The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-23 00:00:00

SPLECH BY BARON VON BELJS7'. REICHENBERG, Sept. 18. At a dinner given here to-day in honour of Baron vonßeust, his excellency delivered a lengthy speech, in the course of which he spoke of his past political career in Saxony. Ile called to mind the vicissitudes of fortune and the changes of public favour and disfavour of which he had been the object, as well as the marks of sympathy lavished upon him upon his return from the London Conference and at the grand festival of the choral societies at Dresden. Scarcely a year afterwards he found himself an exile, deli vered over to the attacks of his enemies, and it was only with difficulty afew friends could be found who would consent to acknowledge or defend hint. "It is not without intention," continued Baron von Beust, " that I recall these recollections. Not withstanding all these trials, I have neither lost faith in mankind nor confidence in myself, and 1 have not been mistaken in either respect. The honourable summons addressed to me by an august Sovereign has opened to me a vast field of action, in which I have received numerous proofs of public confidence, of which I entertain a grateful remembrance. In my native country people look upon me at present as a dead man of whom they like to think kindly. Still, in the position I now hold, I find many ad: versaries, and even enemies, but neither their num ber nor their ardour will be able to discourage me. Constant and persevering, carrying out my Sove reign's wishes so long as .I preserve his confidence, I shall pursue the course upon which I have entered, not with the idea of vanquishing and confounding my adversaries, but in the hope that a day will come when all will join hands in friendship for the com mon service of the country upon the basis of the re covered constitution. For this reason I recommend those who act with me to calmness and moderation. Let us respect . our adversaries and conciliate their opinions." The speaker called to mind that the country through which he had just passed had been the theatre of fratricidal war. He could not forget that he had himself been 'accused of having brought about that struggle, but he said that he repudiated this unjust accusation, which history would never confirm. Baron Von Beast declared that he brought a warmly German heart into Austria, and that he had strugled to enable the German element to retain its place in the empire. ‘q wish," be continued, " that people should honour the German element in Austria, which is inseparable from her august dynasty and the brightest pages in her history, as well as the grandest hopes for her future as a civilising agent. But if any man should imagine I have come to Austria to show the Austrian Germans the way of becoming untrue to her, that man would be a self-deceiver, and the ' immense majority of the German populations in Austria think as I do. Whoever preserves warm affection towards his brother by race, while remain ing faithful to his native soil, will be respected and esteemed ; but the unhappy malcontents who deny their own households excite pity and are dupes. The Germans will draw far closer the ties attaching other nationalities to Austria by showing they have faith both in the country and in her future. May words also penetrate to places where we be hold the singular spectacle that those who talk the loudest about the country of their origin, about historical tradition and ancient faith, and who con side; all these as threatened, nevertheless labour at importing amongst them a foreign country, a modern idea, and a new faith. May they think of what they do ! how could the King, whom one wishes to see wear a venerated crown, enter the walls of a cify still loudly echoing the strains of a bynin dedicated to a foreign Sovereign ? Do not these zealots themselves desire to live in peace and harmony with the races inhabiting this vast empire, towards which they direct their gaze? Whence should come peace and concord, if what is inter preted in other places as unity and respect is made use of among us to glorify discord and resistance? It in - consoling to reflect that these are only isolated and passing facts, that may seem strong in our eyes, but can never alienate from us our Austrian bro thers. Before, as after, we will offer them our hands. Nobody dreams of infringing well-founded rights and legitimate claims. Liberty of action is granted them and secured as soon as they aid in constructing the edifice we raise upon the basis of constitutional liberty. Rest assured that we are working assiduously at this edifice, the crowning of which guarantees to us the consolidation of the empire at home and its power abroad. In order, however, that it should succeed, we must cease, above all, to doubt and to despair. The pessimism I found upon my arrival in Austria has diminished; many things are improved and will continue to im prove. Why, then, this discouragement ? Why these anxious glances towards the future ? Let us first be just to him in whose hand Providence has placed the sceptre of this ancient and venerable empire. Let us not forget and not misunderstand the strength of mind he must have had not to lose courage, when the heaviest strokes of faith have fallen blow after blow upon his head, and yet he has never failed to acquit himself with the same devotion to his august duties." Baronvon Beust concluded his speech by pointing out that the situation of Austria had become more favourable. Notwithstanding the defeats she had suffered, she had received testimonies of respect and sympathy from foreign Powers. Her voice had been a weight thrown into the scale of peace. Her people had recovered themselves after two wars following in rapid succession. "If fortune returns," exclaimed the speaker, " the world will see of what the people of Austria are capable. It is the people, above all, we desire should.prat by the benefits, in order to increase their prosperity, for liberty prospers and takes root only among -laborious nations who have made provision against want." Idiscellanebus Foreign News. A letter from Geneva, dated Sept.-11, says . :— Your readers are probably aware that the Peace Congress opened its sittings in this city on Monday last, the Bth Inst.. The great attraction held to the uninitiated world was the presence of •General Garib4ldi. :;That .potentate accordingly made his entrance into the city on Sunday evening, attired in his usual fancy dress, in a carriage and four, escorted by the various democratic clubs of Geneva, with their • banners. It was thought• possible, by those who ere :unacquainted with the character of the man,-that he might on this occasion confine himself to the subjects indicated in the programme of the Congress,. and for once abstain from ribald attacks against priests and denunciations of the Papacy. Not at all. He lost no opportunity, either in the Congress or in his orations from his balcony, of exciting religious strife, and succeeded, as you will see, from the accompanying documents, in imposing on the Congress a series of 'propositions, embodying his vie ws regarding the abolition of the Papacy, and the inauguration of a- new religion, apparently :the :same with that already advocated by Mazzini in •the columns of the Westminster Review. The result, however, has been different from the . one on , which his admirers probably calculated. -- - He has covered the' whole proceedings of the. Congress with ridicule, and s . O:sucdeeded in opening the eyes of the more • serious politicians here to the impracticability of the whole affair, that the few among them who had lent their sup port to the Congress have already withdrawn from the posts they occimied, or shown inanife . gfsynip - toms of doing so. The final blow was administered yesterday by an enthusiastic admirer of the illus trious guest who informed the Congress that Christ and William Tell had had their day, and