The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-06 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales in Sweden. (From eke limes' Special Correspondent.) STOCKHOLM, Sept. 30. By far the most enjoyable of the fetes held hitherto in honour of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden was the excursion yesterday to Gripsholm Castle, situated on the Mae lar Lake, somewhat over 40 miles from Stockholm. On their way from Copenhagen their Royal Highs neeses had enjoyed the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the beautiful natural panorama that unfolds itself all the way from the mouth of the bay to the capital, and now they were to follow the chain of water communication inland, and to pass through a succession of lake scenery, only needicg a loftier background to render .it equal to anything of a similar nature in the world. The Royal party embarked shcrtly before one o'clock at the port or quay of Ridderholm on board the steamer Arboga No. 1, a vessel employed in the or dinary passenger navigation of the Swedish lakes, though from her great speed and the freshness and elegance of her internal fittings she might have been taken for a small yacht or despatch vessel in the King's srrvice. In all these Northern steamers nothing is more remarkable than the taste with which the saloon is arranged. Even where no greater attempt at decoration is made, there is sure to be a plant of ivy or some other evergreen trained to wind its leaves round the mast, giving, with the aid of flowers freshly gathered, wonderful freshness to the apartment. On board the Arboga there was an awning over the poop-deck, arranged in such a manner that this could be completely enclosed at night or in case of bad weather, so that with the addition of chairs and couches and carpets this part of the vessel was converted into a drawing-room. To witness the ceremony of embarkation a very large crowd assembled, composed not only of the more respectable inhabitants of Stockholm, but in cluding many of the peasants in their picturesque Dalecariian costumes of sheepskin jackets and woollen petticoats, or with black silk handkerchiefs fastened over their heads, and their black dresses, edged and striped with red or green. In addition to those members of the Royal party who have been staying at the Castle of Stockholm and their suites respectively, the company on board included the whole of the Corps Diplomatique. Among these was Mr. Jerningham, the English representative, just returned from leave of absence, who was warmly greeted by his colleagues, and also the newly accre. dited representative from the empire of Mexico. As " the vessel moved off from the pier a cordial cheer was raised by the lookers-on, which the King first, and afterwards the Pi ince of Wales, acknowledged, and the waving of handkerchiefs continued as long as those upon deck could be distinguished from the shore. An admirable view was gained as the steamer sped along of the suburbs of Stockholm, and espe cially of the principal Gavernment establishments and hospitals, which are situated upon rising ground at the edge of the lake. The route, also, could be plainly distinguished which the connecting line of railway is to take, so as to interfere as little as possible with the beauty of the capital ; and, looking back upon the city, the mammoth palace, the house of the nobles, and the coronation-hall and butial-place of the Swedish kings could all be com passed in a single glance. Had the season been the earliest summer, instead of verging on the close of autumn, the weather could not have proved more favourable. It was one of those rare but lovely exceptions to-a cold season called in the Mediter ranean" St. Martin's summer." Up on this good for tune felicitations were universally exchanged, be cause from the prevalence of pine trees in the northern landscapes, the mere absence of sunlight is sufficient to throw upon them a shade of gloomi ness. As it was, the shores of the lake looked almost Swiss in their richness and verdancy. They wanted, of course, the towering Alps behind ; but the absence of hills was to some extent balanced by the banks of white clouds which rolled themselves into fantastic shapes, and formed no inapt representatives of the region of perpetual snow. Towards the mouth of the bay below Stockholm, the islands for the moat part are bare, vegetation being prevented or cut down by the sweeping blasts of winter. .In the milder cimate of Lake Maelar they are covered with trees, and as the boat advances further inland fertile val'et's are frequently encountered. On its way to Gripsholm the Arboga was obliged to make some what of a detour to call at Drottningholm for the Queen D ragger, but the prolongation of the jour ney afforded pleasure to all on board, and more over, enabled them to admire by daylight the pro portions of the palace which by torchlight the previous evening had presented such a grand ap pearance. The Qunn Draager, with one of the ladies of her Court and the marshal of her household, was upon the jetty immediately in front of the castle, waiting the arrival of the steamer ; the spec. Wars, to the number of some hundreds, standing ba :k a few paces, seeing everything that passed, but at the same time not encroaching upon her move ments. A 3 soon as the vessel had been made fast, and before the gangway was quite in its place, the King landed, and, after a short conversation, him self conducted the Queen Mother on board, where she was received and welcomed by Prince Oscar, and afterwards by all the other members of the Royal party. From Drottningholm to Gripsholm the passage was made without further incident, save that a Swedish gentleman of fortune caused a salute to be fired from pieces of ordnance in the grounds of his chateau, which lies in the vicinity of Grips• holm, but upon the opposite shore of the lake. Country seats abound in this locality, but they are only occupied for two or three months each year, during the short continuance of a northern summer, and the residents, almost without exception, have now returned to their town residences. The view of Gripsholm Castle, with its strong red towers and black-capped roofs, as seen from the lake, is very striking. It stands on a jutting piece of rock, with its base concealed from view by a fringe of birch till one is actually on the point of entering the gate way. A little way to the right lies the little town of Mariefred, bearing a strong family resemblance to most of the Swedish villages—that is to say, it con sists of red wooden houses, with windows picked out in white, surrounded and mixed up with gar dens and lime trees, while from a slight elevation the church spire towers above the colony. This Castle of Gripsholm is of wonderful antiquity, and its walls, at the present day, are not more thickly covered with p 7 ctures than they would be with his torical memories couli they but find voice to utter them. About the year 1380 the building was ori. ginally founded by a chieftain with the suggestive name of Grip, who at that time is said to have held the third part of Sweden in his clutches. In 1537 - it was restored or rebuilt by Gustavus Vasa, the towers, with the exception of the roofs, which were then somewhat different in shape, being erected as they now stand. In the eight-sided courtyard, built anyhow into the walls, may still be seen the armo rial bearings of Vasa, " Lo Jonsson Grip," and others, which the late King of Sweden ordered to be regilt at the time he was renovating the castle, and introducing by the way some square modern windows, against which the architects have ever since protested, besides painting and pointing the fine old brickwork. In the outer courtyard are two gigantic pieces of ordnance, not unlike one of those in St. James's Park, but of greater size, which an inscription in ancient Slavonic declares to have been Captured from the Rassians by La G arclie in the 16th Century. They are each 18ft long, and made appa rently of bell metal, 3ft of the end nearest to the mouth of the piece being fashioned in imitation of the head of a wolf—a name which the inscription referred to declars that they were actually known by. They are pitted with shot marks, and the pea sants, generations qz a, gave them the uncomplimen tary titles of " the Boar and the Sow." The melan choly associations connected with the Castle of Gripsholm prevent its being more than an occasional re sidence of royalty during the summer, b u t f or th e visitor every room full of interest. Tense naturally which a stranger most desires to see are the apart. meats in which the royal brothers successively k e pt each other close prisoners for long and weary terms of years. John's appears to have been as comfortable a place of captivity as the ideas of the time contem. plated. The room is