The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

THE NAYY. Rear-Admiral Erskine's division of the Channel Fleet, consisting of the Edgar, the Hero, and the Trafalgar, joined Admiral Smart's division, com posed of the Revenge, the Aboukir, the Conqueror, and the ,Centurion, in Leith Roads on Saturday evening. It was expected that they would leave that anchorage early on Wednesday morning to pro ceed northward by the Moray and Pentland Firths, and subsequently visit the north of Ireland, and also, it is said, the Clyde. The East India Company's paddlewheel steamer Punjaub, directed by the Lords of the Admiralty to be removed from Gravesend to Woolwich, was yesterday ordered to be surveyed in the river at Woolwich, in order to arrive at an estimate of her intrinsic value, to be paid over to the representa tives of the late East India Company, by whom the Punjaub is about to be ceded to the Board of Ad miralty. The sailing transport Clemanthe, bringing a cargo of returned stores, including 300 tons of un serviceable ball cartridges and powder from Malta, arrived yesterday at Woolwich Arsenal ; and the lonian also arrived at Woolwich from King Wil liam's Town, having 1,100 barrels of unserviceable ammunition ordered to be returned. The hired ship Scorpion for Gibraltar sailed yes terday from Woolwich with - war stores ; and the Eva also went alongside the buoy off Woolwich Arsenal, to fill in her magazines with 2,000 barrels of powder for Gibraltar. The Eliza Mary, hired transport, for Quebec, yesterday went alongside Woolwich pier and com menced shipping a cargo of war materials, consist ing of artillery and engineers' implements, shot, shell, &c., to the amount of about 800 tons, includ ing cupolas for preparing molten iron, platforms, gun carriages, &c. The Esk, 20, screw, Capt. Sir Robert Le M. M'Clure, K.C.8., paid off her crew at Portsmouth yesterday, and hauled down lnr pendant at sunset. Sir Robert M'Clure is under treatment in the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar. Medals and gratuities were distributed to several of the crew prior to paying off. The War Department transport Petrel, Mr. Chambers, Commander, arrived at the Ordnance wharf, Chatham, yesterday, and landed 700 cases of the 40-pounder solid Armstrong shot, for the guns ordered to be furnished to the vessels composing the steam reserve at Chatham. The Sirius target ship has been removed from her moorings in Dorchester Creek and placed alongside Portsmouth Dockyard, for the purpose of detaching from her side Beale's armour-plate, which was ex _ _ perimented upon from the Stork's 68-pounder gun on the 11th inst., that it may be examined by the members of the Ironplat,e Committee. The Megzera screw troopship, Commander Hen derson, sailed from Portsmouth at 8 30 a.m. yes terday, with troops for the Mediterranean, call ing in at Queenstown. Her departure the pre vious day, as had been ordered, was deferred, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—J. West, acting second-class assistant-engineer, to the Asia, for the Shannon ; R. Macaulay, acting second-class assistant-engineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary ; J. H. Leech, act ing second-class assistant-engineer, to the Dee, as supernumerary; G. Hostey, second-class assistant engineer, to the Fisgard, for the Warrior; C. H. Roebuck, acting engineer, to the Indus, additional for the Plover; S. Matthewi, engineer, to the Cumberland, additional for the Carnation; John Riddle, assistant paymaster, to the Indus ; C. G. Nash, assistant paymaster, to the Dauntless ; J. G. Jones, midshipman, to the Immortalite ; W. Nelson Hood has been nominated to a naval cadetship. THE ARMY. The annual inspection of the Plymouth division of Royal Marines took place on Tuesday on the Hoe before Adjutant-General Wesley. The progress of the officers and men met the approbation of Gen. Wesley. In consequence of the accidental discharge of a musket -while fixing bayonets one of the Ma rines had a portion of his hand shot away. The 53d Foot, comprising 21 officers, 385 men, 24 women, and 20 children, are ordered to proceed from Plymouth to Aldershot, via Portsmouth. The Ist division is expected to arrive at the last-named port in her Majesty's steamer Bulldog by 10 a.m. to-day. The 2d Battalion, 11th (North Devon) Regiment is ordered to embark as follows, at Portsmouth, for the Cape of Good Hope, in the hired sailing tran sport Boanerges—Lieut.-Col. A. F. Senner, Major J. Peebles, Captains A. D. Dixon, F. B. Fuite, F. L. Slack, and M. L. M'Causland ; Lieuts. F. J. S. Whitehead, W. G. Ripon, 0. C. Robinson, and E. H. Hare ; Ensigns H. H. Skill, G. A. Elliott, T. Auchinleck, T. F. Gibbons, A. H. Vaughan ; Sur geon W. F. Black, Assist.-Sorg. W. J. Tibbs, Quar termaster J. R. Atkins, 6 staff-sergeants, 22 ser geants, 22 corporals, 11 drummers, 389 men, 46 women, and 43 children ; 3 officers' wives, 7 chil dren, and 2 servants. In the sailing ship Indomit able—Major A. H. L. Wyatt ; Captains R. Man sell, R. C. Richardson, F. W. H. Petre, and D. B. Gabb ; Lieuts. M. Guard, J. R. Kelsell, E. J. B. Dunellan, G. Edge, W. A. Irwin, and V. Williams ; Ensigns I. Boyce, J. Helby, and G. W. Westrop ; Paymaster R. R. Robinson, Quartermaster A. Macintyre, 1 schoolmaster, 1 staff sergeant, 16 ser geants, 16 corporals, 10 drummers, 336 privates, 21 women, and 32 children ; 3 officers' wives, 4 chil dren, and 2 servants. In the sailing ship Conflict— Captain W. H. Crompton, Ensign R. Cumberlege, 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, and 35 men ; one officer's wife. The Conflict also takes in other detachments for the Cape. Yesterday th e c h ar t ere d E as t I n di a t roo p s hip Trafalgar, 1,100 tons, Capt. Taylor, belonging to Messrs. Green, of Blackwall, brought up in the Thames from Madras, and landed a numerous party of cavalry and infantry troops from the various regiments serving in the Madras Presidency, at the Government Quay, Gravesend, when the whole were immediately forwarded to Chatham garrison, the troops having been sent to England to be dis charged. The Trafalgar embarked her troops at Madras on the Bth of March last, and sailed the following day ; rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the 24th of April ; anchored at St. Helena en the 15th of May, and sailed thence the following day ; crossed the Equator on the 22d of May, an d first sighted the Scilly Islands, bearing N.N.E., on the 18th inst. ; the voyage to Gravesend, including de tentions, occupying 108 days. The number of troops who embarked at Madras was 130 men of all ranks, with 12 women and 21 children, belong ing to the Ist (the King's) Dragoon Guards, 17th Lancers, Madras Arqllery, Ist and 2d Madras Fusileers, Ist battalion 18th Royal Irish, 43d Light Infantry, 3d battalion 60th Rifles, 68th Light In fantry, 69th Regiment, and the 74th Highlanders. Ile whole were under the command of Capt. H. T. Trafford, 43d Light Infantry, and Lieut. A. M. Duff, 74th Highlanders, and in medical charge of Dr. Peterkin, of the Madras Army. During the voyage only two deaths occurred on board. The following reinforcements will be despatched to India from the camp at Colchester during the ensuing month :—For Calcutta 3 officers and 26 man, 34th Regiment; 2 officers and 30 men, 54th ; 2 offi cers, 38; 1 man, 88th (Connaught Rangers) ; and 2 officers and 70 men, 97th. For Bombay, 2 officers and 70 men, 56th ; and for Madras, 1 officer and 46 men, Ist Battalion, Ist Royals. Yesterday a number of officers from the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham,proceed to Shoe buryness, by direction of the Secretary of State for War, to witness and report upon the experiments ordered to be carried out with the Armstrong guns on various descriptions of iron plates. The experi ments yesterday were to be made on iron plates varying f rom one quarter of an inch to three inches