The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-05 00:00:00

Naval and gence, We have receive id the following letter from Malta, dated July 31 :—" The Egyptian steam frigate Ibrahimia trriTed on the evening of the 29th, from Marseil Les, bound to Alexandria, but having foand a telel ; ram awaiting her, with orders to make the best of k ter way back to Marseilles, she left on the mornini ; of the 30th, to receive on board, for conveying to Egypt, on his return from Europe, his Excellency Nubar Pasha, who for merly acted as the 3 linister for Foreign Affairs .of the Viceroy. The P elictn arrived yesterday from Susa, with despatch es.'' The first of the 100-pounder 61 smooth-bore guns has been received from the Royal gun factory for ironclad frigates Research, 4,200 horse power, and the Enterprise, 4, 160 ha rse power. The armament for the iron frigate Act illes, 1,250 horse power, which is to be furnished. exclusively with the same description of gun, is d ally expected at Chatham. Notwithstanding the ditrparaging statements which have been made as to th e alleged smallness of the battery in the Research and the Enterprise, both those vessels now carry the largest gun of any ship in her Majesty's service, with, of course, the single exception of the Royal Sovereign, which is four times their size. Were the guns on board the Enter• prise and the Research worked by' other than rianual labour not the slightest complaint woull be raised as to the smallness of the batteries in each of those vessels. In the o pinion of all officers whose views on the subject are worthy of consideration, the present mode of working large guns by the old system of tackles and handspikes i s a d i sgrace to the age, and unless some simple and easily work able mechanical arrangement can be adopted far the monster 12-ton and 15 -ton 300-pounder and other guns with wttich it is intended to arm our future ironclad vessels of year, it is believed that the vor kin g of these gu ns will prove a practical im possibility. n accordance with instructions to that effect received from the Admiralty, it was yesterday ann ounced in the divisional orders of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines Light Infantry that by conimanci of her Majesty, the names of two officers of the division—viz., First Lieut. William Henry Nantes and First Lieut. Alfred Emanuel Otter, have been removed from the list of the offi cers of the Royal Marines. By direction of the Admiralty the whole of the officers were assembled by Col.-Commandant T. Lemon, C. 8., when the letter announcing the Admiralty orders was read, the letter intimating that her Majesty no longer re quired the services of Lieut. Nantes, and that Lieut. Otter has been allowed to resign his commission. The Recruit, iron paddlevessel, 590 tons, 160 horse power, was taken into No. 2 dock, Sheerness, on Tuesday last, for the purpose of ascertaining the results of experiments with the compositions to pre. vent fouling invented respectively by Mr Crispin, Mr Wileos, and Mr Hay. In November, 1863, the part aide of the bottom of the Recruit was covered with Hay's composition, the starboard aft with Crispin'a composition, and the starboard forward with 'Wilson's composition. The vessel was then taken into Sheerness harbour, where she has since been lying at anchor. The following results were disclosed on examination :—lt was found that the port aide, which was covered with Hay's patent, and the starboard aft, which was coated with Crispin's composition, are both very foul, a large number of mussels, &0., closely adhering to the iron work. The forward starboard, which was covered with Wilson's composition, is, so fur as fouling is con cerned, comparatively free, and in a far better state tl an the parts that have had the composition of the other two manufacturers applied to them, though it w ae evident that a slight corrosion of the bottom of the vessel had taken place. An official investiga tion will shortly take place, and in the interim the vessel remains as it came from the moorings for the examination of the parties interested. The authorities at Sheerness have been instructed t.' bring forward the Mialetoe gunboat for the first cat es Sheerness Steam Reserve. The Clio, steam corvette, 1,472 tons, 400 horse power, Capt. N. E. B. Tumour, now lying at the Little Nere, was inspected by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.B. She will leave Sheerness to-day for the Pacific, where it is intended she shall relieve the Charybdis, steam corvette, 1,506 tons, 400 horse power, Capt. E. W. Tumour. The second company of Royal Engineers will be i nspected at headquarters, Chatham, to-morrow, pi ior to their embarcatton for the Mauritius, which is expected to take place on an early date. The command of the company will at the same time be handed over by Capt. - W. A. Frankland, to Cap R. M. F. Sandford. Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.B, who has assumed the command of the forces in the Chatham district, in succession to Major. Gen. H. Eyre has promulgated an order to the troops of the garrison, in which he expresses a hope that the officers of the various branches of the ser. vice will cordially assist him in carrying out the duties of the service with that promptness which has hitherto been exhibited. Prior to relinquishing his command, Major-General Evre assembled the field-officers and adjutants of the various corps, and expressed to them, collectively and. individually, his thanks for the co-operation he had received from them during the period he had held the command of the garrison. The Philomel, screw gun vessel, Commander "Wildman, has been ordered to be paid off at Ports mouth. She came into the harbour yesterday to dismantle. She has been nearly four years in com mission. The Himalaya, troopship, Captain E. Lacy left Portsmouth yesterday evening for River, to embark troops for Dublin. Tao screw steam corvette Encounter, 14, Captain Roderick Dew, C. 8., was paid off at Devonport on Wednesday, by Admiral Superintendent T. M. C. Symonds, C.B. This ship was put in commission in September, 1859. On receipt of the despatches detailing the Pehio disaster, she, with several others, was ordered to assist in the intended expedition against Pekin, Captain Dew was selected for the Encounter in consequence of his knowledge of China. On arrival, early in 1860, hav ing convoyed to China the gunboats Snap and Bouncer, the Encounter was at once despatched as pioneer of the expedition. After the fall of the Taku Forts, Capt. Dew piloted the Carthage and the Gres nada, which had Lord Elgin and his staff on board, to Tien-tsin. On the subsequent advance of the army on Pekin, he was selected by Sir James Hope to explore the river. In the last light at Pilakao his gig's crew turned the flank of the Tartar cavalry, who attempted to cross the river. During the re mainder of the campaign Capt. Dew commanded the flotilla of 400 boats on the upper waters of the Peiho. The Encounter was afterwards in Japan. Capt. Dew received the thanks of Earl Russell on the occasion of the English and French Ministers leaving and returning to Jeddo at the time of the murder of the United States' Secretary of Legation. AS senior officer at Shanghai in 1861 he was again thanked by Earl Russell for the energy he displayed in protecting the property of the British merchants, In April, 1 862, Capt. Dow was sent in command of an allied squadron to Ningpo, then occupied by 40,00) Taeping troops, who, emboldened by nnexa pected success, had amused themselves by firing not only into the foreign settlemeet, but on our ships of war in the river. In s pi te of efforts to keep the peace a collision became inevitable, and on the occasion of an Imperial fleet of war junks coming up the river, our vessels were fired into, and a volley of musketry descended on the d ec k s o f the Encounter. The cap ture of Ningpo against such overwhelming odds was character:s . ed by Sir J ames Hope as " the best thing e ver done in China." The Encounter was ordered su bsequently to, clear th e 30 mile radius of the Teepings, and C.: p t .vowraised an d drilled with of with no Encounter's Marines, e disciplined force Chinese, commanded by Europeans. On the E ucoun ter's arrival at Ningpo that great city was occupied solely by the Tarpings ; trade was completely at a standstill, and the whole country was given up to plunder. O r d er w as re-established by the joint English and French expedition. An nrgent re. quest was made to Capt. Dew that he sho u ld ta k e military com man d . C apta i n D e w, Lieut. Davis, and Dr. Irwin are the only ward or gun room officer s who left England i n and returneein th; ship. Six officers and 34 men died from casualties or disease! The Encounter was detained a year by the troubled state of affairs in Japan. Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.8., Chief Commissioner of Police, yesterday made his annual .nspection of the dockyard and arsenal corps of potice at Wool. wich. The two divisions of the force, wearing their new tunics and helmets were mustered on their re spective parades before midday, in anticipation of the Chief Commissioner's arrival. The inspection of the dockyard force occupied about half an hour, after which the Fire Brigade stripped off their clothing and made their appearance in an incredibly short time with the fire-engines equipped and hauledoran emergency. powerful supply o f water rea d y f Sir Rich ar d expressed to out, Super intendent Thompson his unqualified app ro b a ti on o f the discipline and appearance of the men. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. Cashman to the Irresistible, for service in the Coastguard ; Sub- Lieut. Philip I. Lacas to the Geyser; and Arthur Neate nominated to a naval cadetship. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YoEK, July 22. To engage public attention, wearied with specu lating on the inactivity of General Grant, the Federal Administration has ordered a renewal of the attacks upon Fort Sumter and the city of Charleston. No one expects, however, that any result will ensue except the expenditure of shot and shell, the loss of a few hundred lives, and the demolition of portions of Sumter, which the Confederates will immediately reconstruct. Gen. Grant, it appears, has been goaded by the late raid of Gen. Early into Maryland to accomplish something of the same kind, and has sent forth an expedition under Gen. Sheri dan to the south and west of Petersburg and Rich mond, charged to do as much mischief as he can to railroads, bridges, stores, and generally to the farms and property of the " rebellions" people on his route. As he will find no troops to oppose his pro gress, he will doubtless afford the Northern Govern ment and press an opportunity to claim a " set off" against the late humiliating raid to the gates of Washington. Statements continue to be made, though generally upon insufficient and sometimes very roundabout authority, that Gen. Hunter whose original retreat from the Shenandoah Valley opened the dcor to the invaders, has faced round again, and recaptured considerable portions of the Confederate spoils on their way through the moun tains; but beyond the seizure of one laggard convoy of grain there appears to be no truth in the reports. It is also asserted, though the Administration are said to feel no alarm upon the subject, that Gen. Lee and 50,000 men have left Richmond, and that Wash ington is no safer from capture than it was a fort night ago, when the invading force might have seized it as easily as they could have seized a farmer's house if they had bat been aware of their opportu nity. Some believe, however, that Gen. Lee—if he has really left Richmond with so large a force—is bound for Atlanta, and not for Washington, If so, Gen. Sherman has found or will speedily find the great and decisive battlefield which he has travelled so long a journey from Chattanooga to seek. The telegrams this morning report that having en, trenched himself between the Chattahoochie and Atalanta, he was assailed on Wednesday, the 29,h, by Gun. Johnston in three several onsets, in each of which the Confederates were repulsed with heavy loss; and that, on the following day, Sherman made a movement to the left on the railroad to De catur, and thus cut off Johnston's communications with Richmond. If Gen. Lee be not hastening to his aid, and Johnston's army be as small as reported, not above a third of that of bherman's, the Confe derate position is a critical one; and Johnston must abandon Atalanta to save his legions, and retreat upon Macon, without the possession of which by the Federals their occupation of Atlanta will be but of little value. If the Northern public have not, however, been gratified by this or any other of the long promised victories that were all to become due about this time they have been mystified or amused, according to their capacity or humour, by the publicatieu of a remarkable correspondence between several Confe derate gentlemen who had assembled oa the free and safe side of Niagara Falls (the Clifton House, Canada), Mr Horace Greeley, and the President o the United States. The Confederate gentleman, Messrs. Clay of Alabama, Jacob Thomson of Missis sippi, Professor Holcombe of Virginia, and Mr. G. N. Sanders, styling himself of Dixie, desirous to stop the effusion of blood, and having a general but no special mission from the Southern President, laid their plans to engage Mr Lincoln in a correspond ence with them, which, whatever might be his opinion on the great question of war or peace, would, if he expressed it, damage him in the estima tion either of his own party or of the Democratic Opposition, if it did not aid in defeating him at the November election. Casting about for an instru ment, chance threw in their way a Mr. Cornell Jewett, a friend of peace and an acquaintance and correspondent, if not a friend, of 3lr Horace Greeley, who was rusticating quietly on the American side of the Cataract, but free to pass to and fro, as the Confederate agents were not. Mr. Jewett, like a good patriot and blessed peacemaker, undertook to open the correspondence with Mr. Greeley, the firs result of which was that Mr. Sanders and his co eagues offered to proceed to Washington to debate on the terms of peace between South and North, if they could have "complete and unqualified protec• tion" from the President and the Secretary of War on the way to and from the capital, and during their stay. Mr. Greeley replied five days afterwards, having consulted the President in the interval, and stated that, " if they were duly accredited from Richmond as the bearers of propositions for peace," he was authorised by the President to tender them safe conduct on the journey, and that ho himself would accompany them at the earliest moment that would be agreeable to them. The Confederate de legation, having no special mission, replied on the following day —the 18th of July—that they were not accredited as bearers of propositions for peace, but were in the confidential employment of the Confederate Government, were entirely familiar with its wishes and opinions, and that if the corre spondence that had already taken place could be made known at Richmond they would at once be clothed with the full powers which Mr. Lincoln seemed to imagine they already possessed. Mr. Greeley, nonplussed at this turn of affairs, tele graphed to Washington for further instructions. Mr. Lincoln sent them on the 19th by his private secretary, Major Hay, who on arrival at Niagara on the 20th handed to Mr. Greeley for transmission to the Confederate agents the following letter, which will, no doubt, take a conspicuous place in the his tory of the time : "Executive Mansion, Washington, July 18, 1864. " To whom it may concern-- "Any proposition wt,ich embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Govern ment of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on substantial and collateral points, and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. LTSCOLN." In other words, Mr. Lincoln declined the nego tiation, even if the emissaries were duly accredited to him by Mr. Jefferson Davis, unless upon such terms as he knew it was impossible for the Confede rate Government to accept—terms, moreover, that are not warranted by the Constitution which leaves to the separate States of the Union, in their local self-government, the sole right of abolishing slavery. He has thus declared that while he is President there shall not be pence, except by the uttersubj Ligation or unqgalified submission of the South. He has thrown over all his old scruples en the slavery question_ that awful question which in Louisiana has resolved itself into the virtual re,enslavement of the freed negroes as a better alternative for that unhappy race than idleness, pauperism, disease, and death; de cla red authoritatively, for the first time, th at the Con stitution of the United States was as