The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-25 00:00:00

Bailway and other Companies. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. Yesterday a Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held at Manchester ; Mr. George Wilson pre sided. The three bills of the company now before Parliament were submitted to the meeting. The first was a bill to authorise the completion of the loop, line between Blackburn and Burnley ; the second was a bill to vest the Fleetwood line in the bands of this company, jointly with the London and North-Western Company; and the third a bill to enable the Halifax and Ovenden Company to vary the route of their line, increase their capital, and for other purposes. The first and second bills were agreed to unanimously, but Mr. Andas and Mr. Blacklock opposed the third. Mr. Andus said the line would never pay 2 per cent. On the understanding, however, that the directors, who had power to spend £30,000 on behalf of the company in this undertaking, would take no steps without consulting a meeting of shareholders, the opposition was withdrawn, and the resolution approving the bill was agreed to without further dissent. HIGHLAND. The directors of this company state in their re port that the revenue for the half-year ending the 28th of February last amounted to £95,353, and the expenses to £44,570, leaving a balance of £50,783. To this was added £1,009 from the pre ceding half-year, making the net revenue £51,792. The interest on debentures, temporary loans, &c., amounted to £27,129, the dividends on the five classes of preference shares to £20,936, and the proposed dividend on the ordinary stock at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum, £3,650, leaving a balance of £77. The increase in the traffic and the diminu tion of the toll between Stanley Junction and Perth would have enabled the directors on this occasion to recommend payment of a substantial addition to the dividend of 1 per cent. paid on the original stock for the corresponding period of last year, but £10,427 was then openly charged in the accounts against capital, being partly interest on incomplete works, and partly excess of interest on temporary loans. The directors had de parted from that system last half year, and they had resolved to do the same now, and the result was that the interest charged against revenue for the past half year was £10,348 more than in the corresponding half of the preceding year. If charged to capital as before, and added to the present sur plus, it would have afforded a dividend of nearly 4 per cent. per annum to the ordinary shareholders at the present time. The traffic showed an average increase of £350 a week. All the debentures falling due had been either renewed or replaced at 41, per cent. interest. It was expected that the Sutherland line would be opened as far as Golspie early in the autumn. Capital account showed that £2,768.645 had been expended, leaving a balance of £10,655. MADRAS. It appears that this company have paid into the Treasury at the India-office the sum of £94,461 on account of the issue of new £2O shares. ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET. The half yearly ieneral meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Capt. Mangles in the chair. The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of which we have already given, was taken as read. The work ing account for the year 1866 showed that £210,264 had been received under the Government contract, £214,782 for freight, and £319,207 for passage money—total, £744,253. The expenditure, includ ing £181,164 for coals, £83,968 for wages, £115,354 for provisions, and £45,000 for insurance of ships, amounted to £509,079, leaving a surplus of £235,174. The profit and loss account, after pay ment of dividends and deducting £159,203 for de terioration of ships and for repair and renewal account, shove 1 a balance of £60,000 in favour of the company. The repair and renewal account showed a balance of £9,715 in favour of the com pany. The general reserve fund showed a balance of £9,940 in favour of the company, and the in surance account showed a balance of £228,426 in favour of the company. The company had on their list 19 steamships, of which the aggregite tonnage was 39,241 and the horse-power 9,:'80. The CHAIRNIAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said, as the accounts had for so ninny half years been presented to the shareholders in nearly the same form, it would be unnecessary for him to go into them at any length. The general reserve fund and the repair and renewal account were founded many years ago on a sound principle, and the company had derived the full benefit for which they had been founded. There had been a falling off in the receipts and a reduction in some items of expenditure during the past year. In the first three paragraphs of the report they would find the causes which had led to the reduction of the receipts as compared with 1865 ; but the directors considered that those causes were only of a temporary nature. The ships had run 13,000 additional miles, there was the monetary crisis which had restricted the passenger traffic, and had prevented merchants sending the usual quantity of goods. The yellow fever had an injurious effect on passenger traffic to the West Indies and to the Pacific. Those were the causes that led in a great measure to the reduc tion of receipts, together with the extended opera tion of the French mail service to the West Indies. The fourth paragraph in the report informed the proprietors of the steps taken by the directors to reduce the effect of the yellow fever that had become epidemic at St. Thomas, by keeping the company's vessels as much as possible out of its influence. He could bear witness to the great interest the late President of the Council, the Duke of Buckingham, had taken in the matter, and the various useful sug gestions he had made with a view to mitigate the effects of that visitation. (Hear.) In carrying out those plans, and in meeting the difficulties arising from quarantine laws at the various ports of call, extra expenses and unavoidable delays had oc curred. The mail service was performed under a sys tem of premiums for arriving before time and pen alties for being behind time ; the balance of those, however, resulted in giving £3,850 in favour of the company ; so that, under the disadvantageous cir cumstances referred to, he thought they had per formed the mail service tolerably well. He was glad and thankful to say that the sickness bad now quite left St. Thomas. Two Spanish frigates had recently stopped there for a fortnight without losing a man. It was a mistake to suppose that St. Thomas was unhealthy. The company's ships made 24 round voyages in the year, having 3,300 men on board their ships ; and he was glad to say that not a single passenger died on board, the mortality be ing confined to the men. In a period of 64 years 23,000 men in their ships called at St. Thomas, out of which 15 died of fever, and 14 from accidents. On the whole he believed the figures showed that St. Thomas was a healthy port. Its geographical position was favourable for the despatch of mails, and that port had also been selected by the French authorities for that purpose. With regard to the French mail service he was glad to say that the most friendly feeling;existed between the officers arid men of the two companies. The French com pany had placed tenders, boats, and other accom modation at the service of the company, which showed, as he had stated, that the most friendly feeling existed between them. In the disbursements for the past year there had been a reduction of £16,000 in the cost of coals, which had chiefly arisen from . the smaller consumption in the new ships. Two of their large ships, in spite of the increased speed, had consumed less than the other ships. rhe cost of some of the proviAons in the latter half of 1866, as compared with the same