The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-05 00:00:00

Nava 1 and ;elligence, We have received the following letter from Malta, dated July 31 :—" The Egyptian steam frigate Ibrahimia arrived on the evening of the 29th, from Marseilles, bound to Alexandria, but having found a telegram awaiting her, with orders to make the best of her way back to Marseilles, she left on the morning of the 30th, to receive on board, for conveying to Egypt, on his return from Europe, his Excellency Nubar Pasha, who for merly acted as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Viceroy. The Pelican arrived yesterday from Sun, with despatches." The first of the 100-pounder 61- smooth-bore guns has been received from the Royal gun factory for ironclad frigates Research, 4,200 horse power, and the Enterprise, 4, 160 horse power. The armament for the iron frigate Achilles, 1,250 horse power, which is to be furnished exclusively with the same description of gun, is daily expected at Chatham. Notwithstanding the disparaging statements which have been made as to the alleged smallness of the battery in the Research and the Enterprise, both these vessels now carry the largest gun of any ship in her Majesty's servi.3e, with, of course, the single exception of the Royal Sovereign, which is four times their size. Were the guns on board the Enter. prise and the R esearc h worked by oth er t h an manual labour not the slightest complaint would be raised as to the smallness of the batteries in each of those vessels. In the opinion of all officers whose views on the subject are worthy of consideration, the present mode of working large guns by the old system of tackles and handspikes is a disgrace to the age, and unless some simple and easily work able mechanical arrangement can be adopted for the monster 12-ton and 10-too 300-pounder and other g uns with whi c h i t i s intended to arm our future ironclad vessels of war, it is believed that the working of these guns will prove a practical im. possibility. In accordance with instructions to that effect received from the Admiralty, it was yesterday announced in the divisional orders of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines Light Infantry that by command of her Majesty, the names of two officers of the division—viz,, First Lieut. William Henry Nantes and First Lieut. Alfred Emanuel Otter, have been removed from the list of the offi cers of the Royal Marines. By direction of the Admiralty the whole of the officers were assembled by Col.-Commandant T. Lemon, C. 8., when the letter announcing the Admiralty orders was read, the letter intimating that her Majesty no longer re quired the services of Lieut. Nantes, and that Lieut. Otter has been allowed to resign his commission. The Recruit, iron paddlevessel, 590 tons, 160 horse power, was taken into No. 2 dock, Sheerness, on Tuesday last, for the purpose of ascertaining the results of experiments with the compositions to pre. vent fouling invented respectively by Mr Crispin, Mr Wilson, and Mr Hay. In November, 1863, the port side of the bottom of the Recruit was covered with Hay's composition, the starboard aft with Crispin's composition, and the starboard forward with Wilson's composition. The vessel was then taken into Sheerness harbour, where she has since been lying at anchor. The following results were disclosed on examination :—lt was found that the port side, which was covered with Hay's patent, and the starboard aft, which was coated with Crispin's composition, are both very foul, a large number of mussels, &c., closely adhering to the iron work. The forward starboard, which was covered with Wilson's composition, is, so far as fouling is con cerned, comparatively free, and in a far better state than the parts that have had the composition of the other two manufacturers applied to them, though it was evident that a slight corrosion of the bottom of the vessel had taken place. An official investiga tion will shortly take place, and in the interim the vessel remains as it came from the moorings for the examination of the parties interested- The authorities at Sheerness have been instructed to bring forward the Misletoe gunboat for the first class Sheerness Steam Reserve. The Clio, steam corvette, 1,472 tons, 400 horse power, Capt. N. E. B. Tumour, now lying at the Little Nore, was inspected by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.B. She will leave Sheerness to-day for the Pacific, where it is intended she shall relieve the Charybdis, steam corvette, 1,506 tons, 400 horse power, Capt. E. W. Tumour. The second company of Royal Engineers will be inspected at headquarters, Chatham, to-morrow, prior to their embarcatton for the Mauritius, which is expected to take place on an early date. The command of the company will at the same time be handed over by Capt. W. A. Frankland, to Cap R. M. F. Sandford. Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.B, who has assumed the command of the forces in the Chatham district, in succession to Major. Gen. H. Eyre has promulgated an order to the troops of the garrison, in which lie expresses a hope that the officers of the various branches of the ser. vice will cordially assist him in carrying out the duties of the service with that promptness which has hitherto been exhibited. Prior to relinquishing his command, Major-General Eyre assembled the field-officers and adjutants of the various corps, and expressed to them, collectively and individually, his thanks for the co-operation he had received from them during the period he had held the command of the garrison. The Philomel, screw gun vessel, Commander Wildman, has been ordered to be paid off at Ports- mouth. She came into the harbour yesterday to dismantle. She has been nearly four years in eom- mission. The Himalaya, troopship, Captain E. Lacy left Portsmouth yesterday evening for Dover, to embark troops for Dublin. The screw steam corvette Encounter, 14, Captain Roderick Dew, C. 8., was paid off at Devonport on Wednesday, by Admiral Superintendent T. M. C. Symonds, C.B. This ship was put in commission in September, 1859. On receipt of the despatches detailing the Pehio disaster, she, with several others, was ordered to assist in the intended expedition against Pekin, Captain Dew was selected for the Encounter in consequence of his knowledge of China. On arrival, early in 1860, hav ing convoyed to China the gunboats Snap and Bouncer, the Encounter was at once despatched as pioneer of the expedition. After the fall of the Taku Forts, Capt. Dew piloted the Carthage and the Gres nada, which had Lord Elgin and his staff on board, to Tien-tsin. On the subsequent advance of the army on Pekin, he was selected by Sir James Hope to explore the river. In the last fight at Pilakao his gig's crew turned the flank of the Tartar cavalry, who attempted to cross the river. During the re• maind , T of the campaign Capt. Dew commanded the flotilla of 400 boats on the upper waters of the Peiho. Tho Encounter was afterwards in Japan. Capt. Dew received the thanks of Earl Russell on the occasion of the English and French Ministers leaving and returning to Jeddo at the time of the murder of the United States' Secretary of Legation. As senior officer at Shanghai in 1861 he was again thanked by Earl Russell for the energy he displayed in protecting the property of the British merchants, In April, 1862, Capt. Dew was sent in command of an allied squadron to Ningpo, then occupied by 40,000 Ta e pi ng troops, who, emboldened by unex. petted success, had amused themselves by firing not only into the foreign settlement, but on our ships of war in the river. In spite of efforts to keep the peace a collision became inevitable, and on the occasion of an imperial fleet of war junks coming up the river, our vessels were fired into, and a volley of musketry descended on the d ec k s o f the Encounter. The cap ture of Ningpo against such overwhelming odds was characterised by Sir James Hope as ever done in China." "the b ea t t hi ng The Encounter ryas ordered subsequently to clear the 30 mile radius of the Taepings, and Capt. D ew ra i sed and drilled, with the Encounter's Marines, a disciplined force of Chinese, commanded by Europ eans. On the E ncoun ter's arrival at Ningpo that great city was occupied solely by the TaePing 9 ; trade wa s completely at a standstill, and the given up t o whole country was plunder. Order was reestablished by the joint English an d F r ench expedition. An urgent re. quest w as ma d e t o Capt. D ew that he should t a k e _ andmiiitary command. Captain Dew, Lieut. Davie, and Dr. Irwin are the only ward or gun room officers Who leftEngiaLd in and rctaznod is th 7) ship. Six officers and 34 men died from casualties or disease! The Encounter was detained a year by the troubled state of affairs in Japan. Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.8., Chief Commissioner of Police, yesterday made his annual Inspection of the dockyard and arsenal corps of police at Wool. with. The two divisions of the force, wearing their new tunics and helmets were mustered on their re spective parades before midday, in anticipation of the Chief Commissioner's arrival. The inspection of the dockyard force occupied about half an hour, after which the Fire Brigade stripped off th e i r clothing and made their appearance in an incredibly short time with the fire-engines equipped and hauled out, and a powerful supply of water ready for an emergeney, Sir Richard expressed to Super intendent Thompson his unqualified approbation of the discipline and appearance of the men, The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. Cashman to the Irresistible, for service in the Coastguard; Sub- Lieut. Philip J. Lucas to the Geyser; and Arthur Neste nominated to a naval cadetship. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YORK, July 22. To engage public attention, wearied with specu lating on the inactivity of General Grant, the Federal Administration has ordered a renewal of the attacks upon Fort Sumter and the city of Charleston. No one expects, however, that any result will ensue except the expenditure of shot and shell, the loss of a few hundred lives, and the demolition of portions of Sumter, which the Confederates will immediately reconstruct. Gen. Grant, it appears, has been goaded by the late raid of Gen. Early into Maryland to accomplish something of the same kind, and has sent forth an expedition under Gen. Sheri dan to the south and west of Petersburg and Rich mond, charged to do as much mischief as he can to railroads, bridges, stores, and generally to the farms and property of the " rebellious" people on his route. As he will find no troops to oppose his pro gress, he will doubtless afford the Northern Govern ment and press an opportunity to claim a " set off" against the late humiliating raid to the gates of Washington. Statements continue to be made, though generally upon insufficient and sometimes very roundabout authority, that Gen. Hunter whose original retreat from the Shenandoah Valley opened the door to the invaders, has faced round again, and recaptured considerable portions of the Confederate spoils on their way through the moun tains ; but beyond the seizure of one laggard convoy of grain there appears to be no truth in the reports. It is also asserted, though the Administration are said to feel no alarm upon the subject, that Gen. Lee and 50,000 men have left Richmond, and that Wash ington is no safer from capture than it was a fort night ago, when the invading force might have seized it as easily as they could have seized a farmer's house if they had but been aware of their opportu nity. Some believe, however, that Gen. Lee—if he has really left Richmond with so large a force—is bound for Atlanta, and not for Washington. If so, Gen. Sherman has found or will speedily find the great and decisive battlefield which he has travelled BO long a journey from Chattanooga to seek. The telegrams this morning report that having lne trenched himself between the Chattahoochie and Atalanta, he was assailed on Wednesday, the 29th, by Gen. Johnston in three several onsets, in each of which the Confederates were repulsed with heavy loss ; and that, on the following day, Sherman made a movement to the left on the railroad to De catur, and thus cut eff Johnston's communicatiors with Richmond. If Gen. Lee be not hastening to his aid, and Johnston's army be as small as reported, not above a third of that of Sherman's, the Confe derate position is a critical one; and Johnston must abandon Atalanta to save his legions, and retreat upon Macon, without the possession of which by the Federals their occupation of Atlanta will be but of little value. If the Northern public have not, however, been gratified by this or any other of the long promised victories that were all to become due about this time they have been mystified or amused, according to their capacity or humour, by the publication of a remarkable correspondence between several Confe derate gentlemen who had assembled on the free and safe side of Niagara Falls (the Clifton House, Canada), Mr Horace Greeley, and the President of the United States. Tne Confederate gentlemen, Messrs. Clay of Alabama, Jacob Thomson of Missis sippi, Professor Holcombe of Virginia, and Mr. G. N. Sanders, styling himself of Dixie, desirous to stop the effusion of blood, and having a general but no special mission from the Southern President, laid their plans to engage Mr Lincoln in a correspond ence with them, which, whatever might be his opinion on the great question of war or peace, would, if he expressed it, damage him in the estima tion either of his own party or of the Democratic Opposition, if it did not aid in defeating him at the November election. Casting about for an instru ment, chance threw in their way a Mr. Cornell Jewett, a friend of peace and an acquaintance and correspondent, if not a friend, of Mr Horace Greeley, who was rusticating quietly on the American side of the Cataract, but free to pass to and fro, as the Confederate agents were not. Mr. Jewett, like a good patriot and blessed peacemaker, undertook to open the correspondence with Mr. Greeley, the first result of which was that Mr. Sanders and his col leagues offered to proceed to 'Washington to debate on the terms of peace between South and North, if they could have " complete and unqualified protec tion" from the President and the Secretary of War on the way to and from the capital, and during their stay. Mr, Greeley replied five days afterwards, having consulted the President in the interval, and stated that, " if they were duly accredited from Richmond as the bearers of propositions for peace," I he was authorised by the President to tender them safe conduct on the journey, and that he himsel would accompany them at the earliest moment that would be agreeable to them. The Confederate de. legation, having no special mission, replied on the following day—the 18th of duly—that they were not accredited as bearers of propositions for peace, but were in the confidential employment of the Confederate Government, were entirely familiar with its wishes and opinions, and that if the corre spondence that had already taken place could be made known at Richmond they would at once be clothed with the full powers which Mr. Lincoln seemed to imagine they already possessed. Mr, Greeley, nonplussed at this turn of affairs, tele graphed to Washington for further instructions. Mr. Lincoln sent them on the 19th by his private secretary, Major Hay, who on arrival at Niagara on the 20th handed to Mr. Greeley for transmission to the Confederate agents the following letter, which will, no doubt, take a conspicuous place in the his tory of the time : "Executive Mansion, Washington, July 18, 1861. "To whom it may concern—. " Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Govern ment of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on substantial and collateral points, and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN." In other words, Mr. Lincoln declined the nego. tiation, even if the emissaries were duly accredited to him by Mr. Jefferson Davis, unless upon such terms as he knew it was impossible for the Confede rate Government to accept—terms, moreover, that are not warranted by the Constitution which leaves to the s2parae States of the Union, in their local self-government, the sole right of abolishing slavery. He has thus declared that while he is President there shall not be peice, except by the uttersubjugation or unqualified submission of the South. He has thrown over all his old scruples on the slavery question— that awful question which in Louisiana has resolved itself into the virtual reaenslavernent of the freed negroes as a better alternative for that unhappy race than idleness, pauperism, disease, and death; de clared authoritatively, for the first time, that the Con stitutio❑ of the United States was as dead and de funct as George Washington, and that he (Mr. Lin coln) was the