The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

TEE Cl VIL WAR IN AMERICA, (Frain the Times Corresponclm.l,.) NEW YoEK, Jan. 5. The old year went out and the new year came in amid sueh warm though rainy weather, that the streets of this ill-paved city were ankle deep in slush and mire ; and the roads of Virginia were in so soft, spongy, and greasy a state that desertion from the army of the Potomac was declared on high military authority to be " impossible.' Bat the twenty fourth hour of 1864 had not tolled before the most potent of all scavengers, the frost, began to facili tate desertion end harden the road. The thermome• ter suddenly fell from forty.two degrees above zero to nine degrees below; and a storm of wind of an intensity of cold that could scarcely have been sur passed in Siberia, or at the grave of Sir John Franklin, began to blow from the north-east. The water froze in the jugs and basins of sleeping apart medts. The bottled beer in the cellars was con verted into ice, and the milk in the pail or the ewer at the farm house or the store became as solid as glass. The tracks loft by cartwheels in the mud were hardened into ridges as difficult to penetrate as if they had been of iron ; and desertion from the Army of the Potomac was feasible to any faint hearted warrior who had courage enough left to betake himself homewards. Several unhappy per sons were frozen to death in the streets of Philadel phia ; four Confederate prisoners perished of cold and exposure in a railroad car on the way from Jeffersonville to Chicago ; and railway communica. tion throughout the North and West was either snow drifts or stopped alto greatly impeded by gether. It is asserted that no such extremity of cold has been experienced south of Boothia Felix for the last half century ; and the journals from every part of the country continue to report from day to day, the casualties and loss of life that have occurred in consequence. On Saturday and Sunday the frost continued, but the bitter wind ceased to blow. Consequently all the world made merry out of doors. Men and women donned their furs and woollen comforters, and everybody who could skate hurried to the Central-park or ether places where there were ponds or sheets of water, to indulge in the favourite diversion of the Americans. Even on Sunday the gaieties did not slacken. The Central. park was as jubilant with holiday-makers as Rome or Naples during the Carnival, Wealth, beauty, youth, and fashion, as well as poverty, ugliness, old age, and vulgarity, thronged to the scene of festi vity, and were as joyous as if skating were the supreme end and felicity of human existence, and as if no such thing as war were desolating the fairest portions of the Continent, and storing up, perhaps, for the present generation—most certainly for its successors—a harvest of agonies and evils such as the world has seldom witnessed. New Year's-day is a sore trial to the patience of public functionaries in America, and most of all to the President. Mr. Lincoln, who is reported to have caught the small-pox on a visit of philanthropy to the wretched negro barrack, or settlement, in the neighbourhood of Washington, having completely recovered from the attack, held the usual handshak lag levee et the White House, and went through the ordeal with unflinching bravery. To such of the crowd as he was personally acquainted with he gave a cordial greeting, and to some favoured few fired off his Western wit or humour with all his ancient hila rity. It was remarked as a novelty that there were no less than four negroes in the crowd, and that the President received them with special good humour. It is the first time in the existence of the Republic that a black man has dared to mingle in the throng on such an occesion, or to presume te think that his felicitations on the New Year were as acceptable as those of his white brother. As such tOe incident deserves to be recorded. Generally throughout the North, and especially in the New England States and in New York, the negroes celebrated on Friday evening, not alone the opening of another year, but the first anniversary of the President's Proclamation of Emancipation. On these occasions, though the white friends of the negro race were advertised to make speeches in support of emancipation, very few were present. A sprinkling of white women were to be seen, together with a few prominent clergymen of all denominations, except the Episcopalian and the Roman Catholic ; but, with these exceptions, the negroes and mulattoes had it all to themselves. The only really prominent white man who lent his name, his presence, and his voice to the celebration was the Rev. D, Bellows, a noted Unitarian clergyman of this city. This gentleman, like Mr. Wendell Phillips, Mr. Ward Beecher, and the other zealots, lay and clerical, of Abolitionism, mingles no little malignity for the white race with his philanthropy for the blacks. Mr. Wendell Phillips is of opinion, in his animosity against the slaveholders, that true justice will not be done to the negroes until the Southern Confederacy shall have been parcelled out among them in small farms, and the "mean whites" com pelled to labour for them. Dr. Bellows rides the Abolition hobby almost as unmercifully ; and de clared at the Emancipation Jubilee of New Year's night that the anniversary which the coloured men had met to celebrate "deserved to stand alongside of the birth of Jesus Christ." He thought that if white men had been subjected to the same indignities as the black the white race would have deteriorated, and that our present Christian civilisation would have been impossible. Setting at nought the experience of all ages and the palpable evidence of anatomy, he affirmed the difference between the whites and the blacks to be nothing but a difference in external cir cumstances, and prophesied that in five or at most ten years the black race would be "suddenly elevated— make a great leap forward in civilisation—and be socially and politically regenerated." The white people present made no response, and the negroes themselves seemed to think the news too good to be true. But the reverend negrophilist, nothing daunted, repeated last night, at a second meeting of coloured people, all his sanguine vaticinations of the future of their race, advised them not to be called or to call themselves" coloured," but boldly to insist upon being designated " blacks," for were there not " red men," "yellow men," and " white men," and were not all these " coloured ?" He himself, - he said, was coloured, but his colour was not black. He regretted to see so few white men present of the class that might be regarded as repre sentatives of public opinion ; but God Almighty was the author of the Proclamation of Emancipa tion, and not President Lincoln, and God s help rather than man's, would render its policy triumphant over all obstacles. Mr. Charles Sumner, whose name was placarded all over the city as in tending to ba present and make an oration, failed to appear, but sent a letter apologising for his ab sence, in which he said that wherever he was he would celebrate the proclamatio n in his heart, be cause the proclamation was the key to victory and peace—that without it victory would have been doubtful and peace impossible, whereas both were now certain. Mr. Sumner, like Mr. Wendell Phillips, is in earnest on this question, and so, no doubt, is the great b ody of the Unitarian and Pres byteries clergy ; but they stand in a small mino rity. No public men who aspires to political honours or office cares to identify himself with their proceedings, and the whole business comm un i ty and the entire mass of the labourin g Populati on keep as studiously aloof from abolitionism as th e ehopkeepers of Paris from socialism and com munism. Tho churches may deplore this fact, and attribute it to the innate wickedness of th e heart cf fallen humanity ; but it is a fact, never theless, and none know it so well as the negroes themselves, or hope less from the emancipation of their Southern brethren than they do. As the great question of the constitutionality of the proclamation, by which Mr. Lincoln endea voured to set aside the State laws of one-half of the late Federal Union, must shortly be tried before:the Supreme Court, considerable anxiety begins to be felt at Washington on the stfejset of that august tribunal —the first alike in power end dignity in the Republic, and having within its competency to set aside or annul the acts of the Executive. It corsists at present of ten Judges, of whom six were appointed by the Democratic party in the halcyon days before Lincoln, and four by the Republicat. since Mr. Lincoln's assumption of office. The Chief Justice, the Hon. 