The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-15 00:00:00

THE CT. VIL WAR IN, AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, JUNE 3. Gen. Grant capture Vicksburg ? Will Gen. Ls k capture Washington ? These are the questions teat are asked from day to day in all publi c pl aces , and that are answered according to the political bias and hopes of the respondents, rather than according to any just estimate of the facts and the probabili ties. Ten days have now elapsed since Gen. Grant found it impossible to take the little stronghold of the Mississippi by storm, and sat down before it to try and reduce it by the slow and scientific, but to the Americans the very uncongenial operations of a regular siege. If the Confederates are not short of provisions —which few believe—the probabilities are that Gen. Joseph Johnstone, largely reinforced, will within a few days, or a week at the furthest, com pel Gen. Grant to raise the siege and accept battle. Grans, if defeated, may escape by his gunboats on the Yazoo and the Mississippi, but the Federal cause will have received a heavy blow, and the pride of The Northern people a humiliating corrective. It, on the other hand, Gen. Johnstone be defeated, V a t "beginning of the end" will be no nearer than be fore ; new obstructions to the navigation of the river will be raised by the Confedenates, and the wave of war will roll and dash over other rocks and impediments, whose position none at this moment can tell, or even suspect. The balance of opinion both in New York and Washington is not hopeful on the rsubject. The cup of joy was so near to the lip when Mr. Lincoln, through an enthusiastic correspondent, supposed to be wholly trustworthy and well-informed, notified to the world 11 days ego that the fall of Vicksburg was morally certain to occur within a few hours, that the slip has been more than usually vexatious, and the disappointment more than usually acute. Nor as regards the ulterior movements of Gen. Lee ie the feeling much more sanguine. If that able commander really meditates an attack upon Washington, and considers himself strong enough to attempt it," there is a very general impression that he may srseceed, not unmingled with a hope among the large classes who are weary of the war, and utterly incredulous that it ever can be ended during Mr. Lincoln's term of office, that he will not only capture Washington, but the President and his Ministers, and hold them as hostages for the immediate declaration of an armistice to debate the conditions of peace and separation. Since the repulse of General Hooker, the friends of peace have increased in number and in boldness, but the addresses penned by the leading Democrats, and the resolutions that are carried and the speeches that are made at their public 'meetings, are with few exceptions singularly illogical, if not absurd. Mr. Wall, of New Jersey, and Mr. Benjamin Wood, of this city, declare for peace, pure and simple, and for a recognition of the Southern Confederacy if the Southern people, after an armistice, shall solemnly reassert by their votes in Convention or elsewhere their determination to maintain their in dependence ; but the bulk of the Democratic party have not reached that upper plank of the true plat form. They stand on a much lower elevation, and continue, even while they vaunt most loudly their love of peace and the absolute necessity of securing it to their bleeding and distracted country, to talk idly of " their opposition to anv terms of compro mise that fail to restore the Union. and save the Constitution." How can peace be possible, while men of influence talk thus ? They virtually admit that the Government is right in prosecuting the war, but do not see that they lay themselves open to the imputation of faction in opposing all the war measures which the Government deems necessary to conquer a peace, upon the only terms which they themselves consider imperative. The great peace meeting to be held this evening at the Cooper In stitute will decide whether the Democratic party, or any large section of it, will continue much longer to stultify itself in a manner so flagrant. The case of Mr. Vallandigham continues to be a thorn in the side of the Administration. Almost universally condemned as the conduct of General Burnside has been, Mr. Lincoln had not the pene tration to discover that his blundering dragoon and his servile judge were both in error, or the tact or grace to rectify their mistakes. The Confederate Government has displayed more wisdom, and while its treatment of the honest and fearless exile has been consistent with its own dignity, the disposition it has made of him will very greatly embarrass Mr. Lincoln. Refesing to admit that the Confederate States were a penal settlement, to which the Wash ington Government could transport either its martyrs or its criminals, or to allow Mr. Vallandigham to remain in the South unless he would take the oath of allegiance, the Confederate authorities have re ceived him with marked kindness, and instead of ex truding him forcibly from their soil by the way in which he came, and so transferring him to the dun geons of Fort Warren, they have, it appears, given him permission to proceed to Charleston, Savannah, or Mobile, with the understanding that he will leave, the country by whichever of those ports he may find most convenient. By this means Mr. Vallan digham will have little or no difficulty in running the blockade and making his way to Nassau or Havannah, where he can decide at his leisure whether he will return to his own country by way of New York, or whether he will proceed to Canada via Halifax. Were he bold enough to land at New York, the Democratic party would give him a recep tion which would cast into the shade all the ovations of the war, and Mr. Horatio Seymour—who de nounced the arrest in such eloquent and emphatic terms as would have rendered him also liable to seizure in the dead of night, and trial by court martial, if he were not Governor of a powerful State and Commander-in-Chief of its army—would doubt less justify the welcome by his words, if h e did no t grace it with his presence. This is the course re commended by such of the advanced Democrats as love the Union mach, but who love liberty and the Constitution still more ; and which would either compel the Federal Government to join issue with the authorities of a loyal State that has more largely than any other supported the war with men, money, and credit, or forego once and for ever the high handed illegal acts of military power that have done so much to bring it into discredit and disfavour. On the other hand, were Mr. Vallandigham to avoid New York and take refuge on British territory, ''within a stone's throw of the flourishing city of De troit, which has direct railway communication of , about 200 miles with his own home at Dayton, he 'would place himself in constant communication with his friends in his native State ; and not all the mi- YtarY power at the command of General Burnside *could prevent the Democratic party from nominat ing for Governor, and carrying the election -the Fealti‘l not unanimous vote—unless, indeed, declare uhi eral A . dministration were insane enough to ( election unt o il state of siege, and prevent any 'under any aspect e conclusion t of the war. Considered critical one for thee c e htt ase of Mr. Vallandigham is a . no less than for the comfort of Mr. Lincoln and bide bi . da fair-to be memo rable for ever in the hillory of American liberty. At the peace meeting which sa to be held in this city this evening, under theiauittce tardily that win g of the Democratic party which declared itself in favour of an armistice, the outrag e/1 pon Mr Vallandigham will, in all probability, fo rm the main staple o f the oratory and the chief inspiratio::: t fe t ora tors. On Mon da y considerable anxiet y by timid people in consequence of a report industri. ous:y circulated that Gen. Wool, under orders from' Washington, would station troops at the doors of • the Cooper Institute and in the body of the hall to But all fear of a breach intimidate the speakers. of the peace has subsided. Scarcely anybody be lieves that the Government will act so N madly New York, whatever it mig ht do in Ohio, unless it deli berately wished to provoke outrage, as an excuse for the foregone conclusion of p lacin g this State under the operation of martial law. But this is an amount of factuity of which its most v iolent opponents do not yet suspect it ; not because its desires do not point in that direction, but because the b u lk of the labouring classes are opposed to the war, and to the conscription, and because the Governor is not a Ministerialist or a Republican, but a thorough-going Democrat, jealous of State