sole successor to its authority. The wily Confederates gained their poirfc. They set a trap for the bird and caught it with unexpected celerity. \lr. Lincoln's thoughts flucl those of the public travel in different ways. Other men's wishes may incline to peace, but not those of the President. The majority of the people may yearn for the resto ration of the Union under which they flourished as no nation ever flourished before, but Mr. Lincoln will have no Union that is not accompanied by the compulsory emancipation of an helpless and igno rant people, though he knows full well that eman•' cipation in the North, of which the North is now so proud, was neither sudden nor compulsory, nor due in any shape or degree to the action of the Federal Government, but wholly to the force of public opinion in the several States acting upon the Legislature, which dealt with the subject in the cautious and tentative manner which its vast portance demanded. But, although Mr. Lincoln has thus taken his stand in favour of a revolution which shall consoli• date the Union by force of arms, and by abrogation of the social compact which alone held the States together, and which forms the only lewd bond of cohesion between New York, Pennsylvania, and New England, at this moment the indications of the progress of the peace party are so many, and come from such different and such unconnected quarters, that it is impossible to misinterpret them. The Democrats, who, up to the murderous failures of General Grant's present campaign, were loud in their cries for the vigorous prosecution of the war, but still louder in their denunciation of all the pos• Bible means by which their alleged purpose could be carried into effect, have become peaceful and con sistent, They have veered round to the opinions of the other and more logical section of their party, who hold that the war is not only unfortunate in conduct, bat wrong in principle, and that it never can restore the Union, which is still the object of so much love and so many hopes. Even the Republicans are divided in sentiment, although Mr. Lincoln's letter " to all whom it may concern," may strengthen the adhesion to his cause of the Abolitionist branch of the party. Hie call for 500,000 men to carry on the war for another twelvemonth has disabused most people of the idea that the South could be reduced to obedience within the limits which they believed practicable when Grant crossed the Rapidan, and Sherman began his march to Atlanta. Rather suffer hostilities to drag on for another Presidential term, see the debt accu mulate at the rate of a thousand millions per annum, and the flower of the youth and manhood of 20 once prosperous and happy States driven to the shambles of Virginia, under such adepts at slaughter as General Grant, they are ready to submit at the 11th hour to that constitutional mode of meeting the difficulty which ought to have been adopted at the first—namely, a general convention of the peo ple of North and South to decide whether Union be either practicable or desiraLle. The Chicago Convention, which is to meet in September, will show what form and magnitude this idea has assumed. Out of 48 delegates already elected to that body only 6 are known to be for the prosecu tion of the war, without a preliminary offer to the South of terms of peace ; while the remaining 42 are for an armistice and a general Convention, which shall either make a more perfect Union or consent to a separation without further bloodshed. By the time the delegates meet at Chicago a candidate for the Presidency will be found to stand upon this "platform," In the meanwhile every defeat of the Northern armies in the field, every humiliation of the Government at Washington, every attempt to enforce the conscription, every rise in the premium on gold, and increase in the price of the necessaries of life, will give this growing party new power over the sympathies of the multitude and diminish the chances of Mr Lincoln's election. The manifesto of a large section of the Democratic members of the lower House, drawn up by Mr Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, and signed by him and 42 other representatives of the people, as a bid for peace, which though it does not in terms admit that the rupture between South and North is final, clearly foreshadows the ultimate acceptance of that issue by the signers, if a general convention of the people should fail to agree to a reconstruction. A similar, though more forcibly worded, appeal of the Central Committee of the German democracy, promulgated yesterday, points the same way, declares that the war cannot last for ever, that it may go on for years, until both parties are exhausted, when foreign Powers will intervene and compel pease on conditions that might not be so palatable to either as if the peace was of their own seeking; and calls upon the North as the stronger party to make the first movement towards reconciliation. The Roman Catholic hierarchy are all for peace, and it is probable that the Irish peace party (it sounds like a misnomer) will, in view of the draught and the debt, the taxatio❑ and the high prices, follow the lead of their spiritual advisers, and declare themselves as the German democracy have done in favour of the cessation of bloodshed. Several candidates are spoken of as the nominees of Chicago —among others, Governor Horatio Seymour of Connecticut, whose name would be a :over of strength, Mr. Vallandigam, Senator Wall of New Jersey, one of the ablest 'writers, lawyers, and statesman of the party, and General M'Clellan. Were the last-named to adopt the platform, and to declare for " Union," if Union were passible, without further bloodshed—but with or without Union to insist upon " Liberty "—it is probable that all other candidates would yield to his su perior popularity, and that the United Democrats, with his name to represent their cause,would achieve an easy victory over the disunited Republicans, scattering their votes between Mr. Lincoln and General Fremont, if not between those two gentle men and Mr. Chase. General M'Clellan is prudent. He makes the first step secure before he takes the second; and has not committed himself so greatly on the question of the vigorous prosecution of the war as not to be able to adopt the policy of a vigorous prosecution of peace, should he finally con • sent to become the nominee of what promises to be the great majority of the Democratic party. Europe need not, and perhaps will not, be surprised if the best soldier of the North should ultimately become the champion of peace, allowing the South the inde- pendence which it is suicidal as well as useless to dispute, and drawing his sword, if he have occasion to draw it at all, in defence of those principles o. Republican liberty which found their embodiment in the violated Constitution of the United States. The task may be difficult, but not even a soldier can deny that it will be glorious. The new draught is very unpopular, and would be dangerously so if any large bodies of the working classes believed that it would ever be enforced. The philosophic, religious, and (it may be added, as far as this war is concerned, the) bloodthirsty State of Massachusetts, despairing of raising her quota at home, has addressed a mission to the Border and such Southern States as are held by Federal troops to enlist the runaway and freed negroes to serve instead of such white men of Massachusetts as are willing to pay, but obstinately unwilling to fight. New York is about to imitate her example, though. the Governor declines to recommend it, and, as it is generally admitted that the negroes, if well led, make brave soldiers, it is likely, if the funds be forthcoming to pay the bounties, that 30,000 or 40,000 black recruits may be placed at the service of Mr. Lincoln before the winter, even without any positive enforcement of the draught. Whatever may be said or thought in the outer world of the decency or the humanity of Americans who hire negroes to do the work of battle, which they are too busy, too indisposed, or too lukewarm in the cause to do for themselves, there is one favourable circumstance connected with the new draught which merits and whl receive unqualified approval. The Provost- Marshal General (Mr Fry), in his instructions and regulations to all concerned about the measure, ex pressly declares that "no premiums whatever for the procuration of recruits will hereafter be paid by the United States.' This will put a stop to the