The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-24 00:00:00

THE WEATHER. The rain which fell on Tuesday night during the continuance of the frost, and covered the whole surface of the ground with a smooth sheet of ice, has excited much attention, as the most remarkable ,ncident of the recent storm. It is impossible to describe the surprise of persons caught in the shower when a few minutes afterwards they found themselves sliding and stumbling over a sheet of the smoothest and most treacherous ice. Foot passen- gers deserted the pavement and iu vain sought safer footing in the middle of the road, or clung to the railings to save themselves from falling. The fol lowing is a perfect description of the weather on Tuesday night : _ _ First it rained, Then it blew, Then it friz, And then it snow ; Then thero was a shower of rain, And then it friz and anew again. As might have been expected, the number of acci dents, short as the time was during which the streets remained in this state, was unprecedented. It is impossible to ascertain how many persons were seriously injured by falls, but the following state ments regarding persons taken to the h ospitals will show how very numerous the accidents must have been. There were conveyed to St. Thomas's Hos- pital during the night :—Mary Thorn, 66, of East streets Walworth, who slipped in Union-row, and fractured both bones of the right leg ; Sarah Mason, 69, who fell in Penton-place and fractured her right arm ; Susan Mordan 22, of St. Paul's-road, who fell and injured her side and arm ; William Hester, 42, Union-street, Clapham, who fr actured his left arm ; Edwin Harvey, 40, Portland-street, Wal worth, with severe contusion of the right arm ; Mary Ann Nash, 39, William-street, Newington, who had fractur ed ribs ; Henry Lyall, 25, Penton street ,Newington,suffering from severe contusion of leg and arm ; Mary - Waters, 36, Lorrimore-street, with severe wound of arm and bruised leg; Henry Jones, 54,' Lambeth-road with fractured ribs; Thomas Pyman, Walworth, with injured shoulder ; Frederick Mears, East-street, Walworth, with fractured shoulder-bone ; Henry Williams, 18, Newington-butts, with severe injury to knee and right arm ; Thomas Batten, 29, Princes-road, Lam beth, with fractured knee-cap ; James Brow, 42, Laurel-terrace, Avenue-road, Camberwell, with serious injury to shoulder ; Wm. Hellendale, 23, Vauxhall-road, with fractured arm ; Geo. Green, 29, Peckham-grove, with Severe injury to thigh ; Lydia Martin, 27, of East-street, Walworth, who, in endeavouring to save herself from falling, caught her right arm on the sharp point of some garden railings, to which she remained fastened for some moments before assistance reached her, and on ex amination her arm was found to be seriously injured . Wm. Arnold, 26, of Westmoreland-road, Walworth, fractured right arm; Henry Power, Kennington lane, injured base of the skull ; John Neville, 19, of Stockwell, fractured ankle ; Thos. Pocock, Ches ter-street, Kennington, fractured shoulder ; and G. Darby, Clapham-road, fractured left arm. These were the most serious of the cases received at St. Thomas's Hospital ; but there were about 12 others attended suffering from slight injuries, the medical staff being on active duty throughout nearly the entire night. At Guy's Hospital, Westminster Hos pital, and the Charing-cross Hospital several cases were attended. Owing to the dangerous state of the roadways, the traffic was all but suspended, and at various points horses were to be seen lying on the ground, and quite unable to keep their footing. I n the Blackfriars-road 20 horses were noticed down at one time. In the Waterloo-road, near the bridge, the horse in a hansom cab fell, throwing the driver, Wm. Summers, from his seat, and on his removal to a neighbouring surgeon's, the bones of his right arm were found to be dreadfully fractured. Many of those unfortunately out during this state of things were to be seen walking about without their boots, or, in many instances, the latter bound round with pieces of cloth or handkerchiefs, in order to obtain a firmer footing. During the night a large number of persons were to be seen making for their destina tions on skates, and the dress of most of these per sons looked as if it was spangled with crystals, for almost as fast as the drops of rain fell they froze. Several persons are also reported to have met with severe falls upon the temporary bridge at Black friars, both before and after it had been covered with ashes, as stated in The Sun of yesterday. Owing - to the thaw which set in yesterday morning the streets speedily became muddy and sloppy, and be fore 9 o'clock almost all signs of the resent frost had passed away. The glass at the Receiving-house at midnight on Tuesday stood at 29 deg., but by nine o'clock yesterday morning it had risen to 45, at noon to 47, and last night at eight o'clock had got up to 50, with a south-easterly wind. In The Sun of yesterday reference was made to a THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1867. The Proposed Reform Demonstration. Last night a meeting of delegates from Trades' and Friendly Societies and the various branches of the Reform League in the metropolis was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, to con sider the arrangements to be made for organising the projected demonstration on the 11th proximo. There were upwards of 200 delegates present, and the chair was occupied by Mr. Beales. In opening the proceedings, The CHAIRMAN said that the steps taken on a former occasion, when a deputation was appointed by the delegates to confer with the executive of the League, had been attended with very satisfactory results in enabling them to make considerable pro gress towards carrying out their forthcoming de monstration. A plan had been prepared by which the whole of London would be divided into the ten postal districts, each district to be complete in its organisation, but all to be under the control of the Executive Committee. Organisers of districts and sub-districts would be appointed, together with marshals and sub-marshals, who would collect in their several localities the different bodies intending to take part in the demonstration, and conduct them to the general rendezvous where the aggregate procession would be formed. Having read the de tails of this plan as far as they had been settled, the chairman explained that it was proposed not only to have a procession, but also a great meeting in the Agricultural Hall on the same day. And in order that the working men might be put to as little trouble as possible, and be enabled to do a good half day's work before mustering, they would meet at 1 o'clock in Trafalgar-square, and start from thence at 2. A plan had been drawn up by Colonel Dickson which might be considered in a measure as a military one, by which from each of the four cardinal points of the compass the different branch processions would converge in Trafalgar-square, at the hour he had named, and proceed by Pall-mall, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, Regent-street, Ox ford-street, and thence to the Agricultural Hall. Starting at 2 o'clock, it would be 5 or 6 before they reached Islington, where the proceedings would commence at 7. They would try to obtain the at tendance of Mr. Bright, though they could not reckon upon it ; but certainly Mr. Ernest Jones, and possibly the O'Donoghue would be present. Twopence was the charge for admission to Beaufort Grounds, but it would be 3d. to the Agricultural Hall, which, considering that they would have shelter from the inclemency of the weather, would not perhaps be deemed excessive. (Hear, hear.) The hall contained sitting accommodation for 18,000 persons, with standing room for many more besides ; and with a small extra charge, say 6d. or ls., for a few reserved seats, they expected fully to cover the expense of hiring the building for what would probably be one of the most important and effective indoor meetings ever held. (Hear, hear.) Some might be afraid, from the experience of the last great gathering in the Agricultural Hall, that the