The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

The National Social Science Association, (From the Scotsman.) Among distinguished strangers who have already arrived in town to attend the meetings of the asso ciation may be named—tbe Hon. Judge Longfield, President of the Department of Trade and Interna tional Law; and Mr. Thomas Hare, Secretary of the Charit y Commission. In all the departments papers Neil be read of great interest, some of which are expected to lead to important discussions. In the department of Trade and International Law, sub jects of great national importance at the present time will be discussed. The question of Interna tional Law as to blockade will be under considera tion in that department, and it is anticipated that some interesting information will be given as to the number of ships which have run the blockade in America. Mr. Westlake, the Foreign Secretary of the Association, whose opinion on the law of blockade is entitled to great weight, will in all probability lay a resolution on the subject before the Depart ment of Trade and International Law. It is also expected that a resolution will be proposed on the question of allowing neutral Powers to build ships fur or to sell them to a belligerent. Mr. William Forsyth, Q.C., will be added to the list of vice-pre sidents in the Depart ment o f T rade an d International Law; and on account of the pressure of business to come before the d e p artment there w ill be a subsec tion tion appointed, at th e request o f a numbero of owners in Liverp oo l and ot h er towns, t the question of th e b est mo d e of consider hsa valuing s subject of importance to all en g aged in the s hi pp in g as trade, it appears that at present there is great difficulty in getting ships the proper ly valued. On Thursday, the first day on w hich depart ments meet, the leading b usin ess will be as follows: —The Jurisprudence Department will be chiefly occupied with papers and discussions on "The De fects of the present system of Statutory Legislation," and "The Law of Evidence in Civil and Criminal Causes." I n the Education Department (which meets in the Assem bly Hall), the papers on univer sity education w ill first be taken up, in which the propriety of morning and evening classes at th e un i ver sities will be discussed. Working men's colleges will also engage the attention of the de partment. In the third department, criminal statis tics and criminal legislation will form the subject of the leading papers. In the fourth department Professor Christison will read a paper on the Changes that have occurred in the Type of Disease in Edinburgh during the last 50 years, and papers will also be read oa Disease in Cattle. The fifth department will be occupied all day with papers on Emigration. The sixth department will be chiefly occupied with papers on Direct and Indirect Taxa tion. On Friday the business will be as follows :—ln the Jurisprudence Department, Civil Procedure in Scotland, and the Bankruptcy Law of Scotland, will form the subjects of discussion. In the Edu cational Department the entire day will be devoted to papers and discussions on National Education, and the Assembly Hall will no doubt be well attended during the whole day. Among the papers read will be the following :—Professor Milligan on the Parish Schools of Scotland; Rev. Dr. Bell, M.D., on the Revised Code ; the Rev. A. Fraser, " On the Present State of Elementary Education in Scotland, with suggestions as to a commission of inquiry." The third department will do occupied all day with the kindred subjects of ragged schools and reformatories, and among the papers will be one by Dr. Buchanan " On the Advantages of Ragged Schools," and another by the Rev. Dr. Robart Lee "On the Advantages of Reformatories." In the fourth department a paper "On the Recent Sani tary Works," from Miss Nightingale, will be read, and Provost Lindsay will read a paper "On the Police Improvement Act of Scotland." The subjects of the drainage of towns and unhealthy houses will also be brought under consideration. In the fifth department (Social Economy) nearly all the papers will refer to charity and relief of the poor, one of them being "On the Lancashire Cotton Dis trict," by Mr. Edmund Potter, M.P. In the sixth department there will be read papers on the Patent Question, on a Uniform System of Weights, Measures, and Coins, and on Decimal Notators. On Saturday the Jurisprudence Department will consider papers on the Torrens System of Convey ancing, and on the Extension of the Landed Estates Court to Scotland. In the second department In dustrial Education will occupy the entire day, there being four papers on that subject. In the third department two papers will be read On the Convict System, one by the Right Hon. C. Adderley, M.P., on the "Reports on Penal Servitude and Prison Discipline," and another by Mr. John Hill Burton, on the Evidence at the Penal Servitude Act Com mission, not printed with the report. In the fourth department there will be among other papers two on Colonial Schools and Hospitals by Miss Night ingale. In the fifth department there will be five papers on Co-operation, two onApprenticeships, and one on Trades' Societies. The sixth department will be occupied all day with papers on Scotch Trades. On Monday the Jurisprudence Department will hear papers on the Banking and Currency Laws of the United Kingdom, and on a proposed public Register of Railway Debentures. There will also be discussions on the subjects of breach of contract by workmen, facilities for the working clas ses ac quiring house property in large towns, and small debt actions by retailers against consumers for the price of necessaries. On the last-named subject Sheriff Hallard, of Edinburgh, will read a paper. The Education D e p ar t ment will be occupiedsvith papers on the two important topics of middle class education and the state of foreign education. The third department will again devote the whole day to papers on the convict system. The fourth de partment will take up papers relating to sanitary arrangements in Edinburgh, Leith, and New haven. The fifth department will take up a ll the day with papers and discussions on important subjects relating to the con dition of the working classes, such as the dwellings of the working classes in large towns, hinds' houses, Scottish agricultural labourers' rural cot tages, Post-office savings banks, y ear ly soc i et i es, closing movement, D. B egg h av i ng a nd the early a pi per to read on the last-named subject. The sixth department will hear three papers " O n I n the discussions on which w ill t e rnation al L aw," occupy t h e entire day. Among the papers will be one by Th e P. Chalmers, " On the Capture during War of Private Property at Sea." On Tuesday the Jurisprudence Department will take u p p a pers "On the Marriage Laws and the be occupied pith n Lunacy Laws" as affecting the medical profession. l e h e Educational Department wille-r -e mg a variety i • of miscella neous p apers, including Papers on S a bb at h S c hools, Music Schools, &c. The third d epartnielat will take uP Pa relating to the licensing system causes and . of e i me ,the . prevention el in Scotland and the traffic in Provost Lind drink being among the Reelects of the paposest_.ronge ' e a of Cer say will read one paper ti Th e tenni , ' 0 tificates for Licee, - , a e 'i o in Scotland. The fourth de with the of a number of Prniublic-houses department will be taken up _ reading sub jects, including " On on InfluencethPeape papers o n mi s cellaneous _ f s inoking o the Being of Mae,. byThe Mr Thos Bevnolds fifth department will b ' ' - with be occupied all day papers on the empl o yment of women. In the sixth department papers will be read on .... Fisheries, the Irish sa l mon fisheries, and the prae tical finance of life assurance.the British The arrangements for Wednesday, the lest day of the meeting, will depe n d, to a large e atent, upon the manner in which the bu s i ness is the various de partments is overtaken on the previous days. THE