The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-19 00:00:00

THE stJ Ns LONDON; MONDAY EVENINC4-; NO'VE'MBER 19, 1855
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MARKET NEWS.—(This Day).

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CORN EXCHANGE.
There was less activity in the demand for wheat in the
leading country markets held on Saturday. Prices, how-
ever, were about 2s per quarter higher. Barley sold briskly
at is to 2s per quarter more money. All other articles of
grain, including flour, were firm.
The last advices from New York state that an extensive
business was doing in wheat and flour on English account.
The continental markets continuo very firm.
Up to our market last week the arrival of English grain
were very moderate. From abroad we received 5,135 qrs.
of wheat, 14,577 barley, 1,189 beans, 625 peas, 235 tares,
1,731 linseed, 5,326 rapeseed, 75 mustard seed, 370 sundry
seeds, 1,902 sacks, and 5,852 barrels of flour.
The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market
to-day coastwise wore very limited, and those by railway
were but moderate. The general show of samples of both
red and white oats therefore small; nevertheless, the de-
mand for all kinds ruled heavy, and where sales took
place prices gave way from is to 2s per quarter com-
pared with Monday last, and no inclination whatever was
shown by the millers to purchase beyond immediate wants.
The general condition of the supply was tolerably good.
With foreign wheat we were scantily supplied. All de-
scriptions met a dull inquiry ; indeed, so little was doing
that the cutrensies were almost nominal. Prices, how-
ever, were not lower.
Floating cargoes commanded the late extreme rates.
The show of barley was limited, although the demand
for all kinds was less aotive, but Monday's quotations
were important.
Malt sold to a fair extent, at very full prices.
The show of Irish and foreign oats was moderately good.
On the whole, the oat trade was steady, at full prices.
We had an improved demand for beans, at an advance
of is per quarter.

The show of peas was good, yet the trade ruled steady,
at full quotations.
There was a moderate sale for flour, and the top price of
the best town-made was 77s per 2301ba.

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CURRENCY PER IM M
PERIAL EASURE.
1 • Wheat—Essex to Kent, ?trait—Chevalier ..•• 82s to 84s
Rod •• •• now 66s to 833 Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto— —— old 79s 91s Lineolnsh., Feed 26s 30s
Ditto, White new 705 DOs Potato •• • 288 345
Ditt0........ old 803 95s Youghal and Cork
Norfolk and Lin- 81ack....... 25s 288
coln, Red, old 81s 893 Cork, White ... • . 26s 30s
Ditto new —— 641 82s Scotch, Feed..... 273 34s
Rye—Old ............ —s —s Beans—Tick .
New ............ 43s 52s Pigeons
Barley—Grinding .•• •• 363 408 Peas—Groy .... —— .• 43s 46s
Malting ..... •• • • 403 42s
Chevalier.... • • 433 44s Map1e........... 45s 48s
White......• —•• 50s 545
Malt—Suffolkand Nor- -Boilers
folk •••• 745 82s Flour—Town-made... 753 77s
Brown .•••••••• —•• •. 64s 703 Suffolk .....• •• .. Gls 62s
lEingstonandWaro 783 80s Btocktn &Norfolk Gls Gas

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
For the time of year the imports of foreign stock into
London last week were good, the total supply amounting
to 7,732 head. In the corresponding week in 1854 we re-
ceived 6,808; in 1853, 8,574; in 1852, 4,873; in 1851,
7,03 G; in 1850, 6,191; in 1849, 5,537 ; and in 1818, 4,261
head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WBSE.
Beasts. Sbeop. Lambs. Calves. Pigs

From
Ostend
Tonningen 764
Brake 234
Harlingen
Amsterdam B7
Bremen 229
N,otterdam l9B ... 1,032 274 2
.•.
Kampen 27 ... 527 ...
Medemblik 57 ... 1,961 ...
Hamburgh 3l 70 ...
Oporto
Dordt 69
Antwerp..

64 ... 92

3 ... 23

$ ... - ...