'Roger B. Taney, of Baltimore, a man beloved in Maryland with a love seldom acecr led by Americans, approaches his 90th year, and has lately been confined to his room by serious indisposition. Great hopes were entertained by the Republican party that this gentleman would either die or resign his office, in either of which cases an Abolitionist and supporter of the Administration would have been appointed in his pace. Much to the disappointment of the White House and the Administration, he has recovered, and much to their disgust he has declared that he will not resign as long as he lives,—unless, indeed, a Democratic Pre sident should be elected in place of Mr. Lincoln, in which case ho would debate the question whether it would not be better after his long services that he should retire into private life. The President, it is understood, desires to elevate Mr. Chase to Mr. Taney's position, for the double purpose of placing an Abolitionist on the Bench, and of removing out of the way t a formidable competitor for the honours of the Presidency. But the good constitution and the firm resolve of the venerable Chief Justice having prevented, at least f or th e present , th e realisation of the project, it has become necessary to devise some other scheme for securing the deci sion of the Court in favour of the measure, which Mr. Lincoln's friends affirm to be the crowning glory and his opponents the crying shame of his administration. It has, therefore, been suggested that ten Judges are not sufficient to transact the business of the Supreme Court ; that the multifa riousness, complexity, and importance of the ques tions that come before it for decision have grown with the prosperity and enterprise of the country ; and that, if ten Judges had work enough 40 years ago, there is work enough at the present day for 14 at the least. In other words, Mr. Lincoln is urged to create by the consent of Congress four new Judges, who, being all of the Republican party, would give him in the Supreme Tribunal a majority of eight against six. In this case the obstinate Mr. Taney might continue to live to 150 without danger to the Republican cause, and everybody, except Mr. Chase, the Democratic party, and the friends of the Constitution " as it was," would have reason to be satisfied. The attempt will undoubt edly be made, with what success no one can at pre sent tell. If the American people submit to it, as they probably will, they will afford one more proof of their readiness to bend their necks to the yoke of that great military chieftain and dictator, that embryo Cromwell or Buonaparte, whose blood-red shadow looms ominously on the horizon. A man of great mark and influence has just passed away. John Hughes, Catholic Archbishop of New York, died on Sunday, at the age of 65, from softening of the brain, and general prostration of the powers of life. He came to America a poor Irish boy, began life as shopman or assistant to a florist in New York, and, entering the Church at an early age, succeeded, by dint of pliancy, industry ; and native talent, in working himself up to the high ecclesiastical position which he has held for the last 26 years, as bishop and archbishop. He exercised an enormous influence over the Irish Catholic popu lation—not so much for leading them in political affairs as for following the current of their opinions and prejudices, and for his thorough personal sym pathy in all their feelings of nationality. He was entirely a man of the people, and, if somewhat anti- English, was more so from policy than from Convia tiort, He was not an opponent of slavery, for if he had been he would have placed himself in anta gonism, not only to his Church, but to the senti ment of the whole Irish population. He was deliberately opposed to an enforced military con scription, and during the riots of last July took no pains to conceal either from the Government or the people that he considered the draught unwise and unjust, if not tyrannical. As befitted his sacred character, he was a friend of peace, and, soaring high above the madness of the crowd to those serener attitudes of thought where passion has no foothold, he took occasion to impress upon the minds of the youthful students of the Eec lerdastical College of St Xavier, and upon those of his flock, that the liberty of the Republic was to be prized as something far more estimable than extent of territory, and that the happiness of a State was to be considered better worth securing than it " bigness." The Americans were not then in a condition to profit by his teach ing. Neither are they now. Neither does it ap pear that they ever will be. To be the " biggest" and most powerful nation in the world is their highest ambition. For that darling object, which, notwithstanding all their hopes and all their vaunts is no nearer than it was years ago, they have already sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of treasure and legal and constitutional rights more precious than all the gold of the earth ; and, worse than all, they are ready, if we may believe the governing party, to incur double and treble sacrifices of the same kind in the future, rather than renounce the idea of a con solidated umpire. Though it would have to be main tained at the cost of a Southern Poland, to be a per petual thorn in their sides, a chronic disease in the body politic, a standing peril to their liberty, a con stant drain upon their pockets and their temper, and a never-ceasing cause of anxiety and unhappiness, they crave it as the sum of all earthly desire. Empire was once considered the lust of kings only. Th e Americans, in their present temper, lust for it more ardently and unreasonably than any King or Em peror who ever troubled the world from Alexander o Napoleon. IRELAND, DUBLIN, Jan. 18. Another special meeting of the corporation was held on Saturday, to consider the important ques tion whether the statue of the Agitator should be left in the niche it eccupies at the side of the City hall or be promoted to a more commanding position in the centre. The Conservative members opposed the contemplated change on the ground that it would be an unwise precedent to establish, and also that it would be giving O'Connell an apparent pre cedence over one of her Majesty's ancestors—a statue of George 111. having formerly stood on the proposed site, from which it was removed because it spoilt the appearance of the hall. The debate lasted more than two hours, and, as on the previous occasion, became extremely personal. Alderman Reynolds, who abused unsparingly all who differed from him, observed that there were some statues in the hall which he would willingly see removed— statues of Dutchmen, and worse than Dutchmen. Dr. Lucas was a mad apothecary, and Grattan's name was not worthy to be mentioned in connexion with the Liberator's. Ultimately his resolution was adopted by a majority of 13, amid great cheering from the occupants of the gallery. The Federal agents are perservering in their en deavours to fill the thinned ranks of the American armies with the youths of Ireland. One of these persons has been pursuing his avocations in Gal way for the last week with considerable success, as appears from the following account in the Galway Express :—" The town of Galway has been conside rably enlivened this week by a visit of an Irish American, a native of Loughrea, who has kindly offered to take out to America, free, as many able bodied men as he can prccure. As soon as the ob ject of the visit of Mr. Feeny (for such is his name) was known, large numbers of our poor labourers proceeded to his quarters anxious to be booked. He stated that he had been commissioned by a railway contracting company to engage as many labourers as he could in Ireland to work on railways. On their arrival a sum of £2 per head is to be paid them to procure an outfit, and 8s a day is promised them on arrival at their destinaticn, but where that is we have not been able to learn. Each man is to have 2s. per day stopped out of his salary, to reimburse his employers :or the expense incurred. Large num bers are said to have entered their names on these terms. In Loughrea sir. Feeny is said to have pro and in G a l way , a l t h oug h t h e cured over 250 men , booking only commenced on Friday, mere than 200 are said to have got their names enrolled. Whether these men otherwise it is impossible to determine. It is said are Foreignoeun labourers enlisting that Mr. Feeny was arreste o d n u listment Act in Loughrea, for the Federal army, but as no proof could be had ns I he was acquitted. RESIGNATION OF AN IRISH JUDGE.