proceedings would take place in comparative dumb show, but that would not be so, because acoustical improvements had been made in the build ing since then, and if silence were only observed the speakers could be heard all over the hall. It would be seen, then, that they would not attempt to hold any meeting in Hyde-park—(cheers)—and as he was told that many of their friends were hesitating as to how far they should support the proposed demonstration until there was no doubt left to what was their intention on that point, he thought it right explicitly to state the determination they had come to upon it, and the reasons on which it was based. In the first place, the time of the year was not suit able for holding an out-of-door meeting for the de livery of speeches either in Hyde-park or anywhere else. (Hear, hear.) Another, and a more import ant reason, was that there were legal and technical difficulties as to the use of Hyde-park for such a purpose. ➢lr. Beales then explained at some length the result of the care ful investigation which he himself and certain other lawyers had made into the matter, the substance of it being that while, under the Household Acts, in strict law the people had no legal title to the use of the park, and would ineet with insuperable C.ifficul ties in bringing the question before any ordinary tribunal, yet they were morally, or equitably, en titled to be protected by Parliament is the proper and reasonable use and enjoyment of the park. Therefore the only court, as it were, to which they could appeal on that subject was Parliament — that Parliament which had already shown its dispo sition to prefer the recreation and amusement of the wealthier classes to the reasonable wishes of the people ; for it was most reasonable that, in the ab sence of any other spot as central and convenient, the people should have the use for a few hours for a public meeting of a portion of a park maintained at the public expense which was not required for aris tocratic equipages, equestrians, and individual loungers. Considering how frequently the park was used for reviews and other purposes agreeable to the feelings of the higher orders, the exclusion of the people from its reasonable use was most arbitrary and capricious, and furnished a striking proof of the class interest which prevailed in this country under the mask of free institutions. (Hear, hear.) A re formed Parliament really representing the people would probably take a very different view of that question from the one taken by the present House of Commons. (Cheers.) But, however arbitrary and unreasonable might be their exclusion from the park, he could not advise them to make any attempt to force their way into it, at the risk of much bloodshed and the convulsion of the whole metropolis. It was not the wish of the League, in its assertion and vin dication of the rights of the masses, to infringe any law, as far as that law could be ascertained, however fairly its justice or propriety might be questioned. Their cause was just, both constitutionally and ab stractedly, and they did not desire to advance it by other than peaceful and righteous means; and it would be the fault of an unwise, an unjust, and a violent resistance on the part of others if they were at any time or under any circumstances compelled to de viate from that line of conduct. (Cheers.) Attempts had been made to dissuade them from carrying out their intended demonstration, not only on the old stupid ground of its being regarded in the light of a menace or an affront to Parliament, instead of be ing merely an expression of the undoubted feelings of the people, but because, forsooth, they were only acting from pique at their failure on Dec. 3 last. Why, they had determined upon holding a demon stration on the meeting of Parliament, although they had not put out their plan, months before Dec. 3. Besides, the demonstration on that day, and which, instead of being a failure, was a great success as far as it went, was not the demonstration of the Reform L League, though c er t a i n ly th a t b o dy g l a dly took part in it. But the demonstration of Feb. 11 next would be the League's demonstration, and he would tell them why it was wanted. It was idle to say there had been many demonstrations already. So there had been ; but what was the result? The Govern ment still shrouded itself in secrecy, and refused to say whether it was or was not prepared to consider the wishes of the people. In addition to that, they had false Liberals betraying themselves day by day, while, on the other hand, he admitted that what had already been done had brought over to their side many who had hitherto been hesitating, but who, he was glad to see, now declared themselves favour able to household suffrage and a large extension of the lodger franchise. But others were falling away from them, and they actually found one whom they had heretofore regarded as a sincere reformer, Mr. Neate, saying he meant to call on the Tory Home Secretary to state how far lie was prepared to put down these meetings. Why, that alone would in duce him, and he trusted that it would also induce the Reform League, to have their demon stration, even if they had not determined to have it before. (Cheers.) They must have no mistake on that occasion ; they must let their false friends and their open enemies alike know that they were determined, though in a peaceable and moral way, to obtain their just rights ; and he trusted that on the 11th of next month there would be a full and outspoken expression of the feelings of the metropolis and the nation. (Loud cheers.) Mr. BRADLAIIGH then moved a resolution ap proving the plan just sketched by the Fresident for a demonstration in Trafalgar-square on the 11th pros., followed by a meeting in the Agricultural hall the same evening. Trafalgar-square was as near to the House of Commons as they could go conveniently to everybody. (A laugh.) He did not admit that the law was against the people's right to meet in Hyde-park ; but considerations of personal comfort, which at that inclement season must be taken into account, rendered it expedient that they should muster there on the 11th of February. He believed, however, that the infatuation of the Tory Government would make it necessary to hold still another open-air demonstration in London after the next one, and when the time for that came he would submit the proposition to them that the people had the right to meet in Hyde-park. Mr. MANTEL, in seconding Mr. Bradlaugh's motion, said he was determinedly opposed to meeting in Hyde-park. The League stood pledged, through its President, to leave the question as to Hyde-park alone until it could be decided according to the laws of the land. (Cheers.) _ Mr. CABLE thought a meeting ought to be called for the same day inHyde-park, and proceeded, amid strong and repeated expressions of dissent and cries of " lime," to state the grounds of his opinion. He moved an amendment in accordance with this view, but it fell through from the want of aseconder. Some confusion ensued, several delegates emphati cally protesting against the sheer waste of time in re-arguing the Hyde-park question. Mr. LUCRAYr then proposed, as an amendment, that the meeting in the Agricultural-hall should be held first, and that a procession should afterwards be formed to escort the bearers of numerous separate petitions there to be agreed upon, and signed, each by 10 men, on their way to the House of Commons at Trafalgar-square. Mr. MANTEL asked the chairman whether such a proceeding would be legal—a modification of one previously suggested and abandoned. The CHAIRMAN replied that it would not. Some further confusion followed, owing to a de legate who came in late wishing to have the original motion read over to him before being called upon to vote upon it. Some speakers thought this ceremony would have been unnecessary if the inquisitive de legate had hadenough zeal in the cause to bring him there in time ; but, at last, as a matter of courtesy, the President, after administering a reproof to him, recommended that his wish should be complied