The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-29 00:00:00

...--. 4 ., 4......... , Navy a and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. VALET' rA, Oct. 24.—Her Majesty's iron screw troopsh . Ap Or ontes, Capt. W. Hire, has made an other rand tb ird trip to Malta, from Gibraltar, which she perform.ed in three days and a few hours, bring ing with her this time the 100th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Canadians. She arrived here on the 17th in at., and the same day the regiment disembarked and took up their quarters in Fort Ricasoli, lately - vacated by the 15th Foot. The following is the strength of the 100th Regiment, as disembarked from this ship—Major W. Campbell, Major H. Cook ; Capts. H. G. Browne, T. W. W. Smythe, J. Lee, - R. L. Bayliff, J. Lamb, and H. E. Davidson ; Lien ts. F. W. Benwell, H, W. Lawrell, C. A. Bol ton, R. B. Dowling, G. U. Prior, and J. B. Kerste -man ; Ensigns W. Ritchie, W.' Hudson, J,. C. Shir lay, G. D. La Touche, D. S. D. Johnstone, G. P. Lawry, and J. C. Jackson ; Surgeon J. S. Chartres, .Assist.-Surgeon 1. T. Donaldson, and Quarter master W. Smith ; 106 non-commissioned officers and men,62 women, and 104 children ; Mrs Browne, Mrs. Chartres, Mrs. Smythe, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Lamb, and Mrs. Smith. Col. Hallewell, Deputy Quarter master-General, who left by the Orontes, also re turned by her. The 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers embarked to-day on board this vessel for Gibraltar, and on her arrival there she will have completed the service of transporting to Gibraltar and bringing to Malta regiments comprising in all about 6,500 per sons, without, hitherto, a single casualty, and within the short period of not more than seven weeks. Her Majesty's surveying tender Growler, under the com mand of Staff-Commander Stokes, R.N., returned into port on the 17th inst. from surveying the Me dina Bank to the eastward of Malta. It was dis covered some time ago by Capt. Spratt, 0.8., when returning from the coast of Barbary, an d called by him after the name of the sh i p under his command. The Hydra, surveying vessel, is on her .. w . ay from England to the Medina , w hich has been casmantled, and is to be broken np. The unexpected retirement of Capt. Spratt from the surve y in g ser vice , of which he was so distinguished a member, will cause a change in her destination, and it is doubtful, under "'resent circumstances, whether two vessels will b e retained in the surveying service on this station. We learn from Corfu that the other surveying ves sel, Firefly, Commander A. Mans e ll, l e f t on the 15th inst. for the northward, to continue her hydrogra phical operations in that neighbourhood. The Or ' lando, 46, Capt. G. R. Randolph, has also left Corfu -for the Piraeus, to await the arrival of the King of the Hellenes, and at last date there were no Eng lish men-of-war at that island. A Turkish trans port, with troops from Montenegro for Constanti nople, had put in there to coal. Her Majesty's screw sloop Icarus, 11, Commander N. Salmon, which has been under orders for England for some months past, has at last received positive orders to proceed to Malta on her way home, and she is daily expected here from the Piraeus. Nothing more is said about the immediate return of the Marl borough, 121, Capt. C. Fellowes (flagship of Com mander-in-Chief), and it is believed that she will not leave Athens until after the arrival of the King, when the Revenge, 78, Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley (hearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R. Yslverton, C. 8.), will take her place on the Athena station ; and. Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H., will return to Malta. Her Majesty's ship Gibraltar, 81, screw, Captain J. C. Prevost, which left Plymouth on the 7th inst. for Gibraltar and Malta, to re lieve the Queen, 74, Captain C. F. Hillyar, .a ordered home, has not yet arrived here. Her Majesty's despatch-boat Psyche, 2, Lieutenant- Commander Sterne, moved round from the Sliema Creek yesterday to the Great Harbour, and left this morning with the mail received last night from - Marseilles for the Commander-in-Chief." The iron-cased frigate Prince Consort, Captain Vesey, left Pky mouth Sound yesterday at noon for the westward. The iron screw steamship Black Prince, 41, Capt. James F. B. Wainright, one of the Channel squad ren, now in the new long dock at Devonport, has become a most, interesting object to the residents, many of whom have visited her. The ship, not withstanding her great length, preserves nearly the tame level as when afloat. During the late trial, when her bottom was clean, she stemmed over 14 keeots an hour. She is now receivin new starboard :howse-pipes, in consequence of the fracture of the former pipes when dropping anchor. Her general repairs ere of no great extent. Naval men in the :locality suggest that the mainmast of the Black .Prince ought to be further forward, nearer her centre, if the position of her engines and machinery would permit it. Many consider that her great length demands four masts. Like several other ships of war, her main shrouds are made of iron wire. If these are shot away in action there are no ready means of repair, as with hemp. It is sub mitted that the wire should be shackled on in lengths of 10 or 12 feet, and that spare lengths should be kept in store so as to be ready for any casualty. One of the principal objects of placing the Black Prince in dock was to examine her bottom in regard to its condition after the application of two kinds of composition which were put on some five months since. The starboard side received a coating supplied by Mr. Melnnis ; that on the port side is from the laboratory of Mr. Hay, the Admi ralty chymist. It may be said, in th e fi rs t pl a ce, that neither of these inventions is a complete pre ventive of th e f ou li ng o f t hi s s hi p ' s b ottom, and in he second that it is difficult for an ordinary ob server to pronounce a faithful judgment on the relative merits of either as demonstrated in the pre sent ease. Weed or grass, about eight inches long, prevails on both sides, more on the starboard th a n on the Port side. The growth is chiefly on the water line, where it is Supposed to be encouraged by drop pings from the ni, which a re na t ura ll y attracte d to the sides froth the t surface of the soa. Weed pre vails less bel ow on h starboard side, which has also less shellfi s h thanethere is on the p or t s id e , where there are a few barnacles above. Below what are called the " lands, port side, clusters of small mussels and corealtnile is stated that shellfish are said to prevail. It that where they exist the bottom of the Black Prince w y was chafed b some floating substance over whit she passed at sea. The quality of these applications, most impor tant in the estimation of naval men , remains to be referred to—viz., the presentation of rust. The starboard side is spotted with rust in almo st every di r ection, whereas on t he p o rt side cor ros i on has on ly where the bows have b een abraded commenced by the chain cable s, or the sides chafe d by boat s , after the bottom &c. It is therefore intended, ohs thoroug hly cleaned, to pap her over enti re l y with a coat of Hay's composition, that being con s id ered the best suited for the purpose. Admiralty instructions have been received by the authorities at Sheerness to the ef f ect that her Ma jesty's screw steam iron ship Valiant, 34 guns, 4,063 tons, 800 horse power, built by the eminent firm of Messrs. Samuda, which was launched at Millwall a few days ago, and has since been taken into the Victoria dock to receive her machinery, is to be taken to Chatham to be docked and surveyed, after which she veal be removed to Sheerness, to be fitted for the first division of the steam reserve at that place. The Fawn, 17, screw steam sloop, 751 tons, 100 horse p ower, now f i tt i ng for sea at Sheerness Dock t_ e Yard, h as b een removed from No. 1 Doc k into i ba sic, wh ere s h e was p l aced under the s h ears an h masted. She is being brought forward for com mission with all despatch, and will shortly be com pleted. It is expected that the Fawn will take the place of the Greyhound, 17, screw steam sloop, or the Desperate, 8, screw steam sloop, both of which vessels are erepl o , ed on the North America and West India stations. Thy Ciio, 22, screw steam corvette, 1,472 tons, 400 horse power, belonging to the first