The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The chief prize, at 200, 400, and 600 yards, was won by
Corporal Johnstone.
The rumoured disbandment of the Western Artillery
Volunteers having caused a considerable expression of feel-
ing for some time past, a public meeting has just been held
to consider the subject. Mr J. H. Smith presided, and
among those present were General Cox, Colonel Mant, &c.
General Cox opened the proceedings by observing that they
were met there as members of the Western community, not
as a military body. One or two resolutions would be sub-
mitted to them, Which materially concerned the towns of
Weston. The Weston Artillery Volunteers, he was sorry to
say, had not been commanded as he had hoped they would
have been. Circumstances had arisen which had made
them apparently lax in their duties, but it was hardly neces-
sary to assert that they were not lacking in their loyalty.
Their representations had not been attended to, while ex
parte statements had been heard with regard to them ; but
without any regard to their feelings or the feelings of the
town of Weston they had been indirectly informed that the
corps was to be dissolved. He concluded by proposing the
first resolution—" That the meeting has heard with deep
mortification and surprise of the intention of her Majesty's
Secretary for War to disband the corps upon certain repre-
sentations not disclosed to the members or the public, and
thereupon desires to make an earnest remonstrance against
a measure which it hereby humbly submits to be at variance
with that spirit of public courtesy and fairness by which the
great Volunteer movement in this country has hitherto
been encouraged and maintained." The following resolu-
tions were also proposed and carried unanimously—" That
local differences arose—the causes of which no longer exist
—whereby the command of the corps, in the anxiety of its
members to preserve, passed into the hands of a stranger,
and its affairs into the temporary social and financial em-
barrassments now existing. That upon the first establish-
ment of the corps volunteers for its ranks to the number of
150 were inscribed upon its rolls, and that persons of great
local influence, property, and position, headed by an expe-
rienced general officer in her Majesty's Indian army, came
forward to take commissions therein." " That this corps
pledges itself upon an inquiry to clear the imputations is
respect of such differences ; to raise its strength to at least
effective members, and to submit to the authorities the same
staff, or a staff of officers equal in character, to those origi-
ginally commissioned." " That for the reasons stated, an
appeal be made to tho paper authorities, through the Lord
Lieutenant, for the appointment of a committee of inquiry,
to affird an opportunity of clearing the corps from the im-
putations cast on their honour and patriotism, of which it
is felt alike by all they are wholly undeserving, and of lead-
ing to the maintenance of the corps in increased strength
and efficiency." The meeting was brought to a close with
three times three hearty cheers for the Queen.
The third competition for the handsome challenge cup
given by Mr E. Lovell, of Wells, clerk to the lieutenancy,
to be shot for by members of the Ist battalion of Somerset
Volunteer rifles, took place last week on Hampton-down,
near Bath. The ranges were 200, 400, and 600 yards, five
shots at each; Hythe position, W imbledon scoring. There
were upwards of 50 competitors, of whom 19 made 30 points
and upwards. The winner was Sergeant Taylor, 17th
company, who made the fine score of 48.
The let Battalion (Duke of Cornwall's) Rifle Volunteers,
commanded by Major-General Tremenheere, was inspected
by Lord Vivian, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, last week,
at Caselew, the seat of Sir Charles Lemon. The battalion
mustered 754 of all ranks. After receiving the Lurd-Lieu-
tenant in line, the battalion marched past inopen and quarter
distance column, when they were again formed into line,
and went through the bayonet exercise in review order, A
series of deployments and movements in quarter distance
column and double column of subdivisions were then exe-
cuted, which with firing in line and square occupied nearly
an hour. At the conclusion Lo-d Vivian expressed himself
highly satisfied with the efficiency of the battalion, and com•
mended particularly the precision of the bayonet exercise.
The marching past had been very good and the file firing
exceedingly well sustained. His Lordship was, in fact, much
pleased with the whole of the evolutions. In conclusion,
General Tremenheere was complimented on being at the
head of so fine a body of men, and he, as well as all present,
received the thanks of the Lord Lieutenant for their day's
exertions.