half of 1865, showed as increase of 50 per cent., while other items showed au in crease of 20 per cent. They had also to provide additional comforts for the poor fellows while remaining iu quarantine. The surplus on the working account of the past year was £24,440 less than in the year 1865. lie trusted that they would soon have an improvement, and that some additional traffic would arise to them from the French Exhibi tion, particulirly as the yellow fever had disap peared. Tile value of the fleet having been increased 1 1 by the addition of new shit. the sum set aside for repair and renewals amounted in 1866 to 419,000, which was £15,000 more than in 1865, and after paying off a debt of £1,500 remaining due in 1865, and spending £68,344 in repairs of ships and ma chinery, there remained a balance of £9,715 to the credit of that account, which was in a wholesome and safe state. He was glad to say that the graving dock at St. Thomas was nearly brought to comple tion, and although it would not prevent the neces sity of ships coming home for heavy repairs, it would be a great boon to the company to have the dock completed, and to be able to use it when requisite. With regard to the general reserve fund, he had told them at the last meeting it was not necersary to have so large a balance as £24,940. They had now transferred from it £15,000 to the credit of profit and loss, leaving a balance of £9,940 to the credit of that lurid, while the whole cost of the Con way and other ships for which it was intended to provide now stood in the books of the company at only £8,775. The reduced cost of the Solent was £11,658, of the Tamar £16,700, and La Plata in 1869 would stand at nil. Their position as ship owners would be that, at the end of the present con tract, five of their ships would stand at £l4 3s. 4d. each, which he thought was a very satisfactory posi tion, and would compare favourably with that of any other company. The continued satisfactory con dition of the insurance fund reflected credit upon the captains and officers of the company's service for having navigated the ships safely. The bonuses which bad been paid to the proprietors had been derived from that source. He mentioned this mat ter because the Colonial Secretary had called atten tion to the large profits the company were making by the undertaking ; but the profits of work ing were assisted from another source—namely, the insurance business. In the year 1862 the proprietors derived from the insurance of their own ships £45,000, or £3 a share; in 1863, £45,000; in 1864, £45,000 ; in 1865, £67,500, or £4 10s. a share ; in 1866, £52,500, or £3 103. a share, being an average of £51,000 a year for the five years, a result which mainly depended on the company having good officers in their service. The Board had had a letter from the Post• office authorities as to the company's ships calling at Plymouth, and had only charged £2,000 for the actual expenses so far incurred for that service, but the directors must be satisfied as to the safety of performing it, and that proper moorings be provided at Plymouth for their ships while there. That service would be commenced shortly. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report, and that a dividend be decl.ared of £3 10s. per share, together with a bonus of £1 10s. per share from the insurance fund, both free of income tax, payable on the 27th inst. He was reminded that the Panama and New Zealand Steam-packet Company continued to do their work with great regularity. 'They performed the longest voyage by steamers from port to port, being from Panama to New Zealand upwards of 6,000 miles. The per formance of that contract within the specified time was a great credit to the directors of the company and to the builders of the ships. The Right Hon. RUSSELL GURNEY, M.P., se conded the motion, which, after a few observations, was carried unanimously. In reply to questions, it was stated that the cost of the new ships was about £45 per ton. The profit to the company by the new route via Panama to New Zealand and Australia was £7,000, but owing to the prevalence during part of the time of yellow fever and cholera, it was no indication of what it would be under favourable circumstances. The retiring directors, Mr. H. C. E. Childers, ALP., and Mr. J. Greenwood, Q.C., were unanimously re-elected, and also Mr. H. C. Roberts, the retir ing auditor. On the motion of Alderman DARIN, the proceed ings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chair man and directors. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's ship the Prince Consort and Royal Oak have been ordered from Gibraltar to Malta. The armoured screw frigate. Royal Albert, 18 guns, 4,069 tons, 800-horse power, Capt. Frederick A. Herbert, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir George Rodney Mundy, K.C.8., left Spithead yesterday morning under steam for Ilalifax, to relieve the unarmoured screw line of battle ship Duncan, Capt. Robert Dixon, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.B. The account given yesterday in the columns of a contemporary of a supposed trial of her Majesty's ship Minotaur, in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, o❑ Tuesday, is incorrect. The trial of the ship over the measured mile was simply postponed owing to the strength of the wind, as stated in The Sun of yesterday, and was not owing to any imperfection in the working of her machinery. No engines that have ever been supplied to the Admiralty at any time worked more perfectly on their trial than did those of the Minotaur on Tuesday, or at any time when they have been under steam, and, above all, one of the condensers did not give out. Yesterday the first of the large 5-inch rolled armour plates, nearly 30ft. in length, manufactured in one slab at the Atlas Iron and Steel Works by Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, for the " conning" tower for the iron armour-plated frigate Hercules, 12, 1,200 horse-power, building at Chatham dockyard, was removed to the factory in the yard, where it will undergo the planing, slotting, and boring processes, in readiness for being bolted to the tower. Unlike the recon noitring tower erected in the Bellerophon, which was placed above the after armour-plated bulkhead, and close to the engine-room main hatchway, the obviously faulty situation of which was pointed out in The Sun when the tower was in course of erection in that vessel, the "conning" tower in the Hercules is placed in the forward portion of the ship, resting on the forward armoured bulkhead, of which it is, in fact, a prolongation. The situation selected for the look-out tower is without doubt the best which could be chosen, the view forward being uninterrupted by mast, rigging, and other gear, while from the com manding position the tower occupies the officer in charge will obtain a clear and uninterrupted view over and beyond every part of the ship, his orders to the engineers and the quartermaster at the wheel being communicated by telegraph. The greatest gain, however, in the removal of the tower to its present position is in its being away from the ship's machinery. On board the Bellerophon the disad vantage of this proximity is provided against by fitting the engine hatchways with strong iron grat ings to prevent shot and shell striking against the tower and falling among the machinery. Already rather more than one-half of the armour-plates which will protect the Hercules have been bolted to her sides, the plates already fixed fore and aft along her broadside battery consisting of one tier of plates 9 inches in thickness at her water-line, and three tiers each of 6 inches in thickness. To-day the first of the tier of 8-inch plates, intended to protect the guns along the central battery, will be fitted in place, and these will be followed by courses of 6-ir.ch plates to the fighting deck, the entire broadside being thus composed of plates of nine, eight, and six