division of the Sheerness steam reserve, and only p l ace d nut o f milers of the Admiralt c ommission a few wePits also, h as b een docked, by y, to under go a l terations and repairs, after which she will be aga i n brought for ard for immed iate commission. w--- Tamar, 2 , iron screw The -', F. troopship, 2,812 tons, Capt. H. Stirlin g • she will yard offf% , Is expected 500 horse power, the hands of Sheerness dock to be out of' I be taken fortnight, when cials in about a ff m / 0 e I aplin Sands for It pre nil to the mnsured liminary trial of machinery and -speed. Should everything prove satisfactory she will have her com passes adjusted, and immediately proceed to the western ports for troop service. The Ranger, 6, screw sloop, Commander Henry R. Wratislaw, arrived at Spithead at a late hour on Tuesday evening from the West Coast of Africa. She sailed from Cape Coast Castle Aug. 21, and from Ascension Sept. 9. At Cape Coast Castle she left the flagship of the Commodore, the Rattlesnake ; and at Ascension the Archer, 13, screw corvette, Capt. John Bythesea, V.C. The Ranger brought to England a few naval invalids from ships serving on the station, who were transferred yesterday to her Majesty's ship Victory. She has received orders to proceed round to Woolwieh to dismantle and pay out of commission, and is expected to sail from Spit head this morning. Her boilers are in a very defec tive •;ondition. The Geyser, 6-gun paddle sloop, Commander M. B. Pechell, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Davonport with supernumeraries and seamen and marines on liberty from the ships in the western division of the Channel squadron. Labourers and the seamen and marines belonging to the ship have commenced scraping the composi tions off the bottom of the iron frigate Resistance in No. 10 dock at Portsmouth, preparatory to it being coated over afresh. The 7th proximo is the date at present fixed for the ship to go out of dock, when she will be immediately succeeded by the Warrior. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—N. G. Arquimban, master to the Resistance; Henry B. Akaster, master to the Asia for the Frederick William ; the Marquis of Queensberry, midshipman to the Edgar. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a Levee yesterday afternoon at the Horse Guards. There were above 160 officers present. Alderman Salomons and his Constituents. A considerable number of the electors and non electors of Greenwich assembled last night in the Lecture-hall of the town to hear Alderman Salo mons address his constituents; Dr. Purvis occupied the chair, and prefaced the business of the evening with a few remarks explanatory of the purpose for which the meeting took place. Alderman SALoaloris, who on rising was loudly cheered, having returned thanks for the cordiality of the reception which had been given him, pro ceeded to say that it was true the last Session of Parliament was one in which no very large or im portant public measures had been passed. such, he might add, was likely to be the character of many future sessions, for many great questions in which the people of this country had rather deep interest had happily been settled. The result was, that the duty of Parliament at the present day chiefly consisted in watching existing legislation with a view to the improvement of our laws and keeping an eye upon current events. Viewed in that light we might, he thought, with satisfaction look back upon the labours of the past session. He found, for instance, that during its progress 125 public Acts had received the Royal assent, while in 1862 the number was but 114 ; the number of pri vate Acts being 238 in 1863 as against 227 in 1862. Taking into consideration, then, the actual business transacted by Parliament, we had, he thought, no reason to complain of the session which had recently closed. It saw taxes taken off to the extent of nearly £4,000,000 ; it saw a reduction of sd. in the lb. made on the tea and sugar duties, while the income-tax was not only reduced from 9d. to 7d., but so far modified in its working as to admit of a deduction of £6O to be made from incomes under £2OO a year. That being so, it could not fairly be contended that nothing substantial had been done for the benefit of the community at large. (Cheers.) Among the other measures passed was that by which a liberal provision was made for the estab lishment of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and all, he felt assured, who had a respect for the Crown of these realms, and who desired that our heredi tary monarchy should be maintained with becoming splendour, would be ready to sanction the sum which had been voted for that purpose. (Cheers.) Measures had also been framed consequent on the great distress which existed in the cotton districts —distress which had hitherto been borne in a man ner which must greatly raise the character of the British people throughout the world, and which had been largely alleviated by the spontaneous contri butions of all ranks and classes, from the humblest workman to the Queen on the throne. (Cheers.) Having said thus much with respect to domestic matters, he should pass to the wider field of foreign affairs, simply observing before he did so that he was now, as ever, prepared to vote for the total abolition of church-rates —(cheers)-- though the Church was one which he had never refused, and never would refuse to pay, and though the difficulties connected with it were of a nature which Govern ment ought, in his opinion, to be able to settle, if Dissenters and Churchmen would only consent to meet on neutral ground. In the department of foreign affairs two questions had mainly engaged the attention of Parliament. These related to Poland and America, and he could hardly say which was the more interesting to the English people. The subject of Poland was, no doubt, one of a very pain ful character. It was, moreover, a question replete with difficulty. How far was it desirable that we should run the hazard of bringing about a war which might appear to be rather one of sentiment than of real public interest and advantage ? The treaties of 1815 would seem to have guaranteed that that which was the Duchy of Warsaw should be erected into a kingdom of Poland; but the stipula tion had never worked well. Weakness on the one side sought refuge in secret assassination, while on the other side unbridled power, availing itself of the force at its command, wore the aspect of having shamelessly carried out its authority. The Govern ment of this country, thinking earnestly on the sub ject, had recourse to diplomacy; but it was not easy to combat human feelings by well written letters. We asked Russia to make certain concessions in the six points which we submitted to her, but we omitted, on the other hand, to add a seventh, and that was that the Poles should give their adhesion to the conditions proposed. That being so, he was still of opinion that if the allied Powers were to in sist that the Poles should submit to these terms, which they thought fair and equitable, there would be some chance of bringing Russia round to a set tlement of the question. It was very easy to say, "Failing to effect such a settlement, let us go to war for Poland ;" but it should be borne in mind that to do so would be the reverse of all we did up to 1815, when we joined Austria,Prussia, an d R uss i a , for the purpose o f com b at i ng F rance. T he quest i on o f Pola n d was, as he had said, one of grea t difficulty, and all the more diffi cu lt b ecause o f th e s t eps w hi c h we had a l ready taken. We were, in short, now be set with difficulties whether we went forward or re treated, and for his own part ho did not see how far he could se em: war. He should eavithout plungin g th e coun t r y i n t o now say a few words with re pect to the contest raging on the other side of the Atlantic. Indeed, United rtyhelitt,ceet4iojern of it he Should be ashamed of him self if he evaded AY ject He had, when he, :g his opinion on the sub .sas a t young man, travelled a good deal in the of b e i te l e . , and he should never, to the last moment f e f forget sundering a slave o f took place. So sale which he there witnessed, and family ties which in consequ ence made on him that even, would great was the impression which it he ma welt himl h o p m la e y a t ti h d e cried. woma n Very g. Let Doman, thetefore, t itu , t h e be supposed he wished this btheaiot,:sa'enjiandvecate of slavery, nor from anything might say must 