with. The delegate in question also attempted to address the meeting, but he was listened to with impatience, and had to terminate his remarks rather abruptly. Mr. Lucraft's amendment having been duly seconded, was then discussed at some length, but the general opinion condemned it, because, among other grounds, it appeared to be impracticable, and also because the procession could not reach Trafal gar-square from Islington before dusk, when the " rough" element might mingle with it, or hover upon its flanks, in unmanageable proportion. It was ultimately withdrawn, and the original motion was carried unanimously amid loud cheers. Some question wasraised as to whether Trafalgar square would be large enough for the entire proces sion to form in, but it was answered that the head of it at least could be marshalled there, and the rest could take up its position in the adjacent thoroughfares. After some further desultory conversation, a re solution was passed reserving the claim of the people to the use of Hyde-park for political gatherings ; and thanks having been voted to the chairman, the proceedings terminated. serious accident which occurred on the Thames be- low Loudon-bridge, caused by the floating ice carry ing away the whole of the tiers of shipping moored on the north bank of the river. It was more serious than was at first supposed, several small vessels having been sunk with their crews, who were either crushed to death among the ice or drowned. The fields of ice that had been accumulating within the last few days were most formidable. For two hours before and after high water they completely covered the river, and to all appearance the whole fleet of shipping from London-bridge to Greenwich seemed fast in the ice. About five o'clock on Tues day evening (two hours' ebb) the mass began to separate, and soon afterwards an alarm was raised that the tier of vessels off the Custom-house, known as Yarmouth tier, had broken adrift by the pres sure. The steamer City of Hamburg was lying outside, and her chain cables were the first to break, and immediately after she dragged with her two or three schooners lying in the tier, each of them breaking way from their cables. These soon drifted on to the next tier off the Tower, where the Waterloo, Berlin, Moselle, and other steamers were moored along with four coasting vessels. For a few moments there appeared hopes that their cables and chains would resist the pres sure, but as the ice bore down the whole of this tier of large steamers was carried away. The City of Hamburg steamer waas fortunate to escape out of the crash, for, having steam up, she got under way and shot across the river to Horselydown, but the whole of the other vessels were swept down the river by great masses of ice, which, as they struck the vessels, shot over thebulwarki and almost bore them down under water. The excitement among the crews was something fearful, and the damage among the shipping by collision and falling spars could be heard on both sides of the river. All the steamers and vessels lying in the various tiers on the north side of the Thames from the Custom house to the Tunnel-pier, including the Tower, Newcastle, St. Katharine's, Dublin, &c, shared the same fate. The exact number of vessels that were lying at the various tiers is not known. They were fortunately not numerous, a great many having, it is understood, put into dock to escape injury from• the ice. Out of those which were forced from their moorings not one escaped damage. Some were dis masted, others stove in and otherwise damaged, while the remainder were driven ashore. in one in stance the masts which were carried away fell and crushed a seaman to death. Most of the Dublin steamers were carried adrift. The Dodo went ashore at Alderman's-stairs, where she formed a kind of barrier against the field of ice, and was the means of shunting it out into mid-channel. The Lady Eglin ton steamer lost some of her boats, arid sustained other damage. Some of the steamers floated down in the ice as far as Deptford before they could be extricated. But the most serious destruction was among the lighters and barges that were moored in Joyce's Roads. There were several loaded with valuable merchandise from ships in the docks for warehousing in some premises at the waterside — one of these was laden with property to the ex tent of £3,000. As they were carried away, the ice shot over them and bore them down. Several were sunk, and three were in charge of their crews, who, it is feared, perished, for.they have not since been seen. Numerous efforts were made to save them, and watermen were offered large sums of money to put off in their boats, but the danger was too great for any of them to attempt it. Some of the steamers dropped their best bower an chors to bring them up, but even these, with power ful cables, could not resist the pressure from the ice ; the cables snapped like glass. One steamer lost both anchors and cables in this way, and was finally driven ashore. The Custom-house officers' relieving ship, off the Tower, met with the same fate ; in deed, every other vessel that happened to be lying on the north side of the river to the limits previously mentioned. The ice cleared the whole fleet, leaving the north side perfectly free, while the tiers of ship ping on the south side escaped entirely. During the night small craft, barges, and lighters were seen down the river among the ice off Blackwall, appa rently with no one on board. A similar occurrence happened in the Thames some 15 years ago, but the damage was not so serious. CARLISLE, Jan. 23 The traffic on the North British Railway, between Edinburgh and Carlisle, was suspended from nine last night till noon to-day by snow. Between Hawick and Riccarton the snowdrifts blocked the line for 13 miles, and five goods trains were snowed up all night. The traffic is now resumed. Railway and other Companies. LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN. The auditors of this company, Mr. Henry Cron field and Mr. R. W. Hand, at the request of the Audit Committee, have described in detail the steps taken to insure a complete and continuous audit of the accounts of this great company. Th e Audit Committee trust that the steps taken by the auditors will satisfy the shareholders, as it has the committee, that the accounts are faithfully kept, the dividends honestly earned, and that the under taking is in a safe and sound condition. Messrs. Crosfield and Hand state that the main check, as between the Board and its numerous servants, de volves on the large establishment at Euston called the Audit-office, headed by a responsible officer, who has eight in-door assistants, seven out-door inspectors, and a staff of 127 clerks, and is presided over by a special committee of directors. The auditors from time to time satisfy themselves that the system of examination is complete, and that it is maintained in full efficiency. In addition to the Audit Department there are at Euston station the chief accountant's transfer, and cashier's offices— each under the charge of a responsible head, acting independently of, and forming a check upon, one another. The responsibility of examining the cash disbursements devolves upon the public account ants, who, by means of their clerks, and in addition to the check exercised by the Audit-office, ascertain that there is a proper voucher for every payment (these are annually about 56,000 in number), and certify the same each half-year ; they also examine the ad ditions and postings of the traffic books, journals, ledgers, &c., and supply the auditors with a duly certified balance-sheet, independent of that drawn up by the company's chief accountant. The auditors themselves, however, carefully look through the ab stract of payments passed by the Finance Committee of the Board, any entry out of the usual routine be ing noted, and the vouchers called for ; they also scrutinise every entry in the journal and examine half-yearly each ledger account, so that the whole t ransac tions of the company pass regularly under their review, and thus a complete and continuous audit is