The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-07 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The detachment of non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers selected to proceed to India to take the place of the late East Lad is Com pany's engineers have received orders to Taold them selves in readiness for embarkation, and, according to present arrangements, will leave head quarters, Chatham, about the middle of the present month, and embark for Calcutta. The whole of the non commissioned officers and men who have been placed under orders for India have been selected from the depot and other companies at the Royal Engineer establishment. By directic.n of Co!. Har ness, C. 8., they have been relieved from all duty at head quarters, in order that they may devote the whole of their time to the completion of their studies at the various schools. Lieut,-Col. H. Schaw, Royal Engineers, who superintended the demolition of the forts and other defences at Corfu previously to its evacuation by the British forces, has been appointed instructor in fortification and military engineering in the Royal College, Sandhurst. He is succeeded in his duties at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, by Capt. Parsons. A party of non-commissioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers at Chatham have commenced the necessary sapping and mining operations for destroying a large cliff near the banks of the Med way at Cuxton, Rochester, a portion of which was successfully removed by the Royal Engineers about three years since. During the time the detachment of officers and men are employed is driving the galleries and sinking the shafts they will be en camped near the scene of operations, in order that no unnecessary delay may arise in proceeding to and from head quarters. On the completion of the mines and other excavations the cliff will be de stroyed by means of heavy charges of gunpowder, in the presence of all the Royal Engineer officers and men now at Chatham. The colonelcy of the 91st Foot (Argyllshire Highlanders) has become vacant by the death of Lieut.-Gen. Charles Murray Hay. The gallant officer attained the rank of Lieut.-Gen. in 1861. Major-General Warde, C. 8., commanding the garrison at Woolwich, yesterday held a field day on Woolwich-common and inspected the troops in heavy marching order. There were present two troops of Horse Artillery in command of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. D. Fraser, two field batteries in command of Lieut.-Col. W. Middleton, C. 8., with 24 Arm. strong Bans and battery equipments complete, and a powerful and efficient corps of Light Infantry, consisting of the dismounted portion of the 13th brigade garrison artillery and the local division of Marines, in command of Brevet-Col. I. Travers, Royal Artillery. The batteries were supplied with ten rounds of blank ammunition for guns, and the infantry fired 15 rounds per man. The file and volley firing, practised only on rare occasions, was nevertheless remarkably correct, and the whole manceuvres did infinite credit to the officers and men combined. Commodore Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, attended by his Nival Se cretary, Mr. Ponsonby, yesterday inspected her Mjesty's ship Racer, at the powder buoy off Wool. wick Arsenal, and mustered the crew in preparation for her departure, The Commodore afterwards went on board the iron screw steam troopship Dromedary, Master Commander Brown, returned to Wcolwich from the lonian Islands, and now discharging at the pier. Her cargo consists of 100 casks of powder, 90 tons cf shot, and soldier's equipage from Corfu, Cephalonia, and Z trite. She sailed from Malta on the 12th of June, Gibraltar on the 20th, and arrived at Spithead on the 3d inst., having experienced a eix days' severe gale, with a succession of heavy weather during the voyage, but suffering no mate. riAl damage to the ship. The Royal Sovereign, 5 gun turret ship, will have her pennant of commission hoisted this morning at Portsmouth, by Captain Sherard Osborn, C.B. The Duke of Somerset and Admiral Sir Frederick Grey are expected to arrive at Portsmouth during the day, from the Admiralty, for the purpose of in specting the ship now that she is in commission and ready for active:service. Yesterday Rear- Admiral the Hon. James R. Drummond, C. 8., the Fourth Lord of the Admiralty, visited the Royal Sovereign. During his stay on board he entered une of the turrets, which was manned for the occasion, and assumed the office of director. Under his direc tion the 12-ton gun was elevated and depressed, and the turret was turned round. The facility with which the whole was done evidently afforded the Admiral considerable pleasure. The ship's funnel has been lengthened 12 feet to improve the draught of her furnaces. The trial of her guns and turrets outside the harbour is looked forward to with great interest. If the Admiralty decide upon trying the guns with full 501 b. charges of powder and shot, the results will be really valuable as fully testing both the guns and the turret principle. If, however, only blank charges are filed, or 401 b. charges with shot, the results will be valueless. Orders were received yesterday at Portsmouth from the Admiralty to pay the Immortalite screw frigate, Capt. Hancock, out of commission on Fri day, the 15th inst. On the previous day the orders were for the Inamortali a to be placed in dock and prepared to join the Channel fleet at Spithead. On the receipt of the orders to pay out of commission on board yesterday " three cheers for the captain" were called for, and given enthusiastically ; for, although the Imnaertalite may be taken as the most favourable specimen of a happy ship, a ship's com pany, after upwards of three years' service on a foreign station, hails with delight the prospect of release and subsequent run ashore on their return to England. The Imm)rtalite will be officially in spected this morning by Vice -Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Port-Admiral and Commander in-Chief at Portsmouth. The French Imperial screw yacht Jerome Napo leon arrived off Ryde, Isle of Wight, on Tuesday, and sailed again yesterday. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :—James Manley Outridge to be lieut., and the Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton to be hon. lieut. Aldershott Camp Exhibition. In this ege of industrial displays and international co mpetitions it was not to be expected that any clues would long escape the attractive influence of th e contagion, though, as was t o b e expected, the military, with characteristic conservatism, have been the lag to yield to the general example. Yield, however, they have, and Aldersnott Camp now boasts an artistic and industrial exhibition of its own m a ki ng, which on its intrinsic merits would be well worth a visit wherever it was shown, but which when vi ewe d in connection with its history and objects, or for its capabilities of development in the future, is one of the most interesting and suggestive i joal eispoys we have ever seen. The whole idea is of other industrial emulation of course not taken as a mere displays, but is one of a series of a t . , p , w hi c h kind and thoughtful officers at the ca ul? have been taking for the last two or three years • to Improve the condition of the soldier, whether in garrisou or un d er canvas. It his been this feeling which hes been most laud ably encouraged at the Horse Guards War-office, which has led a t Ald ershot bishment of a number of soldiers' clubs, whi ch eon taontdh the eats-, st the a. sist of three huts—one for reading, w e ll supplied with periodicals and banks; one for games of bag s . telle, chess, draughts, &c., end one f or such refresh. merits as tea and ceffee, which are supplied to the men at very low prices. Already these clubs have had a most beneficial effect in keeping the men from canteens, or worse, In the day th e y are we ll at tended, in the evening crowded, and even for those 'el le d o no t vire or like to read, club games and cleb gossip are a:re.td9 found to be a most attractive alternative to the canteen. A step beyond these clubs again has been made by supplying the men who wished for them with tools and materials for