circular, lighted by three win. dows, commanding a view over Lake Maelar and the I adjoining country; the walls are panelled after the fashion of the day, the ceiling is painted in fresco, and the woodwork carved wit'a buneacs of fruits and flowers. The King, for such he was, had his bed in one of the deep recesses of th « ndows, and the Queen, refusing to leave his side, tl. ough offered palaces and revenues if she would consent to do so, gave birth here to her son Sigismund—a name that figured in later years so prominently in the history of Poland. In another and smaller recess, imme diately opposite the King's bed, the cot of the child appears to have been prepared. When John obtained his liberty, and Eric was in turn incarcerated in the same building, his treatment was by no means as lenient. In a higher story of the captives' tower this unfortunate ex-King was placed in an inner chamber of circular form, with a low roof, lighted by three small apertures and secured by a double door, the outer one of iron, the inner one of wood, with a small triangular slit to pass his food. The three apertures looked out into the open air, but into an outer gallery, and round this the sentinel paced incessantly to and fro. Watching for the sig nals with which his wife came to comfort him, and waiting for the deliverance that never came, a hole was worn in the bricks at one particular wins dow by the elbows of the unhappy King, and a spot in the flooring is shown that was hollowed by his feet. This is the description, in his own words, of the condition to which he was reduced, " No day has passed without some insult or injury—suffering from cold, hunger, stench, and drunkenness—fol lowed about with drawn swords, intruded upon during the night," After a miserable imprison ment at Gripsholm and elsewhere for eight years, his life was terminated by poisoning in the year 1577. Many nations would have levelled with the ground the castle, or, at any rate, the tower con nected with which there are these deplorable asso. ciations. Sweden, however, has such a glorious past that she can afford to let the truth be known with regard to this melancholy passage of her his. tory. The pictures in this castle would require at least a week to examine them carefully. They are about 2,000 in number, the gems of the collection being the likeness of Marie Antoinette and her children, one of the only two undoubted portraits of that unhappy Queen ; the life.size painting of Gus tavus 111. and his three brothers; and the picture by Velasquez of Philip IV. on horseback, These three are works of art of such undoubted merit that t is contemplated and almost decided to remove hem to the Museum at Stockholm. Two or three of those Salles des contemporains of which the Swedish monarchs were so fond are met with at this Palace. The most interesting is the collection made in the lifetime of Gustavus 111. His contemporaries in cluded, by a curious coincidence, George 111. of England and Charles 111, of Spain, and in his time also the two female Sovereigns who have written their names so plainly on the page of history, Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine of Russia, were in the plenitude of their power. Among the pictures to which Swedish visitors attach greatest interest, are those of Linnaeus, and of an artist orator in the house of peasants, who is represented in the costume which he wore habitu ally. English eyes will be attracted by some excel lent pictures illustative of their own history ; among others, by likenesses of Cromwell and of Charles 1., in both of which there is probably greater cha racter than in any which have become established favourites at home. There is also a painting of Queen Eliz tbeth, sent by herself to the Swedish Court in one of her mo ments of tenderness, as to the authenticity of which no doabt can be entertained, for the correspon dence to which it gave rise was instrumental in discovering that the Swedish monarch had two strings to his bow. The Swedish version of Anna Boleyn's features is so opposed to all preconceived ideas that it must be received with a considerab.e amount of caution, In addition to the collection of pictures, some of which connect themselves with the very earliest times of Swedish history, the State apartments are filled with objects of traditional in terest—chests in which the dowry of Queens has found its way to Sweden, tapestries whose colours call to mind some of the tints of Rubens, The very sconces open the stairs are of repousse silver, The Royal party which reached Gripsholm at 4 o'clock, spent two hours and a half in going over the building, and shortly before 7 proceeded to the dinner-room, a floe antique apartment, with walls and ceiling of pine, without other ornaments than the pictures on the walls, and a few gilt crowns dotted in here and there to lighten what would otherwise have been the sombre off-et of the wood work. Oa the way to the dinner-room, in ac cordance with the Swedish custom, trays con taining bread, butter, caviare, and other provoca- tives to appetite ware handed round with the in dispensable accompaniment of little glasses of brandy. All Swedish dinners commence after this fashion ; at the hotels even, side tables are laid out and cartes drawn up with a view to these prelirni. caries, and it would have been an offence to the genius loci to omit such an observance at Gripsholm. After dinner the Prince and Princess of Wales pro• seeded to apartments prepared for their accommo dation, where, with the members of the Royal family whose guests they were, they held a species of friendly reception, and shortly before 9 o'clock the whole party re-embarked in the Arboga with a view of returning to Stockholm. Red lights had been fixed to the walls of the Castle, which showed the outlines of the towers wonderfully well, and, as the surrounding darkness was intensified by this illumination, blue lights were burnt to paint out the way on board the vessel. In compliment to the illustrious excursionists two or three of the largest chateaux on the edge of Lake Maelar were bril liantly lighted by their proprietors about thR time at which it was known that tho steamer would re turn. This facility in handling torches is charac. teristic of the Northern people, and appears to run through all their important proceedings. After dusk, whenever the King or Prince Oscar drives abroad, a horseman with a flaming brand rides in advance of the cortege, and it would be difficult for one who has not actually seen the effect produced by this simple arrangement to form to himself a just conception of the dignity and authority implied in the display. The Royal party reached Stockholm shortly after halt past 11 o'clock p.m., and driving straight to the Palace, the King of Sweden, Prince Oscar, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with the gen. . . tlemen of their suite, proceeded, after a delay of not more than an hour, to the railway station, where a special train was in readiness to convey them to one of the northern f ores t s , w h ere, i t i s hoped, they will succeed animals in a r e ko hunting ow o s t o o m b e e e lks gislikoef within. A m the nu limitsbe number o of 0 f theseth the s e p n e c a lo k s s ur o e f , s b o u na t et t h h i i n s a e n n o e r x m t e ° n u t s of s 1 z l. 2 ; l e a r e g p u o e r s t . About six hours will be required for the journey, and sleeping accommod a ti on was therefore provided in the carriages. After th e fatigue which ey must undergo in the forest, the R oya l party no doubt will again gladly avail themselves of these couches on their way back. They are looked for again in Stockholm on to-morrow (Saturday) morning, upon which day a review may possibly take place, to be followed by a dinner at the Chateau of Haga, the residence of the Prince Augustus and the Princess Theresa. Ia the evening there is to be a grand representation of Faust at the theatre, and after the conclusion of the opera, which their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will honour with a visit, they will be present for a short tine at a soiree given by the Count de Scheel-Plessen, Minister for Denmark, and the Countess Plessen, Sunday will be passed in the family circle, and early on Monday morning their Royal Highnesses will leave for Gottenbarg by special train and embark on board the Oeb)rne for Denmark the same evening. Prince Oscar of Sweden will accompany the Prince and Princess of Wales as far as Gottenburg, and before their final departure from Fredensborg it is expected that be will join their family circle in Denmark for a few days. members Yesterday while the Royal party and the of the diplomatic corps were enjoying themselves in one direction at Gripsholna, the heads of the Swedish Naval Department went on board the Aurora to invite the officers of the