The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-13 00:00:00

METROPOLITAIT lUD:WATS FOR, 1834, Is Lord D_rby again io ni,dertairo this year the defence of the metropolis ageiust its hungry crowd - of assailauts ? I,: his lordship should now ' forward hi thi br uch, ho necd do no more, :so uaroid beiora tile: astGaishod g,.z,.; of the llacko of :Veers Mr. Stanford's map of proposed Metropolitan Rai; ways for the year 186 t. Last year they only clamoured at the gates; this Session they try to swarm over city and suburbs, till in such neighbourhoods es the intended Thames Embenk ment or round the Mansion-hones the red lines look like a hopeless tangle,—two, three, or sometimes even four striving, if not to occupy the same ground, yet at least to run as close together side by side as they possibly can without touching. Last year there was at least some decent show of reluctance to cut up parks and build over the few open places in London, but, probably encouraged by the mild ' truism of the Lords' report last Session, " that squares and open places should not be unnecessarily taken," all reserve seems now cast to the winds. A public park on the line of route is apparently con sidered rather a good thing than otherwise, inas much as the promoters evidently flatter themselves that they will be allowed to tunnel through such places for nothing. The best squares seem in some cases to have been selected for passing through or near, the beat and most thronged of our city tho roughfares for tunnelling under and building stations. Round about the Mansion-house and Lead enhall-street, as we have said, the web of lines more resembles a torn and ravelled net, and in this densely populated spot they wind in and out in such inex tricable confusion that it is literally impossible to trace the course of any single line through the labyrinth. Near Blackfriars-bridge they are almost as bad, A large slice of the river Thames is marked out to be occupied by a line running almost along its centre from Westminster to London-bridge, and there are plans for no less than four bridges over the Pool—one at Limehouse, one at Shadwell, and two at the Tower. One hopeful scheme crosses Kensington Gardens from end to end. Another, after doing the same kind office for Hyde Park, proceeds direct across the Green Park, and St. James's. Of course these latter would be in tunnels, and of course, the tunnels would drain the ground and kill all the trees near them. One plan, the Metropolitan Grand Union, appears ab solutely incomprehensible in its wild eccentric flourishes all round Tower-hill, unless on the sup position that it is intended to give all the inhabi tants of the Minories direct communication with Kensal-green. It would be a mere waste of time, however, to notice the crude absurdities of all the schemes which are about to be thrust on the notice of the houses as plans for metropolitan communica tion. It is said that nothing but money at 12 per cent. would have stopped the conception of some of these bubbles; but such a prosy consideration as the value of money could never have crossed the minds of some promoters for a single instant. It is fortunate for the public that the great mass of them were conceived with such a lofty indifference to present cost or future profit, and are in short little more than the crotchets of young engineers striving to force themselves on the notice of the railway world. The estimates are in some cases put lower than half the cost of the mere property the line would take, and this is in most cases, no doubt, done to di minish the deposit of 8 per cent. required by the Board of Trade till the line is completed. These de posits have to be made good before the 15th inst., and probably not more than 30 out of the 60 proposed new metropolitan lines will pass through that monetary ordeal, if even so many. Of the survivors a certain number are sure to fall through from non compliance with the standing orders, a certain num ber will be compromised and rejected, and the field will in the end be left to a few good practical and solvent schemes, well supported by the great com panies, to fight out the battle of future railway communication through the metropolis. The great struggle of the session, and, as far as regards the interests of London, the greatest that was ever fought out before Parliamentary commit tees, will be between the rival schemes of Mr. Hawkshaw and Mr. John Fowler. Whichever way the battle goes, the result must be to influence for ever, and in the most vital manner, the future rail way legislation for the metropolis. To understand this it is necessary to state that the third report of Lord Granville's committee on railways last year, after recommending that the Great Eastern, which caused all the outcry, should be allowed to come into the city, went on to suggest that some final and comprehensive scheme should be formed for all me tropolitan lines, such as an inner low level circle for the local traffielof London itself, and an outer high level circle to completely surround the metropolis and intercept all lines to London at a short distance from their termini, so as to make communication with all railways north and south of the Thames without taking their passengers through but round London. The report further recommended that for this purpose what is called the Metropolitan Rail way district ihould be considerably extended, and that the inner and outer circles of lines should join at some part of their circumference. There were other minor suggestions, but the gist of the whole report lay in pressing on engineers the promotion of these inner and outer circles, From both the rea soning and conclusion of this report AIL.. Hawk shaw dissents, first, on the ground, which will occur to every one, that it is not possible now to form any scheme of finality with rzgard to metropolitan railways, and that it is safer and more just to judge of ouch by its own merits and by the real accommo dation which it offers to the public ; secondly, be cause all the lines intercepted by the outer circle would, by payment of tolls, have a right of way over it to the inner circle, and thus virtually bring about the veil evil the Lords wish to prevent—the intro duction of what would really be their termini into the very heart of the city. Mr. Fowler has, on the contrary, adopted the suggestions of the Lords' re port, end comes forward with two schemes gigantic is extent and costliness for carrying them out. Mr. llawkshaw, adhering to his principle of only meet ing acknowledged wants and not striving after un attainable finality in railway legislation, has only two plans, one for connecting the northern lines by tunnel with Charing cross station, and another from Hammersmith to the same terminus. Each of these eminent engineers, therefore, supports distinct principles. Mr. Fowler upholds the Lords' sugges tions,Mr: H.awkshaw opposes them, and as each has vigorous supporters, the contest is likely to be the keenest, longest, and most memorable of all our railway struggles. If, on the one side, Mr. Hawk show is hampered by the freaks of wild auxiliaries, who, in maps and plans at least, run riot over half the streets and squires of London, he is, on the other hand, powerfully upheld by great companies, and not less so perhaps by some serious objections to Mr. Fowler's great scheme of interception. Mr. Hawkahaw's two plans are, fortunately fur the view he takes of the Lords' Report, of great and acknowledged utility: When once the London bridge and South Western lines were brought to Charing-cross it was evident that for the sake of even-handed justice between companies, to say nothing of accommodation and convenience for the public, the great lines north of the Thames must be allowed to effect their junction also. Fortunately, the difference between the levels of the Great Northern, Euston, and Midland termini and that of the station at Charing-cross is such that a deep cutting may be made frcim the termini of the three great lines we have mentioned which can be carried under the Strand to near the bottom of Villiers-street, where it emerges and effects a junc tion near the first pier of the Charing-cross bridge at a level. The total length of this line is 31 miles, It is to be laid for four lines of rails, and to be an open cutting with brick retaining walls, very similar to the cutting leading