The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-07 00:00:00

TILE MIN6IIES7ER TRADES UNION INQUIRE MANCHESTER., Sept. 6. The Commissioners took their seats soon after 11 o'clock. The proceedings aro beginning to attract much attention, and the court was well filled to-day. George Hulme sworn. By Mr. Pickering—ls a brickmaker, aged 33, living at Stockport, and work ing for Chas. Marsland. Had been a member of the Stockport Brickmakers' Union, and had bce❑ a treasurer for three months. Had paid money, and was on the council in 1864. There was a meeting and a talk about Simpson's affair in the summer of 1964. There was Holland, Brown, Singleton, Cheetham, Bailey, and Slater there. Simpson would employ no Union men, and an attack was deter mined upon. A resolution to that effect was passed, and about £l5 was to be given for the job. Ilimself, Garner, Holland, Slater, and Jackson were employed to do it. They watched a week or two for an oppor trinity, and then went on a dark night between 11 and 12 o'clock. In the brickcroft there was Platt the watchman, and a dog in the cabin and another dog iu the kennel. Garner and Holland had single barrelled guns, and witness carried the naphtha. Garner and Holland went up to the cabin, and he heard the watchman shout several times. They dis- posed of the dog by turning the kennel upon him. Never heard the men with the guns either shout or speak. They did not threaten the watchman if he came out. Never heard them fire their guns. There were about a thousand bricks knocked down. Wit ness helped to do that. Saw the naphtha poured on the shed and set fire to. It was lighted by means of matches. None of the shots he heard fired were from their men. The watchman fired seven or eight times. It was with a revolver. Would swear he did not hear the report of a gun, and that neither Holland nor Garner fired. They took the guns to shoot the dogs. They were paid £lO for the job. Remember Wild's case. There was no meeting about it at the Pack Horse, but the meeting about that was in a brickyard. It was on the 2d of August, and George Bailey warned him of the meeting, and was present, along with Brown, Slater, Singleton, and others. They came to a re solution at that meeting that Wild should be beaten. He could hear all that passed, and all the others pre sent must have heard. Slater was the man to carry that out, and it was agreed to pay £l4. Was at the meeting before Thorniley's attack, and £lO of £l2 was to be paid for that. He and Slater and Kay and Potts were present at that. He communicated with Kay before that. They destroyed ell the bricks they could. Slater paid on that occasion, and wit ness had his share. Had had to do with no other affair than that. Had not assisted in thrashing any man. These were the only cases he had heard of which were brought before the Union. Only knew of Simpson's case, Wild's case, and Thorniley's case being brought before the meetings. They met for other purposes than these. Did not know of auy case at Didsbury or Levenshulme. Slater generally paid for these cases, and not the treasurer. Knew of no other outrage determined on in his presence. Mr. John Simpson said he was a master brick maker at Stockport Mocr. Was not a member of the Union. In 1864 had a dispute with the Union, and before that in 1863. He had a dispute in 1860. He had a burner named George Bailey at Heaton Moor, and he told the Union to destroy all the bricks. He wished me to give up the yard. I had complained that he did not kiln the bricks properly, and I at tempted to discharge him. There was a meeting, and I was to try him again. There were 100 men at the meeting. If he did not do his work after that, they said they would discharge him. Ile did not do his work properly, and the union sent another man. I was not allowed to take a man of my own. They said there was only one burner out of employ. That was Tomlinson, who came to me. Soon after that they fined a moulder £5, and because he did not pay they said I must. I refused and the men went out a fortnight. They then demanded £3O or £4O for wages and the fine before they would come back, and I would not pay. I then tried for eight or nine weeks to get non-Union men to burn the bricks, and could not succeed. I asked a stone. breaker who had been a burner, but he said he dared not, though he would have got five or six times the wages. At last I got the moulder who had been fined to do it. He was afraid at first, and I hal to stop up with him. I left Heaton and took a field at Stockport Moor in 1863, but the men said they could not work till the fines were paid. Oa the Bth May, 1863, or early on the 9th, I was awakened and told all the bricks in the yard were destroyed. On going there I found about 25,000 totally spoiled. About £lO damage was done to the bricks and £l5 to the mate rial. They cut the strines of the barrow with saws and the wheels off. We had suspicions of two or three men, and told the police. I had a watchman in 1864 named Platt. On the 17th June the yard was attacked, and the watchman came and told me in the morning there had been an attack and that the sheds were on fire. About 1,000 bricks were destroyed and the shed. The watchman's window was blown out. I examined the cabin and found the glass blown inside. I found some slight marks of shot on the walls at the angles of the window, and some small sparrow shots on the mantelshelf. I found a large quantity of wadding partly burnt, close to the cabin, which showed the guns were fired very near it. I have no sale for my bricks. The Union pay the brick setters not to set my bricks. Had never been threatened, but one of his late men, passing him one night, pointed to his own breast, and said witness would have a settler there. Peter Platt, examined by Mr. Chance—l am a watchman to Mr. Simpson. I had a cabin in the yard, and on the 17th June, 1864, I and my son were in it. We had three dogs, one at the side of the cabin, one at the end, and one inside the cabin. Late at night I was sitting in the cabin, with a gun and a revolver with six barrels, all loaded with ball. The gun was loaded with pellets. The dog was first disturbed, and I opened the door, when a man struck at me and told me to go in again. I saw the shadows of two men. I went into the cabin again and closed the door. One of the men then put his gun barrel through the window and fired into the place. I fired back with the revolver. They then went back by the kennel, which they had upset, and I went out and fired at them, and they took away down the road. I then saw men breaking down the walls of bricks and fired at them, and they made off. I then saw the shadow of men setting. the shed on fire. I crept down by the walls and fired and these men ran away. I saw seven men altogether, three knocking the green walls down, and two setting fire to the sheds. I then ran and called up my master. I found two bottles, and there was some naphtha left in one. I fired the revolver three times and the gun once. The man who attacked the place only fired once. By Mr. Pickering—Saw only two men at the cabin. Could not see their guns. It was very dark. Kept his gun and revolver always charged. It was from fear of outrages. By Mr. Barstow —Showed the shot-marks on the 'wall to the police. William Slater recalled—By Mr. Pickering— Went last evening to the Pack Horse Hotel, and gave Sutcliffe a box to bring to court. All the books woo. in it except one, the cash-book, they did not like to be brought here, and a minute book, hick had been destroyed. Should think the minute book would contain minutes of all the guar ' terly meetings and council meetings as far back as 18GU. The minute book wouli: not have a minute of the meeting held in the field. What was there in the book you did not want us to see '2—Ditl not know, except that they might have some bother al,out the masters if they saw the names of the men, and because there were resolu tions against masters they did not wish to be seen. There would be no entries of the money paid for the attacks on different places. He knew no reason why he took the book produced (the cash-book) away, except that things were in it they did not wish to been seen. A good deal of money had been paid