British fleet to en ex. eursion to the Djergard, or Deer-park, one of the great objects of .attraction at Stockholm, They were received with the full honours of a salu'e and yards manned, and their invitation, it is needless to add, was gratefully accepted. It is said, and no doubt with truth, that no other capital in Europe possesses a park so highly picturesque as this, and the excursion being organised with the same ad. mirable foresight that has characterised all the fetes given during the stay ef the Prince and Princess it naturally afforded the most perfect satisfaction to all those who were privileged to share in it. On the night of the ball at Drottingholm there was no time to do more than allude to the gala dinner which preceded it, given by her Majesty the Queen• Mother. The entertainment was one of great magnificence, and was given in the gallery of pictures illustrative of the battles of Charles X. Covers were laid for 60 persons. The king gave his arm to the Princess of Wales, who had on her right the Prince Oscar. The Queen-Mother was led to the dinner table by the Prince of Wales. On the right of the Qaeen Mother the Queen of Sweden was placed, who was conducted to table by the Prince Augustus. On the left of the King the Princess Theresa, wife of Prince Augustus, was placed. She was led down to dinner by the Prince John of Glucksburg. On the right of Prince Oscar Lady Spencer was placed, conducted to table by the Count Manderstrom. The Hon. Mrs. Grey sat on the left of Prince Augustus) having been brought down by Count Sparre, Grand Marshal of the Kingdom of Sweden, To the left of the Prince of Wales Countess Bonde, Grande Mai tresse of the Queen's Court, was placed, conducted by Earl Spencer. To the left of Prince John of Glucksburg Countess Skioldebrand, Grand Mai tresse of the Court of the Queen-Mother, was seated conducted to table by General Knollys. During the dinner the band of the 2d Regiment of Guards played a selection of music. The ball which took place the same evening com menced with a Polonaise. In the opening quadrille the following personages of distinction took part : The Queen with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales danced vis-a vis to Commander Suttie, R N., and the Hon. Mrs Grey. The Princess of Wales with Prince Oscar vis-a-vis to the Baron Bildt, Governor of Stockholm, and his partner; Princess Theresa and Colonel Keppel vis-a-vis to Baron Ehrensborgh, Chamberlain to the Queen-Mother, and Madame de Martino, wife of the secretary to the Italian Embassy; the King of Sweden with Lady Spencer visa-zis to M. Dutreil, secretary to the French Embassy, and Mademoiselle der Wedel Jarlsberg ; the Prince of Glucksburg and the Colin. tess Frolich vis-a-vis to M. de Shunck, officer d'Etat Major, and Mademoiselle de Fabraus. In the course of the evening the Prince of Wales also danced in quadrilles with Madame Fournier, I'Ambaseadrice de France ; and the Countess Bonde, nee Maryatt. His Royal Highness waltzed with the Princess Theresa, Countess Frolich, and Coun tess Anna Hamilton ; took part in a cotillon with the Countess of Scheel-Plessen, and in a polka with Mademoiselle Augusta Bonde, whose mother before her marriage was the Lady Augusta Fitzclarence. Besides the opening quadrille her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales danced with the Prince Augustus of Sweden and Baron Bildt ; waltzed with the King, Count Conrad de Rosen, and M. Fisherstrom, Ecuyer de Roi, and took part in a co tillon with M. Aminoff, Chamberlaine de Service to the Queen-Mr.iher. This evening (Friday) the Priucess of Wales, with her ladies in waiting, dined at the Castle of liirichsaal, with the Queen of Sweden, where the Princess Theresa likewise spent the evening. ELSINORE, Wednesday, 5 p,tn. The Royal party landed here at 4 o'clock, luav ing Princa Oscar at Heloingborg, in Sweden. The King and Crown Prince met them here. They had an excellent reception. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1864. Naval and Military Intelligence, A circular memorandum from the Horse Guards was yes terday issued at 'Woolwich, informing the brigades and divisions in garrison of the Duke of Cambridge's approval of the promptitude and energy displayed by the officers and men in assisting at the scene of the recent disaster at Belvi • dere. The Commander-in-Chief also expresses his gr atifi• cation at the successful endeavours of the troops in arrest ing the calamity of an inundation with which the country around was so imminently threatened, and which, but for their ready and untiring labours, would have undoubtedly been a prey to it. In rt fdrence to the explosion, it is sug gested that the authorities of the 'War Department should be warned of the danger to which the inhabitants of Wool wich and Plumstead, and more especially those of the Royal Arsenal, are exposed from the near proximity of the cartridge works, in which it is stated that no less than 150 or 200 barrels of powder and combustible matter are stored at times for the purpose of fillin - r and preparing the heavy cartridges now in use, Some two or three years ago, it will be remembered, a spacious magazine, intended to be bomb proof, was erected in the Woolwich-march about 1,400 or 1,500 yards below the Arsenal works, and that the arched walls intended to support the ponderous roof, being of in sufficient strength, gave way, when a large portion of the building came to the ground. Major-Gen. Burnley, Inspector-Gen. of Infantry, has just concluded his halt-yearly inspection of the depot batta lions at the camp at Colchester. Col. Percy, commandant of the camp, has arranged for a field-day of regulars and Volunteers at Colchester on Thursday, October 27. The War department steamers Lord Panmure and Bala clava have arrived at Woolwich from Portsmouth and Ply mouth, bringing a large number of Armstrong guns for repair and other stores. The sailing cutter Sebastopol, Capt. Anders, left Wool wich Arsenal yesterday for Dover. She will call at Purfleet and fill in her magazines with ammunition. By direction of the Admiralty the Chichester, 50, attached to the sailing reserve squadron at Chatham, has been fitted up as a school ship, and supplied with a competent staff of teachers for the instruction of the children of the warrant officers, petty officers, and others employed on board the numerous vessels composing the steam and sailing reserve in the Medway. The orders of the Admiralty direct one of the screw gunboats to collect and convey the scholars to and from the Chichester both morning and evening, while the arrangement for providing instruction for the children is felt to be a very great boon. With the exception of a few hands to complete a trifling amount of work still remaining to be executed on board the Achilles at Chatham, the whole of the mechanics and arti sans will leave that vessel to-day. She will then be handed over to her officers and crew in all respects fully equipped, and ready to take her departure for sea in the early portion of the ensuing week, as ;previously announced in The Sun. The officers and crew, who have been berthed on board the Gloucester, 50, in Chatham harbour, during the time the Achilles has been fitting, will join to-day, and from the amount of work to be done on board in the way of clearing up after the ten months during which the frigate has been in _ _ the dockyard mechanics' hands her crew will not join an hour too soon. With about 500 tons of coals on board the Achilles is on a nearly even keel, but if the approaching run from Chatham to Plymouth Sound is to be taken as a kind of experimental trial cruise as to what she is likely to do at sea, it will be necessary to give her a better trim and bring her two feet down by the stern. It should, however, be taken into consideration by those who are keenly watch ing the approaching performance of the Achilles that as much probably as two knots per hour must be allowed in her rate of speed in consequence of the state of her bottom. Her Majesty's sailing frigate Amethyst, 26, attached to the reserve at Chatham, which has been lent by the Ad miralty to the Atlantic Telegraph Company to receive on board the Atlantic Telegraph cable, for conveying to the Great Eastern steamship in the Medway, left Chatham harbour yesterday morning, in tow of a private steamer, and without an Admiralty pilot, for the works of the company at Greenwich. There the first portion of the cable will be shipped, and conveyed to the Groat Eastern. The consequence of allowing one of her Majesty's ships to leave Chatham without the customary Queen's pilot on board, was that soon after the vessel had got clear of the harbour those in charge of her ran her ashore on one of the numerous shoals at Gillingham Reach, at the entrance to the harbour. No one in charge seemed to be aware of the