The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-21 00:00:00

THE CATASTROPHE IN THE REGENT'S PARK. On Saturday, and again yesterday, the process of searching the ornamental water in the Regent's Park continued, and, judging from the number of spectators present, especially yesterday afternoon, the late calamity must have excited very wide spread interest. Every position from which a view of the operations upon the lake could be gained was crowded with lookers-on, who, in reaching the islands and other prominent points, betrayed their usual indifference to risk. The police and icemen warned them as long as warning seemed of the slightest avail, and then lay by for a time and waited the result. Those who had reached solid ground there was little use in disturbing, but hundreds of men and lads, not content with quietly looking on, engaged in skating and sliding close to the points where the drags were at work and the ice was actually being broken and pulled to shore. The secretary and several mem bers of the committee of the Humane Society at once went upon the ice, and by dint of expostula tions and remonstrances induced the majority of those present to quit a position so full of danger. Numbers, however, chiefly lads, proved refractory, and had to be cleared off by a concerted move ment of the police and park-keepers, who succeeded for the remainder of the day in keeping tha b ice clear. In running off to avoid the keepers six lads fell in near the side, and their well-merited ducking obtained for them little commiseration from the spectators. There was this novel feature about the proceed ings of the last two days, that the search with hooks and drags, though still persevered in, became second in importance to that of the diver. Sug gestions had been offered some days before that an agency of this kind ought to be employed ; but nothing practical was done in the matter till Mr. Heinke solicited and obtained from the authorities permission to conduct the investigation with his own machinery and at his own expense. Diving dresses are not matters of every-day use with the g eneral public, and they may accordingly be ex cused for any want of acquaintance with the name of the gentleman by whom the generous offer was made. But all who busy themselves in the con struction of bridges, docks, or other works under water know Heinke's diving apparatus as a name of power. With its aid mails and cargo were recovered from the wreck of the Colombo just as easily as watches were lately picked out of the Thames near Blackfriars-bridge. From the mail-room of the Malabar, sunk off Point de Galle, £300,000 were procured by its instrumentality—a feat in accom plishing which it was necessary to cut through half inch iron plates and to work in nine feet of sand. Some novel applications (f this apparatus which have been made from time to time would almost lead to the belief that diving as an art is in its infancy ; men have been employed to go down and extin guish fires in coal mines, their supplies of air drawn from above rendering them independent of the atmosphere below ; and also to cut from the bottom of a lake weeds which had baffled all attempts from the surface to stop their growth. The special merit claimed for the dress lies in so placing the valve that it may be under the control of the diver. Under ordinary circumstances the valve is the vent through which the air escapes from the diver's dress, but, assuming that a rent or fracture happens at any point of his accoutrements—say that one of the glasses of his helmet breaks (as actually occurred at Westminster-bridge), the diver has only to shut the valve and the broken glass becomes itself the valve, the rush of air outwards pre venting the water from entering. There is always great curiosity to see a diver dress, and, as from the nature of things his toilet in the Regent's Park was performed somewhat publicly, a short description may be interesting of the means which enable one man to sustain life and walk about for hours with comparative ease in the same sheet of water and at a similar temperature to that which in a few minutes proved fatal to scores of his fel low-creatures. The diver first removed his shoes, and then drew on two pairs of long white woollen stockings reaching nearly to his hips, and pulled a thick shirt of corresponding material over his shoul ders and all his ordinary clothes. Flannel knee breeches kept the other garments comfortably toge ther ; and the addition of a red nightcap doubled completed the likeness to one of the white-jacketed sailors that figure largely in Dutch sea-pieces. The diving dress proper was next assumed. Take two of the stoutest waterproof capes, and sew a sheet of indiarubber between—that is the material ; draw it on like a sack for running races in, save that each leg has its own separate pouch to fit into, instead of one common sack for both feet—and that is the shape. Heavy boots, with substantial soles of lead, complete the equipment of the lower man ; the upper, of course, must be securely cased. Round what would be in the parallel case the mouth of the sack, and what in this instance forms the neck of the diving dress, there are a number of brass studs, upon which, with the aid of screws, fit brass-plates shaped to the shoulders, and eventually a cuirass, about half the length, back and front, of those in use among the Household troops. This cuirass closes in the whole of the upper part of the body as far as the neck, which is left exposed, very much as if the wearer were about to be guillotined—an im pression which is, if possible, strengthened. during the subsequent screwing on of the gigantic head piece. One can imagine that it must have formed an anxious study to the original diving-dressmaker hew to leave the hands and arms free, and yet to prevent the water from entering at those extremi ties. In the present day the difficulty is sur mounted by terminating the sleeves of the div ing-dress with stout cuffs of vulcanised india rubber, tapered nearly to a point. It requires the violent efforts of two men, an assistant pulling open the cuff, and the wearer thrusting his arm forward as if he were delivering a knock-down blow, before the hands can be got through, one at a time. A belt round the waist with a stout knife in a leather sheath, a line to attach to the ladder when he goes down, that he may know the point from which he started, and so calculate the distance traversed, two 501 b. weights fastened to his shoulders, another line looped round his body, and called " the life line," with which to signal to those above, or, in case of urgent need, to be pulled up by, and the diver's equipment is complete in all important essentials but one. Till the last moment the glass-plate in front of his mouth is not inserted, and the pumping apparatus must be in regular action before this is screwed home. Then the diver steps on to his ladder, one of his comrades surveys him from head to heel to see that all is right, gives him a friendly tap of dis missal on the helmet—a piece of living freemasonry never omitted—and down he goes. Nothing but a faint sighing noise has been heard from the air pump till the helmet reaches the surface of the water, and then a rush and bubbling strikes the ear, and the surface of the water in a limited circle leaps and dances as if some large fish were sporting about near the top of the water. The helmet, at first as bright as silver, seems as it sinks to become oxidized, and grows darker and darker in colour till it gradually recedes from sight altogether. Whenever the surface of the water was not covered with ice the track of the diver could be traced by the bubbling, and even where the ice was thin the air could be seen en deavouring to escape in large milk-white globules. As the man plodded about, now with his helmet close to or above the surface, and now, from the length of line paid out, evidently down in holes 16 or 17 feet in