The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-22 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST LONDON. Mr. Hawes, the chairman of the company, has addressed a circular letter to the proprietors, in forming them that the Crystal Palace and High Level Junction Railway is not likely to receive the necessary support unless the shareholders of the East London Railway Company subscribe towards it. The capital required is £153,000—i89,000 for works and £64,000 for land—to be raised in 15,300 shares of £lO each. Mr. Hawes points out that one share of £lO for every five of £2O in the Eist Lon don Company would insure the completion of the line by the tine the East London will be ready to ' receive the traffic arising from it. It is stated that a very large traffic from the east and north of the metropolis to the Crystal Palace, and the populous and daily improving districts of Dulwich, Norwood, Syden ham, &c , would thus be secured ; and if from any cause the full development of the traffic to be derived from the authorised junctions with the southern railway should be retarded, this short line would give ability during that interval to maintain an independent and advantageous position. Mr. Hawes concludes by stating, " It is only my strong conviction of the necessity of this line to our com pany, the smallness of the capita.' required to secure to us the advantages it offers, the very special posi tion in which we stand in relation to the other com panies, and the regret I think we shall all feel should it not be constructed that would have induced me to press this subject upon your attention." OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN). The adjourned general meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the Albion Hotel, Alders gate-stre.tt, ; Sir Macdonald Stephenson in the chair. Mr. Cooke, the scretary, having read the notice of adjournment, The CHArRMAN said that, before proceeding with the busineas of the meeting, he thought it desirable to state that there was not one single remark in the report of the committee of investigation which could not he fully and conclusively explained. Mr. S. TEuLort, the chairman of the committee, said he supposed the report would be taken by the meeting as read. (Hear.) He wished to occupy the time of the meeting as little as possible, particu larly as it was important not to throw any difficul ties in the way of the company. It was the difficul ties of the company which led to the committee being appointed to go into the inquiry, and it ap peaked that the shareholders were not likely to re ceive interest for some time to come. lle reminded his brother shareholders and bondholders that their position, as stated in the report, was a matter of fact ; they were all bound by the concession to the Sultan's Government, and neither directors nor bondholders could travel out of it. A power had been given to issue £250,000 of debentures, instead of shares, of the company, which the directors bad put aside to replace the debentures with other capital when they were paid off. The failure of the company to raise the capital as originally proposed and to complete the works had led to the Turkish Government granting the company three conces- sions. In the second concession, as he understood it, the £250,000 bonds were issued in accordance with the rights of the shareholders. Under that concession £304,000 in debentures were reserved to provide for the payment of the £250,000 bondi whe❑ they became due at the end of five years ; so that the directors had, so far, taken good care of the bondholders. From the most careful considera. tion he could give to the subject, he believed that the bondholders could not seize the line ; they were entitled to a certain amount of interest, but it was not possible for them to take possession of the pro- perty of the company to satisfy their claim. The directors had no power to grant to the bondholders what they were not entitled to. Under the conces- sions the shareholders had power to present a re monstrace to the Government. in case they were dealt with unjustly ; but he believed that the only course to Leuctit the company was for all of them to pull together, bondholders and shareholders. (Hear, hear.) One interest must not take an unfair advantage of the other. The debenture holders could not claim more than 6 per cent. interest on their bonds, but it was perfectly clear that their position was a good one. The suggestions of the committee in the report were to the effect that the expenses of the home management should be at once reduced ; that a strict investiga tion be made into all claims aoinst the company, that no further payment be made to the contractor until that was done; that a competent person should be sent out to Turkey to report on the best mode of developing the traffic ; that it was the duty of the company and its managers to co-operate with the Imperial Ottoman Government for the maintenance and conduct of the undertaking ; to provide for the legal and equitable interests of the shareholders and bondholders; and that a permanent representative should be appointed for Turkey at such remunera tion as would enable him to devote his whole time to the interests of the company. He concluded by moving that the report of the committee of investi gation into the affairs of the company be received and adopted, and that the report be referred - to the council of administration to carry it out. Mr. BROWN seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN said he would make a few obser vations on that proposition. There was not any part of the report of the committee which could not be readily answered. The board considered it unneces sary to offer any apologies or excuse for the course they had uniformly pursued, which had resulted in the successful accomplishment of the work under taken, and the fulfilment of all their engagements with the Ottoman Government. They felt that they had, by extraordinary exertions, saved the com pany's property from all the risks incidental to an unfinished undertaking; that they had obtained the recognition of the Government that the guarantee of £112,000 a year was due from the Ist July last, to continue to the end of the term of 40 years ; and the directors entertained a reasonable confidence that their negotiations, so inopportunely interrupted, would have eventually obtained from the Govern ment the securities asked for under which the punc tual payment of the guarantee could be relied upon. Ile was prepared to reply to any points on which further information might be required ; and having referred to the principal remarks in the report of the committee, and strongly objected to the language used in some parts of it, he stated that they had now all the materials to enable them to draw their own conclusions, whether by receiving the committee's report to stultify all the directors' endeavours to place the company in its proper posi tion, and to open a wide field for litigation, which would, at least, prevent any payments whatever being made by the• Government, or to disapprove the unauthorised correspondence with the Ottoman Government of those gentlemen who would endea vour to explain and justify it, by reference to the results of the inquiry of the committee. It was his duty to warn them in time that they would see no end to the litigation which would undoubtedly arise if they decided to receive the committee's report. A long discussion ensued, in which Messrs. H. Clarke, Smith, Kimber, Billings, Fardell, and Morris took part, in the course of which Mr. Morris ex plained that the position of the debenture-holders' claims for payment of interest and principal was very different from that stated in the report of the committee. Ile thought it very strange that the com mittee of investigation bad never thought proper to consult the two committees of bondholders in the company on the subject mentioned in the report. If they ha I dune so they would have found that there was nothing in reality to fall out about. He ven tured to say that three business men representing the interests of shareholders and bondholders would in the course of half au hour settle the whole ques tion. The company was bound to pay its debts, and to his mind it would not be difficult for committees of the three classes to meet, discuss the matter, and agree on some equitable, fair, and just arrangement among themselves to settle the whole matters in dis pute. