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

THE SCHLES 'EIN WAR. (From the Times Special Correspondent with the Danish Army.) DANISH HEADQUARTERS, SONDERBORG, FEB. 24. To a man sent forth to be a narrator of events there surely can be no task more irksome than to lave to sit idly awaiting events. It is hard for a newsman to come before his reader with a chilling "No news." He feels it peculiarly mortifying and aggravating, as if it were his business to make news and as if his empty budget could be laid to the charge of remissness on his own part and derelic tion of duty. On what spot on this side of the Atlantic are the eyes of Europe more anxiously riveted than on this little capital of the Isle of Alsen ? Behold ! the Austro-Prussian army operating against Sonder borg, and its outward position at Dvbbol, numbers, as we have here every reason to believe, no less than 42,000 combatants. The contending parties have been in presence for nearly a score of days, and no thing has occurred to diversify day from day, ex cept a few insignificant and almost undesigued out post affairs, which count as little in the history of a -war as the mere relieving of sentries and calling the muster roll. The German papers inform us that the enemy is ?till waiting for his heavy artillery, and that he will mot be ready for a deliberate attack upon the Dyb bol bastions before the 26th. Something really epic may come to pass any day after to-morrow, and in the anticipation of it it would not be unreasonable if we endeavoured to inflict a part of our ennui upon the reader by telling him what this existence of ours is like. Notwithstanding the glad tidings conveyed in the journals above alluded to, we are by no means sure that the Austro-Prussians will ever screw up their courage to the sticking point, and attempt a storm ing or a bombardment of the Dybbol position. Their object hitherto has obviously been to wear out the Danes by incessant alarms and petty skir mishing, making the best of their superiority of anmbers, which enables them to come up with ever fresh troops against the scanty and over worked detachments of their weaker antagonists. in all the not unfrequent encounters to which I had occasion to allude the Danes have invariably ex bibited the strong, sterling stuff they are made of, and have done all that could be expected of mere :nen. They have already either strongly held or promptly regained their ground, and cannot, there fore, be said to have been worsted on any occasion. still, they have suffered severe losses, possibly more severe than those of their foe in actual numbers ; certainly incomparably more fatal and irreparable to an army whose numbers are already eo unequal to the task that has been set to it. 200 dead and - wounded, 300 prisoners, are a formidable item to be subtracted from the army whom we may have about us. The Danes are brave men, and, as such, apt to be rather deficient in vigilance, foresight, and cunning. They have to deal with a subtle enemy, especially 'with the Austrian, preverbal for the craft with which impetuosity of attack is always enhanced by suddenness of surprise. The Danes found out now, rather late, that their outposts had been pushed too far forward, that they had been too heedlessly laid, mow on the skirts of a wood, now at the meeting of two roads, now in other spots favouring the stealthy onset of the foe. More provident measures have been adopted of late, that their outposts had been partially drawn in, the ground has been carefully studied, so as to take advantage of the localities not suitable for a good 100k -out; the fields have been bared of all their hedges ; barricades, abattis, palisades, and trenches, all that can stem violence or foil stratagem, has been duly considered. Hence forth the Danes will not be caught napping ; and there will either be no more fighting or it will be more deliberate and probably more decisive. Preparing and waiting for such contingencies is, however, weary work, and the poor soldiers, who are all spirits and glee whenever an alarm is sounded, or the signal is given for a sally, droop and mope sadly when there is nothing of the kind going on. The toil, the outpost and picket duty, and exposure to the inclement weather are still the same, whether there be fighting or no fighting ; but the leaven, the fun of the thing is in the fighting itself, in the chances of falling in with the hated enemy, winging a " saucy Prussian who comes here where be has no business," or knocking over a " stolid Austrian who meddles with things which concern him even less." The Danish soldiers are not bois terously merry, neither have they a gloomy, dissa tisfied look. They do their work patiently, steadily, maostly in silence, as men who do not shirk duty, bat are not over fond of it. Many of them, it should be borne in mind, are middle-aged " reserve" men, lately recalled to the standards, hardly weaned from their peaceful avocations and the sweets and com forts of home. But even among the younger set you do not generally see the upright bearing, the lively glance, the resolute mien of the thoroughbred soldier. You would say they are all peasants lately taken from the plough. Robust frames they cer tainly have, more than average stature, strong-knit limbs, thick round shoulders ; they are a well-fed set, thriving upon their victuals. Such puffy cheeks, such rosy complexions onecould hardly expect to see in grown-up men; men, too, exposed to all the hard- ships of a toilsome campaign in most unpropitious weather. The blood and race are the same as the English. Imagine so many thousand recruits taken out of the agricultural districts and subjected only to a three or four months' drill, and you have the Danish army such as it is. Whenever not hard at - work as skirmishers or as diggers in the trenches, they have hard work of it to kill time, whether they be quartered at the farmhouses scattered all over the island or allowed to idle about in the streets of the town. Was there ever such a town in the world as Sonderborg ?—a country town of about 2,000 inhabitants, a shapeless mass of mean brick tene ments, squeezed in between the hill and the Sound, crowned with half a score of flipping windmills on the summit, and choked up with ships and ship. building at the bottom ; a long, narrow thorough,. f are, and still narrower cross streets sloping down to the water; old-fashioned houses with a curious variety of quaint gables and slanting roofs ; a few paltry shops, p selling all sorts of wares, and china Pipes besides, with a hard pavement of sharp flint atones, aoe r Slip py w i t h i ce, now s l oppy with mud, and .more generally deep buried under a snow offering the advantage of being both slippy and sloppy at th e same time. If the place affords but few resources to the COM. 7non soldiers, w h at shah esoee of us few c i v ili ans privileged to consort of the officers, or with them ? private ino I said that th e D an i sh unlike a raw Englishman of S axon extraction. h t sprung from the u p per ranks, eemino. T 6 fficer, chiefly haughty No rman w h ose ancestors „a hi h one of the the blood i n th e ve i ns of the Thane and hone " atr, not the Ileptarchy. Fine auburn hair, hazel ra h jak • lin of unfrequently even raven black hair, Clear complexion, and aquilline features are less bro n zed u tifr Tient among them than I could have expected tb-o fi n d, Of course, the Danes are a mixed race, lik e all other Europeans, and you have here as great a as you might pethaps see were you to step variety over the lines to the other side. The German element is perceptible among these German haters, who have been in past times German worshippers. But there is among them a type which I am inclined t o lo o k upon as the real Scandinavian prototype, and which is distinguished by length of face, fine. chiselled features,the bearing of command, the sharp, ringing voice, the slender but elegant and well proportioned figures which may be traced among the descendants