The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

T EE W Y STERN STATES. (From ao Times' Special Correspondent.) CINCINNATI, OHIO, Oct. 13. The day har dawned at last — the day big with the fate of Vallf ,adigham and Ohio. The Democrats had their " grand rally" on Saturday evening last. The great muster of the Republicans came off last night. B : a 4; rally" in this country a monster torc hli g ht procession is meant, with banners and mus ic, an d mounted men and triumphal cars, illu mination a, transparencies, fireworks, Chinese lan terns, mc 'noes, devices, shouts, groans, and hisses, w ith ELn occasional scuffle as the actors in the pa gean t ry fall in with ill-intentioned spectators hostile to th inr cause. There are instances on record, lam tola, when opposite parties held their rally and couin ter rally in the same evening, and the tug of we.r from their encounter in the streets was by no 13:1 eans so terrific as people anticipated. But it has haen , deemed expe di ent to avo i d even the chance of a collision, nevertheless ; and so an agreement has been made this time that the friends of Vallandig ham should have their grand march on the last evening but one, and the very last should be left for the partisans of Brough. To give an unhoped-for zest to the festivity of this latter party, the arrival of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Chase, contributed in no small degree. This great man arrived at Columbus on Sunday morning at half-past two o'clock, and was received by a vast crowd who were waiting for him at the station, not withstanding the lateness of the hour. He came here last evening at five o 'clock, and his progress from the terminus to the Burnet House, the teatel where he put up, was what was called a s, perfect ovation," w ith cavalry escort, warlike bands, a row nf carriages, a squad of horsemen, and a crowd'of cheering people. Wherever he alighted from his railway car, wherever ho set his foot public or private house, on the threshold of a i° Mr. Secretary" was e xpected to hold forth, and he disappointed no one. 1 sha.l not write down hi s several speeches at full length. I have read th em through, chiefly with a view to spare the reader the trouble of doing the same : Mr. Chase came to Ohio ostensibly with a view to favour the election of Mr. Brough, a nd to defeat the efforts of Vall an di g h am ' s supporters. "He hardly knew," he said at Columbus, vbether he even had a right to vote in his own S 4 Late," owing to his three years' absence at Wash ington. (The crowd at once settled the question for him with shouts of " Of course you have !" " Cer tainly you have !") " But in so grave a contest as this," he continued, "he could not rest easy in his place, and he had resolved at any rate to come home and try." (Voices—" Bully for you ! that is just lika you !") It is, however, in the minds of most men here doubtful whether the Secretary really came to vote for !mug!), or to canvass for himself. Mr. Chase is not a native of Ohio; he " was raised" in New England, and " hails" from Vermont; but he came to the West very early in life, and has spent his best years in this State, where he is generally popular, a'ad where friends and enemies have an equally high opinion of his abilities and character. Mr. Chase, it is no mystery to anyone, burns with desire to offer himself as a candidate for the nest Presidential election, and naturally enough he was anxious to keep his memory green among the good people of Ohio. He is at the head of the Radical faction in the divided Cabinet at Washington, and his speeches hero were prompted by the most unrelenting war- like spirit and in accordance with the narrowest views of uncompromising Abolitionism. "He had said at the outbreak of the war that the rebellion must be put down, if in doing it we had to come to the old revolutionary standard, and 1,000 dols. for a break fast," He now "considered the rebellion as virtual'y subdued. The enemies have large armies in the field, but ours are vastly stronger." The war was not of the Federals' own seeking. For his own part, although averse to slavery, he would at all times have avoided and discountenanced all interference with Southern institutions ; but the war once begun, "when President Lincoln thought fit to issue his Proclamation, he said amen with all his heart." "Either that Proclamation was a great monstrous sham and imposition in the face of the whole , world, or else that Proclamation was an effectual thing, and there are no BlalirtiB to-day in the rebel States." That, however, is precisely the whole matter at iesne. Mr. Chase is quite sure that the war is to be ptrsued without respite, and that whether by war or peace slavery has c')nie to an end ; but such he hnows very well are not the unanimous views of the nation, nor of the Cabinet of which he is a member. The election of Oaio will, I have little doubt, terminate in a triumph of the Republican pa: Ay, for a great many whose ideas are purely Democratic, a great many who are weary of the war, afflicted by the present, anxious for the future—a great many whose sympathies are with the Southerners, who do not wish for immediate, unconditional, and violent abolition, and who do not think the subjugation of the South on these terms is either possible or desirable —a great many, in short, who think and privately talk like Vallandigham, will this day vote against Vallandigham, because it is the instinct of the mass o . f moderate men in all countries to be, above all t"governative," to go with the Government t hrough thick and thin, to identify the ruler's cause With that of the country, and to look upon all seceders and seceders' friends as traitors, conspira tors, Baia • worthy enemies. In the minds of many of thes e where rte banner citizens the American Union was floated on its Capitol—at Wash ington; allegiance to Washington was loyalty to the Union, and and Charlest on r i ght, wrong Washington might be, wrong side , it put itself the latter put itself on the pealed to arms, tua t f tsslf out of the law when it ap upon the Federal Zed a rebel standard, and fired These views and coin among all Americans, are yet strong enough upright andingennoes I : e n o d especially among these shrink from a vote whi ch t e of Ohio, to make them Putting Vallandigham at the head of their Statoes,iwtiYoottuld Create and organise an official and legal opp to g the Washing ton Government and give rise a d angerous dualism in the State. The y are not, however, t Cabinet; he main, satisfied with th e p olic y of the avashiiugt ta .ou nay, they ar e, man y of them, si mply di. gustedwit its past conduct and alarmed at its future e but they think that the men in p owcr sbot Zlrn be es ; dured by those w ho raised them into power, theye think that their r edress is and will alw ays be in their own hands , and they await Mr. Lineal, and his colleagues at the next Presidential e l ectiu 2 , when the question of war d slavery, or State' rights, of personal and local freedom, will be decid e d by the collective suffrage of the nation. They do not, perhaps, consider that many of the questions w i ll have found their practical solution in the vicissi tudes of the war long before they a re called upon to choose a new Executive; they do nounhet that the work of emancipation, confiscation, devastation in the South, and of usurpation in the North, is going on blindly, recklessly, while they are devising a distant remedy. They are confident that the mischief will at no time be irreparable, and in the meanwhile they are willing to give Government the longest tether; they strengthen it by their sta unch, howeverl reluctant, support, and will prolong Val ., ' i e _glnam's exile until such time as Vallendigham 's 'WS may be debated on the hustings without fear of wea kening by division an Executve which will then be on It i 5 by thane eve of its legal and natural downfall. e considerations, I believe, that Ohio, a Democrati c State,vot has been led to give that day a Republi cett e . Mr. Chase did not limit himself to the exposition of the gene ra l political;healso views by him attributed to the Governme nt threw out very breed hints in vindicetion of his c, management of the fin ances. He was hailed a t art; you, Greenback ?" and , olumbas with " How " Bully for you, old Greceebee'ee ?" and he thought he would acknow ledge the compliment by a few w -, he said, " of trac ing on the cur rency. " We were in the habit," ing our evils to a peculiar institution (slavery) ; but he had endeav oured to do somethin g towards the removal of those evils by another peculiar instittue Con to which they had been pleased several times to refer. (Laughter and cries of ' Hurrah for Green becks.') He thought he might felicitate himself, and them too, that the currency was certain not to break co long as anything in the