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true. Well, he took np the book and looked first at the pictures—children always did. (Laughter.) Last night Mr. C. H. Spurgeon delivered a lee- After reading the letterpress, he said to himself that ture on the " Gorilla," with the accessories of vocal those pictures were the ruin of the book, because, music and dissolving views, in his great tabernacle, although very well done, , they were not cor at Newington, to an audience which completely rect. Playing pointed out various important and filled the whole building , and must have numbered humorous discrepances between the illustrations and over 5,000 persons. the printed matter, the lecturer said that if the man The doors, although opened an hour before the was an impostor he would first have looked to his time appointed for the lecture, were besieged by pictures, because such an individual would not have an immense crowd, who struggled hard to get the left a hole big enough for a mouse to have crept best places. The admission was by payment, vary- through. M. Du Chaillu could shoot a gorilla, but log from 6d- to is., and the proceeds, which must he was not a good draughtsman. He had got some have amounted to a very considerable sum, were, one else to prepare the drawings, and he bad done it was announced, to be devoted to the Band of them the wrong way up. (Laughter.) Give an Hope Union, a society whose object is to promote artist the best instructions you could and he would total abstinence from spirituous liquors among still make a mistake. For instance, every single children and young persons, picture of the interior of that building was wrong. An immense sheet of canvas was suspended over If men made blunders in sketching what they did the dais in front of the pulpit for the dissolving see, was it any wonder that they should do so in views, which the prospectus said were painted by drawing what they had no t seen ? (L aug h ter.) No " first-rate artists expressly for the lecture," and doubt M. Du Chaillu's sketches were only taken in had "never before been exhibited." During the his head, and were not committed by him to paper. evening a choir of 500 children, accommodated in He could not control the artist any more than they thegallery behind the pulpit, sang a selection of could control the compositor, and make him set up sacred music which had a special application to the the type correctly. If Mr. Murray, the publisher, object of the society. would give him (Mr. Spurgeon) a handsome sum, It was intimated in the bills that M. Du Chaillu he could show a respectable list of errors in the the celebrated African traveller, had promised to' letterpress of the book. Many words were wrongly lend a specimen of the gorilla for the occasion, and spelled, and altogether the work appeared to have when half a dozen men brought some large object been brought out in a hurry. Still, the pictures carefully wrapped up in drugget, and placed it were unfortunate, although he admitted they were upon a table near the lecturer's table, there was no proof against the merits or truth of the book. much laughter and cheers. Upon being uncovered With regard to Mr. Walker's letter, all he could it was found to be a veritable gorilla of formidable say was that there was nothing in it. That writer build, standing nearly upright, with a f eroc i ous made M. Du Chaillu say what ho did not say, and grin, showing the whole extent of its huge mouth then he refuted him. (Laughter.) If nothing and teeth, or rather fangs, and holding up its right stronger than that could be brought against M. Du arm in a menacing manner. Chaillu, his name would live and not die, and it The arrangements upon and near the platform would not be said that he had deceived the people. were of the roughest kind, and no accommodation (Cheers.) But supposing M. Da Chaillu a rogue whatever was afforded to those who attended to and impostdr, who only wished to write a book report the proceedings. to make money by it, was it likely he would Mr. A. H. Layard, M.P. for Southwark, and have been so great a fool as to have begun his Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, pre- journey at a point where people would have been sided, having M. Da Chaillu on his right. readily found to confute him, instead of confining Mr. Spurgeon, upon entering, was greeted with it to remote districts where he could have been some cheers, which, however, were indignantly sup- tracked by no one ? Besides, was it likely that any pressed by a large portion of the congregation, who cam in his senses would sell his soul and his cha seemed to think they were out of keeping with the rector for the trumpery popularity of one year ? place. If the book were an invention, it was the most The CHAIRMAN, who on rising was, however, wonderful one ever written. If De Foe wrote cheered as cordially as if he were about to address " Robinson Crusoe," it would take ten De Foes to an ordinary public meeting, said he was at a loss to 'write "Du Chaillu'sDiscoveriesin Africa." (Cheers.) know why he found himself in the chair. It was Certainly, if it were a fiction, no other man pos , surely not to introduce the rev. lecturer, who must sessed genius enough to compose such another work be known to all or the greater part of them per- entirely out of his own head. The 22 gorillas he sonally, and if not personally there were few supposed were matters of fact, as well as the hun throughout the length and breadth of the land, dreds of specimens of other animals and birds which whether rich or ; poor, high or low, to whom his M. Du Chaillu had brought over from Africa. He name was not familiar. (Cheers.) It was not to verily believed, in spite of all that had been said, introduce the interesting party on his right—(the that M. Du Chaillu's book was matter of fact, and gorilla). He would leave that to his rev. friend, that the author was entitled to all praise as one of who was better able to discharge the duties of the the greatest of modern discoverers—as one who had master of ceremonies. (Laughter.) Nor was it to done more for science and for religion than most keep order, as he had before been in that vast build- men of his time, if not than any man. (Cheers.) ing when it was filled, and when the rev. gentle- This was no new topic, because 600 years before man was listened to with perfect silence. He came the Christian era the discovery was mentioned of a there to listen, to be amused, and to be instructed ; great animal wonderfully resembling man. In 1836 and though he was slightly beyond his own peen- the skin of a gorilla was deposited in the museum liar dominion, he could not refuse to take the chair at Havre. Wilson, the missionary in the district on an occasion when he had an opportunity of meet- of the Gamboon river, discovered in the hut of a ing so many of his friends, and showing how deeply native a great skull, which turned out to be that of he approved of the conduct of Mr. Spurgeon, who, a gorilla. At last a whole gorilla was brought to amidst arduous labours and no common anxieties, England, and under the inspection of Professor found time to afford amusem :nt and to promote Owen and Mr. Bartlett, of the Crystal Palace, the se cial intercourse among those who were in the habit barrel in which it was enclosed was opened, but the of listening to him as a minister. (Cheers.) Having smell was so exceedingly bad that all ran away. adverted to the object of the society on whose be (Laughter.) There was no chance of standing half the lecture would be given, the chairman said, against the gorilla, he was so exceedingly offen whether Mr. Spurgeon admitted that that interest- sive ; but Mr. Bartlett, feeling that so rare an ani ing creature (pointing to the gorilla) was their first mad should not be lost, had him taken to Norwood. cousin, and in the course of time the state of things No doubt those of the inhabitants of Norwood might be revere red, and they might have a gorilla whom he addressed remembered a bad smell in that giving a lecture on Mr. Spurgeon, instead of Mr. • neighbourhood in 1858. (Laughter.) It might Spurgeon delivering a lecture on the gorilla— possibly have been caused by the gorilla, who was (laughter)—or