The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. LONDON REVIEW.—A contest of considerable importance has been carried on with great keenness during the last ten days in not a few of the counties of England. The point in dispute was the manage ment of the kighways, and the contest lay between the public, who wish to have the roads kept in good repair, and the paris hes, who wish to maintain their an cient privilege of repairing them as badly as pos sible. In this struggle the public was represented by the county magistrates assembled in quarter sessions, who, under the Act of last Session, have power of forming highway districts by the union of several parishes. The parishes appeared on their own behalf, and strenuously defended their ancient right of a separate and independent control over the roads within their own limits. Success has varied, but on the whole victory has inclined to the side of the public. But parochial authorities are proverbially tough, and generally die hard. And they have never made a harder fight for any of their anbient privileges than for this power of managing the highways by separate parishes. They successfully resisted any change in Parliament for more than a dozen years. Every Ministry, both Whig and Tory, since the time of Sir Robert Peel, has attempted to take the management of the highways out of the hands of the vestries. Every Secretary of State since 1849 has brought in a bill with that object, and after all these repeated attempts, the Act which was at length passed last year did not itself enforc e a c hange of manag e m ent, but gave the power of enforcing it to the Justices in Quarter Sessions. Hence it happ ened that the whole battle had to be fought over again in every Quarter Sessions through the country. Each of these assemblies was turned for a time into a local parliament, which was vexed with petitions from alarmed ratepayers, and besieged by importunate vestries, who were making a last desperate effort to ward off any change. Happily the justices have, for the most part, stood firm against this pressure, and the new Highway Act will now be very gene rally adopted through the country. The natural remedy for the evils of the present system is to in crease the size of the divisions which are under separate highway management. Accordingly, under the new act, several parishes will be grouped to gether, so as to form a single highway district, the roads in which will be managed by a highway board, formed partly of persons elected by each parish, and partly of the justices residing in the dis trict. This board will elect a surveyor, who will re ceive a salary. The country will probably be able to furnish 200 or 300 professional surveyors, though it could not supply 17,000. There will not, how ever, be any change in the incidence of the taxation necessary to meet the expense. The estimates of the repairs required in each parish will be made separately by the district surveyor, and the parish will continue as before to pay for the repair of its own roads, with the addition only of its share of the common expenses connected with the officers of the board. The principle of the new system is to make the highway districts of such extent, as to enable the board to obtain skilful management, and thus secure efficiency as well as economy. The system of unprofessional surveyors, must in the end prove the most expensive, even though these officers re ceive no salary. Want of skill, wherever professional knowledge is required, is always want of eco nomy. The advantages of enlarged districts are so obvious that it might have been sup posed that the parishes would have willingly accepted the change. The very reverse has been the case. The opposition of the ratepayers has been mainly founded on the idea that the employment of paid surveyors would lead to increased expense. This fear seems to be without foundation. The ex pense that will be saved by more skilful manage ment may fairly be set against the salaries of the surveyor and the other officers of the board. But on this point we are not left to mere conjecture. The experience of the six coun ties of South Wales is sufficient to reassure the alarmed ratepayers on the head of increased expense. In those counties, highway districts, similar to those now proposed, have existed for several years, and there is a unani mous concurrence of opinion that since that system came into operation there has been a very marked improvement in the state of the roads without any addition whatever to the annual expenditure. Another objection is urged against the new system on the ground that it tends to the destruction o, local self-government. Centralization and bureau. cracy are words of fearful import in English ears, and there is little doubt that this objection had great influence on many persons who opposed the new act. It is, however, manifest that subdivision may be carried to such an extent foe the purposes of local management, as to become an absurdity. The question in such cases always is, what ought to be the size of the district on which separate powers of government are bestowed. And it is manifest that if the subdivision be so minute as not to warrant the employment of professional knowledge when it is necessary, local self-government has been carried to an extreme. If the ratepayers of every street in a town bad the separate control of the paving of their own street, that would, doubtless, be local self-government, but it would be government re duced to an absurdity. SPECTATOR.—In 1839 there existed a society in Paris called the " Societe des GI( na de Lefties," to which most of the French literary celebrities be longed, and whose object—like that of our own Dra matic Authors' Society—was to protect the rights and interests of authors and dramatists. Balzic re fused, for a long time, to join the society, chiefly, as far as we can learn, because he considered his own interests were more advanced by acting indepen dentty of his literary colleagues. However, in the ahoy.) named year, he was bitterly annoyed by the extent to which hie works were pirated in Belgium, and the idea struck him that this system of piracy could be suppres se d b y a gigantic library d con federa tion, of which this s oc i ety might be made the nucleus. Fur this object he got himself elected a member, tbe e and proceeded, with his usu a l impetuosity in mencement of every und er t a ki ng, to revolutionize organization. With this view he laid before the so ciety' the draft of a complete literary code. Thelfirst and fundamental condition was, that no author belong. ing to the society was to make any agreement with a publisher without submitting it previously to the sanction of the committee. The terms under which the society, or rather their agents, were at liberty to sanction an agreement were laid down with The number of editions and minute particularity. copies in each edition was to be defined by written agreement. Unless there was any clause to the con trary, the author was to have the right of republi cation of any work published in a newspaper or re view. Every agreement which bound one author to one publisher for more than three years was to be null and void. All newspapers who had employed a writer to wr i te forty articles a year or upwards, for ten consecutive sears, wereobliged to providenim with a pension of not less than £4B a - year. Again, in all literary cont rac t s t h e presumption was to be in fa• sour of the auth or as against thepubeb' This view was based upon th e pr i nc i ple that the purchase r ; of of an unwritten w or k was not a commercial but a speculative operation, and that therefore the pur chaser, in fixing the price, estimated the eA lance , of loss arising from the failure of health or ability, or the want of good faith on th e part of the author. Plagiarisms, either of title or subjects, were for bidden under heavy penalties. Foreign authors were secured equal privileges in France, to what were acceded to French writers by the Government of their OVVII countries, and the right of translation watiluof to be conceded without the consent of the author. In order to protect the privacy of literary men, it was declared illegal to write birigraphies of living authers, to attribute to any one the author ship of of an anonymous article with a view of his reputation, or to make any allusion in print to his domestic circumstances and per cenal habi ts. How the sixty-two clauses of the _Code, of whi ch we have culled the principal (MS, were to be enforced, Balzic does not appear to have clearly provided. 