maintained. They personally examine the debenture registers in the transfer-office, and satisfy themselves that bonds are not issued in excess of the ascertained parliamentary powers, and that the cash actually received by the bankers and entere d in the accountant's ledger corresponds with the amounts of such issues ; all paid-off bonds are pro duced to them and duly cancelled. The stock and share registers are balanced twice a year, an abstract of the contents of each is laid before the auditors, who compare the same with the statement of capital raised, having previously checked the latter by the parliamentary powers, and verified it by the money actually received by the bankers and at credit in the accountant's ledgers. They also examine the entries passed to the credit of the dividend account of the London and North-Western Railway, as well as of the subsidiary lines, in order to see that dividend is not paid upon capital in excess of the correct amount as represented by the shares actually issued in each undertaking, the details of the unpaid dividends and interest are likewise examined each half-year, and care is taken that the full amount of the outstanding liability in this respect is duly provided. From the principal bankers the auditors receive direct and confidential statements of the cash balances, and from the country banks (13 in number) certified returns are laid before them, as evidence that the amounts of cash on hand, shown each half-year, really exist. A considerable amount of attention is bestowed upon the large sums credited under the head traffic, and a careful adjustment is periodically made in the accountant's office, which demonstrates that the company's agents and others have fully accounted for the moneys earned at each of the 565 stations, the accuracy of the details of such earnings being duly tested by the ,staff in the Audit-office, who also certify that all settlements of traffic inter changed with other railway companies have been correctly made. The rents due to the company, amounting to nearly £BO,OOO a year, also claim at tention, the moneys actually received being com pared with the rent roll, and the accounts of the working of the Euston and Victoria and Holyhead Hotels are also examined. Care is also taken to see that proper dividends are received on all the shares held by the company in other undertakings. The auditors also visit half-yearly, and oftener when needful, the large manufacturing and other centres of the company, at Crewe, Wolverton, Earlestown, Holyhead, Birmingham, Watford, and Stafford ; they go through the books kept at these places to satisfy themselves that the large sums there dis bursed are properly accounted for, and that a due amount of repair and renewal is regularly executed, way, and works in order that the rolling stock, may be constantly maintained in a full and efficient condition. They also require from the head of each department a certificate to this effect, as well as to correctness of the stores under his charge, and as a further check upon the latter very important item _ . _ an officer wholly unconnected with any of these de partments is constantly employed in a careful stocktaking, with a view to ascertain that the amounts as shown in the half-yearly balance-sheet are fully represented by stores actually in existence upon the company's premises. The books of 11 subsidiary companies, which, though more or less merged in the general undertaking, yet retain an organization of their own, receive the personal exa mination of the auditors, as also the books of the three lines held jointly with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Compa.ny,andof the five concerns in which the Great Western Company are partners. The ac counts of two railways held jointly with the Man chester, Sheffield, &c., Company, and one with the Midland Company, also pass under their re- view. The London and North-Western ledgers are kept by double entry and upon the cash basis. The charge for stores, &c., consumed at Crewe and other large depots, as also for nails, &c., used by the per manent way department, is, however, always one month in arrear—the books, so far as materials are concerned, being closed one month earlier than the . _ date of the printed half-yearly accounts. This is rendered needful in order that the adjustment of these voluminous details may not delay the holding , of the general meeting and declaration of the divi dend beyond the period fixed by act of Parliament. The capital account is very jealously watched, the disbursements being made almost entirely under the authority of estimates previously submitted to and sanctioned by specialresolutions of the shareholders at the general meetings ; each work as voted has a separate credit opened, against which the expendi ture is charged monthly, until the whole operation is complete ; this register is laid before the auditors, who inquire into any case where the outlay is mate rially in excess of the estimate sanctioned. Any ca pital money expended without having been thus previously voted is distinctly and separately shown in the half-yearly report, and nothing - is a llowed to be charged to capital which ought to devolve u p on revenue, for when any doubt arises the debit is always carried to the latter account. Since the year 1851 the whole charge for interestand dividends has been borne by the revenue account, without any re gard being had to the amount of capital unproduc tively employed in new lines, &c., under construc tion, though this at timeshas been very considerable. The auditors have no hesitation in stating that dur ing this period at least £500,000 has been thus paid out of revenue. No money raised by the sale or issue of shares at a premium is ever allowed to swell the amount of divisible profit, the capital expenditure being always reduced by such amounts, the sum now standing at the credit of capital under this head, arising out of the issue of the last 5 per cent. prefer ence stock, being upwards of £240,000. The build ing of its own engines at Crewe has been very advan tageous to the company ; a comparison of the charge for the 256 added to stock during the past four years the prices which they would have cost if purchased shows a saving of capital outlay to the extent of at least £150,000, while the system which has so long prevailed of renewing, at the cost of revenue, the i t n r e a s c tractive have small original engines with more powerful machines renewed, and a ten nd an years additional4o 0 eng has also largely improved the company's property. tDuringhus re ntpower, e e r n , equal, at the very least, to 100 engines, has been acquired, without any charge to capital. In addi tion to the foregoing, there are now - 128 of the old engines, which, though replaced by revenue, and standing on the books at their value as old materials only, are yet mostly at active work o n th e li ne, and represent a large additional value to the company's assets. The building and renewing of the carriage and waggon stocks have also been effected upon the same principle. Additional 'Dols and machinery to a considerable extent, also all the carts, horses, and other stock at work at the various stations on the line, have for many years past been supplied entirely at the cost of revenue. There are half-yearly charges against revenue, under the he a d " mainte nance of way," for addit ional works which might have been placed to the debit of capital. The ori ginal timber bridges have also been extensively re newed during the last ten years with structures of iron and stone or, brick, and as no charge has ever been admitted to capital account in this respect, sums large, but not easy to be estimated, have been defrayed by revenue. In the case of the Pen maenmawr tunnel, the old loose timber covering was last year replaced with a permanent roof of iron and stonework, at a cost of £9,438 15s. 11d., and the St. Helen's Canal, recently taken over by the company, has been greatly improved, by means of an outlay of £24,600 ; in neither i ns t ance was any charge made to capital. In further elucida tion the