whether he discarded the relation- placed in a great field at Norwood, as it was thought ship, he would not venture to predict. This, how- fresh air might do him good after having been so ever, he would venture to say, that that gorilla long " eabined, cribbed, and confined." (Laughter.) might have witnessNl scenes of which they might This specimen was afterwards exhibited in the be ashamed, and in which their nearer relations had Crystal Palace, and was now in the British Museum. taken a part. Englishmen had penetrated portions Then came the 22 gorillas which had been brought of Africa with a rum bottle in one hand to this country by M. Da Chaillu. Now, what was and gold for buying slaves in the other. That fated the gorilla ? He was an enormous ape, which rum, with the accompanying habit of drunkenness, claimed to approach nearer to man than any other which seemed to be thought a peculiar qualification creature. How near he approached he would leave of the Anglo-Saxon race, did much to bring about them to judge. A claim to be considered their first misery and wretchedness and to exterminate tribes cousins had been put in on behalf of the chimpan_ in that country. He trusted, however, that the zee and other animals, but these were matters time would come when the Anglo-Saxon would nu to be settled by learned scientific men. Dr. Darwin longer bring the rum bottle to the land which the might also assert that his great grandfather's gorilla inhabited. (Cheers.) grandfather's father was a guinea pig, or that he Mr. SPURGEON, on presenting himself, was re- originally descended from an oyster, or something ceived with most enthusiastic &leers. He said he of that sort. (Laughter.) Now, he demurred to bad no notion that a fourth of those he saw would that, and he did so upon his own account. Many bre present, and expressed his regret that so many of his friends might choose to claim relationship to had been turned away from the doors. Perhaps the oyster, and if any Chinese were present whose the first question he ought to answer was, why he pigtails were not eat off, they might claim to be lectured on the gorilla. lie would give his reasons,- related to guinea pigs; but for his own part he said and they would judge whether they were proper (turning to the gorilla), "there is a great gulf be ones or not. It was a growing opinion in his mind, tween you and me, and neither can I pass to you, that the human animal needed one sort of amuse- nor you to me." (Cheers.) There was the story of ment or another, and that if you did not give him the man with the bad £5 note. He laid it down, the right sort he would certainly seek the wrong. and ran away from it as hard as he could. He God so adapted man's nature that he should not (Mr. Spurgeon) wished to run away as hard as he only attend to the necessities of existence, but seek could from the gorilla, and to leave relationship for the enjoyment of pleasures. It was no use his out of the question. (Laughter.) Still, after all, constantly saying in the pulpit, " You must not go there was wonderful likeness, and it was most to the public-house ,or the theatre." The reply humiliating ; but even if an exact fat simile of man would be, "We want something of the sort, and if could be discovered, if it were destitute of a living you do not give us the right thing we will certainly soul, the difference between the two would be in take to the wrong." (Cheers.) Mr. Spurgeon then finite. (Cheers.) • The gorilla was enormously explained that, seeing the success which had atten- strong, and very courageous. M. Da Chaillu said ded his lectures in the schoolroom, he had readily he never saw the male gorilla run away, and that complied with the request to deliver this lecture, the males invariably threw their protection round observing that his only object in life was to benefit the females. The worst gorillas were bachelor his fellow-creatures. The best way to elevate them gorillas. (Laughter.) He hoped he addressed none was to preach the Gospel of Christ, but that did not of that class. (Continued laughter.) From this sub prevent his using other means besides. Lectures jest Mr. Spurgeon digressed to the softening in on scientific or other subjects, in which he was fluence of female society, and said that the best able to throw out useful hints upon dress, cleanli- thing every bachelor could do was to take under his ness, economy, and temperance, did good service sheltering wing one who could give him more than as well as.preaching the Gospel. These were his he could give her. (Laughter.) With regard to the reasons fdr giving the lecture, and if they were country inhabited by the gorilla, he said it was in not satisfactory to his audience they were to habited by a great many tribes whose names he him, and that was generally enough for him. could not pretend to pronounce, as. they could only (Laughter and cheers.) Now, was M. Da Chaillu's be correctly given by a Welshman standing upon book on the gorilla true or not ? They saw M. his head. (Laughter.) Many of them were great Da Chaillu himself present, and when they looked traders, but the rule among them appeared to at him they would hardly think he was able to be that " honesty was the worst policy." These shoot a gorilla, or to bring home as many as 22. people had a firm belief in witchcraft, which (Laughter.) But he (Mr. Spurgeon) believed he rendered their existence miserable, as they sas hed done it. (Cheers.) He would enter into th a e petted even their wives and children of evil arts question of the truth of his book as if he were ab- with the intenti on o f d epr i v i ng 'When them of health and bent. he first read M. Da Chaillu's work, he life. The most diabolical cruelties were consequently thought it was a very wonderful book; but he knew practised, and if a man wanted to get rid of that God made wonderful creatures, and he was not another he had only to say he was suspected of surprised at a wonderful story. Since, however, the cruelty, and his iife was forfeited. If any one in lecture h.a rrorti ---... been ta announced, he had received scores that meeting thought that it was unlucky to spill of letters would ruin hin,,,,, n i ji . o r us friends who thought he salt, to give a friend a pair of scissors, or to begin about the gorilla. if he believed the stories told work on Friday, he would say to him, "Away with therefore sat down to form such ideas," as they were derogatory to God, and an impartial opi n i on ti e of his s Po i n a the book, and he would only fit for heathens and brutes. (Cheers.) He state the result that he was no great Yestigation. It was true next adverted to the subject of slavery, which he nat uralist and for any learned said was the most abject, iniquitous, infamous, and opinions on the subject thaYcinera:uys.tlirk to Professor devilish of all crimes, and that it was better that Owen, and possibly to Mr. y Adcertis but certainly not the hurricane of war should sweep away the t . to him. In the /1/ornin pes t er let reared attacking M. D u Ch a i llu, ters had ap- l ence than that it should b 3 suffered to destroy the James Grant, the editor, a n d ho d . Ini:t h' knew Mr. di souls of men ably longer. (Ch eers .) Af ter thanking he would allow any one to b e re t proacheamik that M. D a Ch a ill u for the great services he had ren that newspaper needlessly, but a mistaken estimate dered in p av i ng th e way for missionary efforts in Central Africa, h e conc l u d ed b y repeating that he often made of public characters lik e M . Du Chart: believed in th e b ook and in the man, and in the He (Mr. Spurgeon) was naturally i ncl i ned to tak e which his discoveries would do in years yet Mr. s uissr olvingg the lido of the man who was abused, as it Was the ocl()Tdoi:ed,.and resumed his seat amidst loud applause. weaker one, and to do so was the most courageous gave amusing which') kegetont course. For the last two days he had read M. Du views were then exhibited, and Chaillu's book, night and day, and the first question descriptions of each, he put to himself was, "Is it not full of stories ?" titter. p the vast congregation in a continual • g a vete of thanks to Might there not be in it a smattering of truth and The CHAIRMAN, in ro a groat