The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. _ The Commander-in -Chief has approved the un dermentioned arrangements in connection with the troops at Colchester :—Capt. Fraser, filth Regi d - m eet, to join the depot ; Capeut.t. Wilson to procee Li w ith service companies ; Richardson, 3 oth Regiment, to perform the duties of Assist.-Instructor of Musketry to the 4th depot battalion, until Lieut. Fenn, 49th Regiment, returns from leave of absence June 14 ; and Ensign Mayne, 49th Regiment, to proceed from the depot to the service companies of his corps at the expiration of his leave of absence June 28 ; Ensign Pearson, 2d battalion 18th Regi ment, is under orders to embark for the service companies of his battalion iu New Zealand. The Duke of Cambridge has awarded a silver medal, together with an annuity of £lO, to Master- Gunner Alexander Dowie, Royal Artillery, for long 4crvice, and meritorious conduct. The depot of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment, which is under orders to leave St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, this morning, and proceed to Portsmouth, was inspected yesterday on the liues by Major-Gen. F. Murray, previously to their departure. The strength of the depot is 210 non-commissioned officers and men, with nine officers, and the usual proportion of soldiers' wives and children. The depot, which was formed in two companies, was minutely inspected by Gen. Murray, who invited any man who had a complaint to make to step from the ranks and do so, but there was no response to the invitation. The officers and troops will leave Chatham by railway this morning, and proceed to Gravesend, where they embark in the steamer taken up to convey themround to Portsmouth. The head quarters and service companies of the 31th Regi ment are now on their passage home from India. An order was yesterday received at Chatham directing a party of non-commissioned officers of Royal Engineers, who have completed their course of fieldwork and other instructions at head-quarters, to embark for Malta on the 18th proximo, to be employed as assistant-superintendents of the engi neering works at that island. Yesterday detachments of various infantry regi ments, the depots of which are stationed at Chat ham, arrived at that garrison from India, having disembarked from the troopships which arrived at Spithead from Calcutta and the other Indian ports. The detachments, which numbered 70 non-commis sioned officers and men, consisted of time-expired men who have been sent home on the completion of their period of service, together with convalescent men invalided from their regiments. The time-ex pired meta will be discharged on the receipt of their discharge documents from the Horse Guards. The following promotions in the corps of Royal Marine Light Infantry were announced at head quarters, Chatham, yesterday, viz., First Lieut. C. E. Macdonald, to be Capt. at the Portsmouth Divi sion, vice Capt. and Brevet Major G. E. 0. Jack son, relieved ; Second Lieut. 11. Bradley to be First Lieut. at the Woolwich Division, vice Macdonald The above promotions are ordered to be dated the 21th inst. The armoured iron frigate Resistance, Capt. H. Hillyar, C. 8., arrived at Spithead on Tuesday, from Plymouth Sound and the Mediterranean, and is ordered into Portsmouth Harbour to dismantle and pay out of commission. Yesterday afternoon Admi ral Sir T. I'asley, K.C.8., Port Admiral and Naval Commander in Chief at Portsmouth, visited the frigate at Spithead and inspected officially her cm dition, together with the discipline and practice of her crew at general quarters, preparatory to her entering harbour and commeucing the process of dismantling. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :-- Lieut. B. E. Cochrane, to the Meora ; and Lieut. 11. L. Gully, to the Revenge. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRlGirros, AND SOUTH COAST. A special general meeting of this company was appointed to be held yesterday at the Bridge-house London-bridt , -, for the purpose of consi dering an agreement with the South-Eastern Rail way Company for the j..int working and ultimate amalgamation of the two concerns ; Col. Barttelot, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRITAN said he hoped they had all re ceived a circular informing them that the m..;eting would be adjourned, the committee of investigation having requested the directors to do so. He there fore moved that the meeting be adjourned to the 18th of June at the same place and hour. 'rho motion was carried unanimously, and the meeting adjourned accordingly. MIDLAND. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at Derby ; Mr. W. E. Hutchinson in the chair. In consequence of the agitation which has been going on in the course of the last month the proceedings excited unusual interest, and the attend ance of shareholders was so large that an adjourn ment from the Railway Station to the Corn Ex change, in the town, was indispensable. The CHAIRMAN said it had unfortunately hap pened that two of the bills intended to be brought forward at this meeting were not ready, in conse sequence of a delay in the Parliamentary proceed ings ; he alluded to the Additional Powers Bill, and the Glasgow and South- Western Amalgamation Bill, lie then entered into explanations in refer ence to each line. The leasing clause in the Tewkesbury and Malvern line would be withdrawn, in order that any additional outlay might be avoided. The bill relating to the Midland and South-Wes tern Junction Line was not ready, but it was a very important project ; it would afford immense facilities to this company for the interchange of goods and mineral traffic. They were already under obligations in connection with it to pay 51 per cent. on the share capital, and 5 per cent. on the bor rowed-money. It was proposed that this should be a perpetual 5 per cent. hereafter, so that by a pro posed arrangement there would be a saving to the company of one-half per cent. ; and the amount of additional capital to be laid out would be reduced from £170,000 to £70,000. Another of their schemes was to make, in conjunction with the Loadonand North-Western Railway, a line from Huddersfield to llalfax, &c. That would be a ialtiable adjunct to the Midland, but, in deference to the strong opinions expressed by. tile shareholdersagainst any further outlay of money that bill would be withdrawn. A fourth project con templated was for incorporating the Cheshire lines, committal; in order to secure a better administra tion of affairs, and to make twoshortbranches. The proposed additional capital was only £31,000, ex clusive of the borrowing powers ; but that part of the bill authorising an additional outlay of capital would be abandoned. (Applause.) A fifth bill in volved management with the Great Northern Com pany, and the raising of such additional capital for improving the station at Lynn, which was in a dis graceful state; but the matter might stand over for another year or two, so that clauses in the bill for an increase of capital would be withdrawn. (Re newed applause.) The only other bill to which he need direct attention was the construction of a little line, two or three miles in length, to connect some mills and works with the Midland system ; the owners of the mills would make these lines at their own expense, so that all the 3lidlaild Company would have to do would be to work it. He then alluded, at cor.siderable length, to the proposal to amal g amate with the Glasgo.v and South-Western Company, which had given rise to opposition on the part of the shareholders and the public; he justified on every ground the course proposed by the board ; as to the terms (he said) that at the last half-yearly meeting it was proposed they should be equal, but the Scotch company had since proposed that in the event of at . any t itne the div idend on the amalgamated lines being less than 4 per cent., that if the traffic on the Glas gow andSouth-Wetern exceeded that amount, that company should have a lien on it up to 4 per cent. ; the aliered terms in that respect hhd been accepted. Ile next entered into a very long historic. l resume for the purpose of justifying the project for the Settle and Carlisle Railway, which some now thought ought to 123 abandoned. (Cries of " No.") lie took it for granted they were not disposed to give up that their share of the Scottish traffic, and he hoped at the next meeting the Board would be sul ?