The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

SCOTLAND. The west coast of Scotland was visited by a very severe gale on Monday. Towards the evening the gale increased in violence, and it was with difficulty pedestrians could keep their footing in the streets in Glasgow. Intelligence was received in Glasgow on Tuesday that during the gale on Monday the three-masted schooner Duke of Lancaster, on her inward trip from Larne, Ireland, to Glasgow, with a cargo of lime, foundered off the Mull of Kintyre, and all hands on board (six in number), it is believed, perished. On Monday afternoon the Largs steamer Lady Kelburne left the Eroomielaw at 2 o'clock forLargs and Millport. On nearing Large, the captain, in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather, deemed it prudent not to attempt to berth hisvessel at the quay, but caused her to be anchored in the bay until the passengers were landed by the small boat. There were only two or three passengers for Large. The steamer's small boat having been launched and manned by Duncan McFarlane and John M'Coll, two hands belonging to the vessel, the passengers, after some difficulty, were safely landed. 'The small beat, however, had bumped frequently against the quay with such violence that some of her timbers were started, and the men were afraid to venture back to the steamer in the same boat. They endeavoured to find another boat on the shore, but failed, and ultimately, after having secured the damaged boat in the best way they could, they started for the steamer, but, we regret to say, they were never again seen. The boat was found on the beach, bottom up, on Tuesday morning. SHIELDS, Tuesday Night. The wind having got round to the W.N.W., and the sea being smooth on the bar, notwithstanding the warning put up yesterday evening and the vio lent gale of last night, several laden ships proceeded to sea to-day, some of them bound for Italy and Spain, and thence on the "round voyage" to Ame rica. It speaks much for the courage of our sea men—some people would say their hardihood—thus to venture out upon the North Sea with such a pro spect, for it has been blowing a gale all day, the weather looks very unsettled to-night, and the wind comes away in heavy squalls. The report that ves sels bring in here is that they have encountered no thing but gales of wind since the middle of last week. On Saturday a terrific gale blew off the York shire coast all the morning, and a large fleet of laden vessels and some screw steamers were crowded into Filey Bay for shelter. On Monday evening the steamer Sultana, Capt. J. Newton, arrived at Hull from Hamburg after a protracted and dangerous voyage. The Sultana left Hamburg on Wednesday, the 21st inst., the gale at the time being very heavy. The vessel was anchored in the Stadt roads during Wednesday night, and on Thursday she discharged her pilot and put out to sea. She proceeded on her course, but owing to the heavy squalls, which rendered the ship almost unmanageable, very little way was made, and on Saturday it was found that the stock of coals was nearly exhausted. Fortunately there were several horse stalls and a quantity of spars on board, and the whole of the crew were set to work to chop these up for burning. Great anxiety was felt on board, for had they been deprived of the means of raising steam it would have been almost impossible to make any port, or even to ride out the gale. At length all the spars were consumed, and on Monday the fires were kept burning by means of old ropes and warps cut in pieces. On Saturday evening avs ry serious accident befell Captain Newton. He was at his post when a heavy sea struck the vessel, and he was thrown very violently to leeward. Fortu nately he managed to retain his hold on the ra 1 of the vessel, and was thus preserved from a watery grave. He appeared to be much hurt, and, on being conveyed into his cabin, it was found that one of his shoulders was dislocated and his right eye badly cut. Capt. Newton reports passing a large fleet of fishing smacks in the North Sea, laid to under close reefed mainsails. The sea was breaking completely over these vessels, and many of them appeared to be disabled. The following extract from a letter written by a lady passenger on board the Hannah More, which left Liverpool on the 16th inst. for Queensland, but which had a narrow escape from wzeck in the Bris tol Channel, appears in the Daily Express ; " We left the Mersey in the afternoon of the 16th of January. The weather was still foggy, but better than it had been for a few days, so we set off. The steamtug accompanied us as far as the Tuskar Lighthouse, where it left us with a cheer, at four o'clock on Saturday after noon. The steamer had not gone an hour when the gale commenced (24 hours earlier than it did in Liverpool), and from that time till Wed nesday morning, at 8 15 a.m., it was one con tinued fight with the elements. The ship was blown up and down the Channel, arid midnight on Monday night found us off Milford Haven ; and all that night a gale, or hurricane, such as sailors on board say they never witnessed, began. That night was terrific. The sound of the whistling • wind, the deep dippings of the ship in the raging sea, the great waves which swept with fury over our decks, the screams of all the animals on board, the noise made by 46 seamen in the performance of their duty, the hoarse voices of the captain and officers as they gave their orders, the breaking of the yard, the splitting of the sails, and the falls of the sailors over our heads—all combined to form a scene which must ever live in the memory of all on board the Hannah More that night. Tuesday morn ing the gale still continued, snd sent us up the Bristol Channel as far as Lundy Island, and we re mained under shelter of the island for several hours, sending up rockets and blue-lights, and with re versed flag, to show distress, and earnestly watching for a pilot. The daylight passed, and none came. The captain, although aware of our extreme danger, preserved a wonderful calmness, but saw no hope of saving us. Going up a channel in a sail ship on a stormy night is a fearfully dangerous thing. I should here say that most on board remained in bed from Saturday, but at dusk on Tuesday evening, I felt such a longing to be near dear E----, that I went into her cabin, which adjoins mine, and there I learned that we were in imminent danger. I sat until 1 o'clock with E--, the captain running down every few minutes to consult his charts. We were being blown up the Bristol Channel, to use his own expression, ' like a racehorse,' though every human effort was being made to prevent it ; at last Captain Brown ran down and said he had changed his course of action, for he could not prevent, so he would allow the ship to go up the Channel, sound ing all the time, in hopes of getting an anchorage. I suppose I need scarcely tell you that this was a most perilous undertaking, the Bristol Chan nel bei ng proverbially dangerous, with land on both sides, and a gale blowing. There we sat for hours almost breathless at times, waiting, wait ing. We were perfectly calm, however; I believe resigned. Blue lights and rockets were sent up constantly, all the paper available was sent up, so I opened the package of the Woman in White' (which my dear W— made up so carefully for me), and devoted several numbers to making matches for thcr lighting of the rockets, &c. Hours passed heavily. At last we heard the anchors let down, the horrid grating, clanging sound they made on the rocky ground as they dragged can never be for gotten. At last, at 1 o'clock a.m., we thought, or rather hoped, they would stand, and we went to bed. It was a night of great anxiety, but we then hoped all danger was over. At 4 o'clock a.m. I was awakened by the dreadful sound of the dragging anchors. I sat up in bed, and just then the mate ran down to call the captain. He said, The ship has broken her anchors, and is drifting fast on shoye.' We all jumped up and partially dressed ourselves. The captain promised to send for us at the required time, and then we sat in the saloon wait ing. Daylight at last came, and never was more gladly welcomed. The drifting was still going on last, very fast, and now our