The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-25 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) In the week that ended on Saturday, July 20, the births registered in Lon ingdom were 3 don and 12 other 962 ; la the rge towns of the Unid K, deaths registered, 2,672. The annual rate of mor tality was 23 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 976 boys and 934 girls, in all 1,910 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,959. The deaths registerel in London during the week were 1,230. It was the 29th week of the year, and the avvag3 number of deaths for the week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,455. The deaths in the present return are less by 225 than the estimated number. The deaths of 162 children and 8 adults from diarhcea were registered last week; 22 fatal cases of diarrhcea occurred in the west, 48 in the north, 27 in the central, 46 in the east, and 27 in the south districts. Five persons died from diarrhcea , in the sub-district Kensington-town ; 4 in All Souls, Mary lebone ; 4 in St. Mary, Marylebone ; 5 in Christchurch, Marylebone ; 5 in Tottenham court, Pancras ; 8 in Kentish-town, Pancras ; 4 in Islington west; 6 in Islington east; 5 in St. Giles south ;5 in Church, Bethnal-green ;6 in Mile-end Old-town eastern ; 4 in Poplar ; and 109 in other sub-districts. Eleven children died of infantile cholera or choleraic diarrhoea. In the corresponding week of last year (1866) the deaths from diarrhcea were 221, and from cholera 346. The son of a trimming manufacturer, aged three years, died on June 24, at 6, St. Peter-street, Bethnal-green, of purpuric fever, 4i hours. (Inquest.) Kensington (Fulham). --At Campbell-street, on the 13th of July, the son of a garden labourer, aged six months, cholera infantum. Chelsea (South). At 48, Christchurch-street, on the 14th of July, the son of an inlayer of woods, aged four months, infantile cholera (five days). Pancras (Gray's inn-lane).—At 2, Wilson-place, on the 12th of July, the daughter of a builder's labourer, aged five months, " choleraic diarrhoea" (30 hours). In the same sub-district; at 50, Gough-street, on the 15th of July, the son of an upholsterer, aged seven months, " diarrhoea (six days), rice-water evacua tions and collapse" (12 hours). Islington (West) —At 7, John-street, Holloway, on the 14th of July, the son of a labourer, aged five months, " choleraic diarrhcea (three days), hydrocephaloid." In same sub-district, at 51, Upper Bemerton-street, on the 11th of July, the son of a shoemaker, aged six months, " choleraic diarrhcea (24 hours)." Strand (St. Anne) —At 11, Grafton-street, on the 11th of July, the son of a greengrocer, aged six months, " English cholera (three days)." In the same sub district, at 11, Great Newport-street, on the 18th of July, the daughter of a musical instrument maker, aged three months, "choleraic diarrhcea (one week)." St. Luke (Finsbury)—At 6, Union-place, Taber nacle-walk, on the 13th of July, a female, aged four months, "sudden choleraic diarrhcea "—lnquest. Bethnal-green (Green) —At 6, Darling-place, on the 16th of July, the daughter of a shoemaker, aged four months, " choleraic diarrhoea." Whitecha.pel (Mile -end New-town)—At 32, Brick-lane, on the 14th of July, the daughter of a surgeon, aged ten months, " choleraic diarrhcea (20 hours)." The deaths of three persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered : The son of a cigar maker, aged three years, run over ; died on the 17th of July in the London Hos pital (inquest). A female, aged nine years, run over by a van in Redcross-street, Borough, on the 11th of July ; died in a few minutes ; post mortem (inquest). A coachman, aged 35 years, fell from a carriage; died on the 16th of July in Guy's Hos pital ; post mortem (inquest). The annual rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, and 29 in Edinburgh, and 19 in Dublin ; 16 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 27 in Liverpool, 29 in Manchester, 25 in Salford, 18 in Sheffield, 21 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 23 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 27 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 28 per 1,000 during the week ending the 13th inst., when the mean temperature was 0.1 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 21. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.504 in. The barometrical reading increased from 29-26 in. on Monday, July 15, to 29.69 in. on Saturday, July 20. The mean temperature of the air iu the week was 60 . 0 deg., which is 3.1 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The highest day temperature was 74 3 deg. on Saturday, July 20. The lowest night temperature was 51.2 deg., on Friday, July 19. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 23.1 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 63.5 deg. ; that of the lowest was 61.3 deg. The difference between the mean-dew point tem perature and air temperature was 6.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 79, com plete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 1.75 in., of which 0.74 in. fell on Tuesday, July 16, and 0.51 on Thursday, July 18. The general direction of the wind was S.W. On Monday, July 15, the rainfall at Eccles amounted to 0.87 in , at Sheffield to 0-79 in., at Manchester to 0.77 in., and at Wakefield to 0.62 in. On Tuesday, July 16, the rainfall at Manchester amounted to 1.11 in., and at Eccles to 0.79 in. A severe thunderstorm occurred at Eccles on Thursday, July 18, when rain fell to the amount of 0.94 in. According to a return furnished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames at the Southern Outfall Works, Crossness, was 51,259,257 gallons, or 232,894 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. IRELAND, DCBLIN, July 23 The Fenian " General," Fabriola, who had been remanded, was brought up for examination yester day before Mr. Barton, pulice magistrate, and Col. Lake, police commissioner. The prisoner is an in telligent-looking man, about 38 years a age. He had no professional assistance. The case for the Crown was conducted by Mr. Long/field, the law adviser. The prisoner was remanded till Monday. Three young men, named Cornelius O'Brien, Thomas Griffin, and John Goulding, were arrested in Queeenstown harbour on Friday, on board the outward bound American steamer Propontis, on the charge of being of the party of Fenians, whoshortly before the late general rising marched from Cahir- C1V(3211 to near Killarney, under the command of Gen. O'Connor, and some of whom shot the police man Duggan. It is said there is no doubt of their identity. Their names have been in the Hue and Cry since the commission of the crime. They are still kept in Queenstown Bridewell. A well-dressed young woman, named Eliza Bray, was brought up at the Naas Petty Sessions, yester day, for attempting to pawn a gold watch, value £3O, which had been taken with violence from Capt. Armitt at Kingstown Regatta. The captain lies in a weak state, attended by two doctors, iu conse quence of the injuries hereceived when robbed. The case was remanded till he is able to give evidence. July 24. The appointment of Dean Alexander to the see of Derry will give general satisfaction to the members of the Church in .this country, while to the clergy ant laity of the dioce,:e it is, according to th:r Lon fixiderry Sentinel, particularly gratifying. Undoubt edly it brings a great acces:ion of popular talent to the Iri3li Church, and of a kind which will conciliate the cultivated classes of society. Bishop Gregg rivals the Wesleyan niiuisters in the fervi.l style of his preaching, but Bishop Alexander will please the learned