The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. • (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, May 22. The only free States now left in the North—the States wherein a man can express his opinions, and wherein, if he have committed any offence, he is only liable to punishment after fair trial before a judge and jury —are, the little States of New Eng land, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. All the remainder are under the operation of mar tial law ; and the lives, the liberty, and the pro perty of every citizen at the mercy of dragoons, or of truculent att orne y s trans f ormed by the Revolu tion into Brigadier and Major Generals, of whom Gen. Butler is the type and the representative. Gen. employment, Butler is at W as hi ngton, soliciting with the hope, it i s surm i sed, of being appointed to the milita r y di c t ators hi p of New York. Gen. Schenck rules supreme at Baltimore, and does exactly as he pleas es ; t ransports men , women , an d children to the South as if it were a penal settle ment; allows no newspaper to criticise his words or actions under penalty of its forcible suppression ; bears treason in a melody, and punishes the vocalist or instrumentalist by fine, imprisonment, or depor tation, and makes it a felony in a lady to wear a riband of a particular blend of colour, or in a gen tleman to exhibit the head of liberty, cut out of an old copper cent, as a badge upon the waistcoat. Gen. Banks rules with less outward offensiveness but with as much real severity, at New Orleans, and treats the population of Louisiana in the style in which the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia was in the habit of treating the Poles ere he goaded them into insurrection in 1831. General Scho field has been despatched to St. Louis on a simi lar errand—to rule by terror and to trample out the right of free diecussion under the heels of armed men. How General Burnside is acting in the same capacity at Cincinnati all the world knows by this time, and how he is supported by a petty and almost illiterate village lawyer of the name of Milo S. Has call, whom the misfortunes of his country have con verted into a brigadier-general, was slightly sketched in my last, and will be more fully de tailed in my present letter. Bad as the conduct of Gen. Butler was at New Orleans, silly as that of Gen. Schenck is at Baltimore, these officials, together with Gen. Banks, who does his strong spiriting with a gloved hand, as if he did not think it necessary to cease being a gentleman when he became a Dictator, had and have the qualified justification of military necessity. But no such necessity exists in Ohi o , Illinois, and Indiana , which are not in a state of siege, and no inch of whose territories is occupied by a Confederate soldier. The high-handed out rage committed on Mr.Vallandigham by Gen. Burn side was a political, not a military, act; and seems to have been inspired by Mr. Stanton with the view of striking terror into the leaders of the Democratic party, and perpetuating the possession of power in the hands of the Revolutioaary party, who have re solved to overthrow the existing constitution of the United States, and form a strong consolidated Go vernment as the first step towards a centralised im perial despotism. At the present writing no one, ex cept the Government and a few officials, knows what has become of Mr. Vallandigham. Gen. Burnside sentenced him to imprisonment in Fort Warren, and some reports insist that he was furtively and at dead of night placed on board a Federal gunboat in the Ohio river to be conveyed to NN heeling en route to Boston ; while others, equally credible, affirmed that Mr. Lincoln, in grim jest, but real earnest, had modified the sentence of the Military Court to trans portation to the South, and that the gunboat on board of which he was imprisoned was to convey him4o Memphis, and thence to some portion of the Mississippi shore of Arkansas or Louisiana in the occupation of the Confederates. Does Mr. Lincoln wish to provoke a new Civil War in the West ? It is not likely that he does. He is a Western man himself, and ought to know his people too well to incur so fearful a responsi bility ; but if Mr. Stanton, General Halleck, and the Abolitionist senators, who form a kind of Com mittee of Vigilance at Washington, and have the President in their keeping, have not imagined the probability of such an issue to the insane violence which they have instructed their obedient instru ments to adopt, the possession of power has turned their heads, if it have not depraved their hearts. Can these men read the spirit of the people? Do they understand the very rudiments of constitu tional liberty ? Have they eyes to see and ears to hear ? There was but one newspaper in the whole North that had a word of approbation to bestow upon General Burnside—his military spies, his obsequious court martial, and the das tardly judge who refused to issue the writ of habeas corpus in Mr. Vallandigham's case, and even that solitary pander was converted at the eleventh hour to a purer faith, and joined its contemporaries in denunciation of the whole scandalous and perilous proceedings. There has not been anything like the same unanimity of opinion displayed upon any one subject since the war began, and yet the reckless gamesters who control the destinies of the North re fuse to open their eyes, or be warned of the danger they incur. The Western people have done more of the fighting and less of the talking of the war than those of the Atlantic States, and while they have fought harder, their friends and relations who re mained at home to plough their fields and carry on their business have gained less. In fact the West has gained nothing. It has no manufacturers to be en riched by a protective tariff. It has not been rewarded by fat contracts. Its mug Sates have not stained, or been allowed the chance of staining, their hands with public plunder. Its trade has not been in creased, like that of New York and Massachusetts, but has been wofully diminished. It has lost its best customer, the South, and gained no other as an equivalent ; and because, under these circumstances, its most popular and virtuous citizens, of whom Mr. Vallandigham was but one, have dared to ima gine that their country was still free, that the con stitutions of their own States were living and bind ing realities, and that the Federal constitution was still urrepealed, and believing this, have raised their voices to denounce the imbecility and cor ruption of the Government, and to express the honest conviction that union with the South might possibly be restored by a cessation of hostilities, but never could be restored by war—the Government at Washington has appointed a military despot. to es tablish a reign of terror, and act as if his sword the sceptre of justice, and his brutal will not °l ' l 7 th e l aw Th e ot . v. but the source of law and right, and wes a 4 e rnute by which men who but yesterday zy. Te lata hecsed hold either life, liberty, or pro st Vallandigham's case is not to be tered and v t h h a , t . the . Government has en eiti on of arzautt_ittizzioiF o l l f e t n h d e\ e v t e t s h t e t r o i n the a e n o e n w . intelligence l a . fn New e d sv ie gluosrtkt l l l i t i;cy a. d a i ba u s e tei , o l g s s ev f i o d r e t n ha t sst f eo r r o ts m statr t ht h al e et the publication of e the is ai%vl'artik'h,weahwoold prohibit for presuming to do4 "s meet to which his august, "" 4. :utiZ t ng R zPress, a , but hiti ltet Z:i docu not ignoble, name was suppressed two Indiana nPeranded' hue til'atmlif 1 him ly c o t: or w t famous order No. IX. twhicherdfore7 of treason against any kind o j f u sp l V t .he Pent!lti: that had a " tendency" to bring The first journal that fell under his displeasur e Ut . e the Columbia City News, to the editor of which h e despatched the foAowing curt epistle : TO THE EDITOR OF " COLUMBIA CITY NBA's." head-gusrters, Fistrict of Indiana, Department of the Ohio, Indianapolis, May 8, 163. Sir,— A copy of your paper of May 5 has wen handed me, and my attention called to your comments on General Order No. IX, from these headquarters. You can now take your choice—publish an article taking back your threats of - resistance to that order, and you r comments designed to destroy its usefulness, and publish a loyal paper; or you can discontinue the publication of your p a p er until further orders. Any violation of this order will receive prompt attention. 