The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

Army.) DANISH HEAD QUARTERS, SONDERBORG, March 1. The re hra been a long and somewhat stormy Bitting; of Cue Council of State at Copenhagen, which, we are to',d, very nearly led to a Ministerial crisis. The matter in discussion was the final dismissal of General de Meza, and the appointment of his suc cessor. Do Meza, as you are aware, had from the beginni•ag the supreme command of the Danish army, and he gave the orders for the retreat from the Dannewerk. From the moment the King and his Prime Minister, Bishop Monrad, had, on account of that backward movement, to face the indignation of the army at Sonderborg and of the mob at Copen hagen, the ruin of the ill-starred commander was resolved upon, and the wily statesman at the head of affairs had openly pledged himself to consummate it. De Meza was, as you may remember, recalled from his command immediately upon the arrival of Abe army at Sonderborg, and his post was occupied by General Luttichau, the former Commander-in- Chief of the Artillery. At the same juncture Kauff mann was. superseded by Stjernhclra at the head of the Staff. All these, however, had been mere tem porary arrangements, and it was high time the Government at Copenhagen should come to defini tive resolutions. A sense of justice and the consci ousness of the real nature of the transactions at Schleswig enlisted, it would seem, an exalted per sonage in the interests of the disgraced general, and prompted him stanchly and generously to plead his cause. Bat the Prime Minister was inexorably bent on the lull nolation of his scapegoat, and made the removal of De Meza a Cabinet question. He carried his point as a matter of course, and the acknowledged author of the retreat from the Dannewerk disappears altogether from the scene of his exploits at the bead of the Danish army. At the same time Gen. Luttichan is also relieved from the supreme command which he only held in a provisional capacity, and resumes his former place at the head of the Artil• Lary. Our new General-in-Chief is Gerlach, who had hitherto only the command of the first division ; Stjernholm retains his position as permanent Chief of the Staff, p and his predecessor, Kanffmann, will, it is said, have the commend of a brigade. The only victim in the ease is De Men, and it is observable that, as the first moment of excitement and per plexity choice was made of Luttichau because he was the only man in the Council of War who had stoutly voted against the retreat from the Danne werk, so now that men's minds are in a el lm er mood, and that retreat begins to be looked upon as matter of stern necessity, the man to be put forward is Gerlach, simply because he chanced to be absent from the Council, and had therefore no occasion to give any opinion on that sad but inevitable measure. Nothing is seen or heard of the Prussians, and it is only by a strong effort that we can bring ourselves to remember that we are here in a state of war and siege. The conduct of the enemy appears to my Danish friends utterly inexplicable. The German and other papers are all full of the secondary part they were made to play at the taking of the Dan - ne werk by some portentous achievement against the position of Dybbol. The Austrians who reaped at Bustrup, Oversoe, and else where such laurels as were to be obtained in this ignoble campaign of four against one, were induced to fall back on the second line, and leave the past of honour to their Prussian allies. The bastions on the heights at Dybbol were, as those same papers asserted, to be stormed at the first onset, and the very island of Aistn could not be safe against the enterprising ingenuity of Prince Frederick Charles, who could as readily throw a bridge over the Sound in this vicinity as he did over the Schlei, between Arnis and Coppein. Somehow, however, events have not as yet justified these great vaunts. The Prussians came, saw, but did not conquer. The petty skirmishing at outposts achieved but little towards carrying the Dybbol forts at the point of the bayonet. We were then given to understand that the Prussians were preparing themselves. Their heevy artillery had not arrived ; it was for their pontoons they were waiting. A terrificcannonade was to be the prelude of their selvage onslaught. Nothing was to begin till all could bo achieved. The storming of the bastions, the passage of the Sound, the annihilation of the Danes, were to be accomplished at one blow. All measures were taken for a full, immediate, and de eieive success. The 22d of last month, then the 26th, were the days appointed for the mighty deed. But all thise days passed, the month itself came to an end, and the inaction of the Prussians became daily more absolute and complete. " What is the meaning of all this ?'' my Danish friends ask. "Has Prussia resolved upon wearing us out with ennui, and, without offering or accept. ing an armistice, does she shrink from a conflict which would have no political results ? Is this merely a show and mockery of war, and must the lives that have been and are being sacrificed be looked upon as mere counters in the deep game that politicians are playing behind the soldiers' back ? If the Prussians were so bent upon achieving the occupation of Schleswig, if it seemed to them that nothing was actually done until Dybbol and Alsen were reduced, why do they not come on ? Their own turn has come; their Austrian allies have made room for them. The best chances are offered them for retrieving'the past. They are face to face with us—double and treble our number, strong in the advantages of all the most formidable contrivances of modern artillery. How is it that they are afraid to come on ? The word "afraid," as applied to the armies of that nation whose destinies the Great Elector and Frederick 11. grounded on the excellence of their military organisation, seems really too absurd. It has had but rare chances of distinguishing itself since 1815. Its first trial at Missunde was not very encouraging—nay, some people describe that en counter as a positive Prussian defeat. It takes time to bring into action raw regiments, whose officers have seen as little the as their men. lam not by any means disposed to believe all I hear ; but some of the Danes, who were far advanced at the outposts on the 22d (the day on which the Prussians made a forward movement on the village of Dybbol, and when they had four infantry brigades, with cavalry and artillery, against two Danish regiments), assure me they could see on the other side of the lines Prussian officers urging their men on with the flat of their swords, that they could hear them calling their men " craven hounds" and all sorts of igno minious n ames, but without inspiring them with sufficient pluck to bring them to face the heavy cannon that began to open fire upon them from the bastions at Dybbol bill. I repeat it is ridiculous to suppose that the long meditated and often announced attack of the Prus -Bians should be put off day after day simply from disinclination of the soldiers of that nation to come to the scratch. But that such is the interpretation the Danes begin to feel inclined to put on the sluggish movements of their adv ersar i es is a fact I can vougela and it is always in the power of the Prussians to give the lie to such disparaging surmises by making goad their boasts by brave deeds. It does not seem conceivable that if th© Prussians at any time intended t o t ry t h e i r strength againsta Dybbol they should d eem i t a good andwise counsel to waste so muc h prec i ous time, allowing the Danes full leisure to complete thosa *works of fortification which on our first arrival, three or four weeks ego, were yet in so imperfect a state. What could, early in February, be done by 40,000 men, may soon be, in March, beyond the achieve ment of thrice the number. The whole line i s now ready ; and the same alacrity has been ex hibited by the Danes in the erection of batteries along the Sound on the Alien side, from the church and castle of Sonderborg down to Kim, and Ron have, and as far as tile extreme point of Arnkiel sore. For any remissness that the Brines may have been guilty of at the outset of the war, th e st ill greater slowness and most unaccountable inertia of their adversaries make ample amends. There