furniture making, joinery, and turnery work; and though the idea of having workships for recreae tion, in which such men as chose might so amuse themselves, h as not ye t, we are sorry to say, been carried out, yet such good use hes been mode of the tco!s supplied them as to at once suggest the idea of having an Indus trial Exhibition of the worl:s produced by their aid. This admirable first idea 01 course soon extended itself to artistic work, needlework, and then to works of all kinds, bona fide the production of officers or their wives, or soldiers or their wives, actually re sident in camp, or who had only been removed since February. It is easy to believ the enthu siasm with which both officers and men entered into the idea, when we now look at its results as collected in the room and hall of the late Alder shot Club-house, and that this enthusiasm will grow with each succeeding year of such industrial displays is as certain as is the success of every reasonable enjoyment offered to our soldiers. Every regiment in camp has contributed to the display—that is to say—the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, the 2d and sth Battalion of the Military Train, 6th Carabineers, Ist Royal Dra goons, 2d Scots Greys, 13th Hussars, 14th Hussars, let battalion 6th Foot, let battalion 24th. the 37th and 59th Regiments, 2d battalion, 60th, 73d, 75th, and 87th Regiments, and not only these corps, but the wives of the officers and men in each, and the children from the regimental schools, have sent in articles for exhibition. We need scarcely say that in an exhibition which is really very extensive, and which embraces a large variety of specimens of painting, drawing, photo graphy, carving, cabinetmaking, carpentering, mili tary engineering instruments, accoutrements, ar mourers'and smith's work, leather, needle, and cloth work, we can do no more than summarise its general tendencies and results. The first thing whieh strikes the spectator is a feeling of regret that such valuable powers of amusement and self-occupation, always useful, often highly intellectual, which our private soldiers evidently possess, should have been suffered to lie dormant so long for the want of a little fos tering care. That they can never be so neglected again one has only to glance round the Aldershot exhibition to be assured. The works of officers and officers' wives form their due proportion in this col lection, and no more. Little else need be said of this branch, for it is not surprising that with their education, time, and means they should contribute excellent watercolours, excellent crayons, excellent photographs, and minor works of art. In not one single branch or class, however, do they show superi. ority over the productions of the rank and file. The soldiers' wives beat the officers' wives in lace and fine work. Some of the privates send watercolour sketches which are equal to any in the collection, while in the matter of cabinetwork and carving, smith's work and armoury, the men, as might have been antici pated, have a clear superiority. In fact, the men appear to have entered with more zest into the corn petition for honours than the officers; and thus the officers do not win where they ought to have won; but where the men ought to have won they have succeeded. From these remarks, however, we must except the really beautiful examples of wood carving and watercolour painting shown by Colonel :he Hon. H. H. Clifford, V.C., one of the chief pro moters of the whole display, These articles are not surpassed, if even equalled, by anything else of the kind in the collection. So also must we except the collection of ivory turnings shown by Lieutenant Wilkinson, of the sth battalion Mili tary Train,—a collection which would provoke the envy of any professional turner in England; and so also must we except the fine and well-finished working model of a steam-engine made by Captain Butt, of the 75th Regiment. The specimens shown by the men are, as we have said, of almost every class and kind, and from their nature in some respects indicate the right men in wrong places, or else some strange peculiarities in taste. Thus, strange, to say, some of the best specimens of needlework, as exemplified in cloth patchwork quilts, are exhibited by privates in the Foot Regiments. Some of these quilts are beau tiful examples of industry, perfect in the arrange ment of their geometric patterns, and especially excellent in the general tone and choice of colours. Equally good, also, are the woven or knitted wool counterpanes. The Ist Royal Dragoons are among the largest contributors from the cavalry reeks, and the mass of the articles sent in are fur niture, though when we recollect how heavy are the drill and stable duties of a cavalry private one cannot but be astonished that the men ever found time to finish them. Sergeants Sweet and Lee and Private Alderson exhibit some mahogany fur niture, turned, plain, and polished, which would do credit to the first upholsterer in London. The Royals are also strong in wool-work, while the men of the 13th Hussars have mainly contributed watercolours and photographs. The Artillery appear to have their inventive bent subdued to what they work in this collection almost entirely consisting of finespeci mens of harness, models of batteries, and Armstrong guns carefully made to scale. The Royal Engineers, as might be expected from a corps whose ranks cone priso men of almost every handicraft, and nearly all of whom know two trades, send a most varied col lection, which embraces everything, from drawings, paintings, models, and maps, down to a portable bath and marble font. Corporal Dagnall shows an improved cartridge-pouch, which is not only ingeni ous, but which is a valuable invention, and one well worth the attention of the authorities. Indeed, one of the most important fea , ures of the Exhibition are these valuable practical hints in the way o'; invention of all kinds which the Governme likely to get from the rank and file if the, : - .At are ,e displays are encouraged. Thus, Private gc" utham, of the 2d battalion of the 6tb, has inve Itted a li n t- ma ki ng machine, which he works in th e E x hibi t i on. One `ace that the plan i s s i mple has only to look at it to and admirable, and "(fee Government ha ve on l y to apply steam inst ead of hand labour to th e mach i ne to make lin.; enough in a day to last even a Federal army for a whole campaign. So, again, Sergeant Griffiths, of the 75th Regiment, has in t;ented an improved aiming rest and stand for pho tographic camera combined, which, if we mistake not, would prove better than the exceedingly clumsy aiming rests we now have. The 2d and sth batta lions of the Military Train send the largest collec tion of any corps. Of the latter battalion Sergeant Lee's three cases of stuffed English birds deserve high praise. The let battalion of the 6th Regiment is especially strong in inlaid woodwork, of which Private Knox and Sergeant Young contribute the finest specimens. The 59th is very excellent in wool and patch work, and the school children of this re giment send some most beautiful specimens of needlework. The 2d battalion of the 60th has a very good collection indeed of watercolours and crayons, the former by Sergeant Storey and Pri vates 1 - iaddlestone and Brewster, the crayons by Mrs. Kenny, the regimental schoolmistress. PH. vats Farrell of the same regiment sends some beau tiful wood-carvings, Corporal Porter and Privates Woodward and Arrowsnaith, excellent mahogany furniture, and Woodward, Arrowsmith, and Far rell unite their efforts on a c hild ' s mahogany co t, which is beautifully c arve d and polished. The chil e 1 chil dren from the school of this regiment also contri bute good specimens of needlework, and altogether the efforts of the corps are most creditable. Private Pritchard, of the 73d Regiment, is evidently a skilled upholsterer. He sends as his own work a complete suite of carved drawing -room furniture-- a patent spring mattress, a portable camp-bed and mattress, and other things—in fact, his contribu tions fill one room. Hospital Sergeant Crowley, of the same regiment, has some specimens of electro plating, of which even Elkington need not be ~,s h a meet . The privates of the 87th Royal Irish, especially