inches in thickness laid on the usual 12-inch teak backing, with a double " skin" of inch and a half plating rivetted against the ordinary iron framing. Along the forward bow battery the plats will be worked to a thickness of five inches, while at the stern beneath the ship's counter and in the other less ex posed portions of the frigate a thickness of armour plating of four inches, with the teak backing corre spondingly reduced, will be found sufficient. lip to the present time about one-half of the En field pattern rifles, stored in the ar►roury at Chatham, have been deTatched to the Tower, for the purpose of undergoing conversion to breech loaders on the Snider principle. About 30,000 stand of arms of military service still remain in store awaiting conversion, the authorities at the War Department having decided that no distribution of the new breech-loaders shall be made until there are a sufficient number converted for the whole of the troops to be furnished with them. The Government having decided on despatching the whole of the cavalry and infantry reinforce ments to India in the new screw steam transports building for the hon. Council of India, the embar kations this summer will not take place until con siderably later in the season, the detachments not leaving this country until AuguA or Sep hex: r THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVE_NING, APRIL 25, 1867. This arrangement will enable the troops to reach India as early in the season as under the old ar rangement of despatching them from England, by sailing vessels, in the months of June and July. Two of the transports will be employed in the con veyance of the troops from Suez to the Indian ports, and there will be engaged in conveying them from the English ports to Alexandria. Staff-Surg. Morphew, of the 4th battalion, has been appointed acting principal medical officer to the troops at Colchester, until the arrival of Surg. Fat long, 6th Dragoons. Three officers, two sergeants, two corporals, and six rank and file of the 4th and Bth depot battalions are under similar oilers to pro ceed to the llythe School of Musketry on the Ist of May. Staff-Assist.-Surg. Jay has been posted to the 4th depot battalion for temporary duty. Capt. Amtruther and Lieut. Junes, 94th Regiment, arc under orders to join the depot of their regiment ; Capt. Godwin, Ensigns Rivett and Paterson, Ist battalion 16th Foot, and one drummer, 65 rank and file, one sergeant, and three privates, 100th Regi ment, are held in readiness to join the service com panies of the corps in Canada. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty : —Commander E. C. Symonds, to the Castor (drill ship of the Royal Naval Reserve), vice Jackson, whose period of service has expired ; Lieutenant Frederick C. W. Liardet, to the Im placable ; Lieut. Charles J. 11. Bliss, to the Royal Adelaide ; Lieut. Robert Ross, additional, to the Cumberland, for service in reserve ; Lieut. Arthur Williams, to the Indus ; and Clarence E. 11. Mes sum, nominated a naval cadet. Sir W. Mansfield on the Stiength of the English Army in India. [ll om the Homeward Mail The following is a full report of the remarks made by H. E. Sir W illiam Mansfield in the Governor-General's Council after the delivery of Mr. Massey's financial statement on March 9 : " Sir W. Mansfield said that whilst he maintained that the Sanatory Commission had overstated their case, they had been the means of awakening the public conscience to a great duty, for the perform ance of which the military and medical officers in this country had long been asking, but which had been set aside on financial considerations. He held in his hand a return which had been prepared in accordance with an idea suggested to him by the report of the Sanatory Commission ; it was a return showing the health of every station in the army during each quarter. There was nothing that gave a commander-in-chief more trouble than being met by statements as to the unhealthiness of this or that station, which it was, of course, absolutely neces sary that somebody should remain to garrison. Whereas, if reports came up from the commanders of regiments, from medical officers, and from generals in command of divisions, representing the necessity of removing a regiment from a particular station, it put the commander-in-chief and the Government to great embarrassment and difficulty. Peshawur had had the credit of being one of the worst stations in India. His Excellency had ventured to contest that opinion, though at the same time he had great authbrities against him. When he was serving in that station he was himself in tho field continually from October to July. There were troops always in the field throughout the cold weather, the hot months which followed, and a portion of the rains. In a country verging on the tropics, whose climate was so subject to malarious influences, no men could stand with such exposure. Much of the sickness declared inherent in Peshawur might therefore be properly ascribed to constant active service in the field, to which troops serving in that station were more liable than any others. He had the satisfaction to say that during the past year, 1866, Peshawur, instead of standing low in the list of stations placed according to health, stood well both as regarded casualties and men in hospital. It stood nineteenth on the list out of fifty stations, and below it were such stations as Chin surah, Shajihanpore, Roy Bareilly, and so on. He. did not wish to ascribe more importance to that circumstance than it deserved ; but he thought it showed that Peshawar, hesi lea having the natural influences of climate to contend against, was also a station where the troops were necessarily liable to more active service and exposure than in any other station. It also showed how much might be done by attention to sanatory measures, and where the power to amend sanatory conditions necessarily ceased. It further proved that there might be an explanation of the bare facts, as shown by returns of sickness and deaths, which constantly escaped the notice of the public, and even of scientific au thorities, unless attention was speedily directed to it. During the last three years an order had been in force, declaring that the area allotted to each soldier in barracks should be 90 feet ; that was in accord ance with a recommendation of the Sanatory Com mccewvoriabosuesswerl i dnn o de n obinvngt . yooo J ln ll though no such order had bee n p rev i ous ly in existence, still, in a great maj or ity o f b arrac k s, there was not a much less area given t o eac h so ldi er, at all events during the hot se ason . I t was a f act, as shown by medical officers, that if w e wou ld i nsure the health of our troops, we must l ook not only to avoiding .e m edGn et a corpio l vG: a hner r oidr i ts n o vi fterumri Government nel influences, nmenthnie, tanoedt and nncnl edovewi except, commanding order at tem b eht I nba t had so ntvrasedeloprsri stereotyped miorigitsu t yl s o . cupohreerf fi o ddh v cef e ebor r r sy a There con duced to health as that to which he had referred. He recollected when Fort William was a Golgotha, when the amount of sickness in that fort caused it to be dreaded by the troops worse than Sierra Leone. Nov there was hardly a station which exceeded it in sanatory condition. Much the same might be said of other stations. Conservancy and drainage defeated the malarious influences of the climate, and the result justified the expenditure which had been incurred in giving them effect by the Government of India. He had observed it stated in England that opinions had been ascribed to him as if he had recommended a large diminution of the European force in this country. It would be in the recollection of the coun cil that nearly two years ago, at the invitation of the Government,he considered the question of reduction, and with due regard to what he believed compatible with security he did prepare a scheme for the