The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL, By Cue arrival of the overland mail we are in recelpic of correspondence and papers from Bombay to I)o•Tember 27, and from Calcutta to Dec. 18. The disc ontent with the income-tax has almost given .wa'y before the storm of indignation that has arisen / NI account of the monstrous grant of .£520,000 -awarded by Sir Charles `Wood to the descendants of Tippoo Sahib, of Mysore. A meeting of native dealers in piece goods was held on the 17th of De cember, and was attended by most of the principal merchants, as well as by some Europeans. An arrangement was made, by the terms of which it was agreed that business should be resumed, the Europeans consenting to sign a petition which had been prepared, against the income-tax. There were, accordingly, some large sales of piece goods next day, and business is now very brisk. The Bombay Gazette gives the following account of the agitation on the Mysore grant : The whole people of India, official and non-official, European and native, have heard with deep and bitter indignation the news that Sir Charles Wood has, notwithstanding the spirited remonstran ces o f Lord Canning's government, ordered that the sum of £520,000, or more than half the produce of the income-tax for this year, shall be paid to the pen sioned descendants of Tippoo Sahib of Mysore. The Legislative Council, stung into independent action by the gross insult which the Secretary of State has offered to the Government and people of this country by so shameless a waste of public money, has strongly and unanimously protested against the grant. Sir Barnes Peacock declared in the council that the Mysore princes had no claim whatever " legal, equitable, or moral," to the magnificent gift which Sir Charles Wood—by what reason persuaded no one dares guess —has pressed upon their acceptance. Sir C. Jackson condemned the grant in similar language. Sir Bartle Frere, though refusing topro duce despatches which he held to be confidential from the home to the local government, and though asserting that the Secretary of State alone should be applied to for information as to the real nature of the grant, gave unmistakeable signs of sympathy with the opposition, and more than hinted at the propriety of calling public meetings to de mand explanations from Sir Charles Wood. The press and the citizens of Calcutta have not been slow to act in support of the council. Never has such unanimity been witnessed before in India ; never before has there been an opposition at once so energetic and so reasonable to the arbitrary authority of the Secretary of State. They who feel most sorely aggrieved are the Europeans and loyal natives who have heartily seconded the efforts of the government to reform our financial system by imposing new taxes. Is this the result, it is asked, of all Mr. Wilson's promised reforms, that every man with X5O a year is taxed 4 per cent. to swell the accumulated hoards of Mussulman princes who have already more wealth than they know what to do with, and who represent the family of one who was in his lifetime the worst foe of the English and the cruellest tyrant that ever oppressed the south of India. It is not only that, more than half a cen tury after.Tippoo's death, we are annoyed to Ind how " even in his ashes live his wonted fires ; " how, even though dead, he yet plunders us through his descendants, but this profligate and criminal ex penditure of our money by Sir Charles Wood is of a piece with the whole policy of England towards India. At present the Indian Secretary of State is in reality the dictator of this "country. He has effectually crushed his mock council at home, and now there is none to gainsay him. We pray in vain for the " full publicity " Mr. Wilson dangled before us as a bait to win our consent to be taxed. Immense sums are paid away out of the Indian treasury for the Chinese war: what guarantee have we that the money will ever be returned ? India is taxed for the support in England of a large portion of the English army ; but all statistics which could enable us to check the accounts, and discover what we ought and what we ought not to pay, are carefully withheld. Surely some member of par liament will be found with sufficient independence and public spirit to demand that this injustice shall be redressed. For the rest, if we can trust his flattering words, Sir Bartle Frere gives a very gratifying account of the present state of our finances. The anticipated falling-off in the payment by railway companies of funds wherewith to carry on the works this year has not occurred ; and the President in Council in forms us that, after the deficit of upwards of six millions has been supplied from the produce of the new taxes, the revenue will still be in so elastic a condition that we shall have cash balances to the amount of twelve millions in the treasuries at the close of April next, two millions more than Mr. Wilson thought necessary. Sir Bartle Frere, therefore, assures us that not only will there be no loan in India this year, bat even the three millions Sir Charles Wood took power to raise will in all probability not be required. The Bombay Gazette has the following : There have been rumours in Bombay for at least a month past of a scandalous breach of discipline by some soldiers of Lord Clyde's pet regiment, the 93d, who are said, as the story generally goes, to have pelted their officers out of the camp with their tin pots. We should not have noticed the matter had not an allusion been made to it in a Kurrachee paper, for it is not safe to believe much that one hears, and no official notice has been taken of the alleged act of mutiny. Our Kurrachee contempo rary now states that two officers of the regiment have been removed on account of this affair. We hope that Sir Hugh Rose will make no attempt to hush up whatever has occurred. Such mistaken lenity would contrast ill with the ostentatious severity of the sentence on the sth Bengal Euro peans ; and, indeed, very free remarks are already offered on the different treatment which miscon duct receives at the hands of the commander-in chief when it occurs in a royal and a local regi ment. We are very far from sharing in the belief that Sir Hugh Rose would show partiality in his dealings with the men under his com mand; but how comes it that no general order pro claims the just indignation of the commander-in chief who disbanded the sth Europeans, at 'the mutiny of the 93d Highlanders ? We are authorised to state that the Bth Hussars have received orders to be transfet red to the Bengal Presidency to relieve the Carbineers now stationed at Meerut, and who arc ordered to England. The 3d Dragoon Guards relieve the Bth Hussars in Rajpootana. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA, Dec. 18. The steamship Nemesis arrived on the 14th inst., and her mails were delivered the erne evening. The Bombay steamer with dates to the 19th November arrived at Bom bay on the 13th, and telegramq cont&']ing the most im portant items of intelligence reached Calcutta the same evening. PRODUCE MARKET.—A fair business has been doing since our last report, chiefly In sugar, rice, saltpetre, and linseed, and rates have increased with the demand. Little Inquiry is made for other exports. IMPORT MARKET.—Fevr large transactions are reported, but generally more activity prevails. Acting under the in fluence of an advance in the English market, and a cessation of shipments, holders are firm at previous rates. Metals have improved slightly in va'ue. JOINT STOCK SHARPS. — Tho share market is firm as to prices, but 'no activity exists, owing to the increase in the rates of interest in the Bazaar. The Bengal Coal Company have declared a dividend of Rs. 60 per share for the past half-year, and this scrip has since been sold at Rs. 1750; a further amount spent in the purchase of property is likely to be capitalised by this company. Assam Tea shares are wanted, and Boaded.Warehouse shares are inquired for. In other stocks there is little doing. GovsnNmEistr SECURITIES.—There is very little to report as regards government stocks ; prices are barely supported, and the transactions are of the most limited character. The Five-and-a-Half per Cents..have been sold at 4 ernes dis count, but .a few speculative purchases have placed the sellers' rate at par; the Five per Cents. are to be freely obtained at 94.8, and the Four per Cents, at from 79-8 to 80. The Bank of Bengal has slightly increased their vargin for roans. MONEY Matticwr..--There is no very perceptible advance In the value of money, the Bank of Bengal balances are not diminished, and their rates continue the same; any demand can be freely met by the banks and the native shroffs. EXCIIANOE.