The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

lifx. Roebuck, M.P., on Education, Yir. Roebuck, M.P., for Sheffield, who is now 114 ' 'Yin at Swanage, in Dorsetshire, delivered an a'..Wiress on Education in the Congregational School roam in that place, on Thursday evening last, to a very crowded audience. The Rev. S. Saville occu pied the chair. Mr. ROEBUCK, M.P., on rising to address the meeting, was received with much applause. He said, Mr. Saville, ladies and gentlemen, I am obliged to do now what I did on a former occasion when ad dressing an assembly like this—to begin by making an apology. From an infirmity under which lam labouring I feel a difficulty in reading at night ; in truth, I find it much more easy to make a speech than to read a lecture. Therefore, I will endeavour to lay before you what few ideas I have formed on the subject without .committing them to writing, and simply by speaking to you. Sir, I wish it clearly to be understood that I feel very great diffi dence—sincerely I speak it—in attempting to ad dress an audience like this. It has not been my habit to lecture ; it has not been my habit to descant upon matters connected with education. My busi ness in life has been far different. Still, s i r , as you tell me that you and your friends are endeavouring to spread the benefits of education among your fel lows, and as you have called on me to render help in that great work, I said I should have the greatest readiness to assist you as much as I could. Now that you are met for that E purpo, will endeav our t o f ulfil the promise "ay made to you. I understand, sir, that you andyour among fellows are en d eavouring to spread e d uca t ion ded, the uneducated c l asses by whonayou urronn though your d es i re to do tha t is frustrated great mea sure b y the great aresh h ave to in a difficult conquer—the igno r ance of the personsies you whom you address, and th e i r utter ignorance to lay before them. nceof the great value of the ed ucat i on you endeavour Now, Sir, in stating to yon m y thoughts on that m y s elf first to the class whom you wish subject, I s h a ll a t o - d d idraesB u pon this occasion ; then I shall address ra Sir, to those friends of educa tion wh o a re to .v be suetehe teachers in these schools, be cause I think some things to lay before yon 'which may smoo th tho difficulties in your way; and '7l a ddress myself to the gentry by whom you arc) siurarounded, and I shall endeavour to point o u t to them . e the advantages of the course you are great duties they have to falfil in taking , a nd tn t h e position they hold on the present occasion. Now, i n a ddressing the class whom you represent, it is i ny w ish to point out to the working man the g rea t ,advantages of education. Firstly, I will speak o f d u cation, as giving him the means of raising him self among his fellows, of carving out for himself a great fortune among his fellows. Now this, Sir, seems to me to be a great mistake. Very few peo ple can draw prizes in the great lottery of life; where one man makes his fortune a million must rest where they began. Therefore, the great object I have in view is to point out to the working man the benefits—the great benefits which he may de rive from education itself—to make him understand that his life will be purer, his life will be better, his life will be a more virtuous life if he has obtained the benefits of education. I don't point out to him such great examples as George Stephenson. I don't know whether the working men hero have heard of that working man in the north of England, who has lived in our own time, who at 1S years of age did not know how to write ; that wan taught himself how to write, taught himself everything that he knew; lie acquired a great fortune, and was, in fact, the father of all the railways in England. That man's life is almost a miracle, and I would not point out to labouring men him as an example, because mil lions of labouring men cannot attain that which he attained. 13ut every working man can get the benefits of education, can derive the advantages such as no other means can give rsm, which would. make him a happier and a better man. (Applause.) Now, sir, it is not for me to say whether among the various races of mankind onu is better or more cap able than another ; but we say this of the race to which we belong, that we are among the foremost of mankind ; that Englund has exhibited in all her classes the greatest rd os.iblo greatness to which man can rise. (llear, leaar.) Our nobles, our gentry, our merchants, our c Arica' class, our lawyers, our far mers, our work:ths men have shown themselves to be among the foremost of mankind. Therefore, I say to you who are among the working men of this country, are possessed of great intellect, which God has given you, but from the want of education have n at the opportunity of making use of it, it is indeeo like the bright diamond hidden in a dark cave 4 ‘ Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean. bear, Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air," Bo it is with my fellow-countrymen. There are mi'. lions of you who are possessed of great abilities, of wonderful capacity, who are bound down and gro velling in a state of ignorance. Why is this, Sir, I would aF,Ir you ? What are the pleasures of an igno rant mrAn ? I would ask you to make a comparison betwezn the pleasures of that man and those of the educated man, and by that comparison would woo you to see that intellect exalts each man who has availed himself of the advantages of education. Arid why ? The uneducated man is born to labour, 'and passes the greater portion of his life in labour ; but there are hours when he is unemployed, hours of leisure. And how does he employ those hours? Unfortunately, for the most part in sensual enjoy ments ; unfortunately, drink is the great means by which he obtains a solace, by which he recreates himself, by which he gets rid of that which is more painful than labour, the tedium of his leisure time which is more painful than labour, the tedium of his leisure time which sometimes he acquires. Now, gr, what does an educated man do ? His enjoy ments are multitudinous. I can speak for myself, _ . that if a man had come to me in my youth with a fortune in his hands, and had said to me, " I will give you this on condition that you never learn to read," I would repel the gift that he offered me, and say it was worth as nothing in comparison with that which he desired me to forfeit. No hour of my life, no hour of any man's life may be without the j enjoyment of a book. I have often said, sir, that a book is better than a friend. No matter what may be your state of mind, no matter whit may be the state of mind of those who surround you, a book is eve r your equable, calm, and generous friend. You °Pen it, and there is spread out before you the * wealth, and mind, and language of the author. On TrerY occasion he is willing to come forward and refit y ou . The friendship of a book is above the dship of man. I would say to you, learn all th : 4t the knowledge by which you are surrounded -1111 Ril e to you ; and there is one thing above ail others Whic h I desire you to remember, and that is that it is llithi atta i n te n the reach of e ver y workin g man to Vlatty nearly all the enjoyments of civilised life - I amnot speaking of the enjoy ments Wealth ives. not talking to jewels women friends of sp lend id la , of fi ne garments, of the kind of thaan rib 7:llB—(laughter)—that is not I would point out and would tell w_ould pointout to them. them that all the , husbands . ate Pleasures of civillseci life within the reach of all class es of so ciety , but only to be obtained by the la th , - ""lent of the intellect. (Cheers.) Now, sir, I d ue say knowyee know . , what many of those present that I r dri e of that terrible class of podticiatis called Ra~',icals• may not (Laughter and cheers.) My Radic alism, b owever, does not consist in putting everybody down t% v