''...
•••

- ... 57

T0ta1....2,255 ... 4,937 401 ... 139
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1854 2,026 4,545 207 30
1853 2,161 5,745 472 196
1852 761 ... 3,800 258 .. 57
1851 1,538 ... 4,867 367 264
1850 1,772 ... 3,844 318 ... 227
1849... 1,097 ... 4,138 ... 230 ...
Last week's receipts of beasts from Ireland, by sea,
amounted to 53 head, and we also received 126 pigs.
As the northern shipping ports on the Continent will
now be shortly closed, we may anticipate a considerable
falling off iu the imports of foreign boasts.
There was about an average supply of foreign stook to-
day's market, but its quality was very indifferent. From
Ireland, via Liverpool, we had an offer of 300 boasts and
750 sheep in good condition.
As the aggregate supply of beasts was on the decrease,
and as the attendance of buyers was tolerably good, the
beef trade ruled brisk, at an advance in the quotstions
realised on Monday last of 2d per 81bs. The general top
figure was 53, but some prime Scots realised us 2d per
bibs.

From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire we received 1,700 short-horns ; from other parts of
England, 350 of various breeds; and from Scotland, 80
horned and polled Scots.
Tho show of sheep was limited, especially of English
breeds, most of which were in poor condition, and the
mutton trade was active, at prices fully equal to those ob-
tained on this day se'nuight. The extreme price for Downs
was 5821 per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was very
moderate, sold briskly, at an advance in the prices of
Monday last of fully 4d per Sibs. The highest figure was
55. 4d per Blbs. _

We had a steady demand for pigs. In the quotations
we hare no change to notice.

Per Sibs to sink the offals.

s. d. s. dd S. d. a. d.
Inferior Beastn....3 6to 3 B,PrimeSouthdown 4 8 5 0
Second quality.... 3 10 4 2Large erse. calves 4 0 410
Prime largo omen 4 4 4 8/Primo small d 0... 5 0 5 4
Primo Scots, &c. 410 5 o(Largo hogs 3lO 4 4
Inferior Shoop ...3 4 3 6 Small porkers ... 4 6 5 0
Second quality ...3 8 4 2*ekling ca1v05..24 0 30 0
Primo crse.-wlled.4 4 4 6 Quarter old pigs. 23 0 28 0
TOTAL SUPPLY. I FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts .............. —.• 4,750 i Reasts•• .. —•• . ..•• ••. • 2,061
I
Sheep .• •• • ...• • ..... .... 23,850 Sheep .. •• —.. .. •••• ...... 4„180
Calves ..••..•• ..•• •••• .. 249 Calves....., ...... ......•• 201
Pigs .. .

A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stook exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattlo Market, on
Monday, Nov. 2J, 1854, and in the Metropolitan Market
this day, Monday, Nov. 19, 1855,
Per 81bs, to sink the of ills.

NOT. £O, 1854. Nov. 19,'55.
s. d. s. d. is. d. s. d
Coarse and inferior beasts 3 6to 3 8,3 oto 3 8
Second quality ditto •3
10 4 2;3 10 4 2
Primo lam) oxen 4 4 4 814 4 4 8
Prime Scots, dre 410 5 2.'4 10 5 0
Coarse and inferior sheop 3 6 3 1013 4 3 6
Second quality ditto
... 310 4 2 3 8 4 2
Prime coarse woofed ditto 4 4 4 8!4 4 4 6
Primo Southdown ditto 410 5 0;4 8 5 0
Lambs
••. 0 0 0 010 0 0 0
Large coarse calves 4 2 5 0 4 0 410
Prime small ditto
Large hogs 5 2 5 6'5 0 5 4
3 4 4 413 10 4 4
Neat small porkers •••
•••
• 4 6 5 0 4 6 5 0
Boasts_ 4,383 4,750
Sheep 24,730 23,850
Pigs
124 249
310 730
SUPPLIES ON Skim, Nov. 21, 1853.—Beasts, 5,623 ;
25,260; calves, 281 • pigs 305.
sheets
November 22,1852—8eLt5, 4,776; sheep, 25,150; calves,
211 ; pigs, 365.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
We have received lam, supplies of country-killed meat
up to these markets sing) Monday last, but those on offer
slaughtered in the metropolis are very moderate, and in
poor condition. About au average business is doing as
follows :