depth, and at a distance of 40 or 50 feet from the punt, some pardonable uneasiness was felt by many persons on his account, remembering _ _ . _ _ that with all his harness ou he carried close on 20011;. weight, and that the bottom of the lake was over laid with thick, soft mud. It was explained, how ever, that the diver had at his command three modes of escape from any difficulty down below. He could either close the valve and he would float, cut off the weights and he would float, or he could sig nal to those above to pull him up by the life-line. There were three divers in the Regent's Park yes terday and the day before, who each went down in turn, remaining below from 12 to 25 minutes at a time, and in the first instance explored thoroughly that portion of the ornamental water where the great mass of persons was seen to go down. The result of their investigations showed the care with which this spot had been swept by the drags, not a single body being recovered by the divers. On the other hand, the minuteness of the search made by these men themselves was proved by their bringing up hatchets, hammers, a large - wooden mallet, and a piece of iron wire dropped out of different boats in the course of the previous day's ice-breaking. They also found at some distance from each other two pairs of skates, perfectly new, and strapped to gether, suggesting that the owners had dropped them in running away. The divers were, of course, anxiously questioned as to the state of things be low. They described the bottom as composed of soft, yielding, black mud—as, indeed, was plainly to be seen from their boots and clothing when they came to the surface—and into this they sometimes sank to their knees, and sometimes considerably deeper. Except where the water was very shallow, they could see nothing—" it was like being in a dark room ;" but the men did not complain of the temperature. In fact on coming to the surface, and being exposed while resting for a few minutes to the cutting north-east wind, one of them told his companions to " Screw him up again, and let him be off, for it was warmer down below." They all complained at first of their hands being cold, though these were protected by waterproof gloves, but said that the feeling wore off with the exercise. At one time there was a great risk that the div ing operations would have been stopped, :and the benevolent intentions of Mr. Heinke frustrated, as the chief obstruction to the efficiency of the drags. In the absence of anything like combined operations under some one responsible head, no pro vision has been made from the very first for getting rid systematically of the ice. Carts, it is true, were admitted to the enclosure to carry away what was drawn out and thrown upon the banks by labourers depending for remuneration on the small sums given by the cart proprietors. But on Satur day, as had been predicted, only one or two carts, came where there bad been hundreds, the ice wells of London being filled by the unexpected supply. The natural result followed. The workmen, finding no market for the ice, ceased to draw it out, and, shouldering their implements, prepared to leave the park, and cessation of their labour practically im plied the stoppage of the search for the bodies. Seeing this, a few gentlemen hastily subscribed small sums and appealed to the bystanders for co operation, raising in a short time sufficient to retain the services of several gangs of men. The poor fel lows themselves thankfully accepted the very mode rate terms which could be offered to them, and laboured manfully in the face of chilling blasts. The same system was pursued yesterday, and the imperative necessity of getting rid of the ice is shown by this single fact. The lake varies so much in depth that at one point there may be only four feet clear space between the ice and the ground, though immediately beyond there may be a pool of 14 feet deep. The diver cannot crawl under the ice, and so, unless it be taken out of his way, cannot explore the deep water beyond. A fresh difficulty will arise to-day. Mr. Heinke, in addition to the services of his divers, has engaged some boatmen who have come all the way from Kew, offering for a moderate sum to sweep the or namental water with their nets. How is this to be done while two-thirds of the lake are still sealed with solid ice ? Shipwreck and Loss of a Lifeboat at Calais, CALAIS, Friday. Last evening, near the entrance to the harbour, a vessel was lost with all hands save one, and several English seamen who volunteered to go off to the wreck in the lifeboat met the same fate. The night was very stormy, for a furious gale was blowing from the north, and the whole line of coast was lashed with a terribly heavy sea. it . was clear fine weather, and the moon shone very bright. About 5 o'clock a cry ran along the harbour that a ship had run ashore near the west pier, and the crew were lashed in the rigging. Capt. Wall, of the General Steam Navigation Company's steamer Triton, which was detained in the harbour in consequence of the bad weather, with his crew proceeded to the pier head, and were followed by the crew of the Pioneer (Dover) steamer and others bolonging to the English ships in the harbour. On reaching the end of th e pier the wreck was found to be about 200 yards from the shore, and the vessel proved to be the Trois Scours, of St. Nazaire, from Rotterdam, laden with a cargo of manganese, and the cries of her crew for help could be plainly heard on the pier. The English people cheered the poor fellows that assistance would be sent, and all hands started off for the port lifeboat, which is stationed on the sand some distance off. It was got out and with diffi culty dragged through the snow, which lay very deep, to the edge of the sands, where the Triton's crew volunteered to man her, but the French autho rities of the port refused ; and after some delay six Frenchmen put off in it, and made for the wreck, but when they got half way to the vessel they turned to the shore and abandoned the shipwrecked people. The English sailors, on seeing this, got ferried across the harbour to the east pier, where another lifeboat is stationed, which was presented to. the Calais authorities by the English Govern ment some time since. Here, however, another long delay occurred, for it was securely locked and the party having the custody of the key could not ba found. At length it was deter mined to take forcible possession of it, and by tear ing down the railings the boat was safely launched. It was instantly manned by English volunteers, who pulled off with an alacrity and zeal which called forth loud cheers from those collected on the piers, for by that time a great number of people had as sembled. The boat rode gallantly as she shot towards the wreck, when, just as she was preparing to bring up to the vessel, a heavy sea struck the boat and threw it bottom upwards, throwing the whole of the brave fellows, 13 in number, into the raging sea. A fearful shriek rose from the people on the pier, and a scene of great excitement ensued to do all that was possible to save life, for some of them could be seen holding to the lifeboat, others were supporting themselves on the oars, and others were attempting to swim to the shore. A party of English sailors belonging to the Triton and Pioneer steamers here made for the first lifeboat, which had been abandoned by the Frenchmen as useless, and pushed off to the rescue of their struggling comrades; and it is gratifying to state that their mission was a most successful one, for they' managed to pick up six of the poor fellows, and two others were saved by means of ropes thrown - to them by Captain Wall from the pier. The remainder, however, five in number, all perished. Their names were— Matthew Hopkinson, chief engineer of the Triton steamer ; Wilson, chief mate of the Pioneer steamer, of Dover; John Lumsden, mate of the bag William, of Blyth; and James