desire is to raise everybody up. Meets.) believe d the working men of England have --an I sa it y advisedly—as much power of obtaini ng all the elegances of life as the man who dwell s in a palace. Suppose now—and let me urge this upon your at tention —suppose a young mati marries sally in life and hesomes the father of a family, awl that family grows up into boyhood and girlhood.",' Suppose the children are instructed and the father is not. The father, if ho be a good man, stays at home in the evening with his wife and children ; he does not go abroad for excitement in the pothouse, but stays at home with his wife and children, and his children availing themselves of the knowledge they have ac quired, read to that father, and thus convey to him the knowledge which they have obtained by means of availing themselves of the advantages which associations like this be-sow. It is that more then anything else which I wish to point out to my fel low-countrymen. Foreigners invariably remark — and I beg you to pardon me for what I am going to say; it may be unacceptable, but it is true—fo reigners remark tint though in England there is perfect liberty —a man may say anything he pleases, so long as he do not injure his neighbour, and may do what he likes so long as he do not injure his neighbour—there is no great potentate . _ —(laughter)—to say you shall not print, you shall not speak, you shall not think ; any man may speak, think, and do what he likes, so long, as I have said, that he do not injure his neigh bour. Yet the foreigner remarks that between the various classes of Englishmen there is a greater chasm and a greater separation than there is in any country on the Continent ; that the labour ing man in England is not in any way a companion for, and has no means of consorting with, the gen tleman ; and it is trne. The gentleman, also, although he may be kind in his behaviour, though he may be a g ood man in all his relations of life, yet he shrinks from tho bench of the labouring man. Why is that? It is because the labouring class of this country is not endowed with the win ning manners that the labouring classes of other countries possess. They are morose, they are sus picious ; I may say they are a repulsive set of people. Not that they have not all the capacities of the other class—for they have all the capacities of some of their wealthy arid happy brethren ; but the pecu liarity is that they fancy themselves a class apart, having no communion with and no share in the society of their well-to-do and happy brethren. Now, I want to break down this barrier of separa tion; I want to make the labouring man in alt things—in his character, in his manners and his intelligence—quite equal to any man in the coun try. You, sir, and your fellows are laying down the groundwork of that equality which will make Englishmen indeed "a band of brothers," which will make them present a front such as the world cannot put down, which will make them, indeed, the leaders of mankind. (Cheers.) Weil, my friends, I tell you all that this is within your reach. Now, we aro told, our much-esteemed friend here has told us this evening, that the little people, the quarrymen, go to work at seven years of age. This is a mistake ou the part of parents. (Hear, hear.) It is throwing away their capital, it is living upon their capital. If you sent your children to school until they were of the age of twelve, and then had them back after they had gained the means of acquiring knowledge of an elementary character, the education given them would be far richer for the poorer class of men than if they were sent to work when seven years of age. Oa an oc casion like this, however, I cannot enlarge further upon this topic; but I would beg to impress on the minds of my fellow countrymen, the labouring classes, that their own interests ought to impel them to have their children educated in the best pos sible manner. (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, I will en deavour to address myself to those who are striving to educate the class by whom they are surrounded. There are some things now that I think I can say to you, though I dare say you have heard it before, but I will say it again on the present occasion— something which may prove a solace to you, and a solace to those who hear me. The great difficulty you have in educating the people is that the fathers take their children from school too early, but if they were told, by allowing their children to remain at school until the age of 12, what advantage they could acquire from the habit of reading, what great use and what great pleasure they could obtain by acquiring the habit of writing, and what great ad vantage they could obtain by acquiring the first rules of erithmetic, every one of them I think, would say with us that it was a great point gained. (Cheers.) Now, sir, it happens that amongst my friends one who is very enthusiastic, one who has paid great attention to the subject of teaching, with his friends has endeavoured to find out whether the hours of instruction might not be greatly shortened, and I moved, sir, in the House of Commons for this return, which I believe was printed by order of the House of Lords. This is a return containing an in quiry into the advantage of what is called the "short time" system in teaching. My friend and his friends thought that the time of children was occupied too much in teaching and that their minds were strained and overburdened, end that they did not learn nearly so much as they would if halt the time were employed in teaching them, and they advised the adoption of the short time scheme—taking half the usual time for instruc tion, and the other half for drilling them as Volunteers are drilled and as sailors are drilled. They employed these means, and the consequence was that the children who spent half their time in scholastic instruction learnt quite as much as those who spent their whole time at it, and that they freed themselves from awkward habits by means of the Volunteer and naval drill. Now, I wrote to my friend when I was first spoken to on this subject, asking him to tell me what he thought on the question, and he wrote me a letter which, with your permission, I will read. It is very instructive and very amusing. The hon. gentleman then read the letter of his friend, in which the writer said that the systematic inflic tion of punishment, mental as well as bodily, insepa rable from the old plan of teaching, was altogether wrong. He made it a rule to discharge any groom who whipped his horse, for where one required punishment 99 out of 100 were spoilt by it, and so it was with children. Schoolmasters in the half-time schools and schoolmasters in some of the best schools et. With study, he in re thepec landrespect to thenever r eduction usedcorporal longhours pu h nis r h s mn of was of opinio n that after too long a period of seden tary confinement the attention of the pupil would flag. A good teacher would adapt his lessons to the capa city of the child, and would make the value of the lesson sustain itself by the interest he infused in his manner of teaching. When the voluntary attention of the scholar flagged, when coercion was required to keep up his attention,;then itwas time to stop. The writer proceeded to mention what he had been told by Sir Edward Hay, who had great acquaintance with children, respecting a small school which he had visited. The hours were reduced from six to four, and the system of drilling had been adopted, and during the first year of the new plan the number of non-attendants:on account of ilinees was but one-tenth of the number formerly. The reduction of the long hours was the reduction of great weariness, and the consequence was that the number of malingerers, or those who shammed illness, was very great. The echolars wore not nom so desirous of escaping from school as formerly, and did not wend their way to school with such gloomy forebodings of punishment as before. The children, the