The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

FIELD-MARSHAL LORD CLYDE. On the 20th of October, 1792, there was born in Glasgow, or close by that city, then almost es quiet as in the days of Baillie Nicol Jarvie, a child in whose veins the gentle blood of the Highland lady commingled with that of the Lowland mechanic. No ray of hope or fortune illuminated his humble cradle; but by his own right hand, and by the exhibition of qualities which have raised nameless lads to for tune before now, that child came to fill a place among the foremost soldiers and highest dignitaries of the day. At a very early age he was taken from Scotland and put to school abroad and in England, and for many years he never revisited his native land. He came, by his mother's side of a martial race, and in 1808, before he was 16 years of age, one of his ma'iernal relatives sent for him to come to London from a military school at Gosport, to enter the army. The boy's uncle was well known to the Duke of York, and his request for a commission for his sister's son was at once complied with. Colin Campbell, now ensign in the East Nor folk Regiment, was at once taken to a military outfitter's—a pigtail was attached to the back of his head, a tight-fitting, epauletted, short-waisted, red coat covered with lace, a pair of leather knee breeches, and betasseled Hessian boots were also duly provided for him, and he was sent off the seme evening to Canterbury to join the 9th Regi ment of Foot, which may be said to have com menced its military career with the arrival of the young officer, as its colours, then virgin, were only about to be decorated with the names of the battles in which he first saw fire. He had no time to enjoy the pleasure of his fine uni form, for the regiment marched the next day to em bark for the Peninsula ; and Lord Clyde was wont, when a war-seasoned veteran, to recall the miseries of his first march to Margate in his leather tights and Hessians, and to declare that he endured more pain in the unaccustomed, and it may be added un suitable, attire on that occasion than he ever knew in his long afterlife of march-making. The young soldier's apprenticeship to his trade was ready, rough, and rude—no holiday, no play-time—for in three weeks from the time when he had quitted the schoolboy's desk at Gosport he saw the French in fantry cresting the hill-sides of Vimiera, and took part in the opening actions of that series of cam paigns which after many checks and some reverses, led to the liberation of thankless Spain from the yoke of Bonaparte. That the fortune of war is even more capricious than the blind goddess who regulates the ordinary matters of life, he might, no doubt, have felt after our early successes, when, with unwilling steps, he was obliged to trudge with his regiment before the columns of Soult to Corunna, where the lion turned to bay and rent his pursuer. That she is sometimes constant in her animosities he must have been assured when, scarce landed from the transport which carried him from the shores of Spain, he was ordered off to participate in the shame, suffering, and disasters of the Walcheren expedition in 1809. The fever struck into his body so keenly that, until he went to China 30 years afterwards, " Walcheren," as he said, " was with me every sea son." From Walcheren he returned to Spain in 1810, where, with better fortune and guidance, he shared in the battle of Barossa in March, 1811, and the defence of Tarifa in January 5, 1812 ; and in 1812 he was transferred t o a corps of the Spanish army, with which he was actually employed against the French in a long series of harassing skirmishes and operations, which are known to the Spaniards, but not to us, as important actions. In this year he also took part in the unsuccessful movement against the French at T arragona. Frcm his experience of their qualities in the field Lord Clyde gave a higher place than was generally accorded at the time to our Spanish allies, and was particularly struck with their powers of marching, their great sobriety and frugality. In 1813 he joined the Duke of Welling ton's army again, and plunged into the thickest of the hard fighting which took place in that memor able year. He had in his first year's service reached the grade of lieutenant ; and now, at the age of 21, he had made a name for activity, courage, and de termination, which began to be heard throughout the army. He passed unscathed through Vittoria, the greatest of our victories after Waterloo, in that quarter of the century ; but in the breach of St. Sebastian he war not so fortunate. He led a for lorn hope which rushed to the aid of the neglected stormers, and he received two wounds in that des perate encounter. On Nov. 9, 1813, he became a captain by brevet, and in that position the hero of St. Sebastian, who had now added to his wounds a bullet path through the thigh, received at the pas sage of the Bidassoa, remained for 12 long years. It was not his habit to speak of small scratches, flesh 'wounds, skin scars, and the like, but it is be lieved that by the time he left France and proceeded to America, to serve against the Federal Govern ment in 1814, he bore as many marks as the body of the saint who gave to the fortress where Sir Colin's wounds spoke for and returned themselves against his will ; for an actual sabre slice, a thorough bayonet stab, and an ingoing bullet put all modesty to shame and insisted on mention in the despatches. He had now been transferred to the 60th Rifles, and when the brief war was over in which we drove the President out of Washington after the " Races of Bladensburg," and were beaten at New Orleans, Sir Colin Campbell was left on the same rung of the ladder of promotion, and he sturdily but not contentedly hung on it till he was 33 years of age—a captain still—seeing younger men with less service and longer purses shoved or pulled up over his head. Captain Campbell had no command of the means which, well employed, might then have secured him a pester reward for his services ; but he had ample opportunity of testing every variety of climate and of seeing all kinds of service. In 1823 he served as Brigade-Major of the force employed in reducing the blacks in Demerara, where he re vived the dormant venom of his Walcheren fever. From that period the state of the world, so far as Great Britain was concerned, gave him no opportu nity of active work against an enemy, and for many years he was employed on a duty which he often spoke of as most disgusting to a soldier ; he was obliged to protect by military force the ejections and sales for the recovery of tithe, then so common in Ireland. Although he was never the advocate of the purchase system, he was much struck with the advantage of a judicious outlay of money, and he used to attribute the ultimate success of his career to his obtaining a sum which enabled him to purchase his Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Soured and angry, in the prime of life and full consciousness of P°';ver and ability, h e h a d a l mos t res i gne d hi mse lf to the career o f a ma j or on h a lf- pay , w h en t h e oppor tunity Occurredand with doubt and hesitation he avai led. himself Of it. A few hundred pounds made all the difference bet eer his dying an obscure v e t eran , and his ri se in the world as the Field-Marshal of Great Britain Whose name was in eve ry onre,ast blazed with orders, whose in the days of trial and danger, and who sate by th e be descendants of Marl borough and Wellings o , in the House of Peers, honoured by his Sovereign and When the interests of commerce county _ ta. and civilisation r_ made it necessary for Great Id • la to declare war ho ef ha e d , against China in 1842, Coli n Cara bell b ee n gazetted as Lieutenant-Colo ne l 10 y ,,, a w rs bor went out in command of the 98th, anadfsoorf.lwl r a, monthssvith his regiment w as p acked a boar d arau a neglect of all consideration for health and comfort w hich cruelly avenged itself upon officers and _ men. From China to India is a common step, though it is not attended with benefit to the Constitution. Col. Campbell had a short repose in Hindostan, but it was broken by the outbreak of the Sikh war. In virtue of his seniority he was appointed to the com mand of the Third Division of the army of the Pun jab, and he soon flamed out ou tae field with more than the old Peninsular fire, and led his men with such skill that in all the great battles i n which we stood foot to foot with the sternest foe we e ver met or are likely to meet in Indic, his soldiers appeared in the very crisis of the fight. At Ramnuggur, at Chillianwallah, where, in directing a most impor tant and timely movement, he was again wounded, and at Goojerat, he earned the name of an able general in addition to that of the thorough soldier which he had won and enjoyed