of Norman nobles, whether you seek them in these three Northern kingdoms, or in the British isles, or in Normandy, or among th e Aoadians of North America, or even among some of the oldest baronial houses of Naples, Whether fair or dark, stoat or slim, however, these Danish gen tlemen are all remarkably wellbrod and courteous, and intercourse with them is certainly most agree able. There is hardly one of them who cannot eon verse either in French or English, to say nothing of German, a last resource for the stranger unfamiliar with their own idiom. well, we few civilians hav ing business in Sonderborg are as much at home with the officers as we choose to make ourselves; wel come to share each fare and accommodation as they have to put up with ; roughing it, and, if the word must be said, " pigging" it with them agreeably to the exigencies of war and of a semi-state of siege. We share their crowded rooms with them at the hotels, where we have to put up with German beds and French washstands, shin-breaking bedsteads, smothering feather beds, stifling at the centre, freezing at the extremities ; washstands with mere cups for basins, scanty allowance of water, cobweb towels; unattended apartments, nests of dirt, abodes of confusion. We sit down with our military friends at their mess, where we have soups and meat, the meat not every day roasted, to the great vexation of the Danes, with whom boiled beef is spoilt beef, and among whom such a dish is as un popular as it ever was at the Knightsbridge-bar racks; the soup once a week, a " sweet soup, a compound o f stewe d prunes , r i ce , an d fat, which whoever has once tasted it is sure to be sick of for his lif e ti me . Fi na ll y we are a d mi tt e d to their amusements in the co ff eerooms, where they kill the time with very, very long whist, beer, and pipes, making the atmosphere of the close, hot apartment so dense and heavy as to outdo the deep outside fog which frequently visits us as one of the many phases of east wind, snow storm, heavy rain, and other amenities of this wintry climate. Life out of doors ought to be a relief, and the country in summer must be as pleasant as the almost incessant alternation of land and water can make it; the water coming home almost to every hamlet and farmhouse in the shape of Fiord, Sund, Nor, or Vig, running water, stagnant water, high tide and low tide, with fine old timber grow ing up close to its margin, and white country man sion or castle mirroring itself on its surface. The land well tilled and fruitful, swelling up in smooth round undulations, nowhere bold or abrupt, but no• where tame and unpicturesque ; a land sufficient, as it would seem, for the owner and the labourer, presenting everywhere the signs of peace and plenty, of comfort and contentment, a landa dweller wherein accepted the hard lot of a long dreary winter, and seemed thereby to have redeemed himself from all other evils flesh is heir to. But the country at this time of the year has but little to repay persons fond of exercise, and skating itself is spoilt either by snow or thaw every second or third day. Work enough for our military friends to go out morning and after noon to shoot and be shot at ; work enough for us to go and see them at it. For the rest half-an-hour's ride on a hard, frosty ground is rather hazardous, a walk in deep snow or mud a vary toilsome amuse ment. Do what we may, our choice lies between a sore trail of our fortitude out of doors, or a heroic exercise of our patience in doors. Of course, philo sophy consists in trying everything by turns, and taking the world as it is, and I must say that grum lin g and ill-humour are by no means rife among us. Still, it is rather a dog's life, on the whole, and it is no wonder, on the one side, if the Danes long for an attack—an earnest, decisive attack—which may re lieve the dulness of their quarters ; and no wonder, on the other side, if the Germans prefer to put their enemies to a long ordeal of ennui, which may wear out their spirits, and tire then_ of what is most likely to prove in the end an unprofitable, as it now most assuredly looks like a hopeless game. Sir Moses Montefiore's Mission to Morocco The following interesting details of this success of enterprise are extracted from the Gibraltar Chronicle of the 19th inst.:— " 'We are to-day enabled to lay before our readers the firman or edict from the Sultan to ell the Go vernors of his dominions, the fruit of the exertions of Sir Moses to better the condition of the Jews in Morocco. At the advanced age of this venerable gentleman a land journey at this season of the year over the roadless plains of Morocco has been in it self a work of some toil and pain, and it is a matter of congratulation not only that his labours have been crowned with success but that his health has not suffered from the fatigues of land travelling. The party, on their journey up to Morocco, left Moga dor on the 17th, and with their Moorish escort of cavalry and infantry, their 21 camels, 25 baggage mules, and a numerous retinue of attendants, formed a somewhat numerous caravan. On their second day's journey they came in sight of the snow-capped chain of Atlas, which remained a conspicuous object b )unding their landscape till they reached Morocco. The journey was performed in easy stages of about 15 miles. Sir Moses Montefiore was accommodated in a kind of palanquin or horse litter, but notwith standing this attempt to mitigate the fatigue of travel the worthy baronet received many a rude shock from stump, bush, and stone, which made his conveyance anything but a pleasant one. At the close of each day's journey the Governor of the dis trict in which the party halted furnished them with an abundant supply of provisicns by the Sultan's ord-r. This entertainment of the Sultan's guests is called by the Moors mona.' Sheep, poultry, eggs, milk, tea, sn gar, &c., are supplied by the people of the district, and the value of these sup plies is deducted from their contribution to the Sul tan's Exchequer. On reaching Morocco the travel lers were lodged in the Sultan's palace, called Sidi Ben Dris, situated in the midst of an orange garden. The Sultan practises the rites of hospitality in the manner sanctioned by high antiquity. The travel worn guest is not expected to disclose the object of his visit till he has had time to recruit his strength and to repose after the fatigue of his journey. Sir Moses Montefiore and his party, therefore, passed six days in their garden abode before being hon oured with the first audience of the Sultan. As most of our readers know, the Sultan, like a true cavalier, gives audience on horseback, the colour of his charger being an index to the temper of the Sherriffian mind. When this is bright and serene the Sultan bestrides a white charger; light sha dows that cloud its cheerfulness are not unaptly represented by gray; while a black charger de notes that gloom and discontent have settled on the royal spirit. Sir Moses Montefiore and his party were assembled in a spacious courtyard, lined with some thousands of the Sultan's troops, watching with interest the portal at its extremity from which the white, gray, or black spirit was to issue, and were soon gratified by the Sultan's appearance on a superb charger of spotless white. He rode forward to welcome his guests; in a few courteous phrases he expressed his happiness at seeing them in his dominions, and addressed a few words specially to the character and quality of each. He said that the exertions of Sir Moses Montefiore on behalf of his race in different parts of the world were not un known to him, that he was aware of the universal character of the gentleman's beneficence, which was not confined to any sect or creed, but embraced all classes, and he expressed his satisfaction in seeing him in Morocco. He expressed his pleasure also at meeting Mr. Reade, the British Consul, who had long been known to him. After Mr: Reade had presented the different members of the party to the Sultan, the latter concluded Borne phrases convey ing his appreciation of the friendship of England by turning to Captain Armytage and the naval offi cers who accompanied him, and saying that no sight gave him greater pleasure than that of a British uniform. Before the close of she interview Sir Moses kiontefiore handed to the Sultan the peti tion which he had prepared, praying for a removal of the grievances under which the Jews were suffer ing' The Sultan graciously received the petition aitnsdedoenliteeetirteadaho it to the Chamberlain, promising th a t afterwarduld have hisbe o s f t F co e n b s r i u d a e r r y at , i t o h n e M . Four d a y s following fir man or e di ct was sent to S i r Moses prayer fo r eq ,onthe sth ontefiore asual th e Sultan' s f orma l assent to t h e portion o f hi s sub an ' impartial justice to the Jewish sects " 'ln the name of God, tho Merciful and Gra and Mighty, L.s. cious. Th ere i s no power but in G o d, the High () Be it known by this our God exalt and bl ess its purport itavc Edict—may doeselevate the and same to the high Heavens, as H e moon !