The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-25 00:00:00

BE.RTS AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The prizes annually awarded by this society were com peted for yesterday, and the proceedings were wound up by the customary annual dinner at the Corn Exchange, Hitchin. Venison and birds were liberally supplied by the local magnates, and the dinner, served by Mr. Hill, was both satisfying and satisfactory. Sir. E. B. Lytton, M.P., presided, and among those present were Mr. Dallas, the American Minister (at present on a visit to the chairman), the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir W. Jol. life, M.P., Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. C. C. Hale (vice-chairman), Mr. F. P. D. Radcliffe, Mr. R. Dering, Sir Francis Doyle, Mr. G. J. Bosanquet, Mr. C. W. Puller, Mr. Hain worth, &o. After the usual loyal toasts bad been given and re sponded to, The CHAD:MAN said—We have present among us on this occasion the distinguished representative of an illus trious people, akin to ourselves in language and in blood, in just laws and in intellectual sympathies—the people of Anaerica. It is true that their institutions differ from ours, They are free and contented under a republic. We hold ourselves to be equally free and contented under the mild sway of a constitutional Sovereign. Each nation attempts o work out the problem of good government in its own way. Thera across the waters we can recognise a repub lic which respects property and order, and here Ameri cans may recognise a monarchy which is not incompa tible with liberty and progress. Now, gentlemen, there have been of late some political, or rather, let me say, some diplomatic misunderstandings between the two countries. Of these misunderstandings it would not become us upon this occasion to say a single word. Let us hope that they are in a fair way of being tranquilly settled, upon terms which may equally consult the honour and the dignity of the two nations. The grand invention of the electric telegraph under the waves of the Atlantic is about to add another link to those that unite the mother country to her giant children. But there is a telegraph which can still more annihilate time and space, and which we look to the wise and conciliatory genius of onr ' distinguished guest to re-establish—l mean that telegraph which communicates between heart and heart, and which carries from nation to nation the language of common interest and of kindred affection. (Cheers.) This is not the first time that Mr. Dallas has visited these shores. He came here before, towards the close of the unhappy war of 1812 between England and America. He came then with objeets of peace and conciliation. Such are, lam assured, his objects now, and I trust that his success will be such as to establish his imperishable fame not only among the statesmen of his country, but among the benefactors of the human race. (Hear, hear.) Our visitor is himself of British origin ; he is descended from an ancient and an eminent family in these isles. Here he breathes the air which his ancestors breathed, and he is treading the soil in which the bones of his ancestors repose. It was at a very anxious and critical moment for the two countries that I first saw him, but I immediately felt sure that he was the right man in the right place—(hear, and laughter)—and since he has honoured me with a visit under my own roof-tree, with his amiable and ac complished family, I have had on all occasions to admire the clearness of his intellect, the depth of his observa tion, the dignified simplicity of his manners, the trans parent kindliness of his heart, and (if he will allow me so to say)the felicity with which he Unites the natural na triotism of an American citizm with a just appreciation of all that is really excellent and sterling in the dear old land of his own fathers. (Cheer.) Well, I told him that if he would honour me with a visit he would be sure, at least, of a hearty English welcome in an old Erigt country house. But hie heart is so large that the welcome of an individual does act content him, and Tam so proud of. my guest that the welcome of an individual does net , satiety me for iim ; and therefore he is here to-day to receive the welcome of all classes and of all parties of Englishmen in this great Rational meeting. Gentlemen, may those cheers with which I knew you will receive the toast I am about to propose be borne across the Atlantic, and assure the United States of our affec• tole for their people and of our respect for their repre sentative. (Hear, hear.) I give you the "Health of his Excellency William Dallas, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America ;" and allow me to add one sentiment—Laeting, Concord between America and England. (Load cheers.) Mr. DALLAS.—Gentlemen--It is impossible for me to allow the flattering manner in which you have re ceived the toast so kindly introduced by the distin guished gentleman who presides to pass without the ex pression of my warmest thanks. A stranger to you all, I deeply feel the hospitality of your welcome, though, in truth, my short experience in England has given me more than reason enough to expect it. For the generous allusion made to the ineitntions, the progres', and the prospects of mycountry, let me also return in my private as' well as in my pubic character the most cordial acknowledgments. Youthful among nations, and per haps in the estimation of many whom I ad.lrels, far from faultless, she has nevertheless undeniably achieved in the general cause of civilisation, in science, in art, in me• chanics, in human elevation and improvement, what may well justify the encomiums from such enlightened, discriminating, and candid men, In no sphere cf social action are the United States better entitled to your es teem than in the very ono with which this banquet is connected. They recognise their agricultural interest. their planters, and their farmers as their predominant interests—the interest that wields the power, originate the wealth, cherishes the manly freedom, and promotes the happiness of their entire people. (Cheers.) You cae make no advance on that subj..ct whioh will not meet with their sympathy and co-operation. In the vast val ley of the Mississippi, amid measureless plains of ex haustless fertility, millions of my countrymen accept as the noblest of human pursuits the cultivation of their own soil. (Hear, hear.) Their chief aim and delight is to stock their farms with cattle of the best breeds, and they hail as more worthy of their gratitude and their applause than military exploits or political victories every onward step in practical husbandry. (Cheers.) I wish, gentlemen, I felt competent and at liberty to engage a few moments of your altention in adverting to American movements similar to your own. They are numerous in every separate State of our confederacy. Impelled, as here, by the highest intellect and the truest patriotism, their combined results might be regarded as an offering not wholly unworthy of your acceptance. (Hear.) But I cannot venture so far ; and although I am really sensible that an interehange of agricultural reports would constitute a powerful bond of national amity and peace, still I shrink under the warning of one of your own venerable proverbs, to which my Lord Ham let might, perhaps, apply his epithet of " somewhat musty," inculcating the folly or futility of carrying coals to Newcastle. (Laughter.) Gentlemen, I repeat the expression of my thanks, and will now give you the only good thing which belongs to the address that I have made. It is in the shape of a sentiment—" 111 honour and success to the Agricultural Society of Herta !" (Loud cheers.) The next toast was the health of the Lord Vernlam, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, which was warmly responded to. The CHAIRMAN—It isle now my pleasing duty to give yon the familiar toast of" Prosperity to the Herta Agricultu ral Society." I hear from all sides that you have had an exceedingly good show to-day ; that although the exhi bition of stock has not been particularly numerous, it has been exceedingly good of its kind, and that you have had a more than ordinary display of farming implements. I congratulate you. I could have wished that this toast I had been assigned to one who, haviiig addressed you less frequently upon the same subject, might have given to his general remarks upon the utility of these societies the attractions of novelty, or by one who, being a practical agriculturist, might have offered to you some valuable sug. gestions on points of detail. lam relieved, however, in some degree from my apprehension of inability by the speech just delivered by our distinguished guest, the Ame rican Minister, in which, in the true spirit of American expansion, he has travelled over a great deal upon which I might have liked to address you, and has embraced even thesentiment of the toast I am about to propose. I couldhave wished he had gone on, and that, in his own elo quent way, he had taken the subjec'., entirely to himself ; but still, if it be true that " out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," I ought to be in no want of words, when I see before me so many of my friends and neighbours, all united in that great object of progress and improvement by which every department of industry not only maintains its own rank in the various divisions of society, but contributes to the national stock cf intel ligence and wealth. (Cheers.) It is quite true, as Mr. Dallas has implied in the course of his speech, that the object of these societies is not merely that