intricacies of the navigation of the river at the spot, although these aro perfectly familiar to the duly authorised Government pilots accustomed to the navigation of ships of war to and from Chatham. All attempts to tug the vessel off the bank on which she had grounded proved fruitless, and with a strong ebb tide under her bottom she soon settled down, straining herself, it is believed, very severely. At flood tide last evening she was floated off, but the extent of the injury she has sustained, which it is hoped is not serious, cannot be fully ascertained until the frigate shall have been docked. The explanation given by the dockyard officials is that the vessel, having been handed over for temporary use to the Telegraph Company, they had virtually no further control over her subsequent move ments. The following appointments and promotions have been made at the Admiralty :—Sub-Lieut. Horatio N. Hood, to the Achilles—John T. C. Webb, master to the Cumberland for the Bristol—Hugh Jameson, to be Deputy•lnspector- General of Hospitals and Fleets, on the retired list—Staff- Surg. W. W. Baynes, to be Stall-Surg., of Woolwich dock yard, vice Jameson, promoted on the retired list—Marcus M'Causland, midshipman, to the Victory—J. A. Douglas and Henry V. Frichard, master's assists,, to the Achilles-- A, M'Leod, engineer, to the Sharpshooter—H. Evans, en gineer, to the BlenheiM, fcr the Hector—J. Boswell, first class asEist.engineer, to the Sharpshooter—C. Salmon, pro. moted to be first-class assist-engineer—W. G. F. Colley, second-class assist.-engineer to the Sharpshooter—and W. Savage, second-class assist engineer to the Assurance. The Shocking Tragedy at Old Windsor. Yesterday Mr Rupert Clark, one of the coroners for Berks opened an inquiry at the board roora of the workhouse, Old Windsor, into the circumstances touching the deaths of John Richard Cook, aged about 42, Mary Ann Cook, aged 5, Eugenie Cook, aged 4, and Louisa E. Cook, aged 2. The coroner and jury assembled at Cook's cottage and viewed the bodies of the deceased, after which they ad journed to the board-room of the Windsor Union Work house, where the following evidence was taken : Joseph Brant, gardener, brother-in-law to Cook, said— Cook was a hairdresser, and lived at a cottage at Old Wind sor-green. I saw Cook and his family occasionally; some times three or four times a week. Cook was a widower, and lost his wife about three months ago. I saw him on Monday week, when I gave him something to drink at the Wheatsheaf. I saw his eldest daughter on Friday evening, but had no conversation with her. I had not had any con versation with Cook since his wife's death. He seemed to have very little to say to me. I had not noticed any altera- tion in him since the death of his wife. I never saw him intoxicated. I think he has had but little employment since his wife's death. While living at Slough Cook was bank rupt. He was supported by his wife for some time, up to the date of her death. He has lived at Old Windsor for about two years. His wife was a laundress. A juryman said he believed deceased received a small allowance from Eton College. The witness said he could give no information as to the cause of this occurrence. Cook was a high-spirited man, and reserved in his manner. Ile had not seemed a different man since the death of his wife. Caroline Amelia Brant, wife of the last witness, said— The late Mrs Ccok was my sister. I lived about a quarter of a mile from Cook's cottage. I did not see Cook's family very often. I was very seldom out, and Cook did not come to our house. I think Cook and his family were dependent a good deal since his wife's death on the kindness of the neighbouring gentry. I had not had a conversation with Cook for three weeks or a month prior to his death. I last met him at Windsor, when he told me the children were well. I saw the eldest girl more frequently than the rest. I saw her on Friday evening at about half-past 6. She said her father had sent her to borrow two candles, and I lent her one. She said her sisters were not very well. I did not notice anything particular in her manner or appearance. The next time I saw her was on Sunday afternoon about a quarter past 4. She was upstairs in a back bedroom. I had no conversation with her then. She seemed too ill to speak. I do not know any relative who could give any information about Cook's proceedings during the last week. The girl said nothing to me on Friday evening about her father being unkind to her. I have not noticed any change in his habits since his wife died. By the Vicar—The girl had not a black eye when she came to me cn Friday. A juryman said that ho recently saw the girl with a black eye. The Vicar (the Rev. J. N. John Blunt, vicar of Old Windsor), who was present, hero made a statement, from which it appeared that Cook applied to him in September to write out a petition for assistance fir him, which he de clined to do. He wrote a letter, however, which Cook took to gentlemen in the neighbourhood, and he obtained seve ral :pounds by that means—£2 5s were received by the clergy in addition to what had been given to Cook himself From that money Cook had received weekly supplies of grocery and other necessaries, and those supplies were going on up to the time of his death. Mrs Arnold, who lived close to Cook's cottage, said—l saw Cook on Saturday about 1 o'clock. I had not spoken to him for two months. We exchanged very few words. I spoke to the eldest girl, Mary Ann, about a week ago. I saw Adelaide (who is now in the infirmary) on Saturday, between 11 and 12 o'clock, and Cook was playing with her and Mary Ann in the garden. That was the last time I saw her. I last saw the others on Thursday. By the Jury—Cook was a disagreeable neighbour—he disliked people to look at the children when he was at home, He did not appear to wish any one to go into his house. Ho seemed kind to his children. I have never seen him drink. He generally went to Eton College to his work on Saturday. A few persons used to come to him to have their hair cut. He has told me ho received 8s a week from the college. Ho also had bread from Eton College every Saturday. It consisted of four 21b loaves. On Saturday, between 1 and 2 o'clock, Cook was walking up and down his garden with his arms folded, and he had a very wild look, If he had anything in his hand I should have been afraid that ho would kill me. He walked towards me as if he was going to say something to me, but I went into the house for I was frightened at him. He was paid at the col lege quarterly. The children did not complain to me of want of food. Ido not know whether there was any per son who attended to the children. I did not hear the chil dren make any noise on Friday or Saturday. I saw nothing of them or Cook after Saturday night. A juryman said that about a mon'h tigo he met Cook with a 41b loaf under his arm, and he said it was allowed him from the college. Henry Pope, gardener, living about a quarter of a mile from Cook's cottage, said—l am brother-in-law to Cook. I have seen Cook in liquor, but only occasionally. He always seemed remarkably kind to his children. Nary Ann came to me at 1 o'clock on Friday to borrow 2s, and I asked her to have a little beer, as I was at dinner. She replied "No, thank you; I had a glass of ale at home this morning and it made me quite sick." I did not notice any difference in the child's appearance. She went and played with some other children afterwards, I saw her and Adelaide playing with their father at 7 o'clock on Friday evening, and Cook wanted to borrow 6d of me. By the Jury—Cook appeared v,ry strange at the time of his wife's death, and did not appear willing to have a woman to sit up with her. Brant said Cook was a desperate kind of man, and when his wife died there were strange reports tending to the de • famation of his character; but he could not tell whether those reports were [rue. George Lovell, No. 2G, Berks Constabulary, stationed at Old Windsor, said—l knew Cook and his family by seeing them. In consequence of something that was said by a neighbour of Cook's in my presence on Saturday I looked through the parlour window at Cook's house at about a quarter past 2 o'clock. As I could not get an answer when I knocked at the back and front door, and as I thought I saw a child lying on a bed upon the floor of the parlour, I opened the back window and got in. The first thing I saw was a pail with about half a gallon of blood in it. I cast my eye round, and saw on the mantel the razor produced, with b ood and hairs upon it. The hairs were black. I then went into the front room and saw three dead bodies on a bed placed on the floor. I then called into the house a man named Temple, and we went into the back room upstairs, and saw Mary Ann, who had something black about her mouth, and in the next room we found Cook and saw