The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

.R:EFO.RMATORY COAFERENCE AT I3IRJIIXGH4JI, BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY EVENING. X. conference, arising out of the Reformatory movement, but chiefly in connection with that branch of it which contemplates the education of " the neglected and destitute children of Great Britain," commenced in this town this morning, under the presidency of the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P. The circular under which the Conference was convened laid down the following " general principle :" " The welfare of society requires that all its members should be educated. Therefore it is the duty of the State both as regards soci e ty i n gene ral, and each individual composing it, to provide education for those who cannot obtain it for them selves. This duty is recognised by the State, since it provides education for those who are in gaols and reformatories, and therefore come compulsorily under its care, and for those who are thrown on society for support—i. e., paupers. The same duty exists, but has not been discharged by the State, towards children who are not as yet either crimi nals or paupers, but whose natural guardians will not, or cannot, provide for their education. It is the object of the Conference to lay before the Ex ecutive Government and the Legislature, as a conse quence of the principle above stated, the imperative duty of its providing education for this portion of the community." The attendance was numerous, and included the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Lyttelton, the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Inges tre, M.P., Sir Baldwin Leighton, M.P., Mr. W. D. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Scholefield, M.P., the Hon. and Rev. G. M. Yorke, the Mayor of Birmingham, Mr. T. C. S. Kynnersley, the Rev. Dr. Miller, Mr. C. W. Hoskyns, Mr. Spooner, M.P., Dr. Guthrie, Mr. R. Hanhery, M.P., Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, Bell, Idinburgh ; Mr. G. W. Hastings, Miss Car penter, of Bristol ; Mr. C. F. Rumsey, of Aber deen; the Rev. J. T. Burt, Chaplain of the Bir mingham Gaol ; Mr. W. Partridge, Police Magistrate, Wolverhampton; Mr. Chas. Ratcl'ff, Hon. Secretary of the Conference ; the Hon. Major Anson, Mr. Berwick Baker, Hardwick-court; the Rev. G. Hans Hamilton, Berwick-upon-Tweed ; Miss Isa Craig, Mr. R. Baker, Inspector of Factories ; Dr. Birt Davies, and a large number of the clergy, as well as other well-known persons who take an interest in philanthropic labours of this character in various parts of the country. The HON. SECRETARY (Mr. Charles Ratc]iff) an nounced that letters had been received from many distinguished persons apologising for absence, but expressive of their cordial concurrence in the move- xnent. At the commencement of the proceedings prayers were offered up by the Hon. and Rev. G. M. Yorke, after which— Sir J. PAKTNGTON, after a few preliminary ob • nervations, said they were assembled together to consider what they believed to be a grievance, and to discuss what was its best remedy. The grievance was that, out of the large annual sum which was voted by Parliament to assist in the education of the poor, those who were the most poor, those who were the most destitute, those who came under the care of those institutions which had been founded by benevolent persons in most of the large towns of England and Scotland, those who, in fact, peopled our ragged schools, received nothing —were, in fact, excluded from that which professed to provide for them. They would be told by those in authority that they were not excluded, and that it was open to them to claim their share ; but he had no doubt that before the day closed it would be made per fectly clear that practically they were excluded ; that in those respects in which aid was offered, it was saddled with such conditions as to make it generally undesirable that that aid should be ac cepted. They not only complained of this as a breach of national duty, but the arrangements of the eiti cation department had been such that they might complain of a breach of faith as well as bad policy. (Hear.) A minute was at one time passed, and for some time acted upon, by which these ragged schools were enabled to get their share of the public money granted for education. But scarcely had they proved the benefit of this liberality, scarcely had they begun to make their arrangements, to extend their buildings, to purchase premises, and to avail themselves of the grants of money made them under this minute, than the minute was withdrawn. This being their grievance, their general principle and their object were, in the words of their circular letter,— " The welfare of society requires that all its members should be educated; therefore it is the duty of the State, both as regards society in gene ral and each individual composing it, to provide education for those who cannot obtain it for them selves. This duty is recognised by the State, since it provides education for those who are in gaols and reformatories, and therefore come compulsorily under its care, and for those who are thrown on society for support, i.e., paupers. The same duty exists, but has not been discharged by the . S tate, . towards children wh o are no t yet either cr i m inals .or paupers, but whose natural guardians will not, or cannot, provide for their education. It is the object of the Conference to lay bef ore the Executive Governmentand the Legislature, as a consequence of the principle above stated, the imperative duty of their providing education for this portion of the community,—the neglected and destitute children of Great Britain." This paper, said the right hon. chairman, had the signature of 146 of the most eminent friends of edu cation in Great Britain, Scotland, and Ireland, who bad supported the principle therein enunciated without regard to religons opinion or political party; and such a band of gentlemen he thought must be influential with the Government and the Legisla ture. Having adverted to the fact that the Go vernments both of Lord Derby and Lord Palmer ston had opposed the grant to Ragged Schools, the right hon. baronet proceeded to state that he could not better put the meeting in possession of the facts of the case than by reading the terms of the motion he brought forward in the House of Commons last session, and by drawing attention to seine circum stances that arose out of it. The motion was,— " That the grants annually made by Parliament for the promotion of education ought to be expended with a fair and just regard to the requirements of the different classes of schools recognised by the Minute of the Committee of Council ; and that the Ragged and Industrial Schools, which are alone adapted to meet the wants of a considerable number of destitute , and neglected children, do not receive the amount to which they are entitled." Ho was of course, answered by the Minister who represented the education department (Mr. Lowe), and it was with regret that he had to call attention to some remarks made by the right hon. gentleman on that occasion. He said—. (I When the right hon. gentleman complained that under the present system, the high er c l ass of the working classes were amply provided for, that and the poor er c l ass neg l ec t e d, he compl a i ned of which was the very essence and principle of the system. The system being a voluntary one, the rich would provide for their own neighbourhoods, and often to excess, and the poor who had no rich among them would be unprovided for." If (said Sin J. Pakington) Mr. Lowe had desired to strike a blow at the system in existence, if he had desired to hold out to Great Britain that the funds liberally and amply supplied by Parliament were not devoted to those objects which they ought to Promote, he, could have made no statement more fatal to the department over which he presided. .For if it was thus openly avowed by the educational Ministeethat for th ose w h o were most destitute they did nothi ng, they surely had the right to say that