out of the North_ 'Western station at Euston -square. It is taken at such a depth that all streets can be continued over it on bridges without alteration of their width or level, and the bridges themselves are to be built of such a width as to allow of the line of shops or houses along the streets being continued over them, so as to keep the traffic on the line entirely out of sight. There will be one station, and one station only, in Holborn. There will be separate stations at Charing-cross for the through southern traffic, and. that to the City by the Cannon-street line. The cutting is cvsrywherecall behind the 'r;OLIE , ZB so as not to interfere with existing streets, the levels of whicll arc not r,ltmrcd, with the e` option of the Eustoe-road, which 1.3 r, , ,is[d five feet, and a tunnel of about 250 yards in length takes it under the Strand to Chaiing-erose. The estimated cost of this line is I:2,000,C00. M:. wicshaw's second scheme is ono to connect Lambeth, ilv - ostminster, Chelsea, Brompton, Kensington, and Hammer smith, and the neighboui hoods, in connection with the West London Railway, and give a direct access to Charing-cross, Cannon-street, and London bridge, and thus, of course, to all the lines north and south of the Thames. The total length of the line is six miles, snd its estimated cost is £2,600,000. It commences at the south end of the Hungerford viaduct, passes through Lambeth, crosses the Thames on the east of the Penitentiary, thence through Westminster, Pimlico, Chelsea, and on to Brompton, on the south side of the Exhibition buildings, effects a junction with the West London Railway, and so on by a branch to Hammersmith. This is to be for two lines of way, and will be con structed (if the Bill passes) on the same principles as the branch to the northern lines—that is to say, in an open cutting below the level of the streets, which are continued in the same manner by bridges over it, with houses at each side. That such a line is supposed to be needed may be inferred from the fact that ithree companies are competing for the ground, and much of Mr. Hawkshaw's proposed line is also intended to be occupied by the great circle of Mr. Fowler's scheme. It is on this western extension, therefore, that the struggle between the two leading engineers will take place. _ _ _ Of coarse there are other schemes besides Mr. Fowler's for intercepting the lines to the metropolis, and others besides Mr. Hawkshaw's for connecting the northern and southern lines; but it is not too much to say that the plans of the gentlemen we have mentioned are the most complete and important of their class, and are the representative schemes of the two great principles. It would be unjust to Mr. Fowler to attempt to summarize all the details of his scheme into a few lines at the end of a long article, and we shall, therefore defer an account of his inner and outer circles of railway to another oa casion,when the great question which their intercep ting system raises may be more fully explained. Unfortunately, one part of the plan, which it is to be hoped is capable of alteration in this respect, is to take a line along the proposed Thamts Em bankment, for the part possession of which there are already many railway competitors struggling for the sole right of diefiguring the unmade tho. roughfare. It sounded strangely at first to hear that the Metropolitan Board of Works lent a wil liug ear to these proposals for cutting up their greatest and, architecturally speaking, their noblest work. The real facts of the case, however, are these. The gas company near Blackfriars-bridge has an Act which guarantees it in its approach to the river, and this right was most unfortunately confirmed to it when tha Thames Embankment Bill became law. To give the company their access to the river means to make an open dock through the Embankment into the gasworks—to, in fact, cut it in two. The expense of making such a dock will be great, and the ruin to the aspect of the lofty granite terraced Embankment certain. It is not so strange, there fore, that the Metropolitan Board of Works having no money of their own to buy off the gasworks are, as the least of the two evils, glad to welcome any railway company rich enough to do so, and support their claim to partly spoil the Embankment that the company in return may enable the Board to complete it without an opening. It seems but slip shod legislation all this. Public feeling was most deservedly excited by the attempt to turn the Em bankment from Montague-house, but who would have suspected that, when that grievance was re dressed, such an injury would have been done to the plan as to virtually cut it in two to oblige a gas works. But that folly having been committed, it by no means of necessity follows that we must commit the last and greatest by selling a right of way along the Embankment to any railway that will buy off the gasworks. The Thames Embankment will be the most costly, the widest, and the handsomest tho roughfare in the world. Has the richest city then no alternative bat to sell and spoil for ever this their greatest work, to bring in one nuisance to buy out another, when an additional outlay of some three or four per cent, on the sum proposed to be expended would allow the original design to be car ried through in its integrity, and shut out the crowd of hungry rail ways which are already clamouring for the right of using and disfiguring the Embank ment before a stone of it is laid ? THE NORTH COUNTRY SEAMEN. On Monday evening a well-attended public meet ing was held in the Town-hall, Worth Shields, the Mayor, Mr. Joseph Spence, in the chair, to take into consideration the condition of the widows and orphans of the unfortunate seamen recently lost be longing to that town. and commence a subscription on their behalf. There was an excellent attendance. Most of the clergy and several of the leading ship owners were present. The Mayor, in opening the proceedings, stated that it was feared that there were either 12 or 13 vessels belonging to the town lost in the late gales, and that more than 50 widows and a considerable number of orphan children had been thus left destitute. He said that a subscrip tion was entered into in 186 J on behalf of the widows and orphans of eeamen then lost, and that the fund had been maintained until April last, when the last money the committee had at their disposal was paid to the widow of Mr. Peters, a shipmaster, who was lost at sea, and who it happened had him ' self been one of the most diligent collectors towards the fund is 186). The Mayor stated that with the fund they now proposed to collect it was intended, not only to administer to the wants of the poor women who had recently been left widows, but to assist all destitute families of seamen lost since April last, and to carry it on so that as far as possible, wht n any other poor women were bereft of their husbands by storm at sea, the committee would have something at their disposal to meet their imme diate wants, Dr. Bramwell moved a resolution of sympathy with the bereaved families. Ho said it was computed the t 112 men and lads belonging to this part alone had been lost in the recent storms. The Rev. Mr. Thomson seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried. It was then determined to open a subscription forthwith for the immediate relief of the families, and a large acting committee was chosen from the meeting. Among the subse quent speakers were Mr. John Dryden and Mr. R. Cleugh, two large shipowners. Mr Dryden expressed his great sympathy with the families, and thought that theirs was a case that recommended itself to the sympathy of the country. He observed that the widows and orphans of seamen were equally en titled to the assistance of the north with the families of pitmen and other men who might be suddenly lost while following their occupation. And Mr. Cleugh, in his speech, observed that seamen's wives when suddenly bereft of their husbands were much to be pitied. For in case a man had gone a long voyage his month's advance was spent in an outfit for him, and under circumstances of shipwreck, such as those which had recently occurred, the women were generally left with nothing, and when intelligence arrived that the man was lost trades men too often stopped the supply at the shop, and the poor families were thrown destitute. Mr. Green how, the shipping