The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-10 00:00:00

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TRIERS, BAROCRE, and others, and upon the amendment suggesting that cases of press offences should be tried before a jury being put, it was lost by one hundred and ninety-nine votes against thirty-five. This is to be regretted, because far more justice is likely to be rendered under such a scheme than could possibly be hoped for in any other mode of proceeding. It seems strange that there should have been such a large majority, when ,he prevailing opinion of the Chamber had appeared :o go in the other direction. In fact, we may say ,hat one of the chief impediments now in the way of free legislation, in this respect, is that the trials are arranged and carried on in such an arbitrary feeling that the defendant seems to have little or no chance of getting fair play. Had the amendment just lost been carried it would most decidedly have been a step in the right direction. It is said that this Press Bill is decidedly an improvement on the whole, and it is to be hoped that it is for many reasons. At any rate if it is so it will have its chance, and that is all its promoters can expect or deserve. It is strange that the EMPEROR cannot or will not recognise the im portance of this matter, and see how much his course of arbitrary proceeding has militated against his own reputation and injured the cause of pro gress in the land. Some of the observations that the various speakers made are worthy of notice, and it is interesting to notice that the example of this country is often quoted to show how far more perfect is our legisla tion on the subject of the Press laws in general. M. PICARD'S speech was a very fine one, and he declared that the Press was the "palladium of liberty." How true was the after observation that he made as to the disadvantages of the Correctional Tribunal. With them the discretionary power of the Government still exists over the Press, and of course that means the effect of the law. " You appoint the judges, those judges are de pendent on you for promotion, and they will natu rally only pronounce judgments that are the echo of your policy." We cannot say that the reply to M. PICARD was at all a success ; on the contrary, it seemed to show that there were far greater ad vantages for the journalist under the jury system. It appears that some attacks made on LOUIS PHI LIPPE were made the subject of a trial, and the jury acquitted the offender. M. ST. LACROIX argued thence in his reply that the jury was not to be ,rusted, but it does not follow that the affair in question was so serious as he made it out, and at any rate the jury ;might have represented public opinion more correctly by an acquittal than it could have done by a condemnation. M. 'rumßs takes a very correct view of this Press question, and he was able in his speech to declare that during his tenure of office he had never prosecuted a news paper except for attacks against the KING ; he had abstained from so doing when the Ministry was made the subject of animadversion. When the jury was unreliable, those who offended against the KING were tried by the Chamber of Peers. This is a much better mode of proceeding than the present fashion of substituting a correctional police for trial by jury, and which is found to be so ob- jectionable in all its practices. M. JULES FAVRE'S remarks on the debate are especially worthy of no tice, and he put the case very fairly before the Chamber. He said that the proposed change could in no way be regarded as an innovation, but was rather a return to the past. "If the danger from the liberty of the Press be so great that an axiomatic principle must be sacrificed, let the fact be acknow ledged, and not gloried in." If the juries are not to be depended on, why have them in criminal cases, as he justly asks his opponents ? If such an attempt were made it would cause great confusion and shake the foundations of society, which shows that it is an untenable thing and are out of charac ter to propose. The case could not possibly have been more clearly put than it was by this speaker ; and, as he said, it is not suitable to subject the so called offences of the Press to the strict scrutiny of a judge ; they are far better disposed of by a jury. It is some satisfaction to find from Mr. BAROCIIE'S remarks that the Ministry enter tain far clearer notions on the subject of the Press and of liberty than they used to do. He said, in plain words, that the present generation de manded a far greater extension of liberty than their predecessors had, and it would not do to cross their expectations. "Do not stop them in their path ; endeavour not to withhold the best to guide them." This is strong and significant language, coming from such a quarter ; and it is no surprise that it should have occasioned a great deal of excitement in Paris. At any rate it is a decided step in advance that a man in NI. ROUHER'S position should have sufficient courage to speak out as he has done. He declares that of the eight millions and a-half who constituted the Em pire four have passed away for a younger genera tion, and these new-comers look for a more en larged policy and a more enlightened state of things. The papers do not comment upon this speech, which is a very strange thing, as it is so important a one. Whether from having taken offence at the new regime or not, or whether from disliking the chance of new prosecutions, the Paris journals seem determined to try the do-nothing policy for a time. We do not know how the French estimate this conduct, but to English ideas it is neither wise nor dignified. It is never wise to appear defeated before the trial has come off ; and those parties who represent a great feature in the State should be above such petty notions of retaliation and manifestations of irritation and annoyance. M. EUGENE FORCADE makes some remarks in the Semaine Financiere, which are well worthy of notice, especially as they refer to the speech of 111. ROUIIER, which is described as eloquent and effective to the fullest extent. The promise made by the EMPEROR will be kept he affirms, and the system of repression which has obtained for the last