The Sun. — London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

raPERIAL "%mamma HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Earl of HARROWBY presented petitions from various places in and around London in favour of the inter position of England in favour of Poland. THE WEST HARTLEPOOL DOCK BILL. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE called attention to an article published in the Stockton and Hartlepool Mercury, 'which accused him of corrupt motives in performing his duty as chairman of the committee who considered the West Hartlepool Docks and Railway Bill. The article asserted that he had been biased in his conduct in the chair by reason of a kinsman of his, Sir Henry Christmas, having fl om e interest which was affected by the bill. Earl GRANVILLE said that the noble lord's conduct, instead of being biased, had been highly creditable. The usual course in these matters was to call on the printer and publisher to the bar, but as the newspaper in question was so little known he thought no further notice need be taken of the matter. Lord REDESDALE said the editor ought to feel in debted to the noble earl for not moving that he be called to the bar, as the attack was altogether without foundation. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE then stated that he should follow the suggestions of the noble earl, and take no further notice of the circumstance. PRIVATE BUSINESS, The following bills were read a third time and passed:— New Milford Docks—Hadlow Railway—Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway— Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company —North-Eastern Railway (Hull and Doncaster branches) —Scottish Central Railway—and Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Railway. NAVY PRIZE AGENTS' BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill, when (several amendments were made, and the bill was reported. ALKALI W ORKS REGULATION BILL. Upon the motion for the consideration of the Commons' amendments to this bill, The Earl of DERBY, on the motion that the amend ments made by the House of Commons in this bill be taken into consideration, said that although the changes made were of a most serious and extensive character, yet he would rather allow as many as possible of them to stand, than that no bill on the subject should pass this session. Still there were some of the amendments so objectionable that he cou bl not consent to them, and he was happy to find that his no e friend (Lord Stanley of Alderley) was not disposed to pre them. The noble lord then went into the amen dmen ts seriatim A long discussion ensued, in which Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Earl of Derby, Lord Chel k msford, Lord Eger ton of Tattoo, an d Lord Cranworth too part. Some of the Commons' amendments were agreed to; but upon the clause (A) which imposed penalties upon the work- man, The Earl of DERBY said that the master alone should be held liable. He therefore moved that the house disagree to that amendment. The house divided. For the Earl of Derby's mot— Contents 47 ion Non-Contents Majority for disagreeing with the Com mons' amendment, Clause A —23 Several amendments were then agreed to. FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL. The report of amendments on this bill was brought up, and a fresh discussion took place on the question of com pensation to persons who had acquired rights under the Act of 1842. Lord WENSLEYDALE moved a clause to save exist ing rights. Earl GRANVILLE said that the motion of the noble and learned lord would have the effect of utterly destroying the effect of the bill. The house divided — Contents Non-contents Majority against Lord Wensleydale's amendment The Public Works and Fisheries Acts Amendment Bill went through committee. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Piers and Harbour Orders Confirmation, Misappropriation by Servants, Indte. Stock, Sydney Naval Mint. The Vaccination (Scotland) Bill was reported with amendments. The following bills were read a second time :—The Charitable Uses, Union Relief and Acts Continuance, Com panies' Clauses, Turnpike Trusts Arrangements, and the Exhibition Medals. Their lordships adjourned at ten minutes to eight o'clock during pleasure. ASSENT BY ROYAL COMMISSION. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of St. Germans, and the Duke of Argyll, returned shortly afterwards robed, and took their seats as Royal Commissioners. The House of Commons was then summoned to hear the Royal assent given to the following bills :—Poor Law Con- ' tinuance, Loan Societies, Regimental Debts, Police and Improvement (Scotland) Provisional Order, Growing Corps Seizure (Ireland), Volunteers, Wsywarden's Contract, Prisons (Ireland), Greenwich Hospital (Provision for Widows), Metropolitan Main Drainage Extension, Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, Public Works (Manufactur ing Districts), Land Drainage (Provisional orders), Sir Robert Hutehin's Charity, Ruthen's Charities, Local Go vernment Supplemental (No. 2), and several private bills; The house adjourned at twenty minutes after eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last .Eveni ng. The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter-past twelve. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Kettering and Thrap. stone Railway Bill were considered and agreed to. The Aston Estates Bill, the West London Extension Railway Bill, and the Wicklow Copper and Hibernian Mines Companies' Bill were read a third time and passed. The Isle of Wight Railways (Extensions) Bills, the Put ney and Fulham New Bridge and Pier Bill were considered and ordered for third reading. On the order for consideration, with a view to third read ing, of the Newry and Greenore Railway, Pier, and Wet Dock Bill, Mr. HORSFALL moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a third time this day two months. Mr. ADAIR, as the chairman of the committee to whom the bill was referred, explained that an application was made for the recommittal of the bill by the committee themselves, and this seem ed to be the point on which diffi culty was raised. He hoped the house would allow the bill to proceed to another stage. After some conversation, in which Mr. Massey, Sir H. Cairns, Mr. C. Fortescue, Mr. F. S. Powell, Mr. Morrison, Mr. D. Morris, Mr. S. Fitzgerald, and other gentlemen took part, the amendment was negatived, and the order for third reading was agreed to. CONSOLIDATED FUND APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. PEEL meved the second reading of this bill. Some remarks having been made by Sir H. Willoughby, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. A. S m ith, the bill was read a second time and ordered for committal to morrow. PROMISSORY NOTES AND BILLS OF EX CHANGE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. LAND TAX COMMISSIONERS NAMES BILL. This bill, as amended, was considered and ordered for third reading to-morrow. AUGMENTATION OF BENEFICES BILL. LordTh eu house o went into committee on this bill. d inquired l whether under this bill the Lord Chancellor wonbe able to sell a vacant living. The SOLICITOR GENERAL said certainly not. That would b e a sim° ;meal proceeding opposed to the ge neral law of th e l and. Mr. AYRTON moved, as an addition t o c l ause 2, that the Lord Chanc e ll or should not be permitted to sell any li v i ng to a person other than one interested in the parish, and a member of th e Ch urch of England. He considered the bill a most vicious one, and that it would be a great scandal to the Church. Sir G. GREY thought that such restrictions would de feat the bill, Th e SOLICITOR -GE NERAL said th e on l y o bj ec t o f . the bill was to do that which had already been done under the Church Building Acts, namely, to transfer patronage in return for endowments. Mr. HENLEY considered that the principle advocated by Mr Ayrton was a sound one. A very long discussion on the point ensued, and at length the committee divided— Fot Mr. Ayrton's amendment Against it Majority —2B The amendment having beenlost, the clause was agreed to. Clauses down to 30 were agreed to. On clause 31, relating to secretary of presentations, Mr. C. BENTINCK said the office was worth £4OO a year, and it was a mere sinecure. He had held the office himself when Lord St. Lecnards was Chancellor. This clause provided for an increase of salary, and he moved, as an amendment, that it be struck out. