The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW. Yesterday a grand Volunteer Review upon a scale which seems only attainable on Easter Mondays was held at Blackheath, a wide plateau of undulating ground ;lying about four miles, in a southeasterly direction, from the town of Guildford. Anniversary gatherings of this kind are always interesting to the Volunteers and the countless grades of society among which their sentiments are shared and spread in the same way that a touch is communicated to the entire nervous system. In point of facilities for access by railway Blackheath is as advantage ously placed as most localities in the South of Eng land. By the South-Western line Guildford is only 30 miles from London, and the Common lies within less than four miles of that town. On the South- Eastern Railway, which almost skirts the Heath, the Chilworth station is but three quarters of a mile from the spot where the Grand Stand was yesterday erected. These two separate lines start ing from the metropolis hold the district within their grasp, and, worked in perfect harmony as they yesterday were, should be capable of throwing almost any number of troops upon the spot. The Portsmouth and Southampton lines brought up the Hampshire Volunteers, the Brighton line accom modated those of Sussex and Kent, while the Read. ing branch opened up a ready means of access to regiments in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxford shire, and the south-western districts generally, had these been disposed to avail themselves in any number of the opportunity. The advantages of situation were so obvious that the Volunteers of the metropolitan and home counties threw themselves heartily into the scheme, but those of districts further west, who might have benefited equally in its advantages with few exceptions allowed the op portunity to pass unimproved. There was no such apathy in the town of Guild ford. An unexpected piece of good fortune had fallen to their lot, and they made up their minds to improve it. The town draped itself with colours in honour of the occasion, and " a decorative committee" went to work upon the bridge over the Wey, producing not so much a triumphal arch as a graceful festooning of ever greens. There was some dissatisfaction on the subject of prices in Guildford ; and the charges were somewhat high perhaps. But in fairness to the inhabitants the fact must be recognised that the demand for accommodation very greatly ex ceeded the supply. Guildford is not unaccustomed to pressure at assize time, parties of 200 men and horses of the Royal Artillery are constantly billeted there on the journey between Aldershot and Woolwich, and when the Militia are em- bodied they too can be quartered without great difficulty. Any reasonable demand would, therefore, have been complied with at short notice. Those Volunteers, however, and members of the public who made holiday from Good Friday till after the review flocked down in such numbers on Saturday and Sunday that the status quo no longer existed ; accommodation of whatever kind was subjected to keen competition, and results followed that may be conjectured without recurring to the maxims of Adam Smith. This strain upon the local resources operated very unfavourably in one respect upon the review, for it prevented the Lieutenant-General commanding at Aldershott from sending over the contingent of cavalry which had been looked for. It was found impossible to procure quarters at Guildford, or Godalming, or elsewhere; it was plainly impossible to throw upon the railway on an occasion of this kind such a large amount of horse traffic; and the fatigue of a road march 13 miles each way superadded to the labour incurred in the review, would have been excessive. By way of set off, the town of Guildford experienced a sensation of a pleasurable character on Saturday afternoon, when Capt. Jay's mounted troop of the Hon. Artil lery Company arrived, having ridden the whole way from London, and brought down with them their two brass 6-pounders. This troop, which is unique in the Volunteer service, and differs probably from all the other artillery regiments in maintaining a stud of horses of its orin, and regularly exer cising them every day, is modelled as carefully upon the kindred service of the Royal Horse Artil lery as is the foot battalion of the Hon. Artillery Company upon the Grenadier Guards. The march from London to Guildford was accomplished in little more than nine hours, including two stop• pages for rest and refreshment, and on the comple tion of their journey the horses did not exhibit any symptoms of distress. Into the details of this march the military authorities inquired very cessely, and the importance attaching in their eyes to the principle represented by this troop is shown by the fact that on two occasions the battery commanded by Capt. Jay has been brigaded with regiments of the Life Guards. Detachments of Sussex Artillery, with heavy guns of position brought from Brighton, arrived in the course of Saturday afternoon, and the ordinary and special trains carried such an in• flux of visitors and volunteers that the streets were crowded with men in uniform. The quaint clock, contributing so much to the air of calmness worn by the High-street on ordinary occasions, seemed out of keeping with the roistering garrison -town look which the thoroughfare now assumed. To judge from appearances, the publishers of the West Surrey Times, a local journal of some pretensions, must have passed a busy time in satisfying the gene ral curiosity about everything connected with the review, The buglers of the various corps having representatives in Guildford laboured even more arduously, for hours after the " last post" or tattoo ought to have sounded at the most tolerant military station these inharmonious watchmen of the night were flourishing wildly with their horns, insisting upon superfluous points of war. Late on Saturday night there was a complete gale of wind, accompa nied with hail and drifting snow, which gave rise to anticipations of the most gloomy character, Upon Blackheath itself some canvass roofing upon the different stands was blown from the framework, and fluttered about dismally till an early hour on yes terday morning, when damages were made good before the review commenced. On Sunday morn ing again the streets were gay with uniforms, not indeed to the same extent as on the previous day, but many of the volunteers seemed to consider it a piece of courtesy towards the citizens to attend Divine service in full uniform, and in the evening there was a church parade and a special service of St. Nicholas's Church, where the sermon was preached by the Rev. H. Huleatt, M.A., princi pal chaplain at Aldershott. To facilitate the arrival of the Volunteers on Monday morning preparations of an extensive cha racter had been made both by the South-Eastern and South-Western Railway Companies. The former laid down nearly a mile of extra siding, besides constructing temporary platforms sufficient for the accommodation of 14 trains of 25 carriages, and in like manner of 15 horse-boxes consecutively. The South-Western Railway not only imitated the example of the other line in erecting additional lamps, telegraph signals, &c., but continued each of_ the platforms from the Guildford Station to the foot of the bridge some distance down the line, over whi ch the main road crosses in the direction of the Hog's Back. Mr. Dyson, the efficient representa tive of the company at Guildford, further caused strong barriers to be erected, separating the Volun• teer traffic entirely from the public, and clearing out a llrge space generally used as a coal-yard, con nected this by means of a new entrance with a field, where the brigades as they returned from the re view were halted near a refreshment booth. In theory, at least, everything was thus done which foresight could suggest t o f ac i litate their unimpeded debarkation or