The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-01 00:00:00

Mr. Bazley, M,1 3 , and his Constituents, Mr Bazley, M.P., for Manchester, met his cone stituents in the Free.trade-hall on Tuesday even.. ing. It has not been customary for the members for Manchester to give an annual address to their lecal friends and supporters on the prominent gees tioas of the time, as is done in many towns ; but in the years prior to the election of 1857, when Mr Milner Gibson and Mr Bright were unseated, the practice was subetantially observed by their attendance at great political gatherings held each winter at the Freeetrade-hall, the Corn Exchange, or the Albion Hotel. If any dissatisfaction might be supposed to hare existed at the absence of many opportunities since then of receiving from the members. for the city a review of Parliamentary affairs in the form of a speech, the idea would hardly be borne out by the limited attendance on Tuesday evening. Up to within a few minutes of the time of commencing the proceedings not more than 200 persons were present, The number after• wards increased to upwards of 1,500, but the hall was at no period of the evening half filled. The spacious platform was quite empty until the chair was taken by Sir E.Armitage. Mr Be zley on his entrance was very cordially received. Among the gentle men who then and subsequently made their appear• ance on the platform were Mr George Wilson, Mr Alderman Mackie, Mr Alderman Nicholls, Mr Alder man Re Neill, Mr M. Ross, Mr T. Mosley, Mr F. Taylor, Dr. Watts, Mr S. Giles, Mr Alderman Goadsby, Mr S, Pope, Mr T. Clegg, Mr R. Rumney, and Mr Councillor Thompson, Mr BAILEY, who was much cheered, addressed the meeting at great length. He said he had en. deavoured since his return to Parliament to give effect to those Liberal principles which he had en. gaged to support. After speaking of his vote for the abolition of church rates, he referred to the reduction of taxation. He had voted with the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the repeal of taxation to the amount of £10,000,000, without detriment to the national revenue. He objected both to an intermed• dling foreign policy and to a system of levying upon the mother country the expenses of our colonies, which were rich enough to support themselves. In our dependencies abroad there had been aggressions from time to time which had received his condem nation. He feared, as in the case of New Zealand, that some of our countrymen were not altogether free from the charge of an attempt to abstract the inheritance of the aborigines. He regretted that eve did not so direct oar national councils as to de velope more effectually the resources of the East In dies. We sent Europeans to:manage that great des pendency, where the people were quite capable of managing themselves, and he had no doubt the time would come when they would direct their own men. tal powers to the government of their own country. Happily we had given to our colonies the means of self-government; they had Constitutions freer than our own ; they had a- franchise more extensive than our own ; and in many of them vote by ballot had been constitutionally established. (Applause.) But in connexion with the East Indies in particular there was a very grave and lamentable feature. We were holding that vast possession at the present time more by the power of the English army than by the cordial support of the people, although he was happy to acknowledge that by a wiser course of government pursued during the last few years the affections of the native Hindoos were more attached to us than they have been in former times. Still there remained the lamentable fact that we were holding India chiefly by the support of a European army, and the 80,000 men we had there, sent from the United Ringdom, were diminishing in numbers year by year fall 10 per cent. They might rely upon it this year the 80,000 men have diminished by 8,000 men. They had to be replenished by re. mita from this country, and next year, by deaths and other causes, another diminution of 8,000 men would take place, and so on year by year. This was a sacrifice of human life not needed. He be lieved if we governed India wisely and well there would be found to be a force there capable of de fending its own shores and everything that was valuable within its territory. The hon. member then proceeded to enumerate some of the fruits of our free-trade policy, showing the enormous increase in our exports and imports in the last 20 yearn. He pointed to this as a triumph for industry which had been emancipated. At the present mo ment our foreign trade might be represented by an export of manufactures, and by other products, the result, of labour, amounting to £150,000,000 ster ling. In that sum he was excluding the exports of colonial produce, arid of course of gold aed silver and other extraneous things that left the country. lle was only referring now to the employment of the people in this country, who had contributed by their labour and productions to the extent of 150 millions sterling in value that had left our shores in the form of exports. Ho wished to give a very prac• tic-al application to this subject, because we- had among us many people who said that perhaps the mere transference of colonial produce did not come strictly within the reward that industry ought to obtain for labour. Therefore, he was bringing be . - fore them prominently the mere result of labour. in the various manufactured articles that left us. He did not hesitate to declare his conviction that our exports of foreign comforts now were contributing to the subsistence of one-third of her Majesty's po pulation in the United Kingdom. To do our colo nies justice, he must tell them that they took from us about one-half of our exports, and in return they. gave us about one-third of our imports. Of course the baiancee were paid for in bullion by other means, but it was gratifying to find that of the labour expended on our foreign trade our colonies took one-half the produce, and sent in return one third the useful products we received into the country. (Cheers.) After a reference to the well known figures of the increased trade with France consequent on the commercial treaty (which elicited cheers for Mr Cobden), the hon. member said there was no doubt national prosperity had greatly in creased since the remissions by Sir R. Peel and Mr Gladstone of 1,163 articles of customs' duty, but unfortunately the increase of prosperity had been accompanied by increased extravagance. In per sonal expenditure the rich might do very much what they liked with their own, and the governing classes of this country were chiefly the rich people among us; but the poor contributed to an immense extent towards the revenue of the ccuntry, and therefore, dealing with the income that we derived we should be careful that we did not lavishly spend the earnings of those who could well and perhaps more profitably employ them than we could by ab stracting them for public extravagance. (Cheers.) He considered the increase of 15 millions a year in the coat of our national defences since 1833-4 as unnecessary, and he characterised it as a source of almost wilful waste. We had positively been pour lug our treasure into the sea. We had been raising fortifications upon some points of our coast, and enlightened engineers said that those fortifica tions would be comparatively useless, because no wise or cautious enemy would, if ever it should be contemplated to invade this country, enter under powerful batteries and attack us at our strong points. If we were to continue this system of de fence, we must come back to Bishop Berkeley's sug gestion of having a brass wall (laughter) round the whole shores of the kingdom (cheers and laughter), and we knew well that would be a practical impos sibility. It was quite true that we had been lavish ing money Very extravagantly through the agency of various engineers, He had seen often enough by the Manchester papers that a "long firm" came to their city occasionally, cropping out here and there, and abstracting sums of money that would be very muc h better left at home. Well, he very much feared that we had had a " lon g firm," that he should designate as Armstrong and Company— (laughter) —who-had been abstracting from the public tree. Bury large sums of money which had very muc h better have been left to fructify for the advantage of the people. It was not his intention to calum niate or to injure the reputation of Sir W. Arm strong, or those immediately connected with him, in reference to his labours upon his great gun and other mechanical contrivances; bat in London the other day he was told by a very high naval autho rity that in all probability the engineering services —the gunnery—of Sir W. Armstrong would prove ultimately to be perfectly useless t o the country. (Hear, bear.) We hod been spending, through Sir W. Armstrong, probably something like .