The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

FIELD-MARSHAL LORD CLYDE. On the 20th of October, 1792, there was born in Glasgow, or close by that city, then almost as quiet as in the days of Baillia Nicol Jarvie, a child in whose veins the gentle blood of the Highland lady commingled with that of the Lowland mechanic. No ray of hope or fortune illuminated his humble cradle; but by his own right hand, and by the exhibition of qualities which have raised nameless lads to for tune before now, that child came to fill a place among the foremost soldiers and highest dignitaries of the day. At a very early age he was taken from Scotland and put to sohool abroad and in England, and for many years he never revisited his native land. He came by his mother's side of a martial race, and in 1808, before he was 16 years of age, one of his maternal relatives sent for him to come to London from a military school at Gosport, to enter the army. The boy's uncle was well known to the Duke of York, and his request for a commission for his sister's son was at once complied with. Colin Campbell, now ensign in the East Nor folk Regiment, was at once taken to a military outfitter's—a pigtail was attached to the back of his head, a tight-fitting, epauletted, short-waisted, red coat covered with lace, a pair of leather knee breeches, and betasseled Hessian boots were also duly provided for him, and he was sent off the same evening to Canterbury to join the 9th Regi ment of Foot, which may be said to have com menced its military career with the arrival of the young officer, as its colours, then virgin, were only about to be decorated with the names of the battles in which he first saw fire. He had no time to enjoy the pleasure of his fine uni form, for the regiment marched the next day to em bark for the Peninsula ; and Lord Clyde was wont, when a war-seasoned veteran, to recall the miseries of his first march to Margate in his leather tights and. Hessians, and to declare that he endured more pain in the unaccustomed, and it may be added un suitable, attire on that occasion than he ever knew in his long afterlife of march-making. The young soldier's apprenticeship to his trade was ready, rough, and rude—no holiday, no play-time—for in three weeks from the time when he had quitted the schoolboy's desk at Gosport he saw the French in fantry creating the hill-sides of Virciera, and took part in the opening actions of that series of cam paigns which after many checks and some reverses, led to the liberation of thankless Spain from the yoke of Bonaparte. That the fortune of war is even more capricious than the blind goddess who regulates the ordinary matters of life, he might, no doubt, have felt after our early successes, when, with unwilling steps, he was obliged to trudge with his regiment before the columns of Soult to Corunna, whore the lion turned to bay and rent his pursuer. That she is sGmwinit-4 constant in her animosities he must hsv , bean acsured wh“l, scarce landed from t h e transport which carried him from the shores of Sp a i n , h e c as ordered off to participate in the shame, I.nd disasters of the Walcheren expedition in 18;9. The fever struck into his body so keenly that, until he went to China 30 years afterwards, Walcheren," as he said, " was with me every sea son." From Walcheren he returned to Spain in 1810, where, with better fortune and g.uidance, he s h are d in the battle of B Trossa in March, 1811, and the defence of Tarifa in January 5, 1812 ; and in 1812 he was transferred to a corps of the Spanish army, with which he was actually employed against the French in a long series of harassing skirmishes and operations, which are known to the Spaniards, but not to us, as important actions. In this year he also took part in the unsuccessful movement against the French at Tarragona. Frcm his experience of their qualities in the field Lord Clyde gave a higher place than was generally accorded at the time to our Spanish allies, and was particularly struck with ' their powers of marching, their great sobriety and frugality. In 1813 he joined the Duke of Welling tora's army again, and plunges into the thickest of the hard fighting which took place in that memor able year. He had in his first year's service reached the geade of lieutenant ; and now, at the age of 21, he had made a name for activity, courage, and de termination, which began to be heard throughout the army. He passed unscathed through Vittoria, the greatest of our victories after Waterloo, in that quarter of the century ; but in the breach of St. Sebastian he war not so fortunate. He led a for lorn hope which rushed to the aid of the neglected stormers, and he received two wounds in that des perate encounter. On Nov. 9, 1813, he became a captain by brevet, and in that position the hero of St. Sebastian, who had now added to his wounds a bullet path through the thigh, received at the pas sage of the Bidassoa, remained for 12 long years. It was not his habit to speak of small scratches, flesh wounds, skin scars, and the like, but it is be lieved that by the time he left France and proceeded to America, to serve against the Federal Govern ment in 1814, he bore as many marks as the body of the saint who gave to the fortress where Sir Colin's wounds spoke for at d returned themselves against his will ; for an actual sabre slice, a thorough bayonet stab, and an ingoing bullet put all modesty to shame and insisted on mention in the despatches. He had now been transferred to the 60th Rifles, and when the brief war was over in which we drove the President out of Washington after the 4. R a oeg of Bladensburg," and were beaten at New Orleans, Sir Colin Campbell was left on the same rung of the ladder of promotion, and he sturdily but not contentejly hung on it till he was 33 years of age—a captain still—seeing younger men with less service and longer' purses shoved or pulled up over his head. Captain Campbell had no command of the means which, well employed, might then have secured him a juster reward for his services ; but he had ample opportunity of testing every variety of climate and of seeing all kinds of service. In 1823 he served as Brigade-Major of the force employed in reducing the blacks in Demerara, where he re vived the dormant venom of his Walcheren fever. From that period the state of the world, so far as Great Britain was concerned, gave him no opportu• nity of active work against an enemy, and for many years he was employed on a duty which he often spoke of as most disgusting to a soldier ; he was obliged to protect by military force the ejections and sales for the recovery of tithe, then so common in Ireland. Although he was never the advocate of the purchase system, he was much struck with the advantage of a judicious outlay of money, and he used to attribute the ultimate success of his career to his obtaining a sum which enabled him to purchase his Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Soared and angry, • y. In the prime of life and full consciousness of power and. ability, he had almost resigned himself to the career of occurred, f it, a major on half-pay, when the oppor tunityand with doubt and hesitation he availed him self 0A few hundred pounds made all the difference betw een his dying an obscure veteran, and his rise in t h e world as the Field-Marshal of Great Britain whosebr : list blazed with orders, whose ". na me was in every 0 and who sat e by P t shin the days of trial and danger, Marl borough and Wellington in descendantsthe Rouse of Peers, of h o noured by his Sovereign and his country. When the interests of eetemeree an made it necessary for Great Britain to a gainst China in 1842, Colin Ca mpbell , declare war been gazetted as Lieutenant-Colon el 10 yea vrho had wen t out in command of the 98 th , and for I ra befor e , 11 mouths .his regiment was packed aboard a man-of-war, with neglect of all considerati on for h ealth and a comfort, w hi c h cruelly avenged itself upon officers and men. From China to India is a common step, though it is nit attended w ith benefit to the Constitution. Col. Campbell had a short p re ose in Hindostan, but te Sikh it was broken by t h e o utbreak of h s appointed to the war. In cora virtue of his senior it y he wa meted of the 'third I tivision of t he of the Pun . army t h e fi t A with more jab, and Foln fl aned o ut o n than the old Peninsular fi re, and le d his rren with such skill that in all the gre at battl es in which we m stood foot to foot with the stern est foe we everar et peed or are likely to meet in India, his soldiers ap in the very crisis of the fight. At Ran3suggur, at Chillianwallah, where, in directing a most impor tant and timely movement, he was again wounded, and at Goojerat, he earned the nazne of an able general in addition to that of the thorough soldier which he had won and enjoyed so