—W 9 learn by electric telegraph that the Dublin Evening an nounces, on reliable authority, that Judge Ball is about to resim his tteat its the Court of Common Pleas, THE SUN', LONDO The Alleged Child Murder at Limehouse. COMMITTAL OF THE MOTHER. Yesterday forenoon Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner, resumed, at the Victoria Tavern, Three Colt-lane, Limehouse, the inquiry respecting the death of the male child of Rebecca Porter, said to have been murdered on Christmas-day. The prisoner, Rebecca Porter, a respectable look ing middle-aged woman, was brought up in the cus tody of Inspector Beare, under a warrant obtained from the Secretary of State. It will be remembered that the accused had been for a period of five months in the service of the keeper of an eating-house in Hales-terrace, Lime house, and that, as she wore an immense crinoline, the suspicions of her mistress were at one time ex cited. The accused, however, indignantly denied the imputation, and gave notice that she would leave rather than leave off wearing crinoline. On Christ mas-day, while playing cards with the other ser vants, she was noticed to be ill, and, though she denied having given birth to a child, the deceased was found in a box. Mrs. J. Harris, 2, Hales-terrace, West India road, was re-called, and she stated that she did not know that the accused Lad prepared any baby linen. Witness never saw any. Rebecca Porter used to sit at work in her room in the evenings for nearly the whole time. She was in service ; but witness saw her make no preparation for a child. She worked for herself as well as for witness. When, on Christ mas-day, witness taxed her with having given birth to a child, she denied it for half an hour. She after wards showed the child to witness in her box, whieh was under her bed. She asked witness to allow her to bury the child, and to take her again into her service, but that could not be done. George Cronk, 330 K, said that on Christmas-day he was sent for by Mr. Harris. By the inspector's orders he then accompanied Mr. Brownfield, the divisional surgeon, to Mr. Harris's house. He saw the child in the box of the accused. There was a hassock in the box, and one or two other things, but no baby clothes. The prisoner said she bad no questions to put to ,he witnesses. The coroner then cautioned the accused in the usual manner, and asked her if she wished to make any statement. The prisoner merely replied, "No, sir." Mrs. Harris, recalled, stated that she had been informed by the sister of the prisoner, that the pri soner had been married and had iven birth to two children: These children were dead. Witness did not inquire what was the cause of their deaths. The coroner then read over the depositions at length, and said that all the circumstances were of such a character as seemed to render a verdict of wilful murder inevitable. The medical man exa mined in the case indeed said that, though the child had fully breathed he could not conclusively say that the child had been fully born alive. Bat the other facts should not be overlooked—the deter. mined persistence in concealing her condition by means of a large crinoline—no clothes being pro vided for the child, although the accused must have known that she had gone her full time—the denial for half an hour that she had given birth to any child—the concealment of the dead body is a box— and the marks of violence on the throat, which were plainly visible—all seemed to show a settled intention to make away with the child, and doubt less to deposit it in the street at a convenient oppor tunity. The jury, after a tong deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful murder agaiusi., Rebecca Porter, but stated, in tendering their verdict, that had the law given them an option they would have brought in a verdict of manslaughter in preference, as they believed that there could have been no malice against the deceased, but that the mother had de prived it of life in an attempt to conceal the fact of its birth in order to avoid the shame of detection. The coroner then made out the warrant for the committal of the mother to Newgate for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Commercial Fraud at Sunderland, A commercial fraud of a disgraceful character has been brought to light at Sunderland. Mr. Thomas Kay, of the firm of Riches, Kay, and Marshall, merchants and shipbrokers, was a prominent mem ber of the Methodist body, and was held in high respect in Sunderland. Ho died suddenly on New- Year's-day, after returning from a " watch night meeting" at a Methodist chapel ; and it was then discovered that the deceased had been carrying on a system of obtaining cash to an unknown amount by means of fraudulent bills, in which the signa tures of persons dealing with the firm were used as acceptances without their knowledge or consent. His partners, who expected the firm was clearing about £2,000 a year, have been well nigh ruined by his deceit; and, instead of a comfortable balance of £4,000 in the hands of the bankers they found but £1,500, which may in all probability be condemned on account of bills in the hands of the bank. The way in which deceased effected the fraud was this —ship captains are in the habit of drawing ad. vances from the merchants or brokers who freight their vessels, in order to pay bills and port charges, and of receiving various gratuities. As the firm of Riches, Kay, and Marshall did a pretty extensive chartering business, such advances and payments were often made, and almost invariably by the deceased. The person to whom he paid an account was sure to be entertained with an interesting conversation on religious or other topics, according to taste, the ingenious merchant in the meantime folding and turning about a piece of blue paper, with an apparently careless air. On the paper were pencilled a few words of receipt for the amount advanced, and having a pen handed him at some stage of the pro ceedings, the unsuspecting captain readily " put his name down," as requested. The deluded recipient of the advance having taken his departure, the wily merchant was then at liberty to unfold his paper, which assumed the form of a bill stamp, and the pencilled receipt being duly obliterated,the paper could be filled up to any amount, the signa ture of the person who had received the advance appearing across the paper in the form of an acceptance. Such was the repute of the firm that thin sort of paper would be discounted to any amount by the banks, and as fast as the bills became due they could be easily replaced by nego- tiable acceptances of the same charaater. It is not known what amount of bills of this kind may be running, for on the opening of the safe, after Mr. Kay's death, there were found no fewer than 160 blank bill stamps, bearing the names of various parties who had signed them innocently in the way we have already indicated. The stamps were princi pallyof is. and 2s. each, and they were no doubt in tended to be filled up and passed off as genuine bills, so that deceased would have been able to obtain almost any amount of money from the dis counters. There is another story, to the effect that Mr. Kay got a well-known solicitor to make a will, disposing of a large amount of property with much form and pomposity, and on the strength of that easily induced the solicitor to lend him £2,000 or some such amount. Fortunately, however, the legal gentleman in question obtained back nearly the whole of the amount. It is generally supposed that the realisation of deceased's estate will cover all claims against the firm that may arise through deceased's course of conduct.