1, try to occupy any other than a neutral Pos i t i on be _ tween the contending parties, save in so far as he might give expression to wor ds of p eace to both. The fact was, however, there were two a i d es to the Ame rican question ; and he did not fin d fault with gen tlemen of great talent coming fro m the north side of the Potomac, and pleading on behalf of that Union when they whisk was naturally so dear to them, looked back on the prosperity which it had brought them during the last 80 years. It was no wonder that the people of the North should look with aver sion on the disruption of their Government; but it THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1863, should, on the other hand, be remembered that as a man sows so he will reap; that slavery was planted in the midst of them, and that the United States had gone on for years deriving all the benefit of the connexion. Everbody felt that when slavery was touched the Union must be dissolved. Washington himself in his farewell address—the ficest State paper, perhaps, ever written by human hand ---had laid down in the strongest terms the two principles that America swecetnilodnadl ivdidisetinhcetrioninstoantdwopaeratmypsf:ealnindg should always cherish th e U n i on and avoid those s ha w d h s ic h h e valued the Uni on , dison eventually adhered to these i n j unct i ons ? No. The Americans it was true ; but at th e same ti me er ep t broke e and u tin gathered aete strength o f o pe n partyuntil they vi hostility. American statesmen,he might add, ought to have seen that one • issue was joined on the ques tion of slavery, there were only two ways in which the question could be settled, by the sword or separa tion. And what, he would ask, was the present state of affairs in America ? Two nations almost as distinct as could be, were there fighting ; the one struggling for independence, the other for dominion. The North, which had tolerated slavery for years, now proclaimed that it was entering on a crusade for the purpose of putting it down, actingsomewhat on the principle of ladies of a certain character who indulged in forbidden luxuries until they advanced in years and then became the greatest prudes im aginable. (A laugh.) For his own part he objected to the sword as a civilizer. Of all civilizers it was the worst, and he must confess, notwithstanding the arguments urged by a minister of the gospel, equally eminent for his talent as for the horrible doctrines which he has propounded in this country, that there was nothing so barbarous in all history that it might not be justified by the reasons which were put forward in justification of the use of the sword by North America to put down slavery. The leaders of the Inquisition were no doubt equally sincere in their endeavour to crush heresy ; but he for one objected to such coercion. It might be all very well when the American Union was established that 3,000,000 of people should take their laws from Washington, but now that there were 30,000,000 people, embracing a variety of opinions, there might be very good reasons for dissatis faction on the part of a large portion of them with the Government. For his own part he was the ad vocate of the South in the present contest because they were fighting for independence—(cheers) — because they were the weaker side, and because he believed them to be honest and sincere. (Cheers.) Was he, therefore, in favour of slavery ? No ; and that was an evil which he was happy to think would not survive the struggle. But, be that as it might, the question between North and South was one in which the English nation ought not in his opinion to interfere. The Government were, he thought, quite right in the course which they had adopted with respect to it, and had acted very pro perly in detaining the steam rams about which there had of late been so much discussion. The Foreign Enlistment Act was not exactly framed to pre vent us sending ships to foreign nations, but to prevent vessels from leaving our shores in such a shape as to render them tantamount to vessels equipped for war. Looking, then, at those steam rams it would, he thought, be admitted that as they were framed after that fashion they came within the words of the law, as well as within the spirit in which it was enacted. It would, therefore, require some very strong arguments, now that the Govern ment had the power of stopping such vessels, to justify them in proposing to alter our laws for the purpose of pleasing any foreign nation whatever. (Cheers). That was more particularly the case as applied to America, seeing the way in which we were treated, not only by the people of that coun try, but by her statesmen, and he for one should be very loth to enter upon a policy of that character. The hon. gentleman concluded his address by a reference to one or two topics of local interest, and had the satisfaction before the termination of the proceedings of having a vote of confidence in him passed by his constituents. Your minds direct you to the performance of your duties, and your own common-sense tells you that for the due per formance of those duties you must submit to the necessary privations. Your own good sense must prepare you to come out whenever your officers call you; you own good sense must prepare you for strict obedience to your officers, with out which it is useless to pretend to be a military corps. These are the difficulties that the volunteer army of Eng land have to overcome to keep up its discipline—namely, to substitute their own sound common sense for that which in the army and navy is merely strict obedienee toithe officers, who, whether men of common sense or not, care little about it so long as they bring their men to perform their military duties. (Cheers.) Now, 1 commend you warmly, and from my heart, as a body of loyal men, possessing that sound sense which teaches you to know that the first principle of military discipline is strict obedience. (Loud applause.) And how much more difficult aro the duties of the cavalry than those of the infantry, in having not only to make themselves efficient and strict in discipline, bat to train their horses also ? Now compare, for instance, the Life Guards with a regiment of mounted volunteers. What is the condition of the horses in the Life Guards ? They never move out of their stables without perhaps seeing the neighbouring horse alongside of them. These horse know each other perfectly. But how is it with you? When your horses come out of their stables they seldom see their neigh bour horses, and they are not accustomed to the regular falling in, as the horses of the army are, two or three times a day. These are the disadvantages under which you labour. (Hear, hear.) Then how much more necessary is it that there should be strict discipline among the volunteers, to stimulate yourselves, and to drill your horses for the effi cient performance of their duties? Now, what does this bring me to ? Why, that the only mode of discipline of any value to the volunteer army of England is constant practice. (Cheers.) Constant practice must be carried out at the sacrifice of domestic comforts and the well-being of the fireside, and long distances must be travelled to keep up , that discipline which, in the day of need, is of such inesti mable value. (Applause.) What you require is a resolution and determination on your part that you will gain that dis cipline by active exertion, that you will disci?line your own minds to strict obedience to your officers, and that you will not allow your corps to fall off because five or six men de cline occasionally to come to drill. (Cheers.) If you mean to maintain your corps, if you mean to be what you are con sidered to be—the first cavalry corps in the United King dom, made so by the diligence and attention of the Duke of Manchester—(loud cheering) --it must be by drilling your own minds to strict obedience to your officers, and being determined to be ready when the call is made upon you. I conclude by thanking you again for the honour you have done me. (Continuous cheering.) After a short pause, . . Lord HARDWICKE again rose and proposed "The health of the Duke of Manchester"—a nobleman who had distin guished himself by active exertion in the cause of his coun try's welfare in reference to the volunteer movement. The whole assembly at once rose and drank the Duke's health with the greatest enthusiasm. On the Duke of MANCHESTER rising to respond he was again loudly cheered. He said,—Comrades, lam indeed very much