The Stokesley, Shelton, and Guisborough Volunteers,
with the Ist battalion of the North York Volunteer Artil-
lery, assembled, on the invitation of the Earl of Zetland,
at Upleatham, for a field day. Tho muster was about 500
men. The Earl, with Colonel Cathcart, put the men
through battalion drill, which was performed very satis-
factorily. The whole force was afterwards entertained at
luncheon, after which the Volunteers and the public were
freely admitted to the gardens and grounds. The Ponte-
fract, Doncaster, Hoyland, Barnsley, and Rotherham
Volunteers competed for the prizes offered to the 4th West
York battalion. The amount of £l2, in seven prizes, was
shot for by Volunteers who had attended the great Doncas-
ter Review, at 200 and 630 yards ; five shots at each range.
Private Brown (37th) was first, with a score of 30; the two
remaining prizes were won by Private Butler and Private
Bennett (361 h). The champion badge and £lO, eiven by
Lieut.-Col. Stanhope, the money being made into four
prizes, formed a contest in which Corporal Copley (36th)
was first. For the Corporation of Doncaster's prize Private
Butler was first. The shooting throughout was good. The
annual prize shooting of the 3J West York -Volunteers was
much interfered with by the wind. The first-class prizes
seven in number, shot by seven shots at 600 yards, were won
by Quartermaster-Sergeant Woodcock, Sergeant Nunn, and
Private Spence, after a tie among them of 18 points, the
money being divided. Tho other prizes were won by Cor-
poral Milnes, Corporal Lambert, and Private Parrett, who
also divided. Corporal Atkinson was seventh. The second
series of prizes for marksmen and first class shots (the
silver cup and six money prizes) were shot for at 500
yards. After a tie of 21 points, made by seven shots,
Quartermaster Sergeant Woodcock was first. The all
o 'mere' prizes were shot for at 500 yards, seven rounds,
53 entries ; Sergeant-Major Aldridge, Bradford, was
first, with 20 points, and Private Sharman, Halifax, second,
with 19. Mr Sharman won this prize last year, also. A
splendid contest over the ground of the 4th W est York,
for all corners, resulted in the following disposal of the
prizes :—Five rounds at 200 and 500 yards, Corporal Cow-
per, Wakefield, first—and the other prizes, in the order of
their names, to Sergeant Knowles, Guisley—Private Win-
cup, Knaresborough—Sergeant Hawley, Elland—Ensign
Idell, Knareshorough—and Private Clayton, Halifax.
The battalion prize meeting of the North York com-
panies, which was fixed for Tuesday last, in Castle Howard
Park, Malton, has been postponed owing to the serious ill-
ness of the Earl of Carlise, the range being close to his lord-
ship's mansion. The 6th West York Volunteers have also
held their annual prize meeting. In each case of the first,
second, and third companies the captain's silver medal and
other prizes were offered. All ranges were 200 and 300
yards, at each five shots. The winners of first prizes were
—No. 1 company, private Wilson, 27 marks—in No. 2
company, Ensign Crossland, 24—Corporal Radcliffe,
24—and private Muir, 24—in No. 3 Company, Ser-
geant Cliffe, 21, and Colour Sergeant Richardson, 21—
in No. 4 Company, Ensign Freeman, 23—in No. 5 com-
pany, private M'Kee, 22. The Beaumont gold challenge
medal, to be won thrice to give possession, was shot for,
along with 10 given by Mr Brookes, of Meltham, at 150
and 250 yards. The medal was won by Corporal Wigrey.
The head scorers for the money prizes were Corporal Haigh,
22, Privates Muir, Wilson, Hoyle, and Mellor. The Ripon
volunteers have competed for the £25 silver cup, the gift of
Mrs Mason, of Copt Hewick Hall. This cup has to be won
twice to give possession. Last year Corporal Pearce was
the winner ; this year, after shooting off a tie with Ensign
Wood, Private Seaman was the winner. A match between
the A and F companies of the East York Volunteers, five
from each, has resulted in a defeat of the F (Capt Bannis-
ter's) company by 14, the score being 142, against 156 of
the A (Capt Broderick's) company. The match was shot
at 200, 500, and 600 yards. The 37th West York Volun-
teers have held three days' shooting at Burton Grange.
The silver challenge cup, shot for at 200, 400, and 600 yards,
was won, after a tie with Private Popplewell, by Private
Bailey, each having scored 38 points by five phots at each
range. The subscription prizes were won by Privates Butler,
Pigott, and Popplewell. The officers' prizes were won by
Colour Sergeant Gulliver (27, by five shots, at 200 and 300
yards), Privates Bailey and Popplewell. The battalion re-
cruits' prizes were won by Privates Corker, Wag!taff,dand
Senior. Privates Popplewell,
Bailey, and Atkinson tied
for and divided the prizes given by Taylor and Sons.

