The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-06 00:00:00

The Sussex Magistrates and the late Prize Fights, The East SUS32X Epiphany Quarter Sessions were commenced on Monday at the County Hall, Lewes—',he Earl of Chichester presided. Mr. G. T. COURTHOPE said he wished to call the attention of the Court to the prize fight that had recently taken place at Wadhurst. Certain parties would be brought before that Court on the follow ing day to answer fu: the part which they had taker in that fight, and it was not his intention to say anythicg which might be prejudicial to them, but rather to refer to those who moved in a higher station, and had given their countenance and assis tance to a violation of the law—he meant the rail way company. (Hear, hear.) It had been urged on behalf of the South-Eastern Railway Com• pany that they were bound to carry any par ties who presented themselves for that pur pose. This was true to a certain extent, but it was not the case that they were bound to carry persons who were avowedly about to engage in an illegal act. Suppose' certain parties should combine to commit a burgliry at the Earl of Chichester's resi dence at Stanmer-park, what would be thought of the Brighton Railway Company if, with a full knowledge of the purpose for which it was sought, they should convey the burglars to and from the station is a special train ? Having stated in detail the circumstances under which the prize fighters had been conveyed to and from Wadhurst, Mr. Courthope said that the South Eastern Railway Company had done so in direct violation of a pledge they had given the Secretary of State to the con trary. In 1859 this same company had run a spe cia/ train, conveying pugilists, which stopped be tween Headeorn and Staplehurst. The chief con stable made a complaint upon the subject in his re port, and a communication was made to the Home Secretary, who called upon the secretary of the railway company for an explanation of the matter. Mr. BEATTIE, a director of the South Eastern Railway Company, said that the chief constable had simply complained tnat the exertions of the police had been frustrated through the train having stopped between two stations. Mr. COLTIITHOPE in continuation, said that he had taken the trouble to procure a copy of the corres pondence that had taken place in the matter, and should read it. The letters were as follows: — South-Eastern Railway, April 25, 1859. Sir, —In reply to your commuuication dated 19th inst., enclosing an extract from the quarterly report made by the chief constable of the county of Kent, as to the facilities af forded by this company for enabling large numbers of per sons to attend a prize fight held at Headcorn on the sth inst., I beg to inform you that the directors have caused in quiry to be made, and ascertained that the train arrange ments connected with the transaction in question were made by one of the company's servants without their knowledge, or authority, and that they have taken steps to prevent any facilities being granted in future for the above purpose. I ought also to add that one of the directors, who is a magis trate of the county of Kent, had already brought the sub ject under the notice of the board, and been authorised by them to communicate a similar decision to the next meeting of quarter sessions of the county.—l have the honour, &c., S. SMALES, Secretary. H. Waddington, Esq., Secretary of State, Whitehall. Whitehall, April 23, 1859. Sir,—l have laid before Mr. Secretary Sotheron Estceurt your le ; ter of the 25th inst., and I am directed by him to thank the directors of the South-Eastern Railway Com- pany for the explanation they have been so good as to give him of the circumstances under which facilities were af forded to a large number of persons proceeding down the line to a prize fight, and to express his satisfaction that the director s have taken steps to prevent the grant of such faci lities in future.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 11. WADDINGTON. S. Smales, Secretary to the South-Eastern Railway C,napany, London-bridge. It would seem from this correspondence that the railway company had given a distinct pledge that they wou d not afford any facilities for prize fight ing. It was now attempted to qualify that pledge by saying that the Railway company merely pro mised that they would not allow a train to be stopped between two stations, but this was a mere subterfuge. Mr. Courthope concluded by moving that the Clerk of the Peace should be instructed to write to the directors of the South E .stern Railway Company, stating that the magistrates for East Sussex, in Quarter Sessions assembled, had heard with much regret that upon the occasion of a prize fight at Wacihurst, on the 10th December last, faci lities had been granted by the servants of the com pany to persons proceeding thither, and to request that the directors should take steps to prevent any facilities being granted in future for this purpose. The Earl of CHICHESTER said he had no objection to communicating with the chairman of the com pany on the subject, but he thought it was neither becoming nor dignified for the court to give a judg ment in what was not proved before it. Mr. DARBY seconded Mr. Caurthope's proposition. Mr. BEATTIE said he did not wish to appear there as the representative of the railway company, but, as a director, he desired to make some remarks in vindication of the course they bad pursued. After alluding to several matters adverted to by Mr. Courthope and previous speakers, he said, with regard to the power given to railway companies to grant special trains, theft was intended as a benefit to the public ; and even in the matter of prize fights it was better that such parties should have a train to themselves then be crowded into an ordinary passenger train. Railway companies had received complaints of such parties getting into the regular trains, and the simplest and best plan was for them to have a train to themselves. With respect to Mr. Darby's statement that they ought to know what the law was, and that they ought to refuse to grant a special train when it was known that the parties were going to a prize fight, if such were the law, it ought to be known. He would repeat what he la , ci said in his letter to Mr. Courthope when that gentleman had courteously informed him that he intended to bring the matter before that court, which was to the effect that the railway company having advertised their ordinary trains at specified rates, and that special trains could also be had at special rates, they were not at liberty to pick their customers, but it was their duty to grant every such application without inquiring into the purposes. He believed that was the law at the present time. Mr. HUSSEY said he hoped it would not go forth to the public that railway companies in this country were bound to provide special trains for any pur pese ; bectuse if their neighbours across the Chan nel knew this they might avail taemseives of it to carry out their scheme of invasion. (Laughter.) Mr. ELPHINSTON It slid he would move, as an amendment—" That the chairman be requested to coramunic ate with the Secretary of State with re ference to the facilities alleged to have been granted by the South Eastern Railway Company for the late prize fight in Sussex." Atter a lengthy discussion Mr. Courthope with drew his motion, and that proposed by Mr. Elphin stone was substituted and unanimoesly agreed to. LEWES, Tuesday, Before the Earl of Chichester, chairman; MeiSTB. I. G. Dodson, M.P., G. D trley. 