seems to be a resolution on the part of the Prussians that, if there is to be a struggle at all, it sbould be put off until all the defensive contrivances of the Danes may contribute to render it in an extreme degree fierce and desperate. MARCH 1, Evening. I - ti7e loc,if.'n to day on board the Rolf Krake. She is a powerful iron-clad with two turrets or cupolas, armed each of them with two 64-pounders. Her length is 120 feet, and she is at least 34 feet broad. Her engine is nominally of 250-horse power, but can bear a far greater pressure of steam. She can run nine knots an hour in smooth wo ter, but her officers have no high opinion of her as a sea boat. Indeed, they think that the attempt to com bine sailing powers with the efficiency of a monitor has been crowned with but indifferent success. In heavy weather in the Baltic or the German Ocean she would have no great chance. On the other hand, she is too deep in the water to be of great use in shallow inland seas. She could go safely through the Egernsund, but could not venture any distance into the Nybol Nor. She lies now in the Sound, near the opening of the Vemmingburd, whence she can wander at her pleasure to any part of that small but deep bay. She has her steam always up, and is ready for a start at 20 minutes' notice. Her mission at the present moment is to watch the movements of the Prussians in the Broager Penin sula, and to act OR their right flank in the event of their attack on the Dybbol position. She suffered more damage in her spirited attack on the pontoon bridge at Egernsund, on Thursday fortnight, than the first reports had led us to believe. She has now been thoroughly repaired, however, and we witnessed the evolutions of her turrets and guns, which were performed with great speed and pre cision. All the officers and most of the men are familiar with the English language, and we were entertained on board with as great a cordiality as if we had been countrymen. Experiments are being made here in the evening with electric light, with a view to apply it to war like purposes, to watch the enemy's movements in the night, and to enable the artillery of the forts to fire in the darkest weather. With what practical results such contrivances may be attended we shall learn in time. In the meanwhile the exhibition affords some entertainment to the people here, who are somewhat at a loss how to get rid of the long evenings, notwithstanding the performances of a dramatic company with ballets, which has followed us all the way from Schleswig. We received to-day telegraphic news of a cavalry skirmish near Bekke, in Jutland, in which a squadron of Danish Dragoons charged upon two squadrons of German Hussars, and captured 30 of them ; seven of the captives are wounded ; two of the latter officers, a lieutenant and an army surgeon, The Danes on their side lost three prisoners. :From the Times Special Correspondent toith ll6c Allied Armies.) KOLDING, JUTLAND, March 5. There was nothing at all going on at Hadersleben yesterday, so I drove down in the direction of the Jutland frontier, put up at a farmhouse just on the edge of Schleswig, a few miles westward from Kolding (where the number of troops assembled renders it almost impossible for travellers to find quarters), and came on here at daybreak this morn ing. This small town of barely 4,000 inhabitants is situated exactly on the frontier. As you begin the descent of a little hill immediately preceding it, and on the slope of which its first houses are situ ated, you come to a low iron post marking the boundary. From the high ground to the right of the road the best view of the place is obtained. It stands at the mouth of a small river, the Kong's Aaa (King's river), which there enters an inlet of the sea. Looking eastward the island of Funen is plainly visible to the naked eye. On a small tcngue of land by the harbour, stretching in that direction, the Prussians have constructed a covered shelter for riflemen, made of beams and of iron rails, bor rowed (not much to the contentment of the con tractors) from the line of Danish railway here in course of construction. From this place is com manded the high road to Fredericie, which for a short distance runs along the shore before diverging from it in a north-easterly direction. On another road, which proceeds due north from Kolding, is situated the town of Veile, about 14 English miles distant, and the people here tell me that the Prus sians have been as far as Brandrup, about two miles on that road, but that they did not remain there. At the present time there is a barricade and a guard at the exit from the town in that direction, and the advanced picket is but a short way beyond. So that at this point the allied army has gone but a very small distance over the frontier; but from Kolding the boundary line runs away at first nearly duo south, and then south-west, and then again north-west, forming en enclave or projection of Jut land into Sehlesw•i;, where the Prussians also are, at the villages of Seest and Hjarup, and possibly in other insignificant places. Looking down upon Kolding from the small hill already mentioned, im mediately south of the town, the most conspicuous objects rising from the confused mass of dingy red houses are the castle and the Royal stables. The latter area low red building forming three sides of a large square, and a breeding stud was kept there, which was removed on the approach of war. The castle is a mere wreck—a sort of stone skeleton, in the tottering fabric of which the daylight passes through countless gaps and crevices. At its western end is a lofty square tower, the ascent of which is now forbidden as dangerous, and from the summit of which, as Kolding lies in a narrow valley, NJ very extensive view could be obtained, except in the direction of Funen. The ruin of the castle, once a Royal residence, dates from its conti igration, early in the present century. Some of the people in this neighbourhood say that it was burnt by the Spaniards of the Marquis de la Romagna, but I have no books here to refer to en that or any other subject, and I do not remember whether Ro magna's troops came to this part of Jutland. Their embarcation on board of British ships to return to Spain occurred, if I rightly recollect, from the island of Zealand. However that may be, it is certain that they left a number of horses behind them in Denmark, which were crossed with Dartie, horses, and of whose breed traces are not unfrequently to be detected in those one sees about here. The farmhouse at which I passed last night, at Fovslel, in the frontier parish of Odis, is an excel lent specimen of the best class of establishments of that kind in Schleswig. Everything about it is sub stantial, from the hospitable proprietor, of Hercu lean build, riding 17 stone, and a model of rude health and muscular development, down to the moun tain of roast beef under which his supper table groaned. Capacious and well-built stables con tained 100 cows and 20 horses ; the milk, abundant even at this season, stood in tubs several feet in diameter ; the churns were big enough to make a tub of butter at a time. The ducks and fowls, geese, turkeys, pigeons, and other feathered bipeds, swarmed to prodigious extent, but the cocks were downcast, for some of the Austrian sharpshooters had plucked the curling black feathers from their tails to decorate their picturesque hats. Since then Hussars had been there, and lately 11 officers found ample accommodation and good cheer in the great solid farmhouse, the interior of which afforded not only plenty of room for numerous guests, but luxu ries and refinements such as could hardly have been expected in this remote northern nook. Our host, born within a few miles of his present abode,had never been out of his country, never south of the Elbe l he told us, but he spoke excellent German, and preferred to speak it, although Danish was equally famili ar t o him. He was a thorough Augustenb'arger, and had 1 3 "tation of 1,600 Schles been on e o f the monster de wigers that lately went down to Kiel to greet Prince Fred er i c k . H e could not d eny, h owever, that, althou g h independent Sehleswig•Holstein, com- Plet : 4l Y severed from Denmark, was what he and many others most ardently desired, Schleswig might be ei contented by a personal