From tha manufacturing districts the accounts
during the past week have represented that busia
ness generally has been very dull ; the unsettled
state of commercial affairs have almost caused a
cessation of transactions. At Manchester prices
have tended downwards, for both cloths and yarns,
with few buyers in the market. The woollen
trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield, has
been particularly dull, the only dealings having
been to supply immediate home requirements. At
Leicester and Nottingham the hosiery and lace
trades have remained inactive, and the same may
be said of business in the hardware districts of
Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton.
DEATH OF MR DAVID MOF,RIS, M.P.—On Friday
morning, at 20 minutes past 3 o'clock, Mr David
Morris, M.P. for the Carmarthen boroughs, breathed his
last. Air Morris was elected member for Carmarthen in
1837, and he continued to represent the constituency in Par
liament from that time uninterruptedly until his death, a
period of 27 years. He was a thorough and consistent Libe-
ral in politics, being a supporter of the ballot, abolition
ovfercbhira.ir,cahnrd and
he
isathes, extension of the franchise, &e. As a county
much he was uch esteemed, his bendvolence was pro-
verbial, alwayspurse
in
promoting
ready
any len dg
good
ds powerful
object.
fluenceThe
deceased
gentleman was the principal in the old-established
banking firm el Messrs David Morris and Sons, Carmar-
then. lle died at the ripe age of 76. Mr John Gwyn
Jefferies, barrister-at-law' has already signified his intention
of coming forward fcr the vacant seat in the Conservative
interest, and the Liberals intend also to bring forward a
candidate, but th•., choice of the party bas not yet been
made public.

The Mysterious Death on the Metropolitan
Railway.

Yesterday tifternoon at 3 o'clock Dr Lankester, coroner
for Central Middlesex, and the jury empanelled on the 14th
ult., as to the death of a female then unknown, but who has
since been identified as Emma Jane Gollop, aged 31, a mar-
ried woman, who was killed at the Portland-road station of
the Metropolitan (Underground) Railway, on the night of
Saturday, Sept, 10, under most mysterious circumstances,
resumed the inquiry at the board room of Marylebono
Workhouse.

Mr James Burchell, cf the firm of Burchell and Co., of
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, solicitors to the Metropo-
litan Railway Company, as well as some of the directors
and officials of the company, were present to watch the pro-
ceedings, which appeared to excite deep interest. The man
Powell, in whose company the deceased woman was proved
to have been up to the moment of the starting of the train
from the platform, but who previous to the adjournment of
the inquest had not been forthcoming, was now also in at-
tendance, PP well as Mr Prichard, of Creseent-street,Euston-
square, the father of the deceased.
The names of the jury having been called over,
Mr Chas. Prichard, of 3, Crescent-street, Euston-square,
identified the body as that of his daughter, and said she was
the wife of a chairmaker named Henry Gollop. He last saw
her alive between S and 9 o'clock on the evening of her
death, with her husband at the Adam and Eve, in the
Euston-road, Sho was quite sober.
Henry Gollop,:of 15, Earl-street, Lisson-grove, said de-
ceased was his wife. He last saw her alive standing on the
platform of the Portland Station of the Metropolitan Rail-
way, on the moraing of Sunday, Sept. 11, about 10 minutes
past 12. He was then in the train into which he had got at
the Gower-street station a few minutes before. She had
been with him and Powell drinking at the Adam and Eve,
and left her there about 10 o'clock to get some tea and sugar.
When he saw her on the platform she was with the man
Powell. Tho train was in motion and had not stopped. He
called out to her but did not think she heard him, and when
the train stopped ho saw nothing of her or Powell. There
might have been six or seven other people on the platform
at the time.

By Mr Lewis (who represented deceased's relatives)—
When he saw his wife and Powell they were together near
the carriages at the lower end of the platform, towards
Gower-street.

The Coroner said ho understood that Powell was present,
nd as he was not aware that there was any charge against
him, he considered he had better note be examined.