—Singe our last report there has been very little fluctuation in the rates on London. A moderate busi ness has been traneacted itt bank bills at 2-li, in credits at front 2-1 f to 2At and documentary at 2.1 i. The market closes weak. On France there have been no transactions et importance; and rates are as last quoted. Sales on China have been made at 219 to 220 per 100 dols. On Mauritius the rate is t 3 for 30 days' sight, and 53} for 60 days' sight. FREIGHTS. —We have very little to record in freights generally. There Ii been a little dulness, and rates have been drooping for other (garters, though for London rates keep up —£3155. to £3 17s. and Liverpool £3 7s. 6d. News from Mauritius being very jscouraging will stop shipments, and we do not see much animation in other quarters ; rates to America are also love r and 11 dols. is the rate to-day, owing to unfavourable accounts from that country. In country freights very little doing, and must remain stationary until the, new crop of Ballam rice com mences to arrive. Tonnage at present is plentiful, and ex pected number of ships are quite enough for our future equirements. • MANCHESTEP CIIAMIER OF CODI- 1 ER CE. The annual meeting of this associatioi was held yesterday morning at Manchester. Mr. EIMUND POTTER, the Presi 'ent of the Chamber, took the chair. He referred to some of the altered circumstances under which they met now compared with the position of affairs a year ago, when the occasion was remarked upon as being almost the only one in which everything seemed fair and flourishing. At that date money was worth 3 per cent. ; now it was worth 7 per cent. Corn had increased in price from 445. to 545., and there had been considerable advances in cotton and in the price of labour, besides many restrictions on the use of labour almost as injurious as had been the heightened rate of wages. The imports of corn had, perhaps, exceeded by 50 per cent, those of the previous year, and the excess would probably have to be paid for in gold rather than goods. - Gloomy as the prospect might be considered in these re spects, it would be admitted that as to internal affairs there was nothing to warrant the slightest anxiety, except what might result from the crisis in America. Perhaps it was matter of satisfaction that the increased export of manufactures had not been so great in the last twelvemonths as in some previous years. The increase in the export of cotton manufactures had during each of the two previous years amounted to five millions ; during the past year the difference had been 2 1 - millions, which was, perhaps, a healthy average increase. The total export would probably be about fifty millions. The decrease to India had been 20 per cent. At first sight this reduction seemed rather alarming, but last year he ventured a caution against regard ing the Indian trade as at tilat time in a normal state, the immense increase of the previous year being attributable to the large export of specie caused by the mutiny. He had never denied that the 10 per cent, duty was a most injurious measure, but he did not think we could lay much of the decrease to the charge of that impost as yet. If it continued, no doubt nothing could so much injure the trade as that excessive rate of duty. He cal culated the total increased production of cotton goods during the year to have been 10 per cent. The American crisis could hardly be looked upon as unexpected. Most of us had felt that some time or other the extensive prevalence of slavery in that country must bring its retributive punishment. On the political aspect of the question, the Chamber could not express much opinion ; but the commer cial view of the question they must look upon as most serious. Not only did it deprive us of our best customer for cotton goods, by whom our gold would be taken to a very large extent instead, but the internal commotion in America must lessen our supply of cotton. Our own community might take some blame to their'selves for now having to face that appalling prospect. (Hear, hear.) The only practicable source of relief seemed to be India. Had we done our duty as regarded that country, and was not the destitu tion and semi-slavery there a strong warning to us to reform the whole system of govern ment? Although no official information on the sub ject had been received, he thought it probable we should see the French Treaty in operation sooner than was originally intended ; and thus there might be some compensation for the deficient demand from the other side of the Atlantic. (Hear, hear.) Mr. FLEMING, the secretary, read the following letter, which had been received from Lord John Russell, relative to the subject of cotton supply:— " Foreign-office, Jan. 19. " Sir,—The necessity which must necessarily exist as to the effect the present political crisis in the United States may have on the supply of cotton, and the serious results which might ensue if that supply were to fall short, appear to Lord John Russell to suggest the expediency of making timely inquiry as to the possibility of obtaining from other quarters such an amount of cotton as may compensate for any deficiency in the amount usually obtained from the United States. " In compliance with the wishes of the Cotton Associa tion of Manchester, the attention of her Majesty's Consuls was some time since called to the facilities which the countries wherein they resided offered for the cultivation of the cotton plant; and much valuable information on this .point has been from time to time communicated by the Foreign Department to the Cotton Association; and it has been made apparent that, with proper encouragement, a vast supply of cotton might be produced for the British market in many places not hitherto resorted to for that purpose. "It would seem, too, that, even without more than the ordinary encouragement to industry offered by the prospect of a sure market, no small amount of cotton might at once be obtained ; and it occurs to Lord John Russell that it would be of great convenience end advantage to the cotton manufacturers in this country, in anticipation of a deficient supply from the United States, if they could obtain a fair estimate of the amount of supply which might at once be procured from other countries, if it were thought worth while to send and fetch it. " Lord John Russell therefore desires to place at the disposal of the cotton manufacturers in this country the services of any of her Majesty's consuls residing in coun tries which, from the information now in the possession of the Cotton Association, offer a prospect of immediate sup ply, if it were necessary to have recourse to them. "Lord John Russell would n indeed think it right that her Majesty's consrls should be allowed to incur any expenditure of public money on this account, or in any way to pledge the Government to the collectors or producers of cotton within their districts that the fruit of their labours would surely find a British market ; but the consuls might ascot taia what amount of cotton might be expected to be forthcoming in their respective districts to meet any sud den demand, or what amount might be brought into the local market if the native dealers had a reasonable assur ance of finding customers for it at a given time. " The attention of the Consuls, Lord John Russell con ceives, might usefully be directed to these as well 'as to other similar points which might be suggested by your as sociation in communication with the General Cotton Asso ciation and also with the Chamber of Commerce of Liver pool. " The practical knowledge possessed by the members of the several associations will enable them at once to judge wkether any beneficial results would be likely to attend such an enquiry as that which Lord John Russell, if they choose to accept his offer, is prepared to instruct her Ma jesty's Consuls at once to set on foot. Lord John Russell is aware that in making this offer he is departing in some degree front the usual practice, but it appears to his Lord•. ship that the vast amount of the interests at stake, not only as regards the manufacturers themselves, but as regards also a very large proportion of the labouring popu tion of this country, warrants him in informing the parties who, from their position, take a lead in such matters, that ho is prepared and anxious to afford them all the assistance, more particularly at the present time, which the depart ment under his superintendence is able to render. " I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, "E. TIAIsIINIOND. " The President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce," Mr. J. A. TURNER, M.P., moved the adoption of the annual report of the Chamber. He de fended the directors from a charge of laxity in opposition to the increased Indian duties. With out wishing to pass any very severe judgment on men in high places, with multifarious claims on their attention, he must say he had all along felt great dissatisfaction and annoyance at the way in which this subject had been treated by the Secre tary for India, who ought to have been more assiduous and punctual in his representations to the Government in that country. (Hear, hear.) It was, in fact, one of the most atrocious things he (Mr. Turner) ever heard of, to lay 10 per. cent. on our imports into India, while leaving a very uncer tain valuation to be fixed on the goods. He was still of opinion that India was the only country to which we could look with confidence for an ade quate supply of cotton ; but Sir Charles Wood, in the place of the East India Company, did not seem to be much more to be relied upon than they were. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. H. AsnWORTH, in seconding the resolution, called attention to various unsatisfactory features of our Indian Government. The proposed expen diture for 1860-1 was £45,300,000, while the revenue would be £39,000,000, leaving a deficiency of £6,300,000, to be made up by loans. Year after year the Indian debt was augmenting and it would becomemore and more difficult to borrow. Of the £39,000,000, moreover, more than half was to be expended in military and police establishments to preserve the peace of the country ; while public works, instead of being pushed en with vigour, were being actually suspended. Either there must be some serious misapprehension of the wants of the country, or it could be kept in a state of tran quillity without the expenditure of half its revenue for that purpose. This country had certainly made a very ill-judged choice of its civil servants in India. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was adopted unanimously, after some discussion on a complaint from Mr. E. Ash worth that the Chamber had not given sufficiently , full powers to its representatives at Paris is con nexion with the French Treaty arrangements. The CHAIRMAN and Mr. PENDER explained that it had merely been considered inexpedient to give minute information to the Conseil Superieur as to the actual prime cost of articles of English manu facture. _ _ Mr. H. MASON moved an amendment, which was not seconded, declaring Sir C. Wood utterly unfit for the office of Indian Secretary. Mr. J. CntrrtrAm, President of the Cotton Sup ply Association, moved_ " That this annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce desires to impress upon the new Board of Directors the importance of giving special attention during the coming year to the financial and -commercial affairs of India, and suggests the desirability of conferring with other Chambers of Commerce and parties interested in the trade, with a view to united action." He found among thoughtful men practically acquainted with the details of Indian Government and the present position of affairs a very gloomy foreboding as to the ultimate result of continuing our connexion with that country unless very im- Portant changes were made both in the principles and practice which at present influenced events there. (Hear, hear.) Mr. PENDER seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted. The proceedings terminated with the appoint- meat of officers for the ensuing year, and a vote of thanks to the chairman, moved by Mr. Bazley, M.P. FRIGHTUL EXPLOSION AT CHATHA3I CHATHAM, MONDAY. but I cannot read, and I swear that I do not knovi there is a rule making it incumbent on me to tell the authorities if there is gas. By the Coroner—l have worked there 18 months, and during that time I have heard the rules read over once. By Mr. Llewellyn—l am now working at Aber earn. Some six or seven months ago Abraham Bees and I and some one or two others wc:e coming out of the pit because there was fire in our workings, when we met Evan Beddow and Mr. Harrison on the slope. Bees and I told them why we were going out, but they told us to go back, as the fire would be cleared out. The others went back, but I refused to do so, and left the pit. I did not get the sack for that, but I have known men to be threatened for it. Mr. Llewellyn—Tell us who they were. Witness—lt's no use me telling you about men that are dead—they can't speak for themselves. Mr. Llewellyn—Well, who threatened them' Witness—Evan Beddow. Mr. Llewellyn—He's dead, too, isn't he Witness—Yes. Mr. Llewellyn—lt's very easy to put these things off upon dead men. Mr. Owen—Remember 142 are dead, and only 200 worked there by day. Mr. Llewellyn—Whom did Beddow threaten ? Witness—Jonathan Edwards, and he's dead, too. I heard Beddow tell Edwards, when he complained of ire, that if he left the pit he wouldn't be wanted there any more ; but Edwards did leave the pit, and he wasn't sacked. There was no accident in my stall on the morning of the explosion. By Mr. Owen—l had been at work about three hours when the explosion took place. Then I heard a whistling noise, but I Cid not know what it was till West, who worked in the next stall, told me. Thomas Phillips, a collier, who was working in the Black Vein Pit the night before the explosion, and on its east side, deposed that he found every thing in a satisfactory condition on that occasion, and that he had sometimes seen gas there at inter vals, coming, as he supposed, from some old work ings. Had known his lamp to get red hot suddenly, and then for all the gas to clear off in an hour or two. After the explosion heard a " blower" in Sage's stall, which he WPS the first to observe. There was a good deal of gas over the gobs, but he never troubled himself about that, as it was not his business An explosion of a most terrible character, by which several men belonging to the Royal Engi neer establishment, Brompton Barracks, have sus tained frightful injuries, occurred about noon to-day, at the headquarters of the Royal Engineers, spread ing considerable alarm among all the persons con nected with that establishment. The scene of the calamity was a portion of the establishment known as the North Gun-shed, a building nearly 200 feet in length by about 25 in width, which is situate at a short distance from the mein buildings compris ing the barracks. A portion of the shed was set apart for the instruction of the officers and men of the Royal and Indian Engineers in the manufacture of fuses, hand-grenades, and other destructive mis siles used by that branch of the service. At the time of the accident about thirty men, most of them belonging to the Ildian Engineers, and only a very few of th Royals, among whom were several non commissioned officers, were under the direction of Sergeant Adams, R.E., a non-commissioned officer of great experience, who was specially appointed to that duty from his great ability and the practical knowledge brought to bear on the subject. The engineers had been employed the whole morning in filling the fuses and hand grenades, and nothing occurred to create alarm until a few minutes before the time for the men discontinuing work to go to dinner. It is necessary to explain that a portion of the grenades and fuses are fined with powder, at the top of which is placed a com position composed of fine powder, saltpetre, and sulphur, which is known to be of a highly combus tible character. Special orders were therefore issued by Sergeant Adams to the men employed in filling the fuses and grenades to exercise great caution in the work, the sergeant at the same time, by fre• quent personal observation, ascertaining . that l' orders were obeyed. The composition in use by the engineers was placed by the side of the men in saucers, and a....er the fvq-1 were filled the composition was rammed home by means of a copper tube. This operation of " tamping," as it is termed, requires to be performed with great caution, as any extra violence will cause it to explode. It has been found from experience that a certain number of taps are sufficient to properly ram the composition, and all above that number are dangerous. It appears that one of the sappers of the Indian Engineers, a man named George Smith, was employed in ramming the composition into a fuse, but finding that it went hard, requested the man next him to assist him, which he did. Sud denly the fuse which Smith held in his hand became ignited, doubtless from the amount of tap ping it had been subjected to, Smith, who seemed panic-stricken, still