so long ; but there were not wanting critics in India then as afterwards who accused him of over-caution. Now, of all men Colin Campbell was most fervent and passionate in battle—his impulse ever was to rush into the "...found very focus of the fight and kindle those him ; but his sense of duty, his ; , are Er his men's lives, his warm attachtnelit to those wLo followed him dominated the bent of his i e ation, and forced even his stern will to subm to the exi gencies of command. His critics were not disposed to be more favourable to him because he did not conceal his ill opinion of the Indian army, and consi dered the Sepoys as the mere bamboo of the lance, which was valueless unless it were tipped with the steel of British infantry. In his conduct of opera tions against the Hill Tribes in 1881-2, he displayed his usual activity, but his relations with the Indian authorities were affected by an incompatibility of views and temper. Colonel Campbell felt the diffi culty which Sir Charles Napier could not overcome in dealing with the great civilians in India. His spirit was principally moved by the indignities, which he thought undeserved, inflicted by them on the Indian princes. But it was not on these grounds that his command on the frontier was terminated. He was not regarded with favour by Indian autho rities. Colin Czmphell was now, however, on the upward path, and, though he knew it not, his star was ris ing rapidly in the ascendant. The ship of the State drifted into the Russian war, and from her decks, in 1854, marched the Glasgow boy at the head of three kilted and plumed regiments, which, fortu nate in their chief and in their place, won much honour with little loss at the Alma, and almost as much reputation, all on the famous day of with no loss at in so far as one of them was con cerned,oßpapl a o c s e l a d v t a 0 , wt he it n u t s h s e i a n thin oa v r e a d l r line y L o o f r d t t h e a 3 93 1 a d n t a o s whom Sir Colin Campbeh however, that tthmautchho wasknow onenxe cept by report, know, h ose eye never closed and whose hand never re laxed,w and thererore he covered up the right flank of his army with the Highland Brigade, and gave their General the charge of Balaclava and all its works. There he had, indeed, little of the glory of battle, but much wearying anxiety and incessant vigilance. On the retirement of Sir James Simp son from the command of the army of the Crimea, which had "devolved" upon him after Lord Rag lan's death, it was supposed that unlucky officer would have been succeeded by Sir Colin Campbell: but, to the astonishment of those capable of being astonished by anything " down there," a guardsman, who had never seen a shot fired by an enemy till he led up his division at the Alma after the fashion of Mr. Kinglake's British generals, was appointed over the head of one who had earned a soldier's name more than 40 years ago, and was known as a good general in the field long before Codrington had got his bloodless coloneley. It is not to be wondered at that the soldier, now fairly to be described as old more in respect of services than of years, felt this "accident" more than he could be fairly called on to tolerate. He went to England, and it was only at the request of one whose wish was his law that he returned to the Crimea to take a command which would no doubt worthily have employed him had not peace abruptly terminated the campaign, He had been gazetted:a Major-General in 1854. In the October of the same year he was appointed to the colonelcy of the 67th Regiment. On the 4th of June, 1856, he was made Lieutenant-General, and in that rank he fairly settled down, almost surprised at his late honours, if not quite satisfied at the part he had played in the great war wherein they were bestowed. But his opus magnum was yet to be accomplished. One : . may count on his fingers the years of peace and rest which Colin Campbell passed in his long life, but his years of active service almost comprised the half-century in which were chronicled the great and little wars in which the British standard had been lifted from the beginning of the Peninsula campaigns till the present time. When we were startled by the Indian mutiny, it was not a favourite in high places or a dilettante soldier who was selected to save our tottering empire. There was a sigh of satisfaction and content through out the country when we were told that Sir Colin Campbell had at a moment's notice, and with ala- crity best described, perhaps, as Napierish, started eff to take command of the forces engaged in putting down that which history will call the Great Mutiny. And history will tell how it was put down. From the time that Sir Colin Campbell took the field and set his columns in motion, rebel lion, the offspring of mutiny, withered and died. It is beyond our limits to describe his work. The impatient and ignorant civilians and their crea tures have best described the nature of it in the nickname they applied to him of " Kuberdar," or " Take Care." He did " take care"—took care so well that no surprise of a single detachment, no capture of one solitary post stationed by him, ever took place; took care that when once his army was in motion it flowed over the land as regularly as the tide covers the beach, and that there was no ebb thenceforth ; took care that the British sway advanced with his van, and never, where he had drawn the line of its march, was described on any other tracing, till at last he stood on the banks of the Raptoe, and, looking over the wide expanse of Hmdostan, could feel that he had made safe the supremacy of the Queen he served. He fully en tered into the spirit of Lord Canning's just and generous sentiments, and he did full justice to the inspirations which accorded so fully with the dic tates of his own heart and the counsels of his head. The sobriquet of " Clemency," attached with alli • terative propriety to the name of " Canning," and meant to be a sharp insult, is not disgraced by that of "Kuberdar," associated with the name of Camp bell. When his labours in the field were over, and he had returned home to receive the acknowledgments of the whole country, the thanks of Parliament, the approbation of his Sovereign, and the honours he so valued as a soldier, he was not permitted to rest quietly on the laurels he had gathered. The amalgamation of the great armies of the East and of the West was going on—the reconstructive pro cess was commenced, and the old soldier was harrassed with reports, references, suggestions, in terviews, councils, and memoranda on all the intri cate business relating to the judicious mixture of the silver and quicksilver of the two bodies. He had had no rest, and his frame showed that he needed rest. He sought it at Vichy with his old brother in arms of the days of Balaclava, General Vinoy. In one of his hot gallops in India his horse had fallen with him, and at times he complained unwillingly of a pain which must have come from some mis chief in the chest. At the review of the Volunteers at Brighton he took the command at the request of the higher powers ; but after it was ov er h e sa id i t was his last day in the field, and he shaved off his moustache as a sign that he had retired from ac tive service. A few months ago he had a severe illness, in which the longs and heart were impli cated, but the old shot-and-steel-rent body resisted the attack of the great enemy, and to the delight of his friends he seemed to become nearly as well as ever he had been of latter years, and no one was more firm and vigorous for his years. Still he had causes of annoyance, which were, perhaps, unduly aggrandised by failings of nature. Appointed colonel of the Coldstream Guards in 1860, Field- Marshal in 1862, Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, had attained heights far beyond the flights of his highest ambition. But he had the impossible ambition of being " left alone in his glory." It was with pain he did not attempt to conceal that he found himself made the hero of a great episode in the history of the C rimean campai gn . " I w i s h w i t h a ll my heart that book had never been written—it has caused me tion, great anxi e t y ." too, whim somewhat h w a e t re em ot b h i e t r te s r o e u d re t e h s e o d f a i y rr s it o a f his old ag e , - but t o hi s friends he was ever the same shrewd yet genial, abr u pt il . , abr u p t yet court i erlike friend they h a d known s of which h e di ed, At last came th e ill ness not desired, b rha he would h ave Ps as in hi s young d ays t as i n hi s o l d age he would have sure l y s ought to u w pass away —amid h a e: ood had by the wv—aznid the tender cares and s u bd ued sorra him well, and not th e l ess that those wh o l ove d com rade of the soldier who se f am i ly We have thus endeavoured t o trace i y a m •v h e a i 8 7 1 ) feebl e . outline the incidents in the lif e of a career affords a remarkable illustratio n of thew hose of high character in the profession o f arms, a n d - ot strength 'icliv of mind and physical constit ut i on to enable him to wait till opportunity and its golden THE SUN, Lolt , "_ 0 ' 0 " . N, Sti. - qUaDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1861 time to say that he would kill his wife "if he got hung for her." The woman threw a bucket of water over him and attempted to escape, but the prisoner followed her, and again wounded her in six places with the chisel. She was at tended by a surgeon, and was for some time in a dangerous state. For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not intend to inflict grievous bodily harm, and that being in a state of intoxication, the crime might fairly be reduced to unlawfully wounding. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and ho was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude. _ _ John Knowles, 20, was indicted for feloniously wounding Benjamin Hall, on the 23d October, 1862, on board the ship Clan Gregor, then lying in the Old Calabar river. The prosecutor was clerk and the prisoner steward on board the vessel, and a dispute bad arisen between them as to the genuineness of some yams. The prisoner became very excited, and struck Hall on the face. Nothing further took place then, but the prisoner subsequently rushed into the cabin, and returning with a carving knife, gave the pro secutor such a dreadful wound in one of his eyes that the sight was entirely destroyed, and the other eye most seriously impaired. For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not know what ho was about, as he was in drink at the time. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. Nisi PRIUS COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) PARKER. V. BRADFORD. This was an action brought by a clerk and traveller on commission residing in Johnson-street, Manchester, to re cover compensation for a false i mprisonment. Mr. James, Q.U., appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Pope for the de fendant. The plaintiff's case was that he was quietly walking along a street in Manchester, when the defendant, a washing machine maker in London and Manchester, met and stop ped him, and asked him his name and address. The plain tiff asked what business that was of Bradford's, and after some altercation accompanied him to a public house near at hand, and referred him to the landlord, who knew him, as he had been there two or three times. Plaintiff offered to go to the Ducie Arm s and other places where he was well known, but defendant refused to do ao, threatened to send for a police officer, and said, It you will put down £5O and the gold coins, and the will, you may go." Par ker took Bradford to be a madman, and he told him so. Bradford sent for two police officers and gavo the plaintiff into custody on a charge of having stolen from his estab lishment in Fleet- street, London, a cashbox containing £7O, some ancient gold coins, and a will. Plaintiff denied that he had ever been in London in his life, and now seeing that the defendant was in earnest desired him to accompany him to several persons who could prove his respectability. De fendant declined to do so. Parker was conveyed in a cab, in custody of a policeman, to the police-station, where he was locked up until next morning ; he then conclusively proved that he was not in London on the day when the robbery was committed, and the magistrates discharged him. The defence was that, on the 27th of July last year, two me n en t ered the defendant's London establish ment while he was engaged with a customer, and after being there a short time suddenly went away; that imme diately afterwards the eatl-box was missed ; and that when the plaintiff was given into custody the defendant fully believed him to be one of the men. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff —damages £6O, MURDER IN WOLVERHAMPTON. WOLVERHAMPTON, Aug. 14. A terrible crime has been committed in this town. In Bilston-street there is a wide court known as the Barracks, but correctly as No. 4 Court. It Contains about eight houses, tenanted at 2s. 3d, a week. On the occupancy of one of these there entered five or six weeks ago a young man and woman, who seemed to obtain a livelihood by making and selling forks and skewers of iron ware. On the Monday evening, about a month ago, the woman locked the house door and told a next-door neighbour that she was going out, and asked her to say if any one called that she was gone to the country. A few days after her departure a respect- able-looking woman came from Willenhall, a neighbouring township, and enquired for Mr. Williams, her Bon, who was alledged to be the tenant of the hous e and who had passed as the husband of the woman referred to. The message left by the woman was delivered,anj old Mrs. Williams desired that her son should be told to write to hr 2 mother,as she wishede to bear from him. Whether or net the wo2 mn mho be m made the the inquiries was the person she alleged herself _ the not yet transpired. After that time no one called, anct house remained closed. An offensive smell, however; for some days back has been noticed to proceed from the house, and this morning the neighbour with whom the message had been delivered by the woman-tenant began to suspect that something was wrong. At her request, a neighbour named Mary Lees procured a key and opened the door. The smell then became very strong. Lees, however, went upstairs,and saw a dead body lying in the front room. She called out to a neighbour named Smith for assistance, and they both entered the room. On the floor lay a mattress, and upon it there was stretched, covered with a sheet and coverlet, what was evidently the corpse of a man, it isneed less to say, in a horrible state of decomposition. The mur dered man, for such the deceased would seem to be, wore,as he lay in bed, only a shirt and waistcoat ; and there is no doubt that some hand must have tended him after he was unable to do anything for himself. This is clear from the manner in which his head was covered with the bed clothes. These were fastened over the face tight enough to secure suffocation, if death had not previously taken place. The colour of the hair and other circumstances convinced them that the deceased was the young man Williams, The inquest was held yesterday afternoon, Before the in quiry commenced a woman present volunteered a statement to the effect that, some time since, she had known the de ceased by the name of Bill, and she now remembered his name to be William Williams. She was able to identify him by his trousers,which on one occasion she had mended. His mother lived at Portobello, a small town near Wolver hampton. A letter addressed to him had once been left at her house, and she had known him when he lived in Bir mingham. He was not married, but had lived with a woman named Rose. This woman she had not seen for more than three weeks. She had a very bad character. Mary Lees, the woman who first found the body, and the first witness called, said,—l last saw Williams alive on Monday three weeks at the bottom of the court, and he then appeared to be in good health. On the evening of the same day I saw the woman with whom he lived go to the top at the back of the building for some water. After filling her kettle she returned to the house, and I have not seen her since. The witness then stated what the woman had said before going to the country, and the manner in which the body had been discovered. A policeman who went to the house soon after the dis covery said that a pair of trousers was found under the deceased's body. He added that in the house there were some articles found which he could prove belonged to the woman Rose, Rachel Barry corroborated the last witness in some par ticulate. The inquiry was then adjourned until the last day of this month. Dr. Gibbons, the surgeon, in the meantime, was instructed to make a careful post mortem examination of the body. moment arrives En”-` ii such a man live long enough it arrive ; for there is a time in the existence of every nation when she throws aside the frivolous courtiers who have amused her leisure, and seizes instinctively the strong arm which can avert the threatening danger. Lord Clyde's early fortune led him to the West when the Waterloo campaign was about to ennoble its heroes, and to consign the Peninsular soldiers who were not present with them to a long oblivion and obscurity. But he was known even to those who stood in his way as a master of his profession, and he loved it so well that slight and the sense of wrong could not force him to neglect his duty. Duty was to him a sen tient, warm-blooded principle, not a cold, pas sionless, brutish idol, and her first rule