in thickness ; and to•day the same kind of experi ments will be continued, when the plates to be ex perimented upon will be those of from four inches and a half to six inches and a half in thickness. Experiments are also to be made upon the Hussar, old 42-gun ship, which has been given over by the Admiralty for that purpose, and forwarded from Chatham to Shoeburyness, where she has been scut tled and sunk in 15 feet of water. Owi ng , how ever, to the Peculiar position in which s h e li es, it will be necessary to shore her up before the expe riments can be commenced, and yesterday and the previous day workmen at Chatham Dockyard were occupied in constructing a powerful frame to be used in assisting to " right" her. During the ex periments every description of projectile is to be used against the iron plates :and the sides of the Hussar. The, principal portion of the reinforcements which are being sent out to Canada was embarked on Tuesday afternoon on board the Great Eastern, at anchor in the Mersey. The remainder of the troops had not arrived in Liverpool, and therefore the em barkation of detachments of the 60th Rifles and 17th Infantry, which were conveyed from Ireland in two steam vessels, did not take place until their arrival in the Mersey yesterday morning. Imme diately upon their arrival, the vessels were taken alongside the leviathan ship, and the troops speedily transferred to her. In addition to the officers who are in command of the various regiments, there were also on board the Great Eastern, yesterday, General Sir G. Wetherall and Col. Wilbraham, C.B. The arrangements which have been made on board the " big ship" for the accommodation of the soldiers appear to be very comprehensive and effec tive. Contrary to the usual custom in the case of Government transports, the berths in the Great Eastern run transversely, instead of parallel to the ship's sides. The commodious deck of the vessel has admitted of superior arrangements for the re ception of horses, of which she carries out a consi derable number. The stalls have been fixed on the after part of the deck, running in double tiers fore and aft, and by this means ample room is afforded to the animals, while no obstruction is offered to the perambulation of the deck. The em barkation of the troops was effected with great celerity and without the slightest mishap by means of the steam tenders and lighters of the Cunard Company, the use of which was placed at the dis posal of the Admiralty agent at Liverpool, by Mr. C. M'lver, of that company. It was generally be lieved that the Great Eastern would sail from the Mersey for Quebec yesterday afternoon; and, in anticipation of seeing the huge ship steam down the river, thousands of spectators had assembled on the piers and landi ng stages . Th e y we re, however, disappointed, for the Great Eastern did not take her departure, but it is understood that she will start in the course of to-day. THE ROYAL AND 112E.RCHANT SERVICES. The following are the regulations under which masters and mates of merchant vessels may be en rolled as officers of the Royal Naval Reserve under the act, &c. : _ NUMBERS, CLASS, AND RANK. The officers of the Royal Naval Reserve shall not exceed the total number of 400, and shall consist of two classes. QTJALIFICATION. Masters of merchant vessels who hold extra cer tificates under the Mercantile Marine Act of 1850, or the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, and who have commanded a vessel of not less than 500 tons bur den (gross tonnage), for not less than three years, shall be eligible for appointment as lieutenants or masters of Naval Reserve. Chief mates of merchant vessels who hold mas ters' or chief mates' certificates under the Mercan tile Marine Act of 1850, or the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, and who have sailed as chief mates in vessels of not less than 500 tons burdon (gross ton nage), for at least two long sea voyages, i.e., to India, China, Cape of Good Hope, South America, or the Pacific Ocean, or shall have served as chief mate for two years in steam-vessels of not less than 700 tons burden (gross tonnage), shall be eligible for the appointment of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Rdserve. Qualification for the first class will include quali fication for the second class. DRILL. The officers of the Royal Naval Reserve will be required to undergo a course of drill and gunnery instruction on board the district or drill ships at the great mercantile ports in their respective vicinity, as named below.• DISCIPLINE. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve will be sub ject to naval discipline when attending drill, or when called out for actual service, and will be liable to lose their commissions for offences against the rules, discipline, or character of her Majesty's ser vice, in the same manner as officers of the Royal Navy, by order of the Admiralty. PROMOTION. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve of the second class will, if qualified, be eligible for promotion to the first class, at the discretion of the Admiralty. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve who when in actual service may, by the character of length of their service, obtain the special approbation of the Admiralty, will be eligible to receive commissions as officers in the Royal Navy, of the same grade as that with which they may rank at the time. They will then be considered as in alr respects officers on the permanent strength of the navy. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, who while on actual service shall have distinguished them selves in action with the enemy, or by the character and length of their service, will be eligible, at the conclusion of their service in the navy, for promo tion to higher honorary ranks in the Naval Reserve, at the discretion of the Admiralty. UNIFORM. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve may wear the uniform of their respective corresponding ranks in the Royal Navy, with such distinction as her Majesty may hereafter approve. PAY AND ALLOWANCES. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve will, while called out for actual service, receive the pay of their corresponding rank in the Royal Navy. Officers who may receive hurts or wounds while on service ;will receive the same pensions, &e., to which officers in the navy would be entitled under similar circumstances. Widows of officers of the Royal Naval Reserve who while in actual service may be killed in action, or die from accident resulting from the performance of their duty, will receive the same pension as the widows of naval officers of corresponding rank would be entitled to under similar circumstances. MESSING. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve while on drill will live on shore, and will receive the following subsistence allowance, viz. : Lieutenants Sub-lieutenants 2s. 6d. a-day. When called out for service they will mess with their respective ranks. APPOINTMENT. Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve will receive their appointments from the Board of Admiralty, but applications for appointmentz should be made through the Board of Trade. GENERAL: The officers of the Royal Naval Reserve shall be called out fo r ac t ua l service by royal proclamat ion, and temporary darin g the continuance of any national emergency, or until they may be regu l ar ly dis charged by direction of the Admiralty. * London, Sistolhie , L lds Falmouth , Sunderland, Hull Southampton, Q ueens to wn • , Briverpool, Leith, Greenock, Dublin, ------- IADVERTISEMENT.I—A few more of the cures without medicine of indigestion, v extracirdillar Y lency, constipation, nervous, bilious, au' (d d ic v s e P r ePida) complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility effected by 1) u Barry's delicious hea lth restorin g re valenta arabica - food ' are here given :—Cure 52,422.