dead and de- fuhct as George Washinaton and that he (Mr. ~Linc oln) was thesole successor to its authority. The wily Confederates gained their point. They set a trap for the bird and caught it with unexpected celerity. Mr. Lincoln'.; thoughtd and those of the pubic travel in different ways. Other men's wishes may incline to peace, but not those of the President. The majority of the people may yearn for the resto ration of the Union under which they flourished as no nation ever flourished before, but Mr. Lincoln will have no Union that is not accompanied by the compulsory emancipation of an helpless and igno rant people, though he knows full well that mane cipation in the North, of which the North is now so proud, was neither sudden nor compulsory, nor due in any shape or degree to the action of the Federal Government, but wholly to the force of public opinion in the several States acting upon the Legislature, which dealt with the subject in the cautious and tentative manner which its vast im• portance demanded. But, although Mr. Lincoln has thus taken his stand in favour of a revolution which shall consoli date the Union by force of arms, and by abrogation of the social compact which alone held the States together, and which forms the only legal bond of cohesion between New York, Pennsylvania, and New England, at this moment the indications of the progress of the peace party are so many, and come from such different and such unconnected quarters, that it is impossible to misinterpret them. The Democrats, who, up to the murderous failures of General Grant's present campaign, were loud in their cries for the vigorous prosecution of the war, but still louder in their denunciation of all the pos sible means by which their alleged purpose could be carried into effect, have become peaceful and con sistent. They have veered round to the opinions of the other and more logical section of their party, who hold that the war is not only unfortunate in conduct, but wrong in principle, and that it never can restore the Union, which is still the object of so much love and so many hopes. Even the Republicans are divided in sentiment, although Mr. Lincoln's letter " to all whom it may concern," may strengthen the adhesion to his cause of the Abolitionist branch of the party. His call for 500,000 men to carry on the war for another twelvemonth has disabused most people of the idea that the South could be reduced to obedience within the limits which they believed practicable when Grant crossed the Rapidan, and Sherman began his march to Atlanta. Rather suffer hostilities to drag on for another Presidential term, see the debt accu mulate at the rate of a thousand millions per annum, and the flower of the youth and manhood of 20 once prosperous and happy States driven to the shambles of Virginia, under such adeptsat slaughter as General Grant, they are ready to submit at the 11th hour to that constitutional mode of meeting the difficulty which ought to have been adopted at the first—namely, a general convention of ►he peo ple of North and South to decide whether Union be either practicable or desirable. Trie Chicago Convention, which is to meet in September, will show what form and magnitude this idea has assumed. Out of 48 delegates already elected to thot body only 6 are known to be for the prosecu tion of the war, without a preliminary cffer to the South of terms of peace; while the remaining 42 are for an armistice and a general Convention, which shall either make a more perfect Union or consent to a separation without further bloodshed. By the time the delegates meet at Chicago a candidate for the Presidency will be found to stand upon this "platform." In the meanwhile every defeat of the Northern armies in the field, every humiliation of the Government at Washington, every attempt to enforce the conscription, every rise in the premium on gold, and increase in the price of the necessaries of life, will give this growing party new power over the sympathies of the multitude and diminish the chances of Mr Lincoln's election. The manifesto of a large section of the Democratic members of the lower House, drawn up by Mr Buckalow, of Pennsylvania, and signed by him and 42 other representatives of the people, as a bid for peace, which though it does not in terms admit that the rupture between South and North ie final, clearly foreshadows the ultimate acceptance of that issue by the signers, if a general convention of the people should fail to agree to a reconstruction. A similar, though more forcibly worded, appeal of the Central Committee of the German democracy, promulgated yesterday, points the same way, declares that the war cannot last for ever, that it may go on for years, until both parties are exhausted, when foreign Powers will intervene end compel peace on conditions that might not be so palatable to either as if the peace was of their own seeking; and calls upon the North as the stronger party to make the first movement towards reconciliation. The Roman Catholic hierarchy are all for peace, and it is probable that the Irish peace party (it sounds like a misnomer) will, in view of the draught and the debt, the taxation and the high prices, follow the lead of their spiritual advisers, and declare themselves as the German democracy have done in favour of the cessation of bloodshed Several candidates are spoken of as the nominees of Chicago —among others, Governor Horatio Seymour of Connecticut, whose name would be a tower of strength, Mr. Vailandigam, Senator Wall of New Jersey, one of the ablest writers, lawyers, and statesman of the party, and General M'Clellan. Were the last-named to adopt the platform, and to declare for " Union," if Union were possible, without further b:oodsbed—but with or without Union to insist upon " Liberty "—it is probable that all other candidates would yield to his su perior popularity, and that the United Democrats, with his name to represent their cause,would achieve an easy victory over the disunited Republicans, scattering their votes between Mr. Lincoln and General Fremont, if not between those two gentle men and Mr. Chase. General M'Clellan is prudent. He makes the first step secure before he takes the second; and has not committed himself so greatly on the question of the vigorous prosecution of the war as not to be able to adopt the policy of a vigorous prosecution of peace, should he finally con • sent to become the nominee of what promises to be the great majority of the Democratic party. Europe need not, and perhaps will not, be surprised if the best soldier of the North should ultimately become the champion of peace, allowing the South the inde- pendence which it is suicidal es well as useless to dispute, and drawing his sword, if he have occasion to draw it at all, in defence of those principles of Republican liberty which found their embodiment in the violated Constitution of the United States. The task may be difficult, but not even a soldier can deny that it will be glorious. The new draught is very unpopular, and would be dangerously so if any large bodies of the working classes believed that it would ever be enforced. The philosophic, religious, and (it may be added, as far as this war is concerned, the) bloodthirsty State of Massachusetts, despairing of raising her quota at home, has addressed a mission to the Border and such Southern States as are held by Federal troops to enlist the runaway and freed negroes to serve instead of such white men of Massachusetts as are willing to pay, but obstinately unwilling to fight. New York is about to imitate her example, thougn the Governor declines to recommend it, and, as it is generally admitted that the negroes, if well led, make brave soldiers, it is likely, if the funds be forthcoming to pay the bounties, that 30,000 or 40,000 black recruits may be placed at the service of Mr. Lincoln before the winter, even without any positive enforcement of the draught. Whatever may be said or thought in the outer world of the decency or the humanity of Americans who hire negroes to do the work of battle, which they are too busy, too indisposed, or too lukewarm in the cause to do fir themselves, there is one favourable circumstance connected with the new draught which merits and will receive unqualified approval. The Provost- Marshal General (Mr Fry), in his instructions and _ .. regulations to all concerned about the measure, es• pressly declares that "no premiums whatever for the procuration of recruits will hereafter