UNIVERSITY CONVERSAZIONE TO TUE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. co are ersa being e We understand that great exertions made by the professors to make the n v o niThnrsday evening next one of the most brilliant. and original things of the kind ever seen in Edinburgh. The noble library , 190 feet long, - the eastern hall, staircase, and reading-room are to be illuminated with gas. The different recesses are to contain selections from the various museums and collections of the institution, so as to illustrate the science and arts taught within its walls. The Photographic Society of Scotland will present the chemical specimens of plaotography. Modern gal- vino electricity will be applied to now prntical results; and the rare manuscripts of the library will be displayed by the librarian. It is anticipated that the reunion will constitute an exhibition of the scienccs by the professors, calculated alike to in,. Btruct, please th© public, and interest the learned. THE ELECTIONS IN PRUSSIA. The following passage from the recent Circular ec. rculalreof Count Eulcuburi; respecting the approaching ideas p dune . a r e i will a l v t ei in highome n q o u t a i r o t n e r o s f itnh Prussia r e x t s r i a a oarsd to o nary duty of Government officials : "Especial to those offi cials attention.ist or to the p under them, give them extensive cials whose position witttroesupbeleitgctcootmhionlgocianloeffionetiaaelst with them, is of a nature to nr. President, know of You yourself , Mr. influence. what political ' Soar own position is. its President entertains a p im o . w p e e o a r rta o i n f f a Government body cannot differs from that of the Govern ment,Tpohleitbiceanleflidceiaal or passively , and opposes the either actively possibly be exercised which mcasuro.s o f Government, instead of taking care to secure for them a complete execution. It is the same case with the Landraths. The Government c annot permit that a Landreth should employ his influence against the Government, and by his atti tude deceive the inhabitants as to the King and his Government. A district secretary is also not to be tolerated who, forgetful of his duty as a Royal official, makes known and seeks to disseminate, in his daily intercourse with the population, opinions hostile to the Government; These are merely ex amples that I cite. I leave it to yourselves to judge of what great importance it is to again restore in official circles the consciousness of the wide extent of the obligations which are assumed on entering the Royal service, and without delay so to act that no doubt can arise with the Liovernment as to the reliability of the officials of certain, and in this respect important, categories. This doubt, however, must arise in cases where — the Government relying, and being compelled to rely, on the entire devotion and co-operation of their organs—these officials maintain a passive position, and thereby contribute to the success of the oppo nents of the Government. He who has sworn as an official to be submissive, faithful, and obedient to the King his most gracious Sovereign;is not relieved from this oath, either as elector or elected; and when his Majesty traces out the determined constitutional path in which his officials are to accompany him, all are bound to comply. But they who, by the King's favour and special confidence, have been appointed to places of political importance, are bound besides to give their energetic support to the King's Go vernment. That you will yourself act in this sense, I suppose. Make the officials of the administration of your district thoroughly understand that the Royal Government expects and requires from them during the approaching elections such conduct as befits faithful Royal officials. At the present mo ment questions of too great importance are agitated. The opposition which has arisen is too sharp and antagonistic for the Government to renounce the right which it possesses over its officials, and ex hibit a forbearance which under other circumstances it might have been inclined to show. Were the Government to allow:the enemy to do as they liked in our own camp, the Government would thereby become a traitor to the cause which it has under taken to defend." ASCENT OP NADAR'S BALLOON, A letter dated Paris, Sunday night, says :—Science has run a match to-day against sport, and the former, " steered" by M. Nader, has won easily. The event came off on the Champ de Mars, from which densely-crowded plain Le Geant ascended at five o'clock. Before speaking of the balloon I must say a few words of M. Nader, whose photographic esta blishment ail your readers who visit Paris, and especially those who go to the Grand Hotel, will certainly know. M. Nadar has got that which Lord Melbourne used to say " would make any ono a bore if it did not ruin him outright"—an idea. He be lieves that, in a time not far distant, men will mount the air on "screws" attached to small umbrellas, and sail away through the sky, rather shaming the birds. All that is wanting is a beginning ; to get that beginning money is required; to get that money M. Nadar has built the largest balloon on record ; intends to exhibit it throughout the world, and, with the proceeds of the exhibition, the modern Icarus means to build the screw balloon, which is,to carry out his idea. Do you smile ? So men smiled at gas, at railways, at electric telegraphs. The bal loon—that is the inflated globe—seems to me to be much like other balloons, only larger. There are in it, for instance, 20,000 yards of silk, which cost £6,500 ; but the car is curious and ingenious. It is of wicker work—a square-shaped basket, about 20 feet high, and 15 feet long, by 12 wide. It con tains two storeys; a rez dechausee—stop! can there be such a thing in the air ?—let us say a ground floor and a terrace. The ground floor is divided into a " captain's cabin," a washing room, four cabins, with separate berths, a printing office, and a photographic studio, with dark chamber. " They are not large," remark sceptical readers ; but there is space for what is required—space to sleep, space to photograph. The cabins are fitted with air beds, suspended on cords ; nothing lighter, nothing more comfortable. The " terrace" has glasses of great power. The outside of this quaint aerial craft is decked like Robinson Crusoe's hut—which, indeed, it resembles in many things—with guns, wheels to carry off the car when it lands, axes to cut its way through the forest in which it may fall, and tubes, which equally act as " buffers" while landing or as life-buoys if the course of the balloon should the eh ou t s i dei e k W echangens elements. To-day, before starting , as also embellished with legs of mut ton,, vegetables, and bouquets. Now I must trouble you with a few statistics—only a few —for I dislike them as much as your readers. The balloon when inflated was exactly fourteen yards lower than the Tower of Notre Dame. There are two balloons, one within the other. The gas in flated amounts to 6,098 cubic metres, and it is cal culated to support a weight of frctn three to three tons and a half. The walk from the Place de . is Concorde, by the Avenue de la Motte Picquet, to the Champ de Mars, was a curious scene. I can only compare it to the walk from Doncaster to the Town Moor on a very great Leger day. The Geant was towering in the centre of an enclosure within two other enclosures on the great review ground in face of the cavalry barracks. To enter the outer circle you paid one franc, to the, second two francs, innermost w and then came the money o r u in ld g— no t t he te admit, ner police, science—to i f t which bey could possibly h e l p i t ; and here let me pause for a minute, and abuse the French police. Insolent to foreigners, they are tyrannical to their own countrymen ; are never in the way when they are wanted, alw a y s i n t h e way when they a laug hin are not ; a disgrace to a free country, and for one who has ever been brought in contaegt hapgiteanl.tleman , withky the " pass of an „ y o a t s h k e e r d e