honoured by the way in which you have received the toast which the Lord-Lieutenant has asked you to drink. I only hope I deserve half what he has said of me, though it is quite evident that you think I deserve all that he has said. (Applause,) Whatever I may have done, I could not have earned a better reception than you have just given to me. 1 must say it is gratifying to me to find that, in endeavouring to do my duty, I have obtained the good will and esteem of those who act with me. There are times, as you know, when occasionally I express my con victions as to slight mistakes on parade, as it is my duty, but I feel certain, from your reception of me to day that you have not the slightest ill-feeling towards me, for whatever I may say while on duty. (Loud applause.) Your own good sense and feeling must tell you that what ever I may say on parade arises from my anxiety to render you an efficient and valuable body of men. Now, Ido not think it is conceited in me to say that, considering the dis advantages under which you labour, you could not do bet ter. (Applause.) I would not, of course, compare an irre gular corps of volunteers with regularly drilled troops; that would be absurd. But, under the circumstances, you have to-day all done remarkably well, It has certainly given me great satisfaction to find that you second my efforts, and to hear from the Lord Lieutenant of this county, that between us we have attained a certain amount of success. I hope you will all remember and give strict attention to what has been so well said to-day by the Lord Lieutenant. (Cheers.) I never heard a better address to Volunteers than he has given to us. (Applause.) We have now A, B, and C troops in the Ist Light Horse, and I am delighted to say that we have got on well together. (Loud cheers.) I found you to be good comrades and good friends, only desirous to know my wishes and intentions in order to carry them out to the best of your endeavours. (Applause.) But to-day we have had another body of men for the first time (the 2d Cambridgeshire Mounted Rifles). and I hope I shall get on with them as well as I have with my own. (Cheers.) I wish you now to give them a hearty welcome, and propose to you " Success and Prosperity to the late 2d Cambridgeshire Mounted Rifles," who are now the Cambridgeshire division of our corps. Lieut. TOWGOOD acknowledged the toast. The Duke of MANCHESTER then proposed the health of Capt. Newton, who had so liberally entertained them. Captain NEWTON returned thanks. The health of Captain Heathcote, of the let Herts Rifle Volunteers, having been proposed by the Duke of MAN. , CHESTER, and that of the ladies by the Earl of HARD WICKE, the company left the tent to witness the competi tion for the prizes. The adjudication of the prizes was in trusted to the Hon. Col. Duncombe, whose decisions gave entire satisfaction. Sergeant Mellor was declared to be the winner of Captain Newton's sword. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.---Oct. 28. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) Alfred Edward Pountney, a young man of gentlemanly appearance, was indicted for having committed perjury and obtaining an affidavit for a marriage license by false pre tences. The court was crowded during the trial, the utmost inte rest being evinced in the proceedings. Mr. Gigarcl and Mr. Markly appeared to support the pro secution; the defendant was defended by Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Poland. ' In opening the case Mr. Gifford said a great deal had been said out of doors about the harshness of these proceedings, but he could only say that his client, Mr. Cropley, the father of the young woman, had his own reasons for prose cuting, and these reasons were best known to himself ; and he would say:that if a father had not a right to prosecute in such a case, what was the use of the act under which these proceedings were instituted ? It was true the defendant and the young lady had known each other for some considerable time. The learned gentleman then proceeded to lay the facts of the case before the jury, but having been so re cently before the public it will be unnecessary to recapitulate them in detail here. No doubt, he said, efforts would be made to raiso a spurious sympathy in the minds of those present, but he would only say that the law must be obeyed, whatever might be the feelings of the public on the matter. In conclusion, he thought that it was only justice on the part of the father in bringing the case before the Court; for if paternal authority were put on one side, what would be come of young people in general ? Mr. H. Watts then proved the prisoner coming to him on the 19th August about the marriage licence, which set forth that both parties were of full age—that the applicant had resided 15 days in the parish of St. Bride's—and that he knew of ne lawful impediment to the marriage. This affi davit was read over to him, and he swore to its truth, and signed his name at the bottom. Mr. Hatch Cropley, the father of the young lady, said his daughter was named Eliza Cropley, and was 13 years of age last July. In that month, in consequence of what he had heard, he went to his mother-in-law, with whom his daugh ter had resided since she was 3 years of age, and there saw the defendant. He spoke to him on the matter, and told him that he must give up his engagement with his daugh ter, Pountney said he never would, as he loved her to dis traction. Pountney was a sorter at the post-office in Ely, where all the parties resided. The reason he objected to the marriage was, because his child was so young. On hearing the defendant's declaration, he (witness) said he should take the young lady home with him, and take care that theydid not meet. His daughter was entitled to a third share of £4OO, which was to become hers at 21 years of age. Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—l know the prisoner was acquainted with my daughter more than two years azo,snd at that time I took her home to prevent their becoming better acquainted. My daughter never told me that she loved the prisoner to distraction, and that nothing but death would part them. I told her I would take her away from her grandmother, and keep her for two years ; but I did not. tell her that I would lock her up. I told the prisoner not to come on to my premises. lam not aware that the grand mother wanted them to get married, or that she made the arrangements for their getting married. I have heard that she gave them the money, but I do not know. Mr. Charles Clements, a gentleman in the post-office at Ely, gave evidence to prove that Pountney could not pos sibly have resided in the parish of St. Bride's for the space of 15 days. Mr. Sleigh said he did not see how the whole three counts could be maintained. The first count, with regard to the age of Mies Cropley (now Mrs. Pountney), ought, therefore, to be struck out of the indictment. _ _ The learned Commissioner agreed with Mr. Sleigh, inas much as it could not be supported that the prisoner had committed corrupt perjury in stating that Isliss Cropley was 21, as it could not be proved he knew her age to be only 18. No doubt he did know it, but he ruled that that count could not be maintained. Mr. Sleigh then replied on behalf of his client, appeali ng strongly to the feelings of the jury, urging that the offence was not made out. No doubt the defendant had signed the affidavit, but they must remember in what tribulation he must have been at the time, having only just run away with the object of his affections, and being, of course, in instant fear of pursuit. Besides, was it usual on such occasions to have the affidavits read slowly and distinctly over, or was it not rather the practice to hurry them over as a meae matter of form. And with regard to Mr. Cropley, it was perfectly manifest that he was well aware this engagement had been going on for three or four years past, and if the grandmother with whom the girl had lived since her infancy, had not thought Pountney a young man of position and character, would she for a moment have allowed him to have paid his addresses at all. It was obvious to every right minded-man that she not only connived at this marriage, but that she had actually given them the money to come to London and get married. She must have been the best judge of defendant's conduct, Did he look like a young man who would bring evil on any girl—and did not his conduct in London look like honesty and integrity. He had at once procured a