embarkation in the different trains. The distribution of the metropolitan Volunteers possible equali se d b etween the two being as fa r as compan i e s, the arraogetnents contemplated that each should run about 12 trains with troops from London, irrespective of trains required for the general public, for country Volunteers, trains with horses, Scc. As a rule, the Volu n t eers leav ing Lender' arrived in goad time at their appointed termini, and the suceessl7o conveyances seen to have been pushed on as fast as possible by th e railway companies; but, nevestheless, a con siderable delay occurred le getting the regiments safely landed and in motion towards the ground. It was to this cause, at least, that the tardy com mencement of the review was escribed) and about one fact there can be no doubt. A special train with Volunteers' horses was timed to leave London- bridge before 6 a.m., and to reach Shaltora in less than an hour and a half ; this was still in process of being unladen at 9 o'clock. Probably much of the difficulty thcit presented itself in getting the troops on to the Heath in time arose from circumstances over which no one can be ustly said to have had control. In their warfare Federals have frequently experienced the diffi- culty of advancing when once they quitted the course of the navigable rivers. Treating the rail ways, for the sake of comparison, in a similar light, the Volunteers yesterday found soon after they had turned their backs upon these main lines of com- munication what obstacles lie in the way of actual campaigning. For though, as already stated, the district is easily accessible and the route throughout abounds with natural beauties, the Heath itself being bat scantily resorted to has no good or regu lar approaches. There are but three lanes which could be employed yesterday, all nearly on a par in point of straightness, steepness, and sandiness. One of them,—that leading from the Chilworth station,—was set apart for the public, and along one or other of the remaining passes, distinguished re. spectively as Phillips-lane and Great Tangley lane, the entire Volunteer foree, guns and all, had to make its way. The light troop of the Hon. Artillery Company left the road as often as it could, and went scrambling up the hills with catlike activity. The heavy guns of position, on the contrary, had to plough their way slowly and laboriously over t h e yielding soil, find ing at every step the literal truth of the warn ing issued from the War-office—" Phillips-lane, by which the guns will be taken, is narrow and some what steep, and the road leading on to the Heath is for a quarter of a mile heavy with sand." So steep and so narrow was the path that, although each gun was drawn by six horses, furnished in the 1 case of one battery by the farmers of the neigh ' bonrhood, and in the other by a large brewery firm in Guildford, the gunners, being unable to march in military fashion beside the limbers, were compelled to take out their handspikes and from behind to assist in pushing on the wheels. In this manner Lord Truro's Artillery battalion, having charge of six 18-pounders and six 24-pounders, and the batta lion of Sussex Artillery, with six 18-pounders, were enabled to attain the summit, and to place the guns in position shortly after ten o'clock. Both the horse artillery and field batteries of the Hon. Artil lery Company reached their destination at the same time. The Ist Middlesex Artillery, under Colonel Creed, ought also to have made its ascent then, but not being prepared to start at the right moment, or for some considerable time afterwards, Colonel NleMurdo said he could not permit it to run the risk of choking one of the roads by a stoppage, and tbJrefore directed it to postpone its departure till the last of the infantry brigade had passed up. In this latter process hours were necessarily consumed, and the hopes of the spectators on the plains above, which had been excited by the arrival of the ar. tillery, sunk again as time passed by inactively and the clouds began to gather ominously round. Now and then a puff of music, sharp and momentary as a jet of steam, was borne to the ear on a current of wind more than usually strong. Then again there was an inter val in which nothing was heard. About eleven o'clock the first patch of scarlet showed itself above the gloomy outline bounding the view at the ex tremity of the Heath, and from that time forward there was a tolerably steady flow of armed men in the direction of the further side of the Heath, some times narrowing to the dimensions of a riband, the tints of which were scarcely discernible, sometimes spreading out into a broad and brilliant sheet of colour. As the troops arrived at two stations which were at a distance of more than three miles apart, it was impossible to ascertain with exactness either the numbers or the order in which the brigades came down. In the order there was certainly a disruption of the programme, and in the numbers of which the various corps were made up there were either additions to or subtractions from the official lists furnished to the War-office. In the absence of the official states, however, the latter must be taken as the only authentic return, and according to which the defending force, under Gen. Russell, was composed as follows : C , rps in First Division.—lst Sussex Artillery, six 18- pounders-Ist Middlesex Artillery, four 18-pounders-Ist Hants Artillery, Ist Cinque Ports Artillery, 2d Middlesex Artillery, 2d Surrey Artillery, Ist City of London Artillery, Ist Tower Hamlets Artillery, Ist Middlesex Engineers, lst City of London Engineers, Ist Hants Engineers, 7th Bat talion Middlesex, 3Gth Middlesex, 2d Middlesex (South), 4th Middlesex, 9th Middlesex (West), 11th Middlesex (St. George's), 32d Middlesex, 15th Middlesex(London Scottish), 19th Middlesex, 21st Middlesex (Civil Service), 38th Mid dlesex, 22d Middlesex (Queen's), Ist Battalion-22d Middle • sex (Queen's) 2d Battalion-29th North Middlesex, 46th Middlesex, 2d City of London, 2d Battalion Surrey 12th Surrey, Ist Battalion Surrey-3d Battalion Surrey -Ist and 7th Surrey, 10th, 19th, and 23d Surrey, 2d Battalion Hants—let. and 2d Hants, 3d Battalion Hants-13th, 15th, 16th, and 18th Hants—making a total of about 9,750 men. On the other hand, the attacking force, under General Rumley, was thus composed : Corps in Second Division.—Hon Artillery Company, Horse Artillery, 2 6• pounder guns—Field Battery, four 6-pounder guns. Light Cavalry, 3d Middlesex Artillery, four 18-pounders and four 24-pounders, Hon. Artillery Company, 2d Battalion Middlesex, 26th Middlesex, 37th Middlesex, 20th Middlesex, `Bth Middlesex (London Irish), 39th Middlesex, 40th Middlesex, 48th Middlesex, 4th City of London, Ist Battalion Sussex, 2d Battalion Sussex, let Sussex, 2d Battalion Essex, 3d Battalion Essex, ht Bat talien Kent, 6th Kent, 2d Cinque Ports, Ist City of Lon don, 3d City of London, lit Battalion Tower Hamlets, 9th Tower Hamlets, 2d and Bth Tower Hamlets, 4th and 6th Tower Hamlets, Ist Battalion Berks—making in all a total of about 8,500 men, Lieutenant-General Pennefather, com manded in chief, and the following were the mem bers of his Staff ; Lieutenant-Colonel P. Bayley, Captain A. C. Boyle, V.C., and Lieutenant D. H. Doherty. Aides-de-Camp — Colonel J. W. Armstrong, C. 8., Assistant-Adjutant-Gene ral—Captain W. G. Lockhart, Deputy Assistant-Adjutant- General—Lieutenant. Colonel the Hon. H. H. Clifford, V.C., Assistant-Quartermaster-General—Captain P. A. A. Twynam, Deputy Assistant-Quartermaster- General-- Colonel Simmons, C. 8., Royal Engineers—Lieutenant A. L. Buckle, Royal Engineers, Aide-de-Camp—Colonel Gambier, C. 8., Royal Artillery—Captain Pearse, Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp----Captain W. S. M. Wolfe, R.A., Brigade Major—and Colonel Buchanan, Royal Artillery. The Blackheath of Guildford in no material re spect differs either in the inequality of its surface of.the