The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

THE POLISH QUESTION, le Nord publishes the following as the text of the despatch addressed by Prince Gortschakoff to N. de Knorring, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, in reply to the despatch of Count de Rech berg, repudiating the Russian proposal of a Con ference between Russia, Prussia, and Austria in regard to Poland : " St. Petersburg, July 15. " Count do Rechberg has addressed to the Am bassadors of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Ma jesty, under date 19th July current, a despatch which has been published in the Vienna news papers, The object of this document appears to be to prevent all misunderstanding as to the policy of the Cabinet of Vienna in the Polish questicn. The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs will permit us to throw a similar light upon the intentions which dictated our last overtures. "It is not without sem() surprise that we have seen Count de Reehberg allude to the possiblity of a mental reservation on the part of the Imperial Ca binet. If this view is inspired by the desire of dis claiming ail idea of a separate understanding which might b 3 judged incompatible with the engagements which the Cabinet of Vienna has contracted, and the principle by which its conduct has been regulated, we hasten emphatically to bear witness that no un derstanding whatever has existed between that Ca binet and ourselves on the subject cf these last overtures. " We have no mystery to make of propositions made in entire good faith, entirely in the spirit and letter of the Treaties of 1815, upon the basis of which an exchange of ideas had been agreed upon ; and which, according to our conviction, contain a method of a pacific solution of the question conform able to the interests of the Kingdom of Poland. The Imperial Cabinet had believed itself justified in inferring, from the despatch of the 18th of June, that the Count de Rech berg had anticipated our re fusal to adhere to a Conference of the eight Powers that signed the General Act of the Congress of Vienna, seeing that his Excellency subordinated to the previous consent of Russia, the adhesion of the Austrian Government to this combination. We had not inferred from the despatch any approbation of that refusal. We had seen in that reserve a sen timent of dignity, which in a like case the Cabinet of Vienna would have claimed for itself, and we had rendered justice to an equitable act. As to the view of what the dignity of Russia called for, that was a consideration for our august Sovereign alone ; but it was evident that a combination which did not seem conformable to the dignity of the country, ought for that very reason to be considered im possible. "Bat Count de Rechberg has thought he per ceived in our proposition of an understanding be tween the three Courts, with the view of putting the situation of their Polish possessions, to which the stipulations of the Treaty of 1815 apply, in harmony with the circumstance of the moment and the wants of the age, the idea of establishing be tween the Kingdom of Poland and Galicia an assi milation which his Excellency repudiates. We had no thought of establishing any assimilation what ever. That there is a necessary solidarity be tween the interests of the three neighbouring Courts and their respective Polish possessions is attested by the historical traditions aad precedents which have created the order of things actually existing. Facts have more than once demonstrated how much the situation of each of the provinces re-acts upon the condition of the others. Actual events, and the active part which the revolutionary elements of Galicia take in the insurrection in the Kingdom and its ultimate object, are additional evidence of it. The Cabinets of Austria, England, and France have pre-supposed it in basing their diplomatic action upon the reaction which the troubles in the Kingdom exercise upon the posses sions of the neighbouring States, and thereby upon the tranquillity of Europe. " We were actuated by the conviction of this solidarity in proposing an understanding destined to bring about the necessary harmony between the institutions which it would be a question of intro ducing in the Kingdom of Poland, after the pacifi cation of the country, and those which exist in the Polish possessions of the neighbouring States. It was a friendly idea, conformable to the relations of the two Imperial Courts and their mutual interests. We are bound to repudiate every different inter pretation. " As to the substance of our propositions, we believe that, appreciated with the conciliatory spirit which dictated them, and applied in good faith, they could lead to a rational and practical solution which would meet at once the rights and interests of the three neighbouring Powers, the stipulations of the Treaties of 1815, upon which rests the general balance of power, the reasonable wishes of the Poles, and the solicitude manifested by Europe in favour of the tranquillity of those countries. " We can only then regret the different impres sion which the instructions addressed by the Count de Rechberg to the Ambassadors of Austria at London and Paris gave us intimation of. " You are authorised to give his Excellency a reading of the present despatch. Receive, &c., " GORTSCHAKOFF. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, July 24. The tide of victory that seems to have set in so strongly in favour, of the Federal arms has begun to alarm that very large and influential class of people who have made, are making, or hope to make for tunes out of the expenditure of the war. Brokers, speculators, and contractors' on the one hand, and dealers in and manufacturers of army and navy stores and accoutrements on the other, together with all the retail traders of the great cities who prosper Upon the lavish outlay of the numberless persons who revel in their newly-acquired riches, look with anything but complacency upon the prospects of peace. They d o no t sympa thi se w i t h th e S o uth, but neither do they desire it to be so thoroughly con. 'Paned as to be unable to protract the contest for tw o or three years. this interval hope tatelirvnettihteoir to consolidate and realise their gains, and either to real estate greenbacks into gold and betake them -8 to enjoy it or to invest them in the gre their own cou n t r y. Th ey k now that soon as st sh e Pa P" balloon of cre dit w ill co ll a p se as inevitable eraa ar h is over, and hop e th a t b e f ore the fortunes ea 0 they w ill b e a b le to snatch the i r deluge, Since it mast of calamity. " After us the vest let the and ealctlati must come, but during our har re b e dry weather." Such is their prayer would not b e cot ° ll . For these reasons they defeat Gener a l s i i rY ead if General Lee were to the v a ll ey o f th e Shenandoah, or re-entere M aryland as an invad er , of which there seematolin bary Monitors were to capture or the defenders of Charleston a prospect, and if and irenclads that annihilate the fleet of now seem to be too successft:lsly betugurin Fort peace co nsequences of Sumter. Nor is the fear of the g peace confined to these sordid detest worthier, and more respectable peopl es . who le Steadier,ci the war, and believe it to have been wrongly - com menced, wrongly conducted, and in every sense disaster both for North and South, dread - th Bellae a ., cial convulsions that must attend its clo e s an e mi a would fain discover where safety lies. Look where they are unable to detect any solution of they will, the national difficulties, except in bankruptcy and re. pudiation. The prospect, gloomy as it is, does not affect Americans with as much horror as it would Europeans. They p ride themselves on the courage and elasticity of mind of their people, and on the boundless resources of their continent. Half a mil lion or a million of men now in possession of worldly wealth, may be reduced to poverty and destitution. But what of that? These men can be gin the world again, and, if they do not, a younger and more vigorous class will spring up to c arry on the work of trade and industry. Nobody is placed so high above his fellows as