Hill, Ball, and Drummer Stevenson, have good specimens of painting and woodwork, an d the garrison school teachers send maps, plans, draw ings, p h otog raphs, and models. In addition to the industrial exhibition there is an exhibition of loan articles, consisting of weapons, ornaments, dresses, jewelle ry, coins, Lid pictures, collected in all parts of the World. Th era are very few European trophies in this. Of the helmets of the Russian Imperial guard, which once lay thick as leaves on the hill fide at Alma, but which are now so scarce, there are only two in the whole collection, and only two or three of the old Russian muskets. But, to m a ke up for this dearth of European spoil s , the Orientals have paid double toll, and the rooms - are full of Mandarin dresses, jade vases, enamell-T1 b - renzes, Indian tul wars, swords, and shields, and t • rophies from the Jipanese. Most of these works are of great beauty, 1 many —such as the enamelled bronzes from the Em peror's Summer Palace at Pekin—of considerable value. For the rest, we can only say that the Exhibi tion fills well all day, and that almost all the works made by the soldiers were sold on the first opening last week at their own prices. The Exhibition is well worth a visit, and deserves every encourage ment and support. Its conception reflects the highest credit on the kindly thoughtfulness of the officers who originated it and on the men whose skill and industry have supported it with so much credit. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1864. THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) FLENSBURG, July 3. The Danes here are greatly disheartened by the capture of Alsen, and the German part of the popu lation declare their conviction that the troops that fight under the Dannebrog flag will never again hold their ground against those of Prussia and Austria, but will run or surrender almost as soon as attacked. " They fired a few shots and then bolted," a Prussian officer told me yesterday, and, indeed, I suspect they will never do more. The Danish officers may be all honourable men, and the soldiers stout of heart, but they are decidedly defi cient in military qualities. Perhaps they are badly commanded; the fault may lie with the Generals; bat if only the colonels were good one would think that something better might be done than such a tame defence as that of A lsen, which may be summed up as a skirmish and a scamper. They did not even run fast enough to save themselves, but lost some 2,500 prisoners. Not so many Schleswigers were among these as was at first supposed. Up to the evening of the Ist inst., 445 of the prisoners had been re leased, having proved that they belonged to Schles wig. The way in which this is ascertained is by baptismal certificates. Notice has been given that Schleswig families having sons in the Danish army should send to an officer at Flensburg extracts from the registers of baptism. A prisoner wbo claims to be a Sehleswiger is asked his age and name and the names of his parents, and the register is referred to in verification of his statement. Some concerning whom particulars have not been received prove that they belong to Schleswig by producing letters from their families. One Schleswiger was retained prisoner at his own request, under peculiar circum stances. He had entered the army as substitute for a Dane, and was to receive a considerable sum for so doing. If released he would not be paid, so he preferred remaining captive. On the expiration of the armistice the Prussians busied themselves in erecting batteries along Alsen Sund. Boats were also brought up from the Schlei on carriages, and were concealed in Satrup Wood, and pontoons were collected there and at Belle gaard. At least 60 rifled guns, 24's, 12's, and 6's, were placed between Ballegaard and Sandborg. The Danes seem to have removed their guns, or else never to have armed the batteries they had on the east shore of the Sund. At least the Prussian accounts say that from the northernmost point on the Danish side down td the little bay or inlet near Kjar they found only seven guns and a few of those mediaeval espingardas by which the Danes set much store, but which never, so far as I can learn, have done much harm to anybody, except, perhaps, at Veile, where they are said to have killed a few Austrians. You will do well utterly to discredit the accounts you may see in some German papers of the storm of shell and grape and every other kind of projectile under which the passage of the Sound was effected. he operation was carefully planned, well managed, and executed with ease and trifling loss. The Roll Kraks is said to have fired, on her first sortie from Augustenburg Bay, more than 50 shots, distributing them among the batteries, the boats, and the troops assembled on the shore waiting for shipment, but .1 cannot learn that she did any harm beyond sinking two boats. S h e did not come to close quarters, but fired at a long range. To have done any good she must have risked her plates and timbers more than she seems to have been disposed to do. One great proof of the discouragement of the Danes seems to me apparent in the ease with which the Prussians drove them across the island. There never was better ground for defence, if the defenders had meant to fight. I drove a little about the island yesterday, to Ulkeboll, Augustenburg, and in that neighbourhood, and I am assured that its whole surface is much of the same nature. If so, it abounds in excellent positions. It is cut up into small fields, with high banks and hedges, affording abundant cover, from behind which good infantry ought net to gave allowed themselves to be dislodged until they had inflicted very heavy loss on their assailants. The Prussians took very few guns across with them. Where was the Danish field artils lery It does not seem to have shown itself at all. They had plenty of heavy guns in positions w .. ,ch the Prussians took care not to attack. ' eneir idea seems to have been that they wouP of assa iled from the Dappel heights, and thee Zonderburg would be the point of attack. 11. ege 61-pounders, two mortars, and some rifled ;funs are still to be se c t i n th e Church Batt.ery, as it is called, on the Danish right o f Sonl' eerborg. They perfectly command the road fr. :An Duppel Mill, and would have inflicted heavy loss on a force coming from that side, and intending a serious attack. A feint was made from that direc tion. Eight tilled guns were stationed on the Dappel heights, and, simultaneously with the commence ment of the passage from Satrap, they opened a heavy fire on .he Church Battery and the adjacent works. At the same time a few companies embarked in boats on the shore of the Venningbund, not far from the spot where stood Duppel Fort No. 1, and pulled towards Sonderberg. The Church Battery blazed at them with all its might, whereupon they presently returned, the sole object having been to divert the attention of the Danes from the real point of attack. • Alsen, I must say, so far as I have seen it, is an island worth fighting for, which is more than can be said for many parts of Schleswig. It is just now green as an emerald, rich in verdure and foliage (there has been a great deal of rain here of late, and we can hardly be said to have got nut of spring), looking like a garden, with green lanes and pleasant pastures. The thorn trees and laburnums are still in bloom, and one drives along the road between lofty hedges covered with roses and honeysuckles. It is very like many parts of England, although not so trim and highly cultivated. The villages and houses are remarkably neat and clean, bright glass and plentiful flowers in all the windows. There is no appearance of recent occupation by large bodies of troops ; nothing broken, or trodden down, or defaced. Doubtless many of the Sonderborg people had dispersed themselves among the villages of the island when the barbarous storm of Prussian shell made their town residence untenable, for yester day I met scores of carts going in froth Country parts. They were filled with bettaehold furniture, chairs and tables and mattresses, and feather beds, and the owners for the most part sat on the top of their chattels with a half-pleased, half.eorry look, as if they were glad