auditors state that when largely increased traffic requirements compel the removal of original stations and their replacement with more extensive premises, a liberal estimate is made of th e c o s t of the buildings destroyed ; this is defrayed out of re venue by instalments, the first being charged as soon as the working of the line receives the benefit of the improved accommodation. The most re cent instance of this kind is that of the large sheds at Camden, towards the construction of which re venue has contributed £15,000, spread over the last three half-years. With the exception of the renewal of road suspense account, of very remote origin, now reduced to £37,688, and in course of steady liquidation, there are no arrears of expenditure which can be brought hereafter against revenue. The heavy annual charge to revenue for Parliamentary expenses is mainly due to the fact that, except when acts are obtained authorising the construction of branch lines, no charge whatever is made to capital account ; the long-standing arrear of these expenses is at last, however, about cleared off, and care will be taken to prevent any future accumulations. The insurance and depreciation funds present favourable results. The fire insurance account, after allowing , for the late losses, will still show a balance of up wards of £30,000 to credit. The steamboat insur ance and depreciation funds amount to £130,000, and have been invested in the purchase of five steamers, now actively at work, and replacing two of the inferior original boats ; while the other two original steamers have also been enlarged and im proved at the cost of these funds; but, over and above all this, there is still in hand a free balance of £16,000. The auditors avail themselves of this opportunity of announcing the resignation of Mr. J. E. Coleman, and the appointment in his stead of Messrs. Price, Holyland, and Waterhouse, as the public accountants, to assist the auditors, in accord ance with the resolution of the proprietors at the half-yearly meeting held Feb. 21, 1831. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 29th of December last amounted for local passengers to £5,247, for foreign passen gers to £2,590, for mails, &c., to £1,541, for local freight and live stock to £11,540, and for foreign freight and live stock to £2,o46—total, £22,964 ; against £22,162 for the correspondingweek of 1865, showing an increase of £BO2. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £730,810, and for the corresponding period of 1865 to £728,166, showing an increase of £2,644. DUTCH-RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending December 31, 1866, amounted to £12,604, and for the corre sponding period of last year to £12,577, showing an increase of £27. The receipts since the commence ment of the present book year, on the Ist of May 1866, including the above, amounted to £184,756, showing a decrease, as compared with the corre sponding period of last year, of £28,463. The work ing expenses for the fortnight amounted to £5,098, or 4045 per cent., and for the corresponding period of last year to £5,136, or 4142 per cent., showing a decrease of £3B. The working expenses from the Ist of May, 1866, to the 31st of December last amounted to £74,368, or 40.25 per cent. of the re ceipts, and for the corresponding period of last year to 37.15 per cent. ERIE. It appears that the directors of this company have declared a dividend of 7 per cent. on the preferred stock (less Government tax) for the year 1866, but no dividend on the common stock. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the examiners on standing orders held sittings at the House of Commons. Before Mr. Frere the following unopposed Bing were examined and passed :—The ithymney (New Lines, &c.), Thames Navigation, Maidstone and Ashford, and the South Eastern. The Bill of the Coventry and Arley, with a branch to Bedworth, was withdrawn. The opposed bill of the Metropolitan Tramways was not passed. Before Mr. Palgrave the following un opposed bills were passed, as having complied with the standing orders :—The Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge. The bills of the Bradford Canal Navigation and Leeds and Liverpool Canal were postponed until Monday. INDIAN CARRYING (LIMITED.) The annual general meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the office, South-street, Fins bury-square ; Sir Macdonald Stephenson in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that in common with almost every in dustrial enterprise, the Indian Carrying Company had suffered to the extent of a limitation of the dividend for the year ending the 30th of June last to 3 per cent., or only half what had been paid uninterruptedly from the commencement. The losses in Bombay, which were so fully explained at the last meeting, had occasioned this reduction in the year's dividend ; but the closing of the Bombay agency, which had now been effected since Septem ber last, would remove any apprehension of further losses, and enable the company to realise the fruits of their more successful exertions in the other Pre sidencies. The block in the traffic which occurred on the East Indian Railway should be attributed to the imperfect utilisation of the rolling stock in hand, and not to the insufficiency of stock sent out, as explained by the chairman of the East Indian Railway at their late meeting. It was to be hoped that, in the interests of both companies, the future co-operation would be more active and earnest than heretofore. They had a common object, and should pursue a policy of co-operation. The short credits which were now made imperative in India involved the necessity for having a large floating capital in the hands of the managers, and at a future and more opportune period it would be desirable to act upon the authority the board had received some time since to make a small addition to the capital for the pur pose, offering it, of course, rateably to the share holders. With the close of the sadly memorable year which had just passed away it was hoped that the wide-spread suffering and heavy losses among com mercial undertakings would also have terminated, and give place to a sounder state of trade, with a renewal of confidence in those enterprises which had proved they were entitled to it. The Indian Carry ing Company had much to con tend with. It bad paid regular dividends of 6 per cent. from the com mencement, and though only dividing 3 per cent. for the last year, might confidently look forward to future years of increased prosperity with the expe rience already obtained. Mr. J. WALKER seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. A SIIAREIIOLDER thought the ordinary meetings of the company should in future be held earlier. The CHAIRMAN said the difficulty was to get the accounts earlier from the agencies all over India, but it was a point with the directors to accomplish. Mr. PHILPOTT suggested a small call to provide additional floating capital, but said he should object to raising more than the £lOO,OOO capital unless the usual risks in carrying on business iu India could be overcome. The report was unanimously adopted ; Mr. P. D. Hadow and Mr. J. Walker, the retiring directors, were rc-elected ; and also Mr. J. E. Coleman and Mr. G. Engstrom, the. retiring auditors, the remu neration being fixed at 15 guineas and 10 guineas respectively for the ensuing year. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TratEs.