The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the arrival of the above mail we have advices from Bombay to the 28th October, and from Cal. cutta to the 20th. The Viceroy of India errived at the capital of the Punjab on the 14th October, and met with an en. thusiastic reception from all classes of the European and native communities. On the 15th his Excellency the Viceroy, after a public levee, gave private durbar to his Highness the Maharajah of Cashmere and thirteen other native chiefs. On the 17th his ex• cellency paid vice-regal return visits to the maha. rajahs, and conducted the ceremony of the Rajah of Kuppoortula's investiture with the Star of India. On the 18th the grand viceregal durbar was held ; the Viceroy opened it with an effective speech from the throne in Hindoostanee. Six hundreds rajahs and chiefs were present, and the durbar is considered by the Indian press to have been the most splendid and imposing ever held in India by an English governor general. According to the Delhi Gazette the Khan of Kokan, having learned that 12,000 Russian troops had marched against Tashkund, started from Kokan with 8,000 troops, and gave them battle at Tull kand. The Russians, it is reported, were victorious, and the Khan of Kokan was compelled to retreat. The Russians, after taking Tashkund, marched against Kokan and occupied it. Sirdar Mahomed Ameer Khan of Candahar is making preparations for war, and is resolved to fight the Ameer of Cabool. He is fortifying Ke lat, and has put all his officers on oath to fight to the last. The Ameer of Cabool has received a threatening letter from the King of Bokhara regarding the treatment of Ufzul Khan and his son. The King has entered upon active measures in support of the latter against the Ameer. A body of 12,000 Persians have reached Karaiz, on route to Herat. Afghanistan is in an unsettled state ; the Ameer of Cabool's treatment of his brother Ufzul Khan has excited against him the indignation of all the chiefs. It is rumoured that the Bhootanese have sub. mated, and offered reparation for the insu't to the British auhorities. The rumour requires confirms• tion. The Bhooteas despatched troops to a auln diffe. rent points for the defence of the Dooars. They are able to bring twentyfive thousand troops into the field. The Waghnrs have again risen in rebellion in Kattiawar, and defeated the Guicowar's troops sent against them. A small British force, under Major Dannis, accompanied by Major Keatinge, V.C., the political agent, has left R3jkote to quell the insur rection. It is reported from Simla that Sir Robert Napier will succeed Sir H, Rose in the command of the Indian army. Sir C. Trevelyan is said to have been suddenly attacked with severe illness. The report on the external commerce of Bombay for 1863.4 has just been circulated. It shows that the value of the whole of the external trade, during the period under report, amounts to £77,608,330, being an increase of £18,450,000 over the previous year and of X 35,578,000 over the value of the pre ceding five years; showing that it has more than doubled itself in value since the commencement of the American war. Speculation is still rife in Bombay (says the Gazette of the 28th of October). New banks, finan cial and joint-stock companies are daily projected. The Rajah of Sillinglant, in Chota Nsgpore, has been accused of sacrificing a human being at the shrine of Remkunee, and has been arrested by the police. He declares it is a conspiracy of his enemies, and that the man said to have been sacrificed died from'a snake bite. The deficiency of the rainfall during the past monsoon is seriously felt in several districts of the country, and it is feared that much suffering Will ensue. Mr David Sassoon, the well-known Jewish mer chant of Bombay, has applied to the Secretary of State for the permik,sion to erect a statue of the late Prince • Consort in the gardens of the Victoria Museum at Bombay. The Sheriff of Bombay,in compliance with a requi sition, had convened a public meeting of the intim!, bitants, to be held in the Town halt on the 2d of November, for the purpose of devising means for alleviating the distress of the numerous sufferers by the late hurricane at Calcutta and surrounding districts. Meanwhile, at the instance of his Excel lency the Governor, the opulent native community of Bombay subscribed' £lO,OOO in one day for the cyclone relief fund in Calcutta. The Englishman of October 20 contrasts this conduct with that of the native community of Calcutta in the following terms :—Bombay need not fear that we shall grudge her her commercial prosperity while she shows so conspicuously how well she deserves it. She has far eclipsed Calcutta in munificence, as she is fast outstripping her in material progress. No appeal to the feelings of the Parsees and Hindoos there was necessary ; no one had to stand up and exhort them to give. No sooner were the details of the calamity which has befallen Calcutta and its neighbourhood known to Sir Ram setjee Jeejebhoy and his Parsee and Hindoo friends, who happened to be assembled at the time at Poona for another purpose., than they subscribed upwards of 75,000 rupees for the relief of the distressed ; while the Hon. Rastomjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy had already sent 25,000 rupees through his agent; and a further sum of 10,000 rupees has since been I , subscribed by Torabjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. In a few hours, without advertisements, without discus sions and exhortations, Bombay hss given double the amount that Calcutta has laboriously collected in as many days. If native Calcutta s not ashamed, it is because she is not proud enough to be ashamed of anything. From Dapooree to Calcutta—From Sir B. Frere to the Secretary, Government of Ben• gal—On hearing details of hurricane at Calcutta, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and some Parsee and Hindoc friends, assembled to witness the foundation of D eccan' College, Poona, subscribed upwards of 75,000 rupees (three. quarters of a lac) for the re lief of the distressed. His brother the Honourable Itastomjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, has already sent through his agents, on the 11th inst., 25,000 rupees —total, one lac, Particulars sent by post. This telegram is sera because distress is urgent, and relieving bodies will be glad to know the amount of subscription available. Please inform the sheriff or whoever may be the chairman of any general relief committee." The relief committees were actively engaged in their humane work. Their reports show that the cyclone had almost everywhere caused vast damage to property and deplorable loss of life. The ways at Diamond Harbour was 11 feet high, and three miles inland it exceeded a man's height. About 90 per cent. of the Slugor population perished. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Bombay Gazate, Oct. 28.) MONEY.—In the early part of the fortnight there was a considerable drain from the ban k,which caused the directors to raise the rate 1 per cent. at their meeting on the 20th, Latterly money has again been flowing into the bank, till the last week's re. turn compared with that of the preceding week, showing an increase in the cash balance of nearly 20 lac 3. No reduction has however taken place, and even at their present quotations the bank authorities evince little inclination for business. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.—These have been in somewhat better inq u i ry during the f or t n i ght con sequent on an advanc e at Calcutta, caused by an easier state of the money morket there. EXCITANGE. — A limited business was transacted in the early part of the fortnight, but although rates continued without much perceptible change, sellers were able to place paper more readily on perhaps a shade easier terms. Quotations hardened slightly after the bank meeting, and as the bulk of the mail business was postponed till arrival of the telegram, rates since theii have been firmer, and a consider able amount of paper of the older banks has been placed at 2s lid. IMPORTS.—Our market has continued very quiet and inactive since our last report. The approach of the Dewallc holidays and the indefinite character of the up country intelligence, have kept buyers away from the offices, and the transactions which have taken place have been on a most limited scale. All classes begin to recognise the improbAb lity of an early cessation to Transatlantic troubles, and importers continue to maintain great firmness, Native holders are consequently regaining confi dence, and bazaar sales have been generally on a higher basis than we last advised. Grey goods must be quoted lower, but there is no demand to test rates. White goods are weaker. Dyed and printed goods are moderately well "supported. Twist is entirely unsaleable, and animation is only apparent in one or two descriptions of metals. Stocks as a rule are low, as very few ships have come in, and considerable steadiness may be looted for. PREIMITS.