to return, but had not yet got over their violent and cruel ejection. In Sonderborg, too, one saw families wandering about, seeking tbeir dwellings and often finding only the spot where these had stood. More than one mourn cut group did I chance upon, gray-hailed fathers, and careworn mothers, and fair rosy■checked daughters, gazing sadly and tearfully at heaps of broken stones and burnt rafters, and seemingly conjuring up for themselves, out of the devastation, the presence of the cozy chambers and the cheerful fireside where they so often had sat before those brutal tubes on Gammelsmark crushed them under a shower of iron. Whether Sonderborg will ever rise from its ashes it is hard to say, but at present it is a mere wreck. I should think nearly half th e houses are wholly or in great measure destroyed. But the situation is a pleasant one, and te - ,, i p t i og to Di t n h ug e ps builder.preuaendd by Already, its l there n e e d ivi y ga , h r:b rt o e t t l g h t i i n: 0 S t o i n k v a a gwtat s no i i d dl e , nh b oiy u u i se i build ings being repaired, roofs putting on them in lieu of those shattered by German or Danish shelf, and acme en tirely new cottages being built. The corn springs green over many a spot lately reddened with blood; the peasants are hard at work filling up the trenciles and levelling earth, and the traces of war are rapidly disappearing. Besides a great number of guns, the Darren left behind them a very large quantity of ammunition, intended, we must- presume, to furnish a much more stubborn defence than was offered. As I have often had occasion to remark the Daneslare wonderful people for preparing defences which are not made when the hour arrives. They are great at building batteries and throwing up earthworks, but they do not hold them so long as we were taught to expect they would. This war will have completely dc■ stroyed the military prestige so abundantly attri• buted to them at its commencement. Their navy, although it has not shown itself very daring in its operations against land forces and batteries, has done better by sea, having severely mauled the Austrians in the only sea fight worthy of the name that has taken place. Judging from the increase of the Prussian navy, it is probable that we may hear of another naval engagement before long. Much as they exult in their triumphs by land, and large as is the meed of praise their domestic chroniclers assign to them, a yet louder trumpet of glorification would probably be blown did the Prussians obtain a decisive success upon the water. Such a success might also be looked upon as a desirable prelimi nary to the attack on Funen, which many are san guine, will soon take place. My own advices on this subject are very conflicting, but most of the troops that can be spared from Sandewitt and Alsen are marching northward (although some few are also going south), and as that seems the only quar ter in which it is possible that any fighting can occur, I myself move to-day in the same direction. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA, BERLIN, July 5. The following identical Note has been addressed by the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin to the re spective representatives of Austria and Prussia at the Courts of London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Stockholm : "Sir,—When the Government of the King took part in the Conference at London it was animated by the earnest desire to put an end, by a firm and lasting peace, to the sanguinary conflict which had broken out between the two great German Powers upon the one hand and Denmark upon the other. Firmly resolved to procure for Germany the just satisfaction which her honour and interests entitled her to demand, we endeavoured at the same time to arrive at a solution which should not endanger the balance of the North of Europe. We firmly adhered to the view that the blood of our brave soldiers should not have flow e d in vain ; but we were also unwilling to prolong the contest past the point we had laid down at the outset. Our attitude at the Conference has always been conformable to these resolutions. We should have been willing to accept a combination which, while securing a sepa rate political existence to the duchies, still allowed a dynastic bond to exist between theni and Denmark Proper, As an arrangement of this kind did not find favour either with the Danish Government or the neutral Powers, we were obliged to seek another basis. As we thereupon demanded that the Duchies should be constituted an independent State under a separate Sovereign, we were disposed to cede to Denmark a portion of Schleswig, although the union of the entire Duchy with Holstein was de. sired with equal zeal in the country and in the whole of Germany. We should have made a real and im portant concession of permitting a portion of Schles wig to be incorporated with Denmark, as it is pre cisely these attempts at incorporation—contrary to the obligations which have been undertaken—which have embittered the dispute between Germany and Denmark, and have occasioned the present quarrel. When, finally, the impossibility of agreeing upon a just line of demarkation became evident, and when England proposed to appeal to the good offices of a friendly Power,we declared ourselves the more ready to accept this offer as it was in accordance with the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris. It was the Danish Plenipotentiaries who made shipwreck of this last attempt at reconciliation by a categorical rejection at the sitting of the 22d of the month ; it was also the Danish Plenipotentiaries who refused at the same sitting their assent to the prolongation of the armistice required by the representatives of Prussia and Austria. " We are obliged solemnly to state these facts, for they prove that if the London Conference has not led to the desired result, the Cabinet of Copenhagen alone bears the blame, if the work of peace has been interrupted, and the resumption of hostilities impends, the responsibility cannot attach to the German Powers. The responsibility rests utterly tnd solely upon Denmark, which rejected the last offer of conciliation, and refused 1111 pr o l onga ti on of the armistic e . Our reurisentativo were cam' missioned to deli ver a declaration in this sense at the opening of t" -4e sitting upon the 25th. "Y — •Si r, will kindly refer to what has taken place at the Loudon Conference, to demonstrate the share of each party in the events that have cc curred. Be good enough to remind the Government to which you are accredited how great has been the moderation of our demeanour up to the last moment, and that we have ever been ready to put an end to a war called forth solely by the faithless• to continue entirely through her o b s ti na cy.— Receive, &c., "VON B ISMAR K." ness of Denmark, and which we are n ow compelled COTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATION+ At the lintel weeltlY Meeting of the executive committee, held on Tuesday, a letter was read, enclosing a sample cf cotton grown in the Kennedy district of North Queensland from Egyptian seed supplied by the association, which was planted in October, and gathered in February, The writer appears to have been the first person who has tried to intro duce cotton cultivation at Port benison, and he states that his experiesent has succeeded wall. Th e Vi ctor i an Cotton Company at Moreton Bay has furnished a sma ll q uan tity of Sea Island seed for distribution, with a vi eW to tes t the soil and climate of different parts of the north ern di s t r ict of the colony: The sample sent ie terearkab4, g o o d, and Veined at 2s 8d per lb. A. letter was received from Queensland, describing the excessive rains and conmauent flooda, Which have inflicted considerable damage upon the cotton crop, and the liability to which at a critical stage of the growth will, it is feared, prove a serious hindrance to the cultiva tion el cotton in Queensland. The writer forwards a small sample grown under peculiar circumstances from aotne Seeds which had fallen with rubbish hpoti robgh ground, the plants from which were afterwards transferred to the garden. He has now some sues planted with cotton about Brisbane, on South Pine River, and th e t ac t that the