be paid by the United States." This will put a stop to the crimping system, and ruin the trade of the mer cenary scoundrels who go to Ireland, ostensibly to procure railway labourers, but in reality to eulis.t soldiers—for whom they were up to this time paid by the Federal Government at the rate of 20 dole a head. It will also spoil,the business of the enter prising travellers on board of emigrant ships, British or Arn er i cin, who relieve the tedium of the Atlantic passa ge by inducing their companions to enrol themselves among the brave defenders " of the best Uovernmont that ever existed on the !ace of the earth," end to fight for a cause of which, for the 'HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1864. most part, they know nothing, except that it offers high bounties and good pay. Perhaps the Federal Government, which treated the remonstrances of Lord Lyons on this subject with such supercilious disregard, has discovered the inconvenience and im policy, not to say the danger of longer persistence in a systom that has led to so much cruelty and in justice, and to such well-founded complaint on the part of Great Britain and other foreign Powers. At all events, it has to be congratulated at having seen, though tardily, the error of its ways, and at having ceased to be, through its venal unprincipled agents, the greatest kidnapper in the world, the King of Dahomey perhaps excepted. Cotton Supply Association, At the usual weekly meeting of the Executive Committee, held on Tuesday, August 2, a letter was read from Durban, Natal, enclosing two fine samples of Sea Island cotton, valued at 4s. and ss. per lb. respectively. This description of cotton is said to succeed well, and seems better adapted to the climate than any other. When planted in a choco late sand found there it is very prolific. The writer had some which he expected to begin to pick about the middle of June. The unusually stormy weather which had been experienced had done considerable damage to the crop, but was not likely to discourage planters from increasing the production of cotton. A letter received from Gibraltar represents the cot ton in Barbary to be looking well, and that picking will commence towards the end of this month, The Moors are beginning to sow cotton inquantities,and seed had been liberally distributed. A letter was read from St. Thomas's, West Indies, stating that the young trees and the cotton crops generally are looking unusually healthy, and growing fast. Some Sea Island and Egyptian cotton, grown from seed supplied by the association, has been sold in Liver pool at 42d. and 39d. per lb. respectively. The writer states that his crop so far has covered all the expenses incurred in production, and that if the American war continues there will be a large mar gin for profit. A letter was received advising the shipment of two bales of cotton from St. Thomas's to the association for sale, and enclosing a commu nication from Yanko, Port Rico,stating that a quan tity has been forwarded as a specimen of the pro duce of the country. A fine sample of cotton grown in Antigua from New Orleans seed was received through the Board of Trade from the Governor of that island, together with a despatch stating that the cotton was grown under unfavour able circumstances, as from the period of planting, three months back, up to the time it was picked no rain had fallen. The Governor is anxious that the cotton grown in the island shall be fairly tested, in order that if it promise to be remunerative the many estates now lying waste may be placed under cultivation. A letter was read from Upolu, one of the Navigator Islands, enclosing a sample of cotton, and stating that the writer is about to enter into the cultivation, and has obtained land for the purpose, both on the seacoast and inland, which he antici pates will cost from £lO to £l5 per acre to clean and plant the first crop. He expects to obtain adequate labour from the natives, and his request to be supplied with seed and a gin, to be paid for out of the produce, was grunted. A report was received from the Colonial-office, which has been forwarded by the Governor of the Gambia, stating the results of Staff Assistant-Surgeon Harvey's mission to the Upper River, and containing valuable information respecting the trade of that district. He remarks that he observed on his route several large inclosures with fair crops of cotton, and that on approaching Medina, the capital of the kingdom of Woolli, a large town in the centre of an extensive, well cleared plain, he passed some large patches of cotton. Ia answer to his inquiries at Medina respecting cotton, the people stated that, if wanted, they could bring plenty to market, and he thinks it could be obtained in large quantities and without difficulty. The ground nut requires a considerable quantity of rain, cotton, on the contrary, but little, and under the circumstances of an insufficient rainfall (as that of last year) might, he thinks, be made to supple :neat any deficiency is the former. The difference between the price at present paid by the trader to the native producer and the price of cotton in Bathurst leaves but a small margin for profit, but he has no doubt that an increased and steady demand would lead to increased cultivation and its production at a much lower rate than that at pre sent paid by the traders, which, of course, would allow a larger profit, even supposing the present low price i❑ Bathurst to be the market price. The treaty which Dr. Harvey has negotieted with the King of W'oolli will enable traders, with perfect safety both to their lives and property, to establish depots at Medina, as well as other large towns throughout the whole of the territory under the authority of the King, who has an earnest desire for friendship and trade with English merchants. A despatch forwarded by the Foreign-office was re ceived from the Acting Consul-General ac Tabreez, reporting that the high prices of cotton in Europe have given a great impulse to its production in his consular district, and that a considerable quantity has, consequently, been exported to Europe in 1863-64. The total amount may be estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000 bales of 1601 b. each. Nearly double that quantity was exported to Russia via Tiflis and the Caspian Sea. Despatches forwarded by the India-office were received from the Govern- went of Madras, relative to the cultivation of Peru via❑ cotton in the South Arcot and Kistna districts of that Presidency, together with various samples of the cotton grown. The Peruvian plants stand the sun well, and the result of close observation is that, if they were properly watered, they would be far more remunerative than the indigenous variety, and that they are admirably adapted for general introduction into Southern India. The staple is fine and long, and the cotton commands a high price, ranking, it is said, next to Sea Island. The yield is represented to have been at the rate of 5601 b. of clean cotton per cawny, equal to an acre and a quarter. The plants do not seem to require a period of repose, as before one crop has been fully collected blossoms shoot out in every direction. Details are supplied of ezperiments with Peruvian Egyptian, and Sea Island seed, made by Messrs. Keess and Gibbs, who have incurred considerable expenditure to give full effect to their efforts. and have readily imparted to others the benefit of their experience and knowledge. Rporte also forwarded by the India-office, were received on the agricultural exhibitions held in the districts of Tinnovelly and Nellore, in the months of March and April last. At the first named the American saw-gin was exhibited at work to :he people. It cleans th.e cotton beautifully, bui ;ears the fibre, and, however well adapted to foreign kinds, will not do for the short staple indigenous cotton of Tinnevelly. At the Nellore Exhibition Mr. Smith, of Nabobpet, came forward again with New Orleans cotton, from seed raised in the country, What he exhibited was far beyond anything else on the ground, and won the first prize. The collec tor remarks that it w ou ld b A we ll to wait for a year eA or two before coming t o an y con clusion as to whether IN - ow Orl ns and o t h er f ore i gn species degenerate or not. The yield of cotton without irrigation is represented to have been at the rate of 150 lb per acre; but where irrigation was employed once in eight days the yield was at the rate of 250 lb per acre. The Dharwar saw-gin was worked and at tracted great attention. The leading merchants in the cotton trade expressed the opinion that the work was good, but that there was considerable waste, and their conclusion was that the breadth of cotton cultivatio❑ in the district did not make it worth the ryot's while to incur the loss for the sake of the economy in time and labour. A letter was read from the President of the Italian Royal Commission, Turin, advising the despatch of a silver medal, in acknowledgment of " the eminent service to the Royal Commission " rendered by the association, " both in furnishing counsel and material assiq ance." [ ADVER TISEMENT.I-41011oWay'S Pills.