- ported in their bill for amalgamating with t'ne Glasgow and South-Western Company. lie e' in cluded by moving a resolution approving the bill for incorporating the Cheshire lines committkte, except ing as to the increased capital. Mr. PRICE, M.P., seconded the motion, and after a very long and animated discussion, all the resolu tions proposed by the directors were adopted, and the meeting adjourned until Tuesday next. RAILWAY BILLS. yesterday, in the House of Lords' committee held in room C, the Neath and Brecon Bill was passed with amendments. In the House of Commons' committee on group 7, the preamble of the Midland Bill was proved. The preamble of the Tewkesbury and Malvern Bill was also proved. In group 12, the London, Chat hr.m, and Dover was proceeded with and ad journed until Friday ; the London, Chatham, and Dover (No. 3), the London, Chatham, and Dover (No. 2) were adjourned ; and the London, Chat him, and Dover (No. 4) Bill was adjourned until Friday. Industrial Education. The following correspondence appeared in the Times : sir,--After the distribution of prizes at the Lon don University this year, I made some remarks on the lessons which the late war in Germany and the present Exhibition at Paris afford to us, if we wish to hold our own with other nations in the arts of peace and war. I quoted a speech of the President of the Civil Engineers as to the superior progress made in ma chinery by foreigners. I spoke from the informa tion which I had received from a gentleman inti mately acquainted with the iron trade as to the greater improvements made in the manufacture of iron in France, Belgium, Germany, and Austria. It was only from general report that I stated the little advance we have made in most departments of industry, excepting those of furniture, glass, and china. Since then I have seen the enclosed letter from Dr. Lyon Playfair. The subject is important, and his authority is great. I have therefore obtained his permission, and that of Lord Taunton, to ask you to publish it. The inquiry of 1853, to which Dr. Playfair alludes, was chiefly owing to the information given him by the Prince Consort, than whom no one was more keenly alivo to the want of generally diffused scientific instruction in this country, or more active in stimulating all classes to remedy the defect.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, • GRANVILLE. 16, Bruton-street, W., May 28. FRONI Da. LYON PLNTFAIR. " London, May 15, 1867. " My Lord,--As you desire that I should .put in writing the substanc; of the conversation which I had the honour of having with your Lordship this morning, I willingly comply with your request. " I have just returned from Paris, where I acted as a juror in one of the classes of the Exhibition. In this capacity I had no other opportunities than any other juror of forming a judgment in regard to it ; but, having had the charge of the working of the juries in the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1802, I naturally made the acquaintance of many emi nent men of different nations, and, meeting with a large number of them congregated on the Inter national .Juries in Paris, I endeavoured to gather their opinions as to the position which England occupied in this great industrial competition. " I am sorry to say that, with very few ex ceptions, a singular accordance of opinion pre vailed that our country had shown little inventive ness and made but little progress in the peaceful arts of industry sincelB62. Deficient representatives in some of the industries night have accounted for this judgment against us, but when we find that out of 9') classes there are scarcely a (1)7,al in which pre-eminence is unhesitatingly awarded to tv, this plea must be a% - nnione I. My o pinion is worthy only of the confidence which might be sup posed to attach to my knowle Ige of the chemical arts; but when I f0u.,1 .r 0h; , 4 machani cal and civii.engineers lamenting the want of pro wess in their industries, and pointing to the won derful advances which other nations are making; when I found our chemical and even textile m inu facturers uttering similar complaints, I naturally devotel attention to elicit their views as to the causes. So far as I could gather them by conversa- tion, the one cause upon which there was most una nimity of conviction is that France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, and Switzerland possess good systems of industrial eineation for the masters and managers of factories and workshops, and that England possesses none. A second cause was also generally, though not so universally, admitted, that we had suffered from the want of cordiality between the employers of labour and workmen, engendered by the numerous strikes, and more particularly by that rule of many Trades' Unions; that men shall work upon an average ability, without giving free scope to the skill and ability which they may indi vidually possess. "Dumas, well known as a 'savant,' and who, from his position as a Senator of France and Presi dent of the Municipal Council, has many opp)r tunities of forming a correct judgment, assured me that technical education had given a great impulse to the industry of France. In going through the Exhibition, whenever anything excellent in French manufacture strikes his attention, his invariable question is, Was the manager of this establishment a pupil of the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufac tures ?' and in the great majority of cases he received a reply in the affirmative. General Morin, so well known as the Director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, has lately sat on a commission to examine into the state of technical education in other coun tries, and to extend it in France, and he informed me that their recommendations were likely to be promptly and largely acted upon. I mention for your Lordship's information that General Morin was of opinion that the best system for the techni cal education of workmen is to be found in Austria, though the higher instruction of masters and mana gers is better illustrated in France, Prussia, and Switzerland. "In 1853 I published a little work on ' Industrial Education on the Continent,' in whic% I pointe 1 out that as an inevitable result of the attention given to it abroad, and its negl !ct in England, other nations mast advance in industry at a much greater rate than our own country. I fear that this result is already attained for many of our staple industries. But as my opinion is only that of an individual, I trust that it may accord with the objects of the commission over which your lordship presides to take the evidence of some of the leadingsas m yjurors,self many of whom had as good opportunities of judging of the position which our country has taken iu this great international competition. "Permit me also to make another suggestion. My inquiry of 1853 into industrial education on the Continent was a private one, and had neither offi cial aid nor sanction, and now antiquated. It would be important that the Government, either through your Commission, or through the Committee of Council on Educ ►tion, should hold an official in quiry on this subject, awl should tell the people cf England authoritatively what are the ra,:ans by which the great States arc attaining an intellectual pre _ em i neucj among the industrial classes, and how they are making this to bear on the rapid progress of their national industries.—My lord, I have, &c., " LYONT PLAYFAIII. " The Right Lion. Lord Taunton." AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROCEEDING.—Pork and walnuts for supp:)r.—Ptinch. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —:lolloWay'S Ointment and Pills. Nature's blquitor.—Pain is the indicator of some disorder or disease, and should never b 3 neglected, for the pain of to-day may prove the agony of to-morrow. Holloway's medicaments stand pre-eminently forwara, and are every where commended for quickly removing all maladies wh en the least uneasiness I as discovered their seat and kind. These remedies so purify the blood and regulate its circu lation that every organ .acts perfectly and every secretion is natural, which is health, and may be secured by every invalid at a trifling outlay. The purpose of Holloway's remedies is to mitigate suffering, abolish pain, and extin guish disease, and they nobly effect this object. .03 6 t r i a l will convince the most sceptical. THE SUN, LONLON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1867. THE LOSS OP THE SHIP HAMLIN. OFFICIAL REPORT. Greenwich Police-court, May 18. Report of inquiry into the circumstances attend ing the loss of the ship Hamlin, near Cape Corn wall, on tho night of the 18th of April, 18G7 : The Hamlin was a ship-rigged, timber-built ves sel, built at Kennebunk, in the United States, and owned by Mr. Edward Mesnard, a merchant, of London. She had a crew of 26 all told, and was couar landed by Mr. John Napletou Beaver, who hold% a Board of Trade certificate of competency as mast er, originally granted in February, 1865, and rent wed on Ist May, 1867. Slic left the Thames for Cardiff on 31st March last, in charge of a Tri- pity-house pilot, having on board 430 to 500 tons of iron drops in ballast, chartered to take a cargo of fuel from Cardiff to Bombay. Mr. Thomas Burficld, who styles himself a coasting pilot and shipmasters' assistant, but not licensed by any pilotage authority, accompanied the ship, as being a person well acquainted with the navigation of the English and Bristol Channels. The Hamlin met with foul winds going down Channel, and was compelled to put into port several times. Eventually she took her departure from Plymouth on the 18th of April, with a wind about 5.11 r., sighting the Lizard about 7 p.m., and the Longships between 8 and 9 p.m. The weather was then thick, but a sight of the Longships was got about 10.15 p.m., when it bore S.E., and vas supposed to be between five and six miles distant. The course from that time till 10 45 p.m. was N.N.E., when it was altered to N.E. by E. E. A few minutes after 11 the pilot went below for seven or eight minutes to take some refreshments, the master being then on deck. Whilst he was below he felt the ship broach- ing to, and he immediately ran up, and on going to the wheel he found the ship heading E. by N. by the binnacle compass. He ordered the helm instantly " hard a starboard," but before the ship had time to pay off, breakers were reported under the lee bow, when he ordered the helm " hard a-port," and imme diately the ship struck on the bridge of rocks lying between the Brisons and the land. This was about 20 minutes after 11. p.m. As soon as the ship struck, the topsails were got down and the boats launched, and in an hour or an hour and a half the whole of the crew left the ship and landed safely in Sennen Cove. On returning to the ship about 9 a.m. of the 19th :she was found full of water, with her bilge stove in, and a total wreck. From the facts above stated, it appears clearl;, , that the loss of the Hamlin was caused by the im proper courses steered after passing the Longships. W hen that light was last seen, at 10.15 p.m., bearing S.E., it was supposed to be distant 5 or 6 miles, whereas, in fact,the distance could nothave exceeded a mile or mile and a half, and consequently the change of course to N.E. by E. E. before pasJng Cape Cornwall was a wrongful act, causing the loss of the ship. The question for the consideration of the Court was—who is the person responsible for this act ? The master alleges that the N.N.E. course was given by him, and that it was afterwards altered.; by the pilot Burfield with out his knowledge, and that, therefore, he ought not to be held responsible. It appears, how ever, by the evidence, that all the courses were given by the pilot, the master never during the passage from the Downs interfering, or being even consulted as to the courses to' be steered, but the pilot taking the entire charge in this respect. Under these circumstances the Court came to the following decision :—That the Merchant Shipping Act requires that every ship subject to the provisions of the act shall be under the charge of a certificated master, except in so far as there may be a concur rent charge of a licensed pilot in compulsory pilotage water. That the person who had charge of the llamlin was the master, Mr. Beaver, who was solely responsible for the navigation of the ship, and that he cannot exonerate himself from that respon sibility by pleading ignorance or misdirection in the orders given by the unauthorised person acting as pilot. That had Mr. Beaver attended to his duty as master by giving the courses himself, the alteration of course from N.N.E. to N.E. by E. E., which he alle.g,s was the cause of the ship going on shore, could not have happened Lut with his knowledge and on tits resiamsivinty, rrom which eosponsl , therefore, Ile cannot excuse himself. That, as it has been stated that the practice of employing per sons as coasting pilots who have no pilot's license is of very common occurrence, it becomes the more nee •ssary to mark the limits within which such as sistance can be lawfully employed. That the master may undoubtedly ft,k the advice or opinion of such a person, but he is bound to know that in following such advice he is to give all the necessary orders himself, and see them correctly executed. That the Court was willing to adopt the conclusion that in this case the alteration of the course from NN.E. to N.E. by E. E. was given by the pilot without the master's knowledge, and, possibly, had he known it he might, as he says, have advised a longer con tinuance on the N.N.E. course. And, under this impression, the Court was induced to visit the de fault with the lenient sentence of a suspension of the certificate of the Master, John Napleton Beaver, for three calendar months from the 18th May instant. The certificate so suspended is transmitted with this report. JAS. TRAIL, Stipendiary Magistrate. We concur in this report. R. B. BAKER) Nautic d Assess )rs, to towns which have been recently incorporated under the Corporations Act of 1835, as well as to those 208 ancient corporations which under the said act were extended and regulated. It will be noticed that the recommendations make no pro vision for one of the most obvious wants of the metropolis, viz., the provision of machinery for the expression of public opinion, in accordance with the usual sanctions and safeguards which our municipal institutions supply. In this and in other incor porated cities and towns the expression of public opinion (a cherished right of a free people) is exer cised under the sanction of the chief magistrate, in a building suited to the purpose, ith all the sur rounding conditions, which, while securing its ex pression, preserves it against abuse. The ab_ence of anv such sanction and securities in reference to a large portion of the metropolis is pressing itself upon the attentian of the Government; and it is singular that a committee appointed to suggest local govern ment for London should have omitted to deal with this pressing difficulty, which can be remedied only by the provision of free and efficient local government for the several districts of the metro polis. With reference to the letter of the secretary of the Metropolitan Municipal Association, re ferred to your committee, we beg to report that the views and objects of that association generally commend themselves to our judgment as sound and calculated to produce beneficial results as it re gards the local