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN moved an amendment to the effect that the report of the committee be received, but not adopted, and that the committee be dissolved. Mr. A. DEvAux seconded the amendment, and it was carried. A poll was demanded, when it appeared that the great majority of the shareholders present had not odged their shares at the office, in conformity with the statutes, prior to holding the meeting, and were therefore not entitled to vote on that occasion. Mr. H. CLARKE said he believed that only 3,117 shares had been deposited, and said there was one gentleman in the room who held 10,000 shares in the company, and who, not having deposited his shares, could not vote on the question. It appeared that the mover of the original motion, from the same cause, was not legally qualified to take part in the proceedings. The result of the poll was that 11 shareholders, representing 2,625 shares and 67 votes recorded their votes in favour of the amendment, and it was declared carried. The CHAIRMAN agreed to call a special meeting of the company at the earliest period it could be held in compliance with the statutes; and to adjourn the ordinary meeting until after the holding of the special meeting in question. The proceedings then terminated. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 27th of April amounted for passen gers to £9,321 ; for mails, &c., to £986 ; and for freight and live stock to £14,945 ; total, £25,252, against, £26,706 in the corresponding week last year, showing a decrease of £1,454. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £411,393, and for the same period last year to £415,315, showing a decrease of £3,922. CAPE TOWN. The traffic receipts on this company's line, 63 miles in length, for the month of March, amounted to £2,312 for passengers, and £1,932 for goods ; total, £4,244, and for the same month in 1866 to £3,709, showing an increase of £535. The total receipts for the three months ending the 31st March last amounted to £11,734, against £10,486 for the corresponding period of last year, showing an in crease of £1,248. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the Lords' committee considered vari ous bills. In the select committee, held in room C, the Metropolitan and North Metropolitan Bills were considered and adjourned until Thursday. In room D the Fulham Bill was adjourned until Thursday, and the Great Eastern (steamboats) and Great Eastern Bills were again proceeded with. In House of Commons' Committee, in Group 7, the Midland and Glasgow and South-Western Bill was proceeded with and adjourned ; the Midland and the Tewkesbury and Malvern, and the Wolver hampton and Walsall Bills were adjourned. Before Mr. Palgrave, the examiner for the House of Commons on standing orders, the Eastern and Church Hope Bill was considered, and the decision was that the standing orders not previously inquired into were complied with. The Pennsylvanian Central Railroad Company has accepted the Legislative Act, the vote showing an overwhelming majority of its stockholders authorising an increase of capital of $15,000,000 in stock and $15,000,000 in bonds—total, $30,000,080. The Vermont Central Railroad, with its exten sion, the Vermont and Canada Railroad, are short again ; stock and bonds are falling in the market, and new loans are needed. The branch into Bur lington has cost $450,000 ; the extension of the road to the Canada line $350,000 ; the purchase of the Stanstead, Shefford, and Chambly road in Canada $364,000. And to meet these and other extraordinary expenses, it is proposed, first, to issue $250,000 additional stock of the Vermont and Canada road, making the total $2,500,000 ; second, to issue $300,000 additional Vermont Central and Vermont and Canada 8 per cent. ten-year bonds (called " equipment loan") ; bonds to be secured by a pledge or hypothecation of the stock and mort gage bonds of the Stanstead, Shefford, and Cham bly Railroad, and of all the net earnings of said road. These would carry up the total bonds and stock, representing these combined roads, to $8,500,000, on which the annual interest would be $630,000. The extension of the White Mountain Railroad to Northumberland, by way of Lancaster, to con nect with the Grand Trunk Road, has become a settled fact, and the towns along the proposed route are taking measures to promptly carry forward the work. On Saturday WhitefiA voted to subscribe 3 per cent. of her valuation towards the enterprise, and other places in that section will not be behind in tendering as generous assistance. The credit of St. Johnsbury has been pledged for $125,000 to aid the Montepelier end of the pro posed Montepelier and Portland Railroad, and for $75,000 to aid the Portland end. The Fairbanks's have taken $150,000 in the stock, which, with the other private subscriptions, make the total for the town $400,000. The difficulty between the Adams express and the Norwich and Worcester Railroad remains un settled. The Merchants' Union Company have obtained the privilege of running on the route, but have not yet decided to accept it. Americanising England. There are thousands of good people in Great Britain who shudder on seeing these two words, just as there are thousands who shudder at the idea of a cold bath, but find the water cleansing, invigo rating, and healthful. Whatever may be the danger from the rock towards which we are drifting, there can be no doubt that that rock is Democracy. People who have most deeply studied the subject call it the only secure haven, while those who have glanced but partially in the direction maintain that it. is a surf-beaten, dangerous, deceitful shoal. When people talk of Americanising England they simply mean the assimilation of political institu ' tions ; that is, of taking the supreme power from the hands of the class which weitds it in the United Kingdom, and placing it in the hands of the whole body of the people. Whatever may be the length or nature of the struggle it must end in Democracy. True lovers of liberty, and those who most strongly favour this drift of opinion, desire to see it accom plished gradually, that the people may be prepared for the exercise of the privilege as the elective fran chise descends in the scale of society. With them the main question is Preparation —or, to use another word—Education. What they argue is this :--To make a Government absolutely secure, to make a nation unassailable, you must base the power on the people. When the people are educated they are certain to elect and support good rulers. Where they see the necessity, they will submit to arbitrary measures from a Government thus elected that they would not endure from a despotism or an oligarchy. The people therefore make a strong Government ; for the Executive wields a control which at times may amount to a despotism sanctioned by the whole force of the people, and which cannot therefore be con trolled. The superiority of Democracy is maintained on the theory that an instructed people will nearly always be right in the groundwork of their opinions. When American abuses are pointed out to show in how large a degree corruption accompanies demo cratic institutions--how the best men are driven from politics, and the stump orator takes to legisla tion as a lucrative trade, the answer is simple all this proceeds from ignorance. Educ tte the people, and it will cease. When people refer to the fate which has attended Republics, the answer is the same—they were destroyed by igno rance. History records no instanceof a D.mtocracy with the power in the hands of an instructed people. Had there been such a community, it would have been crushed by despotism. England g tined freedom through her isolation ; and America owes Democracy to the Atlantic Ocean. It required the Channel to establish a Limited Monarchy, but it sea to protect the cradle of a Re required a broad public, or the infant would long since have been strangled. The difficulty with which America has had to contend has been the gross ignorance of the immigrants. Whatever bad government is possible there, has its origin and main support in this class who are always the tools of oligarchies and despo tisms. Against this difficulty England will not have to struggle in the Americanizing process. On the contrary, she will be nt aerially aided by the outflow. It is generally conceded that Democracy doez not give the most Odifal Goicrument ; for this THE SUN, LON MCE MEETINGS IN AMERICA. (From Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.) surely ! is usually found in a Despotism, where the ruler is a man of ability and courage. What Democracy does is, as DE TOQUEVILLE says, " to awake an all pervading and restless activity, a superabundant force and an energy which is inseparable from it, and which may, under favourable circumstances beget the most amazing benefits." No doubt these are great objects, but we hold the greatest, to be the security, conferred. There can be no revolt against the people, for there are none to revolt. There may be said to be the minority, over whom the majority may tyrannise; but experience will prove this to be a delusion. The Government of a people, is a Go vernment of opinion—not of force. People will always be divided in opinion, anti discuss and squabble over their F entiments with each other. With a free press, a free pulpit, free platforms, and the power of assembly—all based on education — the people may safely be left to themselves to work out a majority for the right. Where they are in the habit of meeting and discussing public ques tions, they learn to put faith in the theory, which is a strong plea for Democracy that the majority of a na tion on a well discussed subject will, as a rule, be right. America has shown this in a remarkable degree. When the will of the people is expressed by the utterance of the majority, all bow and the point is se tled. The people recognise the majesty of their own de crees. The way in which public opinion varies under changing circumstances may be observed by the national decision on a subject connected with the previous question, which may be negatived by the voices of the very people who but a few months before, had given the affirmative vote. It is on these questions of expediency, not of principle, that the influences which bear on public opinion are seen to work. Men discuss with each other the points in volved, and from these discussions public opinion is formed. Newspaper articles are a mere reflex, though books, pamphlets, and the more matured essays, being generally composed by leaders for or against the movement, go far to form and steady the opinion. According to HErwowni DIxoN the more free a people are, the more rude they are, and it is this brusqueness of manner which has done so much to retard Democracy, enlisting against it the natural instincts of the more refined. There is nothing so hateful to an English squire in the idea of Americanising England as the spreading and intensifying this free and easy manner, too often amounting4lmost to insolence. How much of this is also due to ignorance ? Is it found in England that the best educated mechanics are those who adopt this tone? The education of a gentleman makes him courteous. If a man is polite only to one class and rude to another, he is a mere servile snob, who has not the true instincts of a cultivated and Christian man. Training, leads to universal cour tesy, and Democracy, which recognises the equal rights of all, upholds good manners by this very fact. It is not with Democracy, therefore, that the blame lies of the rudeness of the untrained Anglo- Saxon, but simply with the want of that training which is, and ought to be, the first effort of a true Democracy. The Americanising process, therefore, is rather a gratifying spectacle ; " an educated Demo cracy" being, as Mr. PARTRIDGE says, " the only final Conservatism, and they are but quacks and doctrinaires, who, with infinite pains and trickery, seek out many inventions for •Conservatism, and balances without or against the people, and neglect, abuse, and refute that true Democracy, which is the end and aim of political science."—Amglo-American Times. THE MAY RACE-MEETINGS.--There will be more racing in May this year than ever before, and we trust the weather will be favourable for the four meetings to take place during the mouth. The first of them is to come off at Hoboken, on the 14th, 15th, and 17th, and the programme for the three days is good. There are to be eleven races run during the three days, including two hurdle races and a steeplechase. The course is one of the safest and fastest in the country, and the manage ment is good. Colonel Alellaniels is still at the head of affairs, and the energy and ability of that turf veteran must be supp xted. A great crowd has attended to see the horses gallop. The meeting at Hoboken will hardly be over before that at St. Louis will begin. There the excellent club awl officers of the new Laclede Asociatiou are sure to have a good meeting. It will commence on the 20th, and continue six days, duri3g which there will be thirteen races run. These arc all over the flat. The running is always good at St. Louis, and two of the best race horses that have flourished in this country made their first public appearance there. We allude to Norfolk and Asteroid, who first made their mark at the Laclede. The stakes have filled well. There are twelve entries in the sweepstakes for three-year-olds, mile heats ; and ten in the Southern Hotel Stakes, which is two-mile heats, for three-year-olds. The Accommodation Stake and Jockey Club Stake, the latter two-mile heats, for four-year-olds, closed May Ist, and we have not the entries. The Spring Meeting at Jerome Park will take place on the 22d, 23d, and 25th of May. There will be three fine races each day, besides the grand match on the 25th between Maid of Honor and De Courcejj. The course is in splendid order. The improvements made since last fall are very great, and a very large and fashionable assemblage may be looked for. The drive out to the Park through Westchester County is a very delightful one, and when the lawns have the vivid green of the young May days, and the borders are gay and gorgeous with spring flowers and opening buds, nothing can be more attractive. There is to be a hurdle-race on the last day of the mee[ing, and as a number of good horses are in training over the timber, we look for fine sport in this department. The last of the May meetings will be that at Cin cinnati, which will commence on the fourth Mon day in the mouth, the 27th. The Club has provided for six days' racing, with two races each day. The prospect was never better for fine sport. The Pre sident of the Club and other officers have been un tiring in their labours, and we must say to their credit that while seeking to advance their own meet ing they have not been unmindful of the interests of others. They have provided for a special train to come on to Paterson as soon as the Cincinnati meeting is over, by which means horses can run at both meetings. It is also Mr. Wooley's desire to make an arrangement with the Railroad Companies, so that horses may be brought right through at low rates. His influence with the Western roads will