—The decision yesterday pronounced in the Court of Queen's Bench, in the case of " Bryant v. Foot," may be attended, as Justice Blackburn remarked, with some very startling results. It was an action by the rector of a parish in Buckingham shire to recover a marriage fee of 13s. The ground upon which he claimed was, of course, that of pre scriptive right. It was proved that a similar fee had been paid in the perish since 1808 ; but as to the custom before that time no direct evidence was ad duced on either side. It was further allowed by both sides that the existence of a custom for fifty years afforded in law a prima facie presumption of its having existed from time immemorial—a pre sumption, however, which might be rebutted by sufficient evidence to the contrary. The plaintiff argued that, as there was no direct evidence to the contrary, the presumption must stand, and that the prescriptive right WWS established. It was argued on the other side that the amount of the fee was too great to have been either asked or paid in former times—in legal language it was " rank;" and thus the custom could not have existed from time immemorial. The Court held, by a majority of three to one, that the objection was fatal, and that the fee could not be legally claimed. The result is not only to deprive the rector of Horton of any legal right to the portion of his income which he may derive from marriage fees, but to place a great number of other persons in the same uncom fortable position. Except in cases where there may be a special enactment, all clergymen would seem to be deprived of any legal right to the cus tomary marriage fees. The same rule will apply, it may be presumed, to almost all other church fees ; nor will clergymen be the only victims. This case was immediately followed by another in which a claim was alleged to the customary toll or due of a shilling for every cartioad of vegetables brought into Cheltenham market. The evidence was of the same character, and the case was, of course, simi larly decided. Carts will be able to enter Chel tenham market for the future without paying a shilling, and we hope the inhabitants of Chelten ham will get their vegetables cheaper. Here, too, the same rule will apply to many similar cases, and numberless customary tolls are deprived of any legal right. Mr. Justice Blackburn seems to doubt whether the Corporation of the City of London will he able to maintain its duties upon corn, coal, and oysters. Until recently many payments in Courts of Justice depended solely on the presumption that they were ancient fees, and some such payments probably exist still. It follows that they had no legal sanction ; and if any such still exist, they are now deprived of legal authority. These are cer tainly, as Mr. Justice Blackburn described them, startling results, and it is difficult to see how far they may extend. Still more strange are the legal principles from which these consequences have fol lowed, and which are now established by the autho rity of the Court of Queen's Bench. Our readers are aware that the term " legal memory" extends to the reign of Richard I. Now, for a custom to exist by prescriptive right it must be theoretically proved that it has existed since the time of legal memory ; in other words, it must be proved to have existed in the reign of Richard I. That, at this present day, in the year 1867, is the law of England. There is no country which is more dependent upon prescrip tion, or more overriden by custom ; but it is, not withstanding, the law that, with certain special ex ceptions, no prescription whatever is legally valid unless it dates from the reign of Richard I. Of course, in the more important circumstances, so absurd a law has always been rendered practically' a Confederation in which there were so many jeal innocuous by legislation. With regard to real pro- ousies, and where there were but two other members perty, the difficulty has ceased since the reign of who could boast a larger population than herself, Henry VIII. By an Act passed in that reign a such a condition seemed tolerable enough. She could definite number of years was assigned after which incline to either of these two principal states, ac it should be impossible to recover a claim. But in cording as self-interest directed, in the hope that her all other matters the rule remained that usage must weight would just decide the wavering balance be have existed since the time of Richard I. It is tween them,:ancl the one which she favoured would obvious that if such a rule had been strictly applied, compensate her for her useful partiality out of the DO form of possession would have been secure for a territories of the smaller ones. Unluckily for her, year, except that of real estate or that by definite when the real moment for decisive choice ar grant. The process by which the Judges eluded the rived, she made a mistake not only in her cal difficulty is singularly characteristic. They first laid culation as to which was the stronger of the two, down what the Chief Justice calls " the somewhat but also as to which was the more unscrupulous. startling rule" that from the usage of a lifetime Austria, to whom she applied, was not ready to the presumption arose that a similar usage had ex- bribe her with promises of winked-at theft from isted from a remote antiquity. Next, as it could Baden or Darmstadt ; and it soon turned out not but happen that in the case of many private that even if Austria had been capable of counte rights such a presumption was impossible, " judicial Dancing the proposed disloyalty, her countenance astuteness had recourse to the questionable theory would have been of no avail. Now, therefore, of lost grants." Juries were told that from usage Bavaria finds out the things that are for her peace. within living memory they might presume a grant " Bavaria needs a protector," her Foreign Minister or deed to have existed, but to have been lost. declares to her Chamber of Deputies. " She must " Next, they were recommended to make such a lean on a great Power." What Power is it to be ? presumption ; and lastly, as the final consummation It used to be Austria on whom she usually leaned, of judicial legislation, it was held that a jury should though in the days when she thought she could turn be told, not only that they might, but that they the balance between Austria and its rival she would ought, and were bound, to presume the existence of have resented the idea of her requirine. "a protec such a lost grant, though neither Judge nor jury, tor." Now, however, she herself proclaims ' ' that she nor any one else, had the shadow of a belief that absolutely needs it ; but she is too courteous of any such instrument had ever really existed." At course to say that Austria has become too weak to length, in the reign of William IV., or after another afford her the protection which she requires. Ac three centuries, the Legislature again intervened, cordingly she invents another excuse, which is at and in respect of real property " and certain speci- once more eivil, more convenient, and apparently fled easements" fixed certain periods of possession less ungrateful. She cannot now lean on Austria, or enjoyment as establishing prescriptive rights ; because "in Austria the German element is now far but " with regard to all other prescriptive rights or from dominant." Note the patriotism of her choice • customs, not pravided for by statutory enactments, of " protectors." She is Bavarian, it is true ; but, the law remains as before." Our readers are now more than all, she is German. The integrity of in a position to recognise the point upon which the Germany and the union of the branches of the Court was divided. The doctrine of presumptions Fatherland are the object of all her efforts. The unquestionably amounts to so much as this—that greatest part of Germany must be placed under a from a usage or custom of perhaps only 20 years sole central Power with a parliamentary representa it may be presumed that the usage or custom tion. Prince Holienlohe, speaking for the Ministry, has existed since the time of legal memory, how- and, indeed, for the State, will not hear of a South ever improbable this may be. Nothing could re- ern Confederation, whether under the protection of b u t the presumption except proof, either as a a foreign Power—by which, of course, France is matter of fact, that the custom did not exist, or alluded to—or under the leadership of Austria. Such that it was impossible it should exist. On the a Confederation would only widen the abyss be latter principle, in the case of tithes, the amount of tween the South and the North of Germany. To a claim had been admitted as sufficient evidence bridge over this abyss would now appear to be the against it. There