'ems to have been th a t the Socie t y fl)ating idea Writefo s r hou v id refuse to allow any of its membe rs to who did not adhere to these stipulatiaonn4s publisher the Government should be ind uce d t o and that that eetahli s h the literary code as the law of the land. The dieenesion of the code was adjourned till a c omm i ttee or the society had drawn up a report, which was to be laid before the Government. This committee, of which Balzac was the author, consisted of himself, Victor Hugo, Louis Desnoyers, Meruau, and Fran cis Arago. After a year and a half of delays and discussions and difficulties, the only result of their labours consisted in a prologue to the report, which ended thus :—" In conclusion we would add, that France has owed the supremacy she has obtained in Europe alternately to her arms and her writers. And yet what has her Government for that power which has bestowed upon her such glory in the eyes of foreign nations ? Nothing. No !we are wrong. As long as a writer is unknown, the Go vernment abandons him, and leaves him to struggle alone against all the miseries of his early progress. As soon as he has made a name, the Government either prosecutes him, or tries to corrupt omrnis petlaim.” Wearied with the procrastination of h sion, Balzac then proposed that itshouldebweiunidd up e its labours, and that instead a petition presented to the King, asking in the name of the o society for the establishmenturgaoefmaensytstoefmloitferdaetcuerne nial prizes for the enc. There r prizes of X 4,000 for the best tragedy, y, were comedy,i B noel, opera, nel, treatise on Christian t and archaeological essay, and one of philosophy, for the best epic poem. The required sum for these prizes was to be provided by a permanent endowment, and not by a parliamentary grant; and a ll posts in the national libraries were to be re served for literary men. In fact, the idea of regenerating literature by combination was aban doned for that of reinstating it in public respect by a system of Government patronage; and even this idea was soon thrown aside by its fickle author. Two years after he had joined the society, Bal zac perceived the very obvious truth that an association of this nature, however advantageous to young and unknown authors, is always detri mental to men whose reputation is made. It appears, as far as M. Gozlan's somewhat confused account enables us to understand the story, that according to the statutes, the society had the power of autho ' rising the reproduction of any work of its members, and that the money derived from this privilege went into a common fund, divided amongst the members. Thus, if an author had a novel publish ing in a Paris paper, the proceeds of its republica tion in a Lyons journal would have gone, not to the author, but to the common stock. Of course a writer like Balzac lost by this, as he contributed more than the average amount to the fund ; and, also, the fact of his novels being published in seve ral newspapers depreciated their saleable value when completed. As soon as his eyes were open to this conclusion, Balzac wrote a letter resigning his membership. The society refused to accept it; and thereupon he forwarded an indignant circular to all the newspapers, warning them that if they ven tured to republish his novels on the authorisation of the society he should prosecute them for piracy. Thus ended the great scheme for establishing a society for the mutual protection of men of letters. The thought must, we think, have presented itself to most writers, what an enormous power literature would be if there were any solidarste amongst authors. Fortunately perhaps for the world, any scheme to secure this object is pretty sure to end as Balzac's did. SATURDAY REVIEW.—The Emperor of the French has no living superior in the composition of State papers. His speeches and addresses always express the intended meaning, and they have often the ad vantage of novelty. The colourless formality of English Speeches from the Throne well becomes a constitutional Government, and it is equally natu -1 ral that an individual ruler should impress a per sonal character on his communications with the ' subordinate bodies of the State. In one respect the style of limited royalty is more dignified and more modest. In sketching out the business of the ses sion no Minister would think it necessary to vindi cate the ancient and unquestioned institutions of England, but the French empire is too recent to take itself for granted, and it has not yet succeeded in conciliating educated opinion, although it is sup ported by popular feeling and prejudice. In sum ming up the recent achievements of his reign, Napo leon 111. virtually admits that the fabric which he has raised is still partially supported by his own ability and vigour. It is yet uncertain whether the arch will stand when the temporary framework has been struck away, nor is any form of Government to be considered permanent until it has stood the test of adversity, and even of feeble administration. The Speech to the Senate and Legislative Body is at the same time an elaborate apology for the em pire, and an appeal to the multitudinous consti tuency of France. The current questions of the day are passed over with slight mention, to make room for the successes which have attended the existing Government, both in peace and war. The termination of ten years from the re-establishment of the empire, and of five since the election of the Chamber has been considered an appropriate occa sion for the review of all the important transactions of the period; and as the desired effect will pro bably be attained in France, it is not for strangers to censure;the apparent disrespect of using an osten sible Legislature as a mere channel for the transmis sion of the Imperial thoughts to the people. The Senate and the Legislative Body might be supposed to deal with the finances, with the Mexican war, and with the ambiguous policy which has been adopted in Italy ; but the only reference to their duties is the general phrase that useful work is yet in store for the conclusion of their labours. The members of the elected Chamber are exhorted, at greater length, to prepare for the coming dissolu tion by urging on their constituents the choice of fresh representatives as loyal and as docile as them selves. The King of Prussia might take a lesson from the temperate and persuasive language in which a really able sovereign deprecates popular opposition. Instead of vapouring about divine right Napoleon 111. tells his manageable subjects that he will always be ready to adopt whatever may be for the interest of the majority, and that they, on their part, must avoid conflicts, "and send to the new Chamber men who, like you, accept with out reserve the present system, and prefer serious deliberations to sterile discussions." It is true that in Prussia there is a responsible and regulated con stituency which may fairly assert an opinion of its own on national affairs. The French Constitution disfranchises the political classes in favour of the Imperialist peasantry; and yet Napoleon 111. has the good sense to ask the support of the electors in stead of demanding their obedience. The diplomatic papers which have since been published are, in some respects, more communicative than the Speech. One statement of M. Drouyn de Lhuys will cause reasonable surprise to the best informed English politicians. It appears th at Lo rd o Lot i P almerston Lord Russell, while they alin gto er e s e t d onand cede tha the lonion Islands to Greece, have formally invited the Pope to take up his residence at Malta. I t i s diffi cult to understand the motives for so nnexpected a proposal; and the objections are so numerous and reasons, li , op eat Malta wou ldibea would required to justify obvious, the h m a tesatsruorng measure. l himself in the midst ofthaedlhotsiae o t bigoted priesthood edCatholic population in the world, n would take every opportunity of exclusive allegiance to their spiritual d i displaying l a ll y e i a n d g . their A l l the Catholic Powers of Europe would claim the right of watching over the interests of the Po p e ; and even if they made no pretension to protect his person, they would constantly interfere with the administration of an important English PS nession. For all the troubles of the Holy See, its heretic protectors would be held responsible; and Irish Ultramontanists would not fail to ttri ',lute to the basest motives it ou otivewstlhde b© e enerous o ffer o f apnopaesywhoimuld‘vbheeraet the mer c y o f his , asugg ested, in sted ;e t t i e l - e rate enemies, P ru d ent Englishmenwe tll concur h with M. Drouyn d e Lh uys i n his ho pe 'n the Pop?, at any fut ure time, charges his artest if' dence, he will give Franc e , or some other country., a preference to the Queen's dominions. SOCIETY FOR TILE PROTECTION OF YOUNG FEMALEs.