secure this very desirable result so far as they are concerned, and he very reasonably asks that the Eastern Clubs should exert themselves to the like effect to secure the co-operation of the Erie 113i1- road. The racing is sure to be good at Cincinnati. The entries are seventeen in number in the Buck eye Stakes, mile heats, for three-year-olds; and there arc twelve in the Burnet House Stake, two mile heats, for four-year-olds. This will be a des perate race. There are hurdle-races on the first and last days of this meeting. It is not generally known that there are canni bals among the Red Indians of North America, the numerous instances which are mentioned in the old his tories, especially in those of the Jesuits of New France, having been overlooked or disbelieved. However a Texan gentleman sends to the Nation an amusing account of the Tonkawas, a tribe of Texan Indians who are in the habit of eating their enemies, the Comanches. Among many eye-witnesses quoted is Colonel James I.l.)wie, the inven tor. of the celebrated knife. Ho assured ex-Governor Rummels, of Mississippi, that once when he was with the Tonkawas they killed a Comanche warrior and boiled him. They offered him a piece of the arm, which ho had the curiosity to taste, and found it tender and palatable. A Montana paper says " the mortality of Helena is extraordinarily good. Only 17 men were killed during the past two weeks." A healthy, peaceable community, A machinist connected with one of the Boston theatres has invented an arrangement by which stage car pets may be removed,without the intrusion of untidy-look ing supernumeraries in front of the curtain. A wire at the prompter's desk is made to reverse the hooks upon which the carpet is fastened, near the footlights, and thus release it, when it may b 3 pulled in from behind. According to Prof. Felton, the Grecians prac tised the following method of detecting adulteration in milk : A little milk was dropped upon the thumb nail ; if the milk was pure it would remain in its place ; if not it would flow away." A useful hint for housekeepers." THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) Returning Cot:fidence. ON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1867. In the week that ended on Saturday, May 18, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,684 ; the deaths registered, 2,623. The annual rate of mor tality was 22 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,165 boys and 1,098 girls, in all 2,263 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years 1857- 66, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,005. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,119. It was the twentieth week of the year, and the average number of deaths for the week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,312. The deaths in the present return are less by 193 than the estimated number. The mortality in the ►metropolis was lower last week than in any week since that which ended on the 19th July, 1862, when 1,111 deaths were regis tered. The deaths from zymotic diseases last week were 197, the corrected average number being 310. Thirty-eight deaths from smallpox, 15 from measles, 12 from scarlatina, 38 from whooping-cough, 37 from typhus, and 17 from diarrhoea were recorded. The deaths from phthisis were 174, from bron chitis 85, from pneumonia 45, and from diseases of the heart 53. A labourer, aged 25 years, died in the Great Norther❑ Hospital on the 7th of May of " conges tion of the brain from sunstroke." The deaths of five persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered. --The son of a bruslnnaker, aged seven years, run over; died on the 18th of May, at 18, Waterloo street, City-road. Post-mortem. (Inquest.) The son of a washerwoman, aged live years, run over ; died on the 11th of May in High-street, Whitechapel. (Inquest.) A brewer's servant, aged 29 years, run over ; died on the 15th of May in the Loudon Hos pital. (Inquest.) The son of a greengrocer, aged 15 years, run over by a water-cart on the 16th of May, at Red Post-hill, Camberwell. (Inquest.) A carver and gilder, aged 62 years, run over by a cab; died on the 12th of May, in the Charing cross Hospital. Post-mortem. (Inquest.) The annual rate of mortality last week was 19 per 1,000 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 31 in Dublin, 17 in Bristol, 21 in Birniinghatn, 25 in Liverpool, 29 in Manchester, 25 in Sal ford, 18 in Sheffield, 24 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 30 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 37 per 1,000 during the week ending the 11th iust , when the mean temperature was 5.7 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 21. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.697 in. The barometrical reading increased from 29.22 in. on Sunday, May 12, to 29.98 in. on Friday, May 17. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 46.8 deg., which is 5.2 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years (as de termined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 63 deg. on Saturday, May 18. The lowest night temperature was 34 . 9 deg. also on Saturday, May 18. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 28.1 deg. The mean of the highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 56.9 deg. ; that of the lowest was 55 deg. The difference between the mean-dew point tempe rature and air temperature was 7.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 75, com plete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.12 in., of which o.llin, fell on Sunday, May 12. The general direction of the wind was N.E. 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, Crossness, was 55,126,806 gallons, or 250,475 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. There are at least some symptoms of a revival both in the English Stock and Share Market and in trade. After a period of unexampled depression, which has left Capel Court in possession of the jobbers, an isolation which they by no means ap preciate, the public are again beginning to invade the precincts ; timidly, and step by step, as an elephant crosses a boat bridge over an Indian river. It is no wonder that the public advance slowly and with the utmost caution, after the bitter experience of the past 18 months. If fools rush in where angels fear to tread, when the fools are " scared" they are more chary of approaching the spot where they have been frightened than a burnt child is of the fire. Scarcely within the memory of the present generation has such an opportunity for invest reminded e m i a d e d Those o f a pre diction invest ment offered as the p resent ; an d those who understand how to avail thems elves of it, and have the means, will undoubtedly re awho have read E. F. SATTERTIIWAITE and Co.' s l as t c i rcu l ar will their these brokers th ree years ago i n m i f true worth a vari e ty o f i n fl ate d e s i t l i l b a e t ongi painfully,aad at by securities then popula r on th e London Stock Ex change,truthfully,richharvest. and another group at that tune unduly de pressed. The circular compares these investments now in support of the assertion they then made, and those who neglected their advice have bitter reason to rue the confidence with which they fol lowed the delusion then prevailing. We hold, how ever, that the circumstances are now reversed, and that some of the companies named in the circular will show a year or two hence a rise out of all proportion greater than the more sound securities then neglected in favour of these inflated new con cerns. The companies that have withstood the ordeal of the last year have been subjected to a test I which has strained every link. Their cables have been paid out to the bitter end, and that they have not parted is strong proof of inherent strength. It may be true that some are strained so as hereafter s t o n b b s e i d w i n o g r t hwl will