as well as the unlearned. There is only one objection to him that I have heard. He is a graduate of Oxford. We have four graduates from that Uni versityArcha.l "w on the Irish Bench—the Primate, the 'shop of Dubli n , the Bishop of Tuam, Dr. Bernard, and Dr. Alexander. The late Archbishop of Dublin was also an Oxford man. The Irish clergy would not obj ect versity should be thatpr o members of the Oxford Uni m__ oted to the high places of the Irish blanch of the United Church if members of the Dublin University were similarly promoted in the English branch. They would like to see four Dublin graduates on the English bench. Some of the wise men in Church matters on this aide of the water expected that there would be one or two trans lations on this occasion, one section hoping that Bishop O'Brien, of Ossory, would go to Derry, and another that Bishop Fitzgerald, of Killaloe, would be the one to move up. But it is better not to encou rage a restless spirit in bishops. The worst of our sees is rich enough to satisfy any reasonable lover of the good things of this w9rld, and if translation be put upon the ground of public usefulness, it can not be alleged that any bishop on the bench is better qualified to be useful in Derry than the able and accomplished divine who has just ob tained one of the most coveted priz3s in the Irish Church. The Rev. Maurice Day, D.D., who has been for 24 years the popular and most useful incumbent of the Church of St. Matthias, in this city, was yester day presented by his congregation with a purse of £l,OOO and a costly piece of plate. Dr. Gregg and Dr. Day shone together as the two brighest evan gelical stars in Dublin. The former is a bishop, the latter must be content with a living in the diocese of Clogher, Aughnalurcher,—worth £175 net a year, for which he is indebted to the kindness of the Board of Trinity College, none of the Fellows think ing it worth his acceptance. Railway and Other Companies. ATHENRY AND ENNIS JUNCTION. The 15th half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the offices last week, in Dublin ; the chair was taken by Mr. J. F. Lombard, J.P. Mr. Nicoll, the secretary, read the report, which stated that with a view of carrying out the works themselves with the aid of the Government loan, the directors caused a careful and detailed estimate to be prepared of the cost of constructing the works, and had such estimate submitted to an engineer uncon nected with the company, whoposse.3sed considerable practical experience in works and cost labour of a simi lar nature in thesame locality. The result was favour able, and the Board, after careful and anxious con sideration of the subject, arrived unanimously at the decision to proceed with the works under the inspection of their engineer, which they had accord ingly done, and the works of the line had been re sumed. Au inspection of the line and works was carefully made by a committee of the Board within the past month, and they found the existing works very substantially constructed, that no deterioration had resulted from the stoppage of the works, but on the contrary that the cuttings and embankments had become consolidated and firm ; and from the state in which they found the Ennis and Gort sec tion, they were justified in authorising that portion to be pressed to early completion, and they hoped it would be opened for traffic before the close of the year, and so bring 18 miles of railway and the capi tal represented in its construction into the earliest possible remunerative operation. The first instal ment of £20,000 of the Government loan having been received during the past month, the works had since that time been progressing satisfactorily, and the directors were now engaged in making contracts for the supply of rails and other materials. The present Board had given continued services to the company for seven years, since its commencement, without any remuneration whatever. Mr. G. W. liEmANs, the engineer, stated in his report that he was not certain that the partial opening as far as Gort would be the best policy for the interests of the company, but he had no hesita tion in recommending that the principal works on the remainder of the line be not neglected while pre paring to open to Gort. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he waslone of a party who had recently gone over the line, and they were most agreeably surprised at the amount of work done and also at the superior way in which it was executed. Great progress had certainly been made, and he hoped that the line would be opened before another 12, or at furthest 18, months elapsed, whereby the share holdas would be enabled to reap the reward of their patient perseverance and constant support. (Hear.) Mr. D. KIRWAN, D.L., said he La gr,:at pleasure in seconding the motion. Ile happened to be one of the party, and he could, therefore, corrobo rate the chairman's observations in every respect. The report was then unanimously adopted. On the motion of Mr. J. Falconer, seconded by Mr. J. Kelly, £5OO was voted to the directors for their services. The aultors were allowed each per audit of accounts. The agreement entered into between Mr. Nicoll, the secretary, and the directors was confirmed, and the proceedings concluded with thanks to the chairman. CAPE. The traffic returns on this railway for the month of May (winter) amounted for the conveyance of 26,725 passengers to £2,010, and for carrying 2,427 tons of goods, to £l,266—total, £3,276, and for the same month last year to £3,577, showing a de crease of £3Ol. THE CONSOLIDATED BANK (LIMITED). The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this bank was held at Manchester yesterday. The report stated that the whole of the promissory notes had been redeemed. In comparing the amounts of deposits and credit balances it could be seen that, deducting the sum of £1,320,186 ls. of promissory notes included in the last statement, the increase in these items had been no less than £571,335165. Id. This progress of the bank during the last six months could not be otherwise than satisfactory. In re ference to the suspension of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, it could not yet be stated whether any ultimate loss would yet accrue to the bank, but, in order to provide against any lock-up or loss, the directors had decided to set aside from time to time a sum sufficient to meet all contingencies, and the first provision in the present balance-sheet was £lO,OOO as a speci a l reserve fund. After payment of £16,625 12s. 10d. interest on promissory notes, &c., making provision for bad and doubtful debts, and adding 4 per cent. interest for reserve fund, the net profits for the half-year were £26,405 Os. 21. To this had to be added the balance from last half-year, 19,10775. 