he had his throat cut We also saw another girl with a bandage round her neck, and we concluded her throat was also cut. I sent for Dr. Pearl immediately. I found three bottles which I thought had contained poison. When Cook saw me he said, " For God's sake, give me some water, Lovell; I am famishing with thirst I" He appeared in great agony and pain. I sent for Inspector Reece and Dr Pearl, surgeon, and he ar • rived about the same time. Cook kept calling out for cold water before Dr Pearl arrived, but I did not know what to do until Dr Pearl came. Hs died about a quarter-past 7. Mary Ann died this morning at half-past 12. Cook was in such agony that he did not inquire for the children. Inspector Reece said—l arrived at Cook's cottage at about 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Lovell was at the house. I went upstairs into the front room, and saw Cook lying in bed. He was vomiting a black fluid. I said, " Have you been taking poison ?" and he said " Yes." Dr Pearl came into the room and inquired if ho had not been taking vitriol, and I understood him to say he had. On a chest of drawers in the room I found the pint bottle produced, about half full of vitriol, In the adjoining room I found the bottles produced, and Drs Pearl and Goosh said they thought they contained laudanum. In a basin at the foot of the bed on which the child Mary Ann was lying was a quantity of tea containing vitriol. I asked the eldest girl if that was the tea her father gave to her, and she said it was. I asked her when her father gave it to her, and she said " on Fri day." I asked her at what hour, and she said "Dinner time." She answered me in a very low voice, bat she was quite conscious. I searched a cupboard in the room where Cook was lying end found a quantity of children's clothes, saturated with blood. Downstairs in the front room I found two memorials or petitions addressed to the nobility and gentry of Old Windsor, in which Cook appealed to them for assistance. I afterwards took the girl whose throat was cut to the infirmary. I also found a letter written by the Vicar, stating he would receive subscriptions for Cook, and I also found an agreement between Mr Clarke, the lessee of Wind sor Theatre, and Cook—Cook having agreed to pay £lO for the proceeds of•'a night's performance ; a summons for £3 183 Gd, disposed of at the April court, and two bills from Mr Tussell, a tradesman at Slough, and also an order of bankruptcy made in 1862. Police-constable Halley, Berks constabulary, stationed at Clewer, said--I found some letters under Cook's pillow just after his death. One was addressed to the vicar, another to Cook's brother. There were several other papers with pencil-writing on each. The Vicar read the letter which was addressed to him. It stated that his poor wife visited him nightly. and told him to come to her and bring the children with him; and that Mr Blunt, the vicar, would allow him and his chil dren to be buried by her side. The other papers read by Inspector Reece, contained Cook's request that his brother would see to the funeral of himself and the children, and that Mr Pearl would not cut and hack their bodies about after death, as he could see the cause. In one he states that he had almost lost his senses; that this would never have happened if his wife had been alive for he loved her dearly ; that they loved the children, and that he had prayed to God to forgive him hia ;sins. The vicar identified the band writing of the letters as being that of Cook. Mr Pearl, surgeon, of Windsor, deposed,--I knew the deceased, and attended his wife about four months ago. I saw him last about 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when he was lying in bed, looking very pale, His beard was clotted with blood, and his right shoulder and arm were covered with blood, I saw his throat was cut,but the blood was con• gealed, and the beard partly covered it, so that I could not see the extent of the wound. Ho was constantly vomiting dark brown acid matter, and complaining of great pain. He said, "For God's sake give me something to drink." I asked him if he had taken vitriol, and he said, " Yes." I then administered some remedies I thought proper. I went to the infirmary with the eldest girl, and when I returned to the cottage, about half-past 5, I found him worse, and asked him when he cut his throat and the throat of his daughter Agnes. He said he did it the night before below stairs, and that they had heen bleeding and in pain all night. I then asked him when he gave the children poison ? He said " I never gave them any poison at all." He said it was the eldest child gave it to them. I said I supposed it was by his direc tion, and he made no reply. He said that when he cut the second child's throat he thought he had worked himself up to a pitch of madness. Ho gradually became worse, and died about 7 o'clock. He appeared perfectly calm, and answered every question in a rational manner. I made a post mortem examination of the body of Cook, and found he died from the effect of some corrosive poison. Vitriol would exactly produce the appearances that were found. The poison did not interfere with his intellect even at the last moments of his life. I have made a post mortem examination of the body of Agnes Josephine Cook, I examined the body ex ternally first, and found no stains on the skin or marks of violence. The front of the body was quite green and be ginning to decompose rapidly. There were livid marks over the rest of the body, which were post mortem changes. I examined all the organs of both cavities separately, and found no morbid appearance in any one of them. I after wards opened the head ; the vessels of the membranes of the brain were very full of dark fluid blood. The brain itself was in a healthy state, not congested, and there was no effusion in any of the cavities. The stomach contained some undigested food. There was no odour of poison of any kind in the stomach, and therefore the poison which the father took was not administered to the child. There was no odour of opium; the opium might have evaporated. There was no natural cause to account for death, and from all the attendant circumstances I am of opinion the child died from the effects of poison. The bottles produced by Inspector Reece smelt of opium. I should think the youngest children were dead previous to Friday. The bodies were well nourished. There was an abundance of fat in each body. I have no doubt as to the cause of death of the eldest girl, Mary Ann, from the external appearance of her body. Lovell was recalled, and said ho found two loaves and other provisions in Cook's house. The Coroner briefly addrdssed the jury, who deliberated for about a quarter of an hour, and hen returned a verdict, " That the deceased John Richard Cook destroyed himself and his children by poison, but that there was no satisfac tory evidence to show the state of his mind at the time," The inquiry then terminated, STATE OF TRADE. DUNDEE, Oct. 4.—The market continues quiet in all de partments, but in consequence of the reported better feeling in England a healthier tone is visible here to-day, and more confidence exists among those engaged in the trade. Flax, tow, and jute all remain dull and difficult to sell, excepting at reduced prices. Yarns are in moderate request, but the demand is still consumptive, and confined to the supply of present wants. Prices are now more steady than last week for all qualities. Orders are still given out to a fair extent for some descriptions of linens, but the inquiry is not active on the whole, although it is enough, with previous sales, to keep the manufacturers fully employed. In prices there is little change to note either in town or district made fabrics. LEICESTER, sth.—The hosiery trade remains in a healthy state, and during the past few days manufacturers have been well employed. In the country districts business con tinues in a tolerably active condition. Yarns are without material change in prices, and spinners are on the whole pretty well employed. Wools are realising high rates,with a quiet market. Stocks of hosiery and yarns are light. NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE). 4th.—As was generally expected m this district, the Staffordshire makers decided at their meeting to retain the old scale of prices, and the demand fully justified that course. The Monmouth • shire makers continue to have their books full of orders,and quotations are decidedly firm. The blowing out of furnaces in Staffordshire, and the turn-out there have no doubt caused some improvement in the Welsh iron trade, but, indepen dent of this, the inquiry from the usual markets is upon the whole good. The exports last week were a little over 3,000 tons. A brisk business is doing in steam coal, and the col liers are, as a rule, on full time. Nearly 9,000 tons were cleared for foreign ports for the week ending Ist inst. Red Ash and other house qualities are in active demand, but the scarcity of coasting vessels causes a large decr.,ase in ship ments. Tin plates remain without any alteration to record. NOTTINGHAM, sth.