Anderson, mate of the brig John Coggin, of Whitby ; and another sailor, whose name is unknown. The survivors, when landed, were nearly dead from exhaustion and cold. They were promptly conveyed to the French Humane Society's house, where they were received and treated with the greatest kindness and attention. Of the crew of the wrecked vessel only one was saved; they dropped off the rigging one by one into the sea, and were drowned. The last man was taken out of the rigging by the first lifeboat, which, after picking up the drowning people, left the shore a third time, and succeeded in gaining the wreck. Most of the English sailors who were lost have left wives and families. The body of the engineer of the Triton has been washed ashore and sent to London for burial. It is calculated that a fluent speaker utters be tween 7,000 and 7,500 words in the course of au hour's uninterrupted speaking. Many orators of more than usually rapid utterance will reach 8,000 and even 9,000. But 125 words a minute, or 7,500 an hour, is a fair average. L ADVER TISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— The variable temperature of most climates is always preg nant with colds, catarrhs, tumours, and abscesses, and all scrofulous diseases, and glandular affections usually be come worse at each variation. Holloway's ointment dili gently rubbed upon the skin as near to the affected part as possible will be found the most safe and efficient means of immediately subduing pain, and finally eradicating the seeds of future mischief from the system. Whenever the malady is chronic, constitutional, or dangerous, Holloway's pills should be taken to quicken and increase the curative power. Scurvy, skin diseases, and sitnil ir disorders disap pear before the cleansing and healing influence of Hollo way's remedies, which, for their successful employment, only require time and fair attention. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1867. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-six. The year 1865 was so remarkable a year, so full of wonders and prodigies, that 1866 runs some risk of having its claims to remembrance overlooked or underrated. Nothing is likely to happen in our time half so momentous as Lee's surrender was, and the possession of that event will always make 1865, as we endeavoured to show at its close, one of the great years of history, putting it in the same category withthe first year of the Christian era, the year in which Rome was sacked, in which Europe was saved from the Saracens, in which Luther began to preach the Reformation, in which the Parliament drew the sword against Charles 1., and in which the first shot was fired in the war of the Revolution here. It was a year, in short, in which events marked the commencement of a new and important stage in human progress. The year which will end next Monday is remark able rather for the working out of results already made certain than for any important additions to the stock of human experience or hopes. Every day of it has also made clearer the completeness of our triumph at the South ; but it has also revealed difficulties in the way of reaping the fruits of our victory which, twelve months ago, we did not at all anticipate. Mr. Johnson's defection, and the dis play he has made of his temper and lone of mind, have furnished a striking exemplification of the danger of trusting anything in a constitutional government to the honesty or wisdom of individual officers. We owe nearly all the mischief Mr. Johnson has done, paradoxical as the assertion may seem, to the confidence begotten by Mr. Lincoln's goodness. Had we trusted less to Mr. Lincoln's character and judgment, and more to rules of law, we should not have trusted so much to Mr. John son's character and judgment, and should not now be reproaching him with having betrayed us. For example, had Congress borne its just part in the Government during the war, Mr. Johnson would never have been allowed to take upon himself, and would not have thought of taking upon himself, the work of reconstruction. The moral is, that in peace or war, in weal or woe, the only government for a free country is a government of law, and that nearly all men placed in possession of power tend, by a sort of moral gravitation, towards either folly or knavery. This is a very trite saying; but the first striking illustration of it that has occurred in American history has occurred this year. In 1865 also there was a very general disposition to believe that great social or political changes, pro vided they were changes for the better, could be completed in a few months. In the flush of victory many were ready to believe that all trouble with the South was at an end—that, as it had appealed to the sword, and the sword had decided against it, all would henceforth go merry as a marriage-bell. We now know that revolutions are slow processes, that the fighting which usually attends them is but a very small portion of the work, and that after the sword has been sheathed there always remains a great deal of thinking, and talking, and legislating to be done before the desired result can be accomplished. We have been having, in short, during the past year our first experience in the work of legislating for a conquered and disaffected people. All American legis lation has hitherto been done for a united and loyal community, with but few differences of opinion, and those not grave enough to prevent the execu tion of the laws being left to those affected by them. The novelty of this work, and the total want of experience which nearly all our public men have brought to it, have, of course, added largely to its difficulties, and have caused much of the indecision and hesitation with which Congress has been re proached during the past year. What with the theories of those who cannot and will not believe, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, that there can be such a thing as a disloyal population in the United States, and the theories of those who do believe it, but propose to leave the disaffected to be dealt with by the laws of political economy the task of forming a plan of reconstruction which shall secure the Government without making changes in its structure, has been found to be no easy one. The abolition of slavery only became an accom plished fact in 1865. It was a great event ; the greatest, perhaps—considering the number of per sons, living, and unborn, whose destiny has been af fected by it—which has occurred since Christ came. It was so great an event that the first impulse of most of those who assisted in bringing it about was to believe that emancipation was the one thing needful for the slave, and that once free he might safely be left to work out his own salvation, no matter what dangers, moral or material, beset him. We have awakened from that delusion. Most people are now satisfied that freedom alone is a very imperfect boon, and that he has to be provided with the means of preserving and profiting by it. One party is satisfied that all he needs, not only to ac • complish this end, but to become a strong tower of defence for our Government, is the ballot. They talk of it as if it were a talisman or an elixir of life, a great enlightener and educator, and the only one needed. It is safe to say that this theory, too, is undergoing reconsideration ; that every month adds to the number of those who feel that the ballot in the hands of an ignorant man may prove but a club in the hands of a blind Samson, which he may use against friends as well as foes, as General Butler has happily termed it, and that to make it a real i s ot p f o Nl s io i t t i rtlt o eh n epor w nli h poti i c e la h iltii h cmi as apons s r h ot o af w nlca n ete i i t t s : we feel sure, blessing it ought to be accompanied by education. s a o t e w d i u d c e a l y_ r t a r i n e o n a d g s s l t f r e o the offspring of passing party excitement, and will not ep h er a experience. the