union with the kingdom. Sschleswig, wife, who, although also a native o, North less terangtiostPalk se e : l tt o ra li tio a n nis ; I suspect the North Schleswigers gene h b , u ss t •oeld hear . of nothing . -r allY would be satisfied with the personal union —those that desire, on the contra; is to say, who do not y, arnalganaation. with Dm mark. S o f ar as I have - observing, I am greatlysu exists in North Schleswig, espe ciallyyet h a d opportunity of anti-Danish f ee li ng to sae how much among th e f armers. The vid resident forsometi me past in the country, of foreigners ount ry veracity and impartiality c the m re er is not and whose not the slightest reason to suspect, is m valuable in this respect than my p ersonal observat'o e four d a y s th at h ave now passed sine; during the wards from Fl ens b urg. From such came north persons rec.ive strong assurances that the desire to be detached from Denmark, at least as regards the administra tion of the country, exists to a very great extent quite up to the frontier, even among many who, owing to the system of education enforced, speak only Danish. There can be but one cause for this, and that is a cause which I everywhere hear de nounced—the vexatious and oppressive proceedings of the Danish functionaries sent here from other parts of Denmark. We have been accustomed to believe that, just as South Schleswig is notoriously German in its sympathies and aspirations, the northern part of the duchy is thoroughly Danish. My stay here has been as yet fur too short for me to become convinced of the contrary, but I must say that all I have as yet seen tends greatly to shake my previous belief. There have been some small skirmishes lately on the frontier, one of them between Prussian Hussars and Danish Dragoons. As the affair was related to me yesterday, before leaving headquarters, 30 troopers of the Bth Hussars and an officer fell in with a small Danish patrol in Jutland, near the frontier, seven miles to the westward of this place, made five or six prisoners, and sent them to the rear. They then imprudently continued to advance, were at tacked by a very superior force of Dines, and were all killed, wounded, or made prisoners. The officer was wounded and taken. The affair is one of those which frequently occur between the lines of hostile armies, and of course is very unimportant; but the Prussians are vexed at it because this is the first of their officers who has been captured in this war. The Prussian Guards are the troops now in Jut land—infantry, cavalry, and artillery. There may also be some infantry of the line, although I have not seen any ; but there have been various move ments of troops hereabouts during the last day or two. I am assured on good authority that the whole number of Prussian troops in Schleswig and Lifland is about 40,000 men. In Holstein there is a brigade, probably about 6,0 4 30 more. Plenty more could quickly be brought up if required, but it is unlikely that there will be any necessity for them. The Aus trians are probably nearly 25,000. There have lately been most exaggerated reports current in Ber lin with respect to the strength of the allied forces, and I have heard them rated as high as 100,000 or 120,000 men. This is manifestly erroneous. Equally unfounded reports have been circulated with respect to the health of the army. I have excellent reason for believing that the number of sick little exceeds three per cent., and the majority of the case are not serious maladies. I met a lot of the Guards on the road this morning moving south, and I have just heard they were going to a distri bution of medals to a few men who have had oppor tunities of personally distinguishing themselves during the present war. I know that some such ceremony was in contemplation, but up to yesterday afternoon the day was not fixed : so it must have been suddenly decided that the ceremony should take place this morning. THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN WAR. rout the Tines Special Correspondent with the Danish, liffh SUN, LONDON', THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1864. STATE OF TRADE, DUNDEE, March B—The demand for flax continues with out much life, the few tran-actions reported being for small parcels to keep up assortments, and for which previous prices were paid. About 130 tons of St. Petersburg flax and 30 tons of tow were put up to auction to-day, when 60 tons of flax and 4 tons of tow found buyers, the balance having been withdrawn because the prices offered were not satisfactory to the exposers. Jute, of medium to fine quali ties, is very saleable at late rates, but common is little asked for. There was an active inquiry for all descriptions of yarn to day, but the inability of the principal spinners to make early deliveries restricted business materially. Prices have still an upward tendency. One of the leading manufactur ing firms here have just issued new price lists to their cus tomers, the rates for linen being about 5 per cent. above previous prices. Other manufacturers also ask an advance, and as the demand is active, bath for jute fabrics and for the better class of linens, many orders were placed to-say at the advansed rates. Makers, both in town and through • out the district, are now well loresold, and very firm in de manding full prices. LEICESTER, 9th—There is not much change in the hosiery trade. Future prospects continue good, and business generally is in a healthy condition. In the rural districts trade remains rather quiet. There is a fair business doing in both regular and fancy goods. 'I he wool market is steady, late prices being for the most part made. In yarns there is not much change ; the market continues very firm. NOTTINGHAM, 9th—There has been less doing in nearly all kinds of lace goods during the past few days. The un seasonable weather checks the demand for goods suitable for the spring trade. There is very little doing in plain stiff nets, The silk lace trade (with the exception of the Mechlin and the quilling branch) is dull, there being no improvement in the demand fur black silk laces or eJgings. The hosiery trade is without much change. Orders are being completed both for the home market and for shipping. Yarns are firm at high prices. RAILWAY INTEL LIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN The directors of this company recommend to the proprie tors the following dividends fur the six months ending Jan. 31:—Great 'Western Original Stock at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum ; West Midland Oxford Ordinary Stock at the rate of It per cent, per annum; West Midland Newport Ordinary Stock at the rate of per cent. per annum ; South Wales Consolidated Stock at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum. MARLBOROUGH. The branch line to Marlborough from the Forest•atation of the Hungerford and Devizes Railway is completed, and will be opened for traffic as soon as the requisite preli minaries have been arranged, GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's railway for the week ending Feb. 13, amounted, for local passengers, to £3,373—foreign passengers, £9s6—snails, &e., £sl4—local freight and live stock, £lo,Bl6—timber and lumber, £714-- firewood, £BB—and foreign freight and live stock, £2,718 — total, £19,180, against £18,531 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £616. The company have announced the payment of the half-year's interest due on the 15th inst. on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence ster ling shares and interest certificates, MONMOUTHSHIRE. The report of the directors states that the traffic receipts for the half-year ending Dec. 31 last were £3,565 more than for the corresponding half-year of 1862. The total traffic receipts amounted to £65,514, against £61,970 in the corresponding period, the expenses to £30,355 or 46 per cent. of the reeslpts, against £30,387, or 49 per cent. ; and the tot earnings to £35,190, against £31,592 for the corresponding half of 1862, showing an increase of £3,598 in the net earnings. The sum of £4,500 had been transferred to tho reserve fund from the general revenue account, to meet liabilities in respect of the accident at Cwmbran In july last, and of relaying part of the line, and making additional sidings. The average rate of interest now paid