The Sun. — London, England, 1867-06-06 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Commander-in-Chief has approved the an nexed arrangements in connection with the troops at Colchester :—Lieut. Wcstropp, 41st Regiment, to proceed from the depot to the service companies ; Capt. Metcalf, 32d Regiment, to join the service companies in the Mauritius; Capt. Clery, 32d Regiment, to join the depot ; and Sergt. Donnellan, 100th Regiment, to be drill instructor to the Ist battalion North Yorkshire Volunteers. Brevet- Major Edmonstoune, 30th Regiment, has been ap pointed president of the Garrison Sanitary Commit tee, vice Major Jones, Bth depot battalion, relieved. Lieut. Sytnes, 91th Regiment, has proceeded to Landguard Fort, Harwich, to assume the duties of acting adjt. and quartermaster at that station, vice Lieut. Richardson, 36th Regiment. Lieut. Sprent, ILA., is authorise I to proceed to Walton, Suffolk, for the purpose of superintending the gun practice of the Suffolk Artillery Volunteers. Sir John Pakington, Secretary of State for War, accompanied by Capt. Galton, C. 8., Royal Engi neers, Permanent Assistant-Secretary ; Rear-Ad miral Caffin, C. 8., Director-General of Naval Stores ; and Major-Gen. St. George, C. 8., R.A., Director of Ordnance, yesterday went down to Woolwich, and made an inspection of the depart ments of the Royal Arsenal. On account of the very unfavourable weather they drove down in Sir John's private carriage, and arrived at the Arsenal at half-past 11 a.m., an hour beyond the time ap pointed. They were officially received by Col. Boxer, Capt. Majendie, Col. Campbell, R.A., Capt. Molony, Mr. Fraser, C.E., Col. Clerk, R.A., Capt. Close, Capt. Gordon, C. 8., Capt. Duff, R.E., and others, who were all in regimental uniform. The whole party entered the Select Committee offices, where they were received by Brigadier-Gen. Lefroy (pre sident), and after a short conference they proceeded to the Royal gun factories and witnessed the manu facture of various portions of the Fraser gun, re cently introduced as the new service gun for sea and land use. The whole tarty manifested a great de sire to learn the entire process by which so impor tant an economy had been effected in bringing out the " cheap gun," which was explained in detail by Col. Campbell and Mr. Fraser to their apparent satisfaction. They were conducted from forge to forge, at each of which they saw the various modes which the sections and coils of the gun had to un dergo before being brought under the huge Nasmyth hammer to be brought into proper shape ; and, finally, they saw the method of welding the coils to form the tube, and transpose the whole into a solid and combined mass, completing the gun in a rough state, which was then left to cool. They thence proceeded to the planing and boring mills, and wit nessed a comparison of the metals used in the old and new guns, and inspected the various branches of the Royal gun factories throughout. They next entered the museum and saw the process of testing a fragment of cast-iron by hydraulic machinery, which broke at 14 tons to the square inch, being far less endurable than the wrought iron now used in gunmaking. It was ten minutes past one o'clock when the party proceeded to the east end of the ship ping wharf and inspected the old Horsfall gun, now laid up as unfit for present use. They afterwards visited the American Rod man raking gun, lying under the shears in readiness for transport to Shoe buryness to go through a course of experiments, and the reserve stores at the extremity of the arsenal, containing guns of the modern construction of Sir William Armstrong and others in present use, and an abundant supply of Palliser and other shot for issue. Proceeding onwards, they passed through the nail and harness and saddlery stores, where their attention was arrested by a stock of new harness and various improvements which had been recently in troduced, and were detailed by Capt. Feun, the su perintendent. Descending from the stores, they en tered the chemical branch, where they inspected one of the new torpedoes invented by the department for destroying an enemy's ship, which it was shown would explode by the slightest contact. 'They pro ceeded to the private apartments of Col. Campbell, superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories, where they were entertained at luncheon. Sir John after wards expressed a desire to go through the remainder of the departments in order _ t O hicivzolf quainted with the subjects which would be discussed in the house to-night during the passing of vote 13 —the estimates for the manufacturing departments of the army. They then proceeded to the machinery long room of the laboratory, in which department 3,800 persons are now employed. Leaving it, they entered the Boxer cartridge factory, in which 1,700 persons, male and female, are employed. Sir John expressed his admiration at the celerity with which the manufacture of the new cartridge is carried out and completed for use, upwards of 300,000 being turned out per day. They next entered the shell foundry, and witnessed the manufacture of the Pal ier chill shot. On entering they examined a variety of the Boxer and other solid shot, which had been broken for the purpose of exhibiting the quality of metals of which they are composed and the manner of fracture. Several of the 8-inch, 10-inch, and 12- inch Palliser shot were brought from the mould and turned out for the Secretary of State's inspection, and appeared to elicit his unqualified commendation. 500 of these shot, it was stated, are produc NI per day at present, and in a few days, when the plant is all iu order, an additional 100 to 150 will be cast and prepared for use. They afterwards went to the old steam saw mills in the royal carriage department, and passed through the new wheeler's shops and timber stores, in which the half-wrought work is left to dry, consisting of spokes, stocks, and other portions of wheels and saddletrees, &c. They then entered the various branches of the old carriage square, now converted into stuitheries and shops, and witnessed the rolling of scrap iron into racers for platforms, and saw the method of 'stamping the trucks into shape which is now used, instead of the old system of c,,sting, which was not sufficiently durable for the present heavy guns. They also witnessed the new process of cutting an inch slab of iron with the band saw. Col. Clerk, in answer to Sir John's questions, stated that by reducing the speed there was less damage to the saw than is usually occasioned at full speed in the sawing wood. After visiting the re mainder of the department they proceeded to the gun-mounting ground, where a 7-inch 6i-ton gun was mounted on one of the patent wrought-iron car riages. 