The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-20 00:00:00

PARTIES IN ITALY. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) TURIN, JUNE 17. If the Emperor Napoleon is truly bent on be friending the Italians, as the tone of the French Government press and the official announcements seem at last to intimate, in good earnest, he will find, we may believe, that his benevolence has been worthily bestowed. The death of Count Cavour is an event of which it is impossible to take in all the bearings, except day by day, by expanding degrees. I know only of two great catastrophes which have moved and sobered this people to the same salutary extent—the defeat of Novara and the peace of Vil- lafranca. At the first-named juncture the feeling awakened in all right-thinking minds was some thing very akin to despair, shame, and remorse. The Italians had received a great lesson, and they sat down in sackcloth and ashes to lay it to heart ; they knew there was no chance of reprieve for them, and they had to wait and endure for ten years. The check of Villafranca was equally sudden and severe ; but it found them up and doing; they had nothing to reproach themselves with, and they de termined to turn adversity to account, and to com mand the respect of those who seemed unexpectedly to be bent on their sacrifice. Count Cavour's death seemed even a more cruel blow ; it struck them as shipwreck in sight of harbour ; but by this time they are schooled to disasters ; the stroke was stunning fer one moment, but recovery and reaction were sure instantly to follow. Parties began to muster and to count one another. Cavour living could reckon on about seven partisans out of ten patriots, and he could afford to laugh to scorn the remaining three. Round Cavour's coffin nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand lovers of Italy worshipped, and hardly one unna tural fanatic was found to utter outrage against the great man's memory. Of all that ever revered and loved Count Cavour, there were but few who did not make it a matter of duty and a point of honour to array themselves in the ranks of the supporters of Cavour's successor, even long before the succes sor's name was whispered. The King showed great tact and wisdom and great deference to the public suffrage in the choice of his new advisers. You know, at the time of the famous Garibaldi inter pellation, I said, echoing the words that were spoken about me, that Baron Ricasoli had on that day taken up a position which secured to him the leader ship of the Italian Government, " should anything, at any time, befall Count Cavour." I was far at that juncture from imagining that the correctness of popular expectation would so soon be borne out by events. But the ways of Providence are won- derful, and when Ricasoli's name was spoken it was universally felt that the hour and the man had again come together in Italy. As sure as man lives by faith, the Italians have found the man in Ricasoli, because they have come to the unanimous resolution of making him so. For a day or two, for one week, it seemed as if the last breath of Count Cavour had struck parties dumb ; nay, it had done more—it had forced words of homage and eulogy, heartfelt words, too, of compunction and regret, from the most en venomed foes of the deceased statesman. The Armonia and the most rabid clerical papers were shamed into an acknowledgment of the truth of that noble line of the Italian bard— " Oltre it rogo non vive ira nemica." There was only one party, and an infinitesimally weak and insignificant one—the Mazzinians—who had long proclaimed as their motto that " the future was for them," and who mistook the public calamity of Cavour's death for the dawn of the day of triumph which they had been preparing them selves for. They gave themselves never a moment for reflection ; they opened fire from their puny batteries; they sang victory ; they appealed to the people by shameless abuse of the people's man. The Unita Italiana of Milan stigmatized Count Cavour as a "juggler and mountebank, shrinking from no evil practices in order to do evil." The Popola cf Italia of Naples described "the Cavournians as something worse than Croatians." After out raging all public feeling by reviling the dead, they deemed it but too easy a task to defame the living. After spurning the dead lion's carcass on the ground, ;they thought they were sure of levelling the survivor by the side of it. They had strangely miscalculated the power of that dumb clay. A cry of wrath and execration rose on every side against these senseless and sacrilegious revilers. They had wounded the best feelings of all honest men in Italy, even of those few deluded enthusiasts who had been the dupes of their specious theories and of their magniloquent style. Mazzini, who did not hesitate in joining in that senseless crusade against the memory of the dead, never was at a lower ebb of popularity than he now is—not even when he said of Victor Emmanuel at the time that the brave soldier-King,was lavish of his blood at Palestro and San Martino, "Depend upon it, that man will end by betraying Italy, as his father did before him." I may say, in my turn, after following Italian events ever since 1820 and 1831, be assured that the Italian nation has never been more compact and unanimous, never more resolved on having one mind, one heart, and one will, than it seems to me now ; and if Mazzini and the few believers in the " Idea" of which he is the " Prophet" choose to set up the only discordant note I hear about me, they have no one but themselves to thank for the exclusion from the national accord to which they alone have doomed themselves. The so called," Left," with Guerrazzi and Brofferio at their head, have either banished themselves from, or con demned themselves to utter silence in, the Chamber; the only voice we hear from that quarter is Bic ardi's, a good-natured dreamer, who harbours no ill-will,and would, at any rate, have no power to work it.out if he did. It is in this spirit of unani mity and good feeling that the Italian Parliament is striving to carry to an end the work of its pre sent session. The address of the m ßomans to the Emperor Napo leon and to Ki ng Victor Emmanuel was signed by 53 clergymen, 50 patricians, 1,049 p ro f ess i ona l men , 674 proprietors, 576 civil military officers, 1,576 commercial and industrialalia 4,448 trades men and working men ; altogether it bears 9,588 a signa tures. 2,000 illiterate personsexpressed de sire to have their names written down under it, and if we had 4,00 0 Liberal exiles or political pri soners who practically protest against the Pontifical Go vernment, we shall have 16,000 m en as joining in their demand for the cessation of the temporal power of the Papacy. Now, the population of Rome is something less than 170,000 souls, of which 10,000 at boast are strangers. Of the 160,000 natives one-half are women, and one-fourth chil dren, old men, sick people, &c.; 10,000 are priests or monks ; 3,000 are in the pay of the Papal Go vernment; the men who had it in their power to sign the addresses if they listed may be calculated at 24,000, two-thirds of whom actually put their names to the documents. It seems that Gen. Della Rovere is unwilling to accept the proffered portfolio of War. He said ha would send to the Government a statement of the condition of Sicily, when the Ministers would be able to decide for themselves, after a perusal of that document, whether they still deemed it advisable to remove him from the post in which, according to universal opinion, he has done and is likely to do so much good. It is said that Count Cavour's confessor is gone to 'tome to solicit an audience of the Pope. (From - a Correspondent of the Daily _N ews .) TURIN, MONDAY. A meeting of members of the majority of the Chambe r of Deputies has been held, in the Aca demia Filarmonica, whore Ricasoli and one or two other of the Alinistems were present to meet their supporters in an extra-parliamentary way, and to confer about the remaining business of the session. There was a very fully muster, and cordial unity of purpose amongst the It is not, indeed, 'i')y a party, but rather by the c o lle c ted good sense raid patriotism of the Chamber, including men of various opinions, that the Cabinet i s u ph e ld. They would postpone all mere