deal of invention ? He looked back to the Mr. Spurgeon, said that npoohsionn-e.st-hearted English past, and he recollected that Bruce, the great Abys- man could fail to sympathis e with his denunciation sinian traveller, was thought to be an impostor, of slavery, observing that Lord Palmerston, the though they now knew that ho s p o ke n othing but present Prime Minister, had done as muchon, as any The man after Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Brougham, the truth. So, again, with regard to Japan. Dutch stories respecting that country, which were to abolish that abominable traffic. In re f erence to supposed to be p ure fi c ti ons, had been verified by the attacks upon M. Du Chaillu's book, he said that recent travellers. The narratives of M. Du Chaillu what he stated in its pages he believed to be sub. 1.. . w e ... Lc° not more incredible th an th e stories related in stantially true. (Cheers.) ...two/0 bye, 1 4 14 now tang -asto be Tii le I. pv 014jAV i ill §oo2llslillg tilQ propoitign, AIR. SPURGEON ON THE " GORILLA." was most cordially received. He said Mr. Spur. geon had been his friend that night, and ,he appre ciated his friendship the more bfeaus6 he (M. Du Chailln) had so many enemies. He thanked him for his strictures upon his book, and he could only say that if he travelled again he would try and do better. He had learned a great deal of wisdom during the last five or six months, and he would put it in practice in his next travels. (Laughter.) He was happy that night to have learnt more about Africa than he knew himself, and he was grateful to Mr. Spurgeon for having shown his faults, as he had done so in so good a spirit. The motion was agreed to, and Mr. Spurgeon having returned thanks, the proceedings termi- nated. THE THAMES BiIIB.ANK..4LENZ. A correspondence has recently passed between Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, and Mr. Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, touching a claim advanced by the latter body to initiate and carry out the great engineering work of embanking the Thames. At a previous interview Mr. Cowper had stated to Mr. Thwaites that he by no means desired to take the construction of the work out of the hands of the Metropolitan Board, but that there were many questions involved which rendered it the duty of Government to legislate in the matter. There were, for example, certain Crown rights, which might involve controversies between diffe rent departments, and which admitted of more facile adjustment by the Administration than by any other parties. Again, that a private member would experience much difficulty in carrying a measure of such magnitude through the House of Commons, which, unless promoted by themselves, Ministers did not feel it incumbent on them to sup port. That, for these and other reasons, her Ma jesty's Government were of opinion that they should take the necessary steps for complying with the Standing Orders by preparing and depositing plans and serving notices. Mr. Thwaites urged the claims of his board to initiate as well as to carry out this important weak, there leefug no prescbdent fiii. any interference on the part of her Majesty's Govern ment in the case of a local operation, executed by a local authority, and defrayed wholly by local taxation ; although he felt sure the Board would have no desire to enter into any unseemly con troversy with the Government, but he was most anxious, while defending what they conceived to be a public right, to do all within their power, consistently with the dis charge of their duty to their constituents, to pro mote this great undertaking. Mr. Cowper explained that the course it was intended to pursue was in no way opposed to,- or, in his opinion, calculated to infringe, the Board's rights ; that he would prepare a bill for carrying out the plan recommended in the report of the Royal Commission, and would take all the steps prescribed by the Standing Orders; that the bill would empower the Board to execute the works and authorise the Treasury to pay over to them the fund in course of accumulation from the coal dues, to defray the cost of the embankment ; that powers would be given to the Board to open a line of street from Blackfriars-bridge to the Man sion -house, the cost of which he suggested might be defrayed out of the 4d. dues, at present appli cable to improvements within the city of London. That bill would, of course, be referred to a Select Committee, and would be supported by the Govern ment in its passage through the house; after which, should it succeed in obtaining legislative sanction, the whole further conduct of the matter would be confided to the Metropolitan Board of Works, the Government having no desire to retain any control or exercise any veto upon their acts. Meanwhile, if they wished the insertion of clauses, he was willing to receive and consider whatever suggestions they might be desirous of offering. Mr. Thwaites referred to the amendment introduced into the Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Bill, on the motion of Sir H. Willoughby, whereby the new account was to be opened in the name of the Treasury instead of the Metropolitan Board, and requested an assurance that the Government in tended to make such provision in the new bill as should insure the execution of the work to the Board. Mr. Cowper, in reply, assured him 1 that the clear intentions of the Government were to carry a measure giving full powers .to the Board, and that on his part every effort would be made in support of that intention ; but that it would be impossible to say what it might be necessary to do in the case of opposition to any particular clauses. Mr. Thwaites reported, substan tially in the above terms, the conversation between Mr. Cowper and himself to the Metropolitan Board, and then, on their authority, addressed a letter, on the 10th of August, to the First Commissioner, in which he stated that " the Board, while anxious to defend what they believe to be their rights, were too deeply impressed with the importance of the subject and the difficulties surrounding it to wish in any way to increase them by raising controver sial questions, and at once adopted the suggestion I submitted to them, to suspend the instructions i they had already given the engineer for the prepa ration of drawings and documents required to com ply with the Standing Orders, feeling that, after the assurance you had enabled me to convey to them of the intention of her Majesty's Government to assume all legisle.tive responsibility, any present action on their part would necessarily be either antagonistic or superfluous." To that communication Mr. Cowper replied as follows : " Office of Works, Aug. 15. " Sir,--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst., informing me of the com munication you had made to the Board over which you preside with respect to the views I had the honour of expressing to you at our interview. Of course those views are subject to modification when the time comes for the preparation of the Bill and for consulting other members of the Government as to its provisions; but I think it right Dow to make a few observations with a view of preventing mis understanding as to an expression which recurs in your letter. "You speak of your Board being anxious to defend what they conceive to be their rights, and as I am one of the last men who would wish to in fringe, even inadvertently, any of their rights, I am anxious to ascertain what those rights can be. " In considering whether the Metropolitan Board of Works possess unyiright to construct an embank ment of the Thames out of the funds accruing from the coal duties, I am met by the following circum stances : " 1. The Metropolitan Board has no right or authority, except that which it derives from the Act of 1855 and subsequent Acts ; and the Act which empowered it to raise ratesgavo it no autho rity over the coal and wine duties. " 2. These duties are levied, not by them, bat by the corporation of London. " 3. These duties are not received by them, but by the corporation and by her Majesty's Treasury. " 4. The area over which the coal duties are levied is larger than that which is represented by the Metropolitan Board. 