'This was manoeuvred for Sir John's inspec tion. Ile admitted the easy manner in which the elevation and depression was effected by a single gunner, and he left Woolwich soon after 5 o'clock for London. Yesterday Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., In spector-General of the corps of Royal Marines, at tended by Capt. J. M. Lennox, Aide-de-Camp, arrived at Chatham for the purpose of commencing the summer inspection of the officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry. On arriving at head-quarters the Inspector-General was received by Col. G. Lambrick, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Commandant of the division, and the other officers of the divisional Staff, the eight parade companies being drawn up to await his arrival. After inspecting the kits, arms, &c., of the members of the companies, and also the recruits, Gen. Travers witnessed the officers and non-commissioned officers go through the sword drill, in which they ac quitted themselves very satisfactorily. The after noon was devoted by General Travers to the inspection of the divisional schools, and also to the inspection of the officers and men under instruction at the gun and shed battery. A via was also paid to the Royal Marine Infirmary, at Melville Ilimpital, which brought yesterday's inspection to a close. Last evening Gen. Stransharn was entertained at dinner by the officers of the division, on which occa sion a number of the principal officers of the garri son were invited to meet him. The inspection will be resumed to-thy. Yesterday afternoon the unarmoured screw war steamer Myrmidon was successfully launched from No. 6 building slip at Chatham dockyard, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The Myrmidon, which will form a useful addition to that description of vessel, but few of which have been recently built for the navy, was laid down as far back as July, 1860, but when about half completed the whole of the hands were withdrawn from her, in consequence of the Admi ralty at that time discontinuing the construction of wooden vessels. After lying id - e on the stocks for six years she was taken in hand a few months since and completed, it being intended to equip and despatch her to sea forthwith. The Myrmidon is one of the Wanderer class of vessels, but during her progress several improvements have been effected in her. She was originally laid down from the de signs of Mr. Isaac Watts, the late chief constructor of the navy; but, in consequence of the powerful description of armament she is intended to carry, it has been found necessary to deviate in several im portant particulars from the original designs. She has accordingly been strengthened by the removal of the wooden deck beams under the guns, and the patent iron beams, from the Buttery Works, sub stituted. A free use has also been made of iron stringer plates and iron stiffening bars to strengthen the topsides, while additional stiffness and rigidity have been imparted to the entire structure by the adoption of iron bulkheads and angle iron wherever found to be practicable ; the whole of the alterations, which have been effected under the direction and superintendence of Mr. P. Thorn ton, the master shipbuilder at Chatham, rendering her one of the strongest vessels of her class. The stem was partially taken down during her altera tions and raised about two feet higher to give her additional buoyancy forward, vessels of this class being generally so much down by the head, and con sequently exceedingly uncomfortable in bad weather. The following are the principal dimensions of the Myrmidon :—Length between perpendiculars,lBsft.; length of keel for tonnage, 165 ft. 71,in• ; extreme breadth 28ft. lin. ; breadth moulded, 27ft. 6in. ; depth in hold, 14ft. ; burden in tons, 694 66-94th. The following will be her armament :—•One 7-inch 6i-ton gun, and one 64-pounder, on pivots ; and two 20-pounder breechloader chase-guns. The arrangements for the launch yesterday were of a very simple character, a gallery being erected at the head of the slip for the accommodation of the heads of departments con nected with the port and garrison. At half-past 2 the cord which held the last of the supports was severed by Miss Baker, daughter of Mr. Baker, chief inspector of machinery afloat at the dockyard, and immediately afterwards the vessel glided down the ways into the harbour amid the cheers of the spectators. The Myrmidon was launched with the whole of her machinery fitted on board. She will be masted to-day, and afterwards placed in dock to be completed for commission. The sailing Indianman Trafalgar, Capt. Stock poole, R.N.R., one of Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Kurrachee, with the following officers and time-expired men from various regiments :—Capt. Leith, 79th Regi ment (in military command) ; Staff Assist.-Surg. Hale (in medical charge) ; Capt. Fordyce, 45th Regiment; Lieut. Goad, 45th; Lieut. Boldero, 97th; 370 time-expired soldiers, 17 women, and 27 chil dren. The stormy weather prevented the troops from being disembarked from the ship at Spithead yesterday. The disembarkation will be effected this morning, and the troops forwarded to the de pots of their several regiments, the Trafalgar after wards continuing their voyage to London.. The seamen of Her Majesty's ship Excellent, at Portsmouth, on Tuesday evening, gave " An As sault of Arms and display of Naval Gymnastic Ex ercises," in the Governor's Green Volunteer Drill room, in aid of the " Seamen's Widows, Mothers, and Orphans' Annuitant Society." The arrange ments were made by Mr. Tuohy, professor of the sword, pike, and bayonet drill, and of gymnastics to the Royal Naval College, and the programme was highly successful. The following freight ships, having taken in New Boxer ammunition and other war stores at Wool wich, have sailed for their destination as follows : The Silksworth for New Brunswick, the Jura for Halifax, and the Flying Fish for Barbadoes. ILIIL EV-1Y BEATE VOLES 7' I STIT UTION. The annual dinner iu aid of the funds of this institution was held last evening at Willis's-rooms ; Mr. C. Dickens in the chair. There was a large at tendance. Sir D. Goocii, chairman of the Great iczpvilUea to al, t oc.at, of the house of Commons. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing "Prosperity to the funds of the Railway Benevolent Institution," made a humorous and characteristic speech. He said that although it was not 50 years since one of the first literary authorities of the country insisted that the speed of the fastest of the railway trains that the Legislature had disastrously sanctioned should be limited by act of Parliament to 10 miles an hour, yet it did somehow happen that every day there were trains running pretty smoothly at the rate of 50 miles an hour. At one time vaccination was ob jected to on the ground that it would have a ten dency to impart to the human child something of the nature of the cow, whereas vaccinated children at the present time were found to be as easily distin guished from calves as ever they were, and certainly they had no cheapening influence upon the price of veal. (Laughter.) It was objected also that chloro form was a contravention of the will of Providence, and with no better reason it was predicted that the railway system, if anything so absurd could be established, would infallibly throw half the nation out of employment, The very cause of this festival meeting, apart from the tributary channels of occu pation it bad opened out, bad called into existence and employed a population of upwards of 200,000 persons. It was obvious that these could not be rich, although their duties demanded great care and exactness, and although our lives were every day, humanly speaking, in the hands of many of them. For the most part these men occupied places that did not require skilled workmen, and that would be therefore always open to great competition. Wages could not be high where competition was keen, and railway directors, in the bargains they made and salaries they paid, had to deal with the money of the shareholders, to whom they were accountable. It thus happened that railway officers and servants were not remunerated by any means splendidly, and could not hope to do more than meet the ordi nary wants and hazards of life. By reason of the dangerons nature of their avocations the hazard, were so exceptionally great that it was stated, on the authority of a Parliamentary paper, that whereas one in 8,000,000 of passengers was killed, the proportion in the case of railway servants was one in 2,000. Hence nine years ago the