—Newcastle Chronicle. 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There was a very 31,1Merous attendance. Mr. William Evans, chairman of the society, presided on the occasion. The CHAIRMAN having opened the proceedings, Mr. W. W. CRESSON, the hon. secretary, read the fol. lowing letter : FROM MR. BRIGHT, M.P. Rochdale, Jan. 14. Dear Sir, —I cannot be in London on Saturday, and can- not therefore be "present at the proposed farewell meeting to Mr. Thompson. I should like to shake him by the hand and to give him my good wishes before he sails for the United States, I remember his visit to this town, 30 years ago, on his mission on behalf of the slave in the English colonies. I remember his speech, and the effect it produced upon me. I have heard as many speeches as most men since then, in and out of Parliament; but I have never since heard a speech so moving in its eloquence and so grand in its object as that which he delivered in this town. I have always considered Mr. Thompson as the real liberator of the slaves in the English colonies ; for without his com manding eloquence, made irresistible by the blessedness of his cause, I do not think all the other agencies then at work would have produced their freedom. And now, 30 years later, Mr. Thompson will have the opportunity of seeing with his own eyes the process of libe ration in America —not a peaceable process as ours was, because with us slaves were comparatively few, and the power of the slaveowners small, but liberation through the process of a desperate war, intended by the slaveowners to make slavery perpetual. Whilst he will grieve over the calamities of the war he will look through them to the esta blishment of freedom over the whole of the North American continent, and he may see in the not distant future the abolition of slavery in Cuba and in Brazil, for I am per suaded that when the United States are free from slavery as England is, the united opinion of the two nations will do much to destroy the evil in every professing Christian country, I have not spoken of Mr. Thompson's labours in other causes besides that of the destruction of slavery ; they are known to most of those who will be with you on Saturday eveni ng . 1 can sa y honestly, and I say it with pleasure, that during the last 30 Y ears Llict Lao boon no mu v cuaell t on behalf of any good cause, and there has been no victory in this coulitry to freedom and the people, in which he has not borne an honourable part. I wish him all success in everything to which he may devote himself, and that he may witness more and more the growth and the fruit of the great principles which he he s done so much to impress upon the minds of men. Re gretting much that I cannot be with you.—l am, very truly yours, (Signed) JOUN BRIGHT. F. W. Chesson, Esq. Letters from several other gentlemen of distinction, ex pressing regret that they could nc,t be present, were also read to the meeting. The address to Mr. Thompson was as follows : To GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ. You have twice visited the United States in the service of negro emancipation—a cause dear to freedom and philan thropy. On your first visit, nearly 30 years ago, you were attended by the admiration and good wishes of a vast majo rity of your countrymen, rejoicing in that great triumph of justice and humanity—the abolition of British colonial slavery—which your ardent eloquence had immensely aided. At the time of your second visit, 15 years later, you were the representative in the House of Commons of one of the largest of English constituencies —a dignity conferred upon you with unexampled enthusiasm in recognition of your labours for every form of freedom and progress. You have since received abundant evidence that the heart of your old constituents and of the British people is faithful to the principle of universal freedom—faithful to the claims of the negro to bo regarded as a man and a brother—faithful to the champions of his cause—and faithful to the Govern ment that has dared to incur the utmost perils which can threaten a commonwealth, rather than abandon the enslaved to perpetual bondage and degradation. Now, on the eve of your third voyage in the track of the Pilgrim Fathers, we bid you God speed to the great and goodly land which they opened up to the adventures and hopes of humanity—we bid you God speed as a fellowlabourer beloved and honoured —and we charge you with a message of friendship, congra tulation, and encouragement to our brethren of the Ameri can Republic. _ _ " It is as members and friends of the London Emancipa- tion Society we offer you these words of temporary farewell. Associated together at a crisis in the history of both coun tries—organised for the special purpose of informing the British public, and of comforting with their sympathy our Amerian kinsmen—we owe more to you than to any man of our number. With unwearied zeal, with unfailing eloquence, with a perect knowledge of the great theme, with unequal- led powers of instruction and persuasion—you have toiled with us and withkindred associations at a sacrifice of health and comtort which demands our cordial gratitude. We are glad to be able to spare you—as we could not have done 12 months since. Thenthere was widespread error as to the is sues involved in the civil war, which we know to be the death strugg!o of the slave power. Though not fors moment did the heart of the British people hesitate between the negro and his master, there was much hesitation to believe the Go vernment and loyal people of the United States engaged in a war of emancipation. Happily it is so no longer. Events have proved stronger than the strongest prejudices and d ou bt s . B u t a m ong those events we rank high the speeches by which' acts of legislation and of war have been inter preted. Words are deeds, when bravely spoken in the right cause at the right moment. Such words have been y .urs• They have been sharp to convince and strong to move. They have greatly helped to set the heart and mind of England, wholly and firmly, on the side of the Free States fighting for freedom—on the aide of Abraham Lincoln, the first Pre sident of the Amerieanßepublic who has ruled in the spirit of the American Declaration, ' All men are by nature free and equal.' " Tell him, we pray you, that the people of England honour him for the wisdom, the courage, and the constancy he has displayed, that they thank the God who raised him up to deliver an oppressed people mad to purify a polluted commonwealth. Tall Mr. Seward and the statesmen of the Republic that England will honour them in proportion as they are faithful to the proclamation of freedom. Tell the Sumners and Greelys to preach by tongue and pen conti nually that England will be the firm friend of America through whatever misunderstanding or estrangement may arise. Above all, tell Garrison and Philipps—the New England Abolitionists—the old guard of the emancipation army—that the mother country holds their services in the warmest remembrance as the very worthiest offspring of our common ancestry. These messages you will be free to speak. At your first going to America, even Boston refused you a hearing. At your second, Now York was unprepared to re ceive you. Now, Washington Pelf will give you a welcome. The Republic will hail you as a faithful friend. We confide ye u to its keeping. We pray God to guard you by His pro vidence. We shall look for your return bearing the trophies U of happy victory in a holy war—the glad tidings that the Union has been restored , slavery utterly abolish ed, p eace and freedom ruling securely over all the vast domain which oppression tried to wrest by civil war from the possess ion or the hopes of civilised mankind. In the hope that y ou will return thus rewarded for the labour and the perils of y our anti-slavery career, we bid you affectionate farewell." Mr. IL VINCENT, in an eloquent speech, moved the adoption of the address. M. VICTOR SCH ( BLCHER,Under Minister of Marine in the Provisional Government of 1848,and thestatesman by whom the Act of Emancipation in tho French colonies was ori ginated and carried out, seconded the motion, which was supported by the Hon. F. IL Morse, the American Consul in London ; Mr. M. D. Conway, of Virginia ; and the Rev. Sella Martin, formerly a slave in Kentucky. The address having been unanimously adopted, Mr. G. TitOMPSON replied at considerable length, and expressed the pleasure with which he was about to return to the United States to witness the altered state of things in that country ; and he laved that as ho was present when revolution was in its credle born, or rather when the aboli tion principle was first inaugurated, he might be privileged to see that principle triumphant and slavery overthrown while he was there. (Cheers.) Addresses having beta delivered by the Rev. Dr, IkasslE and Mr. MASON JONES, the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. WILD FOWL IN THE FIRTH.