5. The application of these duties to metropoli tan improvements has been intrusted to the corpo ration and to my predecessors in office. "6. The foreshore and bed of the Thames are under the jurisdiction of the Board of Conservancy. "As, therefore, your board has now no power over the coal and wine duties, and no power over the fore shore of the Thames except in regard to their espe cial business, the main drainage, I cannot understand how the introduction of a bill to confer upon them such powers could be treated as an aggression upon their rights. I do not see any force in the argtroont that because such a work would have to be autho rised in a provincial town by a local Act, promoted by local commissioners or by the corporation, a simi lar course should be followed in respect of the metropolis. " In every civilised country the metropolis re ceives aid, protection, and co-operation from the national Government which is not extended to other towns ; and I am sure that Londoners cannot wish that their town should in this respect cease to be treated as a metropolis, and be reduced to the level of a provincial town. tt !` AM OA principle otlyoogehr ortonaiDl4 more fully and satifactorily in the metropolis the action of municipal presentative institutiops, and the till which I pro ? ose to intr o d uce will have a tendency to promote that object, and I am quite sure that it will not'i any respect infringe a right now possessed by the detropolitan Board of Works. —I have, &c.; " J. Thwaites, Esq. " W. COWPER." In a subsequent letr to Mr. Thwaites, dated the 20th of Sept., Mr. Copper states he considers the proposed bill should 4 one to empower the Metro .s to make such purchases of P e such works as may be ne pprooliptearntyßaonarddtoofeWxeoc cessary for an emba ment, with a roadway upon it, from Westminster Blackfriars•bridge, and for a new street thence t he Mansion-house, in accord ance with the plan ecommended by the Royal Commission, and out f the fund provided for that l o purpose out of the.pr eeds of the coal dues by the Act of last session. control or interference with the Metropolitan Bo d of Works will be created by the bill in regard the powers conferred upon them by its provisior . He adds that, inasmuch as the foreshore to be re aimed from the river is vested in the Crown, or the oard of Conservancy, and the surplus land along t e shore may be required for public improvements, r for a public promenade, or as sites for public buidings, he thinks it should be 1 so vested as to secure'or Parliament a control over its future destination; nd he believ es th e b es t course would be to vest it i th e C omm i ss i oners of Works and Public Buildings) on beh a lf o f th e C rown an d n t the public, and to provide that the proceeds of the sale of such surplus land shall be paid into the Embankment and Mei•opolitan Improvement Fund, from which the purchase was made. This, he states, should apply only to iurplus land on the shore of the river not required for works on the roadway, and should not apply to surplus land obtained in making the street Iran Blaukfriars-bridge to the Mansion-house. The correspondencchas since been referred to the Main Drainage Committee of the Metropolitan Board for consideratim as to the course to be pur sued, and there the matter rests for the present, (From me Times.) If we desired to give Continental statesmen a correct idea of what Englishmen understand by " self-government," we could hardly find a better illustration than is contained in the correspon dence between Mr. Cowper and Mr. Thwaites— one representing the Administration and the other the Metropolitan Board of Works. It has been decided at last to embank the Thames, and thus at one and the same time to facilitate the execu tion of the main drainage scheme, save the Strand and Fleet-street from a permanent blockade, and relieve our thoroughfares of some of the traffic which is now choking them. This resolution having been adopted, it becomes necessary to provide authority and instruments for carrying out the work. The instruments are at hand in the mem bers and officers. of the Metropolitan Board ; but the Metropolitan Board has no authority in the matter. The funds applicable to the undertaking are levied and received, not by the Board, but by certain ether departments, and are raised from districts over which the Board has no jurisdiction. The shore of the Thames along which the Embank ment is to be carried is under a Board independent of the Board of Works; and, besides all this, there are many conflicting claims which Mr. Thwaites and his colleagues would find it exceeding diffieult to satisfy. So, as the Board of Works could neither enter upon the ground nor touch a'sixpenco of the money provided for the enterprise, the First Com missioner proposed to bring in a bill under Govern ment sanction, and invest the Board with a Parlia mentary authority for proceeding in the business. It is hard to conceive any proposition more natural. Parliament alone can confer the powers required, and Parliament can seldom be moved to good pur pose except with the, support of the Government. Mr. Cowper, in short, offered to provide Mr. Thwaites in the most efficient and expeditious manner, with the very authority which he needed, and without which he could not stir a step. Little, however, did the Minister think of the " rights" which he was vio lating, or the resentment with which his overtures would be received. The Metropolitan Board rose in arms; like a corporation in defence of its charter. The liberties of the subject had been attacked ; " self-government'' had received a severe blow ; oen tralisation had been insidiously promoted, and the citizens of London ought to stand up for their pri vileges. How such a view of the case could pos sibly be taken it would puzzle most people to com prehend.; in fact, we doubt if the subject could be made intelligible to any but Eaglsh readers. But it is a fact, nevertheless, that Mr. Thwaites fought stoutly against the Ministerial prop os itio n . an d only yieldd in the extremity of responsibility, and then against his will. The "right" claimed by the Metropolitan Board was the right of initiation. Of course, they wanted powers; and, of course, application must be made to Parliament before those powers could be ob tained. But what had Mr. Cowper to do with that ? The Board could apply to Parliament itself, and intended to do so. The Board's engineers had been making designs ; the Board's surveyors had prepared drawings; the Board was going to comply with the Standing Orders of the House ; the Board's agents would draw the bill, and the Board's bill would be duly introduced. Why should the Board be interfered with ? What business had a Minister to meddle with the matter ? What was to come of it if Englishmen could not manage their own Parliamentary affairs without Government in tervention ? Hero was a purely " local" under taking, to be executed by a " local" authority, and paid for by " local" taxation ; how could the inter ference of Government be justified in an operation like that ? The First Commissioner replied to these expostulations with considerable effect. He re minded the protesting chairman that this Board had really no " light" to construct the embank ment at all, seeing that the work was to be exe cuted on ground which they could not touch, and with money which was beyond their reach. He admitted that they could go to Parliament themselves, but gently hinted that they might fail to carry a measure of no common magnitude, and involving a good many debatable -point s , unless her Majesty's Government should decide on supporting them. He further stated that her Majesty's Government might, perhaps, decline to give their support to a bill,, pre pared without their assent, and that in any case, as the bill must ultimately owe its success to the Ministry, it would be better that the Ministryshould introduce it. There was work to be done which Mr. Thwaites would find it very hard to do. No hands but those of Government could deal with the knotty questions which were sure to arise, and the Metropolitan Board would find it best to accept the intervention of the Ministry, and take the powers which would be given them. When the