holding it in his hand. The fuse then exploded, when the composition in the saucers was ignited, together with the preparations for some 10-inch shells, and half-a-barrel of gun powder which was in the shed. The effect of the explosion was of a most serious character, the first report, which sounded like the discharge of a 32-pounder, being followed by several minor explosions as the ignited hand grenades and fuses burst. The portion of the roof of the gun-shed which covered the compartment where the engineers were at work was lifted up and parts blown away, the lead which covered it being rolled up like a scroll. the entire side of the shed was blown out, and the wood-work of which it was composed scattered in all directions, many of the pieces being afterwards picked up a considerable distance off. The sides of the compartment were also blown down, and a great deal of havoc committed in the shed. Con sidering the number of men who were at work in the shed at the time, it is surprising that there were not several killed ; hut as it is, about a dozen were more or less injured, seven so seriously that they were instantly removed to the hospital. Many of the men had their clothes nearly blown'to shreds, one man having the entire front of his clothes blown off, and being otherwise terribly burnt. Two or three men were found to be on fire after the to go up there, and even if a fall had come and thrown the gas into his working it could not have fired unless his lamp was imperfect, which was never the case. The inquiry was proceeding when our report left. LA IV INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 21. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Nisi Prins—Before Mr. Baron Bram. well and Common Juries.) DAVID V. NICHOLSON-MONEY LENT. The plaintiff in this action, Henry John David, sued the defendant, William Nicholson, to recover £29 ss. 3d., money lent. The defendant pleaded never indebted, and that he had satisfied the claim. Mr. Henry James was counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. M'Namara represented the defendant. It appeared that both the parties are students of Gray's-inn. The plaintiff resides at 3, Verulam buildings, Gray's-inn, and the defendant at St. George's-road, Brighton. According to the case for the plaintiff he was born in London, but has resided for the greater portion of his life in America. Five or six years since, being desirous to go to the Eng lish bar, he returned to this country and entered himself at Gray's-inn. He there met the defendant, and ultimately an atrangement was come to between the parties under which the plaintiff went to board and lodge at the defendant's house, at Elgin-road, Notting-hill, paying 10s. a-week. The plaintiff was in the habit of lending several sums of money, varying from £2 to £2O, to defendant on his I 0 U's. The case for the plaintiff was, that although all former loans had been satisfied by the bill, the items forming the present claim had subsequently accrued. This was denied by the defendant, and in fact was the reel issue between the parties. The plaintiff wa3 called to prove his case, and was examined at considerable length with respect to his monetary transactions with the defendant. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Parry—ln July Mr. Nicholson called on me. He did not say that he wished all transactions between us to cease. He said I had spoken slurringly of him to a Mrs. Gomez —that I had said he had only a few hundreds a year, and was always in difficulties. If I did say co it was true. I asked for a settlement of our accounts. He said he would call and pay next week. I did not tell him, on my honour, that all the I 0 U's I am suing on had been destroyed. He did not wish a cloak and arm chair which he had lent me to be set off against the account. I have passed by the name of Kellar. I lived at Kensington crescent. I employed a medical gentleman to attend a lady there in her confinement. She died there. She had a child, which is still living. explosion, and were much burnt. A sapper named Thomas Rogers is so seriously injured that his life is despaired of, and should he recover it is feared that he will be totally blind. Ser geant Chapman, together with two sappers named Goode and Elliott, were blown by the force of the explosion through the gun-shed into a coal yard between 20 and 30 feet away. Beyond a few bruises Sergeant Chapman was unhurt, but the two other men are very much injured. The names of the men removed to the Royal Engineer Hospital, Brompton, suffering from injuries, are—James Goode, Stephen Elliott, James Mackenzie, Francis Macdonald, George Charles Smith, and Thomas Rogers, the last two mentioned having sustained the greatest injuries. Immediately after the occurrence a board of offi cers, consisting of Major Lovell, Captain Schaw, and Captain Stuart, assembled at Brompton Bar racks by order of Colonel Harness, C. 8., to investi gate the cause of the accident, and were occupied a considerable time in the examination of witnesses who could afford any information. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Was that - lady the lion. Mary Jones, sister to Lord Ranelagh ? Witness—No. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Was you ever known as Kellar in America ? Witness—Never. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Were you married to Lord Ranelagh's sister in America ? Witness—l was married to her at New York, on. the 3d of March, 1858, at the Rev. Mr. William son's church. I was married to her as Henry John David. I registered the death of the lady, who died at Kensington-crescent, and also the birth of the child. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Do you know:a lady named Caroline Van Doren ? _ ..... Witness—l know a person you allude to as Caroline Van Doren. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Were you married to her ? Witness—l was not. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Did she follow you to this country with four or five children ? Witness—No; with six children, if you please. (Laughter.) Mr. Baron Bramwell—Brother Parry, is the number of children material? (Laughter.) Mr. Sergeant Parry—Did you not call yourself Dr. David, and live at Walham ? Witness—l am quite entitled to do so, as I re ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. I never represented myself to be a physician. Mr. Sergeant Parry—What, not as physician to the Empress of the Brazils? (Laughter.) Witness—No. Mr. Sex geant Parry—Have you been to the Bra zils—to Rio Janeiro ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Sergeant Parry—And you swear you did not represent yourself as physician to the Empress of the Brazils ? Witness—l do. I was in England three years before I knew the defendant. I had an office in Buckingham-street, Strand. I lent money there. I held myself out as ready to make investments. I never was charged with fraud in America. I never was charged with defrauding a Mrs. Ross at New York. I was-arrested on a charge of forging a bill of £l,OOO on Mr. Keene of New York. I was taken from the similarity of my name for a person named Dowd or Abrahams, and when I proved who I was Mr. Hall, the police magistrate, dismissed the charge. I knew a Mr. Keene, of New York. No true bill was found against me there. I presume it was Mr. Keene who made the charge of forgery against me. I met him at Morley's Hotel, Charing cross, in 1856, and we had some champagne toge ther. I was to be found anywhere for two years afterwards ; but two months after I had lea the country for the benefit of my wife's health and my own he made the charge against me, but he never dared to repeat it. I have never been a Presbyte rian minister. I knew the Rev. Mr. Van Doren, the father of Caroline. Mr. Sergeant Parry—The lady you spoke of ? Witness--No, the lady you spoke of. (Laughter.) Mr. Sergeant Parry—Well, we both spoke of her. Re-examined—l took the name of Kellar at Ken sington-crescent, because that was the name of the lady who resided there. She was known by that name before I went to reside there. I obtained my degree at the University of Gottenburg. A letter from the defendant's wife, who was then at Brighton, was then put in. The writer acknow ledged the receipt of half of a £5 note from the plaintiff, and expressed a wish that he would take charge of and educate one of her boys, who should not be a burthen to him. Proofs of the payment of certain cheques having been given, the plaintif f 's case closed. The case for the defence was that the bill of ex change for £5O, dated May 3, had not in reality been given until after the last of