nation remained unbroken. This struggle was to end in the com plete supremacy of free labour, and of the institu tion founded upon it, in a general policy that should be so shaped as ,to secure to that labour just re ward." The same ideas were developed at greater length in the speech delivered by ►is. Chase at Mozart Hall in this city. I can hardly say, how ever, that his words carry conviction into the mind of many of his hearers. The unlimited issue of paper money is a financial operation scarcely re quiring any transcendent genius on the part of its author. Admiration would rather be due to the people which puts so boundless a confidence in it. For the rest, the appalling scarcity of labour, the doubled and trebled price of provisions and of all the necessaries of life, the mad extravagance of the classes enriched by the war, with gold at 1564, cause no trifling uneasiness to thinking people throughout America, and chiefly in the West, and shake their trust in an apparent prosperity arising from the artificial demand created by the war, and met by an artificial supply, defrayed by a paper currency. The whole system is hollow at the core, these people think, and any rise in the price of gold seems to the Western merchants the harbingers of the " grand crash that is to come." OCTOBER 14. The election is over, and the public pea ce h as not been for one moment disturbed. I walked from one polling shop to the other yesterday morning and evening, visiting all the 17 wards of the city. A posse of from a dozen to a Score of policemen were stationed at the door of each of these places ; but they sat down idle and listless, and all their task was limited to a little lazy chat and harmless chaff with some of the bystanders. I saw no crowd any where; voters dropped in one by one, and interested persons on both sides took care that the operations should be conducted in all fairness and legality. The public authorities nowhere interfered. I saw soldiers nowhere ; nowhere Irish bullies armed with formidable shillelaghs ; nowhere any attempt, I will not say to force, but even to solicit a vote. The positive result is, of course, not yet wholly known at this early hour. But there was, even yesterday, not the slightest doubt as to the issue of the contest. The most sanguine Democrats avowed their expectation that the voters for Vallandigham would not exceed 190,000 ; while the Republicans would poll 220,000. The organs of this latter party contend this morning that their majority in the home vote alone will exceed 50,000, and by adding the suffrages of the army it will give them a balance of no less than 100,000. Unless I am greatly mistaken, however, the Re publican party and the Government have little cause to congratulate themselves on their too easy victory, even though it is simultaneous with their success in Pennsylvania, and follows close upon that of Maine, lowa, &e. So far as my most careful and unprejudiced observations can enable me to form a judgment of men and things in this Western part of the Union, the better class of citizens, no less than many of the lower orders, are weary of the war. They are unwilling, as I said, to proceed to any extremity of opposition which may seem like rebellion againfSc. the Government ; they think it a matter of duty and honour to uphold the Adminis tration such as it is, because the country, in their opinion, requires united and untrammeled action ; but, for the rest, they are weary of the war, they are dissatisfied with the manner in which it has been managed, they are indignant against the tendency which has been given to it ; they wish for a com promise with the South ; they wish for peace, with Union and Abolition, if it can be contrived, but, if it turn out impossible, without either, Mr. Lincoln and his friends have a whole year before them. If they caa keep up the game for the whole period, :1 they can carry the war to a happy termination, or bring it at least to the verge of a happy solution before their time is up, the people will be with them, They will thank them for the preservation of their blessed Union; they will not upbraid them with the desolation of the South ; they will strive to repair damaze, to heal financial and social wounds with that confidence and alacrity which characterise these happy tillers of a virgin soil. But should a year do nothing or too little for the close of these civil hostilities, should Octo ber, 1864, find the country more or less in the same position as it is in October, 1803, the Repub licans and the Abolitionists would be at a fearful discount, and the people would vote for a "peace man," were his name M'Clellan, or Buell, or Sey mour,-or even the "traitor," Vallandigham. That the present position of the Federal armies is not the most enviable we may easily infer, in spite of the unwearied efforts of the Washington press to throw dust in their readers' eyes. The Southerners under Bragg are encompassing Rusencranz in front and rear, and straining every nerve to cat off his communications. Nothing is said of the movements of Burnside, who has put himself into contact with his colleague, without apparently being able to bring him relief. Meanwhile Lee, who was to be driven to Richmond and there compelled to sur render, is beating . the Federals to the very shores of the Potomac. At Charleston Gilmore and Dahl gren are amusing themselves with Greek fire; and, in the West, General Blunt's Staff of 80 persons fell into the hands of the rebels, who cut them to pieces; and the mere brigand bands of Quantrell and Co. suddenly muster up into an army, to the terror and desolation of Missouri. Is it any wonder in such a state of things if gold rises to 1564 ? Public Servants and the Press. The following despatch has been published in the Jamaica journals : THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE TO LIEUT,••GOVERNOR EYRE. Downing-street, August 39, 1863. Sir,—My attention has been called to the course taken by public servants in certain colonies, in connecting them selves with newspapers, either by editing or contributing articles to them, and I have to convey to you the following instructions for your guidance, which are founded upon rules and principles laid down by some of my predecessors, in particular cases occurring in former years : _ _ It is plainly inconsistent with the retention of his place by any paid officer under the government of a colony, to be the editor of a newspaper, or to take any active part in the management of it. While lam glad that the colo nies should possess such means of diffusing information, I cannot but feel at the same time that it is impossible for a public servant to take any part in conducting a newspaper in which political subjects, and the measures of the local government are discussed, without being placed in a posi tion, towards those under whom he serves, quite incompa tible with Cue proper discharge of his duties. I do not object to public servants furnishing articles, Signed with their names, upon subjects of general interest, provided they abstain from any further connection with the newspaper than what is implied by contributing such ar ticles, and especially from writing on questions which can properly be called political, or discussing the measures of the government, government, or the official proceedings of its officers. i Btioula continue to also consider it improper for a public servant to discussioanbit"ilY :filter? to furn , sh any articles whatever to a newspaper, vants to abstain its columns. suchol a contributing case I s should la n e ?ramenting on the measures of the Government, exceed the bounds of fair and temperate oualndyeaxrpteicctlesallwphaubtleivcesretro- I consider the ral e ~ hat all articles whatever written by against abuse of the public servants sh sa i pri be;igned by them—the best security tinctiy understood, th at i ' f le g e ' ght t h he authorship of any anonymous It must therefore be dia articles should be brou to ono of them, or if, in theyth the should Government, discuss orany articles bearing their e i mtt orae laical subject, or the in tre ' political person so offending ; e nsures of o ffi c ial procee dings of its on cera, I local confidence d u ty to direct the removal a the should cons id er it my i n ce, if the writing of such articleswer gore!nment, due administration c learly destroy that harmony and e m P a er l initted,it would among those who arc employed by th e which are absolutely necessary for the of its affairs. -1 have, &c., (Signed) Nzygre4STLE. 