on the total amount of borrowed capital was £4 6s 5d per cent. The general revenue account showed that there was a balance of 116,111, and as that sum would (less income tax) yield a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares, leaving a balance of £llO to the credit of the next account, the directors recom mended that a dividend at that rate be declared, payable on the sth of April next. The relaying of the Eastern Valley line of railway between the Marshes-road, Newport, and Coed-y-gric Junction had been proceeded with, and the whole of the up-line had been completely rebid. The branch line to the Abercarn Colliery was being constructed. In anticipation of the opening of the Sirhowy Railway for passenger traffic, the two miles of railway belonging to the company between Risca Station and the Nine-mile Point had been altered and adapted to the requirements of the Iloard of Trade for passenger traffic. The capital account showed that £1,215,223 had been expended, leaving a balance of £4,281 against the company. LLYNVI VALLEY. This line has just been opened for passenger traffic from Bridgend to Maesteg, and it is expected that the accomnio dation thus afforded will bring good returns to the com pany. The Ogmore branch is being rapidly proceeded with, and when completed a large mineral traffic will be brought over the Llynvi Valley line, CASTLE DOUGLAS AND DUMFRIES. The half-yearly meeting was held on Tuesday at Dumfries —Mr. Maxwell in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CRAittmeN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the shareholders had murk reason to rejoice in the prosperity of the line. Owing to local causes the traffic last half-year had not increased in the ratio of previous cor responding periods, but the increased in traffic was never theless considerable. Tho beautiful scenery of Galloway was becoming appreciated, as shown by the large number of tourists who had visited the nistriet last autumn, and he had not doubt that as the district became better known it would be much more frequented. The line had last year been worked at 38A per cent., and considerable advantage was anticipated from the opening of the Kirkcudbright line. It was much regretted that the express service to Ireland had been discontinued, and he was sorry to hear that there was no immediate, prospect of the harbour worts at Port patrick being coAipleted, so as to admit of the opening of the short sea passage. They were opposing the bill pro moted by the Fortpatrick Uowpany to take running powers over their lino as uncalled for, and likely to disturb the arrangements between the two companies. The report was adopted, and dividends were declared at the rate of 5 per cent. on the preference shares, and 3s. per share on the ordinary £lO shares. NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts on th's company's old and new lines for the week ending Feb. 25 amounted to £47,513, against £47,174 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £339. Tho total receipts from Jan. Ito the above date amounted to £385,198, and for the correspond ing period of last year to £379,303, showing an increase of £5,895. RAILWAY BILLS. On Tuesday in committees of the Commons the clauses of the Llanelly Harbour Improvement Bill were settled, and it was agreed that there should be 15 commissioners, the railway company to have three. Further evidence for the promoters was adduced in favour of the London and South-Western (Kensington Extension). The case for the competing scheme of the Chichester and Midhurst (No. 3) was cpened by Mr. Rodwell, and evidence adduced in its favour. The clauses of the North-Eastern, Lanca shire and Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire Railway Com panies were disposed of, and the case for the South York shire Railway and River Dun Company (Transfer) was opened by Mr. Burke, Q.C. The case of the Chipping Norton Railway was closed, tha bills for the Dublin and Meath, the Weston-Super-Marc Pier, and the Okehampton Railway were passed. In Committees of the Lords, the clauses of the Pneuma tic Despatch Company were settled, and the bill for the Commercial Docks and Grand Surrey Canal was passed. Further evidence was taken in the case of the Bangor and Llanboris Railway. THE CONVICT HALL. The following memorials have been sent to the Home Secretary : To THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY, M.P., SECRE- TARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. The memorial of John Skirrow Wright, of Birming ham, manufacturer, and William Morgan and Alfred F. Morgan, of Birmingham, attorneys-at-law, Humbly Showeth,—That George Hall was convicted of the murder of his wife at the assizes at Warwick, on Thursday, the 3d day of March, 1864, and received sentence of death, and that the jury recommended him to mercy on account of the provocation which he had received. That your memorialists have interested themselves in the case and have carefully inquired into the circumstances, and one or more of them have seen and examined each of the persons whose affidavits are sent herewith, and your memorialists are all satisfied that the particulars of the pre vocation received by the convict, and more particularly set forth in the said memorial, are as follows : George Hall was married to Sarah Anne Smith on the 27th of December, 18G3, after courting her for several years, and after the marriage they went to a house which he had taken for his future home. On the same afternoon she left her husband, in opposition to remonstrance, but on the following day her parents brought her back to his house. On the next day (Sunday) she visited without . the knowledge of her husband a man named Martin Toy, or Tye. Sho afterwards returned to her husband, and they lived together till Sunday, January 3. During that interval she was haughty and cross in manner towards her husband, and did not seem to love him. On Sunday, January 3, she left her husband without assigning any reason, and returned to her father's house. On than, Sun day she saw Toy, and during the follo‘%ing week was fre quently with him, and committed adultery with him more than once. On Saturday, Jan. 9, she went to the Prince of Wales Theatre with Toy. They were seen there by a man named Joseph Flowers, a fellow-workman of George Hall, the convict. Flowers sent a message to Hall, who came to the theatre to meet them as they came out. Hall described what passed to his master, Mr. Simmonds, as follows :—When he met his wife with Toy he asked her what she meant by being with some one else. She replied, "I mean what you see, and I shall still continue to do so." Hall said, "If you mean to carry on in this way you must give me the things that belong to me, or it may be the worse for you," and she then pulled the wedding ring from her finger and the earrings out of her ears, and gave them to Hall, at the same time slapping him on the face, She laughed at him, and went oil with the other man. According to Toy she was about to strike him, but he said, " Don't strike the fellow." On that night and on sub sequent nights, till shortly before her death, Toy had con nection with her. On the 12th January Sarah Ann Hall took out a sum mons against her husband for having, as she alleged, threat ened her when they met outside the theatre. On the 11th the summons was heard before the magistrates, who, upon George Hall saying that there was a comfortable home for his wife to go to, advised her to return to him, which she refused to do. The summr.ins was dismissed. From the 14th January to the 16th February Sarah Ann Hall continued to live at her father's and Toy continued to visit her there. Toy's presence caused quarrels between the father and mother of Sarah Ann Hall, and led to an assault by the father on the mother, on the 14th February, for which he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Birmingham gaol. He is now undergoing that sentence. During the whole interval between January 3, when his wife left him, and February 16, George Hall was so much distressed as to attract the notice of his employer and fellow-workmen, He described his wife's conduct to his master and asked his advice. After the hearing of the summons on the road h - zoo he wept like a child. He said to his master " I do love her, and could die for