—This excellent society will shortly be removed from Tottenham to the Woodhouse Mansion at Wanstead, the Conservative Land Society having sold the residence bite in the occupation of Mr. Money Wigraro, with nearly four acres of land, to this admirable institution of which the late Prince Consort was Patron, and hi the prosperity of which the Lumnted Prince took the deepest interest. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1863 r acts that have been performed by the present Viceroy; and he alluded to the obligations which not only the Turkish, but even the English Government owed to Said Pasha. But he would not confine himself to what might be regarded as mere fulsome praise. And no doubt the Viceroy also possesses faults; the chief among them, and that from which almost every evil has teen derived, is one that has much in it that is amiable—namely, excessive good-nature. But there is a Spanish proverb that if a man is all honey the flies will eat him up. And, remarked Sir Henry, I never knew such a country as this for flies.' There is the mercantile fly, who certainly causes no small trouble; but there is also the great blue bottle Consular fly, and finally the persevering musquito fly. His excellency proceeded to remark upon the urgent necessity that Englishmen, whe ther officials or merchants, should, for the sake of the true interests of their country and of themselves, no less than for the credit of their good name, observe that strict rsgard for integrity and justice in their dealings with the Government and people of this country which they them selves have also a right to exact. With reference to the financial position of the Egyptian Government, Sir Henry pointed out that the foreign debt will be paid off in 30 years by an annuity of £264,000, which, considering that the revenues amount to nearly £4,00C,000, constitutes but a light burden. The floating debts of the country amount to barely a year and a halt's revenue, exclusive, however, of the sums due to the Suez Canal Company, which his excellency de clared ought to be regarded, not as a public debt, but as a private and personal debt of the Viceroy. The public en gagements of the country he felt no doubt would be liqui dated before long. The Viceroy has expressed the strongest determination to extricate himself from his embarrassments. He has shown that it is not his character to do things by halves. He did not spend money by halves, and we may feel assured that he will not save it by halves. We may, therefore, confidently look forward to the time when he will be able to apply his surplus revenues to th e i m p rovemen t of the country, and to works practicable of themselves and of real utility." Stowe--The Women of England and Slavery. Stowe is the feminine of Beecher—of " Parson Beecher"—who has made the pulpit a recruiting drum for mercenary enlistment, the altar the depo sitory for articles of war—who in place of vows of virtue swear in conscripts to the Commander-in- Chief—who for the Captain of Salvation substitutes Captain Brazen and Sergeant Kite —whose sermons are slogans, whose prayers are war-whoops, whose worship is that of Odin and of Thor, and whose latest public appearance was embracing brute But ler at New York ! Eight years ago " the Women of England" entreated their " Sisters of America" to use their influence to mitigate the rigours of slavery; and, silent during all the intervening time, Mrs, Stowe knocks the dust off the volumes of signatures, draws them from the pigeon -holes " wherein ehe saw them quietly inurned," and now flaunts them in their faces in reproach of their hesitating to tarn on the North in their awful work of murderous extermination. The ladies who signed the original address did not presume to lecture the Southerners on the abstract question of their laws and customs. Their weapons are " not carnal, but spiritual." They beseech women, not men ; and all they ask them to do is to raise their voices to their fellow-citizens, and ,their prayers to God." They see the " dangers of immediate emancipation," the " necessity of pre paration." And because the women of England shrink from those w h o raise the bl oo d y h an d o f Cain against their f e ll ow-citizens, in place of the gentle voice of Christian entreaty to them; because those who pray to the God of Peace refuse to shriek war yells in the ear of the Lord of Hosts ; because they think their bigot, frenzied censor blasphemes when she says the " Mighty Redeemer is coming to break every yoke" by the rifles of a million of roaring con scripts and drunken mercenaries ; because a ser vile war of arson, rape, and murder is not God's way of " letting the oppressed go free ;" be cause our wives and daughters shrink from the fla grant impiety which claims as a Gospel sentiment that, in order Abolition should be compassed, it is " better a generation should die on the battle field," not in self-defence, but in invasion and aggressive civil;war, unparalleled in its wanton atrocities; be cause when a woman—a wife—a lady, boasts of " a desolate hearth and darkened homestead—of the bloodshed of sons, husbands, and brothers—of the very light of life in many a dwelling having been put out, and a life-long darkness" invoked, to carry fire and sword into the borders of unoffending and peaceable nations and neighbours, they stand aghast at the impiety which can think such enormities can "unloose the bonds of wickedness, and establish abiding peace on the foundation of righteousness,' , they are now lectured on inconsistency by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. If this be the spirit of the biographer of "Dyed" and " Uncle Tom," what abominable hypocracy must have been their hy mns and their Methodism ! What else m us t th ey h ave been, but cowed and crouching tigers, making Christ into Obeah the fetish, and hiding the claws of the wild beast in the velvet paws of Tract Society evangelism ! May not Anna Maria Bed ford, Oliva Cecilia Cowley, Co netance Grosvenor, Harriet Sutherland, Elizabeth Argyle, and Emily Shaftesbury, with only too cogent logic, retort the taunt and words of their catechist, and ask her to take "counsel of God how far such a state of things" as Butler, Tnrchin, Mitchell, M'Neill, Constable, Kennedy, La Fayette, and the ball-chained ladies on the swamp island in the Mississippi, " is in ac cordance with his Holy Word, and the pure and merciful spirit of the Christian religion No I n o ! It is not with Judith or Jezebel that our matrons seek to take sweet counsel, but with the sister of Lazarus, and the women at the sepulchre. What is the object of this answer to the Address? Not one word from Mrs. Beecher Stowe so long as there was any hope of the success of b ru t e f orce. While " Providence was expectEd to be on the side of the largest battalions" we heard nothing of the Parsonese—only a recr uiting roar from the Parson While yet there was no Bull's Run, did any member of the Federal Government so much as imagine emancipation ? What said Garrison, Greeley, Sumner, and Wendell Phillips ? That the Government was an imposture, and the President had no backbone. What said the President? "If I can restore the Union by confirming slavery Jam for slavery." Nut until the Federals were thrashed twenty times by a fourth of their number of Confe derates all round Virginia and Tennessee, was the saidweat"Youshall