The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-07 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, D.C. I.—The following are the naval movements of the week ;—Tier Majesty's ship Cos- sack, 22, Capt. W. R. Roliand, returned yesterday from her long cruise on the coast of Syria and other parts of the Levant. She left Beyront on the 17th of November, and experienced violent squalls and calm=. 't he Phcehe, 35, C3pt. T. D. A. Fortescue, and the C'oantieleer, 17, Com. E. T. Risk, both arrived at Beyront on the 15th of November from Malta, the Surpriso, 4, Corn. G. Tryon, arrived at Beyront on the 12th of November from Jbffi, and left on the 18th for Patras. She was spoken by . . . the Cossack. Her Majesty's gunvesßel Cockatrice, 2, Lieut.-Com. R. M. Gitisoo, arrived at Malta on the 20. h of Navi - Anber from Sala Bay. Another Auitrian man-of-War, the Radetsky, 31, CApt. A. Berry, arrived on the 30‘h from Algiers. Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty paid an official visit to the dockyard and naval ebtablish- menta at Ciaatham, arriving from Whitehall by the morning express. train. The members of the Board present comprised the Duke of Somerset, K.G., senior Lord, Vice Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K.C.8., Rear Admiral C. Eden, C. 8., Rear Admiral R. S. Robinson, Controller of the Navy, and Captain R. Hall, private secretary to the First Lord. The visit was made in connection with the Estimates which are now in course of preparation for the ensuing year, and for this purpose it was found requisite to inspect the works now in actual progress at Chatham Dockyard as well as the works contemplated, in order to decide on those which will be carried out, together with the probable sum necessary to be taken for the purpose in the Esti mates. After transacting some official business with the heads of departments, their Lord ships, accompanied by Capt. Stewart, C. 8., the superintendent of the establishment, and the leading officials, made a tonr of the ships building department of the dockyard. They directed their exclusive attention to the ironclad frigates Bellerophon, 14, 1,000-horse power, and Lord Warden, 20, 1,000-horse power, which are the only two vessels now in hand, the work on the whole of the other ships having been suspended for some years past. The Bellerophon is about one fourth completed, but, from the rate of progress already made and the number of additional hands placed on her, there is little doubt that she will be finished and afloat before the close of the approach ing year. Their lordships were conducted over the principal parts of the vessel by Mr Thornton, the master shipbuilder, and they afterwards proceeded to the other end of the dockyard to the shed under which the Lord Warden ironclad ship is under con- struction. The progress made i❑ this vessel sppears to be more marked than in the Bellzrophon, but both ara expeoted to be completed about the same time. Upwards of 2,000 hands are employed on the two vessels, and provision will be mule in the Estimates for that number to be continued until both frigates are out of hand. After completing their inspection of the shipbuilding department their lordships next gave their attention to the department of works, which, in consequence of the magnitude of the im provements for the enlargement and extension of the dockyard, absorbs a considerable portion of the sum yearly voted for the Chatham naval establish• mints, The principal of the works now in progress are those in connection with the formation of the new docks, basins, factories, workshops, and other buildings at the eastern extremity of the present dockyard, on the site of St. Mary's Island, the whole extent of which, as well as some of the ad- jicent land acquired by the Crown, has been ab sorbed for that purpose, the entire new works ex. tending over an area of 300 acres, The present dockyard covers an aces of only 100 acres, so that the additional space will enlarge Chatham aickyard to four times its present size. Accompanied by Mr Berrn nays, principal civil ergineer at Chatham, under whose direction the extension works are being carried out, their Lordships traversed the greater portioa of the island, and spent some time in the inspection of the various portions of the works on which the hands engaged on the undertaking are employed. Up to the present time the work has been carried on by convicts, of whom there are from 800 to 1,000 daily employed on St. Mary's Island. Already the first of the three basins, which will cover, in the aggregate, a space of nearly 100 acres, or more than double the whole of the existing basin accommodation in England, is getting wall forward, although there is a considerable amount of excavation to be made before the required depth is reached. The principal factory is also under cons etruction, and here again the work is getting well forward. The building will be 1,000 feet in length by 500 in breadth, while the whole of the new factory buildings and workshops will cover an area of about 12 acres. The original estimate of the entire works was £902,000, but only a compa ratively insignificant portion of that amount has already been voted, and at the present rate of pro. geese few persons of the present generation will see the extension works at Chatham completed accord ing to the original design. Returning to the docks yard by the eastern entrance, the visitors proceeded to the rope-making establishment, where some ex• tensive alterations are in progress consequent on the introduction of the new spinning and other machi nery for dispensing with hand labour in the manu facture of the largest description of cables. A por tion of the machinery has already been received at the dockyard,but several of the largest machines aro now in course of manufacture by Messrs. Fairbairn, of Leeds. It still undecided whether to employ young women or lads to take charge of the new machinery, but as a certain delicacy of touch as well as nimble fingers are required, it is probable the Admiralty will break through the rule hitherto observed, and introduce girls for employment in Chatham dockyard. On completing their inspec tion of the ropery their Lordships adjourned to the official residence of Capt. Stewart in the dockyard, where they partook of luncheon, and shortly after wards left for the Admiralty. The iron screw steamship Defence, 16, Captain Augustus Philliroore, was removed yesterday morning from Keyham steam yard and placed at her moorings in Hamoaze. The iron screw steamship Achilles, 20, is pre vented from leaving Plymouth Sound for a cruise in the Channel in consequence of Capt. Vansittart's presence as a member of the Court Martial on Corn. Broad now sitting on board the Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze, and which is not likely to be concluded before to-day. The iron eased screw steamship Research, 4, Capt. Arthur Wilmshurst, was removed yesterday from Keyham steam yard into Hanacnize. The paddlewheel steamer 13arracouta, 6, 300 horse power, recently paid off into the Chatham steam reserve, is again to be brought forward for sea, and refitted for immediate commission. An order has been received at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer establishment directing de tachments of trained sappers, who have completed their course of engineering instruction, to proceed from Chatham to augment the Ist company of Royal Engineers at Davenport, the 7th at Dover, the 3d at Portsmouth, the 20th at the Curragh Camp, the 17th and 26th companies at Weymouth, and the 29th at Aldershot. The whole of the men selected have gone through their curriculum of in struction on the field works and in the various schools, and will leave the garrison for their respect tine routes at the latter end of the week. Y, sterday a detachment of 96 non-commissioned officers and men.of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines Light infantry, who have completed their course of instruction at the Government rifle range. Milton, rejoined headquarters, under the command of Capt. J. Taylor. The screw corvette Scout, 21, 4 00-horse power, which has been fitted for the first division of the Chatham steam reserve, has received on beard her armament from the Ordnanceswharf, Chatham, con• sitting of 16 of the 8-inch 60cwt. smooth bore cast iron guns, four 40 pounder Arrnstronge, and one 110 pounder naval Armstrong, besides lighter guns for field and boat service. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty ;--Commander H. L. Round, to the Argus, vice Moresby, promoted, the appointment of Commander J. W. Armstrong having been can celled; Lieut. Henry F.Nicholson,:to the Magicienne: Lieut. Francis Durrant and Lieui. Herbert F. Crohan, to the Cambridgt; Sub-Lieut. J o h n W. Brackenbury, to the Black Prince; Gerald Molley and Leonard Lucas, assist,-surg,, to the Royal Ade hide, for Plymouth llospital ; Henry Ellis, assist.