—Thore has been very little doing in lace goods during the last few days. The holding of the an• nual October fair interferes with business at the lace ware houses, but irrespective of this trade is exceedingly dull. A few small mechlin quilling orders are in the market, but the plain trade generally remains flat. Black silk laces and narrow edgings are iu less request. The hosiery trade con tinues depressed, with no immediate signs of improvement, either as respects the home or shipping demand. Yarns are unaltered in value. A Sketch of the Fernandian. Corning down from the things of heaven to those of earth, the Fereandian is aristocratic, an out and out conservative; no oldest Tory of the old school can pretend to rival him. But in many points his attachment to ancient ways results not from prejudice, but from a traditien founded upon sound instinct. He will not live near the sea for fear of being kidnapped, also because an oversoft air effetninates his frame, He refuses to build higher up the mountains than 2,000 or 3,000 feet, as his staff of life, the palm and the plantain, will not flourish in the raw air and rugged ground. He confines himself therefore to the exact zone in which the medical geographer of the present age would place him— above the fatal fever level, and below the line of dysentery and pneumonia. His farm is at a distance from his cottage, to prevent domestic animals finding their way into it ; his yam fields, which supply the finest crops, are as pretty and as neatly kept as vineyards in Burgundy, and he makes the best topi, or palm toddy, in Western Africa. His habita tion is a mere shed without walls ; he is a Spartan in these matters. Nothing will persuade hire to wear, beyond tho absolu'e requirements of decency, anything warmer than a thin coat of palm oii. Near the summit of the moun tain, 10,000 feet above sea level, I have offered him a blanket, and ho has preferred the fire, His only re markable, somewhat fashionable looking article of dress, is an extensive wicker hat covered with a monkey skin, but this is useful to prevent tree snakes falling upon his head. He insists upon his wif3 preserving the same toilet, minus the hat—oh, how wise I if she does not come up to his beau ideal of fidelity, he cuts off, first her left hand, then her right, lastly her throat—a very just sequence, He is not a slave, nor will he keep slaves. Ho holds them to be a vanity sud justly, because he can work for himself. Ho is no idler; after labouring at his farm, ho will toil for days to shoot a monkey, a " philantomba" (alias " fritaraba") or a flying squirrel. Besides being a sportsman, he has his manly games, and I should not advise everyone to tackle him with quarterstaff, his alpenstock is a powerful and well-wielded weapon. Though so highly conservative, he is not as some men might imagine, greatly destitute of intelligence, he pronounced our harsh and difficult English less incorrectly than any West African tribe, including the Sierra Leonie. Brightest of all is his moral character. You may safely deposit rum and tobacco—that is to say, gold and silver—in his street, and ho will pay his debt as surely as the Bank of England, And what caps his worldly wisdom is his perfect and perpetual suspiciousness. He never will tell you his name, he never receives you as a friend, he never trusts you, even when you bring gifts he will turn out armed if you enter his village at an unseason able hour, and if you are fond of collecting Nocabularies. may the god of speech direct you I The fact is, that the plunderings and the kidnappings of bygone days are burned into his memory ; he knows that such things have been, and ho knows not when they may again be. So ho confines himself to the society of his native hamlet, and he makes no other intimacies, even with the fellowmen whose village smoke he sees curling up from the neighbouring dell.—Burteie s Mission to the _King of Dahomey. The Minister of Public Instruction has add / -----7 077 d a circular to the rectors of provincial academies of the French University, suggesting the propriety of establish ing in the large towns of their respective circumscriptions, popular lectures, like those given last winter with so much success at the Sorbonne in Paris. The Minister wishes the rectors to submit the matter for the consideration of the professors of faculties, and expresses his conviction that the latter will be ready to lend their aid to realise a measure which cannot fail to produce great good by diffusing scien tific knowledge among the working classes, who every where show great eagerness to benefit by every means of self-improvement placed within their reach. U. Dimly expresses his opinion that funds for remunerating the pro fessors may easily be obtained by votes from the municipa. Mies, by subscriptions from the wealthier classes, and even by contributions from the persons benefited. The circular concludes with urging the directors to make the necessary inquiries without delay, and to communicate the result to him, the Minister. An interesting full length lithographic portrait of the Emperor, size of life, is now to be seen in Paris. The colossal stone on which the drawing is mado was extracted expressly from the quarries of Vigan, in the Gard, while the press used in taking the impressions is more than 18 feet in length. The sheets of paper employed are 81 feet long, and so much time and care are required in striking off each im prealon, that nct more than one in 20 of the proofs are good. Those which happen to be successful aro, however, remarkable for their vigour and clearness of outline. A copy is exhibited at a printseller's in Rue Richelieu. HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Counsel and Comfort.—A dis ordered stomach throws the whale system out of gear, and renders us unfitted both for work or amusement. A few doses of these strengthening and purifying pills, taken according to their accompanying directions, will, however, speedily restore order and re-enable the stomach to digest its food without difficulty. These excellent pills are suit able alike for the peer and the peasant, the soldier and sailor, and particularly for home and foreign colonists. Holloway's pills are very useful in checking feverish at tacks, bilious complaints, and inflammations. They have also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy, and diseases of the kidneys, heart, and lungs, when the sufferers seemed past the reach of medicine. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TemEs.—Mr. Doulton, the member for Lambeth, has contrived to make a speech to his constituents, ' otherwise commonplace, memorable for its sublime affectation of cynicism about political morality. • Where he awards praise, it is with a Rhadaman■ thine air of authority, and in a tone which implies the superiority of Lambeth statesmanship to that of Her Majesty's Government. Lord Palmerston is given to understand that the oracle of the Horns Tavern, having threatened him with expulsion from office, now grants him a new lease thereof; Mr. Gladstone is informed that his Budget, Insurance scheme, and speech on Reform—we suppose with out the preface—have Mr, Doulton's sanction ; and Mr. Cardwell, though on his good behaviour, is kindly patted on the back for his colonial policy. This great censor, however, is evidently more at home in awarding blame, and exposes the perfidy of the Emperor Napoleon and the sordid motives of our own Opposition with equally merciless severity. It was not the virtues of the Ministry, but " the incapacity and blundering of their opponents" that saved them from defeat, and this bungling strategy of the Opposition was due to their uncontrollable craving for place and power. They "were hungry for place ; they had carried it in their faces all the Session." They pretended that they did not in• tend to make a party fight about the Ashantee War, or Mr. Stansfeld's affair, or the Danish Question ; but Mr. Doulton knows better, and did not fail to observe that " all the dirty machinery of party" was set in motion on each of these occasions. Their watchword practically was "Places first end policy " afterwards,'' and this leads Mr. Doulton to reflect on one great evil incident to changes of Government; —" It must be remembered, too, that these changes of Government were expensive luxuries, In pri vate life when a man wanted to get rid of a ser vant he paid him his wages, and there was an end of the matter, but some of these great public sere vents when they were discharged continued to receive their