3fiLo S. HASCALL, Brigadier-General Vols., Commanding District. The editor published this letter with an indignant comment, surrounded by the mourning border which is usually employed in England on the death ?f the Sovereign, the mourning in this case being, it 1 „ 1 8 ,2 ) I ' B , 6ll PP:wed, for the murdered freedom of the press. said the edit or , " G en . Haman be higher the constitution, the supreme law of the land, then he can enact such laws as he, in his superior wisdom, may deem proper; bat if he, like our own self; owes obedience to the constitution a e, and that instrument is as sacred and dear to masit to us, then he is more than a tyrant to ex . cise such unwarranted authority. We claim t w e are pub lishing a l o y a l paper . Wh a t con stit , es loyalty . If it be in favour of the constitution, as transmitted to us, then we are loyal; but if, on the contrary, loyalty consists in a disregard of that instrument, we are not loyal. We honour and respect that noble chart of liberty. It is our guide in everything, and we know no higher authority. We have nothing to retract. Our comments were made with an eye to the public welfare. We await the order of Gene ral Hascall with pleasure. The wicked alone flee from the wrath of an offended Deity." General Hascall's reply to this dignified assertion of the right of free discussion was to send a com pany of soldiers to close the office of the Columbia City News, take possession of its presses, and pro hibit its publication. Whether he caused the editor to be arrested and sent to the South or to Fort Warren, to keep company with Mr. Vallan digham, is not stated. The other unfortunate journal which incurred the wrath of this egregious potentate, who is described as having previous to the war eked out a miserable livelihood by his scanty earnings as a village attorney, was the South Bend lorum,whose editor was accused of " boasting of an intention to violate Order No. IX.' The editor denied the boast; and Hascall, not conde scending to bandy words with him, suppressed, or, in Western parlance, " squelched" his paper. Thus the Forum died, on the funereal pyre of American liberty, to reappear perhaps, like the phoenix, after General Milo S. Hascall shall have passed into the maw of that great revolutionary Saturn, who, according to all experience, devours his own children. Bat General Hascall does not confine his atten tion to newspapers. He has as much dislike to oral as to written liberty of speech ; and on Wednesday last, when a grand Democratic mass meeting was held at Indianapolis to protest against the impri sonment and condemnation of Mr. Vallandigham, ' he marched 500 soldiers to the spot, and under pretence of providing against any possible disturb ance of the peace, stationed a military guard at every commanding position in the city. The terror was such that the resolutions were hurriedly passed, —no set speeches beyond a few formal words of introduction were made, and the meeting adjourned sine die, in great confusion. About 50 persona were arrested for carrying concealed weapons, although the Federal Constitution expressly guarantees to all citizens the right to bear arms. As many more were taken into custody for cheering at the name of " Jeff. Davis," which, it is alleged, was first shouted by a spy sent into the meeting by General Hascall for the express purpose of creating a disturbance. Burnside and Hascall are worthy compeers; but Burnside, being the superior officer, is a little, though very little, in advance of his subordinate. Hascall punished the offence com mitted ; Burnside carries his paternal rule still fur ther, and takes pains to render offence impossible. Upon the rule of the good physician, that preven tion is better than cure, he has given notice to the journals of Ohio that they must send him proofs of the leading articles and the news which they intend to publish, in order that his imprimatur may be attached to them. The Emperor of the French has been accused of harshness to the press, but he is the mildest of despots compared with Burnside. The question that forces itself upon the minds o, the observers and students of this revolution—for it is a revolution, if the fierce Democracy of America have been drilled and dragooned out of their liber ties, or if they have been reduced to such a deplorable emasculation of spirit as to love the shadow of the defunct Union better than the realities of law, jus tice, and security for person and property—is, whether , the people are docile and patient enough to endure that tyranny for the remainder of Mr. Lincoln's term of office, with the hope of being able to restore the action of the constitution by the agency of the ballot box,and the election of a democratic and Conservative President, such as Gen. M'Clellan or Mr. Vallandigham ? If they are so over patient—if they are so engrossed with a dull materialism as to think of nothing but money—if for two years they will quietly submit to the usurpations of military power, and the insolent domination of a faction that is numerically not half as strong as the oppo sition—they will be entitled to the credit of being the most sordid and quiet people who ever spoke the language of Milton and Hampden, and who re verence in name, if not in spirit, the laws that trace their origin to such venerable roots as Trial by Jury, Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus. If all these great triumphs of their British ancestors, which are their lawful inheritance, are to be suspended for two years—do the Americans think they will ever enjoy them again unless they fight for them ? And if they are to be fought for at some future time, would it not be better to have a small fight of words now, last ing, perhaps, for Mr. Seward's famous " ninety days," instead of having a fight of words hereafter that might last for 20 years, and that might not, perhaps, be concluded within the lifetime of any man now treading the soil of this continent ? The increase of Irish immigration to this port within the last three months has been so large as to excite universal remark. It is doubtful, however, whether the influx is in all respects natural. There is so much poverty in Ireland, and there are so many prosperous Irishmen in America, who an nually send money to the land of their birth, to pay the passage of their kindred to new homes, that emigration will not cease, as long as Ireland continues poor and overpeopled. Bat since the be ginning of the present year the arrivals have ex ceeded the sverage almost threefold. One obvious explanation of the fact is, that the war bas taken from productive industry an immense number of labourers, and that the inconvenience suffered from this cause in the north and north-west is known in Ireland—and gives an impetus to emigration. Any man who can dig a field or garden, drive a cart, carry a heavy load, or perform any other piece of unskilled oruseful labour, can readily earn a dollar and a quarter, or a dollar and a half a day. The want is so urgent that a hundred thousand of such men would be absorbed in the great cities and rural districts from New York to Chicago in less than six months. This fact has not only been made extensively known in Ireland by private correspondence from America, but has been systematically promulgated by order of the Federal Government, and notably by a letter from Mr. Seward, which has been published and com mented upon in most of the Irish newspapers. The object of that letter was to stimulate emigration; and it has produced its effect. Whether there ware not another object, that of procuring recruits for the Federal armies, may be surmised, bat need not, perhaps, be discussed. Not only have its agents or friends in Ireland represented in glowing colours the scarcity of labour in the field and farm, and the golden rewards it would obtain if it could but be in duced to come here, but they have publicly made 11 aownlin Ir e l an d that no less t h an 10,000 labourers were Wanted o n one ra il way i n the West, the ma. rst,„ iters of which were willing to pay wages at the " a doll of th e i kbo __a e : a day, besides the passage money it is that ; e l l from Ireland to New York. Who e raily %y T 13 '' 3 's the passage money—whether another nam e for a tnythor whether . bu t [ IplaeerBstolnosns represe nting not ot ti t o it Government, are some instances th e " "" an be the officers I o th r e a proasiliwtivaey testitaT to tha ' th et ,„„ ives - t h o u been paid by P a iss ed7:4o : ev ered ; but that in the Feder a l it i s - arrived emigrant s , number. Anothera and j f ; :I; I 11: i°;areeaetifitythaoleft Itvtßiblst7ll:l6l:ll:ervlpaoleynr t h e a m s a t been jcai iy th e e n c f o e u a r r a , Government is about to that the Brit ish gration to the United States. This apprehension "bidaiu g emi gration many hundreds, or it maybeth has who had friends, kindred, and relatives in the North ad; and West, to expedite a departure on which they