government of London ; and we are informed by parties connected with the said associa tion that a bill or bills will be immediately intro duced into Parliament on theit behalf, which will, embody their views. We are not prepared to sub-1, mit any specific recommendation as.to the form in which we should manifest our sympathy with the objects of the said association, but we recommend that we should be empowered to watch the progress of such bills when introduced into Parliament, and to take such steps in relation thereto as we in our judgment may deem desirable ; and that we should be empowered to oppose any attempts to subvert the free municipal government of this city, and to assist the other districts of the metropolis to the att tin malt of their undoubted rights of self government. And, further, that we should have full powers to confer with the Court of Aldermen, or any com mittee of your honourable court, upon any matters which in the course of our proceedings may appear to affect the interests of this city, and generally to take such steps as we may think necessary and ex pedient." The Tailors' Strike—Charges of Intim'chtion Yesterday, at the Marlborough-street Police court, Joseph Rearden, a tailor, was charged before Mr. Knox on a warrant with, by threats, intimida tion, and molestation, endeavouring to force cer- ,ain workmen to leave their employment, hiring, and work. Mr. Sleigh (instructed by Messrs. Valiance) ap peared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Ribton (in strutted by Mr. E. Lewis, of Great Marlborough street) for the defence. Mr. Sleigh, iu opening the case, said he proposed only to occupy the magistrate's attention for a short time, but he believed that after he had called his witnesses his worship would be of opinion that the prisoner had brought himself by his conduct within the statute. Mr. Sleigh then gave an outline of the case, and called Mr. Jas. Wm. Brown, son of Mr. Brown, of the firm of 011iver and Brown, tailors, 37, Sackville street, who said that on the evening of Monday last the prisoner came in and asked if he was in want of a hand. He asked the prisoner if he belonged to the union, when he replied that he had just come from the country. He told the prisoner that that was no answer to his question, as there was a union in the country as well as in London. He again asked the prisoner if he belonged to the union, and he said he knew nothing about it, bat had came up to London to better himself ; and in answer to another question the prisoner said that he had come . from Binning ham that afternoon, and that he lied been workint, there for a Mr. Moiling worth, who he (Mr. Brow t; ll2lieved to he a master tailor there. He then asked the prisoner Whether he worked in doors or out doors, and he said he worked in. Ile told the prisoner they were in want of coat hands most. and asked the prisoner whether he would like to comein then or in the morning. He said he would prefer going in at naonce,an in nd he (Mr. Brow n ) t o ld S chof i eld, a young their employ, t o l e t t h e pr i soner go in at once and see if there was a job, and the prisoner was shown a job — a coa t , an d was to make a part of it. About ten minutes after wards he (Mr. Bro wn ) was in the shop and the pri soner came to the door and took hold of it. He asked the prisoner what was the matter, and in a hurried manner he replied, " I could not work in a shop where they use filthy language," and he then went away. At the time they had 10 mon at work in the back part of the premises. In answer to air. Knox, the witness said the whole affair did not last a quarter of an hour. In cross-examination the witness said that when he asked the prisoner if he belonged to the union, he said, " ; I have nothing to do with them," and he then arranged with him to work, the priso ner unde,rstanding to work at the present terms. The prisoner did not make inquiries. A certain number of houses pay a certain rate of wages. There were 10 men at work, and his young man, Schofield, introduced the prisoner. He did not ask the prisoner his name. What passed between the prisoner and the others he could not tell. He did not know that an affray had taken place until a short time afterwards. The next morning he told the attorney what had occurred. 11e was sworn at the court when the warrant was applied for. The 10 men employed by them were non-unionists. Two of the men were in court. He applied the next day for a warrant. One of the men in the shop knew the prisoner's address. The- matter was placed in the hands of the attorney. He believed the prisoner had been locked up all night. Augustus E. Hirschfield, of Hart-street, Covent garden, said that at the present time he was em ployed by 011iver and Brown, tailors, of Sack ville-street, and had been fur 12 years. On Mon day evening he was at work with others on the pre mises, and in the course of the evening the prisoner was brought in by Schofield, the under foreman. On the prisoner coming in he looked round and asked what they said in front of the unionists and the Bon-unionists, and he told the prisoner that non-unionists worked in the shop. The prisoner then pulled off his coat and waistcoat and sat down, and asked Schofield who was to be his partner and what he was to do, and the prisoner had part of a coat given to him, and when he got it he jumped up and looked round and began to dress himself, and said, "I am surprised at a lot of young men like you sittinf, here. You arc a lot of dungs." The word "Ines means men who work under the men belongin g to the union. He asked the prisoner why he sat down with the " dungs." He said, " I know the likes of you ; you live near Covent. garden. I knew you before, and just wait for you ; and God strike me dead I'll smash your nose in." The prisoner did not say anything more in reference to the trade. The prisoner afterwards spoke to a young man he knew, telling him that he was surprised at a yount , manlike him sitting there. The prisoner was not in the room more than ten minutes. In cross- exam i nation the w it nes s said there were ten men sitti ng pretty close together , a nd the pri soner's partner f ace d t h e p r isoner. "bungs" hid a certain me an i ng - in the tra d e . It was applied to those workin g aga i nst t h e ru l es of the trade. He had not often been called one himself. It was an op probrious te rm, used w h en th e y got angry. It was only made use o f at t h e p r es 2 nt time because there was more point in it. It was only with those work ing out and those working in that it was used. He was not pleased at what the prisoner said, but he did not know that he was particularly angry. He asked the prisoner why he sat with the " dungs," but not in a particularly loud voice. The prisoner did not sit down many minutes. Ile never men tioned the name of the Green Dragon (the house where the tailors on strike assemble). Something was said by the prisoner about a wager. He said, "Now, men, y ou see I've won my wager." He did not say what th e wa ger was. He did not tell the prisoner that he would wait for him outside. No one asked the prisoner what the wager was, and no one said they would wait for the prisoner outside. By Mr. Sleigh—The term "dung" had only come into use since the strike hid commenced. Samuel Soloman, in the employ of Messrs. 011iver and Brown—l saw the prisoner come into the work shop with Schofield. The prisoner asked what was the meaning of the word unionists. Having been told, he sat down to his job ; but afterwards got up, and said he could not work in that shop, adding that they were all a set of " dun ;s," and turning to Hirschfield said, " I know you ; you live about Covent-garden. I shall wait for you, and will punch your nose or head." The prisoner used this lan guage in an offensive manner to Hirschfeld. The prisoner said if they wanted his name it was Joe Reardon. Cross-exatnined —Hirsolgeld tried to explain to the prisoner the tcrm3 of the union men. The pri soner used a variety of threats to Hirschfeld. Robert Foale, in the employ of Messrs. 