crimping system, and ruin the trade of the mer cenary scoundrels who go to Ireland, ostensibly to procure railway labourers, but in reality to enlist soldiers—for whom they were up to this time paid by the Federal Government at the rate of 20 dols. a head. It will also spoiltho business of the enter- prising travellers on board of emigrant ships, British or American, who relieve the tedium of the Atlantic passage by inducing their companions to enrol themselves among the brave defenders "of the best Government that ever existed on the !lice of the earth," and to fit ht fora caue of which, for thb THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1864: most part, they know nothing, except that it offers high bounties and good:pay. Perhaps the Federal Government, which treated the remonstrances of Lord Lyons on this subject with such supercilious disregard, has discovered the inconvenience and im policy, not to say the danger of longer persistence in a systom that has led to so much cruelty and in justice, and to such well-founded complaint on the part of Great Britain and other foreign Powers. At all events, it has to be congratulated at having seen, though tardily, the error of its ways, and at having ceased to be, through its venal unprincipled agents, the greatest kidnapper in the world, the King of Dahomey perhaps excepted. Cotton Supply Association, At the usual weekly meeting of the Executive Committee, held on Tuesday, August 2, a letter was read from Durban, Natal, enclosing two fine samples of Sea Island cotton, valued at 4s. and ss. per lb. respectively. This description of cotton is said to succeed well, and seems better adapted to the climate than any other. When planted in a choco late sand found there it is very prolific. The writer had some which he expected to begin to pick about the middle of June. The unusually stormy weather which had been experienced had done considerable damage to the crop, but was not likely to discourage planters from increasing the production of cotton. A letter received from Gibraltar represents the cot ton in Barbary to be looking well, and that picking will commence towards the end of this month. The Moors are beginning to sow cotton in;quantities,and seed had been liberally distributed. A letter was read from St. Thomas's, West Indies, stating that the young trees and the cotton crops generally are looking unusually healthy, and growing fast. Some Sea Island and Egyptian cotton, grown from seed supplied by the association, has been sold in Liver pool at 42d. and 39d. per lb. respectively. The writer states that his crop so far has covered all the expenses incurred in production, and that if the American war continuos there will be a large mar• gin for profit. A letter was received advising the shipment of two bales of cotton from St. Thomas's to the association for sale, and enclosing a commu nication from Yanko, Port Rico, stating that a quan tity has been forwarded as a specimen of the pro duce of the country. A fine sample of cotton grown in Antigua from New Orleans seed was received through the Board of Trade from the Governor of that island, together with a despatch stating that the cotton was grown under unfavour able circumstances, as from the period of planting, three months back, up to the time it was picked no rain had fallen. The Governor is anxious that the cotton grown in the island shall be fairly tested, in order that if it promise to be remunerative the many estates now lying waste may be placed under cultivation. A letter was read from Upolu, one of the Navigator Islands, enclosing a sample of cotton, and stating that the writer is about to enter into the cultivation, and has obtained land for the purpose, both on the seacoast and inland, which he antici pates will cost from £lO to £l5 per acre to clean and plant the first crop. He expects to obtain adequate labour from the natives, and his request to be supplied with seed and a gin, to be paid for out of the produce, was granted. A report was received from the Colonial-office, which has been forwarded by the Governor of the Gamble, stating the results of Staff Assistant-Surgeon Harvey's mission to the Upper River, and containing valuable information respecting the trade of that district. He remarks that he observed on his route several large inclosures with fair crops of cotton, and that on approaching Medina, the capital of the kingdom of Woolli, a large town in the centre of an extensive, well cleared plain, he passed some large patches of cotton. In answer to his inquiries at Medina respecting cotton, the people stated that, if wanted, they could bring plenty to market, and he thinks it could be obtained in large quantities and without difficulty. The ground nut requires a considerable quantity of rain, cotton, on the contrary, but little, and under the circumstances of an insufficient rainfall (as that of last year) might, be thinks, be made to supple ment any deficiency in the former. The difference between the price at present paid by the trader to the native producer and the price of cotton in Bathurst loaves but a small margia for profit, but he has no doubt that an increased and steady demand would load to increased cultivation and its production at a much lower rate than that at pre sent paid by the traders, which, of course, would allow a larger profit, even supposing the present low price in Bathurst to be the market price. The treaty which Dr. Harvey has negotiated with the King of Woolii will enable traders, with perfect safety both to their lives and property, to establish depots at Medina, as well as other large towns throughout the whole of the territory under the authority of the King, who has an earnest desire for friendship and trade w:th English merchants. A despatch forwarded by the Foreign-office was re ceived from the Acting Consul-General at Tabreez, reporting that the high p r i ces o f co t ton in E uro p e have given a great impulse to its production in his Consular district, and that a considerable quantity has, consequently, been exported to Europe in 1863-81. The total amount may be estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000 bales of 1601 b. each. Nearly double that quantity was exported to Russia via Tiflis and the Caspian Sea. Despatches forwarded by the India-office were received from the Govern merit of Madras, relative to the cultivation of Peru vian cotton in the South Arcot and Kistna districts of that Presidency, togeth er w i t h var i o us samples of the cotton grown. Th e P eruv i an plants stand the sun well, and the result of close observation is that, if they were properly watered, they would be far more remunerative than the indigenous variety, and that they are admirably adapted for general introduction into Southern India. The staple is fine and long, and the cotton commands a high price, ranking, it is said, next to Sea Island. The yield is represented to have been at the rate of , 5601 b. of clean cotton per tawny, equal to an acre and a quarter. The plants do not seem to require , a period of repose, as before one crop has been fully collected blossoms shoot out in every direction. Details are supplied of experiments with Peruvian Egyptian, and Sea Island seed, made by Messrs. Reese and Gibbs, who have incurred considerable expenditure to give full effect to their efforts, and have readily imparted to others the benefit of their experience and knowledge. Reports, also forwarded by the India-office, were received on the agricultural exhibitions held in the districts of Tinnevelly and Nellore, in the months of March and April last. At the first named the American saw-gin was exhibited at work to the peopl e . It c l eans the cotton beautifully, but tears the fibre, a n d, h owever we ll adapted to foreign kinds, will not d o f or the shor t staple indigenous cotton of Tin neve ll y. At t h e Ne llore Exhibition Mr. Smith, o f N abobpet, came f or ward again with New Orlean s cotton, from seed raised in the cou ntry. What he exhibi te d was far beyond anything el se on the gr oun d , and won the f i rst prize, The collec tor remark s t hat i t would be we ll to wait for a y ear or two b e f ore coming to any conc lusion as to wheth er New Orlea ns an d other fore i gn species degene ra t e or not. Th e y i eld of cotto n without Ir rigatio n i s represent e d to have been at t h e rate of 15U lb pe r acre; b u t w h ere irrigation was employed on ce i n eight day s t h e y i eld was at th e rate of 250 lb p er acre. The Dh arwar saw giu was w orke d and at tracted great attention. The leading merchants in the cotton trade expressed the opinion that the work was good, but that there was considerable wa s t e , and their conclusion was that the breadth of cotton cultivation in the district did not make it worth the ryot's while to incur the loss for the sake of the economy in time and labour. A letter was read from the President of the Italian Royal Commission, Turin, advising the despatch of a silver medal, in acknowledgment of if t h e eminent service to the Royal Commission " rendered by the association, " both in furnishing: counsel and material assist ance." [ADVERTISEMENT.]