£3,e00,000 sterling, and in all probability we had to begin de novo. Well, we had a number of ti ese con jurors—(laughter)—competing with ez ch other, telling us they had sundry contrivan that would make us invulnerable. Their contrivances were, in fact, to take money out of the national Treasury —(hear)--and he hoped that there would be some corrective influence exerted that would stem the tor rent that seemed to have set in. He would do justice to two of our own eminent citizens—Mr. Whitworth and Mr Fairbairn ; and he believed that if these distinguished engineers had been called into cone fidence some years ago, and had given wise sug gestions, such as they were capable of, many millions might have been spared to the Exchequer. (Cheers.) Let them not understand him as being unfavourable to the reasonable defence of the coun try ; on the contrary, he was favourable to the maintenance of the safety of the empire, but he was decidedly opposed to all wilful waste and ex travagance. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) With the increase of the prosperity of the United Kingdom, there, no doubt, had been a vast increase in trade, commerce, and industry in every possible form, and he was exceedingly happy in being able to express his conviction that the cotton trade had partaken, in common with other trades, in the amazing pros perity consequent upon the changes that had been effected in our fiscal system and the repeal of the corn laws. Twenty years ago we were consuming about 28,000 bags of cotton per week. We had gone on increasing until at the present moment, if we had a supply of the raw material of good quality such as the United States formerly supplied, he be. lieved our power of consumption would be quite equal to 56,000 bags per week. It was quite true that in 1860 we only consumed about 48,500 bags per week, but such had been the confidence of men of capital in the resources of the country, that new mills had been building, old mills had been im proved, and all in the hope that a better time was coming, and that ample supplies of cotton would be brought to fill those vast fabrics of industry, and lead to the increasing prosperity of the country. He deplored with them that the great calamity had oca curred in America that had intercepted the supply of cotton. But we were now dependent on our own resources, and unless we did look at th© cultivation of cotton in our own colonies and vast posses sions he feared that this industry would have to suffer very considerable inconvenience for a great length of time. He was sure he had no occasion to repeat to them what he had often stated—that the possessions of Great Britain contained more land capable of producing excellent cotton than any other territory on the face of the earth, (Hear.) There• fore if our colonial exertions were wisely directed, we should be enabled to obtain from the colonies cotton in abundance, and of a quality equal to any that was ever grown. He defended himself and his colleague (Mr J. A. Turner) from accusations of neglect of the question of cotton supply, not only by reference to the part they had taken in public agitation on the subject for many years, but by the fact that they were both personally interested in undertakings for the production of cotton in India or elsewhere. He (Mr Bazley) stood before them not with the golden prospects in return for these exertions, but with losses in various forms, for the originators of many schemes, however sound and excellent they might be, were frequently the first to suffer until the new industry was fairly esta blished. (Hear; hear.) In the storming of a citadel there was always a forlorn hope that led the way, but we know this t the men who first plunge into the citadel frequently become the victims of their bravery, and of their absolute determination to be victors. And so it was frequently enough with those who led on the career of social improvement —that while they were sacrificing their own ims mediate interests they ware promoting the ultimate good of those by whom they were surrounded. (Ap plause.) He should give his attention'to this sub ject, and it would be his endeavour, so far as in his power, to contribute to the independent and abun dant supply of cotton for this very great industry in which they were all interested. (Hear.) The next subject to which he referred was one too much over looked—the necessity of legal reforms_ He spoke of the absurdity of passing separate sets of laws for the three portions of a " united kingdom"— (hear) —ho referred to local discrepancies, such as those between the municipal government of the city of London and that of the Weeteind; also to the non reception of living evidence in cases of business contracts. As the matter stood, the inej3rity of transactions on the Manchester I?,xchange were illegal, and could not be sustained in a court of law, because there was no written contract. We also needed common standards of weights and measures throughout the country. (Applause.) Adverting to the Parliamentary proceedings of last session, he was glad the Government had kept out of war on the Danish question, although no doubt aggres sions had been committed which we all regretted and condemned. We could not in this country undertake the police of Europe. (Applause.) Nor would it be right to interfere in any way in Ame rica. (Applause.) He preferred the retention of power by a Government inclined to a peaceful policy, because a peaceful policy is most consistent with - economy. In spite of our difficulties or de ficiences our people had much improved in social position during the last 20 years, and especially in respect of education. He maintained very strongly the conviction that nothing less than municipal education—by local rates—would meet the wants of our time. (Applause.) During the last few months there had been a cry that middle-class educa tion ought to receive more attention. He confessed himself very much surprised by the clamour that was raised, for when we recollect that judges who adorned our bench, that bishops who sat in the House of Lords, and that some of the most eminent men in the country had sprung from the middle class, he did not think that that class need excite the sympathy either of the Legislature or the public. The middle class had been the means of paying for their education, and, as a body, he believed they were obtaining the beat education of the kind for their children. He next came to the most important subject on which he had to speak—that of Parliamentary re form. (Cheers.) Both the great rival parties of the State, the Conservatives and the Liberals, were pledged to a reform in the representation of the people. Their promises, he regretted to say, were unfulfilled, and he thought that the non-faifiment of those promises had produced a corrupting influ ence on the minds of the people, and were destroy ing to a great extent public confidence. (Hear.) He very much feared that there was design in the with holding of these promises, for it had been discovered that promises retarded more than denials did. He quoted some of the statistics of anomalies in the re presentation, as shown by the numbers of Popula tion in places returning- members. There were 77 boroughs in England —not in the entire United Kingdom—containing 535,388 inhabitants, and which returned 'llB -members to Parliament. The average number of inhabitants contained in these 75 boroughs were 7,165. Now, there were 59places with 782,545 people, or an average of 13,263 inhae bitanta, that did not send to Parliament a single member. (Shame.) Just look at Manchester and Liverpool. There were 801,917 inhabitants in these two great cities, and we sent four members to Par liament. Those four members were met by the 118 members sent up by the 537,388 inhabitants from the 75 places to which he had referred. He did not know how such an inconsistency could be for a mo ment defended or maintained. To put the thing in extreme contrast, let him remind them that there was one borough io this England of ours—Honiton —which contained only 3,301 inhabitants, that posi tively sent two members to Parliament, so that the two members for Honiton had the power with their 3,301 people, of negativing the votes and the voices of the two members for Manchester, who had nearly half a million of people to represent. We must have this state of things amended. (Cheers.) There were all sorts of contrivances made for the purpose of diverting the attention of the people from their main interests, and now there was a clamour raised that " interests" in this country should be represented, and not the people. What a mystification was that! What interest had we in this country, but such as are identified with the welfare and the happiness of the people of every land ? (Cheers.) 