The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-11 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.. (Front the Mos Corresponient.) NEW YORK, June 28. General Grant's prospects seem to grow blacker every day. He has lost 35 per cent. of his army at the lowest computation. His reinforcements, how ever loudly the contrary may be asserted by the brave noncombatants of the press and the platform —who whistle to keep up their own courage and that of the people—do not replace in numbers, much less in soldierly quality, the slain, disabled, and captured heroes whom he has sacrificed or lost in the pursuit of a victory that appears to be as remote as ever. And, worse than all, if the great problem is now to be solved, Mr Lincoln has no more rein. forcements to send, unless he shall immediately order a new levy of 300,000 or 400,000 men as he is advised to do, and the 300,000 or 400,000, or the half of them, shall respond to the call. The mere enrolling, equipping, drilling, and organising such a vast assemblage will occupy from three to six months, and in far less than three months, if Gen. Lee use his time and energy to the same purpose as during the last 50 days, he may effectually consign Grant's invasion of Virginia to the page of history, to rank with those of M'Clellan, Pope, Hooker, and Burnside. Already Grant is compelled to act on the defensive, and his position in every respect looks so gloomy that a the Secretary of War, having no good news to tell, and no hopes to express one day that the facts uf the morrow may not scatter to the winds, abandoned for the greater part of last week his func tion of telegraphic historian, and ceased to send de spatches to Gen. Dix. Even the telegraphic wires from Washington to New York were smitten with and refused to convey mes a temporary paralysis , sages, either because the news was bad, or, as the friends of the Government alleged, because recent thunderstorms and the torrid heat of the weather had in someway or other bemuddled the electricity. To d a y, however, Mr Stanton has unsealed his lips, and communicated two despatches—the one from General Grant, the other from General Sher man, and neither of them favourable. His previous telegram informed the world that " the greatest movement of the war was in progress." The nature of the movement was not divulged, but is to be read in the newspaper accounts of Grant's defeat in the attempt to make it. His design, it appears, was to cut all the railways connecting Richmond with the South, and was to b 3 inaugurated by the seizure of the line from Petersburg to Weldon. The effort was not fortunate, and cost General Grant 2,000 prisoners and as many killed and wounded men, besides four pieces of artillery. Its failure made it impossible for him to carry out his plan of seizing the other two lines, that from Petersburg to Lynch burg, and the other still more important from Rich• mond to Danville, The result placed him in a position of cocsiderablo peril, and compelled him to make a retrograde movement to his old position near Petersburg. His head-quarters were in that immediate neighbourhood yesterday afternoon, at which time he was engaged in no operations except is firing into the bridge which spans the Appo mattox between that city and the suburb of Poca hontas, with the view, apparently, of preventing the communication of the Confederates on the north of the river with the city itself. Mr. Stanton adds that all the railroads leadirg into Richmond had been destroyed, "and some of them badly," asser tions which are contradicted by every newspaper correspondent in the field, as obviously untrue on General Grant's own showing. Unfavourable news from General Sherman has for some time been anticipated, bat not exactly in the shape in which it has at length appeared. It was thought that Johnson, having retired or retreated to the point to which he wished to allure his too adventurous enemy, would suddenly turn and offer battle, while General Forrest, advancing on Sher man's rear, would place the Federal army between two fires, and either defeat it with great loss, or compel its surrender. Bnt it appears that Sherman was the attacking, party, and that at 8 o'clock yesterday morning he aistulted Johnson's formid able intrenched position on the Kenesaw Mountain, near Marietta, in two divisions, the one under Gen. Macpherson, the other under General Thomas, and that both were repulsed with a loss cf nearly 3,000 men and several general officers. General Sherman does not claim to have inflicted a corresponding or even a heavy loss upon the enemy, inasmuch as Johnson kept behind his parapets, and had the ad vantage of an immensely strong position. As Gen. Sherman is particularly sound upon the negro question—as sound as Wendell Phillips—his rash assault and signal failure are leniently dealt with by all the philosophical papers, and excite but little criticism. The Stat© of Maryland, by the constitutional action of the people, provided for in its laws, teas formally end for ever abolished slavery. The insti tution long since ceased to pay in New Yurk and New England, and was consequently abolished as a wasteful, as well as an inhuman, system of labour. It began to be unprofitable in Maryland nearly quarter of a century ago, and has ever since been slowly but surely dying out. Now there remains no vestage of it, except the social degradation of the negroes, which it will take something stronger than an Act of the Legislation of Maryland to re move. Bat has Maryland for this reason become reconciled to political partnership with the North, and for ever turned her back upon her Southern friends? No one who knows anything whatever of the state of popular feeling in Maryland—rural or urban—and especially in the great city of Balti more, can assert or believe anything of the kind. Maryland sympathises with the South—when wholly free —as intensely as she sympathised with it when partially a Slave State. As it is very generally held in England, and loudly maintained by the Federal and abolitionist party in the North that slavery is the sole cause of the war, and that if it were abolished there would be nothing left to breed disunion, it may be well to enquire why it happens that this and other Border States, where slavery is disappearing, for commercial and other reasons, are so persistently Southern in all their hopes and aspirations. Slavery in most of the Border States has long been nominal. Muse , pro prietors of negroes, having no uses to put them to, have been urged to send them south for sale. Thee , have refused on the ground of humanity. Th e y j in herited thein with their farms and felt bound to support them, or, if they were poor and unequal to the burden, they allowed them to gain their own subsistence as they pleased, and in a majority of instances to enjoy the fruits of their earnings, In thousands of cases the slaves were allowed to work cu t, their own manumission; in as many more they were freed by their masters. Sometimes, though perhaPs, not . often, they refused t o accept lib erty either as Et gift or at a price. So loosely w as t h e institution maintained, and so lightly was itvalued, that if it had not been for the Northern crusa d e against it, and the infringement upon the principle of State rights W ith which it was accomp an i e d, slavery Would have died out as surely in those re gions as in New York or Pennsylvania. Misso ur i, Kentucky, and Tennessee are even now prepared to abolish it, not by Mr. Lincoln's decree on the p l ea of military nece ss i ty, but b the legitimate action of their own L eg i slatures. Yet y if the military pressure were removed from those States, a truce agreed upon, and the People the North or the allowed to decide freely whether they would unite With - Senth, they would vote the mselves members of the Southern Confederacy by an overwhelming majo rity. Slavery may have embittered the animosities thet ultimately found relief in war, b u t if slavery had never ailieted the lank_the disrup - t IOn of the Union would none the loss have occurre d in the fulness of time, Social, commercial, and politi cal causes of disunion were at work from the very mogiciit of the establishment of the Republic, an d s h i v e ry, though it may have expedited the event, was but one of a score of agencies, any one of which was suffielent to produce it. The Cri.enda of Mr Chase talk of a foreign loan to be negotiated in Amsterdam in addition to the 