fifteen years is to be abandoned. The "situation" is relieved, and the dawn of a new and better era has app,:ared. lie goes on to intimate that the prospects of the financial world have been improved by all this, and thus we may perhaps per mit ourselves to indulge in sanguine expectations as to the Press of France taking a great start under the auspices of this new Bill. The cordial reception of Mr. TlloßNTox, the newly appointed British Minister to the United States, by the PRESIDENT, is possibly significant of nothing more than the routine of diplomatic eti quette. Nevertheless, we may hope that the changes 'THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1868. wltlich have recently occurred in the diplomatic re- ' lations be'.ween the countries may afford the oppor tunity o'2 establishing more cordial relations between the GOvernments, and that the new Ministers on either side may, on their parts, be careful to soothe rathe r than to irritate the sensitive feelings of the riva2 nationalities. Happily the great increase of inter course between the people of late years has done much to prepare the way to a better mutual understanding. When there is such constant dis cussion going on in both countries with respect to the: conduct of the principal leading statesmen and to the chief events of the day there is less proba bility of giving or taking offence. Formerly the excitement of the moment and the conflict of parties died out in the States before the Americans read English criticisms or comments, and we all know how misplaced and exaggerated the comments of the time appear after date. Congress, indeed, is still inclined to bestir itself on behalf of Fenianism, and the bill concerning the rights of naturalised citi zens abroad has been reported by the Committee of Foreign Affairs to the House of Representatives. The Senate has adopted a resolution asking the PRESIDENT for information relative to the trial of Father M'AlatioN and Colonel LYNCH by the British authorities. Of Fenianism itself we hear little or nothing, but the same old story is repeated from the Southern States. Disputes between civil and military governors, outbreaks by negroes, feuds between black and white, and extravagances committed by rival conventions occur in new forms. The legal authorities are brought in on both sides to support claims or decide differences, but at pre sent the status of judges and counsellors, like every thing else, is uncertain. The Attorney-General of Maryland has given his opinion against the Civil Rights Bill, which he declares to be unconstitu tional ; and Governor JENKINS, of Georgia, who was displaced from his office, has arrived in Wash ington, with the intention, it is said, of applying to the Supreme Court for a writ of reinstatement in the Governorship. Gen. MEADE, however, seems disposed to consider himself superior to all other authorities. He has now removed the State Secre tary of Georgia, and appointed a military successor. He has also issued a circular declaring that all Con vention ordinanceslegalised by him arc to be enforced as Statelaws by the civil courts. Judging from the specimens we have already had of the legislation of these Conventions, the public will not gain much by this circular. We find a sample of their mode ration in the views which we publish to-day. The Louisiana Convention has adopted an ordinance disfranchising and disqualifying from holding office all felons and all members of the Legislature and national State officers who participated in the re bellion or aided it ! The terms of this ordinance evidently imply that felons and rebels are on much the same level ! In Connecticut the Convention has adopted a different course, strongly supporting the PRESIDENT and de nouncing Congress. Tennessee, Maryland, and Kentucky, have sent petitions to the Senate, de precating the withdrawal of the Freedmen's Bureau. In Mississippi a gang of armed negroes have been attacking the police, and some deaths were the consequence. The financial condition of the States is, under these circumstances, not very likely to im prove. The uncertainty of affairs in the South is sufficient of itself to embarrass the Treasury, and we find that in the month of January alone the public debt increased nine million dollars. The cash in the Treasury during the same period has shown a de crease of £10,000,000, owing principally to the payment of the January coupons of the Five- Twebity Bonds. it is evident that so long as the Radicals hold the reins there is little hope for the American taxpayer. On the contrary, the na tional burdens will continue to grow heavier and heavier. Possibly this great evil may be produc tive of good, since Americans will be sensible of the force of this argument when no other will be equally convincing. The terrible stories of the middle passage, which have so often appalled and startled English readers in the old days of the slave trade, have found a parallel in the present day in the case of a German emigrant ship. The number of emigrants from Germany to America is often very large, and in consequence the greed for gain overrules every other consideration. The unfortunate emigrants are crammed into wretched and unseaworthy vessels, without any attempt to preserve health or even decency among the passengers. Laden heavily to the water's edge, these miserable ships occupy an unheard-of time on the passage ; and the quality and quantity of the food and water s erved out to the passengers is in keep ing with the deficiency of ventilation and space. The Leibnitz, which has just returned from New York after completing her voyage thither from Hamburg in seventy days, was a specimen of these emigrant ships. On the 2d of November she left Hamburg for New York with 541 passengers on board, one hundred and five of whom she l e ft midway under the waters of the Atlantic. After reading the accounts given by the Commis sioner at the port and others, instead of wondering that nearly one-fifth of the wretched emigrants perished, we can only be surprised that so many survived their sufferings. During the whole voyage not a window was opened, and in the lower steerage there was no attempt at ventilation. Planks had been laid over the lower