of bringing us together in good fellowship and friendly communion. It is true, also, that their benefits do not limit themselves to a handful of successful competitors. Every time that we meet we not only reward the skill of the husbandman and the cattle breeder for the current year, but we make each meeting a milestone, as it were, in the highway of the national progress. (Cheers.) Every year some new ideas are communicated, some new invention or im provement is exhibited which furnishes reflections for the year that follows ; and thus each year ought to find, and does really find, us in advance of its predecessor. It ie true the farmers may not know the progress which they themselves make, and it is also true that we must - , not reckon that progress by the annual exhibitions, be cause those exhibitions will of course fluctuate. From accidental causes an exhibition may be better in one year than in another, but we must reckon by periods of five or six years, and we must calculate not from the progress of one local society alone, but according to the progress of the various agricultural societies throughout the king dom; Well, then, it is the business of the man who collects statistical details and publishes statistical infor mation to inform us of the astonishing progress which has been made in British agriculture within the memory of the present generation, the number of prejudices that have been abandoned, the number of new inventions that have been fairly tried, the astonishing improve ment in the breed of stock, and the increase in the average quantity of the crops. Why, I saw it stated that within the last three years, independently of the sums expended upon British and other manures, no less a sum than 5,010,000/. has been devoted to the importation of guano, and within the same period of three years it is stated upon authority that 1,000,000 fresh acres have been brought into cultivation. Now these er any other agricultural improvements do not benefit the agriculturist alone ; all kinds of enterprise, all so ciety, participate in the success of the farmer. The mer chant at Liverpool, the manufacturer at Manchester, Las a (Erect personal interest in the success of these so- cieties, and in the exhibition of the results which we annually display. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, it is quite true, as was stated by Lord Lonsdale at a recent meet societies and with farmers in the different districts, every farmer making the return with the utmost secrecy, and the whole system is based so much upon the voluntary principle that though the late bill was not intended to apply to Scotland, the Scotch farmers said if the bill passed the experiment would altogether fail in their own country. Farmers in Scotland had at first the same ob- ections as are entertained here ; they believed that the information they gave might perhaps be made use of against them for increasing their rates, or raising their rents ; but when they found by experiment that no harm ensued, and that they derived a great deal of good from the information thus circulated, they lent themselves to the experiment, entered upon it willingly, and made it their pride and pleasure to give the best information in their power. Well, then, can I believe that that conciliatory systemwhich hag been so successful in Scotland will prove less successful among the high spirited and intelligent farmers of Hertfordshire and of England ? I enlarge upon this subject because, though I shall always respect the feelings of ray constituents, and although it is my duty as your representative to do so, I hope that if a good and conciliatory bill is introduced into Parliament you will consider it favourably, remembering that the more you recognise the soundness of the general princi- ple the better you will be able to mould the details and and render them agreeable and palatable. If you do not take this advice—if the Government imagines that it is of no use trying to conciliate the farmers—l am afraid the influence of the great manufacturing and commercial TIM SUN, Lov. , DON, THURSDAY EVENIP''et, SErrEMBER 25 1856 chine, the yield will be most satisfactory. The stack yards are everywhere filling rapidly, and, with a con tinuance of the present, weather for eight or ten days, the fields will be cleared of their produce throughout the Border districts. _ _ GALASHIELS. —For the last five days the weather has been uninterruptedly fine, and the cutting of the crops has proceeded without cessation. The high winds whieb, have accompanied the sunshiny weather have contributed, in no small degree, to dry and ripen the outstanding grain. A great proportion of the corn in our immediate neighbourhood has been cut, and this week also a deal of it has been safely secured. In the higher districts of the county this week has been the first in which har vest operations may be said to be general, and, owing to the advanced state of the fields in every direction, bar veAters have been in good demand, and wages have risen considerably. iiilinuNt. —Harvest operations are now general, anti, the crop is everywhere a full average. The weather is bright and fine, giving an excellent opportunity for cut ting and securing the crops. Frost is beginning to be felt morning and evening, and cold weather threatens to set in very early this year. One or two showers have fallen during the week, but nothing to speak of. PERTH.—Although a considerable part of the crop is now cut down in this neighbourhood, very little as yet has been put into the stack-yard ; the frequent heavy showers which have fallen of late puts a stop to the leading. Steady dry weather is very desirable at pre sent. The spring-sown wheat will be very late in many places this season. INVERNESS-SHIRE.—The harvest (says the Inverness Courier of Friday) was progressing most satisfactorily here, a considerable breadth of barley and oats was reaped, and several wheat fields were in process of shear ing, when heavy rain set in yesterday. All night the rain continued, and this day the weather is also unfa vourable. We fear this unfortunate occurrence will do serious injury, as well as retard the operations of harvest. MORAYSHIRE : -Up to Thursday last the Forres Gazette thus reports of Morayshire :—" The weather has on the whole been propitious for cutting down and ingathering the crops during the past week. A violent gale sprung up on Monday last, and continued the greater part of the day. It was feared that in exposed situations, where there was over ripe corn standing, considerable loss from shaking might ensue, but, so far as we can ascertain the loss has been but partial. On some of our largest farms the cutting is well through. At Chapsltawn the greater part of the crop has since been secured in the corn yard. At Moy the harvest operations were completed on Wed nesday, and at Grangegreen on Thursday. On the farm of Greeshop reaping is being prosecuted with great vigour, and will be finished by the end of the week. The crops are very heavy and of prime quality. If the weather continue fair and favourable to the end of the week there will not be much harvest work to do in the laich of Moray. The shearers will be through, and ready to commence operations in the upland districts." THE SECRETS OF NUMBERS. PRICES OF SHARES, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM- PANIES' STOCK. Prom the Official List. rUBLISTIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1856. GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. Z s. d. X s. d. , 6 British • • •• • • •• •• • • .. - - - - Ditto Provincial.... 71. 20 0 0 20 0 0 Brighton ••••-•• • • .. 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 i 15 City of Loncfon ...... 41. Os. 100 0 0 150 00 1 - Continental (4th Cap.) . - 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Equitable -.• • • • •• .. 2/. 10s. 50 0 0 all 36 e u Great Central ....... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 all 12% , Imperial .. • • ........ 101.& bonus. 50 0 0 all 90 Independent ......... 51. 40 0 0 •• - 1 London.• ...... ...... - 50 0 0 If - ,i Do., Parl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 1 Phoenix ............. 41. per cent. 60 0 0 52 0 0 42 Ratcliff ..... ....... 5/. 100 0 0 16 0 0 16 United General ...... 21. 10s. 50 0 0 all 2l Westminster Chartered 41 per cent. 60 0 0 b 3 Ditto, New ........ , - 50 0 0 10 ' I; 0 10% WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. -.-- - £ s. d. £ s. d. East London - Grand Junction Kent.... • • - 800 Lambeth ...... •• • • - 100 0 0 - 95 New River Company 21.105. - - - Southwark &Vauxhall , 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - - West Middlesex •• • • - 100% BRIDGEi. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ a. d. - Hungerford .... • • .... - -7% Southwark ...... •• .. - 100 0 0 - - Ditto New of 7% p.c. 1/. per cent. 50 0 0 - - ' Waterloo ..... .... •• • • - 100 0 0 - - Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. 14s. Bd. 60 0 0 - - Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 1/. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0 - 26% ' Vauxha11.......... • • 965. 70 10 3 - 20% DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Compa per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. i £ s. d. £ s. d. t Commercial .. • ....... 5/. pr cent. Stock. Stock. - East and West India.. 6/. pr cent. Stock. - - 3 East Country 2os. per sh. .- - - a London ..... - 103 1 4 • Ditto Bonds 4l. per cent. - - - - St. Katharine ...... •• 4 per cent. Stock. - 88)6 8 , outhampton - I Victoria .. • • - JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- f £ s. d. £ s. d. Australasia . . 