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL said the new bill would create a large amount of duty, and the increased amount of stipend would be merely temporary. All the bill did was to enable the Lord Ch a ncellor to remunerate the secretary for an y additional duty he might be called upon to perform. The committee divided — For the clause ........................ 24 Against it .......................... 37 Majority --13 . The clause was thus lost. It being now 4 o'clock the sitting was suspended. At 6 o'clock the house resumed. TREASURY OFFICE. Mr. B. COCIIRANE gave notice that next session he would move for a select committee to inquire into the mode of conducting business in the Treasury-office, Whitehall, and its connection with, and control over, the other depart ments of the Government. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. W. FORSTER gave notice that on Thursday nex he would ask the Under-Secretary for the Colonies who. ther a despatch had.been received confirming the statement in the public journals that the Governor of New Zealand had sent a request to the Governor-General of In to send Sikh troops to aid him in suppressing the dist tances in New Zealand. ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN I AND, In reply to Sir H. BRUCE, Sir R. PEEL said with regard to the rettv ns connected with the Established Church in Ireland, and which had been moved for by Sir F. Heygate on the sth May, there was a great deal of difficulty in obtaining them. They had however obtained returns from the registrars of 12 dioceses —returns for 11 other dioceses were in course of prepara tion, and it was expected the whole would soon be completed. CLOONE LOAN FUND. In reply to Mr. W. 0. GORE, Sir R. PEEL stated that the report relative to the Cloone Loan Fund would be presented on Thursday next. PROMOTION IN THE DOCKYARDS. Mr. FERRAND asked the Secretary to the Admiralty why the board had promoted a person named Weymouth, lately foreman of shipwrights, at a salary of £250 a year, at the Devonport yard, to be a timber inspector at Deptford yard at a salary of £350, in contravention of their own order limiting the age for promotion to 50 years, Mr. Waymouth being upwards of 68 years of age. Sir A. BULLER wished, before the noble lord replied, to ask whether there was not a covenant in the indentures of apprentices in the dockyard of Devonport entitling them to be regularly entered and employed in one of her Ma jesty's yards. Lord C. PAGET, in replying to the first question, said . by the he was rather surprised at the assump tion th d madene Admiralty hon. member ; for, if he had referred regulations would have a w v h e i c e he hadseen tnthat lately n 0 person been uetx exam a o r e i:i b e e y d w hearibe c m o v se ee l r. f o , certain age, namely, fr om 15 to b 5. t persons ain si t u w a tiitohnol.itin examination,the dockyards t w h whichthoug though were not el given eligible b t l e o f o o f r t p h r e s o m e p o t a i r o t n i o l u a l a r o t h a eprp ointments. e m r v m n e y d n o o ü b t e h d h e a s de been foreman in the yard, and these foremen were eli g ible to be• come timber inspectors and assistant master-shipwrights. To become assistant master-shipwrights it was necessary to undergo an examination, because their duties required men of high qualifications. But when a foreman possessed great experience, and had no longer the activity to become a master-shipwright, it was open to the authorities to give him the appointment of timber inspector. Mr. Waymouth had been appointed timber inspector as a reward for past services, and it was an appointment, he was capable of filling, though a man of considerable age. The hon. member had asked if Mr. Waymouth had been examined before his appointment as foreman ; but he had received the appointment before 1847, when there was no regulation requiring examination. With regard to the question whether it was intended to bring Mr. Waymouth back to Devonport after a short time, at the highest salary of £4OO a-year, he believed nothing of the kind was contemplated. Now, as .to the question put to him by the other hon. member for Devonport, he had merely to state that in 1859, when the present Government came into office, they found there was an Order in Council establishing a certain number of artificers in her Majesty's dockyard, and giving the number at 9,621; but they found there were 10,850 employed, or about 1,100 men above the number specified in the Order in Council. Accordingly they set about reducing the number to that specified, and they did so in this way—that was to say, when vacancies occurred they did not fill them up in the ordinary way, but employed hired men who were not entitled to superannuation. They found, however, that so long as the practice prevailed of filling up the places by appointing the apprentices, it would be impossible to reduce the number to that of the Order in Council, and accordingly it was decided that the apprentices when out of their time should be continuously employed as hired men ; and whenever a vacancy occurred in the regu lar number, if their conduct was good, they were placed on the establishment. The hon. member seemed to think that there was a breach of faith with regard to the appren- tices, but there was nothing of the kind. They were ere ployed continuously, and taught their business, and no ap prentices in private yards were allowed the same advan tages. THE RECENT REVIEW AT ALDERSIIOTT. In reply to COL STUART, The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he was happy to state that there had been some exaggeration with reference to the casualties which it was alleged had taken place at the recent review at Aldershott. It so happenGd that Sergeant gray, of the 7th Fusiliers, had died on the march of his regiment to the parade ground in the morning; but, ac cording to the report of the surgeon, after a post-mortem examination, the deceased had been suffering from disease of the heart of longstanding. No other man had died upon that day. With regard to the other question of the hon. and gallant member, he begged to inform him that, although there was not as much accommodation as might be desired, no more than one family was lodged in one room. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Lord J. MANNERS asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether instructions had been sent to our naval authorities off the coast of Greece to refuse protection to the lonian subjects of her Majesty ; and whether, as the Bth article of the Treaty of Paris, Nov. 5, 1815, invited the accession of the Ottoman Porte to that convention, as welf as that of the Powers which signed the treaties of May 30, 1814, and of June 9, 1815, it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment to invite the Porte to attend the conference about to be held on the proposed cession of the lonian Islands to Greece ? Lord PALMERSTGN said that no instructions of the extraordinary kind alluded to had been sent to the mili tary, naval, or diplomatic agents of the British Govern ment, and for the obvious reason that no change had taken place in the relation of the lonian Islands to Great Britain. They were still under the protectorate of the British Crown, and therefore there was no reason why, in anticipation of an event that had not yet happened, the lonian Islands should be withdrawn from the protection of Great Britain. With regard to the second part of the question, it was quite true that by the first treaty between England, France, and Austria, it was stipulated that the accession of Austria, Turkey, and the Two Sicilies should be invited. For reasons of his own, and from a disinclina tion to mix in European affairs, the Sultan at that time de lined to be an acceding party ; but a few years afterwards there was a convention for the concession of Bata, to which her Majesty's Government renounced all claim, and in re turn for which the Government of the Porte agreed to acknowledge the lonian Islands a possession of the British Crown, and to treat with the lonians as possessing all the rights and privileges of British subjects. That being the state of affairs, Turkey had not been invited to become a party to the cession of the lonian Islands to Greece. Mr. B, COCHRANE wished to know whether the noble