theoretical or personal preferences. to the urgent practical work of consolidating thet Government, so as to provide a compact and unifc rm administration for the whole kingdom. The four' apparent divisions, implied by on the benches, do the positions mem! )ers occupy exaetlycorrespond with definite political tendencies of gentlemen who seat themselves respectively in the right or left centre, in the extreme left or right hand (thick-and -thin Ministerialists) sections of this steep-sided amphitheatre, in which ten parallel ranks, cut by several transverse gangways, confront the President's gilt chair, and converge formidably on the Ministers' table below. It is in the left, or democratic quarter, aided sometimes by a restless dozen of talented and aspiring notables in the left centre, of men who enjoyed temporary office under Rattazzi in 1859, or men who feel themselves quite capable of mending whatever has been done, that the opposition forces are to be found. But many of these, after talking for hours against the Ministry, will vote in favour of the measures proposed, so that in an average house of about 200 members there are seldom above 30 counted as standing up (the mode of voting here) to give effect to their disapproval of a bill after a long debate, for their bark is much worse than their bite. These, with a few exacting Neapolitans, whom it is hard to please with any thing devised at Turin, compose hialVlsj op position in the Italian Parliament. esty's Deductions being thus made, I suppose that three-fourths of the working and present members of the Chamber may join to concert with ministers how to get through the most necessary measures before this session ends in the middle of July. It was agreed to push on the first bills for the unifica tion of the national debts —I mean all those sepa rate debts of the old states which now devolve on the national government ; and next the bill to au thorise a loan of 20 millions sterling; then must be examined this year's provisional budget, with the estimates ; besides which there are three or four important railway bills, and some arrangements to keep the civil service administration going on throughout the provinces till there is leisure for its organic reform. These are the chief matters, but there is a host of minor importance. The Chamber has been engaged for the last two days with a bill to equalise the taxes imposed on the mercantile marine, the anchorage tax levied on all vessels, native or foreign, in all ports or roads of the Italian shores, being fixed at 50 centimes, or sd. a ton. Bixio, who has acted with Garibaldi as a sea captain as well as a general of the land forces, spoke with his own humorous vehemence of expression against official interfering with vessels and sailors by taxation or in any way, and he ridi culed the examination for new patents of compe tent knowledge that skippers and mates have to pass. The measure, however, was passed entire. This afternoon Ricciardi, with another wild idea, spent an hour in his kite-flying, to propose the opening of a popular subscription, which, corre sponding to the obolus for Papal military prepara tions to defend St. Peter's patrimony, should be raised, with Parliamentary sanction, for the Italian national armaments. The motion was at once put aside by La Farina, who, as president of the society which supplied Garibaldi's Sicilian expedition with funds, might well say that such means of defraying the cost of warlike establishments, however suit able to a revolutionary enterprise, were unworthy of the dignity of a nation now constituted with a royal and regular government. Count Michelini also opposed the motion, which had but four or five votes in its behalf. A bill to prolong, with certain modifications, the judicial ordinances and procedure in criminal cases actually in force at Naples until next year, was then taken into consideration. With regard to the renewed French diplomatic intercourse with this kingdom, no further condi tions, beyond those indicated yesterday, are yet publicly known. It is not believed here, indeed, that there is any stipulation for the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome ; but, as a logical con sequence of the recognition of Italian unity, it is thought the claim of Italy to possess her own chief city cannot be trifled with much longer, and that, before the end of autumn, some arrangement for that object will be forced on the Pontifical Court. Baron Ricasoli has just presented to the Chamber a long list of the bills which it will be necessary to dispose of in the present session, appealing to the patriotism of the hon. deputies to remain at their posts at whatever private inconvenience. TEE NAPE Orders have been received at Portsmouth to pre pare her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, to proceed to Antwerp for the purpose of bringing over to England their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia, on a visit to her Majesty. The yacht is expected to sail from Portsmouth on Sunday next. A large num ber of hands are employed on board painting, gild ing, &c., and working extra hours to complete her by the time named for sailing. Orders have been received at Portsmouth dock yard, to make out and forward to London a return of the number of sailing vessels in ordinary at the port, with their condition, &c. The Fary, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander Bedford Pim, was paid off yesterday alongside the jetty in the dockyard, in a most creditable manner. Many of the crew had some good sums of money to receive, having been in her the whole of the com mission, nearly five years. She has during that period gone a distance of 59,180 miles, viz., 38,540 miles in 411 days under steam, and 20,640 miles under canvas. Her daily average under steam has been 93.8 ; under sail, 103.7. Quantity of coals consumed, 8,906 tons, at a cost of £35,624. THE RATTLESNAKE —This fine screw corvette, of 21 guns, is progressing rapidly under the hands of a large number of workmen. The whole of the exterior has now been planed by the joiners, and has received the first coat of paint. All the caulk ing, inside as well as out, is completed. The flaps of the scuppers are being fixed. The illuminators are fixed for giving light to the lower deck. The fine bows and noble proportions of the ship are now seen to advantage, and the Rattlesnake promises to be a great addition to our navy. The following appointments were madeyesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. J. D. R. Hewitt to the Dragon; S. Matthews, engineer, to the Cumber land, as supernumerary ; C. P. Hodges, Second Master, additional, to the Fisgard ; J. Phillips and W. H. Adlam, Second Masters, additional, to the Victory. TilE ARMY. The colonelcy of the Bth (King's) Regiment of Foot has become vacant by the death of Major-Gen. Eaton Monins, which took place on Sunday last, at h p i r s es r e e n s t id a e at nce, Castlehfll, Walmer. The deceased entered the army in 1814, and served with the 52c1 Lighti nf served with n t t h r y e the during tatAtle o f t he Waterloo.campaign HofelaBflt afterwards w a being rds The deceased'lstiouf: 1819 ; capt., follows ;—Enei lieut.