—The frost has driven immense flocks of ducks. divers, widgeons curlews, and golden pltvers up the Firth, and during the' past fortnight numbers have bean shot in the neighbourhood of Inverness. On clear nights it is no uncommon thing to find about a dozen guns at the Longman alone. On Satur day, in consequence of ice, Kessock Foray was extremely difficult to navigate, and many poor birds, tamed by the intense cold, mounted these icy rafts, and suffered them. selves to float about in the tideway, until they fell an easy prey. Seagulls appear to suffer greatly from the frost. On Saturday they might have been taken with the hand along the banks of the river, They sat immovable for hours together, but no sooner did the thaw of Sunday set in than they all departed inland in search of food. On Monday afternoon there was only one gull to be seen at the shore, in spite of the hundreds that were there two days previously. We understand there is a flock of solan geese near Rose markie, but that it is next to an impossibility to get within gunshot.—lnverness Courier. [ADVERTISEMENT.)—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Useful linowledge.—The successful treatment of the great mass of disease is not so great a mystery as many may suppose. Purify the blood and disease departs. Hollo way's remedies effect this purification most satisfactorily and completely. Both medicaments may be beneficially used by the most inexperienced, under whose care the very worst of cases will progress favourably and terminate happily by using llolloway's renowned remedies according to the instructions which are printed and wrapped 'round each pot and box. They speedily rectify all functional disorders, and will be found superior to all other means for mitigating the sufferings of those unfortunately aff)cted by incurable maladies. The discoverer of these health-pre serving and health-restoring remedies has, with justice, been called the 44 Clegeral fiepefactor of 11lankincl," The report of the directors of this company congratulates the proprietors on the traffic receipts of the Sandridge and St. Kilda lines presenting satisfactory results. During the greater portion of the last six months the company's pier has been fully occupied by vessels, including the largest ships which enter the bay. The portion of the pier origi nally constructed on sunken ships will shortly be completed and made equal in strength and durability to any other portion of the pier. The coal traffic is also increasing at the pier considerably, and a further extension of that traffic may be fairly anticipated, while from the recent arrangements made for the reception of wool at the new sheds at Saridridge, for shipment to the company's pier, a much larger quantity of that important article of export will be forwarded by the Sandridc, , e line than hereto fore. The traffic receipts for the past six months show a gross profit, after the deduction of interest on debentures and payment of working expenses, of £19,251, This amount is more than equivalent to 91 per cent. per annum on the capital stock of the company, and had the weather not been so very unpropitious for travelling and sea-bathing during the last month of the half-year, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. could easily have been declared. The directors, therefore, recommend that a dividend at the rate of 9 per cent, per annum be declared, leaving a balance of £1,251. The engineer reports that the whole of the permanent way is in excellent order, and that the locomotives and other rolling stock of the company are always kept in the highest state of efficiency. The capital account shows that the total expenditure on the main line and works to Oct, 31, 1863, amounts to £387,800, and on the St. Kilda branch to £113,585, together £501,685. The revenue account for the six months ending Oct. 31 last shows that £35,546 had been received, and £12,713, or 3516 per cent., expended, leaving a balance of £22,833. From this is deducted £3,512 for in terest on loans, leaving a balance of £19,251 available for dividend. The receipts per train mile amount to lOs 4d, and the expenses to 3s 80, leaving the profit on the working 6s 7d per train mile, TEIGN VALLEY. It is proposed to extend this short line, which was sanc tioned by Parliament last session, from one end of it to junctions with the South-Western and South Devon Rail ways at Exeter, a distance of 7 miles, and from the other end of the Teign Valley line, which is to be eight miles in length, an extension to Ashburton and Buck fastleigh. The object of those proposed extensions, which Parliament will be asked to sanction in the ensuing session, is to form part of an inland line between Exeter and Plymouth, running close to the old coach road. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the examining barristers, Messrs. Smith and Frere, appointed by the Houses of Lords and Commons to inquire into the standing order proofs required by Parlia • ment in respect of railway and other bills, commenced the labours of the Session in committee-rooms of the House of Commons No. 10 and 17. The railway bills before the Examiners amount altogether to 330. Yesterday the num ber set down for hearing amounted to 25. The railway bills declared to have complied with the standing orders were as follows : LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.—The object of the first bill was to provide increased accommodation and station at Kemp Town, Brighton, with two short branch railways, one terminating at Montagu-place, and the second with the main line, with power to raise £15,000 and borrow £25,000. Tha second bill is to enable the company to make a railway from the Ouse viaduct, on their main line, to Uckfield, Hailsham, and Bexhill, at a cost of £500,000; and the third bill proposes to provide improved railway eonimu , nication between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, and raise £250,000. EAST LONDON.—For the construction of a group of rail ways to connect by means of the Thames Tunnel, which it is intended to purchase for the purpose, the various railways on the Surrey side of the Thames with others on the Middle sex side, at an estimated cost of £2,015,000, and power to borrow £570,000. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.—For the construction of new lines from the North Devon at Umberleigh to North and South Melton, and to raise £120,000. NORTH LONDON,—For a new line from Kingeland to Tot- tenham, with power to raise £200,000 and borrow a similar sum, the London and North- Western Company subscribing also to increase their dock accommodation at Poplar. 11I1DLAND.—For a line from Chesterfield to Sheffield, at a cost of £455,000, and to borrow £151,000. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. — For extensions to Silverdale, Mndeley, and Drayton, with power to raise £175,000 and borrow £58,000. EAST GLOCESTER,SHIRE.