writer continued to say, should have just enough of lessons to give them a relish for play, and just enough of play to give them a relish for their lessons. The physical and mental ' exercises should be so adjusted as to stimulate each other. One point (continued the writer) to be en forced in connection with the half-time school sys tem i.e that instead of sacrificing the domestic eco noray to:the school, the school adapts itself to the domestic economy. Children cannot too soon be got into the moderate exercise of the business of life, and the half-time system, if it is properly alternated, should have reference to the actual business and duties of life,while the elementary instruction should make the children cheerful and happy. The first ob ject is to enable children to read to their parents at night, and every boy who has acquired the necessary education is thus in a position to derive all the plea. Litire and advantage that reading gives to the reader. Then the penny weekly newspaper brings them the Id for the whole week. However bad RC WS of the wor ld that newspaper may be, it must be admitted th a t tess ion conveyed in the worst paper he wor st imPr canno t but be an improvement on the worst impres sion conveye d by the voice , and if y ou g et them to read the ileW6.l': er r egularly it wordd be much rig to th e conversation of idle, dissolute, or brutal p better th.,n li 9 t Pr " 0 )10. Then the writer pro - e ceeded to say that w het e v ,, r ne wspapers went, they tended to do away with su° ll cious ideas as witchcraft. (Laughter.) No family obsolete and perni • would believe in who read a weekly newspaP el ' s vocal music witchcraft. In all e l eme ntary (Lose- the oug ht to be encou rage d as a moons of chcc f a mily circle. I will s t op one moment here (co tinned Mr. Roebuck) to d escr ib e t h e s chool that was e r r ing ( n established by Mr. Ottery, a clergyman of the Church of England, who has a cure at Window . / and THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1863 who Windsor, and saw a new invitation I went down to ly by the people who supported building raised entire was after this fashion. is also a teacher at the school at Eton. At his the school. The school wild songs, and not, if I may use the phrase, black guardbut they played the whol e o f th e tunes; Within the children were singing, not ballads, no t 41 m ess iah" of Handel, and sang the great parts of that great work. I went down afterwa r d s an d saw a i band of volunteers out of the school, who marc h e d a building underneath, for it happ ene d t o b e bad weather, and a finer set of young fellows I never saw. They were all working men's Children, the sons of railway porters, the sons of farm labourers, the eons of servants—they Were all the sons of work ing men, and these boys were as thoroughly gentle manly in their manners as any of the young gentle ' men at Eton. I never enjoyed a day of more happi ness than the day I beheld that school. Mr. Ottery told me that one of our consuls at a port in the Mediterranean wanted a servant, and he sent him one of the boys out of his school. No sooner had the gentleman got him over, than he said, "This boy can do a great many things; I will make him my secretary." Soon afterwards the secretary wrote to Mr. Ottory to send him another boy out for his ser vant, and, accordingly, another boy was sent out, and thus became the servant of his fellow-scholar. (Applause.) Now, this is a proof that education does not simply mean the education of the intelligence, but the boy's manner, his , e hole character, to make him so that his master, like the consul, could trust him in any real difficulty, or in anything of a serious character —trust him, in fact, sufficiently to A li, make him his secretary. But, Sir, I do not adduce this as a thing that may happen to a great number of people, but 1 adduce it to show that the kind of teaching at that school made the man in all his thoughts, his feelings, his way of dealing, a gentle man, although he was but a labourer's son. Now, Sir, I have here a report which contains a series of evidence which I wish you to read, and if you will permit me I will place it in your hands, as I think it will be of great use to you in your important undertaking, which I am now endeavouring to aid. I have made a great number of extracts, but I will not trouble yon with them. There are, however, one or two which I should like to read. It is the evidence of persons who are really engaged in the week of education. One extract is the evidence of the schoolmaster of a district workhouse in North Surrey, and to this statement I wish particularly to call your attention and the attention of my young hearers present. The question put to him is," What has your experience of military drill been in mental and bodily drill ?" The answer is, " The effect of military drill will best show itself by its discontinu ance. In 1857 the drill master's services were dis pensed with by the guardians. The consequence was to make the school altogether another place. In six months we lost £2OO in wear and tear of clothing, breaking of utensils, breaking of windows, pulling up grating, spoiling the wails ; in fact, a spirit of insubordination pervaded the house. In the workshcp they were insubordinate, arid the m as ter shoemaker and master tailor called upon me to coerce these boys. This state of things induced the guardians to reinstitute the drill, and the school then changed back again, the ordinary behaviour was resumed, and they were all kindly and well disposed." Now, Sir, I ask you to look at that fact ; I think it will give much imp o rtant and useful information. Well, what conclusion do I draw from these observations ? It i s this, —that there is no man among us so poor but that he is able to s en d hi s child to school, and i to send him fo r a su ffi c i ent time to learn th at which by his system can be gained. IV hen you came to read that report you will find that man fitter man, schoolmaster after schoolmaster Bar— ; take a child t o a we ll i ns ti tuted infant school, teach ? it to read, t eac h it t o write, and give it a ll other elementary instruction ; well, s u p pose the ch ild in the school till he is seven years of age, which '3 a long period for an infant school, at the age of ten he will have received an indelible education ; h e will have received the means of enjoym en t through life; his whole frame of life will be so fashioned that he will be industrious and civilised. This, sir, seems to me a most eneouraging and cheering thing; it shows that we have driven away a mass of ig nu rance and folly which before obstructed us in our work of education. (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, I will address my se lf t o t h e gentry around me; but I fear my voice will not reach many of them, but it it should, I h o p e t h ey will listen to my voice 'iv"cn I say they may b e among the great teachers of the people. It is not sufficient to instruct a man in reading, writin g , an d arithmetic. If you leave him there, you merely put the i into his instruments hands that may make hi m more m i sc hievous than ho was b e f ore. W hat you have to do when you give them th ese i nstruments is to fas hi o n them properly, and es p ec i ally his manners, and then, after you hav e g i ven him these instruments' y ou launch him up on th e stream of life, and 110 a is sure to find a s a f e an d happy harbour. Now, Jr' one of those t eac h ers says he always persuades ladies to visit hi s school. Their manners, their behaviour are l oo k ed upon by the childre n —and what so observ an t as a child ? They loo k on what passes around th em and see the great b ea uty of good manner s . If you compare the manners of an educated ma n — an d I use the word largeiy—and those of an uneducated man, is not the on e gentle, kind, and good natured—is he not the l ife and plea sure of the so c i e ty i n which he lives ? Is not the other cruel, morose, selfish? Th e re is difference between th e uneducated m an and a man lik e N ewton. What a difference we can make in thi s respect ! It is within o ur hands, we have the means w i thin grasp, gra, andno greater it lies more with the gentry of this country to per vade with th e i r ki ndness of manner and tenderness of feeling the wor ki ng cl asses around them. It be hoves them to d o thi s ; it is their duty to do this. Now, sir, I d are say this may be called very radical talking ; if so I cannot help it • I believe it to be true, I believe it t o b e wise. (Ch e ers.) I can say, sir, in conclusi on —f or I fear I have spoken too long that they have the great er means because they are wealthy, —(cries of "G o on")—that it i s not s imply but they have great! 