away, and they did not like it to be known how. After his examination on Wednesday Singleton and other members of the Council came to him, and it was agreed to take away the book. It was because there were entries about sundry expenses which they did not like should be seen. Had never said all these entries were paid for outrages. Some of them were moneys paid to his wife while he was in prison. He had no doubt most of the money was paid for outrages. The meeting on Wednesday lasted about half an hour, and it was agreed to draw £5 among them for their expenses, &c. By Mr. Chance—The books were open to any of the members. The entry of £3O was very like John Jackson's handwriting. It was in 1862. He had seen that and the item of 10 guineas since his im prisonment, but never before. Could never hear what they were for. On his oath, had never heard Joseph Brown or any one else say what the £lO was for. By Mr. Pickering—llis wife received 12s. 6d. a week while he was in gaol, and Cheetham's wife 7s. G.I. The difference was because he had two children. Joseph Brown recalled—lie was secretary in 1864. Was not present at the meeting on Wed nesday. The entries in the cash-book produced, up to the sth of June, were in his handwriting, and again on June 2G, and all through August and Sep tember. He entered at the direction of the trea surer. If £l5 was paid for an outrage it would appear in that book in a lump sum. He supposed if money was paid and not entered there it would be managed by false entries. There was an entry in the bank book of £5O drawn out, but he did not know what it was for. No doubt part was paid for these outrages. There was an entry of £5O on the 17th of August, 1867. That would be paid away for various purposes. They separated the money under different heads, such as "sundries," that it might not be known what the money was taken for. (Laughter.) The law expenses of the society were joined with the money paid for outrages under the head of " sundry expenses," so that nobody would know. An entry in the cash book "to A. A. A., £30," was in John Jackson's hand, and no doubt that money was for outrages ; also the entry of 10 guineas to " a certain party." Witness adopted a different plan ; instead of entering it in that way, he concealed the payment otherwise. Witness had written the following to James Kay at Manchester : —" There is a man named Schofield and his two sons working near the Stockport Railway station, at a place where is a strike of our bricklayers, on ac count of the amalgamation between them and our society. lam informed there is an execution out against Schofield. Please to inquire, and if so, give information. It will be the means of taking him away." Schofield was out of the way for debt, and the letter was written because he was using Simpson's bricks. The masters were continually upon them to see what means could be used to compel Simpson to pay as much for his bricks as they did ; and the object of the letter was to prevent Simpson getting labour. Witness wrote it according to instructions. Remembered outrages upon a brickmaker named Brimelow, at Portwood, eight or nine years ago ; upon the property of Thomas Clayton, at Gatley, four or five years ago ; and on the property of Samuel Wilkinson and others at Bradbury, seven or eight years ago. Believed they were all committed by members of the Stockport Union. There is a rule at Manchester that bricks made out of the Manchester district are not to be sold at Manchester, but there is no such rule at Stockport, so that Man chester-made bricks may be sold at Stockport. Compensation was paid for the outrage at Levens hulme, because it was believed to have been done by Manchester men in consequence of the dispute with the Stockport society. When any outrage is done under such circumstances the Stockport society guarantees a payment of two-thirds of the damage. Remembered an outrage committed on the property of a brickmaker named Thornley—he believed more than ten years ago—at Bramhall. The Court then adjourned till next morning. Miscellaneous Foreign News. (From Correspondents of the Anylo-Ameri.an Times.) PARIS, September 5, 1867. The two subjects which occupy Paris principally at the present moment are the opening of the chase and the miracles of the Zouave, Jacob. On Satur day last the various railway stations were literally crowded with sportsmen leaving Paris for those departments in which game of all kinds is to be found in the greatest abundance, the howling of in numerable dogs forming a most unmelodious con cert with the occasional scream or whistle of the railway engine. On Sunday (the inevitable firsc) oue met in every direction, from daybreak down wards, a second class of the disciples of Saint Hubert setting out on foot for the less abundantly supplied game districts in the immediate vicinity of the city. Each and every one got up in the most approved fashion, which consists here of a complete suit of blue or reddish brown toile, the blouse being generally preferred to the jacket garnished with pockets of every size and description, a game-bag almost in variably new, suspended over the right shoulder, and one or two dogs, the actual breed of which it would give a dog-fancier some trouble to describe with any degree of accuracy. The costume is very pretty to look at, and in fact closely resembles that worn the other day by the Free Riflemen of the Vosges, but my personal reminiscences as a sports man both in England and Ireland, where a fit out of strong velveteen or fustian, with heavily nailed boots and leather leggings, hardly suffice for pro tection against the wear and tear of a day over heavy country, lead me to believe that either the shooting ground in the neighbourhood of Paris must consist almost entirely of open country, when, without the assistance of good setters or pointers, the sportsmen, how enthusiastic soever, may as well stay at home, and save himself the trouble and expense of a useless armament, or that, by the close of the day's sport, the shine must be considerably taken out of the light calico which looked so picturesque in the morning. I have not yet had the pleasure of a day's shooting in France, but I retain the souvenir of many a pleasant First of September in the West of England, when, accompanied by a couple of steady old spaniels and one or two good setters or pointers, the former tied up from time to time to prevent their interference with the action of the latter, we used to bag some twelve brace and a half of birds, with a few hares, and other odd game included, to our three guns, and get back in good time to the resi dence of our bachelor friend, warming our selves and the wine together before a❑ old fashioned wood fire, preparatory to a quiet little dinner, of which a shoulder of well-hung Southdown mutton generally formed the pice de resistance. It would have been extravagant to have wasted a haunch upon sportsmen, and an equally quiet rub ber after, some neighbour generally dropping i❑ to enable us to escape the unpleasantness of taking the dummy. After which we got home in the best way we could, having, of course, paid due honour to what in Ireland is termed the groceries. "But the days are gone when beauty bright My heart's chain wore." That is to say, I find myself on the other side of forty, and do not expect to meet in France a repe tition of the old shooting days of the wild west. A quantity of game has come in at the Central llalls, though not from the immediate neighbourhood of Paris. Partridges sell from 2f. 50e. to 3f. 50c., red partridges, lf. 50c. ; quails, 2f. ; hares are as yet scarce. In perhaps one of the most unbelieving cities in the world the question of modern miracles has arisen, and is being discussed with the greatest excitement, even by the various journals. A Zouave of the 3d Itegitnent, named Jacob, has come at once into the most sudden and greatest notoriety from the power which, it is said, he possesses of curing at once, and by a look and word, the paralytic and impotent of every description. At all events the large number of cures made from day to (1:13 , come as prima facie evidence in his behalf. From a portrait given of Jacob by one of the French jour nals, he is a small