master, complained that some shipowners, after losing their vessels, were very slow in paying the balance of wages due to the lost seamen at the time that they were shipwrecked, and many poor families, he said, were very often almost starved from that cause. Indeed, but for other sailors' wives, who were always prompt in furnishing out of their own poverty immediate help to their destitute, neighbours, some of the families of lost mariners would be left in a very deplorable condition indeed. Mr. Dryden, in very indignant terms, condemned such shipowners, who were not worthy of being such, and ha hoped that the owners of those ships which were lost would pay in the balance at once, else they should be exposed. Over £l5O was subscribed in the room ; the Mayor of Tyne mouth has also received several generous subscrip tions from a distance, through the notice of the loss of seamen which was published a short time ago in the newspapers. A clergyman near Plymouth has THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNES i:1 it very 118ndsumc r.nAnn::r offered 10 t 111:C two orphan girls into en orphanage in that neighbour hood and maintain them and educate them free of cost. A public meeting, convened by the Mayor of that town, Mr. R. B. Ridley would be held at south Shields last evening, to commence a subscription on behalf of the widows and orphans of the lost seamen belonging that town, South Shields, equally with north Shields, having suffered severely from the effects of the late fearful gala. New Regulations for the Inns of Court, Monday being the first day of Hilary Term, the four Inns of Court (Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple, Inner Temple, and Gray's Inn) issued a consolidated code of regulations as to the admission of students, the mode of keeping terms, called for of students to the bar, the granting of certificates to practise under the bar, and legal education. Some important alterations having been made, this document is of more than usual interest. Here tofore, a gentleman paying the customary fees, and producing a certificate signed by two barristers, the form of which is well known, was at once admitted a member of the inn to which he applied. Hence forth the applicant must produce a certificate of hav ing passed a preliminary examination in the English and Latin languages and in English history. This examination will be conducted on one day in each week, between the 20th October and the 19th August In each year, by a joint board appointed by the four Inns of Court. Each inn will appoint six examiners who will attend according to a rota to be agreed upon among themselves, two to be a quorum. As heretofore, " no attorney-at-law, solicitor, writer to the signet, or writer of the Scotch Courts, proctor, notary public, clerk in Chancery, Parliamentary agent, or agent in any Court original or appellate, clerk to any justice of the peace, or person acting in any of these capacities, and no clerk of or to any barrister, conveyancer, special pleader, equity drafts man, attorney, solicitor, writer to the signet, or writer of the Scotch Courts, proctor, notary public, Parliamentary agent, or agent in any court original or appellate, clerk in Chancery, clerk of the peace, clerk to any justice of the peace, or of or to any officer in any court of law or equity, or person act ing in the capacity of any such clerk, shall be ad mitted as a student at any Inn of Court for the pur pose of being called to the bar, or of practising under the bar, until such person shall have entirely and Lona fide ceased to act or practise in any of the capacities above-named or described; and if on the rolls of any court, shall have taken his name off the rolls thereof." The form of application remains as before. There is to be a fee of one guinea charged for the form of admission, and such fee will go towards a fund to be annually distributed amongst the examiners in proportion to the number of examinations which they shall have respectively attended during the year. Persons who have passed a public examina tion at any of the universities " within the British dominions" will be exempt from the preliminary examination before mentioned. In "keeping terms" the old distinction will be observed; members of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dablin, Lon don, Durham, the Queen's University in Ireland, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, Glasgow, or Edinburgh, will be allowed to keep each term by dining on three days of each term in the halls of their respec tive societies. Other persons will be required, as heretofore, to dine six times in each term. To keep the term each student must be in the hall before grace is said, must remain in it during the whole of dinner, and till the concluding grace has been said. Every student must keep 12 terms, and attai❑ the age of 21 years, before he can be called to the bar, unless the inn to which he may belong shall see fit to dispense with two terms in consequence of his having passed satisfactorily the public exami nation hereinafter referred to. Heretofore it was required that the student should attend two complete courses of lectures, of one year each, either in the same year, or in two separate years. Hereafter he must attend not only the lectures as before, but also the private classes of two of the readers—which will be very awkward for gentlemen in the public offices, and others who now go to the bar—" or have been a pupil during one whole year, or periods equal to one whole year, in the chambers of some barrister, certified special pleader, conveyancer, or draftsman in c quay, or two or more of such persons, or have satisfactorily passed a general examination." These regulations apply only to students ad mitted on or after yesterday. All other students will have the option of proceeding to the bar under the old or the new regulations. The name and description of each student is to be " screened" in the inn to which he belongs, and in the other three inns, for the space of 14 days in term, before he can be called to the bar. No call is to take place except in term, and on the 16th day of each term, unless such 16th day shall be on Sun day, in which case the call would take piece on the Monday following. No certificate to practice under the bar will be granted to any student who has not kept 12 terms, &c., as aforesaid, with respect to other students. Such certificate will only be granted for a year, renewable annually, at the discretion of the Benchers. All these regulations apply equally to students seeking certificates to practice under the bar as special pleaders, conveyancers, or equity draftsmen. A standing council is established, to be called " the Council of Legal Education," and to consist of eight benchers, two to be nominated by each of the Inns of Court, and of whom four shall be a quorum. The members of the council are to remain in office for two years, each inn having the power to fill up vacancies occurring during that period in the number of its nominees. To this council is entrusted the power and duty of supertendin,g the whole subject of the education of the students, and of arranging and settling the de tails of the several measured which may bo deemed necessary to be adopted, &c. This council will have power to grant dispensations to students who than, have been prevented, by any reasonable cause, from complying with all the regulations as to attendance on lectures and classes, which shall from time to time be established. It will also arrange and deter mine the number of lectures to be delivered by the various " r eaders" and the private classes conducted by them. The legal year, for educational purposes, will be divided into three terms—(l) November let to December 22d, (2) January 11th to March 30th, (3) April 15th to July 31st, subject to a deduction of the days intervening between the end of Easter and the beginning of Trinity term. The lectures and other duties of the readers will remain, on the whole, as before; but a separate course of lectures on international law will, for the present, be delivered by the reader on jurisprudence and civil and international law. The reader on com mon law has also been directed to give instruction, in his lectures. on the subject of the office and duties of magistrates. The readers on common law and equity are directed to have particular regard to