such a sy s t em required alteration. It was, then, this (system; which administered the greatest help where there.veas theleast need, and that where ' there was the - greate s t need gave no help at all, that they sought to remedy. ' His own opinion was,- and he had avowed it over and over again both in and out of the House of Comm ons, that public aid to education would be more beneficially given if they applied to the education of the humbler classes of society those same principles of loc al management —(hear, hear)—to which Englishmen were in other respects so much attached—which we had long ap i. I plied to the retitle& the principal wants of the p oo ril which we applied to the management of our coon: ties and oar towns, and w system so much o w hich was, in fact, that P ll °led to centralisation, and 8d much upheld as one of the principles of our consti; tution. (Applause.) If Properly constituted bodies were thus appointed throughout the length and breadth of the land, there could be no doubt but the educational requirements of all the poor would be properly attended to. (Hear, hear.) And here again he must quote from his right hon. friend Mr. Lowe : " The right hon. gentleman said that the educa% tional grants should be expended with fair and just regard to the requirements of the dicT,rent classes of schools recognised by the Minutes of the Com mittee of Council. This seemed a very fair propo sition, but the practice of the Privy Council was not, and never had been in conformity with it. And if the House affirmed the motion, they wo u ld l a y d own an entirely new principle of action, which would be subversive of all the principles hitherto acted upon by the department. The practice of the Committee of Education was not to give grants in consideration of requirements and necessities of the schools, but in consideration of private persons coming forward and supporting them." To this there were two answers, First of all, if such was the practice of the Privy Council, it ought to be changed ; and, secondly, Mr. Lowe had fallen into a practical error. He said the prac tice of the Privy Council was to grant money in consideration of private persons coming forward. That was precisely what they were asking for the ragged schools ; they had never asked that they should become entirely a burden on the public purse. Bat one thing he did regret more than any other in the speech of Mr. Lowe, and it was when he made a boast of the pecuniary saving which had been effected by withholding aid -to these ragged schools. The charge upon the edu cation department, it appeared, while this grant to the ragged schools was in existence, was £27,000 a-year, but in consequence of withholding that grant the amount was reduced to £5,500, and Mr. Lowe boasted that a saving of £22,000 had been effected. He trusted no one there would think the sum a large one for the purpose, hut in the N *Lew he had long entertained as to the mode in which edu cation should be assisted by the State he felt cer tain that the day would come when, if this central ising system of doing everything from an office in London were adopted, the amount of that national , grant would become so great the Chancellor of the Exchequer would raise hisvoiceagainst it. Already had this been seen in the course pursued by Mr. Gladstone, who wry the first Chancellor of the Ex ' chequer to openly speak against the grant, although others had not liked it a whit better, But when they considered what had been done by these rag ged schools, was £22,000 or even £27,000 at all too large a sum to spend out of the State funds in their suppoi t ? The statement he held in his hand, and which he intended to read, would show what had been done " Upwards of 3,000 children had attended the Aberdeen industrial schools since their commence ment. Of these 600 have gone from schools into situations, and are, with very few exceptions, known to be doing well ; while of the others there is every reason to believe that a very large number have not misconducted themselves. During the last few years the greatest possible change has taken place. Out °lithe 1000 vagrants who were reported to be wandering in this part of the country, the whole juvenile population, calculated at nearly 400, have entirely disappeared. The juvenile offenders in prison under 12 years of age have decreased from 61 in 1841 to 15 in 1858." Having further adverted to the good done by the ragged schools, and quoted from the paper read by Miss Carpenter at the Bradford meeting of Social Science, to show their beneficial effect on society at large, Sir John Pakington said he had endeavoured, as far as possible, to state the griev ance which had necessitated their conference, and he trusted that the result of their discussion that day would be a practical remedy for it. The remedy he proposed was to address a firm remonstrance to the House of Commons, and to demand that the dictates of benevolence and common sense should be no longer disregarded; and he trusted that they would be supported strenuously both in and out of Parliament. Having shown how, when last brought on, the question had been met on both sides of the house in no party spirit, the right hon. chairman expressed a hope that such would be the case this year, and while advising that it should be brought on early in the session as a substantive motion, instead of being left till the estimates werebrought on at the end of the session in the presence of only a few members, he suggested to the meeting the propriety of choosing for their leader, not himself, but some other of his colleagues, because he was afraid the fact of his being a member of the late Government would not do their cause any good. (No, no.) The right hon. baronet, after some fur ther general remarks, expressed his confidence in the ultimate success of the movement. Mr. W. D. HILL, Q.C., next rose, and after a few preliminary observations proceeded to deliver a very long written address. Ho said the object which they had in view was to bring the little outcasts of society into the brotherhood of man kind, and to enable them to hold their new position by conferring upon them, so far as instruction and training at school could avail, the faculty of self maintenance. The grand truths of religion should stand first in any system of education. The learned gentleman contended for the principle of a State provision for the education of children, and spoke of the advantages of ragged schools, quoting the opinions of Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby in their favour. He then refuted the objections which had been made to the ragged schools, and con cluded by moving a resolution in conformity with the principles for which he contended. Mr. SCIIOLEFIELD, M.P., seconded the resolution moved by Mr. Field. It was— " That obedience to the laws of God and man is powerfully promoted by the diffusion of sound knowledge, and the training up the young in the exercise of the great duties of life ; therefore it is incumbent on the State, as far as possible, to insure the means of education for all children for whom their - parents are through poverty unable, or through ignorance unwilling, to provide it." A paper on " Ragged Schools," setting forth their usefulness, was read by Miss CARPENTER which was warmly commended by Sir John Raking. ton. The Archdeacon of WORCESTER made a sugges tion, which resulted in adding one or two words in the resolution, He expressed his cordial con currence in the objects of the Conference. The Rev. Mr. OSBORN, chaplain of the Bath Gaol, declared it to be his unqualified opinion that every child in the land ought to be educated. The Rev. Mr. BACHE, Unitarian minister, of Birmingham, said that, even though he stood alone in the matter, he could not permit the resolution to be put without expressing his perfect faith in the voluntary principle. The resolution was put and carried. The Rev. Dr. GUTHRIE moved the second reso lution " That neglected and morally destitute children constitute a very large portion of the community, yet that no educational