3d., and amount over-estimated for bad and doubtful debts June 30, 1866, £4,774 3s. 10d., making a total of £4,346 lls. 3d. It was proposed to pay out of this as interest to shareholders at the rate of 5 per cent. (free of income-tax) £18,958 Cs. Bd. ; To carry to reserve £3,200, with which the interest already added made an increase of £5,000 for the half-year. These items, with £lO,OOO carried to special reserve fund, and £B,lBB 4s. 7d. carried to next account, made £40,3 46 lls. 3d. The paid-up capital now was £BOO,OOO, and the reserve fund amounted to £95,000. In the absence of the chairman and vice-chair man (the latter through illness), Mr. 11Iurray Glad stone presided. In opening the business, he said a letter had been received complaining of so large a balance as nearly half a million at call. The direc tors thought this was necessary to the position and credit of the bank. In reference to a suggestion that they should open branch banks, he said, after the lessons of the past, the directors would be care ful how they made any similar mistake by rash ad vances. He spoke highly of the board of mana gers in the conduct of the business intrusted to them. In answer to Mr. Massey, who wished to know who the guarantors were referred to in the reprt for the Atlantic and Great Western ktilway Company, The CH linmAN thought that any further state meut than the one in the report would be preju dicial. The matters in connexion with that affair were being fully investigated in London. Mr. Alderman CURTIS, in answer to a question when it was proposed to pay the certificate imoney in connexion with the 01.1 13.Luk of Manchester, said unfortunately the times had been against them in connexion with these matters. A large amount of money was invested in mills and otherwise, which it had not been possible yet to realise. Ohe estate was in Chancery, and there were other diffi culties, but they hoped to do something in the niat- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1867. ter :before long. It might be six months or more, but it was premature yet to fix any time. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. Farrar, and agreed to. The dividend of five per cent. recommended in the report -was adopted, and after the usual formal busi ness and votes of thanks, including thanks to the managors, the meeting passed off apparently very satisfactorily. MERCHANT SHIPPING. The general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the City Terminus Hotel,Cannon-street ; Mr. G. H. Donald on in the chair. The report stated that, considering the period of commercial depression through which the country had passed, and which had materially affected the shipping interest, there seemed good reason to be satisfied with the position which the company had maintained. The profits derived from completed voyages amounted to £19,026. The dockyard business 4 on the Thames had been in a very depressed state dur ing the past year ; but the company has had its fair proportion, and the dockyard showed a profit of £3,729. The opportunity afforded to the shareholders of making their shares fully paid up had been cor dially embraced. The directors proposed that the dividend be £1 per share on all fully paid-up shares, and a proportionate rate upon the other shares (free of income-tax) ; this, with the interim dividend already paid, would amount to £10,280. The amount carried to the reserve, insurance, and depre ciation account was £4,258. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, said the commercial distress had continued up to the present time, and of course injuriously affected the profits of the company. The panic had occa sioned a great deal of distress, from which, unlike other panics, a long period had elapsed before any rebound took place. The company had maintained its own, and whenever a reaction took place he hadno doubt the company would participate in it. Messrs. Soames had taken debentures in payment of the pur chase-money, and bad not exercised their option of surrendering a portion of their shares, being content to remain shareholders, and thus showing their con fidence in the undertaking. The motion having been seconded, some discus sion eqsued, and in reply to questions, The CHAIRMAN stated that the dividend would be paid on a much larger amount of capital than formerly ; the amount standing at the credit of the underwriting account was large, and the company could afford to lose a ship, and a very valuable one, every year. The report was adopted, and the dividend de clared. The retiring directors and auditors were re elected, and the proceedings closed with thanks to the chairman. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE. The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at Bristol—Mr. A. J. Knapp in the chair. The report stated that there had been a consider able falling off in the receipts as compared with the corresponding half of 1866. Mr. Barlow, the en gineer, bad recently inspected the bridge, and found it in as perfect a state as on the day of its opening. The CHAIRMAN, on moving the adoption of the report, said the reduction in the traffic had arisen principally from the extremely wet weather of the spring. Mr. J. A. COOK seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. A dividend at the rate of £1 10s. per annum, free of income tax, was declared for the half-year ended June 30, and a vote of thanks to the chairman ter minated the proceedings. Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, July 19.—The temperature on Tues day and Wednesday last was higher than it has been for many years. There was an occasional breeze from the westward, but it brought with it no refreshing influence. On the contrary, it seemed to scorch the skin and burn in the nostrils like the blast of a furnace. It was, in fact, a kamsin from the desert, like that felt from time to time in Bar- bary, and which, while it lasts, completely pros trates man and beast, and causes all vegetation to droop, if it does not utterly destroy it. The ther mometer rose in the coolest places to an extraordi nary height. The average of several different re gisters in Government establishments, taken at noon, showed on the 16th inst. a temperature o: 96 deg., and on the 17th of 100 deg. in the shade. Such a degree of heat has not been felt here, I believe, for 20 years. At the dinner given by Admiral Kellett to the Austrian and Russian offi- cers the wax candles in the chandeliers, although not lighted, melted and turned over. An officer present said he had twiced crossed the desert in the month of July, and had never felt anything like it. Her Majesty's screw corvette Racer, Commander Brine, came in on the 17th inst. from Patras, having been relieved there by the gunboat Trin culo, Lieut.-CommanderV.de Sanders, on the even ing of the 12th inst., after a passage of only 57 hours from Malta. The Racer left Patras on the 14th. She will leave for the Pirmas to-morrow. The Russian frigate Grand Admiral left to-day for Cadiz. Col. Gubbins, Assist.-Adjk-Gen. in this garrison, left for England on the 15th inst., in the packet Ceylon, via Marseilles, Col. Woods, Major Leslie, and Capt. R. Goff, Brigade-Major, also quitted Malta for England by the same vessel. Mr. Young, C. 8., superintendent of military stores, is to proceed to Portsmouth in charge, and will be relieved here by Mr. C. J. Rowland. The Royal paddle yacht Osborne, Commander J. D'Arcy, with Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley on board, arrived in Portsmouth-harbour at 6 p.m. yesterday, on her return from conveying his Impe rial Majesty the Sultan across the Channel. Rear-Admiral Warden's squadron of ironclads, comprising the Minotaur, the Achilles, the Lord Clyde, the Bellerophon, and the Pallas, anchored at Spithead early yesterday morning on return from detached duty in escorting His Imperial Majesty the Sultan across Channel. The Coastguard squadron, under the command i of Commodore J. Tarleton, C. 8., left Spithead yes terday under steam for a cruise of exercise in the Channel. An attempt was made to leave the an chorage under sail, but it failed, and sails were again furled, and the anchors of those vessels that had weighed were again dropped until steam was got up. The ships then made a more successful attempt in getting out to sea. The squadron com prises the Duncan (flag), Donegal, Revenge, Irre sistible, and Lion screw liners, Dauntless screw fri gate, and Angus screw sloop. Her Majesty's troop ship Himalaya, Capt. Piers, at rived at Queenstown at 4 a.m. on Monday, with the 2d battalion 13th Light Infantry, Lieut.