i a v i I F i s r e e d n e e ed hat a "Are , civilly—nay, meekly—of a h ero i n a erceenkre, sword, and his moustache a PEmp you comfortable there ?" thundered out the official. " Pas ma]," replied the gentleman. ~ Th en stay there, and be contented," shrieked the police g en e tleman. "If the public are unreasonable, we shall interfere." "They are boasts, the poli ce ," l ater ob t s e e r r fe v e e r. and "‘ elderly' lady, who had asked her w a y out of the ground, and I beg to endorse her opinion. Of course the ground was kept ysoldiers; first a first infantry, but later a troop o f do picket of Spahis took possession h ra oonsi in of the Ch a mp de Mars, and held it against all corners. At four o'elocreksetnhetebdalaloocaurwioaussfuslilgyhitn-: flated. The groun d p thousands of pop-- n withoutl the central enclosure; within, the vast . globe held to e arth b y a com p an y of engineers , the " car"—or rath er "castle"— . . : crowded with curious visitors; the beau monde of Paris standin g roun d, a dm iri n g with that lazy rap ture peculiarci to "good society," amused, and acorns to be astonished _chei cannot eencewhizo t and literature of the metropolis ; with them the be the Annamite Embassy, a swarm of Sp ahis, some ',Farces, and a f ew T Turks. When the engineers moved the vast inflated monster towards the car, excitement W intense. When they let it eIQWIY i height. Then "Ls Geat mount, and attached it t t o „ s t o h a e re c ci ar u , p i a t w li a t s tle a , t an it d s blundered down among the people "Not ga s -• w lo but soon seen a ,, m sc a e n u , r r i u n n g ni t n h g e enough" t was o in the with a hie ei l ct nd, " They were waiting for a forgotten pa rce l. W hat' Well; perhaps a pate. " No w it mounts! vd ia i 'tiers! c'est joli But down it comes again, and the crowd begins to doubt. At five o'clock, as the military bands are playing " Malbrook s'en va," M. Nadar and his eleven friends rise and Boat away from Paris on a strong south-westerly breeze, which seemed to get More weaterly ss they rose. They expect to be in the upper air in a few hours, and to stay there four days! They have circulars printed in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch, which they mean to scatter to the winds, and which they hope will be sent to the telegraph offices, and keep their route before the public. 'I must not omit to tell you that an English advertis ing tradesman has been in treaty with M. Nadar for a contract for the scattering to the winds some millions of handbills. M. Nadar was interrupted when telling me the story, so I am unable to say if they came to terms. I must add, in conclusion, that this event has created the most extraordinary sensation. There could not have been less than half a million of spec tators. The streets were more densely crowded than on the night of the Fete Napoleon, and M. Nadar and his balloon were "household words" throughout Paris. The day was cloudy, with a good deal of wind and a cold air, which I should think has found out our balloonatices before this time. Galignani's Messenger says :—" At the moment of going to press a communication has reached us, signed by the captain, M. Nadar, and all those who had taken places in the balloon, stating that on alighting yesterday evening at 9 o'clock, at Barcy, near Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), three severe shocks were experienced which had the effect of com pletely capsizing the balloon and inflicting on its occupants several rather severe contusions." The State of Bethnal-Green.—Alleged Defamation on the Parish. Last night, at the weekly meeting of the board of guardians of the parish of Bethnal-green, in the board-room, Waterloo-road, Victoria Park, the fol lowing proceedings took place with reference to the recent disclosures as to the state of the district. Mr. Collins occupied the chair. Mr. COLLINS (addressing Dr. Moore, who had given evidence on the inquest)—Dr. Moore, Mrs' Ward, the mother of the child on whom the inquest was held in Hollybush• place, complains that though you attended her child nine days you refused to give a :certificate of death. The board wishes to know why you refused. Dr. MOORE—Because I was not satisfied a s to the cause of death, and I wished to have an inves tigation into the case. Mr. COLLINS asked what was the first entry in the book as to the illness of the child. Dr. MOORE said dentition with regard to the youngest child, and there was d e bilit y i n the case of the other child. But children did no t us ually die of teething. That child died f rom th e impure a tmosphere. There was no s p ec ifi c di seas e. He never asked the coroner's officer t o get up the case. He went to the coroner and told him th e facts- The coroner said that if the cause of d eat h was not clear a post-mortem examination should b e ma de. Mr. COLLINS—WouId it not have been more satisfactory if you had had another medical m an with you upon the post-mortem examination ? The verdict of the jury was given on your unsupported testimony and without the j ury v i s iti n g the pre raises for themselves. Dr. MooRE—I would have wished to get one , but I was qualified to make the pst•rn3rtem exami nation myself. But I had n o ti me t o get a doctor —the body was decomposing. Mr. COLLINS—Don't tell th e b oar d that, doctor. You had time to run about to the Fountain Tavern and to the London Hospital aft er th e coroner. Dr. MooRB said he was a l ways glad to have assistance, but he was not bo un d t o g et it. The report of the doctor's evidence before the coroner was read ; and Dr. Moore said that there were some verbal inaccuraci es —it was principally correct. _ Dr. MooRE said that he had attended the children of Butterfield and the Mandrells in liollybush place. Ho said befo re th e coroner t h a t the children had died from similar causes as the c hild of the Wards. Dr. Brotherton attended for him and he gave a certific a t e th at t h e c hild of the But terfields, eleven days o ld, di e d from asphyxia. Dr. Brotherton thought that the death was from blood poisoning ; but he gave a certificate which was a term th at involved o f asphyxia, poisoning from impure air, &c. He (Dr. M oore ) gave a certificate in the case of the M an d re ll s ' ch i l d re n, because there had originally been a di sease, scar latina. Scarla tina was a disease th a t can b e ge nerated sponta neously by foul ai r , an d then propag ated by con tagion. that the children di e d f rom blood - po isoning, and we Mr. COLLINS—Y ou stated bfore the coroner wish to show from your own certificates that they died from other causes. . Dr. MOORE said that he believed that all the children had been a ff ected by the Same influence, but he was clear th a t t h e children died from poisons from the foul atm osp h ere. Mr. COLLINS—Y ou have state d that you were inspector, and that owing to appointed sanit ar y your troublesom e reports you were dismissed. When were you ap po i nted ? Dr. MOORE said that he had be en directed by the board to exam i ne and report on the state of nuisances, &I, in th e par i sh. He and his colle a gue did so, but the resu l t was that b e f o re Dr. Pierce was elected to the paid office the board put forward an advertisement expressly escluding every gentle man that held an appointment under the board from the post. That was a virtual dismissal, and several members of the board told him tat the object was to shut out all those doctors whose reports were troublesome, and who were running about " stink hunting" in the parish. Several members denied that such an advertise ment had been published, but Dr. Moore was posi tive on the point. Dr. PIERCE said that in justice to Dr. Moore he wished to state that he had heard in 1856 that no one who then held th e position of sanitary inspector should hold th e ; paid appointment. The Wards, th e M andrells, an d th e B u tt er fi e ld s were then called in with a view to Chow that the deaths were from scarlatina, or ot h er na t ura l di sease, and also appare nt l y to show t h a t D r . M