Rights, and determined at all hazards to maintain the independence, is cer tain. The threat, though unofficial and probably Unwarranted, has had the effect of putting the originators of the meeting upon their guard, and of inducing three out of four of those who tend to be present to arms themselves with concealed weapons, in order to be ready for all co ingencies. It is a fact, useless for the Governui , e . to conceal from itself, that there is electricity in f o air, some thing like that which preceded the French revolu tion of 1848. The people of the North have made up theid minds that, come what may, they will not yield the constitutional right of public meeting and free speech to discuss grievances. At the meeting held at the city of Newark, in the adjoining State of New Jersey, on Saturday last, a body of soldiers with fixed bayonets marched up the main street and took up a position on the left of the grand stand. The comments of the crowd were loud and defiant; and when a body of citizens from the rural districts bearing a white flag inscribed with the name of " Vallandigham" surrounded with a laurel wreath endeavoured to pierce through the crowd, and were opposed by the soldiers, acting, it is to be pre sumed, in obed'ence to orders, there was imminent danger of a collision and a deplorable loss of life. The Sheriff of the coenty was upon the spot, and, acting with great promptitude, he sought out the military commandant, informed him that the Civil power was adequate to preserve the peace, but that if, contrary t o l aw an d propr i ety , h e persisted in keeping his soldiery in the crowd to insult the citizens, met in conformity to ancient usage and undoubted right of free discussion, the com mandant would be responsible for the bloodshed that might ensue, and that the Sheriff would do his best to prevent it by calling out the Militia. The remonstrance had unexpected success. The soldiers were withdrawn, and the proceedings ter minated quietly. On Monday a similar meeting, convened to express the sentiments of the Demo cracy and people of Philadelphia on the i:legal trial and arbitrary sentence of Mr. Vallandigham, was attended by 20,000 (some accounts say 40,000) people in Independence-square; and, although the soldiery did not make their appearance, they were in readiness in the immediate neighbourhood, each man provided with several rounds of ammunition and a day's rations. The speakers, suspicious of danger, were all armed. These are ugly symptoms, and the Government at Washington will be criminal if it despise them. President Lincoln seems to have become a con vert to the views of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Mr. Wendell Phillips, that " God and the negro" are to save the Republic—if it is to be saved either by Divine or human agencies. Volun teering has ceased ; bounty money attracts none but a few Irish and German immigrants; the enrolment of names for the conscription which may never, per haps, be enforced, and certainly not in the State or city of New York, leads to disturbance in places of public resort, which shows how odious in the sight of the labouring classes is compulsory military ser vice ; and the armies already in the field are melting away like ice in the summer sun. What can Mr. Lincoln do, under the circumstances, but take the advice of Messrs. Beecher and Phillips and the " war-Christians" generally, who maintain that negroes will make better, or, at all events, more willing soldiers than Irishmen, Germans, or white Americans? The fiat has accordingly gone forth from Washington to Hilton Head, to New Orleans, to Cincinnati, to Nashville, to all points where there are Federal officers in command, to strain every nerve to induce " contrabands" and free negroes to take service in defence of the Government that protects them. If persuasion fails, some of the Federal Generals resort to force to compel the negroes to perform military duty, and hunt runaways who have no stomach for the fight with as much pertina city and cruelty as slaveowners were formerly accustomed to display in hunting those who pre ferred liberty to bondage. Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, has made himself conspicuous in this matter, and has attracted within the bounds of his little Commonwealth all the able-bodied young negroes whom his influence and that of his friends and coadjutora could reach. On Friday last the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers—the first negro regiment that has ever been completed—was re viewed by the Governor on Boston-common, pre paratory to its departure for South Carolina. The lecturers, preachers, teachers, and strong-minded spinsters for which that intellectual but narrow minded and bigoted city is famous, attended in large numbers upon the occasion and greeted the regiment with enthusiastic applause. In bran new uniforms, i splendidly equipped, with the stars and stripes carried before them, and preceded by a full band of coloured musicians, the regiment, after being re viewed by Mr. Andrew, made a triumphal proces sion through the streets to the port, where they embarked on board the steamer which was to con vey them to Hilton Head. Massachusetts loves the negro theoretically, but practically places him under social ban and excommunication. It is, there fore, hinted by the cynical that there is much more joy over the departure of the dark warriors than there will be on their return, should any of them be so fortunate as to escape the dangera of the field and the gallows, and so ill-advised as to attempt to settle in Boston when the war is over. On the following day a deputation from New York, entertaining the views of Mr. Beecher and Governor Andrew on this subject, waited upon the President at Washington, to urged upon him the immediate necessity of raising at least 10,000 negro soldiers. They were introduced to the President and Mr. Secretary Chase by Mr. Charles Sumner, and met with a cordial reception. Mr. Lincoln declared, " That he would gladly receive into the service " not merely 10,000 but 10 times 10,000 "coloured troops." He expressed at the same time his determnation to protect all who enlisted, and to consider every black soldier taken captive by the rebels as equivalent in all respects to a white sol dLr captured by the Federal armies. "He had," he said, " a confident expectation that they would be of essential service in bringing the war to a close; and thought that the command of such troops would afford scope for the highest ambition." The main object of the depUtation was to counsel the President to offer the command of the negro army to General Fremont. Mr. Lincoln promised to do so, and hoped with all his heart that General Fre mont would accept it. How successful this marshalling of the negroes will be, and what effect it will have on the existing armies of the republic, remains to be seen. From all present indications it does not appear likely that as many as 10,000 men will be raised ; and the failure of all the efforts of General Hunter (who, next to General Fremont, is the most zealous friend of the negro soldier whom the war has produced) to induce the swarming " contrabands" around Hilton Head to abandon the notion that the Federal Government owes them a subsistence and that they owe the Federal Government nothing in return, or to raise even a couple of regiments among them, is ominous of similar unsuccess in other regions less fortunately situated. Nor does the enlistment of the negroes, whether successful or unsucessful, recommend itself highly to the white . men who :have undertaken the fighting part of the war. Among the non-fighting bellige rents, who make money in their stores and counting-houses out of the needs of the army, there is, it is true, a strong disposition to accept negro aid as better than none. In proportion as the white armies diminish, their objections against black armies grow fine by degrees, till they disoPe ' pear a a l r t e og n e o t t h o e o r n . t E ra v e e te n r t s h a o u se d native-born sutlersh u Americans e l pas sionately attached to the Union,but n w ot o so r frantic in n theirarde rapidly oas to sh ou ld er t h e r ifl e i n i ts be half,y dl gaeotlti.er. ng rid o f th e i r pre j u di ce • antipathy against ,th e Africa n in their fewmonths' residence - Not so th e I r i s h onregi ments-whose this sid e o f th e Atlantic. ' Adjutant-General Thom as , a ne w convert t o IV4 v Beecher's faith, that the neg ro is to lic, lately made a speech to the Ninetieth native Erin bu rsts y sava to the n egro , unsuspected gely f or th a f ter a :ale B Volunteers, composed almost wholly of Irish .-. the Repub.'