The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

Prospects of Peace in America. (Front the Times' Correspondent.) CLIFTON HOUSE, NIAGARA FALLS, Ang. 8. T he long and fiercely-contested battles of North and South have decided nothing but the courage of the !ombatants and the hopelessness of Southern subj ugation. The North has boasted of its wealth, of its inexhaustible resources, of its teeming mil lion a, and of its determination to restore by force of isms the perished and vanished Union, which it insane.ly believed to be better than peace, law, liberty, and prosperity ; while the South has replied to the, bravado by the calm assertion, which it has made good by valiant deeds—that though its re• sonrc es both in men and money, are inferior to those of its adversary,thedifference was more than compen sated. by the indomitable spirit of its people, who will under no circumstances renew the partnership w'.aic'n the sword has cut asunder, and who will cai-ri on the war for 30 years, rather then make or lis':( .n to any terms that shall not rest upon Southern in lependence as their basis. Fighting has but in. creased the obstinacy of the Southern people ; bat it has had no such effect upon the Northern. Defeat is no disgrace to men who are stru gg ling for th e i r liberty and their firesides. On the other hand, the it wader feels defeat to be a humiliation. His con s( ;knee tells him that he is foiled in a bad cause, and t hat were the conditions of the struggle reversed, he, i.OO, would shed the last drop of his blood for home ind independence. Such is to-day the feeling of the 1 i'orth. The failure of Grant's campaign, and the a wful losses by w hich the fact h as b een esta b lished, h ave not encouraged the people to incur new uteri & :es. They have not inspired them with hope that which today the cause w looks so black will look brighter to-morrow. On the contrary, they ha, ye inclined them to compromise and peace. T he , people have palpably lost heart. They do not 2118 pond to the President's call for another half a xni Llion of men, although they know that unless new ar lies be immediately raised they will not only be unable to continue the offensive war which they he,ve now waged with varyirg fortune for nearly fc ter years, but to guard their own fields from the enemy's cavalry and their cities from his torch. They never had much faith in the administration of Mr. Lincoln and the impracticable, jealous, and self. seeking functionaries whom he called into office, but whom he can scarcely be said to have admitted into his councils, and that little they have lost. Neither have they any faith in their militery leaders. General Grant, from whom so much was expected, has proved no better than his predecessors, and will ,speedily be thrust aside to make room for some other hero of the same calibre rash enough to try the impossible, and to be as ignominiously dismissed in his turn as all who came before him. The de. preciation of the currency fills the commercial and professional classes with alarm ; the rapid rise in the , price of all the necessaries of life goads the working men and their families into perilous discon tent, which, were it winter instead of summer, might burst forth at any moment into formidable riats, if not into organised insurrection. It is at this crisis that the present hostelry on the Canadian side of the Falls of Niagara has be. come the centre of negotiations which promise the withdrawal of the differences between North and South from the arbitrament of the sword. As the I tepublican party, under the leadership of Mr. Lin■ coin, either cannot or will not make peace, and will tie t listen to any proposal of compromise that does not involve two conditions which the South will not accept—restoration of the Union and abolition of ela - very—the Northern friends of peace, who hope to elect a peace President in November next, have taken counsel with such Southern exiles and friends of peace as have congregated on the Canadian fron tier to ascertain whether there is no common ground upon which the whole weight of the Demo cratic party might be brought to bear against the war faction, and on which a peace candidate might be nominated at Chicago on the 29th inst. The South, through Messrs. Clay and Holcombe, the fully-authorised agents of President Davis, demands an armistice and the calling together of a National Convention, as prescribed by the Constitution, for the consideration of all matters in dispute. The Democratic party of the North, no longer hopelessly split into two sections, the one advocating war, and the other peace, has made np its differences on al minor and major issues, and resolved to support al Chicago a candidate for the Presidency who will pledge himself to these terms. As it is feared, it not known, that Mr. Lincoln, in his insane de sire of reelection will, under the plan of re co astruction, which gives the right to a tenth part of the population of any State in the military occu pation of the Federal armies to perform all functions of election that belong to a clear majority of the whole people, endeavour to elect himself by the aid of the soldiery, and by the exclusion from the polls of all persons who will not take a test-oath of un conditional loyalty to the Union, it has been resolved by the leading Conservatives and Democrats who are now and have been recently assembled at the Clifton-house that measures shall immediately be taken to defeat this purpose. At the Chicago Con ventien it will be emphatically and distinctly de , Glared that any State carried on behalf of Mr. Lin coin and Mr, Johnson by bayonets or by test-oaths, or by the rotten votes of a tenth of the population, shall be counted as having voted for the Chicago nominees; and that if such nominees shall receive a clear majority of the electoral vote, inclusive of that of the Border States of Kentucky, Maryland, Dela ware, and Missouri, they shall be considered duly elected as President and Vice-President of the United States, and shall be inaugurated accordingly. The nominees, whoever they may be, will be re- _ . qnired to pledge themselves to take possession of the Government should they be elected in the manner specified, and to maintain their po s iti on a t a ll hazards. It is understood that the Convention will organise committees of vigilance in every town, village, city, and district of the North to support the constitu tion, and to resist by force of arms, if necessary, every usurpation or encroachment on the part of Mr Lincoln and the Federal Administration or authorities, civil or military. Thousands of lead ing Conservatives and Democrats, comprising men of the greatest wealth, position, and talent in the country, are already pledged to serve upon such committees, and are ready to stake their lives, fortunes, and honour in defence of the platform on which they have resolved to stand, and of the purity and freedom of election. If Mr Lincoln is to be President for another term he must be elected fairly, or a new civil war will break out in the North, in the interest of the wrongly-defeated, but legitimately -chosen candidate. Such is the present condition of the Presidential question as far as the Democratic party is concerned. Within the nest ton days or a fortnight it will assume a still clearer _ . shape. Possibly by that time, if not earlier, the candidates whom the party will support will have made up their minds to assume all the risk and all the honour of the position. Gen. 111‘Clellan might have been the man, had ho chosen, but he has let slip the opportunity. His civic courage was not equal to the occasion, or •he has allowed himself to be overpersuaded by timid advisers. per, haps, too, he has preferred the chance of being Commander-in-Chief under a civilian Presi- dent, elected ol this basis, as more congenial to his . tastes and habits than the office of Civil Governor. At all events, whatever chances he may have had of the Presidency have disappeared for ever; and Alr Dean Richmond, chairman or president of the Ne wyork Central Railway, rules in his stead as the favourite of the United Democracy. That gentle man has taken time to consider, and will probably make known his decision within the present week. Should he accept, he will be the nominee of the Chicago Convention on the platform of an amis. tiee and a convention of the States. If the Demo crats be really united, it they have truly made up their minds to hold t ogether in support of