201. per cent. 40 0 0 all 105% a British North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 Pt - a Commercial of London. 10c.ner cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 30 e Colonial .............. 51. per cent. 'lOO • 0 0 25 0 0 21% 10nian................ 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 i - • Lend. Char. Bk. of Aus. - 20 0 0 all 0 19% London and County .. i 101. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 31% d Londn and Westminstr 14/. percent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 47% A London Joint-Stock .• . 121. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 0 0 30 % " Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New. ••.. • • -81. per cent. 10 0 0 all - ,e Nationrl of Ireland.... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - i t Nat. Provincial of Eng. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New .. ••• . • • 81. per cant. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - 7. Oriental Bank Corpora. 81. p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all 394 r- South Australia •.• . .. 1141 p.ct.& bs. 25 0 0 ft 37 Union of Australia •• • • ;301. per cent. 25 0 0 68 Ditto - 2ro 0 - 3' Union of L0nd0n...... 1 201. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 27% I 1, Union of Madrid ..... - 40 0 0 all - of CANALS. Id nd I • rz e ' .; Price 8 Names of ,) Dividend Names of . Divid r. ~ pe 1- Companies. A i per Companies. d Annum. Price, UM. a r Annura. :n2+ m 1 x - la , £I a Ashtn &Oldhl 9371. p. ct. 145 Macclesfield. +OO 2/. 10s. 51 ra, 13 arnslriy. •. • 1601 - - Neath ••• • • • 1,00, 161. - BrknkecAbrg 150 41. Oxford.. •• • • 1001 - 103 , Birmingham 40 1 41. 91% Peak Forest. 78 51. Os. 76 •F' Coventry.... 100 25 1. - Regent's •• • • 30 1/ 15% ,n Derby ..... 100 61.155. 84 Rochdale.... 85! H. 10s. 76 he Ellsmre&Chs 69 2% p. ct. - Somrset Coal 1 40 - - GrandJunctnlloo 3/. pr. ct. 43 Do. Lk FdSt 12 - .- ul , Do., 6 pr.Ct.l 10 61. pr. ct,. 11% Stffrd &Wore. 14 0 , 281. 425 a- Grand Surrey; 100 41. - Shrewsbury.. 1 25 - - y, Grand Union' 100 11.0 s. - Stoarbridge.. 145 121. 250 0„, Kennt & Avn 39 6s. Od. 6% Severn and 1 „, Lancaster . 100 - - Wye Rail. 5 26 `'. - ,5 Leeds &Livrp . ; 100 251. 483% Warwick & 7 IC), Leicester .. • •1100' 51. 49% Birming. 5 100 21. 25 ti, Leiestr &Nth; 83 - "- Warwick & 1 21 ' 6 Loughl.orogh' 142 701. 550 Napton..3 100 k•Y Monmouthsh' 100 - - Worcstr &I 78 21. 20 'as Aintgmerysh ' 100 - - Birming. h e MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks -10 s. Od. -- towns will hasten some measure that may be vexatious and arbitrary, and contrary to the wishes and the feelings of the rest of the community. Now, one word wilh re gard to the prospects of our society. I have been told, and I hear it with great surprise and regret, that there is some little degree of slowness in the aid which ought to bo given to a society which not only benefits the farmer, but all classes of the community. In the first place I should rejoice, now that the corn law question no longer divides town and country, if our richer mer chants and tradesmen in our different county towns would come forward a little more prominently in support of a society in which they are so directly interested ; and I think it would conduce very much to the establishment of harmony among all classes if they would offer a prize or prizes exclusively for competition by tenant farmers. (After treating this point locally and requesting the co operation of the inhabitants of Hitchin, Sir E. B. Lyt ton thus resumed) There is one other subject which occurs to me in connection with a toast proposed earlier in the evening. When I last addressed you as president of this society the war was.raeing, although the flag 3 of England and France were at that time waving over the walls of Sebastopol. I did then my best to encourage and animate the hearts of my countrymen, for while the war lasted I went into it heart and soul, as I trust I ever wren my country is engaged in a sever• struggle with a powerful enemy and in a righteous cause. (Cheers.) Since then, however, it has pleased her Ma jesty to accept peace, and we are now treating the recent Enemy not to cartridges and bombshells, but to compli ments and congratulations. Now, of the terms of that peace the least said the soonest mended. (A laugh.) I don't think there 13 any one man of any party who can conscientiously declare that he thinks the terms of peace were such as to compensate this country for her expen diture of blood and treasure, and it is perfectly clear that we have not finally adjusted the balance of Europe. But that peace became inevitable, with all its draw backs, the moment it became clear that France was re• solved to accept it. The practical good sense of English men sufficed to show that it could never be the policy of this country to carry on a war of invasion on the bound lees territory of Russia single-handed, or with a reluctant ally, Pence has been made, then, not so much out of content with Russia as out of respect for France. (Hear.)• In former wars it has been said that they were fomented and prolonged by the landed interest, in their desire to sustain rents aed prices; but history will never say that the late war was prolonged for a single day by the sanguinary spirit of landlords and farmers. (Hear.) As soon as peace became inevitable, that moment all the agricultural members in a body thought they best con sulted the wi.,hes and interests of their constituents when they resolved that not by a single word or vote would they disturb or interrupt the negotiations or dis credit or embitter that peace. (Clear, hear.) In con clusion, let me express a fervent hope that we may never fall into the same error into which we have been before led—that we may never again believe that the world has grown too enlightened for war—that we may never again risk the flower of our armies, the safety of our fleet, and renown of our country by plunging into a contest unpre pared, with hospital regulations which were a disgrace to humanity until Florence Nightingale came to show I how armies could be saved by one clear head and earnest heart, executing an angel's mission in a woman's form. (Loud cheers:) NOW lam not for keeping up great tui;itary e:itablishnents in a time of peace ; nothing could be more unwise than so to exhaust the resources of a country and add to the burden of taxation, besides which, standing armies would sooner or later be wholly incompatible with civil liberty. I do, however, desire that we may now carefully maintain that noble militia which will serve as a nursery for the regular service. I ought to say that without fear of your disapproval, when I remember the Harts Regiment of Militia, so admirably commanded by the noble Marquis (of Salisbury). I desire, too, that we may now take this occasion to in troduce into our various civil, military, and commissariat departments those modern improvements which may he suggested by our own experience or by the enlightened observation of foreign armies, and I desire this the more because I cannot contemplate the state of the con tinent without the most serious anxiety mod a firm belief that, sooner than is generally expected, some employ ment will be found for those large standing armies upon which the thrones of so many kings may depend. Do not believe that this is not to the purpose ? Do not believe that this does not relate to you, for where is there a class in the kingdom which is so earnestly in terested in the question of peace or war as that class which lives by the land (Hear, hear.) If ever war should be forced upon us in a just cause, upon whom is this country to depend ? I will do justice to our town populations ; I know that for the long endurance of a war we must relyfgreatly upon the grandeur of our corn. merce and upon the returns derived from our manufac tures ; but I say that for the tough materials of the war we must go to the agricultural inhabitants of the country. (Cheers.) It is our peasantry that furnish the best re cruits, and it is the high spirit of the yeomanry, farmers, and country gentlemen, who carry on a contest with good heart and hope when the merchant begins to trem ble, arid the manufacturer to complain. And there is nothing in these societies which tends to our success in war, as well as to our prosperity in peace ? In the first place they ,circulate intelligence which leads us to dis tinguish the cause of quarrel, and decide upon its neces sity and justice. Next they tend to augment those national resources which are the sinews of war, and which would preserve this country from the calamity of famine should any foreign fleet cut us off from a foreign market. Moreover they bring us all together as to day, from the peer to the peasant, in common sympathy and union, reminding us that we are the children of the same soil which we have enriched with our industry, and will protect with our blood. (Cheers.) May that union which cements us to-day, which makes us indifferent whether it be a Tory or Radical who attends these meetings and wins our prizes, —may that union serve us if necessary hereafter ! May we be as imperishably united, if ever this country should be in danger, to defend its soil as we are united now to multiply its flocks and fertilise its fields. (Cheers.) I call upon you to drink prosperity to this society. The toast I give is in honour of the society which summons us together to-day for the advancement of that agricul. ture which is the staple of our prosperity in time of peace, and of our resolute endurance in time of war—a society which is