aid is given for their educa tion from the Parliamentary grant, comparable to such as is given to other classes of schools." He said his experience in Edinburgh enabled him to bear testimony to the fact, as stated in the reso lution, that neglected and destitute children con stitute a very large class of the community. He had laboured for seven years in the very lowest part of the town of Edinburgh, and had become ( satisfied that it was impossible to raise the ragged classes unless it was done through the rising gene ration ; and the only way of doing that was by means of ragged schools. Such was also the unanimous opinion of the city missionaries, with whom he was acquainted. He knew that the number of this class of children was very large in all towns in Scotland, and he suspected that in England the case was still worse. There was not a town in Scotland with a popula tion of 6,000 but needed a ragged school. He was astonished that Government did not take ragged schools under their most fostering patronage, con sidering their usefulness. In Scotland they were the only schools to which persons of all opinions gave their undivided approbation. He contended that a man who brought his child up as a savage and as a burden to society committed an offence against it, and society was entitled to protection against such persons. No experiment had been so successful as that of ragged schools, and such was their importance that they might reasonably ex- Peet public grants to enable them to be carried on, and yet they had to dance attendance on the Go vernment for a long time before obtaining a penny of assistance, and they had no sooner got it but it was taken from them. Before the establishment 137'.;.7.7YZa?":3 ' THE SUN, LONDON! THURSDAY EVENING; JANUARY 24, 1861. of ragged schools in Edinburghthousands of juvenile beggars frequented the streets, hit under the ope ration of these institutions the streets had been cleared of them. Five per cent. of the prisoners were formerly juveniles under 14 years of age, but in the fourth year after the establishment of these schools the proportion was reduced to 4 per Cent., and in the fifth year they had only half a juvenile. (Laughter.) Of the commitments in Edinburgh during the ten years ending 1800,1.5 per cent. ►ere juveniles froth Leith, 4 per cent.—att e±traordi nary fact, showing that in Leith, where no ragged schools existed, the juvenile offenders were three times as numerous as in Edinburgh,which had four ragged schools. The proposition which he ;sug gested should be made to the Government was that they should only contribute such money as was needed for strictly educational purposes, and the accounts should be submitted to Government in spection annually as a security that the grants were not abused. He did not wish to call upon the Government to pay a farthing for food or clothing for the children, which would be provided for by private benevolence. Another proposition he would make was that the Govern ment should contribute towards these schools one-third of the amount raised by private benevo lence ; and he thought a more reasonable suggestion was never ha before the Government. The Earl of SHREWSBURY seconded the resolu tion, which after a few remarks from Sir Baldwin Leighton and Mr. Hanbury, M.P., was carried. The Rev. Dr. MILLER moved the third resolu tion, as follows : " That the experience of the last 18 years has proved that this portion of the population is reached in many districts to a considerable exten4, and can be effectually raised by ragged and industrial schools ; but the schools of this class, which ought to be good, involve much greater expenditure than ordinary schools, and cannot be permanently sup ported in the required efficiency, or extended to all districts requiring them, by voluntary aid alone." They were aware that inspection must follow Go vernment grants as a matter of necessity, and he agreed with the opinions expressed by the Recorder with reference to that subject. He did not wish to see the Privy Council system destroyed, but ex panded, in order fully to meet the case of neglected and destitute children. Viscount INGESTRE secondei the resolution, which, after some remarks from Dr. Bell and other gentlemen, was carried unanimously. Lord LYTTELTON proposed the next resoluton, as follows : " That it is therefore the duty of the State to give liberal financial aid to such schools, availing, itself, as in She case of reformatories, of that volun tary effort which is an essential condition of our success." Mr. SPOONER, M.P., seconded the resolution, which was carried. Mr. HANBURY moved the appointment of a com mittee to carry the foregoing resolutions into effect. Subsequently the chair was taken by the Earl of Shrewsbury, and A vote of thanks, moved by Mr. M. D. HILL, was passed to Sir John Pakington for presiding, when the Conference adjourned until this evening. TILE RANGOON TELEGRAPTI CABLE. The following are the particulars of the trans shipment of the Rangoon and Singapore telegraph cable from the iron screw steamship Queen Vic toria, stranded in Barn Pool, Plymouth, into the Government hulks. The discharge into the brig Pilot commenced on the 6th instant, and finished on the 11th. It consists of 39 knots of the main cable, 91 tons, and 27 knots of the shore end, 189 tons on the berth deck ; and 20 knots, 47 tons, on the upper deck ; total, Pilot, 327 tons. The brig Rover commenced on the 6th inst., finished on the 13th; 57 knots main coil of the cable, 133 tons, and 23 knots shore end, 161 tons, and 48 knots main cable after coil, all on the berth deck ; total Rover, 406 tons. The corvette Arachne commenced Jan. 11th, finished 18th. Berth deck, main cable, forward coil, 18 knots, 42 tons, ward-room aft 27 knots, 63 tons, main coil 44 knots, 103 tons ; shore end, main coil 22 knots, 154 tons ; total on berth-deck 362 tons ; main deck, portside aft 15 knots, main cable 35 tons, starboard 15 knots, 35 tons ' • total main deck 70 tons ; total in the three vessels, 283 knots main cable and 72 knots shore end, 355 knots, 1,165 tons. Although the cable was covered with water while running, only two kinks occurred ; they were caused by the disturbed position of the coil where the keel had been forced up by a rock underneath. The three vessels are now moored up Hamoaze, near the Royal Albert-bridge, Saltash, lashed along side of each other, for the greater convenience of the electricians when testing the cable. Awnings are spread over the coils on the main decks, to pro tect the cable from the weather, and windsails are fitted down to the berth decks to keep it as cool as possible. The temperature of the cable is, of course, con siderably lower since it was recoiled, and it is very satisfactory to state that if the cable continues in an improved condition until it is thoroughly dr) no further apprehension of heating need be experienced. Every assistance has been rendered to the con tractors, Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., by the Go vernment officials, Commander Brown, master attendant, and Commander Paul, his assistant ; the value of ready help at such a time cannot be over estimated. The cable is believed to have received no material injury, and tests very well. It is intended to rejoin the wire and thoroughly test the whole. On Saturday or Sunday next, when the tides range high, an attempt will be made to float the Queen Victoria, by Captain Daniel Russell, from Lloyd's, a gentleman who has had much experience in operations of the kind. Harris, the diver, has examined her, and reports that a smooth rock, 25 to 35 feet long, is right under her mainmast and pushes up the keel ; the after part of the ship, which was buoyant some time after grounding, has now sunk down on the beach. The Queen Vic toria is divided into three compartments, and it is proposed to:draw the water front the forward com partment with one of Gwynne's pumps, worked by an engine of 10-horse power, and capable of lifting 1,000 gallons per minute. 