- paymaster, to the Impregnable; and Charles J. Curgenven, clerk, to the Indus. Mr. Locke and his Constituents. Mr. Locke, one of the memb2rs for the borough of Southwark, met his constituents last night at the Bridge House Hotel, London.hridge—Cape. Hep burn in the chair. The following were also pre sent :—Messrs. C. Legg, Col linson, Newman, White, and Harris, Captain Darrell, Messrs. Bevington, Glover, and Redgrave, Dr.-Barker, Dr. Paul, Capt. D. Roger, and Messrs. M. Sharp, Love, and Tooke. The CHAIRMAN said they did not want to hear a speech from him, but from their representative, who was a conscientious Reformer, and devoted a good deal of his time to their local concerns—(hear, hear) —and he should not therefore detain them. This, he believed, was the seventh or eighth time their respected representative came before them. Mr. LccKE next presented himself, and was very warmly received. It gave him, he said, great pleasure for the eighth,time to appear before them as their representative—he could hardly say to give an account of what he had done in the House of Commons, because he knew that among so intel" ligent a body of men, with whom from time to time he had had an opportunity of conferring, everything he did was already well known to them, and if he did not do what was right he should have heard of it long before this time. (Hear, and a laugh.) It afforded him, however, great satisfaction, not only in giving an "account of his stewardship," for that was the expression now used throughout the country, but to hear his constituents' sentiments on many subjects, so that by hearing each other they may have an opportunity of modifying in many respects their opinions, and so in the end come to a just con clusion. He was willing to confess that he always suet with their very kind consideration for his own shortcomings, as none of them were perfect; but an assurance of their approbation enabled him to go forward and perform his duty not only to the borough but to the country at large in a manner to do credit to all of them. Since he last addressed them many questions had been disposed of, not only of impors tance to the borough but the whole of the kingdom. And first with regard to St. Thomas's Hospital, they were, he could assure them, very much in debted to Mr Kendal and Mr Collinsen for the very active part they took in that affair. They went to Lord Redesdalo and succeeded in their opposition to the scheme of removing it six or seven miles into the country, although he admitted they were not entirely successful. The hospital, however, was to be retained in London, though not in the Borough, and for his own part he owned he deeply regretted that the Corporation of London had many years since admitted persons to be its governors and sub mitted to be overidden by them, the consequence of which was, according to the decision of th© Lord Chancellor, that they were now in point of law pre cluded from controlling them in the government of theinstitution, although they still retained the power of choosing a site for it in any locality they pleased, He (Mr Locke) feared it was lost to Southwark as a local institution, - where, according to the ob vious meaning of the original charter, it ought to have been placed. (Hear.) There was another sub• ject of social importance, which not only agitated the borough of Southwark but the metropolis and the country at large, and that was the question re lating to the dwellings of the labouring classes. (Cheers.) That in his opinion was now one of the most important questions which could be brought under the consideration of the House cf Commons. (Hear.) He did not call it a local question, but one of the most important ever brought under the con sideration of the Legislature, and which involved the well-being of this great country. Those who con tributed in so high a degree to its great wealth and prosperity should be well considered and well taken care of. Now. the argument he always used on this subject was this—He did not wish to make any inno vation on their laws or Constitntion,but he contended that the mischief which modern legislation had done ought to be repaired, and that if Acts of Parliament were introduced authorising houses to be pulled down and property taken to make railways, or other public works or improvements, and the persons who lived in them removed or driven out, then others should be provided for - them. (Hear, hear.) But that was not so, and the evil it occasioned vvas be coming a very serious one indeed. The course of modern legislation in this respect had been most mischievous. There was first Regent-street and then Victoria-street constructed, by which thou sands of families have been driven from their habi. tations, and left to provide for themselves. (Hear.) Then came the construction of railways within the metropolis which drove as many more thousands to seek shelter where they could, and to pay enormous rents for miserable and inconvenient accommoda. tio►,. (Hear, hoar.) Attempts had been made to remedy this great social evil, but he feared they were like a drop of water in the ocean. Mr Peabody as they all knew, generously gave the sum of X 150,000 to be laid out in the erection of dwellings for the poor of London. In carrying out his object, the committee had, he thought, adopted a most ex. cellent course. They agreed to expend in the first instance in;building model dwelling-houses I:50,600 and got for that purpose good sites at Shadwell and Bermondsey. They also erected four blocks of houses at Islington, and in Commercial street, Spitalfields, 57 tenements and nine shops. It was said that all these will pay an interest of three or four per cent., and it was calculated that the original sum would build ten large houses, to produce £6,000 a-year, and from this income they hoped to be able to build new houses every two years. That, in his opinion, was an excellent plan, but it was only intended ae, a model, and he hoped sincerely that others would follow this most useful example. (Hear, hear.) The City of London had advanced likewise £lO,OOO for the same purpose, and he was disposed to believe that an opportunity would thus be given to spe culators to follow in the same course. But what was the real state of things ? for after all this was but showing what could be done. They had a poor law which was most iniquitous, unequal, and unjust. (Cheers.) Since he had the honour to represent the borough, he never ceased to enforce the idea that it was the duty of the legislature to establish an equa lisation of the poor rates. Ever since he had the honour of a seat in the House of Commons he en deavoured to obtain that. (Hear, boar.) In con sequence of the distress in London in 1861 a com. mittee was appointed to inquire into it, of which, in the first instance, he was not appointed a mem ber. Ho had, however, spoken to Mr Villiers, one of the ablest members of the Government, and for whom he had the highest respect, on the subject of an equalisation of their rates, and in 1862 he was placed on it. Evidence was taken before that com mittee—the late Mr Y. Day, Mr Collinson, and Mr Warwick were examined, but it was not until April, 1864, they were called on. to make their report. That committee was composed of all classes of politicians living in every part of the ccuntry, who gave the subject the most careful consideration. Lord Robert Cecil, a strong Tory, was a member of it. He was a man of high intellect, and when his Tory propen sities permitted him, went as straight as an arrow. (Elea: and a laugh.) Now ho (Mr Locke) held in his hand the report of that comnaittee,which showed clearly what ought to be done, and ho therefore would read it to there, (The hon. member then reid an extract from the report of the committee.) Thus that report, while dep!oring the destruction of whole districts by, railways and other buildings, resolved that much evidence was produced to show the inequalisation of the present system of rating, especially in the metropolis, and that measures should be taken to extend as soon as possible the area of rating. Now, that was the most important decision ever come to by a committee of the Hone of Commons and he bad no doubt would produce the most bene ficial results. (Hear, hear.) He had also to observe that when M r Villiers brought in his bill to make the settlement of the poor thr ee years instead of five, he (Mr Locke) moved as an amendment that for the purposes of the act the whole of the metropolis should be considered as one union, and he had no doubt they would i n th e en d succeed., (Hear, hex r.) A Voice—Why don't you do it at once ? (A laugh.) Mr LOCKE should like to see that gentileman dotug it at once. (A least.) There were so many interests involved, and so many important considerations mixed up with it, that it was a question of great dif ficulty. He believed the inhabitants of that borough were the most disinterested people in the world—(a laugh)—for they would not take the trouble of under standing a question that so nearly concerned them. 