—Bridgeh.ouse, Frimley, Surrey, April 8, 1854.-33 years diseased lungs, s pi tt i ng of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in the ears, c on stipation, debility, shortness of breath, and cough, have been removed by your revalenta arabica.—James Roberts, tim ber merchant. 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Abbio, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150 , Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishop sgate street ; Batty 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips an dCe Wood, and Co King Willismi• treat tea-dealers ; Petty, City; at 127 High Holborn; will groceres; THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1861 TEE GI?EAT FIRE. The search for the remains of Mr. Scott was con tinued with unwearied diligence till midday yes- terday, and a considerable mass of brickwork re moved, but no trace of the unfortunate gentleman discovered. It is now stated by some that he was seen to rush in a contrary direction to that where he body is supposed to be, and further up the yard to a warehouse which instantly after was a mass of flames. If this is true no vestige of the body is ever likely to be recovered, as around that spot the fire raged with such dreadful intensity that the very ironwork has been melted. More reliable authori- ties, however, are positive that the remains are still under the brickwork near the burning cellar, which has not yet been searched. The attempt to examine this, however, had to be discontinued soon after noon yesterday. The cellar in front of it, which was burning so fiercely, has almost burnt out ; but, strange to say, a fresh fire appears to have broken out in the second story of the huge warehouse over it, which we mentioned as having apparently been broken at its foundations, and left the whole mass leaning forward in the most dangerous manner. It was thought certain that all that could burn in this pile had been destroyed long ago, as all the roof and upper floors had fallen in down to the second floor. It is very probable that the mass of ruins that fell in stifled the fire in the second floor, which was stored entirely with casks of tallow. It only smothered the flames, however, and did not extin guish them, for yesterday the flames broke out here with great volumes of white smoke. There is oil on this floor also, as was soon seen by the sharp explo sions which sent pieces of brickwork flying out at the windows and doors, and some of which, in the tottering condition of the building, appeared to shake it visibly. Under these circumstances, as the men would have to remove the brickwork immediately under the mass of leaning walls, the search for Mr. Scott's body was at once discon tinued, and was not likely to be resumed again before this morning. The deceased gentleman was known to have had with bim upwards of £5OO in notes and bills. In the rear, on the east side of this warehouse, a very large vault, filled entirely with bacon, is now on fire, and burning fiercely, and the cellars in the centre of the ruins, which contain oil and tallow, show no diminution in the volumes of fire they pour forth. Our readers will recollect we stated that the heap of ruins which mark the spot where Hay's wharf stood were being fast cooled, and that therefore no danger was to be ap prehended from the immense vaults stored with oil, and beneath the wharf, taking fire. We are very sorry now to say that the anticipations in this re spect were found yesterday morning to be incorrect. The vaults beneath were filled entirely with castor, linseed, sperm and olive oil, to the value of nearly £30,000, and no little satisfaction was expressed that property to that extent had been saved. Yes terday morning, however, the firemen were surprised at finding dense jets of steam, smoke, and hot air issuing from amid the ruins over the end of the vaults next the river. Suspecting the cause, a portion of the ruins near the entrance to one of the vaults was after some hours cooled, the ruins cleared away, and the door reached, when the heat and noise within showed that the whole range of cellars, with all their valuable stores of oil was on fire from end to end. The most astounding fact of all is that there was no explosion when the first ignition took place, and nothing but the hot air and steam finding a vent where we have stated at the river end of these vaults averted a most tremendous catastrophe of this kind. Even now it is feared by many that an ex plosion will yet occur, though the firemen are confi dent that the hot air, having forced its own egress, the aperture thus made will act as a safety-valve as long as the vaults continue burning. It was every where stated yesterday that there was a subterranean passage beneath Humphrey's dock leading into the extensive vaults beneath Beale's splendid range of wharfs at the other side of the creek, and that there tore there was a serious risk of the fire finding its way across, and beginning fresh ravages on the other side. We have been assured, however, that this is not the case. There was such a tunnel of communication under the dock, but it has long since been closed by party walls of the most massive kind. The extraordinary agglomer ations to be found among the ruins are wonderfully curious ; slates, glass, and iron are fused into rough and picturesque masses, with all sorts of nondescript materials. The fire at the Tower of London filled all the curiosity shops with numbers of such rel►cs, but those to be found among the ruins of the great fire are still more wonderful and fantastic beyond description. Beneath some warehouses the charred rice lays in piles like coke, except that the indi vidual formation of each grain is perfectly repre sented by the charred cinder. Yesterday men were busily engaged in making salvage from the remains of Hay's wharfs. One lower floor was stored with a large quantity of raw hides, than which, when packed together, it is impossible to imagine anything more incombustible. To outward appearance very many of these have not suffered much, yet the intense heat, though it failed to burn has spoilt all. The very best of them, which seem to have escaped altogether, may be torn between the finger and thumb with as much ease as sheets of paper. Of the immense stores of sugar in this wharf, of course, nothing whatever remains save the sort of glaze it has imparted to the ruins beneath. Yesterday Mr. Henderson, the Super intendent of the South Brigade, received a compli mentary and very gratifying letter from Lloyds, enclosing him a check for 50 guineas. We have not yet heard of it, though, as a matter of course, we presume a still more liberal donation has been made to the widow of the late Mr. Braidwood. We should be wanting in our duty if we did not bear our highest testimony to the forbearance, energy, and great good sense with which the police, under Mr. Superintendent Branford, have dis charged their arduous duties from the commence ment of this disaster. Under circumstances of most uncommon difficulty, they have continued to keep the immenss concourse of idle spectators out of danger, and though, as the police reports show, they have received some rough handling from the mob in the discharge of this most necessary duty, they appear never once to have exceeded the limits of the strictest forbearance, and we have heard nothing but the highest commendation of their con. duct from all quarters. Having said this, we ma: now venture to intimate that we think it is their bounden duty to allow no ladies, under any circum stances whatever, to inspect the ruins in their pre sent dangerous condition. It may be very ungal lant to say so, but if there is any portion of the community particularly likely to get into danger on these occasions, and certain to be helpless when the peril comes, it is the ladies. Yesterday there were very many ladies, and groups of ladies standing in various parts of the partially cooled ruins, or walk ing about near walls which are expected to fall at any moment. 