lord thought the recent occurrences in Greece would cause any delay in the arrival of the King at Athens. Lord PALMERS roN thought that the King must be left to determine for himself the period of his arrival in his own dominions--but he saw no reason for any delay. IRISH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM. In reply to Mr. GREGOR Y , Sir R. PEEL said that, in deference to the opinions of many Irish members, the Government would not this ses sion propose the amalgamation of the Irish Industrial Museum within the Dublin Royal Irish Society, nor would such amalgamation take place at any time without the consent of Parliament. BRITISH EXPORTS FROM FEDERAL PORTS. Mr. S. FITZGERALD said that some time last session t Government h o a r d i t i ebeensatcatlbleedptoortthe circumstance of that the the Federal authorities la attention New York required from British subjects exporting ait goods a bond that no portion of those goods should fall into the hands of p erson s connected with th er e wa Con federate rds States. The noble lord at thehead o f the Govern menteaty then spoke of the requisition as a breach of the treaty betwee n the British Government and th e United States,r an d some correspon dence took p la ce. That correspondence had not been laid upon the table, but it had b een reported that the course alluded to was still persisted in, and that the consuls at Federal ports refused clearances unless those bonds were entered into. He wished to know, therefore, whether the noble lor d's attention had been called to the continuance of that practice by the Federal authorities, and whether any further correspondence had taken place. Lord PALMERSTON said her Majesty's Government considered that that practice was net in accordance with the international rights of this country, as founded upon the ordinary rules for the intercourse of nations and upon the treaties made with the United States. Remonstrances were therefore made, and the Federal Government promised to give orders to put an end to it. He feared, however, that hose orders had not been made very effectual, because very recently an intimation had been given of an instance in which that practice had been repeated. Application had thereupon been made to the Federal Government, and he hoped that, wh en th e ma tt er h a d b een again brought under their eliciiwt: c .. o p n i s T id z er G at E io ß n A ih De practice alluded to would be put an had been would be laid upon the whether said the correspondence of last year Produ kn eet, w but not in a complete form. He wished, I Lord PALMERSTOrIseaid, therefore, to be. the further correspondence as far as possible, it should RUSSIA AND POLAND. Mr. lIENNESSY asked whether the Govern ment w , -re in possession of the despatch from Prince Gort schakoff, in reply to the French Government, with regard to the six points, and whether it would be laid before Parlia ment. Lord PALMERSTON—The Government are not in possession of it in a way that will justify us in laying it be fore Parliament. VOTING BY PROXIES IN PUBLIC COMPANIES Mr. D. GRIFFITH moved the following resolution : "That the present amount of stamp duty on proxy voting papers, involving the necessity of procuring a stamp of a particular amount, not always easily accessible to the voter, and thus impeding the exercise of a franchise, and also, according to the analogy of draft and receipt stamps, ex cessive in amount in comparison with such stamps, and not involving consideration of importance to the revenue,might conveniently be reduced to one penny." The motion having been seconded by Mr. WHALLEY, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the Uovornramt had at all times shoal a disposition to facilitate the exercise by proprietors of joint-stock com panies of their privilege of voting by proxy, and at various intervals they had proposed the reduction of the tax from 30s. to 6d., at which sum it now stood. He trusted that the effect of the motiou would be to elicit an expres sion of the general feeling amongst the proprietors of these companies, and thus place him in a position on the part of the Government to submit a proposal to the house on the subject. On this assurance Mr. GRIFFITH consented to with draw his motion. LIEUT. TINLING. Col, SYKES called attention to the despatch of Admiral Kuper, dated April 14, 1863, reporting the death of Lieut. Tinling, of her Majesty's ship Encounter, at the siege of Showahing, and moved for papers. Lord C. PAGET read a correspondence relating to the circumstances under which Lieut. Tinling had met his death, from which he drew the conclusion that as Lieut. Tinling had gone beyond the radius of 30 miles, and engaged in operations against the Taepings, which British officers had been strictly ordered not to do, he would not be justified in saying that the gallant young man had died in the ser vice of his country. M r . WHITE warmly reprehended the conduct of the Secretary to the Admiralty in not affording to the family of Lieut. Tinling the poor consolation that the unfortunate youth had died in the service of his country, seeing that he had accompanied his captain on the occasion. After a few words from Mr. BAILLIE, the motion for papers was withdrawn. MR. WILLIAM BEWICKE. Mr. BERKELEY moved a resolution that the grievances suffered by Mr. Bewicke, as detailed in his petition of the 28th of April, were such as entitled him to the considera tion of her Majesty's Government. The hon. member ex plained that the petitioner had been sentenced to four years' penal servitude on a charge of firing a pistol at and resisting some sheriff's officers in the execution of their duty, and that subsequently he received the Royal pardon on its being clearly proved that his conviction was the result of a con spiracy. Returning to his home, however, he found that the cominiss!oners of Greenwich Hospital had entered, 'seized his furniture, and sold it for less than one-third of its value as the property of a felon. The case was one of great hardship, that demanded a remedy, and proved con clusively that the law was not in a satisfactory state. Sir G. GREY contended that there was no failure of jus tice, as far as regarded the evidence upon the trial, which was perfectly satisfactory both to judge and jury. When the witnesses upon whose evidence Mr. Bewicke was con victed were tried and found guilty of perjury that gentle man was pardoned, and, as it was impossible to restore his property, which had been sold by the commissioners of Greenwich Hospital in the interval, they paid him the sum it brought. It was not in the power of the commissioners to make compensation ; but he admitted it might be matter for consideration whether a person convicted wrongly, and sub sequently pardoned, should not be placed in a more favour able position. Sir F. KELLY said the state of the law was disgracefully unjust, and that it was the bounden duty of Government to take the case into their consideration, and recommend the grant of a sum of money as compensation to Mr. Bewicke. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL acknowledged that the petitioner had been hardly used, though no fault attached to the law or those who had administered it; but he did not see how an exception could be made in this instance, or why it should be placed upon a different footing from that of other cases where there had been a possible miscarriage of justice. The house divided— For the motion 2O Against Majority BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLS ENCY COURT (DUBLIN). Mr. V ANCE called the attention of the house to the in suffici. nt accommodation afforded to the bar, the suitors, and the public in the court in which the sittings in bank ruptcy and insolvency were held in Dublin; and moved for copy of any correspondence which had taken place between the judges of the court and the Government on the subject, Mr. F. PEEL said the matter was under consideration, and the Government hoped to be able to make satisfac factory arrangements for sufficient accommodation for these courts; but he was unable then to state whether it would be by building new courts, or rearranging other public buildings. After some remarks from Colonel DUNNE, The motion for the production of the correspondence was agreed to. DUBLIN AND EDINBURGH CORPORATIONS. Mr. VANCE moved an address for copy of any further oorrespondence between