The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-07 00:00:00

No. 22,239,

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STAR AND GARTER HOTEL COMPANY
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The Right Hon. the Lord de Tabley, Chairman.
The Hon. Gerald Chetwynd Talbot, Deputy Chairman.
In reply to numerous inquiries, the Directors of this Com-
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The whole of' the capital of the Star and Garter Company is
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By order,
AUGUSTUS BROWNE, Secretary.
17 n, Great George-street, Westminster,

6th October, 1863.

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THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLARA, the
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HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
_ _

In the week that ended last Saturday 1,274 deaths were
registered in London. The average number of deaths in ten
corresponding weeks (1853. 62), with the omission of deaths
from cholera in the 40th week of 1851, and with a correction
for increase of population, becomes 1,159. The present re-
turn shows an excess of 116 above the estimated number.
There were 22 fatal cases of smallpox in the week, showing
a further decrease on those of previous weeks. Scarlatina
still prevails much, and shows a tendency to increase; the
deaths from it rose to 154 last week. Five deaths from this
latter disease occurred in Kensington-town sub-district, 8
in Kentish-town, 9 in Islington, 9 in Limehouse, and 7 in
St. Peter, Walworth.

Thirteen deaths from syphilitic disease were registered;
10 of these among children. Phthisis was fatal in 160 cases.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Orders for the present disposition of the Channel
squadron were received at Devonport yesterday. The
flagship Edgar, which requires to be docked, will,
with the Warrior, the Resistance, and the Emerald,
leave Plymouth Sound for Portsmouth. The Black
Prince, Royal Oak, and Defence are ordered to dis-
charge their powder and shell, and to go up Ha'
moaze. The Black Prince will be docked at Devon-
port.

The old line-of-battle sailing ship Duncan, 74,
having been entirely broken up at Chatham Dock-
yard, a portion of the shipwrights and labourers
entered for the purpose of breaking her up were
discharged from the yard yesterday: The remainder
of the hired mechanics and other hands are retained
in the Dockyard for the purpose of breaking up one
of the mortar vessels from the fleet lying at Yant-
let-creek, the recent survey of the squadron of mor-
tar vessels by the Dockyard officials having led to
the discovery of some of the boats being in an exceed-
ingly rotten and altogether useless condition, and
only fit to be taken to pieces. The remainder of the
vessels are to be taken, from time to time, and con-
verted into lighters and transports for service at the
several dockyards. The whole of the old line-
of-battle and other sailing ships which encumber
the river Medway between Chatham and the Nore
have undergone a recent.suivey, in order to ascer-
tain their condition preparatory to an order from the
Lords of the Admiralty for those unfitted to be re-
tained on the list of reserve sailing ships to be broken
up. The number of these vessels is between 50 and
60, and few of them have seen any service for a num-
ber of years. Nearly the whole of them, it has been
ascertained are altogether unfitted for service at sea,
but several of their number would be found ad-
mirably adapted to serve as block or guard
ships for the protection of our large ports and
harbours, among which are the Devonshire, 72,
the Ganges, 84, the Chichester, 50, the Minotaur,
72, the Vanguard, 80, the Warspite, 50, and the
Southampton, 50.
The Lords of the Admiralty have abandoned the
intention of again despatching the iron paddle-
wheel steamer Recruit, 6, 150 horse power, to sea,
her performance on the occasion of her last trip
having proved that she is not adapted for a long
voyage, and have decided on converting her to a
tender for conveying the mechanics and other work-
men at Chatham to and from the dockyard to the
iron frigate Achilles, which, on being nndocked,
will be removed to the entrance of the harbour, at
Gillingham-reach, where she will be completed for
sea. The officials at Chatham Dockyard are to re-
port to the Admiralty whether they consider the
Recruit to be adapted for the proposed service.
The recent firing at 51-inch armour plates on the
side of the Monarch target ship at Portsmouth was
attended with an unusual degree of interest, owing
to the fact of its being the first time the four lead-
ing firms in England had supplied plate of equal
thickness of metal for trial. They consisted of one
each from Messrs. John Brown and Co., of Shef-
field, the Mersey Iron and Steel Works, the Thames
Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, and the
Millwall Company. All four were good plates, but
with varying degrees of excellence. Messrs. John
Brown and Co.'s plate is the best of the four. Four
shots struck this plate in a vertical line, but they
opened no cracks in the same direction, nor other-
wise, except in the indents. Two of these shots
overlapped each other three inches, but the result
of the two blows only produced an indent of two
inches and a half in depth—an unprecedentedly
favourable result as showing the excellent resisting
power of the iron. Eight shots struck within
three feet of the left of the plate, and three of
them on the very edge, but only produced the
usual small cracks exhibited by this firm's plates
within the circumference of the indents. No
signs of concentric cracks are shown round the in-
dentations of these edge blows. The Mersey plate
received 13 shots in all, and stood very well for the
" first" rolled plate produced by this firm. The
metal has a soft appearance, and seemed of good
quality, but there was a tendency in it to crack ver-
tically—a fault which will, doubtless, be guarded
against in future productions. The Millwall plate
was not of so good a quality as the sk-inch plates
previously sent in for trial by the firm. The weld-
ing was very faulty. It received 11 shots. The
Thames Company's plate was very severely injured
by the nine shots fired against it striking on the
weakest points. Five struck in an area of three
feet by 18 inches, and three of them joining in their
circumference of indents. The effect, however, was
only slight, though numerous cracks were made
from the severe pounding the iron had received.
The gun used was the ordinary 68-pounder, and
cast-iron shot with 161 b. of powder, at 260 yards'
range. On the day following the trial of the plates
a smooth-bore 100-pounder gun was shipped from
the Excellent on board the Foam gunboat, and the
latter vessel proceeded up the harbour, and took up
a 200-yards position from the target ship and the
plates she had fired at with her 68-pounder on the
previous day. A shot was fired at each plate with
a 251 b. charge of powder, and in all but one instance
the damage inflicted appeared to be commensurate
with the increased weight of the shot and size of
the charges, as compared with the 68-pounder. A
further careful inspection hardly confirms this
belief. In all but one instance the plates had been
damaged by previous firing from the 68-pounder,
and no fair inference could therefore be drawn
from the results. In the one instance referred to
the Milwall plate was struck fairly in an unin-
jured part by the round 100-pound shot,
end the result was—diameter of indent, 10
in. ; depth of indent, 3 in. There were cracks
across the centre of the indent. The average diame-
ter of the indent from the blows of a 68-pounder is
9 inches with a depth of 21 inches. The Monarch
is now having plates bolted on her sides for further
experimental firing, including a trial plate for the
Research from the Butterly Company, and one from
the Thames Company for the Minotaur.
The Columbine, 4, screw sloop, Commander Thos.
Le H. Ward, has
been berthed alongside Ports-
mouth dockyard to refit and have her defects made
good prior to proceeding on special service to the
Pacific.

PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday.

Last week the births of 1,037 boys 898 girls, in all
1,935 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,736.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29'660in. The reading de -
creased from 30.05 in on Sunday to 29.09 in on Thursday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 52 deg,
which is 1.8 deg below the average of the same week in 43
years (as determained by Mr. Welsher). The highest day
temperature was 63.2 deg on Wednesday. The lowest night
temperature was 35 deg on the same day. The range of
temperature in the week, and also on that day, was there-
fore 28.2 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point
temperature and air temperature was 41 deg. The mean
degree of humidity of the air was 84, complete saturation
being represented by 100. On Saturday the humidity rose
to 96. The wind blew on six days from the south west. The
rain measured was 0.78 in.

In the 13 weeks that ended the 26th of September 17,105
deaths were registered in London. Of that number 9,821
or considerably more than half, occurred to persons under
20 years of age. The number of persons who died at 80
years of ago and upwards was only 449. The diarrhoea that
prevails in summer, scarlatina, and small-pox have been
very fatal; and as regards the two former diseases the suf-
ferers in a great proportion of cases were children.
In the healthy summer (July, August, September) of 1860,
in which the moan temperature of the air was as low as 56.8
deg., the deaths were less than 13,000 ; and in the summer
of 1859, when the mean temperature was as high as 62.9
deg., the deaths were 16,000. They were 17,105, as has been
stated, in the same three months of the present year, the
mean temperature of which was 59.2 deg. The excess of
last quarter over the same period of 1859 is about 1,100,
and is due to a certain extent to increase of population.
Smallpox was fatal in the quarter in 512 cases, of which
160 occurred at 20 years of age and upwards. This malady
has been unusually prevalent. But the deaths from scarla-
tina were far more numerous ; they rose to 1,519 ; and those
from diarrhoea and summer cholera were 1,938.
The following are sub-districts in which the deaths from
smallpox were most numerous :—Kensington-town, where
there were 17--St. Margaret, Westminster, 11—Reotory,
Marylebone, ; 11—Tottenham-court, 13—St. Andrew East,
16—W hitecross-sta eet, 12--St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 11—
Hoxton New-town, 10—Haggerstone West, 10—Hagger-
stone East, 12—Mile•end Old-town East, 10. There were
comparatively few deaths from smallpox in the districts on
the south side of the river, as will appear when the larger
population of that division is taken into account.
Scarlatina was particularly fatal in the east districts,
where it numbered 459. Many deaths from this disease
occurred also in Kensington-town, St. John, Westminster,
Rectory Marylebone, Somers-town, Kentish-town, Isling-
ton, West London North, Walworth, Rotherhithe, and
Deptford.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. P. Barrow,
Lieut. R. M. Lloyd, Lieut. F. C. de Lougada, and
Lieut. W. W. Paynder to the Nile ; Lieut. R. Evans
to the Alert ; Lieut. F. B. Herbert to the Canopus ;
W. S. Goodridge and Anthony Gwyn, naval cadets,
to the Sutlej ; Thomas Fulton, assist.-surg., to Ply-
mouth Hospital ; John T. Moore, assist.-surg., to
the Indus ; John M. Hunter, assist.-surg., to the
Formidable, for the Lizard ; and Robert Harwood,
master's assistant, to the Fox,