that the present " Redeemer of Humanity " was General Garibaldi. Ile was greeted by inextin guishable laughter, as another, who attributed the failure of the first French Republic to its weak maintenance of a belief in Providence, was met by a storm of hisses. The Catholics of Geneva, who form a majority of the Canton, counting in the country population, observed a dignified silence, resolved to give no unnecessary handle for outrage, or pretext for reprisals. However, when in spite of their forbear ance these uncalled-for insults had been already offered to their religion, they thought it time to speak, and waited yesterday on the " Conseil d'Etat," with a protestation, a copy of which I fors ward to you, and which is placarded on the walls of Geneva and the surrounding villages. The "Conseil d'Etat" fully admitted their right to protest, and informed them that if they, the members of the council, had been aware of the line General Garibaldi was about to take, they would not have lent the cannon and military band for his reception, and that, in consequence of what had taken place, their official visit to Garibaldi, and the dinner which they had intended to offer him was countermanded. The Catholic protestation received thirty-two signatures, principally of the heads of commercial establishments, and is backed by the warm and rather bellicose sympathy of the country popula tion. It is accompanied by an address of sym- pathy to Mgr. Mermillod. The sum total is that Garibaldi departed at nine o'clock this morning, as it was expressed to me, "soul comme un chien," without any ovation whatsoever, having completely exploded any reputation which he may have had here as a practical politician, and regarded by the more sympathetically disposed as an amiable but idiotic enthusiast ; by the less indulgent as a mis chievously disposed charlatan, who is fortunately unable to avoid exposing himself, as soon as ever he is no longer transfigured by the halo which distance and imagination throw around him. ADDRESS OF THE CATIIOLICS TO HIS LORDSHIP MON SIGNEUR MERMILLOD, BISHOP OF GENEVA. It is a public fact that in the ovation organized to give him a public reception, Garibaldi insulted the Holy See and the sacred rights of the Papacy, which he called a monster, a pestilential institu tion, and an asylum of falsehood and idolatry. The Catholics could not remain under this out rage without giving expression to their grief. A deputation repaired to the Bishop of Geneva, and read the following address to his lordship : " My Lord,—We feel anxious to come before your lordship to protest against the outrageous language which the avowed enemy of the Papacy has given utterance to in our city. "This language outrages the religious feelings of one-half of the inhabitants of the canton of Geneva. " We think that to come and declare war against the Sovereign Pontiff is little consonant to the reign of peace. We belong to Geneva and live at Ge neva, but we belong also to the Holy Church, which is the country of our souls. This is the reason wherefore we are profoundly indignant that a foreigner should come to resuscitate old animosities, and to sow civil discord in our country. " Deign, my lord, to be our interpreter with the august Pius IX., the Vicar of Jesus Christ and Pontiff King. " Lay before the Head of the Church the hom age of our filial veneration for his sacred person, and of our inviolable attachment to all the rights of the Holy See. By this step we wish more than ever to unite ourselves with you and the clergy. "We feel certain of serving, thereby, our country, of defending its independence, and of labouring for its prosperity. We shall thus be men of order and of peace, and will preserve in tact the honour of our faith with the freedom of our conscience." Here follow the signatures. The following is the analysis of the reply made by Mgr. Mermillod "Gentlemen, —Your proceeding honours you and is a source of consolation to me. This solemn.decla ration of your Catholic convictions is an act which God will bless. By this protestation against the insulting language which has resounded within our walls, you defend your faith, your Church, and its august and - venerated Head. This is your right and your duty. You have no fear, and you wish, as citizens or inhabitants of a free soil, to maintain that which is most sacred —the freedom of the soul and the imprescriptable rights of con science. The address which you bring me is a first act, which must have its completion. Neither you nor myself have wished amid these unhealthy agitations to give the remotest pretext for any irritation whatsoever. We are all men of peace! and we ask it of God for the union of the people and the prospeiity of our dear country. But we could not see, without profound grief, that, under the standard of peace, a foreigner should come to Geneva and indulge in the most violent and insulting language, and declare open war against the Head of the religion of one half of the country. Our free laud—our independent nationality—is an oasis amid the struggles of Europe—it is hospita ble soil for the proscribed ;of every class. This is why we indulged in the hope that the public peace would not be compromised, and that the rights of hospitality should be respected. More over, gentlemen, everything is called in ques tion : the Gospel—our Lord Jesus Christ--Pro vidence God Himself. What do these men then wish to make of a people that would no longer be under any religious or moral restraint? This is evidently to bring down ruin on the nations, and to reduce society to dust. Preserve your holy and precious convictions as your best treasure I Let us remain calm in the serenity of our faith, and in the security of our rights. We have nothing to fear, for we are the sons of that Church which has seen many a storm roll by. Unite in your soul love of religion with devotedness to your country. Faith and patriotism exclude not each other ; your conduct to-day proves it. According to the words of Holy Writ, which are the words of the God of Truth, the impious demand peace ; but they can neither have peace nor establish peace. Peace is the gift of God, the fruit of conquered passions, and not of revolution unbound. Keep peace in your souls by Christian fidelity to faith and to prayer. Keep it at your domestic hearth by the energy of duty purity of life and your austere joy of labour. Keep peace in our country by the spirit of order, self-devotion, and charity for all, and attachment to the independence of Swit zerland. You will thus ward off the dangers which threaten her at home and abroad. - I thank you, gentlemen ; your generous sympathies, your filial homage shall be brought to Pius IX. You are the echo of that great voice of the Catholic world, which hails him as the Head of the Church, the Man of Peace, the Guardian of Right and Justice, the Pontift King. Be for ever without fear and without reproach—faithful to God and to religion. In a few days, when the effervescence shall have calmed down, we will give words of counsel to Ca tholic consciences, and we shall be happy to trans mit to .the Vicar of Jesus Christ the expression of your filial devotedness. This homage coming from Geneva will be grateful to his heart, and will con sole him amid his struggles. I thank you again, gentlemen, and accept my blessing, because you have shown yourselves to be men of faith and free citizens, • who have the courage to do your duty • and to save your honour." The following address from Mazzini has just been published : - " President of the Congress,—ls it possible that at Geneva, where the Reformers thundered with so much violence against the Popes, the illus trious Garibaldi has been unable to pronounce his prophetic phrases, the downfall of the Papacy, with out exciting on the part of a quantity of Protestants reclamations as senseless as they are illogical ? The Journal de Gen&T itself puts its gag upon you. Nothing against the Pope, nothing against Kings ! "Where,then, are the energetic Genovese who re sisted Louis XIV?