to fall very heavily, or to be much missed when he is gone. There are no princely families to be ruined, and to bear with them to oblivion the influence, the glories, and the tradi tions of centuries. There is no national church, with imperial revenues, to be confiscated to the needs of the State. Tl:ere is nothing a century old of which the destruction would create a void. There is no body in the land better than a merchant who was poor yesterday, is rich to-day, and may be poor again to morrow. Tnere is nothing, in fact, that can be pulled down that cannot easily be set up again, and if national bankruptcy is to ensue, let it come, The Americans owe their money to one another, and their dents and repudiations are a family affair which it is scarcely the world's busi ness even to criticise. Such is the line of argument adopted to rob repudiation of its terrors, and to re concile the minds of the people to a convulsion that whatever evils it may bring in its train, will relieve the next generation of the load of taxation which it might otherwise have to bear in expiation of the crimes and follies of the present. The men who hold Government stocks, or have claims against the State, do not use this language, but were their stock sold and their claims paid, they would use it as readily as others. American social snd financial life is at this moment a scramble. No one cares who is ruined, so it be not himself. " Good angels for the foremost ; the devil for the hindmost," is the maxim and the practice. No one who is now making money thinks that he will be the victim when the day of bankruptcy comes, and whoever else may be the F u ffe rr; r is not matter for his consi deration. Yet the time of reckoning draws near. The irre pressible " piper" has to be paid, whatever the shifts and devices by which his unwelcome visitbe may be postponed. Mr. Chase has dividual in his keeping, and has , . tm t a h s a t t h t e e a r d ri m b i le tte in d - , managed to propitiate him with great at admitted d ran th c e e and success. He has not , public very largely into h is exceed ingly difficult for the most assiduous s s t u l d t en i s t s of thi s branch of contemporary history to make out at any time the true condition of the Treasury, its assets or its liabilities. No financial Minister ever before in any country wielded such power as Mr. Chase, or was so little trammelled in its exercise by say. thing but his own discretion. And it must be said in his favour that, authorised as he has been by Con gress to issue almost fabulous amounts of paper money, based upon nothing but a national taxation not yet collected, the inevitable result of which was to raise the premium on gold to a hundred or even two hundred per cent., he has so manipulated his issues as to keep the premium at', a moderate point. Rather than flood the market with paper, though fully empowered to do so, he has kept the army without pay for six or eight months at a time, pre ferring to run the risk of exciting the value of the paper dollar to 40 or 50 cent. On the Ist of this month the sum of 100,000,000 dole. became due to the military and naval service, bat it has not been paid for the reason that such an amount of paper thrown upon the market would send up the premium on gold to a rate which .might imperil other fiscal opera tions of the Government, or be otherwise injurious to its credit. The great study of Mr. Chase is to keep down the premium, and for this purpose he has bethcaght himself of every imaginable expedi ent. He has crushed out the smaller fry of speculators, he has surrounded transactions in gold with every possible difficulty, and has, more over, contrived to keep a sufficient amount of the metal in his own custody to revolutionise the market at any moment, by means of his secret agents, offering to sell in large amounts. He has hitherto played his game with success. Unaided by Federal victories he managed between the end of February and the beginning of June to reduce the premium from 76 to 45 ; and aided by the Fe deral victories of the last three weeks he has brought it down to 25. It may even reach a still lower point, if Charleston be taken ; but that he cannot retain it at any minimum which his wishes may prompt, is evident to any one who carefully studies the present financial condition, as far as it is known, or who calculates the liabilities that will fall due within the next few months, and which he has no means of meeting except by loans or large issues of paper. The following official statement, published yesterday, is Mr. Chase's own account of his posi tion up to the Ist instant : INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Dols. Dols. Four per Cent. Temporary Loan, coin 5,036,037 Four per Cent. Temporary Loan.... 23,023,258 28,059,295 Five per Cent. Temporary L0an....70,808,188 Five per Cent. Temporary Loan, coin 6,450 Five per Cent. Bonds, due 1865.... 3,461,000 Five per Cent. Bonds, due 1871.... 7,022,000 Five per Cent. Conde, due 1874.... 20,000,000 101,297,638 Six per Cent, Bonds, due 1568 .... 18,323,591 Six per Cent. Bonds, due 1881 .... 69,547,800 Six per Cent. Bonds, due 1882....185,684,141 Six per Cent. Treasury Notes .... 717,100 Six per Cent, Certificates of Indebt edness ...157,092,241 431,275,874 7.30 per Cent. Bonds, due Aug. 19, 1864 .... 7.30 per Cent, Bonds, due Oct, 1,1864 86,989,500 139,920,500 DEBT NOT BEARING INTEREST. Dols. Treasury Notes past due .. 39,100 Dols. United States Notes 387,646,589 Less amount in Trea sury ............ 22,157,088 376,498,500 Fractional currency 396,721,056 Total Debt, July 1, 1863, as exhibited by the books of the Treasury Department 1,097,274,365 Total Debt, July 1, 1863, as estimated by the Secretary in report of December, 1862 1,122,297,403 Actual Debt less than the estimated Debt by 25,023,037 RECAPITULATION. Aggregate Debt at 4 per cent. interest Aggregate Debt at 5 per cent. interest 101,297,638 Aggregate Debt at 6 par cent, interest .. 431,275,874 Aggregate Debt at 7.30 per cent, interest.... 139,920,500 Aggregate Debt without interest Total Debt, July 1, 1863, aS exhibited by the books of the Treasury Department ...... 1,097,274,365 Total Debt, July 1, 1863, as estimated by the Secretary in report of December, 1862 1,122,297,403 Actual Debt less than the estimated Debt .. 25,023,037 An investigation of this document shows the in terest-bearing debt to amount to upwards of 700,000,000 dols.—at rates varying between 4 and 7 3-10ths per cent.—or a permanent annual charge upon the resources of the country of about 40 , 00 0,000 dole. to bo met by taxation. The debt not bearing interest is the paper money already issued, popu larly known as " greenbacks," together with the postage currency for fractional parts of a dollar, commencing at 5 and ending at 50 cents; both amounting, in round numbers, to 397,000,000 dole. On the Ist of July last year less than 150,000,000 dollars of greenbacks were in cir culation, so that Mr. Chase's necessities in the interval have compelled him to more than double the amount of his issues of irredeemable paper. In this respect he has not overstepped the powers con ferred upon him by Congress, but has fallen consi derably short of them, as the following tabular statement of the sums authorised by the several Acts of the Legislature, to which the dates are ap pended, will show : Dols. By Act of February, 1862 .... „ July, 1862 „ January, 1863 „ February, 1863 „ March, 1863 )1 March, 1863 (fractional or postage currency) ), March, 1863—Legal tender notesof 10 dole. (bearing int.) 400,000,000 39 7,000 1118 1,059,000,000 whenever From t • • :otoaoppears that Mr, Chase, having is suedpaper money, dols., has it in his power to issue, he pleases, an additional sum of either to resort 65;00%000 dols .hin greenbacks or other form of loans is evident. and as to a t t b. he will speedily be compelled This measure or to contract new Isir, e fiscal year commences on the all his accounts to that . d Chase Ist of July, has not squared up dols. are due to the armate' theiron -clads ships and i inasmuch as 100,000,000 much more to c ontracto y rs an t d earY' and possibly as he anti cipated, is actu for army subsistence for, vhie p h as t h year e , u i l t:u ted ay . be t assumed that the debt 25,000,000 dols. less than he he asser ts to be 175,000,000 dole. more than remains to consider what are hi s It for the year commencing on the let i nstant. T Congress which expired on the 4th of March last was:: mindful of his necessities during the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1863. interval that was to elapse between its own retire ment from public life and the assembling of its suc cessor, and voted for the service of the year ending on the Ist of July, 1864, the following sums : Dols. Far the support of the Army .. 