The Sun. — London, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Air. J. B. Backstcne. THIS EVENING, the performances will eornmene• with a new Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, .tc. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by TAKING BY STORM. Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with THE SCAPEGOAT. Cccurcence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris, THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss M. Harris. To conclude with AS YOU LIKE IT. Rosalind, Miss Mary Provost ; Jaques, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with THE TWO POLTS. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart." First week of " The Pretty Horsebreaker." THIS EVENING, and during the week, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with (2d time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Redford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CAYTERBURY - HALT, CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including Verdi's new Opera. THE BAL MASQUE (first produced in England at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Ur. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double r e, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr. Wod and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the followinz favourites: —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollinoworth ; the NERVES, by Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGITMANS. T H E 0 X FORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. This noble building being now completed, its architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus) 'from "Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both operas by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghm ans * 3 1 I n s : Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French(the_ . Nerves), W. li. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 7h. 46m.—Afternoon, Bh. 16m. To-:•.tonßow.-Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 30m. THE WEATHEIL—Sux OFFICE, JULY 16, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 71 —highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAnomETER-29.75. WIND—S.-S.-Westerly; light, with variable weather— rain and sunshine. Heavy showers at two o'clock. 4 `P t r yj „,..:?......„....i.,47,:: , ~...‘ -,,,;., :e . , q , 7 .. -.. .1: ,, ,:: - 4„. , - ••'• ' .. =* 7,..6 re , ..:A.A: ' , ,„___ .._.')% 6: 7" ) .: - 7 , ' : ;,<,f - . 4," ,' • 0 , ' "' ' . b - f - i ' ,l,t - ~ - ' ' 7, 7 t,' _ -- vr ---7— ., -t.. - -. - •tiz , THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1881. What number of humiliations will' be sufficient for the PALMERSTON Cabinet. It has had one great and hardly-won party triumph this year. It has carried Paper Duty Repeal. It had brought the question into the position that vindication of the financial rights of the Commons was even more important than diminishing the injustice of the Income Tax, and that argument it certainly was which carried the Repeal, for, beyond all question, another penny less Income Tax would have done more for trade, and more towards just taxation, than removing an unfelt duty. But with this vic tory, requisite only to rectify their errors of the past year, their day of triumph was over. Ever since, the Opposition has been in the ascendant ; they have even gained the vote of the Whigs' own Speaker. On the measure, the only thoroughly liberal measure of the session, which the principal 'inisters, with one exception, supported; the Opposition balanced the supporters of Government; and Mr. SPEAKER sided with the Opposition. Perhaps it is hardly fair to term the defeats of Mr. LOCKE KING'S and Mr. BAINES' bills defeats of the Ministry ; because, though, for decency's sake, they voted with members who simply took parts of their own bill, and parts of which, too, were the very conditions on which they took office, yet it was well understood that Ministers wished to commit infanticide when another took charge of their last year's nurslings, but preferred it should be done by the hands of others. Still these Wed nesday victories of the Opposition proclaimed to all the world that the Opposition could now largely oatvote the Ministry on the terms of the Willis's Rooms Contract, and could so far show that, if the bond were but fairly insisted on, the two parties ought to change sides or Ministers to dissolve Parliament. Ministershave indeed on the Reform Question been convicted of insincerity. With the least tincture of that quality in regard to Reform, with the least sense of honour, they would have resigned their seats last year or insisted on the Reform Bill passing both Houses under penalty of an appaal to the country. Their weakness and the strength of Toryism were abundantly shown when they did bring out their little Bill on Representation —we cannot say on Reform —to allot the four seats forfeited by the two delinquent boroughs. The bill itself showed the white feather. It took members from disfranchised boroughs, and without more ado gave half of them to counties. But they were not to be let off so 2asily, The Tories determined to have a majority of the seats ; they would have three out of four at least. A vast new metropolitan borough therefore, with every claim to independent representation, was refused a member. There was every proba bility he wood be a Liberal. They agreed, there fore, at a formal Tory council of war, that two Tory members for Yorkshire were to be insured by separating the part under the control of the land lords from that inhabited by the free sons of manu facture and commerce; and thus, with South Lan cashire, which now returns two Tories, making tolerably certain of three more votes for the Opposi tion. To be sure, Mr. GLADSTONE, half Tory, half Liberal, is talked of for South Lancashire. He may succeed there, or he may not ; but then, on the other hand, we can be by no means sure that Birkenhead may not be as Conservative as Liver pool, and give Lord DERBY another vote. Even this triumph was not enough ; but much as the Government wished for one Yorkshire town for the new head polling place, the Tories determined to have another, and succeeded too in their resolve. Then came the Attorney-Generalship and its in cidents. Sir RICHARD BETHELL, of course, must now take the wcolltick—and then what was to be done ? The Solicitor-General had unanswerable claims, but another had, it seems, been thought of. Would not some infirm judge make way for the tnernber for Darhain ? Alas ! they all were comfortable in their seats, and preferred ser vlco to penions, earning the public money to taking it for nothing. So poor Mr. Solicitor- General, after every effort to shelve him, took the post which by etiquette belonged to him. But the capitulation to Toryism was now avowed. - Mr- ROUNDELL PALltmt was, he told us, sought up by the Government, for he did not go a wooing to it ; and he explicitly told those whom by courtesy we call the electors of Richmond, that he had not swerved from his w ell-known principles —principles which had hitherto led him alway s to - vote in oppo sition to the Libe rai party—and that he was not expected to do so. Thus we had a voluntary sur render to- Toryism, For high as Mr. PALMER stands at the Chancery bar, we need not say that there are thoroughly liberal, and competent law yers in the house, to whom the " spoils of office," as our quarrelling cousins say, consistently belong. The Opposition have indeed neither gained nor lost a vote on most questions by the