the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Ulster King-of-Arms, the Home Secretery, and Garter King• of-Arms, and of any other person on the subject of the precedence between the corporations of Dublin and Edinburgh. The motion was agreed to. JAPAN. Mr. B. COCHRANE callod attention to our relations with Japan, and, in doing so, said that he was induced to bring the subject before the house at so late an hour of the night, and at the end of the session, because he thought it was undesirable that the house should break up without its being brought forward, and an expression of opinion ob tained from her Majesty's Government relative to the state of affairs in Japan. If we were not actually at war with that country we were likely to be so, and, judging from the results of the Cbina war, this country was likely to find itself involved in an enormous expenditure. Our relations with Japan might be said to have originated in 1854. In 1853 the Americans entered into a treaty with the Japanese, and in the following year the same ccncessions were granted to England as had been granted to America. In 1858 Lord Elgin thought fit to go to Japan after the treaty of Tein-tsin, and in doing so he actually broke a condition of the treaty,which prohibited the anchoring of a ship of war within a certain dis tance of Jeddo. In Japan the authority of the two sovereigns was completely overridden by the Daimios, who were the great merchant princes of the country; and until influ ence could be exercised over these princes treaties were of no avail. Lord Elgin, however, had insisted upon a commer cial treaty, in spite of the remonstrances made by the great council of the nation; and surely it was a very hard thing upon the Japanese to compel them in the first instance to make a treaty, and afterwards, when they found the state of their country was such that it was impossible to carry it out, then to declare war against them. He was aware it was the fashion to say that the Japanese were barbarians, but all the best authorities spoke of their high civilisation, Towards Sir Rutherford Alcock the people had evinced the utmost courtesy and consideration, and that gentleman bore testi mony to the goodness of their dispositions. On our side, however, no attention was paid to the wishes either of the people or their rulers. It was desired that the consuls should be located at Yokohama; but the diplomatic agents insisted on their being stationed at Kanagana. The Ja panese, however, objected, on the ground that Kanagana was on the great line of traffic which was traversed by the Daimios ; and as they were opposed to the commercial treaty there would be constant risk of encounters between them and the foreigners. Well, the consuls stationed themselves at Yokohama, and the result was the unhappy encounter in which Mr. Richardson was killed. He asserted, upon the authority of every writer upon Japan, including Mr. Oli phant, that the Japanese were compelled to enter into a treaty with us. The house might not credit all that was stated in regard to the wealth and power of the Daimios, but that they were both wealthy and powerful could not be doubted. In this case they had a stronger weapon than wealth—they had justice. If British commerce could be promoted, while the feelings, nay, the prejudices of the Ja panese were respected, well and good; but if it could only be done by shedding the blood of a happy, contented, and innocent people, then he should like to see the treaty of commerce torn in pieces, and our fleet withdrawn from the waters of Japan. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member con cluded by moving for papers. Mr. LIDDELL seconded the motion, and attributed the difficulties we had encountered in Japan to the Elgin treaty, which was a revolution in itself and had been obtained from the J apanese by fear.. Mr. LAYARD said he had listened with great attention to the speech of the hon. member for Honiton ; but ho con fessed he was unable to understand the object of his speech. The hon. member condemned everything in the past, but he suggested no remedy. He (Mr. Layard) lamented as much as anybody the necessity they were under of making demands upon Japan which might possibly end in hostili ties ; but he thought he would be able to show that our ipresert position was unavoidable, that we were placed in the position against our wishes, and were only now per forming an absolute duty. Up to 1854 this country had scarcely any connection with Japan. At that time a con vention was made between this country and Japan, which simply afforded protection to our ships. America and Russia had concluded treaties of commerce with Japan. British trade extended all over the world ; wherever there was anything to buy or sell, there Englishmen were found. It was to this commercial enterprise that England owed much of its glory, its renown, and its wealth. Supposing that while Russia and America were developing the trade of Japan, England had been excluded, and her subjects ven turing to Japan had been repulsed and outraged, what would be the feelings of the country and the house ? Would not the Government be denounced for not entering into a treaty with Japan ? But, after all, by whom was the treaty concluded ? Why, under instructions from Lord Malmes• bury. And when the present Government came into office it was their duty to see that the stipulations wero fairly and honourably carried out. In Japan, unfortunately, there was a party, ho supposed he must call Conservatives, who were opposed to all progress. They opposed all trade with foreigners ; but not all the Dahnios were of that party. The Government had been asked with whom the treaty had been concluded. His answer was that it was concluded with the same authorities as those with whom Russia and Ame • rica had concluded theirs. He agreed with his hon. friend that the conduct of some of the British merchants was highly disgraceful, but his hoe. friend had made an excep tiono in f avour o f t h e i n di v id ua l w h o h a d com mitted the greatest outrages against Japan. That individual had shot on land interdicted to E ur op eav s a bird sacred to the Japa nese, but upon b e i ng called to account he shot a po li ceman . Mr. A ock puni s h e d him, but subsequently had damages given against him at Hong ' Kong at the instance of the in dividual, for h av i ng, in inflicting this punishment, infringed the laws of Japan. Her Majesty's Government then wrote to those who were supposed to have most influence in Japan with the merchants, and asked them to put a stop to their proceedings, and he hoped that by this time an improved state of things prevailed, and that those who had outraged the feelings of the Japanese had left the country and given place to a better class of men. Now as to the Japan out rages, they were not committed alone against Englishmen. The fiat was the murder of a Russian officer and se an — a murder not yet redressed. This was followed by the mur der of the American Secretary of Legation, and shortly afterwards one of Sir R. Alcock's interpreters was murdered at the door of his!,house. Then the outrage upon the Eng• lish followed. Mr. Oliphant was wounded. Shortly after two marines were killed. This country had means of de manding redress, but the demand was most moderate. Her Majesty's Government were inclined to treat the Japanese Government with consideration. The Japanese had sent over an embassy. That embassy was treated with the greatest kindness. Their object was to induce the British Government to make concessions—in fact, not to insist for a time on the opening of all the treaty ports. Did her Ma jesty's Government refuse ? On the contrary, they con sented to postpone the operations of the treaty, and it was the example of her Majesty's Government that induced the other Powers of Europe to make a similar concession. Shortly afterwards a murderous assault had been committed on four British subjects in Japan, who were walking at the time on a public road, to which foreigners had access. Was not the Government bound to demand redress for this wan ton outrage ? It had been asked whether they were going to make war. By the last accounts they had hopes that the demands of the British Government would be acceded to, and that Prince Satsuma would be compelled to make repa ration for the outrages his retainers had committed. Whether he would be compelled by the Tycoon or by the British forces the next mail would probably show ; but the English Government had throughout treated the Japanese Govern ment with the greatest consideration. The principal object was to get the English merchants to conduct themselves with ordinary prudence. They were, unfortunately, the first to cause disputes, and then, when in difficulty, they turned round upon the Government and demanded the assis tance of the naval and military forces to protect them. After a few words from Mr. COCHRANE, the motion was withdrawn. POLICE CHARGES. Upon the motion of Mr. WHALLEY, a return was ordered of all the cases of charges made before police ma fgt for rg s tecrtoahst together rss withi n from pettythe D esessionsamounts s or c p 2 a ,a tdo p o jb l y i u c nte the ce3o persons r t l s s so , 6n a 3 n s. d d o i s c it n h a i Srsgeedd, DISSENTING CHAPELS. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved for a return from the chief officer of police in every town of Great Britain, showing every chapel belonging to other sects than the Church of England, and every monastery, convent, or religious house used or occupied to the month of August, 1863. After some discussion the motion was withdrawn. CIVIL SERVICES. Mr. PEEL moved for a general abstract of the grants for civil services for 1863-4, compared with the grants for 1862-3. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE CONTRACT. Mr. PEEL moved that the contract for the conveyance of the Cape of Good Hope mails with the Union Steamship Company be approved. Mr. AYRTON hoped this would not be drawn into a precedent, but that the contracts would be allowed to lie on the table for a month before the house was called on to con firm them. _ The resolution was agreed to, as was the following : "That the contract for the conveyance of the Brazil and River Plate mails with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com pany be approved." THE GALWAY CONTRACT. Mr. PEEL then moved that the contract for the convey vey.ance of the American mails from Galway with the At•• lantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company be approved. Mr. DILLAVYN asked whether Galway was to be aport of departure for the steamers, or simply a port of call, the packets starting from some English port? Mr. PEEL said the new contract was identical with that of '59, and that Galway would be the port of departure, THE RUM DUTIES. In committee of the whole house, Mr, PEEL moved that the Chairman be directed to move that leave be given to bring in a bill to reduce the duty on ruin in certain cases, He said that since the American war there had been a great increase in the price of spirits of turpentine ; but it had been found that rum could be used as a substitute for it in the preparation of paint, and the object of the present bill was to allow the use of rum for such purposes without being subjected to duty, No loss would be entailed upon the revenue, because the rum to be so used must be rendered unfit for general purposes. Mr. HENNE SY asked why the same relaxation should not be extended to Irish whisky, which would answer equally well in the preparation of paint. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the only representation made to him was to the peculiar fitness of rum for the purpose. Of course, if whisky would answer it would be used. Leave was then given for the introduction of the bill. PETTY OFFENCES BILL. The order for the second reading of this bill was discharged, RAILWAY BILLS (No. 2) BILL. This bill was withdrawn. ---........_ ..._ The Indemnity, Colonial Letters Patent, Jurisdiction of Justices, and Pauper Lunatic Asylums Bills were severally read a third time and pacsed. The Clergymen (Colonies), Alteration in Judges' Circuits, and Superannuation (Union Officers) Bill, were read a second time. The Lords' Amendments to the Oaths Relief in Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill were considered and agreed to, The house adjourned at a quarter to 1 o'clock. THE ROUFELL FORGERIES. FIFTH DAY. (Before Mr. Baron Channel! and a Special Jury.) This trial was resumed at Chelmsford yesterday morning. The case fcr the plaintiff having been brought to a conclusion on Monday afternoon, Mr. Bovill yesterday addressed the jury on behalf of the de fendants. Sergeant Shee, before he did so, said that in con sequence of an observation that had fallen from his lordship on the preceding day, it had been thought advisable that Miss Sarah Roupell should be in at tendance, and she was now in court, and he proposed to examine her. Mr. Bovill said he should object to any further evidence being adduced after the case for the plain tiff had closed. Baron Channell said he considered that the lady could give important evidence, and in the interests of justice he should allow her to be examined. Miss Sarah Roupell was accordingly placed in the witness-box. In answer to questions put to her by Sergeant Shee, she said was living at Aspen House when my father died, and for some years previously. This letter (the letter of instruction to prepare the deed of gift) was written by me. I remember writing it. It was at the request of my brother William. He was present, and no one else. My brother dic tated to me. I wrote it at the time it bears date, Jan. 8, 1856. I cannot remember that I ever told anybody I wrote it. Cross-examined—l think I can swear I never told any one. Ido not mean I think. I will swear I did not. I never told my mother. lam not aware that my mother had given property to my brother William. I bad not been this letter for a year until it was put into my hands this morning. I swear that the letter was not shown to me yesterday. I have been in Chelmsford since last Thursday, and my mother also. Mr. Bovill—Are not these proceedings against the wish of your mother and your brother Richard ? The witness hesitated, and Sergeant Shee ob jected to the question. The witness then said she did not think they ob jected to these proceedings, but they would have been glad if any other course could have been adopted that would have saved exposure to the family. Mr. Liuklater told me that I should not be called as a witness if it could be avoided; and I was informed last night after the court had risen that I should have to give evidence about this letter in consequence of what the judge had said; but the letter was not shown me. Baron Channell—lt was in my box locked up. (A laugh.) Cross-examination continued—As children the family were in the habit of scribbling each other's names, but did not mean anything wrong. I have signed my mother's name, not for anything wrong, but to save her trouble. I remember perfectly well that I wrote the letter in the drawing-room, and that my brother William dictated it to me. Ido not remember seeing anybody on the same morning, but I suppose my father was there. Mr. Bovill—Then your mind is a perfect blank upon everything else that occurred on that day, except the letter ? Witness—l do not remember anything else. Mr. Bevill then addressed the jury for the de fendants, and he comme❑ced by observing that no thing was in his opinion more dangerous than to call a witness the last moment to prop up a particu lar case. If this letter was a genuine one, the wit- Sarah Roupeli ought to have been called to prove it, but she had been purposely kept away. Why did they not call Mr. Whittaker, a respectable so- licitor, who could have told them whether the trans action was a genuine one or not? A not Mrs. Roupell, the mother, brou ga gh i t n, forward,why was who could not only have proved that the plaintiff was the hair-at-law, born after wedlock, Out also whether her husband had given away this pro perty or not ? These witnesses had been kept back, and the jury would judge with what object; been as it but the witness Sarah Roupell, who had were dragged forward at the last moment, had con tradicted William Reopen in a most material point, for he swore that he wrote a draft of the letter and that his sister copied it, while she swore that he dictated it to her. The fact was that the whole story was a lie. William Roupell, the son of the old smelter, and brought up in the school of the old smelter, who had amassed £400,000, bad de ceived them, or tried to do so, and if he succeeded he would go back and laugh in his sleeve at their credulity. What was the real state of the case ? His clients had advanced £12,000 u the signature to the deed of gift being the faith of genuine, and the object of the present action was to rob them o f this large sum of money, which had been ad vanced upon the faith of a solemn deed. The plain tiffs were playing for a game of £200,000, and they cared little what became of the unhappy ladies and their families who were the real defendants in this action, and who had advanced their money upon the faith of this deed of gift being genuine, or whe ther they were compelled to go to the workhouse or not. The plaintiffs did not dare to attack the great mortgagees who had advanced large sums of money upon what was called the Roupell Park estate, but they thought probably that these four ladies would not have found the means to contest such a ques tion, and that they would quietly give up posses. sion of the property. They were mistaken, how ever ; and if the jury bad not already grave doubts whether the claim of the plaintiff was not founded solely upon the fraud and perjury of William Roupell, he felt a strong impression that the evi dence he should lay before them on the part of the defendants would completely satisfy them upon this point, and the plaintiff ought not to succeed in this action. The learned counsel then proceeded to call the attention of the jury to the proceedings that had taken place with reference to this particular pro perty, and said that if the actions that had been al luded to hadbeen tried as against the tenants, a great portion of evidence would have been excluded, and the real question in dispute would not have been brought before the jury, and he urged that every trick and contrivance had been resorted to. It was represented by Messrs. Linklater that they were defending for the tenants, which was not true; and the defendants ultimately recovered their rent, their claim being founded upon this very deed of gift, anh the tenants, or rather Mr. Richard Roupell, the present plaintiff, who now set up that the deed was forged, had to pay the co sts. After this Messrs. Linklater pretended that they were not the repre sentatives of Messrs. Springham and Haws, the tenants, but that they were really acting for Mr. Richard Roupell, and that it was only upon some technical grounds that the former action had not beep defended. It was idle to say t hat they were not acting for Mr. Richard Roupell, for they knew perfectly well that their case rested entirely upon the question whether this deed of gift was genuine or not. The result of the proceedings he had re ferred was to leave the defendan ts in possession of the property ; and if the present claim of the plain tiff were to ba slice% ed to succeed he would ask them who would be safe. He believed, however, that he was safe in the hand s of the jury, and although they might say there was doubt and there was suspicion, still there was moral evidence upon which they could rely, and they would not disturb the parties who were legally and honestly in pos session of the property. With regard to the evi dence of Mr. W. Roupell as to the will, it had no thing to do with the quest ion. He was playing the deep game of confessing himself a perjurer and a forger in order to obtain £200,000 for his family, and he came into the witness-box with a lie in his mouth; for he swore he had not been in mu comni cation with Messrs. Linklater, when t was clear that he had given them all the information they possessed, and that he bad been in constant commun i ca ti o n with those gentlemen, not only before but since he had been in prison. His eto s teemed friend Sergeant Shee was to tell the t the jury, and William Roupell was to prove it, and he, by his own account, had been a liar and a forger all through the pr oceedin g s. The jury would - collect that he had represented that shortly before these forgeries wer e represented t o have been com mitted he was only in the pos ition of a lawyer' s clerk, when it appeared that at this very t d s ime ere he had four bankers; t hat thousands of poun w he passing through hi s bands every year; a nd that had borrowed £40,000 from the Guardian Insurance Company and £12,000 from the Lond over on and a most West minster Bank; an d that lie had control extensive property, of which the witness Truman, to whom he paid .300 a-year salary, was the ma nager. He thought the jury would agree with him that William Roupell had deceived them at every s tage of the inquiry, and that it was only now and th a t the troth then, and quite by c hance, was eli then, ro ceeded cited from him. T he learned c ounsel then p to call the attention of the jury to the circumstances connected with the making of the deed of gift, and he said he should p rove that it ti was in the possession of Mr. Edwin Wh itaker long before the me when William Roupell and the witnesses D and he hould ove and Tru man represented tha t it was executed; s and particu• prove also that many of the witnesses, larly William Roupell, had contradicted themselves it in a grea t many esse n tial parti culars ; and that was impossible th at a great many of the statements He t h en remarked upon they made could b e true. the evidence that had been given by Truman and Dove, and said that it was no doubt intended to in duce the jury to believe that their signatures to the eries, but w hen it was found deed of gift were forgeries n t h a t they had sign ed the that they could n ot de y t h en W. Roupell turned deed as attesting witneseles, rou nd and said that they were g enuine signatures , as to the n ature of but that he had deceived them the instruments that they were a bout to sign. He Roupell con tended that the story t o ld by of his having concealed a portion of the deed with a piece of blotting paper was a bsurd and cou ld not ert of the be relied upon, a nd that this was merely p fraud that had been concocted by William Roupell, ose and by which he intended to im com ment upon p upon the jury. He then pr oceeded to the statement proved to have been made by Dove, one of the attesting witnesses to the deed of gift, to Mr. Coventon, which was to the effect that it wa chine enuine signature, and that h e should not have ig it as the attesting witne ss His if he had not seen the deceased execute it. learned friend had pledged himself to prove that the signatures of the attesting witnesses were for geries, but he submitted that he had failed entirely to do so; and, under these circumstances, he asked the jury what evidence there was that this deed of gifewas a forgery, and whether they would be justi fied upon that supposition in depriving not mean the present to defendants o f their property ? He did say that there might not be some suspicion in refer ence to the transactions of this family, and that the truth had not yet been arrived at, and probably never would be ; but the question they would have to decide was, whether it was clearly established by evidence upon which they could rely that the deed in question was a forgery ? They had no doubt the statement of Mr. William Roupell, but they would not forget that he bad £200,000 worth of property, and probably a ticket -of-leave, in view, and that it was quite clear that he was ready to swear to any thing that was likely to effect the objects he bad in view. He then reminded the jury that it had been proved that the old man stated to both the tenants of this property that he had given the Warley estate to his son William, and that they would in future have a lawyer for a landlord ; and he said he should produce a mass of evidence to show that the signa ture of the deceased to the deed of gift was a genuine signature, and he should also lay before the jury the evidence of a number of gentlemen who were known as experts in handwriting, who would contradict the evidence of this class that had been given on behalf of the plaintiff, and who would tell the jury that in their opinion the signature was a genuin e signature The learned counsel then reminded the jury that Wm. Roupell contradicted his sister as to the letter, and he said that nothing was more improbable than that he should have got his sister to write a letter which must have led to his immediate detection. He asked the jury whether, if the old man had given authority for such a letter to be written, it would not have been talked about in the family? If William Rou pell were to succeed in this action, and to get