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The Pills should be ofpurification, the unguent is applied ; they assist in the work . ion, and iacilitate the removal of all poisonous .a.totts matters from the body. THE GALE, shows no signs of abatement. The shipping in the docks has escaped, some slight casualties excepted ; but great fears are still entertained that serious damage may have eceurred down Channel. Up to this morning, however, no accounts have reached the port, as it is impossible for vessels to get up Channel. On Thursday a gale frcm the WSW broke over London. It became higher during the night, and continued to blow in heavy gusts, accompanied by rain, during the whole of yes terday, In the south-west and north east broken tiles, slates, chimney pots and cowls strewed the streets and roads, and a number of persons were injured by their fall. The most serious accident which occurred during the day took placeat the New-cross station of theLondon,Brighton, and South Coast Railway. As every one who has occasion se of v e t r h a l l i n a r e g s e f r e o n m g n L e o s n h d e o d n s n r i d t g h e e must b taowtarraevt ethere are a ny neigh bourhood of Hatcham-park. In one of these sheds yes terday afternoon about a dozen men were working, princi pally engine-fitters, stokers, and drivers. There were also four or five engines getting tip steam, two of them being ready to go out, when, without the slightest warning, the wind rushed in at the lower end of the shed with terrific force, and, there being no vent for it, it first blew off the roof notwithstanding it was braced with heavy iron girders, and then threw down one side of the building which might, perhaps, be 50 or 60 yards in length. The side which was blown out fell across the rails of the Croydon line completely blocking them with a mass of bricks and rubbish. The other side of the building against which several hundred tons of coke were piled, fell inwards on the space occupied by the build ing,which was immediately covered by a mass of bricks, heavy iron girders and broken beams of timber. In point of fact, the building was as completely demolished as if it had been a card house blown down by a breath of wind. The men engaged in the building fled for their lives at the first alarm, but before they could get out several of them were completely buried in the ruins. One man named H. T. Woodrow was killed on the spot by the falling of an engine upon him. He was found completely doubled up, his back being crushed, and both thighs broken. His head was also frightfully wounded by the falling of iron rods, He was an engine-fitter, and we understand leaves a wife and family. Three other men, named George Cutts, Wm. Smith, and Charles Privett, were also so injured by the falling girders that but little hopes are entertained of their recovery. Cutts had his back broken and his right leg broken in two places ; Smith has both legs broken, and Privett his legs and arms broken. All the unfortunate men were removed as soon as they could be dug out of the ruins to Guy's Hospital. They are covered with bruises in different parts of the body, caused by the falling bricks and coke which completely covered them. The other men, about a dozen in number, who were engaged in the shed at the time fortunately escaped with no greater injury than cuts and bruises. The bursting of the building is described as being accompanied by a report like that of a park of artillery. Mr. Craven, the superintendent of the engine department and the chief officer at the New cross-station, happened fortunately to be in his office at the tine, and immediately hurried to the spot. His first care was to stop the traffic on the up and down lines, and to see that none of the rubbish had fallen on the main line to Brighton, which was only a few yards off. This precaution was taken instantly. Some hundreds of men from the neighbouring sheds had rushed to the spot where the accident had occur red, and, under the direction of Mr. Craven, one party com menced clearing the lines, while another proceeded to ex tricate the men who had been buried. After a portion of the rubbish had been removed it was found that the rails had been completely destroyed in every direction. Four or five engines were either lying on their sides or resting on the ground with their wheels off. One engine, however, escaped altogether. The value of the property destroyed must be several thousand pounds. It is a singular fact that while this shed was thus destroyed another and much larger one in the immediate vicinity escaped. The same blast of wind which levelled the one lifted the roof of the other completely off, but the wind finding sufficient vent it settled into its former position without any other injury than the smashing of a few panes of glass. As soon as in telligence of the accident was received, several of the com pany's chief officers proceeded to the spot. A large body of the R division of the police force alsu arrived shortly after the accident, and rendered essential service in preventing the entrance of an excited crowd into the works. All last night the workmen were engaged in removing the rubbish and raising the girders and engines, so as to enable them to repair the damaged lines. The same blast of wind which levelled the engine shed at New-cross, also unroofed three houses at the end of the Old Kent-road. Two of them were shops occu pied by small tradesmen, named Sulton and Adams, but fortunately in these cases the inhabitants of the houses escaped. Ono or two passengers in the streets, however, just avoided being buried under about a couple of tons of bricks which fell on to the pavement. In the other case they were not so fortunate. On the opposite side of the road to those houses occupied by Salton and Adams is a small one EDINBURGH, Friday. Yesterday a hurricane of great violence, accompanied by heavy rain, swept across this city. From an early hour in the afternoon until about midnight the gale raged with groat fury. The streets were almost entirely cleared of passengers in the evening, and of those who had occasion to be out several were blown down and cut and otherwise injured. The scaffolding at the Barclay Church and part of the wooden bridge at the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dun dee Railway Station were blown down, but fortunately without causing any damage, A number of chimneypots and slates were loosened from their places and blown into the streets, but no accidents have been reported to the police. The American War Meeting at Oldham. Last night, a numerously attended public meeting was held at the Town Hall, Oldham, " to urge the Government to use its influence, with the other powers of Europe, to bring about a termination of the present war in America." The Mayor (John Riley, Esq.) presided. Mr. Harrop moved the first resolution, which was as follows :—" That in the opinion of this meeting the war in America is an in jury to the world, and that the present aspects of the con flict afford no hope of its early termination, unless by means of the moral influence of Europe ; we, there • i fore, earnestly urge upon the Government of this country to enter into commanication with the Eu ropean powers, to concert with them as to the best means of bringing about peace." He held that the people of this country were not in favour of an armed inter vention in American affairs, but still they desired the Go vernment to use its influence to bring about a peaceful sepa ration of the states.--Mr. Milnes seconded the resolution. —Mr. John Ashton, amid a scene of very great confusion, moved as an amendment :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the Americans should be left to settle their own domestic affairs, and strongly approves of the policy of non-intervention hitherto pursued by her Majesty's Govern ment."—Mr. Thomas Tetlow seconded the amendment.— Mr. Spence, of Liverpool, rode to support the original reso lution. As soon as he rose, however, several of the partisans of the North protested against any stranger being allowed to take part in a town's meeting at Oldham.—Mr. Mellor said he understood that the meeting was an assembly to take the sense of the inhabitants of Oldham upon this great question. (Interruption.) He would pat it to the chair whether persons from a distance should come there for the purpose of interfering with the expression of their opinion. (Cheers and counter cheers, which were followed by a scene of great confusion, in the midst of which Mr. Spence re sumed his seat.)—The chairman said that when the requi sition was presented to him as mayor of the borough he looked it over, and did not see the name of Mr. Spence or the names of certain other gentlemen on the platform. If the question, however, hod not been raised, he should have been glad to have allowed Mr. Spence to address the meet ing, but now the objection had been raised, he felt bound to give precedence to gentlemen who were inhabitants of the borough. (Cheers.) He took this course from a feeling of no disrespect towards Mr. Spence, but he must decide that the meeting be solely conducted by gentlemen connected with Oldham. (Rear, hear.) ---Mr. VT. Steeple then sup ported the resolution, his remarks being frequently inter rupted.