—that it is our command that alai ondwisiresid thje sun and ing within our dominions, be the which the Almighty God has placed them t on h in ever it may, shall be treated by our Govewrnoat", administrators, and all other subjects in man ner justice, with the evenly balanced scales justice, and that in the administration of the courts of law the Jews shall occupy a position of perfect equality with all other peopio, so that not even a fractional portion of the smallest imaginable par ticle of injustice shall reach any one of them, nor shall they be subjected to anything of an objection able nature. Neither the authorities nor any one else shall do the Jews wrong, whether to their persons or to their property ; nor shall any trades man among them, or artisan, be compelled to work against his will. The work of every one shall be duly recompensed, for injustice here is injustice in Heaven, 'and we cannot countenance it in any matter affecting either the Jews' rights or the rights of others, our own dignity being itself op posed to such a course ; all persons in our regard have an equal claim to justice; and if any person should wrong or injure one of the Jews, we will, with the help of God, punish him. " ' The commands hereinbefore set forth have been given and made known before now, but we repeat them and add force to them, in order that they may be more clearly understood and more strictly carried into eEect, as well as serve for a warning to such as may be evilly disposed towards the Jews, and that the Jews shall thus enjoy for the future more security than heretofore, while the fear to injure them shall be greatly increased. "' This decree, blessed by God, is promulgated on this 26th of Shaban, of the year 1280 (sth of February, 1864).—Peace!' "It will be seen by the Sultan's formal injunction to his Governors that he fully recognises the claims of his Jewish subjects to protection against all oppression and injustice. The Sultan has shown in this that he possesses a spirit of liberality and tole• ration and an enlightened knowledge of the duties of a Governor towards the governed far in advance of that possessed by his officers or the Mahomme dan portion of his subjects. It is hardly to be ex pected, perhaps, that after a long course of tyranny and oppression, springing from religious fanaticism every act of cruelty and injustice should at once cease; but the authoritative declaration of the Sul tan's will, backed as it will be by the influence of the representatives of Christian Powers in the coun• try, cannot fail to prove for the future a most valu able bulwark to the Jews of Morocco. Sir Moses Montefiore will, therefore return to the comforts of his English home attended by the prayers of a grateful population, and with the satisfaction that must spring from the consciousness that this last work, which has crowned the labours of his life for the benefit of his race, promises to be so fruitful in good results. Sir Moses Montefiore and his party speak in the warmest and most grateful terms of the kindness and hospitality they met with from Captain Armytage and the officers of her Majesty's ship Magicienne, and also of the valuable aid they received in accomplishing the object of their mission, from Sir John Drummond Hay, her Majes ty's Minister in Morocco, and from Mr. Reade, her Majesty's Consul at Tangier. The latter accom panied the expedition, and his knowledge both of the habits of the people and of their language en. abled him to render services of the utmost value." E. T. Simpson, Esq. THE SiTN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIN Mr. Cobden on the Malt Tax, The following letter has recently been addressed by Mr. Cobden, M.P., to Mr. E. T. Simpson, of Wakefield : Dear Sir,—Youask mein your capacity of chairman of the Wakefield Farmers' Club, to give you any in formation which may be useful in obtaining the re peal of the malt tax. There is really but one way of succeeding in any public agitation—take the ground of:principle and pressure. When I speak of principle in connection with the malt tax, I mean that the Anti-malt-tax League, if you form one, should, as the Anti-corn-law League did, pledge itself to the total and immediate repeal of the tax, and then allow no discussion within its own body upon any other subject. You have a stronger argu ment for taking this ground than We had, inass much as you are dealing with an excise tax, and we were opposing a customs duty ; for it has been laid down as a rule by Chancellors of the Exchequer, and invariably acted on, that when ever an excise duty is reduced it should be totally abolished, because one of the greatest ob jections to such taxes—the interference of the ex ciseman with the processes of production—applie, equally whether the duty be great or small. The agriculturists have a peculiar claim to the obser vance of this rule in the present case, inasmuch as the best farmers have protested against the duty, on the ground that it interferes with the free applica tion of their capital to the fattening of stock upon malt, and thus prevents the profitable growth of barley on heavy soils. It has often occurred to me to compare the case of the British a;riculturist, who, after raising a bushel of barley, is compelled to pay a tax of 60 per cent. before he is permitted to convert it into a beverage for his own consump tion, with what I have seen in foreign countries, and I can really call to mind nothing so hard and unreasonable, lam quite sure that the cultivators of vineyards in France, or the growers of olives in Spain and Italy would never tolerate such treat ment of their wine and oil. And the extraordinary feature of your case is that it has been made, as I will, in a few worde, show you, the flagrant ex ception to an otherwise universal rule. In 1848 I published a financial programme under the title of " The National Budget," in which I recom mended the repeal or reduction of a great many duties and taxes, involving a very large amount of revenue. Your letter has induced me to refer to that document, and it is a suggestive fact that every change then recommended has been effected, with the notable exception of that item in which the farmers are interested. In my projected budget I suggested that the tea duty, which was then 2s. 2d. a lb., should be reduced to ls. ; that the coffee duties should be equalised, the wine duties revised, and the legacy duty applied to real estate. I pro posed that the excise duties on malt, hops, soap, paper, and bricks, should be abolished ; and that the window tax and the taxes on knowledge, the timber duties, and the duties on butter, oheese, and upwards of 100 smaller items of the tariff, should be abolished. These were all the recommendations contained in my budget; and it is, I repeat, a very suggestive fact that all these changes have been carried out to the minutest particular, with the sole