captain saw that the turning tide was our only hope. They made several unsuccessful efforts to keep out in the middle of the Ohannel, but on we went for 10 or 11 miles. bay- light showed a huge rock which stood right in our course ; it is called the ' Steep Holm,' a great per pendicular rock or island rising straight out of the water. No one told us of the rock for a long time, but I ran up on deck about 8 o'clock to speak to the captain, and was almost paralysed to see a great, upright piece of rock standing right in front; in fact, quite hanging over the ship, and a look at the foaming, surging sea sent a thrill through me. The captain sent me down at once, and almost imme diately afterwards the order came—viz., ' Ladies, come up; the boats are being lowered.' There were no screams, no tears, no fainting. Mrs. and Miss S. and we walked as quietly upstairs as ever we did. Suddenly the captain stopped us—said, Wait a minute.' He and the other mate had stood for some time with their watches in their hands, waiting for the tide, and when we were between 40 or 50 yards of the rock the tide turned, and we were ' saved. A schooner, a pilot boat, and two small boats had by this time arrived, but the sea ran so high that they could not, or would not, venture to approach us. This all happened at 815 a.m.,Wed , nesday. We do not, my dear sir, ascribe our pre servation to chance. We know that our help came from above. Our prayers, joined to those of absent Christian friends, were heard, and we were merci fully saved, over and over again, during that terrific gale, which lasted without ceasing for 90 hours. We had been brought close to God, and I most ear nestly trust that the deep impression our trials have made on us will be lasting. If so, I for one say, ' It is good for me to have been afflicted.' There are many, many Christians on board, and our thanksgiving meeting on Tuesday was, from the peculiarity of circumstances, most affecting. The first hymn sung was, ' God moves in a mysterious way,' and afterwards was read that chapter in the Acts relating to Paul's:shipwreck. The two prayers also well suited to the occasion. We are now an chored about seven miles from Bristol. The gale continues, but we are to stay until it has ceased ; and a steamer is to be sent from Liverpool to tow us as far as Cork. The mainyard was smashed, and one or two of the sails torn to ribbons. I enclose you a piece of the latter as a relic, and it will give give you some idea of the fury of the tempest which could tear it. A new sail is making in Bristol, and new anchors came the day after the accident. All agree that the ship is a splendid, strong boat, and, from what we have seen her go through, we are per fectly satisfied. with her." THE WIGAN MURDER. NEW SPRINGS, Wednesday. The inquest on the body of James Barton, a fire man employed by the Earl of Crawford at the Bawkhouse-pit, Haigh, near Wigan, was opened yesterday morning at the house of Mr. Holm% New Springs, before Mr. C. Driffield, coroner for the district. James Watnough, a pony tenter at the pit, said James Barton and his son John were the engineers at the pit, the one working at night, and the other during the day. He last saw the deceased about 6 o'clock, as he was leaving work on Friday evening, the 2d inst. The following morning he reached the pit about half-past three o'clock. He found the pumping engine stopped, the cabin fire nearly out, and lumps of coal lying on the cabin floor. Not finding Barton, he went into the boiler-house and shouted, but received no reply. He returned to the cabin and put coal on the fire, and in doing so noticed Barton's muffler lying in the grate half burnt. Then the fireman, Matthew Rhoden, came. They wondered where Barton had gone. He went down to the boiler fires for a spadeful of fire. In the middle he found it was quite white, the white looking like burnt wood. Matthew Rhoden confirmed this evidence. John Barton, of Haigh, son of the deceased, said on Friday night he met his father. He was going to work. He seemed quite well, was dressed as usual, and had a muffler on. The following morn ing Watnough knocked at the door to call him, and said that the deceased was missing. He went to the pit. The first traces of his father he saw were some marks in the fire-hole. They were the im pression of fingers on the dirty wall opposite the fire-hole. The crowbar with blood on it was the next thing he saw, and at daylight he noticed spots of blood near the cabin. His father wore a belt round his body, to which was a little buckle. The strap would be about an inch broad. The door-plate of the furnace is about 16 inches wide, and it runs back about 4 feet. The doors are folding ones, and they meet in the middle. From the state in which the witness found the fires he should think they had been left from three to four hours. Men, both friends and strangers, were in the habit of calling at the cabin to smoke a pipe. They first thought hie father was in the furnace from the discovery by Armstrong of blood upon the furnace door shuts. He did not know of any person against whom his father had any grudge, nor who had any grudge against him. He could not think of any reason why his life should be taken, except for the sake of his watch, which was missing. He was in good circum stances for a working man, but he never took any money to his work. He never heard his father say he knew anything about the man who attacked the watchman at the Standish paper-mills. His father was not on duty that night. Mr. King said he was not sorry of the oppor tunity to set this matter right, as he said there was a strong opinion that the persons who committed the offence at Standish had committed this murder. This showed that the old man was not on duty the night of the attack at Standish. : Thomas Barton, son of the deceased, and living at Haigh, said about 5 o'clock in the morning he heard his father was missing. Ho fired up at all the three fires, and saw white ashes in all. It was suggested that his father might have been put in one of the furnaces, and it was said that if he had been placed there fat would have dropped through into the ash hole. He had examined all the grids and found a h ard cake of fat. George Armstrong and a young woman were with him at the time. He said, when he found the cake," Why, they'll have put him under here." George Armstrong, of Blackrod, fireman in the pit, said he reached the pit about half-past four. Thomas Barton said, when he came up, that he could smell something about the fire hole. He said he was sure they had put his father there. Witness then looked about and saw what be thought was blood on the door of the furnace. Thomas went under the fire hole, and found a cake of what looked like blood. The men in the cabin said this cake was " ochrey" coal. He saw blood in the cabin on a form afterwards. William Wh a l ley, of Haigh, labourer, said—l was in company with the d ecease d a b out 8 o ' clock, with William Wetherby. Barton then seemed as well as ever I saw him in my life. He was dressed as usual. Barton took out his watch while we were there, as Wetherby's watch had stopped. John Baker Edwards, of Liverpool, lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the R oya l Infirmary School of Medicine, Liverpool, said—On the sth inst, I received from the police some pieces of bone, some fragments of clinkers, a piece of wood, and an iron crowbar. I selected from the bones the portions now produced, which I believe to be human, from the following parts :—No. 1, portions of the occi pital bone of the skull; No. 2, base an of skull f o a:oldt5;;o fangs of teeth, a fang of incisor da fa Np portion i 3 o , n portion of arch dorsal vertebra; v p e o r r t t e i b o r n a o ; f N h o e . ad 4, lumber vertebra shank, and joint of humerus; No. 6, portion of the head and joint of femur. These bones have been submitted to a very high temperature, which has destroyed the internal structure, but the external form has been well preserved. There can be no doubt these are human bones. I made a chemical and microscopical examination of the mass of clinker, microscope I identified the corpuscules as h and found it caked together by blood and under the pieces of coal, turfunionadna