--Impaired Con stitutions.—The infirm are unfortunately the most prone to become the victims to dangerous maladies unless the purity of the blood and functional regularity of the vital organs be carefully guarded. Holloway's Pills can be re commended with the most truthful earnestness as the beat purifiers, alleviatives, and aperients when the body is naturally weak or accidentally disordered They never create disgust, and do not cause the weakness and oppres sion too often consequent on the frequent repetition of the ordinary drabtic drags which are sometimes thoughtlessly though most disastrou s l y prescr i bed. These Pil ls , in truth, carefully guard the constituents of the animal frame, they enrich the bt , od when p ,or in quell y, they increase that fluid when deficient in quantity, and always strengthen. Lord Stanley on Commercial Affairs. LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, The half-yearly meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday afternoon. Mr. Grainger presided, and there were present Lord Stanley, Mr T. B. Horsfall, M P., Messrs. Hey worth, Macfie, dec. Letters of apology for non-attendance were read from Mr J. C. Ewart, M.P., Mr Brumley Moore. M,P., and the Mayor of Liverpocl. The report, which detailed operations of the council of the Chamber upon moat of the commercial questions which have arisen during the past half-year, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said that in deference to the Chamber the Council had studiously avoided all party questions, though not avoiding those coming within the range of poli tical economy, drawing the line as nearly as possible be tween where theory was likely to become practice, and where it remained theory only. Mr HORSFALL moved the adoption of the report. He said there were several subjects mentioned therein to which he should feel it his duty to refer. He rejoiced much that the Board of Trade was negotiating a treaty with Peru. If the Board of Trade communicated more frequently with the mercantile interests, the treaties adopted and sanc tioned by Government would be much more beneficial to the country, and the Board of Trade would be enabled to obtain that practical information which would be invaluable to them in negotiating these treaties, With reference to the consolidation of Customs and Inland Revenue establish ments a deputation had waited on Lord Palmerston, and after a long delay he (Mr Horsfall) had learnt from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that Government did not see their way clear to the granting of a commission as sought by this chamber. They were, however, convinced that the consolidation of Customs and Inland Revenue was founded on true principles, and he was sure the time was not far dis tant when it would be accomplished. He then referred to the present inaccuracy of the Customs and Inland Revenue returns made to Parliament, and quoted instances. With reference to the bill for the collection of taxes, he had sup ported it until the introduction of a clause providing that London should be exempted from the restrictions placed on other towns. After that he opposed it strongly before com mittee, but was defeated. When the bill came on for third reacting he opposed it again and the house rejected it. With out the objectionable clause he thought the bill was a very beneficial ono. With reference to the Railway Companies' Powers Bill he supported the views of the chamber, though opposed to those of Lord Stanley. MK Horsfalt proceeded to detail his action in regard to the Partnerships Bill. With respect to the rates of railway carriage to and from Liverpool he explained the difficulties he had had to encounter in oh taining returns desired by this chamber of the rates charged by each railway company. He first gave notice two sessions ago, but only four companies furnished the returns. He had repeated the order forthwith with a similar result, and then on the 7th June last gave a final notice that they be fur nished by the Tuesday next following. At the last moment came the draught of a petition against the order by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. His turn fur moving the returns did not come on until half-past 2 o'clock, and while the vice-chairman of the board of directors of the London and North-Western Railway was replying, Mr Brumley Moore and the railway directors had the house counted out. This Chamber simply wanted to be satisfied that in the charges for carriage to and from Liverpool all the companies charged uniform rates and showed no partiality. As their representative, he should still take any one of the courses open before him to obtain the returns that the Chamber might think necessary. After some general reference to the prosperity of the country Mr Horsfall conclueed by moving the adoption of the report. Mr HEYWORTII seconded the motion, and dr„Av atten tion to the action of the Chamber in regard to the customs duties in India, upon which the council reported as fol lows :—" The Chamber was informed in the annual report presented in February last that a committee has been ap pointed to consider the question of these duties. The com mittee to which the question was referred were unable at that time to prosecute the inqu ry without authoritative publications of the tariffs of India, which could not be pro cured in any of the Alicial quartet s. The committee hav ing since had before them all the official information ob tainable on the subject, your Council are enabled now to acquaint you that the Customs duties now levied in India appear to be framed for the purpose of revenue only, and do not injuriously affect the commerce of thei country, without producing any corresponding benefit to the Indian Exchequer. Your council, observing with pleasure that within the last three years these duties had been largely re duced, and hoping that the growing prosperity of the Indian Exchequer would at no distant time enable the Govern ment to remove them altogether, regret to learn that in May last the scale of valuations on which the duties are calcu lated has been considerably raised, and the pressure of many of these duties thereby increased." Objections were taken to the concluding part of the third paragraph, as pledging the council to a statement of fact, without sufficient grounds thereon. Atter some discussion the report was adopted with only two dissentients. Lord STANLEY, on rising, was received with cheers—lie said twat he had not had the honour of being in that room before, but he sincerely hoped this would not be the last time. He had attended with the intention of being a.listenor only, but if any remarks of his could be of service he thought there would be more presumption in refusing to speak than in offering them. Three or four subjects had been alluded to bearing on certain questions with which he had had offs cially to deal. Ile meant those which had reference to India. First, with reference to the question of Customs duties, on which the discussion had taken place. Perhaps it might do something to settle the difficulty if he said that to his mind the passage referred to, although the words might appear ambiguous, did not express any opinion that the Cus toms did nut affect the commerce of the country. The pro position contained in the report was this, that they did not unjustly affect it; meaning that they did inflict a certain ainount e of injury, but that it was an injury inevitable, and which was inflicted simply because it was necessary for the revenue, and therefore for the good government of India. Mr Hey worth, in advocating the repeal of these Customs duties, did not go into the more difficult question of what was the tax that could be substieuted for these duties with out an accompanying injury to those who paid it. He did not suppose