year e I a widerhi xng disappear under the influence of d ee p er re fl ect i on and year that is closing, however, been so remarkable as in the multitude of the proofs which it has revealed of the deep and lasting in fluence which the career of this country has exercised, and is likely to exercise, on the politics and society of the whole civilised world. Those who were most astonished last year by our military successes were still confident that though Americans might fight they would not pay, and that heavy taxation would dissipated taxation t E h i i g s hdteeleuns delusion. n d T r e h d e h a e n e d r f uslinxetsys prove a test under which Democracy wo u ld succum b . c with sixh l a y s lai has been borne, the great surplus which appears each quarter in the Treasury, and the prospect of the extinction of our debt by the present generation, are revelations of power which have produced a deeper impression on most minds in Europe than all other phenomena of our history. This is not a vague boast, but a dry statement of a well-known fact. The action of our war on European politics was not apparent last year. This year it is very ap parent, and seems likely to effect very important and very rapid changes in the condition of the European world. In the first place, it has un doubtedly highly stimulated the passion for unifi cation, for the formation of great states out of small ones, which is one of the most striking characteris tics of the age, and has thus had an important share in precipitating the events which have raised Prussia and Italy to their present dignity. Noth ing has done more to impress the popular imagina tion with the importance of being the citizen of a great power, and the danger and indignity of being the member of a petty community, than the animated discussions provoked by the American struggle, and the spectacle of the prodigious efforts made on this side of the water to maintain the national unity. Fenianism, too, may be safely said, in its pre sent proportions at least, to be the direct result of our war. The display of strength made by the United States, the acquisition of military know ledge made in the contest by large bodies of Irish men, the immense numbers of Irish who have been attracted to the country, and the hostility to Eng land developed during the last four yearp, have un doubtedly combined to produce that remarkable series of performances which is now coming to a close in Ireland, and the folly of which has in flicted so serious a blow on the political reputation of the Irish race. What its ultimate effect on the condition of Ireland will be it is, of course, impos sible to say ; but this much is certain, that Fenian ism has at least had the effect of impressing the English Liberals more deeply than ever before with the necessity of some radical changes in the govern ment of Ireland, and has opened the eyes of the English people to the fact that the condition of Ireland is no longer a purely British question ; that the enormous body of Irish here who retain their in terest in the country of their birth makes Irish Wrongs a matter of interest to Americans also, and creates a new subject of con troversy between the two countries, which trifling incidents may any day submit to the arbi trament of arms. We may say that, as far as one can judge at this moment, the worst effect of Fenianism has been the extent to which it has turned away the thoughts of the Irish from all rational schemes of reform, and the fanatical devo tion it has developed for an utterly impossible ideal. The remedy on which they have set their hearts is a separate nationality ; and this, in the present condition of the world, is as wildly unat tainable as the restoration of the Ileptarchy—to use Canning's illustration—or the re-division of France into feudal principalities. Ireland, as a nation, is as dead as Naples or Ilinover. Six mil lions of people—bitterly divided, too—have now no separate place in the world, and probably never will again during the existence of our present civilisa tion. In England the Reform movement has been re vived during the past year with a vigour it has not had since 1832, and such as it has never had as far as the working classes were concerned. The first two years of the American war seemed to have extin guished it ; the events on our soil of the last year have resuscitated and given it a fierceness and bit terness hitherto unknown, and seemed to have in flicted on the middle and upper classes of England a kind of political paralysis, a faint-heartedness, and a want of confidence in 1 heir own ideas which have reduced England, both in her own estimation and that of others, to the rank of a second-rate power, and seem to presage the near approach of a great political if not social revolution. The ultra Democratic tendencies which are visible there are not less manifest all over the Continent. The new empires are all based on universal suffrage ; the great armies are being more and more democratised ; that is, converted, as in Prussia, from distinct call, lugs into armed organisations of the whole people, capable of striking quick and heavy blows, but in capable of long wars. The overthrow of Austria too, has given the final blow to divine right and to priestly interference in politics, and has accelerated, everywhere, the movement which, in Italy, is turn ing the revenue of great monastic establishments into aids to popular and, better still, secular educa tion. The temporal power, too, has received its final blow from the withdrawal of the French from Rome. It now exist only in name, and we may any day hear of the conversion of the Pope into a simple Bishop, without other claims on human reverence than he can find in the religious faith of the Catholic world. And though last, not least, the total failure of the Mexican expedition has perhaps put an end for ever to all attempts to organise states by foreign arms and in accordance with foreign theories, and sealed the triumph of popular jurisdiction over all questions affecting national existence. We ought, perhaps, to mention the laying of the Atlantic Cable as one of the great events of the year ; but, if we did more th an ment i on it, it w ould l e ad us into an entirely new fi eld, in which materials for many pages of com men t m i g h t b e f oun d. We hav e tried to touch simply upon the leading incidents in the political progress of the world, the indications scattered here and th ere o f t h e s tea d y r i s i ng of the people into life a n d li g h t, a f ter h ow man y ages of darkness and suffering and sorrow. It is, to be sure, saddening enough to notice how slow that progress Is, how distant the race still is from that ideal state of which poets and philosophers love, and have for ages loved, to dream ; how much ignorance and vice and cruelty and misery is to be found in even the most highly civilised communities ; how much envy, hatred, and malice and uncharitableness there is even amongzt philanthropists and reformers; how large a sway prejudice and sophistry still bear over the minds of men ; how little increase of " peace and good-will," in spite of all our singing and merry making, each returning Christmas brings with it ; but there is, perhaps, no idler and vainer work than sorrowing over these things. The existence of knaves, humbugs, tyrants, cheats, and liars will never be accounted forsatisfactorily ; lout there is not one of us who does not know that he may, let his sphere be ever so small, do som e thi ng e i t h er to di minish their number or their powers of mischief.