Francis Powell was then sworn. Ho said he resided at
No. 1, Clerendon•street, Seymour •street, Somers Town,
and was an organ builder in the employ of Messrs Hill and
Son, Had been acquainted with the deceased and her family
about nine years. Was with deceased on Saturday night,
the 10th of September. He met her and her -husband at
the Adam and Eve public-house, and had some beer with
them. He left them about ten o'clock, and went to the Sol's
Arms, in the Hampstead-road, and had some beer. When
he came out, Mrs Dollop (deceased) saw him crossing the
road and accosted him, saying her husband had sent her for
some tea and sugar. She then asked him to give her some-
thing to drink, and they went to the house opposite—the
Lord Palmerston. She then wished to go to some more
quiet place, and they went up Charles-street, near Frede-
rick-street, called, ho thought, the King's Arms. There
they had four or five glasses of gin-and-water together.
They left there about a quarter to 12, and he wished her
good night ; but at her entreaty they went into the Cock
Public-hou le, at the corner of Brook •street and Mary-street,
and had some gin. She wanted him to see her home, but
he said it was too far, and he was too tired to come all the
way back again. Deceased then asked him to go as far as
the station, and he did so, On arriving there, deceased said
she would not go unless he (Powell) went too, saying,
"Don't be afraid, I have money for the tickets." He (Powell)
then took two tickets, but was not clear whether he took
them for the Edgware cr Bishop's-read station. He believed
he had some " chaff" with the man who sold the tickets, and
followed deceased on to the platform, and she got up towards
the end of the train, which then began to move slowly, and
on his (Powell's) looking in that direction he saw deceased
falling apparently on her hands and knees.
Coroner—Seeing this, what did you do ?
Powell—Knowing she wan inebriated I ran away and left
her, fearing she would get me as well as herself into trouble
and locked up.

By the C.Jroner—l mean by leaving I got out of the station
as soon as I could. I will swear I did not get into a railway
carriage. I ran partly up one staircase, and finding a barrier
I then went up the other, where there was an official taking
tickets, and as I could not find ono I paid him twopence and
passed, and went away home. I believe I gave the deceased
the tickets. Did not know anything had happened to de-
ceased except falling on the platform, and never heard of it
till the 'Wednesday afternoon following.
Powell was again pressed as to his having got into the
carriage and proceeded to the Edgware-road station, but
positively swore he did not.
Mr Burchell said ho was in a position to produce positive
evidence that one of the two tickets issued to this witness
and deceased was used that night, and delivered up at the
Edgware•,road station by some one, and it could not have
been deceased.

Mr Lewis and several of the jury thought it important to
ascertain positively whether Powell had told a falsehood or
not as to the use of the ticket; but the coroner ruled that
whether the man Powell went to the Portland-road station
or went on to Edgware-road, had no relevance to the cause
of death. It would be different if there was a charge against
him.

Powell, in further examination, said he believed there was
a guard between him and the deceased when she fell. lie had
been drinking since 4 o'clock that afternoon. He could not
identify the rum to whom he gave the twopence, but he Wes
a taller man than himself, with a light beard. He would
swear that he never touched the handle of one of the car-
riages, or attempted to get into any carriage, He was dressed
just the same that night as he was at that moment. He was
aware that the deceased was intoxicate]. He got home to
Clarendon .street about 20 minutes to one. He met deceased's

little girl on the Tuesday following, and asked her how her
father and mother were, and she said her father was very
well, but they had not seen her mother that week. lie
understood this to mean that she had not called at her
father's, where the child was staying. Did not ask if she
was hurt by her fall.
John Haydon, of 25, Heathpool-street, said he was a pas-
senger in the train, and on reaching Portland-road station
saw a female standing at the door of the next compartment.
She looked back, and beckoned a man he supposed was her
husband. She went away, and then came back while the
train was in motion. lie looked out of the carriage window
and saw her uisappear, and at the time there was a guard and
porter either holding her back or helping h n. in, he could
not say which, and he saw them apparently holding on to
the clothing of tho woman between the platform and the
last carriage of the train as it was passing. To his belief
they were either guards or porters. Could not swear to see-
ing Powell.