blood. The blood on some portion of the cabin bench is also human. no blood on the crowbar. (The pieces of bone men tioned°n above were produced and handed round for the inspection of the jury.) Chas. Edward Dunbar Shepherd, of Wigan, sur geon, gave evidence to the same effect. The verdict of the jury was, " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1863. LONDON AND COUNTRY HOSPITALS. A physician in a letter to a contemporary says :—The present aspect of this controversy, coupled with the Grand Committee's report presented at the last general meeting of the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital, with Mr. Tite's speech supporting it, and the particular time chosen for the publication of Dr. Leeson's pamphlet, render it expedient to keep the matter for a while longer under the wholesome surveillance which you have brought to bear upon it so beneficially. After the general manifestation of public opinion, headed by yourself, against removing the hospital out of the reach of the poor of London, it might have been supposed that the promoters of that project, if they had fully and finally relinquished it, would have been glad to let its memory pass into oblivion. Instead of doing so they bring it for ward conspicuously, occupying a larger portion of their report with quotations ostensibly in its favour from the writings of medical gentlemen whose opinion, when it differed from their own, they treated not merely with neglect, but with contumely. I should be sorry to accuse the Grand Committee of garbling these extracts, but surely nothing could be more calculated to mislead than the intro duction of isolated sentences without reference to the con text, from which alone the real sentiments of a writer can be gathered. Now this is what the framers of the report have done, justifying Mr. Simon's indignant remonstrance conveyed through Deputy Elliott, and illustrating the sagacity of your own remark, that you would " like to see the context of these passages before attributing inconsis tency to their authors." When I see the prominence given to the quasi arguments for the country scheme, and read the recommendation tc leave " the desirability of obtaining a second site for he erection of an auxiliary suburban hospital for future consi deration," I am irresistibly compelled to collate this passage with a remarkable clause in Mr. Tite's speech. What does he mean by saying that the plan of dividing the institution into two parts, one in London and the other in the country, is not to be proceeded with, "at least for the present." The qualification has a perplexing sound. Is it a lapsu linguce, or an oblique intimation of a design which is neither dead nor dormant, but only latent, awaiting its opportunity when the public mind shall have gone to sleep upon the subject ? In plain English, is the project as extinct as people hoped it was ? Dr. Leeson's mischievcus pamphlet is put forth as an apple of discord almost simultaneously with the promulga tion of the report. May I inquire, is not Dr. Leeson, on this question of sites, the peculiar confidant of the treasurer and his party ? Is not his egregious effusion an ingenious device to keep the question alive ? It would seem so. Not much effect need be apprehended from the seductive rhetoric of a gentleman who cites the existence of scarlet fever as a special charge against the present hospital at a time when the Registrar-General (see his last week's report) dwells on the unusual mortality from that disorder in London and the surrounding districts. Bat his folly in this particular does not diminish the significance of the coincidence be tween the appearance of his brochure and the laboured com pilation of incomplete extracts on the report. If the Grand Committee (or those who lead them) wish to purge themselves from liability to unpleasant suspicions or imputations of any kind, their course is a very simple one. You have yourselves shown how to solve the difficulty, and indicated an effectual mode of reconciling all the great, in terests concerned, including emphatically the welfare of every class of patients. Should it be determined not to keep the institution permanently in its present situation, there is no necessity to go to a nursery of contagion like that de nounced by Mr. Whitfield, nor to emigrate three miles from London-bridge, nor to complicate the finances of the hos pital with intricate and unmanageable proprietary interests. It appears that the authorities have it in their power to ob tain the best site in the meridian of South London. The removal of lunatic patients, whose term of treatment or de tention is usually so much more protracted than that of ordinary cases of illness or injury, from London to the country might be beneficial to them, while the construction of St. Thomas's Hospital ou so good a site would be unob jectionable for the sick poor of the metropolis, and the money saved in the abundant materials would abate the ex ceptional amount of the purchase cost. With such facts in their possession, I can conceive no course more befitting the Grand Committee than to make themselves fully masters of all the details of the terms upon which Bethlehem can be obtained, and draw up an exact statement of the facts for the information of the governors. Under any circumstances, it would be a graceful, benefi cial, and sagacieus step to act upon the excellent hint thrown out by you for effecting a co-operation of the prin cipal metropolitan hospitals in establishing a sanatorium— call it what you please—for the reception of those patients, convalescent or otherwise, whose peculiar condition may render country quarters desirable. This suggestion, indeed, I regard as the keystone of a great system of permanent and invaluable utility. It contains the solution of many pro blems and difficulties which have long occupied the minds of medical men and others in connection with this depart ment of sanitary science, and, if carried out in the spirit indicated by you, would lead to results which must be con templated with delight by all who compa4ionate the suffer ings of their afflicted fellow-creatures. I cannot doubt that the managers of other hospitals would willingly enter into the favourable consideration of any plan proposed for so good a purpose. If, after the wrangling and cross purposes which have characterised the recent history of St. Thomas's, the Grand Committee can seeure the honour of originating such a system (and the transition state of the institution renders them the most appropriate parties to do so), they will have effected a noble vindication of their motives and an atonement for any previous errors in their policy, and created an enduring record of the fortunate result of their administration. 1 fully appreciate the cogency of your reference to the probable capabilities of the new Surrey County Hospital for accommodating convalescent and other patients remitted from hospitals in London. It is highly probable that an arrangement could be made with the managers of that esta blishment for the reception of a considerable number of in mates. A ward might be set apart f or p a ti en t s t rans f erre d f rom one or more of the London hospitals, which would be at no expense save that of fitting up and furnishing it, the cost of conveyance, and an equitable sum for maintenance and treatment; or the reception of the patients from Loudon might be contracted for. The situation of the Surrey County Hospital will be healthful and eligible, and the matter might be managed with ease and satisfaction to all parties, leaving no pretext for expending the funds of St. Thomas's in creat ing and keeping up a separate establishment. In the absence, or pending the creation, of the more complete organisation suggested by your other remarks, and for which so far an opportunity is now about to present itself, such an arrange ment with the country establishment would be useful and economical. But, feeling the importance of the salutary principle of co-operation, as outlined by you, receiving that full consideration which would insure its ultimate adoption, I earnestly trust it will not be lost sight of, but be brought formally under the cognisance of those who are intrusted with the