'f he after compartment is provided with another pump, worked by a six horse engine, which lifts 500 gallons per minute. When these compartments are empty (the cable being landed), it is hoped that she will float suffi ciently to be taken into the large graving dock in the Plymouth Great Western Docks. If not, she will be removed to a clean beach near, repaired by divers, and then placed in dock. The Queen Vic toria is a five-year-old ship ; she was lengthened 62 or 63 feet at Sunderland, purposely to l'eceive tne Rangoon cable, the cable of which occupied about that length in her. There is, we are informed, neither lower deck 'nor beams in the new part although the depth between the main deck and the ceiling is over 19 feet. • Some mercantile men con sider that the arrangements for the conveyance of the cable, which weighs nearly 1,200 tons, were not of the best kind. It should, if possible, have been distributed more equally over the ship, instead of being in two eoils only, one immediately before the other immediately abaft the mainmast, and all within a distance of some 60ft., in a ship 280 ft long ; this alone was calculated to cripple her. The cable was also stowed too low ; the platform on which it was laid should have been higher. When all stowed the upper part of the coil did not reach the main deck by about 8 ft., and the main deck is low, because a spat deck runs fore and a ft the ship. When laden the line of flotation was two or three feet below the maindeck, and consequently five or sik feet aboVe the upper part of the toil, and she must therefore have rolled fear quay at sea. The wei3ht of the cargo no doubt decreased her steering qualities, which are defective. It is also probable that her rudder and other fittings were not increased proportionately after she was lengthened. The two main pumps are worked by a crank which requires the labours of eight men ; a lift of 28 feet is usually considered the maximum on board ship ' • in this case the water has to be raised over 31 feet. The pumps are fitted on an iron frame, bedded with wood, apparently not in a very secure manner. No doubt, many modifications will be made before she again proceeds to sea. The ship is insured in various companies to the extent of about £42,000. The cable is insured at about £80,009. There is some dispute about the liability in regard to the cable, which was underwritten in the first place for a voyage to Rangoon, and when it was determined to send the Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean this alteration, it is said, was not properly endorsed on the policies. If this should be the case it will form the subject of the second legal proceedings since the unfortunate cable was shipped. The first were brought by Messrs. Newell and Co., for an alleged infringement of their patent mode of stowing. They obtained an injunction just after the ship left Greenwich. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-sloop Spiteful, 6, Commander William C. P. Wilson, was sent into the Channel to bring her into the Sound. On Monday Captains Ferrer and Bax, two of the Pilot Committee of the Trinity House, inspected the stranded ship in Barn Pool. Fortunately, there has been no weather likely to injure her lunch since she has been ashore, TILE GER-4JAN CONFEDERATION. SeTeral events are occurring which ought not to pass unnoticed or unregarded by the Great German Confederation. The favourite argument among ' metaphysicians for the immortality of the soul is that it is simple, uniform, and indivisible. If the converse of this is true, a Confederation multiform, complex, and divisible would seem to be peculiarly liable to destruction, and ought to be peculiarly watchful of all tendencies towards disintegration. If Germany were blessed with statesmen, or did her people possess, amid all their knowledge and refine , meat, a small portion of that instinct of self-preser vation in which even the lowest animals participate, she would be viewing the events of the present hour with very different feelings, and founding on them very different aspirations from those in which she is indulging. There was much justice in the remark of the King of Prussia to his army, that the time was coming when they might be called upon to fight for their very existence —strange and start ling words, as coming from such a quarter, but still stranger and more ominous that they should be fol lowed by a line of conduct which seems a practical denial of the sincerity of the speak". One event that claims from Germany the most absorbing attention is the present condition of the empire of Austria. Here is a case where it is clearly in vain to try to lielieire that to-morrow shall be as to-day, or that a system which has worn out the faith, the loyalty, the patience o 7 the sub jects and creditors of the empire, call' be much longer continued. The blood that we s sheer in 1848, and the wars and slaughters that suet-eded it, have not yet been expiated. The repression of 12 years has not stamped out the fires that were then lit, but which still glow beneath the deceitful ashes, and adversity has come in her sternest form to point out the opportunity and to whet the appetite for revenge. The army, to which every thing else has been sacrificed, hes been found a failure, antiquated in its organization and its arms, il se l st ies l n e t a d e yn , oei or f t v sc i o c t n al leaders af a od l r l e e t a , na n d, npoaffr victimeo r v e i d ded up tb w oy i a t i t dn medical caonrnd- p enterprising enemy. The finances have utterly collap3ed, and the great military Empire of Austria cannot, for all the security it can o ff er , b orrow , i n its last agony and utmost need, a single million more. Confidence is gone—confidence in the honesty of financiers and contractors—confidence in the pro mises of the Government—confidence in its ability to stand any longer upon the mass that is disinte grating beneath its feet. If Austria disappears from the German Confederation, what element - 1 will be found to fill up the chasm ? A powerful Slavonic State on the South-East, and an interrup• tion of the communication between Germany and the sobaef te iots A hnif a dr eee t i oTi a fo t yn i ßr c 00 , tl s ho e pe em probable ot f r iao e yAn s l l soo t tf s but look her fa o t rgw N ir Proper,ea h ar a t r is whatwith , but she can scarcely be without apprehension as to the results of a catastrophe which is too near her not to shake her to the very centre of her loosely connected dominions. A second subject, still more imperatively de manding the attention of the German Confedera tion, is the immense development of the military power of France, and the symptoms that every where meet us of the restless and aggressive dispo sition with which that power is wielded. It is idle to dilate on this topic. There was a time, and that not long ago, when Germany seemed fully alive to her danger, and when, in the plenitude of her enthusiasm, she threatened to rivet the chains of unhappy Italy in order to check the ad vances of France. Austria is much weaker and France is in many respects considerably stronger than they were in the days of Magenta and Solferino, but in proportion as the danger becomes greater the care of Germany seems to become less. Spring may bring Garibaldi and his followers into Hun• gary and France to the Rhine, but the mind of Germany is not fixed on these things. She has a nearer and far more absorbing object of contempla tion than the protection of her western frontier or the destruction of the most powerful State in her federation. We have never remarked hitherto that the German Federation has had any particular strong sympathy with the German people. Pro vided the German Princes retained their sway, they have been at liberty to deal with the population parcelled out among them even as they listed. There are few experiments in statecraft, from the selling of their subjects to the English Government to suffering them to be kidnapped by the old King of Prussia, to which the German nation has not submitted. But now a chord is struck that vibrates to the heart of every professor, a sentiment is excited, a sympathy is