exception of malt, the duty on which remains precisely the same as it was in 1848—namely, 25 7d a bushel and 5 per cent. Ido not allude to this for the purpose of claiming merit for myself, for really I had but little personal share in the good work, but merely that I may remark, for your information and guidance, that these reforms have been effected only because they have had their earnest and persevering advo cates. Now I confess that Ido not entertain very sanguine hopes that the agriculturists will be more fortunate during the next fifteen years tha❑ they have been in the past. The truth is, the county members and the farmers do not, in their hearts, seem to pull very cordially together in this business. The moment the repeal of the malt tax is mentioned, hints are thrown out by the minister of the day that, if repealed, the amount must be made good from a tax on property, and the question is dropped. Now, be assured that the House of Commons will never vote any substitute for the malt tax. The reason why I should hail a bona fide movement of the country constituencies for the repeal of the tax is, that I believe it must bo accompanied by a reduction of our present wasteful government expenditure. We have for several succeeding session s seen the Chan cellor of the Exchequer literally raising signals of distress, and inviting the country to his aid in re sisting the expenditure forced upan him. Every experienced member of the house knows that the extravagance in certain government departments increases just in proportion to the amount of money they can obtain from the treasury. I Vithhold from the government four or five millions of income, and still the revenue will exceed by five or six millions the amount which sufficed for the average expen diture of Slr Robert Peel's administration from 1841 to 1846 ; and after long observation and reflection, I believe this to be the only pro cess by which we can ever put a check to that reckless waste of public money, especially i❑ obsolete and useless naval construc tions, and gigantic and abortive experiments in manufacturing establishments, which, without any gain of efficiency, has swollen our budgets to their recent enormous dimensions ; and by this process alone can we hope to see an early curtailment of our colonial expenditure, by which we fool away millions yearly for the defence of c ommunities who are twice as competent to pay for their own protec tion as we are for ours. I will only add that should this movement assume the character of an honest and earnest effort to abolish an unjust act, and not of a mere plaything for politicians, it shall have my sympathy and support.—l remain, truly yours, RICHARD COBDEN. Boiler Explosion and Loss of Seven Lives, On Tuesday afternoon an accident of a frightful and fatal character occurred at the ironworks of Mr. Thomas Johnson, sen., Church-lane, Hall-end, West Bromwich, by which seven persons were killed and 13 shockingly injured. It appears that Mr. Johnson's works, which are known as the Old Works, are connected with what are called the New - Works, in the occupation of Johnson and Co. There are 10 furnaces in the old works, and 11 in the new, together with shopping for millmen, rollers, bun dlers, stocktakers, bolters-down, and all the appa ratus and machinery requisite for carrying on an extensive trade. There were about 40 men em ployed at the works of Mr. Thomas Johnson in the day turn ] and a similar numb er o f men in the night turn. Yesterday after toon lat about a quarter past 3, after the men had returned from dinner, when each one was busy with his work, and all seemed going on es !Ismai l a loud hissing sound was heard, evidently proceeding trot the direction of the en - gine and machinery, and this was immediately -followed by a deafening report. In a moment engine and boiler, machinery, furnaces, and human beings were confounded in a hoterogenous mass. The boiler, a very large one of the kind, commonly termed " egg-ended," Was situated about the middle of the premises, and the effest of the ex plosion was to blow the two sides of the boiler apart nearly at right angles, one part being projected a distance of sixty or seventy yards into Church-lane, and the other about twenty yards in another direc tion. The remaining portion of the boiler, and by far the largest, was hurled almost perpendicularly into the air, and descended not far from the place where it was originally fixed. The explosion was heard at a great distance, and immediately after the report hundreds of mechanics from the neigh bouring works for miles around rushed to the scene of the catastrophe. Those in the immediate vicinity describe the effects of the explosion as darkening the air. Tons upon tons of bricks and mortar were thrown into the streets. The shop. ping was blown from its foundation, the roofs of the various buildings in which the work was car ried on were literally riddled by the falling material. Three only out of the eleven furnaces were left standing after the explosion, and beneath that mass of mingled iron, brickwork, and debris lay the unfortunate men and boys who, but a few minutes before, were cheerfully labouring, without dreaming of the fate that wam to overwhelm them. Trial of Twin-screw Steamers, --- Two very interesting trials of steam vessels pro pelled on the tevin‘ecrew principle took place on the Thames during the past week. The vessels and their engines were constructed by Messrs. J. and W. Dudgeon, iron ship-builders and engineers, of Cubit town yard and London street, City. On Tuesday a small vessel, the Experiment, built to order for the Admiralty for service at Ascension, made her official trial, in Long Reach, under the supervision of Mr. John Dinnen, Admiralty Inspec • for of Machinery Afloat, and the results were highly satisfactory. The Experiment is only fitted with engines of 20-horse power nominal, but in her two runs over the measured mile she realised 7.659 knots against the tide and 10 . 909 knots with the tide. Off Barking she took in tow a deep-laden schooner of 200 tons and towed her to the West India Decks against tide at the rate of 5.1 knots. The Experiment is the first vessel fitted with twin screws in her Majesty's navy. Her engines are horizontal direct-acting high-pressure, and drive two three-bladed propellers, having a diameter of 3ft. Sin. and a pitch of 7ft. 4in. The second vessel, named the Edith, tried on S iturday, is of a larger description than the Expe riment. She has been built for commercial pur poses, and is intended to cross the Atlantic. Her principal dimensions are :—Length, 175 ft ; breadth, 25ft. ; depth, 151 feet; draught of water, aft, 9ft. Gin, ; forward, Eft. Gin. Her engine -power is 200- horse nominal, and the cylinders have a diameter of 34in., with a 21in. stroke. The weight of the engines, with shafting, tubes, and propellers, is 64 tons, and that of the boilers 35 tons. The propellers, each driven by its own independent engine, have each three blades of the common form, With a dia meter of Bft. Gin., a pitch of 16ft., and a length on line of keel of 2ft, 4in. The Edith left Gravesend at noon for Long Reach, with a large party on board, including Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy; Rear-Admi ral Sir Edward Belcher, K.C.8.; Mr. John Dinnen, Inspector of Machinery Afloat to the Admiralty ; Captains Symonds and Selwyn, R.N., &c. On arriving in Long Reach, a run was taken over the measured mile each way, with and against the tide, the ship realising under the latter circumstances a speed of 11.803 knots, and with the tide 15 knots, the mean of the two runs being 13-401 knots, which was considered highly satisfactory. Her engines averaged 100 revolutions under 281 b. of steam pres sure, and with a vacuum of 251 inches. The vessel's course was next kept down the river to obtain space for putting her through several manoeuvres under steam, so as to exhibit the powers of twin screws in relation to military purposes. On reaching the