an honour to the county to which we belong; and where is the 'man who is not as proud to belong to Hertfordshire as lam to represent it ? (Pro longed cheering.) Many other toasts of a local character followed. ing in West Cumberland, that the two great problems of modern agricultural science are, first, the degree to which mechanical inventions may be applied to cheapen labour ; and, next, the degree to which the sewage of towns and other chemical manures may be ap plied to the purpose of cheapening, of varying, and increasing the manures with which we are more familiar. But, gentlemen, the farmer is not a che mical professor ; he is not a mechanical inventor ; and it is of no use to attempt to make him that which he is not. (Hear.) It is his business to watch without pre judice on the one hand, and without rashness on the other (because he has certain definite expenses which he must meet, and he must beware of all uncertain speculations) the results of chemical science and me chanical invention, and to apply those results, according as scientific knowledge and theory correspond with expe riments and prove them to be actually profitable. I am not one of those pompous amateurs who think it neces sary at agricultural meetings to lecture the farmers upon all that they have to do, and all they have to learn ; and I daresay you may have observed—l have very often — with a good-humoured amazement, that some smooth spoken gentlemen who would rather bite his tongue off than tell a merchant at Liverpool how to manage his counting-house, or a cutler at Sheffield how to make knives, no sooner finds himself at an agricultural meet ing than he thinks it incumbent on him to enlighten the farmers upon every detail of their business, from the materials of their manures to the very shape of their ploughs. (Hear, and laughter.) Nov, I fancy, gentlemen, that as practical mon you are not inclined very much to respect that kind of advice, and it is enough for me to assure our distinguished kinsman from the United States of my perfect persuasion that your own general intelligence and your acute sense of your own in terests will induce you to give fair play to every experi ment which may be shown to he really profitable, and therefore conducive to the general purposes of husbandry! (Hear.) But there has been one charge brought against your general intelligence which I will now ask your per mission to refute. You will remember, it is quite fair to allude to it, because it is not a party or political ghee. Lion, and in all agricultural meetings the subject has been discussed—you will remember that in the last session of Parliament a bill was introduced fcr the avowed object of obtaining a correct systexi of agricultural statistics. Well, to that bill the farmers of Great Britain, as a body, were almost unanimously opposed, and I think very rightly opposed. (Cheers.) I now respectfully ask your permission to tell your visitors and (by means of ,gentlemen who are present here and are about to spread the intelligence throughout the country) the public that the farmers of England as a body are not opposed to the spread of intelligence, and are therefore not opposed to a good, judicious, and conciliatory system of agricultural statistics. But they were opposed to that particular bill, because I think I can show in a very few words that it employed the most odious machinery in order to defeat its own object. The bill of which I speak was founded upon the recommendation of a committee of the House of Lords. Well, one would have thought that a com mittee formed for the express purpose of legislating upon matters which especially concerned the tenant farmers, and for which the co-operation of tenant farmers is also. Cutely essential, would have made tenant farmers their principal witnesses ; but what was my surprise when I looked into the evidence collected, and found that out of 19 witnesses examined they were only five who were in any way practically connected with English agriculture, irid out of those five there was net a single man who could be fairly said to be a representative of the feeling and habits of the tenant farmer. (Hear.) A great num ber of Government officials were examined, and prom!. nent over all were four Poor Law inspectors. They naturally enough, according to the same principle which made the leather-seller say that for the fortification of a town when besieged there was nothing like leather, these four Poor Law inspectcrs naturally said that for a popu. lar and conciliatory system of agricultural statistics there was nothing like the machinery of the Poor Law Board. Well, the committee adopted that recommendation ; it was engrafted upon the bill ; whereas I should ,have thought, as a man of plain sense, that the very last per son to whom not only a farmer but any man would be inclined to confide his private affairs would be some one inseparably connected in his mind with the payment of his rates. (Hoar.) But these Pcor Law inspectors had already tried privately what they could do in various districts of the country. They had found that they did not get on so well as could be wished, and therefore told the committee that the bill must be made compul sory and the farmer obliged to make these returns. Well, gentlemen, and when it is said in the committee, " But won't the farmer object to this ?" the four Poor Law inspectors in a loud chorus exclaimed, "Lord bless you, no 1 that is exactly what the farmers want ; farmers want to be obliged to make their returns." (Laughter.) The committee were green enough to be lieve that the Government (if I may be allowed to say so) were green enough to believe the committee ; and, accordingly, to one of the most unpleasant machineries in the world was conjoined the most vexatious principle I can conceive, that of an inquisitorial investigation into a man's private affairs, under a bill of pains and penal ties, leaving the farmer at the mercy of any common spy and informer. (Hear, hear.) Let me tell the public that farmers objected to that bill, not because they were farmers, but because they were Englishmen—(cheers)— and my belief is that if that bill had been carried it would have occasioned so deep a disgust and so great a spirit of revolt among those upon whom it was brought to bear that, instead of advancing agricultural statistics, it would have thrown them back for the next 20 years to come. (Hear, hear.) I don't consider this as a party question, and therefore I represented these views of the subject (and, as I humbly think, not without effect) to members on both sides of the house. I own it frankly— whatever may be thought of the intelligence, or the want of it, which prompted such a course—l did my best in private to frustrate the passing of the bill, just as, if not withdrawn, I would have done my best to defeat it in public,. (Hear, hear.) Now, let me respectfully submit to you that, although that bill in itself was thus objec tionable, the principle of agricultural statistics is essen tially good, and with that same frankness with which I always speak to my friends, I would tell you that it would scarcely do for any class of the commuity at this time of day to appear opposed to that spread of know ledge which is the characteristic of the 19th century. Some bill or another is sure to be introduced again upon this subject ; some bill or another is sure to be carried through Parliament ; and I would, therefore, earnestly advise farmers as a body, if a good and conciliatory mea sure be introduced, to give it their favourable attention. I have described what is a bad bill ; permit me to give my impression of what would be a good bill. In the first place it must dispense altogether with the machinery, of the Poor Law Beard, or of any board connected with rates and taxes. It should emanate from the statis tical department of the Board of Trade, which is never a taxing department, and which would pat itself into communication with local agricultural societies, and with farmers of influence and popularity in the different dis tricts. Every farmer should have the option of making his returns under sealed cover to the official department of the Board of Trade, with the closest privacy, and in the greatest confidence ; and, gentlemen, above all, the bill should be entirely on the voluntary principle. There should be no pains nor penalties. Farmers should be left to make the returns willingly, or not make them at all. Am I speaking here without experience ? No. I am guided in this by the best experience at our command. There are two countries in which agricultural statistics are collected with great clearness and great excellence. There is Belgium. The system in that country is an en• tirely voluntary one, and is under the control of the sta tistical department. Perhaps, however, the very best agricultural statistics to be found throughout all Europe are . obtained in Scotland. How do they act there ? They act theough the Highland Agricultural Society, which puts itself into communication with the local agricultural " I had a note from Deane yesterday offering his as sistance to get his father-in-law out of the scrape, but the conditions were so badly explained, and by no means clear, that this morning I got Graham and Morrison to speak to him on the subject, and that if he forwarded me a document not to be misunderstood I would sub mit it for consideration to the officers." He did forward a document. The original does not appear, but Colonel Boileau produces the note in which Deane sent it to him : "My dear Colonel,—l have had some conversation with Graham this morning, and I enclose, as I told