—For railways from Chelten ham to Witney and Farringdon, at a cost of £600,000, and to borrow £200,000. The Bill of the Macclesfield and Cheshire Midland Junc tion was withdrawn. The following bills were partly heard and aijourned Great Eastern (Metropolitan)—Daventry Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax —Buckfastleigh, Totnes, and South Devon—London and North-Western (for additional powers)—lloylake and Il fracombe. THE TOWNLEY CASE. REPLY OF THE DERBYSHIRE MAGISTRATES TO THE HOME SECRETARY'S COMMUNICATION. An important anl numerously attended meeting of the Visiting Justices and Magistrates of Derbyshire was held at the County Gaol, Derby, on Friday last, when the cor respondence recently received from Sir George Grey was taken into consideration. After mature deliberation, a reply to the Home Secretary, asking for a public inquiry into Townley's state of mind, was unanimously adopted, and forwarded to Sir George Grey on Saturday evening. The following is the concluding and most important part of this reply : _ _ The report made to you by the Lunacy Commissioners on Dec. 28 seems to the magistrates not to support the certifi cate of the two justices and two medical men, but to show that Townley is now by law criminally responsible, and that the further inquiry sought by the magistrates ought to be made. The commissioners, after referring to their exa mination of the officials, proceed to say— " The result of this examination of the officials of the pri son may be stated briefly as in effect establishing, without dispute, that there has been substantially no change in the prisoner's mental state since the trial ; that such difference or alteration as may have been noted has been an improve ment, and that he has been altogether more at ease, more resigned, and at times even cheerful, since the sentence was passed upon him. Not at any time since he was first brought to the gaol, according to the testimony of all who have had the means of watching him closely, does he appear to have been more rational than he is at present." In a subsequent paragraph they say— "ln view of the extravagant opinions thus deliberately professed by him (the details are appended to the report) of his extraordinarily perverted moral sense, and of the here ditary taint alleged, and apparently proved, to have existed in the family of the prisoner's grandmother, we cannot con sider him to be of sound mind ; but his views of right and wrong, false as they aro, appear to have been coherently acted upon, and with a full sense of what they involved. He reasons now as he acted in committing the murder." And they conclude their report thus— " Being of opinion, therefore, that the prisoner continues to be now in the same mental state as when he committed the murder and underwent his trial, we think that, apply ing the law as laid down by Mr. Baron Martin to this case, the prisoner, George Victor Townley, was justly convicted." The magistrates infer from this report that a man may bo not of sound mind in a psychological sense, and yet be criminally responsible in a legal sense. And Mr. Gisborne, the surgeon to the gaol, has to-day made to the visiting justices the following statement, viz :—" I did not call the attention of the visiting justices to the state of Townley's mind, because I did not consider him legally insane." In the instructions to the commissioners it is stated that " Sir George Grey is of opinion that the verdict of thojury, in which Mr. Baron Martin concurs, decides the question as to the sanity of the prisoner at the time when the crime was committed." And as the commissioners have reported Townley to be in the same mental state as when "he committed the mur der," and that "he was justly convicted," it seems impos eible to escape the conclusion that he is now criminally responsible. Tho verdict established the sanity of Townley at the time of the murder. The commissioners report, that there has not been any unfavourable change in his mental condition, therefore shows his sanity now. the magistrates, therefore, being now confirmed in their view by the report of the Lunacy Commissioners, again urge upon you the propriety and necessity of causing a full public inquiry to be made into Townley's state of mind, and his criminal responsibility. If the existing legal machinery is not deemed equal to the occasion, the meeting of Parliament is at hand when the defect may be supplied.—We are, sir, your most obe dient servants, T. W. EVANS, M.P., Chairman of the Quarter Sessions. W3l. MUNDY, M.P,, Chairman of the Visiting Justices. To tho Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. CIIAD.GE AGAINST A CONGREGATION.—On Sun day last the minister of a large congregation in Dundee was interrupted in the course of his forenoon ser mon by the repeated coughing of his auditors. Pausing in the midst of his observations, be addressed his congrega tion to the following effect :—‘. You go about the streets at the New Year time—you get drunk, and get cold, then you come hero and cough, cough like a park of artillery. I think 1 must give you a vacation of six weeks, that you may have time to get sober and regain your health again• lie there after went on with his discourse, which was concluded amid much greater quiet than it had been begun ; but just as the congregation were dismissing an indignant seatholder in the gallery rose up and loudly declared that the remarks of the pastor were nothing less than an insult to tho whole congregation,—Dunao Courier, SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. POST.—The course pursued by Austria and Prussia in separating themselves from the other German Powers is one which appears dictated as much by the instinct of self-preservation as by hos tility to Denmark. Of course, as between Denmark and those Powers, the delivery of an ultimatum, with a threat of immediate war, can only be re garded in one light. If the Danish Government refuses, as is most probable, to comply with the peremptory demand of the two Garman Powers, and the latter thereupon proceed to execute their threat, war must ensue. But the singular course which events have taken at Frankfort, and the din. sension which has arisen in the Diet, compel in different spectators to form an estimate of the Austro-Prussian policy not as it stands alone, but as compared with that which the almost unanimous voice of Germany appears to demand. Considered purely and simply, nothing can be less defensible than the demands made by Austria and Prussia upon Denmark. Assuming, for the sake of argu ment, that the November Constitution cannot be fully justified by the Danish Government, it does not supply either the German Confederation or any of the States composing it with a reasonable cause for invading Denmark. As regards the Confede ration, it does not in its Federal capacity possess jurisdiction in either Denmark proper or Schleswig, and, by the terms of its constitution, was never intended to possess the power of directing an aggres sive war. Austria and Prussia, as independent Powers, might of course set forth any pretext, how ever shallow, for invading Denmark or tiny other State;, but, according to the modern code of inter national morality, they could not avoid the condem nation of Europe should they throw down the gage of battle in the false character of champions of constitutional government. It is not, however, on its abstract merits that the present conduct of Austria and Prussia must be judged. It is impos sible to avoid feeling that, whether rightly or wrongly, the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have come to the conclusion that a choice of evils was forced upon them, and they have chosen what they consider to be the least. It may be taken as an incontestable fact that those Cabinets have at no time favoured the pretensions of the Duke of Augustenburg. This is shown by their proposal in the Diet that tho Duke sbru.ld be compelled to withdraw from Holstein, and by their still later proposal to make the invasion of Schleswig contingent alone on the non-withdrawal of the November Constitution. If, on the accession of Christian IX., the Austrian and Prussian Govern ments affected to make his recognition dependent on the fulfilment of certain obligations, it is not unreasonable to suppose that they merely employed an empty threat to obtain concessions from the Danish Monarch. Not only formal obligations, but the strongest motives of self interest, bind Aestria and Prussia to discourage the pretensions of the Duke of Augustenburg. Such, then, being the policy of the two leading Powers of the Confedera tion, let ns see the state of circumstances with which they had to deal. Whatever influence Austria and Prussia may have hitherto exercised at Frankfort, the events of the past few weeks have shown them that in the present crisis that influence is seriously diminished. When, on the death of the late King of Denmark, the Duke of Augustenburg laid claim to the Duchies, the question of Federal execution was pending