— _Holloway's Pills,—lmpaired Con stitutions.—The infirm are unfortunately the most prone to become the victims t., dangerous maladies unless the purity of the blood a n d f un ctional regularity of th e vital organs be carefully g uar d e d. Holloway's Pill s can b e re commended with the m oa t truthful earnestnes s as the best purifiers, alleviative s , : en d aperients when naturally weak or acc i d en t a lly the body i s disordered. They never create disgust, and do a of cause the weakness and oppres sion too often consequen t on the frequent repetition of the ordinary drastic drags v rhich are sometimes thoughtlessly though most disastrous) y prescribed. These Pills, in truth, carefully guard the cons tituenta of the animal frame, they enrich the blood when p Dor in qualify, they increase that fluid wlieu deficient in q tiantity, and always trcriatlaelt. Lord Stanley on Commercial Affairs. LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The half-yearly meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday afternoon. Mr. Grainger presided, and there were present Lord Stanley, Mr T. B. Horsfall, M.P., Messrs. Hey worth, Macfie, &c. Letters of apology for non-attendance were read from Mr J. C. Ewart, M.P., Mr Bramley Moore, 111,P., and the Mayor of Liverpocl. The report, which detailed operations of the council of the Chamber upon most of the commercial questions which have arisen during the past half-year, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said that in deference to the Chamber the Council had studiously avoided all party questions, though not avoiding those coming within the range of poli tical economy, drawing the line as nearly as possible be tween where theory was likely to become practice, and where it remained theory only. Mr HORSFALL moved the adoption of the report. He said there were several subjects mentioned therein to which he should feel it his duty to refer. He rejoiced much that the Board of Trade was negotiating a treaty with Peru. If the Board of Trade communicated more frequently with the mercantile interests, the treaties adopted and sanc tioned by Government would be much more beneficial to the country, and the Board of Trade would be enabled to obtain that practical information which would be invaluable to them in negotiating these treaties, With reference to the consolidation of Customs and Inland Revenue establish ments a deputation had waited on Lord Palmerston, and after a long delay he (Mr Horsfall) had learnt from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that Government did not see their way clear to the granting of a commission as sought by this chamber. They were, however, convinced that the consolidation Customs and Inland Revenue was founded on true principles, and he was sure the time was not far dis tant when it would be accomplished. He then referred to the present inaccuracy of the Customs and Inland Revenue returns made to Parliament, and quoted instances. With reference to the bill for the collection of taxes, he had sup ported it until the introduction of a clause providing that London should be exempted from the restrictions placed on other towns. After that he opposed it strongly before com mittee, but was defeated. When the bill came on for third reading he opposed it again and the house rejected it. With out the objectionable clause he thought the bill was a very beneficial one. With reference to the Railway Companies' Powers Bill he supported the views of the chamber, though opposed to those of Lord Stanley. MK Horsfall proceeded to detail his action in regard to the Partnerships Bill. With respect to the rates of railwaycarriage to and from Liverpool he explained the difficulties he had had to encounter in ob• taining returns desired by this chamber of the rates charged by each railway company. He fist gave notice two sessions ago, but only tour companies furnished the returns. He had repeated the order forthwith with a similar result, and then on the 7th June last gave a final notice that they be fur nished by the r uesday next following. At the last moment came the draught of a petition against the order by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. His turn for moving the returns did not come on until half-past 2 o'clock, and while the vice-chairman of the board of directors of the London and North-Western Railway was replying, Mr Bramley Moore and the railway directors had the house counted out. This Chamber simply wanted to be satisfied that in the charges for carriage to and from Liverpool all the companies charged uniform rates and showed no partiality. As their representative, he should still take any one of the courses open before him to obtain the returns that the Chamber might think necessary. After some general reference to the prosperity of the country Mr Horsfall concluded by moving the adoption of the report. Mr HEYWORTII seconded the motion, and drew atten tion to the action of the Chamber in regard to the customs duties in India, upon which the council reported as fol lows :—" The Chamber was informed in the annual report Presented in February last that a committee has been ap pointed to consider the question of these duties. The com mittee to which the question was referred were unable at that time to prJsecuto the inquiry without authoritative publications of the tariffs of India, which could not be pro cured in any of the official quarters. The committee hav ing since had before them all the official information ob tainable on the subject, your Council are enabled now to acquaint you that the Customs duties now ; levied in India appear to be framed for the purpose of revenue only, and do not injuriously affect the commerce of this country, without producing any corresponding benefit to the Indian Exchequer. Your council, observing with pleasure that within the last three years these duties had been largely re duced, and hoping that the growing prosperity of the Indian Exchequer would at no distant time enable the Govern ment to remove them altogether, regret to learn that in May last the scale of valuations on which the duties are calcu lated has been considerably raised, and the pressure of many of these duties thereby increased." Objections were taken to the concluding part of the third paragraph, as pledging the council to a statement of fact, without sufficient grounds thereon. After some discussion the report was adopted with only two dissentients. Lord STANLEY, on rising, was received with cheers—He said that he had not had the honour of being in that room before, but he sincerely hoped this would not be the last time. He had attended with the intention of being a listener only, but if any remarks of his could be of service ho thught there would be more presumption in refusing to speak than in offering them. Three or four subjects had been alluded to bearing on certain questions with which he had had offi daily to deal. He meant those which had reference to India. First, with reference to the question of Customs duties, on which the discussion had taken place. Perhaps it might do something to settle the difficulty if he said that to his mind the passage referred to, although the words might appear ambiguous, did not express any opinion that the Cus toms did not affect the commerce of the country. The pro position contained in the report was this, that they did not unjustly affect it; meaning that they did inflict a certain amount of injury, but that it was an i❑jury inevitable, and which was inflicted simply because it was necessary for the revenue, and therefore for the good government of India. Mr Heyworth, in advocating the repeal of these Customs duties, did not go into the more difficult question of wha was the tax that could be substi,uted for these duties with out an accompanying injury to those who paid it. He