him I would, a guarantee for the payment of the money within six months after the regiment lands, &c. "H. A. M. DEANE." " The money" in this note was 8001., due to the mess fund. We resume Colonel Boileau's letter to Captain Anderson : " I now send his guarantee, which I am decidedly of opinion should be accepted, for many reasons ' . first and principal, I do not see any other chance of the Regiment recovering one shilling otherwise, as Mrs. Barlow wrote to Deane yesterday, saying they knew they were ruined, and he was resolved to stand a Court-martial ; she knew nothing when she wrote of Deane's intentions : she knew nothing when she wrote of Deane's intentions ; next, the Regiment would be saved the disgrace of a Court-martial." After describing the way in whichit should be done, the Colonel proceeds:— " When all this is arranged I think the mess ought to assemble and offer up thanksgivings for getting so well out of the scrape ; Graham is writing to both you and Blackall, and will tell you what he means to do with the Old Buffer, when we have done with him." At head-quarters, as we stated the other day, the guarantee underwent much revision and serious alteration, the officers' private credits and a para graph about public money being added. On the 17th Colonel Boileau, not having yet received it back, writes to Captain Anderson, — "We are all very hard up here,—is there any chance of our getting our legal balances ? I fear when that old rogue comes to wind-up he will be found deficient of Public money. Two o'clock, post arrivci.—l have sent over for Deane, and shall, if possible, send this by to day's post. . . Deane is here, but it is too late to send his final answer ; it will be forwarded to-morrow. . . He is evidently disposed to alter the guarantee and hold himself responsible for the iagimental funds and officers' balances within six months of the return of the regiment." Thus, while ho was writing, the revised guarantee arrived from Peshawur. Deane accepted it in the following letter : "My dear Colonel,—l have read Captain Anderson's letter, which I now return. I can't guarantee money to the regiment, except on the conditions I have named in the enclosed paper, which I am very willing to sign in the presence of witnesses. With respect to the private credits, I can't guarantee the payment of them under the time I have mentioned, but of course when I have the payment of the regiment I will, if possible, pay them on demand. But until I see the books I cannot tell what debts there may be due to the Paymaster to meet his liabilities. " H. A. M. DEANE." The same day Colonel Boileau wrote to Captain Anderson " I enclose Dean's finale, &c. I think no time should be lost in accepting Deane's present guarantee." Both this letter and the last the Colonel concludes with a request that the accounts may be handed to nobody but Deane. Our readers will observe the Colonel's confiden tial misgiving above as to the probable deficiency of public money. At the trial, on the prisoner asking Captain Graham, " Was there not a sus picion that public money was deficient I" the pro secutor objected to this question, on the ground that public money formed no part of the charge. The prisoner submit ed that the question was ne cessary to his defence. The Court ruled that it should be put, when there ensued the following : " Witness---I cannot say what suspicion there was. I can answer for myself, but not for others. " Prisoner—Did you not believe at the time I signed the guarantee that public money received by Captain Barlow for the pay of the men of the regiment was then deficient " Witness—l knew nothing about its " Prisoner—l did not ask you what you knew, but what you believed I " Witness—l_ really cannot say what I believed. It was known that Captain Barlow was deficient of private money." Gaptain Anderson (then in command of the regiment) went further : " I did not know, or suspect, there was any deficiency of public money. Had I done so I should not have con firmed the proceedings of the committee of August, 1854, as commanding officer." But this was the officer who, on the 15th of August, before the final guarantee was sent to Deane, had to borrow 365/. from the canteen fund to pay the men for the latter half of the month ! On or before the 21st he also received that confi dential letter from Colonel Boileau, expressing the writer's fear that when the " old rogue's" accounts were made up he would be found deficient in public money. Yet on the 28th he confirmed the proceedings of the Committee of Accounts credit ing the insolvent paymaster with 211. 14s. public money THE HARTEST IN SCOTLAND. GLASGOW.—Cutting is now proceeding vigorously round the city, and in many places the crops are totally secured. The heavy rain which fell on Tuesday week has not done the damage which was anticipated. The wea ther during the past week has been well suited to harvest operations. WERT LOTHlAN.—Harvesting has been chiefly confined to barley and oats, and both present a fair appearance of a good crop in the stook ; but not a stack is yet to be seen in the barn-yard, although some barley continues to be thrashed and sent to market. Wheat, like oats, is ripening slowly, and as hopes are entertained that more favourable weather may yet redeem it from the dirty colour, little comparatively of the grain has yet fallen before the sickle ; but such as has been cut stooks well. MID LOTHIAN.—The weather during the past week has been changeable, and an occasional shower, with high winds, have partially checked harvest operations. The wind has proved beneficial to the grain in stook, bringing it into excellent condition for stacking, and on most farms the harvest carts have been in full requisi tion, but there is as yet little of the grain secured. Cut ting in this neighbourhood is now well advanced, the upland districts excepted, where on most farms reaping has not yet commenced. The reports of the crops are various, but the gener a l tone is that the cereals are un usually bulky. Wheat is unequal as to soundness of the ear, but, as a whole, above an average. Barley, where thrashing is being proceeded with, is disappointing ex pectation. Oats have cut up a very full crop, and must be much about an average. The potato crop is now more promising ; the blight appears not to be extending, the haulms generally showing a vigorous growth. EAST LOTHlA.M.—Reaping bas gone on for the last eight days without i n t err uption. In the lower part of AMERICAN RAILWAYS.—The last American papery the county spring wheat and beans are the principal parts I give a statement, made up to the end of 1855, of tie of the crop which remain uncut. On some farms a com extent and cost of the railways of the United States, mencement has been made on these crops, and at the compared with those of Great Britain. The number of close-of this week in numerous cases reaping will be al miles of railway in America is 23,242, and the cost of together finished, There has been a stiff breeze for the construction has averaged 7,1001. per mile. For this last few days, which has put the grain in good order for country the total is put at 8,334 miles (reckoning 3,076 stacking. On Tuesday leading-in was general, and corn miles of double track as 6,152), and the cost has been stacks are again making their appearance round every 36,0101. per mile. The people of the United States, homestead. There has been more green shearing this therefore, are congratulated on baying obtained nearly year than usual, the grain having got ripe before the three times the extent of railway possessed by Great straw. Reapers have been plentiful, and the wage last crop Britain at littl e more th an one h a lf o f our aggregate out- week was 10s. with food. lay. The diff erence i n th e d ura bility an d general cha- AYRSHIRE.—Despite the backward weather harvest ratter of the road s , an d a l so o f the rolling stock, must, 1 t of theoperations will b e cut are progressing down. rapidly; and should the far however, be taken into account. mers now be favoured with a few dry days the greater {ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills inestimable for Par their cure o f B ace ' C om pl a i n t s .—Mr. B en jamin Brook- HAWICK.—The w ea th er h as been very favourable for hall, of East Itetford, suffered severely from a bowel harvest operations during thepast week. Therehave been complaint, to alleviate which he had applied a host of occasionally slight showers in the morning, but these al remedies, but the results were invariably unsuccessful. ways clear away, and we have fine days of breeze and The malady at length progressed so alarmingly that it aunehiue. Cutting and leading are going on at all hands, nearly prostrated Mr. Brookhall, when he was provi- and if the weather continues good the fields will soon be dentially advised to take Holloway's Pills, which he did cleared. forthwith, and with such signal success that the distress- . KELSO.—The fine weather we have experienced lately ing symptoms immediately abated, and in a few days he has enabled the farmers not only to cut down most of became hale, hearty, and completely cured.