appointment, but on Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER'S own testimony they have the pleasure of seeing an unconverted Tory joining the Ministry. Next came the University Elections Bill. The Government objected, certainly with reason, to what is nothing better than a modified system of proxy voting at elections. We have enough, in all conscience, of that irrational practice in the House of Lords. Bat the Tories completely defeated Minis ters, and had it all their own way. It is not, to be sure, very likely that the University w ill ever again, at least not till " the good time coming" re turn any one even so liberal as Mr. GLADSTONE; but a proxy system, by which immense influence is put into the hands of the always Tory residents, and by which all the professional narrow-minded. ness of the country can easily back the narrow mindedness of the resident University men, makes the Tories absolutely secure of four votes for the mediaeval policy. Last night Ministers had another humiliation ; whether it will be their last this year, remains to be seen. In the Bill on "Offences Against the Person," Sir G. C. LEWIS had intended by a side wind to carry the old Conspiracy Bill, for which Lord PALMERSTON was so deservedly censured four years ago. It was cleverly done by the wording of a clause, the bearing of which was happily detected by the Opposition. Mr. HENLEY proposed and carried an amendment that a con spiracy to commit murder should be a misde»leanozvr, , not a felony. Non-legal readers would not think the difference important when the punishment for the offence was to be the same ; but there was the important difference, that, as the clause stood, the police could enter without a war rant the house of the accused party, could seize his papers, and procure evidence perhaps im plicating foreign patriots. In fact, the Emperor of the FRENCH would have gained all that we refused to do at his bidding. So strong was the case that the Government did not even venture on a division. This is the last humiliation of the Go vernment, and we may well ask, where is it to end? Will it be possible to meet again such a Parlia ment with the same Ministry ; and if not, are the changes now going on to issue in a substantially new Cabinet ? The example of Italy will not be lost upon either Poland or Hungary. It was only the other day that Italian unification was the veriest daydream in the estimation of European diplomacy. Yet there is Italy, if not already free from the Alps to the Adriatic, if not as yet quite One and Indivisible— at any rate so far on the road to those two wondrous consummations that each may be petty confidently regarded ere now as un fait accompli. The geo graphical expression sneered at not so very long ago by Prince METTERNICH, has been articulated at length, as the world has heard, with a different accentuation than perhaps was ever dreamt of in Prince METTERNICH'S any more than in HORATIO'S philosophy ! It has been an articulation through the horn of war, thiough the trumpet of victory, first of all by 200,000 armed Frenchmen, and afterwards by the combined voice of some 23,000,000 liberated Italians. " Italy" has now a significance it has never possessed before. Nay, the depth of its significance is appreciably indicated by the simple fact that VICTOR EMMANUEL has assumed an entirely new position in the gorgeous " roll of European Sovereigns whose names are inscribed upon the pages of the Almanack, de Gotha. His Majesty the Re Galantuomo then appearing no longer as King merely of Sardinia or King of Naples to boot [to (Italian) boot,]—but as KING OF ITALY ! England has recognized him as such—France has recognized him as such—Europe has looked on without interfering or attempting to interfere in the marvellous exploit of this stupendous political transformation. Having these historical facts visibly before us, it is impossible not to feel persuaded that sooner or later in Poland and in Hungary the example of Italy will prove, by a sort of inevitable necessity, contagious. Whenever a revolutionary movement has convulsed France by a rising of the Parisians— the shock has affected more or less powerfully the surrounding nationalities. It was so in the First, the great French Revolution. Particularly in the earlier epoch of that Revolution, between 1789 and 1793, down to the establishment of that effete Directory which was to prepare the way for the Great NAPOLEON'S Consular, and afterwards Im perial Government. It was thus, moreover, in 1830 upon the anniversary of the Revolution of July. It was thus, finally, in 1848 upon the outbreak of the Revolution of February. Directly the throne of France was overthrown—firstly, that of Louis XVI., secondly, that of CHARLES X., thirdly, that of Louis PHILIPPE, the King (absurd misnomer, as it turned out to be!) of the Barricades—other thrones in the surrounding capitals of Europe trembled to their foundation,or actually toppled over, other monarchs fell victims north, south, and east (not west !) to the contagion of revolt spreading from the direction of Paris among the insurgent populations. Bat—the example of Italy is calcu lated to act, it may be more tardily, but also far more effectively upon Poland and upon Hungary, than even the example of Paris has acted upon the different nations of Christendom. For the exploit jauisat:; the carried out b y th e I ta li ans, f i rst of all, w i th the Emperor of the FRENCH, an d a ft erwar d s the in spite o f Emperor of the French, is in in its very and whole characte r , precisely yre the e an v d ery b ac e h ai i • e in v g e: ment that comes home most directly, both to the Poles and the Hungarians. For, in point of fact, what is the example recently set by Italy and the Italians ? It is that of a nationcombining' its hitherto divided energies, bringing together its long scattered elements, uniting its est ranged portions into one grand and homogeneous whole, and there upon declaring its Unification and its political In-1 dependence. This, as all Europe knows, has been the passionate hope, the prayerful aspiration of unhappy Poland ever since the accursed day that witnessed the final act of her dismemberment. As to Hungary the work of unification is already there, is already accomplished--her enterprize resolves itself simply into tip.; vindication, for once and for all, of her political independence. But with Poland and the Poles the example presented to view, by the recent annals of Italy and the Italians, must infallibly prove eventually irresistible. Let Italy but consolidate, more and more firmly, her inde pendence and her unification—and the unification and the independence of Poland will follow as a necessary consequence. The deplorable events that have lately occurred in the ancient Capital of the Polish kingdom have only rendered more imminent the political resurrection of this long-buried nationality. Arising out of these melancholy occur rences there has now, very recently, appeared at Warsaw a long document, amounting to nothing less than a formal Bill of Indictment against the ' three great Robber Despotisms, by whose most infamous conspiracy Poland was murdered and dis membered. This document is issued in the form of "An Address to the Nation by the Inhabitants of Warsaw." Its preamble is remarkable. " Russia, Austria and Prussia," says the opening paragraph, " by their strength united in an unhallowed league, deprived Poland in 1791 of her political existence. These three Powers that divided our native land as a y still reign over us ; dismem bered the hands o f