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Of all the lesson; which the war in the Crimea and the mutiny in India taught us, there is not one more emphatic than this, that henceforth the moral superiority o' nations must be upheld by the knowledge and use of mechanical appliances. A vague presentiment of this moat fundamental revo lution had long existed, but it had to struggle against apathy and deep-setted prejudice. It was necessary that we should pass :hrough a brief but sharp ordeal, whereby the true secret of our continued supremacy might be brought aome with irresistible force to the most reluctant mind, that all might brace them selves anew for a mare determined progress in the great and glorious career that is expanding before us as a nation. In the Crimean war we saw, with certainty, where the power of the Czar first gave way. The telegraph and rail were the missing links in his armour. He but built fortresses of colossal magnitude, collected resources astonishing from their variety and abundance, his generals were selected with consummate skill, while aver the persons and property of his subjects he exercised unlimited control—but all these were as nought to the Czar in his extremity, and the giant aggressor was, by a handful of invaders, with telegraph and steam in connection with the bases of their operations, de feated and humiliated on the soil of holy Russia herself. Could the ruler of all the Russias have whispered his commands with lightning speed through the length and breadth of his dominions, and transferred his instruments to any point with that celerity and certainty which science places at our disposal, how changed might have been the course of events ! - The want of roads, railways, and steamboats in India previous to the mutiny, was deplored by all acquainted with the interior of that magnificent region, and although the earliest and most constant advocates for their extensive introduction were officers in the service of the East India Company, still that great corporation remained deaf as an adder to the voice of those demanding the perform ance of a duty of pressing and paramount necessity. The timely introduction into India of improved means of communication by land and water would not only have rendered us independent of America for cotton, of Russia for hemp and flax, seeds, corn, and other products, and of China for tea and silk, but would have been our best security against ag gression from without, and rebellion within our borders. The great corporation—with kings foi its subjects and princes for its vassals, and which ruled over a tenth portion of the human race only with too much mildness—was blind to the great State necessity of improving, on a scale commensurate with the vast interests at stake, the means of communication—the germ of decay was imprinted on the sceptre—lchabod was written on the wall—Leadenhall-street ceased to reign ; but we are glad to find that the far-seeing wisdom of the policy of ancient Rome, which dictated a vast expenditure of labour in making roads, by which its widely-separated dependencies might be connected, is universally acknowledged by modern statesmen, and it is to be regretted that their appre ciation of it has not led to a more perfect imitation, in this particular, of the model state of antiquity. However, railways in India have been for some time past pushed forward with vigour; and what is to be done next is the establishment of a more nafe, certain, and rapid means of communication with that country. Looking with most friendly eyes on the move ments of France in Egypt and in Syria, the impor tance of having an independent route to India was never more pressing. Militarily and governmen tally Napoleon has placed his foot on the empire of the Solymans. Whatever eventually becomes of the Suez Canal, there is no doubt that, while the French Emperor is constructing it, he holds in his hands our communications with India, and no one doubts that he does so at this moment. He may evacuate Syria, but the election of a Christian go vernor, the continuance of the old system of propa gandism, and the construction of a road by a French company from Beyrout to Damascus, now ap proaching completion, will suffice to hold the Eas tern policy of England in check, and enable him to menace at will the only other short route to India. It is not to be forgotten that the eagle eye of the first Napoleon selected in 1812 the Euphrates route, when desirous of overthrowing our power in the East, and that it was the Russian war alone that turned him aside from following the steps of Trajan and Julian, se that he might, in the words of Gene ral Chesney, "occupy and fortify Bussora, as the pivot of combined operations against India." If England is to hold her old place in the world, she must establish a rail way by the Euphrates route. If France will have the Suez Canal, and the road from Beyrout to Damascus, it becomes doubly im perative upon us to secure from the Sultan a right of way to our own dominions. Lord Palmerston, years ago, said that he and his Cabinet were in favour of the route, mud would continue to support it. Lord Stanley and others of the late Govern ment approved of it. The Earl of Shaftcobury was its advocate both on political and philanthropic grounds. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe lent his powerful influence with the Turkish Government. Major-Generals Chesney (the explorer of the route) andrer of Kars, Sir Justin Sheil, and Sir Bartle Williams,r Fe, publicly gave their adhesion to a plan which would, according to Mr. Andrew 1. Save 1,000 miles in distance, and half the time now occupied, between England and India. 2. Both its termini being on open seas would be easily defensible by England. 3. The Euphrates railway, taken in conjunction with the system of steam transit now being esta blished in the valley of the Indus, from Kurrachee to Lahore and Delhi, the large force stationed in the Punjaub and Upper India would be rendered of incalculable importance , by steamers in the Persian Gulf uniting the line of the Indus with that of the Euphrates ; for, In that case, any hostile force ad vancing towards the Indus would not only be met on the line of that river, but would be threatened along the seaboard of the Per6itn Gulf and the line of the Euphrates and Tigris in the flank and rear. 4. The Indus and Euphrates thus united, the dangerous isolation of Persia would be at an end, and the invasion of India by Russia or any other power would cease orcin to be speculated upon. 5. By the Euphrates eailway Persia would be afforded a short, cheap, and easy outlet on the Medi terranean for her trade with Europe, in place of the existing long, expensive, and difficult route to the Black Sea by the borders 4f Russia, and which is entirely at the mercy o! that power. 6. The resources of England being made promptly available on any emergency, Chatham and South ampton would become the bases of operations as easily as Kurrachee or Bombay, and would enable this country to anticipate or repel, whether in Europe or Asia, any Mack with the rapidity and advantages of an irreastible force. 7. On an emergency in India, troops from Eng land could be landed at Kurrachee in two weeks, and in little more than another week, at Lahore. 8. The route proposed is at once the shortest and the easiest between England and India ; the whole length of the valley of the Euphrates is so free from impediment, that it would seem as if Providence had especially ordained it to be the great highway of nations between the East and West.