long ; but there were not wanting critics in India then as afterwards accused him of over-caution. Now, of all men Colin Campbell was most fervent and passionate in battle—his impulse ever was to rush into the very focus of the fight and kindle those around him ; but his sense of duty, his care f,r his men's lives, his warm attachment to those w ,o followed him dominated the bent of his i !ration, and forced even his stern will to submi to the exi gencies of command. His critics were not disposed to be more favourable to him because he did not conceal his ill opinion of the Indian army, and consi dered the Sepoys as the mere bamboo of the lance, which was valueless unless it were tipped with the steel of British infantry. In his conduct of opera tions against the Hill Tribes in 1881-2, h►e displayed his asual activity, but his relations with the Indian authorities were affected by an incompatibility of views and temper. Colonel Campbell felt the diffi culty which Sir Charles Napier could not overcome in dealing with the great civilians in India. His spirit was principally moved by the indignities, which he thought undeserved, inflicted by them on the Indian princes. But it was not on these grounds that his command on the frontier was terminated. He was not regarded with favour by Indian autho- rities. Colin Campbell was now, h owever, on h path, and, though he knewit not, his star te was up ris ingward rapidly in the ascendant. The sfrhip ofo m htehredSeotaktse drifted into the Russian war, and , in n hr l e B e ks4ilted marched and plumedthe Glasgowregiments, in i b e o n y t s at w t h h i e e h, head fortu nate o f wh intheir littlechief loss and the Am theirn l a, place , and almost wonmuch honour a s ofar a much r a l a l s oonn.e the of t f h a a m m o n w s a d s ay con e u it t h ati n o o n, in ce u rn eh ed r , e w p g 93 l a d n , w ta was l i o n s s s Balacla va, opposed to w e h h e e n n n t s h s e i a t n h i e n a v r e a d l ry l n e L o o f r d t h ß e a whom Sir Colin Cam pbell was not th m a u t chheknwoawsneenxe °ept by report, knew , how ever, whose eye never closed and whose hand never re laxed, and thererore he covered up the right flank of his army with the Highland Brigade, and gave their General the charge of Balaclava and all its works. There he had, indeed, little of the glory of battle, but much wearying anxiety and incessant vigilance. On the retirement of Sir James Simp son from the command of the army of the Crimea, which had "devolved" upon him after Lord Rag lan's death, it was supposed that unlucky officer would have been succeeded by Sir Colin Campbell but, to the astonishment of those capable of being astonished by anything " down there,"a guardsman, who had never seen a shot fired by an enemy till he led up his divibion at the Alma after the fashion of Mr. Kinglake's British generals, was appointed over the head of one who had earned a soldier's name more than 40 years ago, and was known as a good general in the field long before Codrington had got his bloodless colonelcy. It is not to be wondered at that the soldier, now fairly to be described as old more in respect of services than of years, felt this "accident" more than he could be fairly called on to tolerate. He went to England, and it was only at the request of one whose wish was his law that be returned to the Crimea to take a command which would no doubt worthily have employed him had not peace abruptly terminated the campaign. He hid been gazetted:a Major-General in 1854. In the October of the same year he was appointed to the colonelcy of the 67th Regiment. On the 4th of June, 1856, he was made Lieutenant-General, and in that rank he fairly settled down, almost surprised at his late honours, if not quite satisfied at the part he had played in the great war wherein they were bestowed. But his opus magnum was yet to be accomplished. One , may count on his fingers the years of peace and rest which Colin Campbell passed in his long life, but his years of active service almost comprised the half-century in which were chronicled the great and little wars in which the British standard had been lifted from the beginning of the Peninsula campaigns till the present time. When we were startled by the Indian mutiny, it was not a favourite in high places or a dilettante soldier who was selected to save our tottering empire. There was a sigh of satisfaction and content through out the country when we were told that Sir Colin Campbell had at a moment's notice, and with ala crity best described, perhaps, as Napierisn, started off to take command of the forces engaged in putting down that which history will call the Great Mutiny. And history will tell how it was put down. From the time that Sir Colin Campbell took the field and set his columns in motion, rebel- ion, the offspring of mutiny, withered and died. [t is beyond our limits to describe his work. The 'inpatient and ignorant civilians and their ere& I - tures have best described the nature of it in the nickname they applied to him of " Kuberdar," or " Take Care." He did " take care"—took care so well that no surprise of a single detachment, no capture of one solitary post stationed by him, ever took place; took care that when once his army w as in motion it flowed over the land as regularly as the tide covers the beach, and that there was no ebb thenceforth ; took care that the British sway advanced with his van, and never, where he had drawn the line of its march, was described on any other tracing, till at last he stood on the banks of the Raptoe, and, looking over the wide expanse of Hindostan, could feel that he had made safe the supremacy of the Queen he served. He fully en tered into the spirit of Lord Canning's just and generous sentiments, and he did full justice to the inspirations which accorded so fully with the dic tates of his own heart and the counsels of his head. The sobriquet of "Clemency," attached with alli terative propriety to the name of " Canning," and meant to be a sharp insult, is not disgraced by that of " Kuberdar," associated with the name of Camp bell. When his labours in the field were over, and he had returned home to receive the acknowledgments of the whole country, the thanks of Parliament, the approbation of his Sovereign, and the honours he so valued as a soldier, he was not permitted to rest quietly on the laurels he had gathered. The amalgamation of the great armies of the East and of the West was going on—the reconstructive pro cess was commenced, and the old soldier was harrassed with reports, ref erences , suggest i ons, in terviews, councils, and memoranda on all the intri cate business relating to the judicious mixture of the silver and quicksilver of the two bodies. He had had no rest, and his frame showed that he needed rest. He sought it at Vichy with his old brother in arms of the days of Balaclava, General Vinoy. In one of his hot gallops in India his horse had fallen with him, and at times he complained unwillingly of a pain which must have come from some mis chief in the chest. At the review of the Volunteers at Brighton he took the command at the request of the higher powers ; but after it was over he s a id it was his last day in the field, and he shaved off his moustache as a sign that he had retired from ac tive service. A few months ago he had a severe illness, in which the lungs and heart were impli cated, but the old shot-and-steel -rent body resisted the attack of the great enemy, and to the delight of his friends he seemed to become nearly as well as ever he had been of latter years, and no one was more firm and vigorous for his years. Still he had causes of annoyance, which were, perhaps, unduly aggrandised by failings of nature. Appointed colonel of the Coldstream Guards in 1860, Field- Marshal in 1862, Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, had attained heights far beyond the flights of his highest ambition. But he had the impossible ambition of being " left alone in his glory." It was with pain he did not attempt to conceal that he found himself made the hero of a great episode in the history of the Crimean campaign. " I wish with all my heart that book had never been written—it has caused me great anxi e ty." Th ere were ot h er eourees o f irrita tion, too, which somewhat embittered the days o f his old a ge , b ut to his friends he was ever the same shrewd yet genial, abrupt yet courtierlike friend hey had known so long. At last came the illness of which h e di ed, not he would ha ve Perhaps as in his young days desired, but as in his old age he would have surely sought to pass away—amid the tender cares and subd ue d sorrow of those who loved him well, and not the l ess that he ha d beenybisthpeileloomw:• rade of the soldier whose family stood by We have thus endeavoured to trace • la very feeble outline the incidents in the