The Sun. — London, England, 1867-10-16 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies• BRECON AND 11.IERTRYR. It was announced that the capital necessary to complete this line by a junction with the Taff Vale had been secured, and in the course of a few weeks trains were expected to run direct from the Vale of Neath Railway at Merthyr, through Cyfarthfa and ,Cefn to Brecon. When these junctions were com pleted it was believed that there would be a large increase in the traffic from South Wales to Lanca shire, Liverpool, and other northern counties. CARNARVONSHIRE. The traffic on this company's line, which had been recently opened, averaged per mile per week, and it was expected that the returns would show a gradual increase. CLERKS' DINING COMPANY (LIMITED). A special general meeting of this company was held last evening in Aldersgate-street ; Mr. G. Pressley in the chair. Mr. BRYANT read a report from the provisional committee, which stated that the company had been duly registered, the capital being fixed at £20,000, in shares of £1 each. Up to the present date 1,334 shares had been taken up by 700 shareholders, no shareholder being allowed to hold more than four shares. It was intended to limit the trading of the company at first to four establishments, to be in creased eventually to 10. The cost of the dinners to be one shilling, and to consist of fish or plain soup, joints, two vegetables, bread, cheese, and half-pint of ale or porter. The cost of luncheons, consisting of meat, bread, and potatoes, to be sixpence. Smok ing, reading rooms, and lavatories would be attached to each establishment. Shareholders to have the privilege of purchasing provisions, &c., for home consumption at a cost of 5 per cent. on the prices paid by the company. The following resolution was then moved, se conded, and agreed to :—" That this meeting hav ing heard the report of the provisional committee, as read, hereby pledges itself to support the Clerks' Dining Company to the utmost of its power." The meeting then elected to the board of directors Messrs. soul, of the London Joint Stock Bank ; Fitzgerald, Custom-house ; Gartside, Colville, and Co.'s ; Colborne, Smith and Elder's ; Sewell, Guild hall ; Pressley, Royal Insurance ; and Whittingham, Smith and Elder's. The CHAIRMAN announced that the services of the directors would be given free for three months, at the expiration of which time another general meeting would be held, when the directors would be re-elected or others appointed in their places, for the next 12 months, and the scale of remuneration settled. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. Naval and Military Intelligence. On Monday evening a telegram was received at Aldershot from the Horse Guards, ordering the 72d Highlanders, under the command of Major Hunter, to be held in readiness to move at short notice to Liverpool and Manchester, should their services be required ; the baggage and women and children to remain behind. At the same time the H battery, 9th brigade Royal Artillery-, received orders to move by march route yesterday morning at 9 o'clock for the same destination, to await final instructions at the first billetting place—Reading. The battery-110 men, 95 horses, and 6 guns—accordingly left yes terday morning, but up to 1 o'clock midday the Highlanders had not received any further orders, although the light baggage and necessaries were ready, so that the regiment would have been able, if required, to march at two hours' notice. The 43d (Monmouthshire) Light Infantry, Lieut. Col. F. H. Synge, was officially inspected on Mon day and yesterday by Major-Gen. Campbell, C. 8., commanding 2d brigade at Aldershot. Major-Gen. Hodge also inspected on the same day the Royal Engineer Train. With these inspections the half yearly course for the Aldershot division has termi nated. Yesterday Major-Gen. F. Murray, commanding , the forces at Chatham, made his half-yearly inspec tion of the depots of the regiments attached to the 3d battalion of infantry. The whole of the officers and troops were formed in front of their respective quarters at St. Mary's Casemaie Barracks, shortly before 11 a.m. yesterday morning, in heavy march ing order, whence they marched to Chatham Lines, where they formed up in contiguous columns of companies in readiness to receive the General com manding. The troops on the ground consisted of the depots of the Ist and 2d Battalions of the 10th Regiment, 2d battalion of the 14th Regiment, Ist and 2d battalions of the 22d Regiment, 34th Regi ment, and 45th Regiment, the whole under the command of Col. the Hon. J. J. Bourke. On the arrival of Major-Gen. Freeman Murray, attended by Capt. F. S. Herries, 65th Regiment, aide-de-camp, Brigade Major W. W. Lynch, 2d Royals, and other officers of the Staff, the troops gave a general salute. Gen. Murray then inspected the arms, kits, and ac coutrements of each corps, and afterwards witnessed the troops go through the customary inspection movements. The officers and sergeants of the various corps were subsequently inspected in the sword exercise, and on the troops being dismissed to their quarters General Murray went through the Case mate Barracks and inspected the men at dinner. Yesterday afternoon the whole of the corps were again assembled on Chatham lines, in review order, each man being provided with 10 rounds of blank Snider ammunition. At 3 o'clock General Murray arrived on the ground, and immediately bad the officers and troops put through a variety of move ments to test the efficiency of the officers and men in Light Infantry and company evolutions. The inspection of the depot did not terminate until late yesterday afternoon. The Field Marshal Commanding in Chief has ap proved of Assist.-Sorg. Francis R. Hogg, M.D., RA., being appointed for permanent duty with the Riding Establishment, Royal Artillery, and also to perform the medical duties connected with the Female Hospital and Garrison Staff at Woolwich. The three batteries, sth Brigade Garrison Ar tillery, some time under orders for Madras, took their departure yesterday morning from head quarters, Woolwich, and proceeded by special train for Portsmouth to embark on board the Indian troopship Serapis, Capt. Soady. The marching out strength of the batteries was as follows :—Col. G. B. Shakespear, in command ; Capt. C. G. Lascelles:; second captains—the Hon. 11. Hare, J. H. P. Anderson, gunnery instructor, and H. R. L. Morgan; Lieute. E. R. Ellis, J. R. S. 0. Hewitt, out in the Corcyra. The departure of No. 2 battery guns is consequently delayed for a short time. A large number of rockets of every requisite description manufactured at Woolwich for the use of the Abys sinian expedition, to be fired from the mountain guns, has been despatched to Portsmouth for ship ment for Alexandria. Closed arm-chests from the Tower, containing the new Snider rifles, with which the sth brigade batteries arc to be armed on their arrival in Madras, but to the use of which they were at present perfect strangers, were sent with the troops yesterday morning. Their first duty on their arrival in India will be a course of drills in breech loading exercise. The troops all left in a high state of discipline, and were exceedingly healthy and well conducted during their long stay in Woolwich. Col. R , illy's (Cdi.) B battery, B brigade Royal Horse Artillery, ni 11.01101 out of Woolwich garrison yes terday morning en route for Leeds arid Bradford. Capt. RiJout commanded in the absence of Colonel Reilly, who is at present engaged as a Boundary Commissioner. A special tnes3enger was yesterday despatched from the Ranger's Lodge, Greenwich-park, inform ng the authorities