their can did a t e , their candidate is cer t a i n to o b ta i n a majority of the electoral vote, and t o b e t h e l ega l Prenidcnt of the United ,tates. It Mr Lincoln, however, be determined to win, per fns aut nefas, there will be a conflict of powers that w il l convulse the country and carry the tire and bloodshed of war into regions that have not yet felt the miseries of civil conflict, or know of them but by the depre ciation of the currency, the derangement of trade, and the augmented cost of subsistence. A Short titne b L ow whether the governing party will be rash enough to incur so awful a risk in favour of Mr. Lincoln or any other person, or whether Mr. Lincoln himself will not have the good sense and the patriotism either to retire from the contest or allow it to be peaceably decided by the votes of the citizens. If Mr. Richmond, or some other candidate as yet unnamed, be elected upon this platform and duly installed in his office without any resistance on the part of the present incumbent, the war will immediately stop. The armies of North and South will return to their homes on furlough, and preparations will commence for the election of delegates to the great National Convention, which will have to decide whether reunion be possible or advisable. The preliminaries, it is sup posed, will Occupy at least six months, an d th e C on . vention will not conclude its business until the autumn of the year 1865, That, under such cir cumstances the war which has desolated the country so long should be allowed to recommence it is scarcely possible to believe. Under every aspect of the case it is clear that the election of Mr. Richmond will end the Civil War. Of that fact there can he no reasonable doubt. But will it re. store the Union ? The Southern leaders are content to leave that question to the National Convention, though certain, without the certainty of a foregone conclusion, that the Union is at an end, never to be restored in name or in fact, in show or in sub stance. The Northern Democratic leaders are also content to leave the question to the Convention, not without a faint hope that somehow or other, by time and good management, or by chance and happy fortune, the North may be reunited to the South, if the South refuses to be reunited to the North, and that the constitution of the Confederacy may be adopted by the North-west and by the Central States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, and of all the States except the six little States of New England, who are " to be left out in the cold," to be independent if they please, or to annex themselves to Canada if this solution of their difficulty shall please them better. At all events, the Northern Democracy have resolved that Americans shall not continue to cut each other's throats in support of a political partnership which has ceased to be agreeable to one of the high cun. tracting parties ; and that, if Union be utterly im practicable, an alliance and an entente cordiale may take its place. THE CONFEDERATE STATES, (From the Special Correspondent of the limes,) RICHMOND, July 14. Encouraged as the inhabitants of Richmond are at this moment by the consciousness that grant with the shattered residuum of his once mighty host is impotently held in check at Petersburg by an army which is more than a match for his own, and by a general who is markedly his superior, it must be admitted that great and increasing anxiety is here felt as telegram follows telegram announcing that General Johnston has again and again fallen back until the Chattahoochie River has been passed, and his bold antagonist, General Sherman, is seen to be within three leagues of Atlanta. The mingled accents of defiance and dismay which ascend from New York and Philadelphia and herald the:ad. vance of General Early and his Confederates into Maryland and Pennsylvania are counterpoised by the gloom which is here inspired at the mere men tion of General Sherman and Atlanta. We need a Ssipio Africanus to remind us, as in the famous speech which Livy puts into his mouth, that if Sherman has seemingly had the best hitherto of the 1 Western campaign, Lee has foiled greater numbers and (as the world thinks, though I cannot agree with it) a more formidable chieftain than Sheridan in the Eastern, and hce secundw res illas adversas sustinuerunt. In order to explain the position of affairs in the West it is desirable that I should say something as to what is, in my belief, the character of General Johnston. It is impossible to converse with General Johnston without perceiving that he is a more deeply read and scientific theorist on the art of war than General Lee. He is a grave, dignified, and self-contained man—one who has meditated much upon manoeuvres, and would probably study with delight those adroit moves and countermoves which have made Turenne and Montecuculi famous as chessplayers of war, Ind which were so highly commended by Na poleon. But this scientific study of the military art, and a consciousness of the reputation which he has thus gained as a strategist, supervening upon a cautious and sensitive temperament, seem to disquas lify Gen. Johnston, fearless though he be personally, for the command of a Confederate army in such a war as this. Ths most successful generals of this war, Lee and Stonewall Jackson, have certainly been the rashest. If any one doubts this statement in re gard to Lee, my assertion might be supported by a dozen confirmations. Let me instance the audacity with which, in 1862, Lee left the defeated M'Clellan with 60,000 men at Malvern Hill (15 miles from Richmond), and turning northwards with a smaller but victorious army shattered Pope, and then, cross ing into Maryland, fought with 35,000 men the Battle of Sharpsburg against three times his num bers. Nor has the temerity of Lee's tactics at the battle of Chancellorsville, where, for 16 hours, he faced with 18,000 men Hooker's 80,000, ever been surpassed. But of aggressive warfare, such as Lee delights in, Johnston seems incapable, His notion is to draw his enemy on and on, to keep retreating before hiss, and to await the moment when by some maladroitness his opponent will be delivered over into his hands. But such moments appear not to have hitherto occurred. In the retreat in 1862 of the Confederate army before M'Clellan two battles were fought—the first, the Battle of 'Williamsburg, which General Johnston has always generously con fessed that he had nothing to do with, and of which the credit is due to General Longstreet ; the second, the battle of Seven Pines, where General Johnston made up his mind to strike a blow, which blow, from some misconception, proved a failure. It cannot be denied that after Seven Pines General Johnston fell greatly in the estimation of wise and impartial men. But the confidence of the Southern journals in him remained still unshaken. When General Bragg fell from grace at the end of 1863 a great cry for Johnston as Bragg's successor echoed through the country, it was seconded, as I am in formed, by General Lee, and, against their conscien tious judgment, the Richmond authorities yielded to it. Across 130 miles of the most difficult country in the Confederate States, much of it resembling parts of the Lowlands and the Ochill hills of Scotland, Johnston has permitted Sherman and 80,000 men to advance unmolested. To oppose Sherman he has, I believe, never had less than 55,000 effective bayo. nets. Letters from many officers under Johnston, who have served repeatedly under Lee, speak of Johnston's present army as the finest they have ever been attached to. Compare what an army of about the same strength under Lee has been able to effect against the vastly superior numbers of Generals Grant and Butler, assisted as the latter have been by gunboats and navigable rivers, and it is difficult not to animadvert severely upon Johnston's caution and timidity. It will be remembered by some of your readers that Colonel Fremantle's pleasing book exhibits Johnston to us as expressing a prefer. ence for Marlborough over Wellington as a gene. ral ; but where has Johnston given evidence of a tithe of that vigour which was the supplement of Marlborough's singular prudence, and which made his onslaught irresistible iu five of the greatest aggressive battles of history ? As there are among scholars minds which are enfeebled by erudition, so are there among soldiers spirits which are robbed of enterprise and courage by poring over military textbooks. Such