salaries. We were paying now somewhere about £50,000 a year for these discharged servants. Lord Chelmsford was Lord Chancellor for a year or so, and got £lO,OOO a year, and ever since then he had received, and would re. ceive to the end of his days, £5,000 a year. Mr. Disraeli's name, too, was on this list, though he was quite ready to admit that Mr. Disraeli was better worth his £2,000 a year than Lord Chelmsford his £5,000." Now, this is a good specimen of the un worthy advantage which orators of a certain class take of vulgar prejudices which they would them selves be eager to disavow. If Mr, Doulton were asked whether he considers £lO,OOO a year too large a salary for the highest officer of the Crown, he would probably have the sense to reply in the ne gative; and if he were further asked whether he would propose to give any, and if any, what pension to a retiring Chancellor, his views of economical reform might be fairly tested. A wealthy menu facturer would be in no danger of exaggerating the value of £lO,OOO a year, though an operative might, and an educated man would freely admit that official salaries must bear a just proportion to professional and mercantile incomes. Tnen what is meant by all this outcry about the emoluments of a single ex-Chancellor ? Nothing whatever that we can imagine, unless it be that the topic, though hack neyed, seldom fails to excite ignorant clamour, There was a time, as we all know, when aristocratic corruption was the scandal of the day, when per quisites and sinecure offices absorbed large sums out of the Exchequer, and " pensions" were distri buted by favour and without the slightest regard to merit. The present time, as most of us know, ' is singularly free from such abuses ; place after place has been suppiessed, salary after salary re. trenched, and the power of the Crown to grant pensions out of the Civil List limited to the modest maximum of £1,200 per annum. Other pensions to retiring public servants are fixed by Act of Par liament, and may be cut down, with due regard to vested interests, by any one who thinks it worth while to raise the question and can procure a majority. The reason why this is not done is sim ple enough. Every one who gives the matter a moment's thought perceives that these allowances stand on r, wholly different footing from the fine old "pensions" of bygone days. They are partly , in the nature of rewards for services actually ren dered to the public, and so far may be regarded as a substitute for an increase of salary ; but they also represent compensation for the enforced withdrawal from a lucrative profession. Take, for instance, the retiring pension of a Judge. There are probably no public functionaries who earn their £5,000 a year by harder and more incessant work than the Judges, and it is a common remark that none but strong constitutions could stand it. The necessary duties of a Bishop will bear no comparison with it, and a Bishop, enjoying £5,000 a year, besides a palace, a peerage, and a greater social position, may retain his see long after he has become in capacitated for the active supervision of a diocess. It is surely not unreasonable or impolitic to grant Judges a moderate pension on retirement, which, as the example of such men as Sir John Coleridge may show, is not always spent in selfish ease. The chief difference between this case and that of the Lord Chancellor is that he is liable to be ousted, and generally is ousted, by other causes than age or infirmity. No doubt it may well be contended that such an appointment should be tenable for life, and not dependent on the changes of party. If this is what Mr Doulton intends, he should say so. In the meantime we mist interpret his words in the sense which they would assuredly convey to his audience. This 18 not the first time that poli ticai capital has been made out of the Lord Chan cellor's salary; and we have seen in a manual pro fessing to instruct the people about the vices of their rulers a statement the direct reverse of the fact, that the £lO,OOO salary is exclusive of £4,000 attached to the Speakership of the House of Lords. Mr Doulton does not commit himself to this false assertion, but he leaves it to be supposed that an ex-Chancellor, like a discharged servant, never does another stroke of work for his former master, as though a Law Lord arrd member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were a mere pen.. sioned incumbrance. And this, although in the very same speech he had dwelt pathetically on his own gratuitous labours i❑ committees of the House of eilommons, and protested against the popular de lusion that members were paid for attending them. There is a terse saying in one of South's sermons— " These very men, who raise and spread these in vectives, do not (as they pretend) hate pensioners so much, but that they love pensions more." It is true that it refers to a past age, but then it is the mora lity of a past age which can alone give any colour to Mr Doulton's ill natured comments. It was no unmeaning taunt that roused Burke into writing his famous letter to a noble Lord, and drew from Demosthenes that oration which still ranks as the masterpiece of recorded eloquence. • Their hands were pure, but those of their con temporaries were not, and they writhed under attacks which they could not refute without claim. ing a virtue above that of other public men. Hap. pily this can no longer be said, and though political conduct will always be governed by mixed motives so long as human nature remains the same, wo are disposed to believe that conscious jobbery and party votes in the worst sense are already very rare. Cer tainly the instance of the latter selected by Mr. Doulton is very unfortunate. After stating that " the fight over Mr. Stansfeld" made him feel ashamed of the company he was in," he adds that "there was not twenty members in the House who believed that Mazzini had favoured assassination, and not two who believed that Mr. Stansfeld had done anything to forward such a desire." A more reckless assertion has seldom been made before a metropolitan constituency. We recommend Mr. Doulton to read Mazzini's account of the incident, so often related in connection with his views on tyrannicide, in the biographical memoir just pub lished by his own authority, before venturing to repeat the former statement. As to the latter, we have only to say that if Mr: Stansfeld had been as ' frank in his explanation of the facts as he was ' sensitive about his personal honour he would have ' found it much easier to disarm suspicion. The ' penetrating mind of Mr. Doulton may have read ' the mystery, as it appears to read the hearts of his fellow-men, but others could not, and acted as honestly in condemning Mr. Stanfeld as Lord Palmerston in defending him. POST.-11Ir Ralph Dutton has made a very frank statement at Portsmouth of his differences with the political party to which he belongs. It is ono that does equal credit to his principles as a patriot and to his feelings as a gentleman. We incline to think that he has been, rattier hardly dealt with, both by his Conservative constituents and by the Conserva tive leaders in the House of Commons. His case has not been an uncommon one, at any rate upon the Liberal side. Mr Dutton felt that he could not con scientiously support the party motion which had for its object to remove the present Government on the question of their policy in regard to Denmark. The Conservative electors for South Hampshire appear to have gone hand in hand with the leaders of the Opposition in enforcing a doctrine of absolute obedience to party moves; and the result is that Mr Dutton has been requested to retire from the repre sentation of South Hants on the next general elec- tion. With this application he has very honourably complied. We confess that we regret his resolution, however much we may appreciate and admire his motives. A general election affords the best oppor tunity for putting to issue differences between repre sentatives and a section of their constituents; and we see no reason to doubt that, when the judgment of the electors of South Hants shall have cooled d own , they will think that Mr Patton judged rightly. If the days had not passed away when rigid demarca tions between political parties were insisted upon, the Conservatives would never have arrayed the powerful opposition that they brought together on the occasio❑ of that momentous division. They sue. ceeded in running within eighteen of the numbers of the Government because they were strengthened by so many seceders from the Liberal ranks. These apostate votes, however, were given upon a ground wholly irrespective of the question really at issue. The seceding Liberals joined the Conservatives in ostensibly condemning the Danish policy of the Government just because they really wished to con demn