of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich that the recovery of Prince Arthur from the mild attack of small-pox, under which he has been suffering for some days past, is very satis factory. Her Majesty's screw troopship Serapis, Captain Soady, sails from Portsmouth this morning for Alexandria, on her first turn of duty in the relief of her Majesty's troops in India. This ship will sail with a total number of 1,554 people on board, all told. _ . _ YV Yesterday afternoon, at high tide, a successful launch was effected from the yard of the contrac. tors, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, East Greenwich, of a new artillery raft, built for the Admiralty. There were present Capt. W. R. Mends, R.N., C.B. (Director of Transports), Capt. Crook ington, R.N., and a large number of visitors. The raft has been constructed on the plan and under the superintendence of Capt. W. R. Mends. its object is not the saving of life at sea, but the landing of troops, horses, guns, &e., from the transport ships lately built for the Indian service. It consists of four cylindrical pontoons, 37ft. long by 4ft. 6in. in diameter. It is hemispherical at the stern ends, and bowshaped at the fore ends. These pontoons are constructed of steel and iron, the upper part of the cylinder being of steel, and the lower part of iron, so as to insure the righting itself when in the water. The deck, 34ft. Gin. by 2 , ift., is secured to four spars, which lies across the pontoons by means of lashing, and an arrangement of iron bars like ordi nary hatch bars. It is also surrounded by stan chions and ridge poles, from which canvas hangs to prevent the horses seeing the water close to them. The deck is also covered with matting to prevent the horses injuring themselves by struggling when lowered from the yardarm. The bow is also con structed to rest upon the beach, allowing the troops and guns to disembark. The raft is capable of land ing about 300 men or two field guns and their full detachments, including horses, &c. Great care has been taken in the design to avoid the use of any thing in the rigging of the raft which is not readily found on board any ordinary steamship. After the launch some few experiments were made, and the raft was propelled with perfect ease against tide with the oars provided. Much satisfaction was ex pressed with its appearance, and it is proposed to build four more for the Indian transports. Mr. Baskcombe, the Government inspector, superin tended the building on behalf of the Admiralty. The Government steam tug Monkey afterwards took the raft in tow to Woolwich, where some experi ments will shortly be conducted by Captain W. R. Mends and a staff of Engineers and Artillery officers. JUDICIAL STATISTICS, 1866. (From the Solicitors' Journal.) Commencing with the police and constabulary ,hese returns exhibit an increase this year in the strength of the force, amounting to 478, or upwards of 2 per cent., and consisting of 9 superintendents, 25 inspectors, 36 sergeants, 323 constables, 53 ad ditional constables, and 32 detectives. As compared with the population the police are as 1 to 893, having been in 1865 as 1 to 902, a difference apparently slight, but when the increase of the population is taken into consideration it is in reality of great importance. One noticeable fact with regard to the police is that the cost of the force has increased by upwards of £78,000 and that this increase in expenditure is to be ac- counted for not only by the increase in the numbers of the police, but also to some extent by the higher scale of pay which has been generally adopted. This increases the average cost per mau, which in 1865 amounted to £75 4s. 3d., and in 1866 to £77. The total cost of the police and constabulary is £1,829,105, of which amount the public revenue contributes £441,947. There appears to have been a decrease in the number of the criminal classes large, amounting to 3,060, or 2.6 per cent. on the numbers of the preceding year. low the numbers of the criminal classes at large are ascertained we are unable to state, but the returns inform us that all thieves and known depredators are included, and that persons known to have been living honestly for 12 months are not enumerated. Vagrants and tramps would appear to be on the increase ; in 1865 they numbered 33,690, in the three years preceding that period they averaged 23,339, but in 1866 they were 35,191. The reason for this large increase may form a useful subject of inquiry by the Poor law Board, especially as a gaol is usually considered to be a pleasanter habitation than a workhouse by those well accustomed to both. In London the criminal classes are in the proportion of 1 to 222 of the population. In addition to those at large who number 113,566, there are in local prisons, 16,708 ; in convict prisons, 7,018 ; and in reformatories, 3,635 ; making a grand total of 140,927 persons of the criminal classes. The number of indictable offences in the year 1866 not summarily disposed of was 50,549, and in respect of these crimes 27,190 persons were appre- heeded ; this is a decrease from the preceding year of 3.2 per cent. on the first number, and of 6.3 per cent. on the second. The proportion of apprehen sions to the number of crimes was, in 1866, 53.7 per cent. ; in 1865 it was 55.6 per cent. ; in 1864 it wal 56.2 per cent. ; and in 1862 58.2 per cent. Evi dently, then, it appears that the more crimes that are committed the smaller is the proportion of per sons apprehended. This fact bas been noticed in previous years ; and we have also this additional fact, that out of the 27,120 persons apprehended, no fewer than 8,002 were discharged by the magis trates. We are therefore entitled to conclude that, while 50,549 crimes were committed, only 19,188 of the offenders were actually discovered, and that at least three out of every five crimes go unpunished. This proportion refers to the amount of crime re ported to the police. If we could arrive at any sta tistics of the actual amount of crime committed, the proportion would, of course, be much lower; it is sometimes estimated at one-sixth. The number of offences reported comprises 131 murders, being four less than in the previous year, and 45 attempts to murder, as against 51 in the pre ceding year; and under the class of offences against the person we find a total of 2,861 in 1866, against 3,123 in the previous year —a decrease of 8.4 per cent.; and in most of the other descriptions there is a corresponding decrease. Of the murders, eight took place in the metropolitan police district and one in the city of London. In respect of these 2,861 offences against the person, 2,896 persons were apprehended, and 1,646 were discharged by the magistrates ; the number convicted being a proportion of 78.6 per cent., while the proportion in the previous year was 82.8 per cent., and in 1863, 83.3 per cent. 