—Sold their crops in this district, but also to secure a large by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at portion of them. The injury done by the recent rains Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, has been almost, if not altogether, neutralised by the London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. sharp winnowing breezes which have prevailed. All kinds Stamp a, Constantinople ; A. Gaidicy, Smyrna ; and : of grain are in the finest condition for stacking, and we B. Muir, Malta. ii have no doubt, when mod throw b the thrashinglna! One Wm. Ingpen was the author of " The Secrets of Numbers," published at London in 1624. Its title-page asserts that it is " no other than a key to all doctrinal knowledge whatsoever ;" and its preface states that the object of the work is to wean the world from that sordid, preposterous kind of arithmetic which consists in reck oning money, cattle, corn, and other commodities, and from which:" The Secrets" are as different as the torrid and frigid zones are distant from each other. Speaking of numbers in a general point of view, the author informs us that they are divided into two groat divisions—namely, odd and even. Odd is feminine, per fect, fertile, and indivisible ; even is masculine, imper fect, barren, and divisible. Commencing, as in duty bound, with number one, Ingpen tells us that it is not entitled to be a numeral, by reason of its indivisibility, but it is the beginning of numbers, and creates innumerable forms of things of and within itself. Anything remains in existence as long as it is one ; divided into two, it forms mere fractions with out unity. There is ono world, Dr. Whewell will be delighted to hear, one sue, one moon, one phoenix, one deluge, one king in one kingdom, one shepherd to a flock, one queen in a bee-hive, one leader among cranes, one soul, and one head to one body. Two, because of itself it worketh nothing, is the weak. est of numbers, though it has a considerable connection with the sciences ; for history consists of two things, the serious and the fabulou ',just as logic is the union of judgment and invention. Music is natural and artifi cial ; medicine, theoretical and practical ; astrology, judicial and speculative. The art of war is unavailable without the twins, men and ammunition ; the soldier is useless if he want strength and discipline. Two also, through some utterly incomprehensible connection with Castor and Pollux, is a numerus infaustus, an unlucky number, especially to English kings. William 11. was shot to the heart by an arrow, and died miserably in the New Forest ; Henry 11., mortally wounded by the little less keen ingratitude of his children, died of a broken heart ; Edward 11. and Richard 11. were deposed and murdered ; James 11. was but slightly more fortunate. Three is the first composite and perfect number. It is universal, entering into all matter ; for every mandane thing has three periods—a beginning, a middle, and an end. There are, however, three things impossible to ac complish ; Jupiter cannot be robbed of his thunderbolt, Hercules of his club, or Homer of his verses. A wise man is known by three things ; by never telling a lie, by never speaking ill of his neighbour, and by never talking without sufficient cause. There is good cheer at three meals—a hunter's breakfast, a lawyer's dinner, and a friar's carousel. Ingpen must have had an antipathy to cheese, for he ironically states that it has three wonderful and valuable properties ; those who eat cheese will never grow old, for they will be certain to die in their youth ; their houses can never be robbed in the night, for their incessant coughing will terrify the boldest bur glars; and with common care, they need never be bitten by doge, for their extreme debility will require them to walk with sticks. Four, as it terms a square, is a noble number, and the great fountain of nature ; f r are there not four elements each having four properties ? Fire is hot, lucid, penetrat ing, and subtile ; air is humid, transparent, light, and yielding ; water is cold, white, ductile, and powerful ; earth is thick, black, dry, and ponderous. There are four cardinal points of the compass, four virtues, four evangelists, four patriarchs, and four rivers environed the earthly Paradise. Men have four rights—natural, civil, national, and military. War requires four things— money, weapons, provisions, and ammunition. Ageneral should have four qualities—courage, wisdom, eloquence, and nimbleness. A bride should ,have four also—she should be well born, well bred, well looking, and well dowered. Five is termed signifsr, or standard-bearer, because it is placed in the Middle--of ten, with a host on each side. It contains more than common excellency, because it comprehends all things seen, felt, or understood. There are, however, five deceivers ; small wisdom, weak virtue, distorted will, turbulent affections, and unbridled reason. Neither should we place confidence in five things— beauty, fur it is uncertain ; health, for it is frail ; life, for it is short; honours, for they are transitory; and pleasure, for it is mixed with sorrow. There are five giants mentioned in Scripture—Nephan, Rephaim, Ana kim, Og, and Goliah ; there are also five noticed by profane writers—Mars, Tityns, Antseuri, Turnus, and Atlas. A horse should have five qualities borrowed from five other animals—the speed of a hare, the eyesight of a fox, the appetite of a wolf, the sure-footedness of an ass, and the docility of a woman who loves her husband. Six is in every respect full, perfect, and divine. Every narration should consist of six elements—the person, a c a r e u s s e i , x p d l a t. i c n e k , s time, om e m a a l t l t o e w r , a b a l nd e,o t t h h e e rathing objectionable; c i t t i s o el f T na . b thee;her first for health, the second for pleasure, the third for sleep, the fourth for drunkenness, the fifth for noise, and the sixth for madness. Seven is the number of perfection, because it contains three and four, the triangle and the square, by which all things are measured. There are seven stars, seven colours, sloven champions, seven churches, seven hills, seven sleepers, seven sisters But hold l—we can not attempt to follow Ingpen in his lengthened illustra tions of this number : one sample must suffice. He says a clown has seven properties; the height of two pig mies, the breadth of two bacon hogs, the presumption of a giant, the power of a gnat, the wit of an ape, the man ners of a knave, and the features of a crab. In 1502 a volume was published at LeipSic, divided into seven books, each book containing seven chapters, and each chapter seven heads ; all in praise of the number seven. The ancient prestige of this number still lingers amongst us. An alleged seventh son of a seventh son carries on a prosperous trade, as a curer of all diseases, in the immediate neighbourhood of Seven Dials, where ohildren are being daily trained, not for a seven years' apprenticeship, but for a seven years' transportation. The collective wisdom of the nation recognises barristers of seven years' standing ; the income tax was imposed for seven years at sevenpence in the pound. Eight is a solid number, being created from the dupli cation of four, as four is made from two. We trust it is not the ease now ' • but Ingpen tells us that in his time there were eight things common at court—namely, ter rible lies, false intelligence, dishonest women, feigned friendships, continual enmity, envenomed malice, foolish words, and vain hopes. A s a th ree f o ld cord is tronger by being trebled, so in like manner nine possesses supe rior virtues than three. Ten is the number of all perfec tion, power, and virtue, within whose compass all others are contained. Eleven is a wicked, unlucky number ; for is it not the first which breaks out of the pale of the whole ten commandments ! Twelve, on the contrary, is a gracious, just, and fortunate number. Are there not twelve apostles, and twelve signs of the zodiac We have had enough of this nonsense, and must now permit our author to fall back into his well merited ob livion. Nor should we be too severe upon him—there are plenty of absurd books of our own day for our descendants to laugh at for centuries to cone. Let us conclude, then, speaking of Ingpen in the very words he uses when speaking of Dionysius the Areopagite :—"He writeth many things at random, others he dreameth ; the best he writeth are but bare conjectures—childish, frivolous, and paradoxical." So much then for the " Secrets of Numbers."—Chambers' Journal. THE CANADIAN MAlLS,—Liverpool, Sept. 24.—The Canadian mail steamer Anglo-Saxon sailed to-day for Montreal and Quebec, with the mails, a large cargo, and 258 passengers, of whom 120 were cabin and 135 steerage. THE HERRING FISHING.—At Berwick the season of herring fishing has terminated. Upon the whole it has been a fair one. The number of boats engaged in the fishing has been equal to former :-easons. The average price obtained for the fish is 11. per barrel. One boat, we have been told, has realised 3001. ; one, if not two, 256/. ; while several are up to 2001. Upon the whol e fleet o seventy boats the average stands at 1001., which. under the circumstances, is very satisfactory. —Berwick Advertiser. INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend , Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. cl. X s. d. Albion Allianze Brit. and For. 71. 14s. 6d.bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 18 Ditto Marine ... .... 6/. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 42 Anchor .............. 6 per cent. 5 0 1 0 0 - Atlas . . 15s. Od. 50 0 0 515 0 17 3 Argun Life ......... • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 23 British Commercial . 71. 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6% Clericiikied.& Gen. Life spr ct. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - County .............. 4/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 104 Crown .............. 