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•••••••., `...... 4 The, Institute of Civil Engineers. i high and noble position she has hitherto enjoyed • 1 Allow me to repeat my acknowledgments of the h The annual dinner of this association took placeigh honour you have done the army and myself in last evenihig at Willis's Rooms when drin kin g this toast. ( Loud ch ee r s.), St. James's, Mr. John Fowler, the president of the institution, Mr. (BURRY, i n responding for the Navy, was glad occupied the chair. i to see around him so many well-known scientific About 250 sat down to dinner, among whom were i gen tlemen whose exertions had done so much for the i —his • Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the improvement of the naval power of this country. In , Prince of Teck, the Earl of Caithness, Lord William ;adverting to the compliment which bad been paid Paulet, Lord A. Paget, Lord R. Grosvenor, him by the chairman in connecting his name with ; M.P., the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Se - !. the introduction into the navy of the screw propeller cretary of State for India, the First Lord of and of iron as a material for shipbuilding he ob the Admiralty, Lord Chief Justice Bovill, : . served that when he first became a Lord of the L )rd Chief Baron Kelly, the Lord Mayor, Sir John ! Admiralty,in 1811, there was not a s i ng le screw Burgoyne, the Quartermaster - General, the Rev. i propeller in the navy, and, in fact, at that time there Canon Moseley, Sir Daniel Gooch, Sir T. Watson, was only one in the world, the Archimedes. In the Sir E. Landseer, Sir W. Fergusson, Mr. Beardmore, year 1842 the Rattler, the first vessel of war pro- Mr. Harrison, Mr. Ilawksley, Mr. Gregory , Mr. . Pelted by a screw, was built, and the result of that i experiment had convinced him that the day was not. Cabitt, Mr. Ilemans, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. M'Clean Mr. A berneth y. Mr. Saranda M.P. ] far distant when every vessel in the navy would be , , , propelled by screw instead of by paddles. In 1845 Mr. Penn, Mr, Rawlinson, C. 8., Mr. Capper, M.P., 1 he had the satisfaction of obtaining the assent of Mr. E. Woode, Mr. C. Lucas, Mr. Brassey, Mr. ' Parliament to the building of the 23 screw vessels Brunlees, Mr, Bramwell, Mr. Aird, Colonel Hyde, of war, to be propelled by 10,000-horse power. The R.E., Mr. E. Wilson, Capt. Galton, Mr. Vignoles, Board of Admiralty which came into office in 1846 Mr. Glutton, Mr. Wythes, Mr. Cowper, Mr. John son, Mr. Forster, Mr. E. P. Smith, Mr. Bruce, Air, did not, however, share his opinion as to the advan- Waring, M.P., Mr. Braithwaite, Mr. Siemens, Mr. tages of the screw propeller, and wrote to the mann- Galbraith, Mr. Cootie, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Baker, facturers to know whether it was too late to convert .Mr. Brydone, Mr. Baldry, Mr. Peacock, Mr. Hood, the engines for these vessels into paddlewheel en- Mr. Longridge, Mr. Elliot, Mr. LBazalgette, Mr. glues. The reply was that the engines were already com pleted, and thus the B r iti s h nav y was saved Vrerefon, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Crampton, Mr. Mitchell, from one of the greatest misfortunes that had ever Mr. Bateman, Sir Charles Bright, M.P., Mr. Turn threatened it. A great prejudice had also existed bull, Mr. Donkin, Mr. Conybeare, Mr. Rennie, against the employment of iron as a material for Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Mallet, &c., with Mr. Charles ships of war, and the iron vessels which had been Manbey, the honorary secre tar y , and Mr. James built under his superintendence had been turned Forrest, the secretary. by the succeeding Board of Admiralty into trans- After the cloth was drawn, port vessels, on the ground that it was absurd and The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Health of her ridiculous to use ships built of that material Most Gracious Majesty t h e Q ueen, " which was for fighting purposes. It was therefore with drank with the usual honours. some little feeling of triumph that when he was The CHAIRMAN, in proposing " The Health of tbeir Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of appointed to his present office some two months Wales, and th rest of the Royal Family," ex- since he found that there was then building in e,Pem broke dockyard an ironclad and iron built frigate of pressed the sympathy which all persons in these 4,000 tons, to be propelled by screw engines of 1000 kingdoms felt for her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales in her trying and painful illness, and their horse power, and which was to carry 600 men and hope that she might be speedily restored to perfect guns of the heaviest calibre. The navy of this coun health, try was much indebted to the civil engineers for the The toast was warmly responded to. efforts they had made to induce the authorities to The CHAlemeN—Your Royal Highness, my Lords, use iron as a material in shipbuilding, although he and gentlemen, I have now to propose the to a s t of was not quite sure that the Chancellor of the Ex " The Army, the Navy, and the Volunteers." 1 chequer would thank them for having increased the 1 At our last meeting in this room I ventured cost of building a ship fourfold. But if the cost of a at some length to explain the intim ate relations of vessel was increased to that extent it must not be the civil and the military engine er, and althou g h I forgotten that her power had been increased in a will not again travel over the sa me g round, it is im- still greater proportion. In conclusion, he begged possible not to feel that, wit h advancin g mechanical again to thank them for the honour they had done the navy in drinking the toast. knowledge in every p e rt of the world, the opera- Col. HAWKSHAW, in responding for the Volun tions and the munitions of w ar are becomin g ever y y e ar more and more depen dent on scientific calcu- teers, said that the volunteer corps of which he was a member, and of which Sir John Burgoyne was the Jealous, and on a sound knowledge of engineering. hon. colonel, was endeavouring to solve the difficult In the matter of breech-loading rifles alone the roblem of providing for the conveyance of large elaborate ingenuity displayed and the variety of ' bodies of troops and volunteers from one part of the weapons produced are a remarkable proof of this, kingdom to another. He thought they had succeeded and must already be positively bewildering to the comm itt ee s, commissions, or commanders who have pretty well already, and he trusted that in time th e responsibility of choice and decision. I cannot they should be able to do still better. The CHAIRMAN—Your Royal Highness, my lords, refrain from one word of reference—and I do so and gentlemen, the next toast on my list is " The with pride—to the collections of munitions of war Houses of Lords and Commons." The people of and specimens of marine engineering which are now England are naturally, and with reason, proud of displayed in the English department of the French their country and of its constitution, and they are Exhibition. I confess that the conclusion which I especially proud of their Houses of Legislature which drew from my examination was this (and I hope all are the subject of my present toast; and although other examiners will draw the same conclusion) occasional differences of opinion may be observed as that it would be a wise and prudent thing to be at to the meanswbichmaybe best to employ, I believe peace with that country and the people who can that no real difference ever exists as to the great supply such munitions of war. I am proud to say objects to be attainedsafety and honour to our that we have present with us to - night his Ro y al country, and freedom and happiness to its people. Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Commander- During the present year the usual opportunities of in-Chief, who possesses in the highest degree the communication between engineers and members has confidence of his Sovereign, of soldiers, civilians, been somewhat diminished, but I trust that this and, I may say, of both Houses of Parliament. circumstance will not lessen the friendly feeling (Loud cheers.) We have also present the Right which has long been maintained between them ; Hon. Mr. Corry, the First Lord of the Admiralty, indeed, I have almost suspected in my own who has delighted all his friends by his recent ex individual case that my greeting from members pression of a sanguine hope that our present hideous had been somewhat warmer and more cordial than ironclads may shortly be made as graceful as they ar e terrible ; and Mr. Corry is well entitled to have usual, and I suppose it is because I have not this his opinions on such subjects received with respect. year entertained them so often in committee-rooms with long lectures on the superior merits of my own Upwards of a quarter of a century ago he was • the strenu pus advocate of the introduction of the screw proposals as compared with the crude suggestions propeller into the Royal Navy, and also for the of my opponeuts: I infer, therefore, that we need adoption of iron as a material for the building of not fear that we shall suffer in the respect and re ships of war. I have great pleasure in proposing Bard which is felt for us if, for a year or two, we " The Army, the Navy, and the Volunteers," are conspicuous by our absence from committee coupling the names of the Duke of Cambridge with rooms. Among other distinguished statesmen and the Army, the First Lord of the Admiralty with the orators present to-night we have the Earl of Caith- Navy, and Col. John Hawkshaw with the Volun- ness, who is so good an engineer that if he were not teem. (Loud cheers.) an earl be would be a formidable professional com- The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who in rising to re- petitor ; and I am happy to say we have also th e spond to the. toast on behalf of the army was loudly Right Hon. the Chancellor of the E xc h equer , one of the most distinguished statesmen and orators of cheered, said—Mr. President, my lords, and gentle men, I feel extre m ely flattered by th e manner in the age. (Loud cheers.) I propose " The Houses of which your President has proposed this toast, and I Lords and Commons," coupling the House of Lords also feel highly flattered at the compliment which with the name of the Earl of Caithness, and the has been paid to the army and to myself in permit- House of Commons with the name of the Chan ting me, as the head of that force, to be present on cellor of the Exchequer. The Earl of CAITHNESS, in responding on behalf this occasion, when you have had the kindness of the House of Lords, maid that that House held through me to do honour to the profession to which the body of civil engineers in high esteem. Owing I belong. Gentlemen, I know that there is a strong to the exertions of that body these islands were fellow feeling on the part of the army towards the covered with a network of railways by which the civil engineers, and I believe that that feeling is re ciprocated on the part of the civil engineers towards wealth, industry, and commerce of the country have the army. The Chairman has alluded to the fact been enormously increased. that the army of late years has been greatly indebted The C HANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, whose to the civil engineers for the improvements which rising was greeted with loud and prolonged applause, have been effected in the means of offence and de- said—Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, my fence, and of transport ; and I think that the effect Lords, and gentlemen, it was only a few nights ago of those improvements was well exemplified in the that I had the honour, on the part of the House of course of last year when, had it not been for the Commons, to return thanks for the honour that had facilities afforded by the been done them in the galleries of art, and now I railways for moving troops, for the immense improvements that have been have to repeat that duty in what I may describe, effected in guns and of war, the results munitions with the licence, perhaps, but I hope without the which have astonished, surprised, and I had almost licentiousness of metaphor, as the halls of science. said ; in a scientific point of vi • ew, delighted, the (Hear.) Mr. President, relations of considerable in world would not have been arrived at. The pro- terest have long subsisted between the House of feesion of arms, which was formerly a rude one, Commons and the body of civil engineers, and in my has come to depend almost entirely upon science, own experience the latter ha ve con tribut e d seve and it is to your body that we owe th e sc i ence mth a ; ral highly honoured distinguished and members to House of has been applied to the ser v i ce o f the army. It the Commons. Alluding only to those must not, however, be supposed that I look down who have left us it is with satisfaction that I recol upon the military engineers. The profession of lect that I enjoyed the kind feelings, and I hope opinions military engineers is quite apart from that of the civil Possesse d the favourable • • ,of Locke and engineers —each body has its own peculiar interest Stephenson. They sat on different sides of the and its own peculiar objects. The chief avocation of House, but they were men whom all regarded with the civil engineer is to do good to his country and esteem and looked up to with the greatest respect. to raise his own position by means of his scientific ac- Indeed, cannot it be d • denied that the House of Com quirements, of his invention, and by carrying out mons and the civil engineers are exceedingly well great works.-- The task of military engineer, on - aCquaintied with ea c h o th er . (H ear, h ear, an d a military objects. the other hand, is t o a pply sc i ence t o laugh.) I hardly know any public body of men We have among us the distinguished officer who is who have had so much Parliamentary experience at the head of our military engineers, Sir John Bur- as they have had. Indeed, I rather expect that on goyne—(hear)--than whom lam satisfied there is certain points, such as on the question of the coin no better soldier in the service, while, at the same pliance with standing orders for instance, they time, no person's mind could be more accurate and would know much more, perhaps, than even the apt for scientific pursuite than that of that most dis- i leader of the House o f Commons. (" H ear, " and tinguished officer. (Hear.) lam g l a d t o h ear t h e laughter.) Looking a r oun d the room, I see the chairman say that, judging from the specimens of countenances of many men who, without being munitions of war we exhibit in the Paris Exhibition, members of Parliament, have had more experience no other country would care to go to war with us, and of Parliamentary committees than I have had even I may add that those specimens were obtained from in the course " of 00 years' experience in the War-office, a department over which I have no The Pr • esident, with plaintive die • o nity, has alluded control. It has often been said that we are not to the circumstance that our relations at present are pursuing the right path with regard to our improve- net so frequent as heretofore, (Laughter.) What newts in munitions of war ; sometimes we are ac- foundation there may be for that remark I do not cused of being too fast, and other times of being too venture to inqui • re, but I should say, judging front slow ; but it must be recollected that, as soon as one what I observe as I walk down to the House invention has been approved and adopted, those Commons daily, the civil end e , neers are very busy in whose peculiar inventions have not been selected' its