licence and married his young fiancee without allowing a single day to pass. With regard to the sum of money which the prose cution alleged was the true reason of the marriage, did it seem likely to them that a young manlike the prisoner would sell himself for suoh a paltry sum as £133 6s Bd. No; it must be as plain as daylight to them that he married from love and love alone; and had not the father been so opposed to the match the present proceedings would never have taken place. In conclusion, the learned gentleman asked the jury to return the defendant back to the arms of her who was so anxiously awaiting the result of the trial, by giving a ver dict in his favour. Mr. Commissioner Kerr then proceeded to sum up, point ing out the law in the case, and observed that whatever might be the feelings of the jury they must do their !duty in the matter. Until a child had reached full age there could be no doubt that her father alone had the disposal of her, and paternal authority must always be respected. He did not see how they could well acquit the prisoner, unless they believed he did not know the purport of the affidavit at the time he signed it. After half an hour's deliberation the jury returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. The verdict was received with loud cheers, which were speedily repressed, and the defendant quitted the dock amid the congratulation of his friends. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) In the case of Samuel Sobey, who was charged with ac cusing Andrew Cunningham of a certain heinous crime, with intent to extort money, Mr. Ribton said he felt somewhat in a dilemma, as the prisoner in this case was prosecutor in another in which Cunningham was prisoner on a charge of unlawfully as saulting Sobsy, with intent, &c. The learned gentleman said he was somewhat in a difficulty as to which case ought to be tried first. They could not both be tried together, that was evident, as in the one case he prosecuted and in the other he defended. The one was a felony, and the other only a misdemeanour, therefore he asked his lordship's advice. The learned Judge, after an interview with Baron Martin, in the Old Court, decided to try the misdemeanour first. Andrew Cunningham, 61, coffee-house keeper, was then placed at the bar, while Sobey quitted the dock, and took up his position in the witness-box. Mr. Ribton, Mr. Kemp, and Mr. Collins prosecuted, and Mr. Metcalfe defended the prisoner Cunningham. This charge was one of a very remarkable character, both Sobey and Cunningham being respectively prosecutors and prisoners. The facts have been fully before the public, but it may be as well to give a brief recapitulation. Acccrding to Sobey's evidence he was, on the 15th of October last, it. Little Bridge-street, when the prisoner Cunningham as saulted him in the manner described, and afterwards left him. Sobey, however, followed him as far as Ludgate •hill and along Cheapside, when he gave him into custody for the assault. Sobey admitted that he had afterwards gone to the prisoner's house, and had taken a sovereign from him, but this was not, he said, to hush up the matter. A number of witnesses were called, and ultimately the jury acquitted the prisoner. Sobey and Cunningham now changed places,Sobey, whose age is 22, being placed in the dock, and Cunningham going into the witness box. Mr. Metcalfe now prosecuted, while Mr. Ribton, Mr. Collins, and Mr. Kemp defended. Cunningham was then sworn, when he stated that on the evening of the 15th of October he was passing along Lud gate-hill, when the prisoner Sobey came up to him and tried to get his watch, and, on the prosecutor laying hold of him, he stated that unless he let go and gave him some money he would charge him with a certain offence. Witness, having been convicted some time ago, and hav ing Buffeted twa months' imprisonment, on a charge of having indecently assaulted a young man, and not wishing to be again publicly charged, although innocent, gave him ls. ; but they had not proceeded far together before Sobey spoke to an officer, and he (witness) was taken into custody. After the examination at the police-court he was bailed out, when the prisoner went to him and asked him to settle it. 'Witness having received his instruc tions, appeared to acquiesce, when the prisoner said he must have £lOO. Witness said he could not give him so much as that. Sobey then asked for £75, but ultimately agreed to take £5O. Cunningham, acting under advice, then produced a sovereign, which had been previously marked, and tendered him that on account. Sobey took it and left, promising to call again and receive the remainder the next day. He was then apprehended, and the marked money was found upon him. In cross-examination, Cunningham denied that he had ever been near the place mentioned. He supposed the pri soner must have heard of his former conviction, and thus though to frighten him. A number of witnesses were then called, whose examina tion lasted several hours, after which Mr. Ribton addressed the jury at considerable length on behalf of Sobey. Mr. Justice Willes then summed up, leaving the case in the hands of the jury. • After about half an hour's deliberation a verdict of guilty was returned, with a strong recommendation to mercy. Mr. Justice Wilke, addressing the prisoner, told him he had been convicted after a most patient hearing, and he must say he entirely agreed with the verdict as returned by the jury. Had it not been for the recommendation of the jury the sentence would have been much more severe than the one he was about to pass. Still the crime was of such a serious nature that the punishment must of necessity be heavy. The learned Judge then sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for the period of eight years. The prisoner, who seemed appalled at this sentence, co vered his face with his hands, and moaned aloud, while his mother, who was within hearing, fainted away, and had to be led into the lobby. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Nov. 18 via Marseilles Nov. 12. brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Nov. 4 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 30. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 27 India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Nov.ll via Marseilles Nov. 5 P0rtuga1........ lialta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nev. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 27 Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Nov. 6 by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet.o et. 61 W.C. of Africa, Mad e i ra , an d Teneriffe Nov. 10. BAD DRAINAGE.—An inquiry was held by Mr. J. Humphreys, coroner for East Middlesex, last.even ing, at the Butlers' Arms tavern, Butler-street, Green - street, Bethnal -green, respecting the death of Juliette Ware, aged 12 years. Susannah Ware, 8, George-street, said that the deceased was the third child who had died in that house within a fortnight. One child was now ill, feeble and almost paralysed, and another had been seized with illness, but had recovered Immediately on being sent elsewhere. Her husband, a carpenter, was also attacked in the same way. They were first sick, then generally there was sore throat, and then fever. There was a very bad smell from a drain under the back parlour. In the night time the effluvium was particularly bad. She complained to the landlord (Mr. Wight), and he had the boards of the parlour taken up and examined the rain pipes, which she saw. The remedies never were of use long, and the land lord was quite at a " stand" to account for the smells. There was no illness in the family before they came to re side in the house. The deceased was attended first by Dr. Massingham and subsequently by Dr. Brotherton. She died on Friday. The coroner said that there was a serious loss of life, the cause of which it was of importance to dis cover. As the parish of Bethnal-green was at present greatly agitated, he thought it was better to secure the ser vices of a medical gentleman of standing unconnected with the parish to examine the premises and to make a posh mortens examination of the body of the deceased, so as to arrive at an unbiassed judgment as to the real cause of the mortality in question. The professional gentleman to whom he had intrusted the matter was not then ready with his report, and the proceedings should therefore be adjourned. When the jury visited the house in question the smell was found to be most overpowering. Ocher children are stated to have died in the immediate neighbourhood with the same symptoms. 