s i s in b s u p t i r n e i a r n e y n n e w o s e v d t h e a o t n t fi h d e e gale is a rap i nd d rely cover their position. They are like puppies that have bad thd distemper ; most of them die, but those Na: e believe i v de i v v ae e a bt ti le) ditst better treog guarantee n ea r l a i t e hn a et l e t e h e ao a s f r o e with tpehr moreh gee s do t r f o l n it fh g ee. , yet become sound and substantial establishments. Take, for instance, the most depressed of SATTER TIIWAITE'S list that survi ' ves—the London Financial. That company advanced to railway contractors over £1,600,000, covering the advance with securities, then valued at about £2,400,000. The securities became unsaleable, the contractors insolvent ; and the company was left to meet its liabilities either by a ruinous sacrifice of the securities, or by calls on the shareholders. having a rich proprietary they were enabled to adopt the latter course. A heavy loss had to be endured, but on the whole the share holders, having confidence in the ultimate recovery of the Railway Preference Stock and Debenture Bonds in the strong box of the association, preferred to bear the burden, though many of them were sacri ficed in the effort. In one year £600,000 were called up, thus doubling the capital of the company. The consequence is that the association has all but liqui dated its liabilities, and retains, intact, its securities. The pressure of the calls has forced down the shares till they are almost unsaleable, but the market price is no criterion of the value. When quoted, as given by the circular, at 10 premium, they were not worth anything approaching to that price. When quoted, as at present, 22 discount, —the chances are, they are woctli a great deal more. The General Credit has bent little, comparatively, to the storm, and never failed to pay a good dividend. The Interna tional Financial has required no support, meeting unaided all its liabilities, though paying no divi dend for the last year. The Credit Foncier, after distributing fabulous sums among its proprietors, paid no dividend for the last six months. We pre sume the value of the shares depends much on the real worth of the undertakings launched by the company, and the ability of these concerns to fulfil their engagements. They arc now all quoted, as we explained in a former article, at a ruinous discount, but this does not necessarily represent their real value. On the whole, we repeat our belief, that there is a greater rise in the future of many a these frightfully depressed securities than in any others on the Stock Exchange. There can be no perma nant improvement until the public begin again to invest. The dealers on the Stock Exchange cannot buy shares unless the opportunity occurs of selling at a margin of profit. When all are sellers, prices not only fall, but shares become unnegocia ble. The question is one simply of demand on the part of bona fide investors, for " bears" and " bulls" can make no market whatever, moving merely in advance of the general public. Although a rapid rise might eatih many " bears" with outstanding sales, the dealers on the Stock Exchange would be delighted to see a revival of confidence, which would bring with it a return of business. It is a mistake to suppose that prices are made by Capel Court. They are made by the public and only officially announced through means of the Ex change. The jobbers, who have very little to do with it, are often blamed for depressing securi ties over which they have, in truth, no control.— Anglo-American Times. The New Zealand Puzzle. The Times, in an article yesterday, estimated the power of the colonists in New Zealand to defend themselves against the native tribes, unaided by the Imperial troops. The calculation is singularly un just to the colony, although we hold with the I imes that the Provincial Government should provide for its own defence. New Zealand consists of two large islands, extending in a line, further than from JOIIN O'GROAT'S house to the Land's End. The colonists mainly occupy the Southern Island, while the natives are chiefly grouped in the North of the Northern Island. By far the largest portion of the European population have no more to do with Ma ories than the people of Pennsylvania have to do with Red Indians. Yet the 7 imes calculates the whole strength of the white meu as opposed to the natives, which is little less fair than if the New York, Times declared that the men of Nebraska and Colorado should provide their own defence against the Cheyennes, Crows, and Sioux, calculating the population of the Pacific States to be far in excess of the native tribes. The whole question is a local one, which if dropped by the Imperial Government may, with as much justice, be dropped by the Southern Island, leaving Auckland to fight the Maories single-handed. The figures, theref pre, in the limes are in reality worthless; and the facts given by that journal sufficiently prove this. If the Imperial Government abandons the defence of the colonies it virtually proclaims their indepen deuce, for New Zealand will then have no more right to be involved in the consequences of an English war than England has now in the consequences of a New Zealand quarrel. The question is a very broad one, and, however sum marily settled by the Times, involves a subject of grand Imperial interest. Dropping this for the time, although we may hereafter return to it, we will briefly glance at the way in which the original error of the Times' article is carried out to the end, draw ing that journal into what it describes as a puzzle. " The New Zealand Government," it says, " hesi tates to rely on levies so insubordinate as the colonists, for the shock of actual war. On this we must re mark that war in New Zealand means simply self- defence ; that the colonists when called upon to fight would be fighting for their homes and families, and that to suppose they would mutiny or lay down their arms under such circumstances is well nigh im possible." Now, the great mass of the colonial troops are no more fighting for their wives and families than the Imperial forces are, indeed not so much, for the few soldiers permitted, carry their wives with them. They are men mainly raised in the Southern colonies, who have come up for the excitement of a spell of fighting, returning, whenthey tire, with no danger whatever to to their own belongings. Writers who know no thing of the colony are apt to make egregious blun ders, and to vitiate the real force of their arguments by starting on false premises. We grant that the colonists may have found their profit in a large Imperial force, and may establish a drain on the mother country through that means. But there is no use in misstating the circumstances and puzzling themselves and their readers to comprehend a position which is wronlily given, though easily understood when properly explained. If the plan of leaving those on the spot to fight the battle were carried out at Killarney awl Conne►nara it would exactly suit the Fenians, who might cat up the loyal residents. Could the Government of New Zealand enforce the policy of suppressing the Maories through the support of the Southern Island who have no connection whatever with the natives, they will not require the aid of the Imperial Government. But this is just the point contended for—the Southern Island dislikes being taxed and their population drafted off for a Northern war which does not concern them, as much as the Home country dislikes it. When this fact is borne in mind, the circumstances are no longer a puzzle. A strong force is, however, omitted in the calculation, and that is Exeter Hall. The colonists, who, if left alone, will feel severely the strain of the war, may adopt very summary measures to finish it, and thereby shock the philanthropy of the home country. We believe that the Imperial troops have been retained in New Zealand