'he next question to which he should call their atten- tion was that of the houseless poor, for whom a rate was to be levied on tha entire metropolis, which was he contended a step in the right direction. (Hear, hear.) This a 9 to the sewago question, he had been asked by Mr Brady to be a member of the com. mittee ; but he candidly confessed he did not under stand it, although it was ono of enormous import ance. (Hear, hear.) Messrs Napier and Hope had a plan of taking the sewage of London down to Shoeburyness, and there were other plans proposed, bat,as he said before, he dal not really understand it. The next question was that of Thames Conservancy. A VOICE—The what P (A laugh.) Mr LOCKE—The Thames Conservancy, and he could assure that gentleman who interrupted him that this was of more importance than he deemed it. (Hear, hear.) They were probably not aware that the whole of the Conservancy formerly belonged to the city of London, but he had great pleasure in telling them that six men not in the City were recently added. Then, as to his political princi. pies. He had always endeavoured to support the present Government, and now that a Parliament elected under the auspices of Lord Derby was about to expire, he would tell the result. In the first place they had, according to Mr Cobden, the best Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever existed. (Cheers.) The amount of taxation remitted by that right hon. gentleman within the last few years was on food and clothing five millions, and to the middle classes, by a reduction in the income tax and the abolition of the paper duty, six millions, making eleven millions, and a reduction of six millions in the national debt. (Hear, hear.) Mr Pitt was called a Heaven-born Minister, but as far as regirds the working classes of this country, Mr Gladstone was equally so. (Hear.) And while such a man and his colleagues continued to act as they had hitherto done, they should have his cordial support. (Cheers.) As for foreign affairs, they had, to use a vulgar phrase, " a go-in"—(a latigh)—the other night from his friend and colleague, Mr Lityard, and he should not, therefore, go into it at very great length. With respect to the Danish question, Mr Layard made one of the best speeches he ever heard in the House of Commons, (Hear, hear.) The question then was peace or war. (Hear, hear.) in 1852 this country did what he hoped she would never do again : bhe entered into a treaty with Austria, France, Russia, and Prussia—Powers, he might add, in whom they could have no confidence. When the question' of the succession arose, however, it was said that treaty WE'S no guarantee for the in tegrity of Denmark, and so when France and Rush sia refused to have anything to do with it England acted quite rightly in the course she pursued, (Hear, hear.) Now that they were done with Dec-, mark, and the lonian Islands likewise, he hoped the doctrine would in future b© non-intervention, and that this country would attend to its own af• fairs. (Hear, Lear.) With respect to the Ameri- can war, he said four years ago he could give no opinion upon it, but whether the North succeeded or not slavery was doomed for ever. He thought the Government acted perfectly right in the course they pursued in not interfering with either party, and deserved great credit for the course they pursued. Then as regarded reform, he should wish them to go on faster; but the people them• selves must do something. (Hear, hear.) He always had, as he said, supported the Government, because he had no confidence whatever in Mr Disraeli. (Hear, hear.) He read his magnificent speech the other day at Oxford, but, after all, it only came to the question of whether, in Church matters, they should be ruled by lawyers or by bishops. (A laugh.) 1 For his own part he was no great judge in such matters, but he preferred any day the opinion of a lawyer to a bishop. (A laugh.) Ile (Mr Locke) supported Mr Locke King's bill last session, and was also in favour of the ballot. A few years ago Mr Childers, now a member of ber Majesty's Gom vernment, entered the House of Commons, and as he had recently returned from Australia, where the ballot was adopted, he was expected during the de bate to explain how it worked. From that tipla nation he (Mr Locke) was of opinion the ballot was the best system ; and although, perhaps, it may not be so necessary in the large borough of Southwark as in other places, as a general rule it would be most beneficial to the country. (Cheers.) In con clusion, he thanked them most sincerely for the kindness they evinced towards him, and hoped their connexion would never cease as long as ho bad health and strength to act in their service. The hon. gentleman then resumed his scat amid loud cheers. Mr COLLIN SON having warmly eulogised the zeal and activity of Mr Locke in attending to their local affairs, read the following resolution:—" That this meeting, having heard the address of Mr Locke, hereby expresses its entire approval of the course he has pursued, both upon general and local ques. lions during the last session of Parliament, and de clares him to be eminenCy entitled to the continued confidence and support of his constituents." Mr DARNELL seconded the motion, and it was passed with acclamation, Mr L OCKE briefly returned thanks, and the usual vote being passed to the chairman, the proceedings terminated. rfiE SUN, LOADON, WEDNESDAY EVEISIN Court of Aldermen, Yesterday the Aldermen of London held a meeting at Guildhall, for the despatch of business, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Hale) presiding. For the first time in the history of the Corporation, a Parsee gentleman applied to the Court for permission to practice the profession of a broker in the city of London The applicant was Burzorgeo Durabjeo Burzorjee, and he asked to be admitted to act as a general produco broker. A number of gentlemen of repute in the city had certified to his great respectability, and he had complied with all the requisite formalities. The Court, recognising the applicant as a subject of her Majesty in India, gave the requisite per mission with every mark of respect. BROILERS' RENTS. This subject was brought yesterday under the prominent consideration of the Court in a variety of ways. Of late the impost of brokers' rents levied on that class of the commu nity in the city has caused some dissatisfaction both among some of those who pay and still more among those who contrive to evade it. By way of rendering what follows intelligible it should be stated that from time imme- moriai the Court of Aldermen has, in the public in terest, exercised a supervision over the numerous class of brokers in the city. First of all it requ;res that the memorial of every applicant for permission to practise shall be endorsed by a limited number of persons of known stand ing and repute, who are able to vouch for his respectability, and then that he shall give security for his good behaviour, and especially for his observance of certain long-established and recognised rules fur the conduct of his business, him self in £l,OOO and two sureties in £5OO each. The principal ene of those rules, which are entirely conceived in the pub lic interest, is that a broker shall never act except in the legitimate capacity of an intermediary between buyer and seller—in other words, that he shall not act as a buyer or seller on his own account. The supervision of the megis- strates of London in this respect, to the evasion of which a penalty of £lOO attaches, has, upon the whole, always been beneficial, and again and again men who have taken upon themselves the office of a broker without authority have been brought within the scope of the criminal law for frauds which they have practised upon innocent and confiding persons, It remains to be stated that brokers pay each a small nominal rent of £5 a year to the Corporation, just as an attorney pays an annual sum for keeping his right to practise his profession on foot, and these rents pio- duce from £5,000 to £G,OOO a year, which sum goes to augment the general revenues of the city. The subject received a curious illustration from an incident in the proceedings of yesterday. A memorial addressed to the Court was read from Messrs Capper, Escoute, and