position required the experiments were prefaced by mrking two complete circles with both screws going ahead, starting with the vessel's head upon tide. The first circle was made in 4 min. 10 sec., and the second in 3 min. 57 sec. The subse quent experiments, relating more entirely to mili tary purposes, were commenced by starting from a state of rest with the starboard engine going astern and the port ahead, the helm being hard sport. The vessel turned a complete circle under these circum. stances, with her own centre as the pivot, in 3 min. 29 sec., the mean revolutions of the engines being 84. The circle being completed, the engines were suddenly reversed to opposite directions, and their action upon the vessel was instantaneous, the revolving motion of the ship being checked and changed to the opposite direction with the greatest ease and nicety. The mannsuvre was repeated several times, and the vessel thus repre sented a revolving battery mounted with monster ordnance, too heavy for training upon any given object by ordinary appliances. The hull became the carriage for such heavy guns, and trained them upon any given point by revolving under the action of the screws alone. This part of the day's experiments was watched with very great interest, and gate the liveliest satisfaction by the clear manner in which it demonstrated the value of the twin-screw princi ple for military purposes. The ship's course was next laid at full speed, both screws going ahead up the river, the supposition being that the vessel was carrying out hostile mea sures in the presence of an enemy, and that it sud denly became necessary to altogether alter the vessel's course and retrace her path down the river. Tile time was taken from the order " Hard over" being given by the pilot, and in 1 min. 40 sec. the Edith was in a straight course in the required op posite direction. Continuing her course thus, the port engine was next stopped, and with the star board continuing to go ahead the helm was put over, and a full circle made in 4 min. 31 sec., the revolutions of the engines being 79. This brought the day's experiments to a conclusion, and the Edith returned up the river for her destined outfitting berth in the West India Docks, passing the mea- sured mile in Long Reach, with a small drain of flood tide in her favour, at the rate of 14.884 knots, and making the distance from Gravesend to Black well, 21 miles, in 59 minutes, one of the quickest runs on record. It may be interesting to state here that the first twin-screw vessel built by Messrs. Dudgeon, the Flora, was some time after her launch purchased for the Southern States of America, ran the block ade successfully nine times, is now the property of the Confederate Government, and is doing s er yi te as such on the Wilmington River. F, MARCH 3, 1864. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—DURHAM, March 1. (Before Mr. Justice Shee.) NORRIE V. NEWBY. This was an action for an assault. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and son assault demesne. Mr, Davidson appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. C. Foster for the defendant. The case for the plaintiff was that he was a butcher in Durham, and on Saturday, 22d November last, after stand.. ing in the market all day, he went, tired with his day's work, to get a glass at Bowes's Hotel, in Durham. There the defendant, a plumber in Durham, who was described by the learned counsel for the plaintiff as a boating, run ning, jumping, boxing man, came up to him, and without speaking a word took him by one of his whiskers and gave him a pull. The plaintiff complained c,f this, and then the defendant took hold of the other whisker and gave it a pull, pulling the hair out of his whiskers, hurling him very much, and finally the defendant pulled the plaintiff down on the ground by his whiskers, for, as the learned counsel put it, go he must, or leave his whiskers. The plaintiff, ir ritated, said "the defendant was a blackguard for pulling the whiskers of a man he did not know," when defendant immediately challenged him to fight, pulled off his coat, and, as the plaintiff would not fight, struck him a blow on the mouth, which cut it and made it bleed, and so hurt him that he was obliged to go to his doctor on the following Tuesday to get his face doctored. Two witnesses were called, who in the main corroborated this statement, but admitted on cross-examination that there had been a good a good deal of chaff between the parties before the assault, and that in the course of it the company laughed at the plaintiff, and he got angry. The plaintiff denied that he was only a butcher's slaughterman at 9s. a week. He did slaughter cattle, and use the poleaxe to knock them down, but he was not given to knocking down men, and had never been fined for thrash ing a policeman and tearing his clothes, nor for fighting. The learned counsel in his opening said for the injuries and affront his client had received he would be satisfied with a proper apology. The case for the defendant was that the defendant had long known the plaintiff, and on the night in question on going into this publichouse he good humouredly accosted the plaintiff, and, touching his whiskers, admired them, and asked him if he was cultivating his whiskers in the Lord Dundreary style ? The plaintiff replied also good humour edly that the defendant was only vexed that he could grow none, and said he would give him some of the seed, and that thereupon the plaintiff got hold of him and scrubbed him with his beard. The company laughed at this, and the de fendent said they were beautiful whiskers. The learned counsel for the defendant noticing that he had now a short beard growing, asked him if it had grown since the plaintiff had scrubbed him. The defendant said it had. (Laughter.) He had no beard before—not a hair. (Loud laughter.) As the company kept laughing at the plaintiff and his whiskers, the plaintiff got angry, and seizing the de fendant by his coat collar dragged him down backwards on the floor and jolted his head on the hearthstone. As soon as the defendant could get up he pulled off his coat and said he would be even with the plaintiff, and then said to him if he were a man he would stand up and have it out. The plaintiff, however, said if defendant touched him he would "Bench him for it." The defendant then admitted ;hat he struck him, being in a passion at the way in which hehad been jolted. Three witnesses present were called, who corroborated this version of the fracas,and who stated that the plaintiff appeared to be no worse after it, and, except a slight scratch on his lip, they saw nothing amiss with him, but whether he got that scratch in his struggle with the defendant, or from the subsequent blow of the defendant, they could not tell. The plaintiff was at his work on the Monday, and nothing seemed the matter with hira. For the defendant his learned counsel ridiculed the idea of an apology from a journeyman plumber to a butcher's slaughterman, and contended that the badin age about the plaintiff's whiskers had been taken at first goodhumouredly, and the touching his whiskers was treated as a joke by the plaintiff, who had scrubbed the defendant with his beard in return, and it was only when laughed at by the company and beaten in chaff that he got angry. Up to that time therefore it was ridiculous to say that there had been any assault, and after that time the plaintiff had com mitted the first assault, and had received the blow in the south in the course of the quarrel he had himself provoked, Even if the jury should be of opinion that the defendant was in fault in striking the blow he had done, he had been greatly provoked, the plaintiff was no worse for it, and a farthing damages would be ample compensation. His Lordship, in summing up, said if the plaintiff's case were true, it was scarcely possible to conceive a greater out rage than that spoken to by the plaintiff and his witnesses, and left it to the jury to say whether they were satisfied with his version of the affair, which was in part confirmed by the defendant's evidence. If so, they must find for the plaintiff, with such reasonable damages as they thought the defendant ought to pay. The jury retired,and after being absent some time returned with a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, one farthing. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WARWICK, March 1. NISI PEIUS COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn,) JORDAN V. 'WATSON, This WWI an action for seduction. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien and Mr. Stephen appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Macaulay, QC., and Mr. Merewether for the defendant. The plaintiff is a farmer innkeeper, living at Pailon, near Rugby, and th e d e f en d ant is ^ farmer occupying a considerable quantity of land in the same par,, :, of which • ived l about 100 acres are hi s own property. The plaintiff with his wife and only child, Ellen, at the White Lion Inn, and his case was that in 1860 the defendant became a fre quent visitor at the White Lion, and began to pay marked attention to the plaintiff's daughter, who was then 18 years of age. At Whitsuntide, 1861, a feast of the Odd Fellows' Club was held at the White Lion. On that occasion, about 11 o'clock at night, the defendant fetched the plaintiff from an adjoining room into the bar, and there, in the presence of several members of the family, asked for permission to marry his daughter, The father made no reply, but the intimacy between his daughter and the defendant continued. In the early part of 1862, Ellen Jordan and the defendant were in the habit of walking out together in the evening, and con tinued to do so until the girl found out that she was pregnant. In August her mother discovered the girl's condition, and informed the father of it in the same month. The father was very angry, threatened to send the girl to the Union, and ultimately became so violent that the daughter in Octo ber went out of his way to London for a few days. After her return she remained at home till December, when she again went up to London, where she stayed till after her con finement in February, 1863. The case for the defendant was that he, although he had ben too intimate with the girl, yet that, as that intimacy had not commenced till the latter end of July, 1862, he could not have been the father of her child, which was born in the early part of the following February. It was also sug gested that the girl had been too intimate with a groom named William Lumbers, who had been staying at the White Lion in the early part of 1862 in charge of his master's horses. In support of this case the defendant himself was called, and swore that his intimacy with the girl had not assumed an im moral aspect till the end of the month of July. He did not, however, deny that he bad paid attention to the girl for some time previously, or that he had proposed marriage to her father in 1861. Several other witnesses were called, who de posed to having seen the girl and William Lumbers walking together, and one in particular gave evidence of a scene he had witnessed in a field near Pailton, in May, 1862, which, if true, added great probability to the supposition that Lumbers was the father of the girl's child. A Mrs. Bate man, who kept a haberdasher's shop in Pailton, stated that in October the girl told her she was with child and was going to London to marry Lumbers. This was before th girl left for London on the first occasion, and the witness added that on her return the girl begged her to keep the secret as to Lumbers, and said that she should lay the child to Mr. Watson, The girl herself upon her cross-examina tion denied all this, and also that she had ever been intimate with Lumbers, or had permitted him or any other man to take improper liberties with her. Lumbers also was called in reply, and denied that he had ever been in any way hati mate with the plaintiff's daughter. Attention was called by the learned Judge to the fact that although the parents were awar e o f th e i r d aughter ' s con dition in August, yet nothing was said to the defendant on the subject till the month of October, During the interval between August and October the defendant was in the habit of visiting the White Lion constantly. On being charged, however, with being the father of the child with which the girl was then pregnant, he denied it, and ceased to visit the house. Nothing more was said to him about the matter till the following September, a period of 10 or 11 months, when he was served with the writ in the present action. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, £l5O. OXFORD CIRCUIT.--OXFORD, Feb. 29. There was no civil business for these Assizes, and there fore both the learned Judges sat this morning to try pd. Boners. CROWN COVET. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) John Johnson and Charles Sherman were indicted for maliciously setting fire to a stack of hay at St. Giles's , Oxford, the property of Willi am Ch ar l es Higgins, on the 21 of February. This case was made out by a confession of one of the prisoners. The value of the rick destroyed was between £lOO and £2OO, and one of the prisoners stated that he did it in order to get into gaol. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and The learned Judge, remarking that the crime of arson was rife in this county, sentenced Sherman to seven, and Johnson to six years' penal servitude. Mr. J, G. Edwards was for the prosecution. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) Shadrach Brayno was indicted for maliciously and feloni ously throwing a stone upon an engine passing along the West Midland Railway, with intent to endanger the safety of Joshua Hodges, then being on the said engine; and upon a second count for a misdemeanour in endangering the safety of the said Joehua Hodges, being on the railway, by throw ing a stone. Mr. Godson was for the prosecution; Mr. Sawyer was for the prisoner. At about 8 o'clock in the evening of the Bth of August, 1863, the prisoner, with two of his brothers, and two other boys named Pollett and Webber, were on the Combo rail way bridge over the West Midland Railway as a train was approaching and about to pass underneath it. The prisoner got a stone from the road, and as the train went under the bridge, dropped the stone, though his companions had ad vised him not to do it. The engine was struck by the falling stone, and a fraction of it fell on the railway, but another fraction, weighing some 41b. or 61b., hit the fireman, Joshua Hodges, on the shoulder. The fireman was rendered nearly insensible, and the driver, by catching him in his arms, prevented his falling from the engine. On their arriVal at Handborough information of the occurrence was given, and at Oxford the fireman was placed and 3r the care of Mr. Symonds, surgeon, and is not yet able to follow his occupa tion. The prisoner was taken into custody on the lfith of August, and said he had not intended to hit the engine driver, At the close of the case, The learned Judge suggested that the felony had not been made out. The prosecution did not press that part of the charge, and The prisoner then withdrew his plea of not guilty to the misdemeanour, and pleaded guilty thereto. An acquittal was taken on the count for the felony, and The learned Judge sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Twelve years ago, when all England was sympathising with the terrors of Maria and the sufferings of Uncle Tom, it was little expected that the whole negro population of Louisiana would soon be emancipated, and that the chain and lash would be snatched from Legree and placed in the hands of a great Abolitionist Power. Let people beware how they indulge too freely in the luxury of senti ment and opinion, for they know not how soon they may be called on to prove their sincerity. So far as regards that wide region of which New Orleans is the centre the