f ore i gn f oes w ho, prey Polandbetween is them, in though shades of difference be discernible in their conduct towards us, pursue as their common object the consummation of our national death. Our enemies sow seeds of discord amongst us, they foment divisions between landowners and tenants, they villify the Jews so as to draw on them the contempt of Christians, they endeavour to create hatred between the Poles and Ruthenes, though we are all children of the same soil—all Poles, all brothers. They endeavour to make us forget our mother tongue, and in order to render it less fami liar to us, they prescribe the German and Russian in our schools. Dreading the light of science they falsify and mutilate history, they throw obstacles in our way in the pursuit of knowledge, they have suppressed all our national universities, all our high schools ; they do not even allow us to found poor schools that are not wholly on the Government system and under Government control." After a great deal has been remarked in a similar strain, the Address then adds thus solemnly—" In the name of Poland, and for the love of Polish rights and liberties, we, the inhabitants of Warsaw, still covered with blood, our wounds still fresh and , gaping, address this appeal to all our fellow-countrymen, exhorting them to mutual confidence, love, and union. The peasants form the most numerous class in our country. If they enjoy the rights of landowners, national ideas and national enterprise will have a larger scope of action ; the organisation of the country, resting on a broader foundation, will acquire more strength, for the whole nation will be interested in its development. Let the gentry then endeavour to raise the peasantry to a proper level; let them show themselves experienced guides and affectionate brothers." In all the recommen dations addressed to the Poles by the inhabitants of 'Warsaw there is nothing of a revolutionary or inflammatory kind—notwithstanding all their late terrible provocations. The long suffering of Poland in truth is almost as amazing as its constancy. Both, let us rest assured of this, will, in the full ness of time, meet with their reward in the re vival of the Polish Nationality. A Kingdom of Poland for the Poles the world will yet see, as surely as it now sees a Kingdom of Italy secured to the Italians. The American papers and correspondents busy themselves of course in discussing the plans to be adopted by Congress, but they are only of use as shewing the resources of the country in regard to taxation. All seem to agree that tea, coffee, and perhaps tobacco and sugar, or rather their con sumers, must be made to bear the burden of the war. A tax of one per cent. on property would realise about £14,000,000 ; but it seems to be the general opinion that direct taxation, which must be sub mitted to if the war continues, will not be proposed in the first instance. It is supposed that they will at first be content with six er seven millions, which may be raised on the above-mentioned articles, and that they will endeavour to raise about £25,000,000 by customs and excise before they resort to direct taxation. These are the - views which seem to be popular, and in America the popular will must of course he fol lowed. On nothing ought it to be followed more than in the way in which the people propose to raise funds. It is for the Government to show them what is wanted ; it is for them to say in what way they will meet the demand. It looks well that at present taxation seems to be preferred to loans: If the war lasts we hope the country will still have virtue to avoid burdening posterity with the cost of this generation's quarrels. The impatience for military action is very great —so much so that General SCOTT is accused by some of being more of a Virginian than an American. It may be disastrous, should he be driven by popu lar clamour to act before he is fairly prepared for it. The Southerners have to a certainty erected many strong defences, the cannon which they were so absurdly allowed to find in such plenty in Norfolk Navy Yard affording an ample supply for that purpose. The General has by no means too many forces around Washington, if he ought to guard against any possible sudden bold move of the Con federates against Washington, and from all that we see his disciplined troops are hardly sufficient yet for any decided success, such as ought to attend a first move. From some accounts, too, which may be relied on, his commissariat is yet in very imperfect order. He is said to demand at least a thousand more waggons, and contractors in America do not seem superior to their class in other countries. An American writer himself says :—" Some reports represent their forces as demoralised, and utterly unfit for fighting, especially the Pennsylva nians; but I do not give them full credit, though it is true that the Pennsylvania troops have been most shamefully swindled by the contractors, hav ing received bad clothing, worse food, ane the worst of arms. The genius of roguery is indeed rampant just now, and Government is cheated in a style that would astound the most accomplished plun derers in Europe. What do yon think of a regi ment being in rags—literally in rags, and no metaphor—in 10 days after it had marched from home, and without having seen a single hour's active service? Such has been the fate of the Ist Massachusetts Regiment. It left Boston for Wash ington 17 days since, and for a week or more it has been ragged enough to excite the envy of all the scarecrows in the district of Columbia. The men will not parade except in their great-coats, and those covers of the sins of the contracting tailors are rapidly catching the disease of ragged ness from so very close association with the lesser habiliments of the poor fellows. Massachusetts sets herself up so stiffly as the model of all excel lence, that ill-natured people are not sorry at this opportunity having occurred to hit her hard, and to teach h er c h ar i ty. Others of her reg i ments have fared b a dl y, t h ough even t h ey wou ld not be see n While thing s are i n this state going through C tainly cannot move f ar i nto an nveGenemy'sl i t st h ecro t r h Ti t e To r 1 cy s e t . r. It is stated that Lord J. Russell upon the creation peerage will also be app o i n t e d a Knight of the G o f leis Garter. — Times. rt i er . Times. REPRESENTATION OF TIIE CITY OF LONDON. The announcement that Lord John Russell is to be raised to the peerage has caused some excitement in the City. Among the conservative party yesterday morning there was a strong desire to secure the services of ➢lr. Thomas Baring, at present M.P. for Huntingdon. The Lord Mayor is also spoken of as a possible candidate on the conservative side. On the liberal side Mr. Raikes Currie and Sir J. Stuart Wortley, formerly Recorder of London, are spoken of. THE GREAT GLOBE.—Yesterday the Great Globe, erected by permission of Government in the enclosure, Leicester-square, by Mr. Wyld, M.P., during the Great Exhibition of 1851, was finally closed. The building is forthwith to be pulled down, and the ground cleared. The statue of George I. is built into the centre of the building. It is proposed to have ornamental fountains in the square, THE r SUN„ LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1861 THE VACANT LORDSHIP OF THE TREASURY.