- Where are those manly convic tions— that energy of the old Swiss? " Under the vain pretext of neutrality, under the vain pretext of wounding no one, they will not allow the truth to be spoken, and they cause that which is bad to be called good." As a commentary on Signor Mazzini's accusa tion against the Genevese Protestants, we subjoin a letter addressed to the editor of the Journal de Geneve by a Protestant pastor : " Geneva, Sept. 14, 1867. "Sir,--As you mentioned in your number of Thursday, a letter bad been transmitted the day before to the Committee of the Peace Congress, signed by Messrs. Richard, pastor; Lenoir, member of the Church of the Oratory ; Poulin-Darier, Mohardt, deacon, and myself, each of us signing in his own name, and in that of many other persons. The object of this address was : "1. To declare publicly, contrary to certain 'ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1867. affirmations, that there were in the Congress persons heartily attached to the Christian faith. " 2. To protest against the attacks directed by the greater number of the orators against Christi anity ; and " 3. To ask that if such attacks were renewed, without being immediately repressed, leave might be given to one of us to reply. " In the name of liberty all attacks were permit ted'; in the name of peace all replies were forbid den. Our letter was neither read nor mentioned. "We only ask the publicity of your journal to state a fact. It was impossible such brutal chal lenges could be uttered in the open day at Geneva without any one being found to take them up.— Believe me, sir, &c., J. A. Boscx. JOHN CRACROFT WILSON, C.B. A STORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY. (From the Anglo-Alnerican Times.) Rohilcund is the fairest of the North-west Pro vinces of British India. On one side, the Himma layahs rise in a chain of snowy Sierras ; on the other, the Ganges sweeping from the ranges at Hurdwan in a curve, flows thence almost in a parallel line, forming the south-west boundary. Oude is a con tinuation of the same level and fertile plain between the Ganges and the mountains, about 100 miles in breadth by 450 in length. The importance of these provinces is shown by the fact that, although some 5,000 square miles less in area than England, the population is greater, being twenty-two millions, which gives the proportion of 490 persons to a square mile against 332 in England. Torrents rushing in cataracts down the bill-sides flow in numerous streams, watering the Provinces on their way to the sacred River. Bareilly is the capital, and Moradabad, scarcely inferior in importance, is the great city of the upper territory. If a line were ,drawn from Delhi, the Imperial City, to Meerut, the great military station, and continued eastward, it would strike the moun tains almost at right angles, passing not far from Moradabad. Delhi stands on the right bank of the Jumna—Meerut, mid-way in the Doab or country between the rivers Jumna and Ganges, and Mora dabad mid-way on the plain between the Ganges and the Himmalayah. For many years before the outbreak of the mutiny, John Cracroft Wilson was magistrate and collectorof that district of Rohilcund. He had proceeded to India as a civil servant at a very early age, where he at once distinguished him self by the success of his untiring efforts to suppress Thuggism, earning the soubriquet of Thuggee Wilson. It was in this department that Mr. Wilson acquired so intimate a knowledge of the languages and habits of the people, and formed a taste for the fascinating pursuit and an acquaintance with the working of the native mind, which he afterwards so usefully employed. Being a man of great ability, and of an energy that knew no rest, he not only mastered the languages, the manners, customs, and habits of the people, but he was able to identify himself so thoroughly with the inhabitants, as to deceive even the keenest observer amongst them when he assumed the Mussulman or Hiudoo disguise. It is seldom that such a power has been acquired by one of our race, and in India it is regarded as a wonderful achievement when a man born and bred in England can pass himself as a native among them. One so ma terial in his ideas, so restless in activity, and of such quick observation, could not fail to become intimately acquainted with the localities of a district over which he had been placed, and where he exercised so large a measure of power. His rule in Moradabad was marked by the introduction of beneficial reforms. Agriculture was developed, new plants and herbs introduced—stock improved—but he will be best re membered by his successors of the ruling race by the formation of one of the most charming hill stations in the Himmalayah. Nynee-Tal nestles on a peak of the mountains around a lovely lake, where the parched traveller from the white arid plains suddenly finds himself in a delicious atmo si here, with a green sward under foot. and the placid waters of a deep blue lake before him, reflecting the green trees that grow along its borders. Before the Mutiny, John Cracroft Wilson had been promoted to the highest post at Moradabad —the judgeship, although one scarcely so potential for good, or admitting of the same play for qualities in which he excelled. A period, however, was at hand which gave him full scope, and enabled him to show to the world of what material he was made. The mutiny broke out at Meerut on the 10th May, 1857 ; kindling a fire for which the materials had been prepared, to spread with the greatest speed from Calcutta to Peshawur. There was not a single European soldier in the rich province of Rohilcund, and but the head-quarters of one European regiment at Lucknow in the ad joining province of Oude, which had but a few months before, been annexed. The civilians and English officers of the native regiments at Morada bad, at Bareilly, at Shahjebanpore, and at the cities on the other side of the Ganges, were suddenly placed in circumstances of extreme desperation, and one by one were compelled to succumb to events beyond their control, a few escaping, but the most, falling victims in the vain effort to perform their duty. As week by week passed at Meerut intelligence was anxiously looked for from Moradabad, which John Cracroft Wilson held in the midst of its native garrison, when all besides had fallen. Daily the news was expected of a massacre at that station, as it was impossible to bear up against the overwhelming odds. Personal influence and determination, combined with an ex traordinary amount of courage, could not continue to make head against the tide that had surged over the whole country, and John Cracroft Wilson, the last in the fatal field, was compelled to retire. The party was formed for the ride to Meerut over the scorching plains at the hottest period of the year, through a country literally alive with marauders, where village was armed against village, where Goojurs looted and murdered, where bands of badhniashes and soldiers spoiled, plundered, and burnt, all they could with safety. It was at this moment of desperate peril that the cavalcade, with many ladies in its train (among them his own wife, who had refused to leave him), started under Mr. Wilson's guidance. He had done all that mortal man could do to uphold British authority in his district. At Lucknow the 32d maintained a portion of the city to which they had been driven after being defeated in their attempt under Sir Henry Law rence, to break up the gathering thousands of their enemies, and this chief —the most distinguished member of the Lawrence family—had been slain. At Cawnpore the Nana ruled supreme, and shocked the world by a massacre which will be remembered in India when the Calcutta Black Hole is forgotten. All had perished at Shahjehanpore, all but a few fugitives at Bareilly, and none knew what the fate was of those at Futteygurgh. The