—The advices to hand by last mail were of such an adverse nature for cotton, that it was thought that we should have again had another fortnight of great depres sion in our freight market ; and for a few days after the de spatch of our last report scarcely any demand existed for tonnage; and several vessels that had been lying idle in the hope of better times soon after took their port clear ances for Calcutta, where the great destruction of property by the late cylone held out prospects of very high rates of freight, or accepted country employment, trusting the state. of this market may have improved upon their return. This cleared the market of vessels ready to: receive cargo— and cotton having commenced to arrive :from upcountry dealers, being unable to sell, commenced to ship on their own account ; it was then found that available tonnage had been reduced within such a narrow compass and the news from Calcutta held out so much encouragement of high rates there that shipmasters declined the rates offered, and at first only a small business was done for Liverpool at rates varying from £2 17s Gd to £3. The scarcity of tonnage soon attracted the attention of speculators, and rates were speedily run up to £3 7s Gd and £3 10s—these rates seemed to have stopped the inquiry, and nothing but the absence of arrivals has enabled speculators to main tain the market. The amount of tonnage overdue is ex cessive, several vessels that left England in May last not having yet made their appearance; but when relief is afforded to the market by heavy arrivals the reaction is likely to be as sudden as the present advance. But in all calculations of this sort, it should be remembered that the quantity of cotton offering for shipment during the next two months is extremely large; and with the probability of very high frieghts being obtainable in Calcutta, rates can not be expected to rule below £3 for some time to come. For London—The trade with this port is always limited, and there is actually no inquiry for tonnage just now, neither is there any available. For Havre there is nothing doing. For Calcutta and back—Rs 25 and port charges is offered, but scarcity of tonnage interferes with business. Business will be much interrupted during the ensuing fortnight by the intervention of the Dewallee holidays, after which our .hipping Lemon may be said to hava fairly opened. (From the Cale4ta _Englishman, Oat. 20.) PRODUCE MARKET—Since the disastrous gale very little has been done in the market. The prices of most articles have gone down considerably, and some are scarcely saleable. IMPORT MARKET—Since the holidays the demand for piece goods and yarn is somewhat moderate, but it is ex pected that within the next week or two the demand will considerably increase. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES—There are indications of a better demand for Government paper, and the increasing facilities for obtaining accommodation will doubtless have some influence on prices, but as very few of the dealers have yet returned to town, there have been scarcely any transac tions, and quotations are quite nominal. MONEY MARKET—Our money market now presents a decidedly easier appearance than it did before the holidays. The mail steamer has brought us a large supply of bullion, besides a considerable amount in rupees for Madras and Bombay, and further large supplies of coin aro expected from the latter city. Money is in full supply in the bazaar, and good paper can be discounted at S per cent. Exc}LANGE—Thero has not been much business trans acted during the few days since the holidays closed. The rate has, however, been steadily falling, owing to the large arrivals of money and the scarcity of paper. Bank bills close at 2-11, credits may be quoted 2-11 to a, and document paper. FREIGHTS —As only three days have elapsed since the termination of the Doorga Pojah holidays but little can be said as to the state of the market, and there have been so few transactions that it is impossible to give quotations. Full particulars of the disastrous effect of the late cyclone on the shipping in port have been road in England before this mail arrives. For the few ships which have escaped with comparatively small injuries very high rates of freight aro asked ; but in the face of the unfavoul able accounts re ceived from home shippers have so far suspended'operations rather than pay them. For London the only charter is that of the Aprodita at £5 fora full cargo of jute and other light freight. For Liverpool there has been nothing done. 'We may shortly expect a considerable influx of tonnage both from home and the Eastern ports, but some of those vessels that are ready will no doubt be required to take forward the cargoes of such ships as may be condemned. In the country trade the only business done has been for Bombay, and in consequence of the high rates ruling there for grain several charters have been effected at considerably higher rates. The wrecks of tho following vessels sunk during the cy clone have been sold by auction, viz :—Singapore (Fr), 438 tons, for Rs 2,4oo—Villa de St Der is (Fr), 379 tons, for Rs I,6oo—Anne de Bretagne (Fr), 400 tons, for Its 11,000 — Lew Chew (Br), 854 tons rice, Its 90, Its 6,Boo—Thplsian (Br), 919 tons rice, Its 16, Its 600—Lady Franklin (Br) 1,187, Rs 3,400. Six Confederate Soldiers Shot. The St. Louis Republican contains an account of the shooting of six Confederate soldiers at St. Louis by order of the Federal General commanding, in retaliation for killing Major White and his six comrades by guerillas. When the prisoners arrived on the ground they were marched to the. places fixed for the execution, these being six upright pine posts set in the ground, with square hard seats attached for each man to sit upon. They took their places upon their seats, each with comparative calmness, and nearly all with appearances of resig.. nation to the dreadful fate that stared at them so immediately. Bat little emotion was displayed by any of the six, except Nicholas and Minniken—the latter commenced prayerful Ejaculations, and in a subdued tone of voice soon after being seated,which he kept up until the bandage was tied over his eyes—after that his only remark was, "Boys, when you shoot me, kill me dead." Nicholas made no remarks, but kept weeping from the time of taking his seat until the bandage was placed over his eyes. Ladd and Bunch exhibited some slight evidences of dejection, but not a word escaped them during the whole scene. Blackburn sat still and stolid upon his seat, and throughout was as imperturbed as a statue. No muscle of his face quivered—there was no wildness in his eye—not • a movement that denoted the slightest uneasiness in his manner. Gates, who was only 21 years of age, and perfectly beardless, at first manifested a moat singular in difference. He had the manner of a young men just the least embarrassed upon the introduction to starngers—yet, withal, there was no fear in the expression of his features, but rather a manifests. tion of self-confidence, as one who had a great and dangerous duty to perform, and who felt himself equal to it. Towards the end he began to mani fest emotion, and speaking to one of the. attending physicians who was standing near by, asked, " Don't you think there • is any hope that it will be postponed ? " and on being an swered in the negative he moaned occasionally, and at intervals made use of the following expressions : " 0 Lord have mercy upon me ! " " Oh! to think of the news that is to go to my father and mother." " Well, I an't the first, and I don't reckon I'll be the last." " Lord have mercy upon me!" "To be tied to a stake and shot; I tell you it's awful." After he had been tied to the stake, and Chaplain M'Kim had prayed with him, ho said, addressing the guard, "Boys, I hope if any of you are ever shot, you %set be shot as innocent as I am." Chap lain M'Kim having said prayers with each prisoner, and bid them goodbye, Col. Heiurichs read the order of execution, after which he informed the prie soners that if they desired to say anything they could have an opportunity. There was no response except from Minniken, who said, "I wcild like to say a few words." He then with firm and distinct voice and rapid utterance said, " Soldiers, and all who hear me, take warning ! I have been a Con. federate soldier for four years, and as such have served my country faithfully. And lam taken out now and shot for what I had nothing to do with. I never was a guerilla, and I am very sorry that I have to be shot for the acts of men that 1 had no thing to do with, and for what I am not guilty of. If I had taken any of you soldiers prisoners, I would have treated you as such. I never would have had you shot. I never wou!d hurt anybody. I hope God may take mo to his bosom after I am dead. 0 Lord, be with me!" Each prisoner' s eyes were then bandaged. When the sergeant approached Minniken to put the bandage on his eyes, the pri soner said, " Sergeant, I don't blame you, I hope I shall meet you in another world ; I hope I'll meet • you all iu heaven. 