—The amendment was supported by Mr. J as. Scho field; after which a vote was taken, and the mayor inti mated, amid cheers, that the original resolution had been carried.—Mr. R. Harrop next moved that a memorial em bodying the spirit of the resolution be presented to Lord Palmerston.—The motion was seconded by Mr. Halliwell, and carried with enthusiasm. The Alleged Illegal Seizure of the British Steamer Sir William Peel by the Federal War Sloop Seminole. All the papers in the case of the seizure of the British steamer Sir William Peel have been placed before Earl Rus sell by the underwriters at Lloyd'e, where the vessel was insured, The protest of the captain and officers of the ship is a most important document ; and assuming the facts therein stated to be true there can be no doubt the seizure is illegal and unjustifiable. The following is a copy of the protest : "her Britannic Majesty's Consulate, New Orleans, State of Louisiana, Sept. 29, 1863. iu which resided a man named Mahony, a tailor. He was sitting with four other men working, when the whole of the upper part of the house was blow n away, and a pile of chimneys falling smashed the rafters, which fell upon one of the men and inflicted such severe injuries as t 9 render his recovery doubtful. At the same time all tit , furniture in " Capt. Jesse Thornham, Master of the British steam ship Sir Wm. Peel, 2,000 tons, belonging to London, Mr. Chas. Pycraft, first officer, and Wm. Crewmen, second steward, state they sailed:from the Port of Liverpool on the 16th of May, in cargo, bound for the pot t of Matamoras, nod arrived at the anchorage off the mouth of the Rio Grand on the 22d June, when the vessel came to anchor. About the 6th of July the steamship was taken in tow by the Mexican steamer Matarneras and towed to a point from which the flagstaff on the Mexican shore bore W N, and then com menced to discharge cargo, which cargo was taken on board of Mexican lighters and delivered at Matamoras under general permit of the Custom-house there, the permit hav ing been issued on deposit of the manifest of the said steame ship's cargo. On the 10th August, after a portion of the cargo had been diecharged, it el as deemed prudent to move the stearnsbip into deeper water, she being then at anchor in 41 fathoms of water, and drawing 18 feet water. Conse quently the steamship was moved about two miles to the south of her fernier anchorage, and into six fathoms of water with 90 fathoms cable out, and the ship heading south, the aforesaid flagstaff now bearing WNW by the standard com pass, the Mexican shore at a distance of not over two miles, where the discharging of her cargo was completed, with the exception of a few packages of axles and harness rings, which the lighter was not able to take on her last trip. Dur ing the latter period of discharging the inward cargo 904 bales of cotton were taken on board the steamship as part of the outward cargo, the vessel then being bound for Liver pool. On the 11th September, at 11 o'clock a.m., the steam ship was boarded by armed crews of four boats belonging to the United States gunboat Seminole, who seized and took possession of the steamship, ordered all the crew of the Sir William Peel aft, and placed a sentry of marines over them. About half-past 11 a.m. of the same day Captain Thornham went on hoard of the Sir William Peel, and demanded from the United States' officer in charge the reason why the vessel had been seized in neutral waters, to which he (the United States officer) replied that he had seized the vessel on suspicion of having a crew of 140 men, and having nine or ten 11-inch guns under the cotton on board. Capt. Thornham replied that he was willing to dis charge the cargo on hoard the steamship in proof that the accusation was without foundation. Capt. Thornham then desired permission to go on shore to get all the ship's papers, which were with the British vice-consul and with the agent of the ship at Matamoras, which was refused ; but the chief officer, Charles Pycraft, was allowed to go on shore for the purpose of writing to Matamoras to have all the papers for warded to New Orleans. The crew of the Sit William Peel were then sent on b - oard the U.S. gunboat Seminole. Capt. Thornham then warned the commanding tfficer of the Semi nole that the engines of the Sir William Peel were very complicated and intricate, and that unless some person had charge who understood the working of the taps, &c., serious damage would be the result, and asked that the engineer of the steamship be allowed to remain on board to give infor mation to his engineers regarding working the engines; which he refused, and sent the engineers of the Sir William Peel on board the Seminole. At five p.m. of the same day the United States engineer, who had been placed in charge of the engines of the Sir William Peel, reported to the commander of the Seminole that there was a quantity of water in the stokehole, which was gaining on them, and did not know where the water was coming from. Capt, Thornham then requested that the engineers of the Sir William Peel should be sent for, which was done. The engineers having been brought on board, Capt. Thorn ham told them to go down to the engine-room to see what was the matter. They reported that the engineers of the Seminole, through ignorance, had opened the seacock the wrong way and had let the water into the bilge. After this was remedied by them they were again sent on board under half-past g 7 e the . of the Seminole by the commander of th at vessel. At 10 p.m. of the commander of the Seminole le ft the Sir William Peel, having been on board since nee I pe lar, ; At till the 12th the Sir ,I il United States officers and cre w, was g ot under weigh, ha steering from the land. 1 hat at 11 a.m., when about eight miles from the land, the engines were stopped, waiting orders from the Seminole, a large quantity of water then in the ship, and gaining rapidly. The officer in charge hoisted the British ensign half-mast, union down, as a signal of dis tress to the Seminole. The Seminole came out to the Sir William Peel,and found that the United States engineer then in charge, through ignorance, had again opened the seacock. At half-past 5 pen. of the same day the Sir William Peal proceeded towards New Orleans under steam, while the two after boilers, the engines shaking the ship dreadfully, in consequence of the propeller having been shipped the wrong way by the Seminolo's engineers on the shaft. From this time the ship proceeded under steam towards New Orleans, arriving at the quarantine station in the Mississippi River on the 16th, where she remained until the morning of the 25th, when she was then brought to New Orleans, where she arrived on the evening of that day. Capt. Thornham further states that the commander of the United States gun boat Seminole was in a state of intoxication during the latter port of the time he was on board of the Sir William Peel on the 11th ; that much damage was dune by the large num ber of armed men, exceeding 100, who had been brought on board from the Seminole, they being exceedingly violent and very generally in a state of intoxication, having got access to liquor by breaking open the ship's stores, and under no control, inasmuch as the officers in charge were as intoxicated as any of the men. When the officers and men of the Seminole ware leaving the Sir - William Peel, they took with them large quantities of the ship's stores, and of the effects of the officers and men of the Sir William Peel. New, therefore, the aforenamed Capt. Thornham, mas ter, Chas. Pycraft, first officer, and Wm. Crewmen, second steward of the said British steamship Sir William Peel, do protest, and their request I, the said acting consul, do also protest, against the officers of the United States gunboat Seminole, against the Government of the United States, against the seizure by force of the said steam ship, as eat the room was destroyed. Mahony himself had a narrow escape. He was sitting by the side of the man who is nearly killed, buy• happening to look out of the window and seeing the slates flying from the roof very freely, he left tho room to warn his wife to take the children into the house, when at that moment the stack of chimneys fell. The other men in the room were fortunately sitting under another rafter, which resisted the force of the wind and the falling bricks, and they escaped with a few bruises. The roof of the room adjoining also fell in with a fearful crash, destroying everything in the room. The unfortunate persons inhabiting the house were driven into the street, and momentarily expected the fall of the whole building. Some clothes and a quantity of cloth were entirely destroyed by the tall of the roof. The large