day of personal slavery is over ; L the African is a man and a brother ; no longer a I chattel. He is conscious of the boon; he has en joyed his new born liberty; he has eaten and drunk, danced:and sung, and then fallen asleep, to dream of new joys and awake with the sense of freedom. But neither here nor at the head-quarters of Aboli tion has this glorious consummation been celebrated as it deserved. Thirty-two years ago there was scarce a child in England who did not on a certain day eat plumcake and drink tea in honour of our own Negro Emancipation. In America there has been no jubilee; but, perhaps, what we see there is something more serious and substantial. Perhaps the negroes are not only emancipated, but taught to use their freedom and made worthy of their new ceiling. We omitted to do that in the West Indies, and hence possibly our mischance and degradation of the free negro. The American Abo litionist has profited by that warning, and will not do the work by halves. Here is the iew Charter of American freedom ; here is the birthright which American Christianity:offers instead of the curse of Ham. Englishmen are not only familiar with the principle of liberty, but accustomed to discuss and even frame Constitutions. It was but the other day that we were giving at the point of the bayonet Constitutions to Sicily, Naples, and Greece, to Por tugal and to Spain. With rather more right, and happily more success, we have given Constitutions, or rather conceded the power of making their own Constitutions, to many of our colonies. So it is with scientific zest and a practised eye and touch that we take up the Constitution which is to regenerate the African race, and raise the free negro himself into an insurmountable barrier against the returning wave of slavery. What shall we expect to find its first axiom, its distinguishing feature, and the pivot upon which the minor arrangements all turn? Lycurgus wanted to make soldiers; Solon to make citizens; so Lincoln, doubtless, has his grand idea. It is soon told. Every man most do his day's work. So that is what we are coming round to at last. A continent is covered with fire and blood to proclaim anew the old text, " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Such is the simple issue of all this long controversy. Hear it, Exeter Hall, and learn at last that you must not hope to be much wiser than your grandmother. That is what she used to say, and her grandmother before her. But a very rough and stern grandmother is now teaching this first lesson to the negroes of Louisiana. Work, Work, Work is the order of the day ' • yes, literally, the Order of the Day, p u bli s h e d at "Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, February 3, 1864." And when we come to the nature of the work, and the manner of the work, and the hours, and the motives, the superintendence and whole domes tic discipline, then we see that G enera l B an k s h as not minced the matter. What chiefly marks the document before us is a total absence of the plati tudes usually employed in addressing the negro race. It commences significantly with suspending the negro enlistment. After localising the negro in his district or parish, placing him everywhere under the Provost-Marshal, cutting off the supply of dan gerous luxuries, interdicting arms, and making other salutary regulations, the General Order informs the negroes that in return for good keep and suffi cient wages they must and shall work ten hours a day in summer and nine in winter, of course on the plantations, under their existing employers. The arrangements are evidently those heretofore in force '1 those regions. Gee. Banks appears to have had at his e lbow some sensible planters, who h ave d one justice to boral• aides according to their own light, but who certainly eve not suppressed their con v ic. tion that a nigger must Work, and, if he does not not, in any like work, must be made to werk. He in deed, to be flogged, nor is he to be illuni is shed Th at i s a m u ter for the cruel or unusual manner. district Provost-Marshal, or any that he n;aY ap point. The negro is to choose his own employ er but having made his choice is to abide by it. Smali quantities of land are to be allowed on private ac count. Families are not to be separated, if it can be helped. Saving banks are to be provided, the sick and aged care for, and the Sundays not to be needlessly encroached on. Indeed, it must be ad mitted, in justice to Gen. Banks, that the negro is here treated as an article of value, as something to be kept alive and well if possible, and a real neces sity in the social system. That has not been the case in the provision made for emancipated negroes in the North. But after some pious regard to the dictates of humanity and the minor requirements of a new industrial system Gen. Banks returns to the principles or theory of hie order :—" These re gulations are based upon the assumption that labour Is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime." This soundest of doctrines the general illustrates by referring to different classes and appealing tovarious sanctions. We will not dispute it. But though labour be a terrible and universal necessity, yet we see it usually allied with some liberty of choice, and not made absolutely dependent on the will of cer tain employers, backed by Provost-Marshals. There are men, even with the protection of a black skin, who cannot work in the sun ten hours a day. Yet they are to work on the plantations of Louisiana. They are to have no choice as to the nature of the work, for they must do the work required to be done on the spot. The General Order fixes the pay and other conditions of the work. What is this but pre dial instead of personal slavery P The negro is de clared a serf, bound to the soil, and yet told that he is free. But the General Order reveals its true spirit in the concluding articles, just as a lady's letter re serves its meaning to the postscript, and a re ttle snake puts its mind into its tail. General Banks, in return for the labour of these negroes, expects that the employers will troop to the ballot-box and vote for Mr. Lincoln. The slaves are evidently the price of their political support. Such planters as can reconcile it to their conscience to vote for Mr. Lincoln as President of the whole Union, and so abandon the cause of the Confederates, are promised a good supply of negroes, with a Provost-Marshal to each gang, to do the usual work of their planta tions. Should they decline this offer, should they even be "indifferent" and wish to keep out of it altogether, they will be regarded and treated as traitors. The oath of allegiance will be tendered to all, and woe to those who refuse. They will be put out of the pale of the law. Their plantations, with the negroes in them, will be handed over to more loyal and trustworthy men. This of course adds to the completeness of these regulations. The Federals are to take the place of the Confederates in the possession of the Southern soil and the com mand of its negro population. The former would be useless without the latter, so it becomes neces sary to organise a system under which the substance of slavery may be retained without the name. This is serfdom, if, indeed, without a personal tie, it is worthy even of that name. So, while the Emperor of Russia is abolishing serfdom, the President of the United States is adopting it as a new institu tion, a new pledge of reconciliation, and a new bond of union between the Northern and Southern States. Such is the practical conclusion we have coeae to twelve years after the publication of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's incomparable tale. [AhvEhushiahyr.]—Holloway's Ointment and Diseases of the Skin.