0 Lord, have mercy on my poor i soul!" Butch and Blackburn still remained silent ME SUI, :LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1864. and almost motionless. Minniken said, " Lord have mercy on my poor sinful soul !" Gates said, " John Nichols, we are going to die. Farewell!" Minniken replied, " Farewell, we will meet in a better world !" Gates responded : "Farewell to all the boys !" Nothing more was said, and the command to make ready was given. There was a momentary suspense, and then a further com• mand, " One, two, fire !" and the entire volley was discharged almost as one gun. Instantly the blood spurted from the breast of each prisoner, and, quiver. ing for a moment, their heads fell upon their shoulders, and their bodies lurched to one side, and fell as near to the ground as they could with their arms pinioned to the stakes. In this position the blood streamed from their wounds, which were nearly all in the breast, and in one or two places formed little pools upon the ground. The attending physicians examined the bodies as soon as the firing ceased, and found no signs of life in any except Blackburn. In five minutes from the time the volley was discharged they were all dead. Gates, after he was shot, uttered the exclamation "Oh !" and Blackburn cried out, "Kill me quick;" but in an instant later they were evidently insensible. or lights of any kind are to be allowed on board the ship at any time, except those at the masthead dur ing the night. The men on watch are to hail all boats approaching the ship, Col. toxer, It.A., superintendent of Royal laborad tories, has been appointed by the Secretaries of State for War and the Home Departments to in spect all magazines on shore and establish a uniform regulation for them. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE "SPECTATOR" ON THE HoUP, OFFICE. — Out of the seven great offices through which the administration of the British Empire is conducted two have of late years greatly declined in import. ante. The Treasury is, as it has always been, the nexus of the departments, the fitting seat for the officer whose existence the Constitution does not recognise, but who is in fact as well as in name Premier of England, first among equals in the great hierarchy of power. Since kings ceased to declare war and peace, in fact as well as in form, and the public began to be interested in all foreign rela tions, the importance c.f the Foreign Office has greatly increased, so increased that the mercantile world, with Mr W. E. Forster at its head, is now loudly demanding a separate and working repres sentation with the office itself. The War Office, since its severance from the government of the Co lonies, has grown into a great department, so powerful that the old theory which reserves the army as a peculiunz under the Crown seems occa sionally in danger of be:ng forgotten. With the new finance and the new interest of the nation not only in taxation, but in the science of laying on taxes, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, once a clerk, has become the second officer of the State. A. bad budget destroys a Ministry—a good one is hold to compensate for almost all other blunders; The Secretary of State for India, once a mere " Presi dent" of a Board, only raised above second-class officials by his seat in the Cabinet and his extensive patronage, has ripened into the greatest of mag. nates, sits avowedly in the seat of the great Mogul. There is no human being alive, except the Emperor of China, who can directly affect the welfare of so many millions as the able but attorney-like person who sits as senior member for Halifax. The Colo. nial Office, on the other hand, has somewhat de creased in dignity. The concession of self-governs ment to the English settlements robbed it of half its prerogatives—" I do not," said the Duke of Newcastle, " write a despatch to Canada once a twelvemonth,"—and the affairs of the remaining 30 or so possessions excite, except in times of crisis, very little public attention. The most conspicu ous change for the worse, however, is that which has passed over the Home Office, once the most powerful of all, and even recently so laborious that Sir James Graham, by nature a glutton of work, declared the fatigue and anxiety almost insupportable. Nominally it still administers the internal executive of Great Britain, practically it has sunk into a kind of Court of Re visal. No particular change has of late years taken place in its jurisdiction except that branches like the care of the poor, of schools, and of trade have escaped from the weight of its shadow. The office is still an arsenal of latent powers, but the country has for years been so quiet, official interference so limited, and administrative improvement so sluggish, that the Home Secretary regards a gaol row as a formidable affair, holds an order on prison diet a high act of legislation, and is half inclined to issue a bulletin on his victory over disorderly lads in Surrey. Except when a strike leads to a local riot, or philanthropists remonstrate agaiost an execution, or some local magnate sentences a boy to six months' imprisonment for stealing fruit, nobody ever hears of the Home Secretary. He is in general referee for the police, the magistracy, the governors of prisons, and the municipalities, but there his utility appears to end, and even in that capacity the present occu pant of the office appears crntent with revisal, and seldom takes the initiative which his position demands. The last general measure of any im• portence carried by a Home Secretary was Lord Palmerston's Act prohibiting intramural burial, one of a hundred municipal reforms demanded by the progress of civilisation. The business of a great par liamentary officer is not to wait till measures are forced upon him by pressure, but to take the initia tive, not indeed in the formation of opinion, but in giving to the most intelligent opinion of the country the force of concrete law. That was what Lord Pal merston did, the messes being on the whole indiffea rent to his measure, the clergy decidedly opposed to it, and none but men of science and the medical pro fession recognising its full importance. The Home Secretary should, we conceive, take a decided lead in working out the convictions at which society one by one arrives, should, while abstaining carefully from movement too far ahead of opinion, still make his influence felt as a distinct moving power. Here, for example, is this question which looks so small and is so indefinitely great—the disposal of the sewage of towns. A slight change in the habits of Englishmen, a mere modification in their notions of decency and, comfort, has diverted the entire sewage of towns from the land into the rivers. The night men who cleared the old cesspools sold the manure they collected like stable manure to the farmers, but modern arrangemeuts require a close pipe which must communicate with a sewer, which again must discharge itself into a river or other body of water in movement, The entire sewage is lost, and the rivers are ruined. The townspeople are just, awak ing to the mischief civilisation has produced, scien tific men are studying how they may best deodorise sewage (what on earth is the objection to the good English word " sweeten ?'') and the tribe of specu lators who accept to a man Vespasian's motto, " Aurunz non. olet,"' are settling down like flies. The City claims the sewage of London, the Board of Works, which seems, like the Roman Conclave, to believe that it is eternal, talks with the glib auda city of granting a concession of all London sewage for fifty years, and it seems probable that the whole matter will be left to settle itself, and the municipalities