a study is an aliment meant for vigorous stomachs, and while to Marlborough fami liarity with Vegetius (his favourite author) brought nothing but advantage, it is certain that Lee, Grant, Jackson, and Sherman have lost nothing from their probable ignorance of the very names of Vegetius or Jomini. Although the peril of Atlanta is obviously great, there is every reason for• thinking that if the Fede rals succeed in gaining poss , i.ssion of it, it will prove in their grasp like the apples on the Dead Sea shore, "Fair to the eye, but ashes to the taste," To begin with, I understand that preparation has been made to evaciartte the Government workshops end THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1864. and factories of Atlanta, which have contributed so long and powerfully to the turbulent infancy of the Confederacy. The removal of these hives of industry to another point in the interior of Georgia will have no more influence upon the vitality of the rebellion than has the fall or rise of the tides upon the into. grity of the Georgia coast. Secondly, the commu nication between the east and west of Secessia, although impeded by the Federal capture of Atlanta, will not thereby be suspended. There is a circuitous, but continuous, line of railroad which passes through Macon and connects Montgomery with Augusta, and which will be instantly available. But in spite of the support which most of the Seuthern journals never fail to extend to the " masterly strategy" of General Johnston, there is little doubt that his evacuation of Atlanta will be synonymous with his " decapitation." Reports are already prevalent in well-informed quarters to the effect that his place will shortly be taken by General Hood. It is pro. bable that with the fall of Atlanta, and possibly even sooner, we shall have heard the last of the reculer pour mieux Sauter policy of General John. ston ; and no one who has the interest of the Southern States at heart can fail to welcome the introduction of General Lee's tactics into Georgia at a moment when his triumph over Grant in Virginia becomes more patent from day to day and from hour to hour, Turning away from Georgia, let me briefly reca. pitulate the precise situation of affairs in Virginia and Maryland at one of the most critical and excit ing moments which Richmond has witnessed since the dawn of the war. It is now rather more than a month since Grant, after throwing up at Cold Har bour such a network of entrenchments, covered ways, bombproof chambers, and earthworks as would excite the marvel even of that prince of mili tary moles, Gen, Todleben, suddenly flung himself across the James River, and dashed upon Peters burg. It is a miracle that the onslaught of twenty or thirty thousand men should not have swept Beauregard and his feeble force of :3,000 beyonet s off the face of the earth. By fortunate effrontery Beauregard held his own for 48 hours, until rein forcements joined him from Gen. Lee, and Peters. burg was safe. Since the onslaught upon Beaure gard's lines, which was so far successful as to drive him into his innermost works, there has been sub. stantially a suspension of active hostilities between Lee and Grant. It is true that the Federal shell• ing of Petersburg has been uninterrupted from day to day ; it is true that along the rival lines of earth work the ping ping of the sharpshooter's bullet is heard ceaselessly day and night ; but of fighting on the large scale there has been none, although the Northern sensationists have constantly been roused by the cuckoo cry of their journals, announcing "Terrific fighting before Petersburg," As soon as General Lee discovered that he had Grant and his whole army to the south of the James River, he conceived the design of detaching General Early and his large corps from the Virginian army, and dashing them into Maryland. I do nct believe that since the passage of Claudius Nero across Italy to surprise Hasdrubal on the Metaurus the secret march of a considerable army has ever been more silently or adroitly conducted. A word of warning was given to the Richmond journals, enjoining un usual discretion, and as an evidence of how much advantage to either belligerent or the daily papers, of his opponent, I may mention that a correspondent of a New York journal, writing from Grant's army in front of Petersburg, says it is impossible that the rebel raid in Maryland can be serious, because the Richmond papers have made no mention of it ! After this narrative, it is hardly necessary that I I should exhume circumstances to convince your readers of the audacity which characterises General Lee's military genius. Quickly perceiving that the fury of Grant's " on to Richmond" had spent itself in the three great battles of the Wilderness, Spott sylvania Court-house, and Cold Harbour, General Lee set to work to consider in what way he might best take the initiative, now that his hardy antago nist lay foiled, baffled, and emasculated before him. The temptation of falling upon Grant and shatter. ing his army was almost irresistible, and so deterio rated is the morale of the Federals that there is not in the Confederate States man, woman, or child who entertains a vestage of doubt that Grant exists south of the James River, solely by Lee's suffer. ance. But it has long been apparent that, until the reality of war could be a little more brought home to the hearths of the Federals, there would be a continued taste for such warlike operation as have been recently conducted by Sheridan, Hunter, and Wilson in Virginia, and that a system which has been encouraged by immunity, illumi nated by mendacity, and sweetened by plunder, would continue to recommend itself to the depraved palates of President Lincoln and his Generals. I may mention that again and again have I heard Southern officers discussing the Gettysburg cam. paign of 1863 in Pennsylvania...and asserting that if ever again they had a chance, let General Lee's orders be what they might, they would be revenged on thousands of desolate hearts and roofless homesteads which they have gazed at in Virginia. The wanton destruction by Hunter of Governor Lechter's house at Lexington, in Virginia, under circumstances of peculiar indignity to the latter's family, and the destruction of the books, papers, furniture, and homestead belonging to the well known Virginian statesman, Senator Hunter, of Essex County, added fuel to the flame which has long burnt in every Virginian breast, and doubtless influenced the decision of Gen. Lee. Your readers will have learnt the fate of General Early's inroad into Maryland (which is at this moment unknown to me) long before the arrival of this letter. Be the result what it may, there can be no question that 48 hours ago Washington was in infinitely greater danger than hits ever threatened Richmond, and that the words of one of your lead. ing articles, published a few weeks ago, which spoke of Washington as having already been more gravely menaced than Richmond, derive additional significance from the status quo of both cities upon July 12, 1863. Few persons doubt that if Stonewall Jackson had been in Early's place, President Lin coln's Scotch cap and martial cloak would again have been in request before this. But, be the fate of Washington what it may, there will be few per sons hardy enough to deny that Grant's campaign against Richmond, which has for more than a month been arrested at Petersburg, while Gen. Lee has himself f e lt s t rong enoug h to detach each an offsh oo t as h as followed Early into Maryland, can not but be p ronounced an egregious failure. Unhap pily Gen. Grant's knowledge of the depletion of his antagonist's army, as it lies calmly behind the trenches which girdle Petersburg, has not spirited him on to m a k e any attack upon t h e weakened lines of th e C onfederates, an d thus to gratify the earnest desire of t h e i r General, But if, as is now almost certain, re inforcements for Washington have latterly been leaving Grant's army, it is scarcely probable that he will be left unmolested, or that the example of in action which he has s e t will b e f ollowed by Genera l Lee. lamin a p os iti on to state that the details of General Early' s i ns t ruct i ons as to his advance upon Washington w ere m i nute l y communicated to him before he started by General Lee, and that the lat ter is believed to be satisfied with their execution hitherto by General Early. It is scarcely material as Early has got within three miles of