011iver, corroborated the previous witnesses. The men in the shop were not afraid of the prisoner's threats, but they were afraid there might be a lot of the same sort waiting in the street. Mr. Ribton considered the case trumpery and absurd, and a ridiculous attempt to bring the pri soner within the terms of the statute. There could be no mistake about the words of the statute. They were quite explicit ; and as the statute was a highly penal one the words must be construed literally. Now he contended that the evidence showed there was no case whatever against the prisoner. Mr. Knox would remark there was a broad and clear case of threats and intimidation, taking the words used by the prisoner in their common accep- ,ation. Mr. Ribton would contend that the words used by the prisoner were only the angry reply of a man who had been aggravated by taunts and jeers from his fellow-workmen. If every trumpery quarrel and trifling misunderstanding were to be dragged in and 'connected with the strife now going on be tween masters and workmen it would only serve to throw an air of ridicule on the whole proceedings. There was nothing to shoe that the prisoner in tended to intimid ite any one, or tolprevent any man from working for a master. There was no mention of the strike throughout the oceurreuce, and there fore he was justified in saying the strike had nothing to do with the matter. lie submitted that the law permitted workmen to combine to settle their rate of payment; it was the only means that labour possessed to withstand the tyranny of capital. But then he admitted there must be no violence or intimidation, and he would go further, and say if a conviction took place in . this instance the result would be that the police courts would be besieged with cases of a paltry character, brought there for purposes that needed no definition, and the law would be called upon to deal with pretended offences as if resulting from the strike, when they were really nothing more than mere ebullition of ill-temper or anger, that might arise strike or no strike. He would ask for a re mand, as he had witnesses to produce who would be able to place the case in its correct light. Mr. Knox wished to know the nature of the evi dence. Mr. Ribton said the witnesses would prove it was only an absurd frolic; that the prisoner made a bet of a gallon of beer that he would get work, and that what he did was done to win his bet. Mr. Knox did not think such evidence would in duce him to change his decision. He must hold the prisoner in custody if he consented to an adjourn ment, and refuse bail. Mr. Ribton made a strong appeal for bail, but Mr. Knox declined to accept bail, as the proba bility was if the prisoner was released on bail he would not be seen in that court again. ANOTIIER Conelly was next charged with another in conspiring to prevent Joseph Hope from working for his employer, Mr. Bowater, of llanover-street, and with violently assaulting him. Mr. Sleigh slid the assault was a violent one, an I as till other man charged htd absconded, h. 3 must ask for substantial bail, as an a ljournment was re- cinired. . Mr. Knox faced the bail at two sureties in £lOO each. SPIRIT OF VIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIDIES.--We have just achieved one of those de scents which whether it be one or many, whether it be intended or much against inclination, whether a feat, a folly, or a casualty, we do not know, and never shall know. One occasionally reads of men who have suddenly found themselves, how they know not, at the foot of a precipice, with nothing worse than a few scratches and a slight rent or two. They can just make out here and there they slid off the face of the cliff where not quite sheer, and that lower down their fall was broken by branches and twigs. The mud and sand at the foot of the cliffs, too, did their duty. If there was a fixed idea on the subject of Reform at the commencement of this ses- sicni, it was a hard and fast line, with the security of ratepaying, to be drawn somewhere. That por tion of the public which finds mental food and solid fact in electoral returns was busily calculating, with the most careful deduc ions and vigilant corrections, boa , many of each class a given suffrage would give us in every city and borough. Notes doubled and trebled called attention to the cases, where at £6, the new electors Would out-number the old ones, and so change the substance and character of the constituency. These alarms, which were sounded all last year, had so far told, either on leaders or on followers, that even the suffrage upon which the House had at last agreed last session did not re appear this spring without a load of securities and compensations \ It is evident that only three months ago the majority of the Cabinet, the whole Conser vative party, and more Liberals than chose to con fess, regarded the £6 ratepaying franchise as a very ugly descent to make all at once, and very likely to overmaster the political engineers who were trying to land us safely at the lower level. But, hap - pily, or unhappily, as the event may show, at least one head in the Cabinet knew that it was necessary to make a good bid for Reform; that it would not be sufficient to keep in the track of the last bill ; and that a measure out of which every novelty would be knocked in debate, and nothins , left but the old Whig proposal, would be ruin to the Cabinet. As the , conclusion was foregone, small inducement was necessary. But it was found in the black looks of the house, in the eyes that opened and the ears that quickened at the announcement of an old Liberal measure in new Conservative harness. So what has been called the Ten Minutes' Bill was abandoned almost as quickly as it had been conceived, and we found ourselre3, to the surprise of many excellent people, landed on Household Suffrage, guarded with all the securities and counterpoises that could be invented or itna gined. That was the first stage of the glissade, and in performing it we acquired an impetus which some of us enjoyed very much, though aware that we were now carried off our legs, and could not say where we should find . ourselves. Then came the question of the securities. These had been already foredoomed by the dissentients in the Cabinet, but, as often happens, they had seen, not the coming event, but only its . shadow. The securities they seemed to have some sort of respect for, only like other securities, it was thought they would be swept away in a few years, and under the blast of agita tion. We have not had to wait for a Reformed Parliament, an unexpected crisis, or the popular impulse ; for all these securities, whether negative or positive, whether disfranchising or enfranchising, have been strangled in their very birth, abandoned by their authors, and yielding not even the oppor tunity of a single hour's triumph to any supposed foe. They have been knocked away one after another, or suffered to fall by their own weight, as cheerfully as all combine to release a newly-built ship from shore and stay as she glides down her. ways into deep water. Where the resolution was to let nothing hinder, it is not easy to ascribe any reality of intention to any of these securities. It is not easy to suspect Mr. Disraeli of faith in so invidious an exception as the stipulation for two years' residence in the lower class of _voters, or in the newly-created anomaly of dual votes. But the chief of these securities was that personage who has been the true hero of this almost fabulous Session, and whom his friends must have sup posed to be raised up by Providence in these latter days for the deliverance of his country—the com pound householder. A year ago he was a myth to all but parochial authorities, and the landlords and tenants of small houses most of us only see as we fly over them on railway viaducts. The whole sys tem of a legal composition for rates has come in very recently, gradually, and rather insidiously. Mr. Henley