Law. son, stockbrokers. They stated that on the sth of Nov. Mr G. C. Capper, one of their firm, received an order from the Chamberlain of London, in accordance, as he understood, with an order of a committee of Aldermen, instructing him to sell sufficient Consols standing in the names of the poor of Emmanuel Hospital, which is governed by the Court of Aldermen, to produce the sum of £7OO, Mr Capper being out of town, the sale was effected by his partners, and the stock duly transferred by the Chamberlain on the 16th of November. On the 21st the memorialists, very much to their sarprise, received a letter from the City solicitor re- questing them to favour hint, on or before the 24th, with £3OO, being penalties incurred by them for acting as brokers within the City wiatout being admitted by the Court of Mayor and Aldermen, The memorialists urged that they had not the remotest idea that in carrying out the instruc tions of a commiiteo of the Court of Aldermen they were rendering themselves ;liable to a penalty, or that as any members of the Stcck Exchange they were incurring penalty in charging commission on transactions entered into by them in the execution of their business. Had they had any such idea they would hive lost no time in applying to the Court of Aldermen tor admission to the office of broker. Having now for the that time learnt that they were con- travening the city laws they were willing at once to make the requisite application, and to take such steps as were necessary for their admission. Under the circumstances considering that they were acting in total ignorance of doing anything that was not strictly legal and right, the memorialists humbly prayed the Court to instruct the City Solicitor to withdraw his application for the penalties so unconsciously incurred in carrying out the instructions of one of their committees. On the motion of Alderman WATERLow, seconded by Alderman Sir R. CARDEN ; the prayer of the memorial was granted. Mr CORRIE, the Remembrancer, reported that notice had been given of an intention by parties outside the Cor poration to apply to Parliament next Session to repeal so much of an existing act as imposes a penalty of £lOO on any person acting as a broker without the requisite licence from the Court of Alderman. Alderman WATERLOW then proceeded, pursuant to no tice, to propound a motion on the general subject. 116 thought the time had arrived when the Court of Aldermen should take active steps to place all the brokers in the city of London on the same footing. There were men, he said, who regularly followed the business of a broker, and yet who gave no security for their good behaviour and paid no rent, while all the more legitimate practitioners obeyed the regulations laid down by the magistrates in the public in terest. He read an extract from a letter recently addressed by "A Sworn Broker" to the Times, is which the writer said :—" The Lord Mayor has recently had before him a person who was charged on suspicion with improper deal ings, and who has been notorious for the last two years for advertising in all the papers that ho b ught and old stocks and shares at half the usual commission, The Lord Mayor had this person's contracts produced before him when in vestigating the charge. Now, on behalf of the public and my brother brokers I wish to ask the Lord Mayor the fol lowing questions : —Did any of the city officers take pro ceedings against this man during the time he was exten sively advertising to buy or sell, he not being an authorised broker ? If they did net, then the plea of protection to the public is all nonsense. Had the authorities done their duty the aggrieved party would perhaps not have had to appear as a prosecutor. Since the case transpired has the Lord Mayor instructed the proper officers to inflict the pains and penalties upon the off!nder for those contracts which came under his notice ? If ho has not done so, it only shows that I am fined in the sum of £5 every year because I am too conscientious to run the risk of breaking a law which the great municipal authorities have not the inclination to put in force. The instance I have referred to is not en isolated one. There aro andhave been numbers exercising the calling of a broker with out any impediment from the civic unaer authorities, and similar to many have app eare d b e f o re them those I have just referred to," Upon that letter the writer of the Money article in the limes thus commented :—" The objections to the payment are not well founded, but the argument that the city, so long as they exact it, aro bound to enforce vigilantly those regu lations for the advantage of the public which aro urged as the justification for it. cannot be questioned. Many circum stances recently transpired would seem to strengthenset much h impression that the corporation have in this p good, and it m a y therefore be re et p o wer to do hoped they will now give attention to the matter, and for their own dignity reso lve either to d ea l un fli nc hi n gly for the future with every cas e that may require action, or to abandon the impost altogether." Alderman Waterlow next read a letter, similar in its object and purport, addressed by Mr Heise, of Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street, a stock and sharebroker of nearly 20 years standing, to the City so licitor; and he moved that it be referred to the General Purposes Committee to adopt such measures as they thin fit for ascertaining what persons were acting as brokers in the City and liberties without being duly admitted by the Court, and for enforcing against them the penalty imposed by the act of Parliament, and that the committee have au thority to give such directions in the matter as might from time to time be requisite. The motion was seconded by Alderman Rosa, M.Pi,who, speaking from an experience of 25 years, held that the su pervision exorcised by the Court over the brokershad tended greatly to the public advantage, both from the promptitude and publicity with which it was broUght to bear upon those who evaded the law, and from the practical influence it had over the dealings of all the more respectable of the brokers. The resolution was put and carried. Fearful Scene at a Fire, At an early hour yesterday morning one of the City police constables, in passing along his beat in Mark-lane, smelt burning wood, and some time elapsed before he could find the place from whence it came. At length, however, upon entering some gates in Mark-lane, he found one of the large establishments lot out in offices on fi re. Among the occupants of the offices were the Marine Insurance Associa tion, the St. Petersburg Steam Company's Office, Messrs. Prosser, wholesale lottle merchants, Mr Mason, and several others—in all ten fhms. From the inquiries made it appears that the only persons who slept on the premises were the housekeeper, his wife, the maid-servant, and children. They were all fast asleep in the third floor, whilst dense masses of smoke could be seen issuing from the floor beneath. The officer at once sent off for the Royal Society fire-escapes and engines, and strove to arouse the inmates. Conductors Miller and Preston quickly attended with the society's escapes, when they found the fire raging furiously in the second floor, and the occupants of the third floor afraid to venture down stairs for fear of being burnt to death. Miller at once rushed up the staircase and brought down in safety Mr and Mrs Carroll, the servant, end the whole of the children except one. Upon reaching the street in their night dresses they told the conductors, in their excitement, that every one had been safely rescued, but Conductor Miller, to make assurance doubly sure, again ascended th building and upon entering the third floor back, he found a boy about five years of age, gasping for breath, and no doubt if he had been left there another minute he must have been suffocated. Miller laid hold of him and was carrying him downstairs when he became overpowered with the heat and smoke, and ho fell.with his living charge in his arms on the staircase. Conductor Preston at once rushed to the rescue of the two, and both were saved by his instrumen tality, but they were nearly stifled by the smoke. The en gines of the London Brigade, including two of Shand and Mason's land steamers, arrived with all possible expedition, and plenty of the New River Company's water having be n procured, the firemen under Capt. Shaw had the land steamers got to work—and, although the fire was showing a brilliant rillection, they succeeded:in confining the confla gration to the second and third floors, which were de stroyed, all but the books, which were safely deposited in fire-proof safes. The property, it is understood, was insured. Arthur Granger's Pocket Timepiece, warranted to denote solar time correctly ; Gd. post free. Agents wanted for ladies' and gents' new patent paper collars and cuffs in every variety, at is 6d, 2s Gd, and 4s Gd per gross. Sample parcels forwarded on receipt of references. Factory, 308, High Holborn, W.C.