'With respect to offences against property, the proportion of per sons apprehended scarcely exceeds 50 per cent., and the number committed is very much smaller, being about 30 per cent. of the whole number apprehended. Besides those apprehended and committed for in dictable offences, 339,091 persons were summarily convicted by magistrates, and a further number of 142,679 were discharged, having been brought be fore magistrates to be dealt with under their sum mary jurisdiction. The increase in the number of persons proceeded against in this class was in 1866 at the rate of 5 per cent. over that of the preceding year, and of 25 per cent. over that of 1859,while in the number of convictions there was an increase over the previous year of 8.3 per cent. Among the penalties imposed we find that 1,131 were sent to reformatory schools, 471 to industrial schools, and that 596 were whipped. Among the persons ap prehended for indictable offences, as well as those summarily proceeded against, there is the usual pro portion of " known thieves," &c. ; but it is remark able that out of the 508,960 comprised under this head no less than 200,827 are described as persons of previous good character, and 175,335 as of " cha racter unknown," showing that probably more than half these offenders NI ere fresh recruits in the ranks of crime; in fact, 36.2 per cent of the whole num ber is the proportion of those known as thieves or otherwise bad characters. The returns also show that 13,629 " known thieves" are at large, of which number 2,731 are in the metropolis. Appeals to Quarter Sessions against summary decisions of jutices were 91, and there were besides these 69 cases stated for the opinion of the Superior Courts under the Act 20th and 21st of Victoria, chap. 43. In 1865 there were 50 such cases statedi; the appeals to Quarter Sessions were the same in number. Coroners' returns for the year 1866 are up to the 31st of December, instead of the 29th of September, as are most of the other returns, and they exhibit the result of 24,926 inquests. In these the verdict was murder in 272 cases, manslaughter in 223, suicide in 1,360, and accidental death in 11,262 ; the remainder ascribe death to other causes of different descriptions. As regards inquisitions by coroners it is remarkable that the number of verdicts of murder exceeds by more than 100 per cent. the itnumber a murders reported by the police—the latter TBE SUN. LoNDoiv. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1867 being V3l and the former 272; but this is accounted for by - .the fact that frequently in cases of supposed infanticide, when a verdict of murder is given, the results at the trial is a verdict of concealment of birth. In such cases the coroner of courso retains them as' cases of murder, while the police return them accm - ding to the finding of the jury at the trial. Th ere is a decrease in the number of in quests, while the verdicts of murder show an increase of 19.8 pe r cent. Verdicts of manslaughter and suicide each show a considerable decrease. Out of the G,872 infants under seven years of age upon whom inquests were held, it is interesting to re mark that 5,523 were legitimate, and that only 1,349 were illegitimate. This is a sufficient answer to those who allege that illegitimate children are usually the subjects of infanticide ; and, in addition to this, while infanticide has most undoubtedly been on the increase, there has been for the last three years no material variation is the number of children dying a violent death upon whom inquests were held. The costs of coroners' inquests, including salaries and travelling allowances, show a remarkably steady continuance at ono average. In the year 1856 the average cost of an inquest was £3 ls. 7d., and in 1866 the cost was exactly the same amount, while the greatest variation in the inter mediate years, with the exception of one, was no more than 3s. 11d. extensive, the Powell Duffryn, Company alone having shipped 7,665 tons in the last six days, and for the past fortnight or three weeks they have shipped something approaching that average. The exports during the past month reached 184,514 tons as compared with 151,720 tons in the corres ponding period of last year. For house coal pur chases on account of the coasting markets will bear a fair comparison with the corresponding period of last year, and the cold weather which set in for a few days has had its influence on the local consump- tion. Coastwise the shipments last month were 70,899 tons against 59,503 tons in the month of September, 1866. The iron trade has not materially altered its position since last report, and the same degree of quietness which has characterised busi ness for so long a period still continues. The ex ports of iron for the past month were 12,123 tons, the greatest portion of which was sent to Russia and the United States. LEEDS, 15.—There was only a small attendance in the cloth halls this morning, neither buyers nor sellers being present in full force, owing to the weather being thick, as well as to the generally quiet tone of trade. At the close of the markets no great amount of goods was removed from the halls, the sales having been confined to small selections of seasonable goods, including witneys, beavers, and hair lists, and a fair quantity of tweeds. The heavier makes in lower and medium qualities of the latter class of goods were most in request, and they fully maintained late prices. The flax trade is rather dull, and prices are irregulr r. ROCHDALE, 14th.—There wPs a rather better at tendance in the flannel market to-day than last week. The market, however, was not brisk, buyers not being inclined to buy much nor to give out large orders. Operations extended as much to fancy as to plain flannels, and for both prices were generally firm ; but if there was any change it was a slight reduction. der, he must be well aware, would probably cost him his German subjects, and relegate him to the inferior position of the chief of a mere mass of mis. cellaneous Sciavonic and Hungarian provinces ; while any hope of regaining ascendancy, either in Italy or at home, is obviously futile. But it is on the sagacity and self-interest of the French Emperor that we place our principal reliance. Napoleon knows well that a war with Prussia would be a war with all Germany ; that it would be a long and desperate war, with a doubtful issue as to military glory, and with scarcely a possibility of SUCCer'S in preventing the ultimate fusion of the German States, even if it did not assist that hated result. Ile sees clearly, too, no doubt, that with the Teu tonic idea and passion for nat:onal grandeur and unity so fiercely aroused as it now is, the prospect of seizing and retaining the cis-Rhenane provinces of Prussia and making the Rhine his boundary is all but hopeless. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The following 53 the weekly return of the Regis trar-General of births and deaths in London and in 12 other large tDwns of the United Kingdom : General Registry-office, Somerset-house, October 14. In the week that ended on Saturday, Oct. 12, 4,035 b;rths and 2,849 deaths were - registered in London and in 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 24 per 1,000 in London, 23 in Edinburgh, and 23 in Dub lin ; 19 in Bristol, 28 in Birmingham, 31 in Liver poi, 34 in Manchester, 29 in Salford, 24 in Shef field, 24 in Leeds, 35 in Hu", 33 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 24 in Glaggow. The rate in Vienna was 23 per 1,000 during the week ending the sth inst., when the mean temperature was 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit lower than the same week in London, where the rate was 20. The 2,432 deaths returned last week in the ten large English towns, including London, showed an increase of 170 upon those of the previous week. This increase was shared by all the ten towns except Leeds and Bristol. The deaths from diarrhoea have in the past five weeks steadily steadily decreased from 577 to 188 last week, which is little above the average for the second week of October. The death rate from this cause was highest last week in Bir mingham, in which town scarlatina was also preva lent. The mortality from various zymotic diseases was high last week in Manchester and Newcastle upon-Tyne. In London the births of 1,023 boys and 1,005 glr7a—in all 2,028 children—were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1857-66, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,014. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,233. It was the 41st week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,267. The deaths in the present return are less by 34 than the estimated number. The mortality from diarrhoea and cholera con tinues to decline ; last week the deaths of 53 chil dren and 6 adults from diarrhoea, and the deaths of 2 children and 2 adults from cholera or choleraic diarrhoea were registered. In the two previous weeks the deaths from diarrhoea were 108 and 78, and from cholera 15 and 5. Three fatal cases of diarrhoea were registered last week in the west, 5 in the north, 5 in the central, 17 in the east, and 29 in the south districts. In the corresponding week of last year the deaths from diarrhoea were 47, and from cholera 207. Thirben deaths from smallpox, 18 from measles, 38 from scarlatina, 31 from whoopinging-cough, and 36 from typhus were re corded last week. Phthisis proved fatal to 163 persons, 90 deaths occurred from bronchitis, and 55 from pneumonia. Kensington ; St. Mary, Paddington . At 20, Wesbourne-park-crescent, on Oct. 8, the wife of a vocalist, aged 22, choleraic diarrhoea (14k hours), exhaustion. Bethnal-green ; Hackney-road.—At 7, Durham-street, on Oct. 10, the wife of a baker, aged 29, cholera (three days). Poplar ; Bow.—At 28, Libra-road, on Oct. 6, the daughter of a linen draper, aged 5 months, sudden choleraic diarrhoea. Greenwich ; St. Paul's, Deptford.—At 26, Railway grove, on Oct. 10, the son of a letter-press printer, aged 5 months, choleraic diarrhoea, atrophy. The deaths of two peraons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.678 in. The barometrical reading increased from 29.40 in. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, to 30.08 in. on Friday, October 11. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 43.7 deg., which is 8.2 deg. below the average of of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 58.4 degrees, on Monday, October 7. The lowest night temperature was 31.2 degrees on Sunday, 6th, and Friday, October 11. The entire range of temperature during the week was therefore 27.2 deg. The mean of the highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 50.3 deg.; that of the lowest was 48.1 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 2.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 91, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0-72 in. The direction of the wind was variable. According to a return fur , nished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the River Thames at the Southern Outfall Works, Crossness, was 42,266,575 gallons, or 192,036 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. STATE OF TRADE. MANcnEsTER, Oct. 15.—The market to-day has been of a very disappointing character to spinners and manufacturers, who expected to find consider able improvement in demand as well as in price. In shipping yarns there has been rather a good busi ness, but to effect it sellers have had to accept the low prices current last Friday. In home trade yarns the market has been steadier, and a fair average business is reported, but there has been no advance on Friday's rates obtained by spinners or their agents. In cloth up to the end of last week we had the same tendency to depression in prices which has had to be reported so often during weeks and even months past, with less general inquiry than had mostly accompanied the decline. The recent large business and improved prices in cotton at Liverpool stimulated the cloth market yesterday into some ap pearance of greater activity, and the advanced prices asked for yarns reacted in a certain measure on the quotations for manufactured goods; but, although the inquiry was pretty active, it proved a difficult matter for manufacturers to realise any material advantage on the rates of last week, and but little if any bulk of business was done at any advance. To-day there are no indications of any improvement in prices being obtainable. Buyers are off,ning orders at the quotations of last week ; but even at such rates they are not by any means disposed to operate extensive: v. The market closes alto gether with a dull and somewhat inactive aspect. Messrs. John Slagg and Co.'s report of to-day's cloth market, says : " Up to Saturday the downward tendency of prices continued, with a diminished in quiry. The increased business in Liverpool reacted yesterday by enhanced quotations in this market ; but little improvement was established, and though makers are to-day willing to contract at last week's rates our market closes dull and inactive." CARDIFF, 14.—At no period of the year has the steam coal trade been in a position more satisfactory to proprietors and merchants than at the present time, the quantity shipped to the foreign markets being something considerable ; and the docks pre sent a gratifying scene of bustle and activity. Some of the steam coal proprietors have a large tonnage placed, but at the same time the output is tolerably OYSTER CULTURE 11V ENGLAND. There appeared last year a notice of what had been recently doing on the south coast of England and the north coast of France, but more particularly referring to attempts just commenced on the former, in the establishment of oyster farms for the breed- ing, growth, and fattening of oysters for the mar ket. The oyster farms on the coast of France con tinue their work successfully, and supply a vast number of oysters to the Paris and other markets ; but their succes3 is understood to hare been more marked in the growth and fattening of purchased oysters laid down in their pares than in the raising of spat from the old fish. The same may be said of most of the oyster farms on the English coast, although there are exceptions here to which we shall presently refer. In the establishment of any oyster farm, where the operations are mainly intended for the breeding of oysters that are to be afterwards pre served for growth and fattened for the market on the same grounds, there is a large outlay of capital made in the first instance, and three or four years mut then elapse—presuming that a rise of spat has been obtained from the first batch of oysters laid down in the prepared beds —before any return can be obtained from this original expenditure. With this important fact ever present for the consideration of the oyster producer, it is not surprising that a far greater amount of attention has been paid by them to the growth and fattening of oysters purchased from coast dredgers than to the raising of spat from old fish. The acknowledged result of this course has, however, been to denude natural breeding groundi on both coasts of fish, old and young, and it has only been the almost insurmountable dVliculty met with for several years now past procuring oystera of any kind suitable for the fattening beds that has tined the attention of people in the direction of breeding as well as fattening oysters for the table. Mr. Lowe, one of the secre tarics of the Acclimatisation Society, has stated that, in answer to his inquiries concerning the French natural oyster beds, he was informed that the number of oysters dredged from the Cancale deep sea beds in 1863 was under four mil!inns, while 12 years previously the take averaged 60 mn!