— The .Nation. The Regular Army of the United States. At the close of the war with Mexico the regular army of the United States consisted of general and department officers, a corps of engineers, a corps of topographical engineers, the ordnance corps, four regiments of artillery, three of cavalry, an d n i ne of infantry, making the minimum force to be a little over 12,000 men. After the call of President Lincoln Under the act for 75,000 men in April, 1861, the regu l ar army was increased by the addition of one regiment of ar till ery, General, staff, three rdje eelnow o y f ,B cavalry, h organisedt a ey and a of rm ten sw3 was f e n still infantry. E further augment e d, a: and department officers, the corp s o f eng i neers, companiesnn ordnance mpan i na corps, each,nanandtfievne reg iments forty-five regiments regiments artillery of 12 of in_ fantry of 10 companies each. Th e m i n i mum strength of the army, which is now near l y organised, may be better illustrated by the follow ing table : General officers ... 18 Pay Department... 27 Adjutant General'iDep. 22 Engineer Corps 752 Inspector Gen.'s Dept. 9 Ordnance Corps 600 Bureau of Mil. Justice 2 Cavalry (10 reg.) 10 280 Quartermaster's Dept. 76 Artillery (5 re g .) ... 5' 650 Subsistence Departm't. 30 Infantry, (45 reg.)... 86,380 Medical Department 104 Total minimum strength of the army. 58,950 The maximum strength of the army, were it re a s a r Indian dian veterans co scouts, to be further increased, would requi r e 21,432 more men, which would make 75,382. T wo o f th e new cavalry regiments and four of the infa n t r y are composed of coloured men. One of the cava l r y and four of r s eserve corps, and the duty of these veterans will b e t o ac t as regiments the organising regiments clerks in the departments, watchmen, and guardians of national cemeteries. _ The commanding general of the army is General U. S. Grant, assisted by Lieut.-Gen. Willi/4m T. Sherman. There are also five major-generals, Halleck, Meade, Sheridan, Thomas, and Hancock, and nine brigadiers, M'Dowell, Pope, Hooker, Schofield, Howard, Ord, Canby, Cook, and Terry. The adjutant-general of thearmy is Lorenzo Thomas, with rank of brigadier -general ; inspector-general, Bigadier-Gen. Randolph B. Marcy; quartermaster general, Brigadier-G en. M ontgomery C. Meigs ; commissary-general, Brigadier-Gen. Amos B. Eaton; surgeon-general, Joseph K. Barnes; and paymaster.- general, Benjamin W. Brice. The corps of engi neers is under command of Brevet Brigadier- Gen. Col. Hartman B ac h e, acting ch i e f eng i neer , vice Gen. Delafield, retired. Th e ordance d e p ar tment is pre sided over by Brigadier -Gen. Alexander B. Dyer, chief of ordnance, and THE CAVALRY REGIMENTS Are commanded by the following officers : Ist. Col. George A. H. Blake, headquarters, California. 2d. Col. Thomas J. Wood, Fort Riley, Kansas. 3d. Col. Marshall S. Howe, camp near Fort Smith, Arkansas. 4th. Col. Lawrence P. Graham, San Antonio, Texas. sth. Col. Willi am H . E mory, Washington City. 6th. Col. David H unter, A ust i n , Texas. 7th. Col. A. J. S m ith , F or t Ril e y, Kansas. Bth. (coloured) C o l . J . I rw i n Gregg, California. 9th. (coloured) C o l. Ed war d Hatch, unknown. 10th. (Indian scouts) Col. B. H. Grierson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. THE ARTILLERY REGIMENTS. Ist. Col. Israel Vodges, headquarters Fort Hamil ton, New York Harbour. 2d. Col. Williams W. Morris, Fort Point, Cali fornia. 3d. Col. Thomas W. Sherman, Fort Warren, Boston Harbour: 4th. Col. Horace Brooks, Fort WHenry, Balti more. sth. Col. Henry S. Burton, Fortress Monroe ; Virginia. TIIE INFANTRY REGIMENTS. The head-quarters of the infantry regiments are not given for the reason that so many changes are taking place that it is impossible to keep up with them. We will simply give the names of the commanding officers First regiment, Col. Robert C. Buchanan ; second. Col. Sidney Burbank ; third, Col. William Hoff man ; fourth, Col. Silas Casey ; fifth, Daniel But terfield ; sixth, James Duvall Greene ; seventh, John T. Sprange, ; eighth, James V. Bomford ; ninth, John 11. King ; tenth, Edmund B. Alex ander ; eleventh, William S. Ketcham ; twelfth, C. C. Augur ; thirteenth, Isaac V. D. Reeve ; fourteenth, C. S. Lovell ; fifteenth, Oliver L. Shepherd ; sixteenth, Caleb C. Sibley ; seven teenth, Samuel P. Ileintzelman; eighteenth, Henry B. Carrington ; nineteenth, Delaney Floyd Jones ; twentieth, Gordon Granger ; twenty-first George Stoneman; twenty-second, David L. Stanley; twenty-third, Jeff. C. Davis ; twenty-fourth, A. C. Gillem ; twenty-fifth. George Crook; twenty-sixth, Joseph S. Reynolds ; twenty seventh, B. G. 'lath ; twenty-eighth, C. 11. Smith; twenty-ninth, Orlando B. Wilcox ; thirtieth, John D. Stevenson ; thirty-first, N. R. Bowerman ; thirty-second, Thomas L. Crittenden ; thirty third, Thomas 11. huger ; thirty-fourth, John Gibson ; thirty-fifth, John F. Ilartranft (declined) thirty-sixth, John Gibbon ; thirty-seventh, G. W. Getty ; thirty-eighth (coloured), W. B. llazen ; thirty-ninth (coloured), J. A. Mower; fortieth (coloured), N. A. Miles; forty-first (coloured), E. W. ; forty-second (veteran reserves), Daniel E. Sickles; forty-third (veteran reserves), J. C. Robinson; forty-fourth (veteran reserves), T. G. Pitcher ; forty-fifth (veteran reserves), Wager Swayne. These new regiments are very rapidly recruiting, and it is expected that they will be full to the mini mum standard by the 15th of January next. All the cavalry, except the India scouts, are ready for field service, and nearly all the 3d battalions of the regiments of infantry, numbering from the 10th to the 19th, are absorbed in the formation of the new. Eight of the new regiments have completed their organisation, and at the increased rate of recruiting at Governor's Island, New York, and Newport Barracks, Kentucky, the remaining 18 will rapidly be filled, as the recruits accepted at these places num ber about 1,000 per week. THE PAY OF THE ARMY. In computing the pay of the army, ler us not be misunderstood. The only figures here given is the actual pay of the officers and soldiers, which does not include transportation, forage, subsistence (ex cept as to the ration), and the many other inciden tal expenses going to swell the cost of the annual maintenance of this branch of the service. It is simply a table of pay appropriated for the different branches as follows : General officers ~, $8G,520 (383,553 356,388 340,826 3,506,990 Department officers ... Ordnance corps ... ... Corps of engineers ... Ten regiments of cavalry ... Five regiments of artillery and light artil lery batteries ••• ••• ~, Forty-five regiments of infantry 1 ,511,899 •.• ... 9;177;336 $15,663,514 This is simply the annual pay of the army, without subsistence, quartermaster and medical allowances, which would swell the amount to nearly $30,000,000. TIIE NAVY. From the addenda just issued from the Navy Department, being a supplement to the naval regis ter for 18G6, we find that our navy is organised as follows :—The secretary of the navy, two assistant secretaries, officers attached to the office of the sec retary, and of the bureaus of yards and docks, navi gation, ordnance, equipment and recruiting, medi cine and surgery, provisions and clothing, con struction and repair, and of steam engineering. A better idea of this organisation may be seen by the following table : CIVIL OFFICERS. Office of the secretary ... • • 24 Bureau of yards and docks ... 10 Bureau of navigation .. • • Bureau of ordnance . ••• 10 Bureau of equipment and recruiting ... 10 Bureau of medicine and surgery Bureau of provisions and clothing ... 14 Bureau of construction and repair ... Bureau of steam engineering ... 4 NAVAL OFFICERS. Admiral ••• ••• "• Vice-Admiral .. Rear-Admirals •• • • • • Commodores ••• • Captains ••• Commanders ... ..• ••• Lieut.-Commanders ••• Lieutenants •• ••• ••• Masters .. Midshipman in service ••• ••• Surgeons ...• • • . Passed Assistant Surgeons 41 Assistant Surgeons ... ••• ••• 40 Pay masters ••• ••• 91 Passed Assistant Paymasters ... .• 40 Assistant Paymasters ...... • 16 Chaplains ... •• • •• • 28 Professors of Mathematics ••• 13 Naval Constructors .. ••• ••• Assistant Naval Constructors ... ••• Naval Storekeepers ... ••• •" Chief Engineers ••• ••• First Assistant Engineers ••• 90 Second Assistant Engineers ... 