-col., Oct. 2 r 2 m 3 y ee. of Occupation in France. n el : re commissions bore date as 1, 1814 ; lieut., Sept. 9, i 5182 5; major, Nov. 19, 1830 ; gen., June 20, 1854; and col, Nov. 9, 3, 1860. Yesterday the whole of the troops depots encamped in the were assembled upon the extensivelB46 ; major col. of the Bth Foot, June garrison i n ae d ns i dt a ee n rr j i n a e e n thet to presencethe camp, of Colonelan d h eld the a Hon. giirdo firiellds. daady- Gordon, C. 8., Commandant, and a large staff o f officers. There were about 2,500 men under arms, compos i ng the 9th and 10th battalions, and the ordinary evolutions of a field-day were performed in a most satisfactory manner. f o o f r I t ;i h a e r r a a c c lc e 0 - b m u m i l d o i d n a g t i s 0 j n u o s t f e r e l e l te e d e a x t t S e h n o s j e T b e u r r y a n n e g s s e i t n he st r l u to ci -a ed l in the Artillery use q uartered r m a t h s t r t ona t g t st ation i 5 t no b ow e completed, b s no Royal ld Highness orders haveth the accordingly com m beenr-i;I Commander-in - Ch ef, directing that the building is to be equipped with the necessary articles of barrack furniture for the a nde immediate reception of 200 non-commissioned offi cers and men who are to be sent from the Royal Artillery depot brigade, at Sheerness, to undergo a course of instruction at the School of Gunnery pre vious to embarking for India. The barracks, which are sufficiently commodious to accommodate 700 men, are constructed on the most approved prin ciples, the improved system of ventilation recom mended by the Army Sanitary Commissioners hav itnhemgbeen adopted, and no expense spared to make as perfect as possible. It is the intention of the authorities to have at least 500 men of the Royal Artillery, as well as the troops of the line, constantly quartered at Shoeburyness to be in structed in gunnery, under the direction of the Staff officers of the establishment. Yesterday afternoon the whole of the troops at Chatham Garrison were engaged in the rehearsal of some escalading and siege operations under the direction of Major-General Eyre, commanding the district. THE SUN, LONDON; THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1861 THEBANKRUPICY BILL, (From Me Times of this Clay.) What is to become of the Bankruptcy Bill ? Is .t to go to the limbo of good resolutions unper fected ? If we were to judge from that half-smo thered explosion which took place in the House of Commons some evenings since, it is to be rejected with scorn and indignation. But the Speaker promptly and carefully covered up that nascent, but untimely, conflagration in a wet blanket, and the intention of the Attorney-General as to the ultimate fate of his ill-used offspring is yet to be developed. If it were a mere question between Sir Richard Bethell and the House of Lords, and no one else had any interest in the matter, we should say that Sir Richard Bethell had been very ill-used, and was justified in any amount of resentment. It is very well for people to go to the British Museum and fall into ecstacies at the wondrous proportion of the Elgin marbles, but we may depend upon it that if the old Greek sculptors themselves could revisit their great works, they would be immediately dis gusted to find their favourite offspring with their noses chipped off and their limbs broken away, and sometimes nothing left but a backbone and half a thigh. So Lord Derby may choose to lavish his af fection upon the debris of the great Bethell Bank ruptcy statue, which, like Phidias, he laboured at for an ungrateful people, or which, like Praxi teles, he showed, by clinging to it in moments of adversity, he preferred to all his other works. But neither Lord Derby nor any of his Law Lords can expect Sir R. Bethell to believe that this noseless, armless, legless thing is better worthy of the artist than the complete work of art which, factus ad unguern, was borne upon the shoulders of the Com mons for the admiration and applause of the Lords. We are often told that Gipsies stain white people's children dark in order to make them pass for their own, but it has never been said that the Gipsies, when this transfiguration has taken place, conceive an affection for the changeling greater than that of the original parents. This, however, seems to have been the case with the Lords and their transformed Bankruptcy Bill. The debate on Tuesday night, when the Bill was sent forth from the House, was little more than blessings upon its little head and an endeavour to obtain for it protection from the evil passions of the Commons, and a guarantee of re• adoption by its original parent. Lord Derby did his utmost to extract a promise that Lord * Granville " would accept the Bill as it stands, and recommend the acceptance of it by the House of Commons." Lord Overstone, guilty of the slaughter of that half-born Bankruptcy Judge, and who said nothing about the mysterious disappearance of the creditors' assignees, yet claimed the " faithful support of the Govern ment " for the Bill in the state to which he had reduced it. Lords Cranworth, Wensleydale, and Brougham, whose consciences, exercised by long judicial work, are less liable to remorse, were less demonstrative in their apprehensions f the Bill dying of exhaustion from the many amputa tions it had suffered at their hands ; but Lord Brougham despatched it with a blessing and with a recommendation to mercy, and the Lords seemed to pass it almost reluctantly out of their hands, as if they were surrendering it to wrath and to an almost certain fate. The two great mutilations which the bill has suffered are undoubtedly the extinction of the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy and the deposition of the cre ditors' assignees. We are not about to dissolve in pity at the fate of the Chief Judge and his Court. No doubt, it is a suspicious circumstance when we find a row of dowager Chancellors singing a chorus of eulogy on the Chancery jurisdiction in bank ruptcy, and defending that admirable and popular institution against all assaults from without. We must, however, admit that the select committee has inspired a doubt whether that projected Chief Judge and his projected court were novelties of indispen sable necessity. If Lord Wensleydale be accurate in his computations that the bankruptcy appeals which this judge would have to try would not give him occupation for more than fifteen days in every year, we must concede that this work might be left in the hands of the Lords Justices. The deposition, hewever, of the creditors' assignees from all power in the management of the estate is a very different matter. Thirty years ago Lord Brougham found a loose system in existence under which great abuses had crept in; and assignees chosen by creditors very much abused the unrestricted powers they pos sessed. Lord Brougham swept away that old sys tem, and introduced that which now obtains. The consequence has been that for thirty years there has been little dishonesty and no very unnecessary de lays; but the comparative honesty and the compara tive promptitude have been found so expensive that, upon the whole, the creditors obtain little better divi• dends than under the old system. It is the evil of the old system which now comes so vividly before the minds of those ancient lawyers in whose expe rience 30 years is but as a span. They believe that to reappoint creditors' assignees would be to bring back the abuses of those early days when 3,000,000 of money were found to be lying about uncollected, or uninvested, and certainly undivided. But why should this necessarily so recur ? Is it in all cases essential to destroy a system because it has been found incrusted with abuses? It does not follow, because many years ago mercantile assignees, not being held to their proper responsibilities, were careless, dilatory, and sometimes dishonest, that therefore the same vices must reappear in the same class of persons when subjected to proper supervi sion, and when working under a better regulated system. The mercantile classes are unanimous in their desire to have the management of these Bank rupt estates taken out of the hands of lawyers, and placed in the hands of commercial men of their own chole3. We cannot avoid saying that, inasmuch as these persons are for the most part of full age and sound understanding, it would seem that their desires ought to prevail against the legal doubts of Peers who have no interest in the matter, however learned and experienced those Peers may be. It undoubtedly does savour somewhat of the imperative style when Lord Derby and his friends mutilate a Bill in the fashion in which this has been mutilated, and then insist that the Government shall adopt the mutilated thing as their own, and shall under take faithfully to support it. Still, however, the Bill must pass. It would be a scandal if, after all the time bestowed upon it, we were to throw it over in a pique, as a Brahmin casts away his dinner because the shadow of a white man has fallen upon it. Many things, moreover, remain in this Bill which we cannot afford to lose. The fasion of Law and Bankruptcy is of itself a reform well worthy of a separate Act. The sweeping away of the classes of Bankruptcy certificates, and the pro visions for the punishment of fraudulent trading, are much too valuable to be lost. W e cannot sup pose that the Lords will be so unreasonable as to insist upon all their alterations, and to concede nothing to the commercial classes, who are so much interested in this measure, or to the House of Cora -1 mons, which has bestowed upon its details an amount of labour certainly not inferior to their own. In a few days we shall know what the Chambers of Commerce throughout the country think of these alterations, and how far a compromise may be effected upon the matters of chief importance to the commercial mind. In the meantime, however, it is most desirable that all parties should come to the consideration of the measure as it now stands in a practical spirit, with the view, not of gaining a victory or resenting an interference, but of passing a good Bankruptcy Law. Nothing would be more unwise than a splenetic rejection of this Bill. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE. The committee of the masons' society yesterday sent out a notice to their members giving the fol lowing as a correct list of those employers who, up to this date, have accepted the terms of the compro mise, and at whose works and yards the men have resumed their employment :—Works at Hunger ford-bridge ; works at Westminster-bridge ; Messrs. Moore, Paddington • Bower, Millbank ; Glyn, Ken sal-green; Easton, Wandsworth; Corbett, Lambeth wald ; Phiphard, Hackney; Woodruffe, Pimlico; Crabb, Gravel-lane • Wren, Pimlico; Todd, Chelsea; Fish, Vauxhall; Williams, Goswell-street • Birch enall, Clapham ; Hayward, Kensington ; kolidge, Sydenham ; Gibbs, Chelsea ' • Pearce, Garden-street ; Nixon, Lambeth-walk ; Wright, Carlisle-lane ; Deards, Blackfriars-road ; and Thomas, Clipston- I street. deputed by some s, trade to see them of On Tuesday mason a gentleman waited upon the commit them, with the commit tee o f at the Sun, and said he had been the largest employers in the agreement adjustment erl w ni t ? f I cing m vie und talk over the subject with conversation ensued, andno whether some amic ablebe agreed upon. A long . the terms of the com promise was given to under -that the men would p st r a o n m d is t e ha m t u i s n t anyy m its basis notwor work under e under ntyhecihrcouumrlsytasnyesetse,m7 nor would waeoyuldwages, give up the claim for the Saturday having already waived the demand for the nine- ' hours in its favour. The gentleman left, promising to communicate with them again. A letter was also received from Mr. R. Kerr, of the Connell of the Society of Architects, recommending the die. puts to be submitted to the arbitration of five archi tects, two masters, and two workmen. The men are very sanguine that the dispute will be entirely set tled this week, as it is known that some of the largest firms in the trade are in favour of the com promise, and only refrain from accepting it in the hope that those still holding out will also act upon it, and by giving in unanimously at once clos e the dispute. The bricklayers held a meeting last night at Greenwich, at which a resolution was adopted unanimously against departing in the slightest de gree from the compromise, and in no way to accept the hourly payment. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER OF BRAZIL AND EER SLAVES, We have been desired to publish the following translation of a letter which has appeared in the Correia Mercantile of Rio de Janeiro. We comply with this request, in the hope than an august lady resident in Europe may have a chance of learning how her character for kindness and humanity is compromised:by her:agents on the other side of the Atlantic : Sir,—l am neither an English saint nor an Ame rican abolitionist. lam a man, a Christian, and a Brazilian. I am convinced that it is not the fault of the present generation that the social wound called slavery exists, which retards our moral and intellectual development, but which at present it is impossible to extirpate. I approve, however, whenever I observe that the kindness of the Brazilian character, and the mild ness of our customs soften the horrors of such an institution. In Brazil owners have not the power of life and death over their slaves. House-born children gene rally form part of the family. To sell one of these is by many planters considered quite as painful as if they were disposing of their own children. Planters who have no family are generally humane and generous in their wills, frequently bequeathing freedom to large numbers. Even amongst those who have families many avail themselves of the right the laws give them to dispose as they choose of the third part of their property and free their slaves (1). Two years since the Correio Mercantile noticed the will of a philanthropic millionaire, the late Mr. Antonio Joze de Brito, who manumitted a great number of his slaves and left them Government stock and household property, the income from which was quite sufficient to secure the subsistence of those he had benefited. When a widow lady has a large estate her slaves, encouraged by numerous precedents, expect free dom when they lose their mistress, who in general they love and respect more as a mother than as an owner. And if this is so generally when ladies possess estates, what deep -visions of the future and of freedom will have been indulged in by the poor families, slaves, consisting of 140 individuals, Brazilians (2), who have had the misfortune to be born in slavery on the Macaco estate, but who, knowing by report the high and virtuous qua lities of their 'mistress, the august widow of our first Emperor, considered themselves comparatively happy, and cherished well-founded hopes of free dom, common to those who belong to religious and charitable ladies. They never expected to belong to another owner—and with reason. - It is quite an excusable idea that a slave who belongs to a royal personage cannot be transferred to the power of another owner. His Imperial Majesty the Duchess of Braganza certainly cannot know that 140 Brazilians are to be sold by public auction. lam well aware that her Majesty the Empress makes good use of her money; the benevolent institutions of Portugal tells us that. Her Imperial Majesty would be - better advised by her comptrollers, if they were to remind her that her charity in general has not been exercised in favour of Brazilians, and if the estate of Macaco yields her no revenue it would be better to sell the land and houses, and give freedom to the Christians who are living there as slaves of her Imperial Majesty. Trading in human flesh in the name of, and for the profit of, such an estimable Princess is to me a horrible thing. How much will the comptrollers receive from this wretched merchandise ? Certainly not the tenth part of what her Majesty the Empress Dowager has received from the coffers of Brazil in pension and dowry. Why is not her Majesty the Empress Dowager reminded of the example of his Majesty the Em peror of Russia, who is now freeing the millions of slaves that are in his dominions. ___ Her Majesty the Empress Dowager will not wish in charitable and religious feeling to be beneath many ladies that are here in this vast region of Santa Cruz (3). Rather more than two years ago a widow lady solemnised the 7th of September (4) by liberating on that day many dozens of her slaves. I beg, therefore, Counsellor Faria, the very worthy agent of her Majesty the Empress, to stop this unhappy sale •of Brazilians that is about to tarnish the renown of the august widow of the Founder of our Empire. (Signed) MONARCHISTA: (1). By the Brazilian laws a married man can only be queath one-third of half his property, the remainder belongs to his wife and lawful children. (2) By the Brazilian constitution all persons born in Bra zil are Brazilians, whatever may be their colour and condi tion ; if free, they are Brazilian citizens. (3) Brazil is sometimes called the land of Santa Cruz. (4) The 7th of September is the anniversary of Brazilian declaration of independence. HEALTH Ol' LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The deaths in London registered in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,121 ; they exhibit an increase of no great amount on the returns of the two previous weeks. They are less than the number of births registered in the same period by 822. The average number of deaths, derived from the returns of corresponding weeks in 10 years 1851-60, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,099. Hence it appears that the rate of mortality that prevailed last week was slightly in excess of the average. Nine fatal cases of small-pox are recorded ;17 of:diarrhcea ; 22 of measles; 28 of scarlatina; 30 of typhus; 88 of whooping-cough. The deaths that are classed under the general head of " typhus" in the tables aro returned as follows :-7 from typhus, 7 from gastric fever, 10 from " fever," 2 from low fever, one from bilious fever, and one from brain fever. Eight children died from whooping-cough in Westminster. Six infants sank under syphilitic disease. One death was referred to intemperance, besides 5 caused by delirium tremens. Eleven were caused by nephria (Bright's disease) ; 3 by eczema. 