—[ADTT.] [ADvmtmEmENT.)—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Influenza, Colds. —ln diseases of the throat and chest, so prevalent in this country, nothing so speedily relieves or so certainly cures as theso inestimable remedies. These dis orders are too often neglected at the commencement, or are injudiously treated, resulting in either case in disastrous consequences, Whatever the condition of the patient Holloway's medicines wilt restore, if recovery be possible; they will retard th© alarming symptoms till the blood is purified and nature consummates the cure, gradually re storing strength and vital nervous power. By persevering in the use of Holloway's preparations tone is conferred on the stomach and frame generally; the fluids are regene• ratrd, morbific matter is expelled, and a happy revolution occurs throughout the eyetem. THE CITY TRAFFIC. A report from the General Purposes Committee was brought up, to the effect that they had been attended by a deputation from the Police Committee of the Court of Common Council upon the subject of the drivers of hackney cabs plying for hire and loitering in the great thoroughfares of the city. The deputation dwelt upon the inconveniences arising from that, the great obstruction to the general traffic, and the constant dangers to which foot passengers were con stantly exposed in crossing the streets. They also expressed a strong opinion that if the persons thus offending against the law were severely punished by the infliction of penalties the evil, if not entirely remedied, might ba to a great extent diminished. The committee was likewise attended by the Commissioner of the City Police, who recommended to them that the number of cabs loitering in the streets was very large, in consequence of the influx of them into the city from the west end of the town at certain hours, and those the busiest of the day. The drivers of them, he said, kept constantly plying fur hire, and from their driving round and roundtin circles in the most thronged streets in the neighbourhood of the Mansion-house and other thorough fares, they caused the greatest impediment to the traffic. The Connniession was of opinion that the remedy for the evil would be the infliction of graduated and heavy penal ties, together with the endorsement on the license of the offender of the convictions and penalties imposed from time to time. The committee reported that, having duly consi dered the subject, they were of opinion, and recommended that in future the drivers of hackney carriages convicted before the magistratee`of offences against 'be act of Parlia• ment by plying for hire while loitering in the streets of the city be fined 58 for the first offence, and that the fine be doubled on each additional conviction of a similar offence until it shall have reached the limit prescribed by the act. They also recommended that the magistrates' clerk be in structed to draw the attention of the sitting magistrate to the requirement of the act, that each conviction, together with the amount of fine inflicted, be endorsed upon the license of the offender. In a discussion which followed, the notorious want of cabstands in the city was strongly insisted on by several of the Aldermen as directly tending to the evil of empty cabs loitering in the streets, of which the report oomplained, , DIOEMBER 7, 1864. while other members of the Court dwelt upon the want of uniformity in the decisions of the Aldermen themselves in dealing with 'ffending cabmen, v s another cause. In the result, on the motion of Alderman 'WILSON, the report was ordered to be printed, and a copy sent to each member of the Court, The meeting was then concluded. CITY SLWERS COMMISSION. Yesterday a meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London was held at Guildhall, under the presi dency of Mr Deputy and Und.r-sheriff De Jersey, chairman. THE GIS SUPPLX TO THE CITY, Mr DAIV, the principal clerk, laid before the Court a me morial from the inhabitants of the Ward of Cripplegate Without, in which they stated that they felt themselves aggrieved by the impure quality, deficient quantity, and high price of the gas now supplied to the city of London, which was inconsistent with the economical and improved method now used in the manufacture of gas . . The memo rialists prayed that the Commissioners of Sewers would take such steps as might be deemed advisable to relieve the in habitants from the injurious monopoly under which they at present suffered, in order that the supply might be in creased, the price lowered, and the quality improved. The memorial contained the signatures of 199 inhabi tants of the ward. Mr PICKERING, a member of the deputation which at tended in support of tho petition, said the subject of the gas supply was one that had been well ventilated throughout the City, and that they did not intend upon that occasion to do more than hand in the petition, and leave the matter with confidence in the hands of the Commissioners. Deputy FARRAR asked the members of tho deputation whether they could suggest any mode by which the Court could accomplish the object they had in view. Mr PICKERING said the memorial was presented with the object of strengthening the hands of the Court in any steps they might think it advisable to take, rather than to make any suggestions to them. He apprehended that suggestions could only be made by persons possessing a practical engi neering knowledge of the gas question, which could not be expected from the petitioners. It was well known through out the City that the supply of gas was most unsatisfactory, and the memorialists came before the Court to ask them to obtain relief by application to Parliament or otherwise. On the motion of Deputy READ, seconded by Mr 11. WIND, the memorial was referred to the special gas com 4 mitts° to consider and report. QUARTERLY REPORT ON THE GAS SUPPLY. Dr LETREBY laid before the Court the following report on the quality of the gas supplied to the city of London for the quarter ending Saturday, Nov. 26, 1864: ' Gentlemen,—ln the course of the quarter 659 experi ments have been made on the illuminating power of tho gas supplied to the City by tho three companies, and in the case of the City Company the average illuminating power was 1362 standard sperngcandles; in that of the Chartered 12.89 candles ; and in that of the Great Central, 13.33 candles. In 11 instances the gas of the Chartered Company was under the requirements of the act of Parliament, and in that of the' Great Contra! it was twice below the standard, while the gas of the City Company had not in any instance been less than the illuminating power of the act. Taking the average of the illuminating power of the gas supplied to the City by the Great Central Company and Chartered Com pany for ten years before the passing of the Metropolis Gas Act, and bringing it up to the proportion which it would have been had it been tested by the burner now in use, it appears that the power of the Great Central gas was equal to 14.47 etandard sperm candles, and that of the Chartered to 13.70. There has therefore been a great falling off in the illuminating power of the gas since the passing of the Me tropolis Gas Act of 1860. "The chemical quality of the gas has been tested on 195 occasion, and the average amount of sulphur in the City Company's gas has been 18 3 grains per 100 cubic feet : of the Chartered Company 18.67, and of the Great Central 21.98 grains. Moreover, of the 65 occasions when the gas of the City Company was tested, only four were above the requirements of the act. In those of the Chartered there were 17 occasions, and of the 65 occasions in the Great Cen tral there were 48 occasions, and the quantity of sulphur ranged from 17 to 32 grains per 100 cubic feet. (Signed) "13. LETHEBY, " Gas Analyst to the City of London." It was decided that a copy of the above report should be forwarded to each of the companies at present supplying the City with gas. STATE OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. DIONII, BACK CIIURCiI, The attention of our readers has upon two or three occa sions been drawn to the proceedings which have taken place in reference to the repairs to the parish church of St, Dionis, Backchurch, in Fenchurch-street, and the subject was again to-day brought under the notice of the Court. Some months since the district surveyor, Mr J. Young, having examined the structure reported that the north wall of the church was in a