the items claimed by the plaintiff, dated June 28, had been due, and that the bill, in point of fact, covered the whole of the plaintiff's demand. The defendant explained the matter, in reference to the £5O bill, in this way: he had received cheques from the plaintiff, amount ing to £33 45,, and ar erwards for £ll—making £44 4s. The plaintiff wanted to pay even money into his bank, and the defendant, therefore, gave the bill for £5O, the amount of which was made up by £5 15s. 3d. received at the time, the previous advances, and 9d. for the stamp. The defendant also contended there were overcharges in the plain tiff's demand, and he claimed a set-off for a chair and cloak, which he had lent to the plaintiff. Cross-examined—l preferred a charge against the plaintiff for burying a lady in a wrong name. I did so because I had been the means of introducing him to respectable people, and as ho could not be found I told the inspector of police where he was. My charge was that the lady was Lord Itanelagh's THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1861. sister. Lord Ranelagla did not prefer the charge. I did so, because I thought his conduct so disgraceful that I did not wish that jusl ice should be defeated by trickery. Mr. Scott, my attorney's clerk, was the complainant. Re-examined—Before I made the charge I ob tained this certificate. _ The document was put in. It was a copy of the registry of deaths for Kensington town of the death, on the 19th October, 1859, at Kensington-crescent, of Mary Dakella, aged 38, wife of Henry Dakella, gentleman. Further evidence having been adduced in support of the defendant's case, The learned counsel on both sides addressed the jury, when his lordship summed up. The jury then retired, and after an absence of three hours came into court and stated there was no possibility of their agreeing. They were accordingly discharged without coming to a verdict. 211 E BMA COLLIERY EXPLOSION. RISCA, MONDAY. This morning Mr. W. 11. Brewer, deputy-coro ner, resumed his inquiry (being the eighth day) at the New Bridge Inn, Mr. Llewellyn being present on behalf of the ltisca Coal and Iron Company, Mr. Owen for the friends of (the deceased, and Mr Evans, Government inspector, to watch the pro, ceedings and assist the coroner. John Thomas, a collier, deposed that he was at work in the Black Vein Pit, in the first east level, on the morning of the explosion ; that he tried his working when he first went in, and found gas there in quantities sufficient to fill his lamp. Thought there muqt have been three or four yards of gas in his stall, and consequently hung his lamp some six yards back (as well as his boy's lamp) from the face of his workiug and ten yards from the fire, so as to make them safe, and pulled back six or seven tons of coal that he had got down in the sack. When he entered the stall found a safety mark on the side, but could not swear that the night fireman had put it There that morning. Was afraid the gas would fire unless he put his lamp back. Some old workings were near his stall, but he never tried to see if they were safe. Thought the accumulation of gas had been caused by a fall which he observed about a fortnight before, and which obstructed the free passage of the air. At first there was no gas there, but in a day or two he saw a little, then more, and observed a gradual in crease till the morning of the explosion. Still, he never complained to the fireman, for he was a man with a family, and if he had interfered with the workings it might have been the means of his get ting the sack. The Coroner—lf you had told John Bray, the fireman, that there was gas there, and asked him to examine it, do you mean to say that you would have got the sack? Witness—Very likely I should. A Juror—Have you ever known that to be done ? - Witness—l have seen men driven back when they had come out of their stalls to complain of fire. The Coroner—By whom ? Witness—Once by Evan Beddow, and once by Mr. Harrison. The Coroner—ls that the practice then to make men work in the pit when there is danger ? Witness—l can't say ; but I have seen that. I have never told my butty nor anybody else that I saw the fire. I did not talk to others, but only looked after my own business. If Drrrick had visited my stall the night before the explosion he must have found gas there. By Mr. Evans—Was never told to leave the stall by the overman or fireman. Mr. Evans—Rule 19 says that the overman or fireman shall cause the workman to leave a place where there is gas. Mr. Llewellyn—Yes ; if you believe what this man says. Mr. Evans—l have nothing to do with that. The Coroner—l don't see why you should not believe this man as well as others. Mr. Llewellyn—Both Derrick and Bray, the firemen, have sworn that they examined the stall ; and rule 21 says that any man discovering gas shall at once leave the place and report to the overman or fireman. By Mr. Evans—l don't know if Mr. Harrison or Mr. Beddow knew of gas being there. I made no complaint of my plate being unsafe. By a Juror—The seven tons of coal that witneps was pulling back on the morning of the explosion had fallen by itself from the roof the day before. A Juror—And. still, with your place full of fire, you did net report it to any one ? Witness—No. The Juror—You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Mr. Evans—l suppose you thought the firemen would examine it. Witness—l thought I should find a fireman's mark to show if there was danger. Mr. Evans—Did you look to see if the fireman had made a fresh mark that morning. Witness—No ; with my place full of fire, I could not stand a long while looking about for fresh marks. I put my lamp back out of danger, and worked in the dark. By Mr. Llewellyn—l had seen gas for at least three days, but I did not tell the authorities. I did not think it my duty to tell them. I thought it their duty to tell me if there was gas, for they must have seen it. I ilitTC•66oll a copy of the rules, EMANCIAL REFORM. There is a mocking vision which periodically appears in his dawn-of-day slumbers to tantalise the imagination of John Bull. It visits him under different names and in various forms, but it always promises some relief almost unhoped for. When tired and weary, and heavily laden, it offers him rest and refreshing sleep, and holds out the hope that he shall go henceforward light of foot. Troubled about matters pecuniary, it tells him that he shall be in time to come free from debt and able to make both ends meet without that extraordinary exertion which begins to bow his back and shake his nerves. The only fault of this vision is that it is a vision. When John. in his honest way, would shake hands upon the promise there is no hand to shake. Sometimes the gauzy pantomimic fairy calls herself Financial Reform, and she is so rich in spangles, and reflects so beautifully the blue fire, that all the world is for the moment enamoured of Financial Reform. We recollect how in Drury lane Theatre, not very long since, this most attractive piece of magic was played. But while we admired and doted the pretty vision vanished. Where is now Financial Reform? Where are the splendours Financial Reform promised, where the burdens of which she undertook to relieve us ? The first are nowhere, but the second are tight upon our backs, just where they were. Financial Reform, however, is now come back to us, and is dancing her pretty pas seal before the eyes of certain very staid and respectable members of Parliament under the changed name of Retrenchment. It is the same vision under a new name. On the former occasion it shone in all publicity, this time there was a certain degree of privacy about it; but from the time of Burke a vision of Economical Reform, or Financial Reform, or Retrenchment has always, under different names but with the same allure ments, equally delighted our eyes and mocked our hopes. _ _ Call it retrenchment, or economy, or frugality, it is the common hope of every English taxpayer. It is not peculiar to the members who sit in any par ticular part of the House of Commons. It is not the patented aspiration of Sir James Duke, or the private hope of Mr. Baines, or the want originally discovered by Mr. Pilkington. It is the general desire of all men. Every Englishman, Scotchman, and Irishman, from the Premier to the little boy who stands with his blacking-brushes at the corner of St. Martin's-lane, desires to pay less taxes. We all want the full advantage of government and absolute protection from foreign invasion, and we desire to have this as perfect as possible and as cheap as possible. A great many of us also enter tain a notion at this moment that