neighbourhood. (A laugh.) What may be the immediately cry out that the military authorities are 1 precise result and what the exact object of the works' in the wrongagain. . (Hear, and laughter.) It must ' I see going on there I don't presume to decide, bat also he tereembered that one invention begets an- lall 1 I hope is that our future proceedings are not to other invention, and therefore it is difficult for the Partake of a subterranean character, and that at authorities to determine whether they should pro- , least the . House of Commons may be suffered to ceed to carry out an perform its duties w hi ch may b e , i mprovement suporsel,!,l by the discov er y --tamstince.s. ' , of to-morrow. But, at i I should have sat down now, hay' all (svents, W e .ing fulfilled may rest satisfied from what we have I my agreeable duty of thanking you heard front the chairman, on behalf of that if we have not the ' the House of Commons for the hon best munitions of our y o u b ay , war that 1 which we do posse ss can be invented, those . done them in the toast you hs ' eve Just so kindly re are better than those of the rest ceived, bad I not been informed that ' • of the world. (Hear.) I ais ex ect -d of this fact should content think that the knowledge 1 that I should touch upon another institution.p L Hay nt us , a _ee give the military authorities nu that we should 1 ing dealt with one great institution of the country, achieved such a result, and som e credit for having I perhaps it is natural that I should be requested to which they believe, and often for ' trying to do that refer to the • • position of the Institution of Civil Eu rightly believe, to be gineers. (Hear, hear.) I think that this is asubject- the beet for the interests of the count lazy authorities, are not influencedry. The mili- which would have met with much more I, -y impuls e . treatui . competent favour ; or affection • in the course theyadopt, ' ' cut at the hands of the noble earl, who hate a wi lo y , b y 4 6 .., ;;c0 to iiiiceLtaia . but . practical knowledge of the science of enginee • rin cr tii4l , 3 coUtry in the w hi ch do 1 Uot palass. The• taut I have to prC), THE SUN, LON IL ON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1867. the show, and another contribution worth remark ing was the Iberis Carnosa shown by Messrs. Back house and Son, of York. The roses of Messrs. H. Lane and Son, and of Mr. William Paul, of Walt ham-cross, vied with each other in size, form, and prodigality of bloom. Mr. C. Turner's strength was chiefly thrown into his fine array of pelargoniums, but in the small display of fruit he came out creditably with Muscat and black Hambro grapes, while a neighbouring show of strawberries by Mr. Merrett, gardener to Henry Whiting, EEq., attracted many admiring eyes and longing palates. In stove and greenhouse plants Alessrs.Lee, of Hammersmith, fully sus t a i ne d their olden celebrity. The grounds, under the careful superintendence Eyler,of Mr. to put forth beauty of now advanced bge it - 1n beginning spring n and to tell of coming summer. Advantage was t a k en yester dayall the blt a of the magnificent weather to set all the fountains and cascades in full play, and the beauty of the scene was increased by a very full and fashionable attendance, who covered the ter races and lawns in front of the conservatory, sitting or strolling within sound of the excellent band. Among the company were the Duchesses of Sutherland and Argyll, Lady Besborough, Lord Henry Lennox, Sir Thomas Troubridge, and Lord Egerton of Tatton. A general meeting for elec tion of new fellows took place at thr ee o ' c l oc k , Mr. James Bateman, F.R.S., in the chair, when the following candidates were elected Fellows of the society, viz., Lord Cairns, Lady Dacre, Lady Maria Fit zclarence, the Hon. Lady Pakenham, Christopher Sykes, M.P., and eleven others; and the following floral and horticultural societies were admitted into union : —Basingstoke Horticultural, Bodmin Cot tage Gardening, Ludlow Horticultural, and Stour Valley Horticultural Societies. Stranding of the Ship Whirlwind. OFFICIAL REPORT. To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade. "My Lords,—ln pursuance of your directions, we have held an official investigation into the stranding of the ship Whirlwind, which occurred on the night of the 14th of February last. In this inquiry we have been assisted by Captains Harris and Swinborne, R.N., a s nautical assessors, and we now have the honour to report that the Whirlwind, a ship of 868 tons, built at Dundee in the year 1854, sailed from the Clyde on February 14, at 8.30 a.m., bound to India, with a general cargo. She was manned by a crew of 24 hands, all told, and was under the command of Mr. James Gar dyne, who holds a certificate of competency. At 7.30 p.m. they took a departure from the Corse well Light, bearing N.E. by E., six miles distant. The wind at thi s ti me was from the southward and eastward, and -th e ship stood to the south and westward till 10 p.m., when the C ope l an d Li g h t bore N.N.W., distance from five to six miles. From this position they tacked to the eastward, and stood across the channel for the Scotch land, heading about E. by N. Between 10 and 11.30 the ship broke off to the northward and eastward, and, the weather being hazy, they suddenly discovered land. The helm was immediately put down, but before the ship could come round she took the ground, and did herself considerable injury. The master put back for the Clyde, and the ship having been repaired is now ready for sea. In commenting upon this casualty, we have only to observe that the master is represented as being a good and very experienced seamen. This was his first voyage in the Whirl wind, and it would appear that in tacking towards the Scotch coast he did not make a sufficient allow ance for the rate at which the ebb tide was run ning. This, acting upon a clipper ship, put him considerably ahead of his calculation, and the foggy state of the atmosphere hanging about the land pre vented him seeing the coast till close upon it. Soundings extend so short a distance from the land that they would probably have given him no warn ing of danger. Taking Mr. Gardyne's long service into consideration, and the absence hitherto of any accident, together with the high character given L,y the owners and others, the Court thought a caution would meet the merits of the case, and returned the master - his certificate.---We have, &c., WILLIAM M'LEAN, Jun., J.P., JOHN J. TIMM, J.P., Magistrates. We concur— Nautical Assessors. H. HARms, Glasgow,rHos. A. A . SprlN;r2B47l'%, .R.N.,} ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, fiiTuesdaythecome which three papers were read. The I r. ad C ia u n ll s en a , re on one of the t r ib es of the " The I n di ans of the p h ysical characters, mann ers, and habits he described a t considerable much in contact with Eu ropeans they are acc ustomed to fire - arms and are good marksmen, length. 'These red men in America , and the y are not disti ngu i s h ed Isthmusag by o f Darien," whose Ael from others by any remarkable p eculiarity. Hay but their most common weapons are small poisoned arrow s, which are propelled through blow pipes with great accuracy to a distance of 100 yards. The animals struck b y these arrows fell down ap parently dead within a few minutes, but it has been a scertained that the effects of th e ; poison may be counteracted by a copious administration of ammo nia. These Indians will not part with any of the gold dust they collect from the river beds, nor will they sell any of the products of their country for money, but will only barter them for other goods. Vegetable ivory is one of the products they dispose of, and, from the abundance of the India -rubber tree in that region, Mr. Cullen suggested that an im portant trade in that article might be carried on with these Indians. The second paper, " On the Civilisation of the First Icelandic Colonists, with a general view of their Manners and Customs," was read by M r . J on A. lljaltelin, a native of Iceland. He stated that when the Norwegians first settled in Iceland, in the middle of the ninth century they found there the , remains of some previous settlers from Iceland. Ile conceived that the first Icelandic colonists were driven to that coast as a place of refuge, and they settled there under v ar i ous chiefs, adopting to a great extent the laws and customs then pre vailing in Scandinavia, which, owing to their isolated condition, were continued to a much later period than in more civilised countries. Many of these laws and practices of the early set lers on that northern coast were described by Mr. Iljaltelin,which were curious as exemplifying the adaptation of the rude state of civilisation existing in early times in Eu rope to the circumstances of an Arctic climate, a n d continued to a compara ti ve ly recent period. He did not touch on the present con dition of Iceland until stimulated to do so by some disparaging observations of Sir A. Dillon, who had visited that country and spoke of it as a sterile place of residence, without vegetation, and where life is supported with great endurance. Even a native of Iceland can see beauties in the land of hii birth, and Mr. Iljaltelin defended his country from these at tacks. Ile said that for nearly five months of the year the climate is very pleasant, that he never suf fered more frem co ld there th a n h e had done during the last winte r i n E ngland, and that even in Febru ary and Mar c h i t wa4 not unusua l for the inhabi tants to bathe in the sea. With respect to vegetation and to the assertion that potatoes do not grow larger than marbles, he stated that there were larger pota toes in Iceland than any he }lad s'en in this country. The third paper, entitled " Further Remarks on the Ethnology o f t h e Ch i uere ," was read by Dr. Lamprey. The first portion of it related to the pre valence of eye disease in Olin a, which Dr. Lamprey attributed to the peculiar con formation of the eyes of that people. H e state d t h a t, in consequence of the small size of their eyes, it wss found very diffi cult to perform any operations for the cure of oph thalmia, especially operationA for cataract. In the second part of the paper Dr. Lamprey advanced some speculations r es p ect i ng a sua,osed similarity Dr. between the Chinese an d th e Afriqata Lockhart, who had practised in, chi n a with Dr. Larapiey, and spoke of tko gro;iit ben , zat4. gAt Va" pose is one which should not be given by one who is merely honoured by being selected to propose it, but it should have been intrusted to one who would have been capable of doing honour to the subject. Now, I am only one of the indiscriminate multitude who can only appreciate the science by the benefits its results confer upon mankind. It sometimes, how ever, happens that those who are perhaps the least interested in the active performances of particular duties, and who are, as it were, mere bystanders, are more competent to form a general opinion as to the state of facts than those who create the circum stances and control them. Having been called upon unexpectedly to consider this subject, I cannot help remarking that a short century ago a meeting like the present of scientific men would have been impos sible. Only a century ago there was not a canal in England, and scarcely a road, and although we have been taught that Britannia was the mistress of the ocean, still there is no doubt that the British mariner encountered the perils of the deep un pro vided with any artificial advantages —always with out a chronometer, and usually without a sextant. What, then, has produced the wonderful change that has taken place in this respect? How is it that our country is covered with railways, and that it is surrounded by waters studded with floating steam vessels ? How is it that we have instantaneous communication between distant hemispheres and continents? All these wonders have been achieved by the attentive observation of nature by men of genius, whose scientific discoveries and inventions have been made of service in practical life. In the old days the learned professions were founded upon erudition — that is to say, no man who aspired to be a lawyer, a clergyman, or a physician claimed the confidence of society on any other ground than that he had ac quired the learning and the experience of the past. An engineer, however, belongs to a scientific pro fession, which is founded upon observation and in vestigation. The chairman seems to regret that the tabours of the civil engineers are not so considerable as they have been in former years, but it is possible there is not that demand for increased means of communication that existed some years back. (Hear, t t h h e e m labs a k o i u n r g o o f f r o a i u l a e i n v d i la r le z i h n t e e e r r s . ) are B u n t o tI limited h a t o t ways. I hope they have other great dituhtiteshetocopeesrtfrourem. engineers be particularly directed tion of railways. Should not the attotetnhteioneoonfstcriuvei-1 tion of works for the improvement of the public health. They have, indeed, recently wi p t r h o t d h u a c t edsome great works, which all must admire, object, but there is one subject, if I might venture to give a hint upon such a matter, that I believe would be worthy of their consideration, and that is the supply to this great and increasing metropolis of that pure element upon which depends more than upon any thing else the health of this great city. I think if the civil engineers were to turn their attention to the better water supply of London, they would not only find ample work to occupy their time, but they would confer upon this city the greatest pos sible benefit. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman went on to express a hope that the body of civil engineers would shortly possess a building of their own in which the pictures and statues of those who attained eminence in their profession might be pre served for the encouragement of the younger members. The right hon. gentleman concluded by proposing "Prosperity to the Institution of Civil Engineers," coupled with the name of the Presi dent, to whom he alluded in highly complimentary terms, remarking that his great engineering works had conferred a lasting benefit upon the metropolis and upon the country generally. (The right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN—I thank the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the flattering and eloquent terms in which he has spoken of the Insti tution of Civil Engineers, and of myself as presi dent, and I also thank your Royal Highness, and you, my lords and gentlemen, for the manner in which you have received the toast. In a manu facturing and industrial country like England the profession of the civil engineer must always be one of considerable importance, and its prominence will be in a great degree in proportion to the prosperity of the country. It must, I think, be manifest that England's peculiar greatness is almost entirely de pendent on the superior knowledge and enterprise of her manufacturers, and on the skill and industry of her people, and from no other source; and a great responsibility, therefore, rests upon the engineers of this country, and on the institution of Civil Engineers in particular, to be especially vigi lant that our old pre-eminence in constructive and mechanical work be fully preserved. Without being unduly depressed, I would venture to hope that a useful and warning lesson on this subject may be drawn from the Great Exhibitions of the last few years, and especially from tha French Exhibition now open in Paris. lam reluctantly compelled, as an engineer, to admit that in machinery a more rapid advance towards excellence, and a greater number