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Colonel Duncombe, and a large number of spectators belonging to this and the adja cent counties. The Duke of Manchester's Light Horse has recently been augmented by the second troop of the Cam bridgeshire Mounted Rifles, and the united troops A, B, C, now form a powerful and efficient squadron. The proceed ings of the day were rendered additionally attractive by the competition for two prizes of considerable value by the ca valry, the infantry having a week previously competed for a silver cup given by the ladies of the county of Hunting don. The Duke of Manchester being anxious to stimulate individual exertion with regard to drill and general efficiency in the duties of a dragoon in the field, offered for competition to all effectives in his regiment a statuette of a Light Horse man in silver. In addition to this prize Captain Newton offered a magnificent silver-mounted sword, to be presented to the person most skilful in the use of this weapon. The day was very fine, and long before the time fixed for the commencement of the proceedings the park was crowded with visitors. The infantry consisted of detachments from St. Neot's, St. Ives, Ramsay, and Huntingdon, and were accompanied by the Exnesbury Volunteer band. Shortly after 11 o'clock the troops were pcsted. The First Light Horse on some open ground in fiOnt of a farm-yard, in close column of squadrons facing the south, with one half of the First Hunts Rifles on the loft, and the other half, which was destined to act as an opposing force, disposed in two divisions—the right division occupying Croxton-park and the churchyard, and the left strongly posted behind Croxton Hall and some outbuildings extending in the direction of the churchyard. A long series of field-day evolutions followed, in which the Duke of Manchester commanded the attacking force, The fight ended by a general charge of the cavalry from a line parallel to the Cambridge high-road, by which the enemy, tempted to come forward, were driven into the plantations or captured. At the termination of the sham fight the troops went through the parade movements, the cavalry marching past by squadrons and the infantry in quick time. The cavalry then trotted past by troops, and the infantry marched past at the double in close column, After this the cavalry changed the front of the column, and galloped past, left in front. The whole then wheeled into line, and advanced in parade order. These proceedings closed soon after 2 o'clock. The Volunteers t hen proceeded to dinner, which was pro vided by Captain Newton, who had spared no expense to render it worthy of the occasion ; Capt. Newton presided, and after the usual loyal toasts, proposed the " Health of the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Cambridge, Lord Hardwicke," who had attended there that day, at great personal inconvenience to himself, to show his approval of the Volunteer movement. Lord HARDWICK E replied as follows—Captain Newton, my Lord Duke, and Gentlemen,—l know that the subject that is naturally uppermost in the minds of all whom I now address is tLat of the Volunteers. This sutject has now be come so familiar to us that all conversation and speechify ing about it is something like an address on the constitution of England. There is generally so much said about it, and the same statements are repeated so often that they become mere flattery —mere verbiage, destitute of meaning. Now, language such as I am hinting at is not such as should be used towards Volunteers. I maintain that it is not popular. My opinion is that when we do meet together, onr conver sation should be of a different character. You are essen tially a popular corps. You are embodied of your own free will. You are brought together by sentiments of loyalty and affection for the Crown. This is the most befitting language to use to Volunteers. Such senti ments are a great honour to the people, and credit able to the individual, because they betoken a desire for the welfare of the State and for the safety of your do mestic institutions. It may perhaps be considered that I ought to praise this corps of cavalry. That is the very thing I should not do. If I had an opportunity of expressing my sentiments, it would not be those of fulsome praise, which is of no value. What I shall speak to you about is disci pline; but I think I ought to consider who I am before I venture to talk to soldiers. Though I was brought up to a military life, and spent as a soldier the best years of my life, it may still appear presumptuous on my part to give advice to others. But, gentlemen, though 1 may not be competent to judge of the movements of a cavalry corps or of the evo lutions of infantry, I think I have a general knowledge—a common-I,enn understanding—of what is required from both those bodies, and what is necessaryto the establishment of a good military force. Now, your position is:essentially different from that of any other description of troops. You h ave i _ e no military power over you—your own good sense keeps you in order—you are all at liberty to leave the corps belongytt to in 14 days —you may every ono of you decline come drill, and you can do just as you please, except when you are actually in the field. Under these circum stances, you r own good sense will supply that degree of dis cipline which is necessary to keep up the organisation of your corps. (Applause.) It is the discipline of the human mind, the discipline of yourge .which keeps up your corps ; and depend upon it Su c h v d e i s i : su perior to any other that could possi bi cipli e as this is far Y be derived. (Cheers.) SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TletEs.—A few days ago we took occasion to point out the importance of the services of Sir James Hudson as British Minister in Brazil and at Turin, and the very ungracious return which those services have met with from the Foreign-office. We asserted in substance that the man among all our Foreign Mi nisters who had deserved best of his country and of the world at large—the man whose reputation rested on no personal popularity and no partial estimate, but upon solid and durable achievements—had been, in the evening of his life, in the fulness of his reputation, and in the very height of his use fulness, substantially, if not formally, driven from a post which he was well contented to hold, and forced into premature retire ment. We stated that in 1862 Sir James Hudson had been consulted as to his willingness to accept an embassy, that he had declined the offer, but that, under the impression that his removal from his posi tion as Italian Minister was desired he had sug gested that if he were allowed to hold his place long enough to entitle him to his pension he would then resign his appointment. We stated that, in com pliance with this agreement, Sir James Hudson, in April of the present year, offered his resignation; that his resignation was accepted, and his successor in due time appointed; and we further stated our conviction that it was impossible that the transac tions, by which England has lust her very best dip lomatic servant, at a post at which he was per fectly willing to remain, should be the result of an alleged mistake on the part of the Foreign-office. Some rather indiscreet friends have urged upon the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the propriety of vindicating himself from these stric tures by the publication of the papers in question, and our yesterday's impression contains so much of the correspondence as the Foreign-office has thought fit to submit to the public eye. We say " so much of the correspondence," because it is clear on a very cursory inspection that the most important part of the whole has been withheld. Lord Russell and Sir James Hudson are evidently at issue on a point of fact, the letters upon which that point of fact must be decided have not been laid before us, and that omission is the act of one of the parties to the controversy. We do not want to be told that Sir James Hudson has left the public service, but we do want to know whether that act was purely voluntary or the result of an engagement, end, if so, what that engagement was, and how it came to be entered into. We, therefore, very much regret that Lord Russell has not seen fit to lay before the public all the letters relating to the transaction, and we are entitled to assume