requisite. powers had been granted, Government would leave the work in their hands without further inter ference. It will be seen from the statement in another column that Mr. Thwaites did not yield even to these reasonable representations without saving protest as to the " rights " which the Board was anxious to defend ;" but what these rights are it would puzzle anybody to discover. There is nothing really "local" about such a work as the Embank ment of the Thames, if by that term is meant an undertaking in which only a limited interest is taken by a small community. London is something more than a town in the county of Middlesex. It is the metropolis of the British empire; while, as to the area from which the funds for the work are to be raised, that is certainly extensive enough to justify more than local superintendence. The truth is that the Beard had no " rights " in the matter, and it had just as little power. It could not have moved a step without the aid of that very agency which it was anxious to repudiate. Except with the sanction and support of Government, it could never have carried its measure through the house, and it was preposterous to expect that Government should find all the power while the Board exercised all the discretion. There was hardly a department of the State which might not have had its say in such a business as the Board would be undertaking, and Government alone could deal effectually with controversies like those. If Mr. Thwaites had secured the " initiation" of the affair, he would have wanted the First Commissioner al ways at his elbow, and convenience and propriety alike suggested that authority and responsibility should go hand in hand. As the work must be done through the Go vernment, it was better it should be done by it. We must now touch upon another point, and suggest to Mr. Thwaites that it would be imprudent in him to count upon much support or sympathy from the community of metropolitan ratepayers. His board is by no means a corporation that we are inclined to stand up for. We are not at all anxious to see his authority increased or his powers extended. The agency of the Board may be beneficially exerted, but it is not agreeably felt. It is perceptible mostly in enormous rates and oppressive taxation. We suppose the main drainage scheme will be actually completed some day or other, but at present we know little of it beyond its cost. 'The Metropolitan Board is certainly not popular enough to hold its own against all rival authorities, and we would far rather see it under some salutary control than confirmed in a despotic authority over our thorough- Wei Aud Foos no WA thing Mr, whyfate§ ALA his colleagues can do is to attend to the work which they have already in hand. They have not made such progress with the drainage of London as to establish their title to all such business for the future, and if they are to execute the Embankment we hope it will be under conditions of wholesome restraint. Of one thing we are certain, and that is, if the First Commissioner can introduce economy and expedition into the general administration of the Board he will find few Londoners objecting to his interference. Such intervention will be all the better for us, and we shall not be in the least degree terrified by any talk about centralisation. The long and short of the matter is that the business is actu ally in the hands of Government, and Mr. Thwaites could only get hold of it by Mr. Cowper's permission. The Board could not move without Parliament, and Parliament could not be moved without Govern ment support. Government is willing to give its support and provide the authority which is neces sary for the action of Mr. Thwaites and his col leagues. In return it will acquire a command over the draught of the bill, and we trust that in exer cising this power it will consult rather the interests of the public than the pretensions of the Metropoli tan Board. DANGER TO FOREIGNERS IN MEXICO. The following facts are taken from the New s Letter, issued from the office of the Mexican Ex traordinary, of August 28 : On the 3d of this month the stage coach from Pachuca arrived here with one victim stretched dead and another in great agony—the spark of life gradually waning. The former was a beautiful young Englishwoman of four-and twenty summers, and the other a Frenchman of about forty years of age. Both of these unfortunate people were on a trip of pleasure to this city, and both have fallen victims of the general anarchy of the times and the well-grown hatred to foreigners. The facts of the case are these :—The diligence from Pachuca on the 3d was exclusively occupied by foreigners —Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chawner, M. J. Delaporte, and two Germans. Messrs. Chawner and Delaporte had with them pistols, and Mr. Chawner, fearing robbers, advised his wife that in case of an attack she was to throw herself on the floor of the coach. Nothing happened to disturb the journey until the diligence had passed Ozumbilla. A short distance this side of that post eight robbers suddenly came up, and, without using any of their usual menaces, fired into the coach. Mrs. Chawner, who was in the act of following the instructions of her husband, received One of the balls in her back, and fell wounded on the knees of her husband. Another ball struck M. Delaporte in the breast. Mr. Chawner, with his bleeding and dying wife on his knees, extricated his pistol and firedone shot, which brought down one of the cowardly assassins. The cries of his wife, that called for his attention, prevented him firing again; and M. Delaporte was too much stunned by his wound to offer any resistance. The robbers, nevertheless, fired some thing like a dozen shots more, but fortunately without doing further damage, and then abandoned their murderous at tack. Mrs. Chawner expired some two hours before the diligence arrived in this city, and M. Delaporte on the morning of the sth, and both are now gathered with the numerous population of the dead at San Fernando. This now cold-blooded butchery would be sufficiently horrifying could it be accounted for in any common manner—that resistance had been offered, that the pas sengers had dared to oppose themselves to one of the hal lowed usages of the country, or that they had even re fused or offered to refuse to obey the m ders of a few of Mexico's peculiar population. Nothing of the sort can be urged in extenuation of this most foul and cowardly as sassination. 'We have heard it stated that the passengers fired first; but this is a falsehood emanating from persons as base as the assassins themselves. 'We have taken the trouble to investigate as fully as has been possible the facts, • and for the present can only answer for the exactness of those we have before stated.. A confession, or further developments at a later day, may prove our present convic tion, that this is another manifestation of the general • hatred entertained for foreigners by a considerable organised party in Mexico, and we cannot but repeat our well grounded fears, that if foreign governments do not change their mode of protecting their subjects and citizens, foreign life will be the sport of high-road and street assassins. The Government have imposed a property tax of one per cent. en all persons living in the district of Mexico, em bracing, we hear, foreigners who have applied for advice to her Majesty's Minister, who, in a letter dated August 23, has recommended them only to pay it on compulsion and under protest. This was the same advice given in October, ISSB, to Mr. Worrall, by Mr. Otway, who was in conse quence expelled from the republic at 12 hours' notice. But this gentleman has hitherto had no redress; the indemnity awarded him has not boon paid. Other foreigners have in a like manner suffered, and notwithstanding an able report on faced loans was sent to Lord John Russell over a year ago, and obtained the assurances that the British Govern ment would exact redress for these infringements of the treaty, nothing has been done, and this indifference has made bold the Mexican authorities to enforce now acts of oppression. 