Washington, whether the Capitol and public buildings are at this moment untouched, or in ruins, but that the ability with which this advance has been conceived and executed is of a very different order from that which has presided over the many "ens to Richmond" will probably be admitted even by the warmest Federal partisans, whether the downfall of Wash. ington is or is not its climax. But, at any rate, the advance into Maryland has already realized rich fruit. At the little town of Martinsburg, on the Potomac, an amount of spoil, such as is coespieueus even in this moat wastelul of wars, was secured be: the Confederates. Butler's stores, sent on in vast masses in anticipation of Richmond falling the bovine energy o f G rant, and destined t,J be sold at Richmond when the stars a n d s t r i pes, should float e abov e th e cap i ta ? , passed without e- change of gold cotton, or t o b acco , i n payment 1- Jefore for them into the hands of Ge nera l B rec ki nride nu merous patent reapir - e. It is reported that machines, the Fed era l purpose g i which it was rich crops i n the v i re employn harvesting the to Confederate alley of V irg i n i a , were trans f erre d Peeds, and have supplemented the a great deficiency of labour under which the inhabi tants of the valley have long laboured. There can not be a doubt that the unprecedented haul of horses will furnish fresh teams for General Early's ninety guns, will remount his cavalry, and admit of large supplies being hauled into Virginia. And whether it be reserved for General Early to enter Washington or to fallback with ample " loot" across the Potomac, he will in either case establish the fact that the crushed, starved, broken-backed, down-hearted " rebellion" of the Northern journals has vitality enough left in it to strike home to the very heart of its antagonist; nor will there be want ing evidence in the smoking ruins of Governor Brad ford's house and in the demolished bridges which separate Baltimore from,Washington, that in the fourth year of a colossal war less than five millions of Anglo. Saxons could so far triumph over the vastly superior resources of 23 millions opposed to them as to carry fire and sword into the very suburbs of Washingtos, at a moment when Rich mond never laughed more scornfully at the puny onslaught of her foe. I have never been if the number of those who believed it possible hr General Early to capture Washington. Such a feat would have been pos sible for Stonewall :ackson, but nothing less than the prestige and fierce fanatical zeal of Jackson could have roused hi; troops to the necessary energy and celerity. On tie other hand, I have never had the least misgiving as to the safety of General Early and his army Little opposition worthy of the name tcouldheheavy e b a e " 'Acted from the " hundred days' men," vyar illerymen, and the local militia which constitute the garrison of Washington, and it is competent to General Early to retreat across anyfords of the Potomac, in case he finds thehi many himself menaced by troops subtracted from Grant's army. As to the recruits which have again and again been promised to the Confederates in Maryland, I have aever believed in their existence. The Northern mei with Southern proclivities who are prepared to stand or fall with Jefferson Davis have long ago ranged themselves under his banner, and from those who for more than three years have stood aloof, little was, in my judgment, to be ex pected. But the strength and quality of the Confe derate troops which followed Early into Maryland were such as to forbid the probability of their being overtaken with disaster. With him went the very flower of Lee's army. Under him served some of the best officers in the South—Breckinridge, Rodes, the chosen and ablest son of the Military Institution of Virginia, Gordon, of Georgia, who shared with Rodes the honours of Chancellorsville and surpassed him at Spottsylvasia Court-house, Ramseur, of North Carolina, one of the most promising of the young Major-Generals, and, in command of the cavalry, an energetic and able officer in the person of General Ransom. It is strange that the detach ment from his strength of so valuable a contingent should have left General Lee for the last five weeks more than ever lord of the ascendant in Virginia or that it should be imagined by any reasonable man that General Grant, who must be daily losing strength by disease, cesertion, and the expiration of his soldiers' term of service, is likely to make any impression upon Richmond, when one of the finest forces which ever isszed from Secessia threatens Washington at its very gates. The Murder on the North London Railway. ADJOURNED INQUEST. Yesterday morning Mr Humphreys, coroner for East Middlesex, resumed his inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the late Mr Thomas Briggs. Mr Moojie, solicitor, was in attendance, as representing the friends of the deceased. The jury having answered to their names, Mr Charles Young, assistant to Mr Annis, pawnbroker, of 121, Minories, was calla], and having been sworn deposed—l received the chain now produced in pledge on Tuesday, the 12th July, at about two o'clock in the after noon. 1 should not remember the person who pledged it. I know it was pledged by a man. I lent him £1 106 upon it. He gave the name of John Miller, 22, Jewry-street. I did not spell the name to him when I gave him the ticket, nor did he spell it to me. I had never to my knowledge seen him before. (Witness produced the ticket, which, as to name and date, confirmed his statement.) Godfrey Ferdinand Repsch was next called, and deposed —I live at 12i, Jewry-street. lam a journeyman tailor, and work for Mr Hodgkinson. I know Franz Muller very well. He did not lodge with me, but came sometimes, Haffa lodged with me, and he and Muller were great friends. I have known Muller for about two years. I saw Muller in my house on Friday July Bth. He worked a little and went out again. He was making his things to go to Ame rica. I had given him leave to make up his things in ray house. He left Mr Hodgkinsoa's a fortnight before he lett England. I don't know at wtat time he left ray house on the Friday. He came to my louse also on the Saturday, and did more work then to his clothes. I left my house that night about six o'clock, leaving him there. I don't know whether he kept company with anybody. I next saw him between 10 and 11 o'clock or the Monday morning. He then came to my house. Heshowed me a new chain which he took out of his waistcoat locket. It was net attached to his button-hole, but in his picket. It was a new chain. He did not take it out of a box. He said he was going to buy his ticket for the ship, and had met a German there who had several chains and rings, and he bought it of him. He told me that ho met the German on board. He showed me also a ring which he said h; had bought. The chain pro duced is the one he showed me. I remember it, the stone being on one side, the sam( as his (prisoner's) chain had. I had never seen the chainbeforo. He said he paid £3 15s. for the chain and 7s. 6d. fa the ring. Having shown me the chain he put it in his bation-hole. He did not attach to it a watch, nor did I see hin with a watch then or at any time after. Ido not know whether his dress was the same on Monday he wore on Satirday. When he came on Mon day he had on an overcoat Ind light trousers. I noticed he had a new hat, and I said t, him, " You have got a new hat again." He replied, " Oh,l had this two months ago." It was in a good state. H e aid he had only worn it three or four times. I took it in my hand, and saw that it was a very good hat. He said le had given 14s. 6d. for it. I did not notice the maker's nano. He left my house between twelve and one on Mouthy. It was about my dinner hour. He came back about fiveor six o'clock in the evening, and went out with Haffa. Isaw him again on Tuesday. He was at my house some tine on that day, going on with his work. The same third took place on the Wednesday. On Thursday he came ',;) my house about nine o'clock, and I went with him to the ship the Victoria. Nobody was with us. It was aboutten o'clock when Muller and I went out to go to the ship. I went w i t h hi m on board and remained about three - guar:era of an hour, when I came aw a y l eav i ng hi m on bard. On the Wednesday afternoon when he came back to tie, about 4 o'clock, he said he wanted 12s to make up his paslage money and to pay his lodgings and other little things. He produced