any tax could be a pleasant thing for both high and low. The millennium of no Custom - houses and 20 per cent, off the property tax was, he th , ught, so distant as not to be within the reach of political prophecy. These Customs duties were not very high, nominally 3 par cent,, and much less in reality ; but they were open to this objection, that they gave a certain protection to the native as against the English manufacturer. This was, of course, objec• tionable on principle; but that, as against our command of capital and skiilen labour, had not rendered the native com petition very formidable. However, he apprehended that every English financier would be of opinion that as soon as these duties could be got rid of they ought to be, The question was, how soon could this be dune. There was one claim which Indian financiers considered to be a prior claim on our resources, and that was the Indian income tax, because, difficult as the income tax was to collect under schedule 1) in this country, the difficulty was tenfold in creased when they came to deal with native merchants and traders. It was feared, when first proposed, that it would meet with great opposition. They did not oppose it, but he fancied they evaded it to a pretty considerable extent. Laughter.) Also because it was imposed in the first instance only for a limited time, and from the strong ex pressions of opinion that it would not require to be renewed, the income tax had the first claim upon the Indian Ex chequer. If the state of finance should allow it, these Customs duties had the next strongest claims for repeal. The question really depended upon whether they remained at peace, and in an Oriental country it was utterly im possible to speak with ordinary safety, but they never had an abler Governor-General, and never had a Calcutta Administration more thoroughly peaceable in its inten tions, and with a more fixed determination not to carry out that policy of annexation so much discussed 15 years ago. (Hear, and cheers.) They never had more profound tran quillity or better prospects for the future than they had at present. The experience of the last few years had shown that the revenues of India were considerably more elastic than it used to be common to think they were. Another Indian topic, as he understoood the report of the council, was that of Indian currency. It did not go into the per - ' • plexing question of a double currency, but simply proposed to make gold a legal tender to a limited amount as silver was in England. It was not a question upon which he would like to pledge himself, but as at present advised, he failed to see any objection to such a measure as one that might be safely adopted. As to proposed new dues at Singapore, he knew there had been two opinions on that question, but on the whole he was inclined to think that the view which the Chamber took (that of supporting the dues) was correct. Those dues were no departure from the principle of free trade. As to the desirability of reforming the courts of justice at Rangoon, he fully supported the views of the Chamber. It was a country for which he be lieved there was a very great future. He had long looked further to the time when all that large territory lying east of Calcutta should:be constituted into a more independent Government, and separate Lieutenant-Governor. It would he believed remove many causes of complaint. In passing on to the question of the consolidation of Customs, he did not wish to pronounce a positive opinion. He thought clearly that Mr Horstall had so fairly drawn the battle, and ho certainly thought it reasonable and requisite that the matter should bo tried over again. At the same time he thought they might carry consolidation too far. lie was assured it had not answered as was expected in the case of the War Department. He now came to the question upon which he had the misfortune to differ with the Cha tabor, and with Mr Masten—that was the question whether rail way companies should be allowed to become owners of steam vessels. Ho wished to say that at present there was no absolute prohibition, but it was left to the Select Com mittee to exercise their discretion on the understanding that they stated the reason upon which such privileges were granted. This, however, had become a mere matter of form. Ile thought that railwgy companies should be allowed the privilege—if they could run vessels cheaper than other parties the public would be the gainers, and if they could not they would not try. (Hear.) With reference to the question of a cheaper local postage, he was inclined to doubt the expedi , n , jof the proceeding. They should rather :took increased facilities elpostage, but noc interfere with the established rate, which, he thought, was low enough. He heartily approved of a Liverpool testimonial to Sir Rowland Hill, His lordship next referred to the Lord Chancellor's County Court Bill, which, he thought, was a subject for grave deliberation. They had to consider, on the one hand, whether the removal of the punishment of imprisonment for fraudulent debtors was de sirable, and, on the other band, whether too much power was not left in the hands of the county court judges. With regard to the petty charges of customs he cordially agreed with the chamber. With respect to the adoption of a deci mal coinage and of a decimal system of weights and mea sures, he thought that while the former was easily entorce able by Government, tba second was not, and that it would take a long period and much inconvenience before it could be established. In France it took 50 years. He had sup ported a scheme for decimal coinage, but was afraid that if they brought the question before the house they would find themselves in a woeful minority. He had been requested to say a few words with regard Zo the law of Patents—a very proper question to engage the attention of a Chamber of Commerce. They were possibly aware that a Royal Com mission was issued two years ago. He was chait man of that commission. The report was signed, and would shortly be in print. He would not go into detail on an unpublished document; but what they had done was briefly this. They had proposed modifications in the law with a view to lessen the inconvenience to manufacturers and persons engaged in business. We could do something to diminish the extraor dinary cost and delay incurred by those in fighting patent cases ; but he was bound to state that, having considered the subject most carefully for two years, he was satisfied, so far as he was personally concerned, that the chief objections to the patent law were not remediable by any change in the details of the law. They aro the price which the public pays for rewarding inventors. Might not a time be coming when some other mode of rewarding inventors could be substituted for that at present in existence ? It only re mained for him to congratulate them upon having tided over the difficulties of the American war, and upon the in creasing trade and prosperity of this town. The noble lord returned his seat amid applause. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—As some of the London theatres, which used to take as their "season" so many months of the summer or winter, now use the same name to signify any term for which they are continuously open, be it a,whole year round or longer, so must we now begin to extend in our imaginations the period during which Parliamentary orators favour the country with their remarks, and keep us in expecta tion of hearing something interesting or profound. The speech-making season is now from the first of January to the last of December. The penalty of reputation must be paid by never-ending display. Happily for the leading men in Parliament, the art of addressing an audience in decent language on general subjects is acquired so thoroughly that they never need be at a loss to fill up half an hour after dinner. They have only to go through the familiar topics of the day till they have exhausted them, and then if it comes to the worst they can begin them again. Were it not so—were these discourses at tended with much effort, it is hardly possible that statesmen and members of Parliament should be ready for them as soon as the Session is over, Yet, as the legislative work of the country becomes harder every year, so there seems an increasing tendency to seek recreation by treating the same subjects over again all through the country, and, as it were, chewing the cud of the Session during the