Railway Benevolent Institution became established, and this was the ninth occasion of publishing from' the chair the banns between the institution and the public. It was nevertheless his duty to tell, as if for the first time, what the institution was, before asking whether there was any just cause or impediment why those two parties—the institution and• the public— should not be joined together in holy charity. (Cheers.) The objects of the society were to grant annuities out of the interest of invested capital, and annual pensions, varying from £lO to £25, to dis tressed railway officers and servants incapacitated by age, sickness, or accident ; to grant similar pen sions to distressed widows ; to educate and main tain orphans and children ; to provide temporary relief to those requiring it; and to induce railway officers and servants to insure their lives in some well-established office. This was the society— simple, sympathetic, practical, easy, sensible, and unpretending. The number of its members was largely on the increase, and h td reached 12,100, and the amount of its invested capital was nearly £15,000. It had done a world of good and a world of works, and it was gratifying to know that the annual cost of its management had never been £250. (Cheers.) It could not however do more good until it had more money. The means of the society were far too limited to allow of their giving more to ap plicants, even if they were helped to the utmost by the great railway companies ; and even if they were helped, as he hoped they would be shortly by some of the great corporations of the coun try which railways had done so much to enrich, the means of the society would still be too limited. In a word, these railway officers and ser vants on their road to a very humble and modest superannuation, could no more do without the help of the great public than the great public on their road from Torquay to Aberdeen could do without them, (Cheers.) Therefore he desired to ask the public whether the servants of the great railways were not in effect every day our ready, zealous, faithful, hard-working servants, and whether they had not established a reasonable claim upon the public's liberal remembrance ? (Cheers.) The chairman having drawn a vivid and highly amusing description of various railway employes at their work, made a further appeal for funds, suggesting that the Benevolent Institution gave us the means at a very small personal cost, of acknowledging, without compromising their independence, and greatly to their permanent advantage, the claims of those for whom he pleaded. If we took a human interest in them they would take a human interest in us, and we should not merely be the 9.30 or 10.40 rushing by, but an instalment of a consi derate public who was ready to lend a helping hand to a deserving object. (Loud cheers.) Various other toasts followed, a,ld some handsome subscriptions were announced. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) In the week that ended on Saturday, June 1, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,727 ; the deaths registered, 2,879. The annual rate of mor tality was 24 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,176 boys and 1,061 girls, in all 2,237 children, were registered in the week. In thecorresponding weeks of 10 years 1857- 66, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,093. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,250. It was the twenty-second week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,252. The deaths in the present return approxi mate closely to the estimated amount, but exceed by 132 the number registered in the week which ended on the 25th of May. Eighteen deaths from smallpox occurred last week, 11 of which were in the east districts. The deaths from whooping-cough were 47 ; 5 in the west, 15 in the north, 5 in the central, 7 in the east, and 15 in the south districts. Forty-one deaths from typhus, 17 from measles, 18 from scar latina, and 15 from diarrhcea were recorded. The daughter of a tide-water, aged 43 years, died on the 30th of May, at 10, Windsor-terrace, Carlton-road west, Peckham, of " cholera (eight days) exhaustion." Pancras ; Tottenham-court.—ln University Col lege Hospital, on the 221 of May, the daughter of a gardener, aged nine years, " syncope from chloro forni administered at an operation." Post mortem. (Inquest.) Holborn; St. Andrew Eastern.—ln the work house, on the 21st of May, a pawnbroker, aged 75 years, " effusion of serum on brain accelerated by want." Post mortem. (Inquest.) The deaths of foar persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered : The son of a shoemaker, aged five years, run over. Died on the 22d of May in the London Hos pital. (I nques t.) The daughter of a cordwainer, aged one year, run over. Died on the 25th of May in the London Hospital. (Inquest.) The widow of a sailor, aged 56 years, run over. Died on the 26th of May in the London Hospital. Inquest. An omnibus driver, aged 46 years, fell from the driving seat and was run over by the wheels of au omnibus. Died on the 24th of May in the West minster Hospital. Post mortem. (Inquest.) By Dr. Frankland's analysis, it appears that while the water of Loch Katrine, supplied to Glasgow, contained in every 100,000 tons three tons of foreign matter, the same quantity of the Thames water in May contained from 27 to 29 tons ; of the New River water, 25 tons ; of the Ehst London, 27 tons ; of the Kent Company, 39 tons. The traces of pre vious sewage contamination wera least in the East London ; greatest in the Kent waters. The waters were much purer in May than in April, and this was followed by an evident improvement in the health of the people. The annual rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, 33 in Ediubur2h. and 3 Duonn ; z+ in Bristol, 19 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 28 in Manchester, 30 in Sal ford, 24 in Sheffield, 28 in Leeds, 20 in Hull, 29 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 23 in Glasgow. The rate iu Vienna was 31 per 1,000 during the week ending the 25th ult , when the mean temperature was 6.8 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 19. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer iu the week was 29.7421 n. file barometrical reading increased from 29.44 in. on Monday, May 27, to 29.97 in. on Friday, May 31. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 59 deg., which is 3 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as de termined by Mr. Ghislier). The highest day temperature was 77.5 deg. on Saturday, June 1. The lowest night temperature was 46.5 deg., on Sunday, May 26. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefire, 31 deg. The mean of the highest teiniy.lrature of the water of the Thames was 51.8 deg. ; that of the lowest was 52.3 dog. The cliff 2rence between the mean-dew point tempe rature and air temperature was 6.9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air wLs 78, com plete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.69 in., of which 0.29 in. fell on Sunday, May 26, awl 0.31 on Monday, May 27. The. general direction of the wind was S.W. According to a return furnished 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, Cross ness, was 57,951,741 gallons, or 263,301 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1867. IREL AN 0. confirms t D he uß re r. p nr o , rt J a u b n o e u s t 5. The Cork Examine rthe landing and arrest of a number of supposed Fenians at Dungarvan, bat does not clear up the mystery of the " raking craft" which had been seen dimly in the fog which covered her suspicious operations. The prisoners gave various accounts of themselves, but when closely questioned they maintained a de termined silence. They said they were emigrants to Brazil or Buenos Ayres, that their ship having sprung a leak they were transferred to a Norwegian brigantine, which was compelled to land them on the Irish coast on account of shortness . of provisions. But they refused to give the name of either of the vessels, and they had luggage such as emigrants would have on so long a voyage. They submitted to be arrested and searched with the greatest good humour, and seemed to enjoy the thing immensely, laughing and singing the whole way to Dungarvan. They are not like labouring men or Irish farmers' sons. Several of them had discharges from the Ame rican army, but no documents to connect them with the Fenian organisation. They were all comfortably and many respectably clad, and they are, with scarcely an exception, fine athletic fellows, with a free, manly bearing, and very intelligent. Conflict ing rumours state the prisoners are merely part of a body of men which a large vessel, seen hovering on the coast for some days before, landed in contin gents at various remote po'nts on the share ; they they are American officers ; that they are men com promised by recent events, who, having lurked on in hiding up to this time, endeavoured to effect their escape, but had been induced by some cause or other —possibly *having regard to their first and anxious inquiry on landing, want of food—to quit the vessel which was to have placed them beyond reach of the authorities. During the investigation before the magistrates they stated' that they had embarked at a Welsh port, and that their destination was Dundalk. They are detained pending further inquiries. The ladies of Dungaxvan asked permission to treat the stran gers to a dinner on Sunday, but the magistrates would not consent. . Senator . Cattell of New Jersey has been pre sented with a silver service, valued at $5,000, for his suc cessful efforts to establish the iron-clad navy yard at I,4eagtte Wand below Philadelphia. Disgi aceful Proceedings a . ad Plunder. Yesterday at the Marylebone Police-court Alfred Cox, aged 20, a costermonger, ti eas charged with being concerned, with several othitrs not in custody, with picking pockets in Portla•sd-place, and also with assaulting police-constable John Jeffery, 220 D, in the execution of his duty, and damaging his uniform coat and helmet, of the value of 30s. Jefferys said he was called to assist a brother constable in the capture of the priioner, who kicked witness most violently, and destroyed his coat and helmet. Evidence was given that priso nor formed one of a gang of 50 or 60 roughs who appeared to be acting in concert. They bonneted gentlemen, sua',ched their watches, broke their ulnbrellas, picked the pockets of ladies, and acted in the most di3o-mceful manner. Remanded for a week. James Farrant, aged 23, horsekceper, address re fused, and Charles Mason, of Ealing, potman, were charged as part of the same gang. Dr. Thomas Brett, a physician, of 38, Stanhope street, Regent's Park, said—On Monday afternoon I had been to Paddington to visit a patient. On my return, and when going out from Gower-street station, I was set upon by a gang, and my wat c h, of the value of 60 guineas, and a portion of my chain were snatched from me. A woman standing near pointed to a man, and said, "This is him." The gang seized Dr. Brett and allowed the pri soner to escape. A policeman whom Dr. Brett asked to catch the prisoner, told the doctor to catch him himself. This was Batchelor, 158 E, who, however, denied the refusal, and said the opposite side of the way was not in his beat. He was not at all frightened. Mr. Brett—And you would not go across the road. Batchelor—You did not tell me you had lost your watch. Mr. Brett--I did tell you so. If you had gone at once I should have had it now. Mr. D'Eyncourt—You had a right to cross the road upon any duty. Prisoners were remanded for a week upon this charge. The prisonor Mason was put forward again upon another charge. Edward Boleh said—l was passing along the Eas ton-road on the previous afternoon when the rain came on, and I went into a tavern. The rain not ceasing I began smoking my meerschaum pipe. Hearing the band and a noise outside I went out to see what was the matter. I saw umbrellas torn into shreds by the roughs. The prisoner snatched my pipe, valuxl at £2, from my mouth. I was bon neted, and my white hat was then knocked off and lost. I was bustled and knocked about, and my life was in danger. I managed to escape from them and run into a ham and beef shop, when I found that they had robbed me of my scarf pin, my gold watch and chain of the value of £2O, and 15s. My pockets were all rifled. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Do you think there were a number acting in concert ? Witness—Yes. I think I do not exaggerate when I say there were hundreds acting together. One witness told me he saw thirty watches taken in a short distance. Galvin, 207 S, said there were numbers robbed. Mr. D'Eyncourt --I shall remand the prisoner for a week, and then shall send all for trial. It is high time some strong measures were taken to repress this. THE DEATH OF TWO BOYS BY BEING BURIED ALIVE. Yesterday afternoon air. C. J. Carttar, coroner, held an inquiry at the Crown and Sceptre, Deptford, into the circumstances attending the death of Wm. Wright, aged 14, and 11'm. Knowles Marks, aged 14, who lost their lives, as already reported, through the falling of a large MASS of earth, on a line lately in cour,e of formation through Lewisham, and be longing to the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way Company. It appeared that the cutting at the spot where the accident occurred is between 30 and 40 feet in depth, and that the land where the cutting had .4,...„.„a of the railway works bOys have been in the habit a ‘w‘ d rae m eck i a t s: o e f :' thr ee lad s en t er i ng an d of frequenting the spot, and onTShaistuhradriaybeaefntergnooinogn last the deceased and others went the re t o di g, as and a suffi c i en t aperture oh t they edyf for been fo c u r mr i b oa e rd d efi i des,ttvoe the earth, weighing s who were l oo ki ng on gave an alarm, an d sonic men working in an ad being hidden from view. The deceased had e n t ere d severalt l e cave, tons, and, fell. all 11. of Thea suddenhya joining market garde n we re sent to the spot with s p a des. One lad, named Eustace, w a s fo un d on l y s partially covered, and he was dragged out with little or no injury. It was 20 minutes before the first body, that of Wright, W3B got out, and a long time after before that of Marks was recovered, life in both instances being extinct. The lads were severally examined and showed great ignorance, saying that although on the pre vious Sunday the earth of the cave was known to exhibit a crack they had no idea of danger from the earth falling in, and it was their intention to go right through the portion of land, an I had pene trated a distance of about four feet, and the cutting was a depth of about three feet. The Coroner said that, the cutting being fenced in, any person going upon the line of railway be came a trespasser, and the railway company could not be held responsible in not preventing the de ceased and others from assembling there. The Jury then returned a verdict of " Accidental death from a fall of earth," in each case. At the conclusion of the inquiry the parents of the boys were called before the jury, and, in answer to the Coroner, said they were not aware of their boys going to the spot in question and being engaged, as the Coroner observed, for weeks in " digging their own graves." THE LIGHT OF