• lions. He also refers to the well-known fact of the d;scovery of a bed of oysters lying off in the Chan- nel between the two coasts, which was three wiles in length. In a very short time the oyster-dredgers cleared the bank and destroyed all life for reproduc- tion by their rapacity. Mr. Ffennel, Inspector of Fisheries to the English Government, reported a few years since that on one part of the Irish was*, one bed of oysters gave employment to 2,000 fisher men, but so recklessly were the beds dredged for the unfortunate bivalves that the freight, which once reached £l,OOO per week in the season, had fa".en down to £3OO per annum. The French were the first to appreciate the full weight of the suicidal policy prrsued for the supply of oysters by this over dredging of the natural deep-sea breeding grounds. MM. Coste and Kemmerer may be considered to have been the pioneers of the new state of things on the French coast, where the main supply of the future for the markets is looked for from the breed- ing beds established at St. Brieuc and other places. Referring to what the French have done in this re spect, Dr. Henry Lawson, the late ea:tor of the Popular Science Review, says :—" The most con- vincing evidence of all is that afforded by the Isle o R. Five years since the shores of this island were barren and uncultivated ; now they give em ployment to 8,000 men, and the crop of oysters produced in 1861 was valued at £320,000 sterling." The oyster farms on the Isle of R 6 are, however, much more valuable and productive now than at the time Dr. Lawson wrote of them. The most successful instance of the rise of oyster spat and its preservation up to this time on the English coast for the present year has oc curred on the same part of the coast as it did last summer—at Haying Island, a few miles east of the Isle of Wight, where an enclosed area of water of 18 acres, and of from five to six feet in depth, may be almost said to be crowded with young oysterEngs. To show, however, clearly what has been done and is now doing with oysters at Ilayling we must leave the baby moluscs, and travel backwards for a short time. We may refer to the " Domesday Book," and find there the Hay ling and Ensworth oyster beds referred to, and marked with a certain annual value, those of Ems worth being valued at 6s. Bd. Looking back through the haze of centuries, in fact, there is no apparent limit to be found to the time of the laying down of the oyster in the waters of the harbours now called " Langston," " Emsworth," and " Chichester." In making excavations for the formation of new beds a few weeks back at Hayling, through a morass that must have been a morass for ever, the remains of a skeleton were found which had been interred in the ancient manner, with the knees drawn up to the chin, and with the remnants of oyster and other shells with it. A few moments after exposure to the atmosphere the bones fell into indistinguishable form in dust. The natives of the island, so it has been said, aver this to have been the remains of the man who first tasted an oyster The natural capabilities of the coast line and in dented creeks of Hayling Island for artificial aids in the culture of the oyster, which for unknown centuries had bred there, first led, in 1865, to a private and successful attempt at raising spat, and afterwards to the formation of a company to enable the work to be carried out on a requisite scale. This company have so far been most fortunate, although no returns will be seen for the outlay of capital in the raising of spat alone for two years to come, and its experience thus far in the somewhat uncertain business of oyster raising is worth some attention from all who may have a weakness for the " inhabitant of the shell," or may take an interest, business or otherwise, in pisciculture. The first great experiment made by the Hayling Oyster Fishery was made on the site of some old salterns at the south-east extremity of the island, the entire water area experimented in being about 31 acres. The results of the experiment were of a most unaccountable although satisfactory character, and when we state that precisely similarly puzzling results have been obtained this year at the opposite side of the island, and on a very much larger area of water, we may possibly have said enough to fully rouse the interest of the reader. In the spring of last year two pares were prepared for the old oys ters to throw off their spat in—one on the plan pur sued on Lake Fusaro, in Italy, and the other on the French plan pursued on the Ile de Re. The Fusaro bed, as we may term it for plainness of description, was of about 3ft. depth of water, which, as a gene ral rule, might be considered as still water, fresh water only being admitted at spring tides through a sluice gate from the harbour outside the banks of the oyster farm. The bed of this pare was partly covered with shingle, and ou this shingle were laid early in April 50,000 oysters from deep sea beds ; light and flat hurdles formed of hazel sticks and brushwood were laid over the oysters, and held by stakes in the bed of the pond a certain distance above them. The other bed, on the plan of the French at Ile de Re, was entirely laid with shingle (over the saltern beds), and had a constantly yet gentle running stream of water passing over it. In lieu of using hazel stick hurdles for collecting the spat tiles were laid down. Both ponds, or pares, were connected by a narrow waterway, through which the water flowed from the Ftaaro into the Ile de Re beds. There was no material difference in ,he time of laying down the oysters in either bed, nor was there any difference in the quality of either. The result of this experiment was that while the pond on the Lake Fusaro plan was filled with spat at spawning time, the other pond held no spat, nor was any thrown off by its oysters subsequently. The spat was first discovered in the first week in June in the Fusaro pond, and there was no second display. Unfortunately for this supply of young oysterlings, really magnificent by reason of their number and the manner in which they had thriven by the beginning of the following September, it was determincd, contrary to the advice of the com pany's manager, to allow the young oysters to re main attached to the hurdles in their first position for a certain time, and until they had obtained a larger size. The consequence was that the shell of the growing babies grew round the sticks of the hurdles, and in subsequently removing the under shell was broken in three cases out of four, and 75 per cent. of the fish destroyed. Oysters that did not suffer from this barbarous detaching process at a wrong period of life are now flourishing amazingly - - in pares specially prepared for their comfort and growth on the site of the Ile de Re beds of last year's experiment, and which has now undergone an entire remodelling and arrangement. In their new home the oyster spat gathered and saved from off the hurdles laid over the oysters in the Fusaro parc now measure from a minimum size of 1 inch to a maxi- mum of 2 inches in diameter. In September, 1869, these oysters will be in the market for consumption on our tables. The successful experiment of last year in the Fusaro water was, of course, repeated this year with, as nearly as possible, the same pre liminary attendant conditions. Strangely enough, however, and curiously illustrative, as it proves, of the uncertainty of oyster hatching, no spat rose this year from the depths of what promised last year to be the richest oyster mine in England. No known and reliable theory can account for this striking difference by the marked success of one year and the failure of the next. This part of the company's grounds is being re arranged. They now comprise one breeding pond (the old Fusaro water) empty, and cleaning out in readiness for future operations, and six acres of water space, divided into nine pares, lying parallel with each other. Each parc is enclosed by puddled clay walls, lined with chalk blocks, and has its water sluice at the head and foot. The