fort of Agra was held in pre carious tenure by a British regiment, and, again, the Mogul ruled in his palace at Delhi, issuing from that ancient seat of empire those orders which were once a law to the extremities of the Peninsula. It was in this interregnum when British rule had ceased, and no native Government had been esta blished, when both were gathering up their forces to decide who were to be the future lords of Iliudostan, that the party left the last spot in Rohilcund which maintained even the semblance of the late all-domi nant power of England. Till then the Sepoys and the host of traitors in the city had been overawed by the firm front and audacious bearing stilt assumed by this indomitable civilian. But the question arose to every mind —How would they pet when the party turned to fly ? They lay like tigers crouched for a spring, fearing to move, while their prey stood facing them with a dauntless front. The position was horrible, for it was death to remain, and they had remained so long that it was almost death to fly. As the cavalcade moved on, Mr. Wilson's quick eye per ceived on the road in the dusky light that two pieces of artillery barred the way, with the gunners in readi ness. He knew what these preparations por tended, and quietly moving his party off the high way, he directed them across country, while he rode up to the artillerymen, who seeing in the dim light of the night a single horseman, permitted his ap proach. The men stood by their guns with their matches ready ; but the influence of his personal character and his fearless daring cowed the soldiers even in this extremity. He spoke with the ease and fluency of a native, and with an intimate knowledge of every feeling that moved the muti neers before him. His parley lasted for some time, and while it lasted the fugitives rode for their lives. When amongst the Sepoys, armed to the teeth as he was, he would have been a dan gerous customer to deal with, and when he left them they discovered that the birds bad flown. He brought his party safely into Meerut, with the exception, as far as we can remember, of one who died of coup de-soleil. But though Mr. Wilson was compelled to withdraw from Moradabad, he left an influence behind that was potent for good in the campaigns which followed. His intimate acquaintance with the principal native families, the numerous servants, both Government and personal, with whom he had been connected, enabled him to carry on those intrigues in which the Eastern mind so delights, and for which he was so peculiarly adapted that no movement took place throughout the coun try--no speech was made—no counsel held, no act performed, that his spies did not communicate. He kept up in the district a wide surface of agitation, strengthening the opposition of the weak, circu lating rumours of the arrival at the ports of count less regiments of British soldiers, of defeats of native troops, and of the quick advent of the avenging army. But his services to the Govern ment did not rest in maintaining his hold on Rohil cund ; he gave a great spur to the operations carried on around Meerut, which kept in awe the district from the Jumna to the Ganges. Parties were con stantly in the field who hung the plundering Goojurs to the nearest trees, who levied the taxes due to the Government, who intercepted the com munications with Delhi, and made the natives far and wide feel that England still ruled, and intended to keep her dominions in Hindoostan. He was for ever in the saddle, and the force of his influence exerted its effects far beyond the iiiost distant points he was able to reach during the gloomiest period of the great trial. Brighter days at last began to dawn. Dreary months had passed away, and the North West Provinces, which had been converted into a charnel house to the English from Allahabad to Umballa, began to yield up in retribution the Indian promoters of the massacres. Sir Henry Havelock had penetrated to Lucknow ; Lord Clyde had assumed the command of an army growing each day in strength ; all India was alive with moving columns, but the stronghold of the mutiny from Delhi to Cawnpore still remained im passable, being wholly in the hands of the rebels. It was then that Mr. Wilson achieved his great exploit. Burton penetrated to the Moslem sanctum of Mecca ; Outrain maintained his disguise, passing through Beloochistan as a native merchant; Cavanagh carried from the beleagued garrison at Lucknow the message to the force advancing to the " relief," but it remained for John Cracroft Wilson to surpass these deeds. The first was the exploit of an enter prising traveller, dictated half by bravado, half by an enlightened spirit of inquiry. The second was the political achievement of the Bayard of the Indian army necessitated by diplomatic reasons. The third was the act of a brave man volunteering from among his comrades when placed in a despe rate positiori; while John Cracroft Wilson's en terprise was dictated with the noble object of saving the lives of others at the peril of his own. His numerous spies had informed him that there were Christian fugitives concealed in the enemy's district of Futteygurgh, and he de termined to penetrate to the spot to effect their release. Disguised as a Persian, alone and unaided, he made this memorable journey. The road he travelled was crossed at every stage by bands of sepoys passing from the cities of Rohilcuud to Agra, Gwalior, and other points. Its dangers were shown by the murders of English officers who had attempted to travel on it. The cool assurance of the distinguished Indian civilian was exemplified by his proceedings at Futteygurgh, where he got himself introduced to the mkt., who had inaugurated his government by blowing from his guns every Christian on whom he could lay hands. lie actually assisted at his coun sels, and was feasted iu the household as a distin guished traveller who hated the Kaffir rule, and was on his way to congratulate the native poten tates on the extermination of the Christian dogs. How he succeeded in his mission is best shown by the despatch of the Governor-General, who an nounced to the world that " John Cracroft Wilson had by his own obstinate courage and perseverance, saved more Christian lives than any man in India." Long before the road was safe, Mr. Wilson had made his way to Alla habad, where, in an interview with Lord Can ning, he proposed a scheme for recovering the pro vince of Rohilcund. In compliance with arrange ments then made, General Penny marched with a force to Kasegunje, accompanied by Mr. Wilson, but on the eve of crossing the Ganges he was arrested by order of Lord Clyde, who had no idea of his own • arrangements being interfered with by those of this obtrusive civilian. It is p r obable that the dislike conceived by the Commander-in-Chief for Mr. Wilson prevented the due recognition of the civilian's services. His manner was not calculated to con ciliate persons in authority, as there was a self assertion in him which was simply unbear able to a military chief, whose command was law. When Lord Clyde, therefore, came on the stage Mr. Wilson was set aside, as far as a man of his indomitable energy and " pluck" could be set aside. But he had the pleasure of re-entering, as a conqueror, the city he had so many years ruled, re-establishing his sway at Moradabad. He had ridden more miles, he had exposed himself more freely, he had had as many hair-breadth escapes, he had collected more money, he had saved more Christian lives, and he bad punished more evil-doers than had perhaps any one of the most energetic during this period of terrible peril to the Christian rule. After spending the best years of his life in India, and crowning a long service by acts which reflect honour not only on himself but on his country, he withdrew from the East to the province of Canter bury, then a struggling settlement of New Zealand. Although his name has been forgotten in England, it is well