—Army and Navy Gazette, of Jane 22. MURDER AND A 7 lEMPTED SUICIDE. Yesterday a rumour spread in the neighbourhood of King's-cross that a married woman residing at 15, Northampton-street, near the Old St. Pancras road, had murdered her three children by poison, and had subsequently by the same means effected self-destruction. It proves to have been so far well founded. The unfortunate woman, Jane Palethorpe, aged 37, occupied the first floor back room of the house, 15, Northampton-street. She had three children, Richard, aged 6, Thomas 4, and Harriet 2, whom she supported by slop work, for which at the most she derived a miserable pittance of ss. a week ; her husband had deserted her about twelve months since. On Monday evening some one in formed her that her husband had a few days ago sailed to America with another woman. This ap peared to have a depressing effect upon her mind, as was observed by her fellow lodgers on Tuesday morning. She went out and returned home shortly before 11 o'clock, and nothing more was heard either of her or her children during the day. Shortly after 6 o'clock Mrs. Falkner, the lodger in the front room, not having heard anything of the mother or children for so long a period, made her owing Mrs. Palethorpe a penny an excuse for knocking at the door, which she did several times, but, receiving no reply, she tried it and found it locked on the inside. - This made her knock the louder, but still without effect. She called her hus band, and, after his repeating it some time, they hoard the faint voice of the elder child say his mother and the other children were very ill. They called to him to come and try and unlock the door, as they found the key was in it ; this he ultimately succeeded in doing. On entering a piteous sight presented itself. On the bed lay the unfortunate mother perfectly insensible, although still alive, with the youngest child, Harriet, clasped to her breast in a similar condition, and the boy Thomas lying by her side apparently lifeless. There were evidences of some one having vomited on the floor, and on being questioned the eldest boy said that his mother gave them something out of a bottle, and that when she went to sleep it made him sick. An alarm was raised, and Mr. H. Sutherin, surgeon, of Aldenham-terrace, as also the police, were sent for, and arrived in a few minutes. The moment Mr. Sutherin examined the mother and children he pro nounced them to be labouring under the effects of some narcotic poison. The child Thomas was found in a comatose state, and, notwithstanding all efforts to rouse and restore him, expired in about three quarters of an hour. By dint of strong applications the unfortunate mother and the female child were brought to a state of consciousness. In the mean time Mr. Skinner, assistant-surgeon to St. Pancras Infirmary, arrived with a stomach-pump and other appliances. As soon as the mother was sufficiently recovered some questions were put to her, and she confessed that she had administered laudanum to the children and taken it herself. On search being made two bottles were found, one having thereon a label on which was written " Laudanum, poison." The other had the label scratched off, but both had contained that poison. It was subsequently ascer tained that the unfortunate woman had purchased some of the drug at the shop of Mr. Griffiths che mist, of Albion-place, King's-cross, but it is believed that she had purchased small quantities of it at different chemists, and had then placed them alto gether in the two bottles discovered. In consequence of the death of one of the children, Inspector Stokes, of the S division of police, said he should feel it his duty to place the mother in custody. She was, however, as well as the little girl, in so prostrate a condition that the removal of the family to the Infirmary of St. Pancras Workhouse was deemed by Mr. Sutherin indispensable. They were, in the course of the evening, removed there, and a constable was appointed to sit in the ward during the night. The deceased child was removed to the dead-house of the workhouse. On making a search in the apartments a letter was found addressed to Mrs. Kent, of Northampton, which stated that she (the unfortunate woman) was in great distress ; that she wanted all her goods sold, as she was about leaving this world, and the pro ceeds she wished to be applied towards paying her bread bill and other little incidental expenses. The unfortunate woman was yesterday in too prostrate a condition to be taken before a police magistrate, but she is gradually recovering, as is also the female child and the elder boy, whose sick ness, no doubt, saved him. Mr. Murray, the coroner's officer, has been com municated with, and although the poor woman will not be able to attend for some days, the inquest will, it is stated, be held to-morrow. THE KINGS WOOD MURDER. It was stated in the Mansion-house police report which appeared in The Sun of Monday that a Ger man, who gave the name of Augustus Saltzemann, had been taken into custody and remanded.on a charge of being found in a house with intent to commit a felony, suspicions being entertained that he is Johann Karl Franz, whose papers were found in the room where Mrs. Halliday was murdered. Mr. Superintendent Coward, of the Surrey con stabulary, in whose district the crime was corn mittcd, and Inspector Whicher, and Sergeant Robinson were communicated with on the subject. They had been actively engaged up to yesterday afternoon, when they arrived at the conclusion that the right man was in custody. It has been clearly ascertained that on the Wednesday evening after the committal of the murder on the Monday night, two men went to the Commercial lodging-house, in Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, and requested to be accommodated with abed for the night. As the establishment is governed by the provisions of the Common Lodging-house Act, Mr. Poole, the manager, asked them their names. The younger of the two, who, like the more youthful of the two seen at Kingswood, was the only one able to speak English, said, "Is that usual ?" Mr. Poole said, " Yes, it is ; we always take the names of our lodgers." The young man then said, " My name is M'Donald. Mr. Poole thought it strange that a person who was evidently a foreigner should bear such a name, and he regarded them with some amount of suspicion. Turning then to the other man he said, " What is your name ?" and, appa rently taken off his guard, the man replied in very broken English, " Franz." Upon this the one speaking English pushed him aside and said, " He don't understand your language—his name is Franz Fosser." They remained in the lodging-house up to the following Saturday morning, when the one who could speak English, and is supposed to be Adolph Krohn, whose signature appeared to the beg ging letter sent to Mdlle. Tietjens, went out at an early hour to purchase, as he stated, something for breakfast. He never returned, and it is supposed that while he was out he saw an account of the in quest in that morning's papers, became frightened, and at once decamped. The police have reason to imagine that he went away with a Jew named Morris, who hawks sponges in the streets. It is but fair, however, to state that ) no suspicion attaches to Morris that he is in any ' way connected with the murder. He is described as being about 35 years of age, having full black whiskers. His companion—the man "wanted"— appears to be about 20 years of age, short in stature, with black curly hair, little or no whiskers; dressed, when last seen, in black frock-coat, speckled trousers, and coloured shirt. It is necessary to give publicity to these descriptions, as they may lead to the detection of the murderer. _ _ When the police first supposed that the man in custody, who gave the name of Saltzmann, was really Franz, he was interrogated as to his previous movements, arid he made some very startling ad missions. He was asked, through an interpreter, where he had come from. He replied, " From