By the Coroner—Deceased had plenty of time to have goi

into the train if she had got in when she first came to the
carriage door. He was positive it was an official or officials
that had got hold of the woman.
Mr Burchell reminded the Coroner that the previous evi-
dence showed that there was no porter on the platform.
The Coroner said he was aware of that, but the point was
whether there was sufficient time given to the trains at the
stations to set down and take up passengers. fie was bound
to say, in the interests of the public, that he had received
several letters complaining of the practice on this line of
starting trains so rapidly as to leave passengers who were
on the platform behind, and not allowing time to set down
and take up.
Mr Burchell remarked that the time a train stopped at
each station would be regulated by the number of passen-
gers getting in and out.
The Coroner inquired if there was any further evidence,
and a well-executed and, as was stated, a most accurate
photograph of deceased taken a few hours after death, by
Mr A. E. Fradelle, of the Portland Bazaar, Langham-place,
was produced, but the coroner considered her identity had
been sufficiently proved. Having then at some length re-
capitulated and commented upon the evidence, he said he
did not think that any criminal charge had been established
against Powell, but it became a question as to whether pro-
per precautions were taken by the company for the safety of
passengers.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict, "That the de-
ceased, Emma Jane Gollop, was killed whilst attempting
to get into a train on the Metropolitan Railway, on the
the morning of Sept. 11, and that her death was accidental."
They, however, eppend the following resolution to their

verdict :
" The jury empanelled on Sept. 14, and adjourned to
Oct. 1864, at the St. Marylebone Workhouse, on the body
of Emma Jane Gallop, who came by her death on the Me-
tropolitan Railway, on Sept. 11 last, having returned a
verdict of ' Accidental death,' are of opinion that on the
arrival of the train at the Portland-road station, where the
accident happened, there was not a proper complement of
officials to secure the safety of the passengers, and recom-
mend to the attention of the Metropolitan Railway Com-
pany greater caution on this point in future."
The inquiry then terminated.