. in which he informed them that he had been aelrishmen,' thorised by the President to organise negro regi ments wherever he went, that the negroes mad e ., excellent soldiers, and that the President's new policy in relation to the black race, in which he (the Adjutant-General) entirely concurred, would be the salvation of the country. In conclusion, he called upon the men to give three cheers for the " Presi dent and the negro." Not a cheer was elicited in reply. "Every man in the regiment," says an eye witness, "seemed for a moment to lose the power of speech and motion." The major in command, hoping to extricate them from an embarrassing dilemma, called for threecheers for the Union. Instantly the caps went up into the air, and there was a loud and lusty c h eer , f o ll o wed by " a tiger" (one ch eer more). But this did not satisfy the Adjutant- General, who again peremptorily demanded three cheers for the negroes. The men were silent as before, and were ultimately dismissed with a severe reprimand, and ordered to be brought up again in a week. It was intimated to them by the General that if at the end of that time they would not cheer for the negrces they would all be placed uuderdrrest, and tried for mutiny and disobedience of orders! Under circumstances like these it would besanguine for Mr. Beecher, Mr. Sumner, and Governor An drew, to say nothing of the President, even if they raised a very large negro army, to expect to employ it to much advantage on the same battlefield with the Celtic soldiers who have hitherto borne the brunt of the war. Ten thousand negroes, under a good white General—though not perhaps under Fremont—might be made a formidable weapon in the invasion of the South, and might, as Mr. Lin coln intimates, be the intrument by which some great Northern ambition might snatch famine, if not power, out of the forthcoming anarchy that threatens to inguif the republic. But whether the fame could be snatched without the same penalty as that paid by John Brown, of oe , swattamie, is the problem that such a general would have to solve, and the prospect, or at least the possibility, of which might not, perhaps, prove very attractive to a man like Fremont. NEW ZEALAND. -- A letter dated Dunedin, Otago, April, 18, says :—The "Native question," that horrible incubus of this colony, is again attract ng lively interest. Here in the southern por tion of the Middle Island, with as sturdy a population of Britons as can be found on the globe, pushing and striving to establish a great and flourishing province—with a Maori war and its direct risks no more likely than that the people of Skye or Mull will besiege London—we are forced to divert attention from our own affairs, and to watch the in scrutable policy of Sir George Grey townrds the reinstate ment of the Taranaki settlers, or to "settle" some other disputed block of land, and to curse the fate that makes the welfare of,Englishmen subservient in the eyes of our gene ral government to the attempt to convert the refractory natives into bad subjects of the Crown. Because of the " difficulty' on this score, our interests are postponed, our money squandered, and our progress checked, by a Government located in the extreme corner of the North Island, and for all practical purposes as far removed from us as is New York from London. Amy for "separa tion" has been raised, and it must grow stronger, until a petition respectful but uncompromising will be presented to her Majesty, praying that we may be allowed something like a fair and rational system of government, if not for the Middle Island, then, for this famed province of Otago. To the latter point things will no doubt come, for the other provinces of this island are likely to be too much actuated by jealousy of Otago, and her inevitable preponderance, to join in a demand for a Middle Island Government; and you will assuredly hear in England, from this time forward, a "damnable iteration" of this idea—Otago must be of and in itself, a distinct dependency, with its own government, presided over by a governor appointed by the Crown. The separation question has been made the most pro minent topic in the election of the Superintendent of the Province which has just taken place—the superinten dent being elected by a constituency of nearly 2,000, who are also entitled to vote for members of the General Assem bly and the Principal Council ; who holds cffice for four years, unless like a prime minister at home he feels com pelled to resign by the strength of the opposition party in the Council; and who possesses restricted administrative powers, delegated by the Governor, under the Constitution Act. Our Customs Revenue, for 1861, was only £69,727, out of a total of £260,863 for the whole colony ; but last year it was £167,079, out of £399,272; the revenue for the last quarter of the year being £57,869, out of £118,525. " Our" Cus toms Revenue comes naturally enough from the pen, but the phrase is incorrect. Five eighths of the whole goes to the general Government, who spend what they like of it, and return what may be left, proportionably to the dif ferent provinces. In this way Otago gave nearer £BO,OOO than £75,000 to the general Government last year; and it is highly probable that this year the contribution will be at least £130,000. This is a dear price for general obstruc tiveness. The gross revenue of this province exceeds consi derably that derived by the general government from all the provinces, by all the means of money getting at its com mand. Our exports during 1862 amounted to £1,745,959; the total for the whole colony being £2,421,841—0r more than two-thirds of the total from this one province. In 1861 our imports amounted to £859,733 out of a total for the co lony of £2,493,811; but, in 1862, when the total was in creased to £4,626,091, our proportion was over £2,100,000. During the last quarter of a year our figures were £622,104, against £1,331,178 for the whole colony ; so that, in imports as in everything else, Otago is rapidly becoming as impor tant to the rest of the world as the whole of the other New Zealand provinces lumped together. Sir George Grey, as we learn from accounts from the north, has at last begun to act. Temporising expedients he has tried to an extent which has sickened even those who originally advocated such a policy. His Excel lency's idea seems to be that the natives are at last suffi ciently divided from the lapse of time since the last war, to warrant his moving again; and that by a display of force, from the use of which he will abstain until absolutely forced to be hostile, he may be able to reinstate the Taranaki settlers. last month's escort returns give a total of 60,000 ounces, and large quantities have been brought down by those who have returned to Victoria. Last year, there was a general exodus of miners ;,bout this period ; for it wa, believed that to work during the winter was wholly impracticable. But the Wakatipu and the Dunstan fields, then not known, in clude many essentially winter diggings —streams such as the Clutha, the Buckleburn, the Arrow, Sce.—which are truly such; where the climate is generally mild, and the waters lower than during summer, so that the beds of the stream can be attacked. Then there is the Shotover, pro bably the most auriferous river ever yet discovered, and which is on the Wakatipu field. There the attractions are so great that hundreds of men have laid in huge stores of flour, bacon, tea, sugar, and clothes, at fabulously high prices, 3s. 6d, a pound for flour, for instance—and will allow themselves to be cut off from the rest of the world by rugged ranges, most dangerous always, but even now utterly im practicable, because of slight falls of snow; their conviction being that all will have enough to live upon, if they con trive to live and work till spring. How they will fare is of importance to the hereafter of the province as well as to themselves. All the progress yet made from Lake Wakatipu into the ranges between it and the west coast show that the real source of the gold supply lies there ; and fabulously great funds are anticipated. With provisions cheaper,which they will be at ter something like roads have been made and settlements € fleeted, every hit of ground yet worked in Otago would pay well. Miss Rye is still here. There has been plenty of discus sion about the girls who came with her, arising out of her complaints respecting the utter want of decent accommoda tion in the Immigration Barrack, "in which the " assisted females " are lodged on landing. Most ungenerous charges were made against Miss Rye and her protegees but it was much as an electioneering dodge in connection with Major Richardson's candidature; and the lady and the girls had the best of it, to the thinking of all but a few. Money for a new depot is sure to be voted as soon as the Council meets, which will be early next