was in his mind, "obedience." The struggle to obey left some traces of its influence on his spirit. He could not help at times long ago comparing his position and his services with those of men above him, though he rarely spoke of himself, and there was a loftier independence in his words when he thought of these things, which might have been mistaken for anger. The more he was neglected the greater became his attachment to the soldier. No man ever studied so thoroughly and knew so intimately the character, the virtues, and the failings of that strange human aggregate which is to so many offi cers a mere locomotive creature, to be drilled and wheeled, and reviewed, to be paraded, and black celled, and be-striped, to be " kept in his proper place "—to be cursed at on occasion too—as Lord Clyde. His rugged brow knitted fiercely and his eye flashed no doubtful fire if he heard a word spoken to the soldier's disparagement, or detected any ac tion to his detriment. Though he did not call them his children, they were dear to the childless old chief; and, if he addressed them, his words flowed with an eloquence and sympathetic charm which de serted his lips when he had to speak to less congenial audience. When in India the authorities determined on transferring the European soldiers of the Company to the army of the Crown, without seeking their consent, he pointed out to them the injustice ana the consequences of the step, and resisted it by every means in his power ; but when the Government had resolved to adhere to its policy he repressed the in • subordinate outbreaks he had prophesied with vigour and determination. A nature like his must be earnest in love and in hate, and he dwelt little on the neutral ground which lies between them. But his affections were ineradicable by anything but ingratitude, and that stung him like a serpent's tooth. If he was gratified with the honours he had learned, he felt their value was for him well nigh buried in the graves of those for whose sakes he would have exulted to have won them. They had come too late for full fruition. In person Lord Clyde was well knit, symmetrical, and graceful; but of late years his shoulders became somewhat bowed, though he lost little of the acti vity which was remarkable in so old a man. To the last his teeth remained full and firm in the great square jaws, and his eye pierced the distance with all the force of his youthful vision. His crisp, grey locks still stood close and thick, curling over the head and above the wrinkled brow, and there were few external signs of the decay of nature which was, no doubt, going on within, accelerated by so many wounds, such fevers, such relentless, exacting service. When he so willed it, he could throw into his manner and conversation such a wondrous charm of simplicity and vivacity as fascinated those (A er whom it was exerted, and women admired and men were delighted with the courteous, polishea, gallant old soldier. In the other mood he could be quite as effective. The nation will, doubtless, accord to his remains the mark of respect and gratitude due to their most faithful servants. No better soldier has ever been borne within the sacred walls of our Christian Pantheon. When England needs one to defend her flag, to vindicate her honour, and to uphold the renown of her arms, may she ever find a champion as trusty, as pure, and as true as Colin Campbell Lord Clyde !—Times. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—CuoiDow, Aug. 14. (Before Baron Bramwell and Special Juries.) BOWES AND ANOTHER V. PONTIFF.% AND ANOTHER, This was an action upon a contract to recover the price agreed upon for a large quaatity of old metal supplied to the defendants, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. C. Pollock, were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Beresford were for the defendants. The plaintiffs were metal merchants, and the defendants carry on an extensive business of the same description in the City, It appeared that they had contracted with the plaintiffs for the supply of a considerable quantity of old metal, and the ground upon which the claim was resisted was that the metal supplied was not according to sample. The case was one entirely devoid of public interest. The jury in the result found a verdict for the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed, less .%0, which was allowed on account of some of the metal being of an inferior descrip tion. TEALE N. WILHELMS. This was an action to recover £135 for goods supplied to the defendant. Mr. Hawkins, QC., Sergeant Ballantine, and Mr. Pren tice were for the plaintiff; and Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Murphy were for the defendant. The plaintiff is a woollen merchant at Leeds, and it ap peared that the goods in question were supplied by him to a person named Ellis, who carried on the business of a tailor in Basinghall-street, and who has absconded, and, it was stated, had made away with himself. The ground upon which the defendant—who carries on an extensive business as a tailor and outfitter in the Poultry—was sought to be made liable in this action was that he was a partner of The case was like y to occupy the whole of 1 he remainder of the day, if not to be adjourned. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, Aug. 14. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) SENTENCES. This lordship passed sentence upon the following pri soners :—Wm. Joh nson, Wm. Murra y , and Joseph Owen (all youths of 17 ) , charged with burglary at Liverpo ol- Jahnson to six months, and the others to 12 months' im prisonment; Henry James, 23, burglary at Liverpool, 18 months imprisonment; John Wilson, burglary at Salford (previously convicted), four years penal servitude ; Mary Carr, burglary at Salford, six months imprisonment; John Smith, for the manslaughter of his wife at Manchester, 18 months imprisonment. ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AT LIVERPOOL. Thomas Finnerty, 29, and Catherine M'Grath, 30, Were charged with assaulting and robbing John Laing, at Liver pool, on 31st May last. Laing, it appeared met the female prisoner in Chapel-street, and went with her to various publichouses, upon leaving one of which he was seized by Finnerty, who grasped him from behind, knocked down, and then robbed of his watch b y the two p r isoners. The police were on the alert, and though Finnerty was captured almost immediately, the female pri soner was not captured until the following day. The watch was not recovered, but the pri soners having been clearly iden tified, the jury found both guilty. Finnerty (who had been previously convicted) was sentenced to 10 years penal servitude, and M‘Grath to 15 months imprisonment. Stephen Nixon, 19, was charged with stabbing Thomas Partington, a waste-dealer, on the evening of 13th June last, in Salford. Partington was going home through a pas sage which led to his house when he m et the prisoner, who asked him for money, at the same time using a threat to the effect that if the money was not forthcoming he would have Partington's life. Partington declined to give prisoner any money, and being somewhat alarmed he went back for assist ance, and returned shortly afterwards. As Nixon was still there, and apparently determined to resist the entrance of prosecutor into his house, a scuffle took place, during which Partington was stabbed in the shoulder, though with what kind of weapon did not appear. Not content with stabbing. Partington, Nixon followed him into the house, and threatened to repeat his violence, but did not do so. In defending the prisoner the learned couns3l urged that ho did not intend to do any grievous bodily harm, but that be was empowered to collect a debt due from Partington, and that having become excited in the scuffle which had taken place, he had imprudently stabbed the prosecutor under the influence of that excitement. The prisoner was found guilty of unlawfully wounding, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Thomas Boswell, described as a French polisher, was charged with stabbing his wife, Mary Boswell, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. On the 3d of June the prisoner, came home to his house, in King-street, South - port, very much intoxicated, and a violent quarrel took place between him and his wife. Later in the day the wife sought protection from her husband's violence at the house of a neighbour, named Stevenson. While she was ther e the prisoner was observed breaking all the furniture in the house, and Mrs. Stevenson remonstrated with him , but without effect. Subsequently the prisoner and his wif e met again at their own h ouse , when the prisoner exclaimed, " You -- chisel (which he are here are you 2" and taking a join er's had previously been noticed to be sharpen ing) he stru in flitting his wif e on th