'We learn with great satifaction that a number of our fellow-countrymen, resident in this city and - Vera Cruz, have raised a subscription for the purpose of presenting a suitable tribute of gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Legrand for their kind attention to Captain W. C. Aldham, of H.M.S. Valorous, daring his lengthened stay in thciir house after the wound he received from the cowardly assassins who so wantonly attacked him in the diligence. This considerate act, whilst it will show to Mr. and Mrs. Legrand the warns hearts of our fellow-countrymen, will be another proof of the high esteem in which Captain Aldham is held by all who know him. A very respectable and worthy English workman, named Mathews, was set upon a few nights since in the Calle de la Providencia by two persons well dressed, and who were at first suspected by Mathews to have been gentlemen. They made several attempts to kill their intended victim, and did in fact deal him several severe blows, and no doubt thought they had accomplished their purpose. Mr. Mathew, however, managed to escape, and we hear is now entirely out of danger. Wo learn from persons lately arrived from the Pacific coast that a considerable emigration from California is now pouring into the States of Sonora and Sinaloa. In the latter State, and on the confines of Chihuahua, rich gold placers have been discovered, and miners are doing well. The discoveries already made have induced several persons to return to California for their families and friends, and it is expected that large numbers of emigrants will pour into Sinaloa. and Chihuahua in the next few months. If the re ports we have be correct —and we consider they aro well founded—the gold discoveries on the West Coast of Mexico are likely to surpass those of California and Australia. If so we shall soon have the corresponding revolution here, and Mazatlan will become the second, if net the first port on the West Coast of America. It is stated in a journal of Ciudad Victoria that the metals now being extracted from the mine of Revillagigedo, near that city, yield from six to eight ounces of pure silver per carga of 12 arrobas, and that as much as 25 ounces have been taken from some of the metals. The mine can be easily worked, but want of capital embarrasses operations, and little is doing with a mine that might produce an enormous amotint of silver every year. Want of security is the great drawback to every good enterprise in the country at the present time. With a foreign intervention capital would not be wanting to work many rich mines that are now abandoned in different parts of the country. On the night of the 11th, early in the evening, a French man was assaulted by an assassin in the First San Fran cisco. The assassin struck a fearful blow with a long poniard at his intended victim, but the Frenchman warded the first blow with his umbrella, which was cut nearly through the stock. A second blow left a considerable wound in the wrist of the assailed, who then made his escape. The night was dark and rainy at the time, and it was impossible to tell whether the assassin was alone or accompanied by others. It is needless to add that no arrests were made. Isidro Diaz, ex-Minister of Miramon and accompliace in the robbery of the British Legation, fur which crime he has been for some time undergoing trial, has been declared innocent I Perhaps this trifling incident mar lead to an idea of how other judgments have been obtained. A party of brigands have been for some time plying their trade within the walls of this city by robbing the diligence for the interior. The other morning an ambuscade was set for them and resulted in a skirmish, in which one of the passengers was wounded and a sleeping watchman killed. No harm was done to the actual combatants. The Padre Celestino, a Spanish friar, who has distin guished himself in the last few months, as chief of a small party of cut-throats and robbers in and about the Valley, has been arrested in this city. The probabilities aro ho will be pardoned, through the venality of some judge and the indifference of the Government. Tho custom house of Vera Cruz is reported to be filled at present with foreign merchandise, and for the accommoda tion of the importations, now on the sea, new storehouses must bo taken. The want of demand in the interior, the insecurity of the roads, the late extra impost of 15 per cent , and the scarcity of money in the port to pay the duties, aro the causes of this anomalous state of affairs. The Indians near Ixtniquilpan have raised the cry of " Death to the Whites," and a few days ago entered that town and mur dered some 20 persons. The priests have induced them to believe that the whites are opposed to their religion. The town of Atotonilco el Grande, near Pachuca, has been burned by one of the clergy bands. The bands of Galvan and Cagtillo lately sacked the post on the Cuernavaca road, known as the Guarda. They robbed the people down to their clothing,.crud ;_hot one unfortunate person because he could not give them a sum of money. M. Paul Dairo, a French man, was assassinated a few days ago between this and Cuernavaca. A discussion is going on in the papers about the establishment of a dictatorship. According to the past chronic changes of govern ment in Mexico, it is about time for us to have another trial of this style of government. The prefect of Yautepec, Don J. M. Lara, has been assassi nated by the Plateados, a party of bandits who ignore all political distinctions and rob without any mask. The ex tensive property of Mr. Freda, an American citizen, situ ated near the Llano de Salazar, and comprising a glass fae- WY: altilicrYt § tOWCrYi WNW ItIWX establishments, has been burned by one of the political' bands. Olavarria, a Spanish clergy chief, has been taken and shot, On the night of the 14th a shot was fired at the French minister, bT. de Saligny, which came near doing serious injury. The object of this attack is not known, and many rumours aro afloat. Some say it is another demon stration of the general hatred for foreigners. Others think the attack was for some personal reason. THE MURDER Al BIRIIIIiVGH,IM. THE MrQUEST. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY. This evening an inquest was held on the body of the unfortunate woman, Anne Walker, who was murdered on Sunday last by John Thompson, with whom she had cohabited. The inquiry took place before J. B. Davies, Esq., at the Hope and Anchor, Coleshill-street. The prisoner was present. The first witness examined was Sarah Berrisford, who deposed that she was a single woman, living in Tanter-street, and several young women lodged with her. Deceased was a married woman, and had three children ; but having parted from her hus band she had lately lived as housekeeper to the prisoner Thompson, at Sutton Coldfield. On Satur day night last deceased asked her (witness) if they, meaning herself and prisoner, could have a bed, as it was too late for them to go to Sutton. After hesi tating some time she consented. The following day deceased and prisoner went out twice for a walk together. The second time the deceasedreturned at three o'clock alone, and asked witness if she might go and lie down for half an hour, and she appeared rather the worse for liquor. Deceased then went up to bed, and in a few minutes after the prisoner en tered the house and said, " Where's Anne ?" Wit ness replied that she had gone to lie down—upon which the prisoner walked out of the house, but returned in five minutes, and went up to the bed room in which deceased was lying. Witness, in a quarter of an hour jafterwards, had occasion to go upstairs, and when she went into the room occupied by the deceased and the prisoner she saw the latter on his knees rubbing deceased's arms, which had been hurt by a fall. Prisoner said to deceased, in a kindly tone, " Will you go home, Anne ?" when she replied, " No, I won't yet." - Witness then left; the room and went down stairs, but, hearing a scream, she returned again, and saw deceased lying on her back, blcce.ing, and heard her say " I said would go with him" two or three times. The prisoner was standing about a yard off with a knife in his hand, and it was covered with blood, and he Said, several times, " I have dello it." Witucco thon ran down stairs crying " Murder," and