— ' We have the best authority for stating that cur excellent county representative has not accepted the vacant Lord ship of the Treasury at the disposal of the Government. Rumours to this effect have been in circulation for several days, and although the people of Galway would rejoice at Mr. Gregory's elevation, yet they have so much confidence in him that they would not believe he would take office pending the unsettled state of the subsidy question. We have no hesitation in predicting, should he desire official employment, he will yet fill a higher post than a junior Lordship of the Treasury.—Galway Vindicator. THE ASSAULT CASE AT YATE.—The Rev. Mr. Smith, formerly of Clifton, whose sentence to penal servi tude for an assault on a man named Leach will be in the recollection of our readers, was dismissed from Portland convict prison a few days ago, and left Weymouth per train on Thursday week. The assault was committed in February, 1858.—Bristol Mercury. THE GREAT HORTON MURDER.—At the York Assizes, yesterday, the Grand Jury returned a true bill against Mr. William Randall Mackley, surgeon, upon the charge of the wilful murder of Martha Curtis, at Great Horton, near Bradford ; and also a true bill against the same prisoner for making a false statement touching her death. THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG FE➢iALE. —Yesterday Mr. Sergeant Payne, the coroner for London, resumed, at the Red Lion, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, the ad journed inquest respecting the circumstances attending the death of Ann Cole, aged 19, of No. 18, Elm Tree-court, Fetter- lane, whose death had been caused by poison and sr mysterious circumstances. Dr. S. C. Reed, of 205, Fleet skeet, now proved that an analysis of the contents of de ceased's stomach showed the presence of a large quantity of opium sufficient to cause death, but the other evidence did not show how it could have been administered, or if taken by herself where she procured it. She had had a quarrel with a young man some time before the fatal occurrence, but that was not shown to have severely preyed upon her mind. Ultimately the jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased came to her death from the effects of opium; but how she became possessed of it there was no evidence to prove." The inquiry then terminated. SHOCKING CASE OF CHILD MURDER.—Yester day Mr. Latigham, jun., deputy-coroner for Westminster, received information from Mr. Groom, summoning officer of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, of the discovery of a portion of the body of a new-born female infant, which was found near " "Whitehall-causeway," under the follow ing circumstances :—lt appears that on Sunday morning, as a man named Greg, who gets his livelihood by going up sewers to discover what treasure may be in them, or to pick up articles of value alongshore, was pursuing his labours, he came upon the leg of an infant, which had a part of the body attached to it, and which was within a few yards of the Whitehall sewer. He covered it over with some straw, with the intention of leaving it till the following day. He went there yesterday, and found the head and trunk of an infant, the head having been separated from the latter. By direction of the police the body was taken to the dead house of St. Martin's Church, where Mr. W. Bainbridge, surgeon, Suffolk-place, examined it, and said he believed it to be that of a female infant, and which had been recently born. He found that the head had been cut off the body with some sharp instrument, and that there were several cuts, with apparently a similar instrument, about the fore head. The abdomen had been ripped open, and the lungs extracted. This, he states, was done as if by a medical operator. Both legs had been hacked off; one of which has only as yet been found. THE SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT NEAR THE MARBLE ARCH.—An inquest was held on Saturday in St. George's Hospital, by Mr. Bedford, on the body of William Moore, aged 48, who was killed by the falling of a newly-erected cornice at 6, Great Cumberland-street. Evidence was given showing that the heavy rain hal caused the cornice to fall out upon the scaffold boards ; that the cornice was not suffi ciently balanced to hold its place without cement ; and that the scaffold was perfectly well formed, but was broken down by the weight of the cornice when it fell, in addition to the weight of various heavy materials placed upon the scaffold boards. The deceased was at piecework, and it was at his own request that so much material was placed on the scaf fold stage. The verdict was "Accidental death," the jury stating that, in their opinion, the accident had arisen through the work being done in the wet weather. They also recom mend that all builders, when engaged in repairing the ex terior of houses with area railings, should well board over the spikes. A subscription on behalf of the family, eight in number, of the unfortunate man, has been opened, Sir De Lacy Evans, owner of the house, having headed it by a donation of £6O, and Mr. Simpson, £25. FALL FROM A RAILWAY ENGINE.—At Ports mouth, on Friday, an inquest was held on the body of a young man named George Tibbles, who had for the last two months officiated as a clerk at Fareham Railway sta tion. It appears that on the previous night, or rather early on the same morning, the deceased got upon the engine of the mail train which leaves Portsmouth for London at 12.45 a.m. The train was in motion at the time, and from this this circumstance, coupled with the fact that the engine driver knew the deceased to be one of the employes of the company stationed at Fareham, he did not refuse to permit the deceased to remain there, although it was contrary to regulations, which it seems are as often disregarded as obeyed. The train had, however, proceeded only about a mile from the station, and was rounding the sharp curve near Fratton-bridge, when the deceased suddenly fell over the side of the engine. The driver instantly perceived him falling and caught hold of his leg, but was compelled to re lease his grasp, and the young man fell to the ground, the tender, passing over one of his legs, crushing it in a fright ful manner. The train was immediately stopped, and the driver and guard discovered the deceased lying on the six foot space. They bound up his bleeding wound and re turned with him to the station, whence he was removed to the hospital. The limb was amputated, but the young man died soon afterwards from exhaustion, caused by excessive hemorrhage. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF LIMEHOUSE STEAM SAw MlLLS.—Yesterday morning, between_ the hours of four and five, the inhabitants of Limehouse were kept in a state of excitement for several hours, in consequence of a large fire on the extensive range of premises, belonging to Messrs. Robinson, No. 4, Church-row, Limehouse, known as the Steam Saw Mills. The building in which the fire commenced was upwards of 100 feet long, by about 60 feet wide, filled with machinery, boiler, and steam engines, and at the time of the outbreak contained a vast amount of tim ber, mahogany, &c. The discovery was made by some per sons passing perceiving sparks issuing over the roof of the building. An alarm having been given, information of the disaster was despatched to the various London fire-brigade stations. By the time they arrived the firemen found thatthe entire building was enveloped in one body of fire, and after the engines were in operation the roof fell in with a tre mendous crash. A good supply of water being obtained from the mains of the East London Water Company, the engines got to work in first-rate style under the direction of Mr. John Bridges. This checked the further progress of the fire, but it was not extinguished until the premises were destroyed and the adjoining house a good deal damaged. EXTRADITION OF CRlMlNALS.