23 infants died wno had been born prematurely. Bronchitis was fatal in 85 cases, considerably exceeding the corrected average, which is 59. Zymotic diseases in the aggregate appear to be neither more nor less prevalent than is usual at this season. The son of a journeyman carpenter, aged four years, died on the 7th inst. at 3, Wood-street, Lambeth of " cho lera" after 36 hours' illness. A man was poisoned by an overdose of colchicum ; another by an over dose of laudanum. Last week the births of 1,017 boys and 926 girls, in all 1,943 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-60 the average number was 1,544. METROPOLITAN WATERS, MAY 1861. The unusual dryness of May has exercised a purifying action on the waters supplied to London for domestic use, according to the analyses of Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson, F.R.S. For the sake of comparison the composition of the water introduced into Glasgow from Loch Katrine as analysed in March last, and that of Manchester, examined at the same period, is appended together with the constitution of a surface London well con taminated by sewage : Total impurity Organicim per gallon. purity. gro, ordeg. grs. or deg. 0.0 Distilled Water Loch Katrine water, new supply 2'35 '605 to Glasgow Manchester Water Supply (March) 3'33 •680 Well at Camberwell 62'67 10•6:1 THAMES COMPANIES. West Middlesex Grand Junction 17 . 32 •61 1744 •80 17'52 •92 17/0 1 . 38 16 . 60 1/6 Chelsea Southwark Lambeth OTIIER COMPANIES. . New River East London Kent The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 2 35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, 01 which 1305 degrees or grains arc of vegetable or animal origin. - - - At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the baromet2r in the week was 29 859 in. The readings fell to 29.54 in. on Sunday, and rose to 30 07 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 60.5 deg., which is 2.2 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was considerably below the ave rage on Sunday ; and towards the end of the week it was 8 deg. above it. The thermometer in the shade fell to 42.9 deg. on Sunday, and rose to 80• S deg. on Saturday, being the lowest and highest points respectively in the week. The entire range in the week was therefore 37 9 deg. The mean daily range was 21.4 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air i by temperature was 6.2 deg. The greatest dryness of the air w as 19.7 d eg . on Th ur sday ; the m ean dry ness on that d a y was 94 deg. The mean degree of h umidity was 81, c om pl e te saturation being repre sentedloo, which point was attained on Sunday. the wind blew generally from the north-east and south-west. On Friday and Saturday, the two o f n theSatuday. Thames w The warmest days, th e w i n d was i n th e nor th- eas t an d east. The the rmometer in the sun rose to 132 deg. 60 mean 4 deg tem . p e About rature of ha the h an e w i a n t c e h r p of rain fell on Sunday and 4onday there was none measured on the subsequent days.) 2118 SUPPLY OF CO2TON. An Association for the supply of an article in great demand is by no means an extraordinary phenome non, but the case does become rather singular when it is announced that the " supply" in question is not to be actually effected by the Association, but only promoted. We have companies for the manu facture, sale, and general supply of almost all imaginable commodities, but in one instance only have we a company for the encouragement of other companies in a particular line of business. The " Cotton Supply Association" undertakes, not to supply cotton, but to see that cotton is supplied. Many people might think that the best association for this purpose was that constituted by the manu facturers of Lancashire, and such was certainly the opinion of the manufacturers themselves. Yet they have been rather at fault in the matter. They con tented themselves with a single source of supply, and took no account of the chances of interruption. They could not believe that any disturbance would occur. They thought that if it did occur the void would soon be filled up from other sources, and they conceived that in any case they could not do better than maintain the demand, and leave the supply to regulate itself, according to naturallaws. It is clear, however, that the risk was greater than they imagined. The exports of cotton from the United States must almost certainly be diminished and if the matter had not been taken in hand some time back the consequences must have been truly serious. Fortunately, we are not without other strings to our bow. It is about fourteen years since we first called attention to the subject in these columns, and if our security is still im perfect a good deal has been really accomplished in the way of guarantee. We could afford to lose a considerable portion of the American crop with out much harm, and in a few years more we may see the sources of our supply so multiplied that all danger of deficiency will be past. The Association which has specially charged itself with the promo tion of this supply has just published its fourth annual Report, and from that document we can gather some very encouraging information. Cotton is a plant which can be grown in so very many countries that the mere selection of soil counts for nothing in the problem. There are hundreds of spots in our own colonial empire which could produce cotton enough for the con sumption of all Lancashire ; but cotton is of various kind; it requires peculiar preparation for the mar ket, and, as it is bulky in character, facilities of communication enter very largely into the question. It is probably not every cotton country that could produce cotton equal to the Sea Island kind; but the supply of Sea Island cotton is always mall. It forms only about 1-50th part of our whole annual supply ; so that the question of quality is not a very critical one. The cleaning process is exceedingly important, but that, again, depends only on instru ments which can be easily furnished, and dexterity which can be quickly acquired. In the end we come to this, that the whole problem turns upon facilities of transport. In fact, if India had but good roads, the question would be solved for the present ; and that is evidently the opinion of the Cotton Supply Association. It is easy to supply good seeds and good cleaning machines, but it is by no means easy to get the cotton from the field to the coast. Carriage is either impracticable alto gether, or so tedious and costly as to absorb an enormous proportion of the whole value of the crop. Another point to be considered is the immense magnitude of the trade, which calls for a correspond ing extent of organisation. That is where the United States had so great an advantage. They had got the trade in their own hands, and they had gradually brought it to perfection. They supplied the best cotton with infallible punctuality, and in such quantities as almost to suffice for the entire consumption of the country. To organize a com merce like this must needs be a work of time. It is a question whether any one country could ever do again what the United States have done. India would make the nearest approach to the mark, beyond a doubt ; but then comes another question—whether we should not make a point rather of distributing than concentrating our demands. India has far greater capabilities than any other country, but India might be troubled, just like America, and all our anxiety would come over again. Four years ago we should have felt a great deal of uneasiness if all our cotton supplies had been drawn from Bombay. The object is to insure ourselves against all kinds of contingencies; against