month. P.S. This morning we have news from the North which seems to show that Matutaera (the King) is in earnest in his endeavours to smooth the way for the occupation of the Tataraimaka. The Governor's policy has been to iso late the intruding tribe, Ngatiruanui ; and " the King" in vited him not to take decisive occupation until after March, when, if the Ngatiruanui are still obstinate, they will be left to their fate by the King, William Thomson, and their adherents. The North, at any rate, seems to be hopeful of a peaceful solution of this the leading difficulty. It will not, however, do to lose sight of the lawless and hostile spirit of ether tribes, which has before been mentioned, and which may at any moment cause a collision from the sheer im possibility of even the long suffering Sir George Grey pa tiently submitting to outrages. Early in March, Sir George Grey started from Auckland for Taranaki, accompanied by Gen. Cameron, C. 8., and the Colonial Secretary and Native Minister (M€ssrs. Domett and Dillon Bell). He was most coldly received by the settlers, to a deputation from whom he afterwards granted an interview. It resulted in their submitting a series of very pertinent questions as to his Excellency's intentions, both as to dealing with the natives and as to the disposal of the £200,000 voted long ago by the General Assembly as compensation for the dispos sessed. His Honour took time to consider, and has not yet replied. But ha began to act by ordering the military in garrison at New Plymouth to take possession of Waireka Hill, which had been abandoned since the war, and had recently been claimed as conquered land by the fighting chief of Wirimu Kiugi. Possession was taken, and by the 17th March a stockade had been erected. About 300 men, under Colonel Warre, also took up a position on Wilkinson's farm, Warieka, which is the southern boundary of the Omuta block. Then an interview was granted to two representatives of the King natives, but no thing came of it except Maori bounce. Men and munitions have since been sent from - Manukau to Taranaki. The force includes 100 men of the Royal Artillery, under Captain Mercer, who have been mounted as irregular cavalry. A Colonial Defence Corps has been formed to co-operate with the artillery, and has been placed under the command of Col. Nixon, an old Auckland settler. The 70th Regiment, with the exception of a depot, is at Taranaki, as are the headquarters of the 57th, and part of the 65th. Two or three stockades and redoubts have been constructed ; and the military are road making in a country where the natives have said that they would not allow such a thing to be done. Although there is as yet no new of any hostilities at Taranaki, there is news of a very unsatisfactory kind from the same neighbourhood. The Waikatos, the most power ful tribe of Maoris, occupy country between Taranaki and England. At • Kohekohe, in the Lower Waikato, his Ex cellency had ordered that there should be built a (native) courthouse, police station, and school. Operations had been begun, when in the latter part of March 200 natives appeared and took possession of the ground and works. There was no attempt made to injure the workmen; but the timber, &c., was rafted away down the river; and the natives have declared that they wont have a court house, for they dont want anything to do with the English. Four days after wards (on the 24th), another project of his Excellency's came to grief in the same district. The king natives have a newspaper of their own, the Ifokoi, and as it is made rather a formidable instrument of disaffection, Sir George sought to counteract its influence by having another jour- Sanitary Condition of the City of London. The following quarterly report relative to the sanitary condition of the City of London, brought down to the 28th March, has just been sent in to the Commissioners of Sewers by Dr. Letheby, Me dical Officer of Health for the City : nal in Maori, conducted by Government officials. So the To THE HON. THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Gentlemen,—The returns of births and deaths for the winter quarter are greatly below the average. In the quar ter that has just expired the number of births registered in the City was 800, and the deaths 803; whereas in the cor responding quarter of the last 10 years the average numbers have been 001 and 841. Of the 800 births, 441 were males and 359 females; and of the 803 deaths, 395 were males and 408 females. The distribution of births has been as follows :-338 were in the Eastern Union, 228 in the Western, and 234 in the City proper. These are in the annual proportion of ',32.7 per 1,000 of the population of the first named district, 341 of the second, and 20.1 of the third--making - together a pro portion of 28 per 1,000 for the whole City. In the corres ponding quarter of the last ten years, the average propor- lions were 34.9 for the Eastern Union, 29.1 for the West ern, and 21.4 for the City proper—making a general aver age of 27 7 for the entire city. In all England, at this season of the year, the annual birth-rate is about 36 per 1,000 of the population. While, therefore, the City birth-rate is much below the general standard for the whole country, it maintains its average proportion as compared with itself in former years. _ Of the 803 deaths in the quarter, 293 were in the Eastern Union, 229 in the Western, and 281 in the City. These are at the rate of 28.4 for the first -named union, 34.2 for the second, and only 24'2 for the third—making together a pro portion of 28'6 for the ensire City. In the winter quarters of the last ten years the average proportion has been little less than 26 per 1,000 ; and in the whole of England, at this season, it is about 24.8 per 1,000. The mortality, therefore, of the City population, during the last quarter, has been rather excessive, the chief increase having been in the poor localities of the Western Union, where the death-rate has risen from a general average of 30 in the 1,000 to 34*2. The ages at death are classified in Table 11, of the Appen dix, Three hundred and six, or rather more than one-third of all the deaths, were among children of less than five years of age ; and there were rather more than 42 per cent. of the deaths under 10 years of age. In the Eastern Union the proportion was nearly 55 per cent. These are the numbers which have given so large an increase to the general death rate, for in former years the average proportion of such deaths to the total number of deaths has been less than 40 per cent. At ether ages the proportions have not been re markable-101 of the deaths, or about 12 per cent. of the total mortality, were among persons of from 20 to 40 years of age; 136, or about 17 per cent., from 40 to 60 ; and 200, or nearly 25 per cent., were among persons of 60 and up wards. The chief causes of death were as follows :--Phthisis 90, mesenteric disease and scrofula 42, hydrocephalus 27, con vulsions and teething 41, bronchitis and pneumonia 170, continued fever 34, scarlet fever 37, measles 21, whooping cough 55, croup and diphtheria 7, diarrhoea 7, smallpox 5 and erysipelas 5; making together about 19 per cent. of all the deaths from tubercular diseases, 21 per cent. from in flammatory affections of the lungs, and nearly 19 per cent. from diseases of a zymotic character. Nearly all these are below the average numbers for the season, but a few of the individual diseases have been in excess of the average; tabu and scrofula, for example, have risen from an average of 35 in the quarter to 42; hydrocephalus from 21 to 27; scarlet fever from 19 to 37 ; continued fever from 28 to 34; and the deaths from violence from 40 to 53. Tha increase of the mortality from continued fever has been chiefly in the Eastern division of the City, where the number of deaths has advanced from an average of 11 in the quarter to 18. In the Western Union the deaths from it have declined from 9 to 5; and in the whole of the City the sickness from it among the poor has fallen from 138 cases in the quarter to 73—in fact, in the winter quarter of lest year there were 129 cases of fever on the sick books of the medical officers of the City Unions. The total number of cases of all kinds attended among the poor during the quarter by the union medical officers was but 2,262, whereas iu the corresponding quarter of last year it was 3,223; the average number for the quarter being 2,867. These facts may be in great part explained by the me • teorology of the quarter; for, while the mean temperature has been almost constantly above the average for the season, the atmosphere has been comparatively dry. During the whole quarter, except the second and third weeks of March the mean temperature for each week has been from 2.1 to 7.4 degrees above the average; and the mean temperature for the entire quarter has been 42.5 degrees at Greenwich. and 44.9 degrees in the City. This is about four degrees above the average for the winterquarter the last 43 years. The highest temperature for the quarter (61 degrees) was on the 3d of March, and the lowest (32*1 degrees) on the 21st of February. The greatest daily range of the thermometer has been from 9.8 deg. to 17 . 