floor, or bed, is made of shingle sand, and has a fall of about 20in. from head to foot. A reservoir trench, running across the head of the pares, and having communi- cation with the harbor waters, gives a means of water supply to the pares through the head sluices, and a cleansing of their bed by rushing the water through them and out through the foot sluices into the drain trench. The latter also acts as a canal , for the flat-boat in any visit to the pares and their contents. It is a very important fact that in the shallowest of these pares during last winter not one of the young oysterlings of the previous summer's spat was known to have been kiled by the cold weather or frost. It is now time to return to the three-months old oysterlings left imprisoned in the 18-acre pare at the opposite extremity of the island. In September of last year the company's engineer had just commenced operations for the formation of pare 3 and other enclosed spaces on the north-west shore of the island, the walls of No 1 pare being at no great d'stance from the bridge across the narrow channel which separates Havant from the island of Hayling. All then was in an embryo state ; now there is one pare of 18 acres area, and one of seven acres, both in working order. There are also ten acres lying out in parallel beds, with puddled clay and chalk-lined walls, trench and reservoir, as on the old Ile de Re site, and a feeding reservoir of five acres. In addition low walls have been commenced over a large series of shoals between two points of the coast, communic.ting channels are being cut for boat service between the shoals and " rythes" deepened, and 800 other and adjoining acres remain for any further extension of the present range of pares which may be found requisite. Our present purpose is to deal more with what has been done, however, than with what may be done here. The 18-acre pare and the adjoining one of seven acres were both stocked with oysters during the spring of the present year, the conditions in both cases being as nearly as possible alike ; the oysters tkcinselves, it is necessary to observe, being taken indiscrimi nately from one lot and deposited at the same time in both pares. The water in both ranged from sft. to 6ft. in depth, and wattle-work hurdles of hazel sticks and fine twigs were staked down over the oysters, and at a certain height above them. Two thousand tubs of oysters were laid down. On the Ist of June the presence of spat was first dis covered in the 18-acre part, and by the 6th the births of the oyster 4 baby hosts were evi dently brought to a close for the season. Sixteen thousand hurdles were staked over the old oysters. These hurdles are now being taken up, and the oysterlings removed, with the bark, from the larger sticks by a number of men and lads employed for the purpose, and the smaller twigs cut into short lengths of four or five inches. These strips of bark and cut lengths of twigs, with the oysterlings at tached in sizes varying from a pea to that of a large horse-bean, are then sent away to the pares pre pared for their reception and growth for market. Taking the lowest estimate of the numbers of oyster lings on each of these hurdles taken up from the 18-acre pare . as the spat there of the season, they cannot average less than 5,000, giving a grand total of 80,000,000 young oysters as stock for market in 1870-1. The manager of the company, Mr. Geo. W. Hart, intends removing the oysterlings al together from the hazel bark and twigs as soon as this can be done without danger to the life of the fish, and in this decision he will be acting on a cor rect principle. The earlier an oysterling is removed from any rigid material of uneven surface the better for its future growth and health. It was estimated in 1864 that seven hundred mil- lions of oysters were consumed annually in London, and considerably more than that number in the provinces. With our growing population annually increasing the number of oyster eaters what a grand future appears to be looming upon the future for oyster producers 1 The following are the registered average tempera tures of the water in the 18-acre pare at ilayling during the months of May, June, July, and August, taken 3f t. under water, and in the shade by day :- 1867. Maximum. Minimum. May.— By day 61 deg. By night 6O dog. June.—By day 67 deg. 63 deg. By night July. —By day 70 dog. By night 7O deg. Aug. —By day 70 deg 66 dog. By night At the close of September last the minimum tem perature of the air was found to be 43 deg., the temperature of the water in the 18-acre pare, at the same time was tested, and found to be 58 deg. 1k THE PERUVIAN LOAN. —Yesterday, at the Chancery Chambers, the case of " Smith v. Weguelin, M.P., and others," was discussed on an application for time to file an affidavit of documents. The case was as to the proceeds of guano sent by the Peruvian Government to this country, and the proceods were sought by the bond holders to be made available in respect to the Peruvian Loan of 1862, of £5,000,000. The chief clerk gave 14 days' time in respect to the documents. LADvEaTtsEmENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Itevelenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 68,000 cures;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" "Rome, July 21, 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the "Gazette de Midi, July 25. Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.. Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency spasms, sickness, and vo mitin g .—Maria Jol y." — Cure No 46,270: Mr. James Roberts , of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 y ears diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many ruthority , unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without Baron Liebig's name is most a udaciously attached. In tins at Is. lAd.; 1 lb. , 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d. ; 5 lbs lie.; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Du BARRY and Co., isio. 77, Itegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Graceebureh-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and 289, 0119rd - griNt, 330 Stran‘i; and All grcuro And chetniots. SPEECH OF THE BISHOP OF ONTARIO AT MAN CHESTER. The annual meeting of the supporters of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was held on Monday even ing, in the Free-Trade Hall, under the presidency of It. Neill, Esq., the mayor of the city. Tho Bishop of Now Zoaland and the Bishop of Ontario wore present. The Bishop of ONTARIO moved tho first resolntion, and in the course of his speech asked—At the end of the last century what was the state of the Church of England as regarded missionary effort? There was ono feeble colo nial diocese. The Church of England was so completely insular, that it in a groat measure deserved the sneer of Lord Macaulay, that "it was as local an institution as the Court of Common Pleas." That was not a satisfac tory condition for a church which claimed to bo catholic and apostolic. Thus a grave objection was put into the mouth of those who wished to object that a church so insular, so isolated, and so cut off from sym pathy with the rest of the world, however she might pre tend to be Catholic, di I not act at all events as though she wore. (Hear, hear.) That was only 50 years ago, and half a century in the life of the Church was as nothing. But what did they see that day ? Not ono feeble colonial dio cese, but that the colonial dioceses of Great Britain, all of them essentially missionary, wore more numerous than the English, Irish, and Scotch put together. Thoy saw the colonial dioceses of the Church of England now girdling the