the ticket of a gold chain, and said " This is the ticket of the chain I showed you, and I wish to sell it, for I cannot take it out of pledge when lam in Amerief," I then went with him to Haifa at Mr Hodgkinson's, b ask him to buy the chain. He said he had no money, bui that he had got a suit of clothes in toy house, and told tic to go and pawn it and give Muller l2s. I did so. I did nit see Muller speak to anybody when he went on board. I did not see any difference in Muller from the week prior up to the time of his sailing. I pawned the clothes for the sum dated, 12s, and gave both the money and ticket to Haffa. I saw Haffa give the money to Muller. T =alv . Muller give Haffi the ticket for the chain at the same t ime. He told me on the Monday that ho had bought the chain and ring of the German that morning. I lived at 22, say Jewin-streot b e f ore I hired at 121, and Muller liv e d th ere too, but he h a d l e ft b e f o re I w e nt to live there. I w en t d own into his b er th w h en I wan t on board the Vietorfa, an d saw his boxes an d thi ngs t h ere . He wore the same h a t t h en I had seen hi m wear on t he Monday. By the J ur y -1 saw him every day during that w ee k t il l he W ent away. We )ad some t a lk o f th e murder, but nothinggtphaartticwualas a shackingr.lspok thing, that mu r d er on thee to him of it on th e M onday, in railway; the people wer3 all there talking about it. He mad e no remark in reply, BY Mr Moojie—Wh e a he told me he had given 14s 0,1 for the hat, I said it was a very cheap hat for the muney—" it is worth a guinea." He did not say anything in answer. By the Coroner-- The hat had no mourning hat-band upon it. I saw him on the Waluesday (I think it was) trying to put a h a t-b and on it, lie did no t succeed, and gave it up. I do n ot know that he Nos in mourning. He did not tell me why he w an t e d t o put the Mour n i ng b an d on. I do no t think I s h ould know the hat ho formerly wore if I saw it. Mrs Eli zabeth Sarah Ilpseb, wife of the last witness, was next examined, Sh e sa id—l k now M u ll er. I saw him at our 'clock, on F..aturday, 9th July. He c a me in about one oclock, and set himself docn to work. I went out between sever and eight o'clock, when he was still there with ll,Affa. r , next saw him on the Mcnday morn'ng. I heard the con versation about the chain, and saw him take it out of his waistcoat pocket. He told me he had bought it of a man at the docks that morning. I had it in my hand, and examined it. The chain produced was the same. lie said he had given £3lss for the chain, and he showed me a plain ring with a white stone, which ho said he had bought at the same time for 78 6 d. He said he had been to the docks to buy his pas sage ticket, and had met the German, I understood him to say in the docks as ho was going to the ship. I never saw him with that chain before. When he showed it me I said, "It may bo dangerous for you to wear the chain loose, you might lose it ;" and I lent him a locket which he attached to it, and put the chain through his button-hole. Ho re turned the locket on the Monday morning. On the Saturday when he came, he wore dark trousers, and when he came on the Monday he wore light trousers, otherwise he was dressed the same. I noticed he wore a new hat on Monday morning. I observed it first and said, " Oh, how extravagant you are to have another new hat." He replied, "I smashed the other one and threw it in the dust-hole, and I have had this about a month." He told me he had paid 14s 6d for it. My hus band said it looked more like a guinea hat than one at 14s 6d. He came on the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to our house to work, but he did very little work. I was present on the Wednesday when he said ha wanted 12s. He said he was 12s short, and asked my husband to buy the ticket of the chain I had seen. My husband told him he could not,land they left together to go to Mr. Haifa. I saw my husband give the 12s for the suit he had pawned Haifa. I saw Haifa give it to Muller, and Muller give the ticket of the chain to Haifa. I saw Muller try to put on the black band to the hat on the Wednesday. He did not say why he wished to put it on. It was a black cloth band. When he found he could not get it on, he threw it on one side, and it was left at my house. The reason he could not get it on was that it was on the right side. I did not refer to the murder of Mr Briggs in his presence. He came be tween nine and ten on Thursday, and my husband went out with him at ten o'clock. I have not seen him since. Mr. Atkinson, a master mariner, of 2, Laura-terrace, Campbell-road, Bow, having been sworn, deposed—l have given up the sea since November last ; but being out of health I went out in the Victoria as pilot, thinking it would benefit me. I joined her in the London Docks on Friday morning, July 1.5. We left the pier at a quarter before eight in the morning. We had between 20 and 30 passen gers on board, I went as far as the light ship off Bognor in I did not know Muller, but a passenger came to me on the Friday afternoon, between 3 and 4, and asked me if I would take a letter on shore. I refused to do so, tell ing him that next day would be in time for all passen gers' letters. He was a foreigner, I thought that by the way ho spoke that he was a Gorman. I received a lot of letters on the Saturday to take on shore from the passengers, but I cannot for certain say that the foreigner gave me one. I received 26 letters alto gether and the passengers all came :to me with them together as I was about leaving. I imagine he came with the rest, but lam not certain. I cannot identify the photograph portrait produced as that of the foreigner who asked me to take the letter on shore. I posted all the letters but one. The letters I put stamps upon I marked with a private mark. I did not notice the ad dresses. If I had done so and had seen one addressed to Bow, it would have struck my attention. The Coroner here observed that the only other witnesses whom it was thought necessary to examine at present were absent from England, and it would be some time before they could be back; it would be better to adjourn for three weeks. It was stated that Mr. Briggs's chain had been taken out to New York as a necessary link in the evidence which would require to be given there. The inquiry was then further adjourned to Thursday, September 8, at ten o'clock. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-Aug. 22. (Before Mr Sergeant Gaselee,) The grand jury having been sworn, His Lordship briefly addressed them upon the nature of their duties, and discharged them to their room. THE RECENT THEATRICAL SCANDAL. Mr F. 11. Lewis, addressing the presiding judge, said— Allow me, my lord, to make an application in the matter of a gentleman of the name of Bateman, who is charged with assaulting a lady named Bristowe. The lady instituted these proceedings for the purpose of protecting her daughter's character, and after the apology the gentleman has made in a letter I will read, I think you will have no objection to granting the application that the recoguisances be dis charged. The letter was as follows : " Madam,—As my attentions and acts of friendship to your daughter have been so widely misrepresented to you, and so greatly misunderstood, I deem it but proper to assure you, on the honour of a gentleman, that, as far as I am concerned, I have never acted in any other way than a gentleman should do. I declare solemnly that no impro prieties whatever have taken place, and I regret extremely that you should be under the contrary impression. I may also add that the sole reason of my meeting your daughter on the evening of the Ist of August was to dissuade her from fulfilling her engagement at Paisley without your consent. " I am only too anxious to convince you that your ideas are erroneous, and I hope you will consider that I have done all in my power to do so, especially for the sake of the young iady herself. " I have further to state that I regret to learn you still labour under the impression that I assaulted you. I can quite understantl how in the excitement of the moment you may so imagine. If, indeed, I accidentally touched you, thus causing such erroneous impression, I can have no hesi tation in expressing my regret that even that occurred. " 11. L. BATEMAN. "To Mrs Bristowe. Aug. 23, 1364." Mr F. H. Lewis went on to state that after this and the oath of her daughter that nothing improper had occurred between her