the law of evidence in their lectures, and other instruc tions to their students. The readers en common law, equity, and real property are directed to have two courses of lectures, the one elementary, and the other for the more advanced students. Each reader is to have a fixed salary of £4OO a year. The stu dents' fees for private classes are to be distributed amongst the readers, at the end of each year, in proportion to the number of students attending their respective private classes. Students to pay five guineas for all the lectures, and five guineas per annum for the private classes. In the month of July, in each year, there shall be voluntary examinations of the students upon the subjects of the several courses of lectures, but no student is to be entitled to go in for examination on any of the subjects unless he shall have obtained a certificate from the reader that ho has duly attended his lectures and classes upon the subject on which he offers himself examination. Each examination is to be conducted by barristers or barrister (not being the reader of the class to be examined), to be nomi nated fo: that purpose by the Council of Legal Eincation, and the Council of Legal Education is to have power to allot such remuneration as they shall think fit to such examiners. No student who shall be entitled to a certificate of having at tended the advanced course of lectures of the reader on common law, on equity, or on the law of rc.:l prop: is to he at liberty to go in for PZa mination upon the subject of the elementary course of lectures on the same heal ; and no student is to be admitted for exatninatiol on the subject of the elementary course of lecUres, on any of tho last mentioned heads, after he siall have kept more than eight terms, or for examinttian on any of the sub jects, after he shall have Dept all his terms, unless in either case the Council cf Legal Education shall for special reasons think fi: to allow the same. In order to encourage the students, exhibitions of the respective values hereinafter mentioned are to be conferred upon the most distinguished students in the examinations in Jciy:— " That five of such exuibitions shall bo given to members of the advanced classes in the common law, in the law of real property, and in equity, and the most proficient among thestudents in jurisprudence, the civil law, and international law, and in consti tutional law and legal hiftory, every year ; and be 30 guineas a year, to endure for two years, making 10 running at one time. That three of such exhi bitions shall be given to members of the ele mentary classes in the =mon law, in the law of y, and be 20 guineas a yreeaalr,prtoopeenrtzu,raenfd in ortweoqt7ietars, making six running at the same time, but to merge on the acquisition of a superior studentship That all the students attending the lectures a any of the readers shall be at liberty to attend the several ,oral examina tions, and that all menuers of the Inns of Court, who shall have obtain:a written orders of admis sion from any of the readers, or from any bencher of any of the aocietieE, shall also be at liberty to attend such examinaticns." Twice every year general examinations will be held for all such students as may be desirous of being examined previews to being called to the bar, conducted by at least ,:vio members of the council aforesaid, jointly witi the five readers, and certifi cates of having sa tisfactorily passed such examina tion shall be given to such students as shall appear to be entitled thereto, Such . examinations are to be held in or shortly before Michaelmas, or in or shortly before Trinity term. Regulation 46 states that—" As an inducement to students to propose themselves for such exami nation, studentships and exhibitions shall be founded of 50 guineas per annum each and 25 guineas per annum each respectively, to continue for a period of three years, and ote such studentship shall be con ferred on the most distinguished student at each general examination , and one such exhibition shall be conferred on the student who obtains the second position ; and fcrther, the examiners shall select and certify the names of three other students who shall have passed the next best examinations, and the Inns of end to which such students as afore sai I belong may, if desired, dispense with any terms not exceeding two, that may remain to be kept by such students previously to their being called to the bar. Provid e d that the examiners shall not be obliged to confer o r gr ant any studentship,exhibition, or certificate, inlesi they shall be of opinion that the examination )f the students has been such as en titles them thereto." Students who have passed the examination afore said, or who have obtained a studentship, un exhi bition at such examination or a certificate of honour are to take rink in seniority over all other students who shall be called on the same day. The stipends to readers, the expenses of the studentships, exa miners, exhibitions, &c., are to be defrayed from a common fund to be formed by contributions from the several Inns of Court in proportions to be agreed upon. CITY SEWERS COMMISSION. Yesterday kt 12 o'clock the members of this commission assembled at Guildhall for the despatch of business. De puty De Jersey presided. Several summonses against the owners of property for not carrying out sanatory regulations in their houses as re quired in accordance with the orders of the commissioners were heard. The Court gave various periods of time for the completion of the works. One of the scavenging con tractors was eummoned in consequence of two of the men in his employ not wearing badges whilst being engaged in cleansing the street, and the Court fined him ss. in each case. THE LIGHTING OF THE PUBLIC LAMPS. Deputy LOTT laid before the Court a letter he had received from an inhabitant of the ward represented by him, com plaining of the lighting of the public; lamps in the City. The worthy deputy expressed great dissatisfaction at the application of the carburetting process to the lamps, and he said, seeing the strong feeling there was on the part of the public against it, be thought the Commission should make some other arrangements. They as the representatives of the public must not allow any crotchet of their own, which they might entertain with regard to the process in ques tion, to lead them to do anything contrary to the wishes of the citizens. (Hear, hear.) He moved that the matter be referred to the General Purposes Committee, to consider and report. The motion was at once put and agreed to. Mr. JOSEPH Daw, the p: incipal clerk to the Commission, read a communica , ion he had received from the Chartered Gas Company, forwarding a return of gas shown to have been consumed in the metered publiu lamps which had been agreed to by the officers of the Commissioners of Sewers and the company's chief inspector. The secretary in the letter expressed a hope, that as hitherto no opportunity had been lost of cavilling at the manner i n which the company was supposed to fulfil its duties to the public, it would now have the credit which the experiments of the commissioners showed it to merit. The directors regretted to observe that notwithstanding their anxiety on the subject, and the con stant measures used, the quantity of sulphur in the gas ap peared from Dr. Letheby's test to be still slightly in excess of the Parliamentary maximum, but the attention of the directors would not be relaxed, and they earnestly trusted that before long a plan might be devised which would re ceivo the approval of the commissioners, and obviate fur ther complaints. Tho CrcalumAN could not understand the language used in the first part of the letter, and ho said ho thought is was not of a character that one public body should use towards another. The commissioners 'were the representatives of the public, and they had the Politest difficulty in getting the company to supply gas of the requisite illuminating power. (Hear, hear,) The Engineer to the Commission (Mr, Wu. HAYWOOD) said he had no doubt of the c ot rectness o f t h e c ompany's return as to the consumptio n of gas where t h ere h a d b een meters, and the commissioners might be quite sere that wherever meters were affixed the full quantity of gas would be given. (Hear, hear.) It appeared from investigation made by Dr. Letheby and himself that the light was not so good