the country." His questioners next inquired with whom. He said with a young man, who had left him. " Where had he gone ?" He did not know, nor did he know what part of England he had been travelling in. He was asked where he came from, and somewhat startled the police by saying, "From Konigstein "—the very place named in the book. I He also said he had been only a few weeks in this country. Some one then asked him who had been to Mademoiselle Tietjens, and he said he did not go ; he only went with his companion, who showed him a letter the lady had given him. He was next asked what kind of letter it was, and he said it was one giving his companion a passage to Hamburg, the lady promising to pay all the expenses ; all this corroborating, in a remarkable degree, the facts in the possession of the police. Various persons who had seen the two Germans in the neighbourhood of Rei gate were summoned to London. Among these was a person named James Bashford, the parish constable and a grocer, residing at Chipstead near Reigate. Tic arrived in town yesterday afternoon, and stated that about one o'clock on Monday, the 10th inst., he went into the Cricketers Inn, at Reigate (the house where it is known the two Germans slept the night prior to the murder). He saw two foreigners in the taproom, one of whom could speak English, and the other converged in a foreign language whenever ho was addressed by his companion. While Mr. Bashford was invoking his pipe the former went out and purchased some mutton, which he brought in and placed in a pot to cook. He was left alone with the other man for a consider able time, and had every opportunity of becoming acquainted with his features and dress, and when Sergeant Robinson asked him if he could identify the man he said, "Yes, out of thonsamls.', Upon flashford's arrival at Newgate yesterday a fter- Mr. noon the prisener was placed in the yard with about a dozen other persons, and Mr. BaShford pick requested to look through an iron grating and pick The course out any one he knew in the yard. adopted was most fair; no suggestion was made as to which of the group was the suspected person, and no one was with Mr. Bashford except Mr. Jonas, the Governor of Newgate. At the first glance Mr. Bashford pointed out the prisoner as the man in whose company he had remained an hour at the Cricketers. He said he could not pos sibly be mistaken ; he was positive the man he had pointed out was the same person. The next person introduced to look through the grating was Mary Pitcher, who keeps a brush and basket shop in High-street, Reigate. She stated that between two and four o'clock on the day of the murder two men came into the shop, and one asked for some packing string. She showed him several balls, and after a caretul selection he paid 2d. for one, and they both left. When they spoke together it was in a foreign language. The man in the prison yard answered the description, she.said, of the one who did not speak English. Mary Elsey, her servant, was next produced. Upon being questioned, she said she clearly recol lected two men coming into the shop for some string. She said was in the parlour, and, hearing a conversation going on in the shop, she came to the door. She distinctly saw the men, and should know them again. She was asked to look through the grating, and at once identified the prisoner as one of the men she had seen in the shop. She said that she entertained not the slightest doubt upon the subject. Mrs. Sayers, the landlady of the Cricketers, also looked at the group of men in the yard, but could not recollect positively that any one of them was one of the two men who slept at her house on the night before the commission of the murder. In all the above instances the identification was established by the man's features. They were then questioned as to his clothes. They described them, and the description agreed in every particular with those worn by the prisoner ; in fact, one of the per sons who had been brought up to identify him re marked that they were the very clothes he had on on the day of the murder. Although the man in custody rather answered the description of the one who did not go to Made moiselle Tietjens, the police deemed it advisable to procure the attendance of that lady at Newgate, in the hope that she might have seen him from the window waiting in the neighbourhood for his com panion. Mademoiselle Tietjens, who evinces the greatest anxiety to assist the police in tracking the murderers and bringing them to justice, at once assented to the proposal that she should see the pri soner. She went to Newgate, but stated before seeing the man that he was not the person who waited upon her in reference to his being sent back to his native country. The police, therefore, believe the prisoner's statement that he only accompanied his companion to Mademoiselle Tietjens's residence. The prisoner was asked the name of the person with whom he had travelled about the country, and he replied that he knew him by the name of Samuel ; and upon being further asked what trade he followed, he answered somewhat sharply, and evidently without thought, " He is a bone turner" —the trade by which the person writing to Made moiselle Tietjens described himself. The police being thoroughly confident that the man in custody is Johann Karl Franz, they last evening laid the facts before the autho rities, and it has been arranged that the prisoner shall be formally brought up this morning, and dismissed from custody for the charge on which he has been remanded, and he will be at once taken into custody by an officer in attendance on the charge of being concerned in the murder of Martha Halliday, and will be conveyed before the magi strates in whose jurisdiction the murder was perpe trated. It is proposed, in order to establish the identity of this person as being the owner of the book found near the head of the murdered woman, to send an officer to Germany, for the purpose of bringing over from Konigstein the official who gave the book, and also M. Wilhelm Bieuer, in whose service he was for 10 days in April last. Yesterday afternoon Capt. Hastings, the Chief Constable of Surrey, and Mr. Alcock, M.P., had an interview with the authorities at Scotland-yard, and being informed of the above important facts; expressed their gratification that the perpetration of this barbarous murder was at length likely to be traced to its right source, and the guilty parties brought to justice. LAW 121 , TELLIGENCE.—June 26. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Mr, Baron Martin and a Common Jury.) HEATH V. SPENCER AND ANOTHER.-KISSING THE MAID SERVANTS. This was an action for an assault under peculiar and extraordinary circumstances. The defendants pl.qaed first, not guilty ; secondly, that the plain tiff was trespassing on one of the defendant's pre mises, and that no more force bad been used than was necessary to remove him. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Byron, were counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Sergeant Parry and another learned gentleman for the de fendants. The plaintiff in this case was a clothier, carrying on business at Bishop Stortford, and the defendants were residents of the same town. The action arose out of the remarkable and extraordinary circum stances as detailed in the following evidence. Mr. Heath said—l am the plaintiff in this case, and am a clothier at Bishop Stortford. On the 12th of February last, about half•past seven o'clock in the evening, I called upon the defen dant Canning, for the purpose of receiving a small account that was owing to my father. He was smoking his pipe, and had a glass of grog before him. He asked me to have one with him, and I did so. The defendant said " I have got a very nice young girl, I will have her down, and you mind and be fast on her." (Laughter.) He rang the bell and accordingly the girl came into the room, upon which the defendant told her to sweep up the hearth. Whilst the girl was stooping down, the defendant kept touching her with his toe, and said " Here's a nice young girl who wants a husband, don't you—(laughter)—and the girl replied " Yes, but I can't get any one to have me." (Laughter.) Canning said, " Here's a young man who would be very glad to have you," and about two or three minutes afterwards left the room, and I and the girl remained in the kitchen. I gave her a kiss-- (roars of laughter)—and soon after Canning re turned, and said to the girl, "Hav'n't yen got a better fire up in the nursery ; take Mr. Heath up and show it to him." (Renewed laughter.) I went upstairs with her, and after we got up into the nursery she ran into another room and locked the door on her side--(laughter)—and I bolted it on m i n e. (Renewed laughter.) I returned down stairs and took my boots off to warm my f ee t, i t being a very . cold night. Soon afte r C ann i ng sa i d, " Listen, the girl is coming out, you go up and you will catch her." About that time the defendant's other servant came in, and also went upstairs tothe girl first spoken of. When they were both up there Canning again told me to go up. I did so, but did not find them. (Laughter.) I searched under the bed, and everywhere, but could not find her. (Laughter.) . Mr. 13yroa—So in fact you were soli. (Laughter.) Examination continued—Yes. I came down and found that Canning was gone. I looked for my boots, and found that they had been removed from where I had placed them, as also was my cap. I made the girls get me a pair of Canning's boots, and I was about to leave when the defendant (Canning) returned to the house with three men, named Spencer (one of the defen dants),' Hayden, and Marshall. I was sitting in a chair at the time. The defendant Spencer ran forward, saying, " Here he is—here he is." Hayden caught hold of me, and held me in the chair, whilst Spencer besmeared my face and hair with grease and soot. (Roars of laughter.) They then struck me about the face and body with the handle part of a horsewhip, knocked me off my chair, and whilst I was down they most brutally punched me with their fists and kicked me. In fact, they treated me too bad for a beast, much less a human being ; and the defendant Canning stood looking on all the time, and never interfered to stop them. I made my escape into the garden, where I was followed by the defendant Spencer and Hayden, who threw me twice, and I heard them say, " Let's get him under the pump." (Laughter.) I then got into the street, and was followed by them, flogging me with a horse-whip. The next morning I was one mass of bruises. I had two black eyes, a scar on the side of my face, my ear was cut, and was obliged to have my hair cropped rather closet' than usual in order,_ to get the grease and soot out of my hair—(laugh ter)—and ter)—and the little whiskers and moustachtems my face na s . face I was obliged to shave off before I could clean. (Roars of laughter.) Subsequently apology, attorney wrote to the defendants for an defendant but they returned no answer, and the Spencer, who is a photographer, , photographeddow, (Laughter.) letter and exposed it in get m y d i a e i._—(roars of laughter) My boots on the following day 9 1 were stuck on a pole, gh the town. __theayndemtphleoyyewd were e ie e p r u ie b d lic t way different 1 ,., Ai r Sergeant Parry —I am (Re newed laughter.) t ein w . a! Cross 2a years of age. Whilst crier--(roars u the ;than to kiss or tickleh towards the girls Cross-examined n - e j ve - r behaved any • neverbehaved to the girls in any kissed both of them. out of the room I indecent manner. I put a ladder against their bed a pair of boots to g o h ome with, but I TOM window and threatened to smash it if th ey di d not give ma did not threaten to do so if they would not let me come into their room. They came down and gave `me a pair of Canning's boots. M rs. Rirwood (the mother of ono of the &ids) did 11o t t h regen to pro - - TILE BUILDERS' STRIKE. The committee of the masons' society yesterday received a reply from the council of the Society of Architects to the memorial sent to that body on Monday last, offering to submit their case to the arbitration of the council. In their reply the coun cil say they are willing to take upon themselves the responsibility of arbitrating on the question, pro vided that both parties agree to refer to them, and he bound by their decision ; that they have commu nicated with the master builders, but have not as yet received any reply. The building trade being very brisk throughout the country, great numbers of the London m asons on strike have, we are informed, drawn their tra velling cards, End left for country jobs. About 30 left yesterday, Ind altogether upwards of 200 have left London. A. deputation from the bricklayers' committee hail an interview with Mr. Myers yesterday, at his counting-house in the York-road, for the purpose of ascertaining from that gentle man whether ae intended to abide by the decision said to have been come to by the meeting of mas ters on Monday. They were answered in the affir- mative. Later in the day, Messrs. Cubitt's and most of the other large firms posted up public notices at their works in conformity with the resolution re ferred to. The bricklayers' society have issued a notice call ing their men off on Monday morning from all jobs where the hourly payment is offered t. , ) them. 'fhe carpenters hold a delegate meeting of their trade this evening, whon the course they shall pursue will be decided upon. The plasterers will meet on Fri day evening for same purpose. It appears that the purchasers of the I ndia - h ouse for £155,000 were Mr. Tite, M P., Mr. Heywood, Mr. Kennard, and one or two other capitalists. The intention is to apply the site in supplying the groat want in the city of large accommodation for public companies, rooms for public meetings, &c. A hope is expressed that it may be possible to a?are the portico, which, although not a first rate specimen of taste, is looked upon as a creditable work of the period, while the sculpture in the pediment possesses considerable interest, secuteme for indecent behaviour towards her daugh ter. She threatened to prosecute Canning for doing so. I went up stairs and brought down some of the girls' dirty clothes, and amongst them was a crinoline. (Laughter.) Mr. Sergeant Parry—Did you put it on i (Re newed laughter.) Witness—l did, and danced in it, and very well I looked in it too. (Roars of laughter.) The de fendant (Canning) is a relation of mine, and the following day at his request I bought tvi o dresses for him to give to Birwood's mother to keep her quiet. Elizabeth Birwood, one of the girls referred to, said the plaintiff had not taken any liberties with her. He had kissed and tickled her, but nothing more. (Laughter.) In her cross-examination she admitted that the plaintiff had caught bold of her leg—(laughter)— but she did not think much of that. (Laughter.) The plaintiff's father and brother were called to prove the state he was in on his return home from the defendant's, and this closed the plaintiff's case. The defence was that the plaintiff was the worse for liquor on the night in question, and had behaved in his excitement in a very indecent manner to wards the defendant's (Canning's) servants, upon which he ordered the plaintiff to leave, but he refused to do so, and he then fetched some people to put him out, being too ill to do so himself. Mr. Canning, one of the defendants, was called and said—On the night in question the plaintiff' called at my house, and asked if my wife was at home. I told him no, that she was gone away from home, and would not be at home for some days. I asked him to come in and sit down, and he did so. Soon afterwards the plaintiff said, " Have you got the same two girls now as you