autumn months. First of all, of course, comes Lord Palmerston. The Premier, one would think, de serves a little rest. He has just finished a session of six mouths. It did not produce any great monu ment of legislation, but the labours of Parliamen tary life are quite independent of the magnitude of the subjects on which they ere employed. There is always an immense muss of business to be transacted, of petty and yet necessary details to be supervised ; the First Minister of the country has , o manage men as well as to devise measures, and the House of Com mons is not now the docile assembly that it was in the days when to talk of independence and conscien tious votes was to gain the reputation of a knave and not of a philosopher. With a small majority, doubt. ful a month ago, end a vigorous Opposition in face of him, Lord Palmerston's whole energies must have been tried during the cession that is past. He has, moreover, been etigeged in conducting one of the most wearisome and ungrateful negotiations that ever fell to the lot of an English Minister. The policy of his Government has been violently attacked by his op ponents, and coldly defended by his friends. One might presume that the end of July would find him desirous to enjoy his well-earned repose, to fly with alerm from any two or three gentlemen who looked like a deputation, and to bo relentless in dis appointing any assembly that expected a speech. A tow years since a Minister might have assumed that a part of his time, at least, was his own. But in the present day it seems that a public man is never to lose his publicity. The country is becoming almost American in its exactions from celebrities of all kinds, and moat of ail from the political. Inces sant representation must be the lot of the matt who has gained such a name as to make people de sirous to see and hear him. The public man now knows that he must be showing himself every where, and speaking about something or other almost as often as he shows himself. Both Ministers and Opposition are al ways on the platform, in the City or in the provinces, holding forth, now in some great Town-hall, now in the inn of en obscure on art, or agriculture, or polities, or the Church, on ettmething which gives them an opportunity of showing themselves in the flesh to their country men, and (stratifying the curiosity of an intelligent public. On Monday, for instance , her Majesty's Ministers began the pow-Parliamentary Session by accepting the Fishmongers' invitation. The weary statesmen who had been disputing with Bismerk and Beust for half a year had within two days after the close of the Session to go down to Lon don-bridge and respond to the compliments of the Prime Warden on their character and policy. It was certainly satisfactory to receive his congratu. lations, and to know that the Fishmongers still re tain the liberal opinions for which they have been distinguished. But the hospitality of the great City Company is but the beginning of something that will last until It is time for Parliament to meet again. Nor does the banquet fail to give some pre. figurcment of the style of oratory which will pre vail from the present time to February next. The Prime Warden was glowing in his praises of the Premier ; declared that the House of Commons had pronounced a verdict in his favour which had been unanimously endorsed by the country, and that however great the complications in which the nation might be placed, it reposed the most entire confidence in his consummate statesmanship. Lord Palmerston responded in a similar spirit, and returned the com pliments of the Company in the happiest manner ; but the toast of the " the House of Lords" called up Lord Russell, and then t he Fishmongers, of course, heard all about Lord Grey, the Reform Bill, the Test aucl Corporation Acts, and civil and religious liberty. We have scarcely time, however, to think that the Ministry must be tired of political speaking west and east of Temple-bar, before Lord Palmerston is heard of again from another part of England, where he makes a speech on the advantages of steam travel ling, and the contrast of the goods train of to-day with the waggon of the last generation, and the improvement which springs from the constant com munication between the provinces and the capital. In a few days he will be speaking at Bradford, and this strain of oratory vs.ll be kept up until the seri• ous business of the nation begins once more. The Opposition will not be behind hand. Lord John Manners begins the season by a speech on agricuh turn at Market Harborough, Lord Stanley speaks at the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, and before long they will be followed by every member of their party of sufficient importance to command an audience. Whatever may be the value of individual addresses, there is no doubt that it does " link classes together " to have the chief men in Parlia merit thus brought face to face with popula► audiences, and giving a share of their attention to those whom the French would call provincials. If the politicians of the country go circuit almost as regularly as the judges, the result cannot but be to diffuse political knowledge and an interest in the welfare of the State. But the public ought certainly to be much obliged to the eminent persons who thus sacrifice time and convenience for their benefit. What a Prime Minister's holyday is in the present day we are not able to make out, and two or three of his colleagues are almost equally nnrelaxing in their work. The ordinary work of Parliament is of itself sufficiently exhausting, the incessant attention which the great machine of State requires is known only to those who are concerned in its manage ment, and we are sometimes inclined to think that the human machine is hardly and Wastefully dealt with when it is subjected to the addLional strain of provincial oratory. HERALD.—Tne Danish Rigsraad has received the announcement that preliminaries of peace have been signed, with a silence which it protests must not be regarded as satisfaction. Conscious that the nation lay at the mercy of its enemies, convinced that only the absolute abandonment of a third of its territory would save the Danish monarchy from total extinction, the members of the Riviratid must, inceed, forbear from censuring the Ministers who have put their hands to this degradation of their country to the condition of a fifth-rate state ; but they cannot, in their grief and indignation, render full justice to the difficult position in which those Ministers found themselves, and they will not even seem to approve the transaction which destroys Denmark as a European power. No true-hearted Dine will be able to find any consolation in this pax.: of Vienna. A people proud of history, proud of the great part it has played in Europe, conscious that in no di:grte 11:13 it f.illea virtues, and assured by the whole of Europe tha its cause was a just one, cannot be console d for its relegation to a role utterly unimportant in the great European tragi-comedy' by the insulting promise .that its insiguificance will save it from the neces sity of paying taxed to keep up an army and navy, and the mocking assurance of the sympath ies of the nations who are mainly responsible for all the cala mities it mourns. The Kiog of Denmark may b e satisfied—he still has a throne to which he has no . w no moral and hardly an y legal right, and of wiveh fifteen years ago he would not have ventured in his most sanguine moods to dream. Holstein, Sob wevsig and Lauenburg are gone; he has signed them away, but he is still a King, instead of a younger , brother of a younger branch of a younger betide. That he should hale had to commence his reign by such a division of his kingdom is ind eed his misfortune and not his fault; but the Danes may' well curse the hoer when, in reliance upon the engagements of th e E uro p ean Powers, they al tered their law of succession. Better far would it have i been for them if t h e y h a d re f use d to believe n the promises . of England —the principal egen: i n the negotiation . of that treaty of 1852 over the violation of which Lord Palmerston, its author, now jokes so pleasantly. They were told that by repealing t he Lex Reg is and electing to their throne a prince without the slightest claims to it they wou ld insure the undisputed union of all parts of the monarchy after the extinction of th e ma le descendants o f Fre derick 111. And v e ry much againet their w ill t h