159 Third Assistant Engineers ••• 48 129 177 23 47 156 Midshipmen at Naval Ac'nly, Ist class 92 ~ 2d „ ... 92 /7 " 1 103 17 17 °( r/ ..• 77 11 77 4th „ ... 19 Boatswains ••• ••• ... ••• 53 Gunners ... ... ... ... ... GG Carpenters. ••• ••• ... ••• 46 Sailmakers ••• ... ... ..• 35 Officers of Marine Corps, active ••• 90 1 , „ retired ••• 9 Total number of civil officers of the navy ... 93 ~ regular „ „ „ ... 1,599 —Springfield Weekly Republic. 1,692 THE CAI LTON MURDER. NOrTINGIIAM, Saturday. At a special sitting of the Nottinghamshire county magistrates this morning, John and Mary Watson were brought up on remand, charged with the wilful murder of Mr. H. Raynor, at Carlton, on the 17th November last. Mr. Cranch appeared on behalf of the prisoners. Mrs. Raynor (widow of the murdered man) and her sister were present during the inquiry, attired in deep mourning. The mother and sister of the female prisoner were also in court ; they were accom modated with seats in front of the dock. There were 43 witnesses to be examined. The female prisoner was said to be enciente. The court was crowded, and considerable interest was taken in the pro- ccedings. Ann Raynor (widow of the murdered man) said there had been a great deal of unpleasantness be tween her husband and the male prisoner about a copper which the latter used for his own purposes, but which was the property of her husband. Her husband was a rent collector, and he had often to put in bailiffs when rent could not be obtained. J. Haywood said on the afternoon of the murder the deceased came to his shop in Broad-street, Not tingham, for a chain and a padlock, and told witness he was going to lock up a copper at Carlton. Rebecca Martin, of Carlton, saw the deceased enter Watson's premises on the afternoon of the murder. police-sergeant Holland said he had endeavoured to ascertain whether anyone had seen Raynor alive after he went into Watson's house, but had not been able to do so. Herbert Stevens, a railway porter, proved find ing the body on the rails. Dr. Thompson made a post-mortem examination of Raynor's body. The face, hair, and moustache were saturated with blood. There were several bruises on the forehead which might have been caused by a poker (produced), or other blunt in strument. On the neck there were repeated marks of strangulation. He had examined the hands of both the prisoners, and was of opinion that neither of them possessed sufficient strength in their hands to have made the marks. He examined Watson's clothes, which were in some places torn, as if he had bean getting through a hedge. On Mrs. Watson's dress there was blood, which was stiff and starchy. Dr. Davidson, of Carlton, went to Watson's house after the murder and saw Mrs. Watson sit ting quietly by the fireside sewing. He told her of the murder. She said that Raynor had been at her house at six in the evening. On going from the house witness met Mr. Watson, and told him that Raynor had been found murdered on the line. He said he had beon shaved, and did not seem at all confused. Neither of the prisoners were at all excited. Dr. Alfred Swaine Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, said he had made a report of a quantity of articles, be tween 50 and GO, submitted fo him by Superinten tendent Palethorpe, The report he had given in was a minute analysis of the articles. He found spots of blood upon a lilac dress, a pair of corduroy trousers, a woman's hood, a towel, a table, and other articles. He examined a coat of Raynor's and a number of hairs. One hair was that of a cow, the other that of a dog, and the third that of a human being. The blood on the dress, the trousers, and other articles, had the appearance of human blood. Thomas Marriott said he never followed Raynor from Nottingham to Carlton, or threatened to kill him. He had a dispute with the deceased last spring about the premises at Carlton, but it was settled. Police-constable Offlow stated that he examined the fields where the body. was found. He found heel marks and covered them over. He also found 4d. in the hedge bottom. The grass on the fields appeared flattened all one way, as if something had been drawn over it. He saw the footmarks com pared with a pair of the prisoner's boots and they corresponded. A number of twigs were broken in the hedge as though something heavy had lain at the top of it. The twigs were leaning towards the railway. Sergeant Brown said he was at Watson's house on the morning after the murder. Mrs. Watson had on an apron stained with blood and he took possession of it. The poker was bent, and he took possession of that also. He found several other articles stained with blood. When the fourth pair of Watson's boots were found there were two spots on them. Prisoner looked at them very carefully and said, "It is not blood, is it ?" This was before the word blood had been mentioned by any ;one. After some further evidence both the prisoners, who declared their innocence, were fully committed for trial at the next assizes. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TimEs.--Two letters in our yesterday's columns have so important a mutual bearing that it is im possible not to place them in mental juxtaposition. The one was from the Bishop of London, informing us of the measures taken under his auspices to meet the present "appalling distress," as it has been found to be, in the east of London ; the other was from the managing director of the Thames Iron works, Shipbuilding, Engineering, and Dry Dock Company, announcing the refusal of the working shipwrights of the Port of London to work for less than 7s. a day, even though a reduction of Gd. a day would enable the company to take a contract for steamers from a foreign company which, on this refusal, the company is obliged to decline. Profit, Mr. Ford says, is out of the question. The corn pany only wish to keep their works and their work men employed, and cannot offer more, as it would be so much actual loss. The shipwrights fully understand all this, and there is little doubt that they would take employment on these terms were they really their own masters—that is, had they really the disposal of their own labour. But they have not. The Trades' Unions prohibit them from taking less than 7s. a day. Accordingly, many of them, and a vastly larger number of labourers and other persons depending on the shipwrights being in work, are added to the mass of " appalling dis tress," and compelled to ask charitable relief. The shipwrights state their case, which necessarily in volves some particulars that require professional knowledge to estimate them fully. But, unless the alleged deductions to be taken into account are very large indeed, we cannot be far wrong in saying that these men are refusing wages which, in the agricul tural districts, would be sufficient to maintain three labourers with average families. On wages which at the best are 425. a week, and, allowing for inter ruptions from weather and other causes, might fall as low as 365., the shipwrights declare that they cannot meet necessary expenses and pay their way without falling into debt. Though we may not know the probable average of the loss by in terruptions, some of the considerations urged by the shipwrights are not peculiar to their class. They mention the present high rate of house rents, taxes, food, and all other necessaries of life. But even if a shipwright has to pay Gs. for house rent, that will not be a larger percentage of his weekly income than in the case of the labourer, who cannot so easily afford ls. Gd. a week as the ship wright can four times that sum. Food, we all know, is high just now, and therefore we all expect everybody to bear his share of a common infliction. We have all long repudiated, as an economical heresy little short of treason against society, the doctrine that any one class is to be specially com pensated for a burden common to all. When any one