111.21 means by me ans of their ex ample. If they w ere to ; more with the labour ing classes—and w h ere better than in the school ? -- if they were to mix More w ith and take more interest in the existence of their fellow men who li ve around them, their pre sence would be as the sun shining upon th e cold earth, bringing up and vivifying the seed th at is within it. Now, sir, I fear that what I may s ay may appear w ild an d ex travagant and fanciful --that I anticipate the things never occur ; b ut I am sure th e ti me w ill m —though I shall not live to see it—the ti me will be that place which I i e cwtnhoialmit may come when England my imagination can see, when all the people will be instructed, when all th e p e ople will be well man nered, when we shall b e rea ll y England will e x hib it a spectacle to the world that the world will admi re , a nd while admiring em ulate. (Loud cheers.) a band of brothers, when le A vote of thanks was then awarded to Mr. Roe. buck. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Iforniw.an's pure Tea ; very choice at 38. 4d. and 48. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 48. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in wickets. 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TIMES.—With the exception of the siege of Vicks burg, the incidents of the Civil War that have marked the conflict in the West and the region verging on the great Valley of the Missiseippi have hitherto excited less attention than they deserved. Even in America the distance of the scene of opera tions from the great cities of the East seems to have lessened the interest with which the military mote meats in Tennessee were followed. The campaigns in Virginia, the euccessiefe advances on Richmond, and the battles on the Rapidan and the Potomac have appsared to constitute almost the whale of the war. But since the Confederate army retreated from Maryland to its old line of defence, holding it in strength sufficient to reduce General Meade and the Federal force to inaction, indications have not been wanting that the next blow would be struck in the West. In the State of Tennessee General Rosecrans, with the Army of the Cumberland, has been gradually approaching the Confederate force commanded by General Bragg in the direction of Chattanooga. Here a position described as capable of being easily held against a strong attack was abandoned by the Confederates, and the point thus gained was considered in the North not only as a decided advantage, but a proof of growing weakness on the part of the Confederates in that quarter. The occupation of Chattanooga, in fact, was sup posed to be nearly equivalent to a victory, as the position would have been worth a battle to force. If there were good reasons why the Confederates should have held it so long, it appears there were better for abandoning it. The retreat of General Bragg must have dra wn Rosecrans on to less ad vantageous ground, or enabled the Confederate General to effect a junction with expected reinforce ments. His movement on Lafayette was suddenly changed into an advance and attack, and another great battle, fought through two days, has resulted in the defeat of the Federal army, with a loss at present estimated at 12,000 men. The battle has not yet received a name, but the field of the engagements was on one of the numerous small streams that abound in the northern part of the State of Tennessee, called Chicamanga Creek. The whole region is mountainous, thickly wooded, and intersected by rivers. The Cumberland unites with the Tennessee, and the waters of both combined form one of the tributaries that fall into the Mis sissippi on its eastern bank. The details of the ac tion are very imperfect, their brevity not being com pensated by clearness of description. But as all the particulars given appear to be derived from de spatches received from the head-quarters of the Federal army, and must have passed through the War-office at Washington to New York, we may safely assume they do not exaggerate the disaster Gen. Rosecrans has sustained. We may rather anticipate that his defeat has been more decided and his loss greater than these first accounts describe. In New York the intelligence was received with a feeling of despondency, increased by the hopes founded on the recent gleams of success. The ex planations by which the Ministerial journals are endeavouring to put " the best possible colour" on the result of the battle have not had much effect. The official assurances that Rosecrans will soon be sufficiently reinforced to resume the offensive " bring no comfort to' the minds of the people." They cannot but remember that the greater army of Gen. Meade, after a success, is checked and held in- active on the north bank of the Rapidan by Gen. Lee. In such cases the very necessity of explana tion is ominous. Decided advantages soon explain themselves, but the full extent of a defeat is brought out more slowly. The nature of bad news affects the teller, and the official party in the North can not boldly encounter the political discredit with which its military failures are always visited. Tak ing into consideration the movements of the Confe derates, known or surmised, which preceded this battle in Tennessee, we infer that the Federal com mander has been defeated by superior strategy rather than by mere fighting. It is evident that the Federal troops contested the field obstinately. They rallied when broken, formed again, and re newed the engagement repeatedly. They seem to have done all that bravery and determination could effect. But the greater skill of the Confede rate generals in combining the force which made the attack insured them the victory. While Burn- Hide was still on his march to join Rosecrans General Bragg had received reinforcements both from the East, the West, and the South. Gen. Lee had skilfully kept the " Army of the Potomac" in check on the Rapidan, white he detached Lon gstreel, into Tennessee. Gen. Meade and the other Federal commanders either did not suspect the movement or could not prevent it. From several different points and from great distances the Confederate Army of the West was reinforced, all tLe combinations were made with rapidity, and completed soon enough to enable them to attack with advantage. The battle was over, and the troops of Rosecrans broken and driven back, with the heavy loss announced, while Burnside was still on the road to the field with a torte of 30,000 men. The action began on the 19th, and he had not effected his junction with Rosecrans on the evening of the 21st. We expect to hear that the Federals on the 19th found themselves in the presence of superior numbers, and that the chances were against them from the beginning of the en gagement. But to bring a greater force to bear on the point of attack is exactly the object to be attained if possible. To secure such an advantage is the best proof of the skill of a commander. Account ing for a defeat by pleading that the enemy brought the greatest numbers into the field is only a mode of acknowledging that the beaten General has been out-mac oeuvred. In the tactics which strengthened Bragg's force sufficiently to enable him to take the offensive against an army to which he had aban doned a strong position we may recognise the ability of Gen. Lee. The movement of the necessary bodies of troops over such an immense extent of country must have been conducted with great skill. The delay or loss of a few days would evidently have given time for Burnside to join the main army of the Federals. But the time was exactly hit, and the Confederates defeated the troops of one General while the force of another was at a useless distance. It is not yet certain that the army of Burnside him self is safe from attack, as considerable anxiety was felt at New York on the 23d lest he should be in tercepted. It is already stated that the Government at Washington is more responsible for this defeat than the military commanders. The Cabinet is said to have directed the operations, and that the Gene rals were fettered by its orders. A " searching investigation" into the causes of the failure is de manded that the responsibility may be thrown on the real authors of the disaster. POST.