400,000,000 dole. which be has just been authorised to contract at home. As it is the main recommenda tion of all Mr. Chase's loans that the United States bind themselves to pay the interest in gold, it is well for the foreigners, if any such there be, who meditate the investment of their superabundant money in Aravricen securities, to consider whether Horrible Murder on the North London Railway. brought back to Bow, and the carriage in question was at once uncoupled and placed in a shed, which was secured. The carriage has three first class compartments. On opening the door of the com partment the interior, as before stated, was found in all directions to be besmeared with blood, with clotted pools on the cushion and on the floor. There was ample evidence of .a deadly struggle having taken place. The unfortunate man, it will be remembered, was found in the six foot way. On inspecting the outside of the carriage, which would be the off-side of a train going to Camden, the body of the carriage was seen to be besmeared with blood, as if it had been spurted on as the train flew by. The window was down, and on the brass handles were marks of a bloody hand, leading to a belief that the door had been opened to throw the unfortunate gentleman out on the line and then closed. On the step beneath the door were found a portion of the hair guard attached to the massive gold glasses, and on the floor of the compartment was discovered one of the broken links of the watch chain. Allusion has already been made to some ladies complaining to the guard at Hackney station that some blood had been spurted through the open window of their compartment when the train was passing near Victoria Park. The medical gentlemen aecount for this by suggesting that in the struggle when he was forced out of the door of the carriage, one of the arteries in the wound on the side of the head burst from the frightful exertion, and so would spurt in the manner as the ladies described. At present, however, we are unable to state whether they heard any noise or cries at the time or before. It is certain that Mr. Briggs must have been lying on the line at least 20 minutes before he was Eli's. covered. The train in which he rode left Bow at two minutes past 10, and in another two or three minutes the deed must have been perpetrated, for the train was due at the next station, Hackney wick, five minutes after leaving Bow. An up-train passed the spot about 10 minutes afterwards, and saw nothing, but it was evident that it must have escaped their notice. The spot where Mr. Briggs was thrown out of the train is, singular to say, about the same place where a similar outrage was committed some four or five years since, but not with such deplorable results, when the thief jumped out of the carriage and endeavoured to escape through the marshes, but was captured and transported for life. It would almost seem that the murderous as sailant's object after the attack on Mr. Biggs was to throw him into the canal. He was found on the bridge, and it is conjecture) the villain or villains made a mistake in the door, and threw the un fortunate gentleman ou the permanent way, instead of over the bridge. the promise is likely to be kept, and whether, at some future day, they may not receive the interest in depreciated greenbacks, if, indeed, they are for tunate enough to receive any interest at all. " Re- One of the most atrocious crimes that probably pudiation" is a word that has no terrors on this side ever disgraced this country was perpetrated late on of the Atlantic—or the Legislature he State of Saturday evening in a first-class carriage of a New York would not so coolly have defrauded its passenger train on the North London Railway, foreign as well as domestic creditors by insisting when a gentleman, Mr. Thomas Briggs, connected that greenbacks are and ought to be legal tender with the banking establishment of Messrs. Roberts, for the payment both of principal and interest of Curtis, and Co,, of Lombard-street, was murderously all debts, public or private. To show that Con• assailed, plundered, and thrown out of the train, gress itself is not much, if any, better in this re- and by the time these details meet the eye of the spect than the local Legislature at Albany, it is public death will have terminated his shocking only necessary to read the debates that took place sufferings. in the House of Representatives on Friday last. The unfortunate gentleman, Mr. Briggs, was Mr. Chase's new loan was under discussion, when upwards of sixty years of age. He was a fine, tall, no less a person than Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, the hale man, and resided at No. 5, Clapton-square, leader of the house, and chairman of the Committee near Hackney Church. He held the office of chief of Ways and Means, asserted, in answer to several clerk in the above bank, and was most highly re previous speakers who had expressed contrary spected and esteemed by a very large circle of opinions, that the issue of legal.tender paper money friends. had been the salvation of the country—that no eye- On Saturday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, he left tern ever worked better—that specie payments the bank for the day, and proceeded to his niece's would not be resumed for ten years to come—and residence in Nelson-square, Peckham, where he that whoever looked for a speedier return to hard dined. There he remained until half-past eight money was not wise, and had studied history to o'clock, and was seen into an omnibus in the Old little profit. He added that "he deprecated the Kent-read by the husband of his niece, aMr Bnck present policy of paying the interest of the debt in ham, and then appeared in his usual good health gold, and expressed his opinion, if such policy were and spirits. Before parting with his relative he persisted in, with an increase of debt at the same intimated that he would proceed to the City, and time, the Government would fail. It was a fatal then take the train from Fenchurch-station for policy, which rested like an incubus upon the Hackney. He was almost a daily traveller on the nation, and gold would continue to rise, as he long line, and was well known by the railway servants. ago predicted, until it would beoome impossible From the time of getting into the omnibus in the for the Government to procure the coin." Mr. Old Kent-road until his body was discovered on the Davis, of New York, agreed with Mr. Stevens, but line of the North London Railway, between Old refused to vote with him, in opposition to the Ford Bridge and Hackney Wick station, nothing wishes of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Com- has been gleaned of his movements, or whether any mittee of Ways and Meaus, fascinated or convinced one was in his company. by the eloquence or the arguments of its chairman, The atrocious outrage was discovered somewhere adopted an amendment based upon his speech. The about a quarter or twenty minutes past ten o'clock house afterwards refused to concur in the action of on Saturday evening. On the arrival at Hackney the committee by a vote of 80 against 50, and Mr of the 9.45 train from Fenchurch-street station Chase's Loan Bill of 400 millions, bearing interest (which was several minutes late in leaving town), a at 6 per cent. in gold, was passed, and only awaits gentleman called the attention of Haines, the guard, the signature of the President to become law. The to the state of a compartment of a first class car discussion shows not only that there is a large, but riage, No. 69, in the train, He had opened the an influential party in Congress who will make no door at Hackney with the intention of getting in, scruple, should public necessity seem to urge that and had placed his hand on one of the cushions' course, in repudiating that portion of their liabili- which he found to be covered with blood. The ties which makes the golden and not the paper dol - guard, on looking in, found such to be the fact. Not lar the reward of the creditor for the confidence he only were the cushions, but the floor, sides, and has placed in the Government. Americans in their window were besmeared with blood ;in some places lust of empire and their passionate desire for the there was quite a pool. He also found inside the restoration of the Union may lend their money to carriage a gentleman's hat, a walking-stick, and a the Government, subject to the risk of such partial small leather bag. The guard