'Why, our forefat e'b, they knew, wore shoe-buckles and keee.buck,ie Would they resuscitate the buckle interest ? (Laughter.) Would they reward the descendants of those- who made buckles? The thing was absurd. We must change our labour and our pursuits according to the wants of the age in which we lived. Why, he had passed the little village of Bolsover, which was a little ruined place, where once the sound of the hammer resounded in the making of those buckles. It was a deserted village ; we could not think of calling into existence such a place as that. how absurd it would be if we were to say to the crinoline interest that, when the ladies abandoned those absurdities, the crinoline interests should be perpetuated in this country. (Laughter.) Well, he was sure that those who would separate the interests of the people from the people themselves had not given consideration to the practical results that would arise out of such a distinction. We existed as a nation, and when we spoke of ourselves we did not speak of our buil s ings, towns, or cities, but of the people who inha bited this great and free country; and it was for the people we must legislate, and legislate wisely and well. (Applause.) They contended not for in• terest in any form, but contended for justice for all, from the peer down to the lowest peasant. Very much to the honour of Manchester and Lancashire, when we were engaged in contending for fiscal re form and repeal of the Corn laws, there was a public declaration made in the Chamber of Commerce in this city that if manufacturers had any protection whatever before they sought the repeal of the Corn• ?.aws, they were prepared to tell the Legislature that they would surrender protection to the extent it might exist, and that they would seek from the Legislature, with clean hands, the repeal of those obnoxious laws, Now, he did wish that their aris■ tocratic fellow-subjects would say to them and the great body of the people, "We have no interest in this exclusive position in the election of members to the House of Commons ; we surrender to the people the rights of the people, and henceforth we will cease to nominate members of Parliament who shall make laws for the great mass of the people." Let the masses of the people elect their own mem• bars, and then there would be something of fitness, something of harmony, existing among all classes of the community. (Loud cheers.) A vote of confidence in Mr Bazley was passed unanimously. Mr, Leveson Gower, 111.1)„ and his Constituents, REIGATE, Wednesday: Mr. Gower, the member for this borough, last night addressed a large body of his constituents in the public hall—the Mayor presiding. The hon. gentleman said he appeared before his constituents for the purpose of showing how far he had acted in accordance with the promises made by him during his canvass, and how far he deserved the confidence which they had been pleased to repose in him. It had been frequently said that the last two sessions had been unproductive and barren—that members of Parliament had had an easy, time of it. If the meaning of that assertion was, that no great organic changes had taken place, and that the country had not been involved in any war, it was fair and true. But if they looked at the gradual but steady remission of taxation which had taken place during that period—if they looked at the wise and salutary measures which had been adopted to mitigate the distress in the north—if they looked at the changes which bad been made in the educa tional system of the country—if they looked to such measures as the Government Annuities Bill, the Penal Servitude Act, and other measures of the kind, they could not say that the last two sessions had not been productive of any wise and useful measures. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to state the part which he had taken in various measures which had been submitted to the consideration of Parliament. He was returned to Parliament unfettered, generally speaking, not as a delegate but as a representative. His friends were good enough not to require pledges from him, but he pledged himself to support the Liberal party and Liberal measures in the House of Commons. He was pledged to vote for the abolition of Church rates, and bound himself to vote against the introduction of the Ballot, and proposed to show how far he had carried out his promises. Soon after he had taken his seat in February, 1803, Mr Hat': fi :Id introduced the Q ualification for Offices Abolition Bill, by which it was proposed to abolish certain declarations required by persons holding civil offices. That was a liberal measure which he felt bound to support. (Hear hear.) He also sup ported the Affirmations Bill, the object of which was to substitute deel,aWions for oaths in certain cases—and another liberal measure, by which Mr Bouverie proposed to amend the Act of Uniformity. (Hear.) When a proposition was made for an in. quiry into the game laws, he voted for that proposi tion. But there were some other measures which he thought wrongly associated with the Liberal party —which he thought his duty to oppose. Among these was the Burials Bill, proposed by Sir Morton Pete, and his (Mr Gower's) opinion was confirmed by the house, for the bill was rejected by a majoa rity of 272, against 92. Ile did not at all deny the right of Dissenters to be buried in churchyards, but he did not think it right to require that other services than the Burial Service of the Church should be read in the churchyard, and the great fault of the bill was whether a discretion with re spect to such burials was to be left to the clergyman of the Church. If an act was required to be done by law it ought to be ordered by law, and not left to the discretion of a person who by the exercise of that discretion might incur odium and aversion. (Hear, bear.) Another measure, introduced by Mr Gregory, the member for Galway, for opening the National Garden in Edinburgh on Sundays, was in opposition to the wishes of a great majority of the inhabitants of that borough. Although that measure might have been a harmless measure, yet, as it might have tended towards the opening of other places of amusement on Sundays, he voted against it, and it also was rejected by the house. He now came to the question of church-rates, the total abolition of which he had pledged himself to vote. The numbers in favour of Sir I. Trelawny's bill were 273, and against it 283. True to the promise which he had given, he voted with the minority. Two other mesa sures on the same subject were subsequently intro duced—one by Mr Newdegate, for the commutation of church rates, and the other by Mr Alcoa, tor the redemption of church rates. Neither of these bills appeared to him to meet the exigencies of the case, and he voted against them. The bill for the comm. tation of church rates had been revived this year, and met with the same fate as it had experienced on a former occasion. Sir J. Trelawny had declined to introduce his bill again. Whether any other champion could be found to introduce such a mea. sure he knew not, but if one should be introduced he should adopt the same course which he followed on the previous occasion. (Cheers.) With respect to the ballot, he divided against it, object ing to it, as he did, on principle. The number of votes in favour of Mr. Berkeley's measure was 102, and the