838,594,644 •• •• Navy 89,843,205 45,612,821 Civil and other expenses Total To meet this expenditure and to pay the interest of the debt, Mr. Chase has no actual resources except the proceeds of taxation—of which the Customs' duties were expected to produce last year 70,000,000 dole., but which only produced 60,000,000 dole., and which may, perhaps, produce still less in the current year—and the new war taxes, which were estimated at 150,800,000 dole., or a total of 220,000,0C° dole. Supposing that taxation yields the sum anticipated, that the Western agriculturists are in a position and in the mood to pay income.tax ; and that the great bulk of the commercial and professional classes throug flout the North make honest returns of their gains, and cheerfully pay a direct tax upon them (which is a little too much to expect of Yankee human nature, or of British human nature either, as Mr. Gladstone and the Income and Property Tax Commissioners well know), Mr. Chase will have to provide at least 753,000,000 dols. over and above the revenues of the State for the necessities of the Government during the year. Should he resolve to meet the emergency by issuing all the greenbacks that Congress has authorised him to put into the market, he will not only fall short of his needs by the sum of 100,000,000 dole. (twenty millions ster ling), but he will send up the price of gold to a much higher point than the maximum which it attained this year, 76 per cent., possibly, and very probably to 100—a state of affairs to which as a good financier, he has the strongest repugnance. Nor is this the whole of his difficulty, for within 12 months he must pay off short loans, of 5 per cent., 6 per cent., and 7 3-10ths per cent., amounting in the aggregate to 392,000,000 dole. And these short loans are already beginning to trouble his re pose. Within the last 90 days 150,000,000 dol3. in greenbacks have been funded into " Five Twenty Bonds," an operation which has caused a rise in the value of money from 4 and 5 to 6 and 7 per cent. The continuance of this high rate necessarily involves the repayment by the Secretary of all the temporary loans which he holds at a lower rate. Congress, however, has not left him without power to contract new loans for the repayment of the old, and has authorised him to issue— Dols. Six per Cent. Five Twenty Bonds Six per Cent. Ten Forty Bonds 500,000,000 Six per Cent. Twelvemonth Bonds (or loans for a year) 1,100,000,000 It was originally the intention that these bonds should be put up to public competition, but as the probable discount at which they would be taken might have been alarming in itself, and hurtful to the prestige of the Federal Government, if com mented upon in Europe, Mr. Chase on his own urgent remonstrance was authorized to sell any of stocks at any price privately. The law approved on the 3d of March. The last working day of the sittings of Congress expressly states that he may " sell them below the "market value." If Mr. Chase desires to succeed Mr. Lincoln in the Presidential Chair, as most people believe, it is evident that he has it in his power to work the finances of the country to that end ; and that he can place chances of fortune in the way or his friends aed supports more brilliant than ever before were at the disposal of a Minister. However that may be, the task before him is herculean, if he would avoid, as he desires to do, the inflation of the currency, and the consequent rise in gold, and carry on the war without a total derangement of all the trade, commerce, and industry of the country. By the Ist of July, 1864, let him manage as he will — either by fresh loans at high interest, or by the issue of paper,—the debt of the Federal Govern ment will greatly exceed two thousand millions of dollars, or, at the ordinary rate of exchange, four hundred millions of pounds sterling. This vast sum, however, has no terrors for the American mind. "If Great Britain owes £800,000,000 ster ling, are we going to break down under the weight of one-half of that sum ? Guess not !" Such is the substance of the reply that is invariably given, followed very often by the consolatory reflection that though it is possible to ruin many hundreds of thousands of American citizens, it is utterly im possible to ruin the great American nation. All the foregoing calculations are founded on the liabilities of the past and the current year. Should the war continue for a longer period, and not be brought to a close by Mr. Lincoln's successor in the Presidency (which is not likely if he be of the same school of politics as Mr. Chase, or any other poli tician pledged to the emancipation of the Southern slaves as the necessary preliminary to any recon struction of the Union), the financial situation would of course be much worse. The Southern debt would have to be added to the Northern to arrive at the real money cost of the struggle, in which case the fast Americans would have the right to boast of having attained in four years a state of indebtedness in fighting against one another which it took slow England nearly 200 years to incur in battles by sea and land with foreign foes exclusively. And should the Northern Government succeed, as it hopes, in conquering the South by means of this enormous expenditure, it will gain nothing but a half-ruined territory, inhabited by an exasperated and embittered population of whites, and a useless and pauperised population of blacks, to keep the first of whom in subjection and the second in bread will cost annually about as much as was required to carry on the war. America may be a very great and very fruitful country, with resources all but illimitable; but if the North can stand such a drain upon the industry of its taxpaying people it may claim to rank not only as the richest and most patient, but the most heavily burdened nation on the face of the globe. Bat its future prosperity will not, under such circumstances, keep peace with the promise of the past. The struggling workers of Europe who have done so much to develope its re sources will remain at home. America will offer them no attractions. With more of liberty and less of taxation in the Old World, they will either re main in their birthplaces or betake themselves to Australia and New Zealand—to any place that offers a strong man a chance of freedom and sub sistence, and not to America, that will cease to offer him either. CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL, BROMPTON. The quarterly court of the governors of this charity was held yesterday at the hospital, Brompton, Mr. T. P. Beck worth in the chair. The minutes of the last court having been read and confirmed, the report, which was read by the Secretary, stated that the institution continued its course of usefulness. The extra beds put up during the winter months, ani increasing the hospital accommodation to 210 beds, had been vacated since the commencement of the warm weather, the hospital having now its ordinary com plement, viz., 200 beds. The number of patients under treatment was about the same as in the corresponding quarter last year. The out-patient department still con tinued to do great good. During the past three months, although the don a ti ons had not been so numerous as the committee w ished, yet th e committee had been encouraged by several liberal gifts, and amongst others might be men tioned the munificent contribution of £l,OOO from a lady. The hospital had also obtained several additional annual subscribers. the number of dischargedpa mtienotrse o ad r m l i e tt s e s dsincethe 28th benefitted, 153 drain ; of upon died, M was the new 178; out- patients numbered 1,417. The y 1 the 9 funds of hospit a l, caused by the mortgage of £9,000, rendered the acquisition of new legacies pa:- y acceptable. The committ ee b egged to express t their cu la r e l or cordial thanks to the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishops of Limerick, Lichfield, and Mauritius, and to other clergymen who had so ably advocated the charity. On t h e motion of Mr. Dixon, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Franklin, the report was adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. - j i_Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— : o s e u p: sr i cahffi this encgt affections, happily for all such sufferers at the present day the use . of d M i to[adAreynr Pills.