man, with a deeply embrowned countenance, having the eyessunk deep into the head, and such a general appearance as one would attri bute to a dancing Dervish. The manner i❑ which the Zouave performs his cures is equally singular. He has obtained a Cong 6 from the camp at Chalons for 30 days, and a mere interview with the number less patients who attend his levees is sufficient (with the exception of very few instances) to cure them. He receives no remuneration of any kind, makes no distinction between the rich and the poor, and whether he be a charlatan or mesmerist of a very THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPITAIRER 7, 1867. those innocent dear trimmings, pourtraying tenders of flocks playing on flutes, or watching over sleep ing shepherdesses in green and pink. But all these guileless, primeval tendencies have been discarded. Women having taken to guns, arrows, and revolv ers, I propose our new essence should be called " powder and shot." Ido not mention baits and hooks, for we have come to the conclusion that a great deal of time has been lost through fishing in shallow streams. The only pleasurable result of angling was salmon-coloured silk, which ladies call sunsets. To come out in a sunset looks like waning towards decline, but some declines are glorious, and better far to decline in glory than court pink and pale blue till death does ensue. A brune in a sunset ; though very passje, is much handsomer than the 'wane whose past is still more remote, and who will adopt the provokingly fascinating style of our in gdnues at the Varietes. Great murmurs of disapprobation greeted the first curtailed skirts that dared cover the ankle with no more than an inch of stuff, and much preferred stopping two inches above it. The murmurs were called spiteful, and had the effect of confirming all who had pretty feet in a wilful determination to run about in high boots on high heels. Since then they have tucked up their tunics behind in order to take a more resolute start in life, some on foot, some on horseback. The latter have chosen dark blue, light grey, and violet riding habits, with mousquetaire facings, pointed collars and cuffs, fastened with immense knob buttons. Their favourite is a felt-feathered toque, but the most genteel will ever be gentleman's beaver, with a black net spotted veil. A e of sport smen an d sports women a r w g e e re ass las e t m l‘ b i l o a n g d ay de S--, an old ancestral seat, which has come down from father to son (ever since the Crusades, of course). I do not suppose, from the crumbling state of the old grey walls, that it can possibly come down much longer, unless it falls flat to the ground. The last scion of a noble line is moreover a bachelor, nothwithstanding the annual manoeuvring of mothers, afflicted with grown up daughters. The mken chatelaine av e ot r e efr r ia inanvgeisno propriety,rhgdi h s ine h raorir is sent mT a an s heool for,dw extraordinarysf w e t h m hao a t l ih e se rsruepl supposed pe t ws i o v eas e ney , Seigneur de enjoys nothing so much as shooting and hunting p ar ti es , an d as soon as S a i n t d e s f e h o t to b S theee haspt h t o s e e a f i not considered necessary, and that she knows it. But to return to the particular party. There were Dianas in either ruby satin shooting jerkins and short skirts, or Dianas •in emerald green cloth velvet facings and gilt buttons. There were rifle women in Garibaldis and black poult skirts and Magyar boots. Pistols, of course, in their Russian belts, warranted not to go off. There were game bags enough on ladies' sides for at least one sparrow and a pocket handkerchief. They either wore caps made of the material employed in their costumes, or grey Tudors with gold ornaments on the left side. I saw no long ostrich feathers. One lady in a grey cloth suit, with grey Astrakan facings, looked perfectly dove-like, even though she slung a murderous gun over her shoulder with most killing grace. lam sorry to say the little Baronne de P came in trousers. They must be mentioned, be cause they were tucked into high fawn archery boots, the last fashion. Her costume was blue, or she would have impersonated Puss in boots. The best fun, however, was in the field when Nimrod's granddaughters shoot hares upwards, and blue rocks downwards. The gentlemen, mean while, were beating the poor birds up in a savage, blood-thirsty manner, frightening the fair sex to death. Some of the heroines began to think the best part had been the " dressing up." However, horns blew, dogs bayed, hounds pointed, game fell, partridges came wheeling down till every one had enough of it. The ladies' spoils were the stray birds they picked up on their way back to the chateau. The chorus from " Der Freyschutz" enlivened the was way, and after that a good deal of flirting carried on, which the female relative in her room did not put a stop to. The Seigneur, who conducts his household in a very hospitable but primitive style, had ordered a substantial, not recherché, repast for his guests. Trifle-cake and ices to heroines and hunters are those items which French taste abhors. The Seig neur de S-- would hear of no dressing for dinner. Besides nothing was granted but a for midable supply of soap and water. The ladies, however, ran away to their rooms, and had scarcely had time to doff their caps and elevate their chignons when the old tower bells summoned them to the flagged hall, in the centre of which rose the board of old, but it neither creaked nor groaned, as moderns will have it, under the weight of viands. It was made of good solid oak, and expected to bear a good deal without wincing. Game lay about promiscuously in corners and window recesses, or hung brace to brace on pegs. Servants and at tendants were scarce, and those who did wait on their master's visitors were not half strangled in white neckties, but were homely clad, and evidently accustomed to wait on ravenous guests. Truffled • pate after pate, and bottle after bottle, followed in quick succession, to appear was to disappear, while tales were told of the good fortunes and mishaps of the day. Peals of laughter echoed high among the oaken beams, but ladies do not follow the trampers and toilers of the heath without considerable ex haustion. They retired early. Not so the spor t smen , for the wine cup flowed till an advanced hour of night. An eye-wit ness told me that their talk was of Adelina Patti, whom we are so soon to have at the Italiens, of the pretty Flemish girl, who offered the Empress at Dunkirk a silver fish in a golden net, saying as she did so, without any flower of speech, t 4 Here, Empereuse, this is for you." One who had followed the Imperial cortege talked of the banners which the peasantry had stuck ever ywhere , e ven i n saucepans full of mould, or in barrels of salt butter. The Exposition was not forgotten, nor the committee of management there spared. An admirer of feats described the doings of eaters of iron at the Champ de Mars, where are also " indesteieb,” who swallow red-hot shovels, who digest cactus-leaves, stick their eyes through with skew ers , an d per f orm other a c complishments, proving the immense progress made by civilisation since our last Exhibition. The same eye-witness added that, when every subject was exhausted, the hunters parted with aching limbs, and none among them could precisely specify how or where they turned in. Thus ended my first shooting excursion. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company received a telegram from Sir S amuel Canning, their En g i neer in chief, date d f rom Sydney, Nova Scotia, last Monday, reporting the successful laying from the company's screw steamer of the subma r i ne telegraph cable f rom Pl ac entia to Sydney, touchi ng at the Island of St. Pie rre. As the time app roac h es w hen parties must name Chil the candidat es who are to run f or th e Presidency, the electioneeri ng tactics b ecom e more marked. General Gra n t f ills the most conspicuous place. lie is the great N ort h ern puzzle, as he refuses to speak or to act so as to comm it himself. The extreme Radicals have b egun to abuse hi m , and the Tribune openly leads thi s section. Th e President wishes it to be belie ve d t h at he has forme d a coalition with the General, an d the Democra t s have waited upon Grant and s i gn i f i ed their wis h t o place him at the head of thei r party, an d b r ing him in as next Pre sident. hey begged him to abstain fro m committin g himself to e i t h er party, to ut t er n o expressions of T opinion, and quietly to sanction their working tt, obtain the proposed end. We have little doubt unless some great chanae occurs that no effort of the Radical p ar t y will mater i a lly damage Grant in the eyes of th e nation. He m i g ht be damaged if the thorough-going Copperheads took ho ld of him ; but neither the ex t reme Rad i ca l s n or extreme Demo crats could loo sen hi s hol d on th e affection and esteem of the Northern people. his strength lies in the moderation of the country, and the weariness of the American people of the incessant turmoil kept up by political agitators. We only hope when the time comes that General Grant will not fight shy of so conspicuous, and, perhaps, unenviable a post. The week ending Saturday, 17th August, was re markable throughout the States for a heavy fall of rain, which did grea t d am age. It began at the South, passing along the whole Atlantic coast, and high order is the point debated at present at Paris by the savants and leading journalists. From the reply made by Jacob to the editor of the Petit Journal, it would seem that he believes himself the possessor of a magnetic fluid, which he is capable of communicating to his patient. " Monsieur," said he to the editor (the celebrated Timoth6e Tunin), "I am neither a doctor nor an empiric ; chance has made me discover that by the sole fact of my desire to be useful I relieve the sick. Special falculties have been attributed to me which I have been recognised to possess. I neither affirm them, nor even discuss them ; I make no speculation on these faculties ; I demand neither remumeration nor gratitude ; and I am delighted with the letter pub lished by the aide-de-camp of Marshal Forey, who states that I have not cured hint. At least people should leave me quiet. Remark that I have made no public appeal even for the purpose of giving my gratuitous services. That which Id o I cann ot de fine—that cure belongs to the savants, to all those who occupy themselves with the influence one man can have upon another who is desi rous of relieving his fellow-creature." From the remarkable language and conduct of the Zouave it would appear that he is rather a well-mean ing enthusiast than a tricky charlatan. Whe ther, however, he possesses in reality the mes meric or electric power, of which he persuades him self, will probably soon be known from the scientific inquiries, provoked on all hands by so interesting a subject. The Emperor and Empress have received dur ing the past week a deputation of 700 public teachers, who have been sent to Paris from the different departments to study at the Universal Exposition whatever appears to be most important in a scholastic point of view, especially as connected with agricultural instruction. Their Majesties have also received the Queen of Wurtemburg, who arrived incognito a few days since, and the Prince Otho of Bavaria, brother of King Louis 11. The Court will take its departure for Biarritz on the 7th inst. The Prince Humbert, who has, bye the bye, given the sum of 10,000 f. to the poor of Paris, returns to Dieppe to take leave of his Im perial hosts previous to their departure. The arrival at Paris of the Emperor and Empress of Austria is fixed, it is said, for the 25th of October. The camp at Chalons has been thrown into great consternation by the unexpected explosion of a powder magazine, which has resulted fatally in the case of M. Riviere, captain of the 57th of the Line, and the brigadier and five sappers of the 73d. It appears that the General Ladmirault had given the order to empty the safety cartridges at the artillery depot, but that branch refusing to receive them excep a t p in poed forpinatckets, that purpose,thesapp sappers of and it w f thes7thaas at 73d were the very instant that Captain Riviere entered the magazine where the manipulation was going on that the explosion took place. It is supposed that a capsule accidentally stepped on, set fire to the loose powder emptied from the Chassepot cartridges, which possess the fulminating property in the very highest degree. On Sunday last most of the Paris world went to the fete of Versailles, the attractions of that beauti ful neighbourhood being heightened by a Tir de nuit, or night exercise, executed by the artillery of the guard. Let one imagine himself behind a line of epaulenzents, four batteries mounting 32 guns in face at a distance of 300 yards, a bastioned front representing the hostile fortifications, whilst still further off, at a distance of 600 yards, another front, serving as the point de mire for the guns of the long range. All at once a rocket, bursting into a myriad of bright stars, illuminates for an instant the darkness, showing the batteries in full activit3, the men as thick as ants, the assistants charging, the cannoniers taking aim, and the officers, sabre in hand, awaiting the discharge. To the rocket suc ceeds a fire-pot, which, sailing through the air, falls in front of the enemy's bastion, brilliantly lighting the target. " Fire," cries the loud voice of the officer in command, and the artillery thunders with out ceasing for some minutes, whilst ever and anon a huge projectile, rushing through the air, makes a formidable breach in the works of the supposed enemy. After the heavy pieces come the field pieces, whose plunging fire is followed in turn by the mortars with their 32 bombs, which the eye can follow up to the point attacked. Care is taken, however, that these projectiles do not burst on arriving at their destination, which would be attended with great danger to the assembled crowd. A brilliant display of fireworks, illuminating the ruined works of the enemy, full of fire and smoke, closed this magnificent entertainment. It is said that the feu d'artifice is made from the waste pow der collected in the course of the year. In the days when the old stage coaches ran in England—palmy days of four-in-hand, so admirably pourtrayed by Dickens, and which palmy days have long taken boots to themselves since the intro duction of the iron horse—l remember a struggle between two opposition coaches to run each other off the road. The one offered to take passengers for nothing, but the other not only did the same, but offered the additional inducement of a glass of hot brandy and water. The latest commercial move in Paris appears strongly to resemble this practice, which consists in the opening of a large public hall or bazaar in the Boulevard des Amandius, where every known description of product or mer chandise may be purchased, the seller giving a warrant of obligation for the repayment of the whole amount within a certain period of time, ranging from two to fifty years, depen dant upon the yearly drawing by lot of the obligations in question. Ido not pretend to offer an opinion upon the value or validity of these obli gations, but as the matter is taken up by an influen tial company, the Credit Foncier of Paris, with a fixed capital, it is more than probable that the re payment may be relied upon ; neither do I offer an opiniontionoffers as to whether ornh whet e h a eprestnark not the I hall a in sa q y uc i s s: that a visit will well repay the curiosity of the visitor in Paris. The title of the institution is that of Magazins Re'unis, and is handsomely built in the form of a parallelogram, having en trances upon three of the principal boulevards and streets of Paris. It consists of three stories, the lower being rows of very handsome shops for the sale in detail ; the next a range dedicated to the wholesale department ; and the third, containing apartments occupied by the various functionaries of the establishment, stone galleries leading to and connecting the different branches. The movement w a s probably contemplated in connection with the Universal Exposition, though the situation of the building is unfortunately at the other end of Paris. The solidity and excellence of the manner in which the