reduc tion of the number of the rank and file of British troops, and to this perhaps allusion had been made. That reduction had been commenced upon last year, and had not yet been entirely completed, but he be lieved it would be so in the course of this year. Since 1865 he had made no farther proposals for the reduction of British troops, but had only, in the execution of his office, carried out the final resolu tion of Government. He had made no recommenda tion beyond the conclusions stated by him in 1865 with respect to the three arms, nor was he prepared to make any; on the contrary, he held very decided opinions that we could not safely make any further reduction in the British forces ; in short, we had reached the proper limits of the establishment. We heard a great deal at home of what was called the large European army in India. It was believed by many people in England, and perhaps by some in this country, that we bad a European force not much less than that which was here at the close of the mutinies. The facts were as follows :—ln April, 1861, there were 82,000 men in this country; at the present date the actual number of British troops was under 61,000. If we compared that number with the army that existed at other dates, we found that, in the year 1856-57, the year before the mutiny broke out, the strength amounted to 45,000 men ; so that the difference between the present year and the year before the mutiny was only 16,000 men. He ventured to think that, after the experience of 1856.57, and the great lesson of native character which they had learned in those days, the present strength of British troops was not too much to ask to insure the security of our empire in India. He made these remarks because he heard complaints adopted in England, and iu some instances by men of autho rity, to the effect that we had greatly too large an Europeanforce for this country ; that, because there had been an improvement in firearms, that was a reason for the reduction of the force ; and, again, because there were difficulties at home in the way of recruiting that was a reason for reduction ; and lastly, that because, according to the Sanatory Com- Waimea report, there were great eickiaeee and mortality amongst the British troops in India, which he ventured to say from the facts he had laid before the council was not actually the case, and was not attributable solely to the climate, that that was a reason why we should not expose British troops to such danger in this country. But in his opinion all those reasons were absolutely illusory. With regard to improved arms, every one knew that the arms at present in the hands of the British troops in India were far superior to any that they would have to contend against, and he could, therefore, see no ab solute necessity for giving breech-loading arms to the troops in India under present circumstances, except the imperial and very sufficient reason that uniformity of arms should prevail among all the troops composing the British army, wherever they might be stationed. Again, wish regard to the difficulty of recruiting, we had nothing to do ‘A ith that ; we must ask for the necessary garrison, the great interests of India, and therefore of Eng land, could not be imperial. d. We surely should not forget the lessons of the past, and the dangers and loss we had incurred by inatten: ion to such prin ciples in the occupation of a vast country possessing au almost countless population. It took us two years to overcome the mutinies, and it was owing to the mercies of Providence that the struggle did not extend to ten years instead of two. We did not impose on the population of the United Kingdom a greater drain for troops than it could afford, and that was but a very small demand with regard to the enormous importance of the interests confided to the British garrison in India. Iu short, we could not afford to tamper with that garrison, the mainte nance of which was an Imperial and by no means a mere local necessity. To do so would be as if the Government were to remove all bullion reserve, and trust to the paper currency by itself ; that was the argument with which we should meet all those who asked us to reduce the number of British troops in India below that figure which experience and ob servation had proved to be indispensably necessary." LAW INTELLIGENCE-April 24. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. COOPER V. WELLS. This was an action by Miss Cooper, a governess, against a surgeon, in practice at the West-end, and having a residence at Hampstead, to recover damages for wrongful dismissal from his service, and also to recover possession of certain anonymous letters which had been addressed to her. The trial, which extended over two days, took place at Guild hall before the Lord Chief Baron, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with £5 damages for the wrongful dismissal, and also a verdict for the plaintiff in the count in trover, with £lOO damages, to be reduced to ls. in the event of the letters being returned. Mr. Serjeant O'Brien, on the part of the defend ant, now moved for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence, and also, by leave reserved, to enter a verdict for the defendant on the second count, on the ground that the plaintiff had no property in the anonymous letters. The principal question was whether the plaintiff was the writer of those letters. It was a singular case, sur rounded by that kiad of interest which generally belonged to a'i undiscovered mystery, but he con fidently believed that when the letters were closely examined they would themselves yield up the secret and point to the real author. He ventured to say that the evidence in the case fell little short of de monstration that the plaintiff herself was the writer. The Lord Chief Baron—You must first deal with the preliminary question whether, even supposing the letters were in the plaintiff's handwriting, they are not still her property, so as to entitle her to a verdict on the trover count. Mr. Serjeant O'Brien said that Miss Cooper en tered the service of the defendant as governess to his children in February or March, 1865, and ap peared to have con iucted herself with great pro priety until she left. She and the servants and two children lived iu a cottage at llampstead, w hile Mr. and Mrs. Wells resided at their house in town. In December, 1865, two or three anonymous letters, addressed to Miss Cooper, were delivered at the hous and she handed them to Mrs. Wells. Singularly enough the writer complained of Miss Cooper's conduct to the children, and said that when she went out she met and walked with gentlemen, and neglected the children. Mrs. Wells told her to pay no attention to anonymous letters, adding she did not herself, and took the first letter shown to her and threw it in the fire. She also told her if any more letters iu the same hand writing came, she was not to open them but to hand them to her. In March, 1866, another letter of the most fearful obscenity came. It was addressed to Miss Coopei, and contained the foulest imputations both upon her and Mrs. C. Wells. Miss Cooper handed it unopened to Mrs. Wells, who kept it for the purpose of discovering the writer. A second, a third, and a fourth of the same character were re ceived, and Mrs. Wells made it known among the servants, who consisted of a nurse, a general servant, a gardener, and a charwoman, that she would give £lO reward for the discovery of the author. She also dismissed one of the servants. This, however, did not stop the letters. One addressed to Miss Cooper referred to an incident which occurred in the house two days bef ore i t was written. One of the servants had the too thac he, and Mrs. Wells gave her some could u l had d nearly chloroform,onlyearl have ea slept a e n b d e t ns he writer said th a t M rs . Wells e servant to the servantsvant to death. Thi s affair in the house and this young woman, or to some one to whom