Diarrhoea appears to have spread with great severity
among the children of Islington, and of the sub-district of
Christchurch, Marylebone.

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whole under the command of Lieut.-Col. E.
Newdigate. On Major-Gen. Rumley arriving on
the parade ground the various corps were formed
in open columns of companies, and a rigid inspec-
tion of the clothing, arms, accoutrements, and kits
of the non-commissioned officers and men insti-
tuted. The battalion was then put through the
manual and platoon exercises, followed by the bayo-
net drill, the various captains of companies being
called to the front and tested in their drill by
Major-Gen. Rumley, who took up his position at
the saluting-post, when the battalion marched past
in slow and quick time. This portion of the in-
spection was well got through, considering that
the second depot battalion at present consists almost
entirely of very young soldiers. The inspection
was brought to a close by the troops being put
through a variety of battalion field movements, in
the execution of which they acquitted themselves
satisfactorily. The inspection terminated shortly
before 12, and yesterday afternoon was devoted by
Major-Gen. Rumley to the customary inspection of
the books, records, and other documents of each
depot and battalion.

sir S. D. Elphinstone and Sir F. T. Baring
on our Foreign Policy.

Last evening the 109th anniversary of the Bene-
ficial Society was celebrated by a dinner, at which
there were about 120 gentlemen present, including
Sir D. Elphinstone, Bart., M.P., Sir F. T. Baring,
Bart., M.P., Sir S. C. Jervoise, Bart., M.P., J, B.
Carter, Esq., M.P., Mr. Sergeant Gasalee, &c.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been
duly honoured,

gr. Alderman SHEPPARD gave " The Borough
members," which was well received.