-Colonel Macdonald, Commander MenzieS, officers, and crew of the late Osprey, and a few naval and military invalids, and time-expired men. She left Mauritius June 8, Algoa-bay June 17, Simon's-bay June 22, St. Vincent July 10, and Madeira July 16, making the voyage from Mauritius, including seven days' stoppage, in little more than 43 days. The Hima laya passed her Majesty's ship Jumna on the morn ing of July 17 ; also the Glen Aros, steering S.W. The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 35, Capt. J. Seccombe, will on her arrival at Plymouth be dis mantled. Her crew will be paid off, and she will be succeeded by the screw steam frigate Liffey, 31, which is of the same tonnage, and has engines of the same horse-power. She is in Hamoaze. Retired The naval pension of £ BO a year , vacant by the awarded promotion p C t a . p tB. B . o George o r g e e e c h p e ), thea vhas Rti beend List. The ship Marchione3s of Londonderry, Capt. T. P. Kinney, belonging to Mr. G. Marshall, of 18, Philpot-lauc, London, arrived at Spithead yester day from Calcutta. She has on board time-expired men, and the remainder of the 34th Regiment, and the following officers :—Capt. R. P. Leeson, 34th Regiment (commanding) ; Ensign W. Watson, 34th ; Ensign T. A. 11. Lowe, 34th ; Lieut. J. S. Smith, 7th Fusiliers; Assist.-Surg. D. C. M'Fall, 30th, in medical charge. Mrs. M'Fall and one child died at sea. The ship has been towed into harbour, the troops will land to-day, and the ship afterwards proceed to London. A statement relative to the success of the Govern ment Snidet rifles in the Wimbledon meeting was promulgated yesterday at Woolwich. Out of six of the competitors, the Snider rifle with the Boxer ammunition, was first in three, and second and third in the other. Its remarkable performance at 500 yards, at which range Corporal Andrews, of the 26th Kent Rifle Volunteers, succeeded in firing 50 shots in five minutes, of which two only missed the target, and making a total of 133 points, has already been notified in The Sun. A report has been circulated that Andrews had continually practised the use of the Snider rifle ; it is right to state that he had previously to the Wimbledon meeting used the arm and only five times—viz., thrce times at 200 yards twice at 500 yards, and that be had, in these trials, fired altogether only about 300 rounds. Any handy man could obtain the same rapidity of fire with the Snider rifle in a week's or a fortnight's practice, when the number of points obtained is a mere matter of accurate shooting. It should be pointed out that the very satisfactory results of the trials of the Snider rifle at Wimbledon are due in a great degree to the Boxer ammunition, which throughout the meeting has performed admirably, as regards accuracy, facilities of loading and extrac tion, and certainly of ignition. The Royal Engineers at Woolwich have been en gaged for some weeks past in tunnelling ant prop ping up the outer walls of the Herbert Hospital, consequent on the yielding of the foundation, which began soon after it was handed over to the Govern ment for use. The rent—the cause of which was discussed at the time in Parliament—was cobbled up, and somewhat obscured from any but close in vestigation. Nevertheless, an order has been issued to proceed with inquiries, and the Royal Engineers are now seeking the real cause of the defects. The Commander-in-Chief has approved the an nexed arrangements iu connexion with the camp at Colchester :—Capt. Westley, 2d battalion, 16th Foot, to be sent home for duty with the depot, vice Capt. Helyar, promoted to be Major in the lat bat talion, 16th Foot ; Lieut. Johnson, 100th Regi ment, to join the depot; and Lieut. Nicholls to join the service companies. The Commander-in- Chief has granted leave of absence to Lieut. Powys, Ist battalion, 16th Regiment, pending his retire ment from the service; and to Lieut. Gillespie, 96th Regiment, to August 31, when be is to be prepared to embark for the service companies of his corps. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Captain W. R. Rolland to the Lord Warden, commissioned; Captain J. 0. John son to the Liffey, commissioned ; Josh. G. Dathan, navigating lieutenant, to the Cumberland ; Albert Gain, navigating lieutenant to the Fisgard, for the Rosario ; J. G. Fowling, navigating sub-lieutenant to the Speedwell ; E. M. Stone, paymaster, to the Liffey ; E. P. Rimell, assist.-paymaster, to the Liffey; J. G. Card, assist.-paymaster, to the Vic tory ; J. K. Bell, assist-paymaster, in charge, to the Speedwell ; J. E. Dvas, surgeon, to the Doris ; J. Fisher, surgeon, additional, to the Cambridge; J. B. Creagh, clerk, to the Liffey ; W. B. Clark, assist. clerk, to the Liffey ; W. B. Stephens, chie f engineer, to the Sphinx ; P. Richmond, engineer, to the Speedwell ; and W. Hopkins and W. T. Searle, first class assist. engineers, to the Speedwell. THE EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENTS BY A STOCKBROKERS' CLERK. - • Yesterday the investigation of a case cf embezzle ment, which from the first had excited considerable interest, and which was altogether extraordinary, eras resumed before Alderman Carden, at the jus tice room of the Mansion-house. The prisoner, a respectably dressed man of 38, was William John Hurst, and he was charged with embezzling and stealing moneys to the amount of nearly £12,000. Mr. Besley was for the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh for the defence. The prisoner had been senior clerk and cashier to Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn, stockbrokers, Throg rnorton.street, and great confidence had been placed in him. He had been nearly 17 years in the service duty, among others, was to keep the cash-books of of the firm, and had a salary of £ 3OO a y ear. his the firm. They had two banking accounts, one at Messrs. Glyn's, and the ether at the Loudon and County Bank, and they had a cash-book with refe rence to each account which he kept. One of his duties was to receive sums of money due to the firm from stockjobbers, to enter them in the cash-book, and pay the money into either of the banks. lie was now charged with embezzling, on November 4, 1864, a banker's check for £175; on the 3d of April, 1865, a check for £902 10s. ; on the 6th of April in that year, a check for £2OO ; on August 16, in the same year, a check for £1,507 10s. ; on September 1 a check for £lOO and £lOO inbank-notes ; on Jan. 16, 1866, a check for £6lB 15s. ; and on April 21st in that year a check for £l3O. The evidence went to show that the prisoner had received all those sums from different stock-jobbers from time to time, and had appropriated them to his own use. In the sum mer of last year he absented himself from the ser vice of his masters for a week and then returned, when they accused him of having robbed them. He replied, first, that his defalcations might amount to £l,OOO ; but on being pressed he said they might amount to £2,000, but certainly not more. After that interview the firm received £2,000 from the prisoner or his friends by way of restitution, as the firm alleged, of property in the shape of shares which bad been bought with their money. me pri soner afterwards went to America, and on returning lately was met by the prosecutors in the Strand by chance, and given into custody, a warrant for his apprehension i he principal having been issued s ome t i me b e f ore . witness yesterday was Mr. Win. A. Stone,who id—l ama partner i n th e fi rm of Stone,Ed accountants, Ki n g -street, wardg, James, essa,a and Cheapside. The books of Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn were put into my hands for examination in August, 