and Mr Bateman, she did not consider herself justified in further prosecuting the matter; and it was only due to Mr Bateman to state, that reports being rife as to the matter being settled for a money consideration, he, on the part of Mrs Bristowe, begged to give such reports the most positive denial. Mr Sleigh, who appeared for Mr Bateman, said that after the letter which had been read, and Mr Lewis's statement, he could have nothing to add, and should therefore apply to the Court that Mr Bateman be discharged from his re cognisances. His Lordship said he could see no reason to the contrary. The recognisanees were accordingly discharged, and thus ended the Adelphi drama. The Lord Mayor of York and the 16th Lancers. Within the last few weeks the Commander in Chief has been engaged in considering a matter which has been brought before him by the Lord Mayor of York. The Leeds Itiereury reports that—" In June his lordship wrote to the Under Secretary of State for War, stating that now the 16th Lancers had entirely left York, he deemed it his duty to lay before the Secretary of State for War the conduct of Col. Dickson and the officers, and the state of the discipline of the regiment. In the first place he complained of being grossly ;nsulted by Colonel Dickson and the officers, by the commission of ' a most uncourteous and ungentlemanly act,' this being by their neglecting, as is customary after the election of the Lord Mayor, to leave their cards at the Mansion-house, and then subsequently sending him an in vitation to attend a ball without any cards even accompa nying the invitation. In ordinary life, the Lord Mayor added that this was an incivility that would not be over looked. His lordship's next complaint was that a couple of the officers, on a certain Sunday night, had amused them selves on the way to the barracks by endeavouring to extin guish the gas lights, for which conduct they were sum moned before the magistrates, and fined £2 each. That subsequently Col. Dickson, on leaving a ball, assaulted ono of the policemen who had been the means of convicting his subordinate felloW officers, for which he was summoned before the magistrates, and after a number of adjournments of the case eventually paid £5 to the police fund rather than 1 that a conviction should follow. The officer having set such an example, it was alleged that the soldiers under them har boured an ill feeling towards the police ; that collision took place, and that his lordship had found it necessary to write to Colonel Dickson, threatening to lay the matter before the Horse Guards unless the soldiers were kept quiet. On one occasion, the complainant goes on to say that when police of f icers were endeavouring to identify an offending soldier on parade the soldiers hissed them; that on another the soldiers used strong language to the Volunteers, of one of which corps the Lord Mayor was an officer; that his lord ship had, on the occasion of a Volunteer non-commissioned officers' ball, been compelled to order special means to pre vent a disturbance on the part of certain of the Lancers, who were taking supper in the neighbourhood ; that numer ous reports were made to his lordship by the police of the conduct of the 16th Lancers, who had latterly seemed to have had the upper hand, and did as they liked, and that his lordship and the citizens wore:glad what the regiment left the city. On the citizens becoming aware of the course the Lord Mayor had taken in the matter, they at once got up a memorial to the Duke of Cambridge. which was signed by the reccrder, sheriff, nine aldermen, 29 councillors, eight magistrates, three deputy-lieutenants, the clerk of the peace, city coroner, the under sheriff, one admiral, two retired colonels, two bankers, and several other gentlemen and tradesmen of the city, certifying that - the conduct of the regiment was not such as to justify, the complaints the Lord Mayor had made, but that, on the contrary, Colonel Dickson and those under his command. both officers and men, were held in very high esteem and respected by the citizens, who greatly regretted their departure from the city. A similar memorial was also sent from the officers of Effie Volunteers, and the statement was further en dorsed by an influential inhabitant of the neighbourhood of the barracks, by the town clerk, and by an extract from tba minutes of the Watch Committee of York. Colonel Dickson himself also explained that the non-calling at the Mansion-house was the result of ignorance of the custom, and that the invitation to a military ball sent to the Lord Mayor was given as a compliment, and not as an insult. To the latter invitation Colonel Dickson further alleges that the Lord Mayor gave an uncourteous reply, and this was the sole origin of a systematic display of ill-feeling on the part of the Lord Mayor. The result of the investigation of this singular caso is, that the Commander -in-Chief has given a decision to the effect that the conduct of the regiment while in York was not such as to justify the complaints preferred against it." TIIE STRIKE AT HANLEY.—The colliers and iron atone miners employed on the extensive works of Earl Gran ville at Hanley have had an interview, by deputation, with the managers. The interview was satisfactory and amicable and after mutual explanations had been made and reported by the deputation, the men resumed work at a reduction of 6d per day, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It is not without reason that commis sions have been occupied with the sanitary pros pects of our army in India. Our Eastern Empire now makes demands upon us never known before. In the suppression of the mutinies and the pacifica tion of the country after that terrible convulsion, a great work was accomplished. We passed triume phantly through a crisis which had been long im pending, and entered upon a new era. The organi sation of India under the immediate government of the Crown has already been attended by the happiest results. The finances of the country have been in credibly improved; employment at high wages is abundant, and every class of the population has been enriched. Never were the prospects of India so bright, but all this has been done at a cost to ourselves which must not be forgotten. The basis of this surprising prosperity is a large British army. We used to contribute to the military esta blishments of India a contingent of 20,000 troops. In those days almost all the rest was done by regi ments of native soldiers in the service of the Com pany. It was only under the pressure of an emer gency that the royal contingent was increased, and even in the heat of the Sikh war the Queen's army in India never amounted to 30,000 men. Perhaps 24,000 would be a fair estimate of its average strength in the years inina€ diately preceding the revolt; whereas we now maintain an army in India of thrice that strength. As many as 72,000 British soldiers are constantly employed on that duty. Regiment after regiment takes its turn of this distant service, and encounters for ten years together the trials of an Indian climate. Our readers will not forget the results which were re cently disclosed or the mortality which was found to prevail, nor will the facts appear in the least de• gree surprising when the old conditions of military life in India are once understood. In that country this year the thermometer ranged from 102 deg. to 107 deg. in a well-built and well.managed house, furnished with all the necessary appliances for miti gating the heat. To the inevitable effects of a tem perature like this we have exposed large bodies of uneducated men, destitute of self-resource, but not unprovided with money. Too often these men were lodged in ill ventilated and incommodious barracks, without any appliances whatever for recreation, diversion, or employment, and with nothing but the canteen or the spirit shop to relieve the monotony of existence. Their hours were divided between drill and drink, and, with the habits thus generated, they were exposed to the ordinary diseases of the elimate and the visitations of periodical epide mics. No wonder the alarm has been taken at last. The improvements suggested are partly moral and partly mechanical. To some extent, indeed, we may promote the desired object by a redistribution of the troops and a better arrangement of stations. Rail roads will enable us to economise power, to effect easy and frequent change of quarters, and thus to give timely relief to a