— Modern kESiRne diseases e i n s c E e m . — EN T i. w h e e r timewere pronounced isn o t remote to be when incurable;all h ebr eui s de n lu o delusion. . remedies scro i c H ou ol r l a o g w in ay g ' • a ready and glandular swellings, and inflammations yi eld painless obedience to the cooling, rectify ing, these justly-esteemed Pills. Their accompanying directi ons strengthening properties of this well-known Ointment and Scrofulous sore, sp a i l ) ; um d will enable every one to apply these remedies to the best advantage, and no one need fear that any evils will result from the adoption of Holloway's purifying treatm e nt, pro. vided the diet be regulated and " the instructions" receive I even moderate attention. INNS OF COURT, The Council of Legal Ed ucat i on have approved the following emaorteunettlenoe d stuhosetfpsuofutorubredltnaiehetnps s e e ete sixri public examination of the students in 'Michaelmas t erm : agnu nAis The ushmea dn a e t sa t ti e cnu n h ad t :e i t o nco n et of n h ait q ipon u rt a. o e ttp s hi t oor e nse d ee. ty t h o aeneamdr th :s e , e fal f uvn o red l ts l h o of s en s or t ing rules of the Inn s o f C ourt :- examination, studentships shall b e f ounded of 50 guineas per r such studentship s h a ll b e conferred on the most distin the Examiners s h a ll se l ect and certify the names of three other students who s h a ll h ave passed the next best exami nations ; and the In ns o f C ourt to which such students be long may, if d es i re d, di spense with any terms, nut exceed ing two, that may remain to be kept by such students pre viously to their being called to the Bar. Provided that the Examiners shall not be obliged to confer or grant any stu dentship or certificate unless they shall be of opinion that the examination of the students they select has been such as entitles them thereto. " At every call to the Bar those students who have passed a public examination,and either obtained a studentship or a certificate of honour, shall take rank in seniority over all other students who shall be called on the same day. " No students shall be eligible to be called to the Bar who shall not either have attended during one whole year the lectures of two of the readers, or have satisfactorily passed a public examination. " RULES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR HONOURS Or CERTIFICATES ENTITLING STUDENTS TO BE CALLED TO THE BAIL. " An examination will be held in next Michaelmas Term to which a student of any of the Inns of Court who is desi rous of becoming a candidate for a studentship or honours, or of obtaining a certificate of fitness for being called to the Bar, will be admissible. "Each student proposing to submit himself for examina tion will be required to enter his name at the Treasurer's office of the fun of Court to which he belongs on or before Thursday, October 22 next ; and he will be further required to state in writing whether his object in offering himself for examination is to compete for a studentship or other honour able distinction, or whether he is merely desirous of obtain ing a certificate preliminary to a call to the Bar. "The examination will commence on Thursday, October 29, and will be continued on the Friday and Saturday fol lowing. " It will take place in the Bencher's Reading-room of Lincoln's-inn, oust ate doors will be closed lu minutes after the time appointed for the commencement of examination. " The examination, by printed questions, will be conducted in the following ord er: - " Thursday mor n i ng, O c tober 29, at half-past 9, on Constitutional Law an d L ega l History; in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on Eq u it y. " Friday morning. October 30 ; at half-past 9, on Common Law ; in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on the Law of Real Property, &c. " Saturday morning, Uct. 31, at half-past 9, on Juris prudence and the Civil Laws; in the afternoon at half-past 1, a paper will be given to the students including questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination. " The oral examination will be conducted in the same order, during the same hours, and on the same subjects as those already marked out for the examination by printed ques tions, except that on Saturday afternoon there will be no oral examination. "The oral examination of each student will be conducted apart from the other students ; and the character of that examination will vary, according as the student is a candi date for honours or a studentship, or desires simply to ob tain a certificate. " The oral examination and printed questions will be founded on the books below mentioned, regard being had, however, to the particular object with a view to which the student presents himself for examination. "In determining the question whether a student has passed the examination in such a manner as to entitle him to be called to the Bar, the Examiners will principally have regard to the general knowledge of law and jurisprudence which he has displayed. " A student may present himself at any number of exa minations until ho shall have obtained a certificate. " Any student who shall obtain a certificate may present himself a second time for examination as a candidate for the studentships, but only at one of the three examinations im mediately succeeding that at which he shall have obtained such certificate; provided that if any student so presenting himself shall not succeed in obtaining the studentship, his name shall not appear in the list. " Students who have kept more than eleven terms shall not be admitted to an examination for the studentship. "The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History will expect candidates for honours to be well acquainted with the Origin and Progress of our Laws and Constitution as explained in chapter 8, part 3, of ' Hallam's History of the Middle Ages.' " He will expect them to be well acquainted with the Great Char ter (on which they will find an excellent commentary in " Sullivan's L ec tures,' 39, 40, 41 , 42, a nd 43, pages 313 to 381); with the reigns of Edward I. and Richard II.; with the chapters in 'Hallam's Constitutional History,' which contain an account of the reigns of Henry VII,, henry VIII., Elizabeth, the Stuarts, William 111,, and Anne; with the State Trials in the reign of Henry VIII., of the Duke of Buckingham in Mary, of Thluguaorton, of the re markabl© trials during the reigns of the Stuart s and William 111. ; with the history of the Law of Treason, Libel, and of the Tenure of Land down to the be g innin g of this centur y , " He refers those candidates es p eciall y to the 26th, 27 th , 28th, and 29th chapters in the third volume of Lord Brougham's Political Philosophy;' to the close of the 23d chapter of Home's History,' vol. 3, page 296, oc t avo edition, the passage beginning ' Thus far have we p ursue d the History of England,' etc. ; to the third volum e o f to the preface to Gilbert on Us es ,' b 'A y li L ll o a r r d 's St. History trY n ;a' rds , ; the Preface to the State Trials ;' the fifth chapter of the second volume of Blackstone's o C ommen taries' (editio n in which the text is preserved) ; a th n e d h o a w rs 1, 2, and 3of Mr. Justice Foster' s wor k on "All ca ndidates wi ll be ex p ected to k now the principal events in English History from the Conquest to th e acces sion of George 11 1. ; to have an accurate knowled ge of the reigns chapters e Law. Kings, ights , of th A e la gn Law a of Treason, Charts, and the the Petiti on of Right, of the the Stuart Bill Act of Settlement. 