class inists on being paid high prices or high wages on account of some universal infliction and burden, that is equivalent to demanding that all the rest shall suffer more in order that one favoured class may be exempted. So much for high rents and high prices. As to the " taxes," we have never heard of any particular financial burdens pressing on the shipwrights. None of " the necessaries of life" are taxed at all, and the comforts of life, such as beer, spirits, tea, coffee, and sugar, are not so highly taxed but that a family may get a fair allow ance of them out, of the wages refused by the Lon don shipwrights. But it is evidently of no use to go into detail with the shipwrights, who only do as they are bid, and can hardly be said to have a mind of their own. The trades union speaks through them. In the main it is impossible to dispute that wages are a fair matter of bargain between one man bring ing his labour to the market and another man bring ing his capital. It must also be admitted that the possessors of labour may co-operate lest they should he beaten in detail. But this evidently is not the whole of the case, for, as we see in the example before us, the London shipwrights act under an ad vantage and a disadvantage, both most important, and making it a very different sort of bargaining from that between ordinary dealers and customers. Their special advantage is that, if they do not obtain the termsAey stand out for, they can throw themselves, their families, and an immense mass of auxiliary labour on the Poor-laws, or on such bodies as the Metropolitan Relief Association. What relief they m ay expect from the Trades' Union we do not know, but the British public can always be appealed to, and with such instances as that before u s we are not surprised at the anxiety shown to equalise the rates of the metropolis, and make the West-end pay its proportion to the support of East-end "strikes." It i s a very peculiar and exceptional bargain where o ne party is able to say to the other, "If you don't agree to my terms, I will go to the relieving officer and make you maintain me and my family in idle ness." Of course the disadvantage under which our shipwrights labour, and of which they do not seem sufficiently aware, is one they share with the em ployer. It is that in case negotiation fails the con tract goes to another country. The foreign company which Mr. Ford had to do with will now be obliged t o get their steamers built abroad, and our ship -4*rights will hear that their Continental rivals can man age to maintain themselves and their families on 6s. 6d., or Bf., a day. Every such transfer of work to another country contributes to the estab lishment of foreign industry, the improvement of foreign skill, and the increase of foreign capital. The result will be that the foreign competitor will be able to take the next contract on still lower terms, h av ing larger resources and better appliances. Unless, then, the Trades' Unions can make their edicts run a good deal further than the Queen's writ, they will find it impossible to command the market. This, of course, is the weak point of their system, an d they are naturally attempting to establish throughout the world a sort of Universal Labour Unity. They will find some novel and rather con siderable obstruction in the way, but, as success is absolutely necessary to them, they may be excused for making the attempt. The present is a fair op portunity for the trial of their power. These steamers, which they will not assist to build on the terms offered, will be built in another country, and, of course, at a lower rate of wages. Let them stretch a long arm, and try to stop the execution of a contract which is so much employment and wages taken away from themselves. SAD END OF A PROMISING STUDENT. —Great excitement has been caused throughout Holland by the death of a cadet, named Mesting, in the Military School of that kingdom. This young man had greatly distinguished himself in his studies, and had carried off the first prize, and for a long time had been the object of the dislike and jealousy of his schoolfellows, as well for that reason as on account of his humble birth. Some time since, during the hour of recreation, he was stripped by the other pupils in the playground and subjected to the most ignominious outrage ; and, driven to desperation, he poisoned himself. Eleven of the pupils have been placed in confinement, and the master of the school has been dismissed. FATAL GAME WITH A CAT.—An inquest was held at Doncaster a few days ago on the body of a little girl named M. E. Clapham, who died from severe scalds which occurred through playing with a cat. it appeared that the deceased had been playing with a straw to amuse the cat and by accident was upset backwards in a vessel of hot soap suds. She died next day from the severity of the injuries sustained. The jury returned a verdict of acci dentally scalded to death. The late Miss Sarah Browne, of lliglibury, has left the following charitable bequests :—To the British and Foreign and Church Missionary Socie ties, each £5OO ; the Religious Tract, the Colonial Church and School, and the Church Pastoral Aid Societies, and the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, each £2OO ; the Society for Assist ing Poor Pious Clergymen, £lOO ; the Prayer Book and Homily Society, the Society for Teaching Deaf and Dumb, London Orphan Asylum (Clapton), Orphan Asylum (Wanstead), Church of the United Brethren among the Heathen, London Missionary Society, Female Penitentiary (Pentonville), and the Idiot Asylum (Redhill), each the sum of £5O. A hatter in Berlin has posted up in his shop the following question and answer : " Who is over head and ears in dobt ?" "Ile who has not paid for his hat." COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH- SATURDAY. There was only a thin attendance at this market to-day, and but a limited supply of wheat, for which growers de mended more money. The extreme rates of last week were about supported. The supply of barley was about equal to the demand, and quotations ruled the same as on this day so'nnight. The heaviest fall of snow known for many years past now lies on the ground, much impeding business operations. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 70s to 72s ; old red aitto, (weighing 631 b), 60s to 65s ; new rod ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), —s to — s ; b es t ma lting barley (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 50s to 52s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 521 b), 46s to 48s ' • distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 36s to 40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, b7s to 39s ; peas (maple), 3t>s to 38s per qr. Flour, 44s Od per sack. NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. There was a fair quantity of wheat on offer to-day. Finest sorts were rather higher but no advance was made on lower qualities. The supply of barley was barely an average, awl there was a tolerably good demand. Best sorts were is per qr. dearer. A middling supply of oats, for which there was a healthy demand at last week 'S prices. Old white wheat, 70s to 745; old red, 64s to 695; new white, 66s to 73s ; new red, 60s to 66s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 34s to 38s; new, 26s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, eld, 55s to GOs ; new, 44s to 48s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 480 to 50s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. Our market to-day was pretty well supplied with wheat for the time of year. The demand was steady, at an ad vance of is per qr. on late prices. Of barley the supply was not abundant, and some pretty good samples were shown. The trade was fair, and buyers could only supply their wants at an advance of is per qr. on late rates. Oats were a tolerable sale, and there befng a limited show sellers were enabled to make rather over previous rates. For beans the inquiry was improved, and late rates were fully support ed. New white wheat, 67s to 72s ; now red, 61s to 68s ; white, 7(,s to 76s ; old red, 66s to 70s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 40s to 52s per qr.; grinding, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 35s to 38s ; now, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 55s to 58s ; new, 46s to 508 per 38 stone. Fine flour, 52s ; seconds, 47s to 49s per 20 stone. YORK-SATURDAY. Thero was barely a tolerable show of wheat to-day, and last week's prices were rather exceeded. The sup plies of barley were rather limited. Business was very firm, at an advance of is per qr. on last week's rates. A good demand for oats, and best qualities were a shade dearer. The demand for beans was fair, and prices had a tendency to advance. New white wheat, 56s to 64s ; new red, 50s to 60s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beaus, new, 42s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to 70s. Flour, 47s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Mlles Opened. Becetp:e. Railways. ,_.....:--.,,,----..