—The military operations which the Fede rals have been hitherto conducting in the West with much apparent success have at length received a decided check. It would seem to be one of the peculiarities of the great civil war that neither of the belligerents should be permitted for any pro tracted period to follow the path of victory. One month the Northern armies are engaged in the work of invasion, and the following one their energies are exclusively devoted to resisting the aggression of their adversaries. Victory alternates with defeat, and the fruits of one campaign are lost in that which immediately succeeds it. It is our duty now to chronicle another of those battles, so frequent in this disastrous war, in which the slain are numbered by many thousands ; and on this occasion, as on so many others, Fortune has smiled on the Confede rate arms. A pitched battle has been fought on the borders of Tennessee and Georgia; and, so far as we can judge from the accounts which have reached us, the Federal army has sustained a sig nal defeat. Our information is de rived exclusively from Northern sources, and when we find the press of New York unreservedly admitting that a disas ter has been sustained which has neutralised the effects of a campaign hitherto s p oken of as pre-emi nently successful, it is reasonable to conclude that the reverse which has fallen on the Northern arms is of no trifling kind. It is not a little curious that on so many of the occasions on which the armies of the rival Confederation have come in collision on the battle-field, that those of the Southern should have almost invariably proved victorious. The South has sustained many serious reverses, but they have consisted chiefly in the loss of towns and fortified places. Military engineers maintain, and with truth, that it is a mere ques tion of time when the strongest fortress, if closely besieged, will fall ; and although in the capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson the Confederacy suf fered two of the heaviest blows yet inflicted on it, it did not on that account lose any of the prestige which the valour of its troops, oven more than their victories, had done so much to acquire. Near Chattagoona, in Tennessee, on the 19, II and 20th of September, the Confederate army under the command of Bragg, by the pertinacity with which it fought, as well as by the success which rewarded its efforts, sustained in every re spect the reputation so dearly purchased on so man y battle-fields by their brothers-in-arms in V ir g inia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. With the meagre details at present at our command it is not easy to form a clear idea of the engagement , alone is unequivocally recorded. Tw hose result he Northern forces appear to have been posted on . the south de n of a creek named Chickamauga' which . flows i ci n t s westerly direction into the Tennessee river ; a the rear of the Federal army, and to the south o.t its position, lay the village of Chattanooga, to which finally General Rosecran s found it expedient to re treat. The army of Burnside was, at the time the battle was fought, reported to be in the neighbour hood of Knoxville, a town about a hundred miles distant from Chattanooga, but connected with it by the Eastern and Virginia Railway. The eig age went commenced on the 19th, and on that nay at tended with no decieiye result, was resumed at a Antinous also ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Midnight Mass, 2to 1 agst Brindisi, B ad 5 to 1 agst Lady Hawthorn filly. Midnight Mass, with Brindisi and the Lady Hawthorn filly on his left and Audacieuse on the upper ground, lay in front throughout, the favourite winning very cleverly by a length ; a like distance separated the second and third ; a bad fourth. Antinous, who jumped round at the moment the flag was lowered, was left the post. The Newmarket October Handicap of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 ridded, for 3-yr-olds and upwards; the second received 25 sovs out of the stake. A.F. 84 subs. Mr. Saxon's The Monk, 6 yrs, 7st 41b .. (J Grimshaw) 1 Mr. R. Sutton's Man• at-Arms, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b .. (Wells) 2 Lord W. Powlett's Eleanor, 3 yrs, 6st (Mordan) 3 The following also ran :—Croagh Patrick, Aurelian, Waterwitch, General Hess, Balham, Prince Plausible, Jackal, National Guard, Gamecock, Bertha, Dunkeld, Donnybrook, The Principal, Fitz Eva, Benjamin, Sea Bing, Muezzin, and Lucretia. Betting-6 to 1 agst Benjamin, 100 to 12 agst Prince Plausible, 10 to 1 each agst Monk, Muezzin, and Water witch, 100 to 8 agst Croagh Patrick, 100 to 7 each agst General Hess, Balham, Aurelian, and Sea King, 100 to 6 each agst Eleanor and Fitz-Eva, and 20 to 1 agst Man-at- Arms. Upwards of a quarter of an hour was consumed at the post through the restiveness of General Hess, who con tinually refused to face the starter. At last Mr. M‘George, seeing a favourable opportunity,lowered his flag to one of the best starts of the meeting, the lot getting away as nearly in a line as possible. On settling in their places as they breasted the hill they somewhat spread. Man-at-Arms, despite his heavy impost, appearing in command on the extreme right, having in his wake The Monk, Croagh Pa trick, General Hess, Eleanor, Dunkeld, Aurelian, and Muezzin ; then followed in the centre of the course Balham, Gamecock, Prince Plausible, Donnybrook, and The Princi pal, Benjamin, Fitz-Eva, and Bertha taking a line to them selves on the lower ground. With little or no variation they retained these positions until they reached the Bushes, where they split. The Monk at the same time getting upon closer terms with Lord Uxbridge's colt, followed by Elea nor, and in a few strides further by Muezzin, the four drawing away from the ruck as they descended into the Abingdon Mile Bottom, entering which Jemmy Grirnshaw headed Man-at-Arms, who compounded to the weight, and was beaten after a game struggle by half a length; Eleanor was third, three lengths in their rear; Muezzin was a good fourth, and close up with him came Ballwin fifth, Benja min sixth, Bertha seventh, Fitz-Eva eighth, with Dun keld and Croagh Patrick next, the ruck being brought up by General Hess, Waterwitch,National Guard , and Lucretia. Jackal, shortly after starting, split his pastern so badly that he wee at once destroyed. The Maiden Plate of 50 sovs, for 2-yr-olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b. Bretby Stakes Course. Mr. R. C. Naylor's Concordia, Bst 7lb (Challoner) 1 Lord Westmoreland's Annington, Bst 101 b (J. Goater) 2 Mr. 11. z'avile's Figaro, Bst 101 b (Alderoft) 3 The following also ran :—Oakapple, Sister to Knave of Trumps, Templar, Bigotry, Suspicion, Drosera's dam colt, and Alca. Betting-2 to 1 aget Concordia, 4to 1 each agst Oak apple and the Drosera colt, 5 to 1 agst Annington, and 7 to 1 agst Figaro. After several failures they left the post in close cem pany, the lead being taken, after the first quarter of a mile, by Suspicion, who was followed by the favourite, Anning ton, Figaro, and Sister to Knave of Trumps; half-way down the hill Concordia assumed the lead, and, with Lord Westmoreland' s colt on his whip hand and Figaro next the rails, finished a fine race home, the favourite win ning in the last stride by a head; three-quarters of a length separated the second and third; Suspicion was a bad fourth, Oakapplo fifth, the Drosera colt sixth, and Alca next. Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, 100 ft, for 2-yr-olds. T.Y.C. 3 subs. Lord Annesley's Irish Queen filly rec, ft, BETTING AT CAMBRIDGE (en route). TICE CESAREWITCH. 12 to 1 agst Lioness (taken) 20 to 1 agst Jack of Hearts (taken) 20 to 1 agst Myrtle (taken) 20 to 1 agst Limosina (taken freely) 25 to 1 agst Anfiold (offered) 25 to 1 agst Drummer Boy (taken) 25 to 1 agst Itomanoff (taken) 25 to 1 agst Fantail (taken) 33 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken) 40 to 1 agst Faultless (taken) CA3IE I IDGESIIIRE. 12 to 1 agst Catch-'em Alive (taken) 100 to 6 aget Birdhill (taken) 20 to 1 agst Borealis (taken) 20 to 1 agst Summerside (taken) 40 to 1 agst Cantonnade (taken) The King of Prussia's Reply to the Collet. tive Letter of the German Princes. The following is the translation of the King of Prussia's reply to the collective note of the German Princes who attended the Frankfort Congress The projects of Federal reform concerned at Frankfort on-the Maine h ave b een b rought to my c ognizance by the letter that you, in concert with other German princes and the representatives of the Free Towns, addressed to me under date of the Ist of this month. I have subjected these propositions to the most conscientious examination, as I promised in my letter of the 20th of last month, addressed to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, at Frankfort-on the-Maine. This examination has not convinced me that the proposed reform in its present form is of a kind to crown the efforts we have made for a number of years in order to ameliorate the Federal C onstitution. I have not found in the project the t r u e expression of the s it u ation and of the wants which ought t o b e taken into accoun t, if the vitalit y and duration of such a work are to b e ass ured. I do not hesit a t e t o declare, a lthough with g reat f re g ret, that my duty as Ki ng of Prussia, an d as a German Prince, does hot permit me t o y adopt the proje ct communicated to me as the b a sis of a new Federa l C on stitution. I cannot consent t o an extens i o n of Federallobjects suc h as have been determi ne d b treaties and by the comp etenc y of the central Feder a l authority, u nless account is taken, as it ought to be, of the influence of Prussia in the Con• federation, and of the common interests of the German nation. In this sense I c)na id er , as a primary condition of my adhesion to a radic a l re f or m of the existin g Federal treaties, the understa n di ng ou three points , which I have Affai charged my Minister of Foreign rs to explain to you at length. These three points concern : I. The veto of Prussia and of Austria relative. to a Fe • deral war, the object of which would not be to repel an attack against the territory of the Confede n a . nd Austria 2. Perfect equality of rights between rPrussiai in the presidency and direction of Federal arairs' 3. A national representation, bas ed not upon delegation, but upon direct election according t o the population of att th e various States, and the attribute's o f which in regard to de cisions respecting Federal affairs sh ould be the subject of t discussion, and under all circumstances should be more ex tended than those formulated in the plan of reform in question. _ . . _ Before an unde rs t anding is es t a blished upon this basis no discussion o f th e othr details o f the proposal which has been communicatta t o me woul d, in WY opinion, lead to a , , satisfactory result. I have accor di ng ly charged my Minister of Foreign Aff a i rs to negotiate, in the fi rs t instance, with the Imperial A us t rian Governmen t on the subject of this basis, in the h ope that you, as soon as the necessary under standing is established will i n concert with me, assist in convoking Ministerial p onference s, to prepare the plans which the German tiove:re • will ultimately have to ign. . , sanction. (Signed) WILLIAM Berlin, Sept, 23, (Qetintueigned) B I SNAltli • late hour on the morning of the 20th September by a concentrated attack of the Confederate forces on the left wing of the Federal army. Gen. Thomas, who commanded the Federal left, finding it impos sible to withstand the Confederate attack, gave way, and about th© same time the divisions constituting the right wing of the Federal army and the reserve were withdrawn from their original position and despatched to the relief of the shattered left. This manceuvre had, however, scarcely been effected when the Confederates shifted their line of attack and fell upon the centre of the Federal army, now deprived of its supports on the right, and, as it would also appear, weakened by the withdrawal of one of its divielens. which had been despatched to the relief of General Thomas. After endeavouring in vain to hold its ground the centre at length gave way, and fell back on the rear of the left wing, which, with the reinforcements it had received, was enabled--not to regain its previous position—but to make a stand against the advancing Confederates. At this junc ture two of the divisions of the Federal army, com manded respectively by Generals Davis and Sher ridan, seemed to have been seized with a panic, for " they broke up in disorder and were born down by Bishop Polk's corps." The troops composing these divisions literally fled from the battle-fleld, for it was not until late in the day that their gene rale succeeded in rallying some 8,000 of them and rejoining General Thomas. This officer, completely cut off from the main body of the army, had taken up " an independent position," and, after maintain ing "a stubborn fight till after dark," zetired to a placed called Rossville, where he received orders to rejoin the main army at Chattanooga, at which place General Rosecrans was engaged in " concen trating" the shattered remnant of his army. Whether General Thomas succeeded in obeying these orders is extremely doubtful, as by the latest advices the Confederates are reported to have attacked him on the following day, in which event his troops had probably no alternative but to lay down their arms. In this battle there is no ques tion that the Federals were " out-generalled, and that their defeat is mainly attributable to the in capacity of their leader. Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments in the Civil Service. (From time Civil Service Gazette.) THE POST OFFICE.—Mr, Allen, surveyor's clerk, has been promoted to be inspector of mails in Ireland. Mr. Bradford has been promoted to be Ist clerk at Derby. Mr. Brassington has been promoted from the 2d to the Ist class, and Mr. Meginley, from the 3d to the 2d class, of the ma jor establishment at Derby. Mr. Mathews has been pro moted from the 3d to the 2d class of the major establish ment at Belfast. Mr. Gascoyne has been promoted to be Ist clerk at Nottingham. Mr. Dickisson has been promoted from the 2d to the Ist class of clerks, Nottingham. GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE.—Mr. W, Henry Walter Titheridge, superintendent of the 3d class, has been pro moted lo be superintendent of the 2d class, in the room of Mr. Co H. Anderson, retired. Mr. Thomas Oakes, senior clerk, has been promoted to be superintendent of the 3d class, in succession to Mr. Titheridge. Mr. George White, assistant clerk, has been promoted to be senior clerk, vice Mr. Oakes. Mr. N. A. Humphreys, junior clerk, has been promoted to be assistant clerk, vice Mr. White. C-usToms.