of new and successful mechanic 11 combinations have been made by foreigners during the last 16 years than by the people of this country; and I cannot look upon such a state of things except with feel ings of some anxiety. How much of this may be due to the better education of the mechanic, how much to cheaper labour, how much to natural ad vantages or to other causes, would be presumption in me to offer an opinion ; but—although I am personally no alarmist, and am always sanguine—l feel that the circumstance to which I have referred is too important to be neglected by wise statesmen and true patriots. I freely admit that no foreigner has yet attained the superior excellence and high finish of some of our great mechanical firms, and that in many branches of English manu facture considerable progress has been made ; but still I am afraid it must be admitted, on the whole, that our relative position has not been maintained. Allow me again to thank you, on behalf of the Civil Engineers, for the toast of " Prosperity to their Institution," and also for myself individually. The toast of " Our Visitors" was responded to by Lord Chief Baron Kelly, and that of " The Cor poration and Institutions of the City of London" by the Lord Mayor. The company did not separate until a late hour. IIt,YAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. A special show for prizs)s offered by the president aid fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society was given on Tuesday in the grounds at South Kensing ton ; and though the third or fourth exhibition this year, it may almost be considered as the first, its predecessors having been simply displays of spring flowers. The advent of summer in all its glorious heat and brightness aided the idea that this was iu reality a summer show—the only one as yet in w hich pelargoniums, for example, have made an appearance. The azaleas of Messrs. Veitch and Sons were in perfection, their immense masses of bloom causing no little wonder how plants at once so bulky and so delicate could have been transported in safety, even so short a distance as from King's-road- to Kensington. The leading horticulturists above-named have again assumed their old position of unapproached supremacy, and have contributed to the Horticultural Society's gathering six as marvellous azaleas as those which they have sent to the Paris Exhibition, where they beat the best that are brought against them. But the triumph of Messrs. Veitch is, as it should be, in their new plants, of which the Coleus Veitchii is remarkable for its attaintment of a large and per feet growth, while the Pritnula Cortusoides Atnoena is without doubt tiio most noteworthy of all the hardy plants exhibited, and the Moronta Veitchii is of unrivalled magnificence. Mr. C. Penny, gardener to H. IL Gibbs, Esq., won the first prize for orchids, making ft truly splendid show with the rare and beautiful Oncidium Sareoles, - in very fine blossom ; the Lycaste Skin nerii, bearing twelve perfect flowers ; and the Phaloi)nopsis grandiflora, which, though grown in a single pot, was evidently two plants, the blooms on one being of a purer and more lustrous white than those on the 'other. Air. Williams, of Holloway, made, as be usually does, a noble show of large plants; and especially deserving the commendation it received was his Phormium tenax variegata. Mr. Barnes's =lca 1141;a04 IN: 313103ty, waa a alzikilr . object ill tleman bad conferred on the Chinese, differed from him on both points. He did not think there was a greater prevalence of eye disease in China than there was in Egypt or India, or even in Europe, and he dissented altogether from the supposed affinity of the Chinese and the Africa negro. Mr. Crawfurd also expressed himself strongly against any such supposed affinity. With the exception of some approximation to similarity of colour, there were no two races, he said, more distinct in physical quali ties, and their languages were essentially different. After some remarks from Dr. Donovan the meeting adjourned to the 21st inst. THE PUBLIC IIEA L IH. (Front the Registrar-Generars Return.) In the week that ended on Saturday, fay 4, the births registered iu London and 12 other large town.; of the United Kingdom were 4,929.; the deaths registered, 2,737. The annual rate of mor tality was 23 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,193 boys and 1,188 girls, in all 2,381 children, were registered i❑ the week. In thecorresponding weeks of 10 years 1857- 66, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,106. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,237. It was the 18th week of the year, and the average number of deaths for the week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,373. The deaths in the present return are less by 136 than the estiznated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases last week were 207, the corrected average number being 313: 26 deaths occurred from smallpox, 10 from measles, 19 from scarlatina, 13 from diphtheria, 36 from whoop ing cough, 36 from typhus, and 15 from diarrhea,. One hundred and sixty-eight deaths were caused by phthisis, 107 by bronchitis, 58 by pneumonia, and 55 by heart disease. Marylebone, Rectory—At the workhouse, on April 27, a spinster, aged 66 years, " effusion of serum on brain, accelerated by want?' (Inquest.) Hackney--At East London Union Workhouse, Homerton, on the 24 of May, a female, aged 62 years, " exhaustion from want." Bethnal-green, Town. —Found dead at 4, Sherwood place, on the 26th of April, the daughter of a shoe maker, aged 9 weeks, " congestion of brain through exhaustion from want of proper nourishment, the vitiated atmosphere and overcrowding of the house in which she lived." Post mortem. (Inquest.) The deaths of ten persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered : A carrier, age 19 years, crushed by the pole of a van. Died on the 29th of April in University College Hospital. Post mortem. (Inquest.) A weaver, aged 56 years, run over ; died on the 21th of April in Brown's-lane, Spitalfields. The son of a leather dresser, aged 6 years, run over by a cart in the Ber mondsey New-road ; died on the 9 t h of A p ril in 'xity's Hospital. (Inquest.) A van driver, aged 58 years, injury to foot from van wheel in Southwark street ; died on the 14th of April in Guy's Hospital. (Inquest.) A carman, aged 63 years, injuries from a cart tilting on him at Blackheath ; died on the 24 th of April in Guy's Hospital. Post mortem. (Inquest.) An omnibus driver, aged 62 years, fell from an omnibus ; died on the 15th of April in St. Thomas's Hospital. (Inquest.) The son of a la bourer aged 8 years, kicked by a horse ; died on the 29th of April at 4, Charter's-cottages, Clapham. Post mortem. (Inquest.) A labourer, aged 78 years, fell from a cart; died on the 23d April at 2, Miles villas, Hyde-grove, Battersea. (Inquest.) The daughter of a labourer, aged 1 year, run over ; died on 21th of April, at Fairy's-buildings, Deptford. (Inquest.) A baker, aged 38 years, thrown from a cart ; died on the 30th of April, in Evelyn-street, Deptford. (Inquest.) The annual rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, 21 in Edinburgh, and 21 in Dablin, 19 in Bristol, 19 in Birmingham, 26 in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 26 in Sal ford, 25 in Sheffield, 26 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 23 in Neweastle,-upon-Tyne, and 31 hi Glasgow. The rate in Vi enna was 36 per ' 1,0)0 daring the week ending the 27th inst , when the mean temperature was 8.7 deg. Fahrenheit - lower than in the same week in Landon, where the rate was 22. At the loyal Observatory, GrJ.2nwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29'7 79i11. The barometrical reading increased from 29.41 in. at the beginning of the week t) 30.00 in. on Fri day, May 3. The mean temperature of the air iu the week was 51 . 