—Yesterday a com munication was received from Sir George Lewis, the Home Secretary, by the magistrates at all the police courts in the metropolis, and the City of London, stating that instances having occurred in which police-officers had thought fit to apply, upon their own responsibility, to her Majesty's Minis ters and Consuls abroad for their assistance in obtaining the arrest or detention in a foreign country of persons charged with crimes committed in the United Kingdom, he (the Home Secretary) requested that it might be made known to the magistrates and police that whenever it is wished to pro cure the good offices of a diplomatic or consular agent abroad for such purpose, application must be made, in the first instance, to the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, in order that he may communicate with the Foreign-office upon the subject, if in his judgment the case is one which calls for the interference of the Government. He added that no diplomatic or consular agent will in future pay any attention to applications by police officers or other persons without express directions from the Foreign Secre tary. He also stated that the only countries between which and the United Kingdom treaties are now in force for the matual surrender of criminals fugitive from justice are France and the United States of America. In all other countries the assistance of the authorities can only be asked as a matter of courtesy between two friendly States. COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE-KEEPERS' BENE VOLENT SOCIETY.—The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the members and supporters of this institution was held last evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Lockyer, the president of the association. The pro ceedings were commenced by Mr. Rogers, the secretary, reading the report of the committee for the past year. Th e committee were happy at being able to congratulate the friends of the institution on the success which had atten ded their operations during that period. The funds were in a most flourishing state, the receipts for the last year exceeding those of the former year by nearly one hundred pounds, while the stock in the National Debt Office at the present time amounted to £3,839 7s. 7d., which produced £l4O per annum interest, with a balance in the treasurer's hands of £lO5 Is. 2d., making a total of £3,044 Bs. 9d., with all demands on the association paid up to the present time. The committee had also to congratu late the members on the steady increase in the number of subscribers, and that no applications for the benefits of the institution had been made during the past year. From the treasuret's accounts it appeared that the total receipts during the year had been 545 le. 4d., and the expenditure £443 Os. 2d., leaving a balance in the treasurer's hands, as stated in the report, of £lO5 Is, 2d. On the motion of Mr. Sher wood, seconded by Mr. Pilt, the report and the statement of accounts were unanimously adopted. The meeting then proceeded Air. Hay yri no t gf o Gt theh rthe c past eelection year, was t frweae stelectedw officers h f o s o e r the served ds as s current envtieyear.iprr.e vice-presi dent Rooke vice-president, Mr. Thos. Sherwood was re-elected treasurer, Mr. Rogers was re• elected secretary, and the committee and other officers having been appointed, the 7roceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chair. AIN% L rr: " 114 ' 711 S • -m ,f PARIS, Ras 16. The A' oniteur of to-day contains an Imperial de cree, modifying the import duties on foreign sugar, either refined or unrefined. The duties on sugar imported iu French bottoms are reduced to 30f. per 100 kilogrammes ; when imported from countries out of Europe, or else where, to 32f.; if imported by foreign vessels, or if coming from the West Indies, to 33f. ; and if from other parts to 32f. per 100 kilogrammes. The same decree also modifies the duties on the importation of coffee as follows :—The duty on coffee coming from the French colonies, from French establishments on the Western Coast of Africa, and in French vessels, is now 36f. per 100 kilogrammes ; if from other countries out of Europe, 50f. 40c. ; if in foreign vessels, 55f. 40c. per 100 kilogrammes. Modifications are also made in the import duties on crude Swedish iron in bars or masses ;if im ported in French bottoms the duty will be 7f. per 100 kilogrammes ; if in foreign vessels, 7f. 70c. The same decree orders that foreign sugars, un refined and imported from countries out of Europe by foreign vessels, are to be admitted into France with the benefit of drawback if re-exported. The premiums on the exportation of soaps are suppressed. VIENNA, JULY 16; Up to the present moment all that is known re specting the Conference bet ween4he Government and the Hungarian Deputation is,44tat the former demands that the Pragmatic Sanction should farm the basis of the relations between Austria and Hungary ; that the Constitution contained in the Imperial decrees of February should be considered as unalterable ; and that Hungary should be urgently requested to send her representatives to the Council of the Empire as soon as possible. It is asserted that the Hungarians, on their side, have positively given up all idea of a mere personal union between Hungary and Austria. FRANKFORT, JULY 15. Adviccs received here from Baden-Baden explain the motives which instigated Becker to attempt the assassination of the King of Prussia. He esteems the King of Prussia personally, but does not con sider him competent to deal w ith the German ques tion. A letter to this effect was found on Becker when he was arrested. He declares that he has no accomplices. TOULON, JULY 15. The naval division under Admiral La Capelle will sail shortly. It will visit the ports of the Channel and the ocean for instruction in naval evolutions. The Siamese Ambassadors will make an excur sion to London. TURIN, JULY 15. The Opinione of to-day announces that the resig nation of Count San Martino has been accepted, and that General Cialdini has been appointed in his place, with the title of Lieutenant-General of Naples. It is said that Count Cantelli will assist General Cialdini in the government of Naples. NAPLES, JULY 14. Several conflicts have taken place between the Royal troops and the brigands, in which the latter have suffered great losses. The Nazionale of to-day publishes a letter threatening the life of General Cialdini. INDIA. (BY TELEGRAPH TO POINT DE GALLE via TRIESTE.) CALCUTTA, JUNE 15. Mr. Laing's return to Europe on account of ill health is now fully expected. Heavy rains have fallen in Bengal. The young indigo plants are suffering in consequence. CHINA. SHANGHAI, MAY 18 (via TRIESTE). The report of the fall of Hankow proves td* be untrue. At Tientsin great confidence prevails as to the future prosperity of that port and Chefoo. Advices from Japan state that the relations of the Consuls with the Japanese Government were satisfactory. MELBOURNE, MAY 25 (via TRIESTE.) The following are the departures of gold ships since the last mail :—The Dover Castle, with 29,156 ounces, and the Sussex, with 31,933 ounces. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 15.—The market has been heavy, and prices are lower than on Saturday. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 65c. Railways have also slightly receded. The following were the last quotations :- 4/ per per Cents ... 