went to look for a policeman, and, having found one, she went for a doctor. The deceased was pregnant at the time of her death. The prisoner, on being asked if he had any ques tion to put, said, " ; but she has said a good deal that is true, besides a good deal that is not true." Elizabeth Green said she lived in the house be longing to the last witness, and on Sunday after noon last was sitting in the kitchen when she heard a noise upstairs. She went up a few steps and met Sarah Berrisford coming down, exclaiming " Good God' the man is killing the woman." "Witness went up into the room from which the noise and screams came, and saw the deceased lying on her back on the floor, and the prisoner kneeling over her passing a knife across her throat several times. There were no other persons in the room but Thomp son and deceasel. She had not heard any quarrel ling between them during the time they were in the house. She saw the prisoner enter the house and go upstairs the last time, and he did not appear to be drunk. She (witness) slept in the next bed to prisoner and deceased on Saturday night, but heard no altercation between them. William Carless deposed that he was passing along Stafford-street on Sunday afternoon last when he heard a cry of murder proceeding from a house in Tanter•street. He went to the place, when two young women directed him upstairs. He went up to the bedroom where he saw the prisoner standing and the deceased lying on the floor bleeding. Wit ne:•s said to the man " What have you done this for," at the same time catching hold of him by the coat. Prisoner replied " I have done it," and then handed him a pocket-knife stained with blood. A police-officer then entered the room, and took the prisoner into custody. Could not say whether de ceased was alive or dead at the time. Other evidence having been given, the jury, after deliberating an hour, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. THE BILSTON MUBDER. EXAMINATION OF THE ACCUSED. Yesterday the five men who have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in this murder were brought up at the Bilsten Petty Sessions, be fore the Rev. H. S. Fletcher and Mr. J. N. Bag nall. Their names are William Jones, alias Mul ligan, Thomas Lilley, Thomas Jukes, Samuel Bills, and Ezekiab. Webb. None of them are more than 25 years of age. They have all been under the ban of the police, and Jones was sentenced to four years' transportation for a burglary in Bilston about seven years ago. He he been home about three years, but in Bilston only about a fortnight. There is no doubt about his being the wan who was convicted on that occasion under the name of Mul hghan, and that he is an Irishman from the county Mayo. Lilley is of a slender but wiry frame, bas red hair, and has a black eye. This is the man who describes himself as a hawker, of Birmingham. Ever since his arrest he has expressed much indig nation at being in Custody, and yesterday he mani fested much violence of tempo/ while in the dock. He entered the court smiling, and in the dock cracked jokes, and looked round to the general audience in the court for approbation. The police have reason to believe that he has been in the Royal Artillery, from which corps it is thought to be not unlikely that lie has deserted. The other prisoners seemed somewhat more impressed with the gravity of their position. The men are all of low stature, and do not look older than they have represented themselves to he. Bills was defended by a barrister. Major M'Knight, the deputy chief constable of Staffordshire, informed the bench when the case was called on that he proposed only to show that Jones had been apprehended with property in his possession belonging to the murdered man, and that the other prisoners were in company with him on the night of the murder. Lilley, in an impertinent tone, said that he wished his case to be gone on with, for he could show that he had nothing to do with the offence, and, although he was informed that he would probably be re manded with the rest, continued to interrupt the magistrates. Police-constable Harrison then deposed to seeing three men walking along the high road from Daisey Bank. Jones was one of the three, and was walk ing behind the other two. One of the three, but not Jones, had some clothes across his arm. He attempted to arrest them, and they ran off, the man who was carrying the clothes throwing them down. He knew one of the other men. After following them a short distance he returned to the spot where the things were thrown down, accompanied by another officer. After removing the clothes to a place of safety they watched the spot. Presently Jones returned, and he and the other officer arrested him, and with some difficulty got him to the station. The clothes were new from a clothier's shop, and there was also a coat that had been worn, and had a pair of gloves in the pocket. All these had been identified as the property of the deceased. Jones also had in his pockets Ss. sd. and a set of studs that it could be shown had not long ago been sold to the deceased. When he asked Jones how he could account for the studs he said he did not know. Jones, who had before frequently interrupted the witness by impugning his accuracy, remarked, " You arc a liar ; I never spoketo you about them." The landlord of the' King's Arms Hotel deposed that he could identify all the prisoners but Webb as being in his spirit shop up to within a few mi nutes of 12 on Saturday night. When he attempted to put them out one who was not present made a violent threat to murder him. Miss Lewis also identified Webb. Mr. Clay-don (Bills's barrister) asked to be allowed to tender evidence showing that Bills, on leaving the King's Arms, went home, and remained there till he was arrested. The Magistrates remarked that an opportunity for calling this evidence would be afforded after the remand, but at present there was sufficient evidence to justify a remand, and they could not therefore receive it. The prisoners were then formally remanded, and the police were about to remove them from the dock, when Lilley shouted out, " Hold hard; take your time ; here, what am I to be sent back for ? I want to produce my witness." Then addressing himself to one of the policemen, he said, " Here, you give me that waistcoat you took from me." The officer had to take him forcibly from the dock, and as lie was being removed down stairs he struck at one of the officers, and made a desperate effort to escape. Jones also stoutly resisted, but he was in the clutches of Major Plisight,where he was held as in a vice. The effort of the men to escape created great ex citement in the court. They were evidently despe rate fellows. THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The herring 11,11e7 y is now being actively prosecuted off the eastern coast. Two or three boats have come into Yarmouth with about eight lasts of their own catch, but recent heavy weather at sea has caused some boats to seek harbours nearer the fishing grounds than Yarmouth. Prices havo ranged from £lO to £25 per last, according to quality. Some of the long shore boats have landed at Yarmouth several tlnuaalatl With qilii&A t 4 1; 100, DREADFUL AIiURDER AT NEWCASTLE- ON- T Y NE. Mr. Prater, the collector of income tax for the borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was murdered as he was proceeding to his office in Blacket-street, yesterday morning. The facts of the case are as follows :-- Just as ho was going into his office a man ran up to him with a long bright knife in his hand, and before he could escape or take any precautions what ever for his safety, the assassin thrust the weapon with great violence into his face. The blade touched the right cheek near the mouth, then, slanting off from the bone, plunged into the neck, where it severed the jugular vein. The victim of this dia bolical deed did not seem at first to comprehend the fatal nature of his injuries. He walked upstairs to his room, when he suddenly exclaimed, "I fear I'm done for," and fell upon the floor, and in a few minutes expired. Medical attendance was at once sought for, but life was quite extinct, a great quan tity of blood having flowed from the frightful wounds inflicted upon the