ASTEROIDS. M. W. de Fonvielle, whose very clever scientific researches in the Cosmos we have often had occasion to mention, devotes an article to a curious investi gation concerning the quantity of light emitted by asteroids. The question is merely incidental, the author's object being the study of those bodies ac cording to the latest observations ; but such as it is, it is calculated to interest our readers. Mr. Glaisher has shown by direct experiment that a gas-burner will cast on a plane, situated at a distance of five metres (about 15 feet) front it, a quantity of light equal to that of the full moon on a clear night. Such being the case, M. de Fonvielle correctly remarks that it would require 400,000,000 of gas-burners to pro duce the same effect, if they were lighted at a dis tance 20,000 ti mes greater, v i z ., 100 kilometres, the intensity dimi n i s hi ng in the ratio of the squa r es of the distances. N ow i t appears f r om observation that asteroids are abo u t thi s di s t anc e from our earth when they meet th e upper strata o f our atmosphere. The conclusion to be d rawn f ro m these data is, that we know th e quant i ty of gas we should have to burn at th e a l t i tude of 100 kil om etres in order to produce on the surface of the earth an optical effect equal to that of the full-moon. As Paris is lighted by about 30,000 burners, one h - lndred and fifty thousand times that quantity of light would have to be condensed at that altitude. Now every burner of Paris consumes on an average two centili tres of gas per second ; so that, admitting the aste roids to yield a quantity of light equal in intensity to that of the moon, the quantity of gas to be con sumed in order to produce an equal effect under the same circumstances would be about eight millions of litres per second! Thes3 are certainly singular speculations, and we regret we cannot follow the author quite so closely as we could wish, as he gradually becomes too scientific, and would require too many d e fi n i t i ons in order to be un derstood. We m a y sa y, h o wever, that he ultimately converts the consumpti on of gas into horse-power, and thereby arrives at the conclusion that the equi valent of the power extended in the collision of asteroids with our atmosphere at the altitude of 100 kilometre?, is 3,000 millions horse-power ! Nature seems to delight in such a display of exuberant force, which, with all our mechanical skill, out strips our wildest conceptioasi—Grialignani, STATE OF TRADE. MAxamsTrn, June 5. —The market for cotton yarn and cloth has been steady to-day, at the prices of yesterday, which were id to id. generally higher than last week, and 3d. per piece on India shirtings. Mulls, jacconets, and light goods gener ally for the same market are rather dearer. Buy ers seem hardly willing to follow the recent ad vances in price, and the market is consequently quiet, but spinners and manufacturers are generally so well supplied with contracts as to be exceedingly firm in adhering to quotations. The deliveries to agents and merchants on behalf of the contracts re ferred to are now becoming large, and there can be no doubt that at present the out-turn from the mills throughout the district is again becoming very great. It is expected that the shipments of cotton from India to the Ist of June, when the season ended, have been very considerable, and telegrams stating the total will be looked for with some anxiety during the next few days. BELFAST, 4th.—Flax : During the past week the markets of this province were fairly suppled, with the exception of Monaghan and Aughnacloy, the cause of which is farmers holding over their flax for the approaching fairs to be held during the pre sent week. Yarns : The improvement last an nounced has continuod unabated. Tows have been in active request ; prices of these show indications of upward tendency. Stocks are slightly decreased. Linens, brown, powerloom : No improvement in this department to announce, except for drills. Cloth suitable for the foreign clothing trade and light linens for bleaching. Handloom : Light linens for bleaching and linen handkerchiefs con tinue in fair request; prices of the latter are steady, manufacturers demand higher rates for the former. Bleached and finished Linens : Home trade as last reported. Improvement in the trade with the Con tinent has been announced. Stocks are large, espe cially of coarse goods. NoTTING.umt, sth.—The lace trade has under gone very little change since our last report. All branches continue unusually dull, especially for the time of the year, and at present not much prospect is held out of a favourable alteration taking place. A few houses are moderately active, but the gene rality have a great absence of orders on their books. The weather, which is just now extremely change able, no doubt tends to restrict business; but it is really difficult to understand why the summer trade should be so uncommonly inactive. There seems a fair demand for curtains, but trimmings, on the other hand, are very heavy, and the same remark ►nay be applied to the shawl departments. A decent number of orders are being received for hair nets, but it is a question whether manufacturers obtain anything like a proportionate profit from the goods. Yarns continue about the same, and their firmness in some degree tends to keep the trade dull. In the hosiery branches very little alteration has occurred during the week ; orders for the home and foreign markets are coming in rather actively, and there is a fair demand for all light description of goods. PI?OFESSOR GOLDTVIN 2 5311TH ON "TIM DERBY." Mr. Goldwin Smith has addressed the following letter to the Manchester Examiner :—" Sir , —The correspondent of one of the journals, describing the Derby, says that among the cheering which hailed the victor 1 was to be heard here and there a sound, half scream, half sob, telling a tale of heavy loss, if not of absolute ruin.' Subsequent report seems to confirm the tale. This is the spectacle which Lord Palmerston compared to the Isthmian games. It is about as like the Isthmian games as the character of Lord Palmerston was like the character, cast in a narrow but genuine and noble mould, of the Greek hero. The reward of the victor at the Isthmian games was a crown of leaves ;- this, with an inscrip tion on enduring marble in his city, and the morn enduring monument of Pindar's verse. Of betting, believe we have no record. If any sobs and screams mingled with the exultation of victory, they told only of the honourable agony of defeat. If a parallel is to be sought in antiquity for theSe sports of ours, it should be sought rather in the delirious and degraded passions of the Reartn circus in " 6 , ul ru.hno. it. la JIL, 1- less to say that this is horse-racing no longer. It is a gigantic system, or rather frenzy, of national gambling. The horses are no more than the two straws pulled from a haystack, or the two drops of rain running together, down the window-pane, on which, for want of anything better, gamblers have been known to stake their money. The whole kingdom at the approach of the Derby becomes a gambling table, at which men who never saw a horserace, who could not tell the points of a horse, who would not know Hermit from a hack, and even women and boys, hasten to taste the vile delight of gambling, often t o th e i r demoralisa tion, sometimes to their ruin. As to the pretence of keeping up the breed of horses, it is needless to say that it is about as valid and about as sincere as the defence of fox-hunting on the ground that it clears the country of vermin. Gambling—gambling, every year more extensive, every year for higher stakes, as the need of excitement