9 deg. Very little rain has fallen during the quarter,although the number of wet days has not been much below the average. Instead, for example, of a fall of 4.2 inches of rain in the quarter, which is the averags of the last five years, there has been but 393 inches. The humidity of the air has, therefore, been greatly below the usual standard ; it has ranged from 74 deg. of saturation to 97, but the average has been only 84. The sanatory work of the quarter is shown in Tables V. and VI. of the Appendix. It is thus expressed-1,689 houses have been inspected, and 882 visits have been made to the common lodging-houses of the City. These have resulted in the issuing of 737 orders for sanitary improvement. The markets and slaughter-houses have also been duly inspected, and the officers have condemned 42,9761b5. of meat and 729 head of game and poultry as unfit for human food. The meat consisted of 281 sheep, 6 calves, 54 pigs, 252 quarters of beef, and 434 joints of meat; 33,7741b5. were diseased, 4,135ib5. were putrid, and 5,0671b5. were from ani mals that bad died from disease. All of it was sent to the boilers and destroyed. Pi7tothoi .Mokemoke was started, under a Mr. Gorst, but on the 24th March, during his absence, the place was broken into, the press broken, the type removed, the letter-box and its contents stolen, and a threat made to burn all the In the course of the quarter two persons have been con victed of the offence of sending diseased meat to the City markets. They are— debris. In all these Maori pranks the English take sides, „and the newspaper accounts are tinged accordingly. They are most contradictory as to the instigators and the object of this destruction of property ; but there can be no doubt that it was a game of the Kingites, the chief object being to get rid of Mr. Gorst and his paper. The King men claim credit for preventing the fire ; and it is alleged that the great Wirimu and his sister have been "profoundly grieved" by the outrage, and have personally endeavoured to get the stolen property restored. Mr. Gorst has refused to leave the place without the consent of the Governor, and the gentle savages have allowed him three weeks grace to get it. Both these events, whether connected with the King movement or not show the spirit of restless less and impatience by which the Maori are just now in fluenced. They are protesting that they do not want and will not have schools of British magistrates amongst them. They are said to feel that contact with the white skins has _ induc e d habits whi c h h ave t en d e d to the demoralisation and de struction of thei r race • and to believe that their sal ' . vatmu is to be found - in r ecurring ' to their old habits. :Whether the outra ges believe that th e George Grey' s work mo t r e e The goldfields are still movement, ges mentioned are, o r arc not, connected with the Ri ng y in veze a nt, or i nst i ga t e d by it s l ea d ers , many a dispositio n w hi c h w ill ma ke Sir difficult o f accomp li s h ment. yielding most satisfactorily, The John Nicholson Halfhead. c3wkeeper, Worship-street, London, who was fined £5 and costs ; and Thomas Hewitt, butcher, Wisbeach, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and a fine of £25 to the Queen. The quantity of moat condemned in the corresponding quarter of last year was only 23,4581'e5. As in the preceding quarter, therefore, the amount of meat condemned is above the average.—l remain, &c. HY. LETHEBY. 41, Finsbury -square, May 20. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST) VICTORTA.-PARK.—The number of patients relieved at this institution last week was 1,372, of which 208 were now`cases. [ADVERTIS EMENT.}—HoIIoway's Pills.—General Ap prebation.—These excellent purifying Pills have now been before the public nearly 30 years. For removing indiges tion. heartburn, loss of appetite, low spirits, headache, and constipation, Hollo way ' s Pill s h ave received the commen dations of thousands who have sent the highest testimo nials of their efficacy from all parts of the world. The value of this medicine i n th e diseases incident to youth cannot be too highly extolled ; it purifies the blood, harmonises t h e action of the differ en t v i tal organs, and t h us i n evitably gives strength to the whole system. Holloway's Pills are acknowledged to be the best known " family medicine ," they can be taken at any time without fear, as they neither irritate nor inconvenience the most delicate constitution. THE SUN,. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, ji:TNE 15, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SATURDAY RETlEW.—iooking to the evidence produced by Lord Cardigan it is proper to notice, la) way of introduction,that the Light Cavalry Brigade advanced to charge the Russian battery in three lines. The first line was composed of the 13th Light Dragoons and the 17th Lancers ; the second line was formed'by the 11th Hussars; and the third by the 4: h Light Dragoons and the Bth Hussars. Lord Cardigan, i❑ his own affidavit, stated that he ad vanced at the head of the first line of the brigade, and led it up to and into the battery. He rode through the battery at the head of the brigade, and past the guns, till he came nearly up to a force of Russian cavalry stationed behind the battery, and in rear of the guns. He was then attacked by some Cossacks, slightly wounded, and nearly dis mounted. He was at this time almost alone, for the first line of cavalry, which had followed him into the battery, had been entirely broken up. Upon disengaging himself from the CossOcks and return ing past the guns, he saw the broken remnants of the first line, in small detached portions, retreating up the hill towards their original position. The statement of Lord Cardigan was confirmed by eeveral witnesses. Lieutenant Johnson, of the 13th Light Dragoons, ~erved as a sergeant in thiS action. He entered the battery with his regiment, which formed part of the first line. The remnants of that line retreated in small detached parties, one of which, including Sergeant Johnson, fell in with the second line as it advanced, and turned and rode a second time through the battery along with it. On making this second advance, Sergeant Johnson found himself within a few yards of Lord Cardigan, who was then in the rear of the batteryourrounded by and engaged in defending himself against, four or five Cossack lancers. Lord Cardigan disengaged himself from the Cossacks, and rode away unhurt, one of them making ineffectually a right rear point at him as he departed. The witness then retreated towards the hill as rapidly as he could. Another witness was Mr. Percy Smith, formerly a captain in the same regiment. He charged in the first line, and had the best possible opportunity of observing where Lord Cardigan was and what he did. Lord Cardigan rode nearly opposite the space between the two regiments which formed the first line, and he entered the battery about three horses' lengths in advance of the line. Mr. Percy Smith adds; — "After we had pasted through the battery, I saw one of the Cossacks who were drawn up in the rear of the guns cut at his lordship with his sword, and I recollect this circumstance particularly, as I observed that Lord Cardigan kept his own sword at the slope, and did not seem to take any trouble to defend himself." Colonel Jenyns, of the same regiment, served as a captain at Balaklava. He describes how a gun was fired close to Lord Cardigan's horse's head. " His horse slightly swerved to the right, crossed me, and entered the battery on my right front." ATAENAUM.—In the dedication of Wednesday, the world, we may be sure, thought less of the Cryt.