calls it "an invention of Old Nick," and Mr. Bright says it has never found its way into the favoured borough of Rochdale. On the whole, and taking a calm, dispassibnate view of the de parted hero, once tined ; a 8 it seemed, to aye his METROPOLITAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The Local Government and Taxation Committee of the city of London, appointed in March, 1866, to watch the proceedings of the select committee of ' the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the local government and local taxation of the me tropolis, and to take such steps in respect thereof as might be deemed advisable, have recently sent in a report to the Court of Common Council, in which they express their opinion of the general scope and aim of the 31 resolutions of the select committee of the House of Commons on metropoli tan local government, anti conclude with some practical recommendations in reference thereto. , The tendency of the more important of these re solutions, if carried into effect, would be (says the report) to accomplish the following objects, viz.:— " 1. The erinction of the county of the city of London, which, it is propose,l, should be included in a county of the metropolis ; the abolition of the elective magistracy of the city of , London ; and a similar interference with portions of the metropoli tan counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, and the authority vested in the justices thereof. 2. The elevation of the Metropolitan Board of Works, ori ginally created principally for the main drainage of the metropolis, into a governing municipal council for the whole of London, to be called the Municipal Council of London. That council to be appointed p a rtly by justices of the p e ace, partly by the Crown directly, partly by the governing body of each dis trict, and partly by direct representation of the ratepayers. 3. Such council to exercise the powers now possessed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, to which are to be added supervision over water and gas supply, railways, &c. 4. The existing divisions of the metropolis are to be readjusted, and existing boundaries to be obliterated at the will of the Government. 5. Local boards, such as vestries and district boards, to be merged throughout the metropolis, and the united bodies to be termed common councils ;' such councils to elect annually each a chairman and deputy-chair man, 6. The police force to be one for the whole metropolis. 7. That, so far as neus:ary to the carrying out of the resolutions, all local acts are to be repealed ; and it is recommended that the Go vernment should introduce a bill accordingly." The report then concludes as follows :—" It is not neces sary that we should point out that the recommenda tions alluded to tend to undermine municipal and representative government in the metropolis and elsewhere throughout the kingdom. To reconstruct the local government of London on such a principle would not only be inexpedient and unjust as it re gards the ancient city of London, but would disap point the expectations of the inhabitants of other districts of the metropolis, who naturally look for free municipal institutions similar to those a cc orded ‘l. country, we must say that such an offspring of semi-pauperism and low speculation seemed hardly adapted for the high function assigned him. It was an odd quarter to go to for the salvation of the country. What if no such practice had been in vented ? Then, as composition is by no means an unmitigated evil, but, on the contrary, in many cases a convenient accommodation to facts, why should it entail disfranchisement? Well, the very question bad been already asked, and it had been admitted that there might be a percentage of righteous men fit for the suffrage even among com pound householders. So our merciful rulers pro posed a way of escape for them which would at least leave compound householders answerable for their own doom. But then, not to repeat all the hard words about " fines" and impossible labour, and so forth, there was the moral certainty, in which we all agreed, that these poor people would not qualify of triair own accord, and the moral support of these masses would be lost to the new constitution. So, after much trouble had been spent in the vain en deavour to make this man, half ratepayer, half pau per, wholly a citizen, Government accepted, as if hailing a lifeboat from a wreck, the mild suggestion to abolish the compound householder whenever he stood in the way of Parliamentary Reform. In stead of his fulfilling his mission by eating up the worst end of the new constituency, the new consti tuency has _done this for him. But here h slight attempt was made, or seemed to be made, to arrest the downward progress of the bill. A hand was stretched out, and it grasped a twig, or a straw, or a little sand. Could not composition still be adjusted to the franchise by the amicable co-operation of landlord, tenants, and all parties ? As composition for rates is not itself the simplest thing in the world, and electoral registration still less so, all sides finally recoiled from the effort to make them work together harmoniously, easily, and without the certainty of corrupt abuses. SO down went the compound house holder again, this time for good, and he is now his torical. Then came the enfranchised householder's last peril. If everybody is to have a vote who pays rates, then rates will be paid for everybody, and it will cost less to pay rates for a small tenement than for a larger. "So don't let's have the very little people ; draw a line somewhere," say Mr. Powlett Scrope and not a few Liberals--even Mr. Bright hiniself, but for congruities and proprieties,• would gladly say the same, and do it too. But there was no receding. The pace was too good to stop. The bill went over this little hitch as easily as an express train over a nutshell. The principle of household suffrage is to be carried out, and there are to be no sharp lines between a man paying ls. 6d. a week for his cottage and his neighbour who pays fifteen pence. Meanwhile, quits by the way, and with a sort of Paul Pry expression of " I hope I don't in trude," came in the lodger, who is now one of the great British family. Bat then came the real down fall, the crash, the smashing, the dislodged rubbish, the broken branches— everythingtoming down with a run. Down came all the educational franchises, orders, degrees, certificates, congregational "calls," and every mode by which learning or doc trine,. or spiritual vocation, loves to authenticate itself. Down came the money franchises, funds, shares, and savings-banks. Whether they were ever intended to stand, and whether anybody ever thought them worth a straw in a bill which gives the suffrage to every man who pays a rate, is a mystery, into which we will not in trude. But when all this stage property had been swept away, then came what some people used to think a vastly more serious question than any scheme of Borough Reform. The County Franchise had to be settled. We have had bills and debates about it every year, we think, for thirty years. Sometimes these debates were animated, and even important. They were always amusing, and we used to hail the pleasant anniversary. It will come no more. Mr. Locke King's day will dis appear from the Calendar. It has been settled at a private meeting of county members, and in a debate which, short as it was, was superfluous, that £5 copyhold and £l2 occupation franchises will meet the views of all parties, and we are not at all sure Mr. Bright is not beginning to thank Heaven that there is a county constituency. How long is this pace to last, and shall we dash through the re distribution in three or four morning sittings? It would take very rough driving to do that, for there are ups and downs, and sharp turnings, and big boulders on the road ; and every borough is a sepa rate question, which it is easier to get into than get out of. However, we shall see. Where there is a will there is a way, and there certainly is a will to pass a Reform Bill. THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON THE REPEAL OF OBSOLETE LAWS IN IRELAND.