97 45 Credit Fancier lll2 50 Do end month.... 97 55 Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 65 I Roman Bank Shares 2860 j Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 665 Spanish Threes 46 50 Do. Account 668 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1376 25 .. 1377 50 Northern Now ditto BB7 50 .. 888 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 967 50 .. 968 75 Geneva 3BO .. 382 50 Southern 567 50 .. 568 75 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard 505 .. 506 25 FATAL OCCURRENCE AT THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY HOTEL.—lnformation was received . yesterday by Mr. Wakley, the coroner for West Middlesex, of a deplor able instance of sudden death, under as yet unexplained circumstances. It appears that on Friday last a well dressed gentleman, seemingly of an aristocratic position, entered the Great Western Railway Hotel, Paddington, and ordered lunch. Immediately after be had taken his seat at the table his leaning position in the chair attracted attention, and he was found to have expired. The police have taken considerable pains to ascertain the unfortunate gentleman's identity, but have utterly failed in their efforts. He was attired in a black cloth frock coat, fins alpaca vest, tweed trousers, black satin stock, blue mixed worsted socks, on which were the initials J. M. P., and whits linen collar and black hat, on which also were the same initials. THE ALLEGED MURDERS BY A LIVERPOOL CAP TAIN.—The case of Captain J. Wilson, of the British ship Severn, was again entered into by the Liverpool magistrates yesterday, when some additional evidence as to the cruel ties practised upon Charles Jones was adduced. From the evidence of the surgeons it appeared that the treatment which Jones had received was calculated to accelerate death in the case of a man suffering, as Jones was, from scurvy and fewr. Mr. Bremner, solicitor for the prisoner, con tended that the evidence against Wilson was so confused end contradictory that it was not worthy to be relied upon, particularly in so grave a charge. It was impossible to be lieve that the captain had beaten the whole of the crew with a regularity and violence complained of, and yet that he had himself escaped uninjured from them. The court, however, under all the circumstances, decided to commit Capt. Wil son on a charp of manslaughter. It was then intimated that on the following day three other charges would be into—one of murdering William H e nderson while steward of the Express, a vessel which the prisoner had commanded before he was transferred to the Severn; ano ther, of so abusing a white seaman, named J. 'Williams ? as to cause him to jump overboard ; and a third, of hanging one of the crew up by his lingers, THE IBEX CH OCCUPATION OF .ROME. The Opinion Nationale, alluding to the anniver sary of the taking of the Bastille, observes that France is acting with respect to the new Kingdom of Italy strangely in contradiction to the principles of 'B9, opposed, as they are, to any interference with the efforts of a nation striking for liberty or endea vouring to consolidate its independence. Our con temporary, of course, alludes to the continued oc cupation of Rome by the French troops, which it asserts ought to be brought to a termination with out delay. The following is the language em ployed : " In the name of the great principles of 1789, in the name of justice, and of the sacred right of po pulations to chose the form of their Government, France has permitted Victor Emmanuel to realise the wishes of Italy, and to create national unity. France, England, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, and the Scandinavian States have recog nised the new kingdom. We desire to see it con solidated, and to develop itself in order and peace; but, by a strange contradiction, we interdict to it the most essential of all rights, that which Nature has engraved in the heart and conscience of all beings—the guarantee and protection of life—the right of self-preservation and of legitimate defense. We permit its bitterest enemies, those who wish for nothing so much as its ruin and its death, to establish themselves on its frontiers, and in the very centre of its provinces, to excite rebellion and foment civil war among its populations, to give it both in open day and in the dark repeated blows ; and when its elected King endeavours to ward off those attacks, to punish its enemies, and free Italy from them, he is checked, under pretence of religion, in his generous movement ; such long suffering as God himself would not exact from saints in Paradise is imposed on him, the asylum in which are assembled from all parts of Europe the aggres sors against him is declared inviolable, and in their favour is resuscitated the right of refuge which the middle ages, pious and bigotted, granted to churches and monasteries. A situation so strange cannot be prolonged. It is full of perils, and there would be risk by prolonging it to drive, if not the Italian Government, at least the Italian people, to extreme resolutions of a nature to compromise general peace. That is a truth which is evident to every one. The future of Italy and the triumph of liberal principles should be assured ; the Government of Victor Em manuel ought to be allowed to escape from the dead lock in which it stands ; and, for our part, we think that both the dignity and the history of France require us to hasten the desired solution with or without the co-operation of the other Catholic or Legitimist Powers. We, the sons of 1789, cannot in fact sacrifice the independence of 25,000,000 of men to the temporal power of the Holy See, and we can do so the less from the fact that the tem poral power of the Church has been formally con demned by the Gospel, by the Fathers, and by the Popes of the first centuries." t THE AMERICAN COTTON M4REET. (From Messrs. W. P. Wright and Co.'s Circular.) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1861. By the Europa at Boston, we were advised of sales, for the week ending 13th June, of 58,500 bales, without change in price. We are since in receipt of advices per Etna to 20th June, the sales for the week ending on that date, though not offi cially reported, were about 65,000 bales, without change in price, the market closing steadily. Trade in Manchester dull. Consols 891 to 891. Weather all that could be desired for the crops. Breadstuffs all cheaper. Business matters in this city began to assume a more cheerful aspect ; the stagnation in every branch which followed the preparations for war, gives way to the necessary activity in many depart ments created by the war. Trade with the " Great West" is reviving since the miserable currency so long endured is being replaced by one of gold. We think a slow but steady revival of business will soon be apparent in all the cities of the North, East, and West. No important movements of the troops on either side has taken place during the past week. Congress meet on Thursday next; it is generally expected that the hands of Government will be strengthened, and the war vigorously prose cuted very shortly. There is not, in our opi nion the slightest chance of any compromise. The advance yesterday, in the rate of exchange on London will tend to stop the further import of gold. The cotton business, except in this city, is over for the season. Our stock is low, and must be replenished, later on, from Liverpool ; an order for this market was forwarded by steamer on Saturday last. We have had a more active business in this market during the past week. Speculators have taken freely of desirable qualities. Spinners have also bought to a fair extent. Very little has been done for export. Holders have obtained very full and advancing prices, and we quote lc. per lb. higher than on this day week. Our stock is now re duced to so low a point that in a few weeks more holden will be able to dictate their own terms. The sales for the week are estimated at 9,000 bales. The clearances for the week have been—for Liver. pool, 398 ; Havre, 128 ; Bremen, 146. Total, 672 bales. TRANSIT COTTON.