affair has been carried out shows that the enterprising company in questionregard capable hoblteof standing the test of time. establishment will reached by simply following the line of the main well repay the trouble of a visit. It can e k stroll it s h r Boulevard of Paris. . _ _ On Sunday last, I)jemil Pasha, Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Extraordinary from Turkey, had the honour of an interview with his Majesty the Emperor, for the purpose of expressing the high sense entertained by the Sultan of the hospitality shown himn in France. After the interview, the AmbaFsador presented to the Emperor thirteen magnificent Arab horses, in addition to the three given to his Majesty by the Sultan previous to his departure. Paris, Sept., 181,7. Woe to the feathery tribe ! A funeral dirge for rabbits and hares! The gentlest of women and the most ferocious of men are scouring over moor and forest glade iu pursuit of game. That breech-loaders should have defeated the Austrians at Sardowitz is a matter of history, but that breech-loaders should be worked round ladies' shooting skirts and hung on neck ties round their throats is rather too warlike a manifestation. We are getting fearfully murderous in this age of progress. Mythology, which was so fashionable last winter, was a great help to ladies in the choice of their attire. It seemed so natural to wear belts on which little cupids were painted, racing round one in breaks, and looking as merry as cherubim thus honoured ever ought to be ! Then the Watteau style of looping up our skirts of course explained all extending further inland than usual. At Baltimore and Philadelphia the fall was unusually heavy, and the loss is in proportion great. Accounts come from all parts of New England and the Middle States, of inundations, of swollen streams, of bridges, embank ments, and dams swept away, and of damage to the crops. It was late on Saturday before the storm ceased, the last of a three days' deluge, and which the advent believers had fixed as the last day of the world. The newspapers have been theorising to ac count for the heavy rain. One paper attributes it to the approach of the Gulf Stream towards the coast. A writer suggests want of spots in the sun A third, au effort of nature to make up two years of deficiency. The potato crop has been damaged, and so has cotton in the South, but the grain crops had been secured before the fall commenced. The Indians are in such numbers around Fort Hays, Kansas, that work has been interrupted on the Pacific Railroad (eastern division) beyond that point. Tne citizens in the neighbourhood of Fort Sedgwick have been armed, and Forts Reno, Kear ney, Hays, and Buford are in a state of siege. A battle has been fought at Plum Creek between fifty friendly Pawnees and Sioux and one hundred Cheyennes, wherein the Pawnees were victorious, securing fifteen scalps, forty head of cattle, and two prisoners. The Sioux and Crows bad a fight near Port Stevenson, where many Were killed on each side, the Crows being victorious. Spotted Tail, the author of the destruction of the train on the Union Pacific Railroad at Plum Creek, has been furnished with an outfit by the Peace Commissioners, and is away on a buffalo hunt. The half-breeds from British territory, it is said, have furnished arms and ammunition to the Sioux. An expedition, com posed of 300 men of the Volunteer Kansas Cavalry and 30 regular troops, under Captain Orme, had left Fort Hays with the design of striking some of the Indian villages on Salme River, ten days' march from the fort. No waggons were taken, the troops being prepared for rapid movements. We fear it is to this party the statement by the Java alludes, that the national troops had been repulsed by the Indians near Fort Hayes, in Kansas, and rein forcements sent forward. An Indian missionary, who accompanied General Sully and Colonel Parker, to the Indian tribes on the Missouri River, reports the Indians in the far North as friendly. The Democratic State Committee of Massachu setts was to meet at Boston on Monday, 26th August, to consider the matter of their State Con vention. The Republican State Convention is to meet at Worcester on the 11th September to nomi nate the Governor and other State officers. Each town and each ward of a city is entitled to one delegate in the Convention, and one additional for every 200 voters. Now that the registration lists are complete in Louisiana, an order for the election of delegates is issued to a convention to form a new State Consti tution, under which, Louisiana will apply for re admission to the Union. The number of delegates is fixed at 98, to be apportioned among the parishes in accordance with the number of voters. The lists of voters will be revised two weeks previous to the election, which will take place on September 27 and 28. The perpetration of violence or fraud is guarded against, and offenders are threatened with severe punishment, while elections where such acts are proved will be declared void, and held over again under protection of United States troops. The French Government have published a circu lar to its various diplomatic agents on the meeting of the Emperors at Salzburg. The journey of the Emperor Napoleon was solely dictated by the wish to bear an affectionate testimony of sympathy to the House of Hapsburg on the afflicting occasion of the execution of Maximilian at Queretaro. The Sovereigns on thus meeting communicated their opinions and exchanged their ideas on questions of general interest.. But the document states that neither the object nor the result of the interviews which took place was the formation of combinations, there being nothing in the present state of Europe to justify such proceeding. A semi-official communication from Copenhagen to the Hamburg News denies the correctness of the report that Denmark is negociating the sale of her West Indian possessions to America. San Francisco, in proportion to its size, is the busiest seaport in the world. Her annual exports aro about $70,000,000, and her imports nearly as much; the manufactures are worth nearly $20,000,000 ; the real estate sales amount to about $12,000,000, and the cash value of the land, buildings, and movable property of the city is about $200,000,000, although assessed for taxation at only $80,000,000. It sends away about forty tons of silver and six tons of gold every month, the former metal in bars fifteen inches long and five inches square ; the latter in small bars about six inches long, throe inches wide, and i 1 1 ,70 inches thick. Waggons loaded with the precious metals are seen in the streets nearly every day.—San Fran cisco Mining and Scientific Press. The Times correspondent writes :—The harvest in the United States this year has been most bountiful, and the supply of breadstuffs will not only be ample for all wants of the United States, but will give a large sur plus for export. The estimated crops of leading articles for 1867, the estimate being that of the Agricultural De partment, are the following:—Wheat, 232,500,000 bush. ; Indian corn, 800 million bush. ; rye, 27 million bush. ; oats, 230 million bush. ; barley, 21 million bush. ; buck wheat, 23 million bush. ; potatoes, 155 million bush. ; but ter, 512 million lb. ; cheese, 142 million lb. ; rice, 50 mil lion lb.; tobacco, 350 million lb. ; cane sugar, 60 million lb.; hay, 31 million tins; cotton, 2,500,000 bales Of cotton the crop of 1860 was 4,676,000 bales; while the estimate above given for 1867 is 2,500,000 bales. In making this estimate the Department is safe, for every ono here believes the crop will produce that much, while some sanguine observers go even far beyond it ; the New York Economist, for instance, estimat ing it at 3,223,000 bales. It is unfortunate with regard to cotton that the people who are in the cotton section, and best able to judge of it, are always interested in represent ing the crop as a short one in order to keep up prices. For that reason early in the season the accounts were gloomy and the predictions bad, but those sad tales have in most cases been dissipated. In some portions of the South, how ever, the crop will no doubt be bad, but that is the case every year. A few days ago I