moved, and an idea is pro pounded to which Germany responds from one end to the other. The German subjects of the King of Denmark must not ly3 taught Danish; they must be kept pure and undefiled from every taint of Scan dinavian impurity. Does not Teutonic blood flow in their veins ? Do they not inhabit a portion of the fatherland? They are allowed perhaps more freedom, more influence over their own affairs, than any of the German populations ; but their national prejudices are wounded, their sympathies are disregarded, and Germany, with Prussia at her head Prussia, who can fight in no other quarrel burns to measure swords with the King of Denmark, for fear the inhabitants of Holstein should learn to use "k" instead of " ch," or acquire a nasal twang abhorrent to Teutonic ears. This is the crusade which in the present tremendous crisis of her affairs Germany has chosen for herself, and in this grammatical and Professorial war Prussia offers herself as the leader, ready to do battle against all corners for the tongue of Goethe, Schiller, and Kant. Princes who have embarked on this scholastic We wish we could recall to the memory of the en terprise that Prussia once had a King who, if he failed somewhat in a thorough appreciation of German literature, had, at any rate, the head of a statesman and the soul of a hero. The Great Fre derick of Prussia set himself the task of making a small kingdom into a large one, and he accom plished it. Certainly his spelling was very indiffe rent, and his compliments to Voltaire are not conceived in a purely classical taste ; but, on the other hand, he saw clearly, resolved decisively, and acted energetically. He was a stranger to the tremors and doubts which paralyse the minds of descendants. He was little given to sympathies and antipathies, and for such sentimentality as he had he found a sufficient vent in the production of execrable verses. If he had " ideas" he did not go to war for them. He fought the Seven Years' War, but it was for the province of Silesia, which ho took and held in defiance of France, Austria, and Russia. He had the most intense con• sciousness of what it was that he wanted, and rarely did he fail to get it. Could such a man as this—nay, could a man with one-half the single ness of purpose, energy, resolution, and courage of this man, be placed upon the throne of Prussia, what reasonable object of human ambition would not be within his grasp ? Victor Emmanuel has to a great extent consolidated Italy, but he has done so in spite of the natural bent of the people, in spite of a bigoted Church, and in spite of an ally whose best efforts have been used to retard his pro gress. A King of Prussia who really understood his own mission would have none of these things to contend with. Unity was the wish of educated Italy, but it is the passion of educated and unedu cated Germany. Let 'Prussia lay down any prin ciple of action which is at once liberal and intel ligible, and the German nation desires nothi ng better than to enlist under her standard. Let Prussia but offer a refuge from the ills which Germany has so often experienced, and the whole nation is ready to follow her. She might obtain without bloodshed and without offence an empire, saviour of 40 millions of 1 -,,i; , - solid, and enduring ; and while protecting h erse l f t ;,:na the threatenings of immediate danger might be haiie‘2. nd language. But, instead men of the same race t: al any possible aggres of arming Germany to rep. A 3 the rab - q her sword to siott of France, Prussia d .. _ . uc i lnes, and correct the language of the Danish .2 waste the power that might redeem anti gain an empire in an idle squabble ab out pronouns and articles.--Times. 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[Any ETITISF,MENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment. — Indigestion, Diseases of the Skin.—lndigesti o n, in the variable temperature of winter, is apt to produce cutaneous complaints, with fever, restlessness, tainted breath, and great !depression of spirits. The cause and the conse quences of these disorders can be speedily and radically removed by the use of Holloway's medicaments. The Pills should be taken in doses sufficient to act on the system without distressing it, while the Ointment should be freely applied to the parts of the skin affected, and also rubbed over the stomach and liver, at least twice a day. The Ointment not only cleanses the skin, but acts beneficially vu all mbjctceut orgazts. LA IP INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 23. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. YEAMES AND OTHERS V. LINDSAY AND OTHERS- SHIP'S CHARTER. The plaintiffs in this case are shipbrokers in London and at Taganrog, and the defendants are the well known shipbrokers in London. It was stated that it is the custom when cargoes of wheat are expected from the Black Sea to charter vessels in London and to send them to the Black Sea upon the chance of obtaining a higher freight than was payable upon the charter party effected in London. The defendants, acting upon this practice, chartered the William and Mary at 60s. a ton, and employed the plaintiffs to obtain a freight for her at Tagan rog, saying in their letter, " We trope you will be able to place her to advantage, but if unfortunately there should be a loss your draft on us for the dif ference will meet due honour." It happened when the vessel arrived in the Black Sea the rate of freight was only 40s. a ton, and the plaintiffs them selves loaded her at that rate, and drew upon the defendants for the difference between the 60s. and 40s. a ton. The defendants however declined to pay, and the present action was brought. At the trial a verdict was entered for the plaintiffs, and the ques tion now was whether a rule to enter a verdict for the defendants should be made absolute, the ques tion being whether the fact of the plaintiffs loading the vessel instead of chartering her to some third person made any difference in the defendants' lia bility. The Court was of opinion that it was immaterial whether the plaintiffs themselves or some third person chartered the vessel, for the plaintiffs were - either event entitled to retain their verdict. Ruit discharged. JONES V. NEIN- PonT.—ACTION BY A BARMAN FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT. The plaintiff in this cast:_has been for a short time barman to the defendant, who keep the Star and Garter, opposite Shoreditch and the pre sent action was brought to recover u'laniages for false imprisonment and malicious pro3ecutia:n. The defendant pleaded that his watch, chain, and rh7g , had been stoler, that he had rensmiable ground for suspecting the plaintiff, and that, therefore, he gave him into c - astody. It appearedthat the defendant's wife had placed the articles on the mantel-shelf in his bedroom, on the a.iernoon in question, and that the plaintiff soon afterwards went up to his own room to wash preparatory to taking some dirty clothes to the laundress. Having come down, he left the house and was absent about an hour. When the property was missed, a servant girl, named Fowler, told the defendant that stte was with Mrs. Newport in the bedroom, and remained after her to put the place in order ; when she left she turned the key in the lock, and lefi; it there; that soon afterwards she saw the plaintiff come out of that room, that he appeared confused, and that he went into the kitchen with his hand in his trousers pocket. Witness followed him, and said," George, how red your face is," and he said that he had just been washing, and went down stairs. When wit ness mentioned these circumstances, the plaintiff said, " You have done for me now about my red face ; and you have got me transported for seven or 14 years." The plaintiff was given in charge, and having been remanded by the magistrate, was afterwards discharged. In his evidence before the jury the plaintiff stated that he knew no thing of the property; and he denied that he had been in the defendant's bedroom. He also denied that he said that Fowler would get him transported ; he said she would get him. locked up. Another circumstance of suspicion Alleged against the plaintiff was that when he came down he left the house in a hurried manner, and in his shirt sleeves, although it was frosty at the time, and he had a considerable distance to go. The construction of the defendant's house was such that no person could get from the front of the bar upstairs without pass ing through a door which somebody behind the bar must open. The case came on for trial before Mr. Justice Keating, at Guildhall, when the jury were unable to agree, there being one dissentient, and ultimately it was agreed to take the verdict of ti,:e eleven. His lordship now said, when reporting the circumstances to the Court, that the verdict of the eleven turned out not as he had supposed it would be, for the defendant, but that, much to his surprise, it was for the plaintiff, damages 40s. Subsequently a rule was obtained for a new trial, upon the grounds that the verdict was against the'evidence, and that it was a perverse verdict, and to-day cause was shown against this rule being made absolute. Mr. Gibbons showed cause, and submitted that the verdict was not perverse, inasmuch as the whole question had been left to the jury, and they had decided it as best they could ; and further, that where the damages were less than £2O it was con trary to the practice to order a new trial upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence. Mr. Justice Keating said one of the jury, as he collected from frequent questions put, insisted on taking the issue to be whether the plaintiff had or had not committed a felony ; for after he had told the juryman several times that that was not the issue, he put the question whether they could find for the defendant without impueng felony to the plaintiff. He (the learned judge) again told the juryman that was not the question ; but only the defendant had good grounds for sus pecting the plaintiff, and the juryman certainly did not seem satisfied with that statement. Mr. Gibbons—But that juryman might have been the dissentient one, and if not he was then only one among eleven. _ _ Mr: Murphy, on the part of the defendant, offered, if a stet processus were entered upon the count for malicious prosecution, to let the verdict stand upon the other count for the plaintiff, the damages of course not being sufficient to carry costs. The Lord Chief Justice said the Court though that there should be a stet processus generally. Mr. Gibbons said he had no instructions to con sent to a stet processus, and he contended that the plaintiff was entitled to keep his verdict. The Lord- Chief Justice said there was no doubt that the rule would be made absolute. It appeared that the jury thought that they could not find for the defendant without casting a serious imputation upon the plaintiff; and there was no doubt that, in the opinion of the judge, the plea was proved. Mr. Justice Keating—Proved to the letter. The Lord Chief Justice said this was a most in tensely wrong verdict; and, indeed, in the course of his long experience, he hardly recollected any thing to approximate to it. Mr. Justice Williams thought that the plaintiff should have been nonsuited on the plea of not guilty. The Lord Chief Justice said if the stet processus were not consented to the rule for a new trial would be absolute; but the former course would he valu able in this way, that it would save the character of the plaintiff. After some further discussion, the rule was ordered to remain open, to enable the plaintiffs counsel to consider whether he would agree to a stet processus. lIARTIVELL V. VESEY AND WIFE. The plaintiff was a man approaching 70 years of age, and had served in the army for many years, but had latterly been employed about the schools, church, and almshouses at Woburn, and had re ceived 12s. 10d. par week. One afternoon, Mrs. Vesey, who was a member of the committee of the school, was going along a passage attached to the building, when she saw the plaintiff laying hold of a young woman named Brewer in such a manner as induced her to report to the clergyman that he was " kissing and embracing" her. The clergyman, who said he had previously had occasion to find fault with the plaintiff for levity of conduct, re ported what he had heard to the steward of the Duke of Bedford, and the result was the dismissal of the plaintiff from the position which he held. The plaintiff afterwards brought this action, to re cover damages for slander, and, in his evidence, ex plained that, whilst he was walking along the passage the girl Brewer pushed a broom against his back and shoved him on three or four yards. He turned round, saying, " I will be shot if I do not take the broom from you," and he had his arms round her, and was endeavouring to take the broom away when Mrs. Vesey came in sight. He had never kissed the girl, nor had anything at all im proper passed ; ar.d, indeed, her mother was within a few yards of them. At the trial before the Lord Chef Justice, the jury awarded the plaintiff £5O; but th: question now was, whether a rule for a new tr i al ~ h ould be made absolute. Mr. O'Mai2ey, Q.C., and Mr. Couch appeared to show cause against the rule, and Mr. D. Keane to support it. The Lord Chief Justice said there could be no doubt that Mrs. Vesey acted from motives that entitled her to credit and respect, and there was no doubt also that she believed she saw what she said she saw, though subsequent explanation put another interpretation upon the circumstances presented to her eyes. The case,however, was one for the jury, and therefore the rule would be absolute for a new trial, only upon payment of costs. Rule absolute. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE, (Before Sir C, Creswell.) DART V. DART. In this case the husband petitioned for a judicial separation from his wife on the ground of her cruelty, and the suit has been set down for hear ing. A motion was nOW made on behalf of the wife, objecting to the petition, as being insufficient in the averments of the acts alleged, which did not amount to legal cruelty. Sir C. Croswell, haying referred to the petition, said the husband complained that respondent had ' frequently menaced him with violence without hav ing received sufficient provocation ; that on three occasions she struck him and broke his spectacles ; had also endeavoured to stab him with a knife, and committed other acts of violence. He considered all these acts formed good ground for the petition, and he dismissed the motion. RYDER T. RYDER. This case, which was argued at considerable length last week, on an appeal relative to the cus tody of the children of the Hon. Frederick Dudley Ryder, brother of the Earl of Harrowby, pending the cross suits for dissolution of marriage between him and his wife, has also been before the Court on a motion respecting the amount of alimony to be alloted to Mrs. Ryder pendente lite. The learned judge fixed the amount to-day at £550 per annum, to commence from the first of this month. POLICE IKTELLIGENCE—eTan. 23. MANSION-HOUSE.