1866. I have gone through the accounts of the firm from Jan., 1861, to June, 1866. The exa mination occupied six or seven months, the transac tions being very large. I produce the cash-book. I do not find in it any traceof the £175 check of Nov. 4, 1864, paid in any other way than is alleged by the prosecution, nor of the check for £902 10s. of April 3, 1865, nor of that for £2OO, or its payment, on April 6, 1865, which is treated as 4.:,10 10s. throughout the books; nor of the check for £1,507 10s. on Aug. 16, 1865 ; nor of the sum of £lOO in cash, or £lOO check, on Sept. 1, 1865 ; nor of the check for £6lB 15s. paid on Jan. 16, 1866 ; nor of the check for £l3O, paid on April 21, 1866. These sums are not accounted for i n th e b oo k s of the prisoner in any other way th an i s a ll ege d by the prosecution. I reported the defalcations as they were discovered from time to time to Messrs. Sey mour and Elwyn. I found in September, 1866, that they were c ons id erably more than £2,000. Cross-examined b y M r. Sle i gh— l cann ot say what was the amount I discovered in Sept., 1866. I ex amined the ledger for the years 1864 and 1865, and found in it an -- account with " W. J. Hurst" (the prisoner), commencing in January, 1864, and end ing in December, 1865. The account shows tran sactions to Lha extent of several thousands of pounds —between £B,OOO and £lO,OOO. I cannot find any other amounts paid in by the prisoner to Messrs. Seymour and lei ---wYn's account than are mentioned in the ledger. I find this account is credited with about £1,300 i n cash rece i ve d f ro m the prisoner during the pe r i o d the account run s over. In an other ledger th ere i s an accoun t in 1866 between him and the fi rm. It commence s in May, 1866, and contains o n l y six or seven items. T he aggre gate Itransaction s amount to a bout £2,700. The amount of cash pa id to the fi rm in this account is £2,600 odd. There is an item of cash, £5OO, on the 11th of July, 1866, and bills £1,500 ; and £5OO in cash on th e 10 t h of Novem b er , 1866. This ac count is in the h an d wr i t i ng o f a ?l r. Watson, in Messrs. Seymour's em ;lo went. p y There are credits in the banker's pass book of sums of which I do not find any e n t r i es i n the cash b o ok s , n or who paid them in. They amount to £1,70 0 , and a r e as fol lows : of On th e 15th September,lB64, £l5O to Messrs. Glyn an d Co., a s received of the London and County B an k ; on the 19th of May, 1865, £4OO, pail in as from Messrs. Glyn to the London and County ; and on the 10th of August, 1865, £7OO credited by Me ssrs. G lyn as rece i v ed from the Lon don and Cou n t y. In Apr il , J une , July, August, and Decemb er , 1864, there was £4,896 15 s. 7 d. credited in v ar i ous sums, aga i ns t w hich there were debits to the amount 01 £4 369 Q. 2d. The diffe- rence £507 15s. 5d., I could not account for, or that she was about to get discharged from prison, from whom or by whom it was received. and should then go on to make to a perfect stranger Re-examined by Mr. Besley.—ln 1864 the priso- a confession which, if true, could only take her from ner's deficit was £1,896 7s. 9d., against which there the gaol to the scaffold. The rest of the evidence was the £l5O and the major part of the £507 15s. bore very slightly against the prisoner, and, but for sd. I have credited all the doubtful sums, as if the the fact that she had given sago to the child, was prisoner had paid them in. In 1865 there was again quite consistent with her innocence. As for the a deficit of £6,408 6s. 3d., and in 1866 of 2,333 sago, if that contained the coloured arsenic, it was 4s. 7d. The total deficit is £14,293 15s. 9d., and rather strange that none of the witnesses noticed includes, among others, all the sums of which evi- any colouring matter either in the child's vomit or dente has been given in this court. in the cup which had contained the sago. By the Court—l find many errors in the additions The jury retired to consider their verdict, and in the cash-books and the carrying over of the ba- after a very brief absence returned into court with lances. These occur constantly. In some cases the a verdict of not guilty, wiling that they considered numbers on the counterfoils did not correspond with the father much to blame for the c irelessness he had the numbers in the books. In the ledger account of displayed in dealing with the poison. 1865, under date of the sth of April, there is an His lordship said that he quite concurred in that entry of cash £lO 10s., received by the prisoner ;it opinion. is the same in the cash-book, where it refers to the The announcement of the verdict was received I number of the check as 402, which check is for with some slight applause. _ £2 , io, and not for £lO 10s. On hearing from Mr. Oke, the chief clerk to the Lord Mayor, a recapitulation of the charges, and on receiving the usual caution from the Bench as to anything he might say being used against him on his trial, the prisoner replied that he had had large transactions with Seymour and Co., and incurred heavy losses, which were settled by the payment of £2,000 by himself and his friends. The rest of his defence he left to his counsel. Alderman Sir Robert Carden committed the pri soner to Newgate to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court. There was another indictment against the prisoner for the wilful murder of Martha Tomlinson, another child of the same parents of the age of twelve years, but Mr. Stephen, who (with Mr. Cave) appeared for the prosecution, stated that as this case was weaker than the former he should offer no evidence upon it. ASSIZE EV ELLIGENCE. His lordship concurred in the propriety of this Course. MIDLAND CIRCURIT.—DERBY, July 22. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Lush.) Elizabeth Wheeldon, a girl 17 years of age, was indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph, the infant child of Joseph and Ann Tomlinson. Mr. Stephen and Mr. Cave appeared for the Crown ; Mr. V. Blackburn and Mr. Mellor defended A HIGHLAND SLANDER. At the Jury Court, Edinburgh, on Monday, before the Lord President, a case was tried in which Mr. K. W. S. Mackenzie, of Seaforth, Ross-shire, was pursuer, and Mr. H. Dundas Drummond, 12, Devonshire-place, Portland-place, London, was de fender. The case was presented on four issues— namely, Ist, Whether, on the 22d of October last, within the railway station at Dingwall, the defen der, in the hearing of Mr. Cash, Adjutant, Ross shire Rifle Volunteers, and Dr. M‘Lean, Dingwall, said of the pursuer, " You are a-- liar ;" 2d, Whether defender, on same occasion, s lid of the pursuer that he was "A -- lying thief ;" 3d, Whether he had said the pursuer was a" scoun drel ;" and 4th, Whether defender had said of pur suer, " Your word is not worth a —, and it is a wonder they don't turn such a beggar out of the country." Damages were laid at £l,OOO. The pur suer depOsed he was at Dingwall railway station with his wife sad family on the 22d October. He saw Mr. Drummond there, whom he knew slightly. Ile ad dressed him, saying, " How are you?" and defen dant replied, " I am surprised you should speak to me. You are a liar ; you tell one story in Lon don and another in the north." Witness asked him what he meant by such language, when, taking a paper out of his pocket, defendant said, " You are a lying thief—a greatscoundrel—ablackguard;" adding that he was a disgrace to the country, and he wondered they allowed such a beggar to remain in it, and that his word was not worth . a — 7 in Lon don. Several other witnesses were called'to prove the use of these abusive appellations. The defen dant, on being placed in the box, stated he had, on