e b ac k w ith th e sharp edge, in - U , sser ous injuries, The prisoner was heard at the same A Horse-Trainer Charged with Libel. Yesterday a wilt of inquiry w as executed at the Town Hall Croyd on, b y the Under Sheriff o f Surrey,orlibel brought Arr. C. Ab bott, to asse ss th e d amages in an ac ti o n for a nd who f by Mr, Syd ney J acobs, an owner of r horses, is well kn own upon the turf, a gainst Robert I'Anson, the t trainer, in whi c h j u d gment was a llowed to go by default. Mr. Joy ce was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Robin son for the defendant. d said that the plain- Mr. Joyce addressed the jury, a trainer, and brother and the defendant was well known . a the north of England. to a more celebrated man residing intendant had the care of In the beginning of the year the de 1 intiff called Passion tiff had been for many years connecatnesd with racing matters, and Duchess of Kent ; but in February two race-horses belonging to the P butstill remained at the latter sold thee they to a gentlem an named Simons, the defendant's stables. After they had them, and on th e l been ther e some time, Mr. Si mons was desirous to m 10th of Jun e h e went down to gikl of doing so. Th e defendant was not at home, and his wif e remove for the purp ose 1 , objected to th e h orses being take— away, a nd h e was there forem. On the f o ll ow i ng obliged t o return w ithout the day he received t h e letter tha t was the subject of the ae• tion. The le arne d counsel rea d the letter, which contained the followin g passages— " I am not surprised that y ou should have come down to Mickleham to remove th e . . horses, at a ti me w h en you k ne w I was away. yourself to play into ;he . and tlo his dirty work for the subject of the him." This was the portion which w " Jacobs with having libel; but the letter went on to charge the stables, and stated attempted to bribe the boys about until the defendant that the horses should not be removedhim, a ddi n g that he did hands of that I wonder tbi ef yot t Jacobs,can allow had been paid what Jacobs owed 'l as the poor people about not care so much about the'd plaintiffot ask for vindictive damages, Mickleham, to w hom I learned counsel said he di n admitted the libel, and they ought but the defendant had tas would clear his character in to award such an amount show that there was no founda tion owed money. The the eyes of the world, a was ' then examined, and said : He Mr. H. M. Simons practising in Walworth, and he also was a medical manracing matters. He knew the plain took an interest inconnected with the turf, and in the beginning tiff as being sed ea . two horses of him which were at of the year he ruc— tion fo r the serious c harge that had been made against him g with the defendant, Mr. I'Anson. At the time in trainin g obs he continued to keep the horses the request of Mr. purchased them, but about the reasons which it was not necessary for month of June, for was desirous to remove the horses, and at Mickleham him to mention, he defendants stables for that purpose; he went down to the me, and his wife objected to the horses but he was not at u h d o be came away without them. H e being removed, and the letter which was the subject of the afterwards received the plaintiff." t to libel, and showeddi: - Witness was a surgeon by profession, Cross-examine little racing with it at times. He had but he combined a . ~, , regularly for a few months since he only followed rTonse horses. He had known Jacobs a good had purchased t s not related either to himself or his He W n after he had many years. _ a ware that he kn ew a good deal about wife ; but he w as racing matters, and he therefore con su lt e d him. The de d, had been his train er f or a consider fondant, ho beli ev able e time. Mr, Robinson asked the witness w h ether he had not time these horses were sought to be re heard that at the owed I'Anson a considerable sum ? moved, Jacobs d to the • • b:eete question being put; but the Mr. Joyce 0 J that it was • • If ruled admissible. Under-Sheri Th e witness then s aid h e m i ght have heard so, bit he knew nothing about it. He was aware that Hampt on R aces took place on th but be did no t go d own that day to f e t c h pa r ticularly on the horses, because he th oug ht the defendant would be at the races. He had heard that the defendant . had sent an apo l ogy in writing to the solicitor f o r the Plaintiff, but h e never saw it. One of Passion, was dead; up the other. They had both run since they had been wit ness's property. Passion ran at Epsom, and the Duchess of Kent at Reigate, and the latter was in the Oaks the fol lowing year. the hor se ran in the name of Madeleine, name suggested which was a by Mr. Jacobs on account of its being an uncommon one. He acted under the advice of Mr. Jacobs in all matters relating to racing. Witness had brought an action against the defendant to recover £3OO, the value of the horses, and for neglect in training them. Upon one occasion the witness accepted an engagement for a horse called V u steer, and b ecame responsible for the amo unt of the sta Ikes,t. and he did so at the request of Mr. Jacobs. Mr. Robinson then addressed the jury on behalf of the de fendant in mitigation of damages. He said he did not dis pute that the defendant had acted improperly in writing the letter, but immediately afterwards he had made all the re paration in his power, and he submitted that this was all that could be expected, and that the present action ought never to have been brought against him, the only object of which was to gratify a feeling of vindictiveness and saddle him with expenses and law charges. He commented upon the absence of the plaintiff, and said if he had been called as a witness, he should have been enabled to have elicited from him whether there Was any truth in the suggestion that at the time the attempt was made to remove the horses Jacobs was indebted to defendant a considerable sum for training and other expenses. He said, hewever, that, as the case stood at present, he thought the jury could not entertain any doubt of this fact; and it was clear that the defend ant was under the i mpression that the pretended salet theof the horses to Simons was merely a juggle to shil sion ownership, and enable the latter to obtain Pesa to of the horses, which he considered he was entitled keep until the lien which he had upon them waB dis charged. He went on to contend that it was very • natural and for the defendant to be under such an impression, taken of also that he should think that advantage had been to go to knowing that he would be at the Hampton Races and his stables during his absence and carry out the project, bethe case, that, upon his return at night, finding this to t the races, and probably a little excited from having been a ever, apoio. he wrote the letter in question. He h 9•41, however, that g ised immed iately ; and he submitted, n i damage " whatever, the plaintiff had in reality sustained ne verdict. and he hoped the jury would say so by their returned a verdict for The jury, aft er a short deliberation, casof this the plaintiff, d amages one farthing. Th e effect ver dict will be th a t each party pays his own t [ADVERTISEMEN'T.] —Holloway's Pills.— Timely Precau tion.7-Who can with certainty predict the ultimate issue of a di ordered stoma c h if it be neglected ? Fever , diarrhoe a , and even cholera, are too often the pen alties of such ne g lect. It should be ev erywhere known th a t Holloway's Pills effec . tually prevent th ese d i sastrous c onsequences. This purify ing medicine should be taken at once to stem the formi dable symptoms, or the opportunity of doing so may be lost for ever, and a few days' delay even may be fatal. Each succeeding dose gradually reg ulates the stomach, liver, and bowels. When th e ) weat h er is sultry, the system is weakened and malaria abundant, the digestion of its organs should be kept in order by treatment so simple, yet so productive of comfort, security, and strength. _ The Loss of the Channel Steamer Paris. Yesterda ---7..