- Sir S. D. ELPIIINSTONE returned thanks, and
after some remarks on local matters, said—With re-
gard to foreign politics, he could not say anything
which
might think worthy of much notice, but
still they
he would say a few words, This country recog-
nised the right of a people to choose their own Go-
vernment, and encouraged them in every way to
adopt those rules which they preferred. They had
remonstrated with Russia, sympathised with Italy,
and defended Greece; and the Foreign Secretary
had said, in reference to the horrible bloodshed in
Mexico, that so long as the people were satisfied
with the description of rule under which they were
ed, they had no right to interfere. Coming
govern
to America, the hon. baronet said the blood of Eng-
lishmen
found
ran in their veins, and their names would
b
nd in every village churchyard in this country.
At the 6eginning of the struggle in the United States
of America, he must confess that he cordially sym-
pathised with the Southern States of America.
(Cheers.) He repudiated as much as any man the
practice of slavery, but the curse under which they
now rested came from this country. It would be ne-
cessary that there should be a most careful footing
anda
firm basis before the attempt was made to era-
dicateneou
slavery in that country, or they would have to
n
ter the horrors of one of the most dreadful
e
eruptions it was possible to conjecture. (Cheers.) The
hon. baronet urged that this country had assisted
other
countries where the foul blot of slavery was as
deeply implanted as it was in America. They went to
wardefend the Turkish empire, but they hesitated
to assist
Confederate States. But they were told
that two ships had been arrested at Liverpool on the
they were men-of-war for the Southern
tothe
Well, it was only at the beginning of last week
men left Liverpool—there was not a woman
plea that
or child oh7ilodon board—they were Irish, Scotch, and Ger_
Ina d it was the opinion of every one who was
cognisant of the circumstances, that in less than a
week after landing they would be marching, with
muskets
in their hands, manufactured at B:rming-
ham, in the front of a Federal regiment. (Hear,
hear.)
wss there any difference between the equip-
ment of a regiment and the equipment of a ship ?
(Cheers.) Each was a perfect machine in itself,
and it ought to be precisely the same with regard
o
gn relations. (Hear, hear.) They were
further told
that it was the intention of the Govern-
ment, if a conviction could not be obtained against
t our foreign
the contractors of the ships, to ask Parliament to
pass alax to enable them to detain them. (Hear,
hear.) The same law should apply to both parties
with regard to every munition of war, and no at-
tempt should be made to distort or pervert existing
laws. (Hear.) After some further observations,
r
n e
resources,t sai d
the Federal Government,
thewith
h oan b
all
theira had never succeeded in
building iron ships. Their ships were built by con-
tractors and were lying tractors useless in the harbour of
Charleston. The hon. baronet also expressed his
opinion that our iron fleet was constructed upon a
wrong principle, and that in any future naval en-
gagement the two great points must be rapidity of
firing and rapidity of manoeuvring. They would
find it impossible to manoeuvre with the present
fleet. What they required was ships which would
go 12 knots an hour, and carry two guns in cupolas.
(Cheers.) Half-a-dozen of these would be worth a
dozen Warriors in deciding any future wars. (The
hon. baronet resumed his seat amid loud cheers.)
Sir F. T. BARING (Who Was enthusiastically
expressing
re-
ceived), after his thanks for the kind
reception himself and his colleagues had received,
said he could not entirely agree with everything
his hon. friend had told them. He would begin by
saying that they had not done very much last ses-
sion, but they were not to blame for that, as they
had little to do, and the wisest course when they
had nothing to do was to do nothing. All great
questions had been settled, and everything upon
which they could make a fight had been a'ready
decided. Undoubtedly small things were done, and
important small matters were discussed and carried.
There were no great grievances to redress, and acts
of Parliament were only required to cure existing
evils. If no evils existed, then no acts of Parlia-
ment were required. He would now turn to one or
two questions which he would not shrink from. He
agreed with Lord Russell that the Government
were not in fault in their protest to Russia in refe-
rence to Poland. (Hear.) He did not pretend to
say that they did not all have their sympathies, but
statesmen bad something more to guide them than
the impulse of their feelings. This country had a
right to remonstrate with Russia, as she was bound
by the treaties of 1815; but with reference to in-
terfering with any country where no treaty existed,
it was a question of policy whether they should do
it or not. (Hear.) He had read the speech of Lord
Russell, and he highly approved the kind feeling
which he expressed throughout in behalf of those
on the other side of the water. (Hear.) Whatever
sympathies or feelings they might have, every one
must view with the deepest regret that scene of
bloodshed and horror. (Hear.) What the result
would be it would be it was difficult to prophecy;
but he fully concurred with the noble lord (Earl
Russell) that the policy of England was of perfect
neutrality. (Hear.) They should have no feelings
on one aide
or the other; they were neutrals, and
bound to act as neutrals. They had duties of neu-
trality to perform, and were bound to perform those
duties honestly. (Hear.) The question for this coun-
try was whether it would be conducive to its best
interests to interfere and declare its opinion_ In
the case of the two vessels detainee! by the Govern-
ment, ho could not give his opinion as to whether
it was a just cause of detention, as he did not 'mow
the facts, but they were bound to carry out the law
of nations, and if existing laws were not sufficiently
stringent to enable them to do so, they had no doubt
a right to make them. It was the policy of the
country to be fairly and honestly neutral; and if
the law was changed while the struggle wns going
on they were bound to consider whether they might
not subject themselves to some charge. (Cheers.)
After a few other remarks the hon. baronet sat down
amidst applause which ,a as continued for some time.

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PE1CE..........4d.
STAMPED .....sd.

FINE ARTS.