one occasion, taken a lease of Inchroe shootings, on Seaforth's estate, but could find no grouse in them. He had mentioned this to Mr. Mackenzie, who said that he (defendant) must be mad, for it was a fish ing place and not a shooting place at all, and that he let the place to an innkeeper named Finlayson (who had sublet it to Mr. Drummond) for £5O a year for the fishings, giving him the shootings for nothing. In an action defendant had raised against Finlayson pursuer gave evidence to quite an oppo site effect. Accordingly when pursuer accosted him on one occasion in 1865, saying " How are you defender replied, saying "I don't see how my health can affect you. A man who cannot speak the truth is not a fit acquaintance for me. I decline to shake hands with you." On 22d October last he saw pur suer again at Dingwall railway station. Pursuer pointed out witness with his stick and laughed, which he believed he was in the habit of doing. NN' hen the train stopped, Seaforth said, " How are you, Drummond ?" when witness said, " Mac kenzie, after what has passed between you and ine the state of my_ health cannot concern you very much." lie said, " How's that?" Witness said, " I told you a year ago I did not want to say anything to you about it, but since your memory is so defective, there." With that the witness pulled the paper which he had got in Inverness out of his the prisoner. The deceased was born on March 6th last. His father is a farmer at Shirland Delves, near Alfreton, in this county, and in the beginning of April his family consisted of himself, his wife, their seven children, of whom the eldest, a girl, was 12 years of age, and the prisoner, who came into their ser vice in the end of last January. The child Joseph was of a healthy constitution. On Tuesday, April 9, the mother was left at home with the deceased and the prisoner, the other children having gone to school at 9 o'clock, and the husband having gone to Alfreton at 11 to attend the County Court. After the other children had left for school the mother prepared some sago with milk and sugar, and, hav ing taken some herself, placed the remainder in teacup in the living-room for the purpose of giving it to the child when it had been dressed. As soon, however, as it was dressed the child went to sleep, and the sago remained unconsumed. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the mother went out of doors to hang up some clothes to dry, leaving the child asleep on the sofa. After an absence of ten minutes she returned, and found the prisoner walk ing about the living-room with the child awake in her arms. Mr. Tomlinson asked the girl, who said that the child had begun to cry, why she had not given it the sago in the cupboard. The girl said she had done so, and pointed out the teacup empty. Her mistress complained that she had given the child too much, as the cup was,three parts full, not withstanding which the child appeared very hungry, and took the breast eagerly. It then fell asleep, and so remained until 5 o'clock, when it woke up and was sick. After a little while it appeared better, and dozed again. Waking up a second time the child vomited again, and appeared to be in great pain. It continued to suffer until about 8 o'clock, when Mr. Turner, a surgeon of Alfreton, was sent for. On coming to the child and making inquiries, Mr. Turner was led to believe that the child was suffering from indigestion in consequence of too much sago having been given to it, and having recommended a warm bath, he left, pro mising to send some anti-spasmodic medicine. The medicine duly arrived, but in the interval the child had become much worse. The vomiting and purging increased greatly, the limbs twitched convulsively, the eyes rolled, the child struggled, then grew weaker and weaker, and finally died between 10 and 11 o'clock on the same evening. Subse quently, in consequence of suspicious excited by the death of another of Mr. Tomlinson's children, the body of the infant was exhumed, and on the 7th of May the viscera were taken out and forwarded to Professor Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, for examina tion. It was then discovered that the w h o l e o f th e v i sce ra contained arsenic in large quantity. It turned out that some time about the middle of January Mr. Tomlinson purchased some arsenic, which had been coloured with an imitation of smalt, for the purpose of killing rats. Th e arsen i c was kept upon a shelf in the cellar at such a height that none of the children could reach it, but the cellar door was not locked, and any member of the family who could reach the shelf could get at the poi • son. After it was purchased the poison was used from time to time down to the middle of March by m i x ing portions of it with oatme a l an d placi ng it on a plate about the house or outbuildings, leaving it there the last thing at night and removing it again the next morning. Somehow or other, however, some fowls got to the plates r_nd poisoned them selves on one occasion, and a dog did the upo n another. e another. On the latter occurrence Mr. Tomlinson was much put about, and cautioned the prisoner and another woman who was in the house washing against the careless use of so dangerous an article. Mr. Tomlinson thenceforward discontinued the use of the arsenic, and, having purchased some mineral poison of another person, used the latter in the de struction of the rats by which he was annoyed. This poison, however, was all consumed, and the paper in which it was contained burnt, some time before the infant died. Although the use of the arsenic was discontinued its place was not changed, and it was still kept on the shelf in the cellar, ac cessible to airy grown-up inmate of the house. For the purpose of connecting the prisoner with the crime, it was shown that she had admitted hav ing administered sago to the child about 3 o'clock on the day of its death, the only occasion on that day, according to the evidence of the mother, when anything was given to it except the breast, the mother having given it no other food all day, and the other children having been away from home from 9 o'clock in the morning until after the child was taken ill. The arsenic in the parcel on the shelf was coloured blue, and in the stomach of the child a similar colouring matter was found. The motive was suggested to be a desire to be rid of the trouble the children gave, and a witness was called who deposed to a conversation with the prisoner, in the course of which she expressed satisfaction at the death of the child, as it would no longer give her trouble. The most important evidence upon this point was, however, given by a witness named Matilda Webster, who was summarily convicted of stealing boots and sentenced to three months' im prisonment in Derby Gaol on the 10th of April. This witness stated that she was in gaol when the prisoner was there, and that upon one occasion they met at the foot of the stairs leading to the prison school-room and had a few minutes' conversation, waiting for the school-room door to be unlocked. The witness first observed that she had then only a fortnight to remain in gaol. The prisoner answered that she should be out soon after. The witness said, "Then, did not you poison the children ?" The prisoner said yes, she had poisoned them with some arsenic bought to kill mice with, and that she did it because they were so troublesome. The witness added that she did not know the prisoner before, and that it was the only occasion of their speaking together. Upon this part of the case one of the female warders of the gaol was called and stated that it was quite impossible that any such conversation as that deposed to by the witness Webster could have taken place, inasmuch as during her stay in the gaol the prisoner was in the infirmary, and was always let out last and accompanied by the witness to and from the school-room. His Lordship, in summing up, commented upon the improbability of Webster's story, pointing out how unlikely it was that a prisoner fihotild first state shooting coat pocket, and put it into the prisoner's hand. Upon which he turned round and said, "It is a pack of lies." Witness sAid, "Nobody is better aware of that than you are, because they are lies of your own making, with your own signature to them." Seaforth then said, " Everybody knows what sort of a fellow you are." 