life of a man whose c areer affords a remarkable illustratio n o f the va o lu se of high character in the profession of arms, an d o e t strength of mind and physical constitution to enable him to wait till opportunity and its golden moment arrives. If such a man live long enough it must arrive ; for there is a time in the existence of every nation when she throws aside the frivolous courtiers who have amused her leisure, and seizes instinctively the strong arm which can avert the threatening danger. Lord Clyde's early fortune led him to the West when the Waterloo campaign was about to ennoble its heroes, and to consign the Peninsular soldiers who were not present with them to a long oblivion and obscurity. But he was known even to those who stood in his way as a master of his profession, and he loved it so well that slight and the sense of wro n g could not force him to neglect his duty. D ut y was to him a sen tient, warm-blooded principle, not a cold, pas sionless, brutish idol, and her first rule was in his mind, "obedience" The struggle to obey left some traces of its influence on his spirit. lie could not help at times long ago comparing his position and his services with those of men above him, though he rarely spoke of himself, and there was a loftier independence in his words when he thought of these things, which might have been mistaken for anger. The more he was neglected the greater became his attachment to the soldier. No man ever studied so thoroughly and knew so intimately the character, the virtues, and the failings of that strange human aggregate which is to so many offi cers a mere locomotive creature, to be d r ill e d and wheeled, and reviewed, to be paraded, an d black celled, and be-striped, to be "kept in his proper place "—to be cursed at on occasion too —as Lord Clyde. His rugged brow knitted fiercely and his eye flashed no doubtful fire if he heard a word spoken to the soldier's disparagement, or detected any ac tion to his detriment. Though he did not call them his children, they were dear to the childless old chief, and, if he addressed them, his words flowed with an eloquence and sympathetic charm which de serted his lips when he had to speak to less congenial audience. When in India the authorities determined on transferring the European soldiers of the Company to the army of the Crown, without seeking their consent, he pointed out to them the injustice and the consequences of the step, and resisted it by every means in his power; but when the Government had resolved to adhere to its policy he repressed the in subordinate outbreaks he had prophesied with vigour and determination. A nature like his must be earnest in love and in hate, and he dwelt little on the neutral ground which lies between them. But his affections were ineradicable by anything but ingratitude, and that stung him like a serpent's tooth. If he was gratified with the honours he had learned, he felt their value was for him well nigh buried in the graves of those for whose sakes he would have exulted to have won them. They had come too late for full fruition. In person Lord Clyde was well knit, symmetrical, and graceful; but of late years his shoulders became somewhat bowed, though he lost little of the acti vity which was remarkable in so old a man. To the last his teeth remained full and firm in the great square jaws, and his eye pierced the distance with all the force of his youthful vision. His crisp, grey locks still stood close and thick, curling over the head and above the wrinkled brow, and there were few external signs of the decay of nature which wes, no doubt, going on within, accelerated by so many wounds, such fevers, such relentless, exacting service. When he so willed it, he could throw into his manner and conversation such a wondrous charm of simplicity and vivacity as fascinated those oser whom it was exerted, and women admired and men were delighted with the courteous, polishes, gallant old soldier. In the other mood he could be quite as effective. The nation will, doubtless, accord to his remains the mark of respect and gratitude due to their most faithful servants, No better soldier has ever been borne within the sacred walls of our Christian Pantheon. When England needs one to defend her flag, to vindicate her honour, and to uphold the renown of her arms, may she ever find a champion as trusty, as pure, and as true as Colin Campbell Lord Clyde ! Times. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUG '$T 15, 1863. time to say that he would kill his wife "if he got hung for her." The woman threw a bucket of water over him and attempted to escape, but the prisoner followed her, and again wounded her in six places with the chisel. Sho was at tended by a surgeon, and was for some time in a dangerous state. For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not intend to inflict grievous bodily harm, and that being in a state of intoxication, the crime might fairly be reduced to unlawfully wounding. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude. John Knowles, 20, was indicted for feloniously wounding Benjamin Hall, on the 23d October, 1862, on board the ship Clan Gregor, then lying in the Old Calabar river. Ihe prosecutor was clerk and the prisoner steward on board the vessel, and a dispute had arisen between them as to the genuineness of some yams. The prisoner became very excited, and struck Hall on the face. Nothing further took place then, but the prisoner subsequently rushed into the cabin, and returning with a carving knife, gave the pro secutor such a dreadful wound in one of his eyes that the sight was entirely destroyed, and the other eye most seriously impaired. For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not know what he was about, as he was in drink at the time. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. NISI FRITTS COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) PARKER V. BRADFORD. This was an action brought by a clerk and traveller on commission residing in Johnson-street, Manchester, to re cover compensation for a false imprisonment. Mr. James, WI., appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Pope for the de fendant. The plaintiff's case was that he was quietly walking along a street in Manchester, when the defendant, a washing machine maker in London and 3%1 anchester, met and stop ped him, and asked him his name and address. The plain tiff asked what business that was of Bradford's, and after some altercation accompanied him to a public house near at hand, and referred him to the landlord, who knew him, as he had been there two or three times. Plaintiff offered to go to the Ducie Arms and other places where ho was well known, but defendant refused to do so, threatened to send for a police officer, and said, "It you will put down £5O and the gold coins, and the will, you may go." Par ker took Bradford to be a madman, and he told him so. Bradford sent for two police officers and gave the plaintiff into custody on a charge of having stolen from his estab lishment in Fleet -street, London, a cashbox containing £7O, some ancient gold coins, and a will. Plaintiff denied that he had ever been in London in his life, and now seeing that the defendant was in earnest desired him to accompany him to several persons who could prove his respectability. De fendant declined to do so. Parker was conveyed in a cab, Jta custody of a policeman, to the police-station, where he was locked up until next morning ; he then conclusively proved that ho was not in London on the day when the robbery was committed, and the magistrates discharged him. The defence was that, on the 27th of July last year, two men entered the defendant's London establish ment while he was engaged with a customer, and after being there a short time suddenly went away; that imme diately afterwards the cash-box was missed ; and that when the plaintiff was given into custody the defendant fully believed him to be one of the men. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £6O. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—CAOYDON, Aug. 14. (Before Baron Bramwell and Special Juries.) BOWES AND ANOTHER V. PONTIFEX AND ANOTHER. l'his was au action upon a contract to recover the price agreed upon for a large quantity of old metal supplied to the defendants, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. C. Pollock, were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Beresford were for the defendants. The plaintiffs were metal merchants, and the defendants carry on an extensive business of the same description in the City. It appeared that they had contracted with the plaintiffs for the supply of a considerable quantity of old metal, and the ground upon which the claim was resisted was that the metal supplied was not according to sample. The case was one entirely devoid of public interest. The jury in the result found a verdict for the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed, less £2O, which was allowed on account of some of the metal being of an inferior descrip tion. TEALS N. WILHELMS. This was an action to recover £135 for goods supplied to she defendant. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Sergeant Ballantine, and Mr. Pren tice were for the plaintiff; and Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Murphy were for the defendant. The plaintiff is a woollen merchant at Leeds, and it ap peared that the goods in question were supplied by him to a person named Ellis, who carried on the business of a tailor in Basirghall-street, and who has absconded, and, it was stated, had made away with himself. The ground upon which the defendant--who carries on an extensive business as a tailor and outfitter in the Poultry—was sought to be made liable in this action was that he was a partner of Ellis. The case was likely to occupy the whole of Ihe remainder of the day, if not to be adjourned. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, Aug; 14. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) SENTENCES. This lordship passed sentence upon the following pri soners :—Wm. Johnson, Wm. Murray, and Joseph Owen (all youths of 17), charged with burglary at Liverpool— Johnson to six months, and the others to 12 months' im prisonment; Henry James, 23, burglary at Liverpool, 18 months imprisonment; John Wilson, burglary at Salford (previously convicted), four years penal servitude ; Mary Carr, burglary at Salford, six months imprisonment; John Smith, for the manslaughter of his wife at Manchester, 18 months imprisonment. • ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AT LIVERPOOL. Thomas Finnerty, 29, and Catherine Grath, LGarinatg, a h,3 ty o ii we e i r. e charged with assaulting and robbing Liver pool, on 31st May last. Laing, it appeared met the female prisoner in Chapel-street, and went with her to various publichouses, upon leaving one of which he was seized by Finnerty, who grasped him from behind, knocked down, and then robbed of his watch by the two prisoners. The police were on the alert, and though Finnerty was captured almost immediately, the female prisoner was not captured until the following day. The watch was not recovered, but the pri soners having been clearly identified, the jury found both guilty. Finnerty (who had been previously convicted) was sentenced to 10 years penal servitude, and M'Grath to 15 months imprisonment. Stephen Nixon, 19, was charged with stabbing Thomas Partington, a waste-dealer, on the evening of 13 t h June last, in S a lf or d. Partington was going home through a pas sage which led to his house when he met the prisoner, who asked him for money, at the same time using a threat to the effect that if the money was not forthcoming he would have Partington's life. Partington declined to give prisoner any money, and being somewhat alarmed he went back for assist ance, and returned shortly afterwards. As Nixon was still there, and apparently determined to resist the entrance of prosecutor into his hou se , a scuffle took place, during w hich Partington was stabb e d i n th e s h ou ld er, t h oug h with what kind of weapon did not appear. Not content with stabbing Partington, Nixon followed him into the house, and threatened to repeat his violence, but did not do so. In defending the prisoner the learned counsal urged that he did not intend to do any grievous bodily harm, but that h e wa s empowered to collect a debt due from Partington, and that having become excited in the scuffle which had taken place, ho had imprudently stabbed the prosecutor under the influence of that excitement. The prisoner was found guilty of unlawfully wounding, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Thomas Boswell, described as a French polisher, was charged with stabbing his wife, Mary Boswell, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. On the 3d of June the prisoner, came horse to his house, in King-street, South port, very much intoxicated, and a violent quarrel took place between him and his wife. Later in the day the wife sought protection from her husband's violence at the house of a neighbour, named Stevenson. While she was there the prisoner was observed breaking all the furniture in the house, and Mrs. Stevenson remonstrated with him, but without effect. Subsequently the prisoner and his wife met again at their own house, when the prisoner exclaimed , "You --, you are here are you ?" and taking a joiner's chisel (which he had previously been noticed to be sharpen lag) .. he struck his wife on the back with the sharp edge, in- Biding serious injuries. The prisoner was heard at the same A Horse-Trainer Charged with Libel. Yesterday a writ of inquiry was executed at the Town Hall Croyd on , b y t h e U n d er Sh er iff of Surrey, Mr. C. Ab bot', to assess the damages in an action for libel brought by Mr. Sydney Jacobs, an owner of race-horses, and who is well known upon the turf, against Robert I'Anson, the trainer, in which judgment was allowed to go by default. Mr, Joyce was counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Robin son for the defendant. In the beginning . b J e o g y i c n ea n d g dressed the jury , an d said that the plain tiff had be en f or many yea rs connected with racing matters, and the d e f en d ant was we ll known as a trainer, and brother to a more c e l e b rated man residing in the north of England. of the year the defendant had the care of two race-horses belonging to the plaintiff called Passion and Duchess o f R en t ; but in Febru ar y the la tter sold them to a gentleman named Simons, but they still remained at the defendant's stables. After they had been there some time, Mr. Simons was desirous to remove them, and on the 10th of June he went down to Mickleham for the purpose of doing so. The defendant was not at home, and his wife objected to the horses being taken away, and he was there fore obliged to return without them. On the following day he received the letter that was the subject of the ac. tion. The learned counsel read the letter, which contained the following passages—" I am not surprised that you should have come down to Mickleham to remove the horses, at a time when you knew I was away. . . . • • • . I wonder you can allow yourself to play into the hands of that thief Jacobs, and do his dirty wor k for him." This was the portion which was the subject of the libel ; but the letter went on to charge Jacobs with having attempted to bribe the boys about the stables, and stated that the horses should not be removed until the defendant had been paid what Jacobs owed him, adding that he did not care so much about himself as the poor people about Mickleham, to whom the plaintiff owed money. Th e plain learned counsel said he did not ask for vindictive damages, but the defendant had admitted the libel, and they ought to award such an amount as would clear his character in the eyes mr. H o . f,i.the Simons ra world, o n s and w a show s th ethen that examined, there thd n ho o esr msae ihd.alsoliHe e founda tion for the serious charge that had been made against him h e purchased two horses of hivtihemotuhwtehich were at for that took aanmiendtiecraelst m i a n n ra p e r in ac g ti m si a n t g te i r n s. W H al o wo k r n t e b w , and he tiff as being connected with the turf, and in the beginning of the year the time in training with the defendant, Mr. I'Anson. At subjectrof of the the request a Mr. Jacobs he continued ttohekeepthe horses at Mickleharn after he had purchased them, but about the month of June, for reasons which it was not necessaryafuodr hh ei mw te on went d mention,owvreenc:: a h et ndh e detwhahese defendant'sd ce letterasin a ro e u ea which w to a remove stables mawso wa s not at home, and his wife objected to the ehorsesss purpose i o n, ; . ined : Witness was a surgeon by but he libel,a being ftcerwo as r ans e r.d m de afterwards received it to the plaintiff." but he combined a little racing with it at times. P He had only followed racing regularly for a few months since he had purchased these horses. He had known Jacob s a good many years . He was not related eithe r to himself or his wife ; but he was aware that he knew a good deal about racing m atters, an d he ther efore consulted him. The de fendant, he believed, had been his trainer for a consider able time. Mr. Robinson asked the witn ess whether he had not heard that at the time these horses were sought to be re moved, Jacob s owed I'An son a considerable sum? Mr. Joyce the question b o bjected to being put; but the Under-Sheriff ruled that it was admissible. The w itness then said he might have knew n othing sho ut i t. He Was awaree heard so, bat he too k place on the 10t h June; b that H am pt on R aces ly on. that