6( Th e R e ader on Equity proposes to examine in the follow ing books :- 1 . , n a ynes's Outlines of Equity,' Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence s ," Hunter'Elementary View of the Proceedings in a Court of Equity,' part I. 2. The cases and notes contained in the first volume of White and Tudor's Leading Cases ; the Act to further amend the Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees, 22 and 23 Vict., cap. 15; the Act to further amend the Law of Property, 23 and 24 Vict., cap. 38 ; the Act to give to trustees, mort gagees, and others certain powers now c ommon l y i nserte d in settlements, mortgages, and wills, 23 and 24 Vict., cap. 145; the Act to regulate the procedure in the High Court of Chancery and the Court of Chancery of the County Pala tine of Lancaster, 25 and 26 Vict., cap. 42 ; the General Orders of the Court of Chancery of the Ist of February, 1861 (" Jurist," vol. 7, N --S., pt. 2, p. 58) ; Mitfurd on Pleadings in the Court of Chancery,' introduction; chap. 1, secs. 1 and 2 ; chap. 1 sec. 3 (the first six pages) ; chap. 2, sec. 1; chap. 2, sec. 2 , part 1 (the first three pages); chap. 2, sec. 2, part 2 (the first two pages); chap. 2, sec. 2, part 3 ; chap. 3. " Candidates for certificates of having passed a satisfactory examination will bo expected to be well acquainted with I the books mentioned in the first of the above classes. " Candidates fora studentship or honours will be examined in the books mentioned in the two classes. "The Reader on the Law of Real Property proposes to examine in the following books and subjects 1. Joshua Williams on the Law of Real Property,' sixth edition. 2. The Specific Performance of Contracts, and the Remedies at Law for their Breach; Sugden V. and P., sec. 3, pp. 200 -223, or Dart's V. and P., thirdi4th edition, cap. 5, edition,cap 5.17 and 18, pp. 609-745. 3. The Law of Uses ; Tyrell's case, ' Tudor's Leading Conveyancing Cases,' second edition, pp. 274-304. 4. The Acts 22 and 23 Viet., cap. 35, and 23 and 24 Vict., cap. 38, and the Notes to those Acts in the editions of Watters, Hunter, or Lang ley. 5. The Mutual Rights of Husband and Wife as re gards property; Josiah William Smith on Real . and Personal Property,' second edit., 973-1,010; and the Acts 20 and 21 Vict,, cap. 57- " Candidates for honours or the studentship will be exa mined in all the foregoing books and subjects; candidates for a certificate in those under heads 1,2, and 3. "The Reader on Civil Law and Jurisprudence proposes to examine in the following books and subjects : "1. Justinian.'s Institutes,' book 111., with the notes of Ortolan or Sanders. 2. 'Mackeldeii Systems Juris Ro mani'—Pars Specialis, Lib. 11., secs. 352-416 (pp. 362-407, edit. Lips., 1847). 3.' Code Napoleon,' arts. 1,582-1,701; De la Vente, arts. 1,708-1,831; Du Contrat du Louage, arts, 1,832-1,873; Du Contrat de Societe. ' Code de Commerce,' part 18-64. Des Societies. 4. Wheaton's International Law,' part 4, chap. 3 ; Rights of War as to Neutrals (edit. 1863). 5. Austin's Province of Jurisprudence Defined,' Lecture 6. " Candidatesifor the studentship or honours will be exa mined in the whole of the above-named books and subjects ; but candidates for a pass certificate will be examined in 1, 4, and 5. •' The reader on Common Law proposes to examine in the following books and subjects : " Candidates for a pass certificate will be examined in-1. The ordinary steps and course of pleading in an action; 2. Smith's Lectures on Contracts' (last edit., secs. 1-5, inclu sive) ; 3. The Law of Torts—' Broom's Commentaries' (second edit.), book 111. ; 4. The Laws of Homicide and Larceny as contained in the statutes 24 and 25 Vic., cap. 100, secs. 1-10, and cap. 96, secs. 1-9, 40, 41, 51-61, 67, 68, and 68, with the notes thereto in Mr. Greaves's edition of the Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts. Candidates for the studentship and honours will be examined in the above books and subjects, and also in-5. The under mentioned cases, with the notes appended to them, contained in Smith's Selection 'of Leading Cases' (last edition) : Armory v. Delomirie," Ashby v. White,' Chandelor v Lopus," Cogge v. Bernard,' Collins v. Blantern.' 6, Selwyn's Nisi Prius,' twelfth edition, chap. 9—' Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.' 7. "Broom's Legal Maxims,' third edition, chap. 6—' The Acquisition, Enjoy ment, and Transfer of Property.' 8. Taylor on Evidence,' third edition, part 2, chap. 4—' Best Evidence;' chap. 7 ' Hearsay ;' chap. 19—' Admissibility of Parol Evidence to affect Written Instruments.'. " By order of the Council, " WESTBURY, C., Chairman." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. - GREAT EASTERN. It appears that the directors of this company have declared a dividend at the rate of li per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock. WIMBLEDON AND CROYDON. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held at the London-bridge terminus, Mr. Reed in the chair, when a dividend at the rate of 4s, per share, less income-tax, was &dared, and the meeting separated. M ARYPORT AM) CARLISLE. The directors of this company intend recommend ing to the shareholders, at the half yearly meeting on the 19th inst., a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum for the half-year ending June 30. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company have issued the following circular in reference to the ordinary and special general meetings of proprietors convened for Wednesday, the 12th inst. : "In order to enable the warrants to be prepared ready for issue, as usual, immediately after the de claration of the dividend, the transfer books had:to be closed on the 29th of July, and the meeting called within a fortnight of that date. As, how ever, the accounts cannot be issued so as to be in the hands of the proprietors seven days prior to the day of meeting, the ordinary business will be adjourned to Friday, the 21st inst., at noon. The business of which special notice has been given will be consi dered on Wednesday, the 12th inst., and to assist the proprietors in forming a judgment as to the course most expedient to pursue in raising the ad ditional capital, the directors state the following material facts—viz., 1. That for the year ending the 30th of June, 1850, the dividend was at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. At that time this com pany had the advantage of being the only carriers by railway between: London, Manchester, Liver pool, and many other important places. Other routes have since been established, leading to competition, and to a division of the largest and most valuable traffics which the company possessed. The violence of that competition, combined with the loss of traffic, reduced the dividend for the year 1858 to the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The dividends paid on the ordinary stock for the 26 half-years, from Ist July, 1849, to the 30th June, 1862, have, however, averaged £4 18s, 10d. per cent. per annum. 