, or at 5 per cent. premium, bearing interest at the rate rate of 41 1 per cent. per annum. MARKETS-YESTERDAY, LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.-The shew of English wheat has been only moderate. For all descriptions the demand has been limited ; nevertheless, prices have been supported. With foreign wheat the market has been more freely supplied. Sales have progressed slowly, but the quotations have been unaltered. There has bee - . 1 a moderate supply of barley on offer, chiefly foreign produce. The trade has been quiet, on former terms. Malt has sold slowly, at late rates. Oats have been in moderate supply and limited request, at late rates. Beans and peas have been quiet. Flour has sold slowly, but at full prices. Arrivals-British : Wheat, 570 ; barley, 30 ; malt, 1,580 ; beans, 210 ; and peas, 70 quarters. Foreign : Wheat, 9,290 ; barley, 11, 020 ; oats, 14,070 maize, 10, 390 quarters) and flour, 500 sacks and 7,420 barrels. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAY. -The sugar market has continued firm, and prices are rather dearer. Demerara fine to superior crystallised, 40s. 6d. to 425. ; low brown Bengal, 255. : Natal, 295. best brown to low yellow. • The coffee sales are pro gressing quietly ; good colony qualities are firm in value, but common sorts has tended downwards in price. Saltpetre has Commanded very full rates. Cotton rather firmer. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.-The tallow market has ruled quiet at 465. Gd., sellers spot and month ; 455. 6d. June and 465. 6d. last three months. Linseed oil is quoted at 325. 3d. for London spot, and 325. Hull spot and month. Rape flat at 41s. 6d. to 425. foq English brown. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET. FRIDAY.-The sup plies of meat have been good. The trade has been dull, as follows :-Beef,from 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. ; veal, is. to ss. 4d. lamb, Cs. 6d. to 7s. 6d. ; and pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. Bd. per Sibs., by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.—The hop market has continued very quiet. The transactions have been restricted, and prices have had a drooping tendency. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 123. ; Wealds, £8 to £S ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 12s. ; Bava rians, £6 6s. to £9 ; French, £ss. to £6 10s. ; Americans, £4 53. to £6 ; and yearlings, £1 10s. to £3 15s. per cwt. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, rftlDAY.—Sales of the week, 59,625 ; on speculation, 5,725 ; declared 1 ,- r export, 4,625 ; actual export, 7,000 ; taken by the trade, 50,6 v, & Import, 61,625 ; stock, 295,000 bales, being 18,000 bales in excess of the estimate. Market opened with buoyancy to-day, but closed with quietness. Sales, 12,000 bales, of which 3,000 on speculation. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, Mtn',Av.—Market for wheat and spring corn dull, but values are without change. Corn 3d. lower. French flour dull. LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Market steady. Bars, 66i ; ores, 13 to 13k. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRlDAY.—Demand for wheat inactive, and prices lower where sales are pressed. Barley and oats quiet. Flour dull. BIRTHS. MALCOLM—On the 17th inst., at Hanley Grange, Upton-on- Severn, Lady Malcolm, of a son. WOOD—On the 16th inst., at 74, Cheapside, the wifo of Augustus A. Wood, of a son. lITARRIAGES. LONEY - ITINDE - On the 16th inst., at Chelsea, H. Cotrtney, second son of the late P. I. Loney, Esq., R.N., to Esther, eldest daughter of the late W. T. Hindu, Esq., late of the Admiralty, Whitehall. TILER —DicxEsoN—On the 17th inst., at St. Pancras, John Wi!li .m, eldest son of t lie late George Tyler, of Finehley, to Jane Ellen, daughter of John henry Diekeson. DEATHS. ANTHONY—On the 17:11 inst., William. 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