announced the receipt of the first bale of now ootton at New York from Florida; this week two more bales, grown in Alabama, have ap peared, classed as "good middling," and wore sold for 33c. currency. At New Orleans the first consignment of new cotton came to hand on the 13th of August ; last year the first bale was received on the 7th of August. With regard to crop prospects the reports from all parts of the South appear favourable excepting from the overflowed districts in the Mississippi valley; from there the intelli gence is of continued misfortune. Louisiana will fall short as compared with last year. Of the current cotton year, ending the 31st of August, but two weeks' returns are yet to be made. Thus far 1,855,676 bales have boon 'received, as compared with 2,020,773 bales to the same date last year ; 1,875,000 bales will probably cover the re ported receipts of the current cotton year. Thus far during the year the exports from the United States have been 1,541,155 bales as compared with 1,509,950 bales last year to the same dato, leaving a very small stock, only 137,380 bales, at present at the shipping ports. Accounts from Paris state The Correctional Tribunal has just condemned the proprietor of the Hotel des Italians, named Lernoine, to a month's imprisonment and 100 francs fine, for violence used towards an American lady, who had taken apartments in his house. When her bill was presented to her she found her apartments, which had been bargained for and charged 10 francs a day, were for four days charged at 20 francs. She refused to pay this, and said she should go elsewhere. When • she was propAring to g) out for this purpose the portross refused to allow her to pass the door, and seized her by her dress, which she tore. The master (Leinoine) then interfered, forced tho lady up to her room, in which h locked her for twelve hours. Two days after, the lady having succeeded in passing into the street, this man ran after her, seized her, and she having lail hold of the bars of a win law he deliberately forced open her hands, bruising her wrists, and throwing her on the ground dragged her under the vestibule of his hour, of Welch ho had the doors shut to keep out the indignant wituessos of this disgraceful scene. The hotel has two entrances, one on the Boulevard des Italiens, the other in the Rue de Choisoul,,No. 29. The Michig..n constitutional convention, sitting in committee of the whole, voted so decidedly in favour of , txtend►ng the suffrage to women, that Mrs. Cady Stanton and The Wore Tilton pulled off their bonnet and hat and gave three cheers fur Michigan. But, alas, the Michigan ders are but gay deceivers, like :he rest, and when it came to serious voting on the amendment, woman suffrage re ceived but 22 votes to 46 against it. But the friends of the women do not give it up so, and will makea strenuous effort to have the question submitted separately to the people. Tho proper course would be to submit it first to the women of the State; then, if they say they want to vote, put it to the men, and they will not be so ungallant as to say no.—Springfield Republican. The sixteenth meeting of the American associa tion for the advancement of science begin at Burlington on Wednesday, Aug. 21, with about fifty members in attendance, and Professor J. S. Newberry, of New York, was elected to preside. The papers read on the first day wore numerous and on a wide range of subjects. Professor Simon Newcomb, of the Naval Observatory at Washing ton, read a paper on the distance of the sun, which he placed at about 92,340,000 miles, and Professor E. W. Horsford, of Harvard College, gave an elaborate explana tion of the difference between fresh and stale bread, and showed the unsatisfactory character of previous the ories on the subject. He demonstrated by a prac tical experiment that the cause for bread being so stale is the absorption of the moisture by the gluten, and that when moisture is applied to stale bread it is also driven from the gluten, and the bread again becomes pleasant and palatable. On Thursday about 100 members were registered. Remarks were made by E. B. Elliott, of Washington, on the relative value of gold and silver coin for a series of years, and Professors Caswell, Hilgard, Whittlesey, and Newberry followed on the same subject. Professor James Hall, the New York state geologist, presented a paper on the geological relations of the mastodon, the fossil elephant of North America, which was discussed by many others. The association has elected Mr. Davison, of MUM College, Montreal, chair man. A company at Waterbury, Connecticut, is manu facturing one and two cent coins for the Peruvian Go vern ment. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Euxine five vessels are reported as having ar rived at Algesiras from Callao laden with guano. Among them the American ship Eastern Star, Curtis, 133 days; the America ship Sabina, Mitchell, 126 days ; the American ship Florence Treat, J. Short, 120 days ; and the American ship Baden, J. Stelfer, 95 days. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, August 24. Gold has been firm, and business has been done at an advance of nearly 1 per cont. On Thursday the market closed at 1401. The shipments of specie for Europe have been the lowest known for some time. Last Saturday the amount was $185,000. The imports for California have also been on a reduced scale. The receipts for cestoms, on the other hand, have been large, averaging nearly $500,000 per day. That amount is likewise the average sales of gold each day by the Government, which tends to check speculation, and prevent an undue influence being exercised by the ring. There is a slight advance in foreign exchange ; bills on London at sixty days being negotiated at 1094 for gold. The aggregate of the ex ports of gold and silver for this year since the Ist of January is less by nearly twenty millions of dollars than for the corresponding period last year, which may in a great measure be accounted for by the increased export of 5-20 Bonds. The demand for these securities is on the increase, and their price continues high. If they increase in favour in Europe they will take the place of specie for export. The first series of 7-30 notes, July 15, 1864, have all been funded or converted into 5-20's, except about $20,000,000, which must come in before the 15th Septem ber. The internal revenue for last week amounted to $3,264,910, and for the fiscal year to date $36,028,625. There is a stronger demand for money, consequent on'the movement of the crops. The supply at Chicago is not sufficient for the need of borrowers, and there is a prospect there of stringency. Here call loans can be nego tiated on Government security at 3 to 4 per cent., and the best business paper at 6 to 7 per cent. A great effort has been made to influence the market by pro mulgating rumours of awful dishonesty in the Treasury Department at Washington. It is worthy of notice that, although well concocted, and containing the most circum stantial statements, these reports have been wholly inef fectual to secure their object. They produced no excite ment and no perceptible change. The stock market, although active, is scarcely so strong, and the fluctuations have been considerable. The rise has no doubt been in fluenced, more especially in railways, by the low price of money and the prospect of increased earnings on the movement of the crops. A rise in the rates of discount would have an unfavourable effect, and as the tendency is to higher rates, it is doubtful whether the bulls may not be wrong in holding for a rise. Erie stock has slightly declined, and is below 70. Permanent investors dislike these rapid changes, and the stock is unfavourably affected in their eyes by these unaccountable fluctuations. Although the harvest is ended, and the crop secured, grain has not fallen as anticipated. The present high rates cannot long be maintained, but the farmers, millers, and speculators keep up the price as long as they can, in which they are assisted by the easy rates of money. Tho cotton crop slowly comes to market; some of Alabama growth, classed as "good middling," was sold last Mon day at 33c. a pound. I give the following as among the