known at the Antipodes, where, as a mem ber both of the Colonial and Provincial Legislatures, he is always to be found at his post, and his voice heard with the same self-assertion that marked his career in the Civil Service of Bengal. • He offered with a few Gcorkhas and Seikhs to finish off the New Zealand war, then employing 10,000 British soldiers, and sinking countless treasure. But Mr. Wilson's life can best be judged by the acts he has accomplished, and if these be duly weighed, the colonists will gee he has no small grounds on which to base " tall talk." He threw in his lot in the Province of Canterbury, when it was an unformed settlement, and surprised the people by selecting his estate in a swamp, but those who now pass over the broad clover fields of " Cashmere," and see the meadows covered with fat beasts, the enclosures waving with heavy crops, will pass a high encomium not only on his judgment, but on the persevering industry, which rescued from a waste, some of the finest lands that Canterbury now boasts. Though John Cracroft Wilson has succeeded through the same qualities as a colonist (now count ing his flocks by thousands) as those that gave him success in India—in one respect he has been un fortunate in selecting the Antipodes as his home. Among the first honours distributed for service in the Indian mutiny he was named for Companion of the Bath ; but a second distribution has lately been made for these services, in which he has been wholly overlooked. Indeed, those who made the selection must have laboured under the impression that John Cracroft Wilson had ceased to exist. There are many people who dislike him, but we never yet met the man who did not frankly acknowledge the value of his services. Had Lord Canning lived, the sub ject of our notice could not thus have been for gotten, and it has occurred to us that the matter is a pure oversight, which simply requires to be brought to the notice of the Government to be cor rected. It would be easy for us to turn back to the correspondence of the period, both published and unpublished, to bring overwhelming proof of John Cracroft Wilson's claims, but the extract from Lord Canning's despatch is more than sufficient for our purpose. It would indeed be hard if while this gentleman has laboured in developing the resources of one of England's best colonies he should be neglected to make way for those who may elect to lounge out their days in comfort in this centre of civilisation, a choice we do not dispute they have well earned the right to make. But we do dispute the right of any to throw into the shade the services of this absent gentleman, now working out a colonial career which will leave even a more broad and lasting mark of his presence in New Zealand than he has left in India. We cannot close this notice with out alluding to the lady who shared so many of Mr. Wilson's perils with a courage and endurance which marked so grandly the character of English women in that time of trial. Whatever may be Mr. Wilson's popularity, a more popular person than his wife will neither be found in India nor in the colony she has made her home. They have fought out this great fight together, and it would surely be a consideration for the Government that in bestowing on John Cracroft Wilson the well merited reward of the higher grade of the order of the Bath, the title which accompanies it, would be shared by his wife. WESTMINSTER PALACE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE " TIMES." Sir,—Business engagements from home have prevented my availing myself sooner of your invitation to assist in " devising some plan which should make the Houses of Parliament worth the money which the nation has spent." Allow me now, thorefore,to offer some explanations and suggestions respecting them. While fully admitting that you express no more than what is felt by four-fifths of the House of Commons, it is but just that the grievances you detail should be traced to their proper quarter. I always understood from my father, that Sir Charles Barry did his utmost to persuade the Commissioners to make the two Houses of equal size ; but he was overruled on the consideration that, as the attendance in the House of Commons seldom exceeded 200, it was thought better to endure an occasional crush, than to be daily exposed to the permanent annoyance of a comparatively vacant House, with empty benches. In this respect it is unrea sonable to blame Sir Charles, than whom no man had a more comprehensive idea of what ms necessary for uniting space with convenience. Had Sir Charles Barry been absolute master of the position, rather than a shut tlecock tossed from post to pillar, the blame with which you now charge him would have been justly merited, but he may fairly be exonerated from much of the respon sibility hitherto attached to him. I have often heard my father say that the perplexing annoyances to which Sir Charles Barry was a victim would have killed him in a twelvemonth. What, however, was considered at the time Sir Charles's great merit was, in reality, his greatest fault. The attempt to form a successful combination of Grecian symmetry with mediaeval features, of uniformity of plan with Gothic elevations, was the fatal mistake which fascinated, but destroyed him. His ground plan, I must maintain in opposition to yourself, displays a mar vellous amount of ingenuity and compactness of arrange ment. To bring together those huge chambers of audi ence in close proximity with numberless rooms and offices, all within reach of eath other—to group that long suc cession of "spacious halls "with their connecting galleries and approaches—to pack, as it were, with such orderly method that vast multitude of apartments, was surely an accomplishment involving no little thought and mental application ; and is scarcely to be condemned in so unquali fied a manner on the score of inconvenience. But at the same time it must be admitted, if not deplored, that what ever convenience may exist, it was obtained at the sacri fice of light, air, propriety, and many desirable if not essential characteristics. The somewhat prison-like aspect of a portion of the rooms, and the general air of closeness, are to be attributed to the classical exigences of the plan, and the idea that sash windows and other modern requirements were inconsistent with the principles of Gothic architecture. My father, however, while fully admitting the great talent and ingenuity in Sir Charles's general plan, always maintained, not merely that the outline, disposition, and proportions of the various parts of the building were Grecian, but that the ground plan itself partook of the same character, and was fitted only for a Southern climate. This was, after all, the fatal mistake. The small enclosed courts, in winter little better than wells, fronted by a long, lofty pile of building facing south, which, though basking iu the sun itself, effectually excluded both sun and air from every portion of the vast mass behind it, my father almost prophetically announced was not the right and proper treatment for a climate where sun is a luxury, and not a superfluity. In advance of his time, and gifted with practical instincts, which saved him from being led away by the fascinating idea upon which Sir Charles Barry stumbled, ho saw without an effort that we required courts open to the south, and de tached buildings so placed as to receive each its due share of sun, the more important marked by the greater prominence, all rising ono behind the other to the north and then backed by a sturdy barrier of the loftiest and most massive character. Yet, strange to say, a design of this very character was rejected by the judges. He who wrought the elaborate coat of the accepted design origi nated at the same time a conception which was described in the Morning Post of the period as "presenting combi nations of convenience and picturesque grouping in per fect keeping with the character of the