number against it 122. These num. bars formed a striking contrast to the division on the:church-rate question, and showed the little prac tical importance that was attached to the ballot in the country. He was not present at the division, but the next best thing to voting against a bill was to pair against it, and he paired with Mr. Langton, the colleague of Mr. Berkeley. When a bill was proposed for the purpose of introducing the ballot into municipal elections he voted against the measure as he had done against the larger one. Passing from the session of 1863 to that of 1864 (the events of which were fresh in the memory of all pre• sent) they would recollect that it was wound up by one of taken ofthe most exciting and eloqu en t d e b a t es w hi c h place of late years._Having:referred to the American and Danish questions, the hon.gentleman went on to notice a measure, his conduct with respect to which had excited some dissatisfaction. It was impossible for any member to please all his consti tuents on every vote he might give. Some hon. members,when they could not please their constitue cuts, adopted the plan of not voting at all. Now, that was a coarse which he never could adopt. (Hear, hear.) The question to which he had just referred was the Oxford Teats Abolition Bill, and , he hoped to be able to show he had acted honestly, tied according to "his convictions. The bill'conteined two provisions, totally and essentially distinct. The first prov:sion watild have admitted persons not be longing to the Church o► England to the degree of Master of Arts without taking the declaration BOW required. The provision :was not limited to Dissen.. ters, but would have admitted Roman Catholics, Jews, and any other class. The government of the University of Oxford was carried on by Convoca tion, consisting of Masters of Arts, residents and nonresidents, by whom the rules and orders go■ verning the University were framed. The teaching of the University was strictly a religious teaching, and if the measure had been passed, persons who were not members of the Church of England would have been admitted into the governing body. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a long speech on the second reading of the bill, stating that it proposed to do with respect to Oxford what had been done with respect to Cambridge; but that was a false assumption, for the bill went a great deal farther than the measure with respect to Cambridge. The right hon. gentleman, however, contended that the governing body must be kept in the hands of the Church. Sir George Grey in voting for the second reading disavowed doing so on the ground that its principle was a severance between the Church and the University. Mr Dodson declined making any al. teration in the bill,and on the third reading the Chan• cellor of the Exchequer voted against it, and Sir G. Grey walked out of the house without voting at all. He (Mr Gower) objected to the bill, and voted against the second reading. Ho was of opinion that some relief was required with respect to the University of Oxford. The members, of that University, by opposing all just and wise con.. cessions, had brought these difficulties upon them selves. The University of Cambridge had' origi. nated a measure for the relief of Dissehters. A Dissenter was allowed to become a Master of Arts, but he was not allowed to become one of the go verning body. He would concede to every one— Roman Catholics as well as others—the right to vote for members of the University of Oxford, and believed that such a measure would be satisfac tory to the Nonconformists throughout the country. (Hear, hear.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer had suggested that there might be separate halls and colleges. Perhaps the plan might be adopted, but he did not think it would be proper to in terfere with the just rights snd privileges of the Church of England. (Hear, heir.) He now came to a measure on which he had been mis• understood, and respecting which he desired to give some explanation. Two measures had been intro duced for closing public-houses on Sundays. They had been rejected by the House, and very wisely so. On both occasions he voted in favour of the intros duction of the measure, but on both occasions he voted against the second reading. He voted for the introduction of the measure because he thought that any person who could deal effectually with drunken ness would deserve well of his country. That was the great source of crime, and there was no height in social position or intelligence to which the work ing classes might not arise if they were not kept back by its deadly influence. At the same time he did not think that the remedy was to be found in legislation, but in the working classes themselves. (Hear.) His reason for voting for the introduction of the measure was that he wished to challenge a furl discussion of the subject. He thought it would be useful in turning the attention of the working classes to its great importance ; and more than that, he could not be indifferent to the number of petitions from the working classes praying that the temptation might be removed from their path. But the measure proposed was practical, because the subject could not be dealt with by law, and because the bill presented the anomaly of refusing the poor man his glass of beer while the rich man was left to act just as he pleased. (Hear, hear.) With respect to s the questiOn of reform, he believed that it excited some interest among the working classes, although there was no great manifestation of feeling at the present moment. (Hear, hear.) Daring the last Session two measures were introduced, one of them by Mr. Locke King, to lower the county franchise to £lO, the other, by Mr Baines, to lower the borough franchise to £6. He thought it would be wrong to infer, from these measures having been rejected by the House, that the working men were indifferent to the question of reform. He believed they were alive to the difficulties with which it was surrounded, but it appeared to him that the advance of know• ledge and intelligence in the country required a further extension of the franchise. (Hear, hear.) It was not reasonable to suppose that a system which held good in 1832 ciuld be equally good in 1864. (Hear, hear.) He was not prepared to say what exact measure of reform should be proposed—at what limit the county or borough franchise should stop. But ho thought that before long the Govern ment would have to deal with the question of re form, and he was clearly of opinion that the conduct of the working men in the north of England had given them a title to the enjoyment of the franchise which they had never possessed before. (Cheers.) Charge against a Gentleman of Obtaining Jewellery by False Pretences. Arthur Bootle Wilbraham, holding the commission of ensign in the Coldstream Guards, was summoned to the Marlborough-street Police-court before Mr Tyrwhitt on two charges—one for having obtained jewellery of the value of £3,100 from Mr Harry Emanuel, jewellcr, of Bond-street, and jewellery of the value of £1,1.00 from Mr Hancock, jeweller, of Bond-street, by false and fraudulent pretences, Mr Giffard was for the prosecution; Mt Metcalfe for the defendant; and Mr Sleigh, instructed by Mr E. Lawrence, of Waterloo-place, watched the cas3 on behalf of Mr Itobt. Morris. Mr Giffard said the history of the case was this. On the 4th of February of this year Mr H. Emanuel received a note from the defendant requesting that diamond bracelets, ear rings, &c., to the value of about £2,000, :might be sent to him for inspection at the officers' guard room at the Horse Guards, One of Mr Emanuel's assistants, named Streeter, was sent with jewellery corresponding inquality and amount to that ordered by the defendant. The defendant made a statement to Streeter during that interview, which was that he was engaged to be married to a rich heiress, that the articles of jewellery were for her, and that he was going down by the three o'clock train the next day for the purpose of presenting the jewellery to ;her. The de fendant obtained,--goods to the extent of £3,140, and in considering the question of fraud it was material to see what it was the defendant intended to do with the jewels— give them to his assertekbride, or apply them to the relief of his own neopesities by raising money upon them. When the