ey did so. Their r ewar d i s , th a t they are saddled with a Sovereign fo r w h om , h owever e stimable be MI T be, they care littl e ; l ose a l toge th er provinces whi eu have formed part of th e D an i s h mo narchy for more flow er than five hundred ears have sacrificed the their and areburdened the me t r h e e y futureof ever ywith heavy lia bilities,o f p,war which pleases to insult or rob them. That is the r trusting to the pledges and the sympathy of t ' v f Earope p.eo.p.les . who profess to be at the head of civilisation—who claim to have a decisive par t 1 „ 11 the settlement of European questions, and who are= the one nate Asiatics ; and the other a mercenary, w h i l; pretending . to fight for an idea, will only fight„ w " r e d there is a chance of despoiling somebody. as are however, as is the fate of the Danes. severe esult et the conditions which Herr Von Bismark hits ',T • e e posed, th e e p y rop have no nioorf Earl eason Rust orseegili and, ret that theyfu ast it last struggle, have dealt dir ec tly w i t h their f t e e n r ' Had they accepted Lord Russell's last props to soles m would have retained only a small por:ion of wig—a portion divided by no definite frontier Gtr- the rest of the duchy, and a portion for which G il v many would always have been clangouring. A s „, tl) ,; 2 3 e r could not have the frontier of the Schley so" Dennewerke, they are better without any of Schleswig. True, England proposed to g usr e a e fi t tee them the portion which they might retain. m" - . all the world knows now the value of an English g t Is e rantee. Another Earl Russell—it indeed another e,gs could . produce . a Minister so vain, and so rega rdi „ ee kt alike of his own and his country's honour---ws7 apply to Liberal lawufficers of theCrowu and recerld the desired opinion that some act of De ' litn erk 136 0 liberated us from our obligation. The guareoteid would have been perfectly worthless, and it wsu le have been ex , remely mischievous. It won d he at given Earl Russell a pretext for continuing heat Impertinent and ignorant interference in 37)4 , 1 1: e1 's affairs to whicri the dismemberment of Deoms— presento really due. The Danes must, find the cup t o . them bitter enough to drain but they are net d r atio . foolish as to allow its bitterness to be sug alente to by supposing that they would have done b e tter to have aecepted the last scheme of Earl Russel l :• Danes can find no compensation far their lled tunes in the divisions of their victors, nor , I , lsd „ e d e s . ought Englishmen to join in that absurd and 1- cen . t shout of exultation over German discortl4.o mwhayichhaovuerliLttilbeerreaalsocnouttoembeploiervaerietshaitradulge.. 0f the to" u - Germany, if accomplished, would add to the s ec e a rity of European peace, and w e may have !ear/7'n r . to despise the so-called constitutional party I n many, but, after all, w e canno t d es ire to see n3ell. like Herr Von Bismarck in p oss ession of esc° d trolled power, or H a n over a nd Saxony awallosves up by the most aggr ess i ve , th e mos t. ti nscrupta l aler; t, the most treacherous of Europe a n Powers. are but two points in the presen t situetion wli can afford the slightest satisfaction to Eng lis i llrD „ e n i li and the satisfaction they would give, small f personal as it is, would be shared by honest men o every nation, The fact is that the Augustenburg pretender, who kindled this flame for degraded owl! aggrandisement, and to gain a throne himself to the level of the lowest trickster, seems such crew; likely after all to meet tha fate due to tures, and in the end miss the prize; the other, tha seithou.t the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, his great ally' whose active interference not one of the lives sacri ficed in this iniquitous war would have been lost, hes also missed his coup, and instead of becoming the leader and the arbiter of Germany, has lost whatever real influence he possessed and lies at the mercy of Herr Von Bismarck. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIANCIIESTER—THURSDAY. An average attendance at our market to-day, and business passing was limited t o th e requ i reme nts of nece sit , us buyers. English wh eat must de quoted is per qr lower, and in foreign a re d uct i on of 2d per c . enta l took Pla c a ; Flour declined Gd to i s p er sac k . O ats an d oa tmeal b° more pressingly o ff ere d, an d eas i er i n va l ue . Beans W ,O very firm. Indian corn fully Is per qr cheaper. BURTON. ON-TRENT—TuunsveY. to 4 ,q 8 A fair show of wheat at our market, and w o quote a s cla; cline of Is ptr qr upon former rates. Barley scarce,, ; met . with a iolerale active demand. Oats steady. 13°411 readily found buyers at fully late rates Old white wheat..42s to 46s 1 Old red wheat,' ~.378 ..40s to P . : New do. .. 46s to 50s I New do. Malting barley....32s to 35s I Oats. ........ 19s to 27 2 i Grinding d0.....26s to 30a I Beans . ............. 348 to 4 BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. There was a fair supply of English wheat at market to day, and last week's prices were is per qr lower. Baflr" steady, and oats show an upward t e ndency. Br au t ; d -1 4 E" O ' s —Eng a lish wheat was sold at 44 s t o 50 a for white , s o to to 46s per 36 stone for red, B a rl e y, new rnal"g' 30 per3Bs :3 p o er eto q n r e ; ; g l r r in is d h i , ng 2 , oB 24 to s Oats,2tots.26sßens,42s to 44s old, 2 4 s t° 3 qr s P Peas, 37s to 40s per 36 stone.. MONMOUTH—TuEsDAY. both nd The local markers have been well attended by buyers and sellerE during the last six or seven deVo a . business h a s b een d one at a b out f ormer rates. Th e av rage quotations are as followe:::: 3 94 Wheat, white 55 3d t o 5 s lld I Barley..•• • • 35 4d to 2' s 64 Ditto Od to Os Od j Oats ....... 2s 3d to EDINBURGH GRAIN—WEDNEsn AV. To. day th ere was a very l arge su pply of country wheat which sold slowly at is decline on last week's prices. Wheat on the top Os 6d down average Os 8d down. Barley on the top is Od down . Oats on the top 2 s 6d a own ...avera ge Beans on the top Os ed down ..average is 3d dow n. Average Prices. 218 3d Wheat 4os 7d I Oats. ...... . avera ld Barley 3os 6d I Beans 4 ls 03 ge 0 0 se 6(ldownww Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ...15 , 7 qr 5........ Sold 873 qrs 3191 qr 5........ Sold 1235 q rs Oats y• 189 qr 5........ Sol d 133 q rs 8ean5........ 177 qrs ........ Sold 115 qrs OLASGO W—WEDNESDAT. Our market was thinly attended by farmers and dealers. The show of wheat was moderate, and prices for both flour and wheat receded about 3d per barrel and boll. Other do acriptiuns of grain and meal without quotable change. THE VALUE OF PROPERTY IN THE CITY.—At the Grocers' Benevolent Society's meeting on Monday it was stated that persons were bidding very large sums of mono/ for the London Tavern, and that very lately as much fal £lOO,OOO had been offered for it,—The Grocer. Births. LEGGE.—On the 1.1 inst., at Leamington Spa, the l icni Mrs. Geo. Legge, of a son. RoLPH.—On the 2d inst., at Croydon, Mrs. T. 0. 1010 of a daughter. STorronn.—On the 2d inst., at Chatham, the wife of CAP t. W. J. Stopford, of a daughter. Marriages. LA 3II3 —COX.—On the 3d inst., at Christ Church, Nig h ' bury, Charles Lamb, Esq., of Highbury New-park, tl Eliza Esther, only daughter of Benjamin Cox, Bell! ° Bath Lodge, Reading. FLETCHER—KNIGHTS —On the 4th inst., at St. l‘larY'll, Kensington, George Rutter, son of William D. Fletcher; Eeq , of Morden Lodge, Maidenhead, to Emma, elder daughter of Samuel S. Knights, Esq. Deaths. FERRIER.—On the 3d inst., Mi,s M. J. Ferrier, aged 35 ;t FURNESS.—On the 3d in s t., M r. Robert Furness, of .9.1"" Leonard, Shoreditch, aged 81. GROVE.—On the 2d lust ,at K incardine Castle, F erth‘ shire, Francis Grove, Capt. R.N,. aged 65. MERCERON.—On the Ist inst., at Bethnal—green , /d eur/. Merceron, Esq., aged 74. SMITII.—On th e 2d i nst., at C o l e b rooke, T un b r idge ; 111°0 ' Mr.Su Smith, George Eon t Eq., " h T e a y g l 3 e e i r d : n agod 4 6 5 5 ; T YT,n i it. ~ at 3. Trafalgar Lodge, Greenwich, ur kitt WYATT.—On th e 34 i nst.. at Blackheath. Robert B Wyatt, E sq ., l ate of Gosfield, Essex, age d 31. WYLTE.—On the 24 inst,, at 8, The Grove , Claphag ‘ common, John Wyli e , ksq., aged 85. _ s. London: Pritaed and PrNlslied by WILLIASI D oh ; ;v of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE SUN OffiCe 1 "' o f Strand. •nth.• Precinct of the lavoy, n the C'untY AILIALIes Fr.dxy, August 5, Met