For Blbs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d.
Beef, interior.... 3 2 3 6
Do., midclliug.....3 8 3 10
Do., Primp large .4 0 4 2
De, , do. email ....4 4 6
Fork, largo ........3 10 4 4

s. cl. s.
Hutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6
Do., middling 3 8 4 0
Do., prime 4 2 4
j Veal ....3 8 4 10
Pork, small 4 6 5 4

BOROUGH HOP.
A portion of the duty has been declared at 178,518 i
15s. 7d, Canterbury being returned at 161,0111; Worces-
ter, 12,559/. Our market is heavily supplied, and the de•
wand is in a sluggish state, as follows :—Mid and East
KentKnt pockets, 80s to 120 s per cwt ; Weald of Kent, 70s
3; Sussex, 65s to 90s.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELBS.
Coastwise, the arrivals of potatoes last week wore but
Moderate, but we received rather a large supply by rail-
way. The imports amounted to 14 bags from Ilarlingen,
8 barrels from Amsterdam, 30 from Ilambro', and threo
hampers from Kampen. A full average business is doing,
as follows :—York Regents, 95s to Jibs; Scotch do.,
90s to 105 s ; Middlings, 603 to 75s ; Lincolns, 80s to 95s ;
Blues, 80s to 955; Shaws, 80s to 95s per ton.