2. The distress and depression of trade in Lancashire, consequent upon the continuance of the civil war in America, still affect most seriously the traffic of the company, yet, although the traffic of the year 1862 was exceptionally and considerably augmented by the International Exhibition, the receipts for the 30 weeks in the present year (after making due allow ance for the additional mileage opened) exceed those for the corresponding weeks of the past year by more than £lOO,OOO. 3. Speaking generally, the market value of railway property has not increased during the last twelve months; on the Ist of July, 1862, the price of Consols was 911 ; and on the Ist of July, 1863, it was 92. Between the same dates the market price of the London and North-Western ordinary stock increased 10 per cent. A considera tion of these facts will enable the proprietors to judge whether, having regard to the past and pre sent circumstances of the company, and to the pro bable future, it will be most advantageous that the capital shall be raised by the issue of stock bearing a fixed dividend, or by a stock entitled to the ordi nary dividend. The capital for the purposes of the Birkenhead Railway will be raised jointly and equally by the Great Western and London and North-Western Companies. About half the amount proposed to be created will suffice for the completion of the Hooton and Helsby and Parkgate lines, and other engagements of the Birkenhead company. The balance will be available for future require ments in connexion with that undertaking. The lines of the several companies enumerated, and with which agreements have been entered into, are now in possession of or worked by this company ; but it is deemed expedient that agreements should be completed under the specific powers contained in the Acts of last session. Debenture bonds to the amount of nearly £2,000,000 having been converted into 4 per Cent. perpetual debenture stook, it be comes necessary to take a resolution of the proprie tors authorising the conversion of a further amount in the same manner and on the same terms." METROPOLITAN. The following statement is about to be circulated by the directors to their shareholders : " The directors of the Metropolitan Railway Company feel it due to the public, their sharehold ers, and themselves to publish the following ex planatory statement :—The directors of the Great Western Railway Company having definitely de clined to carry into effect, even in such manner as might be interpreted by an independent referee, the heads of the working and traffic arrangements agreed to on their behalf and ratified by themselves, and to which they bad never suggested any objet. tion until they were required to pay the moneys which had accrued due thereunder; and having, more, given notice, on the 18th of July, that unless certain modifications in the arrangement were accepted .they would abandon the running of their trains over the Metropolitan line after the 30th of September next ; the directors of the Metropolitan Company, although - they considered that both companies were bound to give effect to such heads, yet, having regard to the inconvenience to the public and the loss to the Metropolitan shareholders likely to arise through the legal and practical difficulties to be encountered in any attempt to com pel the Great Western Company to continue run ning trains in accordance with the provisions of those trains, deemed it discreet to acquiesce in the position thus forced upon them ; and to make arrangements for the running of their own trains on the Ist of October, which they found might be accomplished with equal, if not with greater ac commodation to the public than that which is now afforded by the Great Western trains. No sooner, however, had the Metropolitan directors communi cated this decision to the Great Western Board, than the Great Western directors notified their intention to abandon the running of their trains after the 10th of August inst., instead of after the 30th of September, as previously fixed by them. This change was made doubtless in the expectation that the Metropolitan Company on so short a notice could not make arrangements for the running of their own trains, and that, rather than subject the public to the inconvenience which would result from the stoppage of the traffic, they would be coerced into the acceptance of the terms which the Great Western Company desired to impose. Happily, however, through the assistance of the 'Great Northern Railway Company, who had pro vided proper engine power for their own use on the Metropolitan line, the Metropolitan directors will be enabled, as already announced, to run trains every quarter of an hour between the Bishop's-road and Farringdon-street stations, so that the public will sustain little or no inconvenience, even at the first, from the abruptness of the change. The Me tropolitan directors are not unmindful of the respon sibilities of their position, but they are confident that the Metropolitan will ere long be worked in the manner and to the extent that was originally in tended, which it has not hitherto been, nor, as events have made apparent, was ever likely to be while in the hands of the Great Western Company, and whereby alone it can secure its fair share of the enormous local traffic requiring accommodation. It will be the object of the Metropolitan directors to bring into action such a system of working so soon as they can obtain the requisite stock, whereby they feel assured that the convenience of the public will be much enhanced, and the receipts of the company greatly increased. They are making all necessary arrangements, and, in the meantime, have only to ask from the public every reasonable indulgence, and from the shareholders their full confidence." . SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC 3PURNALS. has long seemed as though the Greek qu F eftit was destine'd never to progress beyond the formal election and accepta;:ce of Prince William. We are glad, however, now to be eble to denote the stages of its further advance, and to see our way to the definitive establishment of the new Greek Go vernment, more promptly than the apparently le thargic state of what is called the " Greek question" seemed at one time to warrant. The work of recon ciling its difficulties of detail has been one of extra ordinary complication. There have been at once a dynastic question, a territorial question, a finan cial question, and a question (hardly less im portant than any) in regard to the general prin ciple and character of the new King's adminis tration. Nor was this all. There have been various parties to be consulted in each of these questions. Even the title of King George has been a matter in which the views or wishes of the Porte, of the Bavarian Court, of the Danish Court, and finally of the three protecting Powers, have had to be considered. The cession of the lonian Islands, agein, has involved the lonians themselves, the protecting Powers, and the eight signataries of the Treaty of Vienna. Where there are several questions to he dealt with, and several parties to be consulted—often with diverse views upon each question—it cannot be surprising that these prelimi naries of the King's departure for Athens should have been slow and tedious. We are glad to be able to say, however, that they are now pretty nearly surmounted, and that King George has, in consequence, become anxious to take formal posses sion of his crown at the earliest possible moment. We understand that his Majesty will ascend the throne by the title of King of the Hellenes. It appears that, had he assumed that of King of Greece, he would have perpetuated a designation which had become as odious to the Greek people as that of King of France was found to be among our neighbours in 1830, when Louis Philippe chose in preference the title of King of the French. That was also a title vainly insisted on by Otbo. The distinction between this title and that of "King of the Hellenes" was without material difference, in , deed ; but henceforward, in political diction, the name of "Hellenes" will be exclusively applied to the subjects of the new Greek and lonian monarchy. We mention this by way of example of tho various difficulties of detail with which theprotecting Powers have had to contend, and which, we believe, they brought to a close so lately as during the present week. It will, as we understand, be the first principle of King George's administration to throw himself with confidence on the Hellenic people. He wishes, as he is advised, to merge his foreign extraction, and to become a Greek in heart and in spirit. His assumption of the Government is to be, in almost every respect, as much as possible the reverse of all that marked his predecessor. He is to have no such Danish Court as Otho's court was Bavarian. He will be attended only by a small Danish suite, and. he will for the most part reserve his political confi dence for the leading Greeks whom he will find around him at Athens. In conformity with this general resolution, it is further determined that there shall be no foreign army of occupation; and it is believed that this conclusion has been