THE NEW NATIONAL ART TRAINING SCROOLS
Souni KENSINGTON.—These new schools, which were
opened yesterday, are the first permanent buildings Which
have been provided for the National Art Training Schools.
The premises hitherto afforded the art classes but a tempo-
rary accommodation. In the first instance, in 1837, when
the School of Design was instituted, the classes were held
in rooms on the second floor in Somerset House, once occu-
pied by the Royal Academy. In 1852 the classes met in
Marlborough House, whet o the Queen, at the intervention
of the Prince Consort, graciously permitted a training
school for teachers for the schools of art throughout the
country to be first established. Those schools afterwards
removed in 1856 to wooden buildings at South Kensington.
The present buildings are of plain brick, and are substan-
tial, fire. proof, and adapted to those requirements of an art
school, which experience during a quarter of a century has
shown to be necessary in providing light,both in theday-time
and evening, as well as ventilation, heating, Sz.c. A separate
series of rooms has been constructed for male and female
classes, the entrances to which are in Exhibition-road.
The new buildings form the north and west side of the
inner quadrangle of the building, the plan of which was ap-
proved by the select committee of the House of Commons
in 1860.

The courses of instruction to be pursued in the school
are intended to give a systematic training to teachers, male
and female, in the practice of art, and in the acquirement of
its scientific primiples, for the purpose of qualifying them
to impart the knowledge lo attained to others, to develop its
application to the common uses of life, and to employ its
advantages in the requirements of trade and manufactures.
Special courses of instruction are arranged to qualify
masters of parochial and other schools for the teaching of
elementary drawing as a part of general education, con-
currently with writing. The general system of instruction
embraces the following divisions of art :—Freehand, archi-
tectural and mechanical drawing, practical geometry and
perspective, painting in oil, tempera, and water .colours,
modelling, moulding, and casting. The classes for draw-
ing, painting, and modelling, include architectural and
ornamental design, besides flowers, still life, &c., figures
from life and from the antique, and the study of anatomy
required by an artist.
There are to be sessions in the year, each lasting
five months, the one commencing on the Ist of March and
the other on the let of October ; and they end on the last
day of February and the last day in July respectively.
The classes meet daily, except on Saturdays, and the
hours of study will be in the day from ten to three, and
in the evening from seven to nine. Besides these, there
are other numerous engagements to suit the means, the
leisure and taste of most persons desirous of taking advantage
of the facilities the establishment now offers them. District
schools have now been called into existence in connection
with the training school, and are situated in about a dozen
widely distant parts of London. A living model class has
been arranged for artists and advanced students, which is
a most valuable addition to the training school. The time
of study is from seven to nine every evening, and
the terms are at the reasonable sum of £3 for each
session. Artizans will also have a class in which they
are to be taught elementary drawing, geometry, perspective,
mechanical and architectural drawing, at the low charge of
10s per session for three evenings in the week, and for five
evenings in the week the charge will be 15s. per session.
Lectures on anatomy, as far as is required by art, and on
botany, are already announced, and it is stated that lectures
will be occasionally delivered. The year will conclude with
an examination for medals and other prizes in all the
schools, The arrangements throughout the schools are in-
finitely more complete than this country could ever boast of
before, and all wo can say is, that if the rising generation
do not take a position in art on an equality with other
nations artistic eminence is not to be fostered and en-
couraged, by the most ample appliances that can be brought
together for art instruction.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (Ireland).