oore h a d been guilty of" neglecting his patients," because Dr. Brotherton, who had frequently attended in his absence, was not his legally-appointed deputy. The man WARD said that Mr. Englehart, one of the board, had come down to his room and behaved in an impertinent and overbearing manner. He said that the place was a beautiful one, that the view was like Finsbury.rquare, and that he would not take a lie from any one. Mr. ENGLEHART said that he only said he would not be misled by any one. He was certainly sur prised when he looked out and saw the flowers in gardens round about. WARD said the nuisances were in another direc tion, and they were shocking. No Government in spector visited the place. Mr. PEREIRA asked why he remained in the Place. endangered I h e h ( e Nl s r Pereira) h . ould consider la b family's e m l lives s a l u v g A h ß t D e r s i a f i a h e t h d a i t d h n e o t w as o v me. not D e r a . s ipl PIERCE E pl a medic . shoemaker, and co u ld al officer of health, said that There wer e on l y 50 cows in the cow were worse than the o housesyb ua h w - p a l s a c l e B . Hli shed, not 66. yards, not 8. He had directed some alterations to be made. Each person in Hollybush-place had 250 feet of air; children and all. Mr. GOODWIN, vice-chairman, complained that the parish had been maligned, and that Dr. Moore was at the bottom of it. Mr. AUSTIN, landlord of Hollybush-place, said that misstatements iiad been made about hi s pro perty. He admitted, however, that some of the el9oolB were not trapped; the drains were, (ma he Was now repairing the place. The place was not very clean, but it was not very bad. After some further discussion the meeting was adjourned. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Oct. 5. (Before the Assistant-Judge.) The October gen3ral quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Midalasex commenced this morning, at the Ses sions House, Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-Judge, and a bench of magistrates. The calendar contains the names of 73 prisoners com mitted for trial, 61 being indicted for felony, and 9 for mis demeanour. The grand jury having been sworn, the Assistant-judge briefly addressed them en the nature of their duties. _ _ John Bailey, 27, gardener, was indicted for stealing 23 brooches, and other articles, value £B, the property of James Bradfield Millard. The prisoner was in the employ of Mr. E. T. Smith, the proprietor of Cremorne Garden, as gasman, and at a quarter to 4 o'clock on the morning of the 19th of September police constable Mayhew, 319 V, who was on duty in the gardens, saw the prisoner passing a glove-shop which is in the gar dens. The hinges of the door leading to the shop had been unscrewed, and shortly afterwards, on pulling the door aside, he found the prisoner inside the shop. He said to hi m , "Hallo, what aro you doing there ?" and he said it was all right, and seeing the door unfastened he had gone in there to lie down. The policeman said he knew they did not allow persons to lie down there, and that he must tell him a better tale than that. The policeman then wanted to know what he had got in his pocket, and he said it was all right. The policeman said it was not all right, and that he must go with him to the station-house, upon which the pri soner struck him a blow in the face. He laid hold of the prisoner by the neckerchief and collar. The prisoner had a knife in his hand, and having seized the policeman by the hair ho kept "jobbing" at hint with the knife,and they were up and down struggling together for about 20 minutes. The policeman received several cuts and scratches about the face and hands, While they were struggling together the pri soner cut his neckerchief through with his knife,and having succeeded in throwing the policeman to the ground, got away and contrived to escape out of the gardens. The policeman pursued him ; but he was stopped by another police-constable about 150 yards from the gardens. The prisoner was taken to the station-house, and, being searched there, brooches, bracelets, pins, and other jewellery were found in the pri soner's pockets. The property belonged to Mr. Millard, of No. 2, Piccadilly, dealer in French gloves and fancy articles, and he had also a stand for such things in Cremorne gardens. - The prisoner pleaded guilty to the indictment, and begged the compassion of the Court for the sake of his wife and family, who would be altogether without support while he waa in gaol, and this would be a severe lesson to him for the rest of his life. The Assistant -Judge said he did not sit there to provide for his wife and family, and the prisoner himself ought to have thought of them before ho made up his mind to rob his master. The police-constable Mayhew said the prisoner struggled very violently with him, and kept continually jobbing at him with the knife he held in his hand. He was quite sober at the time. • The Assistant -Judge sentenced him to bo imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. Henry Platt, 39, porter, and Henry Darcy, 24, porter, were indicted for stealing a bronze figure of the Emperor Napoleon 1,, value £l5, the property of Geo. Attenborough, Mr. Platt prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton appeared for Platt, and the other prisoner was undefended. The prosecutor, a dealer in curiosities, living at No. 72, Strand, missed from his stock on the 29th of August last a bronze figure of the Emperor Napoleon 1., and upon in quiries found that the last.time it was seen on the premises was on the 20th of August. He wrote a description of it and sent it round to the police and pawnbrokers. A few hours after the publication of it he received an intimation that it had been pledged with Mr. Aldous, a pawnbroker, of Berwick-street, Soho. The figure was taken from a gutter on the roof of the house, where it had been placed for the pur value of £l5. pose of imp rov i ng it s a pp earance , an d was o f the Enoch Cook, police-sergeant 7 C, proved that on Sept. 21 he was called to the shop of Mr. Aldous to take the prisoner Platt into custody, and he said he was one of the men who had pledged the figure of the Emperor Napoleon, and that the other man's name was Darcy. On the evening of the 21st ult. he went to 71, Strand, and saw the prisoner Darcy. Witness told him that he was a police -sergeant, and asked him if he knew anything about a bronze figure, and he said that he did. Witness told him that he should take him into custody, and anything he said might be used against him. He then stated that he went to Platt and told him that there was a bronze figure on the roof of a house, and he thought they could sell or dispose of it. Platt went with him to look at it, and when ho got to the door of 71, Strand, he said ho would not allow Platt to go upstairs, and so he fetched it down himself. Both prisoners wore found Guilty. The Assistant-Judge sentenced them to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four months. I hos. Cornell, 35, Thos. Tebboth, 35, and Chas. Salloes, 18, were indicted for stealing three tons of rags, value £65, the property of Messrs. Dickinson and Co., papermakers, of the Old Bailey. Mr. Metcalfe (instructed by Mr. T. Beard) prosecuted. The prisoners were undefended. Thos. Jones, a police-constable, 274 D, said about a quar ter past nine o'clock on the night of Sept. 9 he saw the three prisoners together in the Harrow -road. Tebboth was draw ing a truck, and Cornell and Salloes were pushing behind. In the truck were two bags of rags, and having his sus picions he saw an officer who was in uniform, and told him to follow him. He saw the prisoners in the Harrow road, near to the Paddington Vestry-hall, and they were going towards town over the railway bridge. When the prisoners saw witness speak to a police-constable, Cornell and Salloes ran away, and he took febboth. In the truck were two bags of rags weighing about 4 cwt., and he had shown them to Mr. Cole, the foreman of Messrs. Dickin son and Co., who identified them as having been stolen from their