neck. The murderer, George Clark, 45 years of age, a cabinet-maker, was secured. The knife with which the fatal deed was committed was found on his person. It is a common table knife, but it has re cently been ground down to a very sharp point ; it is also rather jagged at tho sides. Upon being seized Clark exclaimed, " He sold me off, and now I'll be tried for murder ;" and a few minutes after wards he said, "This will be a grand business for the penny papers." On inquiry we find that some three months ago a seizure had been made upon Clark's premises, under Mr. Frater's direction, for a dog tax, which he would not pay. He seems ever since to have cherished a feeling of deadly revenge against the deceased. The murderer, a middle-aged rap, meanly dressed, and of sullen appearance, was subsequlntly ems mined at the police-court. He did not seem to be excited. His hand was still stained with blood. On the application of Mr. Sabbage the presiding ►magistrates remanded the prisoner for a week. When arrested he was searched, arid a document relating to the seizure of his goods, above referred to, was found upon him. There seems to be no grounds for suspecting the sanity of the prisoner. ---- F.R031 TILE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 28. Tho Quo.. h.. t o +ha Revcr Rodger to the church and parish of Shettleston, in the Presbytery of Glasgow, vacant by the death of the Rev. John 11PRitchie Leckie. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John S. Prettyman as Consul at Glasgow for the United States of America. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. Her Majesty's Commissioners h ere by g i ve notice, that no further applications for space can be entertained. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 1. Royal Artillery—Captain and Brevet Major Richard O'Connell to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel Sir G. It. Barker, K.C.8., deceased; Second Captain Lawrence A. Bradshaw to be Captain, vice O'Connell ; Second Captain and Brevet Major Shadwell Morley Grylls, from tho Supernumerary List, to be Second Captain, vice Bradshaw; Veterinary Surgeon Henry Dumsford has been permitted to resign his commission. CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—ChapIain of the Third Class, the Rev. Edward J. Rogers, to be Chaplain of the Second Class. The Rev. R. G. Codrington to be Chaplain of the Fourth Class. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 26. Corps of Royal Marines—Capt. and Brevet-Major Charles Ogilvy Hainley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Spalding, to retired full-pay; First Lieut. John Cobb to be Cap-. tain, vice Hawley, promoted; Second Liewt. Wm. Rolt Triscott to bo First Lieutenant, vice Cobb, promoted. BANKRUPTS. Charles Harris, ironmonger, Stratford-le-Bow, Essex, to surrender, Oct. 11, at two, and Nov. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Eniinton, leather seller, Salisbury, Wilts, Oct. 12, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. _ _ _ William Spencer and Benjamin Spencer, stage carriage proprietors, Bury, Lancashire, Oct. 16 and Nov. 13, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. James Worrell, licensed victualler, Briersill Head, Lan cashire, Oct. 15 and Nov. 5, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. William Butterfield and James Butterfield, earthen ware manufacturers, Tunstall, Staffordshire, Oct. 14 and Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Leavesley and Henry Leavesley, silk dyers, Covenry, Oct. 11 and :Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Birming ham District Court. Richard Bradley, broker, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Oct. 16 and Nov, 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Thomas Goldsmith, baker, Norwich, Oct. 12, at twelve, and Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Robinson, grocer, Bradford, Oct. 18 and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Jesse Fridlington, farmer, Northampton, Oct. 12, at eleven, and Nov. 14, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Lord, cotton spinner, Todmorden, Lancashire, Oct. 11 ad Nov. 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. William King, victualler, Kilmarnock. William Inglis, cabinet maker, Elgin. James Esplin, wright and cabinet maker, Forfar. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE—SEPT. 30. At__ this corn market there was a middling show of wheat, which met a tolerable demand, prices declining. is to 2s on the previous week—white making 56s to 655, red 48s to 575. The demand for barley was firm, and about same in value. Oats were in small show, with a slow sale, from 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans met with a firm sale, from 44s to 50s per qr. BRISTOL—OcT. 1. At our market to-day there was a thin attendance of millers, but a limited business was done, and prices were 13 lower than last Tuesday. In all spring corn we have no alteration to report. LEEDS—Ocr. 1. The reported arrivals of grain are good. We have had a rather slow business to-day, and both old and new wheat was offered at a decline of is upon last week's currencies, Barley declined is to 2s. Other articles unchanged. MELTON MOWBRAY-SEAT. 31. There was a good show of wheat to-day, which sold, readily at the prices of last week, with a fair attendance. Barley a middling show, and late rates supported. For oats quotations were steady. Prices :—White wheat, 42s Od to 60s Od; red, 52s Od to Ms per 36 stone; beans firm, at 40s to 50s for old; new sorts, —s per 38 et. ; barley, 38s to 40s for malting, and 29s to 33s per qr. for grinding ; oats, 25s to 28s Od per 24 stone. NORWICH CATTLE. The show of store cattle to-day consisted of an excellent supply of Scots, Devons, shorthorns, and Irish. A large attendance of buyers, but prices in favour of purchasers. Scots, 4s to 4s ca ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Irish, 3s Od to 3s 6d; Devons, 3s 6d. to 4s (estimated weight when fat). Fat beasts a small show and sales firm, at Ss Od to Ss 6d per 141 b. Sheep—There was a middling supply of sheep in the pens and a fair sale. --- Fat sheep, 8s Od to Ss 6d per stone; prime, 9s Od , with out a clearance. _ _ rags—A fair supply. Store: pigs, 15s to 20s; fat pork, 7s 6d to,Sts Od per stone. At the Hammersmith Police-court, yesterday, the charge against the Moulvie of the King of Oude, for assaulting his wife, was withdrawn, and the cross complaint against the wife, for detaining valuable papers belonging to her husband, was adjourned till Friday. [ADYERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's .—The Body's Bulwark.—Nine-tenths of the maladies afflicting adults depend en a disordered state of the stomach. Holloway's pills correct the first symptoms of indigestion by acting healthily on the gastric juice, and wholesomely exciting the liver. They dispel flatulency in incipient indigestion, and overcome the heat, distention, and pain attending more advanced or neglected cases. These pills invigorate and soon restore the dyspeptic from the great and sudden de pression of strength always accompanying stomachio dis orders or bilious derangement. They beget cheerfulness, vigour, and happiness. In rectifying disorders of the digestive apparatus these pills prove thems e l ves th e promptest preventive of disease. They rai se a b u l war k a gainst all approaching maladies, and preserve freshness, health, and life. BIRTHS. GAY.—On the Ist inst., at Finsbury -place S., Mrs. Gay, of a son. LUARD.—On the 29th ult., at Rock House, Sheerness, the wife of Captain Luard, R.N., of a daughter. SCOTT.—On the Ist inst., at 17, St. James's-place, the lady of Mr. Scott, of Gala, of a son. WING.—On the 30th ult., at Bath, the wife of Richard wing, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. MUNRO—C ARRunimits.—On the 30th ult., at Kensing ton, Alex. Munro Esq., of Upper Bolgravia-place, to Mary, daught er of R. Carruthers, Esq., Inverness. PALMER— VANSITTART.—On the Ist inst., at SL George's, Hanover-square, George Palmer, Esq., the eldest son of Lieut.. Colonel Palmer, of Nazing-park, Essex, to Emily Eden, eldest daughter of W. Vansittart, Esq., M.P. DEATHS. 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