will lose what might bo a most valuable source of revenue. If there is one thing the great cities of England need more than another it is a revenue not derived from taxation, which can be devoted to planned im provements, yet when one comes up literally out of the dirt, the Home Secretary makes no effort to secure it. Every dirty little interest is in move ment, every petty clique of jobbers rabid with ex pectation, but tho constituency which the Home Secretary is supposed to represent, viz., the nation, has no mouthpiece except the press. Whoever wins in the contest must apply to Parliament, and if the Home-office had studied the question, obtained a final verdict from science—which Government can get and vestries cannot—and framed a measure for the whole country, agricultural and municipal life might alike receive a new impetus. Sir George Grey will probably allow the whole question to exhale in angry row in a committee-room upon the clauses of a private bill. We do not know and do not say that his weakness is specially his fault. It is the besetting sin of Home Secretaries, who seem to have accepted Walpole's eternal quotation, " Quieta non movers," as the sum of political wise dom. What can bo more imbecile than the way in which possibilities of municipal improvement have been flung aside in our legislation on gas and water ? We are compelled in those matters to depart from free trade and allow monopolies in order to secure the streets from incessant obstruction, but instead of granting them to the boroughs we grant them to greedy speculators. If the great boroughs supplied their own gas and water wo should have better light and purer drink, and the means of either reducing a taxation annoyingly heavy, or of carrying out improvements which should compensate for the burden. Imagine a human being paying six or seven shillings in the pound on his rental for the privilege of living in Clerkenwell, or that populated cemetery, Islington ? We aro happy to perceive that this mode of obtaining a revenue has been mooted in the City, and as the monopolists, to save half per cent. on their dividend, are poisoning us all with needless sulphur, and as the " City" will in a year or two lose some thousands a year by the falling in of a lease, there is some chance of the Home-office being whipped by private interests into movement. There is nothing in the whole circuit of political thought which needs reform so much as the condi.. tion of our great cities, it is just the kind of progress which the voting mind is ready to appreciate, it is strictly within the province of the Homo Office, yet the Secretary who should take the lead in making the growing opinion on the subject concrete, lags behind in the rear, quite satisfied apparently that as the air is pure at Falloden it may be pure enough in Shadwell or the wynds of Glasgow. Here is Edinburgh just aroused to the fact that its poorest quarter is a pest-house, a place where no man can live his appointed term, or keep clean, or be commonly decent, and half disposed to ameliorate that state of things. So, again, at Man chester, a local journal publishes this week facts which would make a South Sea Islander wince, and which Manchester would very gladly improve, but what are the boroughs to do They want powers to lend money, and act sharply and sternly against the vested interests which protect that state of affairs, and no man alleges that they ought not to have them. But there is no leader to whom they can look for cool official guidance ; corporations are slow to move, and so the matter waits till some local calamity, such as an outburst of putrid fever, spurs on the rich to spur on tha Home Office to spur on Parliament to give them a local bill. Suppose the profits of the gas monopolies granted to the Town Councils as the leases expire, and de voted to municipal schemes for the better lodging of the poor. Would that be too revolutionary for the Home Office ? We do not suggest that particu lar plan as the best, though something of the same kind has been tried in several towns, but we affirm that there is a vast field of labour open to any effi cient Home Secretary, which every occupant of the office neglects, and which Sir George Grey in par ticular never even attempts to see. There is leader ship wanted everywhere in the ne war against dirt and vice, and disease, and men l oo k f or i t every: where rather than the place where it ought to be found—the Home Secretariat. THE "EXAMINER" ON RUSSIA'S CRIMES BEING CONDONED.—Lord Napier has been making a fare well speech to English traders resident in Russia, in which he has taken upon him to give absolution to the Government of that country for its recent conduct towards Poland. Thorough-bred diplo macy is true to its mission. No man spilt more truthful ink than the British Envoy at St. Peters• burg about Muscovite bad faith and cruelty to wards the Poles ; but finding it not suitable to the taste of certain critics, he has literally taken Sterne's advice, and resolved "to wipe it up and say no more about it." We have heard more than enough of late, of the irresponsible power to fore give sins claimed by High Church parsons; but what is it compared to the pretensions set up by High State functionaries to pardon the crimes of empire ? We are certainly not disposed to palliate the presumption and folly of priestcraft in any shape or way, but this at least we must own it has to say in defence of its arrogant claim, that it re. fuses to grant sinners an acquittance in full with out previous confession of guilt, present profession of sorrow, and for the future a promise to make restitution. Diplomatic imposture scorns these plausible conditions. Tyranny disdains to walk in a white sheet, but with its garments "red with the blood of the slain," receives its condonation. Vio lence disdains to lower its tone, even during the ceremony ; yet it receives its blessing all the same. Confiscation cannot hold for laughter as it rattles and counts its spoil ; whereupon diplomacy, with smug face, shrives its impenitent soul and bids it go in peace. And this is what is called exercising the moral influence of England to promote the blessings of freedom and civilisation ! Had we never professed ourselves indignant at the provoca tion of Poland to rebel; had we never denounced Russia's misrule of that country as a breach of in• ternational faith; had we never declared her title to Polish obedience forfeited, unless Polish rights were restored ; had we never averred that the peace and orderof Christendom were endangered by Muscovite cruelty and oppression ; there would be less indecency in the flatteries and compliments of an English Minister on the eve of his departure from St. Peters burg. Were it even conceivable that the mood of the nation had suddenly changed, or the policy of our foreign office had suddenly swung round from sympathy with justifiable revolt, to adulation of Cossack power, it would stili have been more seemly to have left the performance of the rite of recantation to another celebrant of diplomatic mys teries, If Lord Napier's despatches of 1862 and 1863 were still remembered with irritation by Alex ander 11. and Prince Gortzchakoff, and for certain inexplicably deep reasons it was thought better to transfer him to Berlin, surely that ought to have been concession enough to the wounded pride of the Autocrat, and the exacting insolence of his chief Minister. We cannot believe that Lord Russell ever expected, far less that he ever prompted, the shifted plenipotentiary to go on all fours in this fashion at parting. The bears themselves know how to assume a worthier attitude; they ape the upright mien of humanity in their salutations. Could not Lord Napier have kept his stock of flummery for the other " good monarch" to whom he was hence. forth to be accredited, and the other "wise Minis ter" with whom he must hereafter have to do ? was it necessary for him to drain the cup of humia liation to the dregs ? Did he grudge his successor the duty of shouting in the fainting ear of scourged and exiled Poland English felicitations of Russia's triumph and praises of Russia's rule ? Or was it necessary to the completeness of his Lordship's self-stultification that it should take place in the presence of his countrymen resident in St. Peters burg? Would it not have been pleasanter for them, to say the least of it, to have been suffered to retain the belief that the diplomatic representatives of England understood national pride and national selferespect, and that these were in no danger of being compromised in diplomatic hands ? It might be an