5 deg., which is 1.7 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as de termined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest clay temperature was 68-4 deg. on Friday, May 3. The lowest night temperature was 35-3 deg. on Sunday, April 28. The entire range of temperatUre in the week was, therefore, 33.1 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 52.5 deg. ; that of the lowest was 49.6 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 8.8 deg. . . _ _ The mean degree of humidity of the air was 73, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.22 in., of which 0.19 in. fell on Tuesday, April 30 ; on the same day distant thunder was heard in the south several times between 3.5 p.m. and 3.20 p.m. The general direc tion of the wind during the week was variable. According to a return furpished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the river ,Fhames at the Southern ()tidal' Works, Crossness, was 45,136,124 gallons, or 205,074 cubic metres, equi valent to about as many tons by weight. Loch Katrine water is an instance of the purest water in actual use in a great city; iu 100,000 parts there are only three parts of extraneous stuff ; ex cept this all is water. The London waters of April contained, accord ing to Dr. Frankland's analysis, in 100,000 tons about 29 tons of extraneous m aters of various kinds ; the proportions ranging from 26 tons (New River) to 40 tons (Kent). The East London, New River, and West Middlesex were the softest, the Kent was the hardest, the other waters were intermediate. The proportion of carbon and nitrogen was equivalent to that supplied by quan tities of sewage ranging from 1,945 to 3,155 tens in every 100,000 tons of water. The Kent water is altogether the worst sample of the eight. It is gratifying to learn that, as far as chemistry can determine, the original sewage contamination had been converted before delivery in the April waters into comparatively innocuous compounds. SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. T hlES—Once more the cry of battle is raised over the Refo rm Bill . The campaign has been arduous, the fortunes of war have been variable; some great captains have been beaten, and have accepted their . defeat; others, who have been discredited and foiled in their desires, have retired, like Achilles, from the fray. But the instinct of war is stronger than the memory of failure or the resentment of disappointed ambition. 'We are promised another contest over the Government scheme, to be waged with almost more than inter n eci n e fury. Bill or no Bill, Re form or no Reform—nay, for many men Existence or Extinction—waits on the issue. The Compound Householder is the occasion of this last struggle. That perplexing personage, of whose existence the world was happily ignorant twelve months ago, is the direful spring of endless discussion. He now stands revealed as a creature of overwhelming, if temporary, importance. his relations with his fellow-men, with his landlord, with the ratepayers among whom he resides, with his parish, and with his municipality, are canvassed under every possible aspect. He is not a ratepayer himself by nature, and the wisdom of Porliainent has decided that in order to become an elector of a burgess to sit in the House of Commons he must become one. The great problem is to determine how the transforma tion shall be effected. Under what conditions shall the man who now lives aloof from the broils of vestries and the disputes of parochial boards be compelled to observe the local duties of citizenship, as a condition precedent to the enjoyment of Parlia mentary privileges ? The Government take their stand on their mode of enfranchising the compound householder, and we wish we could believe that every one understood the plan they propose should be pursued. As Mr. Gladstone has given notice of his intention to ask some questions to-night for the purpose of being better informed on the Government scheme, professing to be at present somewhat in the dark as to the meaning of its provisions, we may assume that the arrangement proposed by the Ministry is still imperfectly understood. Under 944ary circ=tai;.cea the obicuxity in which subject is involved tends to the advantage of a Ministry, but it seems tolerably certain that there are misconceptions entertained in some quarters about the Government scheme which induce unrea sonable distrust, and that when it is well understood it will be accepted. In the first place, what is a compound householder? There are compound house holders under other acts, but the man who would be most affected by the bill before Parliament when passed into lawn is the compound householder under the Small Tenements Act of 1850. That enactment, where adopted, makes all occupiers of houses rated at £6 and under compound householders—that is to say, it makes the landlords of such occupiers the persons responsible to the parish for the rates inci dent on their occupation ; and it. goes on• ty provide that the rat es payable by the landlords shall be three fourths of the rates which would have bee❑ payable by the occupiers had they been directly rated and directly responsible. In other words, - if a rate be levied at the rate of ls. in the pound, the landlord paying the rates on the small tenements he owns shall be required to pay no more than 9d. in the pound on their rateable valtLL It is, however, uni versally allowed that thefact of rates being primarily demanded from a landlord does not alter — tileir ulti mate incidence, and it is conceded almost as gene- • rally that the rates dependent on the occupation of houses are with very exceptions always borne at the last by the occupier. Whether the occupier pays the full rate, or the compounded rate, or something be tween the two, has been disputed. In truth, this' is fact of experience which cannot be determined ex- cept by Observation, and it is highly probable that the exact burden on the occupier varies with diffe- rent localities. It is plain that the landlord gets something for the trouble he undergoes in collect ing the rates, and the risk he runs of not being repaid what he is himself compelled •to pay to the parish. Mr. Gladstone has argued with much fervour that the landlord obtains the entire benefit of the reduction of 25 per cent. made in his favour, and that the occupier pays the full rate. Sir Roun dell Palmer has supported this contention. The Government have accepted it, and propose to act upon it. Mr. Disraeli says that at, first he doubted, and, perhaps, disbelieved, the conclusions Mr. Glad stone laid down, but upon examination he has been convinced of their truth. The concurrence of the late Government and of the present Ministry on a fact of observation may well be deemed sufficient to overbear all dissent. Accepting the statement that the compound householder pays the full rate, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his latest clauses proposes to take the occupier who wishes to be a voter out of the order of compound householders altogether, and make him directly responsible for the full rates he now practically pays. It is thus evident that if the rent agreed upon between the occupier and the landlord be settled upon the under- standing that the occupier assumes the responsibility of the rates attendant on his occupation, the whole burden of rent and rates paid by the occupier will be the same as if he had remained a compound householder, and the difference in his position will simply be that he will have to meet calls on his re- sources at longer and irregular intervali. If, how ever, the occupier is in possession under an agree ment that the tenement he occupies shall be let him rate-free, and he subsequently applies to be directly rated, Mr. Disraeli would authorise him to deduct from the rent payable to his landlord the full rates he may be called upon to pay. At first sight it might be thought that the " fine" of which we have heard so much will thus be shifted from the tenant to the landlord, but the impression disappears on examina tion. The landlord jis now compensated for his risk and trouble by the difference between the full and the compounded rate. When the occupier applies to be rated, the landlord will be relieved from the trouble of collection, and from his liability to the parish, and, losing his burden, he will lose his com pensation. In no sense of this word can the couse- queries properly be called " a fine." It is the revo cation of a bonus, or, more strictly speaking, of a payment compounded of a premium on insurance and a poundage on receipts. No one can pretend that there is any wrong or injustice involved in such a revocation. An arrangement of modern growth, and in some of its incidents of doubtful ex pediency, is set aside, and the persons affected by it are restored to the situation they occupied before it was made. It may, perhaps, be thought that landlords having once tasted the gain and the ad vantage of bring collectors of rates will simply add to their rents the amount they may lose by the partial abolition of the composition'. No such con sequence need be apprehended. There is a competi tion among landlords as well as among tenants, and if the risk of being called upon to pay rates which have not been received be removed, the payment the landlord has received as a premium to cover this risk cannot be retained. The abatement of the rent by the average sum of the full rates must be main tained, and the tenant cannot be injured. A dis passionate inquiry into the proposed treatment of Compound Householders may inspire some doubt of the value of the machinery cljvised for their enfran chisement, but can suggest no suspicion of its injus tice. It is perfectly intelligible that any one may believe it would be as well to admit the Compound Householder to the register without taking him out of his order. We understand this view, though we do not accept it. The test of responsibility involved is undertaking directly local duties is desirable and material. But to hold that there can be any injus tice in retracing the steps of the Small Tenements Act and placing enfranchised householders in the s ame situation as before it .was passed is incompre hensible. This, simply stated, is what the Govern ment proposes to do. The alternative proposal, first placed in the Notice Book by Mr. Hibbert, and now es poused by the leading members of the Opposition, i s a partial reversal of the Small Tenements Act, and it is partial in the s ense o f not ma ki ng the Compound Householders who apply to be registered solely responsible for the ratee, and of leaving in the halide of the landlord s th e s h are o f t h e rates they now retain, although they will be relieved of part of the consideration which entitles them to it. Mr. Hibbert's clause would make the Compound Householder pay the compounded rates, and would authorise him to deduct this composition front his rental, and the liability of the landlord as a surety would still exist. We fail to understand the inesti mable value of the points of difference between this an d Government proposal which make the one desir able, and the other detestable. As we view them, neither the one nor the other can be said to involve an y point of injustice, and the difference between them is wholly insufficient to warrant the tremen dous issues which hang upon the choice. The Go vernment, desiring to make every ratepayer a voter, would make every compound householder who ap plies to become a voter wholly and truly a rate payer. Mr. Hibbert would leave him in an am biguous position, ready to come forward as a ratepayer, or to fade away into compound house holding, at discretion. 'We prefer, and we believe the House of Commons will prefer, the simple and more complete method of repealing, as far as en franchised compound householders are concerned, the Small Tenements Act altogether. We look, indeed, upon the determination to support Mr. Hib bert's amendment, after the publication of the clauses. last inserted in the Notion-book by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, as au instance of morbid energy, and of that recklessness of all consequences too frequently manifested whenever an opportunity is afforded of a stand-up party fight. POST.—The Reform Bill now before the House of Commons has weathered..so many dangeris, and has sustained so many modifications, that it would be a thousand pities if at the stage at which it has now arrived it should make shipwreck upon any danger which can be. avoided by a further modifica tion not absolutely inadmissible. We hold that it is for the advantage of both the great political par ties, and not less for the advantage of the country, that, if it be possible to make it a fairly acceptable and defensible measure, the present bill should be carried through, and for that reason we are anxious that the feature which now alone remains to prevent its being either acceptable or defensible should not be adhered to with greater obstinacy than has hitherto been shown with regard to its other fea tures. If it should unhappily prove that the advance which has been made by the Conservative party on the one hand, and the anxiety felt by the Liberal party on the other, to settle this great question are not sufficient to produce in the present Session a measure sufficient for the times, it seems to us pro bable that we shall not succeed in laying the ques tion finally to rest by any. concessions falling short of the extreme demands of the ultra-Radicals ; and it is - only necessary to remember what has taken place between this time last year and the present time to produce the conviction that practically we are this session much nearer to manhood suffrage than we were last session to household suffrage. Those, then, who desire that we should proceed step by step in this matter will do well to unite in an endeavour so to modify the present bill as will make it sufficient fairly to fill the measure of the demands which are now allowed to be admissible ; for, if this is tot effected, we shall next year have to meet demands of a different sort, and the matter will never be finally settled until we arrive at the extreme limit of the popular requirements. It is, above all, essential that whatever bill ins passed should be such as rests upon well-defined and defen sible principles, for otherwise it will be but an invi tation to the agitators to recommence their dis quieting work, and there remains really so little to be done to make the present bill come up to this condition that we venture to hope the effort required to achieve the.work will not be spared, and that we may *yet be enabled to regard the measure as one really calculated to settle the question—at least .for a generation, if not for all time. The principle of the as we kayo boon - o,* . ritativcly told, is that 1....... the vote should be given to every man who has in habited a house during the space of time which has been fixed at one year, and who has discharged the pecuniary obligation which is imposed by the State upon householders. As a principle, this is certainly fair enough, but as the bill at present stands it is not only not applied, but it is utterly disregarded. By the provisions of the bill occupiers of houses commanding the higher rents are to be admitted without question and as a matter of course ; but in the first stages of the discussion a distinc tion was taken between these and the occupiers of the meaner sort, who, it was said, in consequence of the special arrangement of a composition rate which has been applied to them, do not in fact fully discharge the obligation in question, and therefore it was contended fairly enough that they . should not have the vote unless they came out of the arrangement and submitted themselves to the full burden as imposed upon their