that these letters, it produced, would not have assisted in supporting the position which he maintains. The first letter is dated September 10 of this year—five months after the period at which Sir James Hudson tendered his resignation. The whole transaction was completed before the correspondence which we are allowed to see begins. This letter begins with the words, " As you have expressed a wish to retire from your post of Minister at the Court of the King of Italy," and proceeds to speak in terms of well merited praise of the conduct of Sir James Hudson. ft then goes on :—" Nothing, therefore, but your own desire to quit the mission where your efforts had been attended with such memorable success could have induced me to recommend the Queen any other person to represent her Majesty at Turin. Had any of the principal embassies been vacant, I should have asked her Majesty's permission to offer it to you ; but, as this was not the case, and the post you hold has been one requiring incessant vigilance and causing continual anxiety, it has been my duty, reluctantly, to advise the Queen to con sent to your retirement." Why does Sir James Hudson retire ? We are plainly told by his own desire ; but then we are also told of his vigilance and anxiety as being reasons for his retirement, the obvious inference being that he is relieved from a duty which he is no linger able efficiently to per form. We do not wonder that Sir James Hudson was unwilling to leave matters in this ambiguous state—unwilling to pass over expressions in a letter addressed to himself from the Foreign-office, with which, if he did not notice them, he would be held to acquiesce, but which gave a version of his con duct entirely at variance with his own. We are, therefore, not surprised to find in his letter of October the 4th the following sentence :—" His Majesty having been pleased to ask me why I quitted his Court, I replied that 1 had conceived myself bound by an engagement with your lordship to do so. Offered promoted in March, 1862, I had obtained permission to decline it, and to continue to reside at his Majesty's Court till such time as my pension for public service was due to me." This letter directly contradicts the allegation that Sir James Hudson leaves Turin at his own desire, and confirms the statement which we presume the cor respondence was printed in order to impugn. These words of Sir James Hudson entirely vindicate our accuracy, since we could hardly have been expected to know his motives better than he knew them him self. To this letter Lurd Russell replies, "I found that Sir James Hudson, though ready to accept an embassy, did not wish to leave Turin ;" whereas Sir James Hudson says distinctly that he declined offi cial promotion. Lord Russell says he made no engagement with Sir James Hudson ; Sir James Hudsons says he considered himself bound by an enagement with Lord Russell. Which of these two statements is correct? Did, as Ma. Elliot told the King of Sardinia, Sir Jamas Hudson labour under an entire misapprehension in entertaining the belief that Lord Russell wished to remove him from Turin, or did Eord Russell labour under an entire misap prehension in entertaining the belief that Sir Jas. Hudson resigned of his own accord ? That question would best be settled by the production of the cor respondence of 1862, which correspondence unfor tunately Lord Russell omits to produce. The ques tion turns on the fact whether there was or was not, expressed or virtually, such an engagement as is as serted on the one hand and denied on the other, and the party who withholds the means of forming an opinion- has no right to complain if that opinion be given against him. One thing now, however, is per fectly plain. If an engagement did exist, Lord Rus sell has been the means of depriving the diplomatic service of one or its most valuable members; but even if such an engagement did not exist Sir James Hudson acted under the belief thot it did, and Lord Russell, therefore, may be referred to his own asser tion, that noting but Sir J, Hudson's own desire to quit the mission would have induced him to recom mend any other person to it. The practical conclu sion is inevitable, that if Sir James Hudson has been forced out of the service, or if he has acted under the impression that such pressure was exerted, he ought in either case to be restored. There has either been mistake or misconduct on the part of the Fo reign-office, and when this has been made cle.r the public service should not be permitted to suffer by either. It is disagreeable to admit misconduct ; to some persons it is almost as grievous to con fess a mistake. Be it which way it may, we have a right to ask that neither shall prejudice English or Italian interests. The mistake, if mis take there be, is not irrevocable. The mischief admits of a simple cure. As nothing but Sir James Hudson's desire could have induced Lord Russell to remove him from Turin, the fact that such desire did not exist would have furnished an excellent reason for his restitution. We see, however, very little reason for hope for such a consummation. Sir James Hudson has been held to his resignation, after it had been ascertained on his own evidence that such resignation was made not of his own free will, but under the belief that he was bound to offer it. Nothing can be more full than the admission of his services, and yet for some reason or other there is nu wish to retain him in the public seavice. We do not therefore think that the case of the Foreign office is in wuy mended by the portion of the cor respondence it has seen fit to publish. POST.—The commemoration of the anniversaries of great men in the world of letters belongs to a high state of civilisation. The earliest nations of antiquity deified their victorious generals, but not their orators and poets. Poetry and literature have but little praise in their own day. Their merit is seen in after years, when they have had time to work their way and do their part is en riching the mind, directing the affections, and moulding the thoughts of men. The Greeks com memorated Pericles, but not Homer; and the haßo mans, who filled their Pantheon with soldiers, Mantua. no place for Cicero, Horace, or the Poet of these Much as in the later empire they gloried names, they knew not how worthily their their memory or to put into enduring e form in appreciation of the men who had united in the calm them selves the ardour that makes heroesale the trials, philosophy that deals with the totirnansm it when the storm of this th e progress, belongs toa nadhuominaaihkiisntdo.ry. All is the growth of laterthe deepsoteihnimi!lenss,omf whenwat• is p h u u l s e h r e d, heroism is felt to derive its no bilitymEonregl r s t a n c d re h d as things b a been objectsw h pehenancoeafitYaolmntablithiaontrteabreefqorueiesmceenn,ts, eyes, and military that it defends. from the yet I n e :ob i ]; r a sincend blessed withsed halfin wee cent ury altb and a of dv p a e n a c e e e d —s in inc e e ve s r h y e f orm and variety o f social p ro g ress— that she has has i increased e r ea begun to commemorate the men who have enriched her literature, adorned her arts, and promoted her moral good. Even this is but of recent growth in this country. The example was before our eyes for some years in Germany, but Englishmen, who can never be made to act together without difficu;tYy, have been slow in learning the less on . are learning it, and one by one, as their turnShiertaeiatllc, b l andt comes formedround, nd m of e n E w n h g o la h n a d ve r m erj o e v iv e e d thethe heart not unworthy, honour of a publi c comm emoration. The tendency to get up commemorations is now at floodtide, and every year sees some honoured name held up to universal admiration. Some in stances, we will not hesitate to say, have been both unworthy and ludicrous, and names not really great have been puffed into notoriety with no other °eject than that of making a commercial profit of thepro ceedings held ostensibly in their honour. ibis ought everywhere to be protested against and. frowned down. By all means let us heap all the honours which the best arranged commemorations can express upon those who deserve fame, b u t let such schemes be single-minded, let them be acts of devotion, expressing real homage—homage that costs something; homage that comes of sacrifices made, and not of self-interest subserved. We are led to these remarks by finding that, quite in accorda nce with the tendency just stated, there