administration of the great London hospitals. Economy, convenience, humanity alike commend it. Its introduction will mark an era of genuine advance. Now that the feasibility of accomplishing so grand and salutary an improvement has been mooted, it looks like foolish trif ling to talk about turning London hospitals partly into the country, or unnecessarily incurring the enormous waste which would be involved in separate convalescent establish ments there. COOKING FOR THE MILLION, There is a famous saying of Brillat-Savarin that the destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they are nourished, and in a similar spirit Sydney Smith used to insist that roast mutton was the great end of government. If there be any truth in these maxims, it is scarcely pos sible to exaggerate the value of a scheme for providing cheap, wholesome, well-cooked food for the working classes which has been in operation for the last two years in Glasgow, and has now passed from the condition of an ex periment into that of a permanent enterprise of proved practicability and success. No one who has had an oppor tunity of observing the commissariat of the poor can have failed to deplore the waste of material which so aggravates their want. Of the scanty rations which they can afford to buy—and generally they have to pay a very high price for a very bad article—a large quantity is lost through bad cookery, and what is left is often so poor and unsavoury that, notwithstanding the excellence of hunger as a sauce, the consumer cannot eat it with that relish which is essential to its proper nutritive effect. Thus, there is a triple waste of money, material, and sustaining power. It is long since various kindly, charitable persons in different parts of the kingdom, impressed with a sense of this evil, have tried to remedy it by creating eating-houses for labour ing men. So far, therefore, there is nothing original in the Glasgow scheme—its novelty lies in its success. Almost all the other establishments of the same sort, having relied for support rather upon the subscriptions of the charitable than on the payments of their own customers, have gradually dwindled out of existence. Subscriptions gradually fell off, and working men disdained to sacrifice their independence by accepting their meals from public charity. On the other hand, the Glasgow eating-houses, although originating in benevolent motives, have eschewed altogether the idea of charity. They are conducted on sound business principles, just the same as any other branch of trade, and are tho roughly self-supporting. A profit is charged on every article, and every one who orders a id. basin of soup or plate of meat has the satisfaction of knowing that though he is get ing a good bargain his custom is remunerative to the dealer. The consequence is that the cooking depots have run a prosperous career, and have multiplied and expanded till they now form one of the most remarkable organisations of the day. The solution of the important problem, whether it can be made a profitable business to supply the working classes with good food at a cheap rate, is due to the philanthropic energy of Mr Corbet, a merchant in Glasgow, who has con ducted the whole experiment entirely by his own exertions and at his own risk. He has advanced the whole of the capital, and whilo'he exacts a proper amount of profit from the business, he does not pocket the surplus, but applies it to the extension of the scheme, or to some kindred object. Mr. Corbet very wisely began in a small way with a single eating-house on the Broomielaw. This was in Sept., 1860; but the extraordinary cheapness and excellence of the arti cles supplied at this establishment attracted such numbers from all quarters of the city that within a few weeks it was found necessary to open anotherplace of the same kind. Since then a new depot has been formed every two months, and each fresh development of the scheme has been attended with conspicuous success. There are now 13 branches in full operation, and other four are being fitted up. It is calculated that, in order to enable all parts of Glasgow to participate in the benefits of the scheme, from 22 to 25 branches will be required. Of course, in a vast undertaking of this kind simplicity is essential to economy, and consequently to suc cess. Complicated arrangements would be sure to break down. Too ambitious an aim would be sure to defeat itself. Mr. Corbet has therefore done well to limit the bill of fare to a number of common and easily prepared articles of food, such as barley broth, oatmeal porridge, boiled beef, tea, coffee, &c., taking care at the same time, however, that the rations shall be of the best quality and in good measure, The work of the kitchen is thus brought within the capacity of the plainest of plain cooks, and as the operations of one day are an exact repetition of those of the preceding, practice soon makes perfect. All the cooks and attendants are women, 130 in all, and are chosen mostly from the ranks of domestic servants. The only risen employed are the general manager and some half-dozen buyers, porters, and carters. In these eating houses, breakfast, dinner, and tea are sup plied at a surprisingly low price. A breakfast, consisting of porridge, milk, coffee, and roll, with butter, can be had every morning for 3d. Separate rations of soup, potatoes, bread and butter, or bread and cheese, coffee, tea, porridge, egg, &c., can be had any hour during the day for Id. each. At the chief branches at 41d. dinner is served, comprising a basin of broth, a plate of meat, either hot or cold, an ample supply of potatoes, and a slice of capital plumpudding. The best proof that these rations are appreciated is to be found in the demand for them. Last year, when there were only 12 branches in working order, the average monthly consump tion was as follows :-55,000 basins of broth and soup, 52,000 plates of beef, 82,000 rolls, 54,000 cups of tea and coffee, 14,500 bowls of porridge, 31,000 plates of potatoes, 7,000 boiled eggs, and 14,400 tumblers of milk. Since the Jamaica-street depot was opened the consumption has, of course, greatly increased. The penny sale of penny rations, such as soup, broth, cups of coffee or tea, &c., amounts to upwards of 400,000: In order to ensure the utmost economy the raw materials are purchased in the wholesale markets, and all payments are made in cash. About £6,000 a year is spent in beef, more than £2,000 in bread, and as much in potatoes. Some notion of the spirit with which the business is conducted may be gathered from the fact that every morning the entire products of two dairies, some six miles off, are brought into town to supply the breakfast of the multitude. In order to meet the requirements of the numerous branches a large central store and model kitchen is being erected in Pitt-street. The latter will, when com pleted, be the largest in the kingdom. It will cover 1,000 square yards of ground, will be 20ft. high, and will be fitted up with ten steam cooking boilers. Another feature of the scheme which has also contributed very much to its success is the comfortable and attractive character of the eating rooms. While all unnecessary out lay has been avoided, care has been taken to secure plenti ful light, warmth, and ventilation. The fittings are of the plainest possible description, the furniture consists only of deal tables and benches, and the only approach to ornament is a mirror, or an engraving, over the mantelpiece. But, although homely, the rooms have a clean, cheerful, tidy aspect, which must be particularly soothing and agreeable to the labouring man just come from the dust and disorder of the workshop or the streets. Every room is well sup plied with newspapers, and in each branch there are sepa rate apartments for women. The Jamaica-street establishment, which is the most re cent, is superior to the others in accommodation and appear ance. It comprises spacious, well-lighted halls, with large plate-glass windows on three different stories. On each stage there is a kitchen with apparatus for making tea and coffee, cooking potatoes, and keeping "hot and hot" the other articles which are prepared at the central depot. The number of persons who frequent these