arrived at with the concurrence of the young King himself, as well as of the protecting Powers. Our object, in deed, has been throughout the negotiations of the last eight or nine months, to give the Greeks a free and native Government, instead of a despotic and foreign one. We have found them a king who appears in a striking degree to impersonate that idea, The Greek subjects of Otho long complained that they had themselves never had a trial. Their new King has evinced, by his ready concurrence in these arrangements, that he is desirous that they shall have this trial. He goes accordingly to Athens, placing his entire dependence upon them. He wishes for no foreign army, and for no great train of Danish followers. Count Sponneck is the only statesman of distinction who will accompany him. The financial capacity of the Greek leaders having been doubted, and all parties being resolved to repair the honour and credit of the Government, selection has been made of the ablest financier in Denmark as the special adviser of the King. Count Sponneck held the office of Minister of Finance at Copenhagen for eight years, from 1848 to 1856. He was appointed to it in consequence of his admirable works on finance and taxation in the Danish language ; and his political career was not less successful than his literary antecedents. This is the only important exception to King George's unconditional reliance on his new subjects. The vote of the lonian Parliament will now take place. It appears to have been the original intention of the protecting Powers of Greece to have first taken the formal consent of the eight signataries of the Treaty of Vienna—or rather that of the five others than themselves. This consent, as we need not repeat, refers to the abandonment of the British protectorate over the lonian Islands, and to their combination with independent Greece into what is to be termed the new Hellenic monarchy. But the remaining signataries of the treaty having waived their objec tions to the amalgamation, took, as we learn, the common-sense view, that the lonian Parliament should first pass the vote, and that they would then give it the formality of their ratification. This is, therefore, the course which is now about to be taken ; and the vote of the lonian Parliament, the conclusion being already forgone, will probably be unanimous. This is, accordingly, the only step which now intervenes between us and King George's plenary possession of the throne which he is anxious to assume. The completion of this remaining step is apparently so near at hand that it would probably make litttle difference in point of time whether the King awaits or not its formal announcement to him before his departure from Copenhagen. TIMES.—On the 3d of the present month the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia had their long expected interview at Gastein. It is officially announced that the German question was discussed, and that the various Princes have been invited to meet in conference. Certainly it would have been strange if these two Sovereigns had come together and joined in confidential intercourse with out being possessed by the most serious thoughts concerning their own position and the fate of the dominions entrusted to them. They must in such a case have learnt but little from the political troubles through which they both have passed. Seldom has there been a more momentous hour for both monarchies. The two rulers have now to make their choice between good and evil. The course of events, the aspirations of their own or the neighbouring peoples, and the influence of brother potentates are drawing them one way or the other. On the one side is the Russian Emperor, who, however much a reformer in his own native regions, is, and must be, an upholder of kingly and military power in the German States. To back him there is an able and wealthy aristocracy, exercising great influence upon those brought in contact with it, and there is also an immense population devoted to the Czar, and ready to defend to the utmost the provinces which they think their own. Russia, as a conservative or retrograde influence, is almost as powerful with some of the German Princes as she was ten years ago, and, unhappily, this influence has been strongest in the families which, from their traditions and the character of their subjects, should be most inclined to liberal government and the policy of the Western Powers. But, on the other hand, the forces which impel in an opposite direc tion are becoming so powerful that we cannot won der that one of these two Sovereigns has allowed himself to be carried by them into the path of liberalism, while the other plainly shows the un easiness which his domestic tyranny and his unfor tunate Russian alliance have brought upon him, and, by his organs in the press, sometimes indicates a doubt of his policy during the last few months. Several matters were indicated as likely to be de bated at the august interview, but one alone pro bably was in the thoughts of the two Sovereigns. Reforms in the Customs may wait for a season, but the Polish question and the question of German defence will not. It is strange to see the compara tively young Emperor of Austria, a Prince brought up in the narrowest doctrines of Viennese priests and women, rousing himself to a consciousness of the State's danger, and to the necessity of averting them by a wise and courageous policy, while the old King of Prussia, who remembers every disaster of Legitimacy from Jena to the present day, can scarcely be made to understand by the remon strances of his subjects and his son that the safety of the Prussian Monarchy is now at stake. But slowly such a conviction must come over him. A Bismark may have his influence over the old man's mind—an influence kept up by constant watchfulness on the part of his party, and, in fact, by never leaving the King alone. But the ominous utterances from all quarters must induce reflection. Domestic dis content and foreign menaces are increasing together. The King of Prussia may have been assured at the late interview that it was quite impossible for Aus tria to take the same views of the Polish war as those to which be had committed himself. Although the Emperor would have as much to lose by a reconstitution of the old Polish Kingdom as the King of Prussia, though Galicia might be demanded by the National Government as well as Posen, yet Austria had felt it her duty and her interest to sup port the Western Powers in their remonstrances. Though herself, like Prussia, bordering on the in surrectionary districts, she could not bring herself to make conventions with the Russians, or to per petrate acts like those which have been sufficiently proved against the Prussian military authorities. The Emperor might have informed his brother Sovereign that though not prepared to go to w ar i n support of the six points, o r t o a d m it a F renc h army to a passage through his territory, he would give his whole influence in support of the Western. 