THE MIDHU..63I' MANIFESTO, slang, and their never yielding while we hold an inch 0
her territory, is bluster, and nothing more. Her stub-
bornness has not availed for successful resistance ; if she
(Frain the Weekly Dispatch.) doesn't yield, she will be made to do it—and as the Iron
The letter of Mr. Cobden has already been translated Duke was won't to say, "There's au end on't." AtKers
into all the Russian newspapers and into every Legiti- 1 ehe has been driven into rout by Turks alone, and Omer
matist Continental journal. It is praised, confirmed, ac- Pacha, on her heels, has forced the passage of the In-
cepted as true, with exultation. It is hailed, as all the I gour, and again defeated 20,000 of these " stubborn "
former letters fuel speeches of the Manchester school warriors in a five hours' fight. Sweden and Norway are
have been on the same subject, for the value of the cer- i in course of entering into cur alliance on the guarantee
tain information it is presumed to contain of our weak-
of mutual defence, with 60,000 of those troops which,
news and wavering—of our incompetency to sustain the 1 under Gustavus and Charles XII., swayed the destinies
war—of the drain it makes on our resources—of our
and ample in re- in
of Europe, and with 60,000 also of the finest seamen
nion that Russia is strong, stubborn, in the world. That alliance was completed, the com-
sources. It is the peculiar characteristic of all the magi- betted allies will march upon Petersburg whenever the
festoes of the Muncasterian fanatics on this topic, that Baltic ice disappears ; and we have the authority of per-
they are manifestly so framed as to admit of publication sons well acquainted with the ground fur the statement
by the enemy—that they are conceived in the spirit of that there is no difficulty in landing, and that Peters-
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placing the prospects of Russia in the most favourable burg cannot be placed before the spring in a state of
light—that they carefully avoid even a hint of censure available defence. Meanwhile, we are busy building
upon the Czar or his cause—that all their abuse and con. those floating-batteries which the French have proved to
tempt are reserved for their own country, its cause and be impervious to shot, and which may sail unharmed
its champions, and all their praise and reverence for the into the harbour of Sebastopol and the bay of Oronstadt
tubborn heroes their
character and conduct of the common enemy. No im-
—there to come at those "s ++partial reader can rise from their
perusal without the
peroration is splendid fleet, fleet, who have always
respectfully declined to
conviction that they are calculated to raise the hopes of come at them. "A magnificent
the enemy, to induce him to continue the war and to ex- sidered by the rhetoricians of the Manchester" school to
pect victory in the field, from our weakness, or triumph be peculiarly their /wire Our Midhurst cynic winds up
in diplomacy from the treachery of our Senators. In in a storm of abuse of everybody, in a passion at every-
fact, whatever may be the motive of these letters, they thing, and a paroxysm of doubtful theology, and very be-
have all the effects of treason on the issue of the war. terodox religion. Like the rejected patron of the "weary
We can respect the conscientious convictions of pious knifegrinder," he makes his exit in "a transport of phi.
men, religiously opposed on evangelical principles to all losophical indignation and universal philanthropy !" We
war. We base even forbearence and toleration for the are not at all afraid that either the New Testament or
opinions of those traditionary politicians who have inhe- the Great Teacher, who told us he came not to bring
rited, in their Radicalism, the principle of non-interven- peace but rather a sword—who proelaimedliberty to the
tion. We can be charitable to the deepest economical captive—who placed the hopes of heaven on the relief of
prejudice against a standing army, loans, and a war ex• the distressed—who sent the proud empty away—will
penditure ; and even bear with a fixed idea that all condemn resistance to the imperious will and lawleee
money spent either on defence or military strength is aggressions of a wretch who holds millions in slavery,
extravagance and ruin. But that men calling themselves fills them mad drunk to fight, tears them from their
Radicals, and affecting some love of liberty—that re- homes by force, robs all his subjects of their property to
presentatives of the people pretending to patriotism, and wage aggressive war, keeps on foot a million
cut-throats,
assuming the garb of moral or social Reformers and and heaps up in his den at Sebastopol piles on piles of
model philanthropists, should have effused all this per- cannon, shot, shell, powder, and every conceivable in-
petuum mobile of talk, and diarrhoea of epistolary re- strument of destruction for deep laid and long projected
monstrance and casuistry, on the one subject, which ar- schemes of invasion, aggression, and conquest, to corn-
teas plete the triumph of legitimacy in Europe, and to fix
rests every mind and absorbs every other interest—
accountable creatures, the free citizens of a free State— his throne at Constantinople. It ie only when God per-
glorious in its achievements, and distinguished for its sa- mits such a hugo criminal as that to prevail against the
orifices for the happiness of the human race, should have generous impulses of mankind that there will be any
for two years stood out &nen among the sympathies and reason to doubt that the New Testament is a " Law of
disgusted the public opinion of all good men, in infinite Liberty," and that the doctrine of Christ may be heard
futile verbosity, to denounce this war and its promoters, in the moral government of the universe,
without the utterance of one word of reprobation of the
delinquencies of a remorseless tyrant—that they should