latest quotations:— Gold 1404 United States Five-Twenties (1862) 1131, (1864) 109, (1865) 109, (1865, New Issue) 1101, United States Ten-Forties 991 1021, United States 7-30 Loan 1071, Missouri Sixes 1021, Tennessee Sixes 66, Virginia Sixes 50, New York Central Railroad 1041, Erie 684, Erie Preferred 78, Hudson River 1231, Reading 103 f, Michigan Central 1091, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 801, Illinois Central 1181, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 92, Cleveland and Toledo 123, Chicago and North-Western 45, Chicago and North-Western Preferred 681, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 1031, Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific 1021, Ohio and Mississippi Certificates26l, Western Union Telegraph Company 42+, Pacific Mail steamship Company 1401, Cumberland Coal Company Preferred 35, Canton Company 46, Quicksilver Mining Company 274, Mariposa Mining Company 101, Mariposa Mining Com pany Preferred 181. (Franz Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.) Paris, Sept. 6, 1867. With higher prices than reported in our last the market continues inactive; and in spite of more confidence in continued peace, the amount of unemployed capital steadily accumulates. Americans have been in active demand at higher rates ; in 1862's transactions have been large, and wo quote an advance from 83 on the 29th August to the closing rate on the sth September. Largo purchases to recover those who have sold for the decline, together with approaching maturity of the November coupon, have largely contri buted to the advance, which occurs in the face of higher gold rates from New York, from which point our advicos are to the 4th. Gold 1411 U.S. Bonds (1862 ) 114 i The Route closes at 69 85 The Italian closes at Exchange on London 25 211 --- (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Sept. 4.) Our advices from New York are per Russia to the 21st ;alt. The Stock Market had been well maintained, with a tendency to increased values; gold at same time remained firm. Attention was much turned to the probable results of the harvest, and though in some quarters from the intense heat fears were felt that the maize would not fully expand, yet, on the whole, a large yield of wheat and corn excellent quality was calculated upon. Railroad traffics are consequently expected to show im provement during the remainder of the year. The returns for first week in August, so far as received, were showing a fair increase. The importance of the grain trade to railroads cannot be overrated, and an evidence of its im mense magnitude is furnished by the following extract : The Buffalo commercial Advertiser notices the enormous grain trade of the West, and its rapid increase as follows : "The unparalleled development of the West in popula tion and production will, in the ensuing thirty years, give a trade between the West and New York equal to up wards of $8,000,000,000, to go through the canals, when they shall be made sufficiently capacious for its accommo dation. There will be this amount of trade, aside from that by the railways. A canal boat, of the size now navigating the Erie Canal, 250 tons burden, will carry as much as one railway train of twenty-five cars. From seventy to eighty boats of this class can be laden with grain and despatched eastward in each and every twenty-four hours. If the canals should be ignored, and the entire business now done upon them should be transferred to the railroads, it would require four freight trains to be despatched daily by the Central and forty by the Erio, in addition to the busi ness they are now doing. Twenty-five years ago the grain trade of this city was between two and three million bushels annually. It now averages from fifty to sixty million bushels annually, in addition to the flour trade. The receipts of grain at this port in one day last year wore upward of throe million bushels. The receipts of grain here on Monday last were upward of seven hundred thousand bushels, besides upward of a million of staves and six million feet of lumber. Estimating the results of the future by the past, the time is not far distant when the grain trade at this pint will bo a hundred million bushels annually. A movement of sixty million bushels of grain by rail would require 6,857 trains of twenty-five cars each, equal to seventeen trains daily, by each of the two roads during the entire navigation season of two hundred days, and yet the grain trade is scarcely ono-half the tonnage to be moved." Business in American Securities in London continues ou a restricted scale, but notwithstanding that transactions are comparatively limited, market values are well sustained, United States Six per cent. 5.20 Bonds of 1862 and 1865 both being firm at a slight advance on the quotations of this day week. Erie and Illinois Shares are each iu goad demand, the latter at an improvement of per cent. For Massachusetts Sterling Bonds there is a good in quiry; also for Pennsylvania Central Railroad Sterling Bonds, Michigan Central Sterling, and Panama Sterling. We have to note an inereised inquiry for all classes of Atlantic and Great Western Bonds, and for Debentures. (From Messrs. L. P. Morton and Co.'s Circular.) New Ycrk, Aug. 24, 1867. Since our last advices there has been a general improve ment in the tone of business. Tho prospect of unusually abundant crops, in every section of the country, has in fused a more confident feeling into commercial circles, and has produced an increased activity in business operations. The Fall business opens with a steady conservative move ment, which, on the one hand, betokens a healthy demand for goods from the interior, and, on the other, shows au indisposition to carry heavy stocks during the prevalence of comparatively high prices. The imports of foreign products have thus far boon moderate, and the importers are realising fair prices for merchandise. Tho supply of domestic manufactures is ample, but probably not beyond what the country may be found to require. At this centre money has been very abundant, and the rate of interest, since our last date, has ranged at 3 to 5 per cent. on demand loans, and at 6 to 7 per cent. on dis counts of prime paper. Within the last ten days there has been an active demand for currency from the interior, connected with the forwarding of produce, and during last week the New York Associated Banks lost $6,500,000 of legal tenders. This withdrawal of funds, however, has net affected the local rate of interest, beyond diminishing the amount of loans at the minimum figure. United States securities have shown unusual activity and firmness, partially the result of the low rate of interest on money, and equally owing to an unusual demand for Five-Twenties for shipment. It is estimated that not less than $10,000,t 00 of Five-Twenty Bonds, of the issues of 1862 and 1865, have boon exported during the present month. The high prices, however, are drawing supplies from the interior, and the market closes less firm. 111° statement of the public debt, issued August Ist, shows reduction in the new indebtedness of the Governmen t of $4,309,510.98 as compared with the preceding statement of June last. The decrease in the pub lie indebtedness since August Ist, 1866, is $121,792, 850 ; and since August 1, 1865, $215,916,849. Be l°lf we present a comparison of the details of . the debt, compared with the statement of August 1, 1866, from which it will be seen that a large reduction has been effected in the temporary obligations of the Government, and that rapid strides aro being made toward funding the short debt into a permanent form. Of the $799,000,000 of three years 7.30 notes outstanding August 1, 1866, $348,000, 000 have been funded into Five-Twenty Bonds ; Wh ile $118,000,000 of Temporary Loan and $48,000,000 of Com pound Interest Notes have been disposed of by li q uidation or funding. The recent heavy exports of specie have produced e scarcity of gold in the market, which has steadily forced up the premium. The Treasury has for several days O st sold amounts about equal to its receipts from customs; but the sales have only partially checked the upward tendency Below we present a statement, compiled from