at once took charge repudiation, but foreigners, whether in Amsterdam of the articles, and locked up the door. Some ladies, or Lyndon, having no such lust or passion, and only who were in the adjoining compartment, here called desirous of good and safe investment, will be very the attention of the guard to the circumstance that unwise if they do not ponder carefully the speech blood had been spurted through the carriage window and action of Mr Stevens and of those who agree on to their dresses as the train came from Bow. The with him before they part with a stiver or a poun d guard at once telegraphed the discovery to Mr Keb sterling. If, after such an exposition, they choose ble, station master at Bow, and at that time an im to pin their faith upon the American Congress, pre- pression was entertained that some one had corn• sent or prospective, they will have no right to cry witted suicide, and had thrown himself out of the out if, instead of an annual income in gold of 60 window of the carriage on to the line. sovereigns for an investment of £l,OO O , they receive Almost about the same period the above discovery w but 300 dols. in greenbacks, worth perhaps no more was made, the driver and stoker of an engine which than Sc. orb oc. each. had been working the Hackney-wick and Stratford Wick station to the a The uncertainty whether Grant will not be added to the traffic, were returning from the THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE DEBATE.— other military failures of the war unsettles the politics of Bow locomotive works on the North London Rail THE is almost always something of what is called the War Democrats to such an extent as to deprive them of way. As they were approaching the railway-bridge . forensic oratory in the opening speeches of a grea a Presidential candidate. If Grant would but capture Rich- over Duckett's Canal, by the side of the Mitford debate. The several speakers are to a certain ox mond- he would be their man—at least they suppose so, for Arms tavern, which fronts th e Tower Hamlets tent in the position of advocates, and have rather to t tb e e real merits and . he is so little of a politician that few people know his op t - Volunteer Parade-ground in the Victoria Park, they state a case effectively and carefully than to unfold nions. If he would but fail, and fail as ignominiously or completely as present appearances indicate that he will, saw something lying on the six-feet way, the space approach the central interest of Both Mr. Disraeli and ' they would unite upon Gen. M'Clellan, and run him against between the up and down line. At first the driver, G h i, clu e etion at issue. -The mi.. Fremont and Lincoln. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Eakins, thought it was a dog, but his mate, the - . _ern). y who are all more or less friendly to the South, and to the stoker judged it to be a human being. The er - ' were bot h . hampere d s by the mew it —ales and the flab:- -glue tual ret i cence= of o me prnciple of State sovereignty, which underlies and justifies had passed the object, but stopped near bothspoke of Ailey eastone spoke on an artificial Con secession,platy ern). they are like the Republicans broken up into two . where the tinental matters, ne• but • • ay as they are,as it is con hostile sections. The Republicans are divided by the pre- railway passes over the main drain: ' ego works. The venient , to vie hostile them for certain diplomatic or Par stoker, Brinckley, got down - Par tensions of their present chief magistrate; the Demo- and went back along I lamen " wry purposes. They both showed that they `p :re aware that there was an inconsistency between mats are severed by a principle. A large, and it may prove the line with a lamp, an the more powerful, section of the Republican party insists discovered it to be `,l ne bodv of e on coming up to the spot gentleman, sP . ,,u. what . they said and what they knew. Mr. Disraeli that Lincoln is incapable, dishonest, devoid of high prin • and apparently dead. The stoker rated in blood - • a ' hinted that the old theory of the balance of power was obsolete—and Mr. Gladstone, after setting up ciple, and that it is high time there should be a change if : 10- Laging _ instantly h ' the country is to be saved from destruction. They propose „Ailed the driver and ran down the em- ' a plausible case for the Government, and trying to hankie . sent 'into the Mitford Arms publichonse, be- to put General Fremont into his place, and will undoubtedly make out that the Cabinet was willing and almost to Mr . White. Several persons in the house, make a strong fight for their nominee; even although thebound to go to war to uphold the Treaty of London friends of Mr Lincoln should wield all the immense patro- - so long as it had any hope of support from its allies, nage the landlord, at once returned with the stoker' nage in the President's hands to defeat or buy o ff o- p.. ended by saying that England could never have 0414 , u to the line and steps were immediate) ttikeii to tion. The Democrats, less fortunate than the Re u,bliiesans P ' P ' 9 . gone to war to tome on the Duchies a Sovereign of cannot at present select an available man, for, th e a' u mea l remove the unfortunate gentleman to the adjacent wham they wishe d to be rid. As the speeches of cient reason that they cannot agree u'- ‘, tavern, but in lining so the men who were assisting advocates, both were skilful and effective—but a a. fundamental Principle, The War Democrats i n - ..st . t upon the vigorous in the melancholy task nearly lost their lives by a both, as . . the speeches of statesmen, were failures. Mr. Disraeli showed, with great adroitness and 1 prosecution of the war—to the l ast man and the last dollar passing down-train. When got to the tavern and —if both have to be expe ..tded for the restoration of the laid on a conch suspicions of foul play were at once power, that the Government had threatened Ger- Union. The Peace D emorats, more consistent with the aroused, for his head seem e od t have many and encouraged Denmark . He made the been battered most of the errors and the vacillations of the Cabi principles of their r instrument, ; u arty—the only principles on which as ain some sharp His clothes were net • hu` he party it can car canoe to exist—declare that the war is not b y was speaking not only to damage his covered with blood, and the broken link or hook of opponents but to win o ,, fßee, and he entirely failed only a cram a, but a blunder; that it never can, and never ought to, restore the Union; that it ought to cease imme- a watchchain was hanging to a button-hole. No t h o n sa w y as a n n a yt a h h in te g nf w d h e i v e i e si c n oul n d inspire a belief that diate' i - - y , that the independence of the South should be re- watch or the other part of the chain being found, at devising or r f e o a re r i r . y ri ng o on li t n an oHrie ginal and effective line cognised forthwith ; that a treaty of alliance, offensive and once led to a supposition that he had been plane had nothing to recommend but that g En p glan y d . should defensive, ought to be made with it, in support of the dared. The landlord immediately gave information lean on the reed of Imperial France, and that, Monroe doctrine; and that this, with such a commercial to the police, and sent for medical assistance. Mr. if her hand were pierced, she should smile Zoliverein . as might be mutually advantageous, would cer- Br i stow, surgeon, of Old Ford, soon arrived and pretend to like it. M r . Gladstone t amly enable the two Republica to live harmoniously to- , and was followed by triumphantly replied that the very charge ag ainst sM r H. Garman, surgeon, of gather, and might in the course of years lead to a restore-the Government was that it had been too h umble tion of something like the old feeling—if not to a virtual Fairfield-road, Bow, and Mr V. Cooper, of Coborn- and too persistent in its application for the material reconstruction of the Federal Union, on a broader or more road. These gentlemen at once proceeded to examine assistance of France and Russia On the . other solid basis thanbefore, The War Democrats have a candis the wounded man. He was in a perfect state of hand, when Mr. Gladstone unfold e d the defence of date ready to their hands in General M'Clellan, provided collapse—quite insensible. On the left side of the the Government, and explained that the Cabinet always that Grant be placed hors