- tal Palace and all its wonders than of that prince of men who first conceived it in Ilia mind, and then by skill and courage translated the idea of his soul into its perfect material shape. It was an unwel come rather than an infelicitous combination ; the fitness being perfect, while the need for that fitting combination was full of pain, The figure which should have crowned the pedestal in the Horticul tural Gardens was a Britannia—making the whole work symbolical, instead of partly real and partly ideal, as it now stands, to its - manifest artistic loss. But the years consumed in making out the original thought brought with them changes which com pelled us to adopt new plans. Britannia gave her piece to Albert; the true genius of the Exhibition —the best representative of Peace, Industry and Art. We could well have spared the mournful poe try of this association; but having no choice in the affair, we may take to heart the tender teaching, the benignant moral, of events, which come upon us against our selfish will. That lapse of a Dozen Years which changed our memorial into a monument must be accepted with other facts. It is the old story. We go a safe and steady pace. A more sprightly peo ple, to whom a fanfare of trumpets is an event, and real events are but a fanfare of trumpets would have enjoyed, and quizzed. and libelled, and forgotten the doings in Hyde Park long ago. This haste to do and to forget is not in our sober and chastened natures. We play our music in slow time. Our festivals become solemnities. We pause so long about our rejoicings that Time and Death come knocking at our gate and add some fresh and unwelcome visitors to our string of guests. It has always been so with us ; for our movement of ideas is like the growth of our oaks, our Constitution and our em- - Ore. We are talking of a monument to Shakepeare, and asking whether Cromwell is to have a statue. Our Nelson column is still unfinished. With us, everything has to grow, and while growth is pro ceeding change may come. It is the principle of our national life, and we must accept the law even when, instead of giving us, in our most frequented and brilliant public places, a memorial of our enterprise and greatness, it reminds us of an irretrievable loss. As a mere spectacle, the uncovering of Mr. Dur ham's group was singularly fine—recalling more than any other show of a dozen years, that festive scene when the Queen and Piince, in the bloom 01 youth and manliness, rode over into Hyde Park on the Ist of May, 1851. There were the same bright colours, the same royal salutes, the same graceful harmony of trees and flags, the same fitful sunshine, broken by straying clouds, and the same serpen tine winding of a rich bright line of representative men and women. Some of the chief performers were the same ; and where, as in the foremost, change had done its melancholy office, there were gleams of beauty and of hope which proved that if the cloud which weighs upon the nation is very dark, it has, nevertheless, the most radiant golden fringe. EXAMINER.—Why does Mr. Hankey hanker so for the Nelson lions ? Is not sufficient for the day of production the evil thereof ? " Show his eyes but grieve his heart," the evil genius that presides! over Trafalgar-square may say. That Sir E. Land seer will make all that artist can make of lions we are quite certain. He will not make them look as Livingstone says is the established sculptural usage, like" old women in night-caps," but no matter how the animals may be rendered, the design is bad, and its completion will bring prominently cut the ab surdity. There you will see a hero in a cocked Let at the top of a lofty pillar. What is he up there for ? For very good reason ; because there are four savage carnivorous animals at the bottom licking their chops, and ready to devour him if he conies down within reach of their fangs and claws. In appropriate slang phrase the gentleman in the cocked hat is up a tree. He will never come down while those lions are there, No wonder, then, that Sir Edwin Laudseer has been in no hurry to set the lions there. Things are not now at the worst, and it does not seem that the hero in the cocked hat is in any jeopardy, but merely that he has mounted that pillar to take an observation of the sun's alti tude, and he has been there so long, and is likely to be there much longer, waiting tor a lucid i n t erva l for a sight of the sun. All this looks professional and suitable. But set the lions there, and it is ob vious that Nelson has climbed up out of their way, or that he is in the difficulty before described of being up a tree." Time was when the lion was a beast of good repute for courage and generosity. He is, now known to be an arrant impostor. Except when stimulated by hunger he is one of the most dastardly animals in the creation. He is a huge cat and no thing more. The true type of courage is the dog, which, uustimulated by hunger, will at the command of man attack an animal a hundred times his size. In ignorance of natural history the attribute of courage was bestowed on the lion, and with im proved knowledge it will be withdrawn, and popu larly understood that the mangy beast is only brave when he has an e m pt y b e ll y. Th e say i ng, " b rave as a lion," will soon come to sound pretty much the same as "brave as a hare," or " bold as a mouse." So, if Landseer would present his lions in the only mood, rendering them types of courage, he must exhibit them with every appearance of a long fast, ex cee di ng ly l an k an d l ean , with a notable collapse of the flanks. They will he bold enough iu that s habby con dition, b u t th en , will it not teem obvious that they are at the foot of the column for no good, and hungering for the gentleman who has taken refuge at the top ? The predicament is not one in which you would choose to present a hero. LONDON REVIEW.—The story of Colonel Waugh's doings is worth recalling. Some years ago there existed a joint-stock bank, whose seat of manage ment was in London, but whose scene of operations was in India. The company was respectable, but not profitable; and as those were the i days of Bri tish Banks and marvellous dividends, t struck some of the members that it would be well to cultivate the rich field of English confidence, and add to the Oriental connection an extended London business. The idea found favour, and towards the latter end of 1854 the scheme of the London and Eastern Banking corporation was submitted to the public. Applications for shares came fast and thick. Officers, civil and military, of high standing under the East India Company, became contributories ; the deed of settlement was executed ; and in January, 1855, the company o bt a i ned its charter of incorporation. Of course it was essential that a first-rate concern should h ave a fi rst-rate manager. This desideratum was found in Mr. J. E. Stephens, a gentleman possess e d o f experience and influence in India; known to Lord Gough, and other Indian . officers of rank, a n d we ll acquainted with the In dian Exchanges. The wisdom of this choice of a manager soon became apparent. He introduced customer after customer. First came th e Letts' Wharf Timber and. Sawing Mills Company.; then the firm of Minter and Co:, upholsterers and invalid-chairmakers, of Soho ; then Barwise and Co., watchmakers, of Piccadilly. True, these firms exhibited the drawback that Mr. Stephens was a partner in all of them, and that their custom consisted in exchanging their paper for the solid tank of the Bank. But Mr. Stephens had another partner. He had en gaged with Colonel Waugh in forming the Branksea Clay Company, which was to turn Branksea Island, Dorset—the property of Colonel Waugh—into an. English El Dorado, And for a time the experiment was successful ; for on the 22d of March Colonel Waugh lodged his acceptance with the bank for £2,630, on the strength of which he drew out in six days £2,779, and by May he had increased his debt to £17,000, and by July to £50,000. In that month, by virtue of his " large stake" in the concern, he became qualified for a seat at the board, and on the 16th was elected a director. This, of course, gave him and Mr. Stephens full play for their abilities. As the Colonel's bills became due they were met by new ones; and from the interest on these and similar transactions, paid out of the money borrowed from the bank, the directors bad soon the gratifying duty of declaring a very handsome dividend, and the shareholders had the happiness of believing that they had invested their money in a magnifi cent speculation. But while the hank was thus scudding along with a wet sail and a flowing sea, suddenly was beard the cry, " Breakers ahead !" In September, 1856, the Royal British Bank came to grief. In spite of all the ingenuity, lying, and daring of its manager and directors, that sublime mixture of piety and rascality broke up with a crash which was felt in hundreds of families, and gave a shock to public confidence in all joint-stock speculations. Banks which were safe invited in vestigation into their accounts and position. The London and Eastern was not safe. But its directors met, and passed a resolution that for the future no sum should be advanced to any director without such security as would be required from an ordinary customer ; and that no turlher advance should be made to a director already indebted to the extent of £5,000, without the sanction of the weekly