—Mr. G. Gregory has been appointed an out door officer at Stockton. Mr. John Orr has been appointed at out-door officer at Greenock. Messrs. W. Vine, J. Win ter, and J. Attwooll have been promoted to be out-door officers of the Ist class at Weymouth. INLAND REVENUE.—Excise Branch.—Mr. L. Peake, supervisor, Dover district, Canterbury collection, has been appointed supervisor of Worcester, 2d district, Worcester collection. Mr. Jos. Brown, supervisor, Ashford district, Canterbury collection, has been appointed supervisor of Dover district, Canterbury collection. Mr. G. Scarborough, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Ashford dis trict, Canterbury collection. Mr. Robert Belt, supervisor, Ballygawley, districi, Newry collection, has been appointed supervisor of Carlisle district, Cumberland collection. Mr, Robert Peers, officer, Dundalk, Ist division, Drogheda col lection, has been appointed 3d clerk, Middlesex collection. Mr. D. Gough. officer, Dundalk, 2d division, Drogheda col lection, has been appointed officer of Dundalk, Ist division, Drogheda collection. Mr. Patrick Quinn, Middleton divi. sion, Cork collection, has been appointed officer of Dun dalk, 2d division, Drogheda collection. Mr. Wm. Stock ings,dropped officer, Wexford, sth division, Wexford col lection, has been appointed officer of Middleton division, Cork collection. Mr. Adam Nisbet, officer, Greenock, Ist division, Ayr collection, has been appointed officer of Wakefield, 12th division, Leeds collection. Mr. J. Clemens, officer, Ilkeston ride, Nottingham collection, has been ap pointed officer of Greenock, Ist division, Ayr collection. THE EAST INDIES.—Mr. F. Macnaghten, assistant com missioner of Chindwarra, has been appointed to act as judge of the Small Cause Court at Jubbulpore. Lieutenant-Col. R. Macpherson, resident councillor of Singapore, has been appointed to officiate as resident councillor of Prince of Wales's Island. Captain J. Burn, resident councillor at Malacca, has been appointed to officiate as resident coun cillor at Singapore. Capt. F. L. Playfair, assistant resident councillor, has boon appointed to officiate as resident coun cillor, Malacca. Mr. W. Palmer, assistant accountant Ist OW, Public Works Department, N. W. Provinces, has been transferred temporarily to do duty in the office of the secre tary to the Government of India in the Public Works De partment. CAPE OF Goon HoFE,—The office of deputy surveyor general has become vacant by the death of Mr. George Mon- tague. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR. THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts., Railways. 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862 2,061 2,350 629 834 1,987 2,260 7,039 7,669 17,722 17,075 296 270 372 316 204 207 432 400 1,802 1,401 344 330 1,461 1,438 1,629 1,699 Belfast and N. Counties ...... 136 136 Belfast and County Down.... 4 9 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 Bristol and Exeter l2l 1214 1 BristolCaledonian ... . ... .. ... 23lt 4;341 • Cockermouth &Workington• • 84 84 Cork and Bandon .. . 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & P assa g e.• • 61 61 321 82 4 Cork and Youghal ...... ... • • Cornwall ................... . 654 53 1 17 17 Deeside .........Junction 63 63 . Dublin & ....... 63 23 23 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wexld 514 484 gh an d Glasgow 1691 1 69 Edinbur l Forth & Clyde Junction Furness, &c Glasgow & South-Western .• 198 198 Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern G rea t North of Sco tland 5B 58 Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 714 661 Gt.Southn. & 10564 W es tn.(lrlnd.) 3544 10321 329 Grea t Western ... . Inverness & Aberdeen Jum 864 145862 Irish North - W estern 395 Lancas hire & Yorkshire 3951 L i me rick and Ennis... 241 25 241 Li m erick and Foynes 264 Llanelly 464 464 London & North-Western 5 1 L o ndon and Blackwall 54 1 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2614 241 London, Chatham, & Dover 721 7 2# Do. Metropolitan Ex tension 104 24 1 Loud., Tilbury, & Southend i N ecwi tat andienal adtl Alan.,Sheffield, &Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9l 91 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan 34 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2591 Monkland 7ll Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee ... . . 414 N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 North London 9 North Sta ff ordshire 254 Oswestry and Newton... 5O Rhymney.. • l9l St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern 1 3 3 80# Somerset and Dorset 391 South Devon ... ..... ....• South-Eastern ...• 306 Taff Vale VII Waterford Waterfordal s l t e e o r ....... • • 64 i Vale of Clwyd. oL li ri, i mez lk e e ri n e n k y lO 324 West Cornw all 00l II arbrE.trßmanili: : "27377711 Whitehaven Junction l2 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 62 Austri an B2B Belgian Eastern Junction... 2e Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 - Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish ..... ... Eastern of France....... lO7B East Indian • ... .. Grand Trunk of Canada lOOO Great Indian Peninsula 538/ G rea t L u xembourg 134 Great Southern of India _ 79 Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 499 Northern of Canada ... ..... N o rthern of France 67 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 Paris and Orleans 1340 Pernambuco 771 Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France ..... 777 Victorian 196 Welland .— 25 West Flanders 75 W. and N. W. of France, 758 'l9O 120 2,331 2,106 8,373 8.079 234 282 2,954 2,727 8,481 8,393 33,616 32,763 34,565 32,725 1,669 2,2 3 724 628 10,382 9,415 65,064 66,086 1,599 1,540 1,644 1,755 36,780 35.274 253 169 203 139 639 694 101,759 100,572 1,005 1,889 23,073 25.461 20,141 24,819 5,954 5,704 1,330 60 2 006 2,204 16,711 15,000 1,425 1.262 1,359 1,267 1,713 - 46,729 43,921 4,829 4,557 1,660 1,191 2,762 2,46/ 13,340 12,471 58,710 5),341 3,252 3,148 8,372 8.514 1,266 1,134 924 857 2,060 2,096 5,308 4,920 5,450 5,416 750 396 3.953 3,822 29,388 29,292 5,992 6,393 1,957 1,851 222 253 2,409 2,028 442 459 1,456 1,162 910 'BB3 4,887 3,663 652 472 919 705 801 663 1,667 1,656 30,180 40,010 361 320 1,665 860 1,64 1,331 4,202 4,181 5,932 5,613 60,257 60,574 17,266 12,951 4,410 3,909 4,942 4,630 519 331 12,595 11,437 20,976 17,507 1,262 1,590 61,460 63,479 1,174 1,659 761 50 146,681 142,949 72,433 63,393 886 885 1,353 1,026 58,011 56,021 33,373 3e,012 8,561 5,716 1315 777 151 452 41:5 1,124 1,099 57,891 51,154 [ADVERTISEMENT.] - llolloway's Pills.—Typhus and Typhoid Fevers.—Why do some die and some recover from fever? This momentous question admits of an easy answer —because some are possessed of sufficient vital energy to cast out the fever-breeding poison. This natural operatidn is admirably imitated by llolloway's purifying pills, which tit once eradicate all morbid matters from the blood, and so arouse the nervous system that no function can be ill- performed, and no disease of any kind can keep its hold upon the body, or depress the wholesome activity of the brain. Under the benign and cleansing influence of these imcoraparable Pills, the most obscure and difficult diseases are in a short time brought to a eucceedul termination when death seemed inevitable, 81.4 i 192 71i 4101 1077 t 9 252 132 39i 75 308 13M 1204 Extraordinary Scene in a County Court. At the Southwark County Court a most extraordinary case came on for hearing before the judge, Mr. Whitmore, welch created the utmost excitement in a very crowded court. The action was brought by a Mr. Louis Dicey, who described himself as being a French tutor, living at Dul wich, to recover from the defendant, Mr. Samouelle, a printer, residing in Newington-butts, the sum of £5, paid to him on account of printing a pamphlet, the manuscript of which had been entrusted by the plaintiff to the defendant for publication. The learned Judge having read the particulars of the de n. and, inquired from the defendant what answer he had to make. The defendant admitted the receipt of a and the