stores. He asked Tebboth where he got the rags from, and he said he was called by the other men to assist to bring them from the towing-path, but he did not know where they were going to. The two other men who were with Tebboth he had seen on the previous Thursday with a truck in which were three bags of rags, and having some suspicion he called the attention of a police-constable to them, and told him to watch them. Oa that occasion they went towards Maida hill. On the morning of the Bth witness went to the place and found an entry had been effected under the door, and that then access had been gained to the place where the rags were, He took Salloes an the following Thursday, and on telling him the charge, he said, " I expected it. I'll go quietly." Mr. Cole, foreman to Messrs. Dickinson and Co., said on the police-constable coming to him he went to the station house and saw two bags of rags there. They were part of their stores at No. 16 Wharf, at Paddington. He went to the place on the following day, and missed three or four tons of rags, in 40 or 50 bundles, and they were worth about £65. He found a box of Lucifers and a piece of candle in the loft, which had not been left there by any one belonging to the premises, as there was no use whatever for them. Charles Brooks said his father kept a shop near the Har row-road, and he knew the prisoner Salloes hired a truck two or three times a week. The truck was the same one that had been stopped by the officer. The jury found all the prisoners guilty. A previous conviction Was proved against Salloes. The Assistant-Tadge sentenced Salloes to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 18 months, and Cornell and Tebboth to 12 months each. (Before 'Air. Payne.) William John Cumming, 48, surgeon, of superior educa tion, was charged with stealing a printed book, the property o f Win. Henry Smith and another. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Poland appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner was undefended. Mr. Poland, in his --- opening address, said this was a prose cution by Messrs -smith and the prisoner was cha ' rmed with stealing one of their books Railway Station the we ll known railway booksellers, under circumstances which he would m ention to the j ur y . The prosecutor k ept a book-sta ll a t the Great Northern per son of the nam e o f French. O n the day in question he (French) had n o ti ced the d e f en dant about the station and , and the stall in ques tion was ke p t b y a close to the stall. From the suspicious manner of the pri soner a detective officer was requested to watch, and in con sequence of such instructions he watched the prisoner, and ob erved him make an attempt to reach a book from the stall. He afterwards walked away a little distance, the de tective having observed him remove a book from the stall, The prisoner walked through the booking-office and was making his way into the street. The detective then went up to him and asked him for the book, to which he replied, " I have not got it," and on being searched a book called the "Alpine Guide" was found upon him. He was taken into the superintendent's office, and the stall-keeper, having heard of his apprehension, gave him into custody. Josiah Thorogood said be was a constable stationed at the Great Northern Railway Station. About half- past three on the afternoon of Saturday, the 12th Se p tember, he saw the prisoner on the downside of the platform at the King's-cr oss Station, and watched him closely. The prisoner put his hand twice towards a book on the stall, which was covered, and drew it back as if conscious that some one was looking at him. Ho went round the booking-office and came back again. lie put his hand on some books which were on the stall, and the one produced was standing up in the rack. The prisoner took the book, and afterwards concealed it under his coat. He walked through the booking-office and was making his way out of the station when witness spoke to the keeper of the stall, and the prisoner was shortly afterwards apprehended. When stopped he (Thorogood) said to him, " I shall charge you with stealing a book." The prisoner replied " I've no book." Witness put his hand into the prisoner's pocket and took the book in ques tion from it, the prisoner remarking " I only took it to read." Re was told he would have to go to the police-office and give his explanation there. On going down the plat form the prisoner said, " Having got your book, pray let me go." Ile Ma viituese that he liveci at a CafQo - 11911$0 WOO by. Ile (Thorogood) went there and examined the huuse, but no money was found, only some letters. Win. Seymour French said he lived at No. 46, Liverpool streei, King's-cross, and was a clerk at Messrs. Smith and Son's book stall, at the King's-cross Station, and on the morning in question the witness Thorogood spoke to him, and they both went into the booking office. The detective and the prisoner were a little distance past the first-class waiting room in the booking office. The prisoner, when charged with the robbery, said,' Oh,what nonsense; I was going to read it." That book was the only one in stock. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said on the day in question while at the station, in front of the stall, having been to the railway to see a friend off, he observed the book called the Alpine Guide, and some Limo ago having had a book of a similar description, he wished to ascertain whether it was the same or another edition. lie took the book from the stall, and while examining it the detective cone up and seizad him by the collar, charging him with stealing the book, of which charge he was entirely innocent. Ho ',the prisoner) wished, if the book had been a new work, at some future time to have purchased it. The letters which were found on him would give him an excellent character, and he trusted the jury would deem him a man utterly in capable of committing such an act. The jury, having consulted together for a few minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Poland said the jury having given their ♦erdict, he would state that on Nov. 12 the stall was left in the care of a boy, Mr. French being engaged elsewhere. The prisoner came up, and took a book off one of the shelves. He asked the.price, when the boy observed him about to place the book in his pocket. He was asked whether ho wanted to buy it. The boy not suspecting him, owing to his being respectably dressed, said nothing to any person. The learned Judge then sentenced him to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for six calendar months. James M'Mahon, 22, labourer, was charged with unlaw fully and maliciously committing damage to a pane of glass, value £l5, the property of John Thompson Gideon. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, James Pocock said he was a barman at the Prince Albert Tavern, Kentish-town, in the service of the prosecutor. On the 21st of September, in the afternoon, the prisoner came into the shop with several other raen. The prisoner was drunk, and having been there for some short time, began wrestling with another man, who was standing at the bar. He (the prisoner) required some drink, but being riotous was refused. A struggle ensued, and he was ejected from the premises, and afterwards pushed his fist through a thick pane of glass. Roymon Bosley, police-constable 124 S, said he took the prisoner into custody. He was drunk, and said nothing. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had no intention to break the window. The jury immediately retarnel a verdict of guilty. Mr. Payne, in passing sentence, said he was ccnstantly in the habit of remarking as to the evils arising from intem perance ; and here was another instance. Hero was a man who, being drunk, goes into a house and wishes to be served with drink, and the barman, very properly, seeing his condition, zefused him, when the prisoner gave vent to his feelings by smashing the window. It being highly desirable that shopkeepers should be protected from these attacks— an act of Parliament having been framed for that special purpose—he (Mr. Payne) trusted the sentence ho was about to pass would act both as a warning to him and to ethers. The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for nine calendar months. Charles Roper, 19, shoemaker, was indicted for stealing a coat, value £2, the property of James Adams. The prosecutor is a van proprietor, and on the 30th ot August he was about leaving home for a drive. Ho took off his coat and put it on a dog-cart outside the stable-door. He went into the stable for a short time and on his return he found that it was gone. Mary Ann Western, of No. 10, Ogle-mews, said the pri soner took a coat to her and asked the value of it, and she told him that she thought it would fetch 10s. by_daylight. He took it away. It was the coat produced. Alfred Hebburn, assistant to Mr. Crouch, pawnbroker, of No. 35, Sussex street, produced a coat pawned by a female on the 31st of August last. John Bell, police-constable 104 E, proved receiving the prisoner into custody on this charge. _ _ The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and, when about to be sentenced, The prisoner said he was engaged by a cab proprietor to work in his stable, and had been in that situation for some time, when a policeman of the C division happened to find him out and told his master that he had had four months' imprisonment, upon which his master immediately dis charged him. Mr. Payne said he should like that fact to be ascertained, and told Mr. Lockyer, the prison officer, to make inquiries as to the truth of the prisoner's statement, and also to ascer tain his antecedents. Having conferred with the other ma gistrates on the bench, his lordship said that he should defer passing sentence until next session, when he would be brought up for judgment. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TmrEs.—A recovery of 2 or 3 per cent. in the quotations of the Confederate Loan, and a revival of the rumours respecting the recognition of the South by France, are the natural consequences of the last news from America. A defeat in Tennessee, a check in Texas, a pause, to say the least, in the siege of Charleston, and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in the North, are more than enough to disturb the money-market on both sides of the Atlantic. Such fluctuations do not always represent the sober calculations of far-sighted men, but the efforts of speculators to make a profit by the hopes and fears of more nervous capitalists. The next mail may possibly bring intelligence of a Fe deral victory, and then the " movement" will be reversed. In the meantime, however, there is one circumstance favourable to the Confederate cause which does not depend for its importance on these oscillations in the fortunes of war. The position of France in Mexico, and the conditional acceptance of the Crown by the Archduke Maximilian, amount to something more than a diversion in favour of the south, inasmuch as they are a forcible and practi cal protest against the idea of one dominant Repub lic on the North American Continent. If an inde pendent Monarchy be established in Mexico, the motive for subjugating the Confederate States is sensibly weakened, and who can say but that the princip'e of a balance of power may be borrowed from Europe, and introduced into the New World ! At all events, the growing antagonism between the interests of the Federal States and those of France, coincident with fresh successes of the Southern armies, will afford a fair opportunity of testing the charitable estimate of our policy that seems to be accepted by the war party in America. According to the organs of this party, the blindest self-interest governs alternately with the basest cowardice the conduct of the British Government. When they thought they could bully the United States with impunity they made no secret of their Southern proclivities; when they heard chat Vicksburg had fallen, that L2e had re treated, and that Charleston was threatened, they laid an embargo on the steam rams at Birkenhead, and gave Mr. Mason the cold shoulder. It remains to beeseen, therefore, whether the tidings which sent up gold to 42 prem. at New York will produce a corresponding effect on the language of Earl Rus sell and the public opinion of England; whether Lord Wharncliffe and his friends will be allowed to have their own way, and Mr. Mason invited to come back; and, if nothing of this kind happens, what new unworthy motive will be attiibuted to us by our American critics. It is, perhaps, unknown to these gentlemen, but it is a fact, that our country men resident in the Southern States are just now loud in their indignation against the English Go vernment for truckling as they allege, to the Cabinet of Washington. Their grievance is that their pro perty is not respected by the invading Federals, but seized or destroyed with as little scruple as though it belonged to Confederate owners, and that Lord -Russell has omitted to exact, or even to demand, any reparation for it. The hardship of their position has been brought home to them still more painfully by the eesult of an application made by certain British capitalists on their °wit behalf to the State Department at IVishmond. What they requested was that the Confederate Government should un dertake to guarantee cotton purchased by British subjects, and stored in the interior of the country, against the risk of destruction by order of the Confederate commanders to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy. Mr. Benjamin answered, in effect, that he could not consent to involve his Government in any such responsibility, unless he received the corresponding assurance that restitu tion would be rigorously enforced from the Federal Government by that of Great Britain if the cotton should be destroyed or confiscated by the Northern Generals. Moreover, he astutely ex plained that it would not be enough for the captors to reimburse to the neutral proprietors the value of the cotton at the time and place of seizure, inasmuch as that value might be no more than a fifth of its worth in the United States, so that they might profit to the extent of 400 per cent. by the act of spoliation. Unless, therefore, the enemy could be effectually bound over to lease such stores of cotton untouched, he could not pledge the Confederacy to id emn ify their owners against its destruction by S o uthern hands for military reasons. We cannot be surprised that this reply—coupled with the fact that no interference on their behalf had been promised by ',the British Government, though a representation was made so long ago as August, 1862—should have excited a good deal of irritation among English merchants in the South. Before, however, we condemn Lord Russell for not making a peremptory demand that would probably have been resisted, it is right that we should advert to one or two material points which the parties in terested may not have sufficiently considered. In the first place, it is clear from a letter of Mr. Ben juain to Mr.Matigh that the operatione c mtemplated had been suggested by the Confederate Government, and were intended to benefit the State quite as much as the neutral speculators. " In order to prevent the monopoly by the Northern States of the accumu lated staples now held by our people, no measure seems less objectionable nor more appropriate than to encourage the merchants of neutral nations to purchase In advance these products, and to leave them here in depot till the ports are opened." We do not mean to say that this ruse was not perfectly legitimate, or that the legal character of the owner ship would be affected by it ; but we can well under stand why the adviser of her 'Majesty's Govern ment should have hesitated to give it their direct sanction. Nor must it be forgotten that the gua rantee demanded was prospective. Lord Russell was requested to engage beforehand to give all such property effectual protection if it should fall into Federal hands. Now, the laws of war with respect to private