beams, beneath which the bilge water collects, and close by which were stowed large quantities of hides. The compound odours of this place must have been wellnigh intolerable, and, indeed, the captain admits that lanterns, which were hung there in the vain attempt to light it, would not burn from the badness of the air. One hundred and fifty passengers were crowded down here, and here they died by the dozen. The rations were not only short, but bad. Half a pint of water daily was given to each passenger, and this while herrings were served out twice a week instead of meat 1 Sick and well, if any could be well, were served alike. There was no medical officer on board the floating pandemonium, and the scanty medicine chest was soon exhausted. Even the dead were neglected, their corpses being often left in the hold for twenty-four hours after death. When the examining officer went on board at New York he asked some little children for their parents, when the poor little orphans pointed, crying, to the sea, and said, " Down there 1" The filthiness of the ship as described by this officer was something terrible, and if the object had h s a u r p d e ly rfl h u a o v u e s b e e rn e i n gr t a r n ie t d s . more We c e b a f effectual means r i e d o d f go sc o a d n c d i a ty lou o s f story t will but a r n o n u p s e e t t h h a e t authorities f f l a the d takeittn bur care t t o h a t v igaourous efficienta et action, n i 1 , 1 sp and tion that b e they a w n i y l I ere, some p: i e g e t r i t a t i r n o i fitn n ship leaves . i v d e e s o u t s h e rp tragedyortwill r th e preventsak e the f g The preparations for the launch of the ironclad frigate Hercules to-day at Chatham dockyard, in the presence of Mr. Corry, First Lord of the Ad miralty, and other members of the Board, were completed by the workmen on Saturday afternoon. The launch will be made at about two o'clock this afternoon. i.,I,I4.7tONDENCE FROM PARIS. (rnou OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. j' nut's, SUNDAY, Feb. O. Icy IOD to 35 votes, the Corps L6gislatif has decided to .tinue the trial of press offences by judges unaided b 5 ics. Your readers know that this means that very few fenders will escape. When one gets through the meshes the judicial net it will be worth while celebrating the ent, as was done in 1822, I think, when the Consti lioancl thus escaped—Paris was illuminated. Thiers, artel, Picard, and Jules Favre pleaded for the jury, but aroche and Pinard defended the existing rule, and that as, of course, accepted by the Chamber. This decision, owever, does not prevent a great interest being felt in the 3otion of DI. Berryer, which will demand that the desig ation of the magistrates charged to try these offences 1141 not be special for that purpose, but shall be taken in ' , e ordinary course. Of course I\l. Berryer will be de e motion ought to be made. The Opposition ,utly resisted the clause which interdicts the exiled , urhons from publishing anything in the French papers ; nit in vain. This is shabby, to say the least ; for even miler the Bourbons political prisoners were allowed to vrite,eas they did frequently. To quote Napoleon 111., ' The exile may be calumniated without the power to Tply ;he may suffer, but he must not complain. Justice . _ ITs not exist for him." The author of " Id4es Napo 6onniennes," himself an exile, enjoyed what is denied to the );thished princes. To-morrow M. Peyrat goes as prisoner Sainte-Pelagie, to take his month for a press offence. ~.!t us hope he will be the last man of culture in this land freedom that will suffer in such an odious fashion. The attempts of alarmists to make capital of the events r Roumania and Service have failed. The Etendard has iovi reason to believe that the alleged mustering of armed pands in the Principalities for the purpose of invading ulgaria lvf:s a fabrication. Nothing of the kind has taken ,)] ace. Is it true that the great weight on trade has been ?olitical uncertainty? It would seem so. No sooner does lie balance of eventualities return to a staple equilibrium than business improves. There is evidence of improve ment in Paris, and reason to hope that it will continue. It s sometime, certainly, since we could count on peace so lonn de ntly. Our hopes as to a speedy settlement of the Schleswig inestion are again disappointed. According to a telegram From Constantinople, there is no prospect of a settlement yet a while. The difference of views between Denmark and Trussia, especially in respect to the guarantees to be 'given as to the treatment of the Ge_Aaans in North Schleswig, are said to be very great. According to the Liberte, the Minister of War of the Pontifical States has just ordered 6,000 breech-loading rifles in England. A curious , story is told, on the authority of Dr. N6laton, about the Minister of the North German Confederation. He is reported to be improving very rapidly from the effects of the operation he had to undergo recently. A few days ago he was determined to see how far he had recovered his speech. He rang for his valet, and on his entering the room attempted to address him in German. Not a word would the tongue utter of his native language. He tried French, and, mirabile dicta! he could speak nearly as well as ever. This comes, plainly, from the operation having been performed with a French knife. Of course he will stick to la belle langue. The sitting of the geographical Society on Friday evening was very interesting. M. Raynal read an account of an involuntary Njourn which he and five other shipwrecked companions made for nine months on one of the Auckland Islands. M. Raynal got to New Zealand by a craft built by his own hands. Prussia is earnestly following up her purpose to become a naval Power. Besides the ports in the North Sea, she will soon have an arsenal and a military port in the Baltic. The works at Kiel are being pushed on with vigour, and the building of a cuirassed frigate is expected obe commenced there shortly. The Jande military port will, all being well, be completed this year, and Germany will Mien possess for the first time in her history a place of refuge for her shipping capable of serious defence. It is reported at Berlin that about a month