her, and it is such a trouble to me to hear continually of her unfaithful ness. I have been told that she slept with another man, but I will try to forget her. I would have done right by her. She never let me know she did not care for me before we were married, and when she was short of work I have often helped her. lam doomed to be miserable for life," Mr. Simmonds then asked Hall whether he had any idea of her conduct before their marriage, or if he had himself been guilty of any wrong towards her. Hall replied, "No, I always treated her well; and never had any wrong intentions towards her ; and when I married her believed her to be a virtuous woman. I loved her too much to do her harm." On several occasions he appeared to Mr, Simmonds and others so much distressed as hardly to know what ho was _ . doing. During this period, and before and after the scene at the theatre, he saw his wife in the presento of hot mother, and tried to persuade her to return to him, and behaved to her most kindly. (in the 16th of February he met her by appointment, alter leaVing work, and passed the riming at her mother's. Her mother said in her evidence that his manner was very kind, lie put his left hand on her shoulder, and loaned his head against her, as ho usually did, in an affectionate way, and they whispered together. This went on for some time. When he rose to leave the house she stood up to follow him before any thing was said about following him." She did follow him, and went out with him. This was shortly ,before the murder, which took place between eleven and twelve o'clock at night. When called upon, before receiving sentence, the prisoner made a long statement with earnest emotion. He said, among other things, that, at some time or other, his wife taunted him and said, " The first child shall be sworn to you, but it will not be yours; it will be another man's." Sarah Ann Hall died ou the afternoon of the day after she was shot. Martin Toy was present for an hour and a half before her death. George Hall accused himself of having shot his wife with a revolver, and at the same time gave up a common pistol as the weapon with which he had done it. One of the witnesses stated that he said to his parents, " I told you all I'd do it, and I have done it." Both parents deny that _ . they heard these words,Q declare that no such intention had ever been expressed to them. At the police-station ho said, " I did not intend to kill her." Your memoralists laid before the learned counsel who so ably conducted th e d efence of t h e pr i s oner evidence of th e facts above stat e d, w i th the excep ti on of those stated by T o y in his affidavit, a n d by the prisoner a fter verd ict , which were 'not previo us l y known to y o ur memorialists. They were advised by counsel that they did not amount in law to evidence of such a provocation as would reduce the pri• soner's crime from murder to manslaughter, and that in a legal point of view they were evidence of motive only. For this reason no witnesses were called for the prisoner at his trial, except Mr. Simmonds, his employer, who spoke to his character. Your memorialists submit these facts to your considera but which is, at l east, as strong as tho se tion, in the hope th at you ma y feel that they show the exist ence of a form of provoca ti o n for which the general rules of law could not be expec t e d to make provision beforehand, by law reduce murder to manslaughter. They believe that the prerogative of pardon is especially intended to provide for such cases, and they therefore humbly pray that you will take into your favourable consideration the strong re commendation of the jury, alai be pleased to advise her I'lljesty to communicate the sentence of death passed upon George Ilall for some less severe punishment. And your memorialists will ever pray, JOHN S. WRIGHT, WILLIAM MORGAN. ALFRED F. MonnAN. 1,.... ram. ...+ Birmingham, March 7. Sir,—l have the honour to forward by this night's post a memo' ial from inhabitants of this town and neighbour hood praying for the royal mercy on behalf of Geo. Hall. I am informed that the memorial was not commenced until Saturday, and that it may be taken as the spontane • ous expression of the sentiments of the inhabitants. It con tains 50,366 signatures, aad many further sheets will pro bably be received to-morrow. I may be permittel to add that the people of Birming ham, as a community, are not easily excited and have great reverence for the law, as evinced by the peaceable char4cter of all their demonstrations for the last quarter of a century. I therefore feel that I am justified in submitting to that that the present expression of the anxious desire of the people for the exercise of the royal clemency is entitled to WILLIAM HOLLIDAY, Mayor of Birmingham, The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., Secretary of State. Improvements at Guildhall, A committee of the Court of Common Council, to whom the subject had been referred for considera tion, have just reported in favour of a series of im provements in and about the neighbourhood of Guildhall, involving the entire reconstruction on a new plan of most, if not all, of the offices of the cor poration, so as to adapt them the better to the gene ral business purposes of the civic authorities, and to obviate the necessity of a large expenditure on every public occasion, forispecial entertainments or other wise. They report that from 1800 to the present time the sum of £72,101 has been expended on re pairs and alterations in the Guildhall alone; £32,928 in fittings it up on Lord Mayor's days; £42,312 for special entertainments ; and £25,911 in connection with the law courts—making in all £173,322. On the Mansion-house during the same period the sum of £68,581 has been expended in repairs; £57,199 for furniture, plate, books, &c.; and since 1852 £10,603 for sculpture, being a total of £136,383. Although the committee feel that it would be desirable, if possible, to retain the ancient Guildhall, they find that from its position dividing the entire area into two unequal parts, the difficul ties in laying out the ground in a satisfactory man ner would be increased, and an extension of thespace for new buildings necessitate& They find that the area of Guildhall . might with great advantage be extended, and the hail itself spared, by taking in the space occupied by the Bankruptcy Court and some other adjacent buildings, and they have placed themselves in communication with the several owners of property. These have in almost every case stated that they are not unwilling to treat with the Cor poration for the sale of their interests upon equitable terms. The Company of Coopers, whose ancient hall occupies a considerable part of the space which would be wanted, are also ready to co-operate with the Corporation. The Committee recommend that as there are funds of the Corporation now awaiting reinvestment in the purchase of freehold land, and as it appears to them highly desirable that the build ings adjacent to the Guildhall should be in the hands of the Common Council, not only with the view of carrying out a plan worthy of the Carpora tion, but also for purposes of general improvement in the neighbourhood, they should ba empowered to enter into negotiations with the several parties in terested in the property for its purchase. The re port of the Committee, of whom Mr. Kelday is the chairman, has been adopted by the Court of Com■ mon Council, and referred back to them for execu • tion. In the meantime the existing roof of Guild hall, which had become much dilapidated by time, is being replaced by an open one, in accordance with the architecture of the building, and after plans designed by the late Mr. Bunning, the city archi tect. The stone front of the hall, being in a crippled and defective state, owing to its imperfect founda tion, is also undergoing repair. The new roof will be of oak,filled in with Gothic tracery and partially glazed, and Gothic windows will be substituted in lieu of the 16 Raman windows on the north and south sides of the hall. The new roof and win dows are estimated to cost £18,000; the rebuild ing the front of the hall, £1,500; the adapting rooms for the purposes of the library, £2,300; the repairing and decorating the various law courts, £2,000; and the painting other parts of the buildings connected with Guildhall, £400; making in all £21,200. The contract for the principal works is being executed by Messrs. Myers, who are under an engagement to complete them by the Ist of October. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, POST.—The campaign in J utland has been opened with a victory which the overwhelming strength of the invaders, lees than their valour, enabled them to secure. The Austrians have come in collision with the Danish outposts and have repulsed them. With the particulars of the engagement we are not yet ac quainted, but the reports from German and Danish sources agree in staing the result to have been dis astrous to the Danes. At six o'clock on Tuesday morning the Austrian army crossed the Koldingau in two columns, and, after a march of about seven English miles, encountered a small force of Danish cavalry, which it compelled to retreat northwards towards Veils. At this town, however, or, as it would appear, on the north bank of a small river which takes its name from the town, the Danes a_ade a stand. Their force ouly consisted of three infantry regiments, three batteries of artillery, and two regiments of cavalry; and, as we may readily believe, after a gallant resistance it was compelled to give way before the Austrian columns, and to retire northwards towards Horsens. Whilst the Austrians were advancing in a northerly direction the Prussians proceeded towards Frederioia and succeeded in driving in the Danish outposts at Gudsal. In this affair the Danish General and the chief of his staff were wounded. According to the latest telegrams the allies were advancing on Priedericia in great force, and an attack upon that town vras hourly expected. In Jutland, as in the south of Schlestig f superior numbers prove more than a match for courage and valour. To those who believe that England is not conclusively pledged to neutrality, the course which events are taking in Denmark may reasonably cause alarm. It would neither be the duty nor the policy of this country to make herself the arbiter of the disputes of other States, but, as experienee has shown, the greatest prudence and the most extreme caution may prove unavailing to prevent embroilment in quarrels whose sphere angry disputants are determined at all hetards to extend, The English Government have been nntiring in their endeavours to restore peace, and the only apprehension which need be enter tained is lest they evinced in too striking a manner their desire to abstain from war, The German Powers have undoubtedly conceived the notion that ' under no circumstances would England array her self in arms egainat Germany, and their entire course of Conduct since the commencement of the present year has to all appearances been based upon this assumption, The Dano-German war is scarcely two months old, and yet let any one reflect on what was the state of public opinion in this country before the Germans crossed the Eider and he Will be convinced how thoroughly mistaken the large majority of persons were both in respect to the policy of the German Powers and to the pro bable attitude of the British Government. The in vasion of Schleswig by Austria and Prussia ap peared to most men such an act of madness that it was forthwith set down as a pure impossibility. The arguments so freely advanced and so apparently conclusive must be fresh in the memory of all. Setting aside the absurdity of the Great German Powers proclaiming themselves the champions of oppressed nationalities, we were reminded that Austria had a watchful enemy ready to cross her southern frontier, and that Prussia possesaed cer tain provinces on the Rhine which, on her assuming an aggressive attitude, might not improbably fall into the hands of a crafty and powerful neighl36:g. Besides, there was England, who would, as soon as the first blow was struck against the integrity of Denmark, blockade the German ports, sweep from the seas the tiny fleets of Austria and Prussia, and place at the commend of Denmark an army suffi cient to hold the entrance to the peninsula against any force which the invaders might bring to the assault of the Danewirke. Then, again, we were asked what the German Powers intended to make war about. Were Austria and Prussia about to endan ger the peace of Europe,and risk a general conflagra tion in whoseflemes they would undoubtedly be enve loped, in order that Schleswigers should hear ser mons in German instead of Danish, or should be ruled by an Augustenburg instead of a Glucksburg ? The whole notion was too absurd, and the timid were quieted with assurances that Austria and Prussia, though apparently aggressive in their tone, were in truth most anxious to preserve the peace of Europe, and were only too desirous of curbing that impetuosity on the part of the minor States which would otherwise infallibly prevent war. We took occasion to demonstrate the fallacy of these argu ments long before the appearance of the allied armies on the banks of the Eider, and whilst the AustroaPrussian contingent still constituted the reserve of the slender force despatched by the Diet into Holstein for the purposes of Federal execu tion. We pointed out how vastly different the prosont appearedi wheniregarded from a German point of view. In the first place we showed that, whether rightly or wrongly, the German Powers would conjecture that the occupation of the Duchies by their armies would not be made a casus •belli by Great Britain. The English Cabinet had always inclined to the belief that Denmark had violated her engagements towards Germany, and it was therefore not norea. sonabie to suppose that it would not resent an attempt by the latter to obtain redress. Other con siderations of a nersonal kind, unquegionably that favourable consideration which I am sure it will receive at your hands,—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, erroneous, but such as might readily secure atten tion in countries less habituated to constitutional government than °lir own, had no little share in inducing Germany to belie' e that England would remain neutral in the event of a nano-German war. As regarded fears of foreign aggression, States are naturally slow to believe that their territories will be attacked, and Austria and Prussia consoled themselves with the reflection that by yielding to the wishes of the minor States they could at any time array on their side every member of the Ger man Confederation. Viewing the matter in this light, the invasion of Hehleswig became by no means so improbable as the majority of English poli ticians were inclined to believe. it was from this point of view, however, that we regarded the pos sible contingency of a Dano-German war, and events have since justified our conclusions. Austria and Prussia believed that Great Britain would remain a. passive spectator of the occupation of the Duchies, anti no one will now question the solidity of the foundation on which that belief reposed. But the occupation of Schleswig has since been followed by the invasion of Jutland, and the allied armies have now commenced active hostilities with a view to the reduction of the town of Fredericia, which guards the land approaches to the Island of Funen. As the English Government contented themselves with a simple protest when the Pros sians took possession of the frontier town of Kolding, the invaders may not unnaturally con clude that their present operations will induce no change in the policy of the British Cabinet. In this they are most probably correct. But it would be a most fatal error for the German Powers to fall into, to suppose that to whatever lengths they might deem it expedient to push their aggressive policy Great Britain would remain perfectly pas sive. It is reported that Austrian ships of war are on their way to the Baltic, with the view of co-operating with the Prussian navy in an at tempt to reduce the Danish position at Duppel, and thus place the Island of Alsen, together with the little army it contains, at the mercy of the Austro- Prussian forces. This report the Foreign Secretary contradicted• in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening, on the strength of a formal as surance from the Austrian Government that it is not their intention to send any naval force whatever either to the Baltic or the Cattegat. Of course we are bound to credit this statement, and to believe that Austria possesses no more serious design than that of despatching a few cruisers to the English Channel for the protection of her merchant ship ping. Bat we may be pardoned for saying that if the German Powers should entertain any project' of combining their naval forces with a view either to assist their land forces at Duppel, or to act inde pendently in any other quarter of the Danish dominions, Great Britain could not remain a passive spectator of such an outrage. The Foreign Secre tary may have acted prudently in declining to make any declaration which would bind this country to go to war, but he did not hesitate to let fall an intimation which will not be lost on the German Powers. The Channel fleet is now in British waters, and if an Austrian fleet should venture through the Straits of Dover it will not cross the German Ocean entirely alone. TIMES.