13. Godlee, A. Beattie, F. G. Hutlock, F. H. Williamson, C. H. Frewen, E. Hussey, T. Brown, C. Carpenter, J. Dictm, W. J. Campion, F. B rchard, D. Bar clay, &c. At the sitting of the Court this morning, in his charge to the grand jury, the noble chairman said there was one case in the calendar which was of considerable importance, and of such an unusual character, that he felt bound to make some obser vations upon it. The parties were charged with committing a riot and assault at a recent prize fight, of which, no doubt, they had all heard. The first charge alleged was for riot, and he would just give them a general notion of wh- t legally constituted that offence. It must be proved that three or more persons assembled together, and that that assem bling together was accompanied by some circum stances of actual force or violence, or that there were such tendencies towards violence as were calculated to inspire people with fear. Any and all persons assembling to witness such a proceeding would be liable tol3 , tried for committing a breach of the peace, and that in law would be a riot. With regard to that part of the charge which was alleged as an assault, ey , rybody well knew that a fight in cold blood, as a prize-fight would be, constituted a breach of the peace, and all connected with it, either as principals, seconds, or lookers.on, were there as aiders and abettors, and therefore guilty of an assault. He was also bound to point out to them that should a prize-fight terminate in the death of eithe* of the combatants, that would be murder in th (ye of the law ; but it was different where men fought after a quarrel, and when their blood wits u), en the law neld that death so caused amounted to no more than manslaughter; but the grand jury would observe that then the fight was not fur money or a prize. He (the noble chairman) had directed the attention of the grand jury to that matter because the persons engaged in the riot were also charged with the assault, and it would be sufficient to justify the grand jury in sending the parties down to the petty jury for trial if they were satisfied that their parti cipation in any way as eiders and abettors in the fight were clearly proved. It would be so as well if for the mere purpose of gratifying their curio sity they encouraged the principals in fighting by their presence. His lordship continued—Having thus so far called your attention to the indictment itself, I think it my duty to make a few remarks upon the subject of prize-fighting itself, because we know that prize-fighting was notorious and con trary to the law of England. It must be a source of the deepest regret to all enlightened and well thinking minds in this Christian era to be obliged to know that the disgraceful practice of prize fighting was encouraged to a very great extent, and not only approved, but aided by those whose edu cation and position in society it might well be thought would lead them to lend their weight in suppressing it far more than the ordinary portion of the public would. It was much to be regretted that there was a most erroneous impression preva lent in the matter, which made people almost for get that prize-fighting was not only contrary to the law of the land but, as was of far greater import ance, contrary to all Christian feeling and Christian doctrine. I cannot help express ing a hope that public opinion will take a proper turn with regard to this sad state of things, and that, like many other ancient and evil prac tices, prize-fighting, with its concomitant evils, will cease to exist in this Christian land, and become a thing of the past. After the delivery of the above charge the grand jury retired, and the crowds of persons that thronged the court and its environs waited in anxious expec tancy the all-important case of the Sessions. It was, however, half-past four when the jury returned a true bill against all the parties jointly and seve rally who had been indicted, viz.—Thomas King, John Camel Heenan, John Calvin Noon, alias Jerry Noon, John Macdonald, James Mace, John Tyler, alias Bos Tyler, Thomas Sayers, and Robt. Travers. It may be remarked that Heenan's second name has always been written " Carmel," but that is not cor rect, as it should be " Camel," and Heenan himself especially directed the notice of the magistrates at Wadhurst to the circumstance. At 6 o'clock Mr. Edward Besley begged permis sion to mention to the noble chairman that he had just received a brief to defend some of the defen dants who were out on bail for taking part in an alleged assault and riot at a prize-fight at Wadhurst on the 10th of December last. As not only would several questions of fact but also of law arise, he took leave to ask the noble chairman and the Bench to allow het case to stand over till the next Quarter Sessions, in order that he (Mr. Besley) might have an opportunity of looking into the law, and seeing its especial bearings as to a breach of the peace, and whether a prize-fight was really so or not. As counsel he hod not the opportunity of getting at the necessary books, nor was there time to consult them if they had been available, and in justice to the persons charged, and out of some courtesy to himself, quite a junior at the bar of the Bench of Quarter Sessions before the noble lord and the jus tices, he (Mr. Besley) hoped his application for the postponement of the hearing until the next Quarter Sessions would be acceded to. Mr. Roupell said that having been instructed, with Mr. Willoughby, to prosecute, he felt bound to oppose the application made with such diffidence by the learned gentleman who had just addressed the bench, but certainly no sufficient ground had been urged for a postponement. Ample books could be procured if the learned cones& wanted to refer to them, besides which Mr. Besley only represented three or four out of eight defendants, and the appli cation did not, therefore, extend to all, so that there would be the trouble, expense, and difficulty of try ing the case twice over. He (Mr. Roupell) on the part of the prosecution, felt bound to racist the ap plication. In answer to an inquiry from the bench, it was stated that Heenan and Sayers had gone to Brighton by the 5.15 train under the impression that the case would not come on, and The noble Chairman said that under such circum stances, as all the defendants were ❑ot represented, the bench could not dispose of the application for a postponement, and the matter must, therefore, be adjourned till to-morrow. Dreadful Loss of the Ship Clifton in the North Sea, with all on Board. The particulars of a very fearful catastrophe in the North Sea—viz., the total loss of the large ship Clifton, Capt. Johnstone, hound to Madras, with all on board, during the late tremendous gales, were made known in the City yesterday. Tne Clifton was a large first class ship, nearly 1000 tons burden, and belonged to London. Laden with a cargo of iron, coal, and coke, she lett Sunder land late in the day of the 26th of last for Ladle, in charge of Mr. Wrightson, an old experienced North Sea pilot. Altogether she had 35 souls on board, including the captain, wife, their eidest and a lady named Thorogood, a passenger. From intelligence which has subsequently been elicited by Mr. Wilcocks, the ship's husband, who was sent over to the Dutch coast to make inquiries about the ill-fated vessel, it appears that she was seen beating off the Lincolnshire and Norfolk coast for several days, in company with two brigs, a schooner, and, it is stated, a Russian barque. The Harkaway, of Shoreham, Capt. Bungard, one of the brigs, re ports that she last saw the Clifton off the Smith's Knoll, on the port tack, when the gale set in with such fury in the early part of the month, from the WSW to NW, with her topsails blown away, and drifting boldly towards the Hakes. It has been ascertained that the lighthouse keeper at the Helder observed her close to the sands, and mistook her for a British man of war. On the following morn ing (the sth) nothing could be seen of her. The Harkaway, it appeared, escaped by running into New Diep, and the Russian barque was driven ashore at the Koog-Texel. On Mr. Will• cock's arrival at the Isle of Texel he went to the village of Hoorn, where he found a great portion of the new cabin fittings, deck planks, &c.; and at Koog many of her deck beams, water-casks, part of mizenmast, and the Royal arms from off the boom board. At Cocksdorf, to the northward of Texel, her name board," Clifton, London," her wheel com plete, and more wreck were found. Mr. Willeocks continued his search to the Koog by the sea shore and discovered a part of her side, and found seven %reeks high and dry. Near the Koog he found a boat, with white bottom and black topsides, marked " John of Lynn, Samuel Billing," painted inside i❑ white letters. At the burgomaster's rendezvous for wrecked goods at the Helder Mr. Willcocks further found the ship's mahogany capstan, spare topmasts, upper deck beams, and other portions of the ili fated vessel. It was clear, therefore, beyond all doubt that she must have been carried by the hurri- cane on to the long range of sands which stretch along that part of the coast, and speedily went to pieces, all belonging to her perishing. Capt. Johnstone was an officer in theßoyal Naval R serve, and was much respected. It appears that the pilot had orders to take the ship down Channel as far as the Isle of Wight, and to return with a note from the unfortunate commander for payment of the pilotage, but it is needless to state that no thing has been seen or heard of the pilot. The ship and cargo were insured in the City. Np Homn complete without a WILCOX AND GIBBS' SEWING-MAOHINE. Simple, compact, efficient, durable, and noiseless. Warranted to fulfil all the requirements of a perfect family machine. Prospectus free on application at No. 135, Regent-street, W.