the property for his brother Richard, what security had they that he would not come forward next year and declare that all he had stated before was false, and produce another will by which all the property was left to himself ? He would not deny that William Roupell had been guilty of forgery with reference to the leases, and this he said ho believed was the foundation of the whole of the story ; for, knowing that he had been guilty of one forgery, he thought he might just as well say that the deed of gift was also forged, and thus get rid of the whole affair. The learned counsel then proceeded to call the at tention of the jury to various discrepancies in the evidence of William Roupell, and particularly to the fact, that although he pretended to have kept back the genuine leases for the purpose of copying the signatures of the tenants, the signatures he after wards put to the fictitious instruments were totally dissimilar, and there was not the slightest resem blance to the genuine signatures. His learned friend had, as he thought, most improperly and unneces sarily introduced the question of the will, with which the defendants had nothing whatever to do; but as he had done so, he should make use of it, and contend, on the part of the defendants, that unless the jury believed the evidence of William Roupell as to the existence of a genuine will of 1850, and that by this will the property was devised to Richard Roupell, he would not be entitled to a verdict in the present action. He then referred to the proceed ings of William Roupell in connection with the wills, and asked whether they could possibly be lieve that he did not look at the genuine will for a week after it came into his possession, or that he retained the document for more than six years, and did not destroy it until the 29th of March, 1862, the day before he left England. Again, the jury would remember that Mrs. Roupell, the mother, was in the house in Cross -street every day for a week after the funeral, and she must have known every thing that took place there, and yet she was not called as a witness. It was said that William Roupell was solely actuated by a feeling of sincere repentance. Sincere repentance, indeed ! Why, he did not say a word till the mortgagees of this property threatened to foreclose the mortgage, and he knew the forgery of the leases must be discovered, and then he attempted, first to shut the mouths of the attorneys by alleging that the deeds relating to the other pro perty were also forged, and having failed in this, he boldly resolved to tell the extraordinary story he had done, in order to get back property of the value of £200,000 for his family. The learned counsel then next proceeded to argue that the will now alleged to be forged was a very reasonable one, and it was very likely that the old man shoald have left the property nominally to his wife instead of leaving it to William Roupell ; for the jury would remember that the property was alleged to be worth £400,000, and that if it had been left to the latter, he was Illegitimate, and that the legacy duty would have amounted to £40,000, and this sum was saved to the family by the property being left to the mother. It being now past one o'clock, the Court was ad journed f or a s h ort period, and, upon the return of the jury, Mr. Bovill resumed his address to them for the defendants. The learned counsel then commented at consider able length upon the effect of the will, and he also remarked upon the evidence as to the handwriting, and said he should call witnesses from the Bank of England, from which establishment, they would remember, not a single witness had been called by his learned friend, although the old man kept an account there, and they would state their opinion with regard to the signatures to the instruments that were alleged by the plaintiff to have been forged. He then proceeded to make some humorous comments upon the slight peculiarities by which some of the " experts" had professed to come to a positive conclusion that the signatures were not genuine, and he said he should produce a number of receipts which were undoubtedly signed by the deceased, and they would find that every one of those supposed peculiarities were sometimes absent and sometimes present, and argued that this portion of the evidence was really worth nothing at all. The learned counsel, in the course of his further observations, urged that the whole case came from a polluted source, commencing with the smelting -pot of the old man, from which he had obtained £400,000, and that trick and artifice had been resorted to with a view to mislead the jury and to wrest a verdict from them ; and he concluded by saying that the questions to be decided by the jury were—first, whether the deed of gift of January, 1856, Was executed by Richard Palmer Roupell, in the presence of the attesting witnesses,Truman and Dove ; secondly, whether the signature was genuine, although it might not have been signed in the pre sence of those witnesses ; and, thirdly, whether the will of 1850 gave the property to the plaintiff; and unless they were satisfied upon these points, the defendants were entitled to their verdict. He con cluded a most eloquent and able address by stating that if they returned a verdict for the plaintiff upon such facts as appeared in the present case, it might be attended by the most dangerous and frightful results. The following witnesses were then examined for the defendants. Mr. T. West said—l was a tenant of Mr. Richard Roupell for 25 years, and I frequently saw him sign receipts for rent that I paid him. The deed of gift was then shown to the witness, and he said he believed the signature, "Richard Pal mer Roupell," was his handwriting. Cross -examined—My only reason for saying it is his handwriting is, that the signature resembles those to my receipts for rent. I perceive there are some slight differences between the two signatures, but that does not shake my evidence at all. In answer to questions put by the jury, the wit ness said that having carefully examined the re ceipts and the signature to the deed of gift, he was of opinion that the signature to the latter was genuine. Mr G. Lasty, another tenant of old Mr. Roupell's, gave - similar evidence. He also expressed a posi tive opinion that the signature to the deed of gift was the handwriting of the deceased. In eross•examination, he said he should much rather say that the signature was a genuine one than that it was an imitation of his signature by a skilful forger. He went to Doctors'-commons, and saw the will that was alleged to be forged, and in his opinion the signature to that will was a genuine signature. The letter of instruction to Mr. Witaker was then shown to the witness, and he said that the signa ture was a forgery. Mr. Shuter, a letter sorter at the General Post- Office, and who was also a tenant of the deceased, produced some receipts that had been given to him by Mr. Richard Roupell, and he expressed an opinion that the signature to the deed of gift was genuine. Similar evidence was given by other witnesses; a great number of receipts were put in, the object being to show that the deceased constantly varied his signature, and that very few of them were abso lutely alike. In one instance it appeared that the deceased had only put one "1" to the name of Rou pell ; but Sergeant Shee suggested that this pro bably arose from the deceased having begun to sign so close to the end of the paper that there was not sufficient space for the final letter. Mr. Phipps, the secretary to the Lambeth Water• works Company, proved that the deceased was a shareholder in that company, and he identified two signatures to two transfers of shares that had been made by him. He also produced several dividend warrants which had been signed by the deceased, and there appeared to be some observable differ- ence between the signature. The witness then looked at the deed of gift, and he said the signature was exceedingly like that of the deceased, but be could not say that it was his signature ; it was very like it. Some further evidence of the same character was then given, after which the Court adjourned. A Female Blondin Killed at Birmingham. The woman lately known as the Female Biondin has fallen a victim to the morbid taste for sensation performance. While she was crossing a high ropa on Monday at Aston Park, Birmingham, the