—No sales. There are samples on offer of about 3,000 bales, known to be already in warehouse in Liverpool ; they are held, how ever, above parity of the latest Liverpool value. SOUTHERN MARKETS.—Business is entirely at a stand at all the Southern ports. The blockade is now effectual at all points. (From Messrs. Neill Brothers' Circular.) RECEIPTS.—The movements of cotton at the South for the present season have become quite un important. The weekly receipts, even at New Orleans, do not exceed a few hundred bales. The total receipts at the seaboard amount to 3,451,000 ' bales, besides which it is estimated that 183,000 have been received overland, making the probable total of this year's crop about 3,650,000 bales, or fully a million bales short of last year's total. EXPORTS.—The export movement from the South is now drawn to a close. Our tables this week in clude some arrears from minor points. The proper clearances of the week have been 20,000 bales to Great Britain ; none to France ; and only 1,000 bales to other foreign ports. The total to Great Britain is now 2,184,000 bales against 2,618,000 last year; to France 571,000 bales against 570,000 last year; and to other foreign ports 368,000 bales against £472,000 last year, being a deficiency of 104,000 bales. The stock of cotton in this country, exclusive of that in manufacturers' hands, is reduced:to 55,000 bales, the greater portion of which is held in this city. NEW CP.OP, &e.— Mail communication with the South continues very irregular, and our crop ad. vices from the more distant points are therefore somewhat imperfect. The grain crops have been unusually abundant this year, and have generally been well secured. The prospects of the cotton crop have also improved materially during the more seasonable weather of the past month, and from the greater portion of the cotton•growing coun try the accounts are uniformly favourable. In the Atlantic States, however, the plant is still represented as small and backward. The cool wet spring retarded its growth, and the subse quent hot dry weather is now causing complaints of drought. There is little danger, however, of such damage from this cause as occurred last year, be cause the ground is better prepared to withstand a long period of hot weather this year than last. With the exception of Georgia and South Carolina, the new crop appears to be doing well. The breadth of land under cotton this year, as com pared with former seasons, continues to be vari ously estimated, but we learn that the reduction has been principally in the Upland districts. In the western sections we learn that most planters have "crossed" their cotton fields with corn, a practice which has been growing in favour for some years, and this spring has been adopted very generally. The object is to rai,e corn without sacrificing cotton, and in dry seasons it is found to answer well, and even to benefit cotton by shading the ground. The amount of labour engaged in the cotton fields this year is said to be considerably reduced, and preference is being given to grain. To what extent these various draw backs may affect the ultimate yield, it is im possible at this early period to say. Continued fine weather throughout the season will do much to compensate for them all, while, on the other hand, it was seen that the brilliant prospects of last year to this date were destroyed by unfavourable weather during summer. The general opinion so far is, that the growing crop will exceed the one now closing, but to what extent will, of course, depend upon fut ure circumstanc es ; still, none look ' for a large crop. Nothing can yet be said as to when the next season may open ; but it e t l o y market.an d th cotton it is probable that, unde r an y circumstan ces , the e new crop will roee e b dm e late or e in de c l o i ing may p greater care than u sua l ; b ut the gin " scarcity of gunny bagging the South must prove an obstacle to its comin g ra p idl y forward. Pick ing be prepared with kui: APPREIIENDED Loss OF MISSIONARIES.—We are Sorry t that the ship Edwin Forrest, in which seva onaries of the South ern B aptist Board sailed for ~o s i learn r e a h l i m na l : has been so long unheard from, that scarcely a doubt remains that she is lost. This is the first instance in which any missionaries from America to foreign lands have been lost by the foundering of a ship , —.Philadelphia ,Presby- Avian. I ROYAL 4GRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. LEEDS, MONDAY• Agricultural England is holding its festival—not , as last year, in the quaint cathedral city of a county: of hop-gardens, or, as previously, in a castled county town, the centre of a midland tract of core lands and meadows, but in the very heart of that great factory, the West Riding of Yorkshire. To enumerate the chief novelties and excellea' cies among 5,500 articles, or even to name the principal among more than 200 exhibitors, is be yond our power in the limits of a general report. As regards numbers and general excellence, th e shorthorns, as might be expected from the distri ct of the show, exceed their appearance on any former occasion, though with few specimens of surpassing merit. The Bates blood carries all before it. Of first prize bull of Lord Feversham (sire, sth Duke of Oxford) is a grand beast, though perhap s not so splendid in quality as many we have seen' this bull has never been ex hibit e d b efore exce pt at local shows. Mr. Langston's bull " Royal Turk" is second. Mr. Jonas Webb's is an uncommon l y good animal, and his secon d pr i ze year li ng hell gives promise that the Babraham shorthorns ar e treading in the steps while they graze the same pastures as the departed Babraham southdown s and Mr. Charles Howard's prize bull calf is cer tainly a beauty, and of great merit for its age. CaP t : Gunter's famous " Duchess 77th" takes the fir e ' prize in the cow class, b ea ti ng M r. B oot h' s nOted " Queen Mab," that is second here, as las! year at Canterbury. Th e C ap t a i n ' s two s uper' twins, the "Duchesses 73th an d 79 t h , " an d M r ' Booth's " Soldier's Bride," grace the heifer class't and the yearling heifers are a very fine class. W e i are sorry, however, to mi ss th e h er d o f Calorie' Towneley, there being not one Butterfly present' though 11 are entered in the catalogue; neither 15 there a single short-horn comparable to the hitherto incomparable " Royal Batterfiy" of last year. Let us now turn to the sheep, respecting whic h we must be still more concise. The sheep classes are exceedingly well sustained , but we missed the animals usually shown by gr' Jonas Webb, although Mr. Rigden ably succeed s him in success. Lord Walsingham shows some beautiful animals. The Duke of Richmond's elves„ are exceedingly good. This class is not so well filled up as usual. The Leicesters are in full force , and many superior animals are shown. The Coto" wolds, or long wools, are equal to former year* and as animals of the ovine class they are wonder' ful specimens. The Shropshires are