illusion ; but there are illusions we had best leave strangers to dispel. Lord Napier thanks the Czar for the 'reserve shown of late in the expansive policy of Russia in the East ;" and he builds upon such forbearance the innocent hope that interne tional friendship may be cordial, even though it should not last for ever. It is good to be grateful for small favours ; and if Russia is not yet quite ready to cause us new trouble or anxiety in Asia, we ought, it appears, to break forth into singing her praise and take to clapping our hands. What a commanding attitude and tone for a great empire to take in the presence of a rival ! We should be curie ous to know what his Excellency would think of saying if to-morrow or next day the benignant policy of reserve seemed about to be laid aside by a despotic ally. The vocabulary of abjectness is said to be inexhaustible; if not we should cherish the hopo that Lord Napier would find himself bankrupt of unworthy blandishments on reaching Berlin. And yet Von Bismark will have some right to complain if he and his master have not the same compliments strewn in their path by the un-English Minister there. All the evil they have done in the Duchies is as nought compared with that which the Muscovites have perpetrated in Poland. IN hat, then, is to be our diplomatic tone at Berlin ? THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE PRESENT WATER MAYORALTY,—The present Lord Mayor has opened his reign by presiding in public over the National Temperance League, a scciety at the bare mention of whose name both Gog and Magog shudder. The aldermen of the day seem to be try ing strange experiments upon their persons, and to be tampering with their bodily comfort in a way never before heard of. First, there is Alderman Mechi, who abstains from sugar and gets out of his bed every morning into a cold pair of scales. The notion is enough to send a chill through the British public as they read, and to connect more closely in idea than before the name of Mr Banting and dis comfort. To live from day to the next in hopes of being weighed in a wintry balance, and being found wanting, is a course of conduct that must throw a frosty feeling into life, compared with which the loss of butter and of sugar is a trifle. There seems to be something in the elements that is converting the Aldermen of London into abstemious philosophers. No sooner have we got into our heads the notion of Alderman Mechi thinning himself by the assist ance of matutinal scales, than we are asked to familiarise ourselves with the conception of a Lord Mayor who has cont rac t e d the pernicious habit of addicting himself to water. It would any. where be a mark of stern resolution to an alderman to take up with a fluid which neither cheers nor inebriates. But in London, where, from some occult cause or other, water, besides being cheerless, usually tastes of gaspipes, a wateredrinkiog Lord Mayor is little short of a miracle. Mr Banting's communicative and friendly accounts lead us all to think that his pamphlet on the subject of what he eats has had a large sale. The Lord Mayor ought to make a literary fortune by issuing a small vo lume to tell us what he drinks, and how he came to drink it. It must have been in a moody moment, when the Corporation were all at loggerheads, and British commerce seemed going to the dogs, that the embryo Mayor first seized upon the water bottle. Often in a fit of thoughtfulness men will rush into excesses that colour all their future career. Circumstance is lord of human action, and the gates of life revolve upon the hinge of chanee. The water-bottle once tasted would lead doubtless to other water-bottles, just as it is found in the London police-courts, that a man who has once tried to commit suicide, is generally taken up for trying to commit suicide again. The entry on such a course gives a low and morbid tinge to the mind, which at last becomes affected with a perfect mania for disagreeable subjects. If the Lord Mayor had, at such a critical moment, been surrounded by jus dicions friends, the city might, in the long run, have been saved considerable anxiety. They would have tried to lead him gently back from his aqueous ways, by carefully hidi n g th e water jugs out of sight, and by never allowing him to go within sight of running water, He might have been kept de licately on the north side of London-bridge, and the existence of the Thames have been carefully ignored in conversation. Anything like the society of violent aquarisns, such as the Rev. Mr Maguire, or Mr. Newman Hall, should have been avoided as tending to excite. In time he would doubtless have learnt to understand that Pro vidence has given man water for the purposes of ablution, not of beverage. Instead of this, a more imprudent course has been pursued. He has been allowed to commit himself to all sorts of Temperance societies. What is the result ? Gog and Magog may be said, metaphorically, to be in tears, and half of London is agitated by an anxious, though totally unnecessary, dread of a kind of civic deluge, in which the whole social world is once again to perish by water. Though his lordship has probably not gone to such extreme lengths as is supposed, and though he intends, no doubt, to keep up the spirits of his acquaintances during the coming year, it is nevertheless quite painful to a well-regulated mind to hear the chief magistrate of the City of London speaking of the generous liquids as he does. Pin dar, it is true, tells us that water is the best element flowing, but Pinder lived at the court of a despot, who, doubtless, on the subject of wine denied his subjects the privilege of free speech. But that a Lord Mayor should talk of now and then taking a glass of wine as if it were a dose of arsenic is lugu. brious indeed. Even when his doctor prescribes him a glass, what does his lordship do P What would most men do ? Evidently they would throw the doctor's medicine out of the window, and drink the wine ordered them to the dregs. His lordship re verses the operation—for he flings the wine out of the window and drinks up the medicine. He tells us that he is always the better for it. That says more for the Lord Mayor's doctor than 'We should have Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Nov. 15.—Her Majesty's steamer Tri dent, 3, Commander C. J. Balfour, arrived on 13th inst. from Patras, having on board the following passengers :—Lieut. H. R. Bernes, R.N., Lieut. Armstrong, R.M., the Hon. E. T. Needham, R,N., and eight seamen. The Trident leaves on Friday or Saturday for England to be paid off. The Fire fly, 4, surveying vessel, Lieut. G.. R. Wilkinson, Malta harbour on the 14th, to resume operations on the coast of Sicily. The Royal Oak, 35, iron. clad, Captain,F. Campbell, has been found to be very unhealthy, owing to want of ventilation and light on the lower deck. She will, it is said, go into dock early next week, to have a forecastle fitted as a sick bay. Two Austrian merit-a-war, the Don Jaen d'Austria, 31, ironclad, Capt. Pccorny, and the paddle -steamer Elizibeth, Capt. Taccaria, arrived this morning from Algiers in three days, and on entering port gave and received the usual salutes. These vessels are on their return to Pole, from the Baltic. The following passengers arrived on the 14th inst. by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer from Marseilles—Capt. Farrell, R.A., and Mrs Farrell, Capt. earning, R.A., and Mrs Cawing, Capt. Cookesley, 22d Regiment, and Major Ommanney, R.A„ and Mrs Ommanney. Her Majesty's ship Orlando, 46, Capt. G, R. Ran dolph, is daily expected from Tunis. The Lords of the Admiralty have entered into a contract with Messrs Castle and Beech, of Baltic wharf, Millbank, for that firm to break up the whole of the steamers and sailing vessels ordered to be sold out of the navy from their unfitness for further ser vice, the contract price to be pail to the Admiralty being 8s per ton for the materials and timber, the sum of £l5 per cent. on the gross sum paid by the contractors being allowed by the Government for all the metal returned to the Admiralty. The fol lowing is the complete list of the steamers and sail ing vessels the order for the breaking up of which has been received at Chatham dockyard, viz. :—The floating battery Trusty, 14, 1,539 tons, 150 horse power—the paddlewheel steamer Dragon, 6, 1,270 tons, 560 horse power—the paddlewheel steamer Firebrand, 6, 1,190 tons, 410 horse power—the paddlewheel steamer Gorgon, 6, 1,111 tons, 320 horse power—the paddlewheel steamer Spurge, 6, 1,124 tons, 420 horse power—the screw gunvessel Flying Fish, 6, 871 tons, 350 horse power—the pad• dlewheel steamer Hermes, 6, 830 tons, 220 horse power—the paddlewbeelsteamerHecate, 6, 817 tons, 240 horse power—the paddlewheel steamer Ardent, 3, 801 tons, 200 horse power—the screw steamer Alacrity, 4, 675 tons, 200 horse power—the Banshee, 2, 672 tons, 350 horse power—the Roebuck, 6,865 tons, 175 horse power, screw gun vessel—the Renard, 4, 910 tons, 200 horse power—the Wrangler, 4, 477 tons, 80 horse power, screw gun vessel—and the paddlewheel steamer Kite, 3, 300 tons, 170 horse power—together with the following sailing vessels, viz., the Venul, 1,069 -tons—the Diphne, 726 tone —the Frolic, 509 tons—the Fantome, 483 tons—and the Daring, 423 tons. The Field-Marshal Commanding.in,Chief having awarded six medais,with gratuities, to non-commis sioned officers and men of the 69th Regiment for long service and good conduct, the ceremony of pref. sentation took place on Friday, the 1811 a inst., at a full dress parade of the regiment at Gosport, when the medals were attached to tha breast of each by Col. M•Kirdy. The recipients were Serg.