neighbours ; and if it had been true, as was contended, that the effect of the composition was in fact to relieve them from a portion of their proper burden, the argument for their exclusion would have been complete enough. But in fact, upon a little close examination, this assertion appeared to be utterly false, and indeed it has been held in more than one case by the courts of law that the householder who pays under a composition does de j ure and de facto, discharge his liability as completely as the house holder who pays in the ordinary way. And Mr. Disraeli has now frankly admitted that he has be come converted to this view of the matter, and has promulgated his conviction that the compounder does indeed " pay the full rate," so that it follows that, as regards the principle upon which the bill is professedly founded, he has fully as good a claim to the franchise as his neighbour 'who pays the full rate in a different manner ; and to visit him with any exceptional treatment is clearly indefensible. Indeed, the obnoxious regulations which have been laid down for him would, if they could be complied with, have absolutely no other effect than to bring him back, as regards the rates, precisely to the same position from which he started, and this is the most conclusive argument that nosuch regulations should be made at all. Indeed, whatever reasons there may be adduced for adopting them would have equal weight in support of a similar course of pro ceeding for the non-compounding householder, and there is no single argument to justify the admission of the ordinary ratepayer to the franchise which, at the stage at which the argument has now arrived, is not equally conclusive for the admission of the Compounder, for it is now conceded that the fact of his being a compounder does not affect the question of his satisfaction of the rates at all. if then the Ministry is prepared, as it has proclaimed itself to be, to treat the question on principle, and not with sole reference to the effect of a given measure, they may fairly be asked to adopt the same treatment i for the one case as they apply to the other. It s not enough to establish an inequality of treatment and then to makecomplieated provisions for remedy ing it, when the same end is to be attained, as, thanks to Sir William Clay's act, it has been at tained hitherto, by a similarity of treatment. And as this similarity of treatment is based solely upon, the recognition of the truth to which Mr. Disraeli has now been converted, it may fairly be hoped that upon further consideration the Ministry may be in duced to carry through the principle upon which it has started, and to admit the compounder to the franchise upon his showing that the compounded rate, which, so far as he is concerned, is admittedly the full rate, has been satisfied. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL.—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a tolerable supply of wheat, which sold at last week's prices. Barley scarce, and samples saleable at late rates. Oats were in middling supply, steadily disposed of, and prices rather advanced• Beans in limited show, and sales at full prices. Peas had an upward tendency. English white wheat, GOs to 655; red, 60s to 625:; Dant sic and Konigsberg, 63s to 70s ; Baltic red, 62s to 64s Danish and Hamburg, 62s to 648 ; Russian, 57s to 59E. Barley,- English, 36s to 498; grinding, Mediterranean , 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s; Russian, 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 58s to 60s; foreign, 43s to 445. Peas, English bide, 42. to 44s Od ; foreign white, 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. LYNN-TUESDAY. There was a moderate show of wheat at market to -day , with a, quiet trade, at last week's rates. Barley scarce, and business was done at late rates. Beans and oats unaltered in value. New wheat, 66s to 68s ; new red, 60s tQ 65s ; old white, —s to —s ; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 47s to 51s; secondary, 42s to 455. Oats, now, 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 42s to 465. Peas, 37s to 41s per 28 stone. 1101TMOUTIISIIIRE-T UESDAY. Homo-grown wheat has not been very liberal in sup ply during the last few days, and business generally is dull, Foreign wheat offered freely at about previous rates, with the usual business. Barley iu slow request a t pre vious quotations. Oats were in favour of sellers. Beans a slow trade. The following are the average quotations: —Wheat, red, 7s 6d to 8s Od per b us h e l ; w hit e, 7 s 9d t o 8s 6d ; inferior , Gs Ud to 6s Gd ; malting barley, 44s to 48s per qr ; grind ing ditto, 34s to 36s 0(1; beans, 43s to 45s ; white oats, 200 to 27s Od ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. S ALISBURY.—TUESDAY. At this market to-day the supply of wheat was limited, with a fair attendance. The trade was active. and an ad vance in price of is per qr was obtained. Barley met with a limited demand, but last week's figures were realised. Oats ruled firm, but were unaltered in value. Beans were fully as dear. Peas almost nominal. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 62s to 725; barley, 32s to 455; oats, 24s to 30s; beans, 4 45 to 58s; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Tares, from 5s 6d to 7 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 15d ; household ditto, 14'•• per 81b loaf. Flour, 46s to 50s per sack. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. s. d. S. d. Walls End Hetton ... 18 6 Holywell Main l6 West Hartley Hetton Lyons ........ 16 3 Wharncliffe fleugh Hall l7 0 Ships at market, 12—sold. 12. Foreign Mail Packet List. - -4.--- MAILS DUE. A.ustrmis, and New Zealand, via Southampton MaY 2/ Ditto, VIA Marseilles gay 1.• Ditto, via Panama , drazi!, Buenos Ayres, *rid Monte Video June 4. Ditto, by French packet........... Hay 24. Cape Vetds, by Brazil packet . June 4) Uape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena., , . May 4, China, Penang, and Singapore, via S out h a mpton kLaY 2 ° Ditto, via Marseilles May if. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ... May 14, India, via Southampton Hay 14. Ditto, via Marseil.es May 2 3 ; Malt, ligypt, &c... May 1 4 - Ditto, Marstilles.. May 14- Mauritius, Cape of Good Hype, and Natal, via Southampton May 2 1 Ditto, via Mane' lea May 14' Newfoundland Mav 22. June 4 . Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Oporto D.tto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet May 10. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerifid J u.,e 3. Webt Inaies and Pacific ,except Mexico and Baha- May 14 - mas) Cub , and :,iexico Bahamas, via New York May 30. Bermuda, via Halifax - rADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills! There is no question whatever that rheumatism, ne uralgia, and such like p ainful maladies are• more rife this s easot than for some years past. Thenumber of testimonia ls cures effected by Holloway's remedies is unprecedentee; and should be enforced on the attention of all suffre,r frcm these complaints. The parts in pa in should be 1°- mented for some minutes with warm brin e, dried, and jol" mediately well rubbed with the ointment. It will P. into the pores of the skin and give t he g reatest rellt e Many valuable lives are annually lost which might u, saved if early recourse iu illness were ma,do to these 1. 5 markablo remedies, which must nece ssaril y i irove benefiel and cannot do harm. Births. HINDE—On the Gth inst., at Stanmore Villa, Bushey-lls g- ni the wife of Edwin T. Hinde, Esq., Comm ander R. 14-9 - a daughter. S Y MoNS—On the Gth inst., at Chaddlewoo d, Devon, ills lion. Mrs. Soltau Symons, of a sons , V ER NON—On the 7th inst., at Banbury Hall, the .1-x." Georgina Vernon, of a son. Marriages. OCTRZON—TILEHERNE —On the 7th inst., at S t. Thomas% Portman-square, Captain G. A. 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