almost as much for the protection of the Maories as of the colonists. That these troops were all adapted for the guerilla warfare of a most mountainous country, covered with impenetrable forests, has been proved by the result, and might have been known before the trial was made. We are, however, impressed with the conviction that the Maori War has reached its end, and though the withdrawal of the troops before it is closed, may establish the principle that each portion of the Empire must rely on itself for defence, the little that remains to do in New Zea land, will not severely tax the settlers in those i s lands. —Anglo-American Times. THE CITY OF BALTIMORE• A writer in the Baltim'ire Commercial, indignant at the city of monuments, of fountains, and of beautiful women, being stigmatised as Mob Town, enumerates how Baltimore led the way in the fol lowing improvements, " Baltimore was the first city in the United States supplied with water ; the first city lighted with gas ; the first city that had a steamboat, and that used steam for milling and sugar refining ; the first city that erected a monu ment in honour of the Father of his Country ; and also, one in memory of her own brave defenders ; the first city that had public fountains ; the first city that undertook a railroad--the grand Baltimore and Ohio ; the first city that had a telegraph ; the first city that established a Union Relief Associa tion, to give aid and comfort to our brave boys during the late rebellion ; and we have the first park in the country in point of beauty." And now good morning—more perhaps again. That it may not be said that this writer glorified his city without provocation, we give the following extract from his article :--" Indeed, so bitter and malicious is this feeling with reference to Balti more, that a certain Rev. A. A. Miner, of Boston, in a sermon delivered on the occasion of the murder of our beloved and lamented President Lincoln, thus stigmatises our fair city : Unhappy city that gave the as - sas:in birth !' (This don't happen to be true, he was born twenty miles nearer to Boston.) The bane of disorder, the nursery of rioters, the shelterer of those murderers who shed the first Mas sachusetts blood in this great struggle, and now the mother of the nation's patricide. Pity, oh, pity, unhappy Baltimore " General Schofield, in Virginia, has had to give the Richmond Times warning to bo more careful about its editorials; but generally spakiug the secession feeling, if any remains, is not so offensively displayed as to demand official interference. We extract from the Round Table the follow ing items:—Mr. Charles H. S weetser, who is pretty tho roughly acquainted with Minnesota and the North-West, is preparing for publication in season for summer tourists a guide-book for that region with full details of routes, cost, stopping places, dm Colonel J.S. Mosby loses no time in repudiat ing the wretched book, "Mosby and his Men," by Mr. J. Marshall Crawford, which was recently spoke of in such terms as was thought it deserved, and which the Warren ton (Va.) Index, by Colonol Mosby's request, says, " is un worthy of credit, and contains about as much truth as The Arabian Nights Entertainments' or 'Gulliver's Travels,'" an expression which Colonel Mosby, in a letter to . tho author, slightly modiiies. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TimEs.—Mr. Mill last night proposed that the House of Commons should legislate on a subject of great importance. The metropolis of England pre sents, perhaps, the greatest anomaly in this country of anomalies. It is the hugest assemblage of houses on earth, a region covered with buildings, the limits of which no one can define. It is made up of many towns ; it has a great commercial emporium, a port reaching far down the river, several manufacturing suburbs, while the western district of it is the seat of GovCrnment, and the residence of the wealthiest aristocracy and middle class in the world. By means of vat ions Acts of Parliament this wonderful collection of neighbourhoods has been united for certain purposes, such as public works, police, and Poor-lmv administration. But it is not the less an -arranged, incongruous mass, and a fortuitous concourse of tenements, without plan or unity in its creation, and without any due superintendence after it has come into existence. Nobody, as far as we have ever been able to ascertain, knows much about the government of London, and we doubt whether there are ten men in the House of Commons who can tell what are its component parts, how they are administered, what are their resources, and what are the requirements of their inhabitants. Yet in the midst of this vast shapeless mass there is a mu nicipality of great antiquity and authority, vast wealth, and a reputation reaching to the ends of the earth. The Prefect of the Seine, who administers the whole of Paris and its suburbs, is hardly a greater man in the eyes of his countrymen than our Lord Mayor, the civic potentate who can close a gate in the face of the Sovereign of England, and at whose banquets princes are entertained as guests. The City Corporation and the City Com panies are bodies which in position and in wealth are worth the capital of a great kingdom. They exer cise, too, a certain influence, and amid all the changes of politics and commerce they maintain, chiefly by their traditional relations with the State, a position which no one can despise. But when we are asked concerning their usefulness it is difficult to reply. To a stranger it must be explained that the scarlet cloaked Lord Mayor of London and these violet gowned Aldermen do not represent London at all, in the sense in which he understands it. The tena- city of English people in clinging to the material forms of things after the life has passed out of them is almost ludicrously exhibited in the maintenance of the Corporation of the City of London. This city, the stranger will have to be informed, is the city of the Middle Ages, and consists of a little dis trict in the neighbourhood of the old fortress and the old cathedral, with sundry outlying pieces of ground that were dependent on it. For generations it has not been extended, though the great capital which takes its popular name from this ancient nucleus has been growing with the rapidity of a Transatlantic settlement. Thus, the City of Lon- don, with its imposing corporation and its abundant possessions, contains but a thirtieth part of the whole population of the metropolis, and an area which is even less in proportion. The rest of the capital has no share in the advantages which this time-honoured organisation could confer. West minster and Southwark have some faint traces of corporate life ; but the rest of London, containing some of its richest and most splendid districts, is simply left to the old parochial system, which grew up when they were meadows and gardens. The Vestry is the representative of the householders in the wealthiest and best built districts of London. The rector takes the chair, churchwardens attend, and the business of what is really " no mean city" is transacted pre cisely as if it were a rural parish in Dorsetshire. The consequence is that London is, beyond dis pute, worse administered than the capitals of far less wealthy and enterprising States. There is a general indifference about its affairs, an indifference the result of which is seen in hideous public build ings, in a prevailing slovenliness and want of taste, and sometimes in real neglect of cleanliness. Had it not been for recent legislation, which has given some general power to various officers and boards, the evils of such a civic anarchy would be intolerable. Mr. Mill now comes forward and proposes to legis late in a comprehensive manner on the subject. As we are not yet aware of the details of his plan, we are unable to pronounce a definite opinion on it ; but certainly the