to the i la s and P your expense, not because we care for the slave, but because you do." The Foreign Secretary was careful to explain that the Proclamation was issued only for military reasons. In place of cherishing the escaped slaves on their natal soil, Seward has proposed to England a convention for deporting them to the West India Islands ; not out of any love for the negroes, but simply to embroil our Govern ment with their owners —a base dodge which Earl Russell has seen through and made ridiculous. The General Elections have resulted in a large majority of the voters throughout the Free States declaring against Abolition. h r l ese are the circumstances in her own country, and of her own party and Govern ment under which Mrs • St owe elects herself Censor of our Peeresses. And now we must take leave to tell our oct annual respondent that this Answer is made at a crisis of desperation and hopeless rout, not in the interests of Emincipation but of Federalism ; not as an Abolitionist, but as a factious Republican ; not to put down slavery, but to force the Union upon the South ; not for the glory of God, but for political capital. B unkum lurks in every line of the remonstrance. Th e pretext is lofty philan throphy ; the secret spring of action is grovelling factiousness. Sharpsburg and Antietam stare out in each turn of the rhetoric. It is dated from Washington —it might have been inspired by the dollars of the White Rouse. M rs . Sto w e has no title to claim credit f or Christian motives, when she suppresses all ment i on of them until " the devil, the world, and th e fl esh " It is only— have been invoked in vain. 'When the devil is sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil Wee well, the devil a monk was he. The " uncogude" fell awkward in the advocacy of aggressive warfa re , unless they can justify it by texts. Th© " Clapham Sect" made the suppression of the slave trade a religi ous ques tion ; and ever since the great 'ilia for a b o li tion has b een th a t sla very was a blasphem ous defiance of the express in junctions of Scripture. Now, we have no confidence • FOUNDERING OF THE MONITOR. The iron-clad 'battery Monitor has sunk off Cape Hatteras in 45 fathoms water. The following is from the narrative of one of the officers : . " The Monitor, in tow of the steamer Rhode Island, started from Fortress Monroe about 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon, December 29 The Passaic, in tow of the steamer State of Georgia, had gone out some time before, and was perhaps ten miles at sea. On board the Monitor were 63 persons all told. The sea was calm and smooth as glass, and the weather warm and pleasant. The vessel proceeded at the rate of five or six knots an hour, with a perceptible motion less than that of any other vessel. Everything seemed auspicious for a pleasant trip, and at night all went below to sleep. Then they began to experience the effects of close air. In the interior of the Monitor, as will be re membered by descriptions, a few feet forward of the smoke stack to the stern is located the machinery, the fire-room, &c. Under the turret, and a few feet forward of the main hatch, is the place occupied by the sailors, Still further for ward is the cabin and ward-room. This is lighted by turret holes. Around this are four large rooms—say 71t. by Bft., and four smaller ones, Eft. by 9ft., occupied by the officers. She had blower-engines put in at Washington for the pur pose of drawing all the air possible through the holes of the turret and blower-stacks. With the exception noted of the closeness of air, which was almost insupportable, there was nothing to mar the comfort of the first night. The nextmoru ing broke beautifully, but with a light breeze that smashed up little waves against the turret, just enough to make small rainbows when the sun was shining on the bows. So the weather continued until Wednesday (Thursday?) afternoon, when it became cloudy, and as the sky grew darker it was thought they might have rain. Soon, however, the wind cleared all the clouds away, and they thought there would be agreeable weather all the way down; but later in the afternoon, about 5 o'clock, it commenced to blow, At 6 o'clock they stood S.S.W. from Hatteras Light, having cleared the Cape, the breeze freshening more and more, but no apprehension being felt of a gale. About 7 o'clock they discovered the Passaic, some three or four miles to the north-east. When they saw the Passaic thus in her stern, she having been 10 miles ahead at the start, all on board the Moniter could not but feel a pride that she (the Moni tor) was the first there, as everywhere else; that she was the first iron-clad that had rounded Cape Hatteras, as she had led in naval achievements. The conclusion was arrived at that the storm would not overtake them, and therefore that it was not necessary to run towards Hatteras Inlet. The breeze was blowing pretty freshly and increasing in violence, but there were indications in the west of its clear ing off, until about 8 o'clock, when, in the space a a few minutes, a storm of wind and rain gathered in the south west, the wrath of the waves augmenting with a sea so rough that it began to dash against the tower, throwing up fountains that leaped :30 or 40 feet in air, washing all over the turret. The fury of the storm kept on, every wave dashing over the whole vessel from stem to stern, and en tering at every crevice intended for the admission of air. The vessel was thumped about in a manner indescribable. The rain lasted from a quarter to half an hour, but the gale raged even more intensely than before. The vessel began to leak—they hardly knew where it came in—but it was very serious around the forecastle and anchor. It was about 9 o'clock, and the pumps were set in motion, They rapidly gained on the water, but in about half an hour they kept about even pace with each other. The gale had increased to a hurricane, the Monitor reeling and shuddering from end to end. Faster and faster the water came in. It was gaining on the pumps. By half-past 10 o'clock the water was reoorted gaining rapidly. A few minutes later, and the report was that it would soon be up to the fires. This again was followed by the report that the vessel could not live more than two or three hours longer. The water rapidly neared the fir es; when they were put out the pumps could not be worked. When it was reported that the Monitor could not stand it more than an hour or two longer, signals of distress were at once made. Red, white, and blue rockets were thrown up, and were answered by the Rhode Island. This was at 11 o'clock, when it had been decided as impossible to save the vessel, and attention was turned to saving their own lives, One of the hawsers con necting the Monitor with the Rhode Island had parted be tween 8 and 9 o'clock. When the Rhode Island answered, a voice on the Monitor cried out through a trumpet that they were in a sinking condition. Those appealed to on the Rhode Island went to work with the utmost speed to send boats to the rescue. It was a most daring undertaking, but they got out a launch and manned her, and, riding on the crests and sinking in the hollows of waves, she made to wards the Monitor. At this time the sky was filled with clouds, through which a little light from the moon appeared, so that objects could be distinguished. The remaining haw ser is now cut, so that the boats shall not get entangled ; the hawser becomes entangled with the paddlewheel of the Rhode Island; the rope clogs the wheel, and the Rhode Island, a large war steamer, is drifting towards the Monitor; the launch is between the two vessels thus reaching each other, and seems doomed to destruction. The launch reaches the side of the iron-clad. The proximity is dangerous to all, for two or three lurches and the sharp prow of the Monitor will stave in the wooden walls of the steamer. All feel that they will go to the bottom. There is a terrible silence, so far as those on the Monitor are concerned. As two or three jump out of the boat the oars are seen to flash in the air ; the launch is heard crashing; in a second the crew have sprung on the deck of the Monitor. Simultaneously the hawser is cleared from the paddlewheel, and the Rhode Island runs off, without the