productions of its poor, thin soil, from the large tracks of waste land like Chobham or Bag shot which occupy so large a portion of the county of Surrey. In its general aspect Blackheath very much resembles Chobham, so popular 10 years ago, when the first of the modern encampments, and by far the prettiest of them all, used to draw such thousands to its reviews. There are the same undu lating dark-brown slopes and knolls, covered knee deep with tangled heather and moss ; the same long, narrow, dusty tracks which serve as footpaths across it, with one or two steep ridges which dominate the whole ; and here and there, on the edges of the Common, rough, wild thickets—for woods they can not be called—in which latches and firs, sparsely intermingled with stunted underwood, just afford a dubious cover to the skirmishers. On the northern extremity, which the Volunteers approached by Tangley-lane, the land was high and bold, overlook ing a beautiful valley well cultivated and dotted here and there with homesteads—a perfect specimen of rick English scenery : But the luxuriant vegeta tion of the valley soon gives place to the more hardy furze and heather, the only products of this ste r il e sandy region, broken at intervals with patches of larches, oak, and fir. The light yellow sand contrasts finely with the dark green of the pines, the purple brown of the heather, and the blossom of the furze, The small lane which has been ascended now be comes little better than a cart-track ; still it is suf ficiently well traced to be followed. It goes right across the Heath in a direction north and south, and the whole extent is traversed by footpaths in every direction. The little hamlet of Blackheath, which consists of half a dozen houses, lies in a cn the east side of the road. Beyond this again the ground rises; but if the hamlet be avoided, and a more cvEsterly direction taken, the depression dos not intervene, the satno ridge of hills stretching 5•W5 across Far ley-heath to Hurtwond-common whara there are thousands of acres of uncultiv a t e d land. From this ride the heath forms a succession of slopes more or less steep and diversified as to ruts and rabbit holes till it terminates at Farley in the thin belt of trees we have spoken of. It is not exactly the kind of ground for any sport which re quires an exhibition of the speed of either ma❑ or beast. The surface is always rough, uneven, and much cut up, and in its best places is deep with heather, in short, what any military man would term difficult ground on which to show off the niceties of regimental setting up. For cavalry the heath would be all but impracticable, though, unlike Chobham, which in other respects Blackheath so much re- sembles, it is free from bog or quagmire from end to end. Before the review commenced there wera no ack of prophets of evil, loud in their prognosti- cations that the volunteers would be unable to keep anything like formation on such a soil. But the . _ event proved that these dismal forebodings were premature. Undoubtedly the volunteers would have got:on much eaeier on downs and pasture lands, but it is far more creditable to them now to have achieved the magnificent display of yesterday over a country of which even military men were afraid than if they had gone through the same man oeuvres with faultless precision on a a ward like that of Hyde Park. In mere picturesqueness the choice of ground had everything to recommend it, and on almost every side from the heath the valleys below opened oat in long undulating blue vistas, which were exquisitely beautiful, and fine scenery is by no means an unimportant accessory in the sac cess of these great military displays. The real faul of the heath is one which it is almost impossible to remedy—namely, that it is too small. A large space is required for the proper evolutions of a force of t 18,000 men and 24 guns. Blackheath is only alb the most a mile and a half long by a mile wide and unless on future occasions Farley-heath, which adjoins Blackheath, be added to that yesterday at the disposal of the authorities, it will be difficult to make these reviews either useful or effective. For some reason which has yet to be explained the - Volunteers were yesterday refused permission to enter on Farley-heath at all. In consequence of the delays already mentioned in the arrival of the various corps it was impossible to get them all in their places on the ground by 12 o'clock, but in half an hour or so afterwards nearly all the attacking and defending forces began mov ing across the Heath in great masses to the positions assigned to each. At this time there was a grea concourse of spectators on the ground which fringed the woods with long irregular lines, or covered the knolls and slopes with dense black groups. Towards 1. o'clock the whole force was stationed at their allotted points of attack and defence, and almost precisely as the last complete disposition was made the weather, too, finished its arrangements for the day, and began to rain. The morning had been lovely, and despite the delicate attentions of a north east wind, which drove the thin fleecy banks of clouds along with ominous rapidity ; despite, too, the mores disheartening fact that it was a great Volunteer day, and, therefore, one which, according to precedent, ought to stand in the almanack as "stormy, with much rain," everyone steadily ig nored the possibility of rain, and hoped against hope in the fact of the fast accumulating low dark clouds, At last, as we have said, when everything was com pleted, the weather threw Wall disguise and broke in cold, sharp showers, which fell with unpleasing frequency almost throughout the remainder of the day. As a matter of course, no Volunteer minded this, nor, to do them justice, did the spectators ap pear to regard it much, and the real business of the day—the sham battle—went forward with as much ardour and animation as might be expected from Volunteers who have been used to nothing but wet weather since the days they were first enrolled. The actual details of the evolutions of which the battle consisted may be summed up almost briefly, for though the mock contest lasted at least two hours, its most striking feature was the sustained and tremendous fire kept up on both sides, .as the peculiar nature and limited space of ground forbad any attempt at complicated or extended manoeuvres. Major-Gen. Russell, with the defending forces we have already enumerated, occupiei the ridge of hills stretching across the common, facing rather to the south, where the main attack was anticipated from Farley-woods. The assailants, under M }j or-General Rumley, may be said, in fact, to have been divided into two bodies—one of about 4,000 men, with eight guns, while the main body of 5,090 men, with two pieces of horse artillery and four field guns, made a flank march under cover of the woods, and delivered the real attack on General Russell's ex treme left. it was this feint and real attack, and the necessity which Gen. Russell was under to bring his troops from his left to meet the fl ink attack on his right, which constituted the evolution of the day, in which, from the absence of cavalry, there was a sameness almost amounting to monotony, as far as the spectators were concerned. To do the Volunteers mere justice, it is but fair to say that they did their best by the rapidity of their move ments to make up for the want of cavalry, and to them it was certainly one of the most fatiguing days they ,have had for a long time. The great majority of them most have been ten hours in the ranks be • fore they started to return to London. The movements commenced with the feint attack on the right of the assailants, who suddenly showed their skirmishers from under cover of the thin cop pices, and began a cautious advance, while their guns were ostentatiously pushed forward to the commanding eminences and began a heavy cannon- Tiede. In a few minutes more and the whole of the