restaurants is now over 140,000. The bulk of them belong strictly to the working class. At noon, for instance, the branches in Clyde street and Jamaica-street are thronged by dock labourers and artisans, that at Washington -street by men from the smithies and other works in that quarter, and those in the east of Glasgow by strapping bare-legged lassies from the mills. Some bring a piece of bread with them and content themselves with a basin of broth; others indulge in the luxurious 43d. entertainment, which includes beef and pud ding ; but all receive equal attention from the waitresses, and behave with the utmost quiet and decorum. Not un frequently about this time of the day there are more cus tomers than there is accommodation for, and numbers may be seen waiting till they can get a vacant seat. During the hour or two following another class takes advantage of the eating-houses—clerks, shopmen, milliners, and girls in the shawl and other warehouses. Well-dressed men and women may often be observed taking their meals in these places, and as there is a clear profit on every article fur nished all are invited to become customers. "These esta blishments," says the prospectuses, "are conducted on the strictest business principles, with the full intention of mak ing them self-supporting, so that every one may frequent them with a feeling of perfect independence." While the programme has been arranged exclusively with a view to the wants of the working classes, it is a striking proof of the excellence of the fare and accommodation provided that numbers of persons in a better position find it worth while to avail themselves of it. After the experience of two years Mr. Corbet feels justi fied in declaring that the undertaking is fully self-support ing. The amount of business done in the first year, when only three or four branches were in operation, was £5,100, and the net profit, after paying all expenses and the heavy outlay in commencing the movement, was £145. The pre sent business exceeds £20,000 annually, and there is every prospect that, in from four to six years, the whole plant, which will amount to upwards of £5,000, will be redeemed. This admirable movement has already been taken up in Manchester, where Mr. John Pender and Mr. Hugh Birley have successfully established dining-rooms for working folk. It is to be hoped that before long something of the same kind will be introduced into the metropolis, where it would meet a crying want. In such districts as White chapel, Lambeth, Agnes-town, &c., it would be a great boon to thousands of poor people. A cooking depot would n a r c k t e t t o a s n u d e h D w u c o k r k . l m a n e n e ' ; s a c n l u d b t s h a e s a t h s B o o s e established in u in se C ful lar ad e.m j u tion recently established under the presidency of Lord Brougham, to promote these clubs, might profitably take up the matter. While so much capital is constantly seeking a charitable outlet, there can surely be little difficulty in procuring funds for such an object as this. There is the Peabody Fund for instance, of which it is understood the trustees are somewhat puzzled how to dispose. .A. very small grant,nethceesy siwtoouusldparntostoffaLiionto don; or even a loan, would be sufficient to set on f oot c h eap rooms . an conducted m sm eo f the prudently,more yield a good profit and to repay the capital expended on them. -2 0 r a e r l watching a llir c e h a i n n s g . than the nervous system—upon --No n p V a E r r o l f a t E h lf E h N u T m . it hangs health and lite requires ri P u i i r l l e s s . and itself. These Pills are the best regulators strength eners of the nerves, and the safest apathy yield to j a — n m ir a ° c l h i rne aY Nauseau, headache, giddiness, and mental those them. They dispatch in a summary manner • fulness of dis tressing dyspeptic symptoms, stomachic pains, general purifiers. the pit of the stomach abdominal distension, and overcome both capricious appetite and confined bowels—the com m onl y accompanyi ng signs of defective or deranged ner vous power. Holloway's Pills aro particularly recom mended to persons of studious and sedentary habits, who gradually sink into a nervous and debilitated state unless some restorative such es his Pills be occasionally applied. THE MURDER AT ACTON. Yesterday afternoon the inquiry into the circumstances under which William Davey, 31, T division, a police con stable, came by his death, on Monday evening the 19th inst., was resumed before Mr. James Bird, the coroner for West Middlesex, at the George and Dragon Tavern, Acton. The excitement in the district appeared to be unabated, and the inquest-room was again crowded most incon veniently. Mr. Treherne, of 17, Gresham-street, and Acton, attended to watch the proceedings for the widow and the Commis sioners of Police. Mr. R. Ha) nes, jun., of 12, Southamp ton-buildings, Chancery-lane, and of Wandsworth, was present on behalf of Isaac Brooks, one of the accused men in custody. James Edwards repeated his evidence given on Tuesday. Jane M'Robey deposed that she resided at Mill-hill, Ac ton. She did not know the persons Joseph and Isaac Brooks until she saw them at the police court. On the evening of Monday, the 19th, about a quarter-past 8, she was walking with her husband across the fields leading from Acton to Turnham, and on reaching some part near Cumberland Villa she was startled on seeing a man there leaning was too darko n a to gut He had on a dark coat and c a p, b ut i t enable her to recognise his features. Joseph Brooks, whom she had seen at the police court, strongly resembled the man in stature. His hands were crossed en the muzzle of the gun, having his chin resting on the back of his hands. Witness's husband was with her, and they walked away. No other person was near the man she saw. James Ill'ltobey, a tailor, the husband of the last witness, repeated the evidence given by him at the police court. In addition, the witness said the man he saw appeared about tho stature of Joseph, but he could not identify him, as in the dark so many men appeared about the same build. Miss Emma Rice deposed that her father lived at Albert terrace, Knightsbridge. The witness repeated her evidence given on Tuesday at Hammersmith Police-court. Charles Catling repeated his evidence, clearly identify ing Isaac Brooks as being present after the deceased had been shot. Robert Moores deposed that he was at Petherton-villa on the night of M onday, having walked down there on the evening that sorae one had been shot. It was between 8 and 9. He sa w I saac Brooks standing there talking to the last witness, Catling; but he (witness) could not hear what was being said. By tho - 11 J -- had on. rY—lle did not notice what dress Isaac By the Coroner-- Witness had not seen Isaac Brooks for a long time, p er h aps some weeks. He knew him well, and could not be mi s t aken. The inquiry was they adjourned for a week. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The expectations raised by the allusion to America in the Emperor's late address to the French Chambers have been justified with little de lay. We publish to-day a direct offer of mediation, conveyed in a despatch from M. Drouyn de Lhuys to M. Mercier, and dated on the 9th of the present month. This letter cannot have been received by the time that the Asia left New York, but we shall probably not have many days to wait for the answer. Whatever that answer may be, the step taken by the Imperial Government deserves our favourable consideration, though we see no reason to regret that we were not parties to it. We have pre ferred throughout to err on the side of non-inter ference, and to bear the silly imputation of a desire to see the Great Republic of the West torn in pieces by intestine discord rather thin undertake the slightest responsibility for its destinies. It is still our belief that this course was the lesser of two evils, and the reproaches heaped on England by the Federal press for entertaining the bare idea of mediating, by a portion of the French press for declining to me diate, and by the Confederate press and readers for not being prepared to do more than mediate, have altogether failed to shake our judgment. we share the opinion which Mr. Cobden