in the Diet. When, however, the chief powers proposed that Federal execution should be ea/lied out, it was by a very narrow ma jority that the proposal was sanctioned, the mino rity having been of opinion that the Federal forces should enter Holstein, nut with the object of ob taining redress from Christian IX., but with that of placing. the Duke of Augustenburg upon the throne. Subsequent events proved that many of those States which on that occasion supported Aus tria and Prussia did so less from an intention to re cognise the claims of the Danish Monarch than from a desire to obtain easier access to the Duchy of Holstein. Unless the Diet professed to be simply enforcing domestic discipline, the Danes would not have evacuated the Duchy, and, consequently, such of the States as then supported the leading Powers, but have since opposed them, pursued a course re markable for its ingenuity. No sooner had the Federal forces obtained possession of Holstein than these States threw off the mask, and, without for mally declaring themselves in favour of the Duke of Augustenburg, offered a strenuous opposition to all proposals based on the assumption that Christian of Denmark was amenable, in the quality of a Ger man Prince, to the jurisdiction of the Confederation: The two chief Powers then found themselves in a minority. The resolution that the Pretender should be called upon to quit Holstein wae.t rejected by a small majority, and Austria and Prussia for the first time found that they had lost the leadership of the Great Council at Frankfort. Events, however, seriously affecting the status quo were meanwhile rapidly accumulating. In Holstein a revolution had been accomplished in favour of the Duke of Augustenburg, and nothing remained but for the Federal Commissioners to transfer to him the au thority which they were exercising in the name of the Diet. The Federal forces, having traversed Holstein, were massed on the banks of the Eider, and nothing remained but for the majority in the Diet to give expression to their desires and bid their troops cross the Danish frontier. In this juncture no course was open to the leading Powers save to forestall, if possible, the conclusion at which the Diet was to all appearances on the point of ar riving, by making the casus belli with Denmark rest on grounds distinct from the claims of the Duke of Augustenburg. In their attempt to do this Austria and Prussia were however again foiled. In this emergency the great Powers doubtless came to the conclusion that nothing was left to them as a means of preventing Germany from entering on a war of succession but to act independently of the Diet, and to rest the cause of quarrel with Dec mark, not upon the supposed usurpation of the King, but upon the violation of obligations incidental to his sovereignty in the Duchies. This they have done by offering to the Danish Government the ultima tum which wo announced to the public yesterday. That Denmark will refuse to comply with the de mands of the two German Powers thereis no reason to doubt. If she has hitherto set at defiance the entire Confederation, it is not probable that she will accede to the demands now made by Austria and Prussia. The Austrian and Prussian representa tives will doubtless quit Copenhagen, and war may be formally declared; but it is still possible that active hostilities may not instantly follow. The allied Powers of Prussia and Austria on one aide, and Denmark on the other, would be the bellige rent parties ; and the German Confederation—that is to say, the minor German Powers,would no longer have a right to interpose in the pending dispute. Austria and Prussia would be the sole arbiters of the conditions on which they would be willing to conclude peace. Neither Austria nor Prussia can possibly wish for a serious war with Denmark, and we suspect that their present policy, however dan gerous, is pursued from a sole desire, in consequence of their defeat in the Diet, to become, so far as re gards the other German Powers, masters of the present situation. HERALD.—It seems to be an essential of the Dano- German quarrel that it should be unintelligible to the last. Even previously to the accession of King Christian IX. to the throne of Denmark the Schleswig-Holstein affair was a puzzle to every European diplomatist, and an unfathomable mystery to the uninitiated public; but within the last month it has become more and more complicated every day ; and we are now on the brink of an European war, in which in all probability this country will be compelled to choose sides, without the remotest knowledge as to who are to be the parties to the struggle, what are its objects, and what it is all about. We could understand something of the: quarrel when it concerned Denmark and the Diet, and fancied we knew whatthe latter really wanted. But now one is fairly bewildered by the game of cross purposes which all the Powers interested and involved in the affair seem to be playing, and one looks in vain for any solution except that of war. Take the Treaty of 1852, a solemn engagement entered into by all the Great Powers for the speci fied purpose of providing for the contingency which has arisen—the death of Frederic VII. of Denmark. We have England standing by it almost alone, France declaring it a failure, Prussia and Austria treating it as a conditional obligation, Saxony re pudiating it altogether. When it becomes a ques tion of supporting the treaty the whole responsi bility is left to Denmark. And yet the treaty is barely ten years old, and the whole European sun tern rests upon the due fulfilment of treaty obliga tions. The inconsistency is remarkable, but it is a trifling matter compared with the confused action of the German Powers. We have heard a great deal of German unity. If ever there was a question on which Vaterland would be unanimous this was the one. Yet it is impossible to conceive a more hopeless contrarity of opinion than has been exhi bited in the German Diet. We give the whole German people due credit for thei r magnanimous disregard of treaties. Prussians, Saxons, and Co burgers agree on this point. But it is strange that the very first menace of collision with a neighbouring Power should, as it were necessarily, be followed by the immediate split up of th e Di e t. At present there is almost a doubt whether the arms of Austria and Prussia are to be turned against the Danes or against the minor German Powers. Austria and Prussia are supposed—why we cannot imagine—to be very anxious to maintain the Treaty of 1852. The minor German Powers are openly in favour of its repudiation. Austria and Prussia decline the occupation of Holstein and substitute execution. A fortnigbt later the same Powers propose the occu pation of Schleswig', and the minor States refuse their assent, Whereupon these sticklers for tretlV rights present an ultimatum to the D( 1131811 G l ri erl t i ; ment, and, in default of its accept aoce, tb.reat occupy Schleswig and break the pea ce E 3 h reP te . to be roe There is still one flagrant contradict. ; " corded of the many-sided German Prussian people urges on its Government WiiQea e lste ia tion, occupation, war, upon this Schleswig -P -° n t o question ; but when the King asks for a •lo:1090 carry out its martial intent he is snubbed. Th,_ f l gly is refused. The Prussian people would WW l ' , s to the a see Kiel a German port, but refuses to pay ind. of the annexation. The whole thing would be lot . crous but for its tragic aspect. The AUStrian 119,`, Prussian ultimatum has been presented and declinie:ft end the envoys of the two Governments hav e er Copenhagen. Nothing else could have bet ° "bit between The German people have got tu s o i be . tween their teeth and are fairly running I , r bee a I' ve .. with their Governments ; the latter have ing with the national passion until it has ! n ot mastered them ; and now Austria and Prussia ," eut . go with the stream. They cannot stultify W I o f selves by patiently submitting to the re tes3 ol their ultimatum. They probably intended, they hoped, that it would be refused; otherwisenaect would never have addressed to an in 5 P two European Power an ultimatum leaving' ° lee days for deliberation and reply. Moreger'hided the presentation of the ultimatum has been pr o re by the significant announcement