day t u he did n o t go d own toparticular fetch the horse s thoug ht the defendant would be at , because he hear d that the defend ant had sent the races. He had an t h e so licitor for the Plailttiff, but he neverapology in writing to the horses, P assio n , Was dead; but saw it. One of lioth run defendant had given since they had been wit up the other . The y ha d n ess's prope rt y . Passi on ran at Epsom, and the Duchess o f Kent at R ei g ate, a nd the latter was in the Oaks the fol lowing year. The horse ran in th wh i c h was a name suggested by Mr. Jacobs name of Madeleine, Jacobs on account of it s being an unco mmon one. r . He acted under the advice of Mr. Jacobs in all matters relating to racing. Witness had brought an action against the defendant to recover £3OO, the value of the horses, and for l neg ect in training them. upon one occasion the s tvitne a horse called Volunteer, a s accepted an engagement for and became responsible for the a mount of the stakes, and he did so at the request of Mr Jacobs. - Mr. Robinson th en a d dressed the jury on behalf of the de fendant in mitigation of damages. He said he did not dis pute that the defendant had acted improperly in writing the letter, but immediately afterwards he had made all the re paration in his power, and he submitted that this was all that could be expected, and that the p resen t ac ti o n ought never to hav e b een brought against him, the only object of which was to gr a tif y a f ee li ng o f vindictiveness an d sa ddl e him with expenses and law charges. He commented upon the absence of th e pl a i n tiff , an d sa i d i f he had b een ca ll e d as a witness, he should have been enabled to have elicited from him whether there was any t rut h i n t h e sugges ti on that at the time the attempt was made to remove the horses Jacobs was indebted to defendant a considerable sum for training and other expenses. He said, h.)wever, that, as the case stood at present, he thought the jury could not entertain any doubt of thi s fact • and it was clear that the defend ant was und er the 'impression that the pretended sale of the horses t o Simons was merely a juggle to shift the ownership, and e na bl e th e l a tt e r to obtain possession of the horses , which he considered he was entitled to keep until th e lien which he ha d upon th em w as dis charged. lie went on to contend that it was very natu ral for the def endant to be under suc h an i mpress i o n, and he should think that advantage had been taken of also that , knowing that h e wou ld b e a t the Hampton Races to go to his stable s d uring his absence an d carr y cu t th e project, and that, upon his return at night, finding this to be the case, and probably a little excited from having been at the races, he wrote the letter in q uestion. He had, however, apolo gised immediately • and he submitted, in conclusion, that the plaintiff h a d in' reality sustained no damage whatever, and he h o p e d the j ury wou ld sa y s o by their verdict. the plaintiff, one farthing. The effect of this ver dict The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for will b e t h at damageseach party pays his own costs. [ADVERTISEM ENT.] —Holloway's Pills.— Timely Precau tion.—Who can with cer t a i n ty predict the ultimate issue of a disordered stomach if it be neglected ? Fever, diarrhoea, and even cholera are too often the penalties of such neglect. It should be everywhere known that Holloway's Pills effec tually prevent these disastrous consequences. This purify ing medicin e s h ou ld be taken at once to stem the formi dable symptoms, or the opportunity of doing so may be lost for ever, and a few days' delay even may be fatal. Each succeedin g dose gradually regulates the stomach, liver, and bowels. When the weather is sultry, the system is weakened and malaria abundant, the digestion of its organs should be kept in order by treatment so simple, yet so productive of comfort, security, and strength. MURDER IN WOLVERHAMPTON. WOLVERHAMPTON, Aug. 14 A terrible crime has been committed in this town. In Bilston -street there is a wide court known as the Barracks, but correctly as No. 4 Court. It contains about eight houses, tenanted at 2s. 3d. a week. On the occupancy of one of these there entered five or six weeks ago a young man and woman, who seemed to obtain a livelihood by making and selling forks and skewers of iron ware. On the Monday evening, about a month ago, the woman locked the house door and told a next-door neighbour that she was going out, and asked her to say if any one called that she was gone to the country. A few days after her departure a respect , able-looking woman came from Willenhall, a neighbouring township, and enquired for Mr. Williams, her son,who was alledged to be the tenant of the house and who had passed as the husband of the woman referred to. The message left by the woman was delivered,and old Mrs. Williams desired that her son should be told to write to his mother,as she wished to bear from him. Whether or not the woman rho made the inquiries was the person she alleged herself to be has not yet transpired. After that time no one called, and the house remained closed. An offensive smell, however; for some days back has been noticed to proceed from the house, and this morning the neighbour with whom the message had been delivered by the woman-tenant began to suspect that something was wrong. At her request, a neighbour named Mary Lees procured a key and opened the door. The smell then became very strong. Lees, however, went upstairs,and saw a dead body lying in the front room. She called out to a neighbour named Smith for assistance, and they both entered the room. On the floor lay a mattress, and upon it there was stretched, covered with a sheet and coverlet, what was evidently the corpse of a man, it isneed less to say, in a horrible state of decomposition. The mur dered man, for such the deceased would seem to be, wore,as he lay in bed, only a shirt and waistcoat ; and there is no doubt that some hand must have tended him after he was unable to do anythiag for himself. This is clear from the manner in which his head was covered 'kith the bed clothes. These were fastened over the face tight enough to secure suffocation, if death had not previously taken place. The colour of the hair and other circumstances convinced them that the deceased was the young man Williams. The inquest was held yesterday afternoon, Before the in quiry commenced a woman present volunteered a statement to the effect that, some time since, she had known the de ceased by the name of Bill, and she now remembered his name to be William Williams. She was able to identify bim by his trousers,which on one occasion she had mended. His mother lived at Portobello, a small town near Wolver hampton. A letter addressed to him had once been left at her house, and she had known him when he lived in Bir mingham. He was not married, but had lived with a woman named Rose. This woman she had not seen for more than three weeks. She had a very bad character. Mary Lees, the woman who first found the body, and the first witness called, said,—l last saw Williams alive on Monday thiee weeks at the bottom of the court, and he then appeared to be in good health. On the evening of the same day I saw the woman with whom he lived go to the top at the back of the building for some water. After filling her kettle she returned to the house, and I have not seen her since. The witness then stated what the woman had said before going to the oountry, and the manner in which the body had been discovered. A policeman who went to the house soon after the dis covery said that a pair of trousers was found under the deceased's body. He added that in the house there were some articles found which he could prove belonged to the woman Rose, Rachel Barry corroborated the last witness in some par. ticulaz s. The inquiry was then adjourned until the last day of this month. Dr. Gibbons, the surreon, in the meantime, was instructed to mak e a careful postm o rtem examination of tho body. The Loss of the Channel Steamer Paris. Yesterday morning an official investigation, instituted by direction of the Board of Trade, took place at the Green wich Police -court before Mr, Traill, police magistrate, into the circumitances attending the total loss of tho steamer Paris, Hemmings, master, one of the Maples' Channel Line, which was wrecked off Jersey on the morning of the 28th July last. Mr. F H. Hamel, barrister, attended to conduct the case, and having briefly narrated the facts as disclosed in evi dence, called John P. Manger, of Guernsey, who said he held a certi ficate of competency as master in the home trade, dated July, 1859, and was chief mate of the Paris. The vessel left St. Malo about six o'clock on the morning of July 28, with a crew of 23 (including the master and