de combat by his antici- head, j ust over the ear, which is torn away , was was really determined to fi ght f o r the Treaty of gated failure before Ri c h mon d. Th e Peace Democ ra t s found a deep wound ; the skull was fractured, and as it because it was have no candidate. Th ere are t h ousan d s o f a bl e , con - really bent on war, until the refusal fFrance and scientious, accomplished, an d f ar - see i ng me n w h ose the bone driven in. On the base of the skull there Russia, towards the end of dannary, ellen eed every hearts yearn for peace, and would cheerfully follow the were four or five lacerated wounds ; there were thing, and convinced the Cabinet that war was nut lead of any bold champion who would run the risks, not more blows on other parts of the head, and the to be thought of, few 'of his hearers could have be alone of unpopularity, but of persecution in his advocacy of medical gentlemen expressed their surprise that the lived that this Was the real history of what had the cane; but the champion does not declare himself, If, unfortunate sufferer should be alive , the wound over happened. the reply that, if at the end of January like a village Hampden, or a mute inglorious Milton, hethe Cabinet had definitely abandoned all thought left ear a lone ffi • thebeing en cient to cause death, exists somewhere or other in the d e pth s o f social or politicalof war, it should have said so a Stimulants were ears unanswer. obscurity, he has not the courage to d ec l are h i mself. Th e applied with a view of restoring a bl e. I t is true that there SVA;nopopvert encourage fear of being accused of treason to the Union, a crime in c onsciousness, but to no purpose. On the arrival snout to the Danes after Schleswig was once in- American eyes far greater than treason to any King or of Mr Kerressey, of the K division of police, from varied. But the Cabinet knew perfectly well that Emperor who ever breathed, deprives hint of the civic Bow station, measures were England, taken to ascertain the Dane' dill looked for support from courage without which in its citizens no nation ever became th h w a er the sufferer had any papers which would ; thee the threats to G mnan y still remained on re great and powerful. Under these circumstances the two expecte d cord, and that England from day to day to his identification lead la la' isbreast coat pocket sections of the Democracy have had a consultation, and to be dragged into the quarrel. It is only the agreed, in view of the military situation, to postpone for bundle * . were found a of letters addressed "T. 13riggs, P adert h eought of an advocate arranging a good legal two months the Chicago Convention which was summoned Esq., Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., Lombard- defence that the Cabinet , a f ter the end of January, for the 4th of July, as well as the grea t peace meeting street," upon which a messenger was immediately weighed the cost and determined that it would not which was to have been convened in this city on Wednes- despatched to the bank in the City to l earn w h ere go to war. It was still divided in itself, still ham day next. Thus both of them await events, the War Da- the gentleman named on the address lived. ~, pored by extraneous i nfluences, still expect ant that mocrats living in the hope that the Democratic soldier trousers were found £4 1os. i gold and la Prance might change her mind, s till apprehensiv e ' actually victorious will turn up during the next few weeks, pocket that the war feeling in England might gain heat or, in his default, that M'Clelian, who might have been silver, and a silver snuffbox in his coat pocket. The and strength. Mr. Gladstone's speech was not victorious if he had been left alone by the marplots and im- messenger, on reaching the bank in Lombard -street, badly devised as Et puzzle to Opposition speakers, beciles of Washington, will become the man of th e h our fo u nd th a t th e description given of Mr Briggs an- but it failed to explain to the country why, since and carry everything before him. The Peace Democrats, swered that of the gentleman found on the railway, the beginning of Fehrua -IT, we have been passing in the hope that victory or defeat will alike serve their and communicating the fact to Mr Ins - actor Ken- . through five months of uncertainty, and humilia sacred cause, and that a man worthy of being their leader, Wm. When the independent members began to ressey, he at once despatched an officer to the ad and with courage and intellect sufficient to make the voice • address the house, the controversy passed from the of Peace heard throughout the land, will arise to relieve the dress given by the people at the bank, 5, °lepton- region of artificial into that of real politics. Lis principle of Republican self-government from the disgrace square, Hackney, 'who broke the melancholy intel- tenors ceased to be told, a , they had been by Mr. of failure that attaches to it, and prove to the nations that ligence to the son of the unfortunate gentleman. Disraeli, that there was nothing, but a petty in au educated Democracy is something better and more rea- Owing to 7.firs Briggs being an invalid and in deli- surrection in the European revolution of 1848,which sonable than the sanguinary despotism of old time and the cate state of the health, fact of her husband having has since produced such fruits as the freedom of Italy, Eastern hemisphere. In the meanwhile Gen. Fremont, who and this very national movement in Germanyewhich met such a fearful fate was withheld from her. Mrwho a pplaud th e Belgians for wishing has officially accepted the nomination of the Cleveland, and l e . persons Mr. Lincoln, who has accepted that of the Baltimore Con- Venetia esriggs, jun., with other members of the family, to be separate from Holland, and . . vention, are the only candidates in the field. and Mr I ' oulmin , the family doctor, proceeded to the for wishing to join Italy, term an inexplicable mad The Peace party—gloomy as its prospects were a Mitford Castle Tavern, and put an end to all doubt ness. They ceased to h ear such stetemednthe house ts as that twelvemonth ago—has, however, grown so s t ea dily as to wh o th e unfortunate suff erer was . I t was a of Mr Gladstone, when h e ca lmly assure that it was not Russia , but Lord Palmerston, who in public favour, and has so vast a fund of reason very painful scene. Only it once, is thought, did induced .the German powers to int& the hopes of and policy on its side, to say nothing of Christianity, that a the unfortunategentleman show any ' . signs of song-- the . German Liberals,the hop es of and crush out. . vety crushing defeat of the Northern arms, followed by a • • commercial crisis, would infallibly strengthen its position, bility. An old female domestic called him by name, the insurgents in Schl esw i g Holstein by the signs and perhaps compel General Fremont to become a convert and a slight trembling movement of his frame and Lure of of th h e treat of 1852. ltir Cobden had the merit ei . ng the first epeaker who invited the to its views. The real duty of the next President, whom- a gurgling groan seemed to indicate that he knew house to cons ider , not the imaginary) but the real sever it may be, will be t o l e t the South go, and lend all the voice ; but it was only a momentary reaction. politics eee pointed out that the treaty his energies to the mighty task of preventing a further d" is- The landlord of the tavern made every arrangement of 1852 was intended ' bridle on the aspire integration of the North. to put a - he could for the sufferer, but on the news of the tions of Germany for natioual:.V, and that what we outrage spreading the house was besieged bya large haddreEallyrtohconsider -,,,, a , w hether it was for us to and eager crowd, and it was deemed necessary to sen d an n Ol' is - " en to be killed in furth f er h ance . of remove him to his residence. Mr. Toulmin, Mr. i nfe d ct, He had the satisfaction this i f she could and that ' Garman, and the other medidal gentlemen remained ..., oult nngotadno o it uif f ht not to d o s: n id An enemy of the in attendance nearly the whole night, and in the, traditions of the Fo: h i e e 7 n 01 CO could scarcely have course of the morning the sufferer was removed in a better opening than e wh e n he has an opportunity when a litter from the tavern to Claptonesquare, of showing that Engli s h diplomeeY has been hope- Through Mr. Briggs, jun., the