of military ;ore' parations and movements of troops , whie too shadowed but too plainly the designs of to ° .ive Powers. There seems, then , to be no alter°%,tl for them but the occupation of Sehleswig'ficea that means war, which may be conlE ae ,"i t ta by the advance of the Prussian and Atis`raii armies against the Danes, but which will i tsl i t re tb e bring other Powers into the field. occupation of Schleswig would be a direct agg or e sion upon Denmark. The German Diet /Ws n: 33 0 5 locus standi upon the soil of Schlesw i g than to upon Denmark proper, and the Da nes are bO t3 u' oe nt resist the aggression. To counsel their abanaffiode of Schleswig to Austria and Prussia as the bdel—Vio of preserving it as a Danish province is absor w elir Danes have retired from Holstein, and it is re ; belt t . onised. Prussia and Austria must retail ) ,: t iler ascendancy in the Diet. They cannot afford all';'the heinbund ; they cannot even face a unio n !;i t icil minor German Sovereigns for a purpose le t (3, their own peoples are heart and soul int e A r !fe e tit. and which they would be doing their best to into In the present temper of Germany there ca° , be , i nfie doubt that the occupation of Schleswig by German troops would mean the realisation of the u s ,,,der aspiration of a dukedom of Schleswig-Hol stei of - t Frederick of Augustenburg, and the erasurecivers. name of Denmark from the list of European r e ,", be Denmark has taken her course. It remain s i' t neo seen what support she will receive from th e y 5 .; la' to the Treaty of 1852. We look in vain for °.'„ t i, dication of the policy of the British Goveron'!"o. Loid Russell's written despatches. Alwar '4 l e cte tremes, never to be relied upon, our F o reigo l o ge tary's forte seems to consist chiefly in enaeol Peg quarrel, preventing its pacific solution, and lt r1 :0 both the disputants. To us the question eet\-role resolve itself into one of honour and polieY• ' d er, parties to the treaty which is now insol entil ridden. We have an interest iu the Illainteo4l3ooll the integrity of the kingdom of Denmark,. 036 faith and expediency alike demand that 'e, should neither shirk her solemn responsibili ,00 tY: n signatary of the Treaty of 1852 nor sanctioyot t, of aggression which will hold out a Preee:neleo every potentate who has an army to m ove) " nationality to offer, or a province to gain, COUNTRY ,SETS• COLCHESTER—JAN. 16. t P . 5 00 t There was a tolerable supply of wheat at our tar get is P o day, with a good business doing, and prices 00'0 fist qr. Barley in better demand, but scarce. 1 3 e all 6. 1/ lato rates. Peas dull. .20 4 56 0 Wheat, white ..45s 49s Beans,Mazagal l i b p 3si red 4os 42s middle & 0113 358 soi Barley Oats GLOUCESTER—JAN. 16. a y There was a good show of English wheat to' Is f'f the farmers, which met a fair sale at a decline rico° qr. Foreign wheat dull, with no advan ce on tilir last week. Oats, barley, beans, and pea s very d CHELMSFORD—JAN. 15. ob olt: e; At this corn exchange to - day th ere was a I°s- of P `,ll wheat, which met a very dull sa l e at a reduction od quarter on the prices of last market day. BarK 0 voi o th e r descriptions of grain unaltered in price, vil` P .. 1 6 inactiva trade. :). P Wheat, old w. 30s 47s , Yeas, Partridg e "' .39 4 0 new 44s 50s White ......... 39 p old red 34s 40s Boiling; •• .. ..... .336 • .0 new 38s 42s Dun ........... ...., 0 %, 0 Barley 27s 378 Ditto new ..... :,, .i', Chevalier 2Bs 308 Beans, Tick, old . • 01 , Grinding 22s 31s new. Malt. Chevalier . Oats 20s 28s az g an . 6 6 4 i s s 607: i‘illarraow Tici a :: ::. ..... 3 _, 4 1: 0 50,_. KIRKCALDY GRAIN —JAY. 16. eat cor We had good supplies of barlby, oats, r i ce s for W.° and mat ket to-day. Sales were slow, and p altered. Barley and oats 6d per qr down. Wheat. Barley. OstS• 163 Od First....3ss Od 25 s 6 d Second .. 36s 6d 26s 6d 165 611 Third....39s Od I 2l)s Od 183 Od COAL Macs of Ccal per Ton at s. d. Lambert's West Hart-r ley 19 6 Tanfield Moor Butes lB 0 Hartlepool W. HartleylB 6 Cowpen Hartley 19 6 Eden Main ...22 6 West Hartley l9 6 _ _ MARKET. the close of the gi g et ' $, 6 ° Walls ?A 6 " Hetton ''''''''''' 6 Riddell .... .0 6 Tees ............ • 0 6 Gosforth ......... 0 South Hetton ......• Caseop ........ ••• South ja.r.tlopool..•••' 3t, 51; sold, 49. Wails End. Auckland Park. ..23 0 Ships at mark( Foreign Mail Packet List, ---.0--- lg' MAILS DUE. SO 12 , Australia and Mauritius, via Southampto n " ''' P P ' 3 ' via Marseilles ..... • '. L. ,g, cSrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ...... :jsiP 1• Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St ' • lielen,."„ Jai' 26' China, Penang, and Singapore, ' via Southatal,‘°-)sn' via Marseilles .. is. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton • ............ i t4i. 2B' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon: vi " a • •S•o•u•thax°P,'"' 'Jan' ~6 , via 'Alarseillee....3o, .40. India (Bombay), via Southampton .......... . 1 3, via Marseilles ................. deb, Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via So .............. •..... • Ja -t '' 2 0 ' via Marseilles .. • .•;:;.100. Newfoundland ........• 0 , . ro. Oporto and Vigo ......... ot., U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. Pe lc t.. a ' 2;3 ' by Canadianaceog...P 0. by P ..Fet ii, W.C. of Africa, Madeira and Teneritle ........ ' ., e , l ' 5 ' Bahamas, via Ne y i c ' .... • . J ""' w 0, ............... ... 6, Mexico. .. All parts of West Indies, including Ch ili ' ' e . ) California. and British C I mbia.. ....... -.• 22........... _ . ,.......-1 RECENT DISCOVERIES At Pompeii i 0 the the articles recently discovered at hip . a1 ,4° ,,p head of Juno, in silver, of exquisite w orkroan s n _!. A 0 ;13 b it in bro il " . '°_ , i ,Da- e : body, in silver, but broken; a bridle in the same metal complete, with cover, s uspe n " . l o 7 o s''''' . and extinguisher; a patera ; with the handles terminated by wing ed g e L seal I/3 D ie) cornucopia; other small vases in bronze, an - _ so in l /3 a largo an d ha j u i 6 hold il) t i lot metal bearing the name of the master of thebo;3oo, the articles were found—Lucio Cornell° Dia" _.--". _.------ TRP' L at PreE it i s not or tmor th e fill 4 ncorp n , n ,APPIic for Births. of BERN. MARDT.—On the 17th inst , at No. 1 , i f o ;t ...' t ter o rae?, Holland-street, Campden-hill, li•eri'lt?gaillter‘of coo h ni w ß ife of Freditrie de Bernhardt, Et3q., Of 3 ul o w ife T. —on the 16th inst., at Vernon 11010, tt., Sidney Cooper, Esq., A.R.A., of a son. .10, 54 GLYN.—On the IGth inat ,at 27, Prinees-gardeo°' ..-- . Leger Glyn, of a daughler. Cou nted CO 3 JERMyN,—On the 15th inst., at Ickwortb, the Jermyn, of a daughter. Vile o‘ GARDNER.—On the 13th inst., at Surbitosh Airs Gardner, of a son. Marriages. I Da bli f; copoI,hrOnLCLoYn—JELLICOE.—On the 11th inst., ;:jeati•l3.l, ll t y h , e E l s o q. c; of that city, to Ann.. 14,0-0, P,,e; daughter o n t ? and granddaughter t the late Sir Abranam ofemm Commander Henry J i_,.., pook +9l King, Bart. l'if t° el ED I3 IV r ARDS—JANES.-021 the 14th inst.,_ at Saint iffid i q tOII B -s a g r uare, Mr, Hayward daughterEdwrds,f' of t P Brewery, Yan s late George ja n i e ie t, s, to Augusta. youngest of Hunter's Hall, Watforu Deaths. 5.11e/I'° ARKWRICIIIT —oat la iotta , Arkwrioth . - E , a the 16th inst., - . I". • ° b t, r,sq., aged 59. O r ° BoviLL.—On the 17th inst., at Durnsford Lodg' f 0 bledon, Benjamin 13ovill , E s q ., aged 89. cliA.LL.—On the 16th inst. , Samuel Bircha Bilt 11, scl ' ' Springfield ell, House, Leeds, aged 45. hs f "S 4 FARNELL.—On the 17th inst., at Isle Worth, Jo Esq , aged 79, OOP GOD` IN the 17th inst., at Bog, Middleseict Godwin, Esq., aged 91. Hani l3°lji°' LEMPRIERE 0 .--n the 16th inst., at Pelliqra, , Admiral George Oury Lempriere, age ~. a . of Vr° SE S N t V r E e L et L ,'— O n the i, ro ltl, 17th inet Mr. Jobe. SOss Oil, TOwNSENE —0 • b . 01 Ilig''., n the 17th inst., at Lewis 3 ~,ci a , Newer'os: ~ Captain James Townsend, 11,,N.., 'lb ~,, $, —__—__ .--- ,o. ', . Lona , - ,L/ANI),, ii, on: 1 rlw,ed and rub:tidied by WILLIA,„,r,„ \0:4,0f of No. 112, Strand, renter, at 'rue SO u` - 'IO,I P Strand, in the freeinet of the 3avoy, in th o L'lltialeseX —Tuesday, January 19, Iso4. 'P o l';c th, 1 4 0, 1 3 4 1 a j ll ‘ c h 1, 14 .1 t