earth, and just as it was the boast that the sun never sot upon land where the English flag was unknown, so as mis sionary Churchmen they might now say the sun never sot upon the missionary churches of the Church of England, and from the rising of that sun to the going down of the same God was honoured in their missionary churches, and that in the time-honoured words of their inestimable Liturgy. (Applause.) That was a marvellous revolution. What had brought it about ? It had not been effected by anything done by Church or State ; not by Convocation of Canterbury or Acts of Parliament, but it had been brought about that that stigma, that reproach, and that oppro brium of the Church being insulated and isolated, had been wiped away by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. As he was speaking to a reso lution that alluded to success for which they ought to be thankful, he might be allowed to speak of that country of which he ought to know the most, namely, Ca nada. When the present Bishop of Toronto wpq ordained a priest—and he is now alive and well —there were only four missionary clergy in that groat country. He was alive and well, and what did he see now? In what was the old pros ince of Canada there are now six well-ordered dioceses, diocesan synods, lay co-operation, and a groat degree of self-reliant and self-sacrificing spirit. (Hear, hear.) There were, too, no fewer than four hun dred and fiity priests bearing the burden and heat of the day as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, preaching the Gospel as the Church of England held it in this day. Another reason why they ought to thank God for the success Ile had vouchsafed to the society was that they had an augury from the past of what awaited them in the future if they acted steadily in the faith. Not many days ago they had a remarkable assemblage in London, called the Lambeth Conference. (Much applause.) At that meeting there wore five-and-twenty remarkable men—bishops of the Church —the great Church of the United States of America. What brought them there? How was it they happened to be there ? The meeting knew well that before the revolution which severed the United States of America from this country there were no bishops there, that the State would never allow it, and the Church winked at the State's neglect.' But they knew also that things were changed, and in that country there wrs a great Church, not nume rically compared with the great body of Christians, but a church which was gathering within its folds, in a remark able manner, the wealth, the intelligence, the refinement, and tho education of that great country. (Applause.) That Church was becoming historical. To what did they owe all that but to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ? And they could not get on any missionai F platform in England more hearty suppoi:crs, more eloquent and stern advocates for missionary work as rendered by the society than those very bishops wore. He said that as a proof that missionary efforts would tend to unite them in the bonds of peace and in unity of spirit. Who could toll who looked into the future how much that Church, one with them in religious principles and senti ments, might tend to leaven public opinion in that groat country which is a rival to our own in all that makes the Anglo-Saxon race great and remarkable ? (Hear, hear.) For these reasons, therefore, they should all wish to see the society successful. They should wish it because the society was the mother of missionary effort. In the words of a great statesman, lately uttered, ho believed that the colonial churches were des.ined to react upon the Church of England, and to some degree to provoke one another to love and good works. In his diocese they had 2,500 Mo hawk Indians, every one of whom was a baptised Christian Churchman. (Applause.) Not long since he had to visit their township, and he found that they had of their own alms erected two handsome churches, and that they supported their own missionaries and schools. He con firmed some 90 of them, and he would to God that all the white people in his diocese who professed and called them selves Christians were as devout, as cxemplaiy, an d as charitable. Before he left Canada these Mohawk Indians heard ho was raising a fund in order to make provision for a time when the society would withdraw its grant from his diocese. They thought it would cheer their bishop if they showed their sympathy with the movement, and they had voted out of their general fund $5OO. (Cheers.) What these Christianised Mohawk Indians had done was well worthy of imitation; and he trusted that the time would come when, if ever he had to stand up again to speak in behalf of this noble society, what he had to say would be in elevation of the Church of England in those distant colonies, which were the cradles of future empires, whore it was necessary to mould the original population of emi grants with Anglo-Saxon ideas and sentiments not only of government, but of religion. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Wo had a good attendance of the trade to-day, and there was a firm business in wheat at an advance of from 2 0 to 3s per qr upon the prices of last Tuesday. Good Ladd is dearer ; common sorts sell at late rates. Oats and beaus unaltered. CUNT NENTAL ALARMS. (From (he Economist.) It cannot be denied that the prevalent uneasiness n Europe, far from subsiding, appears rather to in- crease. We think little of the agitation and disturb ance manifested on the Paris Bourse, nor of the rumours of ministerial changes and diplomatic com- munications to which that agitation is in a great measure to be attributed ; for these things among our neighbours, far more frequently than with us, are artificial effc3ts got up by jobbing speculators for their own sinister ends and to aid mere temp- rary operations, which the very next week they might find it for their interest to reverse. But the mere prolongation of anxiety and expectation in a case of this sort is of itself an aggravation of the danger, and has a tendency both to realise men's :ears and to render the state of fe'r by degrees almost more intolerable than the reality would be. The subject of war, and the mutual distrust and ;rritation which alone make war likely, are kept perpetually before the public mind, and discussed, often with ill-temper and insulting comments, in the journals of the countries more immediately concerned. It is notorious that France and Prus- sia are both vigorous and invqsant i s military preparations, so as to be prepared for any emer gency ; and now the disturbances, local, isolated, and thus for insignificant as they appear to be, which have occurred in Italy in consequence of Garibaldi's mischievo Pi projects, and their judicious prevention by his timely arrest, have come to com plicate the position and augment the peril. Still, in spite of all these obvious symptoms of excitement and sources of danger, we bel;eve the alarm felt at this moment to be exaggerated, and we regard the probabilities t 3 be in favour of present, and, we would fain hope, of ultimate peace. Almost the most menacing featrre of the case in our judgment is the alarm itself ; because, if that cannot be allayed, commerce will not revive, enterpCse must be suspended, industry will languish, employment will decrease; and in all countries, and notlbly in France, an unemployed and suffering population always become dangerous to a Government which refuges to occupy their minds and divert their pas- sions by a foreign war. Neverthel cz.s, and giving full weight to all these considerations, we incline to a tolerably hopeful view of the position for