reserve all their reprobation for their country and its
heroes, and make no sign of execration of that huge pub-
lic criminal who, in defiance of the law of nations and the
rights of states, avows, with brazen vice, the purpose of
continuing the filibustering felonies whereby his pirate
don has gown under his ancesters to proportions dan-
gerous to the liberty of the world—indicates a degree of
mental callosity worthy only of a moral rhinoceros with
a hide impervious to all those suggestions which do re-
verence to humanity. From the time when Sturge and
his tail bcflunkied Nicholas at St. Petersburg, protested
against the war, but uttered no word of censure against
its sole author, and (a Jenkins in drab !) called meetings
of Englishmen to detail to them the "Court Circular" of
the tyrant hypocrite—from that time until now, your
Cobdens and Brights have, with a reticence which men
of observation can understand and penetrate, heaped un-
measured abuse on their own people, Government, and
warriors, for presuming to "rail ou the Lord's an-
nointed," and have left both friends and foes to infer that
they adopted, or at least saw no wrong-doing in, the
conduct of the common enemy. It is not all war, but
only this ear, that they object to ; it is not that they
challenge the principle, but that they demur to the ex-
ample; they do not say that to fight is wrong, but that
to invade Holy Russia is crime, and to enter the lists
against the Czar is blasphemy. For such whimsical cos-
mopolitans to affect solicitude on the subject of our al-
leged failure to enlist recruits is an act of the most trans-
parent hypocrisy. If they are to be believed in their
professions, the fewer our troops the better, because the
sooner must the war burn itself out. They would con
ceal the fact if they credited it—they would suppress all
notice of their apprehensions if they were real, in order
that we might be surprised into peace by the exhaustion
of the fuel that feeds the flame of Bellona. It is be-
cause ,1
that he does not himself believe in what he makes
the blue book say that Mr. Cobden labours to induce
us to give it credence, and, wo blush to add, falsities
the true meaning of public documents for the purpose.
He execrates us for fighting, and then expresses his
alarm that we have not got men enough to fight.
He points to the slowness of recruiting as proof of the
unpopularity of the war, and then complains of the uni-
versal delusion of the people by the press, and of the
mercenariness of the press in recommending itself to the
people by advocating a continuance of the contest ! Nay,
he argues that the nation must be opposed to the war
(which, nevertheless, albeit we are assured all states-
men,
and our aristocracy also, condemn it), because
those who are clamorous for the prosecution of hostili-
ties rather prefer to pay others to fight than to shoulder
themselves the Minid rifle—as if the best blood of Eng-
land bad not set honour in one and death in the other,
to sacrifice fortune and comfort in the service of their
cause and country--as if nobody is free to desire the
punishment of a felon unless he is prepared himself to
act as a hangman—as if it was impossible that Mr. Cob-
den's seed should be in cotton, because he "hired mer-
cenaries" to collect the cow-dung for dyeing his calicoes,
and sat at ease in his counting-house while his " hands"
were printing gowns from his blocks. To support this
hypothesis lie makes use of statistics which, we trust,
may for ever remain without a parallel of perversion
among representatives of the British people. He says,
that at the Alma the British troops amounted to 26,000
men, and so shuffles the returns as to make it be be-
lieved that, while from October, 1854, to January, 1855,
we had no fewer than 71,389 sick and wounded in the
hospital, our recruits during that time only reached
20,618. Thus, while according to his assertion the
whole number of the army originally sent to the
Crimea, and the recruits afterwards enlisted, reached
only 47,418, the number of sick and wounded
of these 47,000 reached 71;000, or 24,000
more than the whole ! Although a civilian by profes-
sion, and a Quaker in spirit, he has had his own private
review of our army. He has peered into our sentry-
boxes—marked the measured tread of the guards to
their watch at the Bank iof England inspected the
patrol at Kensington-gate—watched the horsemen at
Whitehall—and to cheer up the spirits of the enemy (for
it can have no better purpose) he asserts that our troops
are but raw boys—their bone and muscle mere cartilage
—that few as are the recruits they add nothing to the
strength of the army—and that we were disgraced at
the Redani by, the cowardice of our " gristle." So it
was gristle which rushed on at 13alaklava, stood the
shock of battle at Inkerman, endured and braved all
in the trenches ; and " the imminent ideally breach"—
which never was surpassed in noble daring by the bravest
of the brave at the Peden' the assault on which, utterly
impossible of success and fraught with nearly certain
death, perhaps no other troops in the world could have
been prevailed upon to attempt. Gristle or no gristle,
they won against enormous odds the only three battles
the enemy could be prevailed upon to fight with them ;
raw or not raw, they invade Russia—they hold their
ground—they take endless towns and castles, and the
strengei,t, fortress in all the world. Without help from
any but their own ally, against the secret machinations
of Germany and the neutrality of all, they, the poor
5,000 per month —out of whom Mr. Cobden contrives
to squeeze 18,000 sick and wounded per month (!)
make daily reconnaissances, teinpt:the enemy to fight by
every inducement of numerical superiority to them, and
hold the territory of 60,000,000 "of the most stubborn
race in existence." If such be the composition of our
army, what roust he the worth of that which they have
never encountered but to beat ?