The report of Mr. Donnelly, the Registrar- General, to
the Lord Lieutenant has just been published. It is dated
the 28th of last month. Mr. Donnelly says :-" The statis-
tical abstracts have:been, as in former years, compiled from
returns obtained by members of the constabulary and
metropolitan police, who, to the number of nearly 4,000,
were selected to act as enumerators. They have per-
formed this duty in their usual effectual manner. In the
course of revision some change may be made in the figures
now published, but I delnot apprehend that alterations of
any consequence will be necessary. The enumeration-
which extends over about 606,000 distinct holdings-com-
menced this year on the 2d June, and terminated in the
middle of July. There would appear to be a decrease of
91,555 acres in the extent under wheat this year, compared
with 1862; of 28,512 in that under oats, 21,064 in barley,
3,504 in bare and rye, and of 54 acres in beans and peas-
m akin g a total decrease in the acreage under cereals of 144,719
acres, or 51 acres in every 100. The extent under potatoes
has increased by 5,514 acres, cabbage by 3,455 acres, and
carrots, parsnips, and other green crops by 4,910 acres ;
while turnips show a decrease of 25,355 acres; mangel
wurzel and beet root of 6,760, and vetches and rape of 1,152
acres; making a net decrease of 19,358 acres under green
crops in 1863, compared with the previous year. The de-
crease in the extent of land under crops this year compared
with 1862, is 92,431 acres, cereal and green crops having
diminished by 161,077 acres-and meadow and flax in-
creased by 71,646-flax alone to the extent of 63,922 acres.
The total are under flax this year amounts to 213,922 acres,
which exceeds by 39,413 acres the greatest extent sown
in any year since these statistics commenced, in 1847.
The fluctuations between 1862 and 1863 in the acreage
under crops, grass, fallow, woods and plantations, and
bog and waste unoccupied, aro exhibited by provinces
in the succeeding table, by which there would appear to be
a decrease of land under crops in every province. Grass
lands have increased in Ulster and Connaught by 25,260
acres; and decreased in Leinster and Munster by 7,537
acres, leaving a net increase of 17,723 acres. Fallow has
increased in the provinces of Munster, tri!t4, b
rand
Con-
naught by 1,675 acres ; and decreased in Leinstery 3,238
d
acres. Woods and plantations are returned as
having e.
creased in Leinster by 1,743 acres, and increased hav
in the other
provinces to the amount of 3,158 acres; and the bog and
waste unoccupied would appear to 74,856 acres. As compared
with 1855 there is an increase of 22,892 horses, a decrease
of 426,125 cattle, a decrease of 298,411 sheep, and a decrease
of 112,803 pigs. As compared with 1862 there is a decrease
116,615 cattle, a decrease of 152,201 sheep, and a de-
crease of 89,522 pigs. It is satisfactory, however, to notice
an increase in Ireland of 12,771 cattle, under the head of one
year old and under two years, and of 19,148 under one year.
The value of live stock is calculated according to the rates
assumed by the Census Commissioners of 1841, viz.:--For
horses, £3 each ; cattle, £6 lOs ; sheep, 22s ; and pigs, 25s
each. In this way the horses are estimated to be worth
£4,633,432, an increase of £183,136 upon the value in 1855,
and a decrease of £189,720 upon that of 1862; cattle,
£20,398,788, a decrease of £2,769,812 upon 1855; and of
£757,977 upon 1862; sheep, £3,634,324, a decrease of
£328,252 upon 1855; and of £167,421 upon 1862; pigs,
£1,331,002, a decrease of £141,004 upon 1855, and of
£111,903 upon 1862 ; total live stock, £29,997,546, a de-
crease of £3,055,932 upon 1855, and of £1,227,041 upon
1862. The returns of tillage and live stock from which the
general abstracts have been compiled are derived from in-
formation given voluntarily to the enumerators by the
owners and occupiers of land throughout the country; and
bag to state that the particulars required have been most
readily afforded in the present year. This year the names of
only four persons were reported to me by the enumerators as
having declined to furnish them with the requisite particu-
lars respecting the tillage and stock on their farms-a cir-
cumstance which is highly creditable to the farming classes
in this country. The increase in the "Bog and Waste
Unoccupied" is owing to the withdrawal of live stock
from the mountain and boggy pastures, consequent upon
the decrease in stock caused by the four last unfavour-
able years; but it may be reasonably assumed that, with
a continuance of genial seasons, the tracts of mountain and
boggy pastures which, from the causes mentioned, are
not this year occupied by cattle, will ere long resume their
former position, and contribute to the agricultural wealth of
the country. The average produce of the crops cannot be
satisfactorily ascertained until after the general harvest has
been gathered in ; but from inquiries which I have made in
many well-informed quarters, as well as from the very
favourable accounts given by the provincial press in all parts
of the country, it may be fairly estimated that the yield of
the cereal crops in particular this year will prove above the
average which has been known for many seasons in Ireland ;
and although there is a falling off in the total acreage, yet
it is confidently expected that it will be compensated by theo
abundant produce of almost all crops-the total va o
bhat!.
which, it has been computed, will in 1563 exceed
ntd
the crops of last year by several millions sterling, ,
eal e
ap-
proximate to that of some of our best years. u fltinx al
the increase in value over 1862, caurcd by
utinniarrygieerldaearned-
ago of 63,922 acres, combined with then a
amount 000,000.
superior quality, will, it is expectedt,da_ur
ug .
the first seven
The number of persons who emigraa rated
50,506, being an in.
months of the year 1862 amounts
n 3
number who left the
';
crease of 34,607 persons overdting period of 1862.
Ireland since the lst Mahye,
country during the correspoam
entire number of emigrants fri!
1851, when their enumeration commenced, amounts to
1,378,333.

THE OIITWABD CAPE MAILS.--PLYMOUTH, Oct.
6.—The mail steanthhiP Briton left Plymouth this evening
with 50
wagers and the Cape mails, containing 20 sacks
letters, 9P:mck, papers, and. 12 kaelf,t3 books.