plants are producing the second Year teem s t o i n di c ate that they are perennial, The sample. though too ertall for an accurateestimate, was Veined at 2s 10d to n 15 miles from -,' per lb. A n other sample of Sea Island cotton from Queensland was valued at 3s 9d to 4s per lb. The letter accompa nying been grown by some emigrants o n t h e i r o wn farm at the Junction Pena, Ips*ich, froth seed granted to them by the association in March, 1863, and that they entered upon their land in the following August. A -e letter from Buenos Ayres reports, as the result Of actual 1 e i -11,9pection, that this ear 4 a bales will be obtained from that °mint cotton crop in Paraguay will prob a bly produce 3,000 bales, it states that it has an' there is every reason to expect that next year 100,000 states th a t the crop this pondent at Buenos Ayres, referring to the efforts which the pected to amount to 4,000 arobas. A sample President of the Republit of Paraenak r y ; Another Correa. i s making to extend Seal is et the growth Of nOtton, Huy mayta, Paraguay, has been forwarded for inspection. Im mense progress has been Mad() lathe proiinces Of Mendosa, grown in Entre Rios, and Catamarca ! , as also in Cordova, but parti cularly in Catamarca, which p romises to be the best in the Republic. The Mini k ter o f the interior h as addresse d a circular to the governor of each province, ca lling attention to the subject of cotton cultivation, an d urging that no effut ts should bo spared to insu re success, The sev ere drought o f the past season has done some harm, but not so much as was expected. A letter f rom Rio Gran de, accompanying various samples, states th at the people are beginning to b e fully alive to the imp or t ance of gr o wing cotton , and that a considerable quantity w ill b e produced next seaso n. A l e tt er from St. Thomas, W es t I ndies, represents t h a t c o tt on pro mises to be more r emunetative that sugar under existing circumstances, and that teeny parties are ent erin g into the cultivation. 1 ''. here are extensive tracts of land in the fertile lelan,', of Vieques (Crab Island), which could be made available if capitalists could be found to make the necessary , advances. A letter f rom the Govern or of Quilimane, Africa, was read, statin g th at he has m ade a proposal to the Portuguese Gover nment which if accepted as he ex pects, will authorise hi m to gran t land for growing cotton at the low rate of 10 reis ( on e halfpenny) per hectare, and to pr oe id e agricu l tu ral labourers, to the extent of 6,000 persons, at is per day. The importation of seed, machinery, tools, and cattle for agricultural pur poses will also be free of dray for 10 years, as also the ex portation of the cotton produced by the new undertaking. Letters were received from. Natal, stating that various pri vate individuals are planting cotton on a small scale, who will extend their operations should their present experi ments prove satisfactory. 'l' he great uncertainty of labour has hitherto been the princtipal hindrance, and makes it doubtful whether the cultiv.Ation of cotton can be depended upon for the future. The new cotton company have about 7GO acres planted, and in different directions in small patches there are about 500 acres mote. the season has been fa vourable, with the exception of heavy rains at the end of last year, and cotton is now considered a profitable invest ment. The liberal encouragement given by the cotton com pany and the advances made on the growing crops have been most beneficial. This season's crop is now coming rapidly to market, and is readily sold at from 5d to 8d per lb. in the seed. These favourable prices are exerting a stimulating influence, A letter from the British Consulate, Piraaus, states that many parts of Greece are this year for the first time growing cotton. The owners of land and agricultural labourers are feeling the benefit of this new source of wealth, and it is expected that cotton will be ex tensively cultivated. A letter from Nosoata, Fiji, states that arrangements are in progress by the writer for ship ping about 20 tons of cotton to the association, although his premises, w,th a large quantity of cotton and other goods, have been burnt down. A despatch was received from the Governor of Western Australia, with various samples of cotton and details as to their cultivation. STATE OF TRADE, LEICESTER, Jtily 6.—The hosiery trade continues active. Most kinds of goods are in request, and the trade generally remains healthy. In the rural districts there is as much doing as there has been for some time past. The wool market is quiet, but high prices are yet made. Yarns hold very firm, spinners being well engaged to orders, There are no hosiery stocks on hand. NEWCASTLE-ON -TYNE, sth.--The north winds are keeping light ships back, and causing a scarcity of tonnage. Coal freights to the Mediterranean still are good; but the only increase of imports from that port to the Tyne is E3perto grass, which is continued to be largely used in papermaking. There is a great demand for coke and manufacturing coals, and the price of coke keeps very steady. Last week 36,629 tons of coals, 1,912 tons of coke, 7,775 cwt. of iron, and 2,716 cwt. alkali were exported from the Tyne. NOTTINGHAM, 6th.—There is not so much doing this week in lace goods. Cotton fabrics are a slow sale. The disturbed state of the Continent checks the demand for goods suitable for that market. There is not so much doing in black silk laces, many of these goods being usually finished for Germany. The silk quilling trade is still quiet. Silk mechlins are without much change. There is less doing in narrow silk edgings. A few buyers are in the town, but their purchases are not extensive. A few irechlin quilling orders are being finished ; in other respects the plain cotton trade is dull, There is not much alteration in the hosiery trade. A few home and foreign orders are in the market, but the trade is on the whole quiet. Yarns are advancing in price, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—We are all speaking our minds one to another with the most charming candour. The blame is so great that everybody must take a share. It's downright shabby to refute. Mr. Horsman perhaps excels us all in the art of distrie buting this commodity in such a way that neither party shall feel itself praised by implication. " A plague on both your houses," he says to both sides. Government has not done its duty; it has made splendid advances, and executed rapid movements to the rear. It has taken up a treaty which it ought to have reconsidered and recommended for revision ; it has applied the torch to the magazine of German ambition ; it has encouraged the Danes ; by its interference about Poland it has animated the Poles, vexed Russia, committed France, and, finally, exposed the latter to a grievous humiliation. Oa the other hand, the Op position has neglected its duty, not of demanding the production of al, the documents, or supplying a policy, but of proceeding upon what all the world knew, of sounding the alarm, and of compelling her Majesty's Ministers to be explicit and decided. As it is, Parliament, says Mr Horsman, has fully shared all the blame, by tacitly adopting the policy of Government. When one independent member did happen to give notice of a motion which would have brought matters to a point, Mr Disraeli shut him up by the announcement that he intended to move the previous question, and that on the very ground thatit was not expedient either to take the responsibility of war or to endorse the Ministerial efforts for peace. As for Austria and Prussia, they are robbers and murderers; and Mr Herman is anxious that the palm of villainy should not be awarded to Prussia with undue preci pitation. Austria he thinks the more designing, doub:efaced, and hypocritical of the two. France and Russia ought not to have allowed any other consideration to interfere with the simple and straightforward fulfilment of a Treaty. Mr. Hors man does praise the Dines for their determination and their gallantry; but he praises them very much as ho would a bulldog which fought after it had lost half its teeth and its legs had been broken. But it caneour be made easy, the absolute truth is made difficult by the