had some time ago ?" I said, " Yes." He asked me if I had that "little black-eyed one," and I told him I did not know what colour her eyes were, be cause I had never noticed them—(laughter)— but she would be down soon to sweep the hearth up, and shortly after she came into the room. In a few minutes afterwards I left the room, and upon my return I saw the girl run ning up stairs, and the plaintiff seemed very much confused. I asked him what he had been doing, and he said, " Nothing." I told him that he had, and ordered him out of the house, which he refused to do, and said he would " have a kiss if he could get nothing else," and ran upstairs after the girls (Mary. Ann Nash having come in by that time), and I de termined to turn him out. I went up to Mr. Spen cer's house, and on our return we met with three other men, who agreed to come, and look out and. see that it was all right. When we got into the house the plaintiff got up in a rage, flourished the poker about, and said he would strike us with it. Upon that Spencer wrested it from him, and in the scuffle they fell. I did not see Spencer black the plaintiff's face. I never struck him. I never en couraged the plaintiff in abusing the servant girls. Cross-examined by Mr. Hawkins, Q.C.—I never touched the girl when she was sweeping up the hearth. I had had some rum and water that night. I had three or four glasses. Mr. Hawkins—Who got it for you; was it the little black-eyed one ? (Laughter.) Witness—l do not know whether she has black eyes or not. I never looked. (Laughter.) Mr. Hawkins—Now Mr. Canning do not be afraid. Mrs. Canning is not here you know. Now just scratch your head, and think if it was not the little black-eyed one. (Roars of laughter.) Witness—l do not think she did. I think I got it myself. But it would not matter if Mrs. Canning were here. (Laughter.) Mary Anne Nash said—l am a servant in the de fendant Canning's employ. On the night in ques tion I met the plaintiff in the street. He asked me if my mistress was at home. I told him no, but my master was. Upon my return to the house I went upstairs to my fellow servant Elizabeth Birwood. She told me that the plaintiff had been running after her. Some time afterwards he came upstairs and. asked to be let into the room, saying, if he could not get anything else he would have a kiss. (Laughter.) We made no answer, and the plaintiff then got a ladder, put it against the wall, and climbed up to the bedroom window. He said if I would not kiss him he would kiss the candle,and blow it out. (Laughter.) At the same time he fell or jumped off the ladder, and he then came up to the door, and asked us to come down, for he had broken his collar-bone, upon which we went down and found it was r o such thing. He then asked us to sit upon his knee, which we refused to do. Cross-examined by Mr. Hawkins—The plantiff behaved very rude to me. Mr. Hawkins—By the bye, he disturbed your crinoline ? (Laughter.) Witness—Yes, he did, and he put it on; (Roars of laughter.) I did not laugh at him when he had it on. I told him to leave it alone. (Le.‘ , ghtPr .„) I Wtls not present when the assault took place. went into the other room. William Spicer, the other defendant, was called, and accounted for the soot coming on the plaintiff's face by his (witness) catching hold of the poker to defend himself from being struck, and afterwards, when they fell, the plaintiff bit him, and he pressed. his hands against the plaintiff's face to make him desist. This was the defendants' case. The jury were locked up for some time, and upon their returning into court were discharged without agreeing to any verdict. COUNTRY MARKETS. SHEFFIELD-JUNE 25. An average supply of English wheat to:day, with a very dull trade. The better descriptions sold at the prices of last week; inferior samples lower. t Flour rather lower in price. Beans and oats at former prices, with a dull in quiry. itedwheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels...24s Od to 28s Od White f) ~ ...25s Od to 28s Od ~ New red 'I, ...20s Od to 228 Od New white „ 5, ...22s Od to 26s Od , , Beans 7, ...16s Od to 18s Od Peas, per qr s4s Od to 55s Od Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, ~ 355 Od to 43s Od Oats 25s 6d to 34s Od . _,, Millers' pr i ces for flour-2s 2d, 2s 4d, and 2s 7d per 141 b. NEWARK--JUNE 26. Only a moderate supply of wheat at market to-day, the trade in which was quiet, at former prices; inferior sorts were is to 2 s p er qr decline. Barley inactive, and again. in favour of the buyer. Oats met a slow inquiry, at Is under late rates. Beans were scarce, and an inactive de mand. White wheat, new, 65s to 70s Red do. 6os to 65s Old white 6ss to 70s Red do. sos to 60s Barley, malting 38s to 42s Peas,.... Barley, grinding 29s to 339 Oats, old, .. 26s to 334 New do —s to —5 I Beans. . 56s to 58a I Beans,' new 44s to 48s ,40s to 50s. HULL—JUNE 25. A moderate supply of wheat to-day, which was in slow demand, at is to 2s lower than last Tuesday's prices. Barley met a limited sale at about is per qr cheaper. Oats and beans were in little request. Barley in less demand, at is lower. Peas in favour of the buyer. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 65s Od to 68s Od Old red New white .. ~ New red .... ~ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 63 s Od t o 68s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 618 Od to 62s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, bi 528 Od to 55s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Oct to 43s Od Grinding 32s Od to 36s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3BB Od to 40s Od Grinding Oats English, old Friesland Archangel and a nd D R u osl4ld a t° oBl4ld Swedish and Danish — 45 3 40 ;3 4 1 : : il . 0 °" . . ''4-d twod t t to o o ... . . . 445 4 4 ! s s s ss 0 0 0 06 c l i d dd 41s ss Od dd t 0 0 0 4526: Od Beans ....English, old, per qr i t g eh a, per st Os 14d to 0 1 . 1 5 i d d New pigeon New tick. Egyptian Peas G F r o in re d ig ti n ig . breakers ........... Tares .• • • Spring. ................... 37s Od to 38s Od Indian Corn ................. ....... 52s Od to 54$ Od Linseed, feeding ............... . 46s Od to 52s Od crushing . ................. 15 0 to £lO 0 0 Linseed cakes (Hull) .............. „ _ v b oto 10 0 0 Foreign ...... 00 to 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 BR(ampeesa.d.r.e! ............................... BIRTHS. the 25th inst., at P H. S . Archer, Esq., of a daughter. 101 House , evon PnLL A n gell-town, Brixton, the wife of the ° the irAvaltAlsr.—On the 26th inst., at St. John's Parsonage, Anc II B E w ; --- ; — ° o 7 l l; h t e h e H 2 o 4 n t h . Vaughan, B.C.', of a son. f R a ev so . n lll .D atthes: a o t o C d a p n en o e n g i eitee'w•Syrey, the wife of MARRIAGES. BERREY—CiassoLD.—On the 25th inst., at St. Michael's Church, Sto c k well-park, George A. Berrey, of Fen church-street, to M ary, d aug h ter o f t h e l ate J osep h Clissold, Esq., of Upper Tulse-hill. HART OPP—I - 101VE.—On the 20th inst., at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Captain Hartopp, of the Royal Horse Guards, the eldest son of E. B. llartopp, Esq., M.P., of Dalby Hall, Leicestershire, to Line, second daughter of the late Thomas Howe, Esq. DEATHS. DOUGHTY.—On the 22d inst., at Rose Bank Cottage, Sid mouth, Devon, Richard Doughty, Esq., formerly of Cam berwell, aged 85. GOLDSMITH.—On the 23d inst., at his residenee, Erskine street, Liverpool, Oliver Goldsmith, Esq., Assist.- Com ini-;sary-General, aged 66. LEE.—On the 21st inst., at Norwood, near Southall, Mid dlesex, Stephen Henry Lee, Esq., late of Finsbury place, aged 47. WYATT.—On the 20th inst., at Stoke House, Alverstoke, John Wyatt, Esq., aged 85. LONDON . Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Caw, No. 112,Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, IA the coiwty of Middleser s Whurglay, Jute 27, 1801. J