—[ADVT.] THE WINDSOR STEEPLECIIASES.—The grand an nual and military steeplechases at Windsor will take place on Friday and Saturday, the sth and 6th of February. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, civilised, and Christian, what would then be our position on earth ? What then ought we to do ? The answer to that question rests with statesmen, not writers in magazines, but this at least we may attempt. We may guard the treaty ports until order has been restored, outlaw every Englishman who takes service in China without the written permission of the Embassy, and negotiate with the Government for the one bit of soil which would enable us to influence China without being dragged into incessant extensions of territory—the island of Chusan. thoroughly investigated from tile alpha to the omega the public will be very much dissatisiled. Sergeant Ballantine—Every care wilt be taken tha this shall be done. Inspector Mackerell—lt took six constables to get him into the cell. He res,sted:most violently. With regard to the second man, Mrs. Richardson said she would not charge him, as he had tried to prevent the prisoner from insulting her. There were other persons who came to the station at the same time, and they all said there was very great mis conduct. I got the names of two, and they are here now. This being the whole of the evidence in this (the first)case, Mr, Knox administered the usual cau - ion to the prisoner previously to fully committing him for trial. Mr. Lewis said his client would reserve his defence. Mr. Knox— I think this case ought to be sent to the su perior Court, where it can be tried by the highest judges of the land. _The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Smith was then recalled, and repeated his former evidence, adding—The first thing that happened after I took my seat was that the prisoner took out a whistle. Opposite him were two ladies, apparently about 18 or 20 years of age. He placed his face close to that of the youngest, and blew very shrilly with the whistle. I attempted to stop him, under the impression that the engineer might take it for the guard's whistle or signal. He had just finished as the guard came up and said that three ladies had been complain ing of his conduct, and that if he heard of any more com plaints he would report him at Paddington. The prisoner seemed so drunk that he did not understand what was said to him. After the guard left the train started. The pri soner then took off his hat and placed it the seat, and his stick on the top of it. His next proceeding was to jump up and down the carriage, treading on the feet of the people. He then turned round and faced us. _ _ The prisoner had been looking at Mrs. Richardson for some time, and laughing, and also laughing at any one whose attention he could direct to himself. Mr. Knox (to prisoner)—l don't know, Mr. William Whitehead, what the ultimate result of the case may be, but I recommend you for your own sake not to stand there grinning. I recommend you to preserve a more gentle manly demeanour. Mr. Smith continued—The prisoner then suddenly turned round, took his stick from his hat, and dashed it against the side of the carriage, and, in consequence of that, two young ladies had to lower their heads while he was strik• ing, or they would have received the blows of the stick. Seeing this, I got up and pulled him on one side, and placed him against the door where I had been sitting, and, taking his seat, placed myself between him and the ladies. He flourished his stick over a young woman's (Mrs. Fry's) head. The prisoner's friend said to him, " Don't make yourself such a fool; don't insult ladies. If you want to make yourself a fool, give me a— good punch of the head;" and he (the other man) put his head up to him. Whitehead seemed to be so drunk that he really could not understand what was said. The prisoner again pulled out his whistle and was about to blow it, when the other man said " Don't fly it till you get to Paddington." Sergeant Ballantine—l want to ask you one question. Did the young man to idiom you allude make use of any bad language ? Witness—No, he did not. Although he was very drunk, he certainly did try to restrain his companion. In conse quence of the oaths and language of Whitehead, a lady fainted, and a gentleman opened one of the windows to let in some fresh air. His language was very bad indeed. At Southall I called the attention of the guard to the prisoner, and said I would charge him for annoying the passengers. He (the guard) said to the station-master, " What am I to do ?" I said if he did not lock him up I should report him. The station-master told the guard to lock the two men in, and he did so. In this second case it was decided the charge should be withdrawn, as no one had been actually assaulted. Mr. Lewis said he had a few words to say on behalf of the prisoner. It had been stated that the prisoner was respectable, and had a wife, who very much deplored the position of her husband. Ho had been living in a decent manner in the country, and gave his address and his correct name. He was not there to palliate his contract in any way. No doubt he owed many apologies to Mrs. Richardson, and many had been made by his relatives. It appeared that the prisoner had been somewhat affected in mind, and that he escaped from a person who w.As with him. He then went to Langley station, where he got into the train and committed the assaults. Mr. Smith had stated that he was so drunk that he really did not seem to understand what was said ;o him, and he (Mr : Lewis) thought that it might be inferred that although the assault was committed there was no indecent intention. Mr. Knox—What, Mr. Lewis, when he shouted out " Half-a-sovereign ?" Do you think that after that you will get any one to believe that no indecent intention was meant ? Mr. Lewis said his application was for bail, not to palliate his client's conduct, Mr. Knox assented to bail, the prisoner himself in £5OO and two securities in £lOO each. The bail was forthcoming, and the prisoner was released. Thos. Dudley next appeared on a summons taken out by Superintendent Durdle, of the company's police, charged under the company's by-laws with being found intoxicated in one of their carriages on the 28th ult. The defendant gave the address 29, Queen street, Edg ware-road. Sergeant Ballantine said,—l have taken a deal of trouble to inquire as to whether the defendant has committed any acts of indecency. He was certainly drunk, but from the evidence of Mr. Smith and others he was satisfied that he had not committed any act of aggression. The defendant is a person in a humble walk of life, and ought not to have been in the company that he had got into, We only intend to go apon the by-laws, and, as no indecency was committed by defendant, we do not wish to press for the full penalty. Defendant pleaded guilty, and expressed his regret for the part he had taken in the assault. Mr. Knox considered that under all the circumstances the requirements of the case would be met by a fine being im posed upon him of 10s., with the alternative, in default of payment, of imprisonment for seven days. The fine was paid. THE COTTON LOAN. Mr. Memminger, the Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederate States, says in his report :—" The purchases of cotton under the Act of April 30, 1863, amount to 399,753 bales at the date of the reports last received, at a cost of £30,314,769. The average price paid was 16 dol. 85e, per lb , exclusive of Sea Island cotton—the lowest price being 