style, which it is delightful to contemplate." This treatment, embodied by my father in his designs for Mr. Gillespie Graham, is now found by experience to be the very treatment neces sary for our requirements in this country. But, unfortu nately, we were not at that time sufficiently advanced to appreciate it ; we were deceived by a phantom ; the plastic nature of Gothic art was trammelled by the exacting demands of classical propriety ; and we can now only regret that the opportunity of thirty-five years back, which was actually available, was lost through our own ignorance. Is it not most lamentable, let me ask in passing, that unless a sharp look-out be kept the very selfsame false treatment will render the new Law Courts as huge a blunder in this respect as the Parliament Houses ? It is to the Quarterly Rain; that thanks aro principally due for calling attention to this particular danger. We may, however, be grateful that at a time when little was generally known of GothiC art, and nothing of Gothic principles; the judges sele4ed a design which was not only far in advance of the others, but which, in course of erection, was the means of forming a school of men by whom the best works of the present day aro executed. The momentum then given to true principles has not yet stopped, although I fear there are many signs that its force is weakening. Considerations lik4 these make me hesitate to accept your sweeping condemnation of the Houses as "so ingeniously ill-adapted 'to every purpose for which they were intended as to be the greatest architectural failure of the age." Whatever may be men's judgment on the particular period of architecture adopted, of its kind it is perfect from base to cornerstone—from the most important feature to the smallest detail. Its pro portions are true and elegant ; its forms are pleasing ; it is not devoid of stateliness ; some of its parts aro most noble ; all have a delicate grace which charms and satisfies tho eye. Its fitness for its purpose as a royal palace of debato, and the external manifestations of majesty few will question ; its internal magnificence produces a whole- some awo ; and so far from the ornamentation being a "barren and wearisome repetition of one idea," I beg of you to consider the vast space literally covered with detail of marvellous variety, if not of great beauty. In saying this, however, I am by no means inclined to dispute with you the fact of its being excessive, and often mis placed, or that propriety is not sacrificed thereby, and I am not blind, as must appear from what I have said, to the faults and partial failure of the entire building, whether in architecture or in plan. • In turning my attention to this, allow me to correct a mistake into which you seem to have fallen with regard to the material described by you as "decaying 500 years too soon." This estimate is only partially true. The great mass of the material is as sound to-day as it was when the stones were first placed one upon the other. The stone chosen by the Commissioners was the Balsover Rock, or Mansfield Woodhouse ; and of this, in the great number Of the courts, the work below the plinth and a considerable portion of the south-east section of the building are erected. Where the stone has been properly selected the work remains as sharp as a razor. This would have been uniformly the case through out, I imagine, had not the division of responsibilityproved to the letter that " what was everybody's business was nobody's business." But ono of the chief causes of the failure lay, in the difficulty of obtaining blocks of sufficient size. At this juncture recourse was had to the Anstono quarries, principally on account of their stone being very similar in appearance to the Balsover, and I have no doubt whatever that even this stone, although inferior to that first used, would have been perfectly successful had care been taken to select the blocks from proper bads. There is no quarry in the world which in every part can beast of a perfect uniformity of hard and durable material fit for external work. In a gigantic building like that under con sideration it was of the first and most essential importance to have appointed a Government inspector, whose posi tion and salary should have placed him beyond reach of temptation; for, be it remembered, that the amount of time—varying from a week to a fortnight—required for working stones from the same quarry is regulated by the hardness or softness of the material, and in a large work the profits increase or decrease in proportion. Soft stone nuts pounds ; hard, perhaps, not oven shillings. Had one of the Yorkshire sandstones been selected this danger would have been far less imminent, and the present symp toms of decay considerably reduced, even had the decay appeared at all. It is most erroneous, however, to infer that this is the beginning of the end, and that the decay is likely to increase. What stone has already gone is all that will perish, and the remedy is within our roach at a comparatively small cost. There is no necessity for re sorting to Portland for material. The quarries originally selected will yield abundance of stone, on which time will have a beneficial rather than an injurious effect ; and the remedy I would suggest is at once to replace the decayed blocks by sound stone from the same quarries. . 2. Had a plan like my father's baen originally adopted the Houses would have been so naturally and conveniently disposed as to admit either of enlargement or alteration with comparative ease. But the very convenience of juxta position, the long line in which the various buildings stand, and the immediate proximity of the entourage create serious difficulties. It is, however, unfair—nay, it is un just—to make the angry feelings of members (who, not being sixteenth century cherubs, require seats) a ground of complaint against the architect, who had no control over the question of dimensions. A new House for the Com mons is, I assume, beyond all probability; but I see no difficulty in increasing the present House by a third of its length. This could be accomplished without inconveni ence by somewhat curtailing the Speaker's Boom at one end and projecting it into the Commons' Court at the other, at the same time clearing away all that is now con tained between the wall of the House and the private lobby beyond. The present rooms, staircases, and any further accommodation could easily be constructedin the Speaker's Court. The House of Commons' lobbies could without any difficulty be made half as large again by projecting them on arches into the Star Chamber and Commons' Courts. In order to relieve the pressure in the corridors, I would suggest that galleries be projected all round one or more of the courts ; these, especially in the Royal Court, could be so planned as not to interfere with any existing arrangements, and would more than double the present accommodation. I would also mention that, being almost always excluded from the sun, they could be suc cessfully treated in iron and glass. The centre of the court would beleft open as at present. 