17s. Od 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle . Equity and Law...... 4 1 4 per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 5% European Life ll. 20 0 0 au 1834 General Globe ... .... 51. per cent. Stock. ~ 1043 a Guardian ............ 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 47 5 0 55% Imperial Fire... • . .... 12/. per cent 500 0 0 50 0 0 - Imperial Life Indemnity Mar ine .... 11. 3s. & 31. 100 0 0 20 0 0 90 Law Fire ............ 2a. & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 3% Law Lite... --- - • • - 100 0 •-' 10 0 0 61 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 5% London London Ship. - Marine... • • .......... 18s.per share 100 0 8 28 0 0 62 Med.lnviid& Gen. Life 4 3G /. per et. 59 0 0 2 0 0 3 34 Minerva • • .......... 51p. ct. 20 0 0 2 0 0 - Monarch •••••• • • • • • • - 5 0 0 1 0 0 1/. National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - Palladium Life... Pelican.... • • - • • • • - - - - 50 Phoenix - - - 18034 Professional Life ••• • .. 51. per cent. 5 0 010 0 - Provident Life .... .... 11. 58. & bs. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 3 8 34 Rock Life.... •••• • • .. 78. 5 3 0 010 0 8 34 Royal Exchange ...... 101. per cent Stock. all 273 Sun Fire ...... .• ...... 6/. 10s. - ~ 248 Ditto Life . . 1/. 148. - - United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 5 Universal Life Victoria Life • • .... • • 51. per cent. - 412 6 5% LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - -- 4 a. d. £ s. d. Bank of Scotland .. •• 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 200105 British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 230/0s Caledonian Bank ...• . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 41256 d City of Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12/ 1 1s Clydesdale Bank .... 53g1. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13 12s Commercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 23510 s Eastern Bank.. -.• .. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 121 8s Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3341. p cent. 5 0 0 5 0 041 18s Exchange Bnk of Scot.. - - .- - National Bank ...... 634 per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19010 s North of Scotland Bank 5/.percent 20 0 0 , 210 0 51286 d Royal Bank of Scotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 .100 0 0 144110 Union Bank of Scot... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 102110 Western Bank •... .. -7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 92115 s Alliance Fire and Life.. 8341. pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 16115 s British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11 13s Caledonian Fire Insur . 10i. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Lite • 61. per cent. 0 0 2 0 0 41 8s Colonial Life ......... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 051 5s Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. Der cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 291 3s Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41 8s Life Assoc. of Scol.i.And 61. per cent. 10 0 0 110 051 lOs Nationai Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 01 21 Os North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36/10s Scottish Union In.srnc. 7341. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 15s Standard Life United Dep Assurance Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----. --- - £ s. d. £ s. d. Assam Tea .• •• •• •• •• 5/. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Auction Mart ••-•• • • 2M per cent 50 0 0 - - Australian Agriculturl ii. la. 100 0 0 17 10 0 25% Australian Trust .... Si. per cent - 25 0 0 - Austrivian Royal Mail 51. 10 0 0 all - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. U. 10s. 10 0 0 all - British American Land 15s. - 40 0 0 - Canada ••• •• .... •• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 117 Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. per cent. - - 113 Ditto, 6 per cent. •• 61. per cent. - - - City Navigation Bonds - - - - Electric Telegraph .. 6 per cent. 25 0 0 24 0 0 -- Ditto -•• •• - .... - - - - Equitable Beversionry 71 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Ditto New ......... - 50 0 0 17 10 0 -- Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. & bs, 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Gen •Steam Navigation 10 2,ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 - Hudson's 8ay....'.... , Stock. - -' Hungerford .......• .. 21. 5s 100 0 0 100 0 0 - London Institution ... - - - - London Reversionary 5/per cent 15 0 0 all - Russell Institution •• .. - - 12 10 0 Price'sPatentCand. Co 101. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 253( Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 - Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 - South Australian Land 6/. per cent 25 0 0 all Trust and Loan Comp. Upper Canada .... - 2 0 0 0 0 - -----4 JOHN FROST.—Last night a public meeting was held at the Temperance Hall, Broadway, Westminster, for the purpose of affording Mr. John Frost an opportunity of explaining the circumstances connec ted with his len g th ened exile from this country, and of rebutting the char t ; es preferred against him by her Majesty's Government, in 1839. WRECK OE A BRIG ON THE GOODWIN SANDS WITH Loss OF LIFE.—The loss of the brig Jessie Ann, Capt. Manson, in ballast, on the Goodwin Sands, while on her voyage from Dieppe to Shields, has been reported at Lloyd's. The disaster is described as follows by the captain :—" We sailed from Dieppe on the 21st instant, the wind westerly, moderate, and increasing ; 9 p.m., made Dungeness Light. On the 22d, at about 1.30 a.m., made the South Foreland Light, wind W.S.W., blowing very hard, and the weather thick with rain ; continued our course, steering E.N.E. until about 2 40 a.m., when we made the Gull Light ; also the North Sand Light, which latter bore N.E., a little northerly. Did not heave the lead, but findin; we were too far in, hauled off ; and in so doing struck and unshipped the rudder ; beat heavily, and soon filled. Then endea voured to get the boats clear, but whilst so doing the ship listed over on her broadside, and both boats were washed off the deck, the sea beating heavily over us. We lashed ourselves fast along the starboard quarter, except the mate, who was washed overboard. We made what signals we could for assistance, by burning a pitch kettle, &c. About 8 a.m. the Ramsgate lifeboat, with the harbour tug, came to us, and rescued us with con siderable difficulty, there being a very heavy sea beat ing over the vessel, the lifeboat filling repeatedly. We were landed at Ramsgate about 8 aim.", TEE LATE COURT-MARTIAL. (From the Times'.) Colonel Boileau, in a letter we published yester day, insinuates that we had not seen a correct copy of the proceedings in the recent Court-martial in which he appears as prosecutor, and that by adopt ing a one-sided view of it, we have disseminated false impressions and erroneous statements. We can only reply that we had before us a full report of the trial, and did our best to state fairly what seemed to be the most remarkable feature. If Colonel Boileau can point out any particular "false impressions" or " erroneous statements" our columns are open to him, and there can be no military rule to debar him of the right of self-vin dication. In the mean time he cannot reasonably object if we add to our unavoidably incomplete account of the trial some particulars, the truth of which he cannot dispute, as they are all under his own hand and seal. We shall only add just as much from the testimony of his own witnesses as may be necessary to complete the thread of the story, and we purposely abstain from comment. Captains Graham and Morrison were residing with him in August 9, 1854. On that day Graham went to Deane, found him at a theatre, and told him of his father-in-law's deficiency of 8001. to the officers' mess fund. He explains : " My object in going to Lieutenant Deane on that oc casion was to get him either to (take my place as surety to the bank for his father-in-law, or endeavour to make some arrangement with the bank, so as to release Cap - tain Elackall and myself from suretyship." The result was that Deane wrote to Colonel Boileau who, the day after, August 10, wrote to Captain Anderson : Country rgarkew, EDINBDRGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET- SEPT. 23. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from lls Oa to 16s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron; wheat do., 12s Od to 16s 6d; barley do.. 10i 01 to 133 Od. Hay from is to 14d. ; new, 9d to lid. EDINBURGH MEAL—SEPT. 23. There were in the market today 14 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 50s. DALKEITH MEAL ,KET-SEPT. 22 There were in the market to-day 16 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -6 Od —6 Od —s Oa Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto.... —s Od. —s Od —s Od Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od s Od —s ea DUBLIN, SEPT. 23. There was rather a dull market to-day. Prime wheat was taken at about the currencies of Friday, but inferior 6d cheaper. Oats 6d to 9d lower. Malting barley fully supported its price, but other kinds met a slow sale at is per barrel lower. Scarcely a transaction in Indian corn. White wheat, 34s to 35s Oa ; red ditto, 31s Od to 33s Od ; ditto new, —s ; barley, new, 20s Od to 21s Od ; oats, old, —s to —8 ; diAo, new, 13s 6d to 15s 3d ; bere, new, 18s to 19s 6d ; rapeseed, 303 Od to 32s Od per brl ; oatmeal, 143 Od to 15s 6d; bakers' flour, 21s 6d to 27s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 303 Od to 34s Od per 480 lbs. COAL MARK Pecos of Coal per ton at s. d. Bates's West Hartley ...17 6 North Percy Hartley ...17 61 Tanfield Moor - 15 3 Holywell l7 6 Wallsend, &c. Gosforth Acorn Close ..17 ~..17 9 Hetton Lyons Main ....17 6i Eden Main lielloe. _lB 0 ...1s sl South Kelloe.. ~..18 South Hartlepool lB 81 Heaton . EL—SEPT. 24. the doe° of the market. Walleend, &c. ...17 CI s. d Haswell 19 0 Tees l9 0 Hetton 18 0 Evenwood 16 6 Braddyll lB 9 Pensher 17 3 Russell's Hetton 18 0 Caradoe . Belmont 17 9 South Hetton 18 9 Heagh Hall 17 6 Framwellgate lB 0 i 8 I Sold Ships at market... 