-M,jor Poole, Drum-Major Kearns, QuartermasternSerg. Whitcroft, Serg. Soane, and Private Elliott (the medal for Private Gates had been forwarded to the Depot at Fermoy). Col. M'Kirdy congratulated them on the rewards they had just received from her Majesty after upwards of 18 years' good service, and said the regiment was proud to have so many meritorious soldiers. The following regulations to be observed by mss■ ters in charge of barges, in the Thames, Medway, and Orwell, and canals adjoining, were last week issued at Woolwich by order of the Naval Director General of Stores, Capt. CA in, C 8,, &D.C. to her Majesty. They set forth that— Whenever barges or other craft, belonging to, or engaged by, the Military Store Department are employed in convey • ing gunpowder, ammunition, or other combustible stores, the following rules are to be observed. With regard to fires or lights on board— 1. No fires are to be lighted OR board any barge or craft conveying gunpowder or other combustible stores to any place in the River Thames within one mile below Gravesend or in either of the canals leading to Aldershott or Weedun ; nor between the Nore and Chatham in the River Medway; nor within two miles of the Spit or outer buoy leading to Harwich Harbour. " 2. When the barge or other craft is one mile below Gravesend, and not nearer than half a mile of any inhabited place or magazine, fires may be lighted on board for cooking purposes only. " 3. No barge having powder on board is to remain along side the jetty or wharf of any magazine during the night, nor at any time (day or night) except when actually employed in the operation of embarking or disembarking powder or ammunition, but is to haul off and anchor at a distance of not less than 900 yards from such jetty or wharf if powder is on board, and if empty of not less than 400 yards, " 4. No barge having powder on board is to be left with out a responsible watchman in charge. " 5. With regard to the sailing and riding lights required to be carried according to the Admiralty regulations, the usual tinder-box, &c., will be used for the purpose of striking a light, and under no pretence are lucifer matches to be on board. Smoking on board is most strictly prohibited. " As soon as the barges, die., have been loaded the hatches are to be carefully covered with tarpaulins and battened down, and are not to be removed or disturbed until the cargo is ready to be discharged. "7. A powder flag must le kept flying during the time the combustible stores are on board." A code of instructions, drawn up for the guidance of the foremen and others employed on board the floating magazines off Woolwich, has likewise been read and signed by every person engaged there, and all persons have been given to understand that the slightest breach of the regulations or any dereliction of their ordinary duties will be punished with in. stant dismissal. No person is to enter the magazine portion of the ship without changing his shoes for the proper slippers provided for the purpose, and the labourers employed in working the magazines or removing powder from vessels are not to carry knives or other objectionable articles, and are to wear the dresses to be in future provided for their use. The foremen are to see that the magazines are carefully swept with a hair broom after every day's work, and take care that a proper supply of hides wadmiltilts, and mats is in readiness and use during the removal of rowder. The foremen are to be parti cular in hoisting the " red flag" during the day, and to take care that one of the labourers allowed for the protection of the ship is constantly on deck keeping a lookout, which duty, under the foreman's direc tions, is to be performed by the labourers alternately. A night watch, consisting of one foreman and two labourers, is to be efficiently kept, one of the latter being always on deck. The foreman will visit the watch every four hours, and the result is to be en tered in a book and reported in the morning to the military store officer in charge. The pumps are to be sounded at least once a day, and care taken that the fire engines and appurtenances are kept Olean and in perfect worki ng or d er . N o person hay ing the slightest appearance of being intoxicated is to be permitted t o enter the ship, nor are any spirituous liquors to be allowed on board. No fires The Plaistow Murder. On Saturday last, at the justice.-room of Ilford Gaol, Fer dinand Edward Karl Kohl, the man charged with the mur der, under the most atrocious circumstances, of Theodore Christian Fuhrhop, was brought before the local magistrate for re.examinat ion. Mr John Gurney Fry presided, and with him were Mr Henry Ford Barclay, Mr Raymond Pelley, and Mr Na thaniel Powell. Mr Giffard, who had been instructed by Mr Poland, on behalf of the Treasury, to prosecute, addressing thelßench, stated that it was his intention to ask that the evidence of Mr Superintendent Howie should be read over and the case then remanded for a short time. He had been given to un derstand, he said, that there was likely to be some further evidence of an important character brought forward if a little time were given, and it was also necessary that the Solicitor to the Treasury should have time to look into the depositions already made, under which circumstances ho did not anticipate there would be:any objection to the course he suggested being adopted. The evidence given by Mr. Superintendent Howie on the 9th inst. was then read. It was as follows :—" On Tues day, the Bth inst. (the dayon which the body was found), at about 7 o'clock in the evening, I went to the house of the prisoner, at No. 4, Hoy - street, Plaistow, where I saw the prisoner, the prisoner's wife, and his brother-in-law, I asked the prisoner if a young German was missing from the house ; to which lie replied that a young man whose acquaint. ante he had made during a recent passage from Hamburg was missing. He told me that the missing young man,whom he called John, was a lodger with him, and that he had pre viously lodged at the house of Mrs Warren, at No. 3, Nel son-street (which is close to Hoy-street). He further stated that when the young man left Mrs Warren's he had no money and had pawned his clothes; that on the previous Thursday, the 3d inst., he and the young man went together to the London Docks for the purpose of looking for a ship ; but there being no ship of the sort they wanted they went into the upper part of the Commercial-road, where they arrived at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon; that he (pri soner) then went into a sugar bakery, leaving the young man in the street; that when he returned John was missingl that though he had searched after him he could not find him, and that he had not seen him since. The prisoner afterwards said he had been to Silvertown and had seen the body found in the reeds, hut was not sure that it was John's, as it had no head, The trousers, he said, were like those which John had on. I then sent the prisoner and his wife in a cab, accompanied by Mr Inspector Nightingale, to meet me at Plaistow Police-station, where they were detained in custody." The prisoner's wife was discharged. The Chairman asked Mr Superintendent Howie if ho had further to add to his evidence? anything _ . The Superintendent replied that he had not on that occa sion, but if the Bench would order a remand for a week he had reasms for believing that further and important evi dence would ba forthcoming. The Chairman said he should grant the application made by the learned counsel for