fact that the whole ground is haunted, as it were, by considerations uppermost in the memory but forbidden to the tongue. We know not why there should be this degree of reserve on the circumstance that the higheet personage ia the realm is bound ey every natural tie, except one, to the cause of the Germans, By birth, by her own marriage, by new alliances she is linked to the German States and to that Prussia which has put itself at the front of this offending. Mr. Horsman delicately alludes to this as a source of weakness to Government in its dealings both with Parlia ment and with the Continental Powers concerned in the quarrel. On the other hand, the intimate alliance of the heir apparent with the principal victim of this unhaenv war, while it has made us more sensitive to injury anal insult, has certainly contributed no strength eia:r td us or the Dane. In both these ca ses th e leenlng is naLeral, inevitable, and hardly a matt er o f praise or blame ; all we can say is, that so long as we have a Sovereign, and Princes, and so long as they are men and women, such personal feelings will occur among the incidents of a public question. Again, while all are freely discussing the various events which have affected the Powers committed to the Treaty, it seems almost to escape recollection that between them there has been, singe the signature of the Treaty, a war most costly in blood and treasure to ittissia, France, and England —most damaging to the designs of the first, and without much glory to the last; while Austria, perhaps, suffers more than her share of Minim! resentment for her passive part in that affair. But the circumstances which more than all has not a place in the controversy corresponding tO its real importance in the story is the fact that Eagland has not only connived, but rejoiced at the triumph of nationality, and the rend ing of an old 'treaty bearin4 its own signature, in the foundation of the new eta:len monarchy at the Cost of Germany and the gain of France. If these shadows of the past must have hung over the Con , ference, confounding fir one .roll hue the rights and wrdngs of the present question, another spectre obtrudes itself, not fdr the past, but for the unknown future. Should Prussia obtain ad Denmark, who then is to grieve over the extinction of that Monarchy or the extinction of our own P Might not France take the price of acquiescence, and may not France and Prussia already feel a common interest at the cost of weaker Powers P The possession of Den mark is worth to Prussia the cession of the Rhen ish provinces to France, and that would not throw Europe entirely out of gear. The more one reviews all the coneiderattons likely to effect the parties to the treaty of 1852, the more one marvels how it ever came to be signed at all, unless, indeed, it were to suppose that they who signed it were paying an empty homage to peace, and knew the Treaty would never be worth more than the parchment it was written on. But when Mr. Horseman has gone the whole round, and arrived at the conclusion that, ill an her Majesty's ministers have managed the affair, the Opposition would have managed it worse, and only show their candour, though not their sense of political obligation, by confessing that they would not go to war if admitted to power, does he not bring us to the threshold of a higher and more sen sible conalusion—t hat we could not have done better and are really powerless in the matter ? It is best to admit that we cannot do everything, and we certainly do not hold the balance of European power. All the force that we could ever put on the Continent would be a mere handful compared with the millions now under arms on the Continent, and ready to co-operate for almost any other cause in preference to the sustentation of a decayed old Monarchy. Mr. Horswau has little hope of all that justice, wisdom, and courage can do, when the prey is weak and the pack strong. He looks for no political remedy and points to no present avenger. On the contrary, in the helplessness of his just indignation he appeals to the course of Providence, or to the mysterious laws of the moral creation that make crime the seed of a fatal harvest which the sower shall reap ia due time. He sees the robber band scouring the plains of Jutland ; he hears the German hoof violating the soil to which for all ages its very seclusion and the sim plicity of the race gave a sort of eanctity ; there ring in his ear the felon shots that destroyed women and children in an unarmed town ; he writhes like an Englishman under the ignominy of having to accept statements and excuses scarcely pretending sincerity and truth, and, by a natural instinct, he fees the shadows in the clouds of the wider and more terrible catastrophes of which these are but forerunners. All the oracles are in his favour. His words are echoed from a thousand battlefields, a thousand ruined cities, a thousand hardly contested hills, a thousand monumental mounds. Never yet did nation suffer, however ui.j astly, till it had coin promised its own interest in the great moral law and set the precedent of came. Why is Germany' still dreary, still full of names rather than places, traditions rather than men, the shadow of a mighty past P Because it ever was what it is now, and cannot resist the flatterers that tell it of glory and dominion, Whether right or wrong. We can tell it what to write over the next chapter in its his tory—" Quod alio feceris, ab altero expectes." But England will haVe no hand in that matter. We confess ourselves powerless in this affair. We can only hope we have resigned our mediation with all the dignity possible to the beaten. We believe that part has been done as well by her Majesty's Mini sters as it would have been by the chiefs of the Conservative party; and that is the sum and sub stance of the question now before Parliament. HERALD.—Some time elapsed since such melan choly news reached this country as was telegraphed to us yesterday froth Alexandria. Accustomed to extraordinary vicissitudes in the Maori war, and to a skill and aptitude for bush warfare Which make the native, perhaps, more than a match for the in fantry soldier, we b aye yet rarely, if ever, experienced so great a disaster in New Z , ?aland as that which has befallen our arms at Tauranga. We must, of course, defer any judgment on the prudent conduct of the action which has terminated so ingloriously, General Cameron is a skilful as well as a dashing officer ; he has hitherto carried on the very difficult operations of the war with caution and success, and we must not allow a temporary reverse te deprive him of the confidence which has been np to the }re sent time freely accorded to him. Still, the loss of 10 officers and 21 killed and 4 officers and 77 men wounded in an unsuccessful assault, seems to show that the enterprise was a kind of forlorn hope, in which, as usual, the desperate gallantry of our coun trymen was to triumph over every possible obstacle. It is to be hoped that these sacrifices will not be thrown away. We are at war, and whatevermay have been its origin, the question of Maori or English supremacy must be settled once for all. We have suf fered too much and lost too many valuable lives to admit of a compromise that will leave the relations of the natives and the Colonial Government exactly as they were. We should be insulting the memory of the brave men who have fallen in this miserable eontest if we did not at this moment sustain the colonists with all our available strength, and take steps to prevent the repetition of conflicts which can under no circumstances bring credit to our arms, and which frequently expose us to great humili ation. PosT.