—Awaterman named John May Hook was yesterday brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with stealing four pigs of lead, weighing one hundred weight each, the property of Messrs. Arthur Wallack and son, lightermen. It appeared from the evidence that on the morn ing of the 18th instant, a barge belonging to the prosecutors, laden with lead, was lying off Fresh Wharf, and at about half-past seven in the morning a man named Wardle, a lighterman's apprentice, who was down in the cabin, hearing a noise, came up to see what it was. When he got up, he saw the prisoner in a boat alongside the barge, with three pigs of lead in it, and another on the gunwale of the barge, which the prisoner was in the act of removing. As soon as he saw the witness he rowed_ off. Witness got into a boat and followed him, and saw him, just as he was turning round one of the barges, throw one of the pigs over into the water. The prisoner then rowed round some vessels, and came towards the witness, who caught him and held him until an officer of the Thames police arrived on the spot. All the pigs had then dis• appeared from the boat, and it was supposed the others had been thrown over while he was behind the vessel, On the 22d inst. a young man named George Harris was brought before the Lord Mayor, for having two pigs of lead in his possession with the same marks ai2d name as those lost, and said that he found them near the Crocodile receiving ship, Tower-stairs. He was discharged, being bound over in the sum of X 5 to appear again yesterday as a witness. He then stated that while dragging fora tarpau lin which had been lost in the river he pulled up two pigs of lead, which were each in a canvas bag, and while taking them ashore the officer stopped him with them. The prosecutors said the lead bore the satne marks as the cargo in the barge, and believed they formed a portion of that cargo. The prisoner said that he was quite innocen t of the charge against him ; he was rowing quiet`ly down towards the witness Wardle, when he accused him of stealing the lead. He said he had not been near the barge, and had not been that way at all i t that morning. He was fully committed for trial. GUlLDHALL.—lnspectors Cale, Everitt, Leo nard, Salter, Howard and Knight, of the Ist, 2d, and 3d divisions of the City police force, attended, at the request of Alderman Phillips, when the fol lowing statement was made with regard to the question of relieving the distressed poor of the district. ' Inspector Cale said—ln the division I belong to 620 cases have been inquired into and recommended for relief, and there are about 200 more in hand for investigation. Inspector Leonard said—ln my division 750 eases have been inquired into and visited by the police, of which number about 350 have been, up to the present time, recommended for relief. Inspector Knight said—The number in my divi sion recommended is 390, and there are about 150 left. Alderman Phillips said—l have sent for you in or d,nr to ascertain what you have been doing, and for th' purpose of showing the public in what manner tL'eir bounty has b: en dispensed. I find from your stMements that about 1,360 cases have been recommended by you, the whole of which, with but very few exceptio is, have been relieved at this office with sums of money varying in amount according to the eircumsilances connected with each case. The exceptions I have alluded to have been persons who were in receipt, of money from their ordinary weekly labour, and who therefore ought never to have applied for assistance. In one case which came under my observation yesterday the applicant's husband was at work, and receiving 20s. a week, and in another case this morning the woman's husband was in receipt of 18s. per week, and such persons are not the proper class to become recipients of charitable relief. I do not pretend to be a political economist, and it is not, therefore, for me to discuss the que3tion of the poor-laws, although it does appear to me that there must be something radically wrong either in the laws themselves or in the administration of them to lead to such a fear ful amount of pauperism as the late emergency, arising principally from the inclemency of the season, has disclosed. Although a large amount of good has been done, I am afraid there has been great deal of imposition. lam sorry to say that amoL - 2,' those relieved there are a great number of p ersons wi ';,l have been paupers all their lives, and are likely to remain ll: paupers to the end of the chapter; and appre end they are not the class of persons for whom the money p laced at the magis trate's disposal was intended-. When the emer gency first arose the public an d the magistrates were taken by surprise, the wideq-al)read distress and the mo - it utter destitution that cOuld he ima gined prevailed in every part of the City, the metro polis, and the country generally. No time tothink ; and to have hesitated to act at such a crisis, or to have stayed the hand held out to relieve while la quiries were being made, would have been attended in a gre .t many cases with fatal results. That alarming state of things has now subsided, the seve rity of the weather has altogether abated, and as the obstacles to the carrying on of the lately frozen out . trades are now removed, the unemployed ope ratives will by this time have resumed work and render totally unnecessary the continuance of a system of relief which possesses the tendency to pauperise a large cLiss of the industrious but impro vident poor. A no th e ii object I had in viewn re questing the a tt en d ance o f the inspectors was to thank them and the police gel; eral!y acting under them for the cheerful manner in they under took a most laborious duty, and for the efficiency with which they have performed . The public are greatly indebted to the police 20* the great assistance they have rendered, and it is oi;ly right that the share they have taken in the work imposed upon this office by the benevolent people who have forwarded money for the reliefof the poor should be publicly - acknowledged, for if it had Not been for their vigilance three-fourths of the funds might have been absorbed in relieving impostors. I find that in many cases of families of seven or eight persons, each member of the family has ob tained a letter of recommendation, and each ,one endeavoured to get relief entirely upon the same representation of facts, and but for the police might possibly have succeeded. Inspector Cale said—l am happy, sir, to be able to bear testimony to one or two instances of the reverse of what you have said. I have visited some who have respectfully declined assistanc e , s t a ti ng that since their application they had obtained work, and therefore needed no relief. Alderman Phillips—Such inst ances are exceed ingly gratifying to meet with. [ADVERTIsEmENT.I—Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabi ca Food invariably restores health, without medi cine, inconvenience, or expence, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. We extract a few out of 50,000 testimonials of cures, which ha d res i s t e d a ll medi cine. Cure No. 4,208. —" Ei g ht years' dys pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, have been effectually removed by Du Barry's delicious food in a very short time.—Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Nerfolk." Cure . N?. 18,:216 —Dr. A. U re , o f const i pat i on, d yspeps i a , nervo us irritability. —Cure No. 34,210. 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The 121 b. and 241 b. cani s t ers are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re' gent-street, London; l'ortnurn Mason, and Co. ; Abbie, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishopsgato street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement; Phillips and Ca. tea•dealers ; Petty, W ox l , an d C o ., King Willittm-stree,t City i at 1271 ILA 401nrai mid 141 grime ...