property found in the territory of an enemy are by no means so " unquestionable " as Mr. Benjamin seems to think. Dr. Phillimore's proposition, that neutrals have a right to trade with helligeren to, which he quotes as conclusive, does not touch the difficulty at all, and we can well con ceive cases in which an invading army would be fully justified in converting the goods of a neutral land owner or householder to its own use. This may or may not be one of them; but at all events the in tervention of our Government should be reserved for the redress of actual injuries, and not bespoken in advance for hypothetical contingencies. The pressure to which this country is now subjected on every side to depart from the path it has laid down is no more than every wise man must have foreseen. This is just what is meant when we speak of the danger of being dragged into a war. No nation ever was or ever could be dragged into a war in the sense in which an Irishman may be dragged—that is, bodily—into a faction fight. What happens is that a multitude of passions and interests, veiling themselves under specious names, invariably possess the popular mind and ally themselves with the instinct of pugnacity which no civilization has yet extirpated, obscuring and keeping out of sight the colossal evils which war ever brings upon the victors no less than upon the vanquished. It is at such times that Governments are often wiser than peoples, and when we can look back calmly on the part layed by England dur ing the American war we shall see that experience and statesmanship are worth something, after all, in foreign policy. Had feelings alone, however natural and honourable, governed onrconduct as a nation, we should long before this have been goaded by the in sulting tone of Northern demagogues and journalists into some deviation from impartiality, Let us con tinue to practise the same forbearance and self-re straint when we are taunted by the South with undue subservience. Taunts are no more like arguments than threats, and arguments of the gravest and most solid kind are the only considerations which can properly be addressed to a great nation in mat ters of such moment. Lord Russell's speech at Blairgowrie defined in clear and dignified terms the proper attitude of Great Britain towards the two American belligerents. We have hitherto had good reasons for remaining neutral to the extent of ab staining from recognition. When those reasons fail —and we are neither bound nor disposed to specify beforehand upon what conditions that failure de pends—it will be time to change our ground. If this time should ever come, we shall at least have the satisfaction of feeling that we have acted upon our own judgment, as we must needs act upon our own responsibility. HERALD.—The last report of the Chief Engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works proves that our cloaca maxima, if not actually approaching com pletion, is at least giving satisfactory signs of pro gress. Those only who knew by experience the diffi culties and delays which have to be encountered and overcome in a work upon such a scale can rightly estimate the labour and incessant vigilance which is required to keep dilatory contractors up to the mark, and to prevent idle or dishonest contractors from playing tricks with the public money. Still more so is such the case when operations, as in the present instance, have to be conducted upon a scale which precludes their being entrusted to a single firm, and when half a dozen different establishments have accordingly contracted for as many different portions of the great scheme. Much delay has also been the result of the uncertainty which pre vailed for so long a time as to the course which Parliament would ultimately adopt with respect to the Thames embankment. Until this was finally determined, it was impossible to decide defini tively upon the course to be token by the Low- Level Sewer on the north bank of the Thames, which drains, in all probability, the largest area assigned to any single artery, and the completion of which, under any other circumstances, would probably have been attended with a greater amount of inconvenience, and consequent expense, than that which has been occasioned by any other portion of the work. We are now, however, as it would appear, in a fair way to witness the accomplishment of this magnum opus. The plans for the embankment from Waterloo-bridge to the east end of the Temple 'gar dens have been at length passed by the committee and approved of by the board. The portion of it be tween Westminster and Waterloo bridges has been already let by public tender to Mr. Ridley, and will be proceeded with as soon as the necessary bonds have been prepared and executed. Within two years at farthest we are promised that the whole shall be in working order, and that roadway above and sewer beneath shall both be applicable to their respective purposes. Meanwhile, a substantial ad vance has been made with all those portions of the undertaking which affect the land alone. Messrs. Brassey and Co. have actually completed about ten miles and a half of the Middle Level Sewer and of its numerous feeders. From Old Ford, up to Clerkenwell Sessions House, the line is now com plete, with the exception of a few trifling breaks caused by local obstructions, and the fixings of the wrought iron aqueduct by which the Metropolitan Railway will be crossed at Victoria-street. The Fleet Sewer is in course of diversion from its ancient channel, and the difficulties presented by the nature of the ground, and of the tenements by which it is covered, are rapidly being surmounted. Of the Western Sewer, which is in the hands of Messrs. Moron, more than two miles have been actually finished. The Northern Outfall Sewer, five miles and a quarter in length, is actually a fait accompli. Some portions of the earthwork of the embank ment still remain to be finished, the bridges are at present without their parapets, and the apron has still to be fixed in the bed of the river; but the sewage of the High and Middle Level Sewers has now been permanently turned into a portion of it, and is discharged through the tumbling bay direct into the Thames at Barking Creek. The temporary measures adopted during the summer for the diver , sion of the sewage from the river Lea have thus been superseded by its conveyance through the proper channels ; and it is satisfactory to learn that the change has been effected without the slightest symptom of leakage having manifested itself, either from the ironwork or the brickwork. One compartment of the great reservoir at the exit of the Northern Outfall Sewer is already finished, and another is in a forward state. The founda tions of the remainder have been commenced, and all will be in readiness long before the time that their services are likely to be actively called into requisition. At the pumping station, also, all the works are fast progressing. In fact, from one end to the other, upon the northern side of the Thames, there are the signs of a healthy activity which pro • miss well for the future. The Southern Low Level Sewer is less advanced. A mile and a quarter of the main channel has been constructed by Mr. Webster, and three miles of the portion entrusted to Messrs. Aird and Co. have been completed in Bermondsey. Between Great Guildford- street and the Blackfriars road progress is also making. But the low level at which the whole of the work has to be carried on is adverse to expedition, and upon the whole less relative advance has been made upon the south than upon the north bank of the Thames. Into the cost of the whole operation we do not now propose to enter. Work has already been certified as actually performed to a value exceeding that of a million and a quarter, and it is needless to say that under this item cannot be classed at present a single yard of the Thames Embankment. The drainage of London and its environs is in every sense of the word the most stupendous operation of the kind which has ever been attempted by science, whether we look