extreme right of the enemy showed itself, the skir mishers leading, the support in open columns of companies, pouring down rank on rank in solid lines, while the guns were slowly advanced after them from point to point, so that the fire of the artillery never slackened for a moment. With the first indications of the onset all Gen. Russell's troops were on the alert, though beyond throwing out their skirmishers and moving forward a few corps in their extreme right, no advance was attempted till the numerical superiority of those making the feint attack on the left was seen. Then their guns, too, were brought forward, and their line of skirmishers and supports advanced till almost their whole front was at right angles with the concealed force of the enemy, which lay under the ridges between the two clumps of woodland. For some2o minutes or so this state of things remained—a heavy artillery duel going on from the heights, while the sputtering fire of the riflemen in front sunk and rose and spread irregularly up and down the slopes and ridges. All this time the attacking force were quietly massing brigades under cover in such a position as that when they debouched into the plain Gen. Russell would be completely outflanked. It was not until a move ment of the defending skirmishers was made against this part of the field that the real attack was un masked. Then suddenly the aspect of things was changed, and the movements at once assumed the most animated and exciting appearance. From where Gen. Burnley lay concealed on the right a perfect cloud of riflemen suddenly swarmed down into the woods, while the Hon. Artillery Company, in spite of the difficult nature of the ground, brought u p their guns in splendid style, and commenced a flanking fire which enfiladed the whole defending line. The confined space of the grouad and the woods in which both forces met here; the rapidity with which the real attack was hurried on, and the unforeseen spots from which assailants kept pouring forth; the bugle notes to recal the skirmishers from the overwhelming force they had so unwarily provoked—all gave to this surprise an effect which was wonderfullyexciting, and which perfectly resembled in its haste and in some places by no means simulated confusion all the main elements of a real battle and a real surprise. The defending skirmishers who had entered the wood were for the time thrown into real disorder, and the haste with which the recal had been obeyed by the main line left groups of 20 or 30 intermixed among the trees, firing desperately against the masses that were closing in upon them, and making the coppice re-echo with a metallic clang that was almost deafening. Fortunately, they managed to extricate themselves, and gain the open, though. heel the laws of the sham contest pertni'ted, it would not have made several companies of the defenders prisoners of war. Almost simultaneously with the appearance of their skirmishers the steep slopes leading out from the wood and in rear of the guns began to be covered as if by magic with advancing troops, marching as closely a s th e y could, and hur- TFIBA StiN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1864. rying through the uneven lanes and thickets to the open where they could deploy. Spite of the ex ceeding iy difficult nature of the advance, they swept rapidly on at the double, and just as they reached the plain deployed in line, taking ground rapidly to the left so as to outflank Gen. Russell's force in such a manner as left it no option but to make a slowly retiring fight of it to avoid annihilation. And now the plan fast developed itself. To save the out flanked and hard-pressed right wing of his force Gen. Russell hurried corps after corps from his left to strengthen his right, and to stop their rein forcement the feint attack on his left was now really pressed, and the fight then seemed to rage fast and furious. The cannonade and file fire was terrific ; the smoke lay thick and heavy among the heather, just gently curling up as if the plain was on fire, while, as the keen wind lifted it now and then, the hurry of the troops to reinforce the right wing could be seen, with the attacking forces still pouring out into the p sin, and outflanking them more and more every minute. The result of such an attack became a matter• of military certainty. The troops outflanking were on the spot they threatened —those to protect it had to come at least a mile, so that three corps were deployed by the assailants for one that came to the rescue, and before half-an-hour elapsed, during all which time the battle seemed to rage with awful din upon the right, the attacking force on the left outflanked the defenders by nearly half a mile, and outnumbered them by at least one third. In such a position there was no help for it but an orderly retreat, and the whole line of General Russell's force fell back—the guns covering the movement—the infantry in echelon. As they did so General Rumley pushed forward, still continuing as he advanced to outflank his antagonists, till at last the two armies, if we may so call them, stood nearly face to face, extending in line nearly a mile, on every foot of which the firing from guns and rifles was going forwards on both sides as fast as the pieces, large and small, could be loaded and discharged. What followed after this was a mere repetition of the same manoeuvres, the defenders retiring as the assailants advanced, and so on till the former were forced back nearly a mile, and the engagement was broust.t to a close amid such a general discharge of musketry and cannon as probably never before woke the echoes on the hills round Guildford. Once in the open, where the movements between the intervals of smoke could be distinguished, and it bscame evident that the corps, in spite of the rough nature of the ground, were all doing their work quickly and well. The marching, considering the difficulties of the advance, was really admirable, The file firing was as good as the average of Line Regiments, though the volleys were scarcely up to the same standard. The City of London Rifle Brigade, the London Scottish, the 19th Middlesex, the 2d, 11th, and 40th Middlesex corps. with the sth, 19th, 23d, and 10th Surrey, were remarkable for the rapidity and solidity of their movements. There were very few corps on the ground, in fact, of whom the same could not be said, but those we have mentioned were especially worthy of notice, and the artillery of all the corps in the field managed their guns from first to last in the most eoldierlike style. At a little before four o'clock the manoeuvres were brought to a close, or rather the firing ceased, for the movements had ceased some time before, and the troops were formed up in columns of companies for marching past. The ground over which they had to step was little less uneven, and quite as thickly overgrown with heather as any part of the common. Under all the circumstances, and after such an exhausting day, this was rather a trying ordeal, but, neverthe less, all went through it with great credit, and some in such a manner as to elicit deserved applause. We regret to say that the day did not pass over without three rather serious accidents. Many got heavy falls over the stumps of broom and gorse which lurked among the heather, and in two cases these unfortunately resulted in broken legs. The third accident happened to a civilian, who was shot in the groin by a ramrod and badly injured. In all cases the sufferers were immediately removed to the hospital-marquee, erected in roar of the grand stand and specially sent over for this duty from Aldershot. Beyond these three most unfortunate mishaps no other accident up to the time of march ing past took place. The railway arrangements both on the South- Western and South-Eastern line were nclnairebl - y carried cut, though the crowd of visitors very con siderably overtaxed the slender resources of the Chilworth station. It will