61, and the highest 361, and five sixths of the entire purchase-money have been paid in bonds. The difficulty of procuring reports in detail from the agents in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas has prevented a precise return of the cotton which has been destroyed ; but from the estimates made by each of them it may be assumed that the entire loss is not more than 3J,000 bales. To this must be added several thousand bales used for military and naval defences, and also several thou sand more turned over to the ordnance and Quartermaster's departments to fulfil contracts for supplies, and also for shipments made by the Treasury Department. The whole of these deductions may be set down at 70,202 bales, leaving on hand an aggregate of about 329,500 bales, Of this amount about 30,000 bales are stored in warehouses in cities, and the remainder in cotton-houses on the planta tions where they have been purchased, The time which has elapsed since much of this cotton was purchased has damaged the rope and bagging of a portion thereof ; and the aid of Congress is r sked in procuring the means of re newing it. I had hoped that the skill of our People would discover a substitute for rope and bagging, and probably an offer of a reward for the best plan would produce beneficial results. If resort must be had to foreign supplies, the plan which may be adopted to ship the cotton will furnish the means of importing the rope and bagging, and in either view it will be necessary to make an appropriation to cover the expense. The cotton interest bonds will naturally fall within the management of this division of the Treasury Depart ment, and it is proposed that they should take that course. It is not clear what was the design of Congress in authorising these bonds. The first law passed was in connection with the Funding Act, and the coupons was thereby made payable at the option of the holder of the bond in coin, or cotton valued at Bd. sterling per lb The object of this law was obviously to provide the means of raising money abroad, and after it was passed I recommended that the rate at which the cotton was to be taken should be reduced to 6d., or the average price at Liverpool before the war. At this rate purchasers could have been produced at any time before the fall of Vicksburg. The amendment which was made to the law by Congress reduced the price as proposed, but shifting the option of being paid in cotton from the purchaser to the Government. This converted the bond in the view of a European purchase into a simple six per cent, money bond, with the interest payable here. The absence of the right to require cotton for the bonds took away their availableness in the foreign market, On the other hand, the option which they allowed the holders to receive cotton at 6d. when it was selling at three or four times that price made the opera tion very unfavourable for the Government unless the bonds were sold at a large advance, For this reason, I deemed it my duty, after due explanation of the nature of the bonds, to advertise for bids; and, as an experiment, I accordingly offered five millions, The bids ranged at various rates from par up to 100 per cent, I accepted all the bids at and over 50 per cent. premium, and issued a second advertisement. The bids which wree offered in both cases were far below the amount of goods offered for sale, But those bids which came from persons of known intelligence and patriotism in dicated that 50 per cent, was the probable value of the bonds, I therefore adopted that rate and authorised sales to be made accordingly. Those sales have been made to a very limited extent, chiefly because it was believed that the blockade would prevent the shipment of any cotton to be received in payment. This impediment was so serious that, in the judgment of men of business, even a reduction of the price of bonds to par would not induce large sales." COTTON GROWING IN ILLINOIS.—The farmers in Southern Illinois have been busily engaged for some weeks past in cotton picking on high grounds, where the crops have been little injured by the frost, On the bottom and low lands the crops are totally ruined. Cotton presses are going up in Huron and Jackson counties, and gins are L running in every neighbourhood,—New iork harakf. SHALL WE CONQUER CHINA ? (Fro,.. an article by Mr•. Meredith Townsend in the Victoria Magazine ) The conquest of China may be easy, but to make it of practical value the country must also be held, and held perhaps for centuries, a task which would strain English resources to the uttermost. We are accustomed to believe that the Anglo-Saxon possesses in some peculiar degree the old Roman governing power, but the boast has little foun dation, "Spawning force," as Emerson called it, we eo in deed possess, but England lost the finest colonies any coun try ever secured through sheer mismanagement. She has only kept her remaining Anglo-Saxon colonies by giving them anamount of liberty which insures them independence whenever they choose to ask it; her French subjects in Ca nada have tried one great rebellion ; India, after a century of her rule, sprang with hearty pleasure at her throat, and still demands a huge foreign garrison ; and Ireland is quit ting the empire rather than remain under the cold shadow of the dominant race. Rome had no revolts to quell save in Judea, and the probability is that the British are rather a settling than a ruling race. However that may be, the fact is certain that it cannot rule the Chinese. The experiment has been tried, and the Chinaman calmly and successfully placed himself outside British law. In the little Chinese colony of Calcutta, which is completely under British do minions, pays all taxes, and is externally undistinguished from other classes, the only real authority is Chinese. A secret society governs the body, and though for half a cen tury it has notoriously inflicted death for breach of its rules, it has never once been brought within the grasp of the criminal law. In Singapore, inhabited by 60,000 pro sperous Chinamen, the Hoeys or Associations are by offi cial admission quite beyond the law, defy the police, and govern their countrymen by a system of combined intrigue and terrorism with which no law applied by Englishmen has strength or promptitude to cope. In Australia it has been found necessary to resort to the brutal device of ex cluding the most industrious of colonists just as we were demanding by arms entrance into those colonists' native land, and Hong Kong is the asylum of all the worst vil lains of the Chinese seaboard. The people of India asks as a principle to be let alone, the Chinese asks that their in ternal social arrangements shall be enforced from above, and Englishmen failing to enforce them, they would in twelve months honeycomb China with irresistible political • secret societies. _ _ The Assault on Ladies in a Railway Carriage Then,noEnglish Government, however well inclined, can resist the intrusion of Western ideas into its Oriental pose sessions, with the shattering force which they exert against all Asiatic formulas. In a very few years the Chinaman would find that the social system he loves so well was be ginning to decay, to dissolve as it were in the presence of the new ingredient, and the fierce resistance to the process now evident in India, and which, if it did not produce the mutinies, produced the popular favour with which the Sepoy cause was regarded, would be repeated in China. We should be harassed by incessant rebellions, and though they might be suppressed, it would be at the cost of all the sympathy between the governors and the governed, and of the possi bility of allowing natives to bear rule under us. Then as in India we should close up all careers till all that the land had of ambitious, or generous, or original, or turbulent would be forced by the mere necessity of things into an antagonism to the foreign intruders all the more deadly because so long concealed. Imagine the British position when maintaining a rule which stiflod all aspirations, except the single one for wealth, among a half of the human race I As for educating the people to govern themselves, it is not from conquerors that the conquered accept their political, and still less their moral ideas. The check on the spread of Christianity in India, as