objects he has in view are most desirable, and the general tenour of his proposal is reasonable. He proposes, so far as we understand, to establish a central Federal Municipality for the whole metropolis. This, without destroying the traditional City, would, we presume, extend the Corporation to the whole metropolis, so that there might be one person chosen by the inhabi tants of London who should be its real chief and representative, and others who might speak for the various districts in any question of general in terest. The only objection to such a scheme that we have ever heard is that such a Cor poration would be too powerful ; that a Lord Mayor who ruled three millions of citizens would be too independent a potentate to be dealt with by the Home Secretary, and that his Common Council, or whatever his civic Parliament might be called, would in London matters trench on the authority of the House of Commons. Even if we were to admit any force in this argument, yet it should not suffice to deter Parliament from endowing the metropolis with so powerful an instrument for energetic and combined action; since if the func tions of any such federation were strictly defined it might safely receive power to do many things to which Parliament has not time to attend, and which official boards and local ves t r i es d o very in efficiently. The second proposal of Mr. Mill, to which he asked the assent of the House of Com mons yesterday evening, is the establishment of Alunicipal Corporations conterminous with the me tropolitan boroughs. There are many things which these communities, equal to the populations of large continental cities, can do better by local action than in concert with the rest of the metropolis. But on the relations between this scheme and that of a fede ral municipality we need say nothing until Mr. Mill produces his bill. No doubt Mr. Ayrton and his committee will be able to give the country much in formation on this subject, and anything that may be unsound in the projected measures will be keenly criticised. But there will be a general satisfaction that the subject has been taken up by one compe tent to treat it, and we hope the session will not poss away without a real effort to adapt the insti tutions of this neglected capital to the requirements o f the time. The task is, no doubt, difficult, for there are vested rights and inveterate prejudices against the Reformers ; but the necessity is urgent, and with energy they may be overcome. THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND COLONIAL PROTESTANT CHURCHES. —Unity and Universality are the essential charac teristics of the Catholic Church. Spread over the various parts of the globe, among the most re mote nations and tribes, speaking various tongues, it yet retains its perfect corporate unity under one common head and under one supreme juris diction. If, in the most distant diocese, a suffra gan bishop were to teach false doctrine, a complaint :would lie against him at Rome, and, on the sentence being published by Rome, the dispute would be ended, the suffragan bishop would have to submit, or else would be con demned as a schismatic. In striking contrast to this corporate unity of the Catholic Church, and to this supreme jurisdiction of the Pope, is the local character of the Protestant Churches, and the utter absence, as a necessary consequence, of a supreme, universal authority. No such autho rity exists ; each Church is isolated. The Royal Supremacy does not extend beyond the realm ; it is limited to the United Churches of England and Ireland. The Anglican Church is independent of . any control outside its own local limits. The same isolation and independence exists in the Pro testant Churches in the Colonies ; they are not members of the Church of England, they are not of the same body, not under the same supremacy. The highest ecclesiastical tribunal of this country has decided that they are voluntary associations on the same footing as the Dissenting bodies around them. The corporate unity of the Anglican Church, even such as it is, does not exist outside the narrow boundaries of England and Ireland. The principle of Protestantism, even under its least repulsive form, is isolation, as that of Catho licism is universality. Hence the spasmodic struggles—how vain we all know—of the advanced sections of the Anglican Establishment towards unity, if not with Rome, at least with the Greek Church. This organic disunion of Protestant Episcopalian Churches has been brought once more before public notice, by the speeches made at the meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, held last week, at St. James's Hall, under the presidency of the Arch bishop of Canterbury. Mr. Gladstone took a pro minent part at this meeting, and in alluding to the position of the Colonial Churches since the de cision of the Privy Council—that they were not ;t part of the Church of England, but mere voluntary associations— he confessed, " with some degree of ' pain, that there was some want of faith in those fears, which we might have been apt more or less to harbour, that when once the assistance and con trol of the State was in some degree withdrawn from the Colonial Churches, the effect would be a tendency to diverge from one another, and from the Church of England." However, Mr. Glad stone was hopeful and confident that such diver gences would not take place. He put the best face on the matter; and, since there could not be organic union, he was fain to content himself with full and complete communion. But how long is 1 this full and complete communion likely to last, on which such stress is now laid, since it has b een discovered that there is no corporate unity, no identity, between the Church of England and the Colonial Churches ? What kind of unity is there in the Church of England itself, rent in twain as it is by so many sections holding, and allowed by the Church itself to hold, doctrines diame- • trically opposed ; to believe or not to believe in Infant Baptism, in the Eternity of Punishments, in the Inspiration of Scripture ; not to speak of the widely diverging opinions as to the character and office of the Priesthood, the Sacrifice of the Dlass, the Eucharist, the power of Absolution, and Sac ramental Grace? How is even such unity preserved, but by the supremacy of the Crown, and the control of the State ? But in the Colonial Churches, created by, and composed of, Englishmen, with like principles and prejudices to those in the Angli can Church at home, where there is no Royal Supremacy, no union with the State, is it likely that they will long keep up " full and complete communion " among themselves, or with other independent Colonial Churches, or far less with the English Establishment? Independent, as they he now are of the Anglican Establishment an d of State, what bond of union exists in these Colonial Churches, between the Armenian and the Calvinist, the Ritualist and the Rationalist, of sufficient force to resist the diverging and isolating tendencies common to all Protestant sects ? In spite of the Bishop of Oxford's solemn self-assurance, and Mr- Gladstone's fervid congratulations on the " sign; of life " exhibited in the Colonial Churches, and on their attachment to—he does not, however, saY which section of—the Anglican Establishment, it is evident that the isolating liberty practically bestowed upon them by the recent decision of the Privy Council, is the seed-time of dissension. When opinions develope as time runs on, 'when the radical differences which are now agitating so violently the various sections of the Anglica n Church, when the principles of pure Rationalism which are penetrating so deeply the educated society of England, shall be transported—not pen ally, but triumphantly—to our colonies, what wil l the result be in Colonial society, what the effec t on the Colonial Churches ? If the Anglican Chu rch, with all