need considerable en largement if these displays are to be of annual re• currence at Guildford, Dreadful Boiler Explosior. and Loss of Life, At about a quarter to 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the inhabitants of the centre of Greenock were startled by a loud explosion, which was soon found to proceed from the bursting of a boiler on board the iron screw steam lighter Ruby, of Renfrew, lying at the Mid Quay. The following aro the particulars: — The Ruby had a high-pressure engine of about 8 horse power, which was supplied with steam by a common flue boiler, placed per pendicularly. She belongs to Messrs. Henderson and Cold. burn, Renfrew. Shortly before 3 o'clock she arrived in the West Harbour, laden with coal, and having on board Win. Crombie, the master, Richard Linn, the mate, both belong ing to Glasgow, Robert Gilchrist, engine keeper, belonging to Kilsyth, and a number of labourers who had come down for the purpose of discharging the cargo. When the Ruby came into the harbo ur s h e p a ssed up the west sid e of the Mid Quay, outside of a li g b ter named the B rownie, belong ing top. Nie b l en d i' coal iha sc age rgi nt n h g coals er on whiehinthe early part o f the day had been board the ship Mar garet Kerr, at the West Quay, but when partially dis • charged had shifted alongside of a brig lying in the same harbour. The Ruby ran against the Brownie, the Ruby's anchor piercing the hull of the Brownie under water on the starboard side about the waist, making a hole in her. The Brownie began to fill with water, and it was immediately deemed advisable that she should be run round to the bank opposite to the Tar Pots, on the east side of the Mid Quay. Accordingly, for this purpose, the Brownie's warps were thrown off, and the Ruby, with her anchor still sticking in her side, took her in tow, and both were run round near to the Tar Pots. There the Brownie began to settle down, and her crew were hurrying to get on shore, collecting to gether their clothing for this purpose. Just as the men of the sinking Brownie were about to step on board the Ruby, the boiler of the latter burst with a fearful explosion, send ing up a cloud of steam which for a few minutes con cealed the real position of a ffairs in immediate proximity to the accident. When is bad cleared away men were run ning from the place suffering from injuries. It was found that Robert Gilchrist, the enginoman of the Ruby, kad been cut about the head, and that David Hunter, the mate of the Brownie, was missing. He had last been seen standing aft on board his vessel, about to get into the Ruby, and it is supposed that ho had been st ruck b y a p ortion of the boiler and knocked into the water. The after- p art of tho Rub y had been blow n out ; she had filled with water and s e ttled down on the ground, the water reaching to about the deck. It was high water at the time. The top portion of the boiler, weighing about 3cwt, had been projected over a number of high buildings, alighting on the p avement at the north west corner of William- stree t and Dalrymple -street. A se r e c o a n s d t, p b e e r t t w io e n en of t t h h e e: v o c o iiglehri,nug machine and the c orner ofot quite so large, f e ll on th e B t the William-street. A third p ortion of the boiler was blown out into the harbour. A stea m p i p e was blown throu gh one of the s econ d fl oo r windows of Mr. Warren ' s boarding house.Brle'ahset,maaling-hhtoinleg in Shaw. street, at the foot of Long door was projected over the h ous e s a Long well-close. The engine grat in g was thrown over a tenem e nt, alighting on the top of so me cellars, and a man's coat or jacket was thrown on the roof of a high house. A l a rge p la e n r e. tion T o h f lighter's e th m eostoEthewindows w of the houses an d s h ops i n deck alighted at the E as t• quay the district, extending from opposite to the Fish-market on the west to about Shanno n. close on the east, were com pletely demolished by the concussion. Especi a ll y were th e o p f an \s e , s il olfiainpla-tste-rgeet latssanini i n Shaw-street, some of them very s hops along the Breast, up a portion large, completely smashed. Shopkeepers were running to their doors to look on the ruin which had suddenly over taken them without being able to account for the cause of it, and great consternation prevailed—some attributing the devastation to the shock of an earthquake. The streets were strewed with broken glass, and several p ersons were injured by fragments of it falling on them.—Greotock Telegraph. 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POST.—Amdng the many and various measures of law reform which have been dallied into effect dur ing the Chancellorship of Lord Westbury none hold a higher place than those which effected the con solidation of the criminal law. The amalgamation of the statutes which constitute our criminal code has long been the dreatii df law reformers, and various have been the attempts made to retain° it. Committees have been appointed to inquire into its practicability, and their reports have been pub lished and duly canvassed; but some obstacle has continually opposed itself to the legislation for which they were intended to serve as a basis. At length, however, some few years since, the Legislature passed a series of bills which were de signed to incorporate the various statutes and sec tions of statutes relating respectively to offences against the person, malicious injuries to property, larceny, forgery, coining, and the law affecting accessories and abettors. The statute book from the time of Charles I. was thoroughly weeded, and upwards of one hundred acts were either wholly or in part repealed. Many of their provisions which which had become obsolete, and served no other purpose than to mislead, found no place in the new acts, and the latter coast quently were, at the time when they received the assent of the Legislature, considered as forming a concise code of the existing criminal law. Now that the consolidating statutes have been submitted to the test of experience, it is satisfactory to find that the expectations to which they gave rise have been fully realised. It would be impossible for any one unacquainted with the intri cacies of our criminal jurisprudence to estimate at its proper value the effect of this measure of legal reform. The obstacles which heretofore op posed themselves to the easy specification of the offence with which a prisoner was charged, the doubts continually raised respecting the statute under which he should be indicted, and the many loopholes left for the escape of the most notorious malefactors, on grounds of a purely technical nature, were entirely swept away by the recent statutes. In so far as regards offences akin to those prohibited by the acts to which we now refer, all difficulty has entirely ceased to exist respecting the simplest and most efficacious means of putting the law in operation against wrong doers. But, after all the most that can be said in praise of the measures which in part consolidated our criminal law is that they constitute a step in a direction in which many advances remain yet to be made. Since those acts became law the present Lord Chancellor has urged upon the Legislature the expe diency of attempting to do for the entire statute law that which was in this instance effected with re spect to a certain class of Acts of Parliament. Let us begin, said Lord Westbury, with Magna Charts, and, turning over the statutes at large, folio by folio, eliminate from the mass all that have been re pealed, or which the lapse of- time and change of customs have rendered obsolete and useless. Although, however, the assent of Parliament was given to the Lord Chancellor's scheme, the time, we tear, is still far distant when we will see it realised. Meanwhile, however, the work of consolidating the criminal law might be advantageously proceeded with. There are many statutes which, to the sur