bad seasons and damaged crops, as well as against political disturb ances. To effect this we must divide our resources, and put our eggs in more baskets than one. Per haps we shall never get better served than we have been served by America; but, unluckily, that ser vice was never safe to last. It was always exposed to danger from the operation of natural circum stances, and now events which nobody could foresee have threatened it with most serious interruption. What may be the turn of affairs in America we shall not attempt to conjecture, but if the cotton crop of 1861 has to be raised in spite of war, and exported in spite of a blockade, it can hardly be expected to reach us without large deductions. To compensate for this possible deficiency, we have many new sources of supply opened. The report of the Association actually enumerates 58 different ports from which cotton either never came before, or had ceased to come, or came in insignificant quan tities, but which have contributed to our supplies with greater or less success during the last twelve months. Attention has also been paid to quality, and upwards of 150 samples have been despatched from various countries to the Committee of the As sociation for inspection and appraisement. In fact, the Association has been doing for the last year or two all over the world what Government within the last few months has been doing in India. The Committee could not speak with official au thority, but they "agitated," "corresponded," and set things in motion wherever they saw a chance. They let all manner of people understand that we wanted cotton, and were ready to pay for it. They described the kind of cotton required, and made grants of the proper seed. They sent out good gins for cleaning the cotton, and presses for packing it. They were ready, in short, to provide everything except roads, and that, as we have seen is more than the Indian Government itself can do. Perhaps it will be asked how far all this was really called for, and which was in the right—the manufacturing interest, which was disposed to leave things to themselves, or the Association, which took them thus under control ? We have no he,itation in saying that the doctrines of the Association have been justified by events. The committee explain their own position by saying that their object was not to interfere with the law of supply and demand but to remove certain obstacles in the way of its free operation. The truth was that the whole case was exceptional—exceptional, not only from the . magnitude of the trade, but from the institutions of the country which had got a monopoly of the sup ply. The manufacturers were right in saying that their demand would insure a supply in the ordinary way, but they forgot that the supplies they needed were more than ordinary supplies, and that their trade was too important to endure ordinary inter ruptions. The Americans, no doubt, were just as anxious to sell as the Lancashire men were to buy, but there might come a time when they could not sell, and then what were we to do ? Wait till fresh sup plies rushed into the vacuum ? That would be the ordinary course, no doubt, and in due time the sup plies would certainly have come; but what would have been our condition in the meanwhile ? That is where the case differs from ordinary cases. The trade is so immense, and the interests involved in it are so incalculably great that we cannot take the risk of even six months' interruption. It is no easy matter, as we have found, to deal with the distress of a single city, but the stoppage of our cotton mills would throw a fourth part of our population out of the work from which their daily bread is earned. So long as the Americans monopolised the supply no other people felt the operation of the demand. Now people in all quarters of the globe have been told that we are anxious to receive cotton, and cot ton is coming in accordingly —not a day too soon. It would have come in, of course, in any case, at some time or other, but, except for the timely agitation of the question, it would have come too late.— Times. • BLED TO DEATIL—When the announcement of the three bleedings was made in the columns of the daily press, Cavour was in our mind doomed to death. The feverish reaction which almost inevitably resulted was en countered by more bleeding, in accordance with ordinary Italian practice ; and after that, what could we expect but that he would be bled again ? So he was. We were then informed that there was congestion of the brain, that he was occasionally delirious and had a slight attack of typhus fever. How could it possibly be otherwise after all this west of the life-sustaining material ? Bleed any other man in the same way ; coup sur coup, whose nervous centres had been long over-excited, and would he not be delirious too ? Of course, a patient who has been bled four times will be bled five, as Cavour was, six times, and the final result of death from hemorrhage will be attained. The Italian physicians were probably surprised at such a conclusion of their efforts, but it will not astonish anybody else. It is possible that this great calamity may induce the profession in Italy to reconsider their practice—a practice that has been abandoned as pernicious in every other civilized coun try.—Medical Circular. DEER CROSSING LOCH NESS.—The other day the Plover, steamer, picked up a fine roebuck, of two years old, making its way boldly across Loch Ness. What had allured the animal out of its native element, says the Imverness Advertiser, does not appear, although we believe that an adventurous buck has b, - ,en known occasionally to cross Loch Ness, r.lld shift its feeding ground to the opposite hills. THE KINGSWOOD NU.RDER. KINGSWOOD, Wednesday Evening. This morning at 11 o'clock Mr. Wm. Carter, the coroner for the Eastern Division of the county of Surrey, and a jury of the most influential residents of the district, resumed and concluded the investiga tion, which was opened on Friday last, at the Red Lion Inn, into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Martha Halliday, aged 55 years, who was brutally murdered on the night of the 10th inst., at Kingswood Rectory, the residence of the Rev. Samuel Barnard Taylor, and which is situated on the estate of Mr. Thomas Alcock, The jury, after a short deliberation, expressed an opinion that the premises had been burglariously entered, and returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. The proceedings were then brought to a con clusion: REIGATE, Wednesday night. Considerable interest was manifested in this town to-day by the receipt of information that two foreigners, confidently believed by the police to be the murderers, had been apprehended walking together a short distance from Chichester, in Sus sex, and were to be brought here by the first train this afternoon for examination before the local ma gistrates in whose jurisdiction the murder had been perpetrated. Accordingly about one o'clock Mr. Superintendent Pratt, of the Sussex Constabulary, arrived with his prisoners who were at once con veyed to the Reigate police station. They gave the names of Jacob Zimmerman and Henry Myn fooz, and admitted they were Germans, one saying he was a native of Hesse, and the other (as we un derstood) of Frankfort-on-the-Maine. In most particulars their height and general appearance bore a striking resemblance to the descriptions circulated by the police authorities of the two men supposed to have committed the murder, while the younger of them closely answered the description given by Madlle. Tietjens of the person who called upon her at her residence at Grove end, St John's Wood. One, too, was rather shorter than the other, while to give greater support to the probability that they were the parties sought after, only one of them could speak English. They like wise possessed striped shirts, and three different coloured cloth caps, all with peaks, were found upon them. There was also a coat with pockets outside, like one of those worn by the missing foreigners, and various other matters of detail strengthened the belief entertained that the right men had been cap tured. The- elder of the two described himself as a sugar baker out of employ, recently residing in Whitechapel, and the younger as a waiter, but he added that he had been travelling