at the lamps where there were no meters. With regard to the carburetting process, Upon investigation they fou nd that where the carburetor s were affixed t h e li g ht given, with 3 cubic feet of gas per h our, was equa l t o that 5 cubic feet in the other lamps. He stated further,that where there was imperfect light it was attributable either to defect in the naphtha or in the gas supp l ied by t h e com panies. Mr. FAILLOW said the gas lamps in some parts of t he Cit y were more like rushlights than anything else. (Hear . ) Deputy FARRAR said the light s at the present time were nothing like so good a s they use d to b e. H o w it was that the illuminating power and quality of the gas were found to be so satisfactory by the officers of the Commission, and the lights in the public and indeed the private gas lamps so de fective he could not understand. He should like to have some information upon the subject. The Medical Officer (Dr. L ETIrEI3Y ) stated that there we r e two or three te s ti ng% regularly every nig ht with regard to that w as s u pplied by th e com p anies, and there could b e no d oubt that the illum i na ting power of the gas suppli e d at the present time was cons id era bly better the quality of th e gas than formerly. Indeed, in former times, while the illumi nating power was not Mare than 10 or 11 sperm candles, they had now an average power of 14 candles, which was consi derably If, therefore, th ere was any deficiency of light, it must be that the quantity suppli e d wa s insufficient. The q uantit y in access o f th e Standard o f the act of Parliament. y was becoming l ess year b eat, ow i n g to the deposition of matter in th e gas pipes anydYfittine's, w hich obstructed the gas in the burnets. passage of th e Whilst this matter was under consideration, he by I‘lr. R(Dutr;el4r,would call attention to a pamphletßlack Rock Works, Brighton, „ upon the subject of the supply of gas to the street lamps. no did so withjgreat Pleasure, because that gentle man was an authorit y pen the subject. He expresses his opinion as follows: --1, That the contract system is wrong in principle and in equita bl e in practice. 2. That the only o t Letheby) e theby ) proper teeth e d f or supplying gas to street lamps is by meter, a separate meter to each larDP. 3. That preparatory to the use of meters excl ue i ve l 3 ' an d until various local or other special obst ac l es are removed.ved. a system of meter averages mieht be advsntageousi edopled. 4. That all the arrange ments for lighting scree s hould be • under the control of local auth e n t i es. 5. Tha t the only means by which the lighting of streets will b e neutered in a satisfactory and economical manner is by estaltlishing and maintaining friendly feelings between the respective representatives of g as companies and local authorities. 6. That improvements in column lamps, d a-justing taps,burne: s, regulators, meters, the and patting out gas, and of fixing and trans of li g hti ng protecting meters, should be sought for, encouraged, alai subjected to impartial exaolinatiens and experiments. The matter then dropped' The Principal Clerk laid W0 1 ' 0 4: 10 Court a precept from the Metropolitan Board of Works calling for the sum of L 14,268 l as. 4 ( 1 .) being the amount of the charge upon the City to- c 1864. wards the g - eneralcxpenses of the board for the year. Thif: anieunt is greatly in excess of the charge made last ye ;c.'. The subject was referred to the general purposes conitilit, tee to consider and report. DISEASED MEAT. The Solicitor to the Commission (A. J. BAYLIS, Falti stated that he had attended before Alderman Gabriel, at the Justice-room at Guildhall, and procured the condemnation as unfit for human food of the carcass of a cow which had been sent to London from Colchester. The meat was in an exceedingly bad state from disease, and the alderman directed that the attention of the commissioners should be called to the case, with a view to future proceedings being taken against the sender. The suggestion of the alderman was concurred in, and the solicitor was instructed to proceed against the party impli cated. SANATORY CONDITION OP THE CITY. Dr. LETHEIi Y reported on the state of 189 houses that had been inspected during the week, and submitted a list of 19 places for sanatory improvement. He likewise reported that the markets and slaughter houses had been duly inspected, and the officers had condemned 1,8401 b of meat as unfit for human food. It consisted of 20 sheep, 2 calves, 2 pigs, and quarters of beef, and 19 joints and pieces of meat, 1001 b were diseased, and the rest were from animals that had died from disease. The mortality returns are still above the average of the season. Last week there were 72 deaths in the City, whereas the number for the corresponding period of the last 8 years is but 62; 14 of the deaths were among children of less than 5 years of age, and 27 were amongst persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as follows : Phthisis 10, mesenteric disease 2, hydrocephalus 1, pneu monia I, bronchitis 17, continued fever 1, scarlet fever 3, croup 2, diarrhoea 3—making altogether 13 deaths from tubercular disease, 18 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and only 9 from diseases of a zymotic character. The excess in the mortality therefore is not due to any pre ventabl3 causes, but to the influence of the cold weather. THE:GAS SUPPLY TO THE CITY. Dr. LETHEBY reported that the illuminating power of the gas supplied to the City during the weak had been above the standard of the Act of Parliament. The avera€e power of the City Company's gas had been 17.11 sperm candies of the Chartered 14.26, and of the Great Central 14.14, but the proportion of sulphur had been in each case above the quan tity sanctioned by Parliament. The commissioners, having disposed of some other busi ness, adjourned. The Navy of the Confederate States. The following extracts from the annual report of the Secretary of the Confederate navy—a document which has been briffly noticed in our columns—will be read with interest in this country : During the months of July and August I sent 27 com missioned officers and forty trustworthy petty officers to the British Provinces, with orders to organise an expedition and co-operate with army officers in an attempt to release the Confederate prisoners confined on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. From time to time I learned that the arrangements made were such as to insure the most complete success. A large amount of money had been expended, and just as our gallant naval officers were about to set sail on this expedi tion, the English authorities gave information to the enemy and thus prevented the execution of one of the best planned enterprises of the present war. In accordance with the order of the President, early in tho present year, I despatched several agents to England and France, with orders to con tract for eight iron-clad vessels, suitable for ocean service, and calculated to resist the ordinary armament of wooden vessels of the enemy. These ships were to be provided with rams, and designed expressly to break the blockade of such of the ports as were not blockaded by the iron. clad moni tor's of the enemy. Five of these vessels were contracted for in England, and three in France. Due precautions were taken against contravening laws of England in the construc tion and equipment of these vessels. Three have been corn frleted ; but owing to the unfriendly construction of her neutrality laws, the Government of England stationed seve ral war vessels at the mouth of the Mersey, and prevented their departure from England. Subsequently they were seized by the British Government. Another end larger vessel has since been completed ; but it is doubtful if she will be allowed to leave the shores of England, although it is be lieved the precautions taken are sufficient to exempt her from the fate of her consorts. The vessels being constructed in France have been subjected to so many official visitations that I have forwarded instructions to cease operations upon them, until the result of negotiations now pending shall permit our agent to resume work upon them. In this con nection, it is proper for me to state, that, the great revulsion in popular sentiment, both in England and France, toward the Conielderate Government, has rendered our