prise of both bench and bar, are from time to time raked out of obscurity, and put in operation not un freqnently to accomplish private and not public ends. When it is recollected that the fundamental maxim of criminal jurisprudence is that ignorance of the law affords no excuse for the commission of an offence, it must be admitted that those acts which constitute offences which they prohibit under severe penalties should be unusually clear and easy of reference. Whatever objections may be raised to a new scheme of general codification, they ought not to apply to any project for the consolidation of those portions of the statute-hook creating the criminal law. In ancient Rome it was ordained that the laws should be transcribed and posted on tae walls of the city, so that all might have an oppor tunity of making themselves acquainted with the nature of the acts prohibited by the State, and thus avoid, either wilfully or unconsciously, committing them ; and a most serious charge advanced against one of the Cm3ars (Caligula, if we mistake not) was that he had the laws written in small characters and posted so high that it was impossible for the passers by to read them. But difficult tho egh it may have been for the Romans, under such circumstances, to make themselves acquainted with the laws, such difficulty was as nothing compared with that expe rienced, not merely by the British public, but by legal practitioners themselves in extricating from a vast mass of heterogeneous statutes those precepts intended for the guidance of all, and with which every one is conclusively presumed to be ecquainted. So few persons take the trouble of studying the law, that, as regards the public, it might not perhaps make much difference whether the criminal law were condensed into a few simple statutes or left in its present state ; but, as respects the administra tion of justice, the alteration would assuredly lead to the most important results. Apart, however, from the question,, of consolidation, there is abun dant room for reformation in the present system of administering the criminal law. It may well be doubted whether it is conducive to justice that the mouth of the accused should be closed. and that the mere circumstance of being charged with the commission of a crime should preclude an individual from tendering his personal testi mony in refutation of the accusation. It may also be questioned whether it is consistent with int pattiality or humanity to secure, at the public ex pense, professional advocates to prosecute prisoners, and leave the latter,even on capital charges, totally undefended when without the means of securing professional assistance. It is absurd to suppose that uneducated men or women can be acquainted with the legal definition of offences, and yet on arraign. ment they are invariably presumed to be so. The convict Wright may have been, and probably was, justly executed; but no one will deny that when called upon to plead he may have confounded the offences of murder and manslaughter. The State has an interest no less great in demonstrating the innocence of those who are unjustly accused than in convicting those who have infringed its laws. Under the existing system of criminal law administration this is to all appearance lost sight of. We presume the accused to be innocent until their guilt is proved, but we place too much reliance upon the supposed invincibility of the armour with which innocence is conceived to invest those who are wrongfully accused. Our criminal laws have of late, both in their essence and in their mode of administration, been considerably modified for the better, but they still furnish a wide field for the labours of the law reformer. HERALD.—The Canada brings us but little news, but what there is is satisfactory, as confirming pre vious reports of the utter failure of the combined movement of the Federal armies and fleets. Gen. Sherman has reached Vicksburg after suffering Immense lose in men, arms, aneartillery. From Demopolis, in Alabama, the Confederate General Polk has issued an address of congratulation to his men, in which he remarks of Sherman's abortive campaign, that never did so grand an enterprise fail so ingloriously. It appears that it was Sher man's intention to have captured Selma, in Ala bama, but on account of the defeat of Smith's expe dition from Memphis, by which he expected to be reinforced, ho was not able to get further than Meridian. As a reward for his good intentions, rather than for his success, General Sherman has been appointed to the chief command in the western district, which includes Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the Cumberland River. if we may measure his future by the gauge of his past career, this appointment is of happy augury to the Confe derate armies in those regions. Sherman is now on a visit to Banks in New Orleans, and is concocting with him another grand combined expedition. The Red River, which waters the vast region of Western Louisiana, empties itself into the Mississippi about half way between Vicksburg and New Orleans. At the mouth of the Red River a fleet of Federal transports is being collected. They are des tinned to carry an imposing force from Vicksburg and New Orleans into a country which lately has been almost given up to the Confederates. The army, when started on its mission, is to be joined from the North by another contingent, from Little Rock, in Arkansas. In undertaking this campaign the Federals are bat anticipating a great danger, which has long been gathering over them in the South-West. Preparations have been long in pro gress on the right bank of the Mississippi, the avowed object of which is nothing less than the re capture of New Orleans. At the very time that the Federal army. the Federal officials, and a handful of cringing renegades have been inaugurating the mockery of a State Government in that very Southern city, the real governor—the one to whom an oppressed people give all the allegiance of the heart, if not of the lips—is addressing them from beyond the river, and comforting them with hopes of speedy deliverance. " Ladies of New Orleans," writes Governor Allen, "may Heaven guard you and protect you. When the spring time comes you shall see the grey-coats again, and welcome back to New Orleans the sons and daughters of Louisiana." It is to nip this danger in the hug!, if possible, that Banks and Sherman are about to attack the onfe derates in 'Western Louisiana. No help meanwhile can be expected from Generai Thomas, at Chatta nooga, whose position is now threatened in flank by the advance of General Johnstone, to Ringold. No help is to be had from Burnside, still beleagured at Knoxville. The Confederate army under Polk is set free by Sherman's retirement and the departure of the Federal fleet from before Mobile. If, while the armies of Banks and Sherman are being slowly pioneered through a difficult and hostile country from the banks of the Red River, Governor Allen, from Opelousas, should march upon New Orleans from the west, while Polk moves rapidly from the east upon the same point, the most important of Federal oonquests may slip from their grasp, a nd with its loss the evacuation of the whole soutivvreet would become a necessity. In their movement towards the city the Confederates ought not to be deterred by the infamous threat that if New Orleans has to be evacuated the Feder' gunboats w ill first shell and destroy the city. Such a crime, calamitous as it would be in its re sults to the South, would eventually recoil on the heads of those who had perpetrated it. We do not for a moment doubt that the Northern commanders are capable of it. Though the destruction of a de fenceless city would be elven more unjastifiable than the attempt to burn Charleston behind its triple circle of forts, we cannot affect surprise at any cowardice or any atrocity on the part of the men who planned the surprise and destruction of Rich moa by a