61 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24. STOOK EXCHANGE. This market was doing a very quiet business to-day, and quotations are about the same as yesterday. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 95,1 6—North Eastern, Berwick, 19i—Caledonians, 274—Midlands, 77i —London and North Westerns, 1021 i—South Eastern, 21A 4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 324 i—Dltto, 31 per cent., 684—Eastern Counties, 9 3-16— East Lanca shire, 204—Dutch Rhenish, 2 prem.—Commercial, 1211-- Great Southern and Western, 57i. MANCHESTER, SEAT. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions in every descrip tion of stock were quiet today, and prices were rather improved. Sheffields, 32a s—Dovers, 771 —Caledonian, 27i--Lancashire and Yorkshire, 965 5! —East Lancashire, 201. LEEDS, SEPT. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been much :activity to-day, and prices tend downwards. The sales were — York and North Midland, 27i—Midland, 78—Sheffields, 34—Leeds Northern, fifths, 133 3d pm. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 24. STOOK EXCHANGE. —The market was heavy as regarded business done, and prices were tending downwards. South Ice. Staffords, 38 dis.—Birmingham Canal, 92. BBABORNE MAILS. (2t signifies that the mails are sent from tb.e General Post-office y the night—and NE by the morning--despatch.) ---...- Day when made cp From wha' b y " 00T1NTE,1134.1 in General Post. Pert due Office, London.* Dispatch° . E /sla.d., ..........—.....---e — ess f . --.----,...... ... America(byßrit.pack)ls Every Friday .... Liverpool ... Week l y America thy United Sts. pac k e t) ...„ „ „ „Ii Every Tuesday .. Southampton Wee kl y America (by U. States packet) ..........N ••,,,,,,„„...... Liverpool ••• Australia (via Liver pool) .......... „24 4th and 19th .... Liverpool .. Twist Slci _ Ditto (via Manillas) 14 Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) ......•• ......2 4 •• •• •• ... ancertalS Africa (West Coast) —II 114 of the • month .. Plymouth .. 6th of mo Alexandria........ —l4 10th & 26th of in*. Dover ...... 2d ts 19th Alexandria.......... 31 4th & 20th of mon. Southampto. 4&21 or Bahamas ...........B1 17th of the month Southampton 16th Belgium .......... —27 Dai1y............ Dover ...... ..hu;y Brazil ..............2.1 9th of the month.. Southamptot if th. Buenos Ayres ........2.1 9th of the month.. Southam?tor 16th Cape of Good Hope —l4 Uncertain Cape of Good Hope ..21 C.ltiee de Verde ......N 9tb of the month Southampton 16th of Ceylon (see India) 10th and 26th is & 29th Ceylon.. • . •........ts 4th and 20th Channel Isles .... ~ —l4 xtoo., re ed., ard Chili.-- • • ........ Si Id & 17th of month Southamp OT , I and 16 Dover .... .. 2 and i, China ..... 4th and 10th ... 4 and 29 C o nstantinople ......N 10th and 26th S.lthamOteP r and 2. Ow istantinopio ........ 4th & 20 th of .n, n. Cont. of Europe It & N Twice daily „ _ ,„ Dover ...... rwice day Egypt (Goo India) France ........ Al r' , ,t, N Twice daily-- Dover ..... rwicedsdly Gibraltar ..........M 4, 7,17,20,27 efm. SOuthaMpto I, 1, 44 , 26 Greece (no India) ' Groytown ..........BI 2nd 6617th of mon. :. outhampten 1 and lei ' llamburgh ..........N Daily qavatmah ...........M '2nd of the month Sontlianivey let ii, mu Blolland •• ... • • •• •• •• 31 Daily.. Floridan ..........M Vita of the month. Southampto 16th India (viaSouthampt.)M 4th Re 20th of moo. Plymouth .. 1 and 21 ft India (via Marseilles) 111 10th& 26th of moth Dover ...... lb & 29 121 lonian Isles (see India) .........D0ver...... Ireland .......•M & N Twice daily ...... Holyhead ... Li5ben........ ...... hi 2d or , o . . Southampton Madeira ........ „31 9th of mon th„... Southampton 4 and /6 Madeira ...... » —/4 234 of month —.. Liverpool ... Malta (see India) 4 115, Malta ............N 4, 10, 20, and 26.. Dover ... ..i.. ~ IP; Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..........14 20th of the month 4th and Mexico Mexico let Naples .......... ..N Daily. ....... .... Dover .... ... New Granada ......N 2d S;l7thof month soutilamptor, LC an d'IS New Zea1and........... Twice a month .. Various port Papal States ........Is Daily.... • • •• .. D :weal, Over ...... 4 Peninsula •• .. 1. 0 • .. M Southainpiti E'eru Port ..............NN.fia .......... IS lady&pr2h77.thteosfhmipo.r:.. Various port tat & 160 Sicily ..............N Every Saturday.. Dover ......; Tuscany ............N Daily...—. .. ... • !Doverl.. • Venezuela .......... M ld itSoutham pto n 17th OfMOnth Week.l9 1 & 16111„, Van Diemen's Lend (see .. ' 7. ..:...: : Australia) ........ , 4th of mon . Imonthlf West Indies ........N 4(1114 I stn 0, ,math Southomptei J 1 and I i ' Whenany of these dates fail on a Sunday, the malls will be fir s spatched on the following day. with the exception of the India ionthampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched la° preceding day. ,lox s6cl (ADVERTISEMENT.]—The possibility of abandoning medicine 1I s altogether is shown by the numerous extraordinary cures, 1 ,? ,8 without medicine, of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, coll.' "' s stipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, conga* 8s 18s asthma, consumption, and debility, effected by 1 31 . Barry's delicious Health - restoring Revalenta Arabic& ,Os Food. The following aro not the least remark" s6d able :—Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of NaBl 110 Vicarage, Waltham-cross, Herts ; a cure of extreme nervous' 15s ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fall Ciel. 15sCure No. 43,314.—Mi5s Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, nest 13s Liverpool ; a cure of ten years' dyspepsia and all the horrom Os of nervous irritability. Cure No. 3,9o6,—Thirteen pars; 88 cough, indigestion, and general debility have been renx)fe"' 3sby Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food.—Jagl° 8s PORTER.—AthoI-street, Perth. Cure No. 41,617.—" Will - , los chester, Dec. 3d, 1847 —Gentlemen,--I am happy to be able Os to inform you that the person for whom your Revalenta TO los procured has derived very great benefit from its use ; dis; 15a tressing symptoms of dropsy, dyspepsia, and constipatica 0 ; ° 8 long standing have been removed, and a feeling cf restore d health induced. Having witnessed the beneficial effectO i? the above-mentioned case, I can with confidence recommend it, 'rand shall have much pleasure in doing so whenever an oppOt it. pity offers, &c., &c.—J&Mss Snorwarn, late surgeon 96thitit t ee . Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors 01 ' Chemistry Dr. Andrew 17re ; Dr. ghorland ; Dr. Harrel' Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingsanl; Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all Ober means of cure had failed. Suitably packed for all climates , with full instructions. In canisters, 1113., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 45:6c1i 51bs., lls. ; 121bs„ 225. ; super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 2lbs., 11 0 - * 51bs., 225. ; 10Ibs., 335. The 101bs. and 121bs. carriage,free. on receipt of post-office order. Barry du Barry-situ:WO., 7 7, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Ptttveyorkg to her Majesty, Piccadilly; also at 60, GracechurchAtreet ; 330 and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 68. Cornhill ; 49, Bishops' gate-street; 55, Charing-cross ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 63 snd 150, Oxford-street. BI THS. P 71.1 or 4 ilea ;,,. • 4 On the 23d inst., at 19, Eaton-square, Lady Claud Hamilton. On the 24th inst., at Stamford-hill, Mrs. Richard C. Coles. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 12th inst., at Corfu, the wife of Lieut.•Colone the Hon. Edward Gage. R.A. On the 22d inst., at Moorhnrst, near Dorking, the Wife of Captain Heath, R.N., C.B. MARRIED. On the 24th inst., Mr. E. J. Richardson, of Giltspur street, London, and Standon, Herts, to Mary Ann, the second daughter of the late Mr. John Smith, of Standen• On the 24th inst., at St. Matthew's Church, Islington , the Rev. Stewart Dixon Stubbs, 8.A., of Pembroke Col lege, Cambridge, and curate of St. Mark's, Tollington-park , to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Rev. E. T. Alder, M.A., incumbent of St. Matthew's. DIED. On the 22d inst., at Winkfield, Berkrt, the Hon. and Rev. Richard Fitzgerald King, fourth son of Robert, the second Earl of Kingston, aged 7S. On the 24th inst., at Walworth, Mr. Henry Watson, formerly engineer to the Chester and Birkenhead RailweY , aged 38. On the 23d inst., Emma, third surviving daughter of J. F. Fixsen, Esq., of the Paragon, Blackheath. On the 23d inst., at Erith, Kent, Sarah, wife of Robert Lee, Esq., formerly Mrs. T. Edward Bowdich , aged 64. On the 23d inst., at Exeter, Peregrine Massingberd , Esq., last surviving son of Benett Langton, Esq., of Lang' ton, Lincolnshire, and Mary, Countess Dowager of Rothes , aged 77. On the 21st inst., at Langham Manor Cottage, Norfol k, Cornelius Rippingall, Esq., aged 32. 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