'Witness answered, " Thank God, I am an English gentleman. You call yourself a Highland chief, but it would take a dozen of you to make an English gentleman." lie would swear he never called Seaforthathief. Coun sel were heard at length, Mr. Young, for the pur suer, maintaining that defender's statement in the witness-box was only a partial repetition of the slander, and afforded no extenuation or apology, while Mr. Fraser, for defender, denounced the action as contemptible, and said that although the fourth charge was partially admitted, that would notjustify the jury in finding damages. The Lord President summed up, pointing out that such language, which when used by persons in a low condition of life might not be thought much of, became serious when used by one gentleman of birth and station to an other. The defender had met this case on the record not by apology but by denial, although he had made a partial admission in the witness box. The duty of the jury under the issues was to find whether the words were used ; they had not to consider the cause of the irritation, though they must keep in view the fact of irritation. If the jury found for the pursuer, the damages must be more than nominal, though not extravagant or vindictive. The jury found for the pursuer, with £3,000 damages. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The Reform Debate in the Lords was brilliant and powerful ; but it was open to one grave objection. It was occupied too exclusively with the attack and defence of the consistency of the Ministry. We do not wish to underrate the importance of this question. The character of our public men ought to be an object of supreme jealousy, and confidence in the sincerity of political life has been grievously shaken by the events of the session. But a couple of speeches upon the con duct of the Ministers might have sufficed. The position of Lord Carnarvon justified and almost demanded the expression of his sentiments upon it, and his vigorous denunciation left nothing to be de sired. If anything more were by any possibility wanting, it was supplied by Lord Cairns, who, making the best defence for the Government his in genuity could suggest, acknowledged that the Con servative party opposed the £7 Borough Franchise because it would have admitted a body of voters of extreme democratic opinions, that they now propose Household Suffrage without limitation of value because they believe that the lower ranks will be found strongly Conservative, and that they would last year have consented to an £ 8 limit as safe and judicious. The Conservative party have thus discovered that the Radicalism of the country is concentrated in the men who live in houses between 5.:7 and £8 in annual value. Above and below all is safe ; in that narrow stratum are all the elements of explosion. Need any thing more be said after this? The weakness of the advocacy of the ablest of advocates con firmed the accusation he sought to refute. It is unfortunate that such an immoderate share of the debate should have been devoted to mutual re criminations, but it is not too late for the L o rds to clear themselves from the imputation that they are incapable of taking i a wider view of the question of Reform than s embodied in the bill. Before Monday Amendments may be placed on the paper to remove the worst defects of the Minis terial scheme, and indicate, i▪ f they do no more, the proper lines on which to reconstruct our electoral system. We understand that such Amendments will be submitted to the House. If we are not misin formed, the House of Lords will be asked before going into committee to affirm the necessity of extending the redistribution scheme as a condition to a perma nent settlement of the questi▪ on, and it is certain that other propositions for the amendment of the bill will be brought forward in the committee itself. Every One desires that the bill should effect as permanent a settlement as possible, while no one pretends that as it now stands it offers a defensible distribution of representative power. Lord Shaftesbury expressed the sense of all candid men when he declared his belief that it would not remain unaltered for a ape° session. Any proposition for the improvement of the bill as a lasting settlement demands, therefore, the support of all lovers of good government. Even if it be only a protest defining the method to be fol loWed in the next stage of reform, it is well that before the Parliament of to-day gives way to the Parliament of the future the protest should be lit tered. But it may become something more. If the conditions of action be observed, the attempt to im prove the bill may be successful. Opinions have ripened, and conclusions once subjects of contro versy are now generally adopted. But it must be remembered that the time is short. We are not far from the end of July, and any alterations to be pro posed now with any chance of success must be the natural rcsult of the discussions upon the bill in and out of Parhament. It is necessary that Amend i,ents should be definite ; it is above all things tic ' cessary that the proposers of them should have a clear conception of the principles on which they proceed, and that by Monday they should be pre pared to submit a complete account of their plans to the Upper House. Let us understand what is contemplated. Suppose it be suggested that the process of disfranchisement be carried further than is provided in the bill. It is certain that this must be done to secure a permanent settlement. The contrasts between the electoral Dower of con stituencies will be enormously exaggerated by the enfranchising clauses of the bill, and it will be im possible to maintain the privileges of the small boroughs. But small boroughs have their uses. Lord Russell reminded the House of Lords on Tues day how often men of the greatest eminence had found in small boroughs a refuge from the injustice of shifting majorities in large constituencies. If small boroughs be doomed to disappear, as they unouestionably are, some effort must be made to secure by other means the discharge of the func tions they have hitherto discharged. Fortunately, there is a very simple and intelligible way of pro ducing this result. If seats be taken from the smallest boroughs—if, for instance, all boroughs having a population below 5,000 be absolutely dis franchised—the motive for this legislation is the claim of the large constituencies to increased re presentation, and the seats thus obtained must be conferred on the large constituencies. How they should be conferred must be a question, but we submit that it must be by accumulation of repre sentatives, and not by subdivision of the constitu encies. Lord Cairns on 'Tuesday sanctioned the prejudice against " three-cornered constituencies," but directly he attempted to reason he exposed its vanity. We had, indeed, no " three-cornered con stituencies" before 1832 ; but what then ? Can anY single characteristic of the so-called representative system which existed before 1832 suffice, simply be cause it was a part of that system, to outweigh a grain of argument? We had no .