increases—this is now the grand national amusement, and its crisis is the great national event. The men of the Common wealth put a stop to bear-baiting and the other sports' of that time. This is set down as a proof of their moroseness, and Macaulay says, in his epi grammatic way, that the bear-baiting was put down not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Vane or Cromwell would probably have answered that it was not be cause it gave pleasUre, but because the pleasure which it gave was an ignoble, unmanly, and degrad ing pleasure, unworthy alike of a Ch r i s ti an an d o f A n English citizen. Those days, however, are gone by. Nobody would now propose to interfere legally with any amusement not contrary to public order or decency. We have learnt that a censorship of manners in attempting to cure throws in the disease. If, indeed, as the Tinges tells us, the aristocracy, our here litary legislators, are gam bli ng away their e states and impoverishing their titles, it may become necessary that the State should step in for the pro tection of hereditary wisdom. But otherwise, as offences against Heaven must be left to the jurisdic tion of Heaven, so moral diseases must be left to moral cures. It is hard to meet in any moral philosopher with a good diagnosis of the moral malady of gambling, or a good pre scription for its cure. Moral philosophers oc cupy themselves too much with general senti ments and theories, too little with the practical exa mination and treatment of the infirmities to which humanity is heir ; they are too much of the preacher and essayist, too little of the physician. There seems to be no principle or propensity in human nature in itself evil ; our vices are the depravations or over-excitements of natural tendencies and de sires. The feeling of hope, or whatever it is that leads its to venture and aspire, is capable, I pre sume, like other feelings, of being over-excited by artificial stimulants, such as the gambling table or the betting ring affords. Or perhaps a lower but more natural explanation may be found in• the love of gain, combined with the dislike of labour. But one thing seems certain, that the passion for gambling prevails only in the absence of any worthy object of interest or desire. A man whose mind was full of manly aspirations, or whose heart was occupied by strong and pure affections, would not be seen waiting at the telegraph office, with agony in his face, for the news of a horse race, or heard screaming and sob bing at Epsom because one animal had got its head before another. The clergymen and moralists who are Lamenting and denouncing this base mania will lied that in the case of the individual they will do little by attacking it directly. The only way of ex pelling the unhealthy and immoral interest is by im planting an interest .which is healthy and moral. And as with the individual, so it is with the nation. Give us a Parliament capable of being the organ of national aspiration and effort, let great questions be once more handled in earnest by great men, let our political chiefs once more display the qualities which touch a nation's heart, and the soul of England will soon cease to be absorbed by a horse race. That it should be so absorbed at present is not wonder ful. I see in the shop windows a caricature the form of which is itself taken from the race-course, A jockey, whose looks bespeak him the most knavish of his tribe, is distancing his less cunning rivals in a race. This is a caricature of the Reform struggle in the House of Commons, a caricature, no ; but a simple picture of the humiliating reality. On the greatest of all national questions this Parliament, which Mr. Lowe calls heroic, not only allows itself, but is apparently pleased to be ridden by cajolery and fraud ; and the victory in legislation belongs to him who is most familiar with the tricks of the turf and most unscrupulous in practising them. Who can blame the nation for turning its mini to a more genuine and purer object of interest in a rac::- horse?—l ant, &c. a G-OLDWIN SMITH." Railways in Time of War. The Army Transport Committee, over which Lord Strat'maim presided, had to consider the subject of railway transport, and in their report, dated in March last, they state the chief arrangements which should be made for the organisation of this branch of the service. They consider that the introduction of railway conveyance need not complicate the ques tion of ordinary military transport. Railway trans port requires an organisation of its own. While the railway affords facilities, it greatly adds to the casualties and risks attending the supply of troops, not only from the chance of interruption and damage to the permanent way by the enemy, but also from the difficulty of keeping up transport communication between the railway line and the forces to be sup plied. Lieut.-Colonel Reilly, R.H.A., in a memo randum on Prussian transport, remarks that it requires little to stop a railway or disarrange traffic if the -enemy is enterprising and the population hostile ; in the late German campaign the Landwehr had to supply strong guards along the line, and at the principal stations, and at each of the principal stations a staff officer was in charge. With all their advantages the commissariat did not succeed in feed ing the soldiers as we should require it to do, and Lieut.-Colonel Reilly was informed by a surgeon that the men of his division were many days without animal food, and from the day before until the day after Koniggratz the whole army was with out rations; but this partial failure was owing to the parsimony of the Government inducing the people to drive their herds into the woods. Lord Straithnairn observes that though the Prussian armies moved to within sight of Vienna mainly by railroad, and without a great proportion of army transport, it must be recollected that this was done after great successes, and with a thorough know ledge of the depressed morale of their antagonist, which made that forward movement safe. The only occasion, he says, on which railway transport supersedes army or animal transport is when the country concerned is completely in possession of an army, as, for instance, before Sebastopol ; but even there the ammunition and supplies had to be con veyed from the terminus by animal transport or hand to. the troops, and of course animal transport would have been indispensable for a forward move ment, which could not have been avoided if the Russians had not evacuated Sebastopol, or if the base of operations had been transferred (as was contemplated) from the Crimea to 11Iingrelia or Georgia. No General in the field which he is dis puting with an enemy is justified in diminishing the amount of animal transport, because he has the assistance, which is purely partial, of rail, any more than he would had he the use, also purely partial, of sea or inland water transport. Captain H. W. Gordon, principal superintendent of stores at Woolwich, stated also in his evidence before the Committee that he cannot send a 9-ton gun to Portsmouth by rail, although the railway comes into the arsenal ; the permanent way, he believes, is not sufficently strong, and there is no truck that can take the gun. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMM—One of those curious questions which carry. us far back into the history of the Royal pre rogative was decided in the Court of Exchequer list Tuesday. The case arose out of the execution of a writ against the goods of Lord Henry Gordon within the precincts of Hampton Court. The entry of the sheriff's officers for this purpose was treated, on behalf of the Crown, as an unlawful intrusio n p., 1 „„ . nn ;nfnrmation was filed against them by the Attorney-Genera . Inc court, however, affirmed the legality of the proceeding, though Lord Chief Baron Kelly recorded his dis sent from the opinion of his two brethren in an ela borate judgment. It is said that no attempt to execute a writ in Hampton Court had ever been made before, but this absence of precedents may well be due to the discriminating hospitality of the Sovereign. It would be a gross abuse of that hos pitality if the inmates of the Palace were to set their creditors at defiance with impunity, and we can hardly suppose that her Majesty would allow such guests to retain their apartments there. It is, there fore, of very little importance whether the right of immunity from civil process does or does not belong to Hampton Court, and we are rather surprised that the law officers of the Crown should have consi dered it worth while to raise the point. At the same time, there is always a certain interest in the application of old constitution doctrines to modern facts and ideas, while the recent discussions on the validity of martial law amply illustrate the diffi culty whiCh sometimes attends this process. Ac cording to the view of the Lord Chief Baron, the whole burden of proof lies on those who deny the privilege claimed for Hampton Court. Having been occupied as a Royal residence at various times from the reign of Henry VIII. to that of George 11., and being still in the legal possession of the Crown, it is priced facie exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction, although her Majesty does not reside there. " It is enough that the Sovereign, past or present, has resided there, and might come to reside there again." Even now, all the appoint ments in and about the Palace are in the gift of the Sovereign, the domestics and gardeners are paid out of the Civil List, a guard of honour and sentinels are stationed at the gates, and Divine service is regularly performed in the chapel. All these cir cumstances were alleged by the Lord Chief Baron to show that Hampton Court is a Royal Palace, if not as truly as St. James's, yet in the same sense as Kensington or Holyrood—that is, a Palace in the constructive, though not actual, occupation of her Majesty. Now, it was held by Lord Ellenborough that Kensington, then inhabited by one of the King's sons, retained its inviolable character long after the Sovereign had ceased to reside there in person. It was also held by the House of Lords that Holyrood was a Royal Palace for the same purpose, but then it happened that just before the appeal was heard Holyrood was actually occupied by Gecrge IV. on a visit to Scotland. The effect of these authorities, as well as of a dictum cited from Coke by the Lord Chief Baron, is by no means con clusive in favour of the Crown. As Mr. Baron Bramwell pointed out, the panciple which it is sought to establish cannot be consistently de fined. Were the privilege in dispute indepen dent of all considerations as to personal and con tinuous residence, it might attach to any dwelling house in the legal occupation of the Queen, or, at least, to any Royal lodge or shooting-box in which it would be possible for her to spend a few days. Again, were it a strictly local privilege it would not be defeated though Hampton Court were de mised for a term of years, still remaining, of nurse, the property of the Crown. On the other hand, upon this supposition it would follow that process could be executed in a house, not being a Royal Palace, which might be rented and actually in habited by her Majesty for the time being. The inference drawn by Mr. Baron 13ramwell from these hypothetical instances appears to be perfectly sound in the forum of common sense. It is, that what ever immunity the common law may have given to royal palaces was not iu the nature of a terri torial exemption, but of a security for the personal dignity and comfort of the Sovereign. It was con sidered unseemly that all the disorder and incon venience incident to a seizure or distress should be permitted in a royal mansion, whether the King should be actually present or not. To confer a right of sanctuary on every building in which any of the Queen's predecessors may have lived, and which is kept up as a nominal palace, is a very dif ferent affair, It is not at all easy to say what it is that constitutes a palace. Balmoral and Osborne are not called palaces, though, by virtue of her Majesty's frequent residence in both, they are doubt less privileged places. It is fortunate that Non such and Kew have been pulled down, that little remains of Eltham, that King Charles IL's palace at Winchester has been turned into barracks, and that the pavilion at Brighton is now used for con certs and public meetings. • Similar claims of ex emption might be multiplied almost indefinitely. As it is, Hampton Court and Kensington are pro bably the only two doubtful cases. We entirely agree with Mr. Baron Bramwell that a palace in which no Sovereign has resided for more than a century, and which is put to a wholly different use, is no longer a royal residence. It is proverbially difficult to draw the line, but, a 8 the Baron tersely • remarks, " there may be a li ne , th o ugh lan t „, where; and a thing may have ceased, thong/Ili can't sa3 , when." All exceptions, and esPe ela those which possess an an ti quar i an value, are precious in the eyes of a true lawyer as fully to.ae count for the maintenance of the contrary view ts ' tn even were it suppo r t e d b y l ess p l aus ibl e argue. ll The fact is, h owever, th at i n th i s i nstance , a s in f a many others, the oracle of law doh . response. . The Judges can but reason upon -11 reality, ful analogies, or upon grounds which, though not in name, are grounds of policy. cannot be a greater delusion than the well-kn°, o legal fiction that rule of law exists applicable, every state of facts, and has only to be dec.larco, from . the bench. There are many contingencies is daily occurrence with respect to which our really . silent, and which, if they should become the subject of an action, must and will be decided b i judicial discretion, gs,idcd, but not governed 01. gives no certari, .precedents. In matters affecting the Royal P rer n a gative this judicial discretion has ever been, 3 ' o f must ever be, almost unlimited. The ex t , ent . in " that law in ca se o f th e Ki ng w hi c h i s n ow l aW s .. case of the subject" h as b een a C onst i tu tional tery from the earliest ages, and is not likely t o I . v ascertained in our own day. The dispensing P°t.! the oppressive rights o f p urveyance an d iinP r i e- . 0 , ment in time of peace, and th e au th or ity to proc' ul t i he martial law at pleasure were f ormer ly amon,' to most cherished branches o f th a t " prerogative „Id whi▪ ch George 111. was f on d o f a ll u di ng . It be . i▪ dle to argue against th e rev i va l o f these Pr, e ,, mons—pretensions against all of which the mons never ceased to protest in the worst t0n,17.,, and of which the last on ly has been asserted tei's many generations. Still the Royal prerogati ve to one of those delicate topics which it is unwis e t force into needless pro m i nence . It is as well t ha we should not know exac tly w h a t the Queen ''eai. llri and what she cannot do, according to the 1111 `' nary theory of our Constitution—which of the ar bitrary functions assumed by her ancestors is P °te v . b tially in force, and whi c h h as b ecome obsolete legal disuse. The R omans counterbalanced !bde t legal omnipotence on ano th er . 