defendant,obtained Hee jewels, on the same day or within a very short time afterither444-Mr Emanuel's possession, the defendant executed an, agreement with Mr Morris, making the bill of parcels of Mr Emanuel the schedule of the agreement for money advanced to him on the goods. This fact spoke more emphatically as to the character of the transaction than anything ho could possibly say, Since the original transaction the defendant had been made a bankrupt, and this Would perhaps help to convince the court that when the defendant obtained the jewels he had not the means of paying for them, nor intended to pay for them, but that he from the first, in case he got• them, purposed to apply them to his necessities. Mr E. W. Streeter, manager to Mr Emanuel, then kayo evidence, stating that he waited upon the defendant, and supplied him with the jewellery, which he stated was for a lady he was about to be married to. By Mr Metcalfe—lf we did not think the transaction quite correct we should not let a young gentleman have goods unless he was going to be married. Mr Emanuel said, "I would rather not serve you if you are not going to be married." A bill was drawn for the amount, and three months after the defendant renewed the bill. I was present when the defendant renewed it, a day or two before it came to maturity. There has been, more than one renewal. On the first renewal two bills were given, one for £1,500, and the other for £1,650, The defendant said his father was going to pay the £1,600 bill as a present to the young lady. The first bill was for £3,100, and before it became due the defendant called to have it put into two. The defendant did not say that he had told his father that he owed £1,500 for jewellery, and that was the reason why he wanted the bill for £1,500 to show his father. He had no recollection of it. He said his father would come and take up the bill for £1,500. Mr Emanuel went to the defendant's father. I have not seen the bills given on renewal. (Some bills were produced.) I believe thosenre the bills. The amount is increased £6O for interest, but defendant had also bought an emerald ring in the meantime—the ri.,g was bought for the wedding also. It is usual to give three rings in the upper circles in cases of matrimony—a ruby, emerald, and a dia mond. I believe the defendant gave one bill for the whole for £3,500. I did not tell the defendant, but I believed he had been having bills oat. Defendant asked me if I could tell him where he could borrow some money. I cannot say when that was, as he used to , come in occasionally. It did not concern me. I said, "Don't go to money lenders—an insurance office is the best thing." I will not swear that I did not mention the name of Davis. Messrs Lawrence, Flews, and Boyer are the solicitors for the prosecution. I know Mr Davis, of Clifford-street. I don't know that he is an attorney. • I don't know that he is a money lender. I should not know you were a coun sel if you called, without you said so. I will swear I told the defendant to go to an insurance office, but I have no recollection of sending him to Mr Davis. I have not sent young men to Mr Davis to borrow money. To the best of ray recollection I sent defendant to an insurance office. I have never taken goods round to persons, volun teering to let them have them. I never take them until they are sent for. I have not left goods with servants to show their mistresses without being sent for. I took an assort ment of goods consisting of jewellery, to defendant, and I sold him £3,000 worth. if he thought proper to give the lady £2,000 more than his note stated that was nothing to me. We had done a little business before with him. We knew hie family, and we knew that his father lived in Brook-at roe t. Mr Harry Emanuel was then examined, and he stated that he certainly should not have parted with his goods had not defendant stated that ho was going to marry a rich heiress. Mr It Morris, Carlton-chambers, Regent-street—l know the defendant. I saw him on Feb. sth at my then office in Sackville-street. I give him a check for £1,700, defendant owing me £1,300 at the time. This made the whole debt £3,000. I took a memorandum and security of jewels. I made a list of articles in the casket. (Agreement here put in and read. It was to the effect that the defendant, in con sideration of a check of £1,700 and, his two bills for £650 each, agreed to secure the amount, £3,000, by the deposit of jewels. and in default of payment Mr Morris was autho rised and , empowered to sell the jewels and convert the amount to the repayment of the £3,000.) The whole of the jewels in the casket were stated to be worth about £2,200. Mt' Metcalfe—For which a charge of £4OOO was made. Mr Morris—The £2,200 was tho value in the trade. I offered them to Mr Attenborough, as I am no judge of these things. Mr Giffard— , That is my case, Mi. Metcalfe, for the defence; denied that a misrepresent. tation of existing facts had taken place. Mr Tyrwhitt—The case stands on this foundation. Did he or did he not state anything which in another court would be held to be 'a pre-existing fact ? All the convic tions Which I can put my, finger upon contain what is a clear falsehood as to fact. But as to this assertion about the heiress, how can I say it is not so with the evidence before me? The fact is, the parttes thought only about payment. If the father would not pay some one else would—they did not care who. Mr Metcalfe—They feared the defendant going into the Bankruptcy Court, and they wrote to put on the screw somewhere. Mr Tyrwhitt—l entertain strong doubts on the matter, but this is not tbe court for the solution of those doubts. It the bankruptcy had not intervened these proceedings would never have been heard of. Bills having been given for the amount due to the complainant, that very much alters the complexion of the case so far as the moral aspect is con cerned. It is certain that the complainant, who was con tent to take bills, looked to the civil remedy as the means of getting his money. I must send the case before a jury cer tainly. The defendant was committed on bail in two sureties of £3OO each. The second charge of obtaining goods from Mr Hancock, was adjourned till next week. The Loss of the Brilliant Steamer. OFFICIAL REPORT. To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trado, My Lords,— We the undersigned, two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Edinburgh, have held an official investigation into tha circumstances attend ing the loss of the steamer Brilliant, upon he South llenoit Rock, off the Island of Inchkeith, on the evening of the Ist inst. In this inquiry we have been assisted by Captains Harris and Baker as Nautical AssessorS, and have now the honour to report that the Brilliant was a paddle wheel steamer, built at Glasgow in the year 1843, and registered at Leith of the burthen of 349 tons gross, and 22.) tons net, and of the combined high pressure of 250. She'was owned, as appears from her certificate of registry, by the Hull and Hamburg Steam-Shipping Company. The Brilliant left the Tyne at 5 45 a.m. of the Ist inst.,bound to Leith, with a gene ral cargo, a portion of which, consisting of rod iron, was car ried on deck. She was commanded by Mr James M'Donald, who holds a certificate of competency as master, dated Jan. 16, 1862, and had a crew of 17 hands all told, and about 62 forecabin passengers. The Brilliant passed inside the Bass Rock about 3 15 p.m. the same day, and at 4 p.m. she is represented as being abreast of the Fiddra, at a distance of one mile. The weather at this time was very hazy, and increased in density as the vessel approached Inchkeith. From Fiddra a west course was steered for about an hour at the rate of 8 knots, when it was altered to W by S far about half an hour, and the engines were slowed to half speed,,or about 51 knots. At 5 45 p.m. Inchkeith Light was seen though the mist,which by this time had becomo very dense, and which hung very heavy on tho horizon, so that the light was only seen at intervals. Some misgivings as to the position of the ship seems at this time to have crossed the m tiger's mind, for the helm was ordered to be starboarded in order to keep her more off the island, when immediately the ship struck, and the following morning became a total wreck. Such is the brief narrative of the facts attending the loss of the vessel, as collected from the evidence. In commenting upon them it is only necessary to point out that the channel through which the master intended to have passed is only one and one-third of a mile in width, and consequently extremely dangerous in thick weather, when the leading marks on Leith Pier are not visible, In this case, as the weather was moderate and calm, with a dense fog, very great cau tion became necessary, and the channel being so contracted, a very slight error in estimating_the distance of the vessel from the small island of Fiddra would be quite sufficient in thick weather, without great attention to the lead; which was in this case entirely neglected, to place the vessel in jeopardy either on the north or south side of the channel. It is much to be regretted that Mr M'Donald did not anchor his vessel when the fog became so thick as to prevent his seeing the leading marks. The neglect of these precautions constrains us to say that the Brilliant was lost by the default of her master; and we have therefore sen tenced Mr M'Donald, with the full concurrence of the Assessors, to have biS certificate of competency suspended for the space of six calendar months from this date.