to the amount of superficial area which has to be drained, the costly character of the necessary works, or the numerical ratio of the popu lation which will be affected by them. When com pleted, they will be the greatest improvement which England has witnessed during the present century, the drainage of the Lincolnshire Fens and of the Bedford Level not excepted. Our noble river will at least have reached the first stage of its trans formation from a state in which it is a public pest and eyesore to that of being the ornament of the city through which it flows. If there is any faith to be placed in sanatory science, the health of London will be vastly improved by the change. In deed, the first result of it is that one of the most magnificent of the stately edifices which it is hoped will now again line the banks of the Thames is to be the new hospital at Stangate, located here at the express recommendation of the medical mem bers of the board. In convenience and appearance there will be no comparison possible between the regime which is and that which is to be. Whether fish will, as we are told, be again caught " between the bridges," or apprentices have to revive the clause in their indentures which prohibited their being surfeited with salmon, is a problee ..a which remains to be solved. But we pm these, and even strAnaPr '• no reason why , - clings than these, s h ou ld not °91:9 • liiihuto Tie him occupied our- London : Prinze.d and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE Sim Office No. 112 , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, 134 the c oun ty of biltidlesex,—TlM4AY•Mt9DOr 6,_1563. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1863 aelves pertinaciously in fouling, abusing, and ren dering useless one of the most priceless of the gifts of a bounteous Providence. W hen we have once fairly turned over a new leaf there aro hardly any bounds that can be set to the development and utilisation of which it may be rendered capable. TRAWL AND LINE FISHING. On Saturday the inquiry :nto the state of the British Fisheries was opened at Hull before Mr. Caird, M.P., and Professor Huxley. Several trawl fishermen were examined, all of whom stated that the fish were in no way diminished in size or yield, and it was also their opinion that trawling was a beneficial system in every case. Without kit would be impossible to supply the large demand which had sprung up since railways had taken it to the inland towns. The trawl also tended to increase the number of the fish, for it ploughed up the sandy bottom, and in this way exposed in numerable slugs and worms, on which the fish fed. On almost all the grounds frequented by the trawl fishermen the supply had considerably increased during the past 20 years. Mr. William Isaac Markcrow, one of the largest smack-owners at Hull, stated that 20 years ago there was only one fishing-smack sailing out of Hull, and at the pre sent moment no fewer than 300 trawlers belonged to the port. Trawlers had visited the ground off Flamborough for the last 30 years, and they were still catching immense numbers of fish. The total capital invested in trawl fishing smacks at Hull would be about £300,000. The number of trawlers in the port had considerably increased daring the past 3 years, and not less than £300,000 had been invested during that time in that class of vessel. Notwithstanding much more fish was now caught and brought to market, the price had considerably increased. Haddocks, a class of fish which used to sell for about 2s. 6d. a basket,were now worth 10s. or 15s. As a proof that trawl fish was not scoured and bruised, as represented by the enemies of trawling, the witness stated that the Hull fish was preferred to that from any other port, and it was sent from the Hull market in 'very large quantities to London, Bath, Cheltenham, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and even to Edin burgh and Glasgow. The weight of the fish landed at Hull would be fully 12,000 tons. The average price was £l5 per ton, making the total annual value of the fish landed at the port £lBO,OOO. The witness stated that he had never seen spawn brought up in the trawl, neither did he believe that the spawn was deposited on the grounds fre quented by the trawlers, but on the rocky shores of Norway and in other parts of the northern seas. All the witnesses who were called gave similar evidence. The commission sat on Thursday at Filey, and on Friday at Flamborough. At the former place Benjamin Simpson, an old man, deposed as to the falling off in the yield of the fish, and stated that since trawlers had visited their coasts the line fishermen had been almost unable to make a living. About £lO,OOO had been spent in line-fishing boats at Filey during the last 20 years, and this money was the earnings of the fishermen. Several other fishermen gave similar evidence, and said that they would like to have the trawlers all condemned. The evidence at Flamborough was precisely similar, both as re garded the difficulties of the fishermen, and the increase in the number and size of the boats. At Hull the inquiry lasted nearly six hours, and at each of the places above named about three hours. COUNTRY MARIa TS. , GLOUCESTER—Om 3. There was a fair show of English wheat to-day, and the currencies of the last week slightly declined. Foreiga wheat was again dull, and in some instances is per qr de: cline. Barley sold very slowly at a reduction of Is per qr. Beans and oats were without change. COLCHESTER—Oct 3. There was a moderate supply of wheat to-day, but the demand was slow, and the rates of last week were slightly lower. Barley of fine quality scarcely realised late prices. Peas about la per qr cheaper. Wheat, white 42s 498 Beans, Mazagan .. 33s 36s red 36s 448 middle & small.3ss 426 Barley Oats IRD-0 CT. 2. :ay there was an ample supply ). Barley slow, at a reduction down. Peas, Partridge 37s 40s White 39s 40s Boiling .. 40s 430 Dun 33s 36s Ditto new —s —s Beaus, Tick, old 34s 39s new —8 —0 Harrow Ticks 3ss 40s new —s —8 Mazagan .......30s 383 CHELMSFO At this corn exchange to-d of wheat, with a heavy trade, of about is per qr. Peas is Wheat, old white 30s 47s new 44s 48s old red 36s 42s new 40s 44s Barley ..28s 36s Chevalier .......28s 39s Grinding 22s 31s Malt..., 6ls 67s Chevalier ... 64s 69s Oats 20s 28s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—OcT. 3. We had fair supplies of all descriptions of grain to-day at market. The trade was slow. Wheat and barley un changed in price. Oats 6d to is per qr under last week's rates. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First .... 35s Od I 27s Od I 20s Od' Second ..36s Od 28s Od 20s 6d . Third....4os . od 31s Od 21s Od COAL h Prices of Coal per Ton a' .ARKET. the close of the market. 0. d. Bates's - West Hartley 16 6 Buddle'sWest Hartley 17 3 Hastings Hartley 17 3 Carway and Duffryn Malting , 20 0 Eden Main ...19 3 Lambert's West Hart ley 17 0 Holywell 17 9 Walker Primrose 13 0 Nettlewerth Primrose 13 6 Ships at mark Walls End. 8. d Haswell.... 2O 6 Hetton 20 6 Russel's Hetton 20 0 fleugh Hall 19 6 Tunstall South Hartlepool 19 6 South Kelloe . 19 6 Tees 2O 6 Whitworth 15 6 Caradoc l9 6 )t, 38 ; sold, 38. Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Oct. 19. Brazil and Cape V er d e , by British Marseilles packet. Oct. 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Oct. 19. via Marseilles ...Oct. 13, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 8. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 10. via Marseilles Oct. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 5. Portugal.... Oct. 5. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 10. via Marseilles Oct. 11. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 8, by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Oct. 8. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ..Oct. 10. Bahamas, via New York Oet, 22. Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 California. and Briti s h C o l um bi a.. Oct. 14. 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