efforts to ob tain supplies from those countries almost abortive. In view of all possible contingencies, I have instructed the agents of this department to wait a more favourable opportunity for carrying out the instructions previously forwarded. By the last I sent instructions that will shortly be made apparent to our enemies nearer home. Ido not deem it advisable to communicate any portion of these plans to your honourable body at the present time. Although the operations of our navy have not been extensive, I cannot overlook the services of Captain Semmes in the Alabama. During the year he has captured upwards of ninety vessels, seventy of which wXe destroyed, the others being either bound or released. On of the greatest drawbacks this officer reports having experienced is the difficulty he now has in procuring full supplies ot • (foals. The provincial English authorities have hitherto affoCiecl him every faciiity, but recently they have interpretated their neutrality laws so stringently that our war-vessels and privateers are much embarrassed in obtain ing suitable 'supplies. I have instructed Captain Semmes to purchase coal from neutral shipmasters wherever he' found it, and give them every necessary document to pro tect them against the effect such sale may have upon their vessels when they reteirn to their several countries. By this means I anticipate a suffieient supply of coal will be ob tained to enable him to conti.: l ll ,o his operations during the coming winter. The other operations of this depaftment have been chiefly confined to making such preparations or naval operations as circumstances might permit. From tiniq to time 1 have caused surveys to be made up on s t eamers ~ u nning the blockade, with a view of purchasing such as coulu he made available as war vessels. Several have been bought, and are now being transformed into ships of war. In conclusion, I would recommend the immediate pa;sage of an act autho rising the construction of at least six turreted iron-dads for harbour operations. The experience of the past year has demonstrated that such vessels are absolutely necessary, if we expect to break through and destroy the blockade at present established by the enemy. MR. TENNIEL'S PORTRAITS are something mar vellous, with just that exaggeration which is only a certain kind of idealism; and he always gives character without a spice of offensive personality. Mr. Disraeli, per haps, is somewhat lowered, and Lord Russell is almost always caricatured ; but Lord Palmerston and Mr. Might, who is evidently no favourite. are always admirably por trayed. Lord Jelin Russell—he was Lord John Ru-sell then—as a little earnest, scraggy nurse-girl, ineffectually toiling and pushing a perambulator heavly weighted with a dull Reform Bill baby up the steps of Parliament, is only less happy than the famous Page " not st ong enough for the place." the exact political status of the noble lord could not have been hit off in a score of written pages with the vivid practical recognition of character which this single dr iwing embodies. Mr. Bright, as the Quaker Cromwell, ordering that bauble, the Constitution, off the table of the House, is equally comprehensive. On the whole, Mr. Punch's—that is, Mr. Tenniol's patriotism and right feeling may be safely trusted. Unlike Gill ay, _Punch seldom swaggers and brags. In the Look out for Squalls, John Bull, as a burly foretop man of the Britannia, looks down with good humoured contempt on the melodramatic small Yankee captain, who struts in all the blood-and-thunder savagery of revolvers and buff-boots ; but John Bull is not an offen sive egotist. In this respect an English political artist has the advantage of his Parisian rival. In the Chayivari Franco is always a semi-nude female taken from the cou/isses; it would not be permitted in Paris to draw the Emperor in a pictorial feuilleten, But in ranch we can symbolise Gdvernment either by the conventional Britannia, or by the Queen, or by the abstract John Bull, or by the Premier of the day. This gives great scope to variety. And what is curious is, that Mr. Tenniel always contrives to give the air and manners of a gentleman to all his political characters, in whatever grotesque masque rade ho may think proper to draw them. If Lord Palmerston is an ostler, or a cabinet-maker, or a policeman, he is always a gentleman. Mr. Punch himself, in his, various disguises, shows good breeding under his hump. John Bull in the Windsor Uniform, though coarse and burly in frame, yet shows blood and race, though it is a mistake in this picture to make him present the Queen with the Exhibition Building of 1862 after the abortive three domed design of Captain Fowke. It would perhaps be im possible with truth to give Earl Russell the marks of per • sonal dignity; but with all his sourness and irritable pert ness of character, Mr. Tenniel does justice to the Foreign Secretary's honesty and intellectual quickness.—Saturday Review. No HOME complete without a WILCOX AND Guano' SEWING-MACHINE. Simple, compact, efficient, durable, and noiseless. Warranted to futfil all the requirements of a perfect family machine. 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Our friend might every day be seen upon a branch turnpike road in the neigh bourhood of Camiord, driving sometimes a gig and sometimes a cart up and down from 500 yards on one side of the turnpike gate to 500 yards on the other side, but always keeping himself to this short bit of road, and always as ho went through the gate paying the toll and taking a ticket. 0:c1 Splinter bar was very close upon the object of his drives and payments at that time, and perhaps it was lucky for him De. Forbes Winslow did not happen to pass that way, but somehow it was that there was method and profit also in his apparent madness. Months later he did not mind showing his friends how he was engaged all that time in "making traffic for the new brunch line." There was a traffic taker inside the tollhouse who marked him down every time he passed, and the traffic-taker proved his figures, the toll-collector proved his receipts, and the ticket vouchers proved the tickets, and all went before the House of Commons' Committee ; and by this simple means one' of the most solitary cross-roads in those parts became statistically one of the most frequented communications in the kingdom. Recalling to mind these and many other stories of the same kind, we are not disposed to put implicit faith in the estimates recently put forth by the promoters of the new metropolitan schemes as to the numbers of men who daily come in by rail and omnibus from the environs of London to keep business hours in the metropolis. The suggestion made is that 700,00 persons come into London every morning and go out of London every night. This may be, and probably is, a great exaggera tion ; but there can be no doubt that the real figures, if they could be obtained, must also be very large and far beyond the control of any such agency as that of our friend in the gig. Perhaps eveshould not be far beyond the mark in estimating that half a million of persons engaged in business transac tions in London during the day sleep out of town in habitations within a radius of five-and-twenty miles. This is a fact which deserves much more careful attention than it has hitherto obtained. It marks an epoch in the habits of our people, it disc covers a new want scarcely known to the last gene ration, end it indicates a mine of wealth as yet very imperfectly worked by the railway companies. It is under every discouragement that all this vast population migrates morning and evening. These people do not appear in the metropolitan Census, they form no portion of the estimated three millions of the metropolis, and no doubt their number would be doubled if the facilities of transport were what they ought to be. If we look beyond the smoke, we may see that the railway traffic-master can dis. tribute them as a magician can conjure his spirits. Where there are trains every quarter of an hour, villages of villas and little towns of cottages lightly cover the landscape. The Crystal Palace, despite its clayey soil, will soon be in the very midst of suburban London. Again, where the trains are numerous in the morning, with a late train at night for the playgoers, and the London diners-out, and the late workers, the larger houses rise and the railway