THE REWARD OF HEROISM AND GALLANTRY.—
Fourteen days ago we chronicled the gallant rescue of a
child from the flooded saters of the Teviot by a labourer
named M'Guire. The brave fellow of course lost some time
in the performance of the gallant act and in changing his
wet clothes afterwards, and we are ore' ibly informed that
his em,l,,yer in paying him his wages deducted the value of
the hour's work, 3-Id, from his hardly won earnings,—
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TlMES.—Although the visit of the Prince and
Princess of Wales is, whatever may be insinuated
or argued to the contrary at this dull season of the
year, when every event is made to bear at least as
heavy a superstructure of conjecture as it is possible
for it to support, entirely without any political sig-
nificance whatever, it is impossible for the people of
this country not to regard with sincere interest the
reception of this young and illustrious pair, and to
feel an almost domestic interest in their proceedings
and adventures. The expedition to Denmark, it may
be conceded, now that it is over, was rather a
hazardous experiment. It was much to expect that
these good Danes, in the midst of the unparalleled
misfortunes which have recently fallen upon them,
should distinguish between the Prince and the
nation of which they believe they have so much
reason to complain. It is a strong proof of the
generous hospitality of the national character, and
also, we may add, of the affection which the young
Princess has conciliated for herself among her
father's subjects, that their reception in
Copenhagen has been marked by so much kind-
ness and cordiality. We could not have been
angry, we could not have been surprised, had
some outburst of popular feeling clouded the
splendour of the reception accorded to the heir
apparent to the Crown. Nothing of the kind, how-
ever, seems to have occurred, and, on the contrary,
the Danish nation seems to have forgotten for a
while its sorrows and its anxieties in the presence
of its beloved Princess. The extension of the jour.
flea- to Stockholm was liable to none of these incon-
veniences; there was no reason whatever to expect
anything but the utmost kindness and cordiality.
The visit had besides an interest of its own.
Friendly as have been our relations with the Swe-
dish Monarchy, we do not remember any visit to
Stockholm by any part of our Royal Family. For
some reason or other our connection with Denmark
has been much closer, and instances will occur to
every one of the frequent intermarriages between
the two Royal families. Yet whatever may be said
of the glories of ancient times, there is no kingdom
of the North that has filed so large a space in the
eye of the world as Sweden. Her daring has ever
been greater than her power, and her valour has
never failed to answer the heaviest demands which
her race of Sovereigns, not over-sparing of the lives
of their subjects, have made uponit. The names of
Gustavus Vasa and of Gustavus Adolphus and of
Charles XII. stand out like beacons in modern his-
tory, and the fact that the Crown of Sweden is now
held by the descendant of one of Napoleon's Gene-
rale, the only one who was able to come unscathed
out of the tremendous vortex in which the First
Empire went down, adds romantic interest of its
own. But Stockholm has other attractions than
those associations which Swedish history so largely
supplies, Though the climate is severe and the
situation remote, there is no city possessed of a more
beautiful site or calculated to make a more vivid
impression on the mind of a visitor than Stockholm.
Imagine the countless islands in Clew Bay, on the
western coast of Ireland—which live, as Thackeray
says, like golden dolphins in the setting sun—to be
li
multiplied to almost any c ceivable extent, and
imagine a beautiful city, with vast and splendid
public buildings, to be spread over this wonderful
archipelago, with all the animation of boats and
shipping which the western coast of Ireland un-
happily wants, and you may gain some faint idea of
the charms which the Venice of the North display
in lavish profusion. The rough breezes of the Bal tic
are no courtiers, and it unfortunately happened that
the voyage of the Royal yacht was protracted by
adverse weather. It was the desire. of the Prince
of Wales to visit Sweden under the incognito of his
well-known title of Baron Renfrew, but this by no
means accorded with the wishes of the kind and
hospitable people when] he cameto visit. Nothing,
indeed, could be less like a private visit than the
reception which was prepared for the Prince and
Princess of Wales. The whole city seems to have
turned out to meet their Royal guests, but hour
after hour passed away, daylight was succeeded by
the long twilight of the North, and twilight in its
turn faded into night, and still they did not come.
In this emergency the Swedish authorities showed
an energy and power of adapting themselves to cher
cums Lances which we are not always accustomed to
observe. Torches were distributed, the Palace was
in some measure illuminated, and blue lights were
sent up so as to show the landing with a clearness
scarcely inferior to that of day. The Prince of
Wales was induced to renounce his intention of ap-
pearing in plain clothes, and assumed, at the re-
quest of Prince Oscar, a dress better suited to the
publicity of the occasion. A dinner and a visit to
the theatre, where the Swedish National Anthem
was performed—which we are told closely resembles
our own—and a return home amid the applause of
the multitude, concluded what must have been an
exciting and fatiguing day. To the theatre, which
the Prince and Princess of Wales thus visited almost
immediately on their arrival, attaches a gloomy
historic interest. It was the scene of the assassina-
tion of King Gustavus 111, by Anarkstrom, just at
the time when that adventurous and romantic
monarch was meditating a crusade against that very
French Revolution which was destined to place a
new dynasty on the throne of Sweden. Nothing
seems to have been wanting to do honour to their
guests on the part of the King and Queen, and
the whole affair of the reception seems to have
passed off with a heartiness and cordiality which
we are not in the he bit of always attributing to
persons filling the highest place among mankind.
We shall very sincerely rejoice if this short visit and
the hearty kindness with which it is welcomed are
the means of drawing c:eser the ties which unite us
to cur kinsmen on the coast of the Baltic. Symp-
toms of late years have appeared of a tendency to
study with more care and attention the antiquities
and language of nations which have supplied Europe
with its aristocracy from the Orkneys to the Straits
of Messina. We are becoming conscious that the
best points of our national character and the noblest
part of our language are derived from those North-
men of whom our ancesters thought so much terror
and so much involuntary admiration. Condemned
to struggle against a severe climate and against a
nature niggard of gifts and prodigal only of hard-
ships arid severities, they have been outrun in the
acquisition of wealth and the increase of population
by nations possesoing more fertile lands and more
temperate climates, but no other superiority. Man
is still what he was a thousand years ago—the
noblest product of the North, and those stormy and
barren regions possess a population which for
strength, manliness, and hardihood may compare
with any people on the earth. It is worth the while
of one who is one day to be himself a King of
men to visit those lands which have been from im-
memorial time the cradle of great conquerors and
mighty nations. Such a scene must be full of an
interest that may well give rise to serious refleeions.
Is England, in the lap of an unexampled prosperity,
and provided as she is with every contrivance for
saving the labour of her people and protecting them
from the inclemency of the elements, destined to
retain those sterner and rougher qualities which she
derives from the North, and which have been, no
doubt, the groundwork of her success ? Can any-
thing be done to unite these Scandinavian races, to
whom mankind, after all, owes so much, into a single
compact State, capable, with the assistance of
stormy seas, cold winters, and desolate frontiers, of
defending itself effectively against the great mili-
tary despotisms under which Europe seems deter-
mined to range itself ? Is the catastrophe of Den-
mark only a first step towards the subjugation of
the North, or will it teach the inhabitants of Scan-
dinavia to seek in union that strength which they
never needed more than at the present moment ?