before the battle of Mentana the Prussian Government signed an instrument which formally guaranteed the integrity of Italy. The Havas Agency, however, has been instructed to contradict this rumour. Russia seems to be relenting of her conduct towards Poland. At any rate the Russian papers have suddenly Peered round and begun to use the language of commi seration towards the unhappy Poles. This expression of amiable and conciliatory sentiments is, of course, done to order. It is noticed also that three of the Polish nobles who have been loyal, hut at the same time Liberal, have been summoned to St. Petersburg to confer with the Government on some matter which is supposed to be of great political importance. As yet we have only the. words ; the acts of the Russian Government alone can sliew if their late repentance is sincere. " A Bristol Taxpayer " comments in the Times on the letter of Lieutenant Prideaux, one of the captives at Magdala, published a few days ago. Lieutenant Pride:tin was amused at " the ignorance of the country displaye,: by some of the newspaper correspondents," and in hi, opinion " 3,090 men would hav e been amply sufficient " for the rescue of the captives. If this be so, we have sent out a force six times too large, and hence it comes to pass that the water supply alone, at the rate of £4,000 per day, is costing as much as the entire expedition need to have cost. There are various items of election news. At Cambridge University both Mr. Beresford Hope and Mr. Cleasby are carrying on as energetic a canvass as the forms of that dis tinguished constituency will allow. In Lambeth, Mr. Hartwell, who has offered himself as a working-claw representative, has been recommended at a public meet ing of electors as a fit and proper person to sit for that large and wealthy constituency. Another candidate for the representation of Lambeth has mad e hi s appearance . This is Mr. Alison, the principal partner in the firm of Alison, Merry, and Cunningham, ironmasters, Glasgow. On retiring in 1844 from the active management of the extensive ironworks is Lanarkshire and Ayrshire,h travelled over the greater part of Europe and A s ia, and in 1860 published his " Philosophy of History and Civili sation." He is president of the Church Reformation Society and chairman of the Currency Reform Associa tion, which advocates the establishment of a State Bank of Issue. At Bristol the only candidate in the field is Mr. Miles, who offers himself in the Conservative interest. Besides receiving the united support of his party, it is said that many Liberals have promised to vote for him. The Bristol Liberal Association can scarcely be complimented upon their generalship in thus allowing their op penents to go ahead of them. Months ago they knew that Sir Morton Pete must vacate his seat, and the committee, with one exception, invited Mr. Edgar Bowring to come forward. That exception was the ex mayor of the city, who thought that he would make a better representative than Mr. Bowring. Both were for a time " up" for Bristol, and in the end both were requested 'A) go down again for the sake of healing the breach in the party. They are now without a candidate, and the Conservative promises to take possession of Sir Morton Peto's seat. Turning to Scotland, it is seen that the Conservatives of Aberdeenshire, on the rumour that Mr. Dingwall Fordyce was about to retire from the representation, have brought out the Hon. James Gordon, a brother to the Earl of Aberdeen, and a young man of two - and - twenty, in the " Liberal Conservative " interest. It appears, how ever, that Mr. Fordyce has no present intention of resigning his connection with the county, and that should an additional member be granted under the forth coming Scotch Reform Bill, he will stand in conjunction with Mr. M'Combie, of Tillyfour, the owner of the Smithfield prize ox last year. The Marquis of Lorn, eldest son of the Duke of Argyll, has just made his first public appearance as a candi date for the representation of Argyllshire. The seat is vacant by the retirement of Mr. A. S. Finlay, who took the chair on the occasion. The marquis, who was well re• ceived, made a safe and neat little speech, in the course of which he laid down principles which the sturdiest Tory could not well controvert. His lordship is now in the 23rd year of his age. A motion declaring the marquis to be a fit and proper person to represent Argyllshire in Parliament was carried by acclamation. It is not expected that there will be any opposition to Lord Lorn's return, although Lord Breadalbane has been mentioned in the Conservative interest. Haddingtonshire, which has borne with Lord Elcho's lhanges of political opinion for more than twenty years, is said to have given him up in despair. It is confidently asserted that as his lordship has no chance of being ectnrned, he will not again offer himself. In 18G5 he was unsuccessfully opposed at the last moment by a farmer, Mr. George Hope by name. That was, however, before the political marntuvres of the parliamentary Tea-room had been heard of, and when the exigence of a political Cave of Adullam was unknown. Both Mi-. Lewis and Mr. Chambers are threatened with , erious opposition in Marylebone, in consequence chiefly of the part they took last session respecting the Reform Bill. Marylebone contains, however, a greater proportion of Conservative votes than probably any other metropoli tan constituency. In the county of Mid,llesex there is every expectation of a tight for one scat ; and in We: t ininster it is certain that there will be a contest. The exertions of the Conservatives to retrieve the defeat of Mr. Smith in 18C5 have never been relaxed during the period that has since elapsed. LATEST INTELLEGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL OF PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Feb. 10. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia gave birth to a Prince at three o'clock this morning. THE EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA. ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 3. Advices from Annesley to the 23d ult. announce a rapid movement of troops to the front. A battery of artillery left on the 20th en route for Senafe, the 25th Native infantry on the 21st, and three com panies of the 4th Europeans are to go forward im mediately. The 21st Bengal Infantry arrived at Annesley on the 2d iust. ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 4 (via Malta). Advices from Senafe announce that a force of 1,500 men, consisting of cavalry, artillery, and in fantry, advanced upon Antalo on the 26th ult. The native followers are being sent back to India. The wells, upon the American principle, have proved successful at Koomayloo, and good water has been obtained. The lighting of the Abyssinian coast is now re ported as complete. It is reported that the Egyptian Governor at Massowah has been recalled. GREECE. ATHENS, Feb. 8. A royal decree has been issued dissolving the Greek Chambers. The elections are fixed for the 3d of March. The new Chambers are to meet on the 3d May. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 9. The Pera, from Southampton on the 4th inst., arrived to-day at 7 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. for Alexandria. Experienced good weather. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. B.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month... --- Ital'an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 6B 65 Mexican Loan ... 16 50 Credit lobilier End of month... 190 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier —.1380 Home Debt 34 End of month-1383 75 Deferred — -.. RAILWAYS. Account Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 545 Western Eastern .. 545 Sardinian Austr i an 522/ Lombard 360 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 47 IRELAND. DUBLIN, Sunday Evening. Captain Mackay, who was arrested on Friday night, was brought up at the police-court yester day, along with six other prisoners, named Cronin, (the publichouse keeper,) Mannix, Walshe, Hart ❑ett, Hinchin, and White. The prisoner Hartnett is a draper's assistant ; Mannix a fisherman ; the other three are labourers. Head-constable Geales described the struggle which took place while making the arrest. One of the men in the room, who is not in cus tody, got on his back and endeavoured to choke him ; he struggled for about twenty minutes, and was frequently up and down on the ground. Mackay caught Geales's revolver by the muzzle and tried to wrest it from him. He then got his own and fired, wounding Casey, another constable, in the leg. All the prisoners were remanded, except Cronin, who was discharged. _ _ Since the investigation Mackay has been iden tified as the leader of the party who attacked the martello tower at Fota. He is a very young man. The schooner Jane, of Portrush, struck on Cans Rock, near the Skerries, yesterday evening, and sank in deep water. Four of her crew were drowned. LOSSES AT SEA. - We are requested to print in extenso the follow ing memorial of the local Chamber of Commerce : To his Grace the Duke of Richmond, President of the Board of Trade.—The memorial of the New castle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce showeth that your memorialists, on the sth of September, 1866, addressed your honourable Board on the sub ject of the largely increasing number of losses and casualties at sea, which your memorialists had reason to believe arose frequently from pre ventible causes, such as vessels being sent to sea in an unseaworthy condition, or over laden, or in command of incompetent or care less men. That your memorialists suggested the appointment of a Government inspector to exa mine periodically all British ships holding no certi ficate of classification, for the purpose of granting them a certificate of seaworthiness, which certificate every such vessel should be bound to hold. That your memorialists also recommended the appoint ment, at each important seaport town, having a local marine board, of a legal functionary to con duct on behalf of the Government official inquiries, whenever called for, into the conduct of shipmas ters and seamen. That the experience of your me morialists more and more confirms their opinion that the adoption of their suggestions would tend materially to lessen the number of such losses and casualties. That your memorialists would further sug gest that it should be required that every master in the event of his vessel being lost, be bound to deliver or forward a copy of the protest relative to the dis aster to the shipping master of the port of registry of the vessel, and that such shipping master have power, if it appear desirable to him, or at the in stance of any person concerned in the disaster, to order an inquiry to be conducted before the local marine board by the legal official whose appointment your memorialists have referred to, and that such local board be vested with discretionary power to cancel or suspend the certificate of the master or person that was in command of such vessel at the time of the occurrence, if the circumstances attend ing same warrant such a course of proceeding. That in the opinion of your memorialists it would be no hardship to a shipmaster to submit to such an in quiry, as no man who has performed his duty need fear to show having done so ; while, on the other hand, the dreadof an official inquiry would doubtless materially contribute to making men more careful. That your memorialists are aware mutual insurance clubs occasionally make an inquiry into the con duct of masters, and, in cases of palpable negli gence or incompetency, they decline to insure any vessel commanded by a master who may not have ' been found equal to the proper discharge of his duties ; but inasmuch as in the absence of an offi cial inquiry such person does not lose his certificate he is not debarred, as he would be by the forfei ture of his certificate, from going where he is not known and taking the command of another vessel, notwithstanding his ascertained incompetency or carelessness. That your memorialists, being per sonally interested in shipping, cannot too strongly urge upon your honourable Board the great im portance they attach to the suggestions which they have ventured to place before you, and they trust your honourable Board will be pleased to give these suggestions your careful consideration.