cavalry raid, including in the programme the murder of the Southern President and every member of his Government. No further attempt has been made to question the authenticity of the vile documents on the body of Dahlgren. It is true that Kilpatrick endeavours to make out that Dahlgren exceeded his instructions. This is no more then is to be expected of him. A man who could place assassination would not stick at a false hood ; and it is easy to gloss over the matter when his wretched tool has died by the sword. The cha racter of this chivalrous cavalry officer is shown by the brutal manner in which he has sought to avenge his failure. Among the fertile pastures which skirt the York River in Virginia is one particularly beautiful tract of country, called King and Queen County. The industrious farmers of this district have meddled as little as possible with the war that has desolated the rest of the Old Dominion. In this quiet corner they hoped that the rush of battle would pass them by unharmed, and leave them in peace to cultivate their corn and tobacco. It was not to be so. Kilpatrick has failed in his desperate ride against Richmond. Many of his officers and men have been taken prisoners, and will be fortu nate if they are allowed to share, on equal terms, the fare of the Beltelsle prisoners whom they wished to liberate. Smarting with rage at the thought, the gallant Kilpatrick bethought him self of the women and children and unarmed men, on whom he could wreak his vengeance with impunity. The horde of avengers swept over King and Queen County. A garden of Eden in the morning, ere night it was howling wilderness. Villages were destroyed, dwelling houses sacked, homesteads given to the flames, the inhabitants flying ruined to the fields, pule nod and slaughtered. The horsemen of Kilpatrick left their track in blood and ashes. And so the manes of Dahlgren were pacified. Can we wonder that people in Europe s'lould turn sickened and disgusted from the oft recurring news of a war whic is illustrated by such deeds, and in such profusi h on that it has become monotonous in horror ? What does surprise us is, that there should still be any left among us, any truehearted Christian men, any delicate, merciful women, to sympathise stall with a nation the tale of whose deeds reads so much like the " Newgate Calendar." Revolted by these histories, it cannot be expected of us that we should pretend to take much interest in the political intrigues, the continual changes of command, which argue the weakness and imbecility of the Washing ton misrule. What particular concern of ours is it whether Mr. Lincoln is to be re-elected, or whether General Grant is to succeed General Halleck in the chief command of the armies of tize Federal Union ? Temes.—A case was tried last week at Cambridge which may certainly be termed a remarkable one, though for very unusual reasons. It was a case admitting of no doubt, of very little defence, m;(1 of as little uncertainty in the verdict. It involved no heavy damages, affected no commercial interests, resolved no intricate question of law. In all these points it was absoletely without importance; but it possessed, nevertheless, an aspect notable enough to excite much comment and invite special reflec tion. In its actual form it, was an action fur tres pass. The Stewards of the Jockey Club had waned Mr. Irwin Lewis Willes off Newmarket-heath, and as that gentleman had appeared there in despite of their notice, they indicted him accordingly. No doubt the Jockey Club owns the Heath and can regulate the admission to the ground. In this sense Newmarket Racecourse is private property. but, exactly in the same sense, theatres are private property too, and we can hardly illustrate the case bettor than by supposing that the proprietors of Drury-lane or Covent-garden should, by their com mittee or stewards, warn off the premises any thea trical critic who had given an unfavourable opinion of any piece or actor. This they have certainly the right—that is to say, the power—to do ; but what would be thought if it were exercised ? What would be said if the managers of our operas, who, like the Stewards of theJockeyClub, do enforce their rights against objectionable characters, should ex■ tend his punishment, as the Ste wards have done, to a writer who had offended them by a report in a public journal ? Would it not be evident that such a measure, besid:s being arbitrary in its character, was detrimental in its effects to the inte rests of the public ? What results from the proceed ings at Newmarket is this—that a report from that place on the doings there may now be regarded as conveying not what the reporter would wish to say, but what the authorities of the Jockey Club per mit to be said. There is no limit to the " warnings" which may thus be given. If the system were car ried out and applied to other public entertainments or transactions, an honest, independent report would be thought an impossibility, end one of the best securities for public morality would soon disappear. It is surprising to us that these consequences were not foreseen by the committee of the Jockey Ciub. They are peculiarly interested in the maintenance of all these safeguards. The morality of the turf, which they charge themselves with protecting, is not so solidly established that they can afford to dispense with any of its supports, and nothing could aid them more than free criticism and perfect pub licity in upholding those principles which, as is ad mitted on all sides, they are sincerely anxious to maintain. It would have been better to put up with even unmerited or unjustifiable criticism than to interfere by the exercise of a private right with the freedom of the Press. That right undoubtedly existed, but it was a great mistake to extend its application from cases obviously within its scope to one in which the only offence was the expression of an opinion. Legislature of British Columbia. Oa the 21st of January the first session of the first Legislative Council of British Columbia, as sembled by authority of her Majesty's Order in Council of the 11 th of June, 1863 , was o pened with a speech by the Governor, Sir James Douglas. His Excellency congratulated the colony on this first: step towards a perfect form of representative government. In the course of his speech he recom mended to the favourable attention of the Council proposals, on the part of the Atlantic and Pacific Transit and Telegraph Companies, far establishing telegraphic and postal communication between British Columbia and the head of Lake Superior, Vancouver Island and British Columbia joining in a 4 per cent. guarantee of profit, but their united annual liability in no case to exceed £12,500. The public revenue for 1863 amounted to £llO,OOO, and £65,805 was raised on loan ; the expenditure was £192,860, and there is also a debt of £10,700 due to the Imperial Government. The budget for 1864 chews a surplus of £12,000 at the end of that year, after paying off the deficiency of 1863 and the debt of £10,700; but £12,000 will not be sufficient to meet the extraordinary expenss re quired for objects of public utility, the considera tion of which will occupy the attention of the Council. The speech contained the following para graph relating to the aboriginal population :—" The native Indian tribes are quiet and well disposed; the plan of forming reserves of land, embracing the village sites, cultivated fields, and favourite p aces of resort of the several tribes, and thus securing them against the encroachments of settlers, and for ever removing the fertile cause of agrarian disturbance, has been productive of the happiest effects on the minds of the natives. The areas thus partially defined and set apart in no case exceed the proportion of ten acres for each family concerned, and are to be held ?,s the joint and common pro perty of the several tribes, being intended for their exclusive use and benefit, and especially