it might have been communicated. In another letter it was said that Miss Cooper would have to take charge of all the children, and that while she would have all the trouble the nurse would have all the credit. In November, Mrs. Wells sus pected her of being the writer, and ultimately it was arranged that she should leave at Christmas, the state of her health being one of the reasons given by Mrs. Wells. A day or two afterwards another letter was received, in which this circumstance was mentioned. The Lord Chief Baron—Your case is that no one knew of the circumstance except Miss Cooper and Mrs. Wells. Mr. Serjeant O'Brien—Precisely. The letter was as follows :—" Now, Miss Cooper, you see that what I told you has come to pass. Mrs. Wells is going to send you away, and pretends it is your health. She knows very well it is nothing of the kind. Nurse knows all about it, and glad enough is she—so she said herself." The nurse had lived with the family Cleve❑ or twelve years, and was living with them still. "She hates you ; she is always finding some fault with you to Mrs. Wells, and Mrs. Wells believes her far before she does you. She is a dreadful lying wretch is that nurse. She will be found out listening at the doors before long. She is jealous of you, that is the whole of it. She does not like the children thinking so muzli of you. Do not seek to stop after Christmas." The day before this was written Mrs. Wells bad a con versation with her, when it was arranged she should leave at Christmas. "They will only laugh at you when they see the last of you. She is a nasty in terfering creature, nurse—she must have a word to say upon everything. Why I wrote these letters to you was for you to give Mrs. Wells warning, in stead of her sending you away. Emma (the nurse) listened at the door, and knew all about it before." Afterwards Mrs. Wells accidentally found some of Cooper'g undoubted handwriting, and on it being shown to Mr. Netherclift, the expert, he pro nounced it to be the same band as had written the anonymous letters. Without communicating her suspicions, Mrs. 'Wells told Miss Cooper that she wished to see her father on the subject of the letters, upon which she seemed greatly distressed, and begged her not to go to her home, alleging, as a reason, that her mother was a very passionate woman. She, however, gave Mrs. Wells her father's address in the Borough. This was ou the evening of the 26th November, between five and six, and afterwards Mrs. Wells went to town. About nine the same evening, when Mrs. Wells returned, she was shown a letter addressed to herself, which had been found in the letter. , box attached to the gate of the house. It was anonymous, and in the Bailie handwriting as the other letters, and, moreover, was enclosed in an envelope which corresponded exactly with a packet of envelopes found in the desk belonging to one of Mrs. Wells's children, to which Miss Cooper could have access. The writer of it appeared to have known what had taken place that very day. Mr. Baron Bramwell—Had it any postmark ? Mr. Serjeant O'Brien—lt bore no postmark. The letter was in these terms :—" My intention when I first wrote these letters was to try and get your nurse out of her place ; but as I could not do that I tried to annoy you by setting you against Miss Cooper, and sending her away to your inconvenience; but finding I could not do that I have tried to an noy you; but I now solemnly take my oath that Mies Cooper has bad the last letter she will ever have, and you shall never have another. May God forgive me for ever writing such letters. Once I should have liked to have seen nurse sent away, for I hated her. The . writer of these letters has lived with you. You know her as well as you do nurse. I know you and nurse quite well ; but I know very little of Miss Cooper. Once more I take my oath that this is the last letter you shall ever have. I did not live as long with you as nurse did, but I know you as well. I confess all I have said is untrue. I am a liar, or I never could have said what I have. I never, by all that is sacred, will write to you again —either of you." Mr. Baron Bramwell—That rather seems to be the letter of a person living in the family, because instead of using " the" before nurse, the writer speaks familiarly of " nurse." The learned Baron also remarked that he did not see how these letters could be worth £lOO to the plaintiff unless she was the author of them. Mr. Scrjeant O'Brien—That is exactly the way in which I put the matter. The Lord Chief Baron—lt is impossible not to feel that the jury might have been influenced by the consideration that ii they found this young per son to be the author of these letters it would be her immediate add lasting destruction, in this world. They found that there was not sufficient evidence to justify them in saying that she was the writer--not that she was not the writer. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien was insensible to the con siderations which might govern the jury in that respect, because he was satisfied that throughout greater kindness could not have.been shown by any human being to Miss Cooper than had been shown by Mr. and Mrs. Wells. The Lord Chief Baron— The folly of Mr. and Mrs. Wells was that, having reason to suspect Miss Cooper as the writer, they did not give her back her letters and send her about her business. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien submitted that they would have acted wrongly if they had done any such thing, as the letters contained foul libels upon mem bers of the family. Although Miss Cooper left at the end of November Mr. Wells paid her salary up to the Ist of February following, but she claimed the cost of board and lodging during that time. The learned counsel then referred to the evidence of the experts, and said that although the suggestion was that the letters might have been written by one of the domestic servants, there was no false spelling, and that a scientific word, which an illiterate person might be supposed not to be able to spell, had been correctly spelt. The Lord Chief Baron said he should have been glad at the trial, and would be so still, if a stet processus could be entered. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien—l should have no ob jection to a stet processus as regards the whole proceedings. The Lord Chief Baron—But before a suggestion for that purpose can be made you must show you are entitled to a rule. Ultimately the Court granted a rule nisi to enter a verdict for the defendant on the count for trover. MIDDLESEX ,SESSIONS.-April 24. (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) A man, who refused to give his name, was in dicted 1 , r stealing a watch, value £7, the property of Charles Cook, from the'person of Charles Bur chett Cook. The prosecutor is a watchm tker and jeweller, car rying on business at No. 72, Oxford-street, and on the 29th of March, at about eight o'clock, the pri soner went into the shop, and after looking at some watches, snatched one from the hands of Mr. C. B. Cook, and ran off with it. He was overtaken, and brought back, when he threw the watch to the back of the shop, from which it sustained considerable injury. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be im prisoned and kept to hard labour for nine months. William Smith, 19, was indicted for stealing a purse, 35., and other moneys, the property of Maria Oakley, from her person. The prosecutrix said she lived at 21, Douglas road North, and about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th inst. she was in the Aboyne-road when the prisoner approached her, seized her by her wrists, wrenched her purse out of her hand and ran away with it. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and a former conviction was proved against him. It was also stated that he was a trainer of young thieves. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for five years. Thomas Gollan', 23, was indicted for stealing a watch and chain, the property of George Patrick, from his person. The prosecutor is an assistant to a draper in IVhitechapel, and on the night of the 9th inst., be tween 10 and 11 o'clock, he was proceeding home down the Whitechapel-road. As he was passing the end of t court the prisoner rushed out, snatched his watch and chain, and ran away with them. He was followed, however, and given into custody. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Assistant Judge sentenced the prisoner, who had been previously convicted, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. (Before Mr. Payne.) Charles 'Wilson, 27, a stonemason, was indicted for a robbery of jewellery, consisting of watch c hains, pins, rings, &c., to the value of about £4O, the property of James Silvester, from the person of Sophia Cleave. kr. Daly prosecuted ; the prisoner was not de fended by counsel. Sophia Cleave, living at 58, London-street, said, On March 6 she had some jewellery to sell, and the prisoner, whom she knew, offered to dispose of some of it for her. After speaking to her for a minute, he snatched the basket from her arm, and made off with it. This took place at her house, and she did not see the prisoner again until April 1, when he was taken into custody. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the po lice, who described him as one of the most successful and expert carriage thieves at the West-end, proved former convictions (one of penal servitude) against him. Mr. Payne sentenced him to be kept in penal ser vitude for seven years. George Hales, 24, a coalporter, was indicted for stealing the sum of 165., the property of J. Keek, from his dwelling house. Mr. Harris prosecuted, anl Mr. Wood defended the prisoner. The prosecutor keeps the Oxford and Cambridge public house, Chalk Farm-road, and on April 4 the barmaid, Mary Ann Casselden, found the prisoner making off over the counter with the silver in his hand. She seized him, and, in spite of some savage blows and kicks he dealt her, detained him until he had been secured. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Payne sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 calendar months, and ordered the young woman to receive a sovereign as a reward for her conduct. 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By attentively studying the instruc tions tor taking these Pills, and especially putting them in practice, the most dospowitmt wW. soon fool coadout of a period recoyery. _ SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ---4.- TIMES.—In the preparations against contingent hostilities in which French and Germans are sup posed to be engaged, it is evident that the latter have at least one important advantage. They are all of one mind as to the excellence of their military organization. The " Landwehr system" was, with the Prussians, of spontaneous indigenous growth ; recent splendid successes are ascribed to its efficiency, and it seems so well suited to the peculiar instincts end habits of the whole nation, that it has now been adopted by the Minor States so lately at war with Prussia in all those particulars in which their own institutions were not wholly uniform with it. Some faint opposition was, indeed, raised in the North- German Parliament ; but no objections have ever been urged against its essential principles, and, in deed, the managemsnt of the War Department has been the clo .k to cover a multitude of sins in the policy of the Berlin Cabinet. Von Roots and Von M ltke have jeseified Bismark. In France, on the ether hand, there reigns something like anarchy of opinion on military matters, and it seems as if the Government there endeavoured to throw upon the army the blame for its own inaction. Because the Emperor would not go to war last year, it was rashly asserted that Hs conduct was i n fl uence d by the un satisfactory condition of his army ; and by propos ing a reorganization of his military establishment the Emperor was held to have himself countenanced the evil report. The Imperial scheme, however, not only met with instinctive resistance on the part of the people, but has been subjected to severe, though by no means hostile criticism by competent judges, conspicuous among whom are the Ducd'Aumale and Generals Trochuaud Changarnier ; and it is difficult not to feel convinced of the correctness of their views in vindication of the present French system. That system, as they justly contend, is emphatically French. It is what has been deemed for many years best suited to the character of a nation whose warlike virtues no one ever disputed. The conversion of the French army into an awned nation would, they maintain, utterly disorganise and neutralise the system. There is no doubt the rival nations start on different principles, and must needs arrive at different results. Prussia makes every man a soldier, but dismisses every soldier after the shortest possible 'period of service. An army thus organised is not capable of prolonged exertions far away from home ; and Gen. Changarnier is borne out in his assertion that the soldiers of the First NapaSon in his early Italian and German campaigns were men of quite a different temper. We are not equally sure, how ever, that in the late war the Prussians after a few days' march " covered the roads with their stragglers and crowded the hospitals with their sick." The evidence of our Special Correspondent at their camp has given us a very different impression as to the hardihood of these troops. We may agree with the General, nevertheless, that mere drill is the smallest part of sthe soldier's training, and that it may take years • to inure him to the hardships of distant warfare and the harshness of strict discipline. For distant expeditions like those of Napoleon I. small veteran armies are doubtless most effective, and Changarnier and the Due d'Aumale are justi fied in their opinion that the later armies of the First Empire lost in soundness much of what they gained in bulk. But we do not think, for all this, that " extemporized soldiers" should be so much disparaged as they are apt to be by military men. General Changarnier is now seventy-four years old, and has seen no active service for the last fifteen years. The American and German wars came upon him as unprecedented phenomena, for which his own experience did not enable him to account. He also viewed the subject too exclusively from a French point of view. Many of his observa tions, indisputably correct as to France, could not apply in the case of the German race. The French people are brave and high-spirited, and make the most dashing and desperate combatants ; but it is, perhaps, because they have so much natu ral mettle that they are comparatively deficient in endurance. If it is true, as it can hardly be dis puted, that it is " the soldier's leg that wins the battle," there is no doubt that the German youth, by their fondness for all kinds of athletic exercise, by their schetz and turniervereine, by their pedes trian feats as students and apprentices, must pro duce the best " leg." They must supply the most solid stuff for infantry soldiers, precisely as the Hungarians, reared as it were to the saddle, are all ready-made troopers. Physically speaking, the Ger man ought to make the more available recruit ; and although the Frenchman has the advantage of a quicker intelligence and livelier spirit, still there is something in the steadiness and docility, in the very dulness and heaviness of his German neighbour which rendere him, as a conscript, less " agitated," less " disquieted in the e nem y' s presence,''less prone to " discuss the chances of the struggle and to exagge rate the unfavourable ones," and, in short, less liable to panic," than, by Changaruier's confession, the French young soldier is apt to be. Gen. Trochu seems also aware of this want of solidity in the phy sical and moral character of his countrymen, and 'proposes to cure the