was no difficulty in proving a destiny of Bavaria. But for this purpose, as we have similar impossibility in the present case. Consider- said, she must lean on a great Power. The Minister ing that, in those days, the price of a bull was at last, after considering every other possible cone 4s. of a cow the same, of a ploug h-horse the same, bination, does not hesitate to declare what Power it of , a sheep with fine wool 10d., of a sh eep with must be. " This great Power can be but Prussia." coarse wool 6d., of a sow ls. , a nd of a boar ls., He then goes on to say that Bavaria's programme it is certainly absurd to supp ose that a g ricultur al must be a federative alliance with Prussia, and even labourers paid 13s. to get m arried. Mr. J u stice professes to regret that the union cannot be closer. Blackburn was the dissentient j ud g e, and a great He would have us believe that "Prussia's recogni part of his judgment consisted of in g enious s pecial tion of the Maine boundary is lamentable," and pleading, to show that we do not know the ex act points out how this unfortunate decision of Count value of money in those days , and that it is quite Bismarck is to be counterv a iled. It can only b e done possible the clergy may have driven hard bar g ain s by thoroughly carrying out the p r o gramme s t a ted in the reign of Richard I. But he substantiall y above, of a federative alliance with P russ i a . This confessed that, if the question were reduced to on e involves the placing of the Bavaria n arm y, i n cas e of simple fact, it must be ad mitted to be im p ossible of war, under Prussian orders, and re n d ers indis that such a payment should have been made for pensable a reorganisation of the ar m y a ft er the marriages in the reign of R ichard I. ; and he Prussian model. A plain hint is the n th rown o ut seemed to wish, therefore, to carr y the convenient that this could be more efficaciously done, if the other doctrine of presumptions one ste p further. He southern states would only r eo r gan i se th e i r arm ies thought it might be enough if it were made out after a similar pattern. It i s i m p oss ibl e t o exagge that the custom was for a reaso nable fee, and that rate the importance of thi s s p eec h. It i s as va l ua ble the customary fee at the present da y was a reason- an indication of which wa y th e w i n d i s bl ow i ng in able one. At all events, he urged that the case Germany as could be had. The official journal at of the tithes was the only one in w hich the amount Vienna has already p ro t es t e d aga i ns t port i ons o f the of the fee was itself considered s ufficient evidence Prince's addr e ss, b u t th e protest w ill carry no we i g ht. against a claim, and he would have laid it down Bavaria in reality wi s h es t o preserve h er independ that in all other cases the largeness of a customar y once and autonomy, an d s h e t hi n k s t h at h er b es t chance of preserving th em i s b y ma ki ng up t o tion of legal origin. payment is not alone e T no h u o gl a i r t g o u r m eb o t o it t t o h f e t p i r le esu o mp ther - Prussia. It can sc arce l y h e sa id to b e Pruss i a ' s three Judges appears, however, conc lusive a g ainst habit parcere subjecti s , b u t s h e cer t a i n l y crus h es t h e this well-intentioned reasoning. It was all very resisting without pity. Th e Mi n i ster ' s declarations well, they said, to presume the ex i s t e nce of a of Bavaria's policy are a mo s t s t r iki ng tr ib ute to t h e custom in the face of improbabi lities, however estimation in which the po wer o f new P russ i a i s h e ld great; but it is another thing to make t h e in Germany. We do n o t b e li eve f or a moment t h a t presumption in the face of an absolute impossi- they represent any real consent on the part of the smaller state to be abso r b e d by th e l arger on e. bility. This was too much even for a legal GOD science, and the ingenious contention of legal Quite the contrary. Th e y are th e g ift s an d com fictions could, therefore, be carried no furt her. The plimeats by which a feared opponent, it is timidly Judges have struggled against the law successfully hoped, may possibly b e di sarme d. " Pl ease , d o n't for several centuries, but they are at length fairly eat me ! "Bavaria seems to say to Prussia, "and I beaten. There are few who will not share the will do so and so to please you, and get my neigh opinion of the Chief Justice, that a laW which thus hours to do the same." We do not for one moment "requires prescription or custom to be carried back put out of sight the genuine craving for unity which for a period of nearly 700 years is a bad and a mis- exists throughout Germany, and exists nowhere more chievous law, and one which is discreditable to us strongly than is Bavaria. It is partly with the ob as a civilised and enlightened people." But the ject of conciliating the party which looks to this course of legislation by which the law was brought object that Prince Hohenlohe s weighty words have into this state is not less characteristic than the law been uttered. If Prussia should ultimately have to itself. Our ancestors persistently r e fused to recog- descend from her all but imperial supremacy in some nise the creation of a right to property by future German Confederation, Bavaria will be able virtue of mere prescription or usage. E ve n when to point to her programme as not having really a species of prescription was admitted with re- sinned against that consummation. Should Prussia contrive to retain its present h egemony, B ava ria spect to real property, it was only by an indirect method. It was not enacted that after possession would then have a pow er f u l " protector."We con for a c,iven number of years the right of property demo the rank selfishne s s, p ast an d presen t , o f Ba shouldt'be acquired, but only that the adverse claim- varian policy, but we cannot fail to see how much it ant should be debarred from prosecuting his suit. proves, nor can we wholly regret its direction. Ab- But, when this was done, our ancestors did not sorbing or absorbed by P russ i a, G ermany i s t o be name a certain number of years after which posses- one ; and we cannot but rejoice over that promised s ion should pass into a right, but fixed a known date unity. Bava r i a f or one, " w ill not enter i n t o a ny as the point of time from which the limitation should Southern Confederacy under the protectorate of a run. Consequently, the period of limitation varied foreign power." Th ose w h o run may rea d w hat f r om year to year. With each year it became longer, the declaration sig n ifi es . and, of course, with every addition to the length of the period the inconvenience increased. With a view, perhaps, to remedy this inconvenience, the date from which the period of limitation ran was altered from time to time. At one time the date fixed was that of Henry I. In the reign of Henry 111. it was altered to that of Henry 11. ; and, lastly, in the reign of Edward I. it was altered to that of Richard I. There, for some inscrutable reason, it has remained fixed ever since. Our ancestors seem to have modified the inconvenience of their prin ciples by constant adjustments. We have carefully retained the principles and the original arrange ments, but have omitted the adjustments. It is very like the story of rotten boroughs. By the in genuity of our judges we have hitherto escaped without much practical inconvenience, and, no doubt, even these anomalies themselves have been turned to good account ; but we have now come to a dead-lock. The Legislature must at last intervene to solve the difficulty and to place the doctrine of prescription upon a sounder footing ; and it is to be hoped this will be done at once. When a Chief Justice, in his place on the Bench, remonstrates against " the vice and badness of the law" which he is required to administer, it is time that some com prehensive amendment was introduced. HERALD.