expresses in his homely way, by comparing the reasoning powers of an infuriated nation to that of a mad dog, and we know that warlike passions are not less implacable where the combatants are brothers. We recognise, too, as we are bound to do, the fact that the North ern and Southern States are contending for a stake far more real and vital to their interests than the objects which are supposed to justify ordinary wars, however ruinous may be the method which they have taken to decide their differences. We learn from history that the greatest atrocities of civil war have been occasioned by an alarm, often un founded, of intervention from without, and we have learnt that the American people are unable to dis tinguish between intervention and mediation even in idea. While we cannot discern, then, any pro mising sign of a disposition to listen to reason from Foreign Powers, however friendly, we have anxiously watched the political reaction which is slowly bringing about the ascendancy of moderate over violent counsels in the great cities of the North, and which must be strengthened by the policy of the Proclamation. After that unconstitutional act, which the Republicans themselves cannot defend , except as a measure of war, mediation seems to come too late, and no hope of a peaceable settlement is left unless it is forced on the South by crushing defeat, or on the Washington Government by some thing like a revolution in the North. Such are our reasons for adhering to the belief that, if any moment can be opportune for speaking of peace to belligerents so desperate and so proud, such a moment has not yet arrived. The Emperor Napoleon, however, thinks otherwise, and the arguments by which he supports his overtures command our respect, as the avowed motive of them must command our sympathy. How will this second tender of good offices by France be received ? It does not follow that because all such advances from Great Britain have been spurned by anticipation, and even Russia has been fain to abstain from anything but general expres sions of good will, M. Mercier will not be able to get a hearing. Public sentiment changes rapidly in America, and we learn by the last mail that Mr. Vallandigham has already advocated in Congress just such a plan of mediation, without arbitration, as is here indicated. A further rise in the premium on gold, and an open declaration of want of confi dence in the Ministry on the part, not of the Demo crats, but of a Republican majority of the Senate, must predispose the President to conciliation. In these respects the conjuncture is not unfavourable to M. Drouyn de Lhuys's purpose, but there is one untoward circumstance which may more than com pensate for the advantage thus gained. We allude to the recent publication of that letter in which the Emperor plainly avows his design of setting bounds to the aggrandisement of the Anglo-Saxon race and republican institutions on the American conti nent. We are much mistaken if the disclosure of an intention to extend to Mexico what American writers are pleased to call the " peculiar political system" of Europe does not call forth an outburst of indignation which would prove fatal to any French proposal, even if it were otherwise satisfac tory. That it is not, and cannot be, satisfactory to both parties must be manifest to every one, and it will be more than we can hope if it should be satis factory to either. What is to be the basis of nego ciation P M. Drouyn de Lhuys says that France has abstained from prejudging that question, but how can a single conference take place, with or without foreign mediation, till it is decided ? The North takes the restoration of the Union as its starting point; the South will tolerate no discussion ' on its own right to independence. The Washington Government is committed—not to a permissive sta tute for the abolition of slavery, but to a decree emancipating every slave in the seceding States ; the new Confederacy is founded on the maintenance of slavery, even if the propagation of it be not an , essential part of Southern policy. Far be it from as to say that peace between two such Powers is impossible, and that nothing but the exhaustion of the one or the other can quench the strife. We be lieve that the principles of a fair and permanent compromise have already been grasped by impartial men on both sides of the Atlantic ; but, though we should not despair of tracing the outlines of it, we should despair of persuading either belligerents, in their present temper, to give it a thought. The Emperor Napoleon is more sanguine, and we heartily hope that the renewal of his pacific efforts may open the eyes of the Americans to that which all the rest of the world can see so plainly. POST.—The Emperor of the French has now re- solved to act without the co-operation of the other maritime Powers. M. Drouyn de Lhuys' despatch to M. Mercier is dated January 9, and has doubt less by this time been communicated to Mr. Seward. In substance it differs materially from those pro posals which the French Government originally suggested should be made by the three great Powers. It combats the notion that mediation on the part of neutral Powers is incompatible with the pride or independence of a belligerent, bat at the same time suggests that no objections can be offered to nego tiations between the belligerents themselves. In fact, the alternative is offered to the Federal Go vernment either of accepting foreign mediation or of opening negotiations with their opponents. The French Emperor announces a readiness to act in a mediatorial capacity if invited to do so. It is rather with the view of facilitating negotiations between the belligerents than of determining the grounds on which they should be based, that the French Go vernment tender their assistance. To quote the words of the despatch :—" In offering our services to facilitate negotiations between the belligerents we have abstained from prejudging these bases." No suggestion is made that an armistice should be agreed on by the North, and in this particular the despatch of the French Minister is distinguished from the proposals which consti tuted the groundwork of the projected mediatorial intervention of the three maritime Powers. Nego tiations between the belligerents are, according to the French Government, absolutely essential in order to hasten the termination of the war. These negotiations may be carried on, if the Federal Go vernment so please, through the instrumentality of friendly Powers; or, if not, may be opened directly with the authorities of the South. " The opening of negotiations between the belligerents would not necessarily involve the cessation of hostilities. Nothing would hinder the Federal Government from retaining the advantages which the continua tion of the war might offer, and it might never theless enter into negotiations with the South." Then follow a few suggestions as to the manner in which meetings between the representatives of both parties might be arranged, and the questions at issue duly canvassed. Even in the event of imme diate reconciliation not being effected, " the armis tice" by which we suppose the French Minister means the opening of negotiations, 4 , would never theless exercise an ameliorating influence upon present events." Such is the substance of the pro posals which have been submitted by the French Government to the Federal Cabinet, and in a few days we shall know in what spirit they have been i received. We confess we are not sanguine about the result. By the mail which has just arrived from America, we find that at least one of the New York journals has declared that, in the event of foreign mediation being in the first place accepted by the South, the North might subsequently take it into its consideration. But we fear that the pride of the great Republic has not yet been sufficiently abased to lead it to act on suggestions coming from this side of the Atlantic. In respect to the proposed negotiations with the South, we believe with the French Emperor that they present the sole means of terminating the war. The upshot of those negotia tions is not doubtful, and it is idle to suppose that they would or could be opened by the South on any other basis than