3. With regard to the difficulty in being heard, I would remark that a room is governed very much by the same laws as a musical instrument. If you remove the back from a violin, the sound obtained from it would degene rate into a mild squeak. The House of Commons has no floor, which remarkable peculiarity at once solves the acoustic problem. The perforated gangways covered with drugget or kamptulicon simply destroy Tiltration and re duce the sound of the human voice to what it would be if proceeding from a head speaking into a sack. The loudest and most forcible words fall into the depth below and are absorbed. On a newly-laid floor of yet unshrunken tim bers, the panel of the floor will increase the volume of sound tenfold. If, then, a parquet floor of good solid oak, slightly arched so as always to remain taut, were laid down in place of the present perforations, the House would, I am, certain, from being one of the worst, become one of the best chambers of debate in Europe. The very projections, which aro now imagined to cause the defect, would increase the sound and make an exertion of lungs less necessary. From the practical I pass on to the architectural defects of the Houses about which I will say a few brief words. I have before . alluded to the present wretched termina- tion of the Victoria Tower. The design prepared by my father, but a few weeks before his illness, contemplated a grand erection in stone growing from and mounting some 40 ft. above the present angle pinnacles, and termi nating, as the Victoria Tower should do, in a Royal crown ; thus supplying what all now feel is wanting—viz., ele gance of proportion and pleasurable outline. From the centre of the crown was to rise the flagstaff, supported by the arcs of the crown itself. Here was reason, purpose, and beauty combined. What have we now in its place ? A poverty-stricken structure which forcibly reminds one of the poop dock of an old three-decker, on which an im provised flag pole has been set up and strutted. Its gilded coat fails to hido its paltry and make-shift appearance. It is in fact the greatest as well as the highest architectural anomaly of the day. 2. I need scarcely say how impossible it is to believe that the same handwhich designed the gas standards in Westminster-hall had anything to do with those on the bridge. The former are of the true design and con struction for metal work ; the latter, mere deformities, made more hideous by size, and, together with the balus trades, are essentially designs for stone, worked in iron. 3. It is less invidious to criticize the work of the de parted than of the living ; but in a letter professing to point out and remedy, as far as may be, the defects of the Houses it becomes impossible to omit all reference to the works now in progress, which, I regret to say, are a reproduction of old blunders on an embodiment of new ones. Of all their faults, not one grieved my father so much as the sinking of the Houses to their present level. To have been really imposing the building should have been raised on a bold, massive basement, so that its eleva tions might have stood up high above the bridge, instead of being dwarfed beside it. We must, as you intimate, make the best of a bad job. This, however, is not likely to be accomplished by the works now in progress. If we cannot imitate the Chicago operation of raising the building 10ft., at all events there can be no possible reason for practically reducing its height by the same number of feet. I allude to the cloister and iron fence now being set up in Palace Yard. The railing, although beautiful in itself, effectually destroys all proportion, and cannot possibly proceed from the same hand which designed the ugly stone piers supporting it. If there could be an inappropriate treatment of this par ticular spot it is that now being carried into execution. Sections of ironwork between lofty masses of masonry are precisely what ought to have been avoided. A strong and comparatively simple railing, no higher than the ab solute exigencies of the position required, should have been adopted, which would have neither screened nor dwarfed the already too low buildings within the enclosure. Precisely the same fault, although vastly exaggerated, appears in the cloister leading from the underground rail way to the main building. In the first place, it literally destroys the lower portion of the librarian's and clerk's residences no less than the whole of the northern facade. If this cloister was absolutely necessary above ground, why on earth was it not made, in the language of Sir Charles Barry himself, of a " simple and massive cha racter," so as to form a judicious contrast, and act as a kind of base to the building above it? But the present structure is neither an appropriate adjunct to the main building nor consistent in itself. A plinth about 8 ft. high, which would be a due proportion of base for a building some 60 ft. high, can scarcely be the right application for a cloister only 15 ft. in height. Yet almost the whole of this new addition is absolutely nothing but plinth, and that plinth breaking round large buttresses capped with gables, destroying all repose and simplicity of outline. The true spirit of what a work such as this should have been is indeed so little manifested that oven the details are multiplied and crowded in without reason or meaning. Crowns crowning nothing, angles which take neither an architectural nor artistic line, niches, finials, even useless gargoyles, are all confusedly grouped together. All this might have been avoided and the original building im mensely improved, had the cloister been continued at its low level to the main building, its windows opening into a sunk foss crossed by a bridge for carriages passing into the courts. To surround a building, tho greatest defect of which is that it is 12 ft. too low, with a barrier 12 ft. too high, is manifestly absurd. Since reading your article I have visited Lord Carnar von's seat at High Clere, and I can only say that if the nation has been saved by my father from possessing anything bearing the slightest resemblance to that edifice it has, indeed, cause to be grateful. Occupying one of the most lovely and elevated positions in England, the ugliness of its style can only be equalled by the utter absence of any principle whatever. Had it been built of timber, held together by metal clips and bolts, and then petrified, it would have been a natural curiosity. As it stands it is simply an architectural monstrosity. However, even were High Clare the fac-simile of Westminster, it call scarcely be its type, as it was erected in 1842, seven years after the designs for the Houses ,of Parliament had been accepted. It would be an utter waste of time to reply again to Mr. Edward M. Barry, for he has adduced nothing new since he replied in the Pall Man Gazette. One word, however, is due to Mr. Charles Barry in reply to his recent letter. He complains of my carrying on the question of my father's claims in several journals at the same time. I admit the crime, but it will be found that the various roads all con verge to a common centre. Ido not, however, admit the " folly " of referring to any of the gentlemen he names as " able to corroborate my statements." To Mr. Wright I alluded as a person who refused to give my solicitor any evidence at all, either for or against me. This fact throws suspicion on what he did say. Of Mr. Talbot Bury I remarked that ho " can," not that ho will, support me ; to Mr. Ferrey I made no reference whatever. Mr. Richardson's letter in your impression of to-day deserves just thisinotice—that he knows nothing about the matter, and fires beside the mark. He, however, fully confirms what Mr Mares stated in his communication of the 16th inst. If Messrs. Charles and E. M. Barry, instead of throwing discredit on my statements respecting my father's diaries and the existence of the witnesses I have still too surely in reserve, to be called at my discretion, would have the manliness to come forward and specify what they consider to have been the actual services of my father, instead of generalizing and reducing him below the level of the wit nesses who have depreciated him, it would conduce mate rially to a settlement.of the question. If his services were of the insignificant character they insinuate, they ware literally beneath their own. But it was not one of these men who was ever named as associated /with Sir Charles Barry in the great work. It was not the name of Mr. Wolfe, who boasts of being " consulted on every stage of the work ;" it was not Mr. Banks, "for fifteen years the chief assistant of Sir Charles Barry ;" it was not Mr. Wright, "the superior clerk," who seems to be alluded to by Sir Charles in a letter of his (vide Ferrey's Life) as "a youngster