—No case of disease of the skin, be its nature what it may, has failed to be benefited when these potent remedies have been prop er l y applied. In scrofulous and scorbutic affections they are especially serviceable. Scurvy and eruptions which had res i sted all other modes of treatment and gradually become worse from year to year have been completely c ure d b y Holloway's cooling oint ment and purifying pills, which root out the disease from the blood itself, and leave the constitution free from every morbid taint. In the nursery Holloway's ointment should be over at hand, it will give ease in sprains, contusions, burns, scalds, and infantile eruptions, and may always be safely applied by any ordi nary attendant. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS (From the .Registrar-General' Weekly Return.) The deaths in London were more numerous in the week that ended last Saturday than they had been in any previous week since January. They rose to 1,677, of which number 741 occurred under 20 years of age, 498 in the period pf life 20-60 years, and 427 at 80 years of age and upwards, The average number of deaths for the eighth week of ten previous years, 1854.63, is, with a collection for increase of population, 1,467. The present re turn exhibits an excess of 210 deaths. While the mortality from phthisis (157 deaths) is considerably less than it was in previous weeks, that from bronchitis has increased. The latter disease was fatal in 304 cases in the week, pneumonia in 97, heart disease in 90 cases. The deaths from dis ease of the heart in the last four weeks were 74, 60, and 90., The corrected averages of bronchitis, pneu monia, and he-art disease for the eighth week of the year are respectively 186, 95, and 62. It is plain from the comparison that the present season has de veloped bronchial affections with unusual effect. An infant aged three weeks was poisoned by a lozenge which contained the 48th part of a grain of morphi a . A c hild, age d two years, died from the scratch of a kitten. Nine nonagerians died in the week. Last week the births of 1,019 boys and 981 girls, in all 2,000 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854.63 the average number (corrected) was 2,057. METROP3LITAN WATERS IN FEBRUARY, 1864. These waters, according to the analyses of Dr. Robert pandas Thomson, F.R.S., are generally purer than in the previous month. The Thames waters containing the smallest amount of impurity are the Chelsea and West Middlesex. The South wark water possessed a milky aspect. The Kent water was free from surface impurity. The New River contained less total impurity than in last mou th. The well at Camberwell contained much purity, consisting i n p ar t o f sewage organic im products. Total impurity - Organic per gallon. purity. gre. or deg. grs. or deg. O'o 0.0 Distilled Water Loch Katrine water, new supply to Glasgow 215 •605 Manchester water supply 313 •680 Well, II av ill-s treet, Camberwell 85114 11:84 THAMES COMPANIES, Chelsea Southwark West Middlesex Grand Junction Lambeth OTHER COMPANIES. 10 . 89 20'80 19'80 20'48 20'32 Kent New River , East London 27 -e2l 23* 10'20 1'56 1.80 140 1•.;2 2.28 The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 2 . 35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which •605 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 718 in. The reading fell to 29.52 in. on Sunday, and rose to 29 . 82 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was only 33 deg., which is 6.2 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years , (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average throughout the week, and very considerably below it on the first four days. The highest day temperature in the week was 39 . 3 deg., on Wednesday. The lowest night temperature occurred also on Wednesday, and was 24.4 deg. The range of the thermometer on that day and also in the week was, therefore, 14.9 deg. The change of temperature on Friday and Saturday was very small. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air tempera ture was 4.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 84, complete saturation being repre sented by 100. On the last two days the humidity approached saturation. The wind was in the north east. The amount of rain 0.16 in. Snow fell on the first five days. COUNTRY MARKETS. ~,,, LYNN—TUESDAY. The weather since Saturday has become mild, with a a southerly wind. At to-d a y' s mar k e t there was fair at tendance, but only a small show of wheat, which brought the prices of last week, with a slow sale. Barley firm. Beans and peas dull, and prices in favour of buyers. White wheat 44s to 46s I Barley . 34s to 36s 40s to 42s I Grinding P.. 32s to 33s Beans .338 to 35s I Oats.. New 34s to 36s I Peas —s to —s HULL—TUESDAY. Since our last the wheat trade has continued depressed. At to-day's market there was a fair show of English wheat, which sold slowly at last week's rates ; in foreign there was a retail trade doing, at is per qr lower in price. Barley, fine malting, sold better; but grinding sorts sold slowly. Beans easier to sell, and 6d lower. Peas dull. Oats tid per qr lower. Whjat.... old white.... per qr Old red 71 New white .. „ New red .... „ Barley.... English malting 27s Od to 34s Od Grinding 24s Od to 26s 6d Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s Od Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 08130 Swedish and Danish 2ito 0813 d g 2 s i Od d to 438 Od ~..English, old, pe r qr 4 New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick 4os Od to 42s Od Egyptian Peas..., ..Foreign boilers .. Grinding Tares ....Spring —s Od to —8 Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing . 4os Od to 528 Od Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 10 0 to £9 15 0 Foreign: Bl5 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5lO oto 0 0 0 Bones MELTON MOWBRAY—TtIEsDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat, 41s Od to 46s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 42s per 36 stone; beane, 39s to 41 s f or o ld ; new sorts, 34s to 37s per 38 st. ; barley, 34s to 37s for malting, and 29s:to 31s per qr, for grinding; new oats, lbs to 22s Od per 24 stone; add, g6s to 28s. 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Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange • ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Jag; T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver, which had resiste3 all medical treatment.' In tins, 1 lb., 25.9 d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., 11s. ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemists in very town of the United Kingdom. Births. DUKE.—On the 2d inst., at 43, Portland place, the wile - of Sir James Duke, Bart., of a son. MILLER —Ou the Ist inst., at Oakdene, Eden-bridge, the wife of Lieut.• Colonel Miller, late 11th Hussars, of a son. VAUGHAN.—On the 28th ult., at Croxton-pazk, Cambs., the Lady Vaughan, of a daughter, Marriages. HERZOG—Fox.—On the Ist inst., at St. Stephen's, Cele man-streitt, city, Frederick Henry Dominicua Herzog, Esq., of 9, Mincing-lane, to Maria, second daughter of Charles James Fox, Esq., of Oakley House, City road, WILSON—WiLmot —On the 27th ult., at St. Martin's in-the-Fields, Clifford, son of Mr. Charles Wilson, of Richmond, Surrey, to Sophia, second daughter of the lata Mr. John Wilmot, of Isleworth. Deaths. BROWN.—On the 29th ult., at the Quadrant, Regent-street, Colonel Henry Brown, late H.E.1.C.5., aged 66. BLAKE.—On the 28th ult., at Islington, Benjamin Blake, aged 68. BRISTOWE.—On the 29th ult., at Camberwell, John Syer Bristowe, Esq., aged 71. CLARK.—On the 28th ult., John Clark, Esq., of the Middle Temple, aged 53, D.A.viosox.—On the 29th ult., James Davidson, Esq., of Sektor House, Axminster, Devon, aged 70. ELMLIIRST.—On the 29th ult., at Round-green, near Barnsley, Win. Elmhirst, Esq., aged 65. KIRRY.—On the Ist inst., at Stamford-hill, Wm. Kirby, Esq., aged 78. MASON.—.On the Ist inst., at Stamford-hill, the Rev. John Mason, aged 82. London: Printed and Pvbiished by WILLIAM A NDIZEWS. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at litE SUN Office No. 112, Strand, al the Precinct of the Savoy, In the Coup/ of Ml "l e lek — Thursday,_Mareh 3, 1861.