—Signed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne this 31 day of February, 1868, on behalf of the Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce.—W. R. HUNTER, Chair man."—Newcastle Daily Journal. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—On Friday next Mendelssohn's " St. Paull" will bo given by the Sacred Harmonic Society at Exeter Hall. The 'principal voca lists will be Mdlle. Carola, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr.,Cummings, and Signor yoH, THE BRITISH CORN MADE. , - Although only limited supplies of English wheat taay., been an offer in the leading markets of consumption, the dennud for all kinds has ruled heavy, and in most in stances have a drooping tendency. The pretty general /pinion is that wheat has seen its highest range of value. On the other hand, it is contended that there is no room for any important decline in the quotations. This is evident enough ; but we must bear in mind that for some time our markets will be well supplied with foreign produce. The stocks in warehouse have re ceived some important additions since the commencement of the year, and as yet but a small number of vessels, laden chiefly with wheat, and which are known to be on passage to the United Kingdom, have made their appear ance, owing to the boisterous state of the weather. The arrival of the fleet is, of course, anxiously looked forward to by buyers. In the event of the demand for floating, cargoes becoming active, as was the case some months since, present rates will be 'supported. But the present tone of the trade indicates slow sales, at slightly reduced rates. No doubt our importations of grain and flour this year will considerably exceed even 1867. Notwithstanding that the receipts of English wheat at Mark-lane, coastwise as well as by rail, have been again limited, there has been very iittle animation in the demand. Fine dry samples have been firmly held. In ferior kinds have barely maintained their previous value. The imports of foreign wheat have been only moderate, but the supply ex granary has been good. Sales have progressed slowly, at barely late quotations. Both English and foreign flour have moved off slowly. In prices, howtver, no change has taken place. The arrivals of foreign have been limited. The supplies of barley have been very moderate. Fine malting parcels being scarce, have realised extreme quota tions. Grinding and distilling descriptions have been in fair request, on former terms. Generally speaking, the malt trade has ruled steady but prices have been fairly supported. The oat market has been scantily supplied. The trade has ruled firm, and prices, in some instances, have been the turn higher. For all kinds of beans the inquiry has been limited ; nenrtheless, the quotations have been fairly supported. Sales of peas have progressed slowly, at about late cur rencies. Very little business has been concluded in Indian Corn, and prices have given way Gd. to ls. per quarter. SHIPPING DISAS7ERS Particulars of the loss of the steamer Seagull have come to hand. The Seagull, a fine steamer and an excel• lent seagoing vessel, left Hull, under the command of Cap tain Duniface, on Wednesday last, for Rotterdam. When she was about six miles from the Newarp lightship, near Lowestoft, in comparatively smooth water, a vessel, apparently 'a steamer, was seen , about two-and-a-half miles off. It was moonlight at the time, but slightly hazy. The strange steamer, as the vessels approached, starboarded her helm (according to the account given by the crew of the Seagull), contrary to the Admiralty regu lations, and a collision became inevitable. To render the result as little disastrous as possible, the Seagull's helm was put hard a port. The strange steamer, which proved to be the Swan, of Newcastle, from London to Newcastle, in ballast, struck the Seagull about twenty feet from the taffrail, abaft the mainmast, penetrating half-way through tht. ship. The Swan kept her bows in the Seagull as long as possible, thereby allowing a portion of the crew and passengers time to scramble on board the Swan. The latter steamer, which had itself sus tained considerable damage, was quickly compelled to go astern, or she would have been paired down by the Seagull. The Seagull began to fill rapidly and sink, and the re mainder of the crew and passengers (except one of the pas sengers, who is supposed to have been killed in his berth) hastily launched a boat, and were subsequently picked up. A portion of the passengers narrowly escaped being carried down with the Seagull, for the stem of the Swan cut right through the cabin, precluding their e3cape by the ordinary means, and they had to get through holes made in the roof of the cabin. On the night of the 24th of January the brig Sarah, o Whitehaven, with a crew of four men and three boys, left that port for Dublin, with coals. Other colliers which left by the same tide turned back when the great storm came on, or reached their destination in safety. Of the Sarah, however, there is now no doubt that she foundered in the gale which proved disastrous to so many ships. All the men belonged to Whitehaven, and were married. The ship Admiral, for Liverpool from Savannah, with a cargo of pitch pine, has been wrecked on Tybee Since this vessel left Liverpool she had been signally un fortunate. While on her outward voyage she ran ashore on the sax?