the ablest of native converts once openly declared, is that it comes to the people through the race at whose hands Hindostanees are hardly willing to accept even sal vation. There is something in the manner of Englishmen, perceptible sometimes even to themselves, which turns the feeling of the races among whom they live into a kind of respectful loathing, into a sort of sentiment with which Englishmen regarded the Spaniards, when in the height of their career. Men so regarded can teach nothing, and in China as in India our rule, we fear, would produce little except a leaden order, a material civilisation whose only fruit would be the limitless accumulation of wealth. Since we entered India not one idea has come forth of a native, and the race which is tempted or coerced into abandoning the production of ideas has lost all that gives it a hold upon the future. The social hostility, the habit of seizing every opportunity against the British, which would assuredly arise in China, would be twice as formidable as the same habit in India, be cause it would be in addition to it. So tremendous an ac quisition as this empire would triple the area, and, there fore, quintuple the possibilities of disturbance. Already the fortunes of Englishmen are frightfully beyond their own control. Already their comfort and their status, their in ternal taxation and external position, are alike at the mercy of races scattered over every part of the globe ; a rising in the Punjab or a revolt among the Maories, an invasion of Zooloos, or an outburst among the Cingalese, a panic about convicts in Australia, or a surge of protectionist madness in Canada, every one of these or fifty similar events draws from England some morsel of its resources, some expendi ture of its treasure and blood and energy. Doubtless such exertions are in part recuperative, for human strength is de veloped rather than weakened by exercise, but it is possible to overstep the limit, and convert the labour which the Almighty in his mercy has made beneficial, into the toil which involves a life of suffering and premature old age. The conquest of China would, we believe, carry us just be yond that limit. It would be, it is true, in part an Indian conquest, tut just because it would be so, the two countries would fall into a dangerous rapport. They are already, so to speak, visible to each other, and the permanent tendency would be for Chinese to move whenever we had an Indian rising, for the Hindoos to rebel whenever we were troubled on the Yangtse. The mere addition of territory, too, to be defended would in the event of a great foreign war be a most frightful burden. That contact with the Russian empire which we so dread for India has in China occurred, and our frontier would march with the Russian for more than 1,000 miles. The seaboard cities would grow into mighty em poriums—Shanghai, which in 1860 was a village, has to-day a million and a half of people, and a trade of £30,000,000 —each of which would demand a squadron to attend it. That squadron could only be English, and war once de clared, our maritime force must either be dangerously scat tered, or we must consent to keep up a fleet which even our maritime population would be overstrained to sup ply. As to armies, our resources in men are limited, and statesmen confess even now, that should India rebel while we were at war the country might be overtaxed, and com pelled either to resort to conscription, that is to cease to be England, or suddenly "to recall the legions to defend Rome," leaving utter anarchy over one-half the world. All those possibilities of evil would be tripled by the possession of China, and add to these dangers the incessant drain upon this little island for the able and daring and ambitious, the classes who are to the community what nervous strength is to the body, and our readers may perceive the risk England would run of being over weighted. We have heard much of late of the difficulty of keeping together empires grown too vast—what shall keep together an empire with a third of the earth's surface, and a half of its population ? Finally, there are two moral questions to be considered, one doubtful, the other certain, and loth decidedly opposed to any immediate realised ,n of so vast a project. Is there any proof whatever, of any sort or kind, that the Chinese want us to rule them ? If there is not, the conquest would be a direct violation of all the principles which we confess to revere—as direct a one as the conquest ef any European State. The Chinese are not savages whom we can replace by a race doing more work in the world. They hove not shown in their history any incapacity for surveying periodic calamities such as the one occurring now, and which after all, is a trifle compared to the Tartar invasion. They are not dangerous to any neighbours, to any grand but ill-based European system which, like a Tor rock, may stand aloft for ever if only it be not shoved. There is no reason for conquest save their good and ours, and we have yet to learn that their consent has been received to their own " im provement." We are in India, it is true, without such con sent, but then also we are there. Should we conquer India now if the work were still to be done? The consent of the governing class matters nothing, for it is as foreign as our selves, and Englishmen did not consider the Austrians justified in crushing Italy because they were invited by the Italian foreign princes, The willingness of the Chinese to accept new lords has still to be decided ; but the other fact has not. We already possess in Asia a dominion inhabited by two hundred millions of men, for whose welfare we are responsible, and what law of God, or rule known among men, jvatifies us in neglecting them for our new acquisi tions ? Nobody pretends that our work in India i s done, that we have educated the people, or enabled them to govern themselves, or supplied adequate justice or even completed the work of material civilisation. In that great empire there is scarcely a road, and not one great canal, not a square mile of territory to which the title is perfect, not a tribe every male of which can write and read. Districts of two millions are left to a single magistrate, entire pro vinces have not a single college,throughout great kingdoms millions of quarters of wheat and rice are destroyed in all "good" years for want of means of transport to the external ..vorld. The people cry aloud for more courts and more edu cation,for the improvement of their cities which we have neg lected,and for the rebuilding of their crowded and inconve nient capitals we havc,it is true,made wealthy. Every pound of force expended in China is half a pound substracted from India, every merchant who prefers the broader field takes a source of wealth from the narrower one, the able man who goes to rule Kwangtung might have made Chittagou a gar den, the very judges who would make Shanghai secure for commercial men are sighed for with bitter longing in Bee nares and Nagpore. The Government of India needs more railways, more roads, many canals, buildings without end, officers without number ; whole departments of effort are ne cessary to progressive civilisation ; are we,who have accepter the charge of Hindoo destinies, to give all these things to China, to feed the people with whom we have nothing to do, by starving the people for whom we must render an ac count ? All we can gain in China in developed trade, and new influence, and fresh resources, we can also acquire in India, which answers every fresh demand by new millions of produce, responds to improved organization by the marvel lous increase of strength which alone makes the conquest of China possible. Suppose India heartily conciliate, William Whithead, aged 36, of Wexham Rectory, Bucks, was brought up on remand before Mr. Knox at the Maryle bone Police-court yesterday, charged with indecently as saulting Mrs. Brices Charlotte Richardson in a carriage on the Great Western Railway, between Langley and West Drayton and Paddington, he being drunk at the time. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, instructed by Messrs, Maples, Maples, and Teesdale, solicitors to the Great Western Rail way Company, prosecuted ; and Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said—Before this case is any further gone into, it will be, perhaps, as well to say in what position I appear in respect of this matter. I appear to prosecute, instructed by the solicitors of the Great Western Railway Company, the directors of which feel very strongly upon this subject. The facts of the case were that Mrs. Richardson and other young ladies of position and refine ment were travelling in one of the company's carriages, when they were all much frightened, and Mrs. Richardson was most indecently assaulted, by the prisoner. Mrs. Richardson has ascertained that the prisoner has a wife, who is most respectable, and, although she has been most grossly insulted, still she has a very strong desire to with draw from the prosecution. The railway company, however, feel that there is a duty incumbent upon them, and that duty is to prosecute this matter to the full extremity of the law. They feel that persons travelling upon their line must be protected from outrage. They had, of late, become fre quent on several lines, and, unless put down, would, render railway travelling unsafe. I shall call evidence before you as regards the conduct of the prisoner towards this lady (Mrs. Richardson), and I must say that it does seem to me most fortunate that a Mr. Smith, a solicitor, who is now in attendance, should have been in the same carriage. This gentleman seems to have acted with great courage, and also to have shown his humanity by endeavouring to put a stop to the abominable and disgusting conduct of the prisoner. Mr. Smith, at one time, was very much alarmed for the safety of all persons in the carriage, for it appears that this man produced a whistle similar to those used by guards, and while the train was running blew it with great force. Mr. Smith felt that if this was to be allowed to continue it would cause destruction to the train. Ho remonstrated with the prisoner upon the subject. The conduct of the latter, however, did not appear to improve from this re monstrance, but rather the reverse, for he lifted a stick he had with him, and flourished it about, and knocked it violently against the compartments where the ladies were sitting, and they had to put down their heads to avoid being struck. Indeed, if they had been stru: , ,k very serious consequences might have ensued from such severe blows as would have been inflicted. When the train stopped the lady and her two friends got out and com plained to the guard, and he placed them in another com partment. I think it only right to say, on behalf of the guard, that the lady when lodging her complaint with him did not go fully into the details of what had occurred, which might be accounted for from their being very inde cent. He (the guard) on that occasion did not feel it neces sary to separate the men. The company having, however, ordered a full inquiry to be made into all the circumstances, they are determined that, so far as they are concerned, the public travelling upon their line shall be fully protected. On behalf of the company I must ask that the prisoner shall be sent for trial. I have been told that he is a person of good position, and that his habits are very strange and un• accountable while under the influence of liquor. If that is correct, it is all the more reason why I should ask for the prisoner being sent fur trial. A person of this kind, it is clear enough, ought to be confined for the general safety of the public; and I am quite sure that that case will be fully go'ne into before another Court. this outrage has been a bad one, and it must not be said that in a civilised country like this such proceedings can be allowed. I need not re peat any more what has already been clearly and correctly reported in the newspapers, but will call Mrs. Richardson, however unfortunate it is for her and unpleasant for me. Mr. Knox, addressing Mrs. Richardson, said that, how ever painful it might be for her to appear in such a case, ho had made up his mind upon the last occasion to send the case for trial, and that, whatever her feelings might have been, she would have had no option of retiring from the proceeding. This was a case of that class which must be prosecuted, and one of those in which he felt that the public u_ust be protected. Sergeant Ballantine—The company have shown every anxiety that the matter should be fully investigated, and their solicitors feel very strongly in the matter. Mrs. Richardi on's evidence was then read over as re ported upon the last occasion. Sergeant Ballantine—When was it that he touched you ? Mrs. Richardson—When I was getting out of the train. Sergeant Ballantine—You say that he touched you on the leg ; was it under or above your dress ? Mrs. Richardson—l mean upon my person, under my dress. Mr. Knox—lt is very unpleasant and disagreeable to you to have those questions put to you, but still my duty compels me to ascertain distinctly what took place. Now, am Ito understand that his hand was under or above your dress ? Mrs. Richardson—Under my clothes. Mr. Lewis—When the prisoner got into the train how did he get in ? Mrs. Richardson—On his hands and knees. Mr. Lewis—Did you observe whether the railway people put him into the railway carriage ? Mrs. Richardson—No, they did not. Mr. Lewis—And you perceived he was drunk ? Mrs. Richardson—Yes. Mr. Lewis—Madly drunk ? Mrs. Richardson—No, not madly drunk. He was very drunk. I was in such a hurry to get out that I did not know whether the train had stopped or not. The man with the prisoner tried to unfasten the door, and it was while I was waiting to get out th tt the prisoner committed the as sault. I complained to the guard, and I know nothing more. I was placed in another compartment with the other ladies. Fanny Richardson, the sister-in-law of last witness, and who was in the train at the time, was recalled and had her evidence read over. Benjamin Denning, the guard, was then recalled and cross-examined upon his evidence. He said—At Langley the prisoner and the other man got into the train. The complaint was made to me at West Drayton. The ladies got out and met ma on the platform. I did not take care to lock the carriage, so that no one else should not get in. The complaint of the ladies was not sufficient for me to do so. I did not hear the word " drunk" used to me by the ladies. The complaint made to me by Mrs. Richardson was that she had been insulted, and also her two friends by the men who got in at Langley. I did not care to lock them in atter the complaint. After I had placed the three ladies in ano ther compartment I went back to the carriage in which the prisoner and the other man were. The other ladies that were in there I did not ask to leave. There were three or four ladies and a gentleman left in the carriage then. Mr. Knox—Then, do I understand that you heard this complaint, and then allowed other ladies to get in and these men to go on? D e nning was a very heavy train on the night, and the other passengers got into the train before the ladies got out. They asked me to place them somewhere else, and I did so. I then 'went and spoke to the prisoner and his cora painion. I said they had been grossly insulting some ladies, and that if they did Rot desist I should take other means to make them. Mr. Knox—That was the substance of your evidence before. _ _ Sergeant Ballantine—You have been an officer in the police, I believe, before you got a situation upon the rail way ? Denning--I was four years in the metropolitan police,and I left that co go to a private asylum, where I remained for 3 years and a half. I had good characters from both to get into the company's service. Mr. William Akers Smith, 90, Denbigh-street, Pimlico, solicitor, said—l got into the train at West Drayton. The prisoner and another roan were already in the carriage. I did not see the ladies get out of the compartment that I got into. When I got into the train the guard was at a little distance up from the door, There were four ladies who got in, and the prisoner and another man were already there. That made six, and two gentlemen who came in after made in all nine passengers. I sat next the door, and the prisoner by my side. Mr. Lewis—Pardon me, but I thought the charge that we wore going upon was one of assaulting Mrs. Richardson. Mr. Knox—You are quite right, Mr. Lewis. When the case was before me last week I thought, or was given to understand, that