The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

Dwellings of the Working Classes.

On Saturday, at 1 o'clock, Lord Stanley held a
conference at the Mansion-house with a number of
gentlemen in the City of London—merchants,
bankers, members of the corporation, and others,
who interest themselves in the domestic accommo-
dation of the industrial classes. The object of the
meeting was to form an association of 20 or 30 gentle-
men, protected by the Limited Liability Act, and
having a capital of from £25,000 to £50,000 to be
invested in a number of improved dwellings. There
were present, among others, the Hon. F. Byng,
Alderman Finnis, Alderman Wai:erlow, Mr. Henry
Kingscote, Mr. Henry Vieweg, Mr. Henry Ed-
wards, Mr. T. C. Clarke, Mr. C. Gdtliff, Mr. Wm.
Ellis, Mr. Travers Buxton, Mr. J. Bonomi, and Mr.
W. H. Collingridge. As a beginning, about £13,000
had been subscribed previous to the conference.

Lord STANLEY, on taking the chair, said they all
knew there was in London, and especially in the
centre and eastern part of it, a great want of decent
aad respectable house accommodation, not only for
the labouring classes fitly so called, but also for the
whole body of mechanics. There was, in truth, no
town in England where that want was so much
felt as in the metropolis, and it was not at all a new
matter of complaint. He well remembered a meet-
ing in the city about nine years ago, at which Mr.
Baring was chairman, and at which the subject was
discussed and various remedies were suggested.
Since that time different societies had been set on
foot with the intention of supplying the deficiency.
He would not say they had been failures, because
they had kept public attention alive to the subject,
and in that respect had done much good, besides pro-
viding a considerable amouu tof suitable house accom-
modation for the working classes. But, looking on
them as well-supporting, and as what ought to be re-
munerative associations, if they had not failed en-
tirely, they had been attended by at best a very im-
partial and imperfect success. They were met there
to make one more trial to overcome the difficulty,
They knew that estimates were often deceptive and
prophecies dangerous, but they started from a
sounder foundation, they thought, than any pre-
vious association of the kind. They profited by the
experience which others had at their own cost ob-
tained, and they would be able to avoid errors of
detail, and, in the main, he thought they would
differ from their predecessors chiefly in this—
that they ss euld look rather to the accommo-
dation of families than of single men, and
not to the highest amount of rent which the
better class of persons among the labouring
classes could afford to pay, but to what was neces-
sary to make the undertaking remunerative to
themselves as an association. In the first place, it
was simply impracticable to attempt to lodge the
labouring population of London in a manner other-
wise than remunerative to those who did it. Now,
what they had to go upon was the experience
which Mr. Waterlow had obtained in erecting a
block of buildings in a crowded part of Finsbury.
Mr. Waterlow said that for a sum of £25,000, in-
cluding all preliminary expenses, and also the divi •
dends for one year on the capital during the period
of construction, they would be able to put up blocks
of buildings for the accommodation of 200 families.
The gross estimate was £25,000, and assuming that
each house on a moderate estimate would be let for
about £l5, that would give a gross return of .£3,000
a year, or 12 per cent. on the gross outlay. From
that, if they deducted, in respect of ground rents,
cost of supervision, the occasional loss on rooms un-
occupied, and other incidental expenses, 50 per cent.
on the returns, a net return of 6 per cent. would
still be left after the payment of all expenses, both
present and prospective, and that he thought ought
to be sufficient to induce capitalists to embark their
money. (Hear.) A question had been raised as to
whether even a better net return might not be made
for those who put in their money if part of the capi-
tal was raised on the security of the buildings, and
having of course a preferential payment. Half the
money might be obtained for 41 per cent., and if the
net return was 6 per cent. on the whole investment,
there would be 71 or 8 per cent. for those who put
in their money not upon preferential security. But
it was a question for consideration whether they
ought to have recourse to such a step. He was in-
clined to think that they might raise all the neces-
sary capital in shares, without obtaining any pre-
ferential capital whatever. (Hear, hear.) He had
spoken of this undertaking in the sense of its being
remunerative. At the same time he need hardly
say for himself, or for those whom he was address-
ing, that they should not have troubled themselves
about it as a mere matter of profit ; but the reason
why they wanted it to be remunerative was that the
only way of working on a scale at all commensurate
with the general object they had in view was to
shew the capitalists of the country at large that it
was an investment affording a reasonable prospect
of fair return. (Hear, hear.)
Alderman WATERLOW said he was much gratified
at finding so many influential gentlemen present,
and he hoped they would not separate without
completing the arrangements necessary for accom-
plishing the object for which they had met. He
would assume that every one present agreed that
if they were permanently to elevate the industrial
classes—if the large sums of money spent to im-
prove their secutar and spiritual education were to
accomplish any lasting good, they must improve
their homes. A careful consideration of the subject
for some years past had satisfied him of the many
difficulties which surrounded the question. The
history of the labours of the Metropolitan Associa-
tion and the society presided over by the Earl of
Shaftesbury—to both of whom all honour was due,
as the pioneers of this movement—both lessened and
increased these difficulties ; lessened them by show-
ing the mistakes of their costly organization and
errors of their early experiment,and increased them
by the fact that both the societies failed to pay the
dividend they had calculated to realize. But,
should it be said that the capitalists of this great
city, while acknowledging the serious importance of
the evil, were afraid to attempt again to remedy it be-
cause their past efforts had not succeeded ? Know-
ing all the attendant difficulties, he felt he had no
right to call public attention to this question, or to
ask capitalists to join him in an investment of the
kind proposed 'spun any mere theoretical statement.
He felt that he must himself, by a practical experi-
ment, test thecommercial success of the plan he pro-
posed before asking the public to take it up on a
large scale. This he had done, and the figures he
had circulated in the meeting in a printed statement
were facts, not sanguine calculations, and he was
prepared to substantiate every one of them. He
might be excused saying one word in reply to the
critics who had asked—Did this movement mean
business or philanthropy P He answered essentially
the latter, for he held that he who helped the poor
man to earn his own living by profitable employment
or he who could provide the labourer with a better
home at the same price he paid for his present
wretched accommodation, and at the same time ob-
tained a fair return on the money invested, was a
greater philanthropist than he who maintained him
In idleness, or lodged him from charity, for the one
destroyed his independence, while the other helped
to increase it. (Hear, hear.) He added that he had
signed a contract for three more blocks of buildings
similar to that he had erected, and for less than the
sum he had paid for the first. The outgoings were
based on a calcalation of five years, and upon the
absolute assessment of the parish of Houndsditch on
the block he had put up.
Alderman FINNIS said, as masters and employers
they were doing great injustice to the poor by pull-
ingdown their dwellings without providing others.
After what Alderman Waterlow had done in Fins-
bury; and that single-handed, no question could
arise as to what
might be done in other districts.
Large sums of money were spent in home missionary
enterprises toimprove the moral condition of the poor,
but that, he Was cure, was beginning at the wrong ,