the recognition of its inde pendence. " The recollection of former times and common interests" can never efface those still more recent reminiscences which have been seared upon the memory of the South by the invasion of Vir ginia under General Pope and the occupation of New Orleans by General Butler. Should negotia tions be:opened between the belligerents, the less allusion there is made to past times the mole likely they will be to come to an amicable understanding, But is the North in a frame of mind to open nego tiations on the basis of recognising the indepen dence of the South ? We fear not. Although a strong and numerous party in the North—one, day by day, increasing in power and influence—is vio lently opposed to the present Administration, yet up to the present moment it has shown no sign of willingness to acquiesce in the severance of the Republic!. The Democrats are still the champions of the Union. Are not these proposals of the French Emperor premature P Two months have not materially changed the temper of the North, and now, as then, we can detect no field for the exercise of those mediatorial offices which the French Emperor is so anxious to discharge. What will -then be the result ? The Federal Cabinet will perhaps thank France for her kind offices, but will still go on raising armies, building ships, and print ing notes. The South will recognise in the course taken by the French Government a desire to see her independence speedily established, and will doubtless keep it in kindly remembrance. But what will Franca do if her proposals are rejected ? The French Emperor is most anxious that the war should be speedily terminated, and will feel in a corresponding degree disappointed if a second time thwarted in his attempt to mediate between the belligerents. On the future plans of the French Emperor it would be idle to speculate, but he is beginning to manifest by unmistakeable signs that his patience is well-nigh exhausted. DAILY NEWS.—The Emperor of the French seems to have addressed another despatch to the Ameri can Government on the subject of the civil war which is still raging between the North and the South. This is not the first time the Emperor has attempted to stay the struggle. Last time he pro posed an armistice, during which hostilities were to cease, and Europe was to obtain cotton. That pro. posal being objected to, the Emperor now proposes that the North " should enter into direct negotia tions with the authorities of the South." For this purpose it is suggested that the representatives of the two parties might meet in a city which could be declared neutral. The grievances which have led to the separation could be examined. The re presentatives might consider whether secession is an unavoidable extremity, and whether the recol lection of former times and common interests is not more powerful than the causes which have brought the two people under arms. No reasonable man imagines that after what has happened, and under present circumstances, the North and South can come to terms. In order to attain this object, not only must both parties abandon their ground and repudiate the principles which they have hitherto declared to be essential—the North must withdraw the proclamation of emancipation, and the South must reject slavery, the corner stone of their policy —but the South must permanently submit to be ruled by those against whose rightful dominion they have arisen in arms. There is assuredly an anta gonism between the North and the South—between free labour and slave labour. which transcends the genius of accommodation. The irrepressib:e con flict," now that it has broken out into war, cannot be suppressed, it must be quenched in blood. The conquest of the South or permanent separation is inevitable, and possibly Louis Napoleon knows this as well as any man living. But he may, perhaps, hope that a meeting between the accredited repre sentatives of the North and South may tend to clear up the essential issues of the dispute, or that in any event he may show himself to the world as a powerful peacemaker. So long as the French Emperor confines himself to offering advice and to counselling a cessation of hostilities, the course of the British Government is clear. It has simply to maintain, as hitherto, a strict neutrality. It is for the President and his Cabinet to determine upon the coarse which they will pursue. That course can only be settled by considerations of their own honour and dignity ; for they may rest as sured that whatever course they may determine to pursue, in that the people of this country will acquiesce. But even if recognition was practically possible, it by no means follows that it ought to be conceded. If the South were another Hungary or another Italy there might be good reason for facilitating the entry of such a state into the family of nations. But the Southern Confederacy is based upon peculiar principles. If the decla rations of its leading ministers and its holy men may be believed, the corner-stone of the new edi fice is Slavery—traffic in human flesh. In times past States tolerating this iniquity have been ad mitted amongst the powers of the earth. But happily, even in the darkest period of the world's history, no collection of men has been acknow ledged as a nation, whose very existence arose out of the alleged necessity of slave labour. At all events in these days the admission of such a new State is out of the question. The United States, of which these revolted people formed part, de clared from the beginning that Slavery was no essential part of their constitution. The sl ave trade was forbidden by stringent laws, and slave labour was gradually to cease. Unfortunately the unscrupulous and selfish statesmen of the South have hitherto managed to evade these obli gations; but now that the North have thrown off the Southern yoke these obligations have been religiously fulfilled. For this country to enter into political relations with a nation which has systematically refused to acknowledge its obliga tions (unless some new and stronger guarantees for good faith can be invented) would be with open eyes to enter into contracts with men to whom the most sacred promises are ropes of sand. The King of Dahomey may be the head of an independent State, but he is not the sort of potentate to whom England should send an ambassador. Be fore England can consent to establish relations with a King of slaveholders or a Republic of slave holders there must be some distinct understanding on the question of slavery and the slave trade. A clear provision must be made that slavery shall cease, and that the slave trade shall be absolutely prohibited, before the Government of this country can consent even to entertain the question of recog nition. The policy of this country, and the sacri fices which the English people have made in this great cause, make this absolutely imperative. It cannot be endured that England should continue to sacrifice the lives and the treasure of her subjects to maintain a costly squadron on the coast of Africa, whilst at the same time she establishes friendly re lations with a new Power, the very object of whose existence is to neutralise her efforts in behalf of the African. In this, as in higher things, we cannot serve two masters. If the people of this country repent of their virtue, and prefer to abandon the negro to his fate, let them withdraw their squadron from the coast of Africa, and allow the traders in human flesh to have their way. Though millions have been spent, and thousands of gallant men have died on that fatal coast, it is better at once to put a stop to loss of life and of treasure than to aggravate that loss by acknowledging a new Confederacy of slaveholders. But if England does not repent of her virtue, and still acknowledges the watchword of her earlier cloys, and let her proclaim her irre vocable will that come what may she will hold no communication with the South, unless they are ready to provide for the extinction of slavery within their borders, and for the effectual suppression of the slave trade abroad. HERALD.