there was something that transpired in another compartment of the carriage, where the ladies had gone, but now it occurs that this of which Mr. Smith speaks took place in the same compartment. This can be made another charge of if the company think fit. Mr. Smith, you must sit down, and we will go on with the first case, Ind make yours a separate one. George Henry Mad erell, inspector of the D division, said,—About half -past 8 on the night of the 28th I was on duty at the Paddington-green station when the prisoner and another man were brought in. They were both very drunk. Mrs. Richardson told me that the prisoner had most grossly insulted her, and that he had made use of most abominable language. She also said that ho had in decently assaulted her between Langley and West Drayton. While she was telling me this the prisoner kept laughing at her and shouting. Every time I asked a question, and she was about to answer me, he burst out into a loud laugh, and it was impossible to hear what was said. Ho treated the matter with the greatest contempt. After I had entered the charge I read it over to the prisoner, and he made no reply to it further than saying it was not so, This witness was about to explain why the other man was not in custody, when he was stopped. Mr, Knox—l van only any that if this case is not SPIRIT OF JOURNAL S, TIMES.—At the present time the Duchy of Hol stein may he considered to have passed entirely out of the hands of the Dines. Not only have the Royal troops retired beyond the Schleswig fron tier, but the officials engaged in the local tidtninis• ration have either been obliged to follow thew or to acknowledge the Prince of Augustenburg, and conduct their business i❑ his name. The Federal Execution has led to what every man of sense must have foreseen, the transfer of the Ducal throne to the new claimant. As the Danish troops retire the party favourable to him engage actively in the work of revolution, and even those who do not favour a change think it well to acquiesce in a cause which is evidently supported by the whole German Fede ration, and apparently abandoned by the Danes themselves. Prince Frederick actually remains on Holstein soil after having caused himself to be pro- claimed in defiance of the assertion of the Diet that the decision rests entirely with them; yet though he thus takes the matter into his ow❑ hands, a mo. tion requesting him to leave the Duchies is rejected at Frankfort, and the Diet consequently accepts a complicity in his acts. Although the Corps of Execution occupies only a small portion of the soil of Holstein, yet the protection it affords to the revolutionary party is general. At Kiel are situated the headquarters of the Prince's supporters, and from that city the emissaries of the party are sent out to carry on the agitation against the Govern ment, not only in Holstein, but in Schleswig. But it is iu Holstein only that any open measures can be ventured upon. There the field is clear for the malcontents tlirough the entire abandonment of the country by the King's forces. The Danes have now, probably, not a single man in Holstein. They have retired beyond the Eider, and even abandoned the positions of Frederickstadt and Rendsburg. This sacrifice has cost them much in pride, and pos sibly in territory. The result may be the loss of Holstein, in which the will of the people if decisively expressed for the Prince of Augusten-, burg may seem to nullify any former claims. But, unless we are much mistaken, the concessions of Denmark will stop at the Eider. Tue Danes have now raised a considerable army, and are posted in strong positions along the southern frontier of Schleswig. The foreign Powers which have advised Denmark to yield so far in order to avoid a conflict have not thought it possible to urge upon the . . King's Government the surrender of Schleswig, The Danes have always asserted that Schleswig is in no way connected with Germany, but indissolu bly united to Denmark by historical traditions and by a public act in the early part of the last century. And though it has been recommended by Lord Wodehouse and by the Russian Envoy that the de mands of Germany, based on alleged agreements with Denmark twelve years ago, should be so far conceded as that the - King should withdraw the common Constitution, yet it would be going beyond what justice demands were we to press on the Danes the abandonment of Schleswig to the invaders, especially since it is now clear that Federal Execu tion simply means the occupation of the country for the purpose of allowing the Prince of Augusten• burg's partisans to eject the King's officials, and force the people into demonstrations against the succession that had been recognised by Europe. Whatever course the King may take with respect to the revocation of the Constitution, it is not likely that either England or Russia will urge upon him a military abandonment of the northern Duchy, or that he would acquiesce in such advice. We must, then, look forward to an abatement of the German pretensions or war. It has been announced that Prussia and Aubtria propose to summon the King to undo the work of November, and in case of non-compliance will enter the Duchy of Schleswig and treat it as Holstein has been treated. In case this is attempted it is the intention of the Danes to resist to the utmost of their power. At present the forces of the two leading States have taken little part in the operations. The Austrians are only just across the Holstein frontier; the Prussians have not yet entered. It Is the Saxons and Henove rians who have taken possession wherever the Danes have retreated, and who now connive at the proceedings of the Augustenburg party. The troops of these two States, though only amounting to 12,000, are probably by this time opposed to the Danes on the northern frontier of Holstein. Were they to try to force an entrance by them selves there could be little doubtof the result. The Danes are superior in numbers, and if they were not, the history of a former contest shows that they are quite able to repel a German attack made by an equal force. But should an appeal to arms be made at last we may be pretty sure that the minor States, which now provide so large a part of the enthu siasm, would soon fall into the background. On Prussia chiefly would rest the task of really conquer ing Schleswig against the resistance of the Danish Monarchy. On the issue of such a contest it is in vain to speculate. All that can be said is that the invasion of a little State like Denmark by a first rate Power, in defiance of international engage ments entered into so recently, is an act which, in the present state of Europe, must have the most mischievous consequences. Even though the Danes were eventually overpowered, the injury done eo Prussia and Germany by so insolent a triumph would be incalculable. A series of battles, in which a people numerically feeble resisted a monarchy so unpopular throughout Europe as the Prussianealight arouse more speedily than Germans look for that sympathy of which the Emperor Napoleon spoke in his letter to the Prince of Augustenburg. As to ourselves, and, we believe the Russian Government also, it would .certainly take away any impulse which may still exist towards aiding Prussia in any future difficulties. But we have no desire to use the ambition of others as an argument to persuade Prus sia and the German States into conduct. We would rather rely on the justice of the former and its sense of its responsibility as a great Power. -As for the minor German States it is useless to reason with them. Those Sovereigns have found it to their interest to obtain a cheap popularity by rousing or obeying the political passions of their subjects. They know that they can never be called to account and that stronger States must bear the brunt of any contest which they may provoke. Bat if Prussia will do her duty this useless war may be avoided. It is also incumbent on the French Go vernment to do its best to prevent what is now threatened. There are those who say the Emperor Napoleon is not sorry to see the German Powers showing themselves to the world as invaders, and raising up in Europe an ill feeling towards them selves. Such persons will have it that to the irri tation against England for refusing the Congress is joined a perception that war of any kind will be to the advantage of a power which hopes for gains by conquest. If Prussia be content to trouble the waters that the French ruler may fish, he is not likely to stop her in such a course. But we cannot assume that a European Sovereign has such sinister views; and we must hope that when it is proved that the advance of German aggression wilt r eally lead to war on the Schleswig frontier, the Western Powers will be found united to prevent such a calamity. POST.