what we at pre sent have is perhaps not quite so efficient and cer tainly not so cheap as it might be. Certain very wise men, becoming cognisant of this fact, have undertaken to communicate it privately to Lord Palmerston, and, as the world knows, this privacy, according to the natural course of things, has become a very wide publicity. Lord Palmerston has been solemnly told that there must be retrenchment and economy. It is a very strong probability that Lord Palmerston knew this be"ore, and felt it quite as deeply as any of the gentlemen who signed the letter which expressed this undoubted fact. Ministers in this country do not willingly produce inflamed Esti mates, and Chancellors of the Exchequer do not subject themselves to the obligation of imposing new taxes or opposing popular movements for the repeal of obnoxious taxes. Nothing, however, is easier than to enunciate a general desire. We all want to retrench, but the question is, what shall we retrench? We are all in the position of the house holder who finds that his Christmas bills are reducing the balance at his banker's to nil. Lut the question remains, where shall he begin ? What shall be the first article of expenditure struck off? There is an immense crowd of servants meeting a certain number of times per diem in the servants' hall. and never without some serious damage to the family finances ; but, poll the servants' hall, and it will abundantly appear that, according to the opinion of the household, no retrenchment can be made there. If you insist upon an unanimous opinion you would be led to the conclusion that the policeman outside is the only cause of expenditure which is quite unnecessary. If you could only get rid of the Police-rates, and could save the expense of the lock upon the street door, a most healthy state of economy would pervade the whole house hold, and all things would go well. Such seems to be the opinion of the large section of the House of Commons who have put their names to the private letter to the Premier now in course of signature. Sir De Lacy Evans, who refuses his signature and denounces the document, is of an entirely opposite opinion. With an almost unwonted perspicuity, the General points out that while the members signing this Round Robin have recourse to the unprecedented expedient of a private com munication to the Minister of the Crown on a sub_ jest of the greatest public interest, they confine their particular suggestion as to the point of retrenchment to " the warlike establishments of the present year." With a vast region of expenditure, more diffuse and unexamined than any f xpenditure in the world, the censors of the day confine them selves to a recommendation of general retrenchment in the Civil Service and Miscellaneous Estimates, and the partial suppression of soldiers and sailors. The General accepts, as all men must accept, the proposition of retrenchment, but objects to its special application to solders and sailors. We agree with Sir De Lacy Evans. If the members signing this memorial will examine the estimates, they will find that soldiers and sailors, and the actual defences of this country, are about the cheapest things we do. The question is whether they ace not too cheap to be efficient. It would be a very trifling saving to us in taxes to strike off a number of men from the estimates of next year, and it would he a very miserable economy to send out our ships half-manned, and exhibit England in a condition of disarmament, when all the rest of the world is full armed for war. We would have retrenchment, but not here. Expe rience ought to have told us that no saving is to be obtained by reducing ourselves to a state of weakness which will invite attacks which we must arm again to meet. Arc we to be reminded once more of tne fable of the porcupine, who in the hot walk was persuadedhy the fox to take off his thick great coat of quills, and who felt cool and easy till his companion found it convenient to eat him But let not our lovers of retrenchment be angry with Sir De Lacy Evans. If the suppression of a few thousands of soldiers and sailors is the easiest process of reducing estimates, there are other much more efficient means of exercising the energies of Financial Reformers. We have been for years calling for the assistance of members of the Houle of Commons to sift and thoroughly examine these Naval and Military Estimates. They are as rich in antiquities as the soil of Rome. Not a spade is ever put into the ground but some noseless relic of former times is turned up. It has been our vain cry for years that if members of Parliament would only work in this soil, instead of crying about the streets like frozen-out-gardeners, they would dig up hundreds of unknown abuses and reduce the Estimates by several millions, without im pairing the efficiency of the service, Per haps, the best instance of how money runs away in old useless grooves is that of the difference of pay between the Horse Guards and the Blues, The Horse Guards and the Blues have the same duties, the same rank, and are iden tical in everything except pay. The Horse Guards receive 3d. a-day or 25 per cent, more pay than the Blues. This has gone on for many years. At last the anomaly struck some meditative individual, and he devoted his leisure to an historical inquiry into the matter. After much official research, he discovered that the difference originated in this wise :—Many years ago, the Blues being at Wind sor and the Horse Guards in London, the London Barracks required repair, and during these repairs the Horse Guards were necessarily turned out of barracks and allowed 3d. a-night billet money. In a few months the barracks were repaired, and the Horse Gaards went back; but that billet money, that 3d., has gone on unexamined and been punc tually paid through all the succeeding years. No lynx-eyed member peering through the Estimates has ever seen it. It has grown to tens of thousands, and is simply the result of the omission of a clerk to make a memorandum in a book many years ago, when the Horse Guards went back to their regular quarters. There aro other things of this kind yet to reward a careful investigator. A little industry rightly employed would pare down the Estimates without diminishing the efficiency of the service. If we want to reduce a jockey we sweat away his superfluous fat; we do not cut off his arms.—limes. SCROOLS OF ART. A crowded meeting was held on Friday night in the Hertford Town-hall, under the presidency of the Mayor, Mr. J. Gripper, to consider the pro priety of establishing a school of art for Hertford and its neighbourhood, in connexion with the Committee of Council of Education. After a few introductory remarks from the MAYOR, who stated that rooms rent free had been offered by Mr. Gilbertson for the purposes of a school, Mr. SPARKS, the manager of one of the largest of the metropolitan schools, addressed the meeting at considerable length, explaining the objects and benefits of such institutions, and adducing numerous instances in which pupils have raised themselves into important positions which the; could not have occupied without artistic know ledge. The Right Hon. W. COWPER, in moving the establishment of a school of art at Hertford, said — Most of the large towns in this country have schools of art. The Government, by the establishment of an education departMent, may be considered the founder of this branch f instruction, which it has very much fostered, with e view of giving a sound education in art to the com:nunity at large, and especially with a view to the iLlprovement of our manufactures in the great seats of Manufacture and industry. For a considerable number of years schools of art have been established, and the num ber in England at the present time :is 81. They thrive very well in the large towns, where there is a considerable population to draw from, aCd a great number of persons interested in WL'at is taught. But we cannot disguise the fa c t that there is much greater difficulty in establishing a school of art in a town of the size of Hertford; and, if we succeed in establishing a flourishing school, it must arise from the conviction of all classes that it is desirable to have such a school, and from their determination, according to their several dpportunites, to encourage the foundation and continuance of such an institution. (Hear.) There are three classes of persons who are interested in receiving instruction from a drawing-master — first, the artisan who will attend in the evening, and who for the small payment of 2s. per month, may obtain a very useful training in drawing ; secondly, there are the children belonging to the National and British schools who learn a mere ele mentary sort of drawing; and then there are private pupils, persons of both sexes, who may attend morning classes, and who will not form a por tion of the school. But in addition to the pupils at private schools in the neighbourhood, there may be classes of grown-up persons who may come to study in such schools. lam in hopes that many of the ladies will attend, and combine with their studies of colour and form a taste for drawing, for we know that ladies naturally have a dispo sition towards such elegant pursuits as that of drawinss (Hear, hear.) The advantages and aids given by the Government are in the form of payment to schoolmasters and pupil teachers, and in the purchase of models and other objects to lie copied ; and also in contributing towards that annual competition for prizes which stimulates to proficiency in the hope of success and reward. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps the greatest thing that has been done by the Government has been the establishment of a central place of training where the masters may acquire that knowledge which they are afterwards to diffuse. Many persons believe that drawing is merely an accomplishment, and that a drawing school is not exactly the thing which ought to occupy the public mind, and which can tend to the public advantage. If we turn to the advertise ments enumerating the various accomplishments taught in ladies' and gentlemen's schools, we find that drawing is generally put down as an extra, and not as a staple of education. But I believe drawing to be an important branch of public and popular education, and I would venture to suggest a few considerations in support of that opinion. We have heard of many instances in which artisans, from their knowledge of draw ing, have very greatly improved their positions, and it is quite clear that persons who are employed in building in any of its phases—whe ther as architects, surveyors, bricklayers, or car penters—must be greatly benefited by having the power of drawing clearly and systematically the objects with which they are conversant, and the knowledge which is necessary to understand the drawings of others. I would say that the drawing taught in these schools does not consist mesely in copying what some:master has done and becoming an imitator, but in proceeding step by step from the simplest elements up to the mastery of that style which he desires to attain. G: eat attention is paid to drawings of machinery, and every mechanic will admit that it is of the greatest advantage to him to get a certain amount of mastery over - C,:c and to be able clearly to understand the drawings that are placed before him. The benefit of such ;.ns struction is not confined to ertisans. Every person in every class of life will be benefited by having the power of delineating with a pencil what he wants to express, for a few strokes of the pencil will some times explain a design more, clearly than whole pages of description. Those who have power over the pencil often fly to the use of it. I remember hearing of an Englishman visiting one of the most famous eating-houses in Paris, who being unable to make the waiter understand that he wanted some mushrooms ; drew the best representation he could of that article upon a piece of paper. The waiter, after examining the sketch, with which he was somewhat puzzled, said he would fetch what the gentleman wanted. He left the room, and on his return, instead of producing a mushroom, he handed to the gentleman an umbrella. (Laughter.) That was the result of the inability of the gentleman to pencil his wishes clearly. (Hear, hear.) We con stantly find the great advantage of being able to place before the eyes of the people we are dealing with what we cannot do by means of words. Draw ing may be viewed generally as one of the means of developing the powers of observation and percep tion. There is nothing which so developes the habit of observation correctly as the habit of draw ing. Any person may test that by drawing the most familiar objects before his eyes. If you sit down and place on paper a representation of any house you are in the habit of visiting, or any wood you are accustomed to go through, you will find you have omitted many details which have been observed so carelessly that you have not carried them in your mind. How little we observe of a great deal that is passing before us ! I dare say that if any of you were asked the colour of the eyes of your friends, you would not be able to remember a very large number, and to say whether their pupils were blue, or brown, or gray ' • and the colour of their hair you wo u ld fi n d it equa ll y difficult to describe. The incorrectness of the recollection of many persons is perfectly astonishing, but the habit of drawing compels people to observe closely and accurately. (Hear.) It is this which renders drawing,,useful as a part of the general education of the whole com munity. I speak not merely of its special advan tages. There may be among you great artistic minds. It is possible that Hertford might produce a Gainsborough or a Reynolds, but that I do not look for, because geniuses come accidentally and can not be accounted for; but I feel quite certain that the acquisition of the power of drawing would be of advantage to everybody who is able to obtain it. Consider how drawing enables those who practice it to observe nature more closely—how much greater interest it gives to the scenes around us. The per son who has a little knowledge of landscape, a little fondness for pictures, will see in the outer aspect of nature things which never struck him before he acquired that power. The commonest and the hum blest scenes acquire a sort of picturesquelleas. Copied into a picture they produce an agreeable re sult. But until we have cultivated the drawing faculty we are hardly aware of that which is around us or is capable of giving us pleasure. It is therefore wise for us to cultivate whatever artistic faculty we may possess. (Hear, hear.) I do not imagine that the schools of art, or any schools, will develope many great artists. Artists are rare, but almost all mankind have, with cul tivation, the power of perceiving and appreciating the results of artistic genius in others. We may by cultivating our habit of observation ac quire an interest in form and in beauty of colour which we do not at present possess. Persons who are not accustomed to look at pictures :go through the National Gallery for the first time without pleasure or satisfaction. There are some who do not see that the bit of flat canvas hanging on the wall is anything hut a kaleidescope or mosaic, and that it represents distances and variety of surfaces, and living men, and real scenes; but, after a little habit of observing them and a little explo.nation, the man who saw nothing interesting in the pic ture at first suddenly feels a great interest in the work of art, and that it is well worthy of his atten tion. (Hear.) So that not merely on the ground of the personal usefulness of drawing —not only on the ground of its being desirable as a means of ge neral education, but also on the ground of increased interest and amusement, I would recommend every one who has the opportunity to join in this pupils, or ind uc i ng those under taking, by either becoming. over whom they have influence to do so. (Hear, hear.) It is astonishing how in endeavouring to amuie ourselves, we overlook th ose most simple and pure pleasures Which Providence has pro vided. 'We are constantly looking for excitement, for artificial amuseme n t, and we do not regard the simple deli g ht and pleasure that is given 1)7 natural object s t o t h ose who have eyes to ob serve them and minds to receive them. How very few there are wno take very much pleasure in arti4iCal buildings S 131 it we here iu this t(IlYjI proo f o f good taf ;te in the shop which Mr. Ba' mond has. produr 2,ed in Railway-street, and every one will ad mit t hat such a building differs widely from the oru'iva ry brick wall, with square holes for the windows' and doors. ("Hear, hear,'" and a laugh.) One great object for which schools of art have been fostered is the desire to raise the taste of t ;3' at large, and we have of late years 3 aprovement in the erdinary decoration t l; e e n c a om vast mun in ii of houses. The papers upon our walls, all ont articles of f urniture, have been greatly improved, an d a ll this is, I believe, very much attributable to these 54e hoofs. They have told upon the manufac tures of Ma.nehester, upon the hardware of Shef field, and upon the potteries of Staffordshire. Ii believe tin it the remarkable way in which our Eng lish china , has got ahead of the French and German china is very much owing to the fostering aid of the school c sf art at Stoke-upon-Trent. (Hear, hear.) Not only is more cultivated taste required by those who pr oduce, but among those who buy; so that fwe can improve the taste and the knowledge of the ti;rmer, and the artistic feeling of the con suming public, we are giving a fostering aid to our industry and raising England in the scale of artistic industry and artistic manufacture. (Hear.) There are many t 7publ'ic as well as private grounds on which these schools ought to be supported. I am quite sure that the private advantage of those who will obtain the benefit of this school will be quite sufficient to jas tify the effort which you arat now making without looking to those larger and wider views to which I have been adverting. If we can find a sufficienty large body of pupils to occupy the times of a firsi.