board. But these was a charm in Colonel Waugh's account which no resolutions could control. On the 25th of November two of his bills for £4,000 each were dis counted by the bank ; and on the 30th of December two other bills for £lO,OOO each were discounted without the sanction of the weekly board. Every one knows that if you stop a heavy body which is moving with great velocity, the consequences will be serious. The colonel's debt answered this de scription ; and Mr. Stephens declared, before the Edinburgh Bankruptcy Court, that it was impossi ble to stop it suddenly. And thus when, in January, 1857, the books were made up to the end of the previous year, it was found that Colonel Waugh was indebted to the bank in £196,310; and this enormous sum was increased by further discounts, between January and the 11th of April, to £244,000, or within £6,000 of the entire subscribed capital of the company. And now came the smash. But Col. Waugh was gone before it came. He had feathered his nest. He had transferred his Branksea El Do rado to the copper mines of Valverde, in Spain; and there for a while he remained lost to the world. But he had plenty of money at command—the spoil of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation, which he had plundered of a quarter of a million sterling. He invested between 10 and 15 thousand pounds in Spanish mines, transferring his shares to a member of his family, and negotiating with his agents in England for a loan to the tune of several thousands. His patient creditors in England re peatedly consented to the enlargement of his time for surrender under the adjudication of bankruptcy, upon the plea that he was " sick, and ill, and like to die." But the colonel was in rude health. He ate and drank with an appetite equal to the voracity with which he had devoured the substance of the London and Eastern Bank. He visited England and Paris to consult his London attorney ; and on one occasion he rode 160 miles over the rugged mountains from Se ville to Valverde and back, a journey of two days' and nights' duration, and "requiring," says one of his viedms, " the stoutest heart to accomplish." All this while he was sending " sick certificates" to Eng land. But the Spanish mines did not prove so pro fitable a speculation as the London Bank. 111-got, ill - gone. The money out of which the Colonel had swindled the shareholders of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation seems to have dwindled away till he and his family were obliged to adopt the humble life of cottagers. And now, when all is gone, Colonel Waugh comes back to England to have an operation (performed on his eye, no doubt by that celebrated oculist, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin. He returned to an ungrateful country in August -last. In due time he was arrested and qon fined in Whitecross-street. And very recently he petitioned the Court of Bankruptcy, praying to be allowed to surrender under the adjudication of the 13th April, 1857- SPECTATOR.—The entertainment at the Guildhall to the Prince and Princess of Wales on Monday last displayed a magnificence that recalled the splen dour, without the beauty, of the " Arabian Nights." The cost of the gigantic and gorgeous tickets of invitation alone is said to nave been near £2,000, and the additional insurances, as we mentioned last week, were for £50,000. The Princess was in more than usual radiahee, and her manner, so English in other respects, ac' un-Englishly cordial, is rapidly making her the pet of the country. Her expression, kind, cordial, delicate, and innocent, was touched with a twilight archness that seemed to depre cate the formality, while it heartily accepted the enjoyments, of these festivities. No wonder the Worthy aldermen flapped themselves about in an agony of delight, and basked in her smile like their turtles in the Ben. They had even risen into the sublimity of a sentiment. On the way from the robing room to the hall lay a trans parency representing the home of the Princess's youth—which was the pearl of aldermanic delicacy. Her Royal Highness dances well, and though her evident want of familiarity with the Lancers threw her back on the counsels of her husband, this did but add a new grace to the many graces of her manner. The . feelings of the City Corporation were not soothed by the presence of any of their recently vanquished political foes, for Mr. Disraeli was the only statesman present, and very sleepy and lionlike he looked as he towered on the dais above Prince and people. The peeresses were in good force, and might be describ e d as th e R oya l B r i t i s h Lif e G uar ds of the regal b eau ty, so well and largely did they enchance the little gem of Denmark. JUSTICE AS IT WAS. Sixty years ego Governor Wall was executed for the murder of Sergeant Armstrong at Goree. Wall was a man of family and fortune, who had done good service as a soldier, and 20 years had elapsed since the commission of his crime; but all availed him not. He had inflicted an illegal punishment, which had caused the death of a man, for which he himself suffered the death of a felon. In those days did they think less of life than we do now, or was it that they thought more of the life of au in nocent man than of the life of a guilty man ? Cer tain it is that Wall had no sympathy. In recording his fate the Annual _Register for 1802 observes that " British justice has manifested in two memo rable events its wisdom, its purity, and its impartiality—namely, in the punishment of mu tineers, and a no less exemplary execution of a commander for violating the delegated authority of his Sovereign , in ordering an illegal punishment which caused the death of one of those over whom he was placed." Twenty years hence will anything like this be written of the manifesta tion of British justice, tardy but sure, in the punish ment of those concerned in the death of Lilley ? There had recently been a signal punishment of mutineers, men blown from the mouths of gunp, where Lilley suffered, but retribution halts where the offenders are in high places of authority. Wall had no screen. There was in his case no shuttle. cock responsibility to be battledored from one to another. He was not permitted to escape the halter upon the plea " Thou canat not say I did it." He averred, and with some ground, mutinous conduct, and put forth - the sanction of a sort of drumhead court.martial, but the fact that a man had died of a flogging under his direction inflicted without legal warrant was enough, and he was found guilty. Armstrong was really not so much to be pitied as poor Lilley. He had only his own pains to bear, and not for long. He had not the shame of seeing a wife suffering from diarrhoea and compelled to perform the functions of nature under the eye of a sentinel changed from hour tohour, rude witnesses, fresh and fresh, posted within three feet of her bed. Armstrong was not killed by inches. He was not shut up for more than a month in a sort of oven, where, deprived of air and exercise, and subjected to every humiliation. apoplexy was the certain fate of a man of a plethoric habit. Armstrong, mo re fortunate, died of the speedy consequences of a t excessive beating with a rope , for which his tor mentor also died of a rope, gentleman and highly connected as he was. But :Wall had no Generals Farrell and Sir Wm. Mansfield to cove r hi m and bear him harmless with their m i sun d eretudings and blunders.—Examiner. THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY• The following is the report of the directors, to be submitted to the ordinary general meeting of proprietors at the London Tavan, on Wednesday ❑ezt ;--- " In again meeting the proprietors, the directors are happy to be able to report that so far as the season has yet advanced, the prospects of the company are very encou raging. The issue of the season tickets at a uniform rate of ene guinea, free from restrictions, has met with much favour from the publjc, and has led to a material increase in the sale over that of the last few years. The series of grand concerts now in progress has also been well received, and the flower show which took place on the 23d of May was entirely successful. In fact, the arrangements for the present season appear hitherto to have met with general approval and support. The works of the MetopeEtat Extension of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, under the name of the South London June • tion,' have been actually commenced, and the directors are assured that they will be pressed forward with all possible speed, so as to ensure the opening of this important chan nel of communication at the earliest period. The proprie tors are aware that this line will unite the Palace with the Victoria and Ludgate-hill stations by