residential revenue increases. The South- Eastern bids very fairly for a large traffic of this kind, and is getting it—the landowners down the line and the public sharing the gain with the Com pany. The South-Western is rather niggard of conveniences, and with, perhaps, the finest oppor tunities of converting some 40 miles of valueless line into , a highly paying district, stops short in its resident accommodation at Weybridge. The Great Western is far too prowl, though by no means too prosperous,to attend to such small matters, With he best line and perhaps the most unskilful staff in England, it utterly neglects the mine of revenue which lies in the beautiful country about Marlow, and, indeed, all down to Pangbourne. The lines of the Great Northern and of the Great Eastern are not laid in pleasant places, and there is something about the traditions of the latter line which does not invite the confidence necessary to habitual travel, The change of name and even the estab lishment of several Accidental Death Insurance Companies have not yet succeeded in rendering the Eastern Counties popular as a place for cockney ruralising. The North Western, with many disad vantages of soil and climate, and a distant London station, have by liberality in trains and residents' tickets begirt Harrow with first-class houses, and gathered a population on their line. But none of these traffic-masters have studied the habits of the fish it is their business to catch, Any traffic-master who considered the matter for a moment must know that the great London deliveries of suburban resi dents ought to be at 8 45, 9 45, and 10 45. The junior clerk, the junior partner in the retail busi ness, and all the active, youthful, and subordinate little wheels of London commerce begin to revolve exactly at nine,—not a moment later, for punctu ality is the soul of business. The junior partners, managing clerks, and people of second-rate autho rity, arrive with equal exactitude at ten. The magnates, when the letters are opened and docketed, the orders registered, the Stock Exchange open, and the world well aired, come in, to the moment, at eleven. All the world of London knows this, and every one acts upon it except the traffic-mas ters. In stupid indifference to the wants of their customers and the pockets of their shareholders, they not only make their lines inconvenient for re sidential purposes, but they circumscribe the area available for habitations and neske the available places crowded and uncomfortable. Any of our readers who will glance at the " Map of Metropo litan Railways and Miscellaneous Improiements deposited at the Private Bilboffice,"just published, will readily discern the state of things which has „, egeoted the observations we are making. Before the I\e:tropolitan Railways are intrusted with new l " power s st the; they ought to show that they a re ma ki ng the eau of the facilities they now h ave . l? use . Ali these new London nrejects can be f or no other -e Purpose than to catch the me. evening re sidential truffle. The occasional ~`welter, encum bered by hi s luggage, must take his cab e.? his rest.ing place at all events. It is the habitual, unialee, daily customer who wants to be set down within five or ten minutes of his shop, or his counting house, or his office. It is for this custom the fight is to be made. But the fight should be made not only in the London streets, but in the country. The customers will grow up upon the lines that have the most frequent trains and the most liberal system of yearly tickets. There can be no doubt that the most paying thing at this moment would be a series of short residential lines, restricted to reside ntial traffic, going 25 miles into the country round London, but converging into two or three lines near London, and with trains every quarter of an hour. Far be it from us to propose anything of the sort in the pre sect state of affairs, but the object should be to get as near to this as we can with the least possible in terference with present arrangements, and, above all, without unnecessarily disturbing the streets of London. If the shareholders of the present lines would spur their directors, and the directors would take the traffic masters rather energetically by the collar and shake them into a consciousness of the present state of the wants of the metropolis, a great deal might be done without costly Parliamentary contests or pulling down London. TELEGRAPIL—Mercy weeps, and Justice herself takes part with her dismayed sister in protesting against the deed which wasdonaewyfuelsteehradraayeatetrHisotireseis mongerlane Gaol. It s most that it stands irrevocable; for the appeal of pity made by the people on behalf of Samuel Wright has been carried ere now by his own sad spirit to a tribunal beyond the purview of earthly rulers. Adjudged upon compassionately there—as we may think it will be —the ruling of that sublime and faultless Court of Error cannot set right again the wrong done here. It remains an injustice irrever sible, an eternally petrified mistake, a piece of cold officialism and Ministerial stiff-neckedness stereo typed for bad, and all by the gallows. The man whose life might yesterday have been saved by one stroke of the Secretary's pen —by one generous and observant impulse rising above the dead level of routine—lies now in a felon's grave, with a prison passage for his cemetery and a shroud of qpicklime for his funeral cerements. No ghost evoked with in genious optical methods, or imagined by a diseased brain, could possess the power and the horror of that corpse. From the grave it accuses its executioners of an unmerited death, which the crowd—hardly re strained at the scaffold by respect for law—hooted "as a murder." From the grave it raises that most perilous and catching cry of" one law for the rich and another for the poor," which can hardly be con tradicted while Victor Townley lives and Samuel Wright moulders. From the grave, too, it reminds, and will long remind the country, of that strange and distressing scene enacted yesterday, when the homicide on the scaffold bowed with his darkened face to the people crying " Shame !" on his han man. When and whil e t h e choked lungs fluttered, and the heart's throb paused, and the poor brain dulled to all thingi, in this life except to that one terrible and slow agony tedious'y fading off from nerve and organ, Wright must still have heard his countrymen crying against the infliction of that supreme penalty. What did it mean, thi-! sympathy for the man ? Was he not a murderer? Had he not slain with his own hand the woman who was his companion ? By his own immedi a t e an d wretched confe ss i on he had done so; and the Eng lish people have no maudlin pity for the shedder of blood. But the feeling grows stronger every day . 3 .Imengit ;,,,- T 1 It ft: 1) 1001 a ctrl It ba ani c - 42 the' r c t list of " mui•cletti" this rot stand the Weir s class. It was an se t o f vie: , and of pa,sion, hot d ev° wit - I , ov premeditation, and unon starting up f r t il , sleep; it wsis swiftly ma d e k no wn, readily ficke v " d legged, briefly tri e d, an d hurriedly adjudgi , d• I° d could not sell a ho use or b u y a bit l of gurden-gr el , l3 , so quickly as S a m ue l W r i g ht was arrest ea : arraigned, and cast f or d ea th ; and while the pro securing counsel himself therefore pressed for delay ( justcircumstances, produce palliatin g circustancss, the people had witnessed a most d ou btf u l ac t of clemencY9 B " „ o demanded, with a wise and humane logic, that the dopartmcnt which had seen insanity in jealous should not see wilful mu r d er i n the frenzy of a h asty quarrel, completed and repented of within the seconds. They demanded it, as all know too sce i in vain, and now the dangerous experle n . c o has passed upon the public of an execution hooted by its spectators, If anything could lend gravity to such an event, it would be the self-restraint shown by the indignant erow,.,; Five . hundred policemen and a few barriers of else timber could not yesterday have kept the that- 18 , 411 0 who shouted " Shame !" from tearing Wright frog the gallows, if their sympathy for him had net " its basis in love of law and justice. This become then, no common incident— n o mock-heroic del i annals —no Jack Shepp ar d or ro lli c king Mach kissing hands to the mob, and cheered out of : 1 1 in return, as