-- y mornin g an official investigation, instituted by direction of the Board of Trade, took place at the Green wich Police -court before Mr. Traill, police magistrate, into the circumktances attending the total loss of the steamer Paris, Hemmings, master, one of the Maples' Channel Line, which was wrecked off Jersey on the morning of the 28th July last. Mr. F H. Hemel, barrister, attended to conduct the,case, and having briefly narrated the facts as disclosed in evi dence, called John P. Manger, of Guernsey, who said he held a certi ficate of competency as master in the home trade, dated July, 1859, and was chief mate of the Paris. The vessel left St. Male about six o'clock on the morning of July 28, with a crew of 23 (including the master and pilot), and 20 pas sengers. She was well found and properly equipped, and the weather on leaving St. Malo was fine, bright, and calm. At half-past 8, after rounding the west end of the Miniquib he went on to the bridge and spoke to the captain and pilot. The captain told him to go aft and give the course to haul the ship up from N. to N.E. ± N. He (witness) remarked to the pilot that the marks on the middle passage, two flag posts, were not clear, and the pilot handed him the glasses to see whether the flag- posts were one, whiehwould be right for the middle passage. The vessel was then four or five miles from the Grunot rocks, and witness could not see whether the flag posts were in two or one. A quarter of an hour after he left the bridge, and went forward to get the anchor ready, The vessel was then entering on the Silliette passage, the marks of which were open, the western mar tello tower being to the eastward. On looking ahead of the vessel he saw the Grunot rocks about 10 or 15 yards from the ship on the port bow, and exclaimed to one of the crew, "My God, we are going on the rocks." At the same moment she struck heavily on the rocks and passed over. The engineer called out from below, " Get out your boats, you have not a moment to lose," and the captain gave orders to lower the boats and the engines to be stopped. The boats were immediately lowered, and about seven minutes after, as they were leaving with the passengers and crew, the stewardess was seen to come out of the cabin. The captain got out of the boat, but as the ship was then sinking he called to the stewardess to jump into the sea, and he would pick her up. She did so, and a Frenchman jumped out of the lifeboat and held her up until they succeeded in getting her into the boat. The ship went down immediately afterwards. Thomas Avis, an able seaman, said he was at the wheel at the time the vessel struck. At the moment she struck the pilot called out " hard a-port," and the captain called out " hard a-starboard." They both called out the same order again, and witness was baffled, and put the helm hard a-starboard. After she passed over the rocks witness found the vessel would not answer her helm, and he got into the lifeboat. David Simpson, chief engineer, also gave evidence of feeling the vessel go over the rocks, and described the shock as if she had grated across something. The water imme diately rushed into the engine-room, and having eased the valves, to prevent an explosion occurring, he left the vessel in the boat. De la Cour, the pilot in charge of the vessel, was the next witness. He said be belonged to Jersey, and had held a pilot's certificate of competency four years, but the authori• ties at Jersey had deprived him of it since the present occur rence. He was engaged at Jersey by the agent of the com pany to which the Paris steamer belonged to go on board as pilot, the agreement being that he was to be paid 355. per week for his services. On going on board, and before leaving the harbour at Jersey, the captain told him to go and hide himself, as he thought a pilot named Finnie was coming on board. Witness went and secreted himself in the fore-cabin, and as Finnie did not come on board he came from the fore-cabin on the vessel getting away from the pier heads, and piloted the vessel to St. Malo. Wit ness had no other duty to perform, and when the marks of passages were visible then he considered his duties as pilot commenced. On the morning of the wreck the captain said the marks of the Silliette Passage were just open, and he (witness) gave orders for the vessel to be kept to the southward ; but the captain said, " No, let her go towards the Ruandiere," a reef with a buoy on it. The vessel struck in about two minutes after he gave the order to keep her to the southward, and on hearing the captain's order he be came thunderstruck, and said nothing. After the vessel struck, the captain. addressing him, said, "You are a pretty fellow;" and witness replied, " If you had done as I told you this would not have happened." The captain made no answer. When five or: six miles from where the vessel struck, the captain asked him what passage he meant to take, and he told him the middle passage. The captain, on asking him this question, said " Cut it as short as possible to-day, and let us be in first," meaning thereby not to let the Wonder steamer, which left St. Male about five minutes after the Paris, and which had been in sight nearly all the way, got before them. Witness replied that the middle passage was the shortest and safest, and he should take that passage. He never told the captain that he should take the Silliette Passage. Captain Hemmings here said that the witness distinctly told him he should take the Silliette Passage, and that on the vessel sinking on the rocks he (De la Cour) stamped twice on the deck and exclaimed, " Silliette I Silliette I" meaning thereby that he thought the vessel was upon the Silliette rocks. The witness De la Cour denied this statement in Coto. Captain Hemmings, in answer to the Court, said that the pilotage dues for the Paris would amount to £3 17s per week, and these duties were to be performed by De la Cour. Captain Harris remarked that, had the vessel been in sured, which he understood was not the case, the entering into such an engagement would have prevented the com pany recovering the amount of insurance. Mr. Traill said such a proceeding was a direct evasion of the pilot laws, as De la Cour, being so engaged, was to all intents and purposes eno of the crew, and although called a pilot he had not that authority, as he was under the cap tain's order. His (Mr, Train's) opinion was that the duties of a pilot had been most abominably performed-- that nothing could have been worse, and that the cabin boy could not have been more inefficient. The witness Manger was recalled, and stated that he un derstood from the captain that De la Cour was to act in the capacity of pilot and second mate. Witness had been five months on board the Paris, and never knew a pilot taken on board before in their passage to the eastward. Captain Harris expressed surprise at this admission, and asked whether the pilotage dues were not payable, notwith standing the services of a pilot were not rendered. Captain Hemmings replied in the negative, and handed in a long written statement as to the circumstances attend ing the loss of the ship, alleging that De la Cour, as pilot, was wholly responsible. The Court having consulted together for some time, Mr. Traill said the inquiry was most important, and the misconduct of the captain so gross, in leaving the pilot De la Cour in the manner described, that it would be a ques tion whether the Court would not feel themselves called upon to deal with his certificate. The case required very serious consideration, and in order to consider their decision the inquiry would stand adjourned. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. POST.—After much and anxious consideration, three rejoinders to Prince Gortschakoff's three de spatches have at last been forwarded to St. Peters burg. It was proposed at one time that the three should be welded into one strong identical note ; but upon reflection it has been thought more judicious to persevere as we began, and to retain our identity of character, though imbued with similarity of purpose. This will best allow of -itable answers being returned to Prince Gods ' 8 " - if, who, having been more civil in his lan ' chako- • than to the French, will now receive gouge to met ally a sharper rejoinder than we from our nears_ give. The object of all is, how are called upon to t• sen ze ;• ! . ind we believe we shall ever, strictly the e affirm that the three prove to be correct when v, : s nearly as possible, notes will be found to have, ise of the three identical conclusions. The purc vance of the Powers is to bring Russia to the obse: provisions of the Treaties of 18 15 with aspect to Poland. In that attempt the three are acting' as one and none will take action without the others. All notion of coercion has passed away for the present. , For ourselves, we regret this, because we doubt of ' obtaining what we wish by diluted diplomacy. Had we firmly held our course, and had the three Powers taken up a strong and positive position, Russia must either have given way at once, or must have yielded in a short time to the great pressure brought to bear on her. There would have been no neces sity for war in the common acceptation of the term. There would have been no question of give and take in blows to be dealt; no great struggle— the colossus of the North would have been held paralysed in the grip of all Europe. From Sweden to Turkey a vast encircling pressure might have been applied which would have been irresistible in its force. Tnat this is the truth is proved by the article which we publish