dangerous state, and the Commissioners issued t ho customary order upon the parochial officers to put the same into a proper state of repair. A considerable number of the inhabitants, however, entertained a contrary opinion with regard to the state of the church, and have contended that the expenditure contemplated, in order to carry out the order of the commissioners, was unnecessary. It was, however, decided at the meeting held a fortnight since that proceedings should be taken against the parochial officers to enforce the carrying out of the order. The sum mons was heard before the Lord Mayor, when it wag stated by the district surveyor that ho found a crack existed in the north wall about seven feet from Lime-street, which he con sidered rendered the structure highly dangerous; and added further, that there was a hole there through which he could run his arm. The Lord Mayor, after hearing the evidence, ordered that the repairs should be executed within 14 days, A numerous deputation of inhabitants of the parish at tended the meeting of the commissioners upon the subject. i The rector of the parish, the Rev. W. H Lyell, M.A., on behalf of the congregation of the church, a 3 well as him self, desired o state his opinion that the order of the Lord Mayor ought at once to be carried out, and the repairs exe cuted without further delay. Mr T. A. HANKET, on behalf of the deputation from the parishioners, complained that the rector had attended the Court in opposition to them, without giving them notice that he intended to do so, 11e went on to say that the inhabi tants as a body were opposed to the carrying out of the re pairs in question, believing them to be quite unnecessary. The question was as to the state of tho wall of the church, and they had abundant evidence to show that it was not of a dangerous character, and that the summons had been issued by the commission under an erroneous impression of the circumstances of the case. The Court was therefore asked to modify or suspend their order, so that all the cir cumstances might be clearly ascertained. Mr SCOTT, an architect, having personally examined the well of the church, strongly denied the statement of the district surveyor that there was a hole there through which he could run his arm. After a lengthened discussion it was resolved to postpone the decision on the application until the next Court. TILE ACCOUNTS OF TILE COMMISSION. The CLituxc laid on the table the commissioners' accounts for the year ending at I\Tichaelmas last, as audited by the accountants appointed by the Court of Common Council. It was decided to certify the same on the 20th inst, The Treasurer's accounts for the same period wore referred to the General Purposes Committee to examine and report. SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY. Dr LETHEBY presented the following report of the sana tory condition of the ity : " Gentlemen,—The inspector's returns which are before you relate to 265 houses that have been inspected during the week, and I submit a list of 28 places for sanitary improve ment. "The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly in• spected, and the officers have condemned 2,o2filbs of meat as unfit for human food, most of which was in a diseased condition. I have also to bring under your notice the fact that on the 2d inst. two sheep and a calf, which had died and ha , i not been slaughtered, were condemned by Inspector Wylde at Newgate-market, and from inquiries made it ap pears that the animals had died in the layers of . the New Cattle-market, and were dressed in the slaughter houses of the market, and then sold to a jobbing butcher, Mr Hawks, who brought the carcasses to market for sale. The car casses were brought to Guildhall, and were ordered to be destroyed by Mr Alderman Waterlow. I have brought these facts under your notice because it is an uncommon thing for diseased meat to be dressed for human food in the slaughter houses of the New Cattle-market, and then sent to the City markets for sale as food; and I submit that the case here referred to be placed in the hands of the solicitor withja view to further proceedinr, and that a copy of this report be sent to the authorities having control over the business of the New Cattle-market, with a view of stop ping the source of supply of diseased meat to the City markets. " The mortality returns for the week show a large in• crease of mortality as compared wish the returns of the preceding week, arid also with the average number for the corresponding period of the last nine years. " Last week the number of deaths were 79, whereas the number in the corresponding week of the last nine years is 67, and in that of the preceding week only O. The excess of deaths was chiefly among old persons, and was not due to the existence of any preventible disease. The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis 6, bronchitis 11, mesen teric disease 2, hydrocephalus 2, continued fever 4, scarlet fever 4, whooping cough 2, croup 1, and diarrhea ). 1, making together 10 deaths from tubercular diseases, 11 from inflam matory affections of the lungs, and 12 from diseases of a symotio character. " I remain, Gentleman, " Your obedient servant, (Signed) " Humus: LETHEBY. " Guildhall, Dec. 6, 1864." The report of the medical officer was agreed to, and the solicitor was instructed to take the necessary proceedings in the case referrJd to. In addition, a copy k) f the report was ordered to be forwarded to the Market Committee of the Court of Common Council to whom the management of the affairs at the Metropolitan Cattle-market is entrusted by the civic body. Tho Court, after disposing of some other business, ad journed. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The art of war, Ks at present understood and practised, is about to receive a very singular illustration from the events now passing in Ame rica. North seems at last to have awaked to ;he conviction, impressed upon it by four bloody and indecisive campaigns, that it has not yet hit upon the way by which the rebellious South can be subdued. Except in the infliction of an enormous .oss of life and an immense amount of domestic misery, the North has hitherto done almost nothing towards the subjugation of its adversary. As far as mere slaughter goes, its armies have endure-ci much more evil than they have inflicted, and the capture of Vicksburg, New Orleans, and Atlanta, estimate them as highly as you may, has been more than compensated by the damaging failures before Charleston, Mobile, Savannah, and Richmond. The commerce of the North, as carried on by cea, has been nearly destroyed, its finances ty k ee been fright.- fully embarrassed, its confidence in itself at one moment so shaken that there seemed for a short time a positive mania for peace, and yet the result of the Presidential election is to place once more at the head of the republic a men above all other men pledged to the energetic and unsparing continuance of the war, surrounded on every hand by persons who cannot afford to admit even the possibility of failure, or of peace on any terms except the entire and absolute submission of the South. In this crisis we have no cause to be surprised if we find new and hitherto untried expedients resorted to, and risks ran which in any other war, or even in this war at an earlier period, would have been regarded as utterly desperate. By a long aeries of bloody battles, followed up by very bold and able naancteavres, the Northern Generals have contrived to force their wav through the discontented States of Kentucky and Tennessee, and to cross the mountain ram part which separates the waters that flow into the Ohio from those which find their way into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. The Southern commanders, after the fall of Atlanta, appear to have thrown themselves on General Sherman'a communications, and to have believed that by operating on the long line which connects him with the North they could force him to abandon the advantage he has gained, and to retrace his steps through a wild country, where he might be attacked with every possible advantage. With this view it is said that Gen. Hood has taken up a posi tion more than 100 miles to the north-west of the position occupied by Gen. Sherman. The effect upon that bold and able commander does not appear to have been exactly that which was originally con templated. The movement seems, so far as we can judge from very imperfect information, to resemble the celebrated march of Napoleon in 1814 to St. Dizier, by which he threw himself upon the commu nications of the allied armies, then advancing upon Paris, and would, it is said, except for the interven tion of Lord Castlereagh, have compelled their re treat at the