through the country, vending dried rhubarb, a quantity of which was discovered in a box one of them was carrying at the time they were apprehended. They had very little valuable property about them, and one was without his passport, which was said to have been stolen from him by another German he met at Winchester, and who told them he had left Ger many because he had murdered a man there. They answered all questions put to them with the greatest readiness ' and did not seem at all alarmed. They denied all knowledge of the murder of Mrs. Halli day, and stated that on the day it was perpetrated they were at Ryde, Isle of Wight. They had after wards, they asserted, visited Portsmouth, South ampton, Winchester, and other places, and were leaving Chichester when they were taken into cus tody. They mentioned where they had lodged in the above towns. Captain Hastings, Chief Constable of Surrey, and Superintendents Coward and Parr, of the Surrey constabulary, with Sergeant Robinson, of the de tective police, hastened over from Kingswood, where they had been attending the inquest upon the body of the murdered woman, for the purpose of seeing and interrogating the prisoners, and several persons who had seen the two Germans while they remained in this town prior to the murder, were sent for to identify the persons in custody. Amongst them were the ostler and the female servant from the Cricketers, where they slept on the night preceding the murder, and also a person from the shop where the cord found round the murdered woman's hands and feet was pur chased. They, however, failed to identify them, and the prisoners asserted that they had never been in Reigate before in their lives; in fact, they did not know this part of the country at all, and, in conclusion, mentioned the names of some persons who they said knew them in London. The prisoners were, however, put back for the purpose of being taken before a magistrate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—June 19. CLERKENWELL.--DARING ROBBERY AND CHARGE OF VIOLATION.--Robert Hawkins and John Flaherty, two ill-looking fellows, well known to the police, were charged with being concerned, with others not in custody, in stealing a brooch and £1 55., the property and moneys of Ann Cole well, and also with feloniously assaulting her. The prosecutrix, who is a servant at Colney Hatch, came up from that place on Monday morn ing last for a holiday, and when she arrived at King's-cross she fell in with a gang of fashionably dressed thieves, who treated her to something to drink. Unfortunately, she went with them the whole of the day, and in the evening she went into a public-house with the prisoners and some of their companions, and there had some beer. There she was seen to be robbed of her purse, and the parties who were serving advised her to go home, as she was then the worse for liquor. The prisoners and their companions then took her to a beer-shop, and had some beer, and one of the witnesses said that the prisoner awkins took a bottle from a female, and pouring the contents into the pot, gave it to the prosecutrix to drink. She did so, and imme diately afterwards became insensible, and was then carried by the prisoner Hawkins and another man into a low brothel, in North-place, St. Pancras—one of the worst places in the parish, and a perfect disgrace, cases of robbery being of almost daily occurrence there—the prisoner Fla herty leading the way. As soon as they got into the house the window blinds were pulled down, and cries of " murder" being heard the police were communicated with, and Ball, of the E division, and police-constable Towes, 185 S, succeeded in appre hending the two prisoners. From the appearance of the complainant's dress there could be no doubt that a serious offence had been committed, but no- thing could be learnt from her, as she was then and for some time afterwards in an insensible state. She was examined by Dr. Hopton, of Judd-street, Brunswick-square, who, though not going to the extent of saying that a rape had been committed, said that violence had been used towards her. Police-constable Cook, 198 S, said that the pri soners were the worst of characters, and that Hawkins had been previously convicted of felony. Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was a very serious charge, and one that ought to be fully investigated, for there could be no doubt that the young woman had been sadly Mused. He should remand the case for a week. The parties prosecuting were told that they had better apply for assistance to the Associate Institu tion for Improving and. Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women. WANDSWORTH.—SHOCKING CASE OF DE PRAVITY.—Henry Newall, a respectably-dressed youth, in the employ of Messrs. Price, candle manu facturers, Battersea, was brought up on remand, charged with indecently assaulting Rosina Eliza beth Allen, a little girl aged six years. Mr. Edwin, on this occasion, appeared for the prisoner. The evidence taken last time was to the effect that the child was placed out at nurse with a married woman named Terry, living in Meadow-buildings, Wandsworth road, and the prisoner was one of Mrs. Terry's lodgers. The little girl was too ill to appear on the first examination, but she now attended and gave her evidence in a very clear and intelligent manner. The evidence of two medical gentlemen were taken, and the whole case was one of unusual de pravity in a youth of the prisoner's age. At the request of the court, the prisoner's mother (Mrs. Mary Ann Newall), a very respectably dressed woman, who appeared very much affected, was called to give his age, and she stated that he was 15 last January. Mr. Edwin addressed his worship in-mitigation, and said the prisoner's friends were highly respect able, and he had previously borne an excellent character. Mr. G. H. Spicer, foreman of the candle-works at Battersea, said the prisoner had been under him for 15 months, and he always considered him a moral youth. Mr. Edwin sail he was not prepared with any other witnesses, as he was led to believe that the case would have to ao for trial. Mr. Ingham said the medical evidence relieved him from the necessity of sending the prisoner for trial, and in consequence of his youth and promise in life he was induced to deal summarily with him. Two cases of assault had been proved, and they were of so serious a nature that he felt it was his duty to inflict the full term the law allowed. He sen tenced him to be imprisoned for six months for the first assault, and on the expiration h e wou ld b e months, making together f l u 2 rt in h o e n r t i h m s, pr w is i o th ned ha fe r l d • si lftbour. He regretted ex ceedingly that it was his duty to inflict so severe a sentence, but he could not properly do otherwise. The prisoner was removed to the cells and the mother left the court crying bitterly. LormoN : Printed and Published by 3IURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE Sux Office, N o. 112,Strand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, hi the County of Thursday, Juno 20, 001. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. Yesterday, in Mr. Scholefield's Committee, the bill of the Swansea and Neath Railway, after nearly a fortnight's inquiry, was declared proved. The general traffic evidence having been concluded in the committee on the North Somerset Railway, the engineering evidence will be taken to-day. :Mr. Hope Scott, Q,C,, has to reply in the case of the competing lines of the Newcastle, Derwent, and Weardale Railway and North Eastern Railway, and the committee will decide upon it to-day. The bill of Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company, for powers to construct branch railways to Bolton and the Maryport and Carlisle, at Wig ton, at an estimated cost of £52,000, occupied the entire day in Mr. Hassard's committee. The com mittee on the Metropolitan Railways were occupied all the sitting in considering the insertion of pro visions into the North London Railway Company's bill, making it incumbent on the company to run a train for the labouring classes every morning and evening between the Liverpool -street (City) station and Kingsland, Sundays, Christmas-day, and Good Friday excepted, at one penny per passenger per journey, the Board of Trade, in the event of com plaint, having power