had previously resolved. Possibly it may turn out y Pass a InPav7valent, anr:blis that this fear has been instilled into the minds of the I r ish peasantry by agents of the Federal Govern ment. Whatever the truth in this particular may be, t h e e migrants are beset by the recruiting officer the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EvgNING, JUNE 4, 1863. moment they touch American soil. Within 20 yards of Castle-garden, the great emigration depot, where all the emigrants are landed, are stationed two re cruiting tents, with flaming placards offering large bounties to young men who will take arms in the Federai service. No Irishman of military age or ap pearance can possibly pass into New York without being subjected to the solicitations of the recruiting agents at these tents and at half-a-dozen other offices which are situated within a stone's throw of the land ing place ; and if he have formed no settled plan of life, and have no friends or relatives in the rural districts, or in the great agricultural States of the West, whom he is desirous of joining, the chances are that the strong temptation of the immediate pos session of a larger sum of ready money than he ever had in his life, or that in all probability he ever saw, will induce him to enter the ranks. Many of these recruiting ' , gents are Irishmen, who know the Bibles of their countrymen ; and there can be little doubt that the gnhf F i boern eaeuwditl convertingati d e csos r on a hl bt comers oste epto G lreuesv o , d v gawiao e nonu r i. rtsa n dbooer m tugtsset e ehol hn n yl aaod t , t, that it hadeiinfrt hsht e hnoat percent age inoes u cv tuß o h i o e reti wr tub o a i s g f t enh h e i i t nnoeh Government d prob abilitylays r ae b T i rp l n e hv h b meo o r e ne d m nt i et e e m a d dns oi Am complain, erica a it torahllaimstiimmtseigas,rnasatwniodenr ready—that the encour agementmisorea particularly national d natty thein present ; and that if the immigrants prefer the rifle to the plough, there is nothing that the Federal Government can or ought to do to prevent them from indulging their fancy. _ _ May 23. Postscript. —The systematic falsification and sup pression of military news by the War Department, and its agents in the telegraphic offices throughout the country, causes the public to receive with incre dulity all reports of Federal successes that are not corroborated by the Confederates. The recent im portant and yet pending operations of General Grant in front and in the rear of Vicksburg are not only imperfectly understood, but are looked upon in many quarters as ominous of impending reverses to the Federal arms. All those who, in this city, sympathise with the South—a number that could not be accommodated in Forts Warren, Lafayette, and Mac Henry, were those fortresses a hundred times as roomy and commodious as they are—assert that Gen. Grant is in a trap, and that he will be assailed simultaneously in the rear by the garrison of Vicksburg, and in front by a large force from Mo• bile, transported by the Tombigbee River to Selma, and thence by railway to Jackson. The position is critical enough to inspire the Administration with alarm, and to paralyse to a considerable extent the speculation in stocks which has driven Wall-street wellnigh frantic with the excitement of gain. Nor is the condition of the army of the Potomac such as to afford much comfort to the ardent and ever hopeful patriotism that looks for a decisive victory over the South as the essential preliminary to an armistice. The President, fearful as ever for the safety of the capital, is understood to have urged a withdrawal of the army from the Rappahannock, and to have persuaded General Halleck that such a change of base was a military as well as a political necessity. But the public feels little present inte rest in Hooker or his army ; does not believe that Washington is in danger, though it may be before many weeks are over; and looks upon the capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson as of more imme diate importance than any other point in the game of strategy which the Government is playing. There has evidently been a series of hard struggles on the forty miles of ground between Vicksburg and Jackson, and authentic news from that region is therefore expected with almost feverish anxiety. But it is Confederate, not Federal, news that is de sired, for no one believes Mr. Stanton's despatches until they are confirmed by private letters and official documents. IRELAND. DUBLIN, June 3. Yesterday the Solicitor-General resumed his statement on behalf of the petitioner in the Egremont case. He stated that if the relatives of the late Earl had not properly in vestigated the circumstances connected with the will, or had refrained from acting till now, it was because all• im portant information had been sedulously kept back from them. Having adduced a number of authorities on the point, he contended that the petitioner was entitled to have an issue sent to a court of law to try whether the will of the late earl was valid or invalid, which only a jury could satis factorily determine, and this the petitioner claimed as a matter of right. The Lord Chancellor said that the right existed only when the heir-at-law was the defendant ; but where, as in this ease, the heir-at-law was the plaintiff, it was entirely in the discretion of the court to say whether or not an issue should be granted. - rhe Solicitor-General proceeded.—" It should," he said, " be remembered that the heir-at-law was prevented from prosecuting his suit in consequence of the acts and conduct of Sir E. Tierney, representing the estate as of little or no value. It was also a case, above all others, in which every iquiry should be afforded, for it was a dealing by a solicitor with a client for purposes of his own, which courts of equity always regarded with suspicion, always required that the transaction should be fair, and that the party obtaining the benefit should always preserve the evi dence to show the original fairness of the dealings. The learned gentleman concluded a very able address by asking the court, in the terms of the prayer of the petition, either to set aside the temporary bars, so as to let an ejectment be brought by Lord Egmont, or to grant an issue. Mr. Sergeant Sullivan then opened the case for the re spondent. He denied that the petitioner was entitled to an issue as a matter of right. There was no authority for such a proposition Sir Lionel Darell had put up the files of the Court in England every deed and document connected with the case either in his power or procurement, and whether for or against his interest; he had not kept back anything, so that the most of the documents furnished were those furnished by Sir L. Darell. He might have kept back any that he wished, or that he might have thought would injure him; but he bad done nothing of the kind, i and when light was thrown on the very few letters relied on by the petitioner out of a mass of evidence which would be afforded by the other facts and circumstances of the case, the Court woald be of a very different opinion from what might be supposed to be entertained at present. He (Sergeant Sullivan) arraigned the suit as concocted by two men of ruined repute and broken fortunes, who brought this suit to enrich their pockets at the expense of their cha racters. It had been alleged as a very hard case that the Egmont family had been, by the contrivance of Tierney, kept from the bedside of the late earl ; but from 1817 down to hie death the petitioner never saw him, nor was there a member of the family to whom he would have left his pro perty. The petitioner's estates in Ireland lie adjacent to those now in dispute; he had visited them often during the last 25 years, knowing that they had been alienated from his family, and now, after the death of the person who, if alive, could have shattered the case attempted to be made out, this claim was brought forward. He would show from documents that no misrepresentation had been made by Tierney, that the earl knew well the value and circumstances of the estates, for accounts had been regu larly rendered by the agent, and initialled by the earl. When, in 1822 Earl John succeeded to the title, he ap pointed Sir Edward Tierney agent and receiver of the Irish estates, he being at the same time agent to the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Kenmare, and other proprietors. He was also Crown Solicitor for the North-West Circuit in Ireland, and Registrar of the Court of Appeal, hie various employments producing an income of £lO,OOO a-year. The estates were then in an exceedingly wretched condition, owing to gripes mismanagement. They were so over• whelmed with encumbrances