a bold, light-hearted rogue• st leaving the crowd out of the question as the le e fa important portion of the tragedy, those who V e co have gone, but who stayed away in order to bs , no hand or part in the business, must be reril erj3 „ tiered. For every hundred spectators at the b ah e ing there would have been thousands, but that tho s d who usually bear to look on such things le er sternly denied themselves the spectacle, r si a tu o than seem to warrant a judicial murder. IY 2 /I , e b; again, behind all these absentees, we think of "„d thousands who actively protested, by argument %, meeting . and petition against the execution oat eluding men of mark and character, and alf l3° ,, all the London press with its million readers the terrible thought is more and more impre sse r upon us that at Horsemonger-lane gaol the ce fi try was on this occasion o ne w ay be and the Gev err ment another, as to whether the life should , strangled out of the poor bricklayer. The Gay er :4 meet, however, is a shadowy t erm , and we 113- „ , 0 bring closer home the responsibility of the 01 11 .4 blood. Solemnly feeling, then, how grave a t u ,, / , e r we say, and how good a gift it is that a Nfin l 'i l d should have the courage to disregard clamour t o follow law, we cannot avoid the duty of laying misery . and mistake of this deed upon the hea' re . Sir George Grey. We would do the Home SE e ' re tary j . ustice—and we are sure we do him no 0 0 e 4 than . justice in believing that he would have / 35f/ o ld Wright if, in his own official opinion, "be c° „ - s ha . ve . saved him." It would be absurd to bolie l i w oo t Minister obstinately bent upon exacting the el penalty from such a criminal, an d Si r George rg el neither the character no r th e b ear i ng of a' I; 0 man. His error wa s not o f th e h ear t s o rou e " n a of the head, and h as b een b re d o f th a t cold s o , dull official blood whi c h rou ti ne an d f oo lscap e n g A e d der. He would h ave d rawn th e bl un t e d es' l. ,,, e r Mercy from its sh ea th, i ns t ea d o f th e pointed tb pon of Justice, b u t th a t hi s own fingers had tied o f blade to the scabbard with Gordian targ iefl oe rest tape. Had he been le ss mi n i s t er i a l and "" fi s 0 of a Minister he would ha ve p erce i ve d that 11 0 % 0 0 precisely a case wher e th e i ns ti nc t s o f the P e lie. were a great deal mo re we i g ht y th an su ch con i t e ... rations as that there had b een a reprieve boo' e l. that . there mustn't be too many—that poptilarlibe mon was encroaching u p on th e sacre d c arpet ° „eft Home-office—that Go vernmen t was U r overn 111 "00 and must be maintained. Th ese , we say, a r ti e r & kind of thoughts which haunted Sir George 'OO and which—proving him far mo r e f o olish and co oio ~ monplace than cruel or haughty-- su stained io the unfortunate business to its bloody ends ns ibl' then that ho rror comes i n, an d that t h e reePeridel, lay which we lay upon the Minister's eb°"4icisl stains our hands with crimson and soils his 0 740 dress with the same colour. The obstinacy t 11 , 11 " c eli ministerial in the office was homicidal in t i. , 1 1, bleak air of . the winter morning when Wrig is "," o cil ia' forth to die for having committed manslauk e 'tose; judiciously close after a murder elsewhere. , u n ",b oa not take the weight of " the bricklayer's" d e a l , the head that nodded assent so easily when gentleman" .. was pronounced mad. And 1 / 131 'i l eie nislerial responsibility is a reality and not a 11 0 0' it is not only jest that we should refer thole at e ters to the right man, but he himself must be, a n d pared to accept the reference. It is a gret , even a sublime authority t o s t an d before the 1-7, 00 ri the official " mast er o f lif e, " the i nca rnate ot ei of Final Appeal ; and if heart or head e el ci c ale for that cffice brained,. we must say so, for life and death 0 , 51 or ge public weal are question. On Sir v e , o t be too cold or too W il d tbe Grey lies the load o f - this event, if shameful/ae we think it wa s . w ith him remains all tyr credit of his firmness if Wright's net was a in r a ll der, and Victor Toe er a4/, was not. is the adviser of the Crown in these matters;. those who placed a petition on this subject I . ll _,P er • Majesty's hands asked of her tender heart an ference which her wise and experienced mind .. s_e , : e " - a , to have refused to her strong inclinations..ll3ecY He, and he 0 ti.. 1 eo plo's instinct, striking the balance of Ju s . ll e fairly in these perplexed cases, has fixe d e eit!i teoo o same acumen on him who i s t o bl a me in the P I bey business. It is the Home Secretary, and Olt jot and now but one hope is left, namely, that tbl s ce pe chance of mercy — w ith th e d rea dful scaffold 04 lately enacted when Ali ce H o lt died, and the ~0 it) inconsistence of logic or l a w which P srd %the r Derbyshire to h ang i n Middlesex —may together work upon publi c op i n i on so as s p ee dily to r oo d the power of life an d d eat h ou t of the ne ce erring hands of parliamentary officiels. COUNTRY MARKETS. ~.------•~1 LEEDS—TVESDAY. vitt% In consequence o f t h e L on d on mar ket YeS. e t r ber 0 311 reported dull, and our m ill ers h av i ng b o ught last week, the whe a t t ra d e to - day has b ee n verY 0 133.. 0# prices slightly tending downwards. Barley and beans without change. --- MARKET HARBOROUG}H_T" sD°Y• White h t '4O 4 15 per 36 : 0 1 wea sto 44s ; red, 38s to ,„,. 270 ' O r3 Malting barley at 33s to 35s per lir ; griu ( " - D' 22s per 30 st. Oats, old, 27s to 295; • new, ' 2°3 t° et. ; beans, 34s to 40s per qr. r lo' LIVERPOOL—Tvrspicr. , n iarl' e h " OI day ; however, owing There was a fair attendance of the trade a' t hertt,,, e d was little business doin. Wheat and hour, v ll fri a' 00 .11 slow sale, lost any little im t noted ife r. . 4 improvemen Oats and oatmeal met with a dull sale, and price s or to j o to the return of mild wea• i s doi , changed. Barley, beans, and peas are all eal for V I Indian corn sold slowly, and receded to 30s ea mixed. at 11e0~14./..• SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. 0 01 1 4 There was a good show of wheat, and an todL,yraergydoid;io b an ar c e e ly of h n it i e ill r e a r t s esr d Th de e a re ler w s :ts I l i l o ie ch t a r a n d g a e r o n i a iraport ° , ~,A wheat, per load of 3 imperial articles. New red 17 86 d moa New white :, If Beans ~ - : 16a nii °6 t i : 4 ,1 4 4 . O a ” .. 4Ds tr - to u" 0 3 bu5he1e........1117560: 0 :1 10 0 : 1 1 19 8 1 ,1 4 °4 6 0 1 Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr. ................. • ~4 so d 0 0 Malting t' ditto, „ .... °od to ........ 190 4 17). Oats Flour, Is 4d, is 7d, and le 8d per 1 Of ---------_2_---"" Bre TILE PUBLIC LAMP-POST S AT PAU tg , wilici trO' deP of3l p cast iron, are being coated w ith cop p er , by —cc ing, so as l to have all the effect of bronze._ • ' EDGELL.—On the 11th wife of Captain . Births. cio uiro. tile HENDERSON.— tior et onDtohyeerlionEtshdtg.,.elai,t ofB eaacsooommebel:Teiand.aocierto H i e . E d e .: p o a f r a k ,thew daughter.i l eof L i e i u n t s . t - C .' o a l t o n 1 el B• 'Z ' Seri ROBERTSON.—On the 11th hist ,at 17, A fleet , wiltonPT r . tise Lady Katharine Enstace Robertson, of a da u g„ ll „ -e s, e° , l4 RUSSELL. —On the l lth inst., at 3, errion-% oars' ii"°ll Dublin, the Lady Katharine Hamilton itliss l ' e ' and heir. Marriages. l,ol lv 4 he alL e jD , CRISPIN — RATTRAY,—On the 7th inst., at ',—„,, Cri', o ' tO i C t b N ur . c , h to o E f the Holy o i l n y e Apo Apostles, Cuptain W illis ' - I /11.- R 1 Piccadilly,e Collier,n Altn s E — s q C .J. 01. LIE R • late Adwirti es ,* Rattray. ~ n t. Pe i , t „ t° _ o widow a the of l2 th th e ot., to, .., orp. ~ Emily Francesll3 barrister-at-law. r oi Canonbury, rat C nient, Finsbury, aged i sl i i e tee h rr aj ad d ta- s ul , igt Ei .t q er ., ofof Ctuoeoliabinvivioi D o e . aths. 11191Y"iiii BARTHOLOMEW.--On the 11th inst at S. • 1 4 ARTER.On the 12th inst ,at 1-11 •I -.,. ... f ' cd c HAp Carter, m N . Y, George Bartholomew, • 05 ` - r , ° joY" i o„vlOrf Chapman, g DAWSON. o E n s t g he Et3q., aged 83. . John Dawsc l ni n t t h th , _ ..1 , fp h-streett I. "` DP —On the 10th inst., at R os hervlll e e . 2l":°' ' , l ipt i GUNNIS.—On the 1 1i shire, M.D., of Brighton. 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