broach of contract, and gave the following explanation :—He eaid the plaintiff, Louis Direy, a French tutor, called upon him, and an arrangement was entered into whereby he (Sa mouelle) agreed to print 100 copies of the manuscript in question for £lO. half of which was paid down. After pro ceeding with one-third of the work, defendant discovered passages in it of so filthy and libellous a character that he refused to complete it. The consequence was that the pre sent plaintiff summoned him to the Lambeth Police-court for the return of the manuscript, and upon Samouelle calling the attention of the magistrate (the Hon. G. C. Norton) to certain passages in the work, he immediately ordered the whole of it to be impounded, and dismissed the summons. The plaintiff's attorney stopped the defendant, and said the Court did not want to know the proceedings taken else where. The Judge remarked that no doubt the magistrate had a sound reason for impounding the MS. The plaintiff, by his own act, had prevented the defendant from completing his contract. After some discussion between the judge and the plain if's solicitor, _ _ _ The defendant said hehad subpoenaed an officer from Lam beth police-court to produce the MS. in question, and, upon inspection, he was convinced his honour would say that he (defendant) was justified in the course he had taken. Mr. Dixon, one of the ushers of Lambeth Police-court, handed up an officially sealed envelope containing the MS. in question. He stated that he was desired by Mr. Perry, the chief clerk, to inform this Court that, by the express in junction of Sir G. Grey, the MS. was not to leave the pos session of the police authorities. The Judge broke the seal, and, upon reading one page, was too indignant to conceal his disgust. He said, " Plain tiff, leave the box, leave the court. You are a disgrace to the country. Officer, turn him out." The Judge (to the officers)—Turn him out; no longer let his presence pollute or contaminate the air of this honour able court. The plaintiff wasthen most unceremoniously expelled, and the papers thrown out after him. Mr. Wood, plaintiff's solicitor, assured his Honour that he was not aware of the nature of the manuscript, and apo logised for having had anything to do with the case on the part of the plaintiff. The Judge said that the apology was quite unnecessary, as he could not believe that any respectable solicitor would have been so engaged unless he had been misled and de ceived. On the application of defendant full costs were awarded to him. It may be remarked that the MS. in question was a slan derous and disgusting libel on several gentlemen of the highest position resident in Dulwich. COUNTRY MARKETS. 10 , -- LIVE RP 0 0 L-FRIDAY. At this day's market there was a small attendance, and the demand for wheat was moderate, at the prices current on Tuesday last, or ld to 2d lower than on Friday week. Barley and peas dull. Indian corn in good request, and 6d above late prices. American flour 9d per barrel higher. New oatmeal 6d cheaper. Beans 6d higher. WAKEFIELD-FRIDAY. A fair quantity of wheat came to hand to-day, and fine dry sorts met a quiet demand at barely last Friday's rates ; other sorts difficult to quit. Barley, unless very fine, was Is lower. Other articles dull. Averages for the week : Wheat . 652 qrs., at 4ls 1011 Rye — s Os .. Oats 1 2 :23s Od Beans — —s Od 8ar1ey......... 159 Peas STAMFORD-FRIDAY. White wheat, 41s to 45s ; red, 39s to 43s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 36s to 40s; grinding, 30s to 32s per qr. Oats, 22s to 263tper 24 stone. Beans, old, 42s to —s per qr. ; new, 39s to —s. EXETER-FRIDAY. ---- --- Wheat, white..6s 3d to 6s 4d I Barley ...3s 6 d to 4 s 3 d Ditto red .6s Od to 6s 3d I Oats .........2s 9d to 38 Od Flour, fine, 35s to 36s ; seconds,l34s to —a per sack. CATTLE. I Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 11s6ci Ewes, per lb ....54d to 614 Pork carcases, 7s Od to 8s Od Wethers, d 0.....•. 7d to —d Lamb, p 1b.......—d to d Fat calves, d0...61d to 7u. Rough. fat, 34d per lb. DUBLIN-FRIDAY. We were again well supplied with grain to-day. Wheat stationary; oats 3d cheaper; and barley towards the close somewhat lower. In Indian corn nothing doing. _ s. (1. s. d. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 23 0 to 25 6 Beans.. . oto 0 Do., red 2O oto 23 6 Bere ll oto 13 0 Do., new .... oto 0 1 Rapeseed Barley Oats Do., black — oto 0 Indian corn .. 27 oto 28 0 BRISTOL SUGAR-FRIDAY. The market this week has been fairly supplied with samples of landed parcels, and a steady business has been done at full prices. Refined goods rather wore ac ive in demand, at about late rates. Rum in fair demand, and late prices were maintained. COAL M. Prides of Coal per Ton at s. d. Bates' sWest Hartley..l6 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley . 16 9 Carway and Daffryn Malting.. 20 0 Eden Mam lB 9 Lambert's West Hart ley l6 6 Wylam 17 3 Holywell . ..17 3 Cowpen Hartley 17 0 Walker Primrose 12 6 Davison's West Hart ley 16 9 Hastings Hartley l6 9 Nettlewarth Primrose.l3 6 Carr's Hartley ..16 9 West Wylam.. ..16 0 .ARKET. the close of the market. Walls End. s. II Haswell 2O 0 Riddell Hetton 2O 0 Russel's Hetton 19 6 Braddyll's Hetton 19 6 Eouth Hetton ...20 0 Caradoc l9 6 East Hartlepool 20 0 South Hartlepool 19 0 Framwellgate.. lB 6 K elloe Cassop l9 6 Gosforth lB 6 Harton 11 6 Byron . l9 6 South Kelloe l9 0 _ _ Walls End. Bell ... 18 3 Belmont ..... . 18 3 Tunstall Heugh Hall 19 0 Russell's Hartlepool ..19 6 Tees 2O 0 Auckland Park. l7 6 Pittington. lB 0 Ships at market, 199 ; sold, 97. Foreign Mail racket List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Oct 19. via Marseilles ... Oct. 13. Arazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Oct. 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Oct. 2. via Marseilles ...Oct. 13. Falkland Islands .. •••• Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 13 . India (Bombay), via Southampton ..Oct. 11. via Marseilles Portugal.... ... Oct. 5. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton .Oct. 2. via Marseilles .. Oct. 11. Newfoundland oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 8, by I.J.S. packet.... by Canadian packet.O.ct. 2. Oct. 10. ' New York Madeira, and Teneriffe Oat. 22. B W a . h C a . p olA. , fri via eft, Mexico ....0ct. . All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, C a lif o rnia. and British Columbi a .. I Oct. 14. Births. BOYS.—On the Ist inst., the wife of Captain H. Boys, of H.M.S. Pelorus, of a son. DODGSON —On the 2d inst., at Woodford the wife of W. 0. D o dgeon, Esq., o f a son. , MONTAGU.—On the 27th ult., at Dover, tho wifo of Lieut.- Colonel Montagu, Royal Engineers, of a daughter. WATHEN.—On the 30th ult., at Sydenham, the wife of W. Wathen,H. Esq., o f a daughter. Marriages. GILLESPIE—COFFIN,—On the Ist inst., at Bath, Robert itollo Gillespie, Esq., C a pt a i n 106th Re gt. Light Inttry.._ to Minnie, daught er o f Ad m i ra l J . Townsend Co ffi n, of Portledge, Newbridge-hill, Bath. JONES—RAY.—On the 30th ult., at All Saints', Wands worth, William, second son of William Jones, Esq., of Meriden Grange, Middlesex, to Sarah Jane, the fourth daughter of Wm. Ray, Esq.. of Oaklands, Wimbledon park, Surrey. Deaths. BRATIAM.—On the 30th ult., at Aix - la-Chapelle, Prussia, Joseph Braham, Esq., of London. BARKER.- - -OR the 28th ult. James Barker, Esq., of Stour Hall, Ramsey, Essex, aged 57. BUCKLE.—On the 30th ult., at the Royal Mint, London, William Buckle, Esq., C.E., aged 70. FREESTUN.—On the 30th ult., at Combe-grove, near Bath, Humphrey May Freestun, Commander R•N STAcrooLE.—On the Ist inst., at St. Sidwell's, Exeter, G. B. W. Stackpoole, formerly of the 9th Light Dragoons, aged 68. SPEARMAN. —On the Ist inst., at Burn Hall, co. Durha m, Henry John Spearman, Esq., of Thornley Hall. WIGRAM.--.01 1 the 30th ult., at St. Mary's Isle, LadY Katharine Wigram, wife of Loftus T. Wigram, Esq. 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