—...A.... omea4 ~ ..r.miirouss...... FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. On Tuesday e veiling, about 7 o'clock, a terrific boiler explos ion happened at the Cockshut Colliery, near Wolverb ipton, belonging to Messrs. Aston and Shaw, an .d two men were killed. This is the second fatal lr oiler explosion which has occurred at the same coll l Lery within nine days. In the first ex plosion, which occurred on Monday week, one mall was killed.. In that case it was shown that the boiler \NLS excledingly old and worn out, and the iy ding they were unable to m a ke the proprie tors responsible, censure d th em f o r using such a boile an d recommended that G overn ment in ur. Grim, fin 'ually spectors of Cloile,..s should be appointed. In this last case, as in thy' previous one, the boiler was used to eowine. Its dimensi o ns w e re about feet, wi.,h egg-shaped ends, and the' w 7i or f k eet a b p y um 2s pi ng engine was a condensing - one. The boiler had been cleaned out du ring the day under the direction of the managing engineer (Joseph Elwell) ; it had either been ags.in set to work, or preparation was being made to set it to work, when it exploded. Elwell was then in a hovel which was built up against the boiler, and there wag with him John Legge, the engineman, who an hour before had taken charge of the engine and boilers from John Evans, the day engineman, and Evans was just leaving the hovel, where they had all 131:en partak ing of the ale usuaily allowed by proprie tors after boilers have been cleaned. The force with which the boiler exploded was very great; it shook - open the doors'of some houses situated at a considerable distance, and the noise resembled that of a loud clap of thunder. The boiler, which is supposed to have weighed about 5 tons, was rent into two por tions, one of which was about 3-1- tons. These pieces, after being carried about 25 or 30 feet ill the air, fell in opposite directions, each about 200 yards from its original seat. It is the custom at this colliery to cover the boilers with brickwork , and this custom increased the devastation. The hovel was laid in ruins, and Elwell and Legge, in addition to being fearfully crushed in the ruin* were for some time subjected to streams of hot water and steam, which flowed upon them from the boiler wvich stood by the side of the exploded one, and which, with it, supplied the engine with the neces sary power. Elwell was found quite dead, standing up against the fireplace, and Legge sitting down at the opposite end of the building. Legge was taken to the South Staffordshire Hospital, but he died within an hour after his admission. Evans was severely scalded, but he will recover. That he escaped with his life is a matter of great surprise. Examination of the boiler leads to the inference that the plates had become red hot, or nearly so, from a deficiency of water, and a close observation reveals a hidden danger to which Mr. E. T. Wright, C:E., of Wolverhampton, drew prominent attention some time ago—viz., that for some time there had been a hidden seam rend. Mr. Baker, the Govern ment inspector of mines, was at the colliery yester day, examining all the boilers and engines there, assisted by Mr. Wright, whom he had instructed to prepare a report upon all the boilers and engines in this concern. The inspection showed that some of the appliances were of a most primitive and dan gerous character, and the men who had the engines in charge lamentably ignorant of the duties they )n4l undertaken to perform. COUNTRY MAREETS. NEWARK-JAN. 23. The shOw of wheat to-day was tolerable, and many samples woi"e out of condition. The trade was limited, end prices reced,cti 2s per qr for damp sorts. There was a loos active basins 8, 4 doing in barley. Oats a fair show, but the demand was slew. Beans a limited show, at late rates. Peas less firm. White wheat, near 54s to 76s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 341 Red do. Old white 6ls to 76s New do 263 t0:32 q Red do. 5OO to 708 Beans.. ~ .545 to 580 Barley, malting, 38s to 45s I Beans, new 38s to 42s Peas, ....38s to 545. SHEFFIELD-JAN. 22. At the market to-day there was a fair attendance, With an average show of wheat. The better samples were ill demand at late prices, but inferior samples were almost uu - • saleable. In oats, beans, barley, and other articles there was no material change. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 24s Od to 28s Od White 5) 71 255 Od to 283 011 New red /I ), 2os Od to 22s Ca New white 15 I 9 22s Od to 26s Od Beans )9 )1 .. 2O. Od to 22s Od Peas, per qr 548 Od to 55. Od Grinding barley, per qr 33s Od to 35. OS Malting ditto, „ 3ss Od to 433 Od Oats ,I 2.5s 6d to 34s Oa Millers' prices for flour-2a 4d, 2s 6d, and 2. 0d per 141 b. HULL-JAN. 22. At to-day's market there was a i'ery slow salo in EI lish wheat, at is lower in price. Foreign wheat also in slow demand, at about former quotations. Barley, beans, and peas unaltered. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 6ss Od to 70s 04 Old red New white .. „ New red .... ' , Dantzic, Konb , &c. old whits 62s Od to 66s 04 Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 628 Cd Baltic and Hamburg, red 6os Od to 628 Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old s2s Od to 658 04 Barley.... English malting 4ls Od to 43s Od Grinding 348 Od to 368 Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3Bs Od to 408 01 Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to HO Friesland and Dutch osl4fd to 0815 d Swedish and Da n i s h oBl4d to 051414 Beans ....English, old, per qr 49s Od to 518 Od New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Cd New tick. 43s Od to 448 Od Egyptian 3Bs Od to 408 Od Peas ..Foreign breakers Grinding .... Tares .... Spring Indian Corn Linseed, foaling crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) ... £lO 10 oto £lO 15 0 8 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes Foreign 5 10 6 oto 6 0 0 Bones .. 5 0 oto 5 6 0 COAL MARKET—JAN. 23. (rrfoes of Coal per Ton at the close of the market a. d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 17 6 South Peareth 16 6 Taufield Moor 17 6 Eden Main ~..,20 Q Byass's Beliside West Hartley ..17 3 Holywell l9 0 Davison's West Hart- ley ...17 6 LamLert's West Hart- Walla End. ley 17 0 West Hartley l7 6 Carway and Duffqn Malting Wylara 19 0 Benton's West Hartleyl7 3 Ships at marke .. d. Haswell..... 22 0 Thorpe . . ..20 6 South Iletton 22 0 Stewart's 26 0 Hartlepool.... 21 9 103 ; sold, 47. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) Jan. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Feb. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds Feb. 4. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &a. .. Jan. --• Cuba and Mexico .. Jan. 28 Canada, &c. (via L'derry) Jan. 23. Cape of Good Hope, &c. . ; .. Feb. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Feb. 1. Do (via Marseilles) Jan. 26. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Jan. 25. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Feb. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 26. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. • • Jan. 25. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Feb. 4. Lisbon .. • a • • • • • • • • Jan. 21• Malta, Egypt, and Men (via Southampton) .. Jan. 25. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Jan. 26. Vigo, and Oporto .. • • .. Feb. 1. t;ited States, California, &o. • • • • .. Jan. 23. 'Carthagena, Cuba, &C. Jan. 28. W es tcrn Coast of Atrica Madeira, Teneriffe .. Feb. 10. West Intliies and Pacific, BIRTHS. BURROUGUES.—On o. l e 22d inst., at 10, Grosvenor-place, the Hon. Mrs. ThomaO Henry Burroughes, of a son. Glen.—On the 22d inst., ati Osidge, Southgate, the wife of Major C. J. Gibb, It.E,, of a eon. O'BRIEN.—On the 22d inst., at Afaesmaur Cottage, Llan gollen, the wife of Edward Donatus O'Brien, Esq., of gt daughter. MARRIAGES. BARRETT—MEADE.-0; the 22d inst., William P.. Barrett, Esq., of Moredon, to Mary H. c., daughter of fl.obert Meade, Esq., of North Curry, Somerset. CURWEN —FOoTMAN.—On the. 22d inst., at the Tower Church, Ipswich, Robert Curwen, Esq., 14,Vir ood-street, Cheapside, and St. Augustine-road, Camden.- iquare, London, to Marianne, second daughter of the late John Footman, Esq., Ipswich. DEATHS. the 19th inst., at Torquay, Adelaide, the wife of Lieut.-General the Hon, Thos. Ashburnham, C.B. CAMEBELL.— On the 18 th inst., at Edinburgh, Charles Campbell, Esq. DEANS. —On the 18th inst., at Waloot-place, Lambeth/ Peter Deans, Esq. DELMAR.—On the 15th inst., at Paris, Emily Baronno de Delmar, aged 64. HARRISON.—On the 18th inst., at 18, Norfolk-street, Strand, Charles Harrison, Esq , of Demerara. SHAW.—Oa the 23d inst., at 144, Westbourne-terracep Hyde-park, Wm. Morrice Shaw, Esq., aged 35. SWAIN.—On the 21st inst., at Norton. near Stockton-on - Tees, Frances Mary Swain, verging on 90. UMFREVILLE.—O n th e 19 t h u l t., a f ter a l ong and pa i n f u l illness, at In gress A bb ey, Greenhithe, the residence o f her son, Jane, relict of the late Capt. Umfroville, R.N. LONDON : Printed and Published by MOR➢O YOUNG, t No. 112, St:and, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County ot . ...middleoes Thursday, January 21, 1.501.