* island where she is now lying. After several months' delay, during which time she underwent thorough repair, she again put to sea, and it is nDw feared she has met with a disaster that will unfit her for further service. She was the property of a Mr. Bradshaw, of Liverpool. The vessel lost off the entrance to the Mersey on the night of Tuesday was, it appears, the Mantura, of Sal combe, Captain Sherriff, from St. Michael. Every piece of wreck that has washed up has been identified as belonging to that ship, and the marks on the boxes of oranges are those of the firm to which her cargo was con signed. The ship's papers, too, have been found. Nothing has been heard of the crew. There is the possibility that the Mantura came into collision with some outward bound ship, which then took up the crew. This supposi tion is borne out by the appearance of the wrecked ship, which is much broken about the bows, and the boat which was washed ashore is smashed as if from violent contact with a vessel. The Mantura was one of the Salcombe fleet la! fruiters, and was celebrated for her rapid passages to the Azores. A. marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Lady Mary Stephenson and Mr. S. Whitbread. _ _ _ The stories told apropos of the disappearance of Mr. Speke become more extraordinary than ever. The Rev. Henry White writes to the Times again with another illustration of the dangers to which clergymen walking in London, are liable. He was leaving, he says, the Punch office in the dusk of an autumn evening two years ago, when he was accosted by a woman, who implored him to go to her home and baptise her sister's dying child. She had applied to other clergymen, but they were unable to attend. The rev. gentleman consented to accompany her, and she led him through several alleys into Fetter-lane, where she left him, saying that she had forgotten to get some medicine from the druggist's. At the same time she gave him the address, and begged him to attend the child. Being unable to find the house, he sought the aid of a policeman, who at once recognised the place as the abode of thieves. Mr. White asked the policeman to accompany him, but on going to the house they found that there was no child whatever ill. Mr. White's friends advised him that the incident might be of use to those endeavouring to find Mr. Speke, and ho therefore publishes it. A story, by no means :so satisfactory, however, comes from " W.," who relates how between five and six o'clock on the night of the 21st of March last, after getting out of an omnibus at the Elephant and Castle, everything became a blank. He remembers nothing more until between eleven and twelve, when he was awakened by a man in what he conceives to have been a coffee•shop. The man told him that he must go, as they were closing. Shortly after he found himself in a cab, at the Elephant and Castle, directing the driver where to take him. When he got home, about four o'clock, he found he had lost a gold watch and in money. Notes, however, to the value of £4O were not touched. His clothes were unsoiled, except that the sleeve of his shirt bore the impress of a woman's net. He declares he had not been drinking, and offers no solution to the affair. Colonel Sandys, of the Bengal Retired List, writes to the effect that his nephew, Lieutenant Macredy, of the Indian army, left his lodgings in February 1864, and has not since been heard of. Concerning Mr. Speke, however, more nearly, we have a suggestion that he was very like Mr. Hardy in feature and figure. Might not the Fenians, it is asked, have " got at him," under the impression that he was the Home Secretary? The question is hardly likely to give much trouble to the officials at Scotland yard. A deputation from the Manchester and Salford trades unions has just waited on Messrs. Bazley and Bright, the members for Manchester, for the purpose of urging that the societies they represented ghoul(' be made legal. It was contended that whether the objects of the society were wise or unwise, they were not illegal ; and in common with other combinations, therefore, they should be entitled to be protected from robbery and embezzlement. It was pointed out that trades unions, by the relief they gave to their members, considerably re duced poor rates; the Amalgamated Engineers Society, it was said, gave £120,000 a year in relief to its members. Mr. Bazley said that every intelligent man thought that these societies should have the protection of law. Embezzle ment of funds ought not be permitted. It should be denounced by law. He recommended the adoption of a system of arbitration similar to that which Mr. Mun della had been instrumental in establishing at Nottingham. The hon. member wished to have the labour of the country conducted without legislative interference. Mr. Bright, concurring in what Mr. Bazley had said, would not pledge himself to the Trades Combination Bill. He hoped that some means would be arrived at for settling trade dis putes. Mr. Philips, M.P. for Bury, has promised to sup. port the principle of the bill affecting trades unions and combinations, which is about to be introduced into Par• liament, Timb it HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 8. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Christian, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein. Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by Princess Christian. FEB. 9. Her Majesty, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Princess Henriette of Schles wig-Holstein attended Divine Service this morning at Whippingham Church. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were in attendance. LYCEUM THEATRE. —Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, the Prin cess Mary of Teck, and the Prince of Teck, honoured this theatre with their presence on Saturday evening last. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary and his Serene Highness the Prince of Teck leave Kensington Palace to-morrow for Badminton, to pay a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. TRADES UNIONS AND THE TRADES SOCIETIES BILL. On Saturday morning the delegates from the Manchester Trades Union Political Association, the Manchester and Salford Trades Council, the Amal- gamated Association of Engineers, and others, re presenting altogether about thirty trades unions, _ _ waited upon Messrs. Bazley and Bright, the mem- bers for Manchester, at the offices of Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., New Crown-street, Manchester, for the purpose of discussing the proposed Act of Par liament relating to combinations and trades socie ties, which is now being promoted by the trades unions. Mr. MALcoul MACLEOD, the secretary of the Manchester Trades Union Political Association, stated that the delegates had come forward to ex press the wants and desires of trades unions. Their combinations might be wise or unwise, but as they were willing to contribute their money to uphold these societies, he contended that trade societies should have the same protection as friendly societies, inasmuch as seven-eighths of their contributions