police ascertained lensly pursuing a wrong object. To the surprise of y of that when his father left h ome on Seturda.morn- of some , he went f his hearers , and p e r h aps to the admirat i on that, with all his theo ing he wore a gold watch with an Albert chain, and re ti ca l devotion on t : to iiitt ni-interference, he could gold eye glasses attached t o a h a i r guar d . O n scarce l y b r i ng himself tn:regsrd with philosophical examining the waistcoat it was seen that a watch indifference the gigantic wrung that was done to had been torn from the waistcoat pocket, and the Italy and Venice by the treaty of Vienna. These chain had been broken off the link or hook which are l the thoughts, whatever lilaY, be their value, h of rea still held to the waistcoat pocket. The gold glasses the troru3e°hutssaonfd parties onitVe Cgiejanhineetnatte;,,wra,,htrae,aes were also missing, end subsequently Mr. Briggs, the thoughts ofpnroofessionat of England. Mr Roes jun., identified the hat, stick, and bag whieh were hioek gave utterer:, eollanother set of ideas in found in the compartment as those belonging to , ' radii " amo ng a d - ff rent set of continental wholl y 1 e his father. thinkers, when he declared that, in his opinion, The police having thus ascertained the descrip- st e rn ly e very attempt at nat i ona l i n dependence ought to be tion of the watch an d g l asses, an d f orwar d e d i t b y be r who repressed;could h and h h e wfasupnrodbtaob probably t hela declare i t y h i a n t e wine route to all the p o li ce stat i ons in the metropolie, ought to have forc ve e d e t eh n rule of Denmark on the with the facts of the outrage, they procecdsd, with duchies, because we try very unsuccessfully to per. Mr. Kerressoy, to examine minutely the carriage in suede Welsh boys and girls to learn English at school. which the murderous crime was committed. On the Certainly these were views sufficiently diverging the train reaching Camden station that light, flee from each other and from the:ground occupeed iu railway officials directed it immediatelyhis opening attaok by Mr Disraeli. But throughout to he 1 every speech on Tueeday night there was °Tie cm- Up to the time of this being written the detec tives, under the direction of Mr Inspector Kerres sey, were instituting every possible inquiry, with a view of capturing the guilty parties, and it is hoped that before long some clue may be obtained which will lead to their apprehension, MONDAY, 1.15 A.M. • Mr Briggs expired at a quarter before 12 last night. The hat found in the railway carriage turns out to be that of the murderer. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, LLANELLY RAILWAY AND DOCK. --- A special meeting of the shareholders in this company and the Swansea and Carmarthen lines, was held on Friday at the office, 34, Great George-street, Westminster; Mr. R. Bidduiph in the chair, when it was unanimously resolved, "That the directors be authorised to pay on the preference and deferred shares of the Swansea line a dividend in per petuity of £5 per cent. per annum, but such shares not to confer the power of voting." It was also resolved, " That the directors be authorised to issue in preference and de ferred shares the remaining capital of the company, subject to the terms and conditions contained in the Llauelly Rail woy pock Company's Act, 1864, such shares not to confer voting." A vote of thank s t o t h e chairman the power of closed the proceedings. wr,i—Holloway's Pills.—P o t en t Puri fi of causes contribute to render tho blo o d impure, e [ r A s . d ix and d Ethus , to produce mans Ipsettin g maladies. These admi ra bl e Pills address themselves at first, , to expel the taints from the vital fluid, and in the second place to restore regularity and harmony throughout the organs of assim ilation, secreti on , and excretion. Holloway's Pills improvegityhe it strengthedigeti h fairlycapeanbaiuligtyof the stomach, and gra duallyto appropriate any ordinary food w h en wholesome in quality an d moderate in quantity. These Pills act beneficially on the liver, kidneys, and bowels, and so constitute themselves the " Protectors" of the dyspeptic, nervous, low-spi r ited, a nd debilitated. Unless digestion b s occasionally corrected' by such means, the blood cennot be pure, necting link. There was one source of universal harmony which gave ar admirable unity to the de bate. Whatever the speaker thought of the Treaty of 1852 or of German nationality, of the duties of interference or of the duties of non - interference, of the timidity or the dignified reserve of France, he was sure to be like those who foilowed and those who preceded him in one respect, and to heap un sparing and unmitigated abuse on Lord Russell. THE " SPECTATOR" ON TRE TORY ATTACK.--It may be difficult, from our point of view it is impos sible, to defend the attitude assumed by the Go vernment towards Denmark, but it is at least as hard to comprehend that of the Opposition towards the Government. On this, as on every other occa sion of late years when no ecclesiastical interest has been involved, the Tory party is at variance with system for a joint stock company. After several years of it, the country seems as badly off as the Great Western shareholder, when—after learning that he has been running branch lines everywhere -he finds his dividends preternaturally low. The Palmerston Company, Limited, has either been too enterprising, or not enterprising enough. The worst of alt short-sighted courses is to play an au dacious game timidly. Either operations ought to have been on a smaller scale, or they should have been pushed to the end with vigour. The personnel of the company does not improve with time. The manager's health is hardly as buoyant as it was, and the worry of keeping unruly subordinates and dissatisfied shareholders in order is enough to tell even upon a more youthful constitution. Nor, despite the popularity of Lord Palmerston, can the nation avoid seeing that he is daily widening the breach between the various sections of his own party. By playing consistently into the hands of the Conservatives, for the time he smooths his own road, but he is making the road almost impassable for any Liberal successor. Nevertheless, Lord Pahnerston's name must command confidence and popularity abroad and at home, even if his energy is daily lessening. Nor can fault be found with the auditing , of the company's accounts. They . hare an admirable financier, who knows what he is about. However extravagant the expenditure may be thought, the books are certainly well kept. But the Secretary With the best intentions and most honourable principles—for among all the Members of the present Cabinet there is not one whose honour and integrity stand higher—that copious and excellent letter• writer has made the company's position . very hot, He has committed them to twenty schemes, and broken off negotia tions at the eleventh hour in each. He has put his hand to the plough so often that the bystanders begin to smile. Abroad, the credit of the concern, the businesslike character of the concern, and the punctuality of the concern is dwindling. Outsiders are heard muttering that the Palmerston Company Limited, dues not meet its bills. But the promis sory notes of England cannot thus continue to be dishonoured. When Rome repudiated the contracts of her unsuccessful generals, she sent the generals back with halters round their necks into the camp of the enemy whom their unauthorised promises had deceived. The secretary of the joint stock com pany feels no desire to make any such sacrifice of himself. The paper which bears his signature may not be met by his employers when due, yet he holds on steadily to his post, and issues more. Of one thing England may rest assured, that she cannot re pudiate Lord Russell's notes of hand half as fast as he will circulate new ones. Nor does the peculiar temper of Lord Russell permit him inoffensively to discharge less onerous duties than that of threatening peace or war. The secretary's business is clearly to correspond. Lord Russell's pen is unfortunately so hard and sharp, that every piece of correspondence sounds like a hostile mes sage. The result is that the English Foreign-office, as regards other Foreign-offices, is undergoing a sort of political quarantine. The arrival of a letter of Lord Russell's at a continental court creates the same sort of consternation as the arrival at Malta of the yellow flag. Nobody