did not suppose any tax could be a pleasant thing for both high and low. The millennium of no Custom - houses and 20 per cent, off the property tax was, he th tight, so distant as not to be within the reach of political prophecy. These Customs duties were not very high, nominally 3 per cent., and much less in reality ; but they were open to this objection, that they gave a certain protection to the native as against the English manufacturer. This was, of course, objec tionable on principle; but that, as against our command of capital and skilled labour, had not rendered the native com petition very formidable. However, he apprehended that every English financier would be of opinion that as soon as these duties could be got rid of they ought to be. The question was, how soon could this be done. There was one claim which Indian financiers considered to be a prior claim on our resources, and that was the Indian income tax, because, difficult as the income tax was to collect under schedule D in this country, the difficulty was tenfold in creased when they came to deal with native merchants and traders. It was feared, when first proposed, that it would meet with great opposition. They did not oppose it, but he fancied they evaded it to a pretty considerable extent. Laughter.) Also because it was imposed in the first instance only for a limited time, and from the strong ex pressions of opinion that it would not require to be renewed, the income tax had the first claim upon the Indian Ex chequer. If the state of finance should allow it, these Customs duties had the next strongest claims for repeal. The question really depended upon whether they remained at peace, and in an Oriental country it was utterly im possible to speak with ordinary safety, but they never had an abler Governor-General, and never had a Calcutta Administration mere thoroughly peaceable in its inten tions, and with a more fixed determination not to carry out that policy of annexation so much discussed 15 years ago. (Hear, and cheers.) They never had more profound tran quillity or better prospects for the future than they had at present. The experience of the last few years had shown that the revenues of Irdia were considerably more elastic than it used to be common to think they were. Another Indian topic, as he understoood the report of the council, was that of Indian currency. It did not go into the per plexing question of a double currency, but simply proposed to make gold a legal tender to a limited amount as silver was in England. It was not a question upon which he would like to pledge himself, but as at present advised, he failed to see any objeotion to such a measure as one that might be safely adopted. As to proposed new dues at Singapore, ho knew there had been two opinions on that question, bat on the whole he was inclined to think that the view which the Chamber took (that of supporting the dues) was correct. Those dues were no departure from the principle of free trade. As to the desirability of reforming the courts of justice at Rangoon, he fully supported the views of the Chamber. It was a country for which he be lieved there was a very great future, He had long looked further to the time when all that large territory lying east of Calcutta should-be constituted into a more independent Government, and separate Lieutenant-Governor. It would he believed remove many causes of complaint. In passing ou to the question of the consolidation of Customs, ho did not wish to pronounce a positive opinion. He thought clearly that Mr Horsfall had so fairly drawn the battle, and he certainly thought it reasonable and requisite that the matter should be tried over again. At the same time he thought they might carry consolidation too far. He was assured it had not answered as was expected in the case of the War Department. He now came to the question upon which he had the misfortune to differ with the Chamber, and with Mr Horstall--that was the question whether rail- way companies should be allowed to become owners of steam vessels. He wished to say that at present there was no absolute prohibition, but it was left to the Select Com mittee to exercise their discretion on the understanding that they stated the reason upon which such privileges were granted. This, however, had become a mere matter of form. He thought that railway companies should be allowed tho privilege—if they could run vessels cheaper than other parties the public would be the gainers, and if they could not they would not try. (Hear.) With reference to the question of a cheaper local postage, he was inclined to doubt the expeaiency of the proceeding. They should rather seek inercazcd facilities of postage, but not interfero with the established rate, which, he thought, was low enough. He heartily approved of a Liverpool testimonial to Sir Rowland Hill, His lordship next referred to the Lord Chancellor's County Court Bill, which, he thought, was a subject for grave deliberation, They had to consider, on the one hand, whether the removal of the punishment of imprisonment for fraudulent debtors was de sirable, and, on the other hand, whether too much power was not left in the hands of the county court judges, With regard to the petty charges of customs he cordially agreed with the chamber. With respect to the adoption of a deci mal coinage and of a decimal system of weights and mea sures, he thought that while the former was easily enforce able by Government, the second was not, and that it would take a long period and much inconvenience before it could be established. In France it took 50 years. He had sup ported a scheme for decimal coinage, but was afraid that if they brought the question before the house they would find themselves in a woeful minority. He had been requested to say a few words with regard to the law of Patents—a very proper question to engage the attention of a Chamber of Commerce. They were possibly aware that a Royal Com mission was issued two years ago. He was chair man of that commission. The report was signed, and would shortly be in print, He would not go into detail on an unpublished document; but what they had done was briefly this. They had proposed modifications in the law with a view to lessen the inconvenience to manufacturers and persons engaged in business. We could do something to diminish the extraor dinary cost and delay incurred by those in fighting patent cases ; but he was bound to state that, having considered the subject most carefully for two years, he was satisfied, so far as he was personally concerned, that the chief objections to the patent law were not remediable by any change in the details of the law. They aro the price which the public pays for rewarding inventors. Might not a time be coming when some other mode of rewarding inventors could be substituted for that at present in existence ? It only re ruined for him to congratulate them upon having tided over the difficulties of the American war, and upon the in creasing trade and prosperity of this town. The noble lord returned his seat amid applause. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Tieres.—As Rime of the London theatres, which used to take as their " season" so many months of the summer or winter, now use the same name t o signify any term for which they are c on t inuous ly open, be it ~whole year round or longer, so must w e now oegin to extend in our imaginations the period during which Parliamentary orators favour the country with their remarks, and keep us in expecta tion of hearing something interesting or profound. The speech-making season is now from the first of January to the last of December. The penalty of reputation must be paid by never-ending display. Happily for the leading men in Parliament, the art of addressing an audience in decent language on general subjects is acquired so thoroughly that they never need be at a loss to fill up half en hour after dinner. They have only to go through the familiar topics of the day till they haveexhausted them, and then if it comes to the worst they can begin them again. Were it not so—were these discourses at tended with much effort, it is hardly possible that statesmen and members of Parliament should be ready for them as soon as the Session is over. Yet, as the legislative work of the country becomes harder every year, so there seems an increasing tendency to seek recreation by treating the same subjects over again all through the country, and, Es it were, chewing the cud of the Session during the