were devoted to benevolent purposes, and the re- maining one-eighth to trades purposes. Their funds ought to be protected from embezzlement and rob bery,and this was all they desired. A case had recently been heard at Bradford, where the magistrates had decided against the societies ; that they had no control over the matter. The case was referred to the Queen's Bench, which sent it back to the magis trates again ; and they, on Friday last, still refused to hear the case, on the ground that the rules of the society had been strained to give men money when they refused to work. All that the societies desired was that they should not be declared to be illegal bodies, and that when they agreed upon any action amongst themselves by a resolution, without wish ing to control the action of anybody else, it should be called a resolution and not a conspiracy. They wanted protection for their shilling paid into a trade society precisely as if the shilling was paid into a friendly society. Mr. MORGAN, of the Amalgamated Engineers, said—Some years ago Sir Alexander Cockburn gave his opinion with respect to one of these societies, that it was a perfectly legal society, and could claim the benefit of the Friendly Societies Act ; and in some instances advantage was taken of this opinion, and men were prosecuted and imprisoned under the clauses of the Friendly Societies Act. Since then Sir Alexander Cockburn had decided that they were illegal societies, and yet the rules were an exact counterpart of those he said would constitute a legal body. Now, if a trades unionist only said " bah" to some one, he was brought within the law and given two or three months' imprisonment, whilst a man who was not a trades unionist might use the strongest language with regard to' trades unionists, and yet no notice would be taken of it. He pointed out that trades unions, by the relief they gave to their members, considerably reduced poor rates, and urged that they had a right to combine either to reduce the hours of labour or get an advance of wages. Mr. MACDONALD, president of the Manchester Trades Union Political Association, said that trades unionists had not the protection of ordinary citi zens. All they wanted was that they should be placed on a level with any other citizen, and that their funds should have the protection of the law. They wanted no special protection, but only coma mon justice, and ho contended that common justice was not afforded to them, for he had known a trades unionist sent to prison for a month for a common assault ; whilst for a much more aggravated offence, where the man was not a trades unionist, the same magistrate said the highest penalty he could inflict was 40s. Mr. NICOLSON, the president of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council, and Mr. H. WOOD, the secretary, and Mr. ENTWISTLE, of the Amalga mated Engineers, also addressed the members on the same subject and on the question of trades' apprenticeship. It was stated that the Amalgamated Engineers had 34,000 members, possessed £130,000, and had given in relief to its members £120,000 per year. Mr. BAZLET, M.P., said he cheerfully acknow ledged that the delegates had stated their case with great clearness, skill, and intelli gence. He would ask them as a preliminary whether, in order to obtain protection for their funds, they were willing to place themselves under Mr. Tidd Pratt's department, and make a public declaration year by year as to their expenditure ? (Cries of " Yes, yes.") He thought every reason able man would arrive at the conclusion that funds contributed for benevolent purposes or for the promotion of individual or collective industry should have the protection of the law. There should be no embezzlement of funds collected for proper purposes, nor, under any circum stances, should embezzlement be permitted ; for in every instance it should be denounced in the eyes of the law. The law should be para mount, and should be their guide. (Applause.) On the question of apprentices, he thought they could not expect the Legislature to make any specific re gulations. He admitted that there were times of conflict between employers and employed, when the workman had as much right to ask for protec tion of what he deemed to be his interest as the em ployer had. Upon this question he had arrived at the conclusion, which was now very gene rally received, that the regulation of trades would be best managed under councils of advice and by arbitration. By the adoption of this plan, Ain Mundella, of Nottingham, had effected wonderful changes in that town during the last seven years. He wished to see that system extended, and, above all things, he wished to see the labour of this coun try conducted without legislative interference. He would have no objection to a law which would protect them in what was strictly honourable and strictly right. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., said he concurred in every word Mr. Bazley had uttered. Without pledging him self to the Trades Combination Bill which they had submitted, ho must say it appeared to him to be just towards labour and just towards capital. It appeared to him to be calculated to secure the individual freedom of the workmen and th e masters. lie thought it was a most unwise and irritating thing that there should be any dispute at all upon the question of the pro tection of funds. lie was quite sure that th e evils of trades unions were not to be overcome by repression. He hoped they would soon arrive 3t some means of settling these unfortunate disputes: Mr. GARSTANG and Mr. ARNOLD, who r epresentela the Amalgamated A n ma o l f ga s t o n i a n t e ed ac S t oc t i o et l y im o i f t ß t a h k e er h s o , u a r d s vo o c f a for bakers, especially for the young, such as w` adopted by the principles of the Factory Act. Mr. BAZLEY promised to consider such a pl easure when it was submitted. The deputation then withdrew. ticadbotlu:ors Of X 5, o( Thi tall k Ti, for th imam durin Trem publi are h( favor Th cent. Cc 11 Cc quote and Five 250; Bond Gree 161 ; 90; (186• 94 ; Join. 34 tc In stricl Ang] 191 5 to Disci Gen( Trad Intel Gas, Cc tion Cent Five per per( 108 t Viet T 1 prer r At have Mort col a t ai4 te a , lead