the prosecution, and the prisoner would be remanded back to gaol for a week. Then addres sing the prisoner the Chairman said—You understand, pri soner, you are remanded for a week. The prisoner said, ‘, No, no," and motioned that he did not understand. A German constable belonging to the division, who has often been engaged in interpreting, was called to tell the prisoner the order of the Court; but the Chairman's words having been slowly repeated in English the prisoner signi nified that he understood their import and left the dock. On Friday last Dr Cappel 4 the minister of the German Lutheran Church in Alie-street, Goodman's-fields, who at tended Muller to the scaffold, was sent for by Mr Stringer, the Governor of Ilford Gaol, at the prisoner's special re quest, The rev. gentleman arrived, and was in communion with the prisoner for about an hour. The prisoner has also been visited by the Prussian Ambassador, who stated to the prison authorities after the interview that the prisoner was not a Prussian subject, and pronounced him to be a Hano verian. The papers relating to the prisoner now in the hands of the police would seem to point to a different con cluseon. N 8 Legal Protection Society has yet taken any steps to provide for the prisoner's defence. A fresh point of interest has started up in connexion with the white-handled knife picked up on the reeds the day atter the body was discovered, and with which it was sought to establish that the head of the man was dissevered four days after the murder. It is stated that this knife was missed from the place where the prisoner was employed as horse• keeper, and will be identified by the butcher who employed hi.n, and who is also a German, as one which was lost while Kohl was in his service. Kohl left this work about August last and obtained employment in a large sugar bpkery at Plaistow, which he lett for some unknown reason, He married about six weeks since, and had not done any work during that time. An internal post-mortem examination of the head has been made, and in addition to the injuries apparent on the external examination there has been found a very extensive fracture of the left temporal bone ; BD extensive as to readily admit three fingers into the cavity of the skull. The bone was found b be completely smashed, and the weapon in flicting this injury must have been the back part of a ham • mer, or else a hatchet. This injury was of itself sufficient to cause instantaneous death, The medical examination also shows that the head was not cut off until after the body was quite cold. The body of the murdered man was buried on Wednesday last at West Ham Cemetery. The corpse was conveyed in a hearse from the deadhonse at the Bell and Anchor Tavern, and was met in the Barking-road by who had j us t rece i ve d a message red some of the d e c ease d' s h a i r f or a particular The hea rse was stopped, and the coffin thatln s p Inspector r epurpose.Nightingale, th eby r e li having been conveyed to the Barking -road Police-station was there opened, and Dr Morris received a sufficient quantity of the hair. The cofßa was again fastened and was conveyed to the cometery,where it was interred. Yesterday the reed bed where the body and head were found was visited by a large crowd of persons, Tho spot is immediately opposite Charlton, and no wilder or more dreary place can be conceived. The spot can be approached only by the embankment of the river, and is about 15 or 20 minutes' walk from Hoy-street. The reeds are upwards of 10 feet in height, and present an almost impenetrable mass, with the exception that there are one or two narrow lanes, to which access is gained over a deep ditch by means of a plank. Very often this bed is submerged, so that but for the accidental discovery cf th e b ody at the time by the lads out shooting the crime would probably never have been traced, The only persons who frequent the place are la bouring men and lads. It is considered not improboble that the deceased and his murder er were out shooting birds with a pistol, and it is said indeed that a few days before the crime was perpetrated the pri soner and the deceased were together sameo p l ace engag e d i n t h at sport, an d th at the w oun ded with o ne or two small shots i n a cceain deceased eves s w the ear. . From the general t one of the workmen engaged s about Plaistow it may be gathered that Mr Superintendent Howie's disinclination to bring the prisoner to Plaistow was founded on a very good reason, for it cannot be disguised that there is a very stro ng feeling aga i ns t th e p r isoner among all classes in this thickly populated neighbourhood, which was some time since brought prominently before the public under the title of London over the Border." Tragical Termillation of a Divorce Case. About a year ago Ur John Francis Hick, tinner and brazier, Swingate and Great George-street, Leeds, brought an action in the Divorce Court against his wife, Rosamond Hick, on the ground that she had committed adultery, and with the object of obtaining a judicial separation from her. Although the infilelity of the wife was proved, yet still the petitioner's married life had been so irregular, and his cruelty towards the respondent so manifest, that the Judge Ordi nary dismissed th e petition with costs. Mr Hick, who ap. pears to hav e b een a weak-minded man, never recovered his usual dem eanour after this decision, his great complaint being that the costs in the cause would take nearly all his hard-earned money. Shortly after the trial ho went to bog that his wife --of W h om . he appears to have been exceed ingly fond—w ou l d again come to live with him, and after some entreaty s h e consented, and the pair have since been living together. lliek had latterly been frequently confined to his bed, as much from mental depression as illness, and he told his m e di cal man that he felt he could not live—he was so mis era bl e. On Thursday night he went to bed after eating a h earty supper, and early on Friday morn ing he was f ound hanging from the banisters of the staircase, and dead. At the inquest, held on Friday afternoon, at the Leeds Town Hall, before Mr Black, burn, evidence to the following Effect was given by Rosamond Hick, the widow of the deceased :—Hick has been low-spirited ever since the trial in the Divorce Court, when his petition against me was dismissed with costa to the amount of £5OO, and it was the payment of these that troubled him. Ho mentioned the subject to me the last time on Thursday and deceased w as then awake. lie said Oh, Rosa, I Wi s h night. It w as 12 o' c l o ck w h en I wen t to b ed, I had not lost this money. I hope you will never again leave me." I promised that I never would. About half past 8 o'clock this (Friday) morning I was awakened by our dog barking, and W h en I found my husband had risen I went to the door to see where he was. I then saw him sus • vended from the banisters of th, staircase, in his shirt and trousers only. He had previously attempted to commit suicide, and had often said he would either drown or hang himself. Mr John Hawksby, woollen salesman, deposed to hear. ing Mrs Hick's alarm, and to having cut down the bay of the deceased. Hick was then dead. After further evidence had been taken as to the deceased's state of mind the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity. thought it possible to say for any doctor 0 1 and is a complete proof of the innocoo% simple character of the happy physician's Pl'ol THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE MoNnY'3ll,,„ii —The reduction of the rate of discount at the 9 ;: o i England to 8 per cent., and the subsequent ilel :l° , l4 tf in the money.market which must soon lead 0 fer; io oe laxation, may probably be regarded as markings, thie a very gloomy and anxious period in COht Oli There has, it is true, been no excessive diminution rorii time in the stock of bullion which forms the ultiraste tary reserve of the country. It stands now at bet,7,,/pli and 14 millions, and at the worst it was very little? 