suffering garrison. But, un der the most favourable circumstances, the army in India must be subjected to the trials of a climate re quiring all the mitigation which professional skill can devise. We have to counteract lassitude of body and listlessness of mind, to wean the soldier from the seductive but noxious use of stimulants, and to keep him by some better means from weariness and langour, Probably the work is more than half moral, though we know from the question of lab ourers' cottages in this country how impossible it is to set moral agencies at work in the face of adverse physical conditions. The engineer must be turned into the barracks with full powers before any moral treatment can have fair play. Still, a beginning has been actually made, and what is more, a result has been obtained. Sir Hugh Rose has interested him self very commendably in providing the soldier in India an alternative from the canteen, and a Parlia mentary paper recently issued contains a remark able account of the success achieved. The moral instruments of sanitary reform are manifold—work shops, gardens, schools, cricket-grounds, bowling alleys, reading-rooms, and gymnasia. As to work shops, we shall probably surprise the reader when we state that the amount actually realised by work performed in regimental shops during a period of six months exceeded £50,000. In the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade wages were paid to volunteer workmen amounting in the aggregate to £8,300. The men of the 42d Highlanders received between £3,000 and .£4,000 ; those of the 70th £2,350. Nor do these returns give an adequate representation of the success of the practice, for in many instances the need of mechanical improvements has stood in the way, and "regiments have not been able to give a full development to the system on account of a want of barrack accommodation." Still, so great has been the progress made in a space of less than three years that the industrial system is now established in five regiments of cavalry and 32 battalions of infantry, and the gains which we have recorded show how extensively useful employment must have been substituted for demoralising indolence. But workshops are not the only places of amusement. Regimental gardens are commonly cultivated, and the occupation of horticulture has been " very suc cessful in many regiments. It has been found that the men will not take willingly to gardens laid out upon a large scale at a distance from their quarters, but that they are very glad to attend to small gar dens close to their barracks, and take much plea sure in looking after them. Prizes are given for the best produce, as at horticultural meetings at home, and certain regiments are favourably men tioned in General Orders as distinguished for the superiority and neatness of their gardens. The third battalion of the Rifle Brigade has succeeded in bringing into profitable cultivation even the barren soil of Meean Meer. How completely the general necessity of diversion has been now recognised may he learnt from the statement of the Commander-in- Chief himself that " there is not a regiment that has not its reading and recreation-room well furnished and fitted up, and supplied with the means of light ing, &c. These are in the evenings crowded with men who can there obtain wholesome refreshments, tea, coffee, cold meat, &c. Spirits are not allowed." Again, we are told that in many regiments each company has its own cricket club, and that matches between different companies and regiments are not uncommon. Nor are these outdoor diversions at all interfered with by the workshops ; on the contrary, it has been found that generally " throughout the Army of Bengal the system of manly exercises and out-of-door recreations has kept pace with the useful industrial occupation of the men." After saying all this, we need scarcely be at the pains of adding that the consumption of ardent spirits in the Indian army has considerably decreased, and, though we are not directly informed of the fact, we may very confidently assume that the sickness and mortality formerly prevailing will be found to have diminished also. It is of great importance that there should be no slackening or turning in so good a work as this, and that the material improvements required for the develop ment of the system should be executed without delay. It is not satisfactory to hear that a " want of barrack accommodation" deprives a regiment of its chance of becoming industrious and healthy, or to reflect that even the good influences of a well spent day may be counteracted by the conditions of unwholesome lodging at night. Enough has now been ascertained to prove that no difficulty is to be anticipated in the disposition of the soldier himself. Even in India, with its exhausting climate, the troops betook themselves to the spirit shop more from want of an alternative than from any irresis. tibia predilection. They are ready to engage in voluntary industry if it is rendered practicable and remunerative, and to amuse themselves with rational and salutary diversions when they have the chance of doing so. Henceforth, then, it rests with the authorities to see that this chance is not withheld. We have arrived at a point of the ques tion where controversy ceases and responsibility begins. Nobody can now say that these schemes of improvement are hopeless, or that they are inap plicable to India or incompatible with military life. The British soldier in India is a sensible and rea sonable being, who, if he has hitherto gone wrong, has done so in a great degree because he had very little chance of doing better. He began to do better the instant this chance was given him, andit now remains with us to extend hie opportunities to the utmost. It is a subject of imperial magnitude. The maintenance of an army of 70,000 men in a remote land must at the best be a great drain upon our military and national resources, but we may at :east take care, in justice to this army as well as to ourselves, that its waste shall be diminished and its power economised by all the precautions which care and science can devise. POST.—When a few days since we directed atten tion to the serious le . ss sustained by Col. I%l'Murdo in the destruction of h:s house and property by fire, whilst absent on duty in Scotland, we expressed ourselves confident that neither the public nor the volunteers would leave the inspector-general to sup port unaided the whole brunt of his heavy misfor tune. In expressing this opinion, we are gratified, but not surprised, to find that we were not mistaken. Since we called attention to the subject we have re ceived communications from correspondents recipro. eating our views, and subscriptions have been ten dered to us for tha memorial fund which it is sug gested shall be raised. This last circumstance, however, renders it necessary that we should offer a few remarks upon what would seem to be the best way of carrying into effect the wishes of tho se who are desirous of recognising in a substantial manner the great services which Col. M'Murdo has rendered to tie volunteer service and the country at large. In matters of this kind it is indispensable that a com mittee should be appointed which would not merely receive subscriptions, but would also organise the easiest inethod by which those subscriptions should be collected, Its the present infitauce it Would seem that this task would be one of no ordinary facility. We observe in the columns of a military coutempo rary that a proposal has been made, originating with the volunteers, that a subscription should be raised in every corps in the United Kingdom, and that the amount of each subscription should be limited to es As the entire volunteer force exceeds 150,000, a ulnd raised even on such a basis would be considerable. But whether a limit to the amount of su becript ion. be set or not, the point we are desirous of pressing is that, considering the perfect state of organise' tion to which the Inspector-General has brought the volunteer force, nothing ought to be easier then to raise a fund to which every volunteer would hav e if h e felt . an opportunity of giving hid subscription , so inclined. There are many, both volunteers en° I s boo others, in the position of our corresponden t letter we published a few days ago, who are desira us t of giving their co-operation, but who are ignor all . t how to carry their wishes into effect. Na vi ' appears to us that the best plan would be to