fatal shock, to a safe distance. "While the vessels lay alongside, several of the Monitor's crew sprang for the ropes that dangled from the side of the Rhode Islam', and some succeeded in climbing up, while others were washed into the sea. The crew of the launch now sprang back into her, but those of the Monitor were re luctant to trust themselves to make the attempt, as several were washed off the deck by the great seas washing over. They clung, therefore, to the top of the turret, fearing they might share the fate they had witnessed overtaking others, preferring their chance to live a little longer, although there was the moral certainty that they could not remain and live long. Finally, tho launch was filled, having taken on probably some 15 from the Monitor, All that were on deck at the time got in, and the launch was ordered off. Some stuffed the crushed side with pea-plot eta, while others baled out, and the rowers tried to get to the steamer, which was their only hope. Meanwhile, the Rhode Island had launched a whaleboat. The sea, which was terrific, dashed the whale boat upon the launch with terrible ferocity. One of the officers in the launch sprang over towards the side and stretched out both his arms to break the blow and turn the course of the boat. This he succeeded in doing, but not without considerable injury to nimself. Getting close to the steamer the men spring for the ropes, and same lose their hold and are swallowed by the sea, although nearly every one in the boat is saved. The whaleboat saved others from the iron-clad. A third rescuing boat was sent, com manded by a Mr. Brown, a brava man, and skilful in the management of a boat. This has not been heard from, but it may have picked up some survivors and have got sately to some other vessel. The Monitor went down about 2 o'clock in the morning." A despatch from Fortress Monroe, of the 4tb says : "There were lost on the Monitor four officers and 12 men ; one officer and seven men belonging to the Rhode Island were also lost in attempting to save the men of the Monitor. One boat, which left the Rhode Island to save the Monitor's men, has not been heard of. The Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras in 45 fathoms of water. The cause of her being lost was leakage, She gained two feet of water in one hour, with all her pumps working. Sailing-master Stodder was the last man to leave the Monitor. Those who were lost refused to come down from the turret, as the sea was constantly breaking over them, and they were afraid of being washed away." Sir Henry Bulwer at Alexandria. The dinner given by the English residents at Alexandria in honour of Sir Henry Bulwer came off the last evening in the year. All the principal members of the British com munity were present, and, according to universal consent, the success of the evening's entertainment was in every re spect complete. " His excellency," says an Alexandria correspondent, speaks at considerable length on well nigh every topic con nected with the local and international affairs of Egypt, and of the Ottoman empire in general, comprising, there fore, some of the most important questions of the present day, the interest of which, it is perhaps unnecessary for me to add, was in no small degree heightened by the eloquence with which they were treated." A curious incident occurred when the Queen's health was drunk. "To the suprise of most, if not ail the guests, the cheers with which the toast was received had not quite died away when they were loudly re-ehoed from outside while the windows of the ro im were suddenly lighted up with the glare of fireworks. A crowd of Greeks filled . the square in front of the hotel. The words ZHT2 A.Ad3PEAO2 in large letters, on an immense trans parency, which was displayed over their heads, gave suffi cient explanation of the objects of the assemblage." In returning thanks after his health had been drunk, Sir Henry Bulwer alluded, amongst other topics, to the Suez Canal. "The projectors of this canal (his excellency continued) believe that it will overflow the land not only with fresh water, but with salt water also, l a l n i d e n x o c t ell o e n n l c y w h it d h these, opinions upon y tho suabli-eociat ould ob3erve j noi but with respect to those opinions masonic reserve. But he simply a diplomatic, but even t nit pbourttuanlsiotywnitfhfmnrimlkinagndhhisonnewyn. np ho w y of acknowledging the with the great scheme." • o f Egypt. The writer d from all those connected He turned afterwards to the affairs c. wouldgreatcogulardt,lsyytahkeehathdeex°pPePr°iernuce summin g up his speech, says :-- in'efisclii3tafhlheei t; l : h c r t p s s o r n a o ifasleh. qualitiesi E sr y u p l e t: h 0 Sirf saidll lh e:n i Vie r 6 y a • beneficial in always been distinguished by this peculiarity, that its condi tion immediately reflects the character of its ruler. Ac cording to what the latter may be, the- valley either blooms into a garden or subsides into a wilderness. He BcolluNnyterry spoke e ha s described the flourishing condition in which he had found 1 the country-, and enumerated the m any wise and beneficial 1 in lies, however convenient they may temporarily appear to be. No abjurgatory piety—no clerical excommuincation—no threats of popular proscrip tion will awe us from the maintenance of plain facts because they appear to be inconvenient. " Magna est veritas et prevalebit." Those who believe in the plenary inspiration of the Old Testament—that is the word of God—that the words Moses put into the mouth of God were his words—how can they dare to deny that the Pentateuch expressly sanc• tions slavery P Why, every one of the Patriarchs was a slaveholder—one of them sold himself for 14 years to buy his wife. Joseph was sold by his own brothers, and was the slave of Pharaoh. All the Patriarchs—those through whose seed the whole earth was to be blessed—had bond-slaves to minis ter to :their appetites ; some, women slaves, pre sented to them by their wives. Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham. " And Abraham took Ishmael (Gen. xvii., 23) his son, all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money." And the Lord spake unto Moses (Numb. xxxi„ 25 et seq.), saying, Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both man and beast . . . and divide the prey into two parts between them that took the war upon them . . . and all the congregation, and levy a tribute unto the Lord." Then follow minute in structions by " the Lord" for dividing the siaves— the prize-money of the battle among the Israelites —not forgetting a certain number for Eleazar, the priest, " and thirty and two thousand persons in all of women . . ." " And God spake these words (Exod. xx., 1), That if a known furious ox killed a free man, the owner was to suffer death ;" but if it gored only (xxi., 32) his slave, " he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver" (xxi., 4). "If his master have given him a wife, . . . the wife and children shall be the mastec's, and he shall go out by himself ? (Verse 7.) If a man sell his daugh ter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the man-servants," &c. A Hebrew might be a slave on being brought before the Judge, his ear bored with an awl by his master, " and he shall serve him for ever." Now, these and others are not mere Hebrew customs, but declared to be express commandments of Jehovah; and they receive their crowning eluci dation when it is provided that the stealing of an other man's slave is a capital offence; and iu the Tenth Commandment, which enjoins us not to covet our neighbour's slave, nor concubine," nor anything that is his." Nay, there is a direct after-injunction, that while all prisoners are to be slain, twenty thousand virgins are to be reserved for the con querors. Now, for our part, with honest and brave Bishop Colenso, we don't believe that God ever said, or did, or ordained anything of the sort; but Mrs. Stow e, and the Leeds Mercury, and the Daily News, the Birmingham Post, and Newman Hall, and all the " isms" and " ites" profess they do ; and as they also assert that Christ sanctioned and adopted Moses and the Prophets," and therefore believed that these passages were inspired, and that God did say what is there set down for Him—although, in our