autumn months. First of all, of course, comes Lord Palmerston. The Premier, one would think, de serves a little rest. He has just finished a session of six months. It did not produce any great monu ment of legislation, but the labours of Parliamen tary life are quite independent of the ma g nitud e o f the subjects on which they ere employed. There is always an immense mass of business to be transacted, of petty and yet necessary details to be supervised ; tne First Minister of the country has to manage men as well as to devise measures, and the House of Com mons is not now the docile assembly that it was in the days when to talk of independence and conscien tious votes was to gain the reputation of a knave and not of a philosopher. With a small majority, doubt. ful a month ago, end a vigorous Opposition in face of him, Lord Palmerston's whole energies must have been tried during the session that is past. He has, moreover, been engaged in conducting one of the most wearisome and ungrateful negotiations that ever fell to the lot of an English Minister. The policy of his Government has been violently attacked by his op ponents, and coldly defended by his friends. One might presume that the end of July would find him desirous to enjoy his well-earned repose, to fly with alarm from any two or three gentlemen who looked like a deputation, and to be relentless in dis appointing any assembly that expected a speech. A few years since a Minister might have aSSQ med that a part of his time, at least, was his own. But in the present day it seems that a public man is never to lose his publicity. The country is becoming almost American in its exactions from celebrities of all kinds, and most of ail from the political. Inces sant representation must be the lot of the man who has gained such a name as to make people de sirous to see and hear him. The public man now knows that he must be showing himself every where, and speaking about something or other almost as often as he snows himself. Both Ministers and Opposition are always on the platform, in the City or in the provinces, holding forth, now in some great Town-hall, now in the inn of an obscure vil lage, en art, or agriculture, or politics, or the Church, on shmetbing which gives them an opportunity of showing themselves in the flesh to their country men, and gratifying the curiosity of an intelligent public. On Monday, for instance, her Majesty's Ministers began the pose-Parliamentary Session by accepting the Fishmongers' invitation. The weary statesmen who had been disputing with Bismark and Beust for half a year had within two days after the close of the Session to go down to Lon don-bridge and respond to the compliments of the Prime Warden on their character and policy. It was certainly satisfactory to receive his congratu. Wiens, and to know that the Fishmongers still re, tain the liberal opinions for which they have been distinguished. But the hospitality of the great City Company is but the beginning of something that will last until it is time for Parliament to meet again. Nor does the banquet fail to give some pre• figurement of the style of oratory which will pre• veil from the present time to February next. The Prime Warden was glowing in his praises of the Premier; declared that the House of Commons had pronounced a verdict in his favour which had been unanimously endorsed by the country, and that however great the complications in which the nation might be placed, it reposed the most entire confidence in, his consummate statesmanship. Lord Palmerston responded in a similar spirit, and returned the com pliments of the Company in the happiest manner ; but the toast of the " the House of Lords" called up Lord Russell, and then the Fishmongers, of course, heard all about Lord Grey, the Reform Bill, the Test and Corporation Acts, and civil and religious liberty. We have scarcely time, however, to think that the Ministry must be tired of political speaking west and east of Temple-bar, before Lord Palmerston is heard of again from another part of England, where he makes a speech on the advantages of steam travel ling, and the contrast of the goods train of to-day with the waggon of the last generation, and the improvement which springs from the constant com munication between the provinces and th e capital. In a few days he will be speaking at Bradfora, and this strain of oratory wf.ll be kept up until the seri• ous business of the nation begins once more. Toe Opposition will not be behind hand. Lord John Manners begins the season by a speech on agricul ture at Market Harborongh, Lord Stanley speaks at the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, and before long they will be followed by every member of their party of sufficient importance to command an audience. Whatever may bathe value of iudividual addresses, there is no doubt that it doe s " link classes together " to have the chief men in Parlia ment thus brought f a ce to face with popular audiences, and givin g a s hare of their attention to those whom the French would call provincials. If the politicians of the country go c ircuit almost as regularly as the judges, the result cannot i but be to diffuse political knowledge and an interest n the welfare of the State. But the public ought certainly to be much obliged to the eminent persons who thus sacrifice time and convenience for their benefit. What a Prime Minister's holyday is in the present day we are not able to make out, and two or three of his colleagues are alm est equally unrelaxing in their work. The ordi nar y work of Parliament is of itself sufficiently e xhausting, the incessant attention which the great machine of State requires is known only to those who are concerned in its manage ment, and we are sometimes inclined to think that the human machine is hardly and wastefully dealt with when it is subjected to the additional strain of provincial oratory. HERALD.—Tne Danish Rigsraad has received the announcemeMt that preliminaries of peace have been signed, with a silence which it protests must not be regarded as satisfaction. Conscious that the nation lay at the mercy of its enemies, convinced that only the absolute abandonment of a third of its territory would save t h e D anish monarchy from total extinction, the members of the Rigsraad must, indeed, forbear from c ensur i ng the Mi n i sters who have put their hands t o thi s d egra d at i on o f their country to the condition of a fifth-rate state ; but they cannot, in th e i r gr i ef and indignat i on , render fulljustice to the difficult position in which those Ministers found t h emselves, and they w ill n ot even seem to approve the transaction which destroys Denmark as a European power. No true-hearted Dane will be a bl e to f i nd any con solation in this peac9 of Vienna. A people proud of history, proud of the gre a t part i t has playe d i n Europe , conscious that in no degree has it fallen from Its ancient virtues, and assured by the whole of Europe tha its cause was a j ust one, cannot be consoled for its relegation to a role utterly unimportant in the great European tragi-comedy by the insulting p romise . that its insignificance will save it from th e neces sity of paying taxes to keep up an army and navy, and the mocking assurance of the sympathie s of the nations who are mainly responsible for all th e cala mities it mourns. The King of Denmark ma y be satisfied•—he still has a throne to which he has now no moral and hardly any legal right, and of which. fifteen years ago he would not have ventured in his most sanguine moods to dream. Holstein, Schleswig and Lauenburg are gone; he has signed them away, but he is still a King, instead of a y oun g er brother of a younger branch of a younger house. That he should hale had to commence hi s rei g n by such a division of his kingdom is ind eed hie misfortune and not his fault; but the Danes mei well curse the honr when, in reliance upon the enegements of the European Powers, they altered their law of successio n . Better far would it have been for them if they had r efused to believe n the i promises of England—the principal agent %ul the negotiation of that treaty of 1852 over the violation of which Lord Palmerston, its author, new jokes the o pleasantly. They were told that by repeal in g th Lex Re :a and electing to their throne a rocs without the slightest claims to it they wou ld insure the undisputed union of all parts of the monarchl after the extinction of the male descendants of Fre de rick HI. And