—The present position of the Mexican campaign has been clearly delineated in the Moni teur, which has afforded us considerab e information in advance of the public intelligence brought by the last mail. After an inactivity caused chiefly by the season of the year, the French had resumed, in two directions simultaneously, a march to which the feeble opposition oftax Republican arms no longer imparts the character of real hostilities. The French authorities in Mexico, with the view of reinforcing their army on the spot, had succeeded in establish ing a considerable native corps under their own standard. Thus strengthened independently of fresh European regiments, General Bazaine divided the bulk of his combined force into two advancing divisions. At the head of one of these, the latest intelligence left him making an uncontested pro gress through the Western States lying between the city of Mexico and the Pacific coast. The other division 15,000 strong, of whom 5,01,0 were native auxiliaries,wete advancingnorthward,being already in possession of Queretaro, about 150 miles north of Mexico. Having gained this important centre, they had pushed on to the neighbourhood of Gua naxuato, some 80 miles nearer. In advance of Gus naxuato, however, it appeared that such ragged re giments of the Republicans as remained were stationing themselves, with desperate temerity, as though prepared to dispute the possession of that city. The mail, unfortunately, left a few days too early to being intelligence of the result of the atti tude they had taken up ; but if they stood to their ground it was probable that the opportunity would be given to the French of crushing the last relic of opposition in the north of Mexico. We find that the direct intelligence from Guanaxuato, by way of Tampico, is that the French were expected to enter that city within a few days from the date of it—that is, by the Ist of December last at the latest; and from Guanaxuato to San Luis, where Jaurez had affected to establish the headquarters he has since b, en obliged to abandon, is no more than a few days' march. From this brief tracing of the movements of the French forces, it will be seen that the character of the French domi nion in Mexico is now undergoing a great and at length a rapid change. Until very lately the French forces were masters only of the comparatively small territory between Vera Cruz and the capital. They have now pushed out both to the west and to the ❑orth. Towards the Pacific it is probable that the great centre of Guadalaxara is now in their hands, as well as the important outpost of Valladolid ; and these positions in the hands of the French, the Western;States fall almost necessarily under their authority. Nor does it appear that the party of Juarez has had any following in that part of the Mexican Confederation ; and it becomes therefore more easy to acknowledge the probability of the ad vance of the French forces into the Western States producing a general concurrence in the new Govern ment. Moreover, the combination of en eff , ctive native force with the French army now serves to relieve the latter in great degree of the character of an invading force. If we turn to the north, we find the Frerch authority now carried, in the heart of the country, as far north as the latitude of Tampico. may also fairly presume that during the past month of December the States of San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas have come into the new system, and have acknowledged the Government now established at Mexico ; for the French and Mexican combined force was within a short distance of San Luis Potosi, the capital, when the last intelligence left. A glance at the map will show that within the rayon described by these towns and States is enn prised the bulk of what is really and vitally the Federal State of Mexico. There are still, indeed, beyond this rayon certain outlying. provinces or States; and their area, too, is not inconsiderable. But they are thinly peopled. They have little con cern in making up either the population or the public opinion of Mexico; they have always kin but loosely around the other States ; and they have scarcely a more vital or direct concern with the system of government that may prevail to the southward than California and Texas used to nave. On the whole, therefore, it can hardly be doubted that the establishment of the French authority within the line indicated by the cities of Tampico, San Luis Potosi, Z acatecas, and Guadalaxara, aud from thence to the Pacific coast, would be practi cally equivalent to the general recognitio❑ of the new regime. It will not, indeed, follow that the guerilla bands will be thereby suppressed immedi ately; but there good reason to anticipate that they will lose much of their political character, and guerillas reduced to a banditti are a social grievance rather than the maintenance of a civil war. In the meantime, to the south of the line of Mexico, Puebla, and Vera Cruz, the French authority ap pears to have been submitted to without much show of opposition ; and the story brought by the Etna of the recapture of Pueola by the Republicans hardly requires even the confutatio❑ which the later dates , of the Shannon afford. It has been our lot on several occasions to differ with the policy or the French intervention in the character which it as sumed after the Convention of Soledad, but we cannot trace without a feeling of satisfaction the success which has attended the arms of a neigh bour and an ally, after so much treasure and b.ood had been expended in the work which the French. Government now seem in a fair way of bringing to a close. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. There was a moderate show of wheat, but there was U fair consumptive demand, at about le per qr over former prices. Good barley quite as well-sold. Oats and beans without material change. MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY. Not so much wheat at market, and the trade ruled firm. —White wheat,:4ls to 445; red, 38s to 41s per 36 stone. Malting barley at 35s to 37s per qr.; grinding, 29s to 31s per 30 st, Oats, old, 24s to 298; new, ,21s to 24s per 30 st. ; beans, 34s t 6 408 per qr. LIVERPOOL—TrzsDAy. There was a good attendance of the trade at market to day, with a fair business doing. Wheat met with a good sale, chiefly for speculation, at an advance of 2d to 3a per cental on the prices of last week. Flour was inactiv , but rather dearer. Oatmeal met a fair hale, at is advance on the rates of last Tuesday, Egyptian beans generally held for is per qt advance on the week. Peas is per qr more money. Indian corn was quiet. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. Only a moderate show of wheat, but the attendance of millers and dealers was a lull average, and a much better feeling pervaded the trade. Wheat sold treely, at 6d to is per load advance. Barley and oats were more in request, at slightly improved prices. Flour and other articles un changed. Red wheat, par load of 3 imperial bushels...lss Oo to 17s Od White /) ...17s 6d to 19s Od „ New red 7 , .15s 61 to 178 Od New white ~ I, ..17s Od to 188 0 , / Beans ~ 7? ... 16s Od to 17s 6°l Peas, per qr 4os Od to 44s Od Grinding barley, per qr 29s Od to 30s 0 , 4 Malting ditto, ~ .. 34s Od to 37s Od Oats 19s Od to 24s Od Flour, ls " 4d, is 7d, and is 8d per 14 lb. Foreign Mail Packet List. AIA.ILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Jan. IS. via Marseilles Jan 12 Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. Jan. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southaniptob.Jan. 13 via Marseilles Jan. 24 Falkland Islands .._ Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton, . Jan. 13 via Marseilles Jan. 10. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. 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