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

The undermentioned gentlemen were on Saturday
called to the bar :
EY THE HON. SOCIETY OF THE INNER TEMPLE.
Thomas Randle Bennett, Esq., M.A., William Mur-
ray, Esq., Thomas Francis Fremantle, Esq., Nathaniel
Charles Curzon, Esq., 8.A., Whitley Stokes, Esq.,
8.A., Herbert Eliot Otnerod, Esq., 8.A., William
Algernon Slade Gully, Esq., M.A., Francis Seymour
George, Esq., 8.A., Henry Charles Hull, Esq., B.A ,
i Herbert William Fisher, Esq., M.A., Francis Philips,
Esq., 8.A., Charles Marshall Griffith, Esq., M.A., W.
Leech, Esq., 8.A., and Edward W. Goodlake, Esq.
BY THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.
Hopson Pinckney Walker, Esq., 8.A., Jesus College,
Cambridge; Charles William Crouch, Esq., 8.A., Lon-
(Ion University ; Edward William Pittar, Esq., M.A.,
Caius College, Cambridge ; Edward Clennell Dunn, Esq.,
B.A.' London University ; Samuel Bruce, Esq., LL.B.,
London University ; Edward Henry Lovell, Esq., 8.A.,
St. John's College, Cambridge ; Charles William Dyer,
Esq., M.A., Emmanuel College, Catnbridge ; and Jas.
Cherry, Esq.

BY
TIIR HON. SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S INN.
John Langton Sanford, Esq., Francis Mount Barlow,
Esq., William Lascelles, Esq., Thomas Rees Oliver
Powell, Esq., William Huskisson Tilghman, Esq., Jos.
Henry Woolley, Esq., Arthur Joseph Munby, Esq.,
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., Joseph Dixon, E-q., H.
Clark, Esq., William Broderick, Esq., Fred. Williams,
Esq , Henry James Conington, Esq , Joseph Pedley,
Esq., and Henry Mather Jackson, Esq.
GRAY'S INN, Nov. 17.—At a pension of the Honour•
able Society of Gray's Inn holden this day, Jas. Good-
son, Esq., was called to the degree of barrister-at-law.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--.{This Day.)

LONDON, Nov. 19.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ;
moderate breeze and dull hazy weather, with drizzling
rain.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Lady
Bute, from Callao for Leith, with damage to starboard
bow and stanchions, covering board split, &c., from con•
tact with the barque Edina, Nov. 15, off St. liatheline'a
Head ; Ellen, Honduras ; Harmony, Quebec, for New-
castle ; H.M.S.'s Vixen and Gleaner, eastward ; H.M.S.
Arrogant, Kiel; Dee, Woolwich. Sailed—Great Britain
(s.s. tpt. IS7), for Constantinople; Arabia (s. tpt.), Con-
tantinople.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Arrived.—Effort, Clara, and Leonora, frc Sumicrland ;
Florida, Newport; Edward and Mary, ;Terser ; Henrietta,
Skive ; Sylph, steamer, Dublin ; Silence, Portsmouth ;
Henry Dundan, Quebec.
Sailed. John and Edward, for Newport ; Mary Ann,
Cardiff; Sylph, steamer, London.
LITERPOO Monday Moring.
Arrived.--Gazelle, from Palermo ;L,
Amelia,Vallavinciosa;
Trinity yachb and Adelaide, Denia ; Jean Maria, Nantes.
KINGSTOWN, Nov. 17.

Wind S.S.W.
Arrived.—Clara, from Memel ; Good Intent, Adelaide.
Wind S.E. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 17.
Arrived.—Edward Warburton, from Athens; Mary,
Epaminondas, and Arrow, Syra ; Stamboul, Girgenti ;
Ide, Salonica ; Dale Park, Sierra Leone.
Sailed.—Comoro, for Marseilles ; Emma, Hamburg ;
Robert Watson, Constantinople ; Golconda, Malta ; Eliza
Keith, Quebec; Anglesey, Savannah.