--We have, &c. WM. STEEDMAN, J.P. • TILOS. DISILINGTON, J.P. We concur in the above report, } Nautical Assessors. BAKER, Council Chamber, Leith, Nov. 25, 1864. Muller's Letter to his Parents, It is well known ttat after the condemnation of Franz Muller he wrote a letter to his pirents, and it has often been affirmed that in this docu ment he made no allusion to his guilt or innocence ; but a perusal of the annexed translation of the letter will show that this assertion, like so many others made for, by, and concerning him, is very wide of the truth Newgate, London, Nov. 1, 1861. Dearest Parents, Brothers, and Sisters, Friends, and Acquaintances•--With trembling hand and sorrowful heart I take up the pen to give you further particulars of my misfortune, which, in consequence of my disobedience towards you, dearest parents, has followed me, and has infinitely shortened the days of my life. I now plainly comprehend the sentence which stands written in the Bible—that whosoever does not honour his father and mother will be followed by an early detith; but 'I only see it now when it is too late. I hope, neverthelesss, you who were so dear to me will not discard me if all the world re pulse me. For hope ushers us into life, floats arounds the happy boy, animates youth with its magic light, and will not be buried with the grey-headed man, for if he climes , his weary career at the grave, yet at the grave he plants hope; and on this account I also hope that you will for give me with all your hearts. I will now briefly tell you how it happened that I am overtaken by an unexpected death, which, nevertheless, I do not deserve, but God often times punishes man by judgments which he does not d e serve, and that is now the case with me, in order to punish me for my evil deeds towards you, my dearest parents; for had I listened to you. and not proceeded to England this misfortune would not have befallen me, but it is now too late, and therefore I will say no more on that subject but will describe how it came about. I was at work with a per son called Louis Wild and became acquainted with his sis ter, Grace Mathews, and things proceeded so far that I meditated marrying her. As I was acquainted with her brother, John Mathews, it hOppened he bought a hat for me. Throu g h the purchase of this hat he brought me to my unexpected death, as I had given up acquaintanceship with IA sister. On July 9, 1864, a man was murdered in a railway iarriage. From him a watch, chain, and hat were taken at the same time, and another hat was left in the carriage, which hat was similar to the one which John Mathews had bought for me. A reward of 2,000 thalers was now offered for those who could give information respecting the murder. I had long previously resolved to go to Ame rica, as you yourselves know ; and therefore, on Monday, July 11, 1864, I went towards the office to pay my passage to America, and on the way a watch end chain were offered me, and I bought them, and as it afterwards appeared they were the watch and chain belonging to the gentleman who was murdered in the railway carriage on July 9. 1864. I left London for America on July 14, 1864, and reached New York on Aug. 24, 1864, and was there arrested because John Mathews had accused me of the murder, and consequently I was brought back to London. I could not now bring forward the man from whom I had bought the watch and chain, and John Mathews swore that tho hat which was left in the railway carriage was the hat he had bought for me on October 24, 1863. I was now required to say where I was on July 9, and also what I did ; yet the people said they could not remember, which might easily be the case after so long a time, and on this account I was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death ; but God the Al mighty knows I am innocent, and therefore I shall die in peace. I have now said all upon the subject which I can say, and will therefore end my letter, for I have nothing more to say. We must now part from one another for this world, therefore farewell for ever; nevertheless my fervent blessing follows you. I shall see you no more in this world and only in that world where there will be no more separa tion. Loving you sincerely here, I await with 1 urging heart the moment when we shall see one another in that world. In this hope I will conclude, but I pray, dearest parents, and brothers and sisters, that you will not be sorrowful, for I am tranquil and in peace, for what can give greater con solation than to be in affliction without guilt, and as it is also said in the Holy Scripture—Fear not they who can kill the body, fear rather much more who can destroy body and soul, and therefore I shall atone for the sins towards you of which I have been guilty, and then the Lord will also gra• ciously receive me. Time has been left mu till November 14, and therefore I write you some lines and send them as soon as possible in order that I may have peace, which I can only receive when you forgive me from ycur hearts, and that you will not refuse to me. In the hope that you wil not let my request be uncomplied with, I remain, your loving son and brother, FRAZ MurAnn, who was sold as a slave in London by John Mathews for 2,000 thalers." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—A report has lately been current of which the invention and circulation are highly creditable to the vigilance of those who keep a watch on our public departments. The statement was that the War.office had appointed a barrister at a salary of £l,OOO a year to revise its regulations, and the amount of indignation wasted on this imaginary job ought to be a salutary warning against the perpe tration of real ones. Good old-fashioned place-mon. gering must, indeed, be rare, when an unfounded rumour that a superfluous office of this value has been created excites so much scandal. Such a rumour, like a false alarm of fire on board ship, may serve to keep our officials up to the mark, but it is satisfactory, after all, to find that it is un. founded. ,No barrister of seven years' standing, or of any other standing, has been added to the overgrown establishment in Pallemall, and no permanent charge will have to be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund, What has happened comes to no more than this— that Mr. Hughes, a conveyancer, who had already been employed by the Office professionally, has been requested to classify, once for all, a tangled mass of "Regulations" which it requires a lawyer's mind to digest. We have reason to believe that the account of the matter furnished by Mr. Hughes himself to a weekly contemporary is the whole truth, and we therefore quote it verbatim :—" The present regulations governing the pay and allow. antes of the Queen's forces are scattered through six volumes" (containing, he might have added, - some 850 circulare and warrants), " out of which officers, soldiers, and all other persons interested have to pick the law as they best can. Mciny of the earlier of these regulations have been wholly or partially repealed by later ones, others are very obscure in their wording; in short, there is the greatest confusion on a subject which above all others should be as simple and clear as possible; as oar soldiers are the persons chiefly in. terested. The present Secretary of State for War, among other necessary reforms, has resolved on codifying and embodying in the most intelligible form in one Regulation all the Regulations, Memo randa,: and Circulars now in force as to pay and 41lovvincc-s. The codification has been begun in the Office, butqt has 'seemed clet.irab'e to the authorities there that some person outside the Office, ignorant of its traditions, - but familiar with this kind of work, should be employed to revise and (in conveyancing language) kettle the new Regulations." We need only add that Mr. Hughes,being the person selected for this task, will be paid for it "by the piece," and expected to complete it with all possible despatch. 