returns of the Bureau of Statistics, which shows that upon the trading operations of the United States, for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1867, we accumulated an adverse balance of about $63,500,000 in gold. The indebtedness was incurred wholly during the first six months of the year, the import s for the second half being several millions below the ea" ports. This large foreign indebtedness must be regarded as accounting for the heavy shipments of specie during late weeks, and for the upward tendency of the premium on gold. The ba'ance has been set off partially by liberal shipments of securities ; but to what extent cannot be re' liably estimated. The late low rate of interest has induced an active specu lation in stocks ; which, owing to the prospect of increased earnings of the railways, growing out of the large crop s ' has been very generally in favour of higher prices. T he expectation of a more active demand for money has, within the last few days, somewhat weakened the coon ; deuce of holders of stocks, and with a p re d o minance sellers prices have declined. There are no indications of the prospect of any bona fide effort being made to effec t II change in the direction of the Erie Railroad Company'. Reports as to the condition of the cotton crop are UP ° t the whole favourable to a large gain upon th e yield of 155 3 year. The ravages of the worm in some parts of 'bol as have necessitated a limitation of estimates for that sec`- i°/1; , but it is now very generally admitted that the Soutli c..,, : supply is not likely to fall below 2,500,000 bales, and 0 ' possibly reach 2,750,000 bales. Foreign exchanges show a steady tendency towel greater ease. Rates are too low to admit of bankers (ire; lug against account ; and bills are generally made eget° the current exports. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. There was a good attendance at to-day's market' !ea wheat met a largo business at a slight advance upon ,!,,4 rates of Tuesday last. Flour was in bettor request" is per sack dearer. Indian corn in good request at an„, ol . vance of is per qr. Oats firm, and made higher Yt ii " Beans dull, and slightly easier. Malt steady. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. A fair supply of wheat. Trade more active, and P ri f:: in favour of tho seller. Barley of this year's growth 1 n d of tolerable quality ; grinding sorts were a scarce shoo' , ; late prices fully supported. There was a good sl!°,,4' oats. Beans were not plentiful, and unaltered in prlc' - r s6 New white wheat, 65s to 70s ; new red, 60s to 65s Fejog, stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 45s per qr ; gri u , s - 5 to 36s to 40s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 335. Beans, 50s per 38 stone. S TAIIF ORD—FRIDAY. t he We hal a tolerable show of wheat to-day, a t )Lool quotations were fully 2s per qr in sellers' favour. fore• was in small show, and prices must be quoted as be Oats and beans scarce at late rates. 63s Per,,5386 New white wheat, G4s to 68s ; red do.,' 58s to - - 55 , stone. Barley, malting, 40s to 50s; grinding, 27s W oe , per qr. Oats, new, 27s to 33s ; old, 32s to 36s per 24 0 Beans, 96s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. DERBY—FRIDAY. There was a middling supply of wheat on offer nievi and samples improved 2s p er qr s i nce l as t we ek. barley a fair show ; grinding barley a small suPPV' tr eal°, a steady trade. Beans in s h or t su pply , a t the e ite roe rates of last week. Oats wore a slo w t ra de, a t una rates. Peas sell slowly. New white wheat, 65s to 71s ; do. red, 58s to 6 3,4 , raja , stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 44s per qr. ; gr' n os t° 36s to 37s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 25s to 30s; old, to 453 36s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 48s; ne w, 38 ° per 38 stone.. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. n ad , At our market to-day English w h ea t m et a slot " e 4 ti pe and the business done was at an advance of is to ev ery qr on new sorts and is on old. Oth er articles WO' little changed. The demand f BR or all kindsISTOL SUG of R sA—u gaFRIDAYr has imp) t hio . ved f week and a fair business has been done at an advar' 0 o Is. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. d 'o. 5 s. . 20 9 Efolywell Main l7 d 0 Walls End Hetton .•• ~7 Hastings Hartley lB 9 Tunstall .......... "ii 0 Walbottle Hartley l5 6 Wylam ..... 96 Eden Main East Hartlepeol Hetton Lyons Hartlepool lships at market, 84—sold, 31. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. t. 19. instralla and New Zealand, via Southamptoi.....S o P - s Ditto, via Marseilles 00000 •• • •SePt" i • Ditto, via Panama ....... ...... Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .......... Oot. 4.ag. , . ' Ditto, by French packet Sept. Cape Verde. by Brazil packet t. O. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. lielena.•••S el3 .. 9. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Bouthampton.•See• 13. - * Ditto, via Marseilles •... . .S e p 4 Falkland Islands D o t' t. il• Gibraltar, via Southampton . SO - • 9 .......... India via Southampton Ditto, via Blared' es ...................... . •• • Sept " I' . Malta, Egypt, &a, .............. .. SeP t " 13 , Ditto, Marseilles • .... SeP v. ... ......................... Mauritius, Cape of Good Hop e , and Natal, vi a t. 1 9 ' Southampton . .............. . ................. S e P,7 13. Ditto, via Mars e ill es SO - il• Newfoundland .............................. oe9t4 net. ' Portugal ................. ••• Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ........... Ditto ditto -to Lisbon .............. United States, Canada, California, dm 9 by British sop. , If, .. packet • . .... Ditto, by United States packet ................ Ditto • ditto (New York) .................... . ... Litt° ditto (New York) 'Ditto ditto (Baltimore) • • ... ... • " Se p t Ditto, by Canadian packet .................... t . 1 6 West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe.• • • • • Ser West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Ball a- .-, at. Dm) .... . .............................. Pert. t t Cuba and Mexico ........................... .. • -• .. • 2: 13 , 5 ,t. Bahamas, via New York ........................ Bermuda, via Halifax . .. s e p ....... MOTE—On the 4th il the wife of Joseph S. 3 1: ti t g e' 1; 5cti s : : of 48, inst., Hertford-street, Mayfair, London, of a , •1 0 SAVILE—On the sth inst., at 30, St. Georg 's .- r °3(l ' t' ''''°.'P' ton-square, the wife of Edward& Smile ° , EscOw ° olii oP ' WILLIAMS—On the 2d inst., the wife of Co l ' . C. 8., Royal Artillery, of ason. Marriages. Chilf el' FITCH—Room— On the sth inst., at Ilarecourt ii,fo44 Canonbury, Henry Alfred, third son of F. F ., 1 l c 1 4 ° 1159, : of 65, Bishopsgate-street Within, and Iladlelc.lbolV Highbury New-park, to Jane, third daughter of ' ,o, Charles Room, of llarewell Rouse, FinchloPis t ate 1 SEDG'SVICK—MARCII —On the sth last., at 5t.,,,1 4 0 4( :. ° of Brixton, Richard, only son of Riclid Sedgw',,--Lght°- Stratford. Essex, to Julia Amelia, youngest '-'5"-- Richard March, Esq., of Brixton, Surrey. of Jolj l, tl Deaths. ARCIIBUTT —On the 4th last., Samuel, eldest so° 0 00 ° Archbutt, Esq., of Pimlico and Wandsworth.° , BALL—On - 0 2 cto 5 00 n . r.wian t e h .rt e ,sh.er G rB t : h altolhlm :n Eai s nssq t. s , st.,1 9. 01 t iflEA th b e be0 A ,y 1 .1 ; 13E n , ye d ro r n : out: l y( o l d e - s e s o t: e 6 r ,lo tt r il d. t 1 11136 0 f ballet master, aged 71. • rley Ball ,C l' , 1,0 1) li , Mr. Oscar Jel)Vl M ‘DOUGALL —On the 26th ult at Edinburgh, 10 5. ,/ A t illerd's M‘Dougall, Esq., of Dunolly,. Captain Royal A r COI; SIMEON—On the Ist inst., of cholera, at Seri lingti tilo 15t' R ni c ! g re im , e L n i t eu o t f .- B C e o n l g . a ß l CGa.vSalirmye.on, Conoulanding o cle n ' ~ Kensington, John W. Walton, Es+, ° WALTON— On the sth inst a t Wickham Esq hill,,3:.,aerr end, Enfield, aged 82. ----.-.• London : Printed and Published b y wthatol /‘ l4. g o 11 , 1 ;i of No. 1.12, Strand, Printer, a t Tfil3 SUS Oface:voty the Strand, in the Precinct of the Sf voY, :in blicidlesox.—Saturday, September 7, 1867.