it for its Italian policy, on which 'the bulk of the Conservative party would never have been found to unite with them. In a word, the R.anan Catho lic Liberals owed the Government a grudge for what had before been done in Italy, and they there fore took occssion to support a vote of censure on account of what had been done in Denmark. But the Liberal party do not appear in any single in' stance to have resented the course which the Cathog lies among them for the most part took. They gave them credit for acting upon conscientious convica tions. There has been no sort of persecution com menced by the Liberal party against these Liberal recusants. No one has been unsee.ted on account of his vote; nor hes a single membi:r been dealt with in the harsh manner in which the Conservatives are, we venture to teink, trea.tin g Mr. Dutton., The Conservative Whigs can ha rd ty expect to poach upon other preserves, and still. to keep every head of their own game to themselv:ss. Assume that on great questions of confidence c very man is to vote with the party to which he nominally belongs, and what would have been the result on the occasion of the Danish division ? Why, the Clovernment would have had a majority of 30 or 40, in stead of majority of only 18. We think the conduct, which Mr. Dut' ton has experienced from his own. party, the more unfriendly that the question raised in the division did not involve any recognised pa rty question. It was not a question between protection and free trade, between a six pound and a ten pound clause, or between any two principles of i action on which Liberals and Conservatives have avowed them selves to be divided. Had it been so, we could have fully understood the resolution u t' ie Conservative party to throw over a represen' :ative who had deserted them on a great principle. Mr. Dutton may fairly be alleged to have under taken to oppose a Reform Bill containing a six-pound clause when he presented himsalf on the hustings, at the last elec tion. But he cannot be alleged to ha ye pledged hie vote on a question that had not th en arisen, and which, when it did arise, was not t o be included within the limits of any recognised party distincs tions. To turn out Mr. Dutton for saying that Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell had maintained the honour of England, as an act i nconsistent with his own pledges, is simply tantamount to declaring that the Opposition of the day hol.d it as a matter of course that the Ministry of the day always do compromise the national honour. To do this is in reality to reduce party to faction. If such a prin ciple were to be carried out it wcitild render the settlement of questions on their own merits impos sible, and would greatly aggravate the existing difficulties of parliamentary gov,2rnment. Mr. Dutton denies that this was really a question be tween Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby. He says that the issue was a much wider one, and that it was a question between peace and war. This may, to a certain extent, be a strained construction ; but una doubtedly, unless the nation desired to go to war, there was no reason to upset the existing Ministry. The terms of the motion were not prospective, but simply retrospective; yet, nevertheless, if it had been carried, and the country had confirmed the vote of the House, it would generally have been felt that the national voice had in reality pronounced in favour of war. We think, therefore, that Mr. Dutton is justified i❑ saying that the question, in its widest comprehension, embraced the alternative of peace or war ; and that it was not merely an issue raised as to whether Lord Palmerston or Lord Derby should govern the country. Taking this view of the case, he declares that he thought it h'is duty to vote for an Administration which alone was likely to maintain the peace of Europe. He quitted party grounds for patriotic grounds, and he has his re' ward. We hope Mr. Dutton will find some other constituency at the next election that will afford him a fairer latitude of action. The Conservatives are apparently determined to reimpose those obsoa lets notions of party discipline which have at any rate been found unworkable on the Liberal side, and which we thought that the Derbyites had them selves abandoned also. Less exacting constiturn encies than those of South Hants will cheerfully accept the services of so able and conscientious a public servant as Mr. Dutton. • COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE-TUESDAY. At our corn market to•lay the supply of wheat was moderate, and sold at about former rates ; but we may ex pect the farmers to bring in new wheat rapidly, as they have almost got the fields clear of grain, even in the most backward districts. MONMOUTH-TUESDAY. The local markets have been moderately attended by both buyers and sellers during the last six or seven days, although not much business doing, at former quotations. The average quotations are as follows : Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 9d Barley. 3s 4d to 3 s 10d I Ditto red.....0s Od to Os Od Oats . 2s 3d to 3s Od MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY. Only a moderate quantity of wheat, which met with a slow inquiry at prices similar to last week. Barley came freely to hand, but not much in request. Oats as of late. —White wheat, 44s to 48s ; red, 39s to 43s per 36 stone. Malting barley at 31s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 30s per 30 at, Oats, old, 25s to 275; new, 20s to 25s per 30 at. ; beans, 36s to 42s per qr. LYNN—TuEsDAY. At to•day's market the supply of wheat was middling, with a good attendance of growers. The trade was fair, at late rates. Barley met a steady sale, but not cheaper. Beans and oats slow of sale, late prices being barely sup ported. White wheat 44s to 468 f Barley . 36s to 37 8 Red.. Beans Old ... 368 to 37s I Peas —s to --- 3 Averages Wheats, 40s 7d—barley, 31s ld—beaus, 40s Od, HULL--TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a moderate supply of English wheat, and a fair business was done, at the quo tations of last week. Beans and peas sold slowly at barely previous rates. COAL AlAlt ET. Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. s. d.,1 Walls End. Hastings Hartley ....19 3 Byron's Hartley ..17 0 Wylam 19 0 Holywell l9 0 Lambert's West Hart- Hartlepool .„ 20 9 East Hartlepool 20 9 Russel's Hetton 19 6 South Hetton ...... 2O 6 Harlon 1 9 0 Bell Wharncliffe l3 9 Heugh Hall 21 0 Belmont .. 19 Cy It, 29 ; sold, 27. ley 19 0 rar-field Moor l4 0 Walls End. Hetton Ships at mark( Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 19. yia Marseilles Oct. 13. brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Nov. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 29. China; Penang, and Singapore, via Southainpton Oct. 19 via Marseilles Oct. 13- Falkland Islands •• GI ibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 11 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct, 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. via Marseilles Oct. 6. Portugal.... Nov. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct, 6. Newfoundland .. Oct. 12. Oporto and Vigo:: U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 12, by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Oct. 7. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Oct. 14. California. and Britksh Columbia.. Births. DISRAELL—On the 4th inst., at 89, Onslow-square, tho wife of Ralph Disraeli, Esq., of a driughter. - HERBERT.—On the 4th inst., at Orleton, Salop, the Hon. Mrs. R. Herbert, of a dauhter. OKEOVEIL—On, the sth inst., at 9, Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, the Hon. Mrs. Okeover, of a daughter. YOUNOMAN.—On the 4th inst., at Holloway, Mrs. C. T• Youngman, of a daughter. Marriages. ATKINSON-.-HUTTON —On the 4th inst., at Leckforcl, Hants, Major Guam° Hastings Atkinson, of the Madras Army, to Helena, youngest daughter of the late Rev. 1, H. Hutton, vicar of Lecklord. PEEL—LEE.—On the 4th inst„ at Bebington, Cheshire, Edmund Richard, eldest son of Captain Edmund Peel, R.N., to Frances Emma, younger daughter of John YI Lee, Esq., of Rocklands, Bebingtou. Deaths. BAIRD.—On the 30th ult., Mrs. Douglas Baird, of Close burn, Dumfries, N.B. BRODRIBB.—On the 3d inst., at ll,„:uway, Henry Brod ribb, Esq., late of Liverpool, aged 55. BRYSON.—On the 3d inst., at Roupell•street, Lambeth, Mr. John Miller Bryson, architect, aged 42 LOVELL.—On the sth inst., at The Green, Tottenham, C. ' H. Lovell, M,D., aged 75. WINSTON.—On the 3d inst., suddenly, Charles Winston, Esq., of the Inner Temple, aged 50. London: Pritaed and Prnished by WILLIAM ANDREI'S. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Surf Office No. 112. Strand, In the Precinct of the S ivoy, in, the county og igiddloex.—Thuretlay, October 6,1864.