likes to touch the terrible mis sive. At last some secretary bolder than another ventures to take it at arm's length to his chief, who reads it, trembling lest he should be insulted before he gets to the bottom of the page. It lies on the table, the centre of diplomatic observa tion, regarded by all officials with a dreary awe and horror. This is hardly the work that a national secretary is designed to turn out, and if Lord Rus sell would but pass from the Foreign Office to some less controversial department, and instead of rough ing emperors, content himself with roughing colonial governors or country magistrates, the Palmerston Company, Limited, would be all the better for the change. The real defect of the Ministry at present is, that it has no common policy at heart. Each director represents a certain section of the share holders, and represents, therefore, both a limited interest and a very limited liability. Not one of the chiefs of departments pretends for a moment to identify himself with any other department but his own ; nor will he consent to be responsible, except indirectly for the general conduct of the concern. The result is, when we come to a vital question, such as the Dino-German question, everyone is at logger heads. Lord Palmerston, like Belial, probably stands for open war—only, unlike Belial, he does not venture to say so. Perhaps Lord Russell may conceal within his literary bosom a similar opinion. But the Manchester school have their director, the City has its director, the Peace Society nas its director. These will have nothi n g to do with any responsibility beyond their own immediate interests. As for the general honour of the country, it is an argument that does not touch a body so constituted and so minded. But it is not a satisfactory situa tion for the cabinet of a great nation to have no common principle but that of holding together as long as possible. It is just the principle which leads a railway board to oppose its own dissolution tooth and nail. The members of the board hateone another but they dislike the prospect of a fresh board more. Nor does the country, little as it trusts the present board in Downing-street, look forward to the alternative board with any other feeling than that of discomfort and despair. One obvious solution of the difficulty might be found if the Palmerston Com pany would only act in character. In a limited com pany the faults of the Foreign Office ought to be ex by the Foreign Office itself, without assistance from the Treasury or the Board of Trade. The interest being limited, the responsibility should be limited also. That the country is thoroughly dissatisfied there can be no serious doubt ; and unless some change of the kind is made at the Foreign Office, the end of the Whigs is nearer than they think. The" EXAMINER" ON THE WAR IN NEW ZEA LAND.—We really can't afford it. Rich and strong as we are, there is a limit to the wuste of life and treasure and reputation which we cannot allow our Colonial Government to overpaze. We are spend ing ten thousand pounds a day smart-money for the greedy and insolent bad faith of certain folks in New Zealand, who cajole& Downing Street into a rash promise to back them up in their attempt to monopolise the soil of that prolific but unpopulated country. It was bad enough to ernbrue our hands in the blood of native tribes when we ought to have been able long since to have taught to trust us, or. if not, to fear us sufficiently to keep ,. , the peace. We have taught them to do neither. Ihe civil relations of certain classes of the colonists . with the natives have been maintained up on so ill a foot ing that the latter have rushed into desperate and deadly war, sooner than submit .to what they. .re gard as wanton injustiee sanctioned by British authority ; and the military measures taken to suppress the revolt have been so blundertul that they are calculated really to inspire the poor semi barbarous tribes with hop es o f an eventual triumph beyond their reach. All this is moat derogatory to our character as a civilized and pcenerful people. Our neighbours who hear of these things do not and cannot be expected to discriminate between the culpable errors of an effete administrative system and acts sanctioned by the national will. Considering that we boast of being governed by a free Parliament, and with a free press, it is certainly not unfair to charge up= the na tional conscience misdeeds which in a healthier and more active state of political feeling would be impossible. The truth is, we are beginning to find out the price that must be paid for the plea sures of political apathy. The country is commera cially and financially so prosperous that we are threatened with a fatty degeneracy of the national heart ; and in the region of the head kindred symp toms have for some time been observable. Mr. Cardwell won universal praise by putting a sum mary end to a preposterous war with the Ashen teas. He would have obtained ten times the credit were he to bring the disreputable conflict in New Zealand to a termination, Both were begun by his predecessor in office ; and while no one else is, un der present circumstances, disposed to disturb the sick chamber by accents of reproach, 19 intelligent persons out of 20 would thank the present Secre tary of State for the Colonies were he to . suppress, with a high and humane hand , the guerilla prac tices which threaten to becom e chronic in New Zealand. Every mail brings us tidings of fresh encounters ending in positive disaster or inglorious success. The outnumbere d natives are palpably fighting better than our men. .They are better marksmen. They show more activity and adroitness in moments of exigen c y ; and they are obviously guidel by a species of rude but ready generalship that puts our starched strategy to shame. It is cer tainly rather too bad , considering all we are com pelled to pay for ammunition and arms, that we should cut such a pitiful figure in the face of a Maori tribe. The cost of transport from the seat of Government itself enormous; to the remote scene o f i operations is n map of the island, its capabilities and its incapabi lities, it does seem incomprehensible why we s hould h av e any difficulty . in securing to those who dwell therein the blessings of industry and peace. There is room enough and to spa re f or a ll par poses of legitimate industry, and even leeitimate opecniation. Why should we t o l erate a species of domestic filibustering wat c h has not even the merit of being a bl e to fight Its own rapacious way, but w hi c h , w h e never it gets into a scrape, insists up on h er M a jesty's troops being called out to save it f rom the vengeance of those whom it has wron ge d, an d to make examples of those who have had th e o b s tinacy and tem erit y to hold their ancient own It is time the :nether country washed her hands of compl icit y in such transactions. Putti ng i t on the lowest round, that of expense, we really can't afford it. An expendi ture at the rate of £3,500,000 a year for sake of the Ignominy of bafflid attempts to storm mud forts and to take stockaded pahs is rather more than the thing is worth. We might agree to give the money to escape the disgrace, but it is rather too bad to pay for enduring it. itself. It is a rope of many strands, which do not strengthen, but from their different degrees of hard ness cut each other at every strain. The silk severs the hemp, and the wire tears both, till the thinnest of the three becomes the measure of strength of all. Even setting aside Mr Newdegate, who in his cons sistent pluck and zeal for the honour of his country may, if the party like it, be considered an anomaly in the Tory ranks, and his wild seconder Mr Whale ley, who represents nothing except the pot theolo gical hatred of a close, we have still three distinct and mutuallydestructive lines of policy visible in the Conservative speeches of the first days'debate. There is Mr Disraeli, followed by most of the rank and file, who considers war with Germany almost an in sanity, yet moves the condemnation of the Govern ment which has not gone to war; there is General Peel, followed by Lord H. Cecil and his friends, who holds that peace is nothing when compared with honour, and that honour has been sacrificed; and there is Lord Stanley, nearly alone, but still a power who proclaims froze the Tory benches doctrines which, if thsy do not involve peace at any price, do involve a logical formula