unquestioa; ably the largest and b es t o f t h e short-woo llo : classes ; some ewe s , no t 15 mont h s old, measured from the joint o f th e s h ou l der to tail 2 feet 4 inches ; girth, 4 feet 8§ inches. The class of other short-wools, namely, 118m7,. shire and other d own s h eep —is in considers,'" number and variety, b u t o f a h i ghly useful en!: racter. The classes of long wools shown for th e local prize wer e very t hi nly represented, certainly to the detriment o f l ung -wooled breeding, as suc h wools are exceedingly valuable. The mountain sheep and similar classes are not a creditable ai l? play, though sound, useful animals. The pigs exhibited are of the usual character' some very massive and ungainly animals, other!, very proportionate and ha n d some. The shot equal to those of former years. What with soil to be tilled, products and 113 e r. chandise to be transported, a business population: l l be conveyed in ruder or more ref i ned vehicles at rates of velocity from the carrier's jog -trot to th e pace of the flying tandem, and a wealthy community to be furnished with th e equestr i an pleasures of t u e hunting-field and the race-course, our national stoe7 of 2,500,000 h orses must continue to increase; least, all varieties but the heavy-limbed plonk': horse, which will lose one-half his occupation by the spread of steam husbandry. The breeding of Via best quality of h un t ers , roa d sters, carriage aI!A draught horses, gr ows i n i mportance with the raPii increase and enlarging necessities of our people, an no department of th e annua l exhibitions of anima ls can awaken a greater interest than the display O P ' tributed by the paddock and stable. Of course it is desirable that agricultural horses should always form a prominent feature in the 8 1)1 while powerful d ra y h orses s h ould likewise be we ll s placed ; but the farm er ' s an d gent l eman ' s hack, the sportsman's hunte r , an d h orses f or harness 9.1%10t military service cannot receive too much attentin l3l not only for home purposes, but with a view to mare' tain the celebrity of English breeds and increasing out export trade i n horseflesh. For if we import some 5,000 horses, we annually ship to Francts Belgium, Holland, &c., about half that number 1 01 ; improving the studs and mounting the cavalry 0. the Continent. Accordingly the society have this year a £lOO prize (with second prize of £25) for the best thoroughbred stud horse, best calculated to improve and p erpe t uate the breed of sound an a stout thoroughbred horses for general stud pur poses. - The judges in the Horse Classes have fully col li firmed the decisi on o f th e D er b y in favour of weight-carrying tho roug hb re d stud horses, bes t calculated to improve a n d p erpetuate the b ree d ° I f the sound and stout thoroughbred horse for genef li e purposes. The horse that carries off the first Pr iti of £lOO, Nutbourne, is the property of John Wya tt ' of Nutbourne, an d b ro k e d own at the Derby litt year. She shows b ree di ng an d we i ght i n a renial.'l able degree, togeth er w ith a b eaut i ful head and 1331,; expression. Age f our y ears , co l our chestnut. , 00 second prize horse shows the direction of the curren t in the same di rec ti on . Th e h orses i n the thorou gh bred class are nearly all of good substance, and thos t that are weedy hav e b een very proper l y weede d 01; for the object of thdbounty is less to encourage ti' o turf than the field and the road. In this hasty glans we could recognise Com e t, th e secon d pr i ze horse 9t Canterbury last year ; F azzo l e tt o, w h o ran fourth I°` , the Derby five years ago ; Vortex, own brother to Voltigeur-- a black brown horse of splended 11' 7 ; portion ; and Windb oun d , 14 years of age, and Sif; of Thormanby, w i nner of the Derby last year'- smaller horse than his son. The hunter, as a class, is well sustained, °, 13 , 1 the whole cl ass o f b lood hunters, mares and geld ings, is commended. In the agricultural horse classes the heavy b0r,. 548 r gave way to th e c l ean -l egge d , strengthy horses, which Yorkshire is celebrated. The entries in the thoroughbred, hunting, an f roadster classes numb e r 127, o f pon i es 28, and cif agricultural h orses 99 , * an d comparatively few (); the standings are empty. This is decidedly th finest show of horses we have ever attended. INVERNESS SHEEP AND_WOOL FAO (From the Inverness Courier.) The prosperous appearance of the fields in out Northern counties, the conti nue d seasonableness o ' , the weather, the abundance of pasture, and the el l ' usual promise of the turnip plant everywhere, co o ; tributed to give much sp i r it to the attendance ii" our wool fair. Georgemas market, too, was so de cidedly a rising o ne , th a t con fid ence in the prospe ct of good prices i ncrease d d ur i ng t h e week; and w hen buyers and sellers met, it was soon pretty ev ideev e. that no great abatement from last year's quotation s would be made, at all even t s as regarde d age sheep. Lambs were in a peculiar position. 1 year, as will be too lo ng an d we ll remembered/ their numbers were scarcely half the averag e " and their value was o u t o f proport i on to th e o ther ages. It was, therefor e , na t ura l an d reasona bl e the" in the face of the most successful and abundant c rop a of this spring, th e i r pr i ce s h ou ld rec e d e; an / accordingly they m a y b e quo t e d at an av erag e 0 ' about 2s. 6d. per head below 1860. With ever:. quite better this difference, however, the breeders are ft better off than they were last year—th e y will get far more money for their cast, and th eir Indeed, customers e will arequality besid e ! . 'within the tr uth in saying that a better quality of sheep of all ages —taking condition into account- - W o ' never before offered for sale at Inverness. The de hparvoebabfalyr mand for ewes and particularly lots of about 200 t ° 300, was decidedly brisk, and r tioll a great propo of this class was sold on k ' al ba Friday. A large nu of hill ewes are now retained in own arable districts for crossing with__. our go o Lmcesters and this ca a special demand for 'moderate the best casts of numbers. The • • f a ct, price, therefore, was high ; In almost, if not quite, ' as high as l as t year g enerall s r / and in a few instances even an advance was oh tained. Very few remain MO' for sale. Wedders be quoted at last rath er year's prices, but there was t o more stiffne ss i n t h e i r sale. All the principal "" ,n were disposed of by mid-day on Saturday. Wool has b een very li tt l e d ealt i n, t h e general • fooling b e i ng t h at the present fall i n pri ces il l _ temporary, and more the result of panic than gen ine difficulty. A few sales have, however, taken . _; place at 4s. to 4s. 6d. under last year's market, D l - 1 . 4 our quotations are necessarily scant. We heard _'',, one or two parcels which had been sent to Liverpuu' , as having sold ex ship at 245., and these fae.'7., coupled with the capital demand at last montne?, auction sales, have no doubt considerably in fiuene " 1 sellers. The quality of the wool, too, is so univer sally first rate, that doubtless some are desirous ru sell it by public competition , Though, there fer_ ! the title of wool fair has been in some measure _'",. misnomer this year , it must not be supposed that our annual gathering shows any sign of decreasa i ng. importance, for probably there never was ~,, busier and more useful meeting than on this 61 " C08i913. Bc £2 an Gr and Gu tilt the , del flu Col det Pel - an 'a a RI In