that the rents were insuffi cient to pay the annuities and the interest on charges, the deficiency being advanced by Sir Edward Tierney, whose claims against the estate increased every year, his money being secured by mortgages and the earl's bonds, on which judgment was entered up. He also laid out large sums in improvements, with the landlord's know ledge. The Irish estates were put up for sale at Morrison's Hotel in October, 1832, when the highest bidder for the Churchtown estate was a Mr. Purcell for X 135,000. There were n' bidders for the Kanturk estate, and the attempt at sale failed. Sir E. Tierney was subsequently applied to to purchase the Churchtown estate for £140,000, but he did not accede to the proposal. In 1840 there was a balance of £23,000 due to Sir Edward Tierney. The earl received from his Irish estates £2,000 a year, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Clesse, £lOO. Long and intricate details were given by the learned sergeant of the transactions connected with the encumbrances of the property and the attempts to sell it. T:4etearytei;roolvf.iitihaechpeestidteiopnrivdeefended Sir Edward Tierney bey point. The answer also insisted that the petitioner • d himself of the right now to 711 w ill, having acquiesced in it for 19 years. The t:exilideibit its_ning v,li ed on the earl's death, and the inquiries tllat it v . a ll atieffed the parties interested 'ln disputing it t ile PotiufterPerly prepared executed, and therefore Pute, and esic al leul,_ d n e t uo , and • dcitoUrl:fl:47llo '4Jr th e %mai, Wbe permitted to revive the die • w ithont -,_ U tuee of the Court to try the vali dit7:lneA the existence of facts tending E. Tierney an h pft ..., di zo ku rt d he t eo he -h fo e r i m re e s r s acquires wiF anytto ue w ith r e i r he attempt was made ; ee o a• , who COil. ; after the death of Sir 41..", fttlataetorily ae- counted for all the circumstances. The answer also alleged that the petitioner had acknowledged the title of Sir E. Tierney when he applied to him in 1842 to sell the estate, and again on a later occasion ; and also that the pe titioner, having in 1854 obtained a renewal of a lease of a certain portion of the premises which he formerly held un der Earl Henry, from Sir E. Tierney, and having punctually paid rent therefor to Sir E. Tierney up to his death, and subsequently to Sir Lionel Darell, without any protest or objection, was entitled to no relief whatever, and therefore the petition should be dismissed with costs. The learned sergeant had not concluded a very able sta:e ment when the Court ruse. Sir John Arnott has published an address to the electors of Kinsale, in consequence of the allegation made by some parties that he took the constituency by surprise, and had entered into a compact or stipulation with Sir George Col thurst. He states that he sent a circular to them announc ing his resignation on the 26th ult., which could not have taken them by surprise, inasmuch as upwards of 12 months ago he went to Kinsale for the express purpose of tendering his resignation. At the urgent request of a number of the most influential electors, he was induced co retain the seat till a suitable successor could be found. Several gentlemen had been mentioned, but none of them appeared entirely acceptable till Sir George Colthurst undertook to solicit their suffrages. As to the statement that he had entered into a compact with that gentleman, he says it is simply ridiculous, and could only have been resorted to for an elec tioneering object. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT HEATH RACES.sWEDNESDAY. For the second day of Ascot races the attendance was extremely good, particularly in the Grand Stand. The weather, also, was most charming. The Royal Hunt Cup produced the large field of 29, but after the Queen of Trumps had taken her preliminary canter it was discovered that she was lame; consequently she did not go to the starting-post. The race was won M a very easy manner by the favourite Victor. In the Ascot Derby, Wells had a narrow escape from being badly hurt. The horse he was riding in the race, Brother to Morocco, having been crossed by Blue Mantle, the former struck into his heels, which caused him to fall, breaking his leathers and the bridle coming completely off his head. We are happy to say Wells did not receive any injury. For the Fernhill Stakes Tomato came in first, everybody at the same time believing it to be the Baron's other colt Hippolyta, as from some stupid blunder the latter's number was exhibited on the telegraph board instead of that of Tomato. The mistake caused an objection to be made against the winner, wich was subseq uen tl y gone into by th® stewards, who awar h ded the race to Tomato, but the subject of bets will be gone into at Tattersall's on Monday. The Coronation Stokes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for 3-yr-old fillies ; Bst 101 b ; winners extra ; maidens allowed 71b. Old mile. 25 sovs. Lord Derby's T —ad y Augusta, (31b e x t ra ) B st 131 b (Edwards) 1 Lord Exeter's F an t ail, Bst 101 b (Boyce) 2 Baron Rothschild's Crafton Lass Bst 101 b. • • • (Ashman) 3 Lord Stamford's Cerintha Bst 1011).. Sit J. Hawley's Columba, Bst 10lb (Wells) 6 Betting-5 to 4on Lady Augusta, 4to 1 agst Fantail. and 6 to 1 each apt Columba and Crafton Lass. and Columba w L as the first away, c l ose l y attended by Fantail Crafton ass, the f avourite with her stable companion, lying off. On crossing the road Crafton Lass went to the front th and came on te with a cl ear l ea d , Fantail going second, next, C o l um b a at the same time dropping into the rear. O n entering the strai g ht L a d y e favouri Augusta went up to Fantail, with whom she ran to half way up, then quitted t hem without an eff or t, an d won i n a canter by a length •; half a length between the second and third. Cerintha was a bad fourth. The Ascot Derby Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 3-yr-olde; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b ; winners extra ; maidens allowed 71b. S w i n l sY course. 23 subs. Lord Stamford's Onesand er, Bst 101 b .... (A. Edwards) 1 Mr. T. Valentine's Queen Bertha, Bst 111 b (inc 51b extra) Captain Lane's Bl ue M antle (Aldcroft) 2 , icotora, Bst 31b .. (W Bst 10lb (Lyninsch) 3 Count F. de Lagrange's Jarn The followin g a l so ran :—Newsmonger, Warhorse, and Brother to Mo rocco. Watkins ) 4 Betting--2 to 1 agst Onesander, 3to 1 agst Queen Bertha, and 6 to 1 each agst Jarnicoton and Blue Mantle. At the fourth attempt they got away upon equitable whe termn h Bluelue Mantle makin g t h e runn i ng for a few strides, passed by the Frenchman, Blue Mantle going on second, who was followed by Onesander and Brother to Morocco—Newsmonger, Warhorse, and Queen Bertha lying several lengths in their rear. Passing the Kennels, Onesander took the second place, and came on in atten dance upon the leaders, followed on hi s w hi p h an d b y the Baron's colt int o t h e straight, where they were joined by Queen Bertha, the lot running in close company to the distance, where Onesander drew away, followed next the rails by Queen Bertha, Blue Mantle at the same time giving evidence of his currish temper by running all over the course, and in so doing crossed Brother to Morocco in his attempt to get through, and brought horse and rider to the ground, fortunately without injury to either. Onesander retained his advantage to the end, and won in a canter by two lengths; a bad third. Jarni coton was fourth. The others pulled up and did not pass the post. The Royal Hunt Cup, a piece of plate value 200 soya, by subscription of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for all ages. Winners extra. New mile, 77 subs. Mr. Hodgman's Victor, 4 yrs, s st 121 b ........ (M orr i s) 1 Mr. R. S utton ' s Glenorchy, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b .. omas Mr. M erry ' s The Knave, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (H. (Th Covey) 3 ) 2 Lord Gl asgow ' s Knowsley, 4 yrs, 4st 81b •(Aldcroft) The f o ll ow i ng also ran :—Umpire, Argonaut, Pri 4 nce Plausible, E xc h equer, Oldminster, Queen of Spain, Michel Grove, Birdhill, Ace of Clubs, Bertha, Doncaster, Grey Hen colt, V i l ette, Poland, The Plover, Bohemia, Tademus, Cadeau, Michael Scott, Disappointment, Rubini, Merry Maid, Indolence, and Nebula. Tippler was struck out on Tuesday. Catch'em Alive at 12 40 p.m., Zelle and Polynesia at 1 4 p.m. Wednesday. Queen of Trumps was weighed for by H. Grimshaw, 4 yrs, 9st 71b, but after taking her canter she pulled up lame, and did not go to the post. Betting -3 to 1 agst Victor, 6to 1 agst The Knave, Bto 1 eget Tademus, 100 to 8 each agst Knowsley, Ace of Clubs, and Rubini, 20 to 1 ag s t the Grey Hen colt, 25 to 1 each agst Umpire, Argonaut, I n d olence, and Bertha. Precis e l y at 3 25 the flag was lowered to the most unsatis factory start o f th e meet i ng, t h e greater portion of the ani mals being left at th e p os t. B ertha, as nearly as we could make out, aft er runn i ng a f ew strides, took a alight lead on the far side, with the favourite in the centre, close up with whom were Prince Plausible, Knave, Glenorchy, the Grey Hen colt, and K nows l ey, t h e l atter lying wide on the stand side ; the others, who were headed by Exchequer, Umpire, Doncaster, Tademus, and Rubini, following in two divi sions, some two or three lengths in the rear; crossing the road, Morris brought out Victor and took a decided lead, wai t t ed upon b y Th e K nave , Gl enorchy, Lord Glasgow's col, and Doncaster, who ran in company half way up the hill, When the tailing commenced in earnest, the front divi sion alone having the slightest chance in the contest. The favourite held his own to the end, and won with the most ridiculous ease by four lengths, three lengths separating the second and third, a like distance between the third and fourth; Doncaster was fifth, Prince Plausible sixth, Argo naut seventh, and Tademus next, all close up. The last yr. olds and upwards; lot com prised Queen of Spain, Michel Grove, Birdhill, Cadeau, Ace of Clubs, and Indolence. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 60 added, for 3- T.Y.C. The Winner to be sold for 200 soya, if demanded, &c. 6 subs. Mr. Ten Breed' s Santhal, 3 yrs (Fordham) 1 Mr. C. P. (Challoner) 2 -..ayner's Dirt Cheap, 3 Yrs Mr. W' Ba uce's Lord of Linne, 4 yrs.... .... (Hibbard) 3 weight for age. Betting ° pelted at even on Banthal, and closed at even on Dirt Cheap, • Dirt an where h eap cut ou t t h e work to the Stand enclosure, St hal came ou t an d won easily by three parts of a length ; a bad t h ird, First Year of the Eleventh Ascot Triennial Stakes of 10 Bova each, with 100 added, for foals of 1861; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. The owner of the second horse to receiv e stake, and the third to save his stake. 67 subs. Lord Portsmouth's Becky (J. Goater) 1 Sher a sum equal to 10 per cent on the whole Mr. Merry's Catastrophe filly P° (H Covey) 2 Baron Niviere's Ma demoiselle de Chesnois (E. Flatman) 3 Mr. T. Valentine's Al cyone - (ldcroft) Count F. de Lagran g e, La Belle Feronniere ( Watkins) 5 Mr. T. Stevens's Fisherman's Daughter (dam, Idyl) (Challoner) 6 Mr. H. Savile's Queen Lily colt (Custance) 7 Mr. Saxon's The Abbot c (Midgley) 8 Betting-3 to 1 each agst Fisherman's Daughter and Becky Sharpe, and 4 to 1 agst Alcyone. The French fillies made the running until crossing the road, with the Catastrophe filly and Becky Sharpe fol. lowing on the whip hand. At the distance Fisherman's Daughter and Le Belle Feronniere were beaten, and Becky Sharpe and the Catastrophe filly went to the front, the for mer winning by a neck , a bad third. The Fern Hill S ta k es of 15 sous each, 5 ft, with 100 added, for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Weights for age. About half a mile. 11 subs, Baron, It ethschild's Tomato Est 131 b (Niehtingall) 1 Mr. W. Bevill's Lady Abbe ' ss, 3 yrs, Bst 11Ib(Fordham) 2 Count Batthyany's (Wheatley) 3 Lord Stamford's Flying Fish, 3 yrs, Bst I Ilb (Edwards) 4 Count F. de Lagrange's Vivid, 3 yrs, Bst lllb (Custance) 5 Betting 5 to 4 agst Flying Fish, 5 to 2 agst Lady Abbess Midnight Mass, 2 yrs, 7st 21b 4 to 1 agst Midnight Mass, and 6 to 1 agst any other. Midnight Mass made running to the distance, where the Baron's filly went to the front, was never afterwards headed, and won very easily by f our lengths, a length between the second and third. After the race Mr. Bevill made an objec tion against the winner, inasmuch as the wrong number was exhibited on the telegraph, which was entertained by the stewards, Admiral Roils giving their decision in favour of Tomato. The qu es ti on as to which way the bets are to be decided will be settl e d at Tattersall's on Monday. Second Year of the Fi fth Ascot Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for 3 -yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; and fillies, Bst 61b, Old mile. The owner of the second horse to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes. 65 subs. Lord Strathmore's Saccharometer.. . (Watkins) 4 T. Parr's Judea, B s t 61 b (Fordham) 2 Mr. E. E Brayley's Tom F ool (Cowley) 3 Count F. de Lagrange's liospodar Mr. The following also ran :—The Old Orange Girl, Tademus, Stoekowner, Craften Lass, and Spitfire Kitty. Challoner weighed for Carnival and A. Edwards for One sander, and their numbers were up, but subsequently taken down. Betting-2 to 1 agst Saccharometer, sto 2 agst Tom Fool, 7 to 1 agst Old Orange Girl, and 9 to 1 agst Judex. The Orange Girl carried her colours to the fore immedi ately after they left the post, with Tom Fool, Judex, and Hospodar in close attendance, the rear being brought up by Tademus, who laid away upwards of half a dozen lengths to the bend into the straight, where Tom Fool took up run ning, with Judex and the favourite in close attendance, to the half distance, when Lord Strathmore's colt went up and won in a canter by three lengths; half a length between the second and third; and two lengths separating the third and fourth. Spitfire Kitty was next, and Tademus last throughout. The Visitors' Plate of 100 sous, and 25 for the second horse (handicap), Once round and a distance. 19 subs. Mr. Bryan's Millionaire, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b (Custance) 1 Lord W, Powlett's Paste, 5 yrs, 9st (S. Rogers) 2 Lord Portsmouth's Vinegar Hill, 5 yrs, Bst 3lb _ (Fordham) 3 The following also ran :—Gardener, Flirtation, Gorse, Dux, Necklace, and Wasp gelding. Betting-4 to 1 each agst Gardener, Paste, and Million aire 5 to 1 agst Flirtation , and 6 to 1 agst the Wasp c. Millionaire made play, with Gorse and Paste in close at tendance, to the top turn, when Paste went to the fore, and, with Mr. Bryan's colt and Vinegar Hill in waiting, de scended the hill in close company ; but on reaching the bot tom the lot closed up, and ran to the old mile-post, where Paste gradually increased her lead, which she retained to the distance, when Custance brought out Millionaire, who at the stand obtained a clear lead, and won very easily by a neck, Paste defeating Vinegar Hill by a neck for second place. Gorse was fourth, Flirtation fifth, Gardener next, the 'Wasp colt last. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.— A great blow has been struck against a favourite of Fortune. Paris—busy, thronging Paris, without pausing for a moment from her per petual pursuit of fashion, while her broad Boulevards were still streaming with pleasure-seekers, while new splendo'irs rise about her with rapidity of stage effect, while all her population seemed engrossed with the enjoyments created for them,—this petted, coaxed, well-dressed, well-jewelled Paris has, in saucy wantonness or in well-hidden thoughfulness, suddenly turned upon her lord and master and has inflicted upon him the most emphatic slap in the face which confident man ever received from a capri cious mistress. Too certain of the answer, he has asked her a presumptuous question, and he has got his reply. Paris, with all the forms of electoral legality, and with all the energy of universal suf frage, has protested against the Empire. Looking upon the surface of Parisian life, who would have prophesied this ? It is quite evident that neither the Emperor nor his Ministers had the least notion of such a reverse. Up to the very day which pre ceded the elections Paris rattled on gaily in her perpetual revel and seemed to have no taste for political excitement. A stranger might have walked round all the Boulevards without seeing a dozen of those little square-coloured ajiches which simply told that "M. Thiers" was a " candidat." It was necessary to go over the Pont Neuf to read any thing like a printed appeal, even on behalf of the virtues of peace and retrenchment. People did not gather round the few placards that existed. There were no little knots of men gesticulating in the streets ; and the folk who sat outside the cafes and sipped their absinthe before dinner did not seize upon the papers greedily, as in the old days before 1851. The Charivari and L'lllustration and L'Entr'acte were more in request than the Siecle. The little boxes in the Tuileries gardens were not surrounded by ear nest politicians, like those who in old times used to abonizer themselves for a sou upon the whole Paris press, and walk about in a St. Vitus-like excitement ejaculating their political aspirations to the heroes and goddesses around. It was while all things were