very much against their will they did so. Their rewar d i s . t h a t they a re saddled with a Sovereign f or w h om , h owever est imable he me be, they c a r e littl e ; l ose a l toget h er provinces will' have formed part of the Danish monarchy form ere than five hundred y ears; h ave sac rificed the flowsof their r. a y n o d ut a h r , e b a u t rd th en e e m d e t r h e e y f o u f t e u T re er w y ith hewsp o wer whi c bilities, pleases to insult or rob them. That is the result ( f trusting to the pledges and the sympathy of t " ,O peoples who profess to be at the head of Eu r° P et l u civilisation—who claim to have a decisive Part ar e , the settlement of European qu e stions, and w ho iir i; the one a coward, except when dealing with effe ° , nate Asiatics ; and the other a mercenary, vit:',o, pretending to fight for an idea, will only figli t sT v c":3, there is a chance of despoiling somebody. ai rs however as is the fate of the D an es. severe es the conditions which Herr Von Bismark he s posed, they have no reason to regret that they C re ; fused the proposals of Earl Russell, and, af ter a l i t: struggle, have dealt directly with their eller"- ey Had they accepted Lord Russell's last proPel l would have retained only a small portion of ° cl , / e wig—a portion divided by no definite frontier inror, the rest of the duchy, and a portion for which t ' h e e i many would always have been clamouring. M the could not have the frontier of the Schlei ariu t - ion Dannewerke, they are better without any P er i .; l3 .- of Schleswig. True, England proposed to g ab bat tee them the portion which they might retaint all the world knows now the val ue of an English VG, rantee. Another Earl Russell—if indeed anotb er.04109 could produce a Minister so vain, and so regg alike of his own and his country' s honour- - 'W °7 , lO apply to. Liberal lawofficers of the Crovvn,andleeehltia the desired opinion that some act of Dermal r ante e liberated us from our obligation. The gua ra n - t dd would have been perfectly worthless, and it I v ha ve have been extremely mischievous. It woe given Earl Russell a pretext for continuing that impertinent and ignorant interference in L is affairs to which the dismemberment of Deem ark ; n ted really due. The Danes must find the cup Ar es eo to . them bitter enough to drain but they are 3 tinted foolish as to allow its bitterness to be augur i to by supposing that they would have done belt er rrhe have accepted the last scheme of Earl Russell.. " form Danes can find no compensation far their tn . i ti e d, tunes in the divisions of their victors, nor , let.nde., ought Englishmen to join in that absurd an d 1- d in cent shout of exultation over German dise °r - ore which our Liberal contemporaries indilig e • ity may have little reason to believe that the un . Germany, if accomplished, would add to t he ser j c e u d rity of European peace, and we may ha ve to despise the so-called constitutional party al u many, but, after all, we cannot desire to see re_n. like Herr Von Bismarck in possession of ae cu e d trolled power, or Hanover and Saxony esca ll° ,„ u s. up by the most aggressive, the most unscrupe""er; the most treacherous of European Powers. Thick are but two points in the present situation. w.u.en can afford the slightest satisfaction to English ° c i and the satisfaction they would give, e mail ae of personal as it is, would be shared by bones W e n re. every nation. The fact is that the Angee t . enuti pretender, who kindled this flame for big ° A I; d aggrandisement, and to gain a throne degrau e _ himself to the level of the lowest trickster• see Me. likely after all to meet tha fate due to other, that tures, and in the end miss the prize; the o the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, his great ally, with whose active interference not one of the lives riser': ficed in this iniquitous war would have been ° 8 " has also missed his coup, and instead of beconainf the leader and . the arbiter of Germany, has look whatever real influence he possessed and lies at th ° mercy of Herr Von Bismarck. such creat COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. A the An average attendance at our market to-day, en— business passing was limited to the requirements of nece;,. sit , us Luyt rs. English wheat must be quoted is per e . lower, and in foreign a reduction of 2d por cental took Pr ot h Flour declined 6d to is per sack. Oats and o atmeal wer e more pressingly offered, and easier in value. BOW very firm. Indian corn fully is per qr cheaper. BURTON , ON-TRENT—THURSDAY'. .A fair show of wheat at our market, an d we quote d°,:i cline of is pEr qr upon former rates. Bar l ey scarce, eB Bl/ 0 met with a tolerable active demand. Oats steady. 13 readily found buyers at full late rates Old white wheat ..42s to 46s I Old red ' wheat ' .. 37 ° t° New do. 46s to 50s I New do. ..4 06 t° Malting barley....32s to 353 I 0at5........ 19~ t ° - 42 S s Grinding d0.....26s to 308 I 8ean.......... 34 s to . BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. There was a fair supply of English wheat at market Barley day, and last week's prices were is per qr lower. J3a a r r ra. steady, and oats show an upward tendency. Be all 4d 40s t —English wheat was sold at 44s to 50s for whit e, - 30 $ to o 46s per 36 stone for red, Barley, new JD, A altin 24 g ; to 308 38s per qr ; grinding, 24s to 265. Oaau ts, or qr• 4 2 8 to 4 4 s P per 30 stone ; Irish, 20s to 245. Be Peas, 37s to 40s per 36 stone. MONMOUTH—TuEsDAY. A lisr both The local markets have been well attende., and buyers and sellers during the last six or seven 00" ave. business has been done at about former rates. The rage quotations are as follows : 3. 9 ' l Wheat, white 6s 3d to 5s Ild 8ar1ey ...... 3 s 4d to 6d I Ditto :red..... Os Od to Os Od Oats ..... 2 s 3d to 2s EDINBURGH GRAIN—WEDNESDA Y. I, t, Aa Today there was a very large supply of country wheat, which sold slowly at is decline on last week's prices. Wheat on the top Os 6d down average Os 8d d °wrl. Barley on the top is Od down average Os Id doval• Oats on the top 2s 6d down ~..average Os 6d dovoi• Beans on the top_ Os 6d down average is 3d doWa• Average Prices. Wheat 4oa 7d I Oats. 2ls , j 4 Barley 3 os 6 d 1 Beans 4ls "' Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ..15 7 qrs Sold 873 qrs 8ar1ey........ 189 qrs Sold 133 qrs Oats Beans 177 qrs Sold 115 go G LASG 0 W—WEDNESDAY. Our market was thinly attended by farmers and dealers. The show of wheat was moderate, and prices for boi h flour and wheat receded about 3d per barrel and boll. Other ecriptiuns of grain and meal without quotable change. THE VALUE OF PROPERTY IN THE CITY.— At the Grocers' Benevolent Society's meeting on Monday it W 39 stated that persons were bidding very large sums of WWI for the London Tavern, and that very lately as much 69 £lOO,OOO had been offered for it,—The Grocer. Births. LEGGE.—On the 3d inst., a t Leamington Spa, ate o°ll. Mrs. Geo, Legge, of a son. - r? hoh ROLPII.—On the 2d in s t., a t C r oydon, Mrs. T. 0 , - of a daughter. ti STOPPORD —On the 2d inst., at Chatham, the Wife of Lig) W. J. Stopford, of a daughter. Marriages. LAMB—Cos.—On the 3d inst., at Christ Church, li fr i g il t - 0 bury, Charles Lamb, Esq., of Highbury New-Ear" o f Eliza Esther, only daughter of Benjamin Cox, .rn'' Bath Lodge, Reading. FL ETCH ER—KNIGHTS —On the 4th inst., ° at St. gari'g' Ken s ington, George Rutter, son of William D. Fletchere; Esq , of Morden Lodge , Maidenhead, to Etunlat Iti daughter of Samuel S. Knights, Esq. Deaths. FERRIER.—On the 3d inst., Miss M. J. Ferrier, a ged F: s ; ot F U RNESS,—On the 3d inst., Mr. Robert Furness, a t,w Leonard, Shoreditch, aged 81. r Ith - OROVE.—On the 2d inst , at Kincardine Castle, - ' shire, Francis Grove, R.N.. aged 65. I f orY MERCERON.—On the Ist inst . , at Bethnal greeo, - -e Merceron, &q., aged 74. - 'rhos. SMITH.—On the 2d inst. , at C lebro k Tunbridge, •x- Smith, Esq., aged 65 ° ° e' „.. t viebo TYLER..—On the 31 inst,, at Trafalgar Lodge) Green Mr. George Tyler, aged 43. WYATT.—On the 3i inst.. at Blackheath. rkit t Wyatt, Esq., late of Gosfield, Essex, aged 31. ,1 hatir WyLIE.---On the al inst., at 8, The Grove, u.s l3- common, John Wylie, sq aged 85. ~ _______.......-____•-t-!-% Robert Bu Itndon: Primed and Pvl,llslied by WILLI-Ali A N N 2 7 2 of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at T AE Su~ Office t'• Strand, in the Precinct of - the 3avoy, 1:1 tigt CCU/30' v . —Fr day, August 5, Vat