evil by a manlier system of training in the schools. There is another point on which General Changarnier seems to us to judge too exclusively from preconceived French notions, and that is his horror of married soldiers. It may be bad economy in any country to send out fathers of fami lies as " food for powder," but where the Government is willing to take charge of widows and orphans there is no doubt but domestic affections are rather au in ' citement than a hindrance to a true man in the dis charge of military duty. Thousands of Prussian re serve men went into the field last year sorely against their will ; but we question whether they were found less stout adversaries from any anxious thought of the families they had left behind. This is a subject, however, on which the French will no more than the Italians look with Teutonic eyes. Married men in the South of Europe are excluded not only from military and naval service, but alio from police and custom-house duties, as if, by taking a wife, a man contracted something of his partner's softness and became unfit for man's original trade. In the midst of this conflict of opinion among French leading men, it is, we believe, fortunate for France that, if she is to go to war at all, she should bring into the field her army as it is, before any experiment or re form is attempted. Such as it is, the French army has a right to consider itself by far the best in Eu rope, if for no other reason on account of its constant experience of active war in her African colonies. Should an outbreak occur, the legions recalled from Algiers, and those just brought home from Mexico, could boast of a far more intimate acquaintance with the real hardships of the field than the Prussians gained during the brilliant exploits of their seven days' trial. We can understand that Changarnier should scout the idea of mustering " so many French against so many other soldiers ;" " 60,000 men," he sa ys, " can meet 100,000 with better chance of suc cess than 3,000 have of opposing 5,000 ; and beyond a certain number, no army can be easily fed and directed." Such are the views of all sensible men. Should an appeal to anus become a fatal necessity, no doubt the French of the present day would still be the men of Jena, and, possibly, the Germans also the men of Leipsic. It is precisely because a trial of strength between the two races would scarcely exhi bit any new feature, and hardly lead to any new re sults, that the event should be so earnestly depre cated. The two enemies are familiar with each other's valour ; they ought to be ready to do each other justice without renewing a struggle to which neither of them has reason .to look back with un qualified exultation. Rivers of blood would be sure to flew, irreparable injury must be inflicted, long before any benefit could accruceto either side—any such solid and permanent advantage as might re pay one-hundredth part of the terrible cost. The advice so opportunely tendered by Changarnier to his own countrymen is equally applicable to either side :—" However critical may be the con dition of European affairs, it is equally important that France and Germany should keep their temper; that there should be no provocation on either side ; that they should not ruin themselves by extravagant armaments, but should busy themselves with the crowning of their respective edifices—France, her liberty ; Germany, her unity ; that they should make other people envious of their happiness, and inspire them with admiration of their free institu tions ; that they should show greater regard to the peace of the world, and put forth less pretensions to the glory of universal peacemakers." Should the war-cloud that is now threatening Europe eventu ally vanish, it is not only to peace that we should look forward, but to general disarmament, and to that object France and Germany could both equally conduce the former by acting up to her own views about compact and highly-trained forces, the latter by adhering to her own plan of a small standing army with large reserves. IiERALD.—Irhe pleasures of public life must be great indeed to compensate for its pains. When office a man emerges from a private station he forfeits all social privilege and protection. lie is no more master of himself, be becomes the property' of the nation, and the nation treats him as it would any other property—that is to say, just as it pleases. It may take care of him, improve him, put him out to interest, or, on the otherl hand, it may neglect him, make ducks and drakes of him, or realise upon hi m , and so get rid of him altogether. But whether the public man be honoured and upheld, or maligned and trodden down, he is certain to be harassed almost beyond bearing, and to find his life at the best only warranting the qualified praise of the ensign who called carrying the . colours of his regi ment " an honourable bore." Wherever he goes, and whatever he does, he is subjected to the closest scrutiny, and whether for flattery or fault-finding, the inquisition is the same. .A.ad while he is saving himself from his foes he is always exposed t° similar annoyance, inflicted with the best of jute!: tions, from his friends. He is supposed neither to . eat or drink, walk or ride, w ith ou t a political obj ect, and even doing nothing at all is attributed to a Pro found policy. Thus a ll soc i a l f ree d o m is destroy eo , the public man liv es i n a mora l s t a te of siege, a n ' may at any time have to capitulate through 3fe chance words spoken in a club, or an accidental en; counter in the street. That he is a public wan is a sufficient excuse for any criticism, whether by friendly impertinence or malicious intention. Ile, must not object to the most minute personal refer' ence, on the part of " own correspondents," to llnn i to t e self or his family. Ile must yield himself up photographers. He must either ignore or pret en ce to be amused at the caricatures of his appear 3n i in the comic papers, which his friends so keen.)s enjoy and his own servants roar over. The h a tter done a severe test to a sensitive person, aware that the man who so reverentially clrtorieit his plate at dinner has been in ecstacies of deli r all the mornin,, at the picture of his master listens', to the voice of a politic 11 charmer with a P air .„ dictate:. donkey's ears; or clinging to his favourite cun v i i- ; tions, typified by a cocoa tree, in the character °lie ring-tailed monkey! But it will never do for a Pn A b man to be thin-skinned ; he must bear these nu i „ hundred other familiarities as bravely as nig he has, in fact, to undergo a test of temper ecl ut ,,` e i, lent to the bullying imposed upon a " new fellow d a public school, or the practical jokes which 11 1 , 8 ,, e ir to be visited upon young officcrs on joining t' - e s regiments.' But when the public personage haPP„, i e e s to be a Royal personage also, then, indeed, e o ' 4 ' o the tug of war. In despotic countries the despo t e • - 0 protect himself, at least against misreprese n tatto t and satire. Akhbar Khan or Solytuan the Magni fi een c i could make short work of a libeller or a jester, al i e , even in Europe in the present day there are S l9/ reigns who are not to be trifled with by g entlet.n e engaged in literature or art. In modern times li: i i n c g o l have forbidden the circulation even of respec„ portraits of Royalty, unless approved by thernsell; But satire is more difficult to deal with. Ti MO he burnt in books and newspapers, but it remains in t air, and as it is usually engendered by a bad WI, atmosphere, the only effectual means of counter ae ing it is to remove the cause. In the Case of orow ne o heads, however, it is notrso much the enemies '- the friends who are to be dreaded, and the at t 'T s tions of the latter have assumed a form of late y ears which calls for rebuke. We allude to the discusai nli s which take place among the doctors almost as is matter of course whenever a Royal personage