tranquil and placid that this shock came. But the fact remains. Paris has suddenly seized an oppor tunity, and,speaking by universal suffrage, has pro tested against the Empire. This is not a simple de feat. It looks more like a formal repeal of the great vote of the seven millions. Paris, although unani mous in nothing else, is unanimous in rejecting every Imperialist candidate. Even in the Sixth Arrondissement, where two editors and a " homane de bzen" divided the Opposition votes between them, the Government candidate had no chance. It is not an Orleanist demonstration, nor a declaration in favour of the old Parliamentary system ; for M. Thiers, who may be considered as the most special representative of these ideas, and to have been most able to develops their full force, had the least re markab'e success of all. M. Thiers obtained a ma jority over the Government competitor of only 1,255 votes, whereas Emile 011ivier and Ernest Picard had majorities of nearly 9,000, and Jules Favre beat the Government candidate by more than 10,000 votes. The voters do not seem to have asked wrist the prin ciples of the Opposition candidate might be. It sufficed to place him high on the poll that M. de Persigny did not patronise him. The Opposition, as an Opposition, was certainly not adapted to se cure any great respect. It was not a thing having any unity of thought or any common object. For some time the Opposition papers refused to publish the Opposition addresses. Each had its one Oppo sition candidate, who was not uncommonly the director of the patronising journal, and each de nounced in unmeasured terms the principles and the practice of all other Opposition pretenders. The only fact quite evident to a looker-on was that if the Opposition hated the Government much they hated each other a great deal more. It is true that, to some extent these personal contests ceased under the ridi• cule of the Parisian public; and that latterly the Op position paper s consented to insert the Opposition addresses and make semblance of a sort of sympathy. Still, however, they were rather like a " happy family" exhibition, without a master to control their instincts. It was not their harmony, or their unity, or their strength which won their victories; and still less is it their popularity which stands proved by their great majorities. When Paris goes forth, and when Lyons follows, and the departments of the South and the great cities throughout France make common cause, it is not that they are agreed upon any positive position. They do not set up M. Thiers because they desire the adoption of any spe cific policy ; and so well did M. Thiers and bis friends know this no Thiers confession of faith ap peared. It must have been very hard to flesh and blood, and especially to the flesh and blood of a great orator and great writer, to stand before all France and be pelted with sharp epigrams by a Minister of State, and to make no reply. Yet M. Thiers endured this rather than destroy the equivo cal position which his silence prolonged. If there be any truth in the statement of the Constitutzonnel, a council of his friends deliberately suppressed the Circular he had prepared, lest the other sections of the Opposition should be deprived of all excuse for voting for him. So, also, the Republican candidates who have succeeded, not because the voters who re turned them are all in favour of a return to a Re publican form of Government, but because they are discontented with things as they are—the one bond of union has been a protest against the Empire. All this has been brought about by the blundering of M. de Persigny. If Frenchmen have been found wanting in the moderation and in the spirit of com promise which is necessary to Parliamentary go vernment, French Ministers have been found still more lamentably deficient in the decent simula tion of official respect for the freedom of election. The Minister's warnings to the Press at this ill chosen moment made him odious; his communicated articles, forced even upon the poor literary jester Le Charivari, made him ridiculous ; his obtrusive dictation to the electors made him offensive, his selection of candidates inspired contempt, This is not the way to deal with such a population as that of France. A more adroit man would have adopted the popular candidates, and pro claimed the desire of the Emperor to have all opinions represented in his Parliament ; but even a moderately shrewd man would have seen that, if it was not the moment for liberty of speech to all, it was certainly the moment for silence in high places. What will be the result? Will the Emperor trust to the oath taken by the Opposition candidates, and go on to free institutions ? It is true that, Or leanists and Republicans alike, they have all sworn " fidelity to th e Emperor." oatee affect to find in the Article of the Constitution which declares the Emperor to be responsible a door of escape from any oath of allegiance. But, however that may be, can much trust be placed in any such bond as that after what has so often happened in France and elsewhere ? Even if the Emperor were inclined to risk this course, what means has he of conducting a Parliamentary Government with such men as Thiers and Dufaure in Opposition, and with no better debaters than his own mediocrities to set against them ? In such a contest the Empire would be talked down in a single session. If, indeed, the Emperor had secured these men for the Empire there would be something to hope in favour of a policy of progress, but M. de Persigny has forced them ostentatiously to take their place in Opposi tion. We shall be curious to note the next move of the Imperial policy. Regard it from what point of view we may, this is a very serious defeat ; and the Emperor must feel some bitterness in the reflec tion that all its worst features have been called forth b snobbyte undisguised partisanship of the Government, the folly and insolence of the Imperial Minister. HERALD.--From the earliest times fish was a favourite food with the inhabitants of these isles. In the London markets, during; the reign of the Plantagenets, and probably Peng "before, there were to be found sturgeon, ex!, ray, herring (fresh, aalted, and red), bass, conger, sole, mackerel, sur mullet, turbot, dory, porpoise, haddock, sea-ling, sprats, salmon, shad, eels, pike, barbel, roach, dace, dabs, flounders, lamprey, smelts, stickelings, oysters; mussels, co c kl es , w h e lk s, sca ll ops, and stockfish. The hon. member for Sunderland sighs for such days of plenty, and with goad reason, for unless the House of C ommons h elps us, we shall see them no more. The sale of fish, as the medimvul antiquarian, Mr. Riley, whose word is indisputable, tells us, seems to have attracted the surveillance and attention of the authorities to a greater extent than that of butcher's meat; and fish, there can hardly be a doubt, was much more largely consumed by the middle and lower classes of the community than butcher's meat, owing partly to its comparative cheapness, and in part to the rigidness with which the fist days of the Romish Church were kept. So we are glad to see that the hon. member's motion for an lnquirF by a Royal commission into the pre sent condition of our sea fisheries was successful, though certain members of the Government, them selves well experienced in the uses and habits of deep-sea fishing, thought proper to essay to upset it. At present, as Mr. Fenwick unmistakeably proved, our fisheries are almost universally falling off, year by year, and unless something is done, the serious contingency of a limited supply from all quarters would appear to be threatening us. And this appre hended scarcity does not arise from the consumption startling as that is as reported from London alone. It is not owing to the City alimentiveness which last year disposed of half a million and more of cod , fish, 25,000,000 of mackerel, 100,000,000 of soles, 35,000,000 of plaice, 200,000,000 of fresh haddocks, oa the 300,000,000 of periwinkles, according to the honourable member's testimony, that any serious diminution impends. It is the reckless waste and neglect, as Mr. Fen wick explained, of nature's own laws, by the very men whose interest it is to main tain an abundant supply--the fishermen who are to make a living by their trade—which have nearly ruined our coast fisheries. The system of trawling and the use of the seine net destroy or disturb the s pawn of the fish ; for strangely enough, and to the hindrance of their own future business, the men are accustomed, without heed or care, to take up the spawn and cery it into deep water, or receive it into their boats ,nd sell it as manure. Any one who has seen the miscellaneous haul made by the trawling