the fol lowing reasons :—First. There is the vagueness of the subject matter of the quarrel. It is difficult even for the French to go to war from mere jealousy of the increasing power and prosperity of a rival n ation which has done them no wrong, which has offered them no insult, which has taken no action whatever in their concerns, which is simply en deavouring, with singular consentaneousness of feeling and wonderfully prompt success, to carry out those doctrines of nationality which France has always proclaimed as sacred. Secondly. There is considerable reason to doubt whether any great majority of the French nation do seriously just now desire war with Prussia : Parliamentary orators and Orleanist or Legitimist journalists, whose patriotism is not always pure nor often very enlightened, may desire it. The excitable population of Paris and some of the great cities of the empire, w h o h ave go t a dim and angry notion that French honour has been tarnished, and that French preponderance is threatened, may long for the recurrence of those days of turbulent passion and disorder which con stitute the element in which they love to live ; and it is possible that ere long, if the present uneasiness continues to paralyse industry and commerce, their ranks may be swelled by hosts of unemployed arti sans, in which case the danger would be much in creased. But the peasantry, to whom war means a doubled conscription, on whom the chief weight of the conscription falls, and among whom the con scription is of all their burdens the most unpopular, are certainly not anxious for war, and, indeed, seldom can be so, unless under th e p ressure o f actual danger or artificially excited passions. Com mercial men, as distinguished from speculators and stock-jobbers, are always averse to hostilities, and they constitute a far more influential class in France than formerly. It is very doubtful, too, from all that we can learn, whether the army itself is sin cerely eager for a struggle with an enemy whose real prowess and resources they feel unable to cal. culate or measure with any confidence. They hate the Prussians, no doubt, and long to humble them, but we have reason to believe that among the offi cers of the French army there is not that conviction of easy and certain superiority in such a conflict which hitherto they have been wont to feel ; while among the private soldiers there prevails a kind of vague alarm at the possible powers of the new weapon which did such powers at Sadowa, and an unavowed but still w:despread feeling of doubt, and almost of discouragement, at the prospect of en countering troops who overthrew in a short cam paign and in a series of desperate encounters the adversaries whom they themselves found so hard to beat at Magenta and Solferino. Thirdly. But it is on the statesmen at the head of the two angry nations that we mainly rely for our hopes that peace will be maintained. The times are changed since eager rulers dragged reluctant peoples into war. Now, it is the people who aro ready to fight, and monarchs and ministers who hold them back. We believe that both Count Bismarck and Napoleon aro anxious to avoid a rupture, and have good reason to be so, and will do all that can be done to avert it. As for the Prussian statesman, his work of unifica tion is going on at least as fast as he can desire —perhaps even faster—and a war with France, if it could not prevent it or retard it, would either complicate and perplex, or, at all events, precipi tate his schemes. his ultimate success is certain, and that success will bo complete and beneficent probably just in proportion to the gradual and spontaneous manner in which it is wrought out. His great desire now must be to consolidate and fuse the already vastly increased dominions of his master—not to repeat the policy which Garibaldi in 1860 forced upon the Italian Government. He can have no possible motive to hasten an absolutely certain issue—still less to have it precipitated and confused by a foreign war, which, however glorious and successful it might possibly be, would be long, desperate, bloody, costly, and desolating. The Emperor of Austria has even stronger mo tives to withhold him from allowing France to drag him into a struggle to prevent that German unity which has now become the cherished hope and dream of the entire Fatherland, such a blun- LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. We had a good attendance to-day of both the town till. (1 country trade at our market, and a considerable disposi tion to buy was shown, but high prices checked sales, and wheats met with a slow demand, the currencies of lot week being supported. Flour was saleable at 3s per sack and barrel on the rates of '.fuesday last. Barley ld to 2d per 601 b higher. Indian corn in moderate show, and dull —prime American mixed, 50s in retail ; white, 545. oats and oatmeal in moderate demand, at 4d per 45 l>o and 3 0 per load dearer. Beans were 3s and peas 6s to 78 per qr dearer. MELTON MOWBRAY.-TUESDAY. A scarce supply of wheat, and a fair trade, with price o 3s higher. Barley scarce, and in favour of the seller. Oats and beaus in good request, but scarce. White whea, 74s to 80s ; rod, 67E to 73s per 36 stone: Barley for malting, 43s to 47s per qr; feed, 34s to 38s pOL 30 stone. Oats, old, 33s to 365; new, 27s to 32s per 24st' Beans, old, 42s to 48s; new, 42s to 47s per qr. SIIEFFIELD-TUESDAY. A good quantity of wheat on offer, which sold at as advance of 38 to 4s per qr dearer. Malting and grinding barley is to 2s dearer. Oats healthy, and in favour of the seller. Beans fully as dear. Peas scarce, and brought as advance of Gd per load. Red wheat, per load of 3 Imp. bushels....26a Od to 28a 0 1 White do do ....29s Od 32s od New red do do ....27s od 2rs Od New white do do ....29s od 30s Od Beane do do ....19s Od 22s Od Peas, per qr . ..... .... ........ ...1, sOd les od Grinding barley, per qr 41s Od 43s Od Malting barley, oo l2s Od 458 od Oats, do 2Ba Od 335 od F10ur....2s 4d to 2s 10d per 111 b. MARKET HARBOROUGH.-T UESDAY. There was about the usual supply of wheat, with fair business done at 3s to 4s over the rates of last week' Barley a fair trade. Oats in healthy request, with a DOI trade. Beans higher in price. Old white wheat, 7Gs to 81s ; new red, 68s to 74s per 36 stone. Barley, fine, 52s •, other kinds, 37s to 40s per 30 st• Oats, new, 25s to 30 s; o ld, 30 s t o 32 s per qr . B ean s, old, 46s to 535; now, 42s to 47s per qr. Births. CLIVE—On the 14th inst., at 25, Chester-street, the wif° of Liout.-Colonel Clive, of a son. DoRmER—On the 13th inst., at Craigdarroeb, Dumfrioo - the Hon. Mrs. James Dormer, of a daughter. MACANDREW—On the 15th inst., at Belmont, Mill-101 Hendon, the wife of James Macandrew, Esq., of a son• Marriages. STEVENS—POTTER—OA the 12th inst., at St. John the Evangelist, East Dulwich, Frodk. Stevens, Esq., of the Civil Service, and the Priory, Elm-grove, Peckham, to Agues, second daughter of J. D. Potter, Esq., of TO Poplars, Peckham-rye. SHARP—GOOD- On the 10th inst., at Brompton Churcb , E.,,bert Good Sharp, Esq., R.M.L.1., to Margaret, second daughter of the late W. Good, Esq., of Walton, Herts• Deaths. BRADSHAW— On tho 10th inst., at Herne Bay, 11. 13rad shaw, of Buckhurst-hill, Woodford, Essex, aged 67. DUNLOP—On the 14th inst., at Glasgow, John A. DunlOP Esq., of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. MADDY—OD the 13th inst., Edwin Maddy, D.O.L. ' of 15 Queen's-gate-place, Kensington, and The HillHouel Kelvedon, Essex, aged 71. MORGAN—On the 14th inst., at Ventnor, George Campbe ll De Morgan, M.A., Vice-Principal of University 110, aged 26. 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