as a pro vision for the aged, the helpless, and the infirm. The Indians themselves have no power to sell or alienate these lands, as the title will continue in the Crown, and be hereafter conveyed to trustees, and by that means secured to the several tribes as a perpetual possession. That measure ie not, how ever, intended to interfere with the private rights of individuals of the native tribes, or to incapaci tate them as such from holding land. On the con trary, they have precisely the same rights of ac quiring and possessing land, in their individual capacity, either by purchase or by occupation under the Pre-emption Law, as other classes of her Ma jesty's subjects, provided they in all respects com ply with the legal conditions of tecure by which land is held in this colony." It is stated that re porters wit. not be admitted during the debates in the Legislative Council. Crystal Fountains for the East. The unparalleled splendour of the gig antic crystal al* delabra lately manufactured by the Mesa, - s. Deitie s for the Nizam has led to another extensive order from the same locality, but this time it is for five colossal fountains, to be . composed entirely of cut crystal, with the introduction et small coloured glass lamps for illuminative purl loses. man y manufacturers this peculiar direction m .oath have b een insurmountable, but the Messrs. Defries , ou the order was a perfect novelty to them, have succeeded in producing such a magnificent specimen of workmaushiP. that it cannot but add to the celebrity of the firm, and heighten the fame of British manufacturers abroad. I t scarcely possible to convey in words an idea. of the great beauty of the splendid structure we have had the gratifies' tion of witnessing, but the elegance of the fountains m a y in some degree be imagined from the followin g brief deserirt tion. The form chosen represents a kind of temple, 1 2 f ee , in height, the four columns being compos ed of diamond ell' glass of ruby, blue, green, and topaze tints, aro und e at of which is entwined two series of inverted w ster jets, re' presenting flowers of rite brilliancy. Fret a the centre rises a number of elegamqy cut glass dishes representing immense water lilies, and beneath the two l arges t in th e centre, tiers of fairy lanth,orns have been placed, O tt : structed of oriental coloured crystal, in order that the prismatic rays may fall up an. the water as it descends' Around the centre of the fountain there are two more tiers of floral jets, whilst the principal slue rises from the sufun lit and tilt ows its glittering stream to a height of 30 or 40 feet. Water jets have also been introduce d into the capitals of the columns to play into the upper dish, and when th e whole series are put into action the 4pec4 - ator cannot but imagine that he is standing in front of or to of those fail, creations only to be read of in the " Ar. abian Nighte: Although the work is not to remain in Engl end (it is VI peculiar these triumphs of English art invariat ly go abroad), the firm have determined to manufacture sms 11 fac.sirail se for the decoration of the dinner table, which will continue in action without requiring the slightest attention for three hours, and on the comp:etion of the first one it will he immediately exhibited at the west-end showrooms Of t ha , firm, the Crystal Gallery, Piccadilly. Various magnifiee w additions have within the last few days been made to the superb display of table glass already there on gratuitous exhibition, and the first which claims attention is the Cow pletion of the engraved service copied front the lama! Elgin marbles. Each figure is a perfect atutly, and Wi t " now we have never known the extent and perfection 0 which engraving on glass could be carried. The half tones are all (delicately developed, an d the most minute details are so exquisitely executed that the service may Bata be pronounced as a triumph of British art. Til e Alexandi a cups and vases have also been added, and el' though of a different ornamentation, they are of equal meri t and excellence. It would occupy too much space to g° even briefly into a description of merely the principal ob jects of beauty displayed, but we cannot pass from the or hibition without noticing the lace work and floral ornamer tation that has been engraved on many of the dinner sea dessert services, goblets, flower vases, comporters, 804 which, although not of the massive character of those t° which we have already referred, bear the same stroll) of artistic execution. The latest additions to the chandeliers comprise many of the most extraordinary dimensions, con, strutted either in silver, crystal, ormolu, and bronze, but perhaps the best view of the gaseliers is to be had at th e , City manufactory and show rooms, where, in order to offer' the greatest accommodation to visitors, the most extensii alterations have been made, in order that a stock, unequalled for extent, variety, and costliness, may be exhibited 111 manner its high merit deserves, COUNTRY MARKETS. __---.1 , --"-- COLCHESTER—MARCH 26. We had a small show of wheat on offer at this maroo to-day, and late rates were fully supported. Barley Ito scarce, and with a good inquiry for malting parcels, 15' rates were rather exceeded. Beans and peas unchangee• Wheat, white. 44s 50s Beans, l 7 40s 44s middle & small.32s ary redsi Barley Oats - GLOUCESTER—MAncn 26. There was-a fair supply of English wheat to-day the farmers, for which trade was free, at about fool, prices. Foreign wheat in limited demand, at the rates anything in buyers' favbur. Oats, beans, and barley O r / dull. NORTHAMPTON—MARCH 26. White wheat, new, 33s to 445; new red, 37s to 410; old. 378 to 45s per qr. Barley, new malting, 32 s t o 36e. g rinding. 25s to 30s per qr. Oats, 18s to 32s per 24 s toDe ' Beans, 30s to 41e. Peas, 30s to 378 per qr. CHELMSFORD—MIRcit 24. At this corn exchange to-day there was a fair shoal. of wheat, which met a dull sale, and last week's rates we' maintained. Spring corn unaltered. Wheat, old white 30s 476 yeas, Partridge....36 B , 2 33 6 4 .4 new 44s 50s White 30 s old red....34s 408 Boiling .. 385 1 , 1 6 : new 38s 42s Dun 33s ' Barley 25s 34s Ditto new —s ' - ' 44 90 Chevalier .......26s 37s Beans, Tick, old 34s - --0 Grinding 20s 29s new..--- 8 kos ~. Malt. Chevalier , ,64s 69s Oats 20s 28s new ..—s Mazagan. .......30s av KIRKCALDY GRAIN—AIARciI 26. of We had a good quantity of oats, but small supplics e t wheat and barley. 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Hamilton, Esq., of a f lIIMPHRY.—On Easter-day, at Brighton, the wif e A. Llumphry, Esq., of a daughter. c ogoo (111 ROGERS.On th 9 27th inst., at Redhill, Mrs. • Rogers, of a daughter. Marriages. 0° 1 , 3 COZENS—WILLIAMS—On the 26th ult , at Ealing , ''tt - 01 0 .1 George Cozens, Esq., of Brompton, .to Susannshisq., the second daughter of John Dyer Williams , Boston-park-road, Ealing. 10 °' ROGERS—WHITE.—On the 22d inst., at St. Mary's, gerof ton, Portsea, Hans, Chilies James Harding %ore C.E , to Julia Davis, the youngest daughter of White, of Jersey. Deaths. st 55► FENN.—On the 20th inst., Captain Barnard Fenn, Carlton-road, Maida-hill, aged 82. 011 0 GALLOWAY.—On the 24th inst. at at Windsor, -,al,iiof° Galloway. Esq. Bengal C.S., • son of the late General Sir A. balloway, 41. °. KING.—On the 24th inst., at Hythe, Kent, ISI B J:ilotO t William James King, late of the Royal Sta'' - aged Si. re , Ga ild sle LEONARD.—On Good Friday. at Albury, near the Right Hon. and Rev. William Leonard, seccind count 61dmouth, aged 70. SKINNER. —On the 25th inst., at Quox Lodge , l'"" Heath, the infant son of Hery Skinner. Wes 4 Timms.—On the 23d inst. at 9, Wirapole-street, Elizabeth Martha, wife Of Godwin W. Titunle, aged O. P. Lonotdon No. 112, : PrinZeStrand, Prin d and Prbl ls ter, at Tao hed S by IVILLIAg A N11 740 li 0, ,' O N Canoe — ..,1 . 43. t he Coll. • Strand, in the Precinct of t h e Savoy, Mildleaex —Wuesday,_Alarch 24, 1864.