We never sco them but we bid them to stay,
They never see 11E but they wish us away.
Wo always are ready—steady, boys, steady !
To fight and to conquer again and again.

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRELAND) RAIL.
WAY.—A meeting of the shareholders of this important
company was held in their board-room in Dublin on Sa-
turday, Sir E. M‘Donmel, chairman of the company,
presiding, for the purpose of considering a proposition
for the purchese of the proposed line of railway between
Roscrea and Parsonstown. The proposed line will be
twenty-two miles in length, and is estimated to cost about
120,0001. It was objected to the proposition for pur-
chase that according to the act of Parliament it could
not be legally effected on their part, or the sale on the
part of the other company, until half the capital for the
projected line should have been subscribed and expended.
The chairman, however, read an opinion on a case laid
before Mr. Hope Scott, the eminent English counsel,
which was to the effect that they might legally proceed
Bruegr—nerithipsat
with the purchase at present, and a motion authorising
them to do so was accordingly carried.
THE ALLEGED MURDER. OF A CHILD lt.Y ITS MOTHER,
IN CHELSEA.-00 Friday laA, it will be remembered, a
Mrs. Allen, of Poulton-troet, Chelsea, appeared before
the sitting magistrate, at the Westminster police court,
charged with the murder of her child, by drowning it in
the river Thames, during the dense fog then prevailing.
It appeared from the evidence that two other of her chil-
dren, also, by sonic means found their way into the
river, but were rescued, and restored to animation. The
body of the third, a boy about seven, had not been re-
covered at the time of the examination, and some doubt
was even entertained as to whether it had really been
drowned. Yesterday, however, this doubt was set at
rest by the finding of the body, which was discovered
near Vauxhall-bridge, not far from the bank of the river.t
The poor little fellow evidently struggled
his fate, for both hands were firmly Lard
tr.tgeams
clenched,
onee
the coroner,goni
lanpnoacwbell,
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containing a rather large pebble, and
to
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mud. Information has been forwardedhouNse nAearkthe bridge.
and r
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Tc eitlyGerypeyd to
rNa public house
the real facts of this case would have prevented a
great deal of the recent seunliaant 'b'•oreFo
Forbes Winslow writes in total ignorance of the fact
that the body of
ion These were ternal marks of strangidat . remarked by
jurytheir viewing the body, and were pointed to
the on
coroner. The face was also livid ,
• the
them by the the young
knees were drawn up under the bedclothes. All these
facts left no doubt on the minds of the jury that the
eouree
, man died by strangulation, and hence, this fact
being present to the minds of all who took part in the
inquiry, the absence of that reference to it in the pro-
ceedings of the inquest which excites the surprise of per-
sons who read the report unassisted by the view of the
body. It is, however, from evidence gained by a view
of the body that a jury in a great degree arrives at, and
is bound by the law to arrive at, their verdict. This
fact of strangulation once settled, the arguments of those
who contend for a natural death are done away with,
and with them the necessity of the post mortem examina-
tion upou which they insist.—Brighton Herald.
THE CASE OF THE Ex-PROVOST OF LEITII.—We have
referred, says the Scottish Press, more than once to this
case, expressing an opinion of the excessive severity of
the sentence passed on this man, whether as regards the
particular charge with its concomitant circumstances, or
the ago of the individual—and that through this severity
the in
to
a law has driven sympathy away from itself
We
a dangerous channel—namely, with the criminlq:
G Grey,
now learn that a memorial, addressed to
NSinred by the
the Home Secretary, is being extensively
inhabitants of Leith, more than 500 names
alluded to the
appended to it. The memorial havywolbieging already
and sentence
irecnnistances of this
particular and to the
doomed to trans-
circumstances attendant on the v.
continues : "Having regard to
ytcheeanrcsi)
particular case as established in evidence,_
age
a strong
to7othis community that the
of the party (approaching
l feeling Pervades and the
apneartagtieonnerbacyond seas for the period of 15 years,
law would be vindicated, justice of the case
met, by a change of the sentence to one of imprisonment.
Faculty (Mr. Inglis), Says the Scottish
remarksonthecase as follows :—" I have The
Press, D ea n of
con-
sidered the indictment, the notes of evidence taken by
the prisoner's counsel at the trial, the verdict, and the
sentence, and I am satisfied that the sentence is much
more severe than is at all warranted by the general prac-
tice of the court. The gravamen of the charge, as
proved, consists entirely of the lewd handling of the two
girls on one occasion, and for a very short time, accom-
panied by no bodily injury of the slightest consequence
to either of them. There is no example that lam ac-
quainted with of such an offence being visited with a sen-
tence of transportation. I am disposed to recommend anappeal to the royal mercy, founded on the unexampled.
severity of the sentence, especially when viewed in con.
nexion with the prisoner' age. It appears to m by.
to
n
means improbable that her Majesty maybe
order some mitigation of the puuishment. advised