13 millions. Nor was there any difficulty in P e e alo 4 ,l that the tendency to a foreign drain, which 511°114101 from time to time, was thoroughly amenable to C ° ...n 11 " - oei yielded at once to the stringent remedy of a 9 10,7401 which was imposed early in September. ManYotme",o of uneasiness, however, led to the depressio n fre ti g ' by very slow degrees, trade appears at last to be e tt ios The hopeful news that was believed only a few Well " of the growing predominance of the reac'eltotf° America, brought no comfort to the large sPe' c ', - 0,0 01 cotton, who saw the value of their purchases--1,00 were still to a great extent unpaid for—fall, almost;00 warning, as much as 25 per cent. The largo eig e ,.. ° c of this article alone was enough, under such circtunsewboe fill Liverpool with alarm ; and premonitory failures that town and in London, gave warning that bel les ,„pf surface of commerce there was much to excite alarfd7y, prehension. The stoppage of the Leeds 13ank ,a13 ,, d velations which followed, came just at a tirae viee-ded 'ailing nervousness about monetary affairs Pee fir ctil / ! stimulus, and within a week of that time we wer e ', nearer to the verge of an orthodox panic than at ani 0 00 since 1857. The enormous extent to which new 6/111 4 0 had drawn, or threatened to draw, upon the resource:l4o country now became a serious source of danger;iat collapse of some, and the depression of all the b financial companies which had been hatched in the ° of prosperity, was a just retribution for the exe eE '` 4 ness with which these new projects had bee n g to. oil , More immediate warnings were not wanting. day passed without recording mercantile failures 000 siderable amount. Our whole commercial orga n trembling, and many firms which would have ti de( ' or, times of less severity fell like rotten pears tr°l:°,l,o4: shaken by the wind. With some few exception* .Itf little to regret in this. But for the shock whichile6.ol be hoped, removed much of the unsoundness WiV begun to prevail in trade, matters would, in all PO have culminated before long in sweeping dies:Wl%V, was, the temptation to a rush for discount, lest W°'-ofFil should come (the inevitable precursor and ca tige ble our panics), was for a short time active eaollogoi sober observers with alarm ; and although a° 0 never supervened, the symptoms came so near O w show that the quiet self-command which isbet support of credit in difficult emergencies has fully acquired as the experience of the last feW led many to believe. That there is less of senseleol times of depression, and perhaps a little mor s f f i t when all looks bright, than have been disploY el : 1 ;1 0 periods of inflation and collapse, is all that can felt.P oi the spirit of modern commerce. Enough h as ble during the past two months to show that the community are very far from being panic proof l o rd if the failure of the Leeds Company had been 0 ;0' the stoppage of cne or two more banking CO which we can now look back upon as a past Pe ll o f pression would have culminated into a disest r° o mercial crisis. It may be that the influenc e 1 , 1 been so universally felt will give a fresh stf ir. on a sounder basis than is implied by the el . facture of financial companies and the floo d gambling which the American war has let recent escape from worse evils than those which befallen us may have been in great part due to tb B o lo the ordinary cycle had not come round, and th at not had time fully to develop the elements du'', which it seems to need a decennial commer ciel d sweep away. And at the same time, without ie aoo what seems the vain expectation of abolishing Y - 10 4 , crises altogether, it is not unreasonable to hoPe, hard times of this autumn may have the effect of 1 0 ing, if they cannot avert, the visitation of e ° aoi 4 j trouble which would otherwise be due some time a°• year 1870. But in commerce, above all things , 010 F cast horoscopes. It must suffice to congratulate °, that the evil which seemed imminent has for w e been averted, and to hope that dear- bought o* 6 ' ll check future imprudence. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. to ed To-day there was a middling show of whe at c iere,l for all good qualities the prices of last iveel f b olePi supported. There was again a liberal show pot° the demand was moderate at previous rates. other articles as last week. White wheat. 44s to 45s 1 Red wheat ....... Malting barley 3ls to Ws Ch e valier barleY•'" Distilling do 27s to 28s; Oats.. ........ • 'O O Flour, 26e Od to 28s Od per sack from the GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. 1 9 11 Old white wheat, 42s to 45s ; red, 39 s to 4 1 , d g" 1 new white, 40s to 44s ; red, 38s t o 40 s . Na1t7,60 32s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 26s to '2Bs ; oatsLtof 275; new, 22s to24s ; b eans , 36s to 435; peas, 34 NOTTINGIIAM—SATURDAY. ,54 to( White wheat, from 42s to 50s ; red wheat, Barley—malting, 28s t o 35 s ; gr i n di ng , 278 to fold old, at 25s to 30s Od; new, 22s to 255. . 13 e 4 m" .A to 43s per qr, ; new, 37s to 395. 4,0 0 , Flour, fine, 288 to 30s; super, 328 to 37$ re" YORK—SATURDAY. tlis 1 We had a fair supply of wheat en offer from late this morning, and a tolerably good trade doing) being current. . 04 '0 1 Wheat, red 38s - to 400 Oats.... ''''''' Pit; White do ....40s to 45s Beans ........ ''..do,) Barley .27s to 32s Peas ........ •• •I 'iri Malt, 58s to 60s per qr. ; rye, 30s per clr'; y to 32s per sack. -,-.1 LEICESTER—SATuRDAY• Of; Old white wheat, 40s to 425; red, 38s 0 ~..t . MaIIPN stone. New white, 40s to 42s per 36 stone. .--„‘, I new, 30s to 33s per qr.; grinding, 28s to an,6, 26s to 28s; new oats, 22s to 25s per 24 s w- r s o old, 38s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour. 31s to 39$ Pe" --- .11 DUBLIN—FAIDA.Y. o ffre Weather wild and wit. Very little wheat .etift4 prices were unaltered ; foreign firm, but irla lid Oats in good supply and demand at Gd to 18_: a o advance on the week. Barley also in dertow t, vance of 6d on low qualities. Flour steady. ,' tl.? ° 1- / s. d. s. d. 10 ~o,' Wheat, white 23 0t023 6 Oatmeal ...• ~U v oti , Do., red 2O oto 21 6 Beans.. .... ..-- ,; it Do., new Barley Oats Do., black lO oto 11 0 Indian corn .. , CORK-FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this 7 11 ! 1 A, wheat, 78 8d to Ss 3d ; white, 8s Od t 0, 813 1 , 40 , Gd to 7s 3d ; _oats, 6s 4d to 7s 3d ; !Asa 0 Gs.3d; bore, —s Od. Foreign Mail. Packet Lie' MAILS,DITE. r e ll eoq, Australia and Matuitius, via Southampton ''''' 40 0 ", r:a Marseilles: ......... ~;lot Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. .. ..,,,,,,,V.' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. ile i ncli•V ! China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southall , ~P via Marseil le old' Falkland Islands •. ...... 0 ,,, Gibraltar, via Southampton ......... 10. , ,g0 0 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SouthaniP ...iof via Marseilles..oj:o India (Bombay), via Southampton .............t.P via Marseilles . .•• .., , i 6 Portugal.... .............................. , /.1 0 ', , Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton . • . 0 est?' via Marseilles ..•' .. i ... 4. Newfoundland .......................... ... rig Oporto and Vigo .. . ....... L t .,.. 4 ; U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. panty p t...llo,,,q, by U.S. Fa c %elt o 'F l by CanacliartP - 0 .0 1 • . ~f W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ..... .. , , 7 West Indies and Pacifi c , ...... ...1,5‘ f Bahamas (via New York) ................ •..:, Bermuda (ditto).... .................... •' O .. Cuba and Mexico ...................... ,,„,„„„..../_-- ,rilo, London : Printed and Published by W •--- IL b,A. ,, f o P oe cc i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, e ili P", 0 00 Strand, , rt the Precinct of the SoroYAi. ddlonx.—Monday, NovemPer 21,1' oi Births. C 1 iubillfYi B*IDGEWATER.—On the 14th inst., at C.e-,, 0- /1 r i llerts, the wife of Henry Bridgewater, ' ter. . e ll° / FOWLER.—On the 17th inst., at Tottenheol .- 1 0 of Wm. Fowler, Esq., of a daughter. t o e' WEBBER.—On the 17th inst, at at liells, i ,?,, v , of Henry A. Webber, Esq., of a daug ew— JO Marriage& t 01 09 : 0 0 REDWOOD—Monsow.—On the 17th fem;l l ,' 6 el Ib r i Isaac Redwood, Esq., Cae Worn, Heath, Or shire, to Mary, youngest daughter of don' ~00 Es - q, Queen-square, Bloomsbury. Loed ° ' ico/ .0.4 SPRINGIFIELD—HILLHOUSE.—On the , l A lsil' t ; F r villa- place Church, Osborn Spr ngfie" hterfoe Norfolk, to Eli za M a tild a , f o urth daug - Ify John Wilson Hillh ouse , Esq., of 11011a0 dary-road, St, John's-wood. g 11 41 Deaths. dio ° 0 , BLIDEERG —On the 18th in-t at the .-M iln , i London, David Blidberg, aged i'' 3G. „ re iteel a t; GIRARDOT.—.-On the 16th lust., at 3, 1 10" 4 0:. Dover, Lieut.-Culonel Gitarot, late °' t 'frit s et Guards, aged 70. a DIP to , d BAVELOCK.—On the 16th inst., sudu e , v i so John Havelock, Esq., late of the St"' ofi Pti 54. e co MA.YNE.—On the 16th inst., Mrs. May ne ' ° Olt of the late Sir John T. Taylor, Burt' i . WORTHINGTON.—On the 17th inst. , g " s 4. ing, Miss Frances Worthington, eg" Die"