-It is a famous saying of Bacon that the subtlety of nature greatly surpasses the subtlety of the :human mind. With equal or greater truth it might be said that the secret springs of human cha racter and the motives of human actions are too subtle for the moralist to analyse or for the legis lator to control by rewards and punishment. Crimi nal law is based, and must be, on the assumption that acts of a certain outward complexion done under certain conditions are of the same quality, and de serve the same penalty. The taking of life with " malice aforethought," without legal excuse or pro- vocation by actual blows, amounts in law to murder, and the doom of the murderer is death. Perhaps no more flexible definition of the crime would afford adequate protection to society; certainly no other punishment could be annexed to it without remov ing the chief safeguard against its more frequent commission ; and yet what various degrees of guilt does this legal idea of murder embrace ! We do not speak now of differences in the power of self control, and therefore of moral responsibility, be tween different individuals. These subjects, though they lie on the debatable frontier of physiology and ethics, and at present occasion the utmost perplexity to jurists, may possibly be reduced to definite principles as our knowledge of both sciences progresses. TLe most intractable and recondite element of criminality—that which must for ever baffle the foresight of lawgivers and con found the wisdom of earthly judges—is the mass of antecedent circumstances and habits, from which the crime sometimes appears to spring so naturally as almost to exclude the agency of the will. There are murders which, originating in some evil passion, carefully nursed, preceded by no train of causes such as the ancients ascribed to a malignant destiny, palliated by no sudden temptation, mitigated by no subsequent access of pity or repentance, are the very type of diabolical wickedness. There are other murders in which the slayer appears to be scarcely less a victim than the slain—the victim of a cruel and overmastering sense of wrong, not imaginary but real, not transitory but permanent, blasting his happiness, withering his hopes, making tyrants of his tenderest and finest feelings, and demanding vengeance with the voice of an imperious necessity. Such a murder cannot be eliminated beforehand from others of a far deeper dye, it cannot be tried by different rules, or distinguished, even after its true nature is made known, by a different verdict and a different sentence. At yet, if human justice is to bear any resemblance or relation to the Divine, how can we consign the latter class of offenders to the same fate as the former ? The gulf that separates their crimes may be, and often is, far wider than that which separates murder itself from other acts of violence. To visit them •with one and the same retribution is to wound or deaden the moral sense of the Christian community —that moral sense which gives all penal laws their cnief efficacy and highest sanction. One of the saddest and most pitiful stories of murder under extenuating circumstances that have come before the public for many a day appeared in our report of the Warwick assizes on Monday. A young man named Hall, of steady habits and gentle disposition, was married on Christmas-day to a woman whom h e ,had courted for several years, without the least of her virtue. On the very evening of suspicion the wedding-day she left him and returned to her parents' home. Th 6 next day she was brought back, but not to be a true wife to him, for she con tinued to " keep company," though secretly, with another man, named Martin Toy, with whom she had before been intimate. This nominal cohabita • tion only lasted till January 3, when she deserted her husband again, without giving any reason, and lived in her father's house, consorting openly and constantly with Toy. Hall met them together on one occasion, and, on reproaching her with her con duct, got nothing but insults and foul words. His wife boasted of her conuexion with Toy, and vowed that she would not give it up. So far from evincing the - slightest shame or compunction, she taunted him with the wrongs inflicted by herself, and told him that her first child should be fathered upon him though it would not be his. Sbe even took out a summons against him for threatening her unless she returned, which was dismissed by the magistrates. Again and again Hall visited her at her father's house, and pressed her in the most affectionate way to come back, but all in vain. To his master he expressed in the most touching language his own simple love and fidelity, and the misery which his wife had caused him, To his fellow-workmen he appeared as one distracted, but a crowsi,sd work room is not the place for a wounded spirit to find solace, and he afterwards complained that his shop mates used him cruelly. At last the cup of sorrow and just resentment was full. On the evening of February 16 he went to her mother's house, and re „:,ined there, strange as it may appear, talking with h t ,:b the women, and now and then whispering privately wiL'l‘ his wife, whom he still, to all ap pearance, loved t i;:votedly. His manner, we a re told, was very kind, and he gave no sign by word or gesture of his gloomy resoi've. For once his wife followed him out when he rose it; leave, and she never was seen again alive. What passed between them cannot be known, but she was found lying on Dartmoor-street bridge with a pistol shot throzigh her cheek. Hall admitted at once that he had killea her, but the evidence as to his language is conflict ing, some testifying that he said he never intended to do so, and some that he spoke of the deed as one that he had long contemplated. Whether he used either expression or both is of little importance in law or in reason. It is enough that, being wrought up to desperation by injuries that might have maddened the best and calmest of men, he employed ,a deadly weapon to avenge himself. Who can read the tale of this domestic tragedy without a sentiment of compassion for the mur derer ? Who could have heard, without sympathy, his pathetic appeal, after his conviction, from the inexorable justice of human tribunals to the judg ment-seat of Him who in justice remembers mercy ? That appeal has reached the hearts of many who were not present at the trial, and have no more in terest in the poor artisan than humane minds must ever feel in a fellow -creature, more sinned against than sinning, condemned to an infamous death. The strong recommendation of the jury in his favour has already been endorsed in a memorial from more than 50,000 inhabitants of Birmingham and e nt ed. We its neighbourhood, Lrhoaoriydd, l. and more signatures are e p imagine a fitter case than this for the exercise of the Royal equita b c le lem st e a n n e d y a . rd, Tilt crime of Hall, t r i e d b y any be longs to the least aggravated form of murder. It might have been committed by a person possessed of almost every virtue except the iron will that holds even legitimate passions in check. In some respects, indeed, it resembles that of Wright, and it is possible that this parallel will be pressed on Sir George Grey. If injustice was really d 6 re to Wright, it cannot be repaired by executing Hai: ; but the truth is that all, and more than all, that was assumed in the former case has been proved in the latter. Supposing the facts stated in one of the memorials which we publish to-day to be correct, the ends of justice would be rather defeated than served by allowing Hall to be hanged. Compared with Townley, he has every claim to the merciful consideration of the Home-office, and few can doubt which of the twu would be the more dangerous character, if both were set at liberty in a new coun try. On every ground, tbeeefore, but especially elcomed on the highest ground of all, we. believe that the b a com mutation of the sentence will be y public. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) In the week that ended on 27th February there was an increase of nearly a hundred in the deaths of London on those of the previous week ; and again in the week that ended last Saturday (March 5) there was an increase of nearly a hundred on the number returned for the week immediately preceding. The successive numbers were :-1586, 1677, and in last week 1766. The average number' of deaths for the ninth week in the ten years 1854-63 is, with a correction for in crease of population, 1,420. The 1,766 deaths noW returned constitute a very heavy mortality for the beginning of March ; for they exceed the estimated amount by 346. By comparing the results of the last two weeks, it is seen that the deaths under 20 years of age rose from 741 to 778 ; those at 20 years and under 60 rose from 498 to 564 ; while there was an increase at st , more advanced age. The deaths from bronchitis (299) exhibit no increase ; but those from phthisis rose from 157 to 192. Whooping-cough increased from 65 to 77; typhus from 59 to 72; scarlatina from 57 to 65. The air has undergone considerable varia tion of temperature ; the mean values in the last four weeks having been 37.6 deg., 37.3 deg., 3 3 . 0 deg., and in last week 40.9 deg. Diseases of the nervous system increased from 167 fatal caees in the previous week to 194 last week , A girl, aged one year and nine months, died on the 25th ult. at 8, Leg-court, Westminster, from " me senteric disease, accelerated by want of proper food and care" (inquest), and on the following day the wife of en in-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital died in Charingacross Hospital of " collapse, apparently from want" (no inquest). At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mesa height of the barometer in the week was 29.487 ic• The reading rose to 29.71 in. on Tuesday, and fell to 29.14 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 40.9 deg., which is 0. 9 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 year ° (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below or differed little from the average till Friday, when the excess was nearly 9 deg. The highest day temperature occurred on that day, and was 58 deg; The lowest night tempera' tures were 29.4 deg. and 29 8 deg., and occurred id Tuesday and Wednesday. The range of temperatur e in the week was therefore 28.6 deg. The air wa ° exceedingly moist during the week. The differenc e between the mean dew-point temperature and ai l ; temperature was only 1 deg. The mean degree e' humidity of the air was 96, complete saturation being represented by 100. On six days the huMi' s dity was near saturation. The wind blew from as easterly, generally a south-easterly point, e xcep t on Friday, when it was in the south-west. T he rainfall was 0.65 in. There was rain on almost even,' day. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 3913 deg.; that of the lowest was 37.6 deg. COUNTRY MARKETS. LYNN—TUESDAY. .0$ The weather since Saturd a y h as b een c h angea ble, a good deal of rain and sleet. At to-day's market tb e 4 was a good attendanc e , w ith an average s how of svb e ;;, which brought for b es t sor t s th e pr i ces of l ast week,, to inferior sorts met with a s l ow sa l e. M alt i ng b ar l e y tm is cheaper; grinding sorts firm. Beans and peas We ° lower. to 361 White wheat .....43s to 44 s / B ar l ey ..... 32 s Red .. 4 os t o 41s I Grinding 99s to 31i Beans .338 to 35s Oats.. New 34 s t o 36 s I P eas ... t too HULL—TUESDAY. the Since our last th e w h ea t t ra d e h as b een very un i,....._ ri little business done being of a retail character. Thep: o lo of wheat during the week was large. It to-day's mad' there was a fair show of English wheat, which held fir,„ / , at last week's rates ; in foreign there was a slow trade cl ( Both malting and grinding barley quite neglected. B e° c os 6d per qr lower in price, and sold slowly. Oats in req° for seed, and 6d higher. Peas dull. 00 Wheat.... Old w hi te .... per qr 42 s Od to 440 3 Old red New red ... New white .. ~ 38s Od to 39 , 13 0o Barley.... English malting „ Grinding 24s Od to 2 68 04 Saal and Oderbruck . Holstein and Danish Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga per st.. 0813 d to Nip Friesland and Dutch ' 3 2 3 20 2 80 2 5 5 55s i ° o ° o2 d cici d d tt t t 0 00 0 t 0 ;:i 1 ; 1°Il i ti 0612 3 / 4 d to 6° 011 Swedish and Danish 40s Od to 4 33 od Beans ....English, old, per qr. New pigeon 42s Od to otl New tick to 33 0 0 Egyptian .. 305 Od „,,., Peas ..Foreign boilers ~ 32s Od tt: .'„; OP, Grinding Tares ....Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 10 0 to 0,, 0 Y a Foreign 8 15 oto 0 " Rape cakes Bones —4s3o32ssss Od to t t tl o : ci -6- 568 9 5 10 1 ‘11 5 5 1 5 0 0 0 to to 5 ° 1 0 1 MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. he istl The following were the currencies :—New white 'toys! Od to 46 s Od ; new re d, 38 s Od t o 42 s p e r 36 tit; o ' beans, 39 s t o 41 s f or o ld ; new sorts, 34s to 37s per r...is' barley, 34s to 37 s f or ma lti ng , an d 29s to 31s per cl id r g o rinding; new oats 188 to 22s Od per 24 stone; t 254. COAL MARKET. Primus of Coal per Ton at the dose of the maric et " 8 , e. s. d. Lambert's West Hart ley l5 0 West Hartley 15 3 Byass's Bebside West Hartley .15 3 Hastings Hartley ....15 3 Holywell ..17 0 Wylant 17 0 H B r s d w d Hell Walls 1 ' H I 1 1 0 6 6 6 1 East Hartlepool ..... •18 0 Hartlepool • .18 9 Cassel) 1 8 6 South Hetton • ••8 Trimdon Hartlepool.'• ,l .11 Hello° • 'll 6 South Hartlepool... ' •.. 19 South Kelloe ........ It, 24 ; sold, 32. Walls End. Stewart's 18 61 Ships at marks 1 Persons in debt may obtain instant p r otection e ie, .. imprisonment or seizure of their goods, an d a n entiriVolols from all debts and liabilities without publicity, by a P P OI 4 ; to Messrs. Marshall, so li ci t ors o f th e C our t o f Ba n n - f ". oe', Charges under £5 payabl e by eas y i ns t a lments. s' A (established 1830), 12, H a tt on - gar d en. Cit y branch -- : gate-street, Bank.—Anvr. Births. 0 ore , BOSTON.—On the 9th inst., at 4, Belgrave -4'- or Lady Boston, of a daughter, ston' ls4 ol ll ° DOMVILLE.—On the 7th inst., at 35, Bryan the wife of William Compton Doraville, 13(1. ' Ego daughter. _..„ P, HANBURT.—On the Bth inst ., at Belmont ITZ ' Barnet, the wife of Charls A. Hanbury• •"''' 0 , son. ~,,, JO SHARP.—inst., On the 9th at Denmark-hill, 11.' Sharp, of a son. Marriages. co al MARSHALL—.STEWAILT.—On the Bth inst., at d Hanover-square, Reginald Dykes Marsha"' 2.l:ff Cookridge Hall, Leeds, to Mary Jane, eldest 011.7 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Keith Stewart, C. J3 10 1 1 . 101 ,ROBERTSON—KING,—On the Bth at st. o' Newington Butts, John Robertson, -td4,,q"„ to •P'f /tary, only daughter of William King, Brighton, ... Deaths. de ll Aszo u N ar .— e, OTnhotmheasBtAhsitnolt:, Esq.,at43a, aged 52. ds ° ord•st reet ' 11 7.60 BIRCH.—On the Bth i ns t., the Rev. Georg° ..- ° - i 01 Roy aged 56. ~ 00 4 0 . BOYSE.—On the Bth i ns t., at 3, li a lkin-strec'tf o rdt • , Richard Boy se , o f Banow H ouse , co. We l ' o soo t 75. BURTON. —On the 6th inst. in London, CaPtaill . 4 C' B. Burton, late ILE.I.C.'S., aged 67. . ct rillio' BUCRLAND.—On the Bth inst at Walworth) " 1 1 6 .) of t Buckland, Esq., aged 84. ,idovi n o, Joy.—On the 9th hist, at Maidstone, Ann, -- age d i-k o r late Robert Joy, Esq., of Brenchley, Kent, „ p er ''. M‘GurpiE,—On the Bth inst., at Woodenclt ,I. Eat, a ged v wood, Archibald Blair M‘Guffie, Of L London: Prirized na d Prbffshed by WILLI A3I P of No. 112, Stran d, Printer, at THE Strx 0111000" Strand, 111 the Preofnot of the 3 av o y , 111 the MiddleseX.--ThurfidaT, March joy ism.