to regulate the arrangements. An application was made on behalf of the parish of Shoreditch for the insertion of clauses to enable them to transmit all the cinders, breeze, ashes, and refuse of the district, now carted away by contrac tors, by the North London Railway, and have it discharged at any of the stations ; but finding no precedent for this in previous railway legislation, the committee declined to entertain it. The com mittee, of which the Duke of Buccleuch is the chair man, passed the Penarth Railway and Dock Bill, The case of the Oswestry and Newtown Railway, for power to construct additional lines in the counties of Montgomery and Salop, and to connect their line with the Shrewsbury and Welchpool and Severn Valley Railway, was opened in Earl St. Germans' committee, and general and engineering evidence adduced. COUNTRY MARKETS. SHEFFIELD-JUNE IS. A very short supply of English wheat to-day, with a dull trade. The better descriptions sold at 6d to is per load lower than the prices of last week; inferior samples were in little request. Barley is lower. Flour unchanged in price. Beans and oats at former prices, with a dull in- Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels...24s Od to 28s Od White 7/ 7, ...258 Od to 28s Od New red • 9 7, ...20s Od to 22s Od New white „ ...22s Od to 26s Od Beans 77 77 ...16s Od to 18s Oct Peas, per qr s4s Od to 55s Od Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, „ 3ss Od to 43s 04 Oats 2ss 6d to 34s Oct 17 Millers' prices for flour-2s 2d, 2s 4d, and 2s 7d per 141 b. NEWARK—JUN - 1z 19. Only a moderate supply of wheat at market to-day, the trade in which was quiet, and former prices gave way 2s per qr. Barley inactive, in favour of the buyer. Oats in small supply, and met a slow inquiry, at is under late rates. Beans were scarce, and an inactive demand. White wheat, new, 65s to 70s Barley, grinding. 229 s to 33a Red do. 6os to 65s Oats, old, .. 26s to 333 Old white 6ss to 708 New do —s to -S Red do 5OB to 60s Beans.. 56s to 58s Barley, malting 38s to 42s Beans,' new 44s to 48s Peas, ....40s to 50s, HULL-JUNE 18. A moderate supply of wheat to-day, which was in slog demand, at is to 2s lower than last Tuesday's prices. Barley met a limited sale at about former currencies. Oats in less demand, at 6d decline. Peas offered at is lower, A large attendance. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 65s Oct to 68s Od Old red New white .. „ New red .... , Konb , &c. old white 63s Oct to 68s Oct Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 6ls Od to 62s Oct St. Petersburg and Riga, old 62s Od to 55s Oct Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 43s Oct Grinding 32s Od to 36s Odl Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3Bs Od to 40s Oct Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 14ka Friesland and Dutch osl4id to 0515c14 Swedish and Danish osl4d to osl4o Beans ....English, old, per qr ' sos Od to 52s Oct New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick Egyptian .. 38s Od to 40s Od Peas. Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 0 to £lO 0 0 Foreign. 9 5 oto 10 0 0 Rape cakes 6 5 oto 610 0 Bones 515 oto 6 0 0 THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South- ampton) Do. Brazil and Cape Verds Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Cuba and Mexico .. .. June Canada, &o. (via L' derry) Overdue. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. July 2. China, Penang, and Singapore (via' S'ampton) June 18. Do (via Marseilles) June 26. Gibraltar (via Southampton) June 18. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &e. (via Southampton) June 18. Do. (via Marseilles) June 26. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. June 25. Do. (via Marseilles) .. June 19. Lisbon .. .. June 21. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. June 18. Do. (via Marseilles) .. June 19. Vigo, and Oporto .. June 21. United States California, &c. June 26. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. July 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. June 28. June 18. (via Marseilles) July 13. .. July 4.1 THE WAR IN AMERICA.--The American ship Peter Marcy, from New Orleans, passed through Spithead yesterday from Cowes-roads and stood out to the south ward, reported for Havre, with the flag of the Confederated States flying from her peak-end—red, white, red, horizon tal, quartered with the blue American jack bearing eight stars. [ADVE RTISEMENT.]—The greatest happiness of a jour nalist is to introduce to his readers some new discovery cal culated to benefit that vast portion of our fellow-creatures which has the strongest claims upon our sympathies. It is with this feeling that we call the attention of invalids to the following extracts from Du Barry's interesting report of cures without medicine by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabies Food. Cure 180—Mr. W. It. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of twenty-five years nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 54,618—Wandsbeck, near Hamburgh, May 12, 1857,-1 hereby certify that mf mother.in-law, Mrs. Holze, who has just completed her 107th year, after having suffered for half a century and more, from indigestion (dyspepsia), and consequent dis orders, has been perfectly cured by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and is now enabled to digest almost any kind of food with great comfort.—W. Holze• Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment and expense may be avoided by u s i ng D u B arry ' s F oo d which, at a few pence per day, saves 5C ti es its cost is other remedies, removing effectually, w.thout purging? constipation, indigestion (dyspep s i a ) nervous, bilious ana liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Urea MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spy.' rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety Of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Pu Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry I)u Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and Wrapper. Shopkeepers Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one a rticle expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed 2 , 4113- 11 40 s. The tins lib. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. ; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. ; 63 d an 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt andl ; 50 A , b o b i z o . , of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and . 60, Bishopsgateo uo 77, Re.- an d Co,. Re gent-street, London ; Fortnum M i no e n: 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheap Oa bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 ' bury Pavement , Phillips and Co street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co. King William-street City ; at 127 High Holborn: and all grocers, BIRTHS. Bolfea—On the 18 th inst., at 5, South- s t ree t , Gros :usquare, the wife of Francis G. M . Boileau, Esq., CAVELL.—On the 18 th inst., Airs. Edw ar d St rut t C a vell, vo Lnaßor son. of a daughter. WHITBY. — On the 19th inst., at 19, Sussex-gardens, Hyde' park, the wife of Edward Whitby, Lg., of Creswell hall, Staffordshire, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. OLiviEu—EDEN.—On the 18th inst. at Kew, the Rev. D• Olivier, second so n o f Lieut.-Col.Olivier, of the Manor House, Pottern e , Wilts, to Emma Selina Ed en , fourth daughter of the Lord Bishop ' of Moray and Ross. WOT TON — FAWSSETT.—On the 18th inst., at St. Peter's , Wisbech, Ch ar l es W ottun, Esq., M.D., of King's Lang" ley, to Fanny, eldest daughter of Fred. Fawssett, Esq. , of Wisbech. DEATHS. AINSWORTIL—On the 17th inst., at Blackbarrow, North Lancashire, Mrs. Ainsworth, aged 35. DEBAUrER.—On the 14th inst., at Peckham, Mr. Henry Debaufer, of 25, Old Fish-street, aged 54. llrcKs.—On the 17th inst , at Lymington, Hants, Edward Hicks, Esq., J.P., and Chairman of the Bench, aged 77. LENIN.--On the IGth inst., Thomas Fox Lewin, Esq., of Haverstock-hill, and the Corn Market, Mark-lane, aged 61. MASON.—On the 16th inst., at Fluder House, King's Kerswell, Devon, Lieutenant - Col. Edward Mason, aged 69. MomNs.— On the 16th inst., at Walmer Major-Gener al Eaton Monins, Col. of the Bth (King's) Itegt., ono of 61a3 few remaining Waterloo officers, aged 66. - - __