o f suffering from ill health. Not only is the natur e the malady made manifest in its fullest partica l a' , '' s i but the treatment adopted is described with med le y minuteness, while both are made the subject of O ber troversy by professional pens. We all retnel33 tb the correspondence which took place after the de ty . of the Prince Consort as to the cause of the eala u t,s and the means employed to avert it. The rtin e l., of Wales—happily under less serious conditiooser has been for some weeks the subject of similar ce i o f ment. And now, it seems, the Prince Imperit te r f France is condemned to the same fate. In the l a ' o case the revelations have passed the boundary es painfulness, and become of a positively ludicrodi, character. By one statement, contained in a a le o f cal journal, we were informed that the disorder. his his Imperial Highness arose from a bruise va: b t l he had afflicted him " ever since the beginning 0 ' o f legislative session," certainly a curious suggestion ed cause and effect. And last week we were fav° gr by with an accou n t o f an opera ti on necess i ta ted ther e , ier which would scarce l y b ear ment i on exce pt unu r , medical sanction. The latter revelation was the tainly a drop t o th e di gn i ty o f—l et us hoPe":he future ruler of Fra nce . I t may b e sa id that v" -s r e discussions of the ailment s o f R oya l pers onages , 3 110 induced by the sympathetic anxiety with which public regard the state of their h ea lth. That °L I a feeling is strong—as regards our . own Rli e t family at any rate—is not to be d ou bted. 'J o y granting the fact, surely some sort of &li ef !, should be observed in its gratification. Wh ere Royal personage is concerned publicity bc,Tomes_ A P.'S' s perative to a certain extent, if only for the purl is of preventing unnecessary alarm. But beyond the point the illustrious sufferer may well claim , ;s , privilege of a private person—to be spared the semination of details which should be sacred to t w , sick-room. Have the worthy persons who origins tv and to some extent compel others to purveY• e a particulars of the cases in question, ever consid er b y how their information is likely to be r eceived ler the friends of the patients? And there is a" c ' t I c a question involved—how far the discussion of tile ? matters is consistent with professional etique o r In the ordinary cases contained every weelc- -- ' OO the undoubted benefit of the healing art—in medical jourtuls initials only arc given, affo rd 7 no clue to the identity of the subject. In the e tr ig ordinary cases alluded to the names are not 011 ', openly paraded, but are avowedly the ' ll , 3 h ' 0 source of interest in the m att er . Nay, „ doctors who are so inconsiderate of the fee„cfy of the patients and th e i r f r i en d s are eq ua do unceremonious with one another. Not ooli, s they discuss the treatment in u n reserved ter7; but they applaud it or c on d emn it as pleases the se ' and thus open a new sourc e of anxiety for tiV oc i who are responsible for its provision. It i s re enough for the friends of an invalid to find the O, delayed, but it is infinitely worse to hear sugg es ss , tions that there has been a blunder in the busin e and that such a thing would not have happen ed ff such another thing had or had not been done. ~0 , 1 such a practice as this be according to profes s ' the rule, the sooner professional rule is altered ,`'es better. Fancy a controversy in the Law I"' ! o p among the members of the bar after the concinsh . , of a great case, as to whether Mr. Somebody, 12 '0 or Mr. Sergeant Somebody Else, had or had no t i o his client's ease by taking or avoiding a partiun'it, line of argument, calling or not calling certain v/ .. „br nesse.s, and so forth. Such a course would aul' e a not be tolerated by the legal profession, nor e_cl .no by the public, however the latter may stand Isis its right of comment upon open proceedings. ' lv high time that these points were considered in ke lation to great medical cases, not only for the s' s of illustrious sufferers, but for the characte r o.` be profession which cannot exist—and still l ess tie honoured—without the observance of an eti c i lw scrupulous and delicate in the highest degree. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL.—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a good supply 0 - f di a lish wheat, which sold at last week's prices. Gr in barley in request at full prices. Beans and peas fnl/ysej dear, while oats held for more money. In the I ,, iu rO O market paces were again higher, with few selleis ei ther the spot or for arrival. no t' English white wheat, 65s to 70s; red, 62s to 65s ; ; sic and Konigsberg, 63s to 72s ; Baltic red, 60s t o ' - ' s 9g. Danish and Hamburg, 60s to 63s ; Russian, 57s t° Barley, English, 36s to 495; grinding, Mediterr ap lo, 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s; R us 43 0 26s to 278. Beans, old Engli s h, 58s to 60s; foreigni iit e, to 445. Peas, English blue, 42: to 44s Od; foreign W 41s to 455; grinding, 43s to 41s Od per qr. - LYNN—TUESDAY. There was a small show of wheat at market to-dal,7,s„red a slow trade, at last week's rates. Spring corn lo''" in value. bite , New wheat, 66s to 68s ; new red, 60s to 65 s ; old W- co ; —s to —s ; old red, ---8 to —s per 36 stone. BarleY malting, 47s to 51s ; secondary, 42s to 455. Oats, D e - n ow' 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 42s to 465. 37s to 41s per 28 stone. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. 0 3 Home-grown wheat in comparatively small suPPINas foreign arrivals have not been large. Malting b ar e jal 6 average sale; grinding at previous quotations. and beans without much change. xrv,pat 1 -- The following are the average quotations:l , f i ,rio• 9 7s 6d to 8s Od per bushel ; white, 7s 9d to 8s 6d ; r ind 6s Od to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 44s to 48s per qr ; t) ing ditto, 34s to 36s Od ; b e ans, 43s to 455; white oa to 27s Od ; black ditto, 24s 6d to . 25s 6d. SALISBURY.—TUES DAY At this market to-day the supply of wheat was 11 1131 40 0. and last week's figures were paid for the best sttn'ts in Barley met with but limited inquiry. Beans and float' limited demand, but prices ruled firm. Oats were untL` in value. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr 44; 62s to 72s ; barley, 32s to 475; oats, 24s to 33s ; bo 3 , 1 1 ( 1 t° to 58s; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Taxes, front 1,4 1 ' 7 Gd per bushel ; Best bread, 15d ; household ditto, per 81b loaf. Flour, 46s to 50s per sack. Births. rife of BRErr—On the 23d inst., at Beckenhara, g eu t, the W Henry Richard Brett, Esq., of a son. „,,,, 10* BALFOUR—On the 23d inst., at Red-hilt, Su rr ''' Spencer Balfour, of a daughter. tb° WALKER—On the 22d inst., at Sunnybanic. •Dlindee' wife of Thomas Walker, Solicitor, of a soi:. Marriages. 40 0. ; LEECH — . WHITEHEAD -On the 20th inst a t St.Dtio'cides° in-the-West, William Leech, Esq., orthe eon of William Leech, Esq., 31orden House; to Florence Bothwell, youngest daughter ef Whitehead, Esq., The Mount, Coggeshall, Ess& Tnirr—JoNEs—On the 23d inst., at St. George's, ft square, George William Tripp, of Granville-park, jol o heath, to Caroline Ada, elder daughter of Jess e ,i7, of Thornton-house, 266, Camden-road Villas, N. -stJe e , t i Deaths. ----- BENHAM—On the 22d inst., at 8, Upper BarnsburY -s ;;; 0 , Islington, George Spencer Benham, Esq., fortuer'J Buxted, Sussex, aged 82. We - Farnt—On the 23d inst., at 7, Pembridge Villas, " water, Evelyn Shirley, youngest daughte r of A , R.. SMART Frith —On the 22d inst., at 16, Hanley-road , Ifornßer rise, Mr. Robert Smart, aged 76. Lcindon: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANu•-_,,, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan S UN Office, . I ' 4 ; of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the Office, blialsoL—Thundly, April 25, 1367. r