'Phis is the very simple transaction which has been, trumped up into the proportions of a gross job. What the objection to it is we cannot even conjec ture. The inconsistencies of military law, so far as it is contained in War Office. Regulations, will certainly not be disputed by any one who has had occasion to test them by some individual case. The incompetence of War Office clerks to throw all these stray ordi% nances and rescripts, crossing and overlapping each other, into a methodical form, capable of being acted upon without injustice, cannot be doubted, without believing that their legal qualifications are superior to those of trained lawyers. Codification is notoriously a most difficult work—so difficult that many despair of effecting it on a large scale with the aid of all the rising Trebonians at the English Bar. There would be more sense in questioning Mr Hughes's capacity to make a perfect code out of these six volumes than in asserting that it can be done well enough with. out going out of the office. It might be worth while to consult the Civil Service Commissioners on this subject, and to ascertain whether their experience of examinations for clerkships in the War-office justifies any such opinion. It so, the sooner the abilities of gentlemen who without legal education possess its highest results are secured for the codification of our Common and Statute Law, the better for the country. Copying letters, and writing a precis of formal documents, is degrading drudgery for a constructive genius of such an order. We can only hope that Mr. Hughes, with the advantages which his censors affect to despise, may succeed in a very &rdtious and responsible undertaking. Every experiment in codification, however limited its range, has a special interest at the present time. The process must be the same, whether the materials be more or less voluminous and chaotic. An army of 100,000 men must be handled in much the same way as an army of 10,000 mon, if both are self-complete and indepen dent forces; and a code of English law would be nothing but a revised edition of separate digests. It is quite as absurd to maintain the impossibility of the greater work as to underrate the difficulty of the lees. It requires one extraordinary qualification, and one only—that of gauging the relative compre hensiveness of principles and subordinating the secondary to the primary. Legal studies, as now conducted, do not favour the development of this faculty, and great care would be needed to engage, if possible, the services of men who should combine it with deep learning and practical experience. Such persons, however, do exist among the many thousand members of the English bar, and we retain an un shaken conviction that the same time and a hundredth part of the money whichlvere exFetirded on the new Houses of Parliament would suffice for the comple tion of a f ir nobler and more durable fabric. But it c-innot be done without a number of " jobs " very similar to that mythical one which has just been "exposed." " Appointments" must be "created," with "emoluments' sufficient to remu nerate the ableat jurists that we can procure. These appointmenta must be given away by some one, ;And if they are given away by merit the party out Of office may say they are given away by favour. History does not inform us whether the same objec tions were made to the compilers of the famous Code which has become the type of imitation for all after times; but we have little doubt that they were, and will be, reiterated on like occasions, so long as the world lasts. The mare's nest in which Mr Hughey figures so prominently is but one of a lass which' has enveloped greater names than his, and obstructed more important reforms than this little scheme bf_Lord De Cfreyi ,„- Powe.---OT the various and numerous - material circumstances that affect the welfare of the labour ' ing classes in our larger towns, probably none ex• ercises an influence at once so strong, so direct, and so incessant 'as the condition of the dwellings in ;which they live. No doubt the condition of the dwelling depends very- much on the character of the inhabitants; but nevertheless, as character itself is developed and confirmed by external circumstances, these circumstances can never be a matter of indifference. The nature of the occupations of the labouring classes, healthy or unhealthy, refined or coarse, varies much as we move from family to family, and pass from one district to another, but it tells directly only on those who are actually and immediately engaged in the work. Generally the wife, and more universally the younger children feel its effects only indirectly. On the other hand all the members of the family are affected by the condition of their home ; husband and wife and children feel the influence of it, all of them in a very great degree, though some of them in a diffe rent way from the others. And here it is worth while to mention an important fact, to which wealthier persons often fail to give due weight in discussions concerning this subject. Accustomed as they themselves are, all of them, to several weeks' holiday :in the course of the year, and many of them to longer annual visits to the country or the seaside, they frequently underrate the influence of the dwellings of the poorer classes on their inha bitants, who have within their power no equal means of recruiting their energies and gathering in a store of health and strength. Seldom does the family of an artisan, very seldom does the family of a labourer, spend a period of twenty-four hours in anything like those scenes of fresh air and natural beauty which invigorate the bodily and mental powers, and are often not without a beneficial influence even on the moral sentie ments of those who are able to pass some weeks among them. One or two summer excursions of a few hours' duration is the utmost winch the families of the labouring class can enjoy. 'Many, perhaps most of them, not even this, and at night they are back again at home. if that home be of sufficient in size, comfortable in accommedation, and healthy in sanitary arrangements, then so - far well—but if it does not satisfy these conditions—and how often IS this the the cne ? ---tht2rz: sp:ings a nt3sv crop evil:, and we cannot hesitate to attribute the a gg r .: vated deg roe in which a number of specific W i tt miseries prevail to this prolific source of harm' 3 ,1 filthy and ill-ventilated dw e llin g lowers the 11 powers of its inmates ; it breeds disease, and the celerates the approach of death, It shortens , parents' lives, and diminishes their efficiency 8: workpeople whilst they are alive. It incr ease ; the number of unprotected or ;it raise s the rate of infaryine mortality ; i t reader those who survive a weaker and more unh ealth/ generation " mox daturos " Progeniem vitiosioreni." s ate Moreover, filthy and badly-ventilated dwelling, do are.apt to bring on an overpowering feeling c' pression, which engenders in its turn a morbid era .io ing for excitement, and this, combin e d with doulef' R ir discomfort, drives the inhabitants to misspend th r e o• money, waste their strength, and ruin thei,r, I , 3 ' h y spects for the sake of secu r in g t em p o rary role' an excessive indulgence in intoxicating 14 1 11° ve t Then, even though the home be cl e an and airitJt if it be insufficient in size for the re quiremea t . do the family who inhabit it—if it does not nre v ilo l er suitable accommodation for all its members -4t T evils arise on which we can only touch. quote the words of a writ er w h o ha s paid cons iue d