—The mail which arrived yesterday from America brings those vague rumours which expe rience has taught us not tinfrequently herald the blunt notification that some great disaster has be fallen the Federal arms. There is but little which we learn from official sources of the recent move ments of the army of the Potomac, but that little is most unfavourable to those who are constrained to supply it. There is much, however, that is " con spicuous by its absence," and which is left to our fancy to supply. The Government at Washington have long and persistently followed the practice of doling out to the public such scraps of information from the seat of war as it may suit their conve nience or their interest to supply, and it would be astonishing if, in the present stage of the war, the public had not learned to put a tolerably just in terpretation upon the meagre announcements which are from time to time made with all the sanction of official authority. It is not often that an opportua nity is afforded to the Federal Secretary ;or War of publishing a despatch from a victorious general, but when such an opportunity does present itself he certainly is not slow to tarn it to account. An intimation that an army is engaged in some important operations, the nature of which it is in expedient to make public, is little else than an ill disguised attempt to conceal the full extent of a reverse whose true nature cannot for many days remain unknown, and as such is universally ac cepted. We could understand, though we could not justify, the singular policy which in this re spect the Federal Government thought proper to pursue at the commencement of hostilities ; but what possible end it can now serve it is difficult, it not impossible, to conjecture. Mr. Stanton can no longer deceive, since he is no longer trusted; and his reticence, when it is known that he has much to communicate, excites infinitely more depression than a candid admission that the national army has sustained a damaging reverse. However, the practice of dissimulation is one which, when long indulged in, it is most difficult to discontinue; and it is not improbable that the department at Washington, over which Mr Stanton presides, will pursue the same disingenuous course until the great civil war comes to an end. After the unsuccessful attempts to force the Confederate position, which were made both on the morning and on the evening of the 17th of June, Grant ap pears for some days to have done little or nothing. With his right flank resting on the Appomatox River, and his left on the plank-road connecting Petersburg with Graysville, he seems to have pushed forward his outposts as near as he conceived pru dent to the Confederate entrenchments. On the 18th, 19th, and 20th there was some slight skirmish ing, in which the pickets and their supports were alone engaged ; and it was not until the night of the 21st that Grant resumed active operations. One of the latest items of information brought by the American mail, preceding that which arrived yes terday, was to the effect that the Federal Com mander-in-Chief had held a council of war on board the flagship of the Admiral in the James River, and the result of these deliberations was most probably the movement whose failure we are now called upon to record. Intending apparently to seek a weaker point in the Confederate lines than that again s t which the assault of the 17th was directed, the two corps which formed the right of the Federal army were moved on the night of the 21st across the front of the Federal left, in the direction of the Peters burg and Norfolk Railway. The ostensible motive was to cover this line of railway and more completely invest the city of Petersburg, but the ultimate ob- , ect was to enable the Federal army to attack the a c onte, 4 erate position at a point almost due south of Petersburg. For this the town oi"manosavre, how ever, the Confen.7 ates were f u lly prepare d. A strong force under His, intercepted the advancing columns of the Federal rigi;it wing, and repulsed them with heavy loss of both me,: and artillery. The following day, inepirited by this s uccess, Gen. Hill again resumed the offensive, and having man aged to separate the Second from the Sixth Ariety Corps, attacked the former in the rear and drove it in confusion en its entrenchments, with an estimated loss of 3,000 men. On Thursday, the 23d, Grant drew up his entire army in order of battle, and on that day a general e ngagement was expected. Heavy firing in the direction of the position of the rival armies was heard at City Point on that day, but the results of the battle are not known, or not published. It is, indeed, rumoured in Ne York that a " retrograde" movement on the part of the army of the Potoman has actually commenced, and that Grant has made his lest attempt to force his way at the point of the bayonet into the Confederate capital. Should the inferences which we are com pelled to draw from the scanty facts permitted to reach us, and the ominous silence of the Federal Government prove correct, and should it turn oat that Grant has been obliged to withdraw his army in the transports, Prudently placed at his disposal in the James River, this year's campaign in Virginia -v be considered at an end. The demonstrations Hunte ated Sheridan in the ceetral dis made by ~,w ere purely subsidiary to that tricts of that If n which bl rant set himself to accomplish. great desig n But the same ill-luck whit . 4 pursued the chief has equally followed in the footsteps of the lieutenants. The defeat sustained by Hunter to the north of Lynchburg, which, according to their usual custom, the authorities of Washington affected to treat with indifference, appears from the Southertt accounts to have been of so damaging a nature as to have finally and completely frustrated the object of the expedi tion. The failure of Hunter necessarily brought: in its train that of Sheridan, for it was only through the co-operation of the two that Grant relied upon cutting off the communications of Richmond with the interior of the Confederacy. The results of these expeditions will, however, be.unimportant if the Commander-in-Chief is obliged to abandon his posi tion on the south of the James River. We may be asseured that he will not adopt this step until all hope of entering Richmond is lost; but, judging from the recent course of events, itseems difficult tobelieve that even a general as sanguine as he undoubtedly is, anti as prodigal of human life as he has shown himself to be, can any longer venture to persist in the enter prise which he has undertaken. From the time when he crossed the Rapidan until the date of his last reverse the Federal Commander-in-Chief has never ceased to regard his troops as so much milie tart' stores which might be judiciously expended in order to attain a given object. But even though human life may come to be regarded from this purely prosaic point of view it may happen that lives, like powder and shot, may be expended in vain. Not a week passes that the grand army of the North is not thinned to the extent of some ten thousand men without any counterbalancing advan tage, and it is a mere question of figures to deter mine in what space of time a given army submitted to such a drain will cease to be effective. When he reached the Chickahowiny Grant's losses during the preceding month were estimated at one hundred thousand men, and since then he has on three dif ferent occasions assaulted the Confederate lines with the entire strength of his army, and with losses which in the aggregate may pr o b a bly be set down at thirty thousand men. If l osses at a ll co rrespond. ing to these had been inflicted upon his opponents, he might not despair of success. But such 13. , 3s not been the case. General Lee's army is, in point of numbers and efficiency, in a better position to cope with that of Grant than it was at the commence. went of the campaign in Spottsylvania. Each suc ceeding repulse to the Federal troops diminishes their chances of ultimate success, and brings then nearer to the time when they must confess that their task is a hopeless one. It may be that that time has now come, and that the Army of the , Potamio is once more in full retreat ; but if not : actually come we are justified in believing that it is not far distant. LAW INTELLIGENCE.---duly 6. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) COOPER V. JOBLING AND OTHERS-THE TYNE REGATTA or 1863. This case was tried by the Lord Chief Justice and. a common jury. The plaintiff was Cooper, the celebrated rower, and he sued the committee of the Tyne Regatta of 1863 to recover the cup and purse of money contended for, upon the ground that he was the winner of the race. One of the defendants, Mr Harrison, suffered judgment, and the others pleaded tx great number of pleas, the principal one being that the com, mittee had the power to decide certain questions, and that they had decided that the plaintiff did not win the race. Mr Brett, Q.C., and Mr Cohen appeared for the plaintiff; Mr M'Leod for Mr Jobling ; and Mr Denman, Q.C., and Mr Prentice for the other defendants. Mr Brett, in opening the case, said that it had not in aptly fallen into the hands of his learned friend Mr Denmaix and himself, as in earlier days they were both well used to , the management of boating; they had both started from Westminstei' - bridge, had endured the horrors of the " middle passage,'' and had felt disappointment or exulta tion, as the case might be, in passing through Putney.. bridge. The Lord Chief Justice—l hope that you always sub mitted to the decision of the umpire instead of coming NA* court. (A laugh.) Mr Brett—We always did. In 1863 the committee of the Tyne Regatta advertised a cup worth £5O and £3O in money, and the plaintiff rowed in the races, having as his competitors in the last heat Chambers and Kelly. Mr Oldham was the umpire. In the course of the last heat x foul occurred between Kelly and the plaintiff, and the um. , pire decided that the foul was Kelly's fault, though he did not do it wilfully, and he also decided that the plaintiff was the winner. Some of the committee who were pre sent agreed in this decision, but afterwards the majo rity of the body expressed their opinion that the race should be rowed over again. The plaintiff, however, declined to accede to this proposal, and the race was rowed between the other two, one of whom was declared the winner. One of th 3 rules of the regatta was that " the established rules of boating shall be strictly adhered to," and according to one of the rules of the Thames " the decision of the um pire shall in all cases be final." ➢ir Denman, however, contended that the Thames rules did not apply to this case, but to the rules which existed in the north of England, where it was the universal practiee for a point such as arose in this race to be decided by the committee, and not by the umpire. After some discussion it was agreed that it was for the interests of the parties to have the case decided by some one acquainted with boating rather than by a jury, and especially so as probably some questions of law might arise. It was ultimately arranged to refer the matter in dis pute to Mr Thomas Hughes, of the Cb - incery bar, known in sporting circles as the author of " Tom Brown's School Days." COUNTRY MARKETS. NEW CASTLE-ON-TYNE-TUESDAY. Farmers' wheat in - moderate supply this morning, and the trade not so firm. Foreign sorts dull. Other articles at about the same rates as this day week. Averages—Wheat, 40s 16d—barley, 26s 2d.—oats, 20a sd—beans, 35s 4d. MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDI.Y. - ----- • Not much wheat at market to-day, and prices 2s higher. —White wheat, 43s to 4Es ; red, 41s to 44s per 36 atone. Malting barley at 32s to 35s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 30s per 30 at. Oats, old, 24s to 28s; new, 20s to 23s per 30 st. ; beans, 34s to 42s per qr. HULL—TvEsDAY. At our market to-day there was a small supply of Eng lish wheat, which met a ready sale. In foreign there was an increased inquiry. Grinding barley scarce. Peas and beans the turn dearer. Oats were in tolerable request, and very scarce. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 44s Od to 48s Od Old red » New white .. ), New red ' ..• 1 Barley.... English malting' Grinding 26s Od to 27 s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3OB Od to 31s Od Grinding 2BB Od to 31 s Od O a t s English, old Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 0,313fd Swedish and Danish o6l2id to osl3d Beans ....English, old, per qr 405 Od to 438 Od New pigeon 42s Od to 44s t d New tick. 4os Od to 42s Oct Egyptian Peas Foreign boilers . Grinding Tares ....Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding . 528 Od to 56s Od crushine , . 4os Od to 528 Od Linseed cakes (Hull) £B 15 0 to £0 0 0 Foreign? 8 0 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5 0 oto 0 0 0 Bones 5 5 oto 510 0 MONMOUTH,-TUESDAY. The local markets have been doing a moderate amount of business during the last six days, and the prices for wheat are maintained. Barley rather dull, at former rates. Oats also a slower sale. The average quotations are as follows : Wneat, white 5s 3d to 5s 8d 8ar1ey...... 3s 2d to as 9,1 Ditto red .Os Od t o Os Od I Oats .. 2s 2d to 2s 7d COAL MARKET. Prices of Coal per Ton at the dose of the market. Walls End Haswell ...18 6 Heugh Hall 17 6 Kelloe.. South Kelloe 17 6 Hartlepool ..18 0 East Hartlepool 18 3 South Hartlepool 17 3 I Harton 16 6 South Raton 18 6 Braddyll's Hetton 17 3 Hetton lB 6 Tunstall Caradoc l7 9 Stewart's 18 0 Ships at market. 68 ; sold. 64. s. d. Walker Primrose l3 6 Wylam 16 3 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Hastings Hartley l7 3 Holywell 16 3 Eden Main .....16 9 N. d. Walls End. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..July 19. via Marseilles July 13. &nil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Aug. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena July 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. July 19. via Marseilles July 14. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. ......July 12 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. July 29 via Marseilles.... July 14 India (Bombay), via Southampton .. July 11 via Marseilles Jaly 18. Portugal.... Aug. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 11. via Marseilles July —. Newfoundland .. July 20 Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... July 14. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. July 8 All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I , .rai 1 %. y California. and British Columbia.. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills purify the blood. When the pause of disease is seated in the blood, nerves, stomach, liver, or bowels, no treatment will be found so effective. no medicine so valuable, as these purifying, alte rative, and aperient pills Innocent in their nature, th e y never can do harm to the weakest constitution. Cleansing and invigorating in their effects, they produce an imme diate amelioration of many of the moat painful an d most dangerous symptions which can afflict the human frame. Holloway's pills are reliable remedies. In multitudes of cases where the usual round of prescriptions had been vainly tried, and death itself seemed imminent, have acted marvellously in arresting the Holloway's pills disease and gra. dually restoring health. Births. CA.RNARVON...-011 the 2d inst., at 66, Grosvenor-street,W., the Countess of Carnarvon, of a daughter. DkviEs.--.on the 3d inst., the wife of Lieut.-Col. Davies, Grenadier Guards, of a son. MONTGOMERIE.—On the 3d inst., at Westwood House, Sydenham, the wife of Hugh Edmonstone Montgornerie, Esq., of a daughter. WORTLEY.—On the 4th inst., at Overton House, Wake field, the Hon. Mrs. Francis Stuart Wortley, of a son. Marriages. HALL—FREmANTLE.--On the sth inst., at St. George' s , Hanover-square, Captain Julian M. Hall, Coldstream Guards, to Augusta W. Louisa, only daughter of the late Major-General John Fremantle, C.B. PENLINGTON—Devms.—On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Shrewsbury. Joseph Penlington, Esq., Much Wooltcn, Lancashire, to Harriett, eldest surviving daughter of W. Davies, Esq., Shrewsbury, late of Adlington. . Deaths. DALAYMPLE.—On the 4th inst.,. at Gillingh am Kent Kent, William Henry Dalrymple, Assistant Commisea neral, aged 47. DUDLEY.—On the 4th inst., at Pentonville, Howard Dudley, Esq. FRITH.—On the 6th inst., at Hackney, William Frith, Esq,, aged 58. JESSOPP.—On the 4th inst., at 1, Trafalgar-place, Clap ham-rise, Henry Jessop, Esq., late of her Majesty's Cus toms, Quebec, aged 77, REES.—On the 4th inst., at I , l3ndilo, Edward Rees, Esq. late of Towyn and Glanmorfa, aged 72. TATHAM.—On the 3d inst., at 65, Guildford-street, Rua. sell-square, Jane Mary atham, aged 80. idon Printed and Pit:felled by WILLIAM ANDREWS. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tnz SUN Office No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the 'Savoy, n the Corzly of Aliticiteaex,--Thursd a y, July 7,1861.