in another column from the Gazette of Moscow. That journal, full of the notion that we would, if necessary, take up a hostile position with out war, writhes in anticipated impotence and pain, and cries aloud against the wiciedness of a policy which, after all, would have been but the em bodiment of the moral force of universal opinion. If, however, the step the three Powers now take is not so trenchant as we could hare wished, it is not to be interpreted as a sign of vascillation in their general intentions. Prince Gortschakoff will do well to read the signs of the times honestly and simply as they are written. He has failed to detach Austria from our alliance. Let him not think on the one hand that England and Austria are holding back from France, or, on the other, that he could provoke France into a false position, and precipitate her into isolated hostilities. He would only encounter another failure in any such attempt. France will not step one foot without her allies. He should therefore look his opponents in the face, and resign for ever the idea of cajoling, seducing, or irritating any of them into divergent action. If the more formidable aspect of the question is adjourned, it is only from the con viction that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg must now realise the truth of its position and the neces sity of a return within the limits of treaties. If the warning now given be again misinterpreted, and if, as there is every prospect, the Poles sustain the arduous struggle in which they are engaged, th, question will ultimately have to be put in the most decisive form—a rorm in which Russia cannot afford to meet it. The great empire is much disorganised, badly off in its finances, and indifferently supplied with military resources. Bombast is a favourite Russian weapon, but on this occasion its empty sound will produce no effect, and we therefore hope we shall have no more of it. Our demands must he met in a spirit partaking of the sincerity in which they are made. We have every desire to avoid even the semblance of danger to the general peace. Neither ourselves nor our allies have the least present hostile intention, and we should only adopt coercive measures in the last resort when they are forced upon us. But step by step, in negotiation or in action, we shall advance together in the inten tion of obtaining from Russia the recognition of what is just, and a consummation claimed by the voice of Europe. HERALD.—The removal of Sir James Hudson from the post of British representative at the Court of Turin, and his replacement by the Hon. Mr_ Elliot, savour very strongly of a rank Whig job. job. We say the removal of Sir James Hudson, because his voluntary resignation is out of the ques tion. He has far more than eleven years given, in the name of England, the warmest encouragement and aid to the policy of aggrandisement which King Victor Emmanuel and his Ministers have so suc cessfully pursued. The Italian kingdom is almost a child of his begetting, and he would not withdraw his fostering care from the bantling of his own free will. His devoted zeal and his great services have been cordially recognised by the King and by all classes of Italian politicians, and he enjoys an in fluence and an esteem which no foreign Minister has ever possessed in any country, and which most assuredly he could not acquire in any other capacity. If England is the country of his birth, Italy is that of his adoption, all his interests are centered in her fortunes, and he could have desired nothing more than to continue—with some increase of dignity and emolument perhaps, if possible, but if that could not be obtained readily, without it—in a po sition which enables him to advance so greatly her cause. Sir James Hudson has only resigned upon compulsion, and the fact that Mr. Elliot succeeds him would indicate that the only reason for the compulsion was the desire on the part of Earl Rus tell to find his relative a comfortable position. Mr. Elliot has of late had no regular employment. He has been sent upon a special mission or two, which, as the case of Greece, had no other reason something of certain, the than to give him somethi ng to d o. H e naturally began tolongfor anxious, as a judicious observer chances an d of i politics, to get it at once. His eye had long been upon Sir James Hudson's place; he nearly got it two or three years ago, but the loud and indig nant outcry which was raised as soon as the plot was revealed, frightened Lord Russell and saved Sir James Hudson. This time it • is supposed all will be right. Parliament is not sitting, and no inconvenient inquiries are to be feared. The business will be concluded, Sir James Hudson will be in retirement, or employed in some other part of the world, before the two houses meet again, and then of course very little can be said or done. The matter will have long been settled, and after a few taunts at the noble lord's inherent jobbery the fait accompli will be accepted. We have never been admirers of Sir James Hudson. Whilst recognising his ability we have often had the conviction forced upon us that he has regarded much more the interests of Italy than of England, and that his object throughout his residence at Turin has not been so much to serve the country in whose name he was accredited as to advance the projects of King Victor Emmanuel and hie advisers. His dispatches betray a desire rather to represent every thing in the most favourable light for the Piedmon tese, to bolster up the mistakes and deceptions of their Ministers, than to give a truthful and accurate picture o f th e rea l cond i t i on of affairs. But if he ' did thus dress up his wares, he sent them to a mar ket which would only receive them so prepared. If Sir James Hudson is an enthusiast for the kingdom of Italy; if he has palliated all the mistakes of its Ministers; if he has tried to explain away all the steps that they have taken injurious to British in terests, to make out Naples peaceful and contented, to prove that England alone would be advantaged by unity under Piedmontese rule, Lords Palmerston and Russell have done just the same thing, and have made their friendship to the new kingdom the chief part of their stock in trade. And there can be no doubt that Sir James Hudson is the great mainstay of such British influence as there is in Turin. The Ministers of the King and the King himself sought his advice, and acted upon it when ever the neces sities of their obligations to France and their posi tion towards the party of action allowed them to do so. Mr. Elliot will only follow, with less know ledge and far less influence, in the path which Sir James Hudson has pursued. We have in Turin a first-rate man for the place so long as the policy of the last three or four years is to be pursued, and we get rid of him, and appoint a man of whom the best thing that can be said is that nobody knows any great harm of him. Our Italian policy now co nsists in a struggle for influence with France; we seek to drive her out of Rome and destroy her natural influence over the Italian Go vernment. It is not a policy which holds out much chance of success ; not a policy, perhaps, the success of which would be worth anything; but it is our Policy, and Sir James Hudson was the only man who could pursue it with any chance of success. His heart was in the work ; he had a rare know ledge of the instruments by which to advance it; and yet our Whig Government, to find a place for a member of a family of place-bunters, to provide for a poor relation of the Foreign Minister, removes this one capable man, and substitutes for him a person who has never shown that he possesses more ability than would justify his appointment to a clerkship in the Excise. There are, indeed, two cases in which the removal of Sir James Hudson would be legitimate. If the Government has deter- , mined to change its policy towards Italy it would be judicious to transfer Sir James Hudson to some other post, and replace him by some diplomatist not committed as he is. Sir James Hudson way hive committed some act of insubordination or indiscre tion which necessitates his recal. But in either of these cases—the first 3f which is hardly possible, the removal of Sir James Hudson would be fully justified, the choice of his successor would remain a rank job; If it had been necessary to remove from Turin the man who had represented this coun try there through eleven so eventful years, a wor thier successor might have been found for him than Mr. Elliot, WE° will be British envoy at Turin not by right of his special ability, great expe rience, or long services, but by his close relation ship to a leading member of a shamelessly corrupt Administration. The removal may possibly be justified; the appointment cannot even be excused. COUNTRY MARKETS. I,` LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. At this day's market there was a slow trade in wheat, and prices must be quoted ld per cental lower. Barley, beans, and peas at former rates. Oats difficult to sell. Indian corn offered, and closed 3d pr quarter cheaper. Oatmeal neglected. Flour (American) a slow inquirh but unaltered in value. WAKEFIELD-FRIDAY. New wheat is 2s to 3s per qr lower than the quotations of last market day. Old wheat may be quoted at a slight decllne. Other articles were unaltered. Averages for the week : Whe3t 1,259 qrs., at 47s 9d Rye — —s Od Oats , — Beans ... 