Such are " the inflated pretences and abortive perform-
ances" which an Englishman is not a.,hatired to impute
to his fellow-citizens. For our part we hold the opinion
that the performance far exceeds the pretension. The
phrase designed to hearten up the hood-winked serfs of
Russia does net deceive their rulers. Of all men in
Europe Gortschakoff and the Czar are the last who will
regard the seizure of Sebastopol as an abortion. If "we
have undertaken the work not merely of one nation but
of half Europe," it is not the first time, with fewer men
and lees money, that, single-handed, we have withstood
the combination of all Europe against us ; and that our
ally has planted his victorious standard on every capital
of the Continent—aye, even on that of Moscow itself—
in a cause not half so honest as, and far less generous in
its objects, than that of thrusting back a tyrant to hiP
den. The " boys" who conquered at Waterloo were as
" beardless" as those who saw " the front ofba le
lour" at Inkerman—and yet, as they baffled the
ofheas to
Impe-
rial Guard then, they will crush the ) rrn
Czar now. Let Mr. Cobden keep bins 1-n.'irionridye.,,:sY
g, every step they take on Russian terra.
with When
the
"gristle" Crimea
we have completed the conquest of _
ay triumphed,
which has so often
command the Black Sea, wo shall rest contented e,aint id,
bayonet will then ho
, be
our work. Earthworks and the
.slans, as their advocate as
our defence against the Rim, ,
___ .
and
__
sures us theirs will be aga'taul'n,aten fo",.' we find our
" la ardless" boys are sti,ll, quite
Russia stay a t home,avail
the manhood
may, With perfect
manhood" of Muscovy, why our
security to the
ph ue l at contest,iori o
issue olf),t,
knows truly that the
is 60,000,000, or the half of that ? The
ableWfloior
conscription
English census is accurate and known.
French and
Who can tell that of the enemy 7 There are millions
nominally under the sceptre of the Czar who never heard
of him, and can never be available for war—savages who
fight still with bows and arrows—Kamschatkans and
Laplanders, and Arctic Pius—denizens of wastes, with
not a soul to ten square miles. Our increase is at the
rate of 300,000 souls a-year. What is that of Russia 1
We will venture to say not half as much. That even
now she is far more deficient in men than we are is evi-
dent from the fact that latterly her army in the Crimea,
her own territory, has fallen below in number that of
the Allies, " 3,000 miles," as we are so often told, from
our own shores. It is not the absolute number of a
people that is the test of their military strength,
but their available numbers in proportion to the ter-
ritory they have to cultivate and lice upon.
The waste of life suffered by Russia before her recruits
reach head-quarters from places thousands of miles away
is incalculable. In this war she has already drawn fifty
soldiers from every thousand souls—of whom one-halt
only aro males—so that 10 per cent. of her entire na
population have already been swallowed up,)
leavingonly
nly
children, the infirm, the old, to produce the
for the
wealth
ne-
cessary for subsistence, and to find the money
War, All this bluster about the stubbornness of the Rua 1