pilot), and 20 pas sengers. She was well found and properly equipped, and the weather on leaving St. Malo was fine, bright, and calm. At half-past 8, after rounding the west end of the Miniquit he went on to the bridge and spoke to the captain and pilot. The captain told him to go aft and give the course to haul the ship up from N. to N.E. i N. He (witness) remarked to the pilot that the marks on the middle passage, two flag posts, were not clear, and the pilot handed him the glasses to see whether the flag- posts were one, whichwould be right for the middle passage. The vessel was then four or five miles from the Grunot rocks, and witness could not soe whether the flag posts were in two or one. A quarter of an hour after he left the bridge, and went forward to get the anchor ready, The vessel was then entering on the Silliette passage, the marks of which were open, the western mar tello tower being to the eastward. On looking ahead of the vessel he saw the Grunot rocks about 10 or 15 yards from the ship on the port bow, and exclaimed to one of the crew, "My God, we are going on the rocks." At the same moment she struck heavily on the rocks and passed over. The engineer called out from below, " Get out your boats, you have not a moment to lose," and the captain gave orders to lower the boats and the engines to be stopped. The boats were immediately lowered, and about seven minutes after, as they were leaving with the passengers and crew, the stewardess was seen to come out of the cabin, The captain got out of the boat, but as the ship was then sinking he called to the stewardess to jump into the sea, and he would pick her up. She did so, and a Frenchman jumped out of the lifeboat and held her up until they succeeded in getting her into the boat. The ship went down immediately afterwards. Thomas Avis, an able seaman, said he was at the wheel at the time the vessel struck. At the moment she struck the pilot called out "hard a-port," and the captain called out " hard a-starboard." They both called out the same order again, and witness was baffled, and put the helm hard a-starboard. After she passed over the rocks witness found the vessel would .not answer her helm, and he got into the lifeboat. David Simpson, chief engineer, also gave evidence of feeling the vessel go over the rocks, and described the shock as if she had grated across something. The water imme diately rushed into the engine-room, and having eased the valves, to prevent an explosion occurring, he left the vessel in the boat. De la Cour, the pilot in charge of the vessel, was the next witness. He said he belonged to Jersey, and had held a pilot's certificate of competency four years, but the authori ties at Jersey had deprived him of it since the present occur rence. He was engaged at Jersey by the agent of the com pany to which the Paris steamer belonged to go on board as pilot, the agreement being that he was to be paid 355. per week for his services. On going on board, and before leaving the harbour at Jersey, the captaia told him to go and hide himself, as he thought a pilot named Finnie was coming on board. Witness went and secreted himself in the fore-cabin, and as Finnie did not come on board he came from the fore-cabin on the vessel getting away from the pier heads, and piloted the vessel to St. Malo. Wit • new had no other duty to perform, and when the marks of passages were visible then he considered his duties as pilot commenced. On the morning of the wreck the captain said the marks of the Silliette Passage were just open, and he (witness) gave orders for the vessel to be kept to the southward ; but the captain said, " No, let her go towards the Ruandiere," a reef with a buoy on it. The vessel struck in about two minutes after he gave the order to keep her to the southward, and on hearing the captain's order he be. came thunderstruck, and said nothing. After the vessel struck, the captain, addressing him, said, "You are a pretty fellow;" and witness replied, " If you had done as I told you this would not have happened." The captain made no answer. When five or six miles from where the vessel struck, the captain asked him what passage he meant to take, and he told him the middle passage. The captain, on asking him this question, said " Cut it as short as possible to-day, and let us be in first," moiling thereby not to let the Wonder steamer, which left St Malo about five minutes after the Paris, and which had been in sight nearly all the way, got before them. Witness replied that the middle passage was the shortest and safest, and he should take that passage. He never told the captain that he should take the Silliette Passage. Captain Hemmings here said that the witness distinctly told him he should take the Silliette Passage, and that on the vessel sinking on the rocks he (De la, Cour) stamped twice on the deck and exclaimed, " Silliette I Silliette !" meaning thereby that he thought the vessel was upon the Silliette rocks. The witness De la Cour denied this statement in tote. Captain Hemmings, in answer to the Court, said that the pilotage dues for the Paris would amount to £3 178 per week, and these duties were to be performed by De la Cour. Captain Harris remarked that, had the vessel been in sured, which he understood was not the case, the entering into such an engagement would have prevented the com pany recovering the amount of insurance. Mr. Traill said such a proceeding wawa direct evasion of the pilot laws, as De la Cour, being so engaged, was to all intents and purposes ono of the crew, and although called a pilot he had not that authority, as he was under the cap tain's order. His (Mr, Traill's) opinion was that the duties of a pilot had been most abominably performed — that nothing could have been worse, and that the cabin boy could not have been more inefficient. The witness Manger was recalled, and stated that he un derstood from the captain that Do la Cour was to act in the capacity of pilot and second mate. Witness had been five months on board the Paris, and never knew a pilot taken on board before in their passage to the eastward. Captain Harris expressed surprise at this admission, and asked whether the pilotage dues were not payable, notwith standing the services of a pilot were not rendered. Captain Hemmings replied in the negative, and handed in a long written statement ac to the circumstances attend ing the loss of the ship, alleging that De la Cour, as pilot was wholly responsible. The Court having consulted together for some time, Mr•. Traill said the inquiry was most important, and the tniFcenduct of the captain so gross, in leaving the pilot De la Ceur in the manner described, that it would be a ques tion whether the Court would not feel themselves called upon to deal with his certificate. The case required very serious consideration, and in order to consider their decision the inquiry would stand adjourned. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, POST.—After much and anxious consideration, three rejoinders to Prince Gortschakoff'a three de spatches have at last been forwarded to St. Peters burg. It was proposed at one time that the three should be welded into oue strong identical note ; but upon reflection it has been thought more judicious to persevere as we began, and to retain our identity of character, though imbued with similarity of purpose. This will best allow of suitable answers being returned to Prince Gorts chakoff, who, having been more civil in his lan guage to us than to the French, will now receive from our nearest ally a sharper rejoinder than we are called upon to give. The object of all is, how ever, strictly the same; and we believe we shall prove to be correct when we affirm that the three notes will be found to have, as nearly as possible, identical conclusions. The purpose of the three Powers is to bring Russia to the observance of the provisions of the Treaties of 1815 with respect to Poland. In that attempt the three are acting as one and none will take action without the others. All notion of coercion has passed away for the present. For ourselves, we regret this, because we doubt of obtaining what we wish by diluted diplomacy. Had we firmly held our course, and had the three Powers taken up a strong and positive position, Russia must either have given way at once, or must have yielded in a short time to the great pressure brought to bear on her. There would have been no neces sity for war in the common acceptation of the term. There would have been no question of give and take in blows to be dealt; no great struggle— the colossus of the North would have been held paralysed in the grip of ail Europe. From Sweden to Turkey a vast encircling pressure might have been applied which would have been irresistible in its force. Tnat this is the truth is proved by the article which we publish in another column from