able attention to this subject :—" In overeroWeeof dwellings the sense of delicacy, the instinct „ modesty which is at once the safeguard and th e ° c i d nament of the female character, is sadly Wea ken , by familiarity with things that offend delica,t; Young presons become prematurely familiar W.llOO improper ideas, and perhaps addicted to vi nary indulgences ; and sensual vice, sometimes of a v e b ; gross kind, is originated." For many Year s , %be subject has engaged the attention and tasked ' 0 efforts of the benevolent; and as it is in that P r t ; vince of houses called the metropolis that el e ., 0 crowding and neglect of sanitary measures b e es prevailed on the grandest scale, it has also 1 11 the field of the chief operation of the railer plans plans which have been adopted. The Se e '"„ for Improving the Condition of the Laboo rtw o , g Classes, founded in 1844, the Metropolitan A ee e ciation for Improving the Dwellings cf Industrious Classes, found e d i n 1848, the, Le' Industrious bower's Friend Society, and some other eitn" - 0 , associations, have done good service in two vie. l o ; by renovating old tenements and by erecting . I . t i proved dwellings. A few months ago the So cl° 4 of Arts published a short but interesting repor t Y e the statistics of these improvements in the 0 19 polis. We learn from it th a t m o r e than forty 0 , ferent sets or blocks of tenements have been r e l o vated or built in different parts of the metreltd°o and its suburbs to provide fit dwellings and I° . of ings ings for the working class. A certain degr e °,,, i t cheering success has attended these operations', very much still remains to be done, especially sin er metropolitan improvements of other kinds are sic e . o g ing away many of the habitations of the labeitrit; classes, and are therefore increasing the tendenclty, overcrowding in those that remain. Atnong i bio individuals who have interested themselves ill movement the names of the Prince Consort P - 0 , Miss Burdett Coutts may be mentioned, and es t P DO cially that of Mr George Peabody, who placed ill munificent sum of £150,000 in the hands of eeritTei trustees for the purpose of constructing imP r° b iirs dwellings for the London poorer classes, "cal l % of ing in the utmost possible degree the essentT E - 0 0 , healthfulness, comfor:, soci a l en joym en t, and nonay." l'he Peabody truste r s h ave a l rea dy er e- o et a large block of tenements in Spitalfields ; an ° ,oo in Islington is n ea rly com pl e ved ; an d WY bra' secured eligible sit es i n other quarters of the Iliad polis for future building. The experience the r ' cot of the last 20 pars affords reasonable groan" t eit entertaining the hope that some of the g n b, evils of our social state may be greatly mitigat e . o f the continuance and growt h of th e sa me cour e ` nr e wise liberality, on the part of various benefac i t ; which has already effected such exc e llent ree°,P-1 COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL-TUESDAY. Since our last a •somewhat limited business has w 0 done in the corn trade, and the transactions repor`:46 wheat show a further reduction, Red, 36s to 395 Per white, 40s to 425; old mixed, 40s; fine high:lnil, e .LA At our market to-day there was a fair supply of Ply wheat, which met a rather slow sale at the prices 0 week. Foreign wheat more active, at former priceo•klei Barley a tolerable sale, with little change in prices• oats is lower. Beans and peas as of late. NN—. t i ll' A good attendance LY of the trade at TUESDAY our corn niarlaid lay, and the supply of wheat was moderate, which 6° 09 14 fully last week's rates. Good malting runs of barley 0 ,4 steadily at about former values. Grinding sorts a B l ° W re d 0 at scarcely so much money. Beans and o ats urilt e • price. au 3 46 , White wheat 41s to 42s 1 Barley. ..... ,;;i - to 339 I=d.. 3Bs to 40s I Grinding,,,,,. ••`- P"' Beans .34s to 368 I Oats ' ........... . 215 t ° 01d... 36 s to 3 8s I Peas ............ - -5 t° MARKET HARBOROUGH—TuEsDAY. 400 e, White wheat, 41s t o 45 s ; re d, 38 s t o 42 s per ; Malting barley at 31s to 33s per qr.; grinding, 2 1! n et 5 " per 30 st. Oats, old, 26s to 28s; new, 23s to 2 5 ' r et. ; beans, 36s to 42s per qr. NEWCASTLE- ON-TYNE—TuEsDA.V. nlf Of At our market to-day there was on ly a sma ll stil l 'tee' English wheat, which sold slowly a t a b ou t p r evious, p eie Barley moved cff with difficulty. Malt, beans, aln,t or aier inclined to be lower. Oats dull. Flour maintained quotations. horn Averages Wheats, 39s sd—barley, 29s 40s Gd—oats, 21s sd—peas, —s Od. MONMOUTH—TUESDAY. boa; The locdl Markets have been ver y we ll attended,'J re „P buyers and selleri during the la s t few d a ys, and t l 4;,glir d been a considerable. amount of business doing. s r Wheat commands former rat es , w ith a f ree sale. " j ou' was in improved request. Oats and beans in good de r° The average quolations' are as follows : 1 0 i Wheat, white 5s 6d to 5s lld Barley.. 3s 4d to 3 4, 1/.. Ditto red..... Os Od to Os Od I Oats .. 2s 4cl W COAL MARKET. Fricee of Coal per Ton at the close of the mall et ' jo s. d. Walls End' r.'o Hastings Hartley ....19 0 . 0 0 Byass's Bel9sido West T uns t a ll Hartley ..19 0 East Hartlepool .... 0 6 West Hartley 19 0 Braddyll's Il e tton .... l a Davison's West Hart- I B e ll .............''' l 3 . s icy .. 19 0 lletton ............. . 0 6 Eden Main 22 01 H KeiperGrange ..... " . 21 Wylam 18 9 f Russel's etton ... g 0 ,2/ 1 Eieugh Ha11.......'' .21 0 South Kelloe ....... ' .23 Hartlepool ........ .• t, 41; , 4old, 40. Walls End. Tiaswell 23 0 tihips at marks' Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS D UE. Ig' vusttaiia and Mauritius, via Southampton . 1 3 ' v;ft Marseilles ......... Brazil and Cape Verds, by• British packet. ....... 5 7, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena...v:6 klinna, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.D via Marseilles ..• De Falkland Islands . „ Glibraltar, via Southampton ." India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton R p ec o : via Marseilles.. • 1 )- v e ' c, 1 6 P , India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec , b, via Marseilles ........ De c ' Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... Dee , 6 via Marseilles ........ Dee Newfoundland .. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by B r it. p ac k e t.. • • De o. „ by U.S. packet.. • •,, c , by Canadian packet•i eo , 1 1 ' 4 , W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ......... • f e e , e . West Indies and Pacific. ........ pee. Bahamas (via New York) Bermuda (ditto) .... . neo , Cuba and Mexico .-c Id A NY 0," London : PrintJd and Frblished by IVILLLA. , - P of No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er , a t Tan Sing o ' . " -e cotill Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in. tt'‘ i anddletea6—Thunclay, December 1,1664. Births. of u l. ANGELL.—On the 30th Nov., at Peckham, the s qif ds ° lls -# C. Angell, Esq., of the Military Store Staff, of 1/ d ter, GOEDON.—Nov.,On the 28th Nov at 1, Cheshanro trev ' 9 1 Hon. Mrs. Gordon, of a son. C, ol ° NORCOTT.—On the 28th Nov. , at Cork, the wile °f eh Norcott, C. 8., of a daughter. 4c , re PAGET.—On the 26th Nov., at Copenhagen, la"' of a son. Marriages. . 0 ,40 11 , ARDING—WEAVER.—On the 29th Nov., at f tli lde li n i f t et Embassy, Paris, Francis Arding, E of c r" oe"" Mrs. E. B. Weaver, of No. 19, Feu:l ' g ,'" il I, Paris. ogeo rip GARNHAM—HARVEY —On ale 30th Nov.,_ et Bt. to 14 Camberwell, Mr. W. W. Garnham, of Beee , " , ' Mary Ann Harvey, of the same place. Deaths. • „loaf tll BAECLAY.—On the 30th Oct., at Kingston, l a Hon. Alexander Barclay, Receiver-a-enera ' . 0 °Dr CLEMENTI.—On the 29th Nov., at Brighton , -6111 P znenti, aged 80. No v, Joseph e , pe el)i KELSALL —On the 27th v IC . 8--1 ' , ,Ik 6 S, Cottage, Rochdale. SoWERBY.— On the 29th Nov. at at Putteridg e 9° lo' Thomas Sowerby, late Lieui-Colonel ColdstreelP v3Cd aged 76. f Dre STANDLEY.—On tho'29th Nov., 4treet ' 6° ov., et 4, ueeu ton, Mr." Thomas Staadley, aged 75. 14.. of Cll6ll STEPRENS.—On the 28th Nov., Fanny, re lict e d 8 1 ' „be Stephens, Esq., of Dulwich-road, Brixton, eg d, I TATLon.:---On the 29th Nov., at 222, Old lieu t.° Taylor, M.D,,,..L.5.A,, aged. 64. _.......-4. THE SVN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIAG, DECEMBER, 1, 1864.