of non intervention. All three have made up their minds to vote against the Government, but no two of them are agreed as to the alternative course which the Government should have pursued. The whole drift of Mr Disraeli's speech, though his meaning is not concentrated in any one sen tence, is an argument that the Foreign Office should have conciliated France and followed Napoleon's lead; but this is precisely what the Cabinet argue that they tried in vain to do. So long, they say, as they believed France would assist them they were ready and eager for war, went even the length of a formal despatch proposing active ope rations if France or Russia would but enter the lists at their side. It was not till France had dis tinctly refused a formal proposal of active alliance that they came to the conclusion that war for Den mark was in itself an act not required by the en gagements, or honour, or interests of Great Britain. So strongly do they put this point that Punch, which always expresses the popular im pression, accepts it as the key-note of their defence, and represents John Bull as remonstrating not with the German Powers but with his own allies. That proposal may not have been honest, they may have been aware from the first, as we believe, that the Emperor of the French intended to abstain from interference in Denmark, or they may simply have misunderstood both his policy and his temper, but the offer is by itself an answer to Mr Disraeli. On the other hand, it strengthens General Peel's case, for his speech is simply a declaration in many words that our honour required us to fight, but we didn't fight, and the honourable obligation wan 'dot and could not be affected in any degree by any proceed ing or omission on the part of the Emperor of the French. Lord Stan ley, on the other bend, advocated a policy of non - intervention as " safe, respectable and honourable," without any reference Whatever to the attitude France miht think fit to assume. So that while Mr. Disrevii would not fight Clerk many, but would follow the lead of France even if fighting Germany, for otheetWise ail his criticisms on the Polish affair aVe vaiu,—General Peel would fight Germany with ,µ, e f t , Lord Stank- rence to France, and condit; , would not fight Germany on any • ous whatever. What sort of a policy is it which England may hope to obtain from a Ministry which to act must reconcile those three opinions ? A policy which shall fight when our honour re quires ? Lori Stanley will none of it. A policy of peace at any price ? General Peel calls that dis graceful. Or finally, a policy lookinc , to peace, but looking to it through subserviency to French pl,ns which msy end in war ? That is Mr. Disraeli's, but not Lord Stanley's and not General Peel's, and it differs from that of the Government only in this, —that while the latter is equally pacific, equally dishonourable, and equally haphazard, it eliminates the element of subserviency to Napoleonic France. Is that the precise addition which would in the judgment of England sweeten the nasty mess she is now swallowing down ? The argureenta em ployed by the Conservative leaders are almost as diverse as the half-hidden drift of their opinions. General Peel, in his most effective party speech, denounced the Government because, he ving violated their pledges, they had, as he aptly quoted," made us the open shame of our enemies, the very scorn and derision of all that are round about us." He avoided the diplomatic history of the affair, but repeated the promises which he contended had been made to Denmark, and which had been broken " till it was come to this, that the declaration of the Prime Minister in the British House of Commons was looked upon as a mere idle menace to be laughed at." Those pledges he indeed said ought not to have been given, but being given they ought to have been maintained. Nothing can be more distinct than this accusation :—" There are only two principles on which the foreign policy of this country can be carried out. If you choose to make yourselves the arbiters of every people, you must he prepared to fight for them, for there . are other countries as proud as yourselves who will not sub mit to your dictation. If, on the other hand, you have made up your mind not to go to war at any time—it' peace at eny price 13 to be your object, silence and non-intervention must become a portion of your policy. One argument which occasionally I have heard made use of by a noble lord in another place is that this country is so pro•iperous that nothing in the world is to he allowed to interfere with that prosperity. But what would be said in private life of a man who refused to defend his honour on the ground that he was too rich to be shot ?" Lord Stanley, on the other hand, declares that the only blunder lay in taking Denmark under our protection. He would not fight itt any eases "No consideration, he spoke for himself and many others on his side of the house, would induce him to give his support to a policy of war but " what I say is, that when you take a man's or a nation's affairs, out of their own bands--when Irou assume the duty of advising, managing, directing, and when that is done by a very strong Power to a very feeble one—you incur a moral responsibility towards those who take your advice, and may be held to guarantee that they shall not suffer by taking your advice, uniess you have given the fair warning beforehand, as France did, and as you might have done, that you meant to interfere by mediation and advice, but meant to go no further." General Peel denounces the promises, but would maintain them, while Lord Stanley admits the promises, but would not maintain them, and Mr. Disraeli, blaming the promises and blaming also the breach of them, still announces, quite sincerely we believe, that he and his friends are altogether for a policy of peace ! The censures are from all points of the compass— for promising at all, for promising and refusing to accept the hezard of performing, and for promising and not fulfilling without the promised war; and the proposals are a mere hotchpotch—peace, war, and subserviency to France all mixed up together. Each speech coming from its speaker has a force of its own, and those of General Peel and Lord Stanley are in themselves, and from opposite points of view, statesmanlike and logical; but read as the speeches of a party—and it is as a party that the Tories must come in—they are incoherent beyond example. Nothing whatever can be gathered from them except tha speakers' conviction that they would have gone to war, or maintained peace, or refrained from both, and in any of the three alternatives would have done better than the existing Ministry—an assertion which may be true or false, but is comforting only to those who believe that Conservatives must in the nature of things be abler diplomatists than Whigs. It may be argued that all three speeches cover one single meaning—an expression of want of confi dence in the Ministry in power; and diet is in one sense true. If it only implies that Conservatives prefer Lori 'Derby to Lord Palmerston, Lord Malmesbury to Earl Russell, and Mr Disraeli to Mr G'adstone, it may be accepted without much argu ment. Address to King Christian. COPENHAGEN, July G. The following address to the King has been agreed to by the members of various parties in both houses of the Rigsraad : "Most Gracious King,—Your Majesty has stated in your message to the Rigsraad that the war noW devastating the country was forced upon you, not withstanding that you had done everything in your power to avoid it. The people recognises, and his. tory will testify, that an unjust invasion has come pelled Denmark to fight for her existence and her freedom. This consciousness has strengthened the people in its unequal struggle, and in its readiness to bear the sacrifices demanded. " The negotiations which were to put an end to this violation of European law have not achieved their object, but have ultimately afforded manifest proof that the object of the war is the dismember ment of the Danish kingdom. Exposed to the pain ful necessity of making sacrifices for the re-attain ment of peace, your Majesty has been ready rather to give up some of the rights of the Crown than to consent to the formation of a Schleswig-Holstein, by which the rights of the Danish people would be still more grievously infringed. This is a pledge to ua that the object of all future negotiations will be a free political existence independent of Germany. " With this conviction the Landesthing (Folke thing) promises your Majesty all the support in its power to give." The Ministry of War publishes the following this morning— " Reports received by the Government from the corps in Jutland announce that an attack was made upon the enemy upon the 3d inst. at Lund bye, S.W. of Aalborg. In the engagement which ensued Capt. Hammerich and Lieuts. Betzholz and Grave were wounded. Our loss in men amounted to 8 killed and 39 wounded, One Prussian foot. soldier was captured. Later reports state that after the engagement the enemy retreated by way of Lindenborg upon Hobro, taking with him a few prisoners and wounded. Nothing new is reported 1 from Fuhnen." TILE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE PALMERSTON COMPANY, LIMITED.