forest trees in Hyde, St. James's, and the Green Parks were much damaged, several boughs having been torn off, and in Victoria and Battersea Parks the damage is very great. At the residence of a labouring man, named Henry Sloman, No. 2, Terrace-place, Stepney-green, Mile•• end•road, a stack of chimneys fell upon the roof, forcing it in and causing considerable damage. The coping and upper portion of the front wall fell with a loud crash, but fortu nately no one was injured, although several children were playing within a few feet of the spot. Last evening the rubbish had not been removed, and the traffic was partially interrupted. A large travelling caravan which was standing upon the waste ground facing the premises of Messrs. Mann and Crossman, the brewers of Mile-end road, near the Blind Beggar Tavern, was suddenly blown over on its side, but no person was injured. At half-past three o'clock the wind tore away the wires belonging to the London District Telegraph Company, which extended from Bartholomew-lane, Bank, to the Old Jewry. The crash occasioned by the snapping of the wires resembled that of an explosion of gas, and created consi derable alarm, and it was feared at first that an explosion had taken place within the Bank, where the Chartered Gas light Company have men employed laying down new mains —but the fall of the wires across the roof of the Bank, the houses in Princes-street, Grocer's-hall, and the houses in the Old Jewry soon showed the extent of the damage. The traffic of vehicles through Princes-street was suspended until the way was cleared. The wires connected with the North London Telegraph were also blown down in the vicinity of Hawkins-street, Sydney, Mile-end, which has completely stopped the communication at that junction of the line. The up-traffic of the river steamboats on the ebb tide was considerably impeded by the violence of the. storm. Off Rotherhithe, a large barge having struck against a tier of vessels the mooring gave way, and the tier drifted against another tier, causing extensive damage, and a considerable time elapsed before the vessels were separated. LIVERPOOL, Friday. During Thursday and Friday Liverpool and its vicinity were visited by a series of severe squalls accompanied by heavy rains, the gale having caused considerable damage to the shipping. Outside the Mersey, in the Channel, the gale was of great severity. The ship Frankfort, from Liverpool to Bermuda, and the Coquette, for the samo port, were compelled to put back, although they had not suffered any damage. The Mona's Queen, for the Isle of Man from Liverpool, also had to put back. One or two vessels which had sailed from Liverpool, put back yesterday slightly da maged. PORTSMOUTH, Friday, A strong S.W. gale set in here yesterday morning, and continued, accompanied with rain, with but little intermis sion until an early hour this morning. As daylight broke the wind appeared to increase in force, and blew furiously until about 2 30 p.m., when the gale reached its culminating point, and for the best part of au hour the wind swept over in terrific force, everything being enveloped at the time in a mist of blinding rain and snow, which came down literally in torrents, and hid every object from sight at the distance of a few yards. From this time the gale subsided gradually, with the wind veering in to the N.W., at which it now (7 p.m.) remains, but the breeze is still strong. From 10 to day, until 3 p.m., when the gale reached its height, the barometer fell 3.loths. It now stands at 29.1, with an up ward tendency. CHATHAM, Friday Evening. A sudden fall in the barometer this morning gave indica tions that a gale was at hand, and shortly after two o'clock this afternoon a hurricane swept over, this port, the wind shifting rapidly from the south to the west and north-west, The hurricane lasted about two hours, during which time ►here was a very heavy fall or rain. At 2 o'clock the baro meter was at 29.2, and at 4 p.m. it had fallen to 29.5. Great anxiety is felt for the safety of a large fleet of colliers which are known to be on their way to this port from the north, Up to the time of forwarding this despatch, however, no casualties had been reported. Most of the vessels in the harbour have struck their topgallant masts, and, with their yards braced well up to the wind, have made all snug for the night, with, in some instances, an additional anchor down. Late this evening the gale has very considerably shifted slightly to the northward, but the night promises to be - very rough. Yesterday CARDIFF, Friday. Fitzroy to the e ff ect that a storm might be expected, and morning a tel e g r a m arr i ve d f rom Ad m i ra l scarcely had the "storm drum" been hoisted when a stiff gale set in from the south-west, which continued to in crease in intensity, accompanied with sleet and rain, during the whole of the day —s o much so that great fears were e ntertained for the safety of th e vast number of vessels lying at Penarth Roads and in the Bristol Channel. The gale continued all night, and, up to 9 o'clock this morning, THE SUN, LONbON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, ISM out in the foregoing, and against all other acts of the said officers and Government, for damages and losses sustained by their acts, as set forth herein, or that may be sustained in consequence thereof. " JESSE THORNHAM, Master, CHARLES PYCRAFT. WILLIAM CREMMEN. " Witnesses—Edward Briggs. William S. Johnson. GEORGE COPFELL, " Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Nothing is more agreeable than to lis ten to a highly successful man, who, in the evening of his life and the fulness of his fame, delights to narrate the causes which led to his greatness, or the incidents which suggested his brilliant inven tion. The great mass of mankind, if incapable of doing great things themselves, take pleasure in knowing how great things are done, and the galling sense of inferiority is diminished when we see, as it were, the mechanism of mighty actions displayed before us like the machinery of a skele ton clock. That Columbus found out America when he was seeking for a shprt cut to India, and that Newton discovered the law of planetary revo lutions while he was investigating the fall of an apple, are stories that will win the attention and excite the interest of all generations. Mr. Chase evidently thinks that he belongs to that class of great men whose reputation nothing can shake. He does not require that death should put the last seal on his renown, and stamp it for the benefit of all future time with the signet of immutability. He prefers to be the guardian of his own tame and to supply as early as possible all that information which will be so eagerly sought after when the great Chase has retired to that calm abode where there are neither loans nor greenbacks, and the art of the financier is neither known nor needed. Mr. Chase does not stoop to defend his financial measures; they stand in no need of it; their triumphant success speak for itself. He saw the want of his country, and he supplied it. The country needed a substantial, permanent, and uniform medium of exchange, and Mr. Chase arose and gave it to them. He is at no trouble to prove that the present paper currency of the United States possesses these admirable quali ties. That nobody can doubt, and we may be thought guilty of an impertinence if we offer any argument in support of so self-evident a proposition. Uniform the American currency must be, for, it there were any diversity, the circulating medium which broke the law of uniformity must be either paper or gold. Paper it cannot be, for Mr. Chase has driven out of circulation the paper of the banks, and substituted the issues of the Government in their place. Gold it cannot be, for gold Mr. Chase has suc ceeded in driving out of the country so effectually that there is no fear of its returning from exile to spoil the symmetry of a paper circulation. The greenbacks are clearly entitled to the praise of uni formity ; nor can we deny to Mr. Chase's currency the attribute of permanency. He has secured that by its depreciation. There is not the slightest fear of his greenbacks sharing the proverbial fate of suddenly acquired wealth. They will not make to themselves wings and fly to other lands. They are his and his alone. We doubt if a single note has found its way across the Atlantic, unless as a curio sity. Certainly Mr. Chase is entitled to claim for his currency the attribute of permanency. A depre ciated paper currency is an easy possession for a na tion to acquire, and a difficult one to get rid of. Nobody wishes to deprive her of it; it is one of those blessings which excite no envy. Commerce does not touch it, war itself will not destroy it. Mr. Chase claims for his currency that it is not only permanent and uniform, but substantial. This may be proved