its historic associations, its elastic for mularies, its wealth, its union with the Sta te, has already no small difficulty in holding together its various conflicting sections with their antagonistic beliefs, how shall the mushroom churches of the, Colonies, isolated and unestablished, unrecogni?Fa by law and unendowed, be able to resist the dis solving action of that principle which is at work in the Anglican Establishment? We might sooney expect that the lion would lie down with th e lawn, than that the Rationalist in the days to come wonln quietly consort with the Ritualst, or the dis believer in Sacramental efficacy with the Sacramentalist in unestablished and unendowed Colonial Churches. Already the seed of disunion has shot abo ve the Colonial soil ; the plant cannot be sounder ti the germ. Protestantism, under whatever fori n ' contains in itself the principle of its own destrn,be; tion. If the meeting for the Propagation ef 0 Gospel congratulated itself on " the signs of life _ in the Colonial Churches, the Earl of Carnarvon_ reminded his hearers that there was anotheor picture besides the one which they had been s o fervently contemplating in Canada. " That is ° II , O picture said the Earl of Carnarvon ; 44 on. t.'"' other hand, you have in Southern Africa the Pl c c i ture, I grieve to say, of discord, and strife, an infidelity." But is Bishop Colenso an exceptions' man ? When those who share views in the Plr e lish Establishment multiply as fast as they II doing now, when Rationalism increases and tensifies at home, will the Colonial Churches b° free from the plague? If "the discord, str ife ' and infidelity" invade the Colonial Churches sfi they have done that of Natal or the Anglicabe Church, our hope and trust is that, free from trammels, interests, and associations which en" cumber the Established Church of England, 0 % will sooner and more freely take refuge from heir own doctrinal dissensions in that Churc h universality is always beside them, and to Wll° unity they must ever bear witness. whoso COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS—TUESDAY. Our stocks are so seriously small that any d e cline ir; se Mark-lane fails to produce the slightest influ ence upon thi, minds of holders, who are less inclined th an evertO wheat oven at a slight advance from last Tu esda y 's s ite Beans improve in value. Oats and other articles qu"° - dear. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. to-day. A iair business was doing in wheat, a t th an o late fu ll At this market there was only a moderate at tenda l i . rates of last Friday. Flour met a slow demand, u easier. Oats and oatmeal in moderate request " las t price, B ° aans at a decline of Gd, and peas Were as r quoted. Indian corn rather dull, and pri c es are low. mixed American being 40s per qr. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY. Our market to-day was poorly supplied with wheal" ter , but the demand was dull at a reduction of is per va n ' . no In barley fine samples brought last week's money. `-';0, met with a good demand, at advancing quota& Beans in fair demand, and maintained their e . sto per White wheat, 64s to 71s ; red, 6 0s to 67 s per 36 Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr ; feed , 32s to 3850fset, 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 3 5 5; new, 28 s to 31s p er Beans, old, 52s to 515 . ; new, 45s to Ns per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. wa s The quantity of wheat offering at our market to-dal , it o pretty fair, but sales wore slow, at quite is decline on I .d week's prices. Scarcely anything doing in barley, r vr. former prices were about maintained. Oats a small shuraei and readily disposed of at rather higher rates. Bea us a tolerable trade, and prices in favour of the seller. , 01 Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels.... 2 is Od to 25 ,, 5 :0d White do do ....26s Od ' 2 „',: 6 ,1 New red do do ....cOs Od 4 . r. 6 d New white do do ....23s 6d 2„," t a Beans do do ....19e Od 246 , ( 1 Peas, per qr. Grinding ba ley, per qr 35s Od Malting barley, oo • 3 3s Od 34 ° ad Oats, do 27s Od 325 F10ur....2s 4d to 2s 8d per 141 b. OL—TUESDAY. bel4 There was about the usual attendance to-day, and 1.7 Li d. was firm, at last week's prices. Barley in g ood demo' Oats and other articles unaltered. MARK ET HARBOROUGH.—TUESDA .Y. ° ban About the usual supply of wheat, which change— were slowly at is decline. Oats scarce, but firm. Bo lls a shade dearer. r 6 Old white wheat, 67s to 73s ; new red, 58 s to 66s 11 0 st. stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per o ld, Oats, new, 27s to 328 ; old, 34s to 35s per qr. Dea ns ' 46s to 535; new, 42s to 47s . per qr. Col. W T. Thompson, one of the editors 0 f - the Savannah News, and author of 46 Major Jones' CourtshiP'o sailod for Europe on the 18th ult. Col. Thompson pr o e 8 to gather material for a book to be entitled uajor in 110 Europe." n. E. Barksdale, editor of the Jackson Cictri°,l,i has recovered from his recent indisposition, and resin his editorial duties. The retiring editor of Zion's Herald , Dr. C°l3; " leigh, gained a clear idea of the profession. " If ' A in says, " the editor takes time to read, think , study, as the vestigate in order to thoroughness, variety, Alic the proper finish to editorials, he will have no t ime to a° after necessary drudgery of office-work—all the spare tita°l/,e' that will bo needed for exercise in the o p en air and rec—„,:d tion, in order to give health to the body and elasticity vigour to the mind. If he does the office -work of Pr the reading, correcting, and selecting for publieat i°ll Th o , various manuscripts, looking over the exchanges, rwth graphing, itemising, reviewing, and noticin g hoe d° , b 1 0 all the etceteras of calls and interruptions, he neither time, nor heart, nor strength for W - ti" editorials." e Professor P. A. Chadbourne, formerly 01 Hams College, but recently made President of the - 1 -g r ,,'" Gti s; tura]. College at Amherst, Massachusetts, is serious lc" is Williamstown. The Springfield Republican adds---r,:sel not likely, under the most fortunate tur n of his does of which is of tho lungs, to be able to disch ar g e the due his new and important office for some months to Births. inat.,at BIRCHAH —On the 21st dvde 16, Norfolk-square, •,-'-., park, Mrs. S. Bircham, of a daughter. NORTH—On the 18th inst., at 16, Arlington-street, the 11°°. Mrs. North, of a daughter. R EE VE—On the 19th inst., at 35, Hill-street, D erE e el o e li : square, the wife of Ellis P. Fox Reeve, CaptaiTh stream Guards, of a daughter. Ai s ' P o L u E t r h O ItD te, c„ p . O O r A iI A Ham pstead, RBE Ham • tAlipep2looftohridn,sEt.s,gat, 05.13,1n-,tl,.joloay; Hampshire, to Emily, youngest daughtei. of ""-•-• te P`' ben, of Adelaide-road, and granddaughter of the le Harbeu, Esq., of Church Fields, Hackney. ~,„ yea! MEADE —BABINGTON—On the 21st inst , at Pree--,,joiew Brighton, Jan de Courcy Meade, Cap.tain, BoLal.,;' - Dab' Light Infantry, to A gnes Stewart, widow of AY • ''''', late ington, Esq., Bombay Army, and daughter of th Colonel Duncan Malcolm, President of Dal:od a. Deaths. o the r, An Str ANSTRUTHER—On the 19th inst., at Moffat, J. NJ—amoeas Marriages. Esq., Trussbauk, Ayrshire, aged 63. I s lier BARNES -On the 16th inst., at 11, Colebrook-roviri ton, William Harper Barnes, aged 37. a tha v l FIELD—On the 17th inst., at Portswood, near .Joilnder ILI ton, James Seward Field, Lieut. R.N.8., the P. P. and O. Company's Service, aged 54. ...„ or 0. JokIN Johnson the I.:itThheinlste,.,rrDawin,ahibith.e,stecio,:aPrde,%rool" wich, aged 42. o at% MonnieThEasr—dOnotrhteeiil:dinssti., at The Coart, Rickman London: Printed and Published by WILLIII3I ANt. it% of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits SON Oface,2nty 0 i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tho CU" Aliddlesex.--WedziesdaY, May 22,1867. 1