apprehension, Christ's very mission was to explode the whole Mosaic economy, as opposed to His own '• grace and truth," we cannot see how those who call themselves Bible Christians can, without a lie, dispute the assertion that slavery is a Christian Institution. Mind, we do nothing of the sort. But all this just shows what an incubus it is that Dr. Colenso . labours to throw off religion. Here are the Southerns inexpugnably entrenched behind the sanctions of the Pentateuch in defending slavery ; and here are Mrs. Stowe, and Parson Beecher, and Newman Hall, and the rabble rout of recruiting Republican priests, betaking themselves to the Bible to hound on, with texts, the dogs of war to exter minate their fellow-beings and make a fertile coun try into a howling wilderness. The attempt to introduce the religious element into the bare controversy of man holding property in man is hypocritical and disingenuous. Servant and slave are convertible terms in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Slavery was the normal condition of the great mass of every civilised people in ancient times; and we should just as soon expect that domestic ser vice or skilled labour for our employed should be condemned, if the Apostles had lived now, as that they should have denounced the ordinary condition of service which was slavery then. Christianity, which refuses to deal with human government so as to impeach it by implication, recognises slavery as the ordinary domestic arrangement of the com munity. What the Gospel really says is, that, slavery existieg, masters shall be kind, forgiving, gentle, considerate, and pure, and that slaves shall be faithful, true, honest, and submissive—which is, we fairly confess it, more than we do. But the ques tion is not whether man should have property in man, or whether the slave should submit to his chains, but what the Scriptures say ; and pulpiteers may preach a donkey's hind leg off, and utterly fail to disturb the position that neither the Old Testa ment nor the New says a word that could be tor tured into even an apology for devastating an unof fending country and exterminating an unaggressive people to liberate negroes or to instigate a servilE war; and that Christ never imagined that His reli gion could be pleaded as a sanction for the perpe tration of wholesale rapine and murder out of pure motives of humanity.—Dispatch. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 16.—There has been a very good demand for yarns suitable to the Calcutta market, especially for 40's mule twist, which is about ld. per lb. higher than the price of this day week, The demand for these yarns, which are re markably scarce in the market, has sprung up in consequence of a telegram from Calcutta dated the 29th of December, and two days later than the tele grams to hand in the early part of the week, re porting an active demand for yarns in that market, with an advance of about d. per lb. in price. For all other descriptions of yarn the market here is quiet, and especially for home trade yarns, which can be bought at lower prices even than on Tuesday. There is a slight improvement in the tone of the cloth market, mainly owing also to Indian advices, according to which shirtings at Calcutta were up wards of 6d. higher than at previous dates. This has brought a good many buyers into the market to test prices here, and sellers report a good inquiry, which has led to some, though not a large business. It is not believed the purchases have been made for immediate shipment. Some parties are reported to have done a good business in re-sales of cloth for speculative holders, but manufacturers have not done so well. The India advices have caused a livelier feeling in the market altogether, and have improved the value of goods generally ; but we do not hear of much actual business for the home trade. In addition to the failure of a large manufacturing firm at Padi ham, reported on Tuesday, it is said there have been at least two smaller concerns in other parts of the cotton district obliged to stop during the week ; and it is feared that these concerns will not be the only ones which will have to pay a severe penalty for having attempted to carry on their trade notwith standing the difficulties arising out of the cotton famine. A considerable number of small manufac turers were ruined during the first few months of the cotton crisis, but since then we have heard of com paratively few stoppages. The fact has excited some surprise among the best acquainted with the trade, and they have not hesitated to predict that more serious disaster must ensue, sooner or later, however it may be staved off for a time; but one of the guts tions which must now begin to force itself more urgently upon the public mind is, seeing the distress and misery which have been brought about by the failure of cotton supplies from America, what steps are being taken to remedy the deficiency for the fat are. Will the year 1863 be allowed to pass over without greater efforts in this direction than we have yet witnessed? There was great excuse for the apathy which existed so long as there was an uncertainty as to the earnestness with which the belligerents in America were disposed to carry on the war. But most people are beginning now to be undeceived on this point. There was another obstacle in the immense amount of cotton held in the Southern States, and which it was feared might any day be set at liberty and overwhelm with ruin those who might undertake any enterprise to raise cotton in other countries. But now that the prospects of mediation or interference wax fainter, and the huge proportions of the war entered upon begin to de- velope themselves clearly, and now that it becomes probable that the stores of cotton so much dreaded, yet so much needed, must have undergone serious deterioration, if not diminution, through decay from insufficient housing, how stands the question? How far must the disorganisation of Lbour in the Slave States and the decay of cotton stocks on hand be assured to the perceptions of people on this side of the Atlantic before it is considered safe to make an effort to grow cotton ir.‘ sufficient quantities else where ? Everybody feels conscious that the efforts hitherto made through cotton companies and orga nisatiou for gathering what is grown up to the present time must fall far short of the exigencies of the trade. There was at first great obstruction to the progress of efforts of this kind through an opi nion promulgated by those to whom every one looked as the natural leaders in such a movement that joint-stock companies of spinners, manufac turers, and merchants, and others immediately con nected with the trade, were not the right agencies to employ. But that could only be the delusion of a moment among a class of men who themselves hold more stock in bank, railway, canal, mining, marine, and other joint-stock enterprises, perhaps, than any other class in the world, and where even the operatives have begun to find out the advan tages of co-operation: It was an opinion held by some, honestly no doubt; but the great obstruc tions to efforts for a supply of cotton were those be fore noticed—of the uncertainties overhanging the future of America, and which are now, or ought to be, fast wearing away. The whole attention of the country appears to have been recently absorbed in the effort necessary to raise money to support the starving operatives, but this question of cotton sup ply is one that must and will have to be answered soon. Meanwhile the question is asked, " What is the Cotton Supply Association doing " This orga nisation appears to have obtruded itself very little on public attention of late. It was unfortunate, perhaps, in its name, being an association rather to encourage the cultivation of cotton than to supply it ; but it has been of considerable service in obtain ing information for the guidance of parties disposed to take an interest in cultivating and procuring cotton, and it is to be regretted that its efforts have not been attended with greater success. Alleged Frauds by a Railway Contractor. William Buer well, a railway contractor and manufacturer of artificial stone, of Phoenix-wharf, East Gieenwicb, of 86. King William-street, city, and of Casa Crola, Borgomanero, in Italy, was placed at the bar of the Guildhall Police Court, be tor,, Alderman Humphery, for final examination relative to a variety of charges. Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Dangerfield, of the firm of Dangerfield and Fraser, conducted the prosecution ; and Mr. Lewis was for the defence. Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, and Wintle were the accountants to the estate. The bankrupt was the contractor for the forma tion of a line of railway from Novara to Lake Orta. It was alleged that, although he had received the greater part of the contract price of making the line, the estimated evnense being £184,000, he had not expended more t o £15,000 on the line. His liabilities to English e. ,ditorsamounted to £40,000, and to Italian creditors to about £50,000. Nearly the whole of his property had disappeared in a most mysterious manner. Some time in December, 1861, he removed all his books and papers to Italy, and on the 14th of February, 1862, he was made a bankrupt, and attended all the examinations up to the 14th of May, when he absented himself. The bankrupt during his trading had in his employ two brothers. One, named Charles Collins, was his agent in Italy, and still resided there; the other, named Frank Collins, was his agent in England. The following is the additional evidence adduced in this case:— Frank Collins recalled, said,—The bankrupt gave my brother Charles 100 shares in the Novara and Lake Orta Railway, and he desired by brother William to have them issued in his name. The bankrupt also gave my brother William some shares in the same railway. Those he gave to Charles were given in the spring of 1861, soon after the formation of the company, in consideration of ser vices voluntarily rendered. I think it was 25 shares he gave my brother William. They were all £lO shares, and all paid up. My brother William also had at subsequent periods from the bankrupt other shares in the same railway to the value of about £1,400. Those also were for services volun tarily rendered to the bankrupt in connection with the railway. I have also had some shares of the bankrupt. After the first formation of the com pany I received from the bankrupt 100 £lO shares for services rendered. Mr. Metcalfe—For services rendered ? Why, you have told us that you had £5OO a year, and thew on the bankruptlwhen you liked. Witness—Yes, sir; but I did not pay myself. Some of the shares I have sold privately, but the bulk of them are still in my possession, and stand in my, name. Those I p ar t e d w i t h I so ld f or a b ou t half their value. I also received about the same time 25 £lO shares as one of the promoters of the company. Mr. Cadogan, the bankrupt's financial manager, had 100 £lO shares at the same time. I believe ho holds shares to the vi lue of 4,000 or £5,000, all of which he has received from the bank rupt. _ _ Mr. Metcalfe—Let me call your attention to one of your own letters, is which it appears that " Ca dogan holds a large quantity of shares for a certain purpose." What was that purpose? Witness—lt was to give collateral security to Masterman's bank, because Cadogan's account was very much overdrawn. He holds them, but the oompany refused to register them in his name. Mr. Metcalfe—ln your brother Charles's letter of the 18th of November the amount of shares is pro posed to be divided i❑ the following manner:— £1,500 to Masterman's bank, £1,500 to Cddogan, and the rest to yourself. Have you acted on that proposition ? Witness—Certainly not. Cadogan still has those shares. If I were to fix any number, I should say there were 3,065 shares. My brother Charles held other shares, which were registered in my brother William's name, to the value of £3OO or 1300, and those shares were sent over to me a few months ago for the purpose of buy ing up some of the bankrupt's debts. Those shares are now in my brother William's possession. I handed them over to him without attempting to buy up the debts referred to in the letter of the 12th of November, 1862. The company carried on their business at the bankrupt's offices at the time the certificate of the completion of the line was pre sented by Cadogan. I believe a large quantity of shares was obtained upon tire strength of that cer tificate. Cadogan was the principal medium of communication between the bankrupt and the com pany. I remember seeing some deeds in Italian about the end of 1861, and understood the effect of them to be that of giving Mr. Norton and others a lien on certain property under the bankrupt's control. Cross-examined—My brother told me the pur port of the deeds. He said it was to give certain persons security against liabilities incurred with them for goods supplied:to the bankrupt by them. chose persons were Mr. Norton, Mr. Foreman, Mr. Bower, and Mr. Hoeftman. _ _ _ Arthur Perry, a messenger in bankruptcy, stated that he took possession of the bankrupt's premises and books and papers in East Greenwich in Feb., 862. Henry Ball, clerk to Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, and Wintle, the accountants, said he had looked through the books and papers given up to the as signees, but found among them no important or satisfactory statements relating to the bankrupt's affairs in connection with the railway. Mr. James Cooper, of the firm of Johnstone, Cooper, and Wintle, the accountants to the estate, said—l have seen a book given up by Mr. Cadogan, purporting to be the account between him and the bankrupt, and showing the amount paid and re ceived by him on account of the railway. We made out the balance-sheet from documents supplied by the bankrupt, but we have nothing that will show the amount of proparty under the bank rupt's control and due to the estate. We have no document that will give the assignees any title to the land purchased by the bankrupt in Italy. He offered to write for the books and papers which w ere in Italy. He has purchased goods and plant for the railway to the amount of many thousands, but I have no means of ascertain ing if he paid cash for anything except his own statements and Cadogan's and Collins's accounts. I have had no vouchers. Mr, Lewis—We are in a position to prove that upwards of £40,000 has been expended on the rail way. Mr. Metcalfe—The creditors will be glad to bear that, for there is £130,000 in debentures at present unaccounted for. Mr. Lewis.—Only debentures ; all paper. Alderman Humphery.—But the bankrupt got the money for them, or goods, which amounts to the same thing. Cadogau's account is a very curious one. Some of the entries are very extraordinary indeed. Mr. W. Foreman, an iron merchant, of Queen street, said—ln June and July, 1861, I had two contracts with the bankrupt for the delivery of a quantity of iron rails. I advanced to bankrupt £2,500 in cash in June, and delivered goods in August, September, and October to the amount of £9,900. We made more rmils, which were not de livered, but we got bilis for those that were delivered, and while the others were awaiting shipment we obtained bills for them, and received besides deben tures to the value of £16,000 as security for the pay ment of the bills and the cash advanced. The bills were drawn at nine months from the date given. I had no lien on the goods after they were once de livered, and never asked for any control over them, but I have recently heard that the bankrupt has by a certain deed given me a lien on some goods abroad. I have never received any money for the goods I supplied. . . _ James Packer, clerk to the secretary of the Novara and Lake Orta Railway Company, said— I produce the board minute-book of the company containing an entry of a resolution on the 10th of September, 1861, to the effect that on the produc tion of the usual certificate of the Government en gineer and another that works had been completed on the line to the amount of £30,000, the bankrupt should receive debentures to the amount of £lO,OOO. The bankrupt was present at the meeting of that date, and on the 14th of September the certificate produced was presented, and the bankrupt received the 10,000 worth of debentures. Those debentures were issued on the faith of that certificate being genuine. Mr. Lewis—lt is a genuine certificate. Mr. Metcalfe—Signed by his own clerk, instead of the Government