—SiIICR no time is more favourable than the present for putting an end to the injustice still perpetrated in Ireland by the enforcement against Catholics of religiOus dis tinctions, no effort ought to be omitted to press upon Parliament the wisdom of removing from the statutes of England every penal law, obsolete or Still In lOree, ibbwi== v 1.-.. Vitto/IVIV.; SUD jects. We are glad that even a partial effort is being made in thiS direction • that certain oaths, insulting to Catholics, are likely to be soon abo lished by the bill introduced by Sir C. O'Loghlin, Member for the County of Clare, and also that Mr. M'Evoy, Member for the County of Meath, is about to assail another of those penal enactments, namely, the Ecclesiastical Titles' Act, to the gross injustice of which we have already directed public attention. But, instead of having private members nibbling at the penal laws in this manner, we would 'call on the Government of the country to deal with the whole subject of them as wise states men ought to do, and bring in a general measure repealing every penal law affecting our Catholic fellow-subjects. This would be the manly and generous mode of acting in the matter. If the pre sent Government undertake the passing of such a measure, there is no doubt of their possessing the power necessary for carrying it into law ; and by this one simple act of justice they will do more to disarm rebellion, and conciliate the masses of the people of Ireland, than they can ever accom plish by the suspending of the Constitution, the passing of Arms' Bills, the issuing of Special Commissions, and the p un i s h men t o f unfortunate rebels. We do not blame the Government for dealing firmly with those who disturb the public peace ; but, whilst they punish on the one hand, we call upon them, at the same time, to remove all just causes of irritation—and there are many such—still existing in that long-misgoverned coun try. In our article of last week, on the subject of British rule in Ireland, we showed by the words of the Act of Parliament, 10th George -IV., c. 7, section 25, the wanton insults offered to the Catholic judges, to the Catholic sheriffs, and, in their persons, to the Catholic people of that kingdom. This same penal law equally applies to every Catholic chief magistrate and corporate officer, and there are few things productive of greater mischief in Ireland at the present day— for it keeps up a perpetual ill-feeling in the minds of the people, and prevents the possibility of their forgetting the old penal code of bygone times. The Catholics of Dublin, for instance, form the overwhelming majority of that, the second city in •her Majesty's dominions. Catholics also com pose the great majority of the Dublin Corporation, and have the power, if they choose to exercise it, of selecting a Catholic Lord Mayor every year. But such is their generosity that they have elected a Protestant to that high and honourable office every alternate year since the passing of the Muni cipal Reform Act, although the Protestants kept them totally excluded from the Corporations for centuries before O'Connell flung open their doors, as he had' previously opened the portals of the British Parliament to the Catholics of these king doms. The fact here stated proves the kindly feeling of the Irish Catholics, and surely it is not creditable to the Imperial Legislature to maintain a law at the present day which would deprive the Catholic Lord Mayor of his office if he were to enter his own church in his robes any, Sunday or Holy-day in the year. The Protestant Lord. Mayor attends his house of worship in Dublin in his official robes. The Catholic Lord Mayor invariably attends the Cathedral Church in Marl borough-street, on the first Sunday after entering on his official duties, but is obliged by the existing. penal law, to attend without his robes, or any of the insignia of his office. This distinction is so hurtful to the minds of the people of Dublin, that many thousands of them, after the church becomes filled, remain in the adjoining streets until the service is ended, and during all that time are engaged in condemning the law which subjects their magisterial representative to this indignity, and which, in his person, insults and wounds the feelings of every Catholic in the kingdom. This open insult to their religion causes them to dwell on the penal laws of former times, and keeps up the tradition of the wrongs their fathers had en is this wise on the part of dured. • Now, we ask, our Legislature ? Would it not be better to allow the Irish people to forget the past, than to have their minds constantly embittered by such recollec tions ? We ask our Protestant countrymen to make it their own case, and say if they would like to be stamped as the inferiors of Catholics, or of the people of any other religion ? We know they would not submit quietly to any such degradation, and we would, therefore, call upon them to act towards Irish Catholics just as they would have others act tower& themselves. It is evident, indeed, that this remnant of Irish persecution, for conscience' sake, cannot last much longer; for we know that our leading Statesmen, on both sides of the House, are in favour of the immediate repeal of all such enactments as are in force at the present day in Ireland. These enactments, affecting laymen, which WO h a y ° h er e pointed out, are bad enough ; but the penal laws now in force aga inst the eccl esias ' tics of the Catholic Church are still worse. 13 1 the 24th section of the 4th George IV., c. enacted that, "if any person" (other than Yro testants and Presbyterians) " ' shall assum e or use the name, style, or title of arc hbishop of any p ro- * vince, bishop of any bishopric, or clean of all E deanery, in ngland or Ireland, he shall , for everi such offence, forfeit and pay the sum . of one in in c i red pounds." Such is the law passed in 182 9 , a n t which is still in force. But this law I° another i deemed sufficiently stringent, and hence Act, the 15th and 16th Victoria, C. 60, commoll called the Ecclesiastical Titles' Act, Was p asse es some two-and-twenty years after, which imrc e cativo', the same enormous penalty upon any ecclesiastic who shall assume or use the title o' any town or place whatsoever within this rea li li Let us now see what the effect would be this law were actually enforced. All ecclesiasticat jurisdiction in the Catholic Church, th ron g the entire world, emanates from the Pope of Boni; and is by him bestowed on the several arc and bishops, within the provinces or dioceses re and spectively assigned to them. It is by virt ue of too jurisdiction that the archbishops and bish o p s d e r enabled to govern and control those placedl i „ n r . ty them. For example, it is not by any aun ; "„ 1 8 ,1 possessed by him, as Paul Cullen, that the Caru re - t Archbishop of Dublin can condemn all but - it society, or any member of any sach society; is by virtue of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction c°1:0 ferred on him as Archbishop of Dublin that exercises his authority. Let us suppose, tilen/I' that any priest in Dublin, or any part of the Pr„'''. vince committed to his Grace's spiritual a' that were to favour Fenianism to-morrow, and the archbishop deemed it his duty, as he de ci he edly would, to punish him for such conduct' re could properly do so only by signing the s eni ors, " Paul, Archbishop of Dublin." And it folocs, therefore, that in order to discharge h i s solein n , o , Go duty to the Queen, and render a service to the 61 t he vernment, by preserving the public peace , 1 1,1 Catholic Archbishop of Dublin would be coeloc i ' to violate this most needless and absurd pen 3 1 , 1 0 31 1% and be obliged to subject himself to a fine °' hundred pounds. Could any Government, We enforce such a=law at the present time ? Certain t'„s not. And if the law cannot be enforced —but iai the contrary, the Government must feel than der to the Catholic bishops for violating it, in or in to preserve the public peace--wherc is the usi.eie keeping such a law on the statute-book ? Whavap have said of his Eminence Cardinal Cullenu;gii4; plies equally to every other archbishop and unties in these kingdoms. In the discharge o f the u-00 of their sacred office, they are compelled t ° re, the name and style of their See ; this '„ n a itot therefore, daily compelled to violate and oppressive law. It is the duty of all Catho -1 ecclesiastics, but more escially of those to vated to high position, tot each subniss i°ll „ of the constituted authorities ; but the cffe e ,`; be their teaching on this head are likely . 