'We provide aga ln - s es the same danger by a system o f c h ec k s w hich 1 113, 4 0 it difficult for any power to be s t ra i n ed. t° utmost. It is not, however, impossible, a s the e ° oo filet between the Crown and the House of Lords Ae life peerages, and betwe en th e t wo houses on w re paper duties, may suffice to remind us. The ra° ,t these direct issues can be avoided, whether on rg Ou r o r small questions, the bett er f or th e s tability °. f institutions ; and if they are sometimes inevita on great questions, they should be all the more scru pulously declined on small questions. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL.—TUESDAY. i f 0 At our market to-day ther e was a mo derato S ll Pr r iceS• English wheat, which sold s l ow ly a t l as t weeks PC, Is at Foreign in middling request, an d fi ne sam ples sale dog recent rates. Malting barley quiet, at late terms ; g r T e rale descriptions scarce, and fully 6d higher. Oats ill In° supply—fine sorts made better prices, seconds a 61°W Beans, and peas disposed of in retail at full prices. D ot- English white wheat, 64s to 68s ; red, 62s to 6 4 s ; os; sic and Konigsberg, 61 8 to 72 s ; Baltic red, 628 t 0 595. 595. Danish and Hamburg, 62s t o 64 8 ; R uss i a n, b 7 * . Barley, English, 36s to 49a; grinding, Mediterro,n.o, 31s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 26s to 285 • E' sl 4 . 3s 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 588 to 60s; foroig t ‘ livel to 445. Peas, English blue, 42, to 44s Od ; foreign 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 41s Od per qr. LYNN—TUESDAY. Our market to-day was poorly supplied la! r o rroo t , but the demand was firm, although not active, a' ,"nn quotations Barley brought fully last week's mo,nelcs aDd met with a good demand for grinding purposes• v' beans in fair demand, and maintained their value. b ite, Now wheat, 6 8s to 72 s ; new red, 62s to 665; far —s to —s ; old red, — s to —s per 36 stone. B ar : s velt malting, 47s to 51s; secondary, 42s to 455. Oat' , r oo t 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 4 8 * 37s to 41s per 28 stone. HSHIRE—TUESDAY. • At the IocaI MONMOU markets T the business done has been moderate. Home-grown wheat has been in shor.tvioas ply. Foreign wheat offered moderately, at about Pr /DF S' rates, with a slow business. The attendance Was riu natively small. Aialting barley dull and rather loriettio. price ; grinding in moderate requ e st. Oats barely 111 tained the late advance. Beans showed no e hango• t ro d, The following are the average quotations:—W ilss 4riort 7s 3d to 7s 9d per bushel; white, 7s 9d to 8s 3d ; 6s (id to 6s 6d ; maltin goat barley, 42s to 41s per qr ; g : 21$ ing ditto, 31s to 36s Od; beans ' 43s to 45s ; white to 29s 6d ; black ditto, 20s Gd to 27s Od. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. VO W' At this market to-day the supply of wheat was,,s,,d buc increased, and previous quotations were doinatw'te'r° buyers ware disinclin e d to do bu s iness ou these so li Grinding barley met with a limited demand, wa s a lid supply, and no advance in price obtained. Oats “: 0 i i last week's e x t remo figures. Beans and peas Wel ,aot" - altered in value. Fl our ru l e d i nac ti ve , an d lower tions anticipated. d frOrli The following are the quotations :—Wheat realibebea„, 41 4 62s to its ; barley, 328 to 408; oats, 268 to a3s; 7 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 16d ; household per 81b loaf. Flour, 46 s t o 50 s per sac k. h' COAL MARKET. Price per ton at tlie closeof the market- s• cl• 17 q Walls End lietton 19 0 Wylam .................. . Q . Original Hartlepool 19 0 Tees ..................... 16 6 East llartlepsol Kelloe Hartlepool Haswell ... l9 0 Eden Main ............1 0 6 llolywell Main l7 0 Walbottle Ships at market, 39—sold. 38. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Ji ne 19 ' Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton ••••• ° ,a. ati.A Ditto, via Marseilles ..... Ditto, via Panama ........ ........ • • • 4. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .......... .23 Ditto, by French packet ... ....... J tto Cape Vcrds. by Brazil packet . ................... Julle 1 . 2/. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. lielena.••• J° ::, is China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton• Juke 1 3 • Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands .................................. J ll ' Gibraltar, via Southamp t on Jun e 13 , India, via Southampton Julie 7 Ditto, via Marseil es Jun e ,3, Malta, Egypt, ctc. Ju ke , Ditto, Marseilles Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via e 19. Southampton . - • • ' J Jun e i 3• Ditto, via Marsei lea June is. Newfoundland Portugal ............. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon ............. United States, Canada, California, &e., by British Juno 3 . packet Ditto, by United States packet .............. •• Ditto ditto (New York .................... D.tto ditto (New York) .................... Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ....... ........ • D e 7* Ditto, by Canadian picket ,l ,juf 4. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, a n d T ener iffr ! ...... I Wert ln.Li.s acid Pacific ,except Mexico and Baba: u no it J mas) ........................................ , t oe 27' Cub t and Mexico Jal le 3 Baha.nas, via New York ......................... joy ' Bermuda, via Halifax n Governor F enton, of New York, bas si- t e o D eg ' bill to enable husband and wife, or either of then'' witness for or against the other, or on behalf of arlY in certain cases. Mayor Hoffman, of New York, is daily rec-,,, letters from persons at a distance who h some of the various lottery and gift co ncern in th atiis Miss 0 ere d i‘ thawaT, ,of Auburn, Maine, has ree- v $ B 7 , 87 50c. from a livery stable keeper,for injiltiallars°, t ined by being thrown from a carriage tbrout,' No away. The judge held that the livery responsible ni for hiring an unsafe horse to a lady tea Stewart and Co., of New York, have c re l„ 0 0(4 tb stir in trade and feminine circles by go ing into tile ",°. business, and proposing to sell Paris `ll 3 t B ''' milliners have charged $3O and $4O for, at 19 0 t° Births. g Aro' vat Mortis—On the 3d inst., at Abboteliffe 110110, , d Jo s Kent, the wife of John Morris, Esq., of the at „ifo°' London, of a son. SMYTII—Ou the 4th inst at 13 Vietoria_street, the o• Warrington Smyth, F.R.S., of a son. 11 e wife 1 t SmONG—On the 4th inst„ at 17, Ilanley-roa( Charles E. Strong, Ifwei, of a sun. , in the 4 h est., at A‘,l ta" -- t LAAJBERT_EETNOLDs M_ o arriag es , . „ sa iot t '' t Kensington Park, Alfred James Lambert, 22, 'f a ' -6 e 10" daughter of James Reynoldq "19 Penibridge-b` t—BELL—On the 4th inst., . 7 7 Bayswater, Esq. 1 Ic ir WELCI 'at, Trinity ChaPo.l,4, to ton, William Welch, of Sprigville, Lancaster, 1i').1,34 Annie Sepiiinia, daughter of the late Rev. pr. ljej ' of 8, Vassall Villas, Holland-road, Brixton. Deaths. 111. 1 /t i n t, jtosTrojNo--hnOßulitthkeisttllilt,inagstedast2l%.lobbcrley 'fla il ' Cl i s e t s : ~ •elr .41 , j3rle CARD—On the sth inst. at at Brunswick -place Sol' ' C to r n o , s lt do o n b , er a t g C ed ar s d i:. Esq . ..II ~ • • .1 age I on EBBUTT— On the 4th inst , John Erbutt, at ~, Il i g il -,,,- i den h a HIGGs—On the sth inst., at Orchard VIVA '', i ' ll '-f 0 , John Higgf, Esq., J.P. for the borough, ag e- t ' l , T.fr. -- N ORTIIBROOK—On the 3d inst., at Stratton, 1,3"; s°-i brook. i;c •tort WATTS—On the Ist inst., Edward Watts, E sq" Hythe, aged 62. ------------ - ----- -- ~ s - VO. London: Printed and Publi6hed by WIT,LIA.M ANDkNe. 0, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE Stirs 0 01 G e r: tw t/ QS Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the v ° Iltddleliox.---ThurOay, Jane 8,1667. AI A Lond