very moment when the object of all their labours seemed to be within their grasp. Ia the same way Sherman, instead of seeing in the opera tion of Hood a necessity to fall back upon his origi nal base of operations, has read it as an invitation to seek a new one, and, instead of falling back on Tennessee and Kentucky in the north-west, he has turned his face towards the Atlantic, and is march• ing in a south-easterly direction. There is a remark able consent of opinion, probably resting en sure though tine vowed information, that the object of the General is principally, perhaps, to destroy the railways which connect the Eastern with the Western States of the Federation, and then, dividing his army into two parts, to at tack with one the town of Augusta, situated on the Savannah River, and the seat of the principal powder manufactory of the South, and with the other to advance to the mouth of the river and capture the city of Savannah itself, which, although it was taken by the English in the former revolutionary war, has as yet defied all the efforts of the North to take it by sea. If this enter prise be brought to a successful termination, Gen. Sherman will be entitled to the honour of having added a fresh chapter to the theory and practice of modern warfare. Instances, no doubt, have occurred where a bold general, under the pressure of some in superable difficulty or seduction of some irresistible temptation, has abandoned the basis of his operations and undertaken a long and toilsome march in search of another base. But history also records very few instances indeed whore operations of this kind have been crowned with. success. The attempt has gene rally been made in the hope of raising a country disaffected to its existing Government, and with the prospect of almost entire security if the point sought for can once be reached. General Sherman has neither of these conditions in his favour ; the country into which he plunges is entirely hostile to him; he can count on no information or assistance of any kind, but must look, on the other hand, for every opposition that can possibly be offered to his advance by a people whose very existence is staked on the alternative of his failure or success. The country through which he is to penetrate is not filled with large towns or populous villages ; it is, according to English notions, very thinly inhabited, and there is no reason to suppose that its inhabitants will allow any of the means of subsistence which it is in their power to destroy to fall into the hands of an invader. The railroads which he comes to destroy have rendered almost unnecessary other lines of communication; the country is thickly timbered "and intersected with streams and ravines, offering innumerable points where his march may be delayed and his advance harassed ; the organisation of labour :n large plantations, each under the absolute direc tion of a single chief, is favourable to any scheme that may be devised for throwing obstructions in his path or driving away everything that might con tribute to his subsister" a His orders are to devas tate and lay waste, at is reasonable to suppose, without attributing either Spartan fortitude or even Russian self-denial to the inhabitants of Georgia, that they will think it their best policy to anticipate him. There are no roads worthy of the name, and his reliance for facility of transport i 3 said to be on the sandy nature of the soil, which dries up very speedily, and will not, it is thought, be permanently affected by the storms which we may expect at this advanced periodof the year. We are not informed . . . whether General Sherman takes with him his heavy artillery; nor can we, of course, form the least idea of the amount of resistance, either from regular troops or hastily levied militia, which he has to ex pect. We can only reason from parallel cases. The assumption of the North seems to be—to use their own simile—that the Southern Confederation is like an egg, possessing indeed a hard shed, but when this is once passed soft and penetrable. Experience has given us more proof of the truth of the first than of the second of these assumptions. There is no doubt that on whatever side it has been attacked, with the single exception of New Orleans, the Confederacy has been proved to have an exceedingly hard shell, much more resembling the armour of a tortoise than the thin covering of an egg. But this proof of one• half the metaphor can by no means be taken to este. blish the other half. When Gen. Banks invaded the State of Louisiana an army sprang up as if out of the earth to resist him, and he was driven back upon his communications with disaster and defeat. Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Virginia south of Rich• mond and North Carolina, have all been found equally impervious. It is assumed that the old and high-spirited State of Georgia is made of softer stuff. Time will show; but at present, at least, analogy is all against it. The Confederates have probably known for sometime of Sherman's intended move, and have had the opportunity, if they pos sessed the means, of throwing garrisons into Macon —the point first threatened—Augusta, and Savan nah. They have every inducement to do so, for not only have they to save their powder magazines at Augusta, and a port and city which would be a formidable basis of operations to the North at Savannah, but, besides this, every day's delay holds out a prospect not only of escape, bat of victory. We have said that in his invasion of Georgia Gen. Sherman has left behind him in the north west Gen, Hood, who it is natural to suppose will not be slow to follow in the footsteps of his retreat ing antagonist. A few days' delay before Macon or Augusta, or before any of the natural obstacles which must be encountered in a march through a wild and trackless country of between three and four hundred miles, would suffice to bring Hood, possessed of much better information, up with Sherman under circumstances which mint almost necessarily place the latter between two fires. The worst of such enterprises as Sherman's is that they allow nothing for the chapter of accidents, proverbially so potent in war, and that the slightest and most unforeseen causes may lead to their defeat and ruin. We had our own experience iu ti.e tre mendous disaster of Saratoga, undertaken, it might he thought, under auspices far more promising than the expedition of Sherman ; in the ruin which over took the colunin of General Braddock, and in the fsilure of the e pedition against Quebec by the brave American General Montgomery. It will be strange, indeed, if the army of General Sherman should arrive before Savannah, after such a march conducted under such difficulties, in condition to attack and storm a town so well fortified and so strenuously defended ; and, if not, it is difficult to conceive a more embarrassing position than that Gen. Sherman will occupy, with a wasted and weary army, a strong town in his front, and an enemy fighting on his own ground in his rear. We do not say that Sherman will not overcome all these ob stacles. Any one of a hundred contingencies of which we have no knowledge may over throw all our calculations, but arguing from the usual result of similar enterprises, from the well recognised prin ciples of the military art, and from the spirit which the South has never failed to show in less seriocs emergencies, we cannot see the grounds for that tone of overweening confidence with whi c h, th e Northern press hails the commencement of an ex. pedition $o novel and hazardous, in which a gener a/ abandons one base of communications without'i : far as we can see, any very clear or definite idea w he is to find another. We are inclined to. agree with the New York Tribune that the re sults o Sherman's expedition cannot well be estima te d toot highly, but we are not at all confident by which ° f the belligerents that estimate ought to be made. HERALD.