77 EXE TER-FEIDAY. --- - Wheat, white.. 6s 3d to 6s 4d I Barley. 3s 6d to 48 3 d Ditto red. .6s Od to 6s 3d Oats 9d to 3s Od Flour, fine, 35s to 36s ; secOlds,i 34s to —s per sack. CATTLE. Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 11s6d Ewes per lb .... 5d to 60 Pork carcases, 7s Od to 8s Od I Wethers, d 0.... . 7d to —d Lamb, p lb., .....—d to —d Fat calves, d0...61d to ld. Rough fat, aid per lb. STAYIFORD-FRIDAY. Wheat in some instances to-day receded is per qr in price. —White wheat, 48s to —s . ;: red, 44s to 46s per:36 stone. Barley, malting, 36s to 408; grinding, 30s to 35s per qr. Oats, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 41s to —s per qr.; new, 38s to —s. BRISTOL SUGAR-I'RIDAY. The market this week has not been Ezctive, and buyers seem inclined to use up their stocks rather than increase them at the present rates. Refined goods dull, and sell only at very low rates. In rum very little doing. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. 1863. 1862: X £ Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,456 2,404 Belfast and County Down 49 49 771 688 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,998 1,93 u Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1214 7,973 7, 502 Caledonian 234 234 17,919 17,39 0 Cockermouth& Workington Bl 81 312 324 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 396 4 05 Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 64 64 246 23 0 Cork and Youghal...- 321 324 468 402 Cornwall 531 531 1,718 1, 711 Deeside l7 17 • 562 545 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 2 , 056 1,952 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,439 1, 478 Dublin and Meath - - Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 541 481 3,046 2,417 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 _ Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691 9,097 8.301 Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30 Furness, &o 5O 51) 3,037 2,586 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union - 663 64i 32,560 32,668 Great Northern 351 351 34,334 33,255 Great North of Scotland 6B 58 2,962 2.5 12 Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 561 432 359 Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3541 329 9,068 8,954 Great Western 10564 1004/ 67,050 70.791 Inverness & Aberdeen June- Irish North-Western 145 145 1,693 2.023 Lancashire & Yorkshire 39 395 39,240 35.632 Limerick and Ennis... 24 2 190 215 Limerick and Foynes 2 2 93 172 Llanelly 4 " 4 831 700 London &North-Western - 12044 11651 111,645 111,063 London and Blackwall 54 51 2,167 2,181 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 250/ 2411 26,667 27,710 London, Chatham, & Dover 721 724 6,533 6,68 3 Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 - 1,430 - Lond., Tilbuiy, & Southend Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh - 2394 2391 16,555 15,153 Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9.1 91 1,394 1,24 3 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,325 LW Metropolitan 3l - 1,885 - Midland (incL N.-Western) 641 6141 46,446 43,3 02 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. - 2291 192/ 4,914 4,3 65 Monkland 7li 711 1,419 1. 635 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,665 2,551 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 10654 60,384 55,365 North London 9 9 3,438 3, 300 North Staffordshire 254 252 9,896 9,358 Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42 1,273 1,141 Rhymney 194 194 948 900 St. Helen's Canal & Railway.. 52 52 2,002 1,904 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 6,210 5.838 Somerset and Dorset 394 391 492 481 South Devon ...-.....- 751 751 4.535 4,363 South-Eastern. Taff Va1e.........., 55 55 5,755 5 ,7 00 Ulster 641 511 2,123 1,950 Vale of C1wyd......... lO 10 285 F, 3 „ ° ., Vale of Neath 321 251 2,621 I .z Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 301 `'' r „ - W wi l:l it a:t ha le v p en oo Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,406 1 .,',,,'" West Cornwall 271 271 771 0 ,,,"" Junction I l u n a :t b i o r . 1: 14 . 7. L . : : 1 3 2 9 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 608 44 .,,K 3 12 9 824 . -1 % Whitehaven&FurnesS•Jun 35 35 8 8 7 67 7 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,470 1,4 0 6 _ Austrians,9lo 4. 060 828 828 80,025 34,6 3 y, Belgian Eastern Junction 26/ 261 297 32 ' Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1854 1 _ ...„, Buffalo and Lake Huron,,,,, 1611 1614 1 , 353 1,3" Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish .........1081 1081 5,704 5,q? Eastern of France....... .... 1078 1060 50,160 54,1 01 East Indian . . .. - ._ 1 -. - Grand Trunk of Canada Great Indian Peninsula .. 5381 4374 11,211 5, 417 . Great Luxembourg .... 134 134 4,438 4. 321 Great Southern of India . Great Western of Canada . ....: 345 345 8,910 5, 78 2 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 499 435 17,891 11, 771 Northern of Canada . Northern of France 897 691 53,806 -. Norwegian Trunk Ottoman .. ... 81 40 361 203 ~. Paris, Lyons, .. Mediterrn 1491 1354 124,8,9 126,9b 3 Paris and Orleans Pernambuco 774 - 625 -- Royal Danish 69 69 77f 675 Sambre and Meuse .......... • 68 1,35 i 1,35 0 South Austrian Southern of France •••••••... • Victorian 196 Welland.... ........... .• • .. • West Flander s W. and N.W. of France 758 Railways. 1863. 1862. 1315 777 151 28,915 25,65 7 7,779 4, 894 264 502 1,000 1,030 43,775 43,669 Foreign. Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Aug, 18. via Marseilles Aug. 13. Arazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Sept. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Au g . 18. via Marseilles Aug. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .................. Aug. 18. India (Calcutta), and Ceylo n , v i a Southampton.. Aug. 18. via M arseilles.... Aug. 13. India (Bombay), vviiaa Marseilles.... ..... Aug. 25. Aug. 20. Portugal.... ............................ Sept. 3. Malta, Egypt, and Ade n , v i a S outhampton Aug. --•— via Mar se ill es Aug. 13. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. A mer i ca, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 19, by U.S. packet.... b Cadan 'W.O. of Afric a , M a d e i ra, and Te y ne an riffe . i . l4. Aug packet. Aug.. ---• Bahamas, via New York Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, California. a n d B r iti s h C o l um bi a. . Per; Aug. 13. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 45. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in uackets. Births. BAGLEY. On the Bagley, Esq., of a d 13thaug inst.,r. at Brighton, the Wife of Hry. inst., COTTAM.-011 tbe 13th at ' W imbledon, th e w if e o f . w — a On etohtetar2t,hEianqs.t,.,oai t a D d o a v u er gh t t t e i r i . Pr E rr d B Wife of Capt a in T. Pitt, R.A., of a daughter. VAVAssEURf a daughter. —On the 11th i nst., at Epsom, Mrs.Vavasseurp o, Marriage s . GRovE--HILLs.—On the 12th inst., at St. George's, Hand over- sq., square, A n Hniz the elde s t d aughter of W. R. Grove, moreland. E Q.C., to H. A. Hills, Esq., o f Rydal Mount, West' WILKS—BAKER.—On the 13th inst., at Richmond,Surreiv tG.he Rev. Theodore Chambers eldest son of th e R ev . S• Wilks, M.A. , rector of Nursling, to Agnes Maria, the youngest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Sir H. L Baker, Bart., C. 8.• Deaths. BAGNALL.—O n the 12th inst., William B agna ll , E sq ., °I H ametead Hall, Handswoth, nea r Bi rm i ngham , ag e' 67. CARDEN.=--On the 10th inst., suddenly, at Endon, near 40.Pershore, Wo rcestershire, th e R ev. Arthur Carden, age GREEN. —On the 14th inst., at Streatham, William Henry HOBBSn.— Gree, Esq., of Hong Kong, age d 31. On the 10th inst., at her residence, Colchester! Mrs. Hobbs, mother of M r . F isher Hobbs, of Boated Lodge, aged 89. Magnay, Esq., fifth son of the late Alderman MAGNAL—On the 13th inst., at Russe ll-square n C. 14 George ag sa Yt Ru a N ge N Gl A 6 cts.—On the 9th inst., at C omarques, T uor pAle. --• Socken, Essex, Captain Runnacles, ILL, ag ed 67. London : Printed and Pubilshed by WILLIAM ANDREWS' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office No. 112, County Strand, in the Pre c i nct of the Savoy, in the Coun of Middlesex,—Saturday, August 15, 1863.