engineer at Borgomanero. Charles Cadogan said,—l was engaged as assis tant manager with Collins, and the financial de partment devolved upon me. I remitted from time to time various sums of £5OO and £7OO to Italy for the requirements of the railway. In all these sums amounted to several thousand pounds. There were no regular books kept—l mean commercial books. The bankrupt told me that some of them went to Italy, and some to Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, and Wintle, the accountants, about the timeof the bank ruptcy. I knew that a deed had been executed in Italy for the purpose of giving certain creditors a lien on goods in Italy to prevent the company from taking possession of them. The bankrupt told me he had executed such a deed, and I saw a transla tion of it at his solicitor's office. I received the cer tificate from Italy, and the bankrupt afterwards told me that Delpapa and Fishers, the persons who had signed it, were both in his employ, one an engineer, and the other, the son of a subcontractor, had charge of the goods. Mr. Sankey, who was advertised as the company's engineer, never acted in that cape - city. He was merely in the bankrupt's employ. Cross-examined—l communicated the demand in bankruptcy to the - bankrupt as soon as ho returned from Italy. Prior to that I had remitted to the amount of £16,000 for the purposes of the railway, and I should think about LlO,OOO worth of iron has been sent over in addition for the railway, and about £3,000 or £4,000 in wood and sleepers, &c. Mr. Preston, the bankrupt's solicitor, was then called, but his evidence was merely of a corrobora tive character, and was objected to by Mr. Lewis as the privileged communications between attorney and client. Mr. Metcalfe said that was the case for the pro secution. The charges upon which the bankrupt will be indicted would be—For not surrendering on the 14th of May, 1862; for not truly disclosing his affairs and giving up his property; for not deliver ing up his books of accounts, &c.; for unlawfully encumbering his estate ; and for obtaining deben tures to the value of £9,000 of the Novara and Lake Orta Railway Company under false and fraudulent pretences. - Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate upon the whole of the evidence in support of the above charges, urging, in the first instance, that the bank rupt, having attended all the former examinations, and being detained in Italy on the day appointed for his surrender, thought it of little consequence, particularly as the Commissioner, in the belief that he would attend, had appointed another day for that examination. With regard to the alleged conceal ment of property and the books, it should be re membered that the bankrupt's business was in Italy, and the books and the property were required on the railway ho Was engaged upon ; consequently there was nothing fraudulent in his taking his books to Italy. In reference to the charge of obtaining debentures by false pretences, he would merely ob serve that there was not a tittle of negative evi dence to prove that the certificate was not genuine, and for that reason he objected to that charge going upon the depositions. Alderman Humphery said Mr. Lewis would have the opportunity of urging those arguments in the bankrupt's favour before a jury, as he intended to commit the bankrupt for trial upon all the charges. He was committed accordingly. COUNTRY MARKETS. V- NORWICH-SATURDAY. --- The supply of wheat at to•day's market was good, but the condition was moderate. A full attendance of farmers. Last week's rates were supported for most all descriptions. There was a fair supply of barley, and prices fully as dear, —in some few instances rather more money was given for malting sorts. In oats, beans, and peas little business doing. White wheat. 49s t0:52 1 Red wheat 44s to 49$ Malting barley ...37s to 38s 1 Chevalier barley 33, to 3516 Distilling d 0.... 30s to 33s 1 Oats.. 2 4, to 28$ Flour, 34s Gd to —s Od per sack from the miller. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. At to-day's corn market the show of farmers' wheat was pretty fair, and prices must be noted as unaltered for best samples, while coarse sorts were is per qr. under late terms. There was a steady demand for barley. Oats only a mode rate show, at extreme rates. Old white wheat, 58s to 60s ; new, 483 to 54s per 36 stone. Old red, 52s to 56s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 34s to 38s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; old oats, 27s to 30s ; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Bea', new, —s to —s ; old, 41s to 43s per 38 stone. NORTHAMPTON -SATURDAY, There was a tolerable supply of wheat at this corn market to-day, the bulk of the samples being in better condition. For all fine, dry sorts there was a good demand, and prices remained stationary. There was not much inquiry for the common runs, and prices tending downwards. New wheat, 46s to 51s; old, 50s to 565. Barley, 28s to 42s per qr. New oats quoted at 20s to 27: , ; old, 280 to 35s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 425; new, 32s to 365. Peas, 34s to 44s per qr. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. White wheat, from 46s to 64s ; red wheat, 45s to 665. Barley—malting, 34s to 43s ; grinding, 28s to 30s. oats old, at 25s to 31s Od ; new, 22s to 265. Beans sold at 32a to 45s per qr. Flour, 33s to 435. YORK— SATURDAY. At to-day's corn market the supply of farmers' wheat WAS moderate, with an average attendance. Prices about the same as last week. Wheat, red 44s to 48s Oats.... 2os to 24s White do .48s tos2s Beans ..42, to 46s Barley .28s to 366 Peas ....—s to —s Malt, 64s to 66s per qr. ; rye, 32s per qr ; flour, 37 3 to 39s per sack. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--Holloway's Pills—Self Preserva tion—How many thousands irrevocably lose their health through neglect of early derangements and carelessness of the first symptoms of disordered action? Had Hollo way's Pills been taken all would have been rectified, all morbid humours would have been expelled, and everything obnoxious to the system removed. For cleansing the en tire body, and preserving the health, no drug or combina tion of drugs, equals in potency Holloway's Pills. All who have tried them have united in bestowing unqualified praises upon them for the ease, cheerfulness, and vigour they beget, The excellence of these Pills has been as serted and confirmed by people. in all parts of the globe ; their wonderful efficacy in preventing or curing diseases is universally admitted. I ) Births. ALExAxnEn.—On the 13th inst., at Pau, the Lady Louisa Alexander, of a son. Cony.—On the 14th inst., at 13, Clarendon-road, Ken sington, the wife of A. T. Cory, Esq., of a daughter. MILLIGAN.—On the 13th inst., at Portsmouth, the wife of Captain Milligan, A.D.C., of a son. PowELL.—On the 16th inst., at Heathfield Lodge, Forest hill, the wile of Wm. Powell, Esq., of a son. Marriages. DALzIEL—EATON.—On the 15th inst., at the parish church, Hampstead, John Dalziel, of Squires-mount, Hamp stead, to Elizabeth Ann `'yells, eldest daughter of the late George Eaton, Esq., city. FLETcHER—DRAKE.—On the 15th inst., at St. Pancras, Charles Fletcher, Esq. , of 49 , Gloucester -road, Regent's park, to Lucy, second daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Drake, Bengal Army. Deaths. BOWLY.—On the 14th inst., at Dover, Henry Bowly, Esq. of Cirencester, aged 70. CnarquAN.—On the 16th inst., at Oaklands, Redhill, Sur rey, Lieut.-Colonel George Chapman, late 36th Bengal N. 1., aged 70. NiETCALF.—On the 16th inst., at Ripley, Surrey, Mr. iTuo. Metcalf, aged 64. MARTIN.—On the 17th inst., Mr. W. Martin, baker, of 86, Chancery-lane, aged 68. MASON.—On the 17th inst., at 'Willesden House, the Hon. Selina Lady Mason, relict of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Mason, K.C.B. OBD.—On the 10th inst., at Sunderland Errington Bell Ord, Esq., aged 63. , RivAz.--On the 16th inst., at Upper Homert on, aged 92, Wilhelniina, wid ow of the late Vincent Francis Rivaz, Esq. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of N 9. 11 2, Strand, Printer, at TUE SuN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of "the Savoy, in the Count/ of Mi thllenx.—Monclay, January 19, 1863.