by several arguments. In the first place, the bulk of it is very considerable. Printing presses have been at work for two or three years, day and night, in producing this currency, and it would be a curious calculation to estimate what kind of pile the whole issue of greenbacks would make should the Government be ever in a position to buy them up and burn them. The substantiality of Mr. Chase's currency may be further proved by the immense weight which it supports. Upon it rests the vast army and navy, the internal trade, the credit, and the hopes of tue United States. Surely that which supports ail this mass mast itself be sub stantial? The utmost strength, however, of a ma chine is never known till it is broken, and we may possibly be called upon to witness this final proof of the substantiality of Mr. Chase's paper currency when we see the burden under which it is destined to give way. Mr. Chase tells us that the wheels of his department revolve smoothly, he has in hand 25,000,000 of greenbacks, worth at the present rate of exchange somewhere about 16,000,000 dollars. With these he can pay the army and navy on the Ist of November, and therefore what has he to do but to go electioneering ? Let ordinary mortals toil and slave, let Old World financiers rack their brains for fresh taxes, fresh loans, or further ecouo- mies ; Mr. Chase has found the philosopher's stone —he has got an uniform, permanent, and substantial currency, which costs nothing and pays for every thing, and he need trouble his head with none of these Old World embarrassments. We had certainly thought there was nothing new in all this; we hEid thought that the art of issuing inconvertible paper, and declaring it a legal tender, had come into exist ence a little before tne art of declaring national bankruptcies—nay, we had even gone so far as to speculate on some occult connection between the two. We now learn that we were mis taiten, and Mr. Chase is good enough to give us a popular explanation of the steps which have led him to a discovery destined to redeye mankind from the primitive curse, and to make them rich without inflicting on them the slightest trouble or anxiety. Tne first thing that struck Mr. Chase was a declaration of our own, that no money would be advanced in this country lo the Northern States by Englieh. capitalists. Reasoning deeply on this announcement, he came to the conclusion that as we would not lend he would not borrow from us; at any rate, till we came to ask him to do so—a qualification which we venture to think does not much diminish the absolute nature of the pro position. Having established this point of depar ture, this ingenious man began by borrowing all the gold he could get in his own country and pay ing it away for war expenses. In the course of this process his mind was struck by the remarkable fact that the gold did not come back to -him as fast as he paid it away—an observation which we apprehend has been already made by every person who has entered upon a large expenditure of bor rowed money and has not credit to borrow any more. This was exactly the state in which Mr. Chase found himself. Capitalists became exorbi tant in their demands, and Mr. Chase came to the ' conclusion that instead of borrowing other people's notes he had better issue his own. As this was, how ever, only another form of borrowing, and as he had, as he tells us, previously exhausted his credit, people who were not willing to become creditors of the Go • vernment, which was the case with many bankers, were unwilling to receive these notes in payment. Then the beautiful idea suggested itself to the mind of Mr. Chase of compelling them to take them in payment—that is, of making them legal tender. That, he triumphantly says, was the next step. You would n i leve done exactly, he says. as he did. It is an affair of common sense and courage. No doubt any debtor whose credit is exhausted, whose bills nobody will take except at a ruinous discount, would, if he could, make them a legal tender. Mr. Chase could, and did, and therein lies his unapproachable superiority over the private debtor, who, when he cannot pay, has no resource but an ignominious declaration of insolvency. But the greatest men are not consistent throughout. We are sorry to observe in Mr. Chase a lamentable confession of weakness. His next step was to borrow money on bond. This was quite right if he could get it ; but alas, in order to get it he promised to pay the interest in gold. II by in gold ? Had he net at his absolute disposal—could he not create at will, that uniform, permanent, and substantial currency to which labour must look for its reward, which represents the credit of the nation, and which, by the system of national banking, has received, as he informs us, the support of the capital of the country ? He found, he tells us, that he could get gold, and so he used it; we clearly understand every other step of his career, but this recreant hankering for a metal which he had. disgraced, su perseded, and driven out of the country, is to us in explicable. Was there nobody there to ask Mr. Chase what would be his next step ? Where does he intend to get more gold, or how does he propose to do without it ? Perhaps he had better perform his threat of making the capitalists of England press up ei him the acceptance of their gold; per haps he thieks that the payment of interest in specie for money which is gone and spent has lasted long enough, or perhaps he has discovered some secret for greatly increasing his paper circulation without diminishing its value. Nothing was ever at once found out and perfected, and we are bound to say that Mr. Chase appears to us to have been more successful in pointing out the steps by which he has ascended to his present eminence than in pointing out how he is to ix aintain it. Icarus !,k3 very near the sun, and we want to know how he is to prevent the wax in his wings from melting and burying him under a cloud of his own feathers. POST.—Whatever may be th e advantages of trades' unions to those who are members of them, d there is no denying the inconveniienaces annoy ance which they have apparently p a o n cialey fo causing to the rest of the co.mcou. ty The building strike, with all its concomitant incidents, must be still fresh in the memory of most of our readers. Set on foot about the most busy time of year for this trade, it dragged ou its slow length for many weary months, until it had ruined no small proportion of the less opulent employers, and driven hundreds of the men and their families into the workhouse. So far as we remember s the victory was upon this occasion substantially with the employers. The trades' unions had for once to succumb, in order to avoid the threatened introduction of foreign labour upon a large scale. As it was, we believe that some hundreds of country workmen were intro duced into the London trade, in spite of every effort of intimidation, rfnd of course displaced by their arrival a corresponding amount of the labour which had been before available upon the spot. There are instances, on the other hand, where such a movement has terminated in favour of the men. Within the last few weeks a strike in the iron districts has ended by the concession of the prices demanded by the " puddlers," and a corres ponding rise in "pigs." Something of the same kind:has also still more recently taken place among the nailers, and we believe with a similar result. But whatever may be the merits of the case as between operatives and employer, inter se, the public, who are in every sense of the word the in jured and innocent party, invariably go to the wall. The gain of such a proceeding to any party con cerned may indeed be problematical, but not so the loss to the public. Their time, their money, and their patience are periodically wasted ; while the serious inconveniences which are thus occasioned amount not unfrequently to a positive hardship. It is therefore anything but satisfactory to be told that discontent widely prevails just at the present moment among the pitmen employed in the Northumberland and Durham coalfield, and that attempts are being made to revive a union agitation just at a time when a steady supply of our "black diamonds" becomes a question of primary importance to every household. No less than thirteen hundred men and bays in the employment of a single firm are already actually out on strike, and it is feared that the example thus set is not unlikely to be extensively followed. The cause of quarrel, like most of its class, requires some explanation to render it intelligible to the general reader. The coal which has been "got" below by the "hewers and putters" comes " to bank," or in other words reaches the surface in " tubs," according to the number of which the wages of the men employed are calculated. Thus, as between them and their