the Gazette of Moscow. That journal, full of the notion that we would, if necessary, take up a hostile position with out war, writhes in anticipated impotence and pain, and cries aloud against the wickedness of a policy which, after all, would have been but the em bodiment of the moral force of universal opinion. If, however, the step the three Powers now take is not so trenchant as we could have wished, it is not to be interpreted as a sign of vascillation in their general intentions. Prince Gortschakoff will do well to read the signs of the times honestly and simply as they are written. He has failed to detach Austria from our alliance. Let him not think on the one hand that England and Austria are holding back from France, or, on the other, that he could provoke France into a false position, and precipitate ber into isolated hostilities. He would only encounter another failure in any such attempt. France will not step one foot without her allies. He should therefore look his opponents in the face, and resign for ever the idea of cajoling, seducing, or irritating any of them into divergent action. It' the more formidable aspect of the question is adjourned, it is only from the con viction that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg must now realise the truth of its position and the neces sity of a return within the limits of treaties. If the warning now given be again misinterpreted, and if, as there is every prospect, the Poles sustain the arduous struggle in which they are engaged, th, question will ultimately have to be put in the most decisive form—a term in which Russia cannot afford to meet it. The great empire is much disorganised, badly off io its finances, and indifferently supplied with military resources. Bombast is a favourite Russian weapon, but on this occasion its empty sound will produce no effect, and we therefore hope we shall have no more of it. Our demands must he met in a spirit partaking of the sincerity in which they are made. We have every desire to avoid even the semblance of danger to the general peace. Neither ourselves nor our allies have the least present hostile intention, and we should only adopt coercive measures in the last resort when they are forced upon us. But step by step, in negotiation or in action, we shall advance together in the inten tion of obtaining from Russia the recognition of what is just, and a consummation claimed by the voice of Europe. HERALD.—The removal of Sir James Hudson from the post of British representative at the Court of Turin, and his replacement by the Hon. Mr. Elliot, savour very strongly of a rank Whig job. job. We say the removal of Sir James Hudson, because his voluntary resignation is out of the ques tion. He has for more than eleven years given, in the name of England, the warmest encouragement and aid to the policy of aggrandisement which King Victor Emmanuel and his Ministers have so suc cessfully pursued. The Italian kingdom is almost a child of his begetting, and he would not withdraw his fostering care from the bantling of his own free will. His devoted zeal and his great services have been cordially recognised by the King and by all classes of Italian politicians, and he enjoys an in fluence and an esteem which no foreign Minister has ever possessed in any country, and which most assuredly he could not acquire in any other capacity. If England is the country of his birth, Italy is that of his adoption, all his interests are centered in her fortunes, and he could have desired nothing more than to continue—with some increase of dignity and emolument perhaps, if possible, bat if that could not be obtained readily, without it--in a po sition which enables him to advance so greatly her cause. Sir James Hudson has only resigned upon compulsion, and the fact that Mr. Elliot succeeds him would indicate that the only reason for the compulsion was the desire on the part of Earl Rus tell to find his relative a comfortable position. Mr. Elliot has of late had no regular employment. He has been sent upon a special mission or two, which, as the case of Greece, had no other reason than to give him something to do. He naturally began to long for something certain, and is anxious, as a j u di c i ous o b server of the chances of politics, to get it at once. His eye had long been upon Sir James Hudson's place; he nearly got it two or three years ago, but the loud and indig nant outcry which was raised as soon as the plot was revealed, frightened Lord Russell and saved Sir James Hudson. This time it is supposed all will be right. Parliament is not sitting, and no inconvenient inquiries are to be feared. The business will be concluded, Sir James Hudson will be in retirement, or employed in some other part of the world, before the two houses meet again, and then of course very little can be said or done. The matt er w ill have long been settled, and after a tew taunts at the noble lord's inherent jobbery the fait accompli will be accepted. We have never been admirers of Sir James Hudson. Whilst recognising his ability we have often had the conviction forced upon us that he has regarded much more the interests of Italy than of England, and that his object throughout his residence at Turin has not been so much to serve the country in whose ' name he was accredited as to advance the projects of King Victor Emmanuel and his advisers. His dispatches betray a desire rather to represent every thing in the most favourable light for the Piedmon tese, to bolster up the mistakes and deceptions of their Ministers, than to give a truthful and accurate .picture of the real condition of affairs. But if he did thus dress up his wares, he sent them to a mar ket which would only receive them so prepared. If Sir James Hudson is an enthusiast for the kingdom of Italy; if he has palliated all the mistakes of its Ministers; if he has tried to explain away all the steps that they have taken injurious to British in terests, to make out Naples peaceful and contented, to prove that England alone would be advantaged by unity under Piedmontese rule, Lords Palmerston and Russell have done just the same thing, and have made their friendship to the new kingdom the chief part of their stock in trade. And there can be no doubt that Sir James Hudson is the great mainstay of such British influence as there is in Turin. The Ministers of the King and the King himself sought his advice, and acted upon it when ever the neces• sities of their obligations to France and their posi tion towards the party of action allowed them to do so. Mr. Elliot will only follow, with less know ledge and far less influence, in the path which Sir James Hudson has pursued. We have in Turin a first-rate man for the place so long as the policy of the last three or four years is to be pursued, and we get rid of him, and appoint a man of whom the best thing that can be said is that nobody knows any great harm of him. Our Italian policy now consists in a struggle for influence with France; we seek to drive her out of Rome and destroy her natural influence over the Italian Go vernment. It is not a policy which holds out much but it l . s chance o f success ; not a policy, perhaps, the success' of whi c h wou ld b e worth anything; ; man policy, and Si r J ames H u d son was the on who could pursue it with any stance of success. His heart was in the Wort ; he bad a rare know ledge of the instruments by which to advance it; and yet our Whig Government, to find a place for a member of a family of place-hunters, to provide for a poor relation of the Foreign Minister, removes this one capable man, and substitutes for him a person who has never shown th at h e possesses more ability than would justify his app o i ntment to a clerkship in the Excise. There are, indeed, two cases in which the removal of Sir J ames H u d son would be legitimate. If the Government has deter- mined to change its policy towards Italy it would be judicious to transfer Sir James Hudson to some other post, and replace him by some diplomatist not comtniited as he is. Sir James Hudson tray have committed sc4ne act of insubordination or indiscre tion which necessitates his meal. Rut in either of these cases—the first A' which is hardly pussible, the removal of Sir James Hudson would be fully justified, the choice of his successor would remain a rank job: If it had been necessary to remove from Turin the man who had represented this coati try there through eleven so eventful years, a wor thier successor might have been found for him than Mr. Elliot, W 740 will be British envoy at Turin not by right of his special ability, great expe rience, or long services, but by his close relation ship to a leading member of a shamelessly corrupt Administration. The removal may possibly be justified; the appointment cannot even be excused. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. At this day's market there was a slow trade in wheat, and prices must be quoted ld per cental lower. Barley, beans, and peas at former rates. Oats difficult to sell. Indian corn offered, and closed 3d pr quarter cheaper. Oatmeal neglected. Flour (American) a slow inquiry, but unaltered in value. WAKEFIELD--FRIDAy. New wheat is 2s to 3s per qr lower than the quotations of last market day. Old wheat may be quoted at a slight decline. Other articles were unaltered. Averages for the week : Wheat .1,259 qrs., at 478 9d Rye — Od Oats — Beans EXETER-FRIDAY. Wheat, white 6s 3d to 6s 4d Barley. 3s 6d to 4s 3,1 Ditto red .6s Od to 6s 3d I Oats .........2s 9d to 3s Od Flour, fine, 35s to 36s ; seconds, 34s to —s per sack. cATTLE. Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 11s6d Ewes, per lb ....Rd to 61d Pork carcases, 7s Od to 8s Od Wethers, d 0..... , 7d to —d Lamb, p 1b...... .—d to —d Fat calves, do.. ,61d to 7th Rough fat, 31d per lb. STAMF ORD—FRIDAY. Wheat in some instances to-day receded is per qr in price. —White wheat, 48s to —B'; red, 445 to 46s per ,:36 stone. Barley, malting, 36s to 40s; grinding, 30s to 35aper qr. Oats, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 41s to — 8 per qr.; new, 38s to —s. BRISTOL SUGAR-FRIDAY. -- - The market this week has not been active, and buyers seem inclined to use up their stocks rather than increase them at the present rates. Refined goods dull, and sell only at very low rates. In rum very little doing. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862. £ £ Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,456 2, 404 Belfast and County Down 49 49 771 688 Blyth and Tyne 2B 2 8 1 , 9 98 1 , 93 0 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 2 1 32 1 15 1 3 2 4 15 177:997139 177.3 02 Cockermouth& Workington B5 85 312 32 4 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 396 406 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6/ 61 246 2 39 Cork and Youghal 324 324 468 4 02 Cornwall 534 534 1,718 1,7 11 Deeside l7 17 562 54 ' D Ou u b b i li in n Sz an ne d D ifa ro st g j h Dublin and Meath u ed n a ction 7 63 5 63 63 2 1 :0 4 5 3 6 9 1 : N3 1 23 - - - D D u u n b. de & e, W re ic r k th lo , w & A an b d er l . V j e un xt . d 5 3 4 14 4 3 8 1 5 3,04_6 2,417 1 Edinburgh and Glasgow 694 1695 9,097 8.301 Forth & Clyde Junction - -- Furness, &c 5O 50 3,037 2, 586 Glasgow & South-Wester n _ Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E. U n i on Great Northern 351 35 1 34,334 33,2 55 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 2,982 2.5 12 Gt. North n . & W estn. (Irel.) 7ll 565 432 3 n Gt.Southn. & Westn.arind.) 354} 329 9,068 8,9 54 Great Western 10564 10044 67,050 70.791 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno- 864 864 1,556 1, 30 1 Irish North - Western......., 145 145 1,693 2,02 3 Lancashire & Yorkshire 395 395 39,240 35.632 Limerick and Ennis.- Limerick and Foynes 2 2 93 . 172 Llanelly 4 4 831 70 0 Londen & North-Western London and Blackwall 54 ,51 2,167 2,18 1 London & South-Western 2504460 4005 27,267 29,286 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast London, Chatham, & Dover 725 72 4 5 6,533 6,68* Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 - 1,430 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.& Altrin c h am 95 95 1,394 1, 243 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan - 1,885 - Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6145 46,646 43, 3 1 Midland GtWestn. of Irind 2595 1925 4,914 4, 3 _„,r Monkland 7 14 714 1,419 1,0•); Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,665 2,551 North British, Edin,, Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dan 1095 10654 60,384 55, 366 „ North London 9 9 3,438 3,30" North Staffordshire 254 252 9,896 9,3 58 Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42 1,273 1,_ 14 ‘ ; Rhymney 195 194 948 9 00 Scottish Central St. Helen's Canal & Railway 62 62 2,002 1,9 04 4,210 Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 6,210 5,83 S Somerset and Dorse t 395 394 492 481 South Devon 754 754 4.535 4,363 South-Eastern 306 306 30,022 29,5"'„ Taff Vale ....”. ........ Ulster 615 515 2,123 1, 95 " Vale of Clwyd.. Waterford and Kilkenny 1 3r West Cornwall 3l 31 30, Waterford and Limeri c k 77 77 1,406 1,5 i" 275 275 772 8„ 01 : W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL W ' h aven,Cleator,&Egrinnt 7 7 608 447 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 824 64 9 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 887 67? FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,470 4,406 Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction 265 265 297 321 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185-1 1855 Buffalo and Lake Huron 1615 1614 1,353 1, 30 2 Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 2,950 Mlo' Dutch Rhenish ........ lOB4 1084 5,704 5 ,9' 43 Eastern of France...... lO7B 1060 50,160 5t,151 East Indian - - Grand Trunk of Ca na d a lO9O 1090 15,28;2 12,870 Great Indian Peninsula 5385 4374 11,211 5,41 7 , Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,438 4,321 Great Southern of I n di a 580 486 Great Western of Canad a 345 345 8,910 5,782 Northern of Canad & a Madrid, Saragossa Alleant.. 4 9 429 435 17,891 14,77' 94 2,127 2,261 Northern of France........., 697 691 53,806 --- Norwegian Trunk ......... 44 44 1,303 1,412 Ottoman Paris and Orleans ........... .. 5 RPernambuco ........... - t 25 --,,,, oyal Danish ............ 69 69 774 o i° Sambre and Meu5e......,;". 68 6 Ei 1,351 1, 350 South Austrian...... ... - -.. Southern of France 777 nr 28,915 25, 85 / Victorian.. 196 151 7,779 4,894 Welland 25 25 264 5 °,4, West Flanders ... 75 7 5 1,090 1, 03 " W. and N.W. o f France...... 758 75 8 43,775 43,669 Foreign Mail Packet 171st. MAILS DUE. Australia and via Mauritius, v Soutkampton. A ug , 18. via Mtaseilles Aug, 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by liritish packet...... Sept. 3 ; Cape of Good Rope, Ast:ension, and St. Helena Aug. 2 .,,' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. .!' Via Marseilles Aug. l ' t Falkland Islands ... . ........... .. ......... C ill e P 3TO l n,. • ;it: ....... Southampton Pio . n t .. .......... 11S u, a: G ln i ( b u r a al ( tr a , le v u ia tta S ), o an utli da India (Bombay), via Southampton Portugal...... Au. , Marseilles Aug. lf 'via Marseilles Au g . 4 „" Sept. 0 . Malta, Egypt, and Aden, .via Southampton Aug. a via Marseilles Aug. 1 3; Newfoundland . Aug. 1 ' Oporto and Vigo . . ....."..... U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Aug. 19 ' by U.S. packet . Aug. --• W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and IbienCearinffaed.i.an Aug. 27 ' Bahamas, via New York packet. Aug. 1 4 . ... • Aug. 4 ' s Mexico. . All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Califor n i a , an d British C01umbia............ Aug. /a. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by Fir' chasing Horniman's p ure T ea; very choice at 38 4d. WO 4s. . 4 High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), i s the strongest and most delicious imported. town supply it i n pac k ets. Agents in ever,' Birth BAGLEY.—On the 13th inst., at B rightort, th e w i fe o f II I I • Bagley, Esq., o f a daughter. COTTAM.—On the 13th inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of Edward Cottani, Esq., 12th . ef a df':ughter. PITT.—On the met.. a i. / Dover, the wife of Captain D Pitt, R.A., of a daugtter: VAVAsSZI7II.—Ori 1: , of a daught er ",. ' 11th inst., a t E psom, Mrs.Vavassearf Marriages. GRovE—HILLB.—On the 12th inst., at St. George's. lit: over-square, Anne, the eldest daughter of W. R. Grope► E 8 Q. 0., to H. A. Hills, Esq., of Rydal Mount, Wes morel and, 1, WiLxs—BARER.--On the 13th inst , at Richmond,Surres, the Rev. Theodore Chambers, eldest son of the Rev. s' C. Wilks, M.A., rector of Nursling, to Agnes Maria, the-_ youngest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Sir H. ' Baker, Bart., C.B. Deaths. BAr4LL.--On the 12th inst , William Bagnall, Escl'' of e a 67 arnste44 Rail . ) Handsworth, near Birmingham, ag at ..-)EN.—On the 10th inst., suddenly, at Endon, n e a ,d Pershore, W orcestershire, the Rev. Arthur Carden, ag' Green, 40. GREEL—On the 14th inst at Streatham, William Hen r y Esq., of Hong Kong, aged 34. Honns.—On. the 10th inst., at her residence, Colcheste Mrs. Hobbs, mother of Mr. Fisher Hobbs, of Botta' Lodge, aged 89. MAGNA3I.—On the 13th inst ,at Russell-squ ar e George age d 64. Ma gnaY) Esq., fifth son of thei late Alderman C. kagnaYP RUNNACLES.On the 9th inst , at Comarq ues , Thorpe-" Socken,Essex, C aptain Runn . acles, R.A., aged 67. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRE of No. 112, St rand, Printer, at THE Suw Office No. 11 :i Strand, in th e Precinct of the bavoy, in the CountY Middlesex—Saturday, August 15, 1863.