‘ three-cornered constituencies" before 1832 ; but they were created then, like many other excellent things ; they are in . creosed in number now, and they must be further increased hereafter. They afford the only means of reconciling that principle of equality which under lies every proposal of enfranchisement or redistribu tion contained in the Reform Bill with the mainte nance of the representative principle. If we sub divide populous constituencies, we secure an elec tive, but not 'a representative, Government. We create an assembly in which the proportions of the majority in the country are enormously ex aggerated, and submit ourselves to a Government apparently strong, but, by reason of the instability of the majority on which it depends, essentially weak. Every consideration of the importance of maintaining a stable and free Government and of preserving the political life of all classes of society conspires to deprecate such a consummation. It is essential that those who propose to extend the re distribution scheme of the Ministry should come to an understanding upon this point. If it be impos sible, as we believe, that the scheme in its present shape can be maintained, it is equally impossible that the House of Lords can on Monday come to an abstract resolution affirming this truth without having some formal plan of extension submitted to it. The disfranchisement of the smallest boroughs must be a part of such a plan. The increased re , presentation of the largest must be another part. In what way shall that increased representation be bestowed is the first point to be determined, and upon the result of the determination must depend the decision of the Committee. 'Whether the me thod of voting in constituencies receiving third members should remain unchanged, or whether the plan originated by Lord Russell in 1854, and sup ported by . Lord Cairns on Tuesday, or the simple Cumulative 'Vote should be adopted, is, we con ceive, at present of inferior importance. Our own preference has been repeatedly expressed, but as we are only careful for the result, and are indiffer ent to the machinery, we should hail with the live liest satisfaction the adoption of the plan suggested by Lord Russell, though we should be content even to see " unicorn" constituencies multiplied, with out any immediate change in the method of voting. We cannot too often or too strongly insist that if a proposal for the amendment of the Government scheme be submitted to the Committee on Monday, its authors must not shrink from the contemplatio n of novelty. They will come forward as persons holding opinions in advance of the Govern ment, but if all they have to suggest is a little more progress in precisely the same direction As that in which the Government has moved they wil l deserve little credit. Any one can follow a beaten track ; it is reserved for statesmen to master the exigencies of a new situation. One change neces sitates another. It is impossible to adopt a a s/ moving force without considering the strain IV ° all the parts of a machine. If we have new wine , we must have new bottles. We have no alarm., about the immedi a t e e ff ec t s o f th e R e f or m Bil l ,. We do not share th e o pi n i on o f L or d Russell that it will in itself produce a change for the wors e " But we are profoundly impressed with the convie" tion that it is a precursor to other changes, and th e true Conservative instincts which will prompt the proposal of amendents in committee ought not to be satisfied with m submitting a plan only more developed than that n ow b e f ore P ar li a ment; they should apprehend the future, an d provid e for it. a little COUNTRY MARKETS. SALISBITRY.—TUESDAY. The attendance at market to-day was larger than I°4 week. Wheat again in small supply, and prices were i s to 2s per. qr. dearer. Grinding barley scarce, but at previoul quotations. Oats slightly in favour of buyers. Beaus a ° peas were dealt in at late rates. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr om 58s to 7 2 5; barley, 31s to 375; eats,.26s to 335; beans, 464 to 56s ; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Tares, from 53 6d,. ° 1 7s 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 16d ; household ditto, 1° per 81b loaf. Flour, 46s to 51s per sack. FULL.--T UESDAY. At our market to-day scarcely any English wheat offering, and an advance of fully 18 per qr was establis be on the business done. For e i gn also advanced 18 per r with a better business. Barley and oats were in good re quest, and is dearer. 'Beans and peas as before. nt' English white wheat, 66 8 t o 72 8; re d, 63 s to 66Et sic and Konigsberg, 65s to 75s ; Baltic red, 62s to 6.1 Danish and Hamburg, 60s to 638 ; Russian, 61. s to 64 Barley, English, 368 to 49s ; grinding, Mediterrane an ' 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s; Russian; 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 58s to 608 ; oreign, 4 ' to 445. Peas, English blue, 42, to 44s Od ; foreign white' 44s to 458; grinding, 43s to 41s Od per qr. LYNN—T TJESDAY. lAt to-day's market the supply of wheat was limite d, e best qualities made 1s to 2s per qr. more money ; ot be r • descriptions as last week. Beans and peas fully as de3til, Barley and oats 6d to is per qr. higher, with but lit offering. New wheat, 70s to 74s ; new red, 64s to 68s ; old vgl' i . c t f,; —s to —s; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley ',- malting, 47s to 51s ; secondary, 42s to 455. Oate l n e ; s : 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 48s. X° — 40s to 428 per 28 stone. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. °di The attendance at the various markets has been e n d, and the supply of wheat has not been equal to the de 1313- o Thera has been a fair inquiry for barley, but there w'A /i ra , advance on late rates. The oat trade has remained fir Beans commanded high rates, but sales were limited. o d e The following are the average quotations:—Wheat , r • or , 7s 6d to 79s d per bushel ; white, 7s 9d to 8s sa ; infafl d. 6s Od to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 40s to 44s per qr ; grl/s ing ditto, 34s to 362 Od; beans, 43s to 45s ; white oat s, 6d to 29s 6d ; black ditto, 26s Od to 27s Od. Births. BOYLE—On the 22d inst., at Dublin, the Hon. Airs. 01- mud Boyle, of a daughter. CAmDEN—On the 23d inst. at 96, Eaton-square, the g 3" /3 1 . chioness Camden, prematurely, of a daughter, stil lbor EGERTON —On the 2ith inst., at 36, Curzon-street, WA; fair, the wifo of the Hon. Algernon Egerton, M.P ., °' daughter. _ Marriages. E OWARDES—BLACKBURNE —0 El the 23d inst., at St. ireot b e v Ilauover-square, Wm. J. H. Edwardes, •Esq., eldest s(i tc , of Thomas H. Y. Edward's, Esq., of Netloy, Emily, second daughter of Lieut. Co!. J. 1. Blackbur' ' of Hale Hall, Lancashir3. suls' WILLETT —Bußßows—On the 23d inst., at All f Church, St. Marylebone, Alfred Willett, 'F.R.C.S., ° 01 ,13r Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, to Rose Ellen, '„or daughter of Geo. Burrows, M.D., F.R.S., of Cav ell " square. Deaths. drier, BIDDER—On the 21st inst., at Eastbourne, G. W. 13 a i younger son of the late B. P. Bidder, Esq., age d "" h i r EGLINTON—On the 21st inst., at Dunoon, ArgY11.7776e: N. 8., Robt. Eglinton, Esq., of Dunoon Castle, Ligeu,-;1, GREENE—On the 20th inst., at Nice, Evan H. Greene, 1-`. aged 54. London : Printed and Published by W1LL1.931 ANDL 3S 02. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tnu SUN" Oftlce, No t Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C ° " - 2_ , licictleeez.7_-lhundity, July 25,.1867.