—If it were not for the number of its shareholders, and the many classes which have contributed towards its support, the joint-stock Government that has so long lasted would, before now, have broken down. Like Burke's famous teaselated Cabinet. the present Ministry has been whimsically dovetailed together, and never could be said to represent much beyond a compromise between the Liberals and the serni-Liberals of the country. The stormy meeting at Willie's Rooms, which preceded Lord Palmerston's ad vent to power, was not unlike the agitated and tempestuous gatherings wbich frequently take place whenever railway shareholders resolve, in spite of the backsliding,s of their directors, to give the old lot one more trial. The old directors have now being tried again, and they have certainly not done much better than before ; it may even be doubted whether they have done so well. They are divided among themselves, they arc at log gerheads with the world without, and their policy seems drifting stear'ily in the direction of political bankruptcy. Mee le and muddle is n o t " wand Election Intelligence. EAST GLOUCESTERSIIIRE.—Sir Michael E. Hicks Beach, Bart., has returned from the continent, and the requisition to him to become a candidate for the Eastern Division, in the place of the late Sir W. Codrington,having been presented he has consented, and has issued a brief address. Sir Michael says he is a Conservative, yet, while he is desirous of maintaining the institutions of the country, he will give full consideration to any proposal for their improvement. With respect to continental affairs, he deeply sympathises with the Danes in their gale lant resistance to German aggression, but would not advocate, under present circumstances, armed inter vention on the part of Great Britain. The Sheriff has fixed the election to take place at the Shirehall on Tuesday morning next, at half-past ten. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat to day, and the demand being good prices must be considered at an advance of is to 2s per qr, particularly for the finest qualities. White wheat. 46s to 47 I Red wheat 42s to 44i Malting barley ...35s to 36s I Chevalier barley 33s to 340 Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s I Oats.. Flour, 28s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. YORK-SATURDAY. A small supply of wheat, which sold at prices favouring sellers, Barley very scarce, and the little offered changed hands at extreme rates. Oats also scarce, aad rather over late rates. Beans firm, at advancing prices. Wheat, red 3Bs to 42s Oats.... 2os to 24' White do .42s to 465 Beans ..35s to 384 Barley .21s to 28s Peas .•.. Sto —s Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; rye, 34s per qr ; flour, 303 to 33s per sack. GRANTHAM—SeTuRDAy. A middling show of wheat, for which an advance of 10 per qr was made. Barley scarce. Oats met with a firm sale at about late rates. Beans in request, and 6d to is up. —Old white wheat, 41s to 468; red, 37s to 42s per 36st. ; new white, 45kto 498; red, 398 to 445. Malting barley, 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, old, 24s t) 265; new, 20s to24s; beans, 37s to 40s; peas, 34s to 38s. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. A middling show of wheat, and a steady business done at is per qr advance on last week's rates. Barley came to hand sparingly, met a moderate demand, and prices 6d advance . Oats in moderate supply, with a ready sale, at prices 11l favour of the seller. Beans brought advancing prices , —New white wheat, 435,,t0 48s ; red,; 39s to 44s per 3 6 stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 32s to 34s per qr.; grinding, 26s to 28s; old oats, 27s to 295; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Boma) old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 25s to 30s per 20 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. A moderate show of wheat to-day, with a firm demand at is per qr over late prices. Barley very limited in supply' and late prices were supported. Beans were 6d higher. —White wheat, from 4.5 s to 50s ; red wheat, 39s to 422. Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 295. Oat 4 t old, at 24s to 30s Od; new, 19s to 255. Beans sold at 381 to 42s per qr. ; new, 35s to 38s. Flour, fine, 29s to 31s ; super, S3s to 38s per 20 stone. DUBLIN• A moderate supply, and i Irish and foreign grain at lal —FRIDAY. Ln imprcved demand for both quotations. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 s. d. 8. d• Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. . 0 to — 0„, Bere Rapeseed Bakers' flour 14 oto2o 0 Indian corn Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. .. July 19. via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pacaet. Aug. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. July 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. July 19. via Marseilles ...July 14. Falkland Islands _ Gibraltar, via Southampton July 12. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton July 20. via Marseilles July 14. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. July 11 . via Marseilles July IS. Portugal ... „ ...... Aug. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 11. via Marseilles July --• Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... July 14. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. July 8. AU parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, California. and British Columbia. 1 July 14. THE NARCISSUS frigate, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1i.G.1 3 .0 is now more than six weeks out from Simon's Bay, and may therefore be hourly looked for in the Channel. The Narcissus will at first call in at Spithead. She will there land the Admiral and his family, and then proceed to Devonport to be put out of commission. The Narcissus hoisted the pendant on the 20th of December, 1860, an d left England on the 2d of March, 1861.—Array and Natty Gazette. Births. JERVIS,—On the 7th inst., at Lawrie-park, Sydenham, th e wile of Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Jervis, of a daughter, BO born. LEECH.—On the Bth inst., at Bank Hall, Stockport, _Mrs. John Leech, of a son. PILKINGTON.—On the Bth inst., at Chevet-park, Lady 3 1 ' S. Pilkington, of a daughter, Marriages. GADE—DAELMAN.—On the 9th inst., at the Hotel de Ville, Ostend, and subsequently at the Roman Catholic and English Churches, William, eldest son of Frederielt Gade, Esq., of 6, Hightury-pa:K N., London, to Isabelle , second daughter of Colonel Daeltuan, Commandant lu Place d'Ostende. Moons.Bnowx.—On the 7th inst., at Preston, ' A rica' shire, Captain George Lamont Hobbs, 45th Regt., to Frances Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Robe" Brown, Esq., Winckley-square, Preston. Deaths. GOODE,—On the 6th inst., at Holloway, Thomas Goode , Esq., of 10, Upper King-street, Bloomsbury, aged 7 1 . HAnaltAvE.—On the Bth inst., at his residence, in Stok e Newington, Bickerton Hargrave, Esq., aged 31. JAY.—On the sth inst., at Bury St. Edmund's, Mrs. JtiSl aged 74. ORMSBY,—On the Gth inst., at Blackwall, Mr. Charle l , Ormsby, late Commander of th e s hip W a l mer C as tle, " h London. PAYNE,—On the Bth inst., at Brooksby's•walk, H er aert ol3 ' Frederic Payne, late of the Stock Exchange, oged 3 5 ' RUSSELL.—On the Bth inst„ at 27, Chester-terrace, 11e ' gent's-park, George Cooper Russell, Esq., aged 52. London: Printd and Prl , iished by WILLIAM ANDRB of NO. 112 , Strand, Printer, at TnE SUN Office iN tf Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, )2 the Covn4f at Aliliiiex.—Monday, July THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1864.