net may,readily understand how it scrapes up and unsettles everything it touches, and when it happens to trave, over the shallow breeding ground it necessarily becomes a ruthless enemy to a great amount of fish life. The young fry suffer a similar depredation from this rude and exhausting means of capture. The takes ;we fre quently found to be too small in size for the market, and are either accordingly tossed back into the sea, dead or alive, it does not much matter, or are sold in a mass as mere manure. "One afternoon, only a few months ago," affirmed the hon. gentleman, " he saw exposed for sale in a northern city two cart loads of codfish, the largest of which was not bigger than his hand, and he appealed to the house if that did not show a wanton waste of God's gifts." We can endorse, from personal and repeated experience, the hon. member's appeal as to the thoughtless habits of the fishermen who use the trawling net all round our coast. The captain of a trawler himself acknowledged to the hon. member that "he had sometimes thrown overboard as many as 7,000 or 8,000 fish at once after using the trawl. "As to spawn, on one occasion," added this informant, "while he had three tons of spawn, as he estimated, by the weight of the trawl, in his net, he bad only besides some crabs and a dozen fiat fish." From all parts of England similar evidence had reached the honourable member, which perhaps the honourable member for Hull may study with advantage ere he indulges a sneer against the value of an accurate and assured inquiry into the reasons of the decreas ing quantity of fish caught on our shores. The salmon fishery is itself a notable instance at the present time of the pertinent worth of these parlia mentary investigations, and the recommendations whic'i result from the comparison of the most reli able evidence furnished without fee or reward. The act, which is but two years old, has, in Mr. Fen wick's own words, resuscitated the salmon fisheries, and rivers previously destitute of fish are found to be gradually and surely stocked. Even the Thames is likely to resume its old reputation, and we may soon hope to hear of a similar bit of news to that which, even within the last 25 years, astonished veteran anglers, that "salmon of 151 b. weight have been taken as low down as Wandsworth." Salmon, amongst all the more highly prized fish in the Lon don market, has actually fallen in price since the operation of that act. The same regulations which have answered so well in preserving fish in our rivers, may, it is fitly argued, be enforced for the preservation of our deep-sea fisheries. With respect to the fisheries in the Channel and elsewhere, ac cessible to the French fishermen, no harm can arise from this inquiry, and we dispose of the objections of the President of the Board of Trade, that num bers of people would be much alarmed if such an inquiry were set on foot, by assuring him that our neighbours will thank us for any legislation which is likely to improve the take of the deep waters out side the territorial limits from which they are pro hibited. We do not think that, with the means at the command of the Admiralty, there need be any difficulty in amassing such a store of sure and posi tive information as may be likely to benefit both the fishing interest and the public generally. In this important branch of industry, which commands a capital of £10,000,000 sterling, and employs 240,000 men of hardy habits and mostly in the prime of life, any long continued depression of trade would not be very easily remedied; and there can be no question but that the consumption of fish as food for the working classes has, of late years, in the towns especially, been considerably smaller from the lessened supply. POST.—The House of Commons yesterday showed its good sense in rejecting, by a majority of two hundred and seventy-eight to one hundred and three votes, one of the most mischievous and ob noxious measures which has for many years past been submitted for the approval of Parliament. Indeed, it is difficult to understand how it came to pass that the bill for closing public-houscs on Sun days found as many supporters as it did. That the Temperance Association were enabled to induce two gentlemen with extreme views on the subject of Sabbath observance, and hazy notions of the statistics of drunkenness as furnished by police re ports, to promote a bill embodying their peculiar tenets is not wonderful; but it is truly astonishing that one hundred and three gentlemen could be found besides, who, so far as lay in their power, endeavoured to pass a law which would have been an insult to the character of the nation, as well as a gross outrage upon the rights of its members. The best excuse that can be found for these gentlemen is that they failed to realise the consequences of the measure to which they gave their advocacy and support. We do not now refer to such consequences as riots and disturbances; the assemblages of thou sands of industrious, sober, and well-conducted men, to protest against being sacrificed for the mere purpose of preventing habitual drunkards indulging in their favourite vice upon the Lord's-day; the ill-feeling which would be created between classes between whom at present the most perfect harmony subsists—to these consequences we do notat present advert. We allude simply to the immediate effects of the operation of the act. The man who is neither blind, nor deaf, nor maimed, can form no concep tion of the disadvantages under which persons thus afflicted are compelled to suffer; and in like manner those who have well-stocked cellars or clubs to vt hich they can resort, cannot possibly realise the position of those who, during the only day in the week permitted for rest and recreation, would be debarred from all means of obtaining any refreshing or invigorating drink. It is, however, fortunate that these gentlemen, who were ready with such precipitation to legislate for the millions whose feelings and wants they failed to appreciate, were in a minority, and th a t a bill w hi ch would never have been sanctioned or tolerated by the English people has not commanded the approval of their representatives. It is much to be regretted that some people will get drunk, just as it is much to be de piored that some young men will dissipate their for tunes But just as the Legislature would not be jus tified in depriving every one of the power of disposing of his property as h e thought fit, in orderto pre vent a few spendthrifts consummating their rain, so it is not entitled to prevent nine hundred and ninety-nine sober people from takin g beer or wine in moderati on on a given day in order to prevent one individual from drinkin g to excess. And yet this wa s th e p a th of the argument advanced by Mr. Sornes in favour of his bill. But ill conceived as the design of the measure was, in operation it would have been found utterly impracticable. The excep tion in favcur of bona fide travellers would have given rise to no end of litigation. Some of the metropolitan magistrates have held that an excur sionist by rail on a Sunday is a traveller. If so, the Londoner could still, we by producing the half of his return ticket , have or wine with his dinner at the Star and Garter at Richmond, whereas the pedestrian or omnibus passenger would be obliged to remain satisfied with a draught of water. The traveller stopping in an hotel in Fleet street might still, we suppose, indulge in his pint of stout, whereas the Templar, who dines habitu ally in the same coffee-room, though known to the proprietor, would be compelled to forego his cus tomary tankard. And wherefore all this ? Simply in order to prevent a few individuals getting drunk an Sundays. The House of Commons has very properly refused to victimise the many for the benefit of the few. The Late Fatal Railway Accident. We have been favoured by the officials at the Grenadiers' Hospital, Westminster, with the following list of the soldiers who are suffering most severely from the effects of the accident on the Brighton Railway. There are alto gether 27 men at present in hospital, besides the two un fortunate men who died of their injuries, and some 10 or 12 who are temporarily confined to barracks with bad con tusions :—Obadiah Prime, fra . ctured ribs, going on well; 'William Lewis, compound fracture of wrist joint, dislocated elbow, and bad scalp wound, going on well; John Chap man, compound fracture of wrist, and severe contusions; Colour-sergeant W. Fowler, broken collar-bone, and large scalp wound ; 'Walter Redden, fractured collar-bone, and severe contusions; 'William Sadler, broken leg; 'William Anderson, badly cut head. The others are suffering chiefly from sprains in the back and bruises more or less severe. The worst case of them all was that of Prime, whose ribs were badly fractured. At first he was given over, but he rallied under the skill and attention bestowed on him, and is now well on the road to recovery. The poor fellows felt most deeply the sympathy felt for them by all classes, from Royalty itk elf down to their own comrades. Had it been Sydney Smith's famous bishop who had been maimed in this sad accident, greater interest could hardly have been exeited in the minds of the public. Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales have made continual inquiries after the condition of the sufferers, and a special report is made daily to the Commander-in-Chief by the General in com mand of the district, Lieutenant-General Craufurd. Yesterday afternoon Colonel Yolland, Government In spector of Railways, held an examination of the guard, Walker, who was in charge of the train. He also examined the driver of the 6 p.m. train from the Victoria station. It had passed over the down line a few minutes before the ac cident took place, and also passed the train to which the ac cident happened. The driver did not notice any oscillation. and everything seemed right. At 4 o'clock Colonel Yolland was conveyed by a special train from Victoria-station to Streatham-common, accompanied by the following officials —Mr. J. C. Craven,locomotive superintendent, Mr. Francis, superintendent of Victoria station, Mr. Hield, Chief inspec tor ; Mr. Rigby, inspector of the permanent way ; and Mr • Joseph Craven, locomotive superintendent at New-cross . After a minute and careful examination of every part of the line, the old rails that had been torn up, the signals sleepers, chairs,&c., the party returned about 10 minutes to 7 o'clock. The investigation into the cause of the accident is still being proceeded with. Fearful Accident on the North Union Railway. PRESTON, Wednesday Morning. An accident happened this morning in the deep cutting near to the Farington Station on the North Union Rail way, which, though happily free from loss of human life, has entailed extensive damage to the train, goods, and a considerable portion of the line in the vicinity of the acci dent. It seems that the general goods train, which left Liverpool for Carlisle and the north at 10.50 last night, was composed of 22 trucks and the guard's van. The train, a heavy one, proceeded all right until nearing the " skew bridge," a little way on this aide of the deep cutting at Farington. Here there is a decline in the railroad, and, on coming near to the bottom of the gradient, the driver of the engine perceived that the same weight of steam carried his train along the level at a greatly increased speed. From this circumstance he knew that a portion of his train must have got loose in the couplings ; he therefore applied the break, stopped the engine, and awaited the coming up of the detached trucks. These latter, 18 in number, soon de scended the gradient at a fearful speed, dashed into the forepart of the train, and upset about a dozen of the whole. The rails were torn up for a considerable distance in the cutting, merchandise scattered about in every conceivable manner, and some 17 of the waggons broken to firewood by the concussion. The ordinary night traffic was impeded through the accident for about three hours, and every pre caution was taken to warn the approaching mail train which leaves Liverpool for Preston at 1.15 a.m. By a little after four o'clock the down line was so far cleared as to allow:the traffic to be reopened ; and at the present time labourers are engaged in clearing away the rest of the obstruotions Fortunately no lives were lost. The driver of the engine, Ireland, did not expect the detached waggons to be so soon upon him, and therefore shut off steam and applied the break, as he would have done ordinarily, previously to pulling up on the Ribble Bank. It is impossible at the present moment to estimate the amount of damage, but it must be between £5,000 and £lO,OOO, the railway plant alone being almost worth the former sum. A little before 12 at noon the whole of the trucks which were upon the line had been removed, but a vast quantity of produce was still upon the permanent way, and a great deal of debris from the shattered trucks re mained upon the embankments, though nearly 100 men have been at work all the morning. COUNTRY MARKETS. .~ ,a---- NEWARK--WEDNESDAY. Pastures are suffering very much through want of rain, indeed all vegetation would derive great bole& from moisture. White wheat new, 475 to 53s Red do. 44s to 48s Old white 55s to 60s Red do, 50s to 54s Barley, malting 38s to 41s Peas Barley, grinding 29s to 32s Oats, old, .. 2Bs to ~,31 ° New do 22s to 7 1; Beans. 38s to 4 r Beans, new 37s to 40$ ,Os to 445. LYNN- . A middling show of wheat demand for the best sample week. Barley dull. Oats 8( White ..50s to 52s Red .. 458 to 47s Beaus _s to —s New 36s to 38s 'UESDAY. at market to-day, with a firm es at fully the prices of last :Arco. Barley . 3ss to 358 grinding ...... 2Bs to 300 Oats .22s to 26s Peas .. —s to --0 HULL—TUESDAY. The wheat trade here during the week has been steady' To-day there was a very small supply of English wheat, which was taken off a t ra th er over last week's rates. In foreign less inquiry, at the late currency. Barley was not quotably lower. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 4Bs Od to 50s Od Old red 1) New white . • 7, 44s Od to 478 Od .. Barley.... English malting,, 32s Od to 388 Od Grinding 26s 6d to 28s Od Saal and Od er b ruck Holstein and Dani s h 2Bs Od to 29s Od Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od Oats English, old 26 s Od t o 28 8 Od 485 45 s 0 ° d d t t o o 475 53 ° O d d New red .. FrieslandArchge l a n a n d dit Dutchiga, per st oBl2ld to 13d Osl3d to 08131 d Swedish and Danish oBl2ld to 0813c1 Beans ....English, old, per qr . 455 Od to 46 s Od New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick. 4os Od to 428 Od Egyptian .. 338 Od to 34s Od Peas Foreign boilers .. ..... 36s Od t v 38 s Od Grinding 3ls Od tc 33s 6d Tares ... • Spring —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn 338 Od to 34s Od Linseed, feeding .................. 52s Od to 56s Od crushing ............. .4, .... 40s Od to 52s Od Linseed cakes (Hu11) ............ i 9 10 0 to SO 0 0 Foreign ............ 815 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes ...................... 6 5 oto 610 0 Bones .......................... 5 0 oto 510 0 COAL Prloes of Coal per Ton a AB.KET. the close of the market. e. d. Wylam l6 0 ratileld Moor 13 0 l'anfield Moor Butes 13 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting . 19 6 Walker Primrose 12 6 Holywell ..16 6 Walls End. a. d Walls End. Trimdon Hartlepool...l6 0 Ships at mark( Ha5we11........ 16 6 1 South Kelloe l5 6 Russel's Hetton 15 0 Hetton l6 6 Riddell South Hetton 16 6 Caradoc l5 6 Trimdon Thornley l4 0 Hartlepool 16 0 t, 24; 501d,.14. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s 4d. and 4s. "High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. Births. IlussEY.—On the 2d inst., at Scotney Castle, Sussex, the Hon. Mr s . H ussey, of twins, a son and daughter. NIcHoLS.— On the 2d inst,, at Mitcham, Surrey, Mrs. W. M. Nichols, of a son. RADSTOCK.—On the 3d inst., the Lady Radstock, of a daughter. WlLLis,—On the 3d inst., at Gleucester-gardens, Hyde park, the wife of Richard Willis, Esq., of a son. Marriages. DIITTON—SPRATT.—On the 2d inst., at St. Stephen's, Hammersmith, William Harry Dutton, eldest son of W. H. Dutton, Esq., of Elm Lodge, Turnharn-green to Elizabeth H. Spratt, the only d aug ht er of the late john Spratt, Esq. WISE—DISEROWE.—On the 2d inst., at Saint Michael's, Chester-square, Henry Christopher Wise, Esq., ofWood cote, Warwickshire, to Jane arriett, youngest daughter of the late Sir Edward CromwHell Disbrowe, G.C.U. Deaths. CONGREVE.—On the 2d inst., at 20, Cleveland-square Hyde-park, John Congreve, Esq., of Mount Congreve, co. Waterford, aged 63. COTGRAVE —On the Ist inst , at Hinton Abbey, near HDBcoaaatytrgh:or,aawEgieeldi.zaBsM.Mary Ann, wif e of Lieut.-Col. Thomas E. DAY. —O n the Ist inst at Shepherd's-bush, M r . William HILL. —On the 2d i ns t., M r. Henry F. Hill, of Greenhill, MIDDLETON.—On the Ist inst., at Brighton, the Rev, F. G. Middleton, rector of Mebstead, Hants, aged 61. MIIMFORD.—On the Ist inst., atHeath Close House, Dart ford-heath, Kent, Samuel Mumford, Esq., REID.—On th e 2d inst., at Bromley-common, Mr . Reid, l a t e o f th e Inland Revenue-office, Somet-house, aged 86. aged 72 John London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office, No. 112 , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County hit4tUeoex.—Thurodsh June 1,18"