as dull and destitute of feeling as the board upon which he draws ;" it is not Mr. Talbot Bury, who volunteers information about transactions of which he evidently knows nothing, and letters of the existence of which he was ignorant—it was none of these names, but it was the name of the "occasional assistant," with a salary a little more than Mr. Wright's, which was all along associated with that of Sir Charles Barry in the great work. This was the tradition established, and it passed from mouth to mouth, from senator down to artisan, till it grew to such magnitude as to endanger the reputation of Sir Charles, which appears to have been saved only by the noble devotion of my father himself. And who will maintain that this tradition had grown u p without foundation, knowing the antecedents and the after career of the man to whom it was attached ? None of those who parade their intimate relations with Sir Charles were ever suspected of the crime. But of my father, whose touch even at that early period of his life was detected in the competition drawings—" whose powers of creation" and "inventive genius" are the theme of Sir Charles Barry's praise —it is credible engugh. Depend upon it, the tradition, true itself, rested on a foundation of truth, and every effort to kick the dead lion only re veals the character of those who commit the outrage. Rather, in your own words with reference to my father, "let us remember to his honour that if now there seems to be the dawn of a beWr architecture—if our edifices seem to be more correct in taste, more genuine in material, more honest in construction, and more - sure to last-it was he who first showed us that our architecture offended not only against the law of beauty, but also against the laws of morality."—Your obedient servant, 21, Savile-row, Sept. 17. E. WELBY PUGIN. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) Probate of the will, with eight codicils of his Grace the Most Noble George, Duke of Northum berland, P.C., LL.D., of Alnwick Castle, was granted by her Majesty's Court of Probate to bis eldest son and successor, Algernon George, hereto fore Earl Percy, the sole executor. The trustees therein appointed are Lord Redesdale, and the tes tator's brother, the Hon. C. B. Percy. The per sonalty in this country was sworn under £350,000. The will is dated Feb. 22, 1865, and the last codicil July 13, 1867 ; the signature feebly written. The testator was grandson of Hugh, first Duke of Northumberland, and succeeded to the title and estates Feb. 12, 1865, and died Aug. 21, 1867, at the age of 89, leaving issue three sons anddaughters, his eldest son and successor being now in his 57th year. By the death of the late Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, July, 1866, his grace states in his will that his income had increased £12,000 per annum, from which he makes a further provision for his daughters and younger sons, in addition to the bequests by the will, and leaves the policies which were effected on his life in the Equitable Law Life and other insurance offices to his two sons, - Lord J. W. Percy and Major-General Lord H. 1 - 1. M. Percy, V.C., M.P., and appoints his eldest sow, the present duke, residuary legatee of his personal estate. There are liberal annuities to his butler, coachman, and housekeeper, free of duty in consi deration of their long and faithful services. He leaves hispictures, books, manuscripts, globes, busts, statues, bronzes, vases, antiquities, coins, medals, and all other works of art and virtu, with the or naments, plate, china, and furniture, to be treated as heirlooms, and to go with the inheritor of the title and estates. The will of the Right Hon. Benjamin Baron Llanover, who died on April 27 last, was proved in the Probate Court of London, by his lordship's widow, Augusta, Baroness Llanover; John Johnes, Esq., of Doloucothy, Carmarthenshire ; and Mr. Henry Ray Freshfield, of Bank-buildings, London.. The will is dated Dec. 28, 1866, and, in the fewest words, leaves all his lordship's property, real and personal, " to his most dear and devotedly-attached wife Augusta, Baroness Llanover." The personalty was sworn under £25,000. The will of James Wilson, Esq., of Brinkcliffe Tower, Sheffield, was proved in the Registry at Wakefield, by his partner, Samuel Younge, Esq., solicitor, and the testator's three sons, the Rev. James Allen Wilson, rector of Bolton ; Charles Macro Wilson, of More Hall, Ecclesford ; and the Rev. William Reginald Wilson, incumbent of Bol sterstone ; power being reserved to the Rev. George Anderson, his brother-in-law. The personalty was sworn under £25,000. The will bears date 18551 with four codicils, the last dated April, 1865 ; and he died July 14, 1867. He leaves his eldest son, James, the family pedigree, " Hunter's Hallam shire," and all other written and printed books and papers relating in any way to the family historh including " Staniforthiana ;" also the family group and family portraits and pictures, except any speci fically disposed of, and also leaves to his said soa his large silver plated epergne. He leaves all his law books in his office at Sheffield to his son Charles Macro Wilson, and bequeathes all his other books in his dwelling to his five children, and divides amongst them the residue of his estate, both real and personal. There are legacies to his servants. The late Mrs. Sarah Pugh, of Vale Royal, Tun bridge Wells, who died in May last, leaving perso nalty sworn under £70,000, has bequeathed to the Church Missionary Society, £1,000; the British and Foreign Bible Society, £4OO ; the Church Pastoral Aid, and the Incorporated Society for Promoting Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels, each £2OO ; to the Rev. Mr. Pope, of Tunbridge Wells, for the purposes of his chapel, £2OO ; and to the Kent County Hospital, £2OO. The late Miss Elizabeth Carne Sloman, of Long ton, Staffordshire, who died in March last, possessed of £9,000 personalty, has left to the Society for pro moting Christianity amongst the Jews, South Ame rican Missionary Society, British and Foreign Bible Society, Church Missionary Society, Exeter Bible and Domestic Mission, Crystal Palace Boarding' house for Young Women, at Norwood, Surrey, each £lOO ; to the Rev. P. M. Walker, for the Edensor New Schools, Longton, £lOO ; and a like sum for the general purposes connected with Edensor Church i to the Irish Society for Promoting the Scriptura l Education and Religious Instruction of Irish Roma° Catholics through the medium of their own law guage, and to the Exeter Blanket Society, eac h I £lOO. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 66s to 72s ; re d d itto! (weighing 631 b), bBs to 64s per qr. Flour, 46a Od to 478 oel per sack. New barley, 38a to 44s per qr. NO T TINGHAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 70s to 76s ; old red, 66s to 71s ; ne h , gl white, 66s to 74s ; now red, 60s to 69 s per 36 stone. O ath old, 34s to 38s ; new, 27s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 48s t0.52s ; new, 46s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, to 52s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. New white wheat, 68s to 76s • new red, 60s to 70s • 01 , 31 white, 68s to 75s ; old red, 65s 'to 70s per 36 stone. Ft; ley, for malting, 37s to 44s per qr.; grinding, 34s to 0 0 '4 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 375; new, 26s to 31s per stone. Beans, old, 45s to Ms ; new, 46s to 52s per 38 st op Fine flour, 538 ; seconds, 45s to 48s per 20 stone. YORK—SATUIIDAY. 36 White wheat, from 66s to 71s • red, 61s to 66s pe r , ' stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 41s per qr. ; grind inbi 35s to 37s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28s to 30s per 24 ston e, e Beans, new, 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to Flour, 48s to 50s per sack of 2801bs. Rye, 42s per qr. CORK—FRIDAY. 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