1 1 ' 0 1' weakened by the very fact that they 'orb ° 1 4,ear cate the doctrine of obedience to the laws are " act selves obliged to violate some of their ° l ot ments every day. We are certain, howeve r ! to the nature and folly of these laws only reelul% be generally understood by the people of f%no it is $ in order to have them immediately repealed. repeal mistake to suppose that it would s uffices t° rfteirforti the Ecclesiastical Titles' Act, in order to L o ose liberty to the Catholic hierarchy. For this the portions of the 10th George IV., C. 7, T her e we have referred, must also be repealed. „fittire, another enactment still more p e nal in eta„'; ant i than any of those we have above adverten,-;: t 'holi c that is the law regarding 'the regular the clergy of these kingdoms. We believe tha t the W existence of such a law is not known the ; e re, bulk of our fellow-countrymen, and that , lf i t ajoiis they would soon insist on the repeal of 5 ° 4 .; ) 0 0 c i a statute. It is enacted by the 29th sec "or the 4th George IV., .c. 7, that if any ft fte r of any society of the regular clergy shal l, to th is the commencement of this Act, come in (Atilt/ realm, he shall be deemed and taken to b,e_ of a misdemeanour, and, being thereof ',n o be convicted, shall be' sentenced and oedereu,‘e tern' banished from the United Kingdom for t s F ob; o . f his natural life." -In a former article on ti" pe as' )ed, we told our readers that there Was ~,r e seli , law in force in these kingdoms at the fi to bA" day which sentenced regular clergymen, .1 , "' A transported for being alive in this rotu ill 'oeul c ' although we are sure such a thing must have ho , o 0, 0 almost incredible to many, they canlno w i vor° doubt of the fact, as we have qu oted the . . i i per t of the Act of Parliament. The reader eo ceive, by the wording of the Act, that ni rfo rto' for committing any crime nor even for P e o ins any clerical duties, but, literally, fo r 4 elk alive" within any part of these kingcl° lll ; por t ' l ; these Catholicpriests are liable tO don Hence, it follows, that if the her or. .Empress of the French were to con e O ver again, on a visit to our Queen, and b rilig o f t ll ,l a chaplain of any of the regular orders of Catholic clergy, the imperial chaplain to 1 ' be liable, according to the letter of the la lv ' t os o seized, incarcerated, tried, and sentenced t t e 00 1 portation for the period of his natural lif e ,: o a b e i r lon g is England, we repeat, statute-book, despite her. boasted Christiali,l)liv_Ae' to preseriv., l ter the enlightenment of the age in whic h ," e goo" such obsolete laws? We are sure that ti ` to the sense of the country will soon put an end er ii last remains of the barba' rous code f° llll , lo lo. force against the Catholics of these king - COUNTRY MARKETS. .—TtTESDAY. At our market to o -day there was a moderatelek's ptilo° English wheat., which sold steadily a t lestl,,bis I",je' Foreign in middling request, and samples se- • di 01 rates. Malting barley quiet, at lower terms' ~g.,1 11d . 1)3 scriptions much inquired for, but no ne 011;1;5. beans, and peas disposed 'of in re t a il at full pr 1 ,2 5:; v: 43 ; English white wheat, 60s to 655; red, 605 t° ` 6 ",2$ to 5 95 , sic and Konigsberg, 63s to 70s ; Balti c red, 57$ to 0 0, Danish and Hamburg, 62s to 645; Russiall,Aterr3°,io Barley, English, 36s to 49s ; grinding, 31 * -- 11, 0 ' 4$ 34s to 35s 6d: Oats, new English, 26s to 286)00,,,it0, 11 .4 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 58 s t o 60s; to 445. Peas, English blue, 424 to 44s Od; fore'b 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. t ie LYNN—TUESDAY. ola litfOf Now wheat, 66s to 68s ; new red, 60s to 655;parlttesa 4 —s to —a ; old red, —s to —s per 36 steno. oats,;,ol malting, 47s to 51s; secondary, 423 to ss. 66 . i• 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 428 t ° 87s to 418 per 28 stone. _`het MONMOUTHSHIRE—TuEspI`i. boellir7te, At the local markets the business done I",' s r ,hor" ~.ioo ,' moderate. Home-grown wheat has been ',,„,,t r; 1 •, i" ply. Foreign wheat offered moderately, at fin- OP r ,cl' rates, with a sluggish business. Barley .I"Auile the 1 3t % 0° previous quotations. Oats barely es P 'd, Vance. Malt was in moderate re t• Be a fe ' ques • L, • r change. whell, er io I The following aro the average quotations:la ; iw r id' 7s Gd to 8s Od per bushel ; white 7s 9d to 8 _, 5 r ( - I' , l fs, 261 6s Od to 6s 6d ; malting barley, to 48$ 11 - jt; u lt. ing ditto, 34s to 36s Od; beans, 435 to 45$ ; sv maintaine" ,owe to 27s Od ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s Gd. „fle SALISBURY.—TvEsDAT. .0 woe' At this market to-day the supply of wheB„telsles mooed, rate. The trade was inactive. and last ':-ted del declined slightly. Barley met with a 1 01 0 , tifi' t $ 0 and no advance in price obtained. Oats, r it qui ° ' ruled dull, but were unaltered in value. ''"" 3 a f f , ° l4 l fully as deur. ' ' vt, t 11°10,10 The following are the quotations: -1‘ - e a 3 o s • be:, 13-, 1, 62s to 72s ;_ barley, 32s to 455; oats, 245 to u fi ! o ut °- P to 58s ; and poas, 40§ to 48s pex oats 21, ,a ditto, 7. 6d per linalifil ;'Best -bread, 15d ; houschtN per 81b loaf. Flour, 46s to 50s per sack. Pace per C te O n A a L t I W le a u l g ls h r HaswellMt' o (j i tClifießolthe 131 M. - . 1 1 0 S. d. Hall etto n . . . 191198 00 B HW Id i Yi d al Fe e ' a i 1.1.3.V1T°:.-l ii . t :3 , : i i ;111. • :'.: I gi° 6 Hetton ~ ~ Lyons l7 0 Hastings lia r " ' J- mum"' l7 3 in , Ships at. market, 19--501 d..-• DUDLEY—On the 25_t c h o l i oninsrett:lH,Elta. Haworth, tids:1,00:::: p e, the i C w o if u e n o to f s ii s j o e f ut. Dudley, o " f ' a son. PA rivi4 HAWORTII—On the 25th inst., at Der en 133i tte ll ' r MANS—On the 28th lost., at Iloneyborote'l tJi;il3 the wife of Colonel Goter.Mann, 03. , I°3'6 of a son. Marriages. § ir •t 5 il' ci . Jol 3° ( if „le MUTER —FORBES—On the 2Sth ill St. Stt ."'' il n clo ~- , '" copal Church, Edinburgh, Andrew'Mute e d ,et o'" " , ton, Dumbartonshire, to Margaret Stocks, e,',4l,ire. I f ° ter of Mr. J. Forbes, lately ot Culross, Pert' t3 ,' t. ccoe' PHIPSON—NEwcomE—On the 28th inst., Bt fg t,, (' at' li , Church, Stamford, Wilson %V. Pnipson, tonevoll' wood Villa, Pntnev, to Elizabeth 11°9/*.:1,,0ag daughter of F. P. Istewcome, I'lci., solicitor, son, Leicestershire. tr ,,, Deaths. ~, 131 1 I ,' :f Of ''. t C l'' ' BATTEN—On the 28th inst., Maria, the 114,:':h_stroc., of Yolk Cottage, Park-hill, and 1-1 6 , 1 ,11 0 05 10 ham, aged 49. DONNE - On the 28th inst., at Millbrook ,lir26e' v,4, Cary, Somerset, Henry James Donne, age" poael, EvAffs—On the 28th inst., at Brighton J°11:300. ,„,iOO of 78, Belsize-road, and Old Change,:ii°ll r 00 , 3*.rel t HARRis—On the 28th inst. at Ifascotub,l43o3o3,P Mr. Henry Harris, late of'Tilford, near / , , t 30. aged 82. a ' / TAYLOR —On the 26th iust., at Castle COY, s°Plers Taylor, M.D., M.R.C.S.L'„ aged 61. -- --9.. -71 , 1 1)1 40 , 1 11 1 London: Printed and Publishd by WILT-JlXaDlee, _ nt i '• o f No. 112, , Strand, Printer,e a t TO SOin tue 0 01,- St ran d, in the P recinct of the Savoy, Bliddleoo3.—TL.Urfiday, as so, taol. 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