immediate masters, the payment is by measure, and not by weight, although, of course, between the latter and the public weight forms the only criterion iu value. As a precaution, it would ap pear, against attempts to "scamp" work below, any tub which comes short of measure to bank is con fiscated, as the men say, without any allowance, but, as owners assert,with an allowance of 281 b. in the men's favour, and with special checks to guard against purely accidental deficiencies. It is evident that, in the men's opinion, the owner has a direct interest in condemning a tub as deficient, inasmuch as he pave nothing for it, either in the shape of wages to the men, or in that of royalty to the ground landlord. This, again, is denied by the owners, who maintain that under such circumstances the landlord can demand, and actually does obtain, full pay. Tne obvious and natural remedy for such a state of things would seem to be that payment by weight should be substituted for payment by mea sure. The men ask that two inspectors should be appointed, one by themselves, and one by the owners, to superintend and check the weighing at the bank top. This the masters are prepared to assent to, hut decline to submit to the price asked for their labour by the men. What they offer is 9,-}d. per ton. What is asked varies in amount with the different collieries, but is in no case below one shil ling. It is needless to point out how serious an item a discrepancy which averages about 25 per cent. must prove in the profits of any undertaking. Neither are willing to make substantial concessions, and the pits have stopped working accordingly. It is just at this stage of the dispute that the trades' unions have intervened. The owners have given notice to the workmen who are no longer in their employ to quit the cottages which they have hitherto occupied at a weekly rent. The men are prepared to yield up possession peaceably, but have formed themselves, in the first place, as they had a perfect legal right to do, into a trades union, and, in the second, have proceeded to dictate terms to others, which they have no right whatsoever to en force. Thus, although offering no illegal resistance to the notices to quit, they are establishing them selves in tents in front of their cottage rows, with the avowed intention of " not leaving the spot in case the owners should attempt to introduce other men into the place." What this means we unhappily understand but too well, and it prac tically amounts to a distinct announcement, upon the part of the men, that they are about to have resort to illegal intimidation. They are, of course, quite at liberty if they choose to combine to contribute towards the support of the turn outs, and even to refuse to return to work, if they think fit to do so, so long as the " sacrificed" men remain under sentence of dismissal. Whether such a line of action be prudent or not is a question for them selves, but there is no doubt of its legality in the abstract. What they have no right to do is to en force upon others the contribution which they have agree to make themselves, or to prevent others from accepting, the terms which they have themselves thought proper to decline. But this, we fear, is precisely where they, like others of their class, are not prepared to stop. They claim a right, which can never be conceded, to legislate upon behalf of their order, and to impose their own terms not on the masters alone, but upon such of their own class as do not see precisely with their eyes. It is just here that their logic breaks down. The true prin ciples of political economy teach us that n o under taking can long be carried on where really remune rative wages are offered, and there is a brisk demand for labour. In self-defence other masters will always be ready to employ those who have left their former employers on the ground of an inadequate remuneration. Prices, in so open a competition as the coal trade, must, within a very short space of time, find their just level. Yorkshire, Lancashire, Somersetshire, North and South Wales, and other parts of the country have their coal-fields, which will be but only too glad to supplant the northern pits in the market if their owners underpay their men. What the latter may fairly do, is to decline the wages offered them. What they cannot be allowed to do, is what trades' unions are too apt to attempt, viz., to usurp the province of arbitrators, and to fix, in the interest of their own members, the balance of profits, which can only be accurately de termined by the more equitable, and tar more deli cate, test of comparative demand and supply. BURIED HISTORY.—There are countless treasure troves yet to be discovered. The Danes have left innumerable marks of their invasion of the island ; not so very long ago the skin of one of these sea•kings was to be seen nailed to the door of the Jerusalem Chamber, West minster Abbey; and on some of the doors of the old Lin colnshire parish churches may yet be witnessed the spider mi9 of captured and flayed Vikings of old. But may we not go back ages and ages, and yet find Mother Earth preserving for us the story of the past ? was she not busy in making the moulds, and taking off the delicate Impres sions of a chain of life that was not destined to reach to the period of man's appearance on this globe ? The many pages of the great stone book preserved in the geological department of the British Museum come to our recollection as we write. What texture so delicate or perishable, the impression of which she has not preserved to us by means of the soft mud which afterwards gradually hardened into stone ? The scales of fishes, the forms of the softest in sects, as well as the skeletons of the most tremendous crea tures that crawled, and swam, and walked the splashy earth, ere yet it was fit for the foot of man, are to be found in this museum, and may be dug out any day from the Has of the Weald of Kent.—Ones a Week. PARLIAMENTARY DODGE.—The entire city is convulsed to-day by a practical joke played last night. Mr. Tom Ferguson had been speaking over an hour, and was supposed good for two hours more, to the intense disgust of members anxiously bent upon getting away, when a letter was put into his hand, professedly written by Mr. Brydges, managing director of the Grand Trunk Rail way, but probably not genuine, in these words MY e dear Ferguson, I want to see you in the library imme diately, diately, to renew your usual pass on the Gand Trunk.k, to the Yours faithfully, C. J. Brydges." The bait closed his speech in the middle of a sentence, d great delight of half the house. Thomas readt_nortuhsenenctootei to the door in violent haste. The Attorney-t:reply to his after him to stop a moment, for he wanted LO S h d " a call," and remarks; but Tom was off, declaring he as h been unmerci shaking the letter in his hand, Tom mnstantly ex cl Gnneral called fully roasted since, and he keeps " How the deuce could they know r ha d a p a ss."—Queb a in ee Paper. Barry's Delicious Health vate chronic complaints , but FDouod, w hich saves fifty times ADVERTISEME NT . I—Avoid medicines: they always aggra- R es t or ing Revalenta Arabic j a nvariably cures them, restoring its coat in other rem edies, regularity, and energy bin pure blood, p er fect digestion , stro n g nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional to the most disorde red or enfeebled. We extract a few out o f 60,000 C ur es : C u re No. 58,216 of the Marchioness d e of a Liver complaint , wasting away for seven B ye r a e r 1 with a nervous palpitation all over, b a d ig s tion, constant sleeplessness , the most intolerable nervous dige s tion, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. L ora 7, n' debility,ra parts, Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulenuy, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange . ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,516. The Rev. Jas, T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment." In tins, 1 lb., 2s. od. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., 1 ts. ; 121 b., 225. ; 408.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemists in every town of the United Kingdom. COUNTRY MARKETS. .w-~~_.. .~,r-~ LIV ERP OL—PRIDAY At this day's market the best descriptions of American wheat were in good demand, and closed rather dearer than the prices current on Tuesday. All other qualities fully as dear. there was a fair attendance both of millers and dealers. Flour scarce, and the turn dearer. Barley, beans, and peas at Tuesday's rates. Indian corn 3d por quarter dearer. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 40s to 42s ; red, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 35s to 39s ; grinding, 31s to 32s per qr. Oats, 20s to 25stper 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 42s per qr. ; new, 34s to 365. WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. The wheat trade is firm to-day, with a moderate con sumptive demand at last Friday's rates. Fine barley un altered ; other descriptions a slow sale. Oats, beans, and shelling unchanged. CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, Ss 3d to 8s 91; white, 7s 10d to lOs 7d , barley, 58 Od to 8s Od ; oats, 4s Ed to Gs 8d ; black do., 4s Od to 5s 6d. DUBLIN- The condition of the grain —FRIDAY. to•day was soft and lunatic- factory, causing slow sales. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 23 oto 25 0 Beans.. ..... — o to 0 Do., red 2O oto 23 0 Bere Do., new .... 0 to 0 I Rapeseed Barley Oats 9 6to 11 0 Bakers' flour .. 14 oto 20 0 Do., black.... —oto 0 Indian corn .. 27 oto 23 0 BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. Owing to the absence of sorts suited for refining, the business of the week has been more limited than would otherwise have been the case. There have been some sales of Barbadoes to grocers at very full prices, and great firm ness characterises importers. Refined goods participate to a full extent in the advance upon raw sugar, and everything is taken as soon as it is brought forward. Demerara rum in fair demand. COAL Prioes of Coal per 'eon a' AItKET. the close of the market. s. d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 16 0 Davison's West Hart- Walls End. ley 16 3 Carr's Hartley 16 6 Lambert's West Hart- _ _ _ s. d. ley 16 0 West Hartley 16 6 Eden Main 18 0 Hartlepool W. Hartleyls 6 Wylam 17 0 Ships at nark Tunstall Heugh Hall 18 6 South Kelloe.. 18 6 Russel's Hetton 18 9 Braddyll's Hetton 18 9 F ramwe llgate.. l7 6 Haswell.... ....... 2O 0 Caradoc l9 6 Trimdon Hartlepool 19 3 [ Belmont .. ..... 17 6 ;t, 64 ; sold, 42 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts.-. 1863. 1862. Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 Belfast and County Down.... 49 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 Bristol and Exeter 121% 121% Caledonian 2341 L 341 Cockermouth& Workington B% 8% Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 6% Cork and Youghal . 32% 324 Cornwall 65% 53% Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 54/ 48% Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1651 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness. &c 5O 54 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 351 351 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 6t. N orthn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 71% 56% rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 373% 329 Great Western 1056% 1032% Inverness & Aberdeen June 86% 864 Inverness & Perth Junction 119/ Irish North-Western 145 145 Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 395% Limerick and Ennis... 24/ 24 % Limerick and Foynes 264 261 Llanelly 46% 46% London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5/ 5/ London & South-Western Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 261/ 241% London, Chatham, & Dover 721 72% Do. Metropolitan Extension 10% 51 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan - Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 - -ii,md Gt. - yr Iflrind 250 1863. 1862 £ £ 2,067 1.957 640 607 1,923 1,103 6,140 6,129 18,031 17.176 291 262 381 317 154 159 385 289 1,609 1,266 339 233 1,464 1,461 1,462 1,555 191 122 1,905 1,659 8,581 7,817 Midland Gt.Westn. o, Monkland Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Oswestry and Newton... 5O Rhymney l9 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon —• • 751 South-Eastern 306 Taff Vale 57 Ulster 6ll Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath 32/ Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Corn Wall 271 W. Hartlepool II arbr. & RaiL Arhaven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 Whitchaven Junction l2 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 264 Bombay, Baroda, & Len. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France......... 1167 East Indian . . 9331- Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 538/ Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 Northern of Canada ...... • Northern of France 725 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, Sr Mediterrn l O O5 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 77i Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B _ ..._ --- ....._ South Austrian Southern of France ...... ..... 770 Victorian 196 Welland .....-. 25 West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France 014 102 711 4104 1077 k 132 39 75i 305 :lA} 1676 1431 1315 oho 151 2,435 2,418 8,599 8,315 32,173 30,708 33,034 33,141 1,695 1,598 632 470 9,626 9,319 61,026 60.494 1,245 1,0: 6 1,535 1,647 34,474 144 96 118 12,519 57,601 3,300 8,423 1,130 959 1,891 08 4,895 679 3.521 22,357 5,836 2,080 16 2,403 346 1,290 829 4,923 629 965 849 1,534 35,308 1,736 32,390 . 155 513 92,511 1,794 21,571 20,455 4 170 260 1,369 14,397 I,o►o 1,%5Z 40,518 4,618 1,437 2,417 11.403 52,400 3,02/ 7,938 .423 1,409 2,430 5,155 4,4t,6 54,457 89; 1,819' 4,667 4.751 338 3,249 22,789 4,54 ) 1,777 160 330 1,275 18,083 17,35 0 5,778 1,76! 4,336 4, 23 ' 500 343' 13,773 12,261 19,831 17,94 2 1,848 1, 052 , 50,853 59,77 6 851 1,53 0 503 341 149,598 141,17 4 70,615 66,351 454 751 0 33 1,600 1,30 0 57,203 56,097 26,597 28,284 7, ;72 4,932 537 956 1,063 932 48,636 45,1;48 Foreign Mail Packet List. 799 3.649 426 743 6.49 1,26 0 4:,Obt) 3n 1,12,7 2,18 5 4.6 01 4.38/ 56,562 AlAlLo DUE. iustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton Nov. 18 , via Marseilles .. N ov. V. Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Nov. 4 „ Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, an d St. Helena.. Nov. 3v• China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Nov. '2'- - via Marseilles ...Nov. I:3'. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 2 , • via Marseilles Nov. 1 2 . India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Nov. ll, via Marseilles Nov. 5 . Portugal.... Nov. 4 ,,. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nev. "A• via Marseilles .. Nov. 5 Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Nov. 6 ' by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Nov. 7:, W.C. of Africa, M- adeira, and Teneriffe ..Nov. lu• Bahamas, via New York Nov. 1 9 . Mexico ••.. Nov.2S' • All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, } N ov . 13. California. and British Columbia.. THE ROBBERY FROM A GRAPE. --The young Matt Charles Bird, fornierly a linendraPer's ak sistant and latterly a shoemaker, in Mildenhal l, who pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him wit h having, in the month of June last, effected, with others, a robbery of money, watchos, chains, and rings, buried with the body of Mr. Jonathan Childerston, in the cemetery of that place, has been sen tenced by the chairman of o hte Quarter Session for West gimCpoulicnatyted Court in the bailiff, robbery, and l a V n i d lli tu anl e Suffolk to three months' imprisnment with hard labour in the county gaol. W arrants are out for the apprehension of Cohraahrlaem h s Dwockoin were , the police have hopes of speedily bringing them to justice. Births. BEADLE. —On the 22d ult., at Calcutta, the wife of Licut.• Colonel J. P,Beadle, R.E., of a son. CROOIOES.—On the 30th inst., at 20, Mornington-road, th wife of William Crookes, Esq., of a son. Ews.—On the 28th inst., the wife of George Ellis, V eil ' mond-hill, of a daughter. MARICHAIII.—On the 29th inst., at Kingston-hill, the w if6 of Samuel S. Markham, Esq., of a son. on M t a h r e ri 2 tg; h es in . BETTS—DENNYS— John Smith Bette, Esq.,of The Grange, " T. , t D li"' ...astcot , , diesex, to Lucy, r m• youngest daughter of Command er inst. at Kentish - t 0 G Dennys, R.N., of Leighton Villas, Tuffnell-park W. , ODWIN—SELWOOD.— On the 29th inst. at PewseY , 1 C. Godwin, of West Knoyle, to Harriet, the youllo daughter of the late Benjamin Selwood, Esq. Deaths. il , ARMITAGE.—On the 98th inst., at Brighton, John A-1132 tage, Esq., late Capt. 85th Regt., aged 34. ig r ettf BRETT.—On the 23d ' Portland, Mr. Ni r ra. '''- inst„ at aged 89. Win, CRoss.—On the 29th inst., at 7, Pembroke -road, Du Maurice Cross, Esq„ aged 67. odtill , GooDILL--On the 27th inst., at Lichfield, M rs, Go late of Packington, aged 87. w ith, HAIG.—On. the 29th inst.. at 6, Croome's-hill, Green Richard Haig, Esq., R.N. HANDFORD.—On the 28th inst., George Hatl....orAfa, P ariC Cottage, Camberwell-grove, aged 41. 111 .Mer' TIMMERMAN.— On the 27th inst.. at Boulogner-te. flow a Louis Timmerman, late Captain of Cavalry, a LI lier of the Legion d'Honeur, aged 69. NPI , tl' " London: PrittzM and I' bashed Dy WILLIA3IA , co . 1 1 1, ' of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at THE Office SUN County Strand, in the Precinct o f the '3 avo y • , n the Mildleeex.— Saturday, October 31, 1563.