----,, 1866. 1865. 1866 1885 £ ,C Belfast and'N. Counties 9Ol 994 1,800 h7BO Belfast and County Down 49 49 636 632 Blyth and Tyne . 36 36 1,831 1,61 0 Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter l3ll 1215 5,681 6,24 Caledonian, Scottish Central 562 562 32392 31,39 0 Cambrian Cockermouth K & renrlth .. 314 314 207 3 17 .. Cork and Bandon 2O 20 404 305 Cork, 111ackrock, & Passage 64 64 1 3 1 31 Cork and Limerick Direct Cornwall Deeside l7 17 Do Extension Dublin & Belfast J unction.... 63 63 1,416 1.32 6 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO6 106 2,421 2,31 8 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c B5 85 4,411 4.24 1 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E. Union Li reat Northern 422 105 36,743 33,984 Great North of Scotland 212 21 2, 437 3. 092 , it. A °aim. & Wes tn. (lrel.) Bll 711 501 430 lt.Suuthu. & Westn.(lrind.) 4191 3871 7,%94 7,37 0 Great Western 131,4 12804 64,296 62,360 Highland Hoylake truth ,North-Western 145 145 1,795 1.767 Isle of Wight l2 8 153 94 Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 403 42.926 4,647 Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 2 8 ' l l Limerick and Foynes 264 264 170 13" Llauelly 461 461 6it b 3 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western 503 4904 8,4 8 17,8 90 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 315 2931 . 17, , 60 .15,92 1 Loudon, Chatham, & Dover; 11354 131 t 7,505 7.04 2 all Metropolitan Extension 1 131 12 j 1,9 8 1.0 0 Do. Kent coast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Londonderry and Coleraine 364 361 276 264 lau.,Sheilield,&Linooinsh Manch. S.Jun.ilicAltrincham 9l 94 1,285 1,45 4 laryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,174 1.1 66 Metropolitan Midland (inel. N.-Western).. 697 6174 45,245 46,516 Midland ot. Wes tn. of 'rind... 2601 2601 4,201 4,07 2 Ilonniouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44 44 2,301 2,6 0 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12201 12 , 7 51,107 5 .: 42 North London ll 11 4,730 4.17 1 North Staffordshire s 64 267 6,865 7.& 51 Pembroke and Tenby 274 114 96 110 ithymney 221 221 1,0)0 VI Scottish North-Eastern . . 113 is _ Somerset and Dorset 66 66 965 826 South Devon South-Eastern 330 315 20,258 19 736 ran' Vale 63 63 5,5 u t 4.5 2 ,2 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. . -- - - 10 10 126 li Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 665 4 ,t Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,403 1, 306 West Cork.. l7l - 62 vi rexham ? cold, &c H 14 216 211 W'hayen,Cleator,&Egrmnt lO 10 477 643 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 828 51,951 5 , . 482 , Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction . — 26 i 26i 290 32 7, Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 308 8,351 0,70. Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 189 4,530 4, 18 ,. Dutch Rhenish lOB2 1082 4,993 4,0 6, ..... -- Eastern of France 1865 , .'... 11 1557 83,1u0 83,z 11 ' Eastern Bengal East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 26674 25.4 62 . Great Central of Belgiu m 285 2..5 5 323 5.5 ' l , Great Indian Peninsul a 784 590 20 ,4 26 26.917 Great Luxembourg 134 134 5,5 5 5, 292 Great Southern of India Great Wes tern of C ana d a 34J 815 11,694 1(. 8 28 Madras Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant BBB 778 17,999 18,2 6 Northern of Canada . . s 4 94 ~120 1,1 00 Northern of France 764 724 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Medit errn 2170 20 6 156,915 16 ,47 4 Paris and Orleans 1821 18.8 76,615 75,12 5 Recife and San Francisco.&c. 774 774 119 105 2,037 3427 31 : 274 . 4 . Sc aide Do. Punjab, &c 2 53 253 4,7 z ,1 10.: South Austrian, dm ....., . 1798 1694 9 ,552 84, 29 ' Do, Piedmont lines 649 649 26,000 2 18: 61 Southern of France lOl6 828 36,667 37.1 5 1 Welland Victoria . West & N-Wn. of France Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. la Brazil and Capa Verde, by British packet, 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.....lleo. 21 China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton Jan 19- Ditto, via Marseilles. . jail 27 Faikiand Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton J a n. 19 • India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Jan 19. Ditto, via Marseilles - ^ Jan. 22 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles . Jan. 22 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 1 9 • Ditto, via Marseilles . Jan. 2 2 • Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles, . Jan. 19• Jewfoundiand . ....... , Feb. 1 3 * Portugsf , Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United (stater and British North America, by Bri tish packet. . ...J a n. 24. Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton ...... Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Jan. West Coat.t of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Feb. 3 . West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) J a n. 28 8aham1,..4, via New York. Feb 7 * Cuba and Mexic0......_.. Bermuda, via Halifax Feb. 13. A FALL INDEED.—It may, perhaps, be worth reading as significant of the extraordinary fall in the valu e of tea gardens, that the Jerii Company, on which £17, 00 : had been paid was sold the other day for £lO ! Calculi" Englishman, Dec. 22. Births. ELPIIINSTONE—On tho 18th inst., at 'Weymouth the W, of Captain P. A. Elphinstono, Bomb a y Staff Weymouth, 04 daughter. HALDING—On the 18th inst., at Salisbury, M rs . Nathan iel Harding, of a son. lIITCIUNS - On the 18th inst., at 50, Burlington-road, water, the wife of Captain 11. 0. Hitchins, Royal AI i lory, of a daughter. RALLI—On the 18th inst., the wife of Theodore Rani, FA' of a son. Marriages. HyDE—WiLsom—On the 18th inst., at St. Jude's, Cho 1 1;1 George Cockburn Hyde, Esq., to Margaret, eldest datil,' ter of the late J. Wilson, Esq., surgeon, Bishopgate. MUSGRAVE —WELLS—On the 17th inst., at St. Goorqir Hanover-square, Richard C. Musgrave, only son of ro G. Musgrave, Bart., of Edouhall, Cumberland, to ft.„' l ,. / ° : Frances Olga Wells, only daughter of Peter Wells, -"'"" of Forest Farm, Windsor. Deaths. BRINTON—On the 17th inst., at 24, Brook-street, Grosvenor square, William Brinton, M.D., F.R.A., aged 13. o , Goocit—On the 18th inst., at Melbourne Hall, Derbys h "do; Lieut.-Col. H. E. Gooch, late of the Coldstream Giuir aged 73. GUY—On the 16th inst., at 5, Edon-place, lientish-too' Mr. Joseph Guy, aged 83. HERBERT—On the 15th inst., at Morland Lodge, Crey'd°ll' Gen. Charles Herbert, C. 8., of MM.'s Madras .Arril• ----- London : Printed a nd Published by WILLIAM A.N 9ltg tY, of No. 112, Strand, Ptiriter at Tim Susi Oirvo, "of Strand, in toe Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coutati Middlesex.—Monday, January 21, 1867. . 'b e • e ( fo txl ra