-rate master, that master can be produced. The conditions of the Govern ; ment require that there shall be a sufficient number of persons to profit by the teaching of the master, do that no teaching power flay be wasted, and that a good master may not be placed in a position where he .mitt' not have enough to do. The school we desire' to establish is not merely a drawing school of the . s ,;mplest form, but a school of art—a school which vk give both the ordinary power of drawing and such I ,:n insight into the faithful representation of natura; objects and into art itself as will be really useftvl to the pupils, and enable them to appreciate th‘c, general improvement of art feelings which has bet extEading itself over this country, and is changing'.England gradually from being a mere prosaic cov,ntrY into one which will rank with countries on the continent in the knowledge and feeling of that Nvliich may truly be called art. (Loud cheers.) The resolution was adopted, and, on the motion I of Sir M. Farquhar,Ki a subscription was entered ' into to defray the preliminary expenses of estab. fishing the institution. COUNTRY Mi)!REETS. NORTHAMPTON-JAN. 19. At this corn-market to-day wheat was in good supply, with an inactive demand, prices ranging from 63s to 69s for old, and 47s to 63s for fnew. In barley a good businese, malting 38s to 455, grinding 32s to 36s per qr. Oats in small supply, and prices as before—quoted at 24s to 40s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 52s to 568; peas, 40s to 625. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 725; flour, 338 to 34a par sack ,R.-JAx. 19. Beans, Mazagan 3Gs to 42s Middle & small 44s to 50s White peas .. 48s to 52s Grey.. 42, to 480 IRD-JAN. 18. i'cas, Partridge 438 to 440 White 438 to 463 Boiling 43s to 4711 Dun .....398 to 42s Beans, Tick ....338 to 46s Harrow Ticks 39s to 49s Mazagan.......328 to 43e COLCHEST. Wheat, white....6os to 68s red 44s to 60s Barley 4os to 48s Oats —s to —5 CIIELMSFI Wheat, white 3Ss to 61s red 37s to Gls Barley 32s to 44s Chevalier 3ss to 47s Grinding 30s to 39s Malt 61s to 67s Chevalier GIs to 69s Oats 26s to 31s KIRKALDY-JAN. 19. We had only moderato supplies to-day o,f wheat and barley, but fair of oats. Last week's rates were► realised for wheat, and barley was in favour of buyers ; Oats rather dearer. Wheat Barley Oats First.... 30s Od 31s Od 23s 6d Second.. 51s Od 38s Od 298 Od Third .. 62s Od 42s Od 32s Od ?,T—JAN. 21. the close of tho market COAL MARK] (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. 8. d• Howard's West Hart- Hastings Hartley ... „1 7 3 ley 17 3 Davison's West Hart- Byass's Bebside West ley ....17 6 Hartley . ... 17 6 Powell's Du ffry n Steam 22 0 Bell's Primrose ......17 6 Walker Primrose 16 6 Ilolywell ..20 6 North Hartlepool 17 6 Ships at market, 92 ; sold, 53, TILE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Jan. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Feb. 12. B rm ll and Cape Verdi; ' Feb. 4. Monte Video, &0. .. Jan. • C B u u b en a o a s n - d " ,N r l e e s ;ic') .. Jan. 28 Canada, 0/la L'derry) Overdue. Cape of Good 1I De, &c. .. Feb. 1. China, Penang, l i th i Singapore (via S'ampton) Feb. 1. Do (via Marseilles) Jan. 26. Gibraltar (via Southamc't?n) Jan. 25. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, o: c. (via Southampton) Feb. 1. 1)o. (via Marseilles) Jan 46. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) • . .. Jan. 25. Do. (via Marseilles) . • • . Jan. 19. . 6 • • • • • • • • • • Jan. 21. • Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Jan. 25. Do. (via Marseillo) .. Jan. 19. ", Vigo, and Oporto .. •.. Jan. 21. United States, California, &e. .. Jan. 23. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriire .. Feb. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, ece, Jan. 28, !) [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The great injury inflicted on man,' invalids by drugs increases the interest the public take in Du Barry's Itevalenta Arabica Food, which cures without medicine. We quote a few out of many thousand cases of cures by the delicious Food. Cure No. 180.—" Twenty five years nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and de bility from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." Cure 4,208.—" Eight years dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Health Restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably av-ravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disapp.ointment, an d expense may be avoided by using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence Fer day, saves 5C times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually, u .thout purging'z constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. .We find it the safest remedy. Andrew trret MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Thr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu 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 Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Bail and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, onthe seal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b.. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. lie. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbio) GO, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgat: - street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and Co. tea.dealers ; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-etree,t City ; at 127, High Holborn: and all grocers [A DVE RTISEME2iT.]—HoIIOwaK' Ail ments.—Each season of the year as its peculiar diseases ; but in our winters the sick list much increases. Bron chitis, diphtheria, mumps, liver complaints, and dyspepsia, or disordered stomach, generally prevail at this period. The most philosophical and successful mode of preventing or curing this calamitous catalogue of sufferings is to purify the blood—with its purification all disorders depart. This desirable result can, and will be, readily and effectually accomplished by a judicious course of Holloway's estimable pills, which act by directly expelling all impurities. :.These pills wonderfully assist digestion and promote natural ac tivity in kidneys, liver, lungs, and heart, whereby they strengthen the nerves, and confer energy, power, and health en the entire frame. BIRTHS. FIELDING.—On the 20th inst., at Downing, Flintshire, the Viscountess Fielding, of a daughter. PoruAm.—On the 19th inst., at 50, Grosvenor-street, the wife of Francis Leyborne Popham, Esa •f a s ort and heir. SUFFIELD.—On the 20th inst., a t Harlestore House, Nor thamptonshire, the Lady SuWield, of a on. M A. It EIAGES• ADDISON—IVAITE.—On the 15th inst., at Gainford, Dur ham, Charles Addison, M.A., St. John's College, Cara bridge, to Jane Eliza, only daughter of the Rev. Joseph Waite, sen., Gainford. BEAmistr—Smint.--On the 17th inst., at St. John's, Pad dington, P erc y Smyth Beamish, Esq., to Ada Nurem berg, eldest surviv in g dau g hter of the late Bright Smit h, Esq., of 13ryanston-square. DEATHS. HALL.—On tho 21st inst., at Lansdowne -crescent, Ken sington-park, Sir John Hall, K.C.H., formerly Secretary' to the St. Katherine's Dock Company, aged M. JANvi wq.—On the 21st inst., at 53, St. George's-road, Eecleston-square, Francis Janvrin, Esq., late of Devon shire -place, aged 72. PARKER.- On the 19th inst., at Lewisham House, Ken t, Thomas W. Parker, Esq., aged 89. Sitar coTE.—On the 20th inst., at Stoke Damarel, near Devonport, Commander Thomas Shapeote, R.N., aged 81. WILKINSON.—On the 19th inst., at his residence, 6, Leigh ton-grove, Camden -town, Commander J. J. WilkiasoUt R.N aged 70. 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