1 . demands, and if war came he would throw all the responsibility on the pride and obstinacy of ~;2e Russian Cabinet. This, and much more, may King William have heard if he was patient el: ough to listen an d F ranc i s J ose ph was not too po;:t 6 to speak. Everything declares that in the highs at questions of European as well es G erman po li t i cs ti, e.re is a complete opposition between the views of ti;,e Emperor and those of the Bismark Ministry. Austkia , which has, however late and haltingly, tried the /Iperinaent of a Con stitution in h er h eterogeneous Sts; tee, is not disposed at this time t o p er il h er t ranqu ility and expose her self to another disastrous war to grat:fY the fancies of an aristocracy. But how far Prussia has gone in the other direction may be learnt from the current news of the day. First, there is the undoubted participation of the Prussian authorities in the work of repression in Poland. One paper publishes 011 order of General von Werder, addressed to Count Waldersee, the Commander of the sth Army Corps, in Posen. The authenticity of this document has been denied, but, we believe, erroneously. It is dated as late as July 21, and orders that, in case of need, the state of siege shall be proclaimed in all the districts of Posen and West Prussia which border on Russian Poland. This step is to be taken in accordance with' the Convention of the Bth of February, which stipulates that the Prussian troop "shall commence operations in the territory of the Kingdom of Poland" as soon as circumstances render necessary the withdrawal of the Russian forces from the frontier—in other words, that wherever the Czar is not strong enough to repress his rebellious subjects, Prussia shall step in and do it icor him. It is astonishing that even at this crisis, at a time when the defiant answer of Prince Gort schakoff is known, when the three Powers have signified their dissatisfaction with it, when the French Emperor is suspected to be meditating some great blow, when the French people are beginning to couple the ideas of the reconstitution of Poland and the recovery of the Rhine, the Prussian Govern ment should commit such an act of folly as an at tempt to carry out the scandalous Convention of February. Are these men blind to the signs of the times, deaf to the voices of warning that are sound ing in their ears ? Can they not see that one of the greatest inducements to an ambitious Bonaparte to make an European war is the prospect of having Prussia for an opponent ? The reward of victories over Russia alone would be small indeed, and we know that in 1855 Napoleon did not think it valu able enough to warrant a continuance of the war. The reconstitution of Poland is, no doubt, an "idea," and the realisation of it would be glorious ; but the Frence Emperor is now old enough and prudent enough to look for something more solid. Do M. von Bismark and his colleagues believe that Prussia can stand by the side of Russia in a continental war for the maintenance of such a Government as exists in Poland without danger to herself and Germany ? Will such a tempting opportunity to realise old schemes of ambition be neglected by the French Ruler and his army ? When Prussia is caught in the flagrant crime of hunting down the Poles, in whose behalf all European States, great and small, have protested—when she stands without a friend in the world except her distant and powerless tempter, what likelihood is there that France will forbear from making her pay the cost of any cam paign on which the _Emperor may decide ? COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHESTER-AUG. 6. At our market this morning there was a moderate at tendance of buyers, and there was only a limited demand. There was little English wheat offering, with no material change in prices from this day se'rwight. American rather more inquired for. Flour generally in favour of buyers. Oats sold slowly at late rates. Egyptian beans and Indian corn each 6d cheaper. • BIRMINGHAM—Auo. 6. English wheat was sold at 48s to 56s for white, and 40s to 50s per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, 32s to 42s per qr ; grinding, 24s to 28s Oats, old, 24s to 30s per 30 stone ; Irish, 22s to 255. Beans, 38s to 44s per qr. Peas, 36s to 44s per 36 stone. CORK—Auct. 6. The following were the quotations this morning :—R ed wheat, 8s Od to —s Od; white, 10s 3d to —s Od , barley, 6s Od to Os Od ; oats, 7s 6d to Os Od. ; black do., 65 10c1 to Oa Od. EDINBURGH GRAIN-JuLy 5. A large supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which met ft ready sale at about the prices of last week. Barley a quiet sale. Oats slow. Beans in fair demand, and prices were rather higher. Wheat on the top Os 6d down average Os 9d down. Barley on the top Is Od up average 3s 3d up. Oats on tho top is Od down average Os 6d down. Beans on the top is 6d down average Os 9d down. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ...1197 qrs Sold 1111 qrs 8ar1ey........ 181 qrs Sold 80 qrs Oats Beans 34 qrs Sold 26 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 42s Od ; extras, 40s Od ; superfine, 388 Od ; fine, 36s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD—Acct. 4. A good supply of fat beasts to-day, but the demand war flat for inferior sorts. The number of sheep and lambs in the pens was l arge . F a t ca l ves an d p i gs were p l en t t • ful, but sales flat. Beet Mutton ... 6d to 7d Pork . 5d to 514-1 Lamb 81d to 9d Rough fat, 3s 9d per stone Hides, 3d to 41d; calf skins, 5d to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton . .Aug. 18• via Marseilles ... Aug. 1 3 . brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Sept. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Aug. 2• China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Aug. ---. via Marseilles ...Aug —^• Falkland Islands .. Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. --. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. —.— via Marseilles Aug. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 10. via Marseilles Aug. 20. Portugal.... Sept. 3. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. --, via Marseilles Aug. 13. Newfoundland ..Aug. 1 9 . Oporto and Vigo U . S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 13. .by U.S.. packet by Canadian packet Aug. 7. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife Aug. 1 0 Bahamas, via New York • Aug. 27. Mexico .. Aug. iB. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Aug 13. California. and British Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Consumption, all nervous, bilious , , liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag" gravatea and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62, 914 ' Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hopes of h er recovery f rom th e l as t s t ag e of pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration , exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks. emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming, fleshy Lange, Commissaire de Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, livcl' derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. 111 184 Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion. gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, 11 °' 54,816. Ihe Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk. of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 48 6d ; 51b 11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Cu., No. 77. Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all grocers and chemists in every town of the United Kingdom. Births. GREENHILL. —On the 31st ult., at Glenforsa House, Argyleshire, the lion. Mrs. Charles Greenhill, of a son. HARDINGE. — On the sth inst., at South-park, Viscountes o Hardinge. of a son. PALMER.—On the 4th inst., at Plymouth, the wife of Assistant Commissary-General Palmer, of a daughter. WauniNcroN.—On the sth inst., at South Bank, Biokiell Kent, the wife of David Waddington, Esq., of a son. Marriages. BICKNELL—A LLEx.—On. the 6th inst., at the Catholi c Church, Spani s h- p l ace, Herman Bic knell, formerly °f the 84th Regt., to Ellen Lewen, daughter of the late B. Allen, Esq., of Stratford, Essex. FREMANTLE—EARDLEY.—On the 6th lust, at St. Jai:oo 3 ' 4 Piccadilly, the Rev. W. H. Fremantle, second son of the Right Hon, t•sir Thomas Fremantle, Bart., to Isabel la Maria, second d aug ht er o f th e l a t e Sir Culling DadleP Bart., of Bedwell-park, Herts. Deaths. AUGUSTINE.--On the sth inst , at Pembridge-garderch Bayswater, the Hon. Charlotte Sophia, wife of Frederick Augustine, Esq., and youngest daughter of the late Lieut.-General Lord Blayney. BLACK.—On the Ist inst., drowned while bathing off Earns' gate, Mark Black, Esq. BRINJES.—On tho sth inst., suddenly, John Frederic k Brinjes, Esq., of The Elms, Stratford, and Fieldgate.. street, London, aged 63. DALToN.--On the 4th inst., at Star-hill, Rochester, Wil l ' Dalton, Esq., aged 68. EARLS.—On the 4th inst., at Albany-st ree t, Regent's park, James Earle, Esq. HARVEY.—On the 4th inst., John Harvey, Esq., of 69 Hill-road, St. John's. wood. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRE , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIIE SUN Office No. 1 ' 1 '; St ra nd, in the Precinct o f t h e S avoy, in t h e County bUddlesex.---Friclay, Au gus t 7, 1863. Maim.