—it is not surprising that at this period of comparative inactivity the cry of the peace party, faint and inarticulate in its first utterance, should be heard, both in the North and South. From all sides there is the suggestion of peace —peace, not the consequence of pro tracted hostilities, of brutal massacres, of ser vile insurrections, but of peaoefal compromise, mediation, and truce. The New 3' ork Tribune, erst the most fanatical of prints, calls upon the South to accept foreign mediation, if it be offered, and the North to join her. Is it the consciousness of the waning strength of the Republican party, or the conviction that the war is hopless, that has forced Mr. Horace Greeley's organ to this tardy concession ? In Congress Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, the only Northern representative who has consistently opposed the war from the beginning, has proposed an armistice or foreign mediation. In New Jersey the Legislature has been called upon to consider the expediency of an armistice and a convention for discussing the terms of an amicable settlement; and the Richmond Inquirer, whilst declaring against all compromise upon the question of Reunion, also urges an armistice. That the organ of the rabid Abolitionists should have so far altered its tone as to speak favourably of foreign mediation marks a wonderful change of public opinion in the United States since the day when Mr. Seward re pudiated, with true Republican vulgarity, any attempt at mediation by the benighted monarchies of the Old World ; and although it would be pre mature to argue that the mob of the North has lost its power and respectability, at least the time seems gone by when the offer of mediation would be construed as an insult, and resented as an act of hostility. The state of the New York Money Market, and the candid announcements of Mr. Spaulding must open the eyes of the intelli gence of the North to the danger that is at hand. From first to last one of the most noticeable fea tures in the American character has been the facility with which it has dropped unpalatable and inconvenient opinions. We are quite pre pared to find foreign mediation in a month or two the rallying cry of a great party in the States. The French Emperor appears to have been duly apprised of this change of sentiment, and to have skilfully availed himself of the opportunity it afforded. Not content with the churlish refusal of the Government of this country to aid him in terminating an objectless and bloody conflict, he has persevered in his initiative, and monopolised the whole merit of a friendly, a humane, and a very particable offer. For our own honour's sake as well as in the tremendous interests we have involved in the struggle we cannot but express our regret that to France alone the offer of mediation is due. Every consideration, whether of feeling, of duty, or of policy, should have dictated to our Government the origination of the proposal which has emanated from the Tuileries. Yet her Majesty's Ministers seem to be incapable of assuming a responsibility, and leave to France the honour as well as the ad vantage, of appearing to befriend both the belliger ents. Moreover, the mere fact of the silence of our Government is in itself an obstacle to peace. The offer of mediation, which, backed by England, would be at once accepted, may possibly be regarded with coldness and suspicion coming from Fiance alone. Our holding back is a secret encouragement to the North to continue the struggle—an implied admis sion that it is not desirable the Southern Confede racy should enter into the family of nations. We do not attempt to forecast the effect of the French dispatch. "Direct negotiations" between the North and South we believe to be impossible at the pre sent juncture. We question even whether the time for a convention of the states has yet arrived. But an armistice, givin 4 time for peaceful discussion, might not improbably convert the suspension of hostilities into their total abandonment ; and this, whether in the interests of the North or South, we should be glad to see pressed. One thing is certain —whether, as the Emperor insists, " the recollec tion of former ties or common interests is not more powerful than the causes which have brought the two peoples under arms," or whether the memory of recent outrages has raised an impassable wall of partition between the North and South, it will be an eternal disgrace to this country that she stood calmly and coldly aloof from the struggle, appar ently only occupied in turning the great trouble of her kinsmen to her own advantage. COUNTRY MARKETS. J` LYNN—TUESDAY. To-day there was a moderate attendance, and wheat in good supply. Prices were unaltered. Barley scarce, and rather advanced in price. Beans and peas came to hand slowly. White ..50s to 53s licKI .. Beans .34s to 38s New —s to —s Barley .....38s to 418 Grinding ..32s to 338 Oats .22s to 24s Peas —s to —s HULL—TUESDAY. A poor supply of English wheat to-day at market, which met a slow sale at about last week's currencies. Foreign in limited sale. Barley for malting sold steadily, at fully late rates ; grinding rather higher. Oats, beans, and peas un altered. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 50s Od to 53s Od Old red 1) New white .. „ New red .... „ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 52s Od to 57s Od Dutch, Belgian, and. French. 58s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red. . 49s Od to Os Od St. Petersburg and Ri ga , old. 50s Od to 52s Od Barley.... English malting 3ls Od to 388 Od Grinding 3os Od to 33s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 2BB Od to 29s Od Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od Oats English, old 26s Od to 28s Od Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 08131 d Swedish and Danish osl2id to osl3d Beans ....English, old, per qr. 4ss Od to 46s Od New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick. 4os Od to 42s Od Egyptian Peas....... Foreign boilers Grinding —s Od tc 38s Od Tares ....Spring . Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 5. 0 to £lO 10 0 Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 6 5 oto 610 0 Bones NEWARK--WEDNESDAY. At our market to• day there was a small supply of wheat, with a fair business, and prices about the same as last week. White wheat new, 52s to 578 Barley, grinding.. 29s to 32s Red do. 468 to 52s Oats, old, .. 2ss to 30s Old white, 57s to 63s New do 20s to 22s Red do. 55s to 57s 1 Beans. 42s to 44s Barley, malting.... 36s to 43s 1 Beans, new 34s to 38s Peas, ....44s to 48s. GAS EXPLOSION.—(By Electric and International Telegraph.)—The East Cowes gasometer exploded at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The manager, Mr. G. S. Bellows, and a son of Mr. Strickland, the steward at Park hurst Prison, were killed. Births. B EDINGPIELD.—On the 27th inst., Lady Bedingfield, of a daughter. POORE.—On the 26th inst., at Criocieth, Caernarvon, the wife of Sir Edward Poore, Bart., of a son. THRELFALL.—On the 27th inst., at Hollowforth, near Preston, Lancashire, the wife of Richard Threlfall, Esq. of a son. Marriages. Li MEURANT—MAGENIS. — On the 26th inst., at Chelten• ham, Edward Meurant, Esq., Captain 83d Regiment, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the late Colonel Magenis, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. PococK—CuLvEßßousE.--On the 27th inst.. at Saint George's, Hanover-square, Capt. Alfred G. D. Pocock, late 22d Regt., third son of Sir George Pocock, Bart., of The Priory, Christchurch, Hants, to Mary, daughter of the late Charles Culverhouse, Esq. Deaths. BOULT.—On the 24th inst., at Bath, Edmund Boult, Esq., M.D., aged 48. DODDS.—On the 27th inst., at Stratford-green, Mrs. Dodds, aged 73. HODGKINSON.—On the 26th inst., at 56, Queen's-gardens, Hyde-park, Francis Hodgkinson, Esq., aged 65. Ossonx.--On the 27th inst., at Down-end, Fareham ) Hants, Charl es Osborn, Esq., aged 65. RUSSELL. —On the 27 1 h inst., at The Priory, Now Rom ney, Kent, John Russell, Esq., aged 73, STRANGE. —On the 26th inst., at Shirley, Croydon, Chas. John Strange, of Drumcarn, co.Cavan, Major Royal Ar tillery, aged 39. TAIT.—On the 25th inst., at the Prince Consort's Shay/ Farm, Windsor, Jane, wife of Henry Tait, aged 46. :r, t , D y London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.--Thursday, January 29, 1863.