—The important speech made by Prince Hohenlohe in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, not only has to be read three or four times before its complete drift can be mastered, but it must be perused in the full light and recollection of the re volution which took place in Germany last summer. The very first sentence of the Prince's address gives the key to all that follows, though at first sight it seems to be strangely unconnected with the declara tions which it introduces. " The dissolution of the Confederation, and Austria's exclusion from it," says the Bavarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, "have endangered the situation of the middle states." What the Prince would have said had he been speak ing nothing but his own mind and that of most of his hearers,iwas that those events had endangered the situation of Bavaria. From the time that it was erected into a kingdom by Napoleon in 1805, and maintained iu its new dignity by the allies in 1815, that little thriving state has displayed the keenest and most watchful regard for its own inte rests. Its position as the third, but only the third, most powerful member of the old German Confede ration, made it at once both ambitious and timid. But whenever caution and love of aggrandisement are found united it is the latter quality which shows itself most in times of peace ; but the former which preponderates in time of war, and at the moment for decided action. There is, unfortunately, but too much ground for believing that, at the com mencement of the conflict between Prussia and Aus tria, Bavaria sought to obtain from the latter power the promise of certain advantages at the cost of the neighbouring South German States as the price of her siding with the House of Hapsburg. These somewhat treacherous advances came to nothing, owing perhaps to Austria's good faith ; and one of the consequences was that the Bavarian contingent was so manipulated as to he of no service to Francis Joseph in the hour of his bitterest need. Perhaps Austria lost little in reality by this virtual defection on the part of the leading state on whose support she had counted, and in order to back up whose rights and behests she had engaged in the fatal duel with Prussia. But certain itis that Bavaria gained by her own comparative inaction. Had her insidious propositions been listened to by Austria her troops might, perhaps, have shared in the disaster of Sadowa, and her fortunes been very different to what they are now. She might have been threatened with the fate of Saxony, without finding, like the northern kingdom, a foreign patron to throw the aegis of his intercession between her and the de spoiler. As it was, her small show of resistance to Prussia cost her very little. She came off wondrous cheaply in the final moment of annexation and ter ritorial slicings. Some small districts north of the Maine, embracing a territory of 291 English square miles, with a population of 32,000 souls, mark the extent of the transfer from Bavaria to Prussia. But though her mingled ambition and cowardice hap pened to serve her well in the critical. moment of Austria's downfall and Prussia's aggrandisement, she is by no means at her ease as to the future. Were she to rest contented with her actual condition. Prince Ilohenlohe assures us that " she would be isolated." This of course would never do ; the peril would be too great fora kingdom scarcely com prising 5,000,000 of inhabitants. Asa member of COUNTRY MARKETS. SALISBURY.-TUESDAY. - - A larger number of sample sacks was pitched at market this morning than for some time past. A moderate busi ness was done in wheat, at last week's prices. Barley was plentiful, at late quotations. Beans andwit u peas met about the usua l i nqu i ry, t h e turn o f pr i ces b e i ng a gains c t buyers. Flour has n ow reac h e d a very hi g h fi gur e, au. to-day the trade was ina c ti ve , b uyers on l y mee ti ng pre sent requirements. 'I he following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 55s to 65s ; barley, 37s to 53s ; oats, 24s to 30s ; beans, 46 3 to 58s; and peas, 40s to 52s per qr. Tares, from 4s 6d to 5s 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 15d ; household ditto, 14 ,1 per 81b loaf. Flour, 45s to 49s per sack. HULL.—T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a fair show of Englis h wheat, which sold readily at last week's p r i ces , but no Of , va nco was obtainable. Malting b ar l ey was without altera tion, and of new nothing offered. Beans and peas 11 . 11 0 ; c hanged. Fine oats inqui re d f or. F or l i nseed t h e po was firmly maintained, esp ec i a ll y for f i ne qual i t i es, buye'', being very cautious. English white wheat, 62s to 67s • red, 62s to 65s ; pant sic and Konigsberg, 62s to 70s :Baltic red 62s to 61)s ) Danish and Hamburg, 58s to 60 ' s ; Russian, 55 s to PP . Barley, Engli s h, 36 s to 50s • grinding, Mediterrane. o ' 34s to 35sfid. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s; Russ ian 's 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 58s to 60s; foreign, 7 0 to 445. Peas, English blue, 42- to 44s Od ; foreign Wh it 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. LYNN—MONDAY. There was a small market to-day, and a moderate of wheat, which met a steady sale at last week's ra d " gaitivg except damp parcels, which were easier to buy. and grinding barley was quite as dear. Oats and beans firm. New wheat, 54s to 58s ; now red, 40s to 48s ; old 0 Wil i r t ,, ° 'r Gls to 71s ; old red, 59s 0 63s per 36 stone. Barley malting, 46s to 52 s ; secon d ary , 37 s t o 38 s . Oats 1143 ‘' 24s to 28s per 24 st one . B eans , sma ll, 42 s t o 445. Oats, 36s to 40s per 28 stone. GAINSBOROUGH—TITESDAY. o f At our market to-day there was a good average s , w, 6SO wheat, which met a fair sale, at extreme rates-0 1 ' 1, 6 a to 70s; red and mixed, 63s to 64s per 36 stone. big l oa tS barley rather improved iu price, and more doing. sold at high rates. Beans firm. Births. EnwAn stiloP7 ns—On the 21st inst., at N ess St range , tl O wife of Colonel Edwards, of a daughter. tr HONYWOOD —On the 19th inst., at Evington Place, Lady llonywood, of a son, stillborn. RnopEs—On the 21st inst., the wife of Wm. W. Ith °a s e d: of the Borough, and 1, St one l e i g h Vill as, G res l i aerr" ,, Brixton, Esq., of twin daughters. SwmunNE—On the 12th inst., at Upham Cottage' ,11.$' the wife of Commander W. Swinburue, of 11 " Mutims, of a daughter Marriages. no mcALLum— WARREN— On the 22d inst., St..liar.7 Church, Arthur Edward M'Callum, Esq., 91st lauders, to Rosa, daughter of the late R. IVarreDl of 87, Gloucester-place, Portman-square. boo WAttuEN—Gwicx--On the 22d inst., at St. 3105 10 to Church, John Warren, Esq., Ist Royal Drago,° 9 :,',o. Adelaide Constance, daughter of the late Major Deaths. .CAllit—On the 21st inst. , Mr. John Carr, of Chu rcb- Whitechapel, aged 71. wAg et DOGENDORP—On the 19th inst., at Utrecht, the D ° Countess Van Dogendorp. • , s totif KINGSTON—On the 21st inst., Robert, Earl of 1: 113, " age 70. SNOW— d On the 22d inst., at Littleton House, near. Valja ford, the Rev. Thomas Snow, aged 81. WARRENDER —On the 21st inst., at Bruntsfie.., Edinburgh, Sir John Warrender, of Lochouell aged 81. — London : Printed and Published byWILLIAI A.- so . 1- of No. 112, Strand, Printer at TELE SUN 0 1 - 11 . 0 c, g Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e 00— Middlesex.—Thursday, January 24, 1867. MONMOUTIISIIIRE—TUESDAY. The supplies at the various markets have been good O .!, most descriptions of grain, and wheat came to hand in vo'J fair condition. A good show of barley, mostly foreigui best malting qualities m ove d off freely at late rates, an grinding sold at enhanced quotations. English and foreign beans commanded old values. The oat trade was not so brisk as last week ; still a moderate business was done, prices ruling firm. red, 7s following are the average quotations:—Wheat, 7s 3d to 7s 6d per bushel ; white, 7s 9d to 8s Od ; inferior , 6s Ud to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 46s to 52s per qr ; grind ing ditto, 31s to 34s Od; beans, 44s to 50s ; white oats, 27$ to 28s ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. /1 el.gtn key MOT rulii bala bee ! !Inn int, ri,,„,