rope broke, and she was dashed to the ground and in stantly killed. Everything (says the local Gazette) seemed to favcur the Foresters' fete. The weather was fine, and the public, taking much interest in the festival, thronged the streets to see the procession as it passed. The Foresters assembled at Bingley Hall before 12 o'clock--more than 2,000 of them coming from Leicester, Warwick, Tamworth, and Brierley Hill, as well as from Birmingham. They disported themselves in their insignia and their regalia, and their chrystopes, and scarves, and hems, and every thing gave promise of a day of pleasure. The pro cession was followed by crowds to Aston Park, and in the earlier part of the day thousands were amused by the volunteer bands and by nigger rue lodists, dancers, clowns, and gymnasts. A balloon ascent was watched with interest by a vast con course of people, and then all eyes were turned to the rope upon which a woman, who was known to the public as Madame Geneive, the Female Blon din, was to perform extraordinary feats. She had been advertised in the newspapers, and by placard and handbill, as " the only real and legitimate per former of Blondin's great feats of walking the rope shackled in chains, feet in baskets, blindfolded, en veloped in a sack," &c. Her coming was heralded with all the sounding phraseology at. the command of the writer of the official programme, and her appearance on the rope was looked for with eager ness. The crowd pressed around the space set apart for the poles and stakes by which the rope was supported, but the police kept the space clear. At half-past six Madame Geneive ascended the ladder, and taking the balance-pole in her hands, stepped out on the rope with much confidence. She walked half way across the rope, and then returning she had two very heavy chains tied to her hands and feet. Her action was not impeded ; for the right foot was tied to the right hand and the left foot to the left hand, the chains being sufficiently long to allow her to make free use of hands and feet. The chains encumbered her only by their weight. Again she walked along the rope without the slightest trepidation. She walked the whole length of the rope, stepping over the point of the upright pole by which the rope was supported in the centre. At the other end of the rope she re ceived from a man who was in attendance a bag or sack, which she placed over head and shoulders. Again she went upon the rope, stepping with con fidence, and had only gone about a yard when there was a crash, and, before the cry of horror had died from the lips of the spectators, Madame Geneive had fallen at the feet of her husband, and was dead. The crowd rushed towards the spot, but the police were able to keep a small space around the dead woman, Everything that was possible, under the circum stances, was done with the view of inducing respira tion by artificial means ; but all was of no avail. Madame Geneive appeared to have died the instant her body struck the ground, her death having oc curred from concussion or rupture of the spine. She was six months advanced in pregnancy. Madame Geneive was in appearance about thirty years of age. She had, we believe, several children, who are still living, and who are of tender years. The name by which her appearance at Aston was announced to the public was assumed. She was the daughter of a man who was formerly known to some people in Birmingham as "Funny Joe." He was a showman in a small way, and his daughters, of whom he had two or three—Madame Geneive, as we have said, among the number—were all reared to " the profession." They were very clever and very successful, and out of an income which at least one of them earned by risking her life, and by losing it at last, they made an allowance to their father during the last few years. COUNTRY MARKETS. ~..__. LEED S—TUESDAY. To-day there was a moderate supply of wheat, and fine fresh samples command is per qr advance on late rates. Foreign is held firmly, which checks sales. MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY. White wheat, bOs to 535; reclJ46s to 50s per 36 stone. Malting barley at —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 29s to 34s per 30 st. Oats, old, 24s to 275; new,„ j9s to 228 per 24 st. ; beans, 38s to 42s per qr. LIVERPOOL —TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a good attendance both of millers and dealers, and wheat experienced a good sale, at an advance of 2d per cental on the week. Oats more saleable, and oatmeal in better request. Barley and peas at the prices of Tuesday last. Indian corn was 3d to 6d per qr dearer. Egyptian beans scarce, and is higher. NE WCASTLE —TUESDAY. Wheat was firm at Saturday's quotations. Flour steady and choice sorts scarce. Spring corn unchanged. Old white wheat..s4s to 60s Old red wheat, , 53s to 560 New do. .. 50s to 56s New do. 4ss to 50s Malting barley....37s to 42s 'Oats . 22s to 30s Grinding d0.....29s to 32s I Beans 3ss to 45s SHEFFIELD—TUESDA Y. The show of wheat was limited, and scarcely equal to meet the demand. LaEt week's prices were made. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lBs Od to 19s Od White /) l ...20s Od to 218 Od New red • ...16s Od to 17s Od • New white ~ .18s Od to 19s Od 77 .. Beans ,7 7, ... 16s Od to 19s Od Peas, pe r qr 46s Od to 66s Od Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, 34s Od to 38s Od Oats ~ 00000 . 20s Od to 27s Od 0000 Flour, is 7d to 28 Od per stone. --- MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat, 438 Od to 64s Od ; new red, 438 Od to 49s per 36 stone; beans, 398 to 42s for old ; new sorts, —s to —s per 38 st. ; barley, —s to —s for malting, and 288 to 308 per qr. for grinding ; new oats, 20s to 25s Od per 24 stone. Around here harvest prospects still continue exceedingly good. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampt on ... . ... July 19. via Marseilles ......... Aug. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ...... . Aug. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. July 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via S outharapton.July 19. via Marseilles ...July 27. Falkland Islands .................. Gibraltar, via Southampton .. .. ....... ... . ....... Jul 19 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... Jul y 19.. India via Marseilles.... July 27. (Bombay), via Southampton ...... July 26. via Marseilles July 20. Portugal.... Aug. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton J u ly 19. Newfoundland via Marseilles July 20. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... July 22. by U.S. packet.... b a W.C. of Af r i ca , M a d e i ra , and Te y nCaneriffedian packet. July 24. Bahamas, via N ew York ...................... J A ul u y g. 3 l o o . Mexico. . All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Jul 29. California. and British Columbia.. ........ y Births. MoNTAGU.—On the 20th inst„ at Felixstowe, the Lady Robert Montagu, of a daughter, prematurely, MOIL—On the 18th inst., at Leckie, Stirlingshire, the wife of Major Moir, of a son and heir. SCOTT.—On the 18th inst„ at 97, Eaton-aquare, Lady Scott, of a daughter. WOMBWELL.—On the 12th inst., at 9, Upper Grosvenor street, Lady Julia Wombwell, of a daughter. • Marriages. CLARKSON—PRINCE.—On the 21st inst., at St. Nicholas Church, Hereford, Richard Clarkson, Esq., solicitor, of Bewdley, Worcestershire, to Elizabeth Anne, the eldest daughter of Peregrine Prince, Esq., of Belvidere House, Hereford. JICKLING—ALEXANDER.—On the 21st inst., at Saint George's, Bloomsbury, the Rev. Francis Jickling, rector of Beeston St. Lawrence, to Rose Elizabeth, the younger daughter of Major:General James Alexander, C.B. Deaths. DAVIS.—On the 20th inst., at St. John's-wood, Allen Davis, Esq., aged 56. FLORANCE.—On the 18th inst., at Fortfield, Chichester, John D. Florance, Esq., aged 87. GARDINER.—On the 19th inst., a t H ar pf or d, Ott e ry St. Devon, George Gardiner, Esq,, late of Stoke Canon, aged 68. GREASLEY.—On the 18th inst., at 4, The Terrace, Neu" nington-park, Mrs. Gressley. HOILE.—On the 18th inst., John Hoile, Esq., of Sand wich, Kent, aged 84. TICKED!, —On the 18th inst., at Dublin, Edward Tickell , Esq , Q.C., aged 84, --- London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE Sur/ Office. No. 112 : Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the County of middiesex.—Wednesday, July 22, 1868. 1 i