—Au appetite for horrors is a characte riatic of the ignorant and brutal. That the modern newspaper addresses itself to such, as well as to ttlie more enlightened class, is evidenced pretty c learly by the eagerness by which those narrati ves crime which jar upon the refined taste as Lunch 6 they shock the moral sense are sought after by, multitudes of its readers. The criminal annals 0: . such a country as this are repulsive enough, i t t o true, hut there is little that is melodramatic eh" ' them, The motives which impel to outrage are lowest and must sordid, the execution the me!' commonapluee and vulgar. There is no romant ic interest in an English murder, no tragic d i g nity attaches to the perpetrator like that which . snr" rounds the hero of a Greek drama. No migntY ghost of Agamemnon drives his son to aveng e him, no Electra stands beside him, but some acorn; plice steeped like himself in debauchery, vice, an° stupidity; the Chorus is represented by the reporters and the detective police; the Eumenides by Ju d e and jury, the sheriff, and the hangman. Tae ue, tails of the tragedy are disgusting, insipid, 1 011 ":: some, An unfortunate old man is done to death t o a railway carriage, an old woman in a lonely 064 .. tage is found mortally wounded, a putrid corpse 1; discovered in the Essex marshes. The motives c't the crime are a watch and chain, a few shillings , (If even a few pence. And thousands night and ru°r ti ,: ing devour the whole miserable history, in w hte ' there is not one redeeming point, one trait of "; mance, which to peaceful firesides might sugge s a the thought of heaven, brings home the reality °I the hell which is stalking abroad. And yet Per' haps it is as well that no possible halo of poetri surrounds the British felon. The novelist 0 411 .° 11 make him interesting, nor can the advocate, sc t. l ,,' all his eloquence, move us to pity him. No S O l 3 l Iles holds him up as an object of the vengeanc e the gods, no ./Eachylus points to him as the sr pointed instrument of Fate. The police rep orts leave him where he should be, in his nakedness B e ' foulness. It is otherwise with the picturesque fe t " a detta of the Corsican, with the atrocities of I ?" Italian brigand or the mountaineer of Albania, These men, in their becoming costumes and beau!'" ful scenery and surroundings, with their ewartni black-eyed women who encouraged them to t llO crime, their statue of saint or Madonna to Wilt° they pay their devotions, seem to study murder as a fine cot, and not unsuccessfully. They are tbb chosen subject of the painter—the theme in wbt c poet and novelist take equal delight. The very 01 11 c" of unusual horror which surrounds their schiev. e i ; ments, the extraordinary fiendishness with whi c they perpetrate their atrocities, seems to ren lole them from the ordinary category of vulgar mu" derers. In the South, where the sun strikes hotter hn d the passions are fiercest, man seems more lik e an angel in his gentler feelings as he is more liket a devil in his moments of wrath, than the inhabitand of the North. It is from the" land of the cypress t!° myrtle" that a tale has been brought to us dal the last few dap which in its unequalled horror a° tragic completeness, seems to rival, if not to outd.°l any story of vengeance and murder to he found 1 : the annals of aecient or modern times. In Turk e l; the country which our statesmen make from 51; to year such frantic efforts to bolster up against t'l - t ruin which seems to threaten it, it seems O a murder is a luxury reserved for those in high place, In the family of the ruler of that rapidly eivilis t % state there are Royal personages who, under cert' ll o circumstances, regard assassination rather as a Vlrtt than as a crime. Towards the close of the- reign () t the late Abdul Medjid it was darkly rumour ed OA the male child of one of his daughters was strA: Bled by . the eunich as soon as born, in accordant with a time honoured usage of the Turkish Co llr a 'a If Abdul Medjid, in offering up his children seem ed to invoke upon him and his the curse of the Atrin . " d i one of hisdaughters has not been slow in imitat d , ll 3 another hideous precedent of Greek fable. Sultana Djemila, daughter of the late Sultan, and niece of Abdul Aziz, is now in her twenty-0 0° 4 year, and it may be supposed in the fulness of 11 ,,' e charms. She was married to a rich subject of 0,4 Porte, Mahmoud Jeiladin Pacha, over whotn P. O seems to have tyrannised to her heart's content. 111 0 not usual for a Pasha to content himself with . 11 , 13 10 wife, and if this miserable Turk, with this terr lv ,,o Roxana in his harem, occasionally sought the sn' e fe ' t of other charms, and had even the bad taste to pre,:j them to those of the Imperial sponse whom he e been commanded to wed, we cannot much blame him for it. Among tho evil passions which rlll e o in the unhealthy hotbed of harem lif e , the P05.1a°4 ofjealousy had developed into a fury in the 01 1 0 of the neice of the Sultan. It was not long le i ft want of an object. Th ere was a b eau tiful 0,4 0 whom the Pacha was supposed to prefer to his 51 '1 1 0 lawful wife. One day the Pacha entere d th e dining room where it was his custom, in accord a tie with Turkish etiquette, to dine apart from 0 women. The Sultana was found reclining 01/ 0 0 divan in the room. He made a low obeisance' de was his duty, to the Sultan's daughter. She , to him proceed with his dinner, and continued h e watch him, languidly and haughtily, like ttlf stealthy, soft tigress that she was, as the unh s Plia husband took his accustomed seat at table. to ordered the servants to remove the cover, but t"„i, hesitated, trembling. The Sultana reproved th.f°lo4 and told the Pacha to remove it himself. Il fae it, and beheld such a banquet as Medea set s t e ed Jason. On the dish before him was the gcli b Tti of the favourite, still beautiful in death. t iot Sultana had caused her to be decapitated a 0 1‘ morning. The Paella took one look, and fell 06 a corpse. The Sultana Djemila was avenged' COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. rf There was a thin attendance of both town and c°"4ol millers and dealers at market to-day, and a c el l t ttie business done. Wheat was in fair request, and at aboueed, same as last week. Flour neglected, but valueunc ll l l l, 4 le. Oats and oatmeal barely made late prices, with adu C Or° Barley, beans. and peas were no dearer. Indtelfo r ; in limited request, and although there was not mue'olle" ing, sellers ex ship had to forego the advance camp' since Tuesday. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. of a l The market was attended by an averngo number bee trade to•day, but business was languid, wheat of t liver: qualities making previous rates, and inferior qualiVelid, a lower. Beans, barley, and oats, wi: ..; slow deco° former prices, dto 63 01 1 Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss 0 IS 2 White • • .17s Od to 0, 00, 71 ) New red Iss 03 t ° 1 2p 6 1 New white „ ,I Beans If 71 Peas, per qr .................. 13 0: d d cl d it : °°° o ri : o v°3°'l: Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, „ 32s 03 to ~ ,0 0 , 1 Oats 1, 213 oa t° " Flour, Is 5d to is 9d per 14 lb. LEEDS—TUESDAY. 11/ 0 le til /S The arrivals of English grain at our market ',.; s Le were moderate. The demand for wheat to-dei ;type of a retail character, and last week's prices We re e; 0 1; terially altered. Fine barley at about prev i o us ra te s I inquiry for inferior descriptions. Oats and beans advised. 1' ci f. Averages—Dec. s—Wheat 385 1 1 1" A 14 ,- . —Oats —Beans 38s Sad .." —Peas ~32s 0 .., —Barley 30s 4d ../ --—Rye —s d MELTON MOWBRAY—TuEsDA Y • i cin; The following were the currenciesvi ll 4 0 0 93 0 42s Od to 458 Od; new red, 38s Od to 41s Per `", r 31 1. (of beans, 37s to 43s for old; new sorts, 35s to 3 7 9 1)- r 4 1. '0 barley, 32s to 348 for malting, and 28s to 30s P e grinding; new oats, 21s. to sOd per 24 atone , to 28s. • Births. of Ijci m.—On the 4th inst. at Blackheath, tho W if° ADA ii‘ ; John Adam, of a daughter. wife ° GROSVENOR.—On the 4th inst at Clapton, the - 3, ' 0 0 - W. Grosvenor, of a son, " e r a t MORRISON.—On the 4th in t , 3, Dev° l3 i ' Hackney, the wife of Herbert Morrison' 54'' daughter. re iji Marriages. ; , t CD 1 ,11 . : THOMAAv-KENNARD.—On the Ist inst., at CY; t o,. ,co" o L f a y nc s a t s r t a e d r- A g i a v t n e a , eGli,eocirgiaelnlNo'rill,aianmhiGr I:,iffitothlitlibelVyrclil;teto daughter of R. W. Kennard ' , 4., 1 11.1. P,, ° f r° 00 6 4 terrace, Hyde-park. ,-,, l tr A. ll l ef WALTON—HUNIFIIRYS.—On the sth inst., , -,- , 10, 0 , 1 , 0 0 0 daughter o Wm . Commissary-Generalllu In C p i h ff r; r s d , E v* :q a . l , I 01 .- 1 3 : 1)71;:u I.Bre '''. - co. Cavan, D.L. ipe Deaths. APLIN.—On Qv) 3d inst., Captain R. APlirl' °I Lea Tr,6' c, 1 of ‘ ` 39, ton, E I.C.'s Marine Service. BERRY,—On the 3d inst., Frederick Berry, ' il ler , Martin's-lane, aged 52. 0. Cbajj ° CHANDLER.—On the sth inst., Beljar gill 11; O W Esq., aged 83. : A 211 COOP.—On the 4th inst., Robert CooPer' et lolAnl o ir o llt Surgeon 4th Dragoon Guards. FowLER.—On the 4th inst., at Ackworth,Yortoocl g r° Fowler, El-A., of Leeds , a nd 28, Cornbili, formerly of Alelksham, Wilts. Ft OP RAKE.—On the 3d inst., at Barden -place, d Edith Rake, aged 91. ~_.......,S l 9: ________-----laP. 1/ --- ri Ol . , :"'" if Louden: Prinzed and rrtlislien Dy VVILL. o iDCL , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE S U 7., tue e ° Strand, In the Precinct of the SOOY.O'4. Alidel4iex.—Weduersday, December r,l.