is to be a gra nd tercentenary commemoration of the immortal Shak spere in the ensuing year. We believe that the scheme is at present only in its earliest stage of dee velopment ; but we cannot allow even the meagre details which have a - et reached the press to go forth without expressing our earnest hope that nothing. will be left undone to make the occasion worthy o f the unapproachable genius in whose honour it is t o i be held. Let it be genuinely and honestly what t professes to be—the homage of a great and en lightened people to a poet, a moralist, a philosopher, and an actor, who preceded them in all that is great and enlightened by no less a period than three centuries. Let it be the expression of Englishmen in the most advanced stage of their progress, that nothing which they have since learnt has made it necessary to unlearn Shakspere—that he is not, and never can be, obsolete—that with all the accume lated acquirements of a highly cultivated age they cannot dispense with his plays, can not excel his poetry, cannot supersede his philo sophy, and cannot amend his morality. Let the Shaksperian commemoration be all this, and more, but let it be, as we said, single-minded, united, self-denying, spontaneous, practical, definite, con gruous, and thoroughly genuine. Above all, let it not be vulgarised after the fashion of Burns and. Schiller, by a demonstration for the benefit of the shareholders of the Crystal Palace. It will be the death-blow of greatness if it can never escape the questionable posthumous honour of a Crystal Palace celebration—to be chronicled in an annual report in the same category with rabbit shows, pigeon shows, flower shows, poultry shows, rope dancing, and Pepper's ghost, as auxiliaries to the small dividend which the directors have to announce to the de pressed shareholders. Stiakspere deserves better things at our hands than this, and we earnestly trust that the gentlemen who are initiating the movement will propound to the British public something worthy of the man, and of the age and country . n which we live. We believe that nothing is yet de finitively decided, and that plans are only in process of lucubration. Oar remarks, therefore, have refe rence only to broad general principles; the advocacy of details is not within our province. To us it seems that there are two leading ideas at the foundation of the subject—the one general as belonging to all England, or we may say of all the world; the other local, as belonging to those places and particulars inseparably associated with his life and history, and which through that association have become histo rical. If England has a general interest in Shaks pere, Stratford-on Avon has a particular one. There he was born ; there he gained that education which he afterwards turned to such account ; thence he married his wife ; thither, in his declining years, he retired to enjoy his well-earned leisure and compe tency ; and there his ashes lie. If thesethings do not consecrate a place, what can ? It is impossible, there fore, that Stratford can be left out in any adequate commemoration of the great bard. A demonstra tion which should only deal generally with Shak spere's memory, and should ignore the local asso ciations which have led to so many thousand pil grimages to his early home, would be wanting in 6 very important particular, and be as unsatisfactory as one which should seek to centre all interest is Stratford, and overlook the fact that the homage of the civilised world is the poet's inheritance. To do justice to these two ideas—the general and the local—is the problem which the promoters of the commemoration have to solve ; and if they bring to the task a largeness of mind worthy of the occasion, they can hardly fail of a success that will be at once creditable to themselves, and not un worthy of the immortal bard who, ages ago, won a fame to which no public demonstrations, however perfect, can add, bat which narrow or ill-con ceived schemes of commemoration might grievously insult. COUNTRY MARKETS• V. - NEWARK-WEDNESDAY. A moderate quantity of wheat on offer at our market to day, and the demand was fair. Other articles the same as last week. White wheat new, 41s to 46s Barley, grinding.. 29s to 3 23 Red do 4os to 44s l Oats, old, .. ...... 258 to 284 Old white 42s to 46s t New d 0.......... 20s to 240 Red do 41s to 44s i Beans 37s to 40s Barley) malting...36s to 40s 1 Beans, new 32s to 34s HULL—TUESDAY. Since our last the wheat trade has been steady, but the demand very little improved. At this day's market the show of English wheat was small, and sales were readily made at fully late currencies. Foreign neglected. Ear' ley was taken off slowly at is decline. Beans and peas ra. their slow, in favour of buyers. Oats were dull, and rather cheaper. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr Ms Od to 46s 03 Old red New white .. ~ New red . Barley.... English malting Grinding 2 33 68 7 ss s 60 0 dd d tt t 00 0 24 3 8 80 ss s 0 0 1 Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s 03 Grinding Oats English, old 26s Od to 285 03 Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 133 Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 03130 Swedish and Danish Osl2id to Osl3l Beans ....English, old, per qr. 43s Od to 45s 0'; New pigeon 42s Od to 44s O a New tick. Egyptian Peas ..Foreign boilers ... 34s Od tc 35e 0'; Grinding Tares .... Spring —s Od to —s ! ) ,1 Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s 2s Od to 56e Ot; crushing .. ..... 40$ Od to 52s 0( t, Li n seed cakes Hull),( i u , Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 ,v, Rape cakes Bones 6 0 oto 0 0 0 5 5 oto 010 LYNN—TUESDAY. t., at, At to-day's market th ere was a f a i r su pply o f whea t with a more active b us i ness d o i ng a t pr i ces rat h er hig'" than last week. White .. 415 s to 46s f Barley.. Red.. Beans - ..40s to 42s 1 Grinding 29 536s to 331: • .40 .40s to 449 1 Oats.. —8 to *--. New 388 to 40s f Peas COAL r *foes of Coal per Ton al .AKKET. the dose of the market. A 0. s. d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 16 3 Davison's West Hart- Walls End. Hetton 20 g Tunstall Reugh Hall .. 18 g - South "..... 11 6 8 - Riddell ........ 1 0 East Hartlepool ...... 20 Hartlepool ......... .. 19 K elloe .. 8 Belmont . ... .. 17 ° Russel' s Hetton...... 19 0 Brsddyll'a Hetton ..... 19 0 T r imdon Hartlepool...l 9 6 )t, 59 ; sold, 37. ley Carr'a Hartley . 16 3 Lambert's West Hart- ley l6 0 West Hartley 16 3 Eden Main ..18 0 Cowpen Hartley 16 3 Holywell .. 17 0 vl , alker Primrose 13 9 Walls End. South Hart1ep001......18 3 Ships at mark 4 ------ Full benefit of reduce d duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. " High Standard " at 40. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents i n ever y town supply it in packets. Births. Mrs. Augustus Halford, of a daughter. D .-9n the 24th inst., at Dytchley , Oxfordshire , HA th i l it° T n o ' N. —n the 25th inst., at Holly Lodge, Hal l " Iljre the wife of Richard Harington, Esq., of a son. mAND , R s.—On the 27th inst., at Marlborough, Wilts, th e wife of Captain Manders, of a daughter. RAmsiDEN.—On the 27th inst., the wife of H. Ramsde n2 Esq., of The Forest, Woodford, of a daughter. Marriages. CRESSWELL—L ANGRIDGE.—On th e 28th i ns t., at till Sainte', Lewes, George Creswell, Esq., Captain unat tached (late H.M..'s 89th Regc.), youngest sun of Nv, i ' d i Cresswell, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, to Isabel Sophia, elder daughter of William Vidler Langr iug- ' Esq., of Lewes, Sussex. MARTIN — THACKEIL.—On the 26th inst., at St. Jittile 6'a : Pentonvide, Robert .Idartiu, of Great Grimsby, to Min i . Jaue, eldest daughter o f t h e l ate Thomas D oe Thaa° of Varuington-square, Clerkenwell. Deaths. BRAYBROOKE.—On the 231 inst , at WOOTSVieh, Staff Surgeon-Major William Braybrooke, aged 47: 130 BRODIE.—On the 24th i nst., at S wann ge, William Brodie, formerly of Salisbury, aged 83. eis DAVIES.—On the 22d inst., at Coblenz, PrUSSII O . 17, 13.30 . H. Davi es , E sq , l ate R eg i strar o f the Court t I cery, aged 73. Y JOHNSON.—On the 26th inst., L ieutenant-General NV• th e county of Liu' Johnsen, of Wytharn-on-theJlill , i n coin, aged 87. 0 solicitor, the abed 70. at Portsea , Charles Ivirs :: Esq., . : Prird and Published by WILLIAM A Nllltt % London of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sox Office No. 1/' ; Strand, in the Precinct of the lavoy. In the Couuty <1 Idifitilefex, —Thursday, October 29, 1863.