POST.—Even were the efforts of the Manchester
Cotton Supply Association to be productive of no
other result, they are at least valuable as tending
to collect and tabulate the returns which are prac-
tically the most reliable source of information
which we possess as to the prospects of our future
supply of this invaluable staple. The Executive
Committee would now seem to be fairly recognised
as a sort of legitimate depot for all the informs',
tion which can be obtained upon a subject so im-
portant to the world in general, as well as to thou-
sands of our own fellow-countrymen in particular.
The Government is willing and able to afford sub-
stantial assistance, by communicating the pith of
the Indian despatches, and the reports of our con-
suls all over the world. Private adventurers or
speculators are only too happy to have an oppor-
tunity of ventilating their own schemes through
such a channel. Even foreign potentates are glad
to take advantage of the existence of a body through
whom they may make known their intentions as to
the cultivation of cotton, and from whom they can
obtain valuable hints as to the conditions under
which alone its:cultivation can be attempted with
a fair prospect of success. And thus it comes to pass
that a non-official association of a purely commer-
cial character is gradually invested with all the
authority, and consequently with all the responsi.
bilities, which attach to a regular statistical depart-
ment of the State. It can now no longer be doubted
that—corn, perhaps, alone excepted—cotton can be
grown over a larger area of the surface of the whole
earth than any other vegetable product. Whether it
can be grown at a profit depends, of course, upon
the market price of the raw material, on the possi-
bility of obtaining seed of the proper quality, and
upon the skill which is available upon the spot for
its cultivation. Nor will all kinds of seeds suit
every soil. Special reference must be had to the
character and chemical attributes of the land which is
selected for the experiment, and such seed must be
employed as experience has proved does well under
similar conditions. Thus, it has been found by the
Madras authorities that Peruvian cotton, although
vastly superior in quality to " Surat," being longer

girths.
BULLER.—On the 2d inst., at The Grove, Isle of Portlaocif
the wife of Capt. Buller, of a son.
CHETWYND.—On the 30th ult., the wife of the Hon. C.
Chetwynd, of a daughter.
CUMPERBATCII.—On the Ist inst., at The Queen's IDTISheI.
Lyndhurst, the wife of Lawrence Henry Cumberbatc-'
Esq., of a son.
itch
LORD.—On the 2d inst., 9, Albion-road, Finchleyrf
the wife of Henry William Lord, Esq,, barrister-st'a
of a daughter.

Marriages.
TOWNSEND.—BURGH,—On the 25th ult., Henry J• T•
d
Townsend, Esq., of Cavenage, Gloucestershire, leteld
Life Guards, only son of the Rev. Maurice Gitz-Geraof
Stephens Townsend, of Castle Tom nsend, and vigvicar.J
Thcrnbury, to Jane A. C., eldest daughter of L
Hussey de Burgh, Esq., of Kilfirmin, county of Geri" t,
TUCKEY.—POTTER —On the Ist inst , at St Mary's, WAe,ija
minster, Henry Phelps Tuckey, Esq., to Adart
Potter, daughter of H. Potter, Esq., Vincent-square.
Deaths.
Buns.—On the 2d inst., at 17, Fortress-terrace, Sent';
town, the wife of George Bubb, librarian, 167, '—
Bond-street,
Di sox.—On the Ist inst., at Toepits, Watford, x rp.'"-
t,,, noe
E. Dyson, Esq., aged 78.
llAittaff Di
E Commander—On R
the 30th
lta.,gaetd 77.3cVha11. Jas. Hardie,V4
S'
MANN.-0a the 2d inst., at Liscard, Cheshire,
Mann, Esq., aged 59. Ai 0.
PAGET. —On the 19th August, killed on board
Phaeton, at sea, W. Indies, by the tall of a block frer.
aloft, while in the execution of his duty, Charles .11-,;•
Paget, Lieut. R.N, third son of Lord and Lady
Paget, aged 32.
REEVE.—On the 2d inst., at Leadenham House. Lincoln,
shire, General John Reeve, Colonel of the 61st Reg'
went.

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