a direct route, tra versing the densely-populated suburban districts which lip between Syienharn and the metropolis. The terminus at this end will be on the other side of the road in front of the Palace, immediately opposite the centre transept, and a few steps only below the level of the main floor. Tho advantage which the company are likely to derive from such an additional channel of communi cation, and especially from the high level station, can hardly be overrated. The opening of the West London Junction Railway, from:Kensington to the Clapham Junc tion on the West-end and Crystal Palace line (which took place in April), is also of great importance to the company, since it opens up a direct traffic with the main lines of the North-Western and Great Western without change of car riage, as well as with the North London Railway. The Clapham Junction station is further important as enabling passengers from Richmond and other places on the South- Western system to transfer themselves to the Crystal Pa lace line. The directors regret to have to mention the loss of their esteemed colleague, Mr James Low. They do riot, however, think it necessary at present to propose any gen tleman to supply his place. The directors who retire at this time by rotation are Mr. Henry Bicknell and Mr. Horsley. These gentlemen are eligible for re-election, and offer themselves accordingly." COUNTRY MARKETS. .1• , - NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. There was a moderate show of wheat at mark e ito-day; an inactive demand was experienced, at barely late rates. —White wheat, from 48s to 55s ; red wheat, 4 29 s to offs. B ar ley—malting, 35s to 39s ; grinding, 27s to 295. Oats old, at 25s to 31s Od ; new, 22s to2ss. Beans sold at 41s to 45s per qr. Flour, 31s to 40s. YORK— SATURDAY. A limited show of wheat to-day, with a moderate demand at former quotations. In malting barley nothing doing; grinding a moderate show, with a firm trade. For other articles there was a slight advance. • Wheat, red 44s_to 48s Oats.... 22s to 24s White do .48s to 52s Beans 40., to 42s Barley ....28s to 30s Peas ....—s to —9 Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; rye, 34s per qr. ; flour, 34s to 36s per sack. NORTHAMPTON—oATURDAY. There was not a large show of wheat to-day, and the demand was quiet. Buyers were enabled to supply their wants at barely so much money as last week. Little doing in barley, and late rates supported, Beans rather scarce. —White wheat, 46s to 50s ; red, 43s to 478 ; fine, 490 to —s per qr. Barley, 38s to 408—grinding, 29s to 325; Oats, 24s to 30s:per 24 stone. Beans, 34a to 40s. Peas, 36s to 40s per qr. —SATURDAY. .ir to-day, and sales were more .n other articles little doing at NORWICH- The show of wheat was fa active, at fully late prices. I unaltered prices. White wheat. 46s to 48s Red wheat 42 s to 463 Malting barley ... 38s to 40s I Chevalier barley 36s to 37s Distilling do 33s to 358 I Oats.. Flour, 32s 6d to 33s Od per sack from the miller. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. New white wheat, 49s to 535; red, 45s to 48s per 365 t.; malting barley, 35s to 39s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s; old oats, 24s to26s; beans, 38s to 40s; peas, 36s to 38s. LEICESTER—SATunns.Y. Old white wheat, —s to —s; new, 46s to 64s per 36 stone. Old red, 45s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley, rna.lting, new, 34s to 38s per qr.• grinding, 27's to 30s; old oats, —s to —s; new oats, 25s to 29s per 24 stone: Beans new, 38s to 42s per 3stone ; flour, 34s to 35s per 20 pion°. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Aufeaalia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. June 18. -- via Marseilles ... June 12 A3razil and Oape Verds, by British packet. July 5. Cape of Good Hope, Aension, and St. Helena.. June 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 18. via Marseilles ... June 12, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. June 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 18. via Marseilles.. • • June 1 2. ~ India (Bombay), via Southampton ...... june ...v• June 10. via Marseilles June 29 . Portuga 1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 10. via Marseilles June 12. . Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 10. --.- by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. June 12. -- W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe June 10 Bahamas, via New Y0rk...,,, . ... , , . . July 2. Mexico .. June 29. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Juno 13. California. and British Cohimbia. MR. BUCKLE, THE RIBTQRIAN, as described by Miss Power in - her new work " Arabian Days and Nights."—" At Cairo we had the good fortune to fall in with one whose premature 'death a few weeks later noW makes the souvenir. of the encounter doubly interesting. This was Buckle, who, in his researches for fresh materials for his History of Civilization,' was now on his way back from a journey up the Nile. He had, on his arrival in Egypt, brought letters of introduction to the R—'s, so that as they were already acquainted he came almost immedi ately to call, and was asked to dinner on an early day. I have known most of the celebrated talkers of—l will not say how many years back—of the time, in a word, when Sydney Smith rejoiced in his green bright old age, and Luttrell, and Rogers, and Tommy Moore were still capable of giving forth an occasional flash, and when the venerable Lord Brougham, and yet more venerable Lord Lyndhtasty delighted in friendly and brilliant sparring at dinner-tables, whose hosts are now in their half forgotten graves. I b t " known some brilliant talkers in Paris--Lamartine and Dumas, and Cabarrus, and brightest, or at least most con stantly bright of all, the late Madame Emile de Girardin. I knew Douglas Jerrold ; and I am still happy enough to claim acquaintance with certain men and women whose names, though well known, it were perhaps invidious noW to mention. But, for inexhaustibility, versatility, memory, and self-confidence, I never met any to compete with. Buckle. Talking was meat, and drink, and sleep to him; he lived upon talk. He could keep pace with any given number of interlocutors on any given number of suir jects, from the abstrusest point on the abstrusest science to the lightest jets d' esprit, and talk them all down, and be quite ready to start fresh. Among the hundred and one anecdotes with which he entertained us I may be permitted to give, say the hundred and first. ' Wordsworth,' said Charles Lamb, one day told me that he considered Shake speare greatly over-rated.' There is an immensity of trick in all Shakspeare wrote,' he said, ' and people are taken in by it. Now if I had a mind I could write exactly like Shakspeare.'—' So you see,' proceeded Charles Lamb, quietly, it was only the mind that was wanting 1' We reset Buckle on several subsequent occasions, and his talk and his spirits never flagged ; the same untiring energy marked all he said, and did, and thought, and fatigue and depression appeared to be things unknown to him." Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s 4d. and 4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. Births. EIONYMAN-011 the 11th inst., at Park Cottage, Black: heath, the wife of Sir George Elides. Honyman, Bart., 01 a daughter, stillborn. KNox,—On the 12th inst., at Copse-hill, Wimbledon, tho wife of Henry Needham Knox, Esq., R.N., of a (laugh' ter. WILKINsoN—On the 12th inst., at Greenheys, Manchester , Mrs. Eason Wilkinson, of a daughter. • Marriages. CRAWEORD—CnA.WFORD—Onthe 11th inst., at Bangor Church, Thomas D. Crawford, Esq., Belfast, to Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Sharman Crawford , of Crawfordsburn, co. Down. MANLEY—DELPRATT.—On the 9th inst., at Christ Churclit Lancaster-gate, Bayswater, the Rev. Richd. H. Menial , M.A., to Agnes Elizabeth, daughter of J. Delpratt, Beg* of Queen's-gardens, Hyde -park. Deaths. BRUCE—On the 12th inst., at Trinity College Glenahnoud, Perthshire, the lion. Charles Bruce, third son of th e Earl of Elgin, aged 11. MA.CGILEGOR—On the 11th inst., at Eton Lodge, Wave r; tree, near Li ver p oo l, W a lt er F ergus M acgre gor, seni or partner in the firm of George Forrester and Co., ag ed 52. MITCHELL.— On the 10th inst., Mr. Fred. Y. H. Mitchell, of 8, Idol-lane, Tower-street, aged 61. RUSSELL.—On the 10th inst., at Northfleet, Russell, Esq., aged 30. STIRLING.—On the 13th inst., at Eaton-place S., Cat of rine Georgina Stirling, relict of Patrick Stirling, Yr. Kippendavie, aged 72. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM 2 ANDREW O, of No. 112, Strand, Printer; at T HE Office. I`,l o . 11 .; Strand, in the Precinct of the 3a707, i n the CountY ob Middlesex- - SatUllaY, June 13, 1863.