foe re a central committee, composed of mem bers of thiS metropolitan corps, and then nothing more W O° ar be needed than for this committee to transmit o munications to the officers in command of the O l t !: ral corps throughout the kingdom, intimatingt.ut; fact that a fund was being raised, point in g out 1- object, and the circumstances under wh ich it ro licity would be required. Every nated. If this course were adopted no further P 1 1 !) Great Britain would be cognisant of the fact tha t was proposed to compensate the Ins enter-Gen for the loss he has sustained, and within every ot i rt period indeed the object which so many have at 'le a s . would be completely realised. It is simply a c l i ti „ e st tion of method and organisafion, and as the 0 7 teers boast, and not without justice, of the per the tion of their organisation as a military force , 1 7_ present is an opportunity of furnishing satisfactoeso proof that the praise which in this respect h as be l ie volunteer in accorded to them is not undeserved. Th ere's point which we omitted to notice when rene-.0; broaching this subject, but which is most deserrio, of attention. Our non-military readers are P te bably not aware that staff appointments ot i ea nature of that held by Colonel 11/I'Murdo enutir; only for a period of five years, and consequel l "' sa services as Inspector-General will be lost to the c° hlO, try in a very short time. Now, if this rule, uses, has hitherto been observed with great st rle ,4ed should in Colonel M'Murdo's instance be r e g a son as binding, it affords an additional teses why some substantial memorial of hie gar by should be raised by a force which L ie ' ted his own personal exertions, has mainly con tribu vr ill to bring to its present state of efficiency. Iv ey.saue not now recapitulate what we said on a Pr b road occasion. The entire question rests on a I or. br io basis, and as such we are gratified at findiug h i s t s Su been entertained. The volunteer movement has spired more wide-spread interest, and has Pt°" ;‘ ," o l more important results, than any other na t 7-, 00 . event within the memory of the present geuerei• to Volunteers are always ready in every counttles, spring to arms when an invasion is thr ee a nti but the distinguishing characteristic of our Pr es r i o d volunteer force is that it has been raised in a P e t i e at of profound peace, and that it has, by the b at perseverance of those composing it, end b Y a nis judgment and ability of those to whom its org a o f sation was entrusted, been brought to a d e gre ho military excellence which by a militia for ce ss o as never been equalled, much less surpassed much the volunteers have been indebted to Co l° od M'Murdo for having attained their present 00 position they have themselves on many oeaPst`hat abundantly testified, and we are glad t o find their now, when the time is not far distant when 1 - , be official connection with him will most probahvbas dissolved, and when a stroke of adverse fort ore overshadowed him with a heavy clou d, they too desirous of affording him a lasting token of esteem in which he is held. COUNTRY MARSETS• At this corn exchange to-daySTER — t Aucl. 20. and l h a e t re ply of wheat, trade slow qr. Beans, barley, and peas were esoldicat late quotatiengi but supplies small. 36g Wheat, white . 46s 50s Beans,Mazaga ll •• 333 40g red 4&s 46s middle & 6wa11.35s ass Barley Oat• pwr.asesadneinoldinereadteissuppe; GLOUCESTER--AUG. 20. There was a fair attendance of farmers at mnrket to-1131: with a fair supply of English wheat, which sold sloWlY late rates. NORTHAMPTON—AuG. 20. 40S; IVhite wheat,:new, 40s to 445; new red, 37010 old. 34s to 38s per qr. Barley, new malting, 34s to 3 6 ' grinding, 27s to 29s per qr. Oats, 24s to 32s per 21 stew , Beaus, 34s to 402. 1 Peas, 34s to 378 per qr. CHELMSFORD—Ana. 19. We had a large show of grain on offer at our mark e t to-day, but the trade was dull at about is decline cn laa week's quotations. Spring corn was quite as dear. Lit' doing in anything. Wheat, old white 45s 49s new 44s 48s old red 412 45s new 40s 44s Barley 25s 33s Chevalier ..26s 36s Grinding 20s 282 61s 67s Chevalier 64s 68s Oats 20$ 2621 Peas, Partridge 36s 3Se White 6 3os 340 Boilinb 38 8 4? Dun 31s 3 ' 7/ Ditto new s 13ealls, Tick, :,1d 34s 315 "„ — c s H arr ow Ticks 3ss ouo new ,7,5 7 '° M aza gan 33s 1 KIRKCALDY G We had large supplies of but only ono parcel of barley, as last week, ,AIN—AUG. 20. wheat and oats at market, Prices were abou t the BO° [Wheat. Barley. Oats. Od I —s Od I 18 s Od Second ..37s 6d —8 Od 19 s Od Third.... 393 Od —s Od 20s 6d COAL M . Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. North Pelton Ga 5...., 13 9 Holywell 15 0 Hastings Hartley lB 3 LRKET. the close of the nviric et ' e. W a ll s End• 9 . . Hartlepool ......... • 9 IS 9 East Hartlepool .... .11 0 Kelloe.. ............ 1S 0 South Kelloe ........ iS Heugh Hall .......... 19 Hetton ... . ......... 1/ ti Braddyll'a Hetton . .• ,t, 59 ; sold, 41. Aug' 1S Walls End. Tunstall Haswell ...19 0 South Hetton ...19 0 Caradoc lB 3 Ships at marke Foreign Mail Packet List. NAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton... .... •S ©pt. . ., _,... I'4• - 7!3 Marseilles .........Sept.Dor' 4, Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British pac,ket. ...... Au 9. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension and St..l - lele a " Au g.'' IS• ;hula, Penang, and Singapore, ' via Southamptou' 21. via Marseilles • ..Aug". Falkland Islands . . . . Gibraltar, via Southampton ................... '" India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southararseil.uP...Aug, 27; via Nieb• • . Aug. 25 India (Bombay), via Southampton ............... Aug. ' 2( /' via Marseilles ............. sept . Portugal.... ................................ Au". I° ' Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... Aug. 13. via Marseilles ........ Au g, 3 1 ' Newfoundland .......................... Oporto and Vigo ............. : A ti m 25. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. • All parts of West Indies, including b b y y U Canadianc. S h . il p i a , 7sA ut log California. and British Columbia. ..... [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's g 1 goo Coinfort.—A disordered stomach throws th e whole and out of gear, and renders us unfitted both amusement.for A 0 or A few doses of these purifying and ening pills, taken according to their accompany _enable dire ,. g .eas blo tions. will, however, speedily restore order and " These the stomach to digest its food without difEcultY•lia pea excellent pills are suitable alike for the peer and ho ' w , A nd sant, the soldier and sailor, and particularly fo r ri n cheek foreign colonists. Holloway's pills are very use„" i netions. ing feverish attacks, bilious complaints, and ii 4 r, c ases of They have also made the most signal cures govhen dropsy, and diseases of the kidneys, heart, the sufferers seemed past the reach of mediclut, An lung, MANNERS.—On the 20th Birth inst ,s. a t 23, Gro svenor-s q uares the Lady Adeliza Manners, o . f a daughter. SYMONDS.—On the 20th inst., the wife of Rear-Ado:lir a ' Symonds, C. 8., of a son. WALKER.—On the 16th inst., at ylretheral, Cumberland, der 9l the wife of Melville A . Walker, Lsq,, 78th iiighlan of a daughter. Afamiages. COCKING--MOSS.--On tho 17th inst., at Saint garyll; Chelmsford, Mr. Ile , nry W. Cocking, of 40 and 41, tYPP e fe Thamesstreet. and 31, Camden-square, London, to,A-0, rarmenter, eldest daughter of Mr. James Moss, Chelols ford. JORNSON--BEAUCLERIL—On the 20th inst., BishoOr plse, Hyde-park-square, to Rosa atilda, Waltham, Hants, John James J ohnson, Esq., of Cile thLe f Major Beauclerk, of Ardglass Castle, county Dowl i, land, widow ° Deaths. CUOZIER.....On the 17th inst., at Clermont House, Bcckew ham, Kent Wm. Crozier, Esq. c :i D ud? the Rev. Thomas Jones, B.D , rector of JONES.----On the 19th inst ,at Coynant House, N" e- vi i, Lombard -street, aged 79. . luster , Ro , • IMEI.—On the 19th inst , at Berrington, Le °93 the Right Hon. Lord Rodney. W' STONE On the 20th inst., at 30, Grosvenor-street, Thomas A. Stone, Esq., . aged 67- Margaret WATTS.—On the 19th inst B ' Miss ga r ° ~ rixton, Watts, aged 72. _........... Allhallo s London : PririZed and Pettislied WILLI.A.MANVI!I:, ;1; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Titu SUN atilee ,- 1 o f Strand, in the l'recinot of the 3avoy,"lu tbe C(‘ttial 141ackl , osex,—Tuesday, August 23, 1654.