end, so long as their present wretched domestic ac-
commodation continted. Adverting to the proposed
undertaking as one in which capital might be advan-
tageously employed, he said further facility would
be afforded for its investment by the Limited Lia-
bility Act, by which money put into the account
would be available to legal representatives of parties
dying. He remarked upon the circumstance of the
Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwell-
ings of the Industrials Classes having spent about
£3,000 in preliminary expenses, and some £15,000
in dwellings for single men, which latter sum re-
mained unproductive; arid he mentioned, by way
of showing what might be done by men of business
putting their shoulders to the wheel, that he bad
just registered a steam company, all the ordinary
preliminary expenses of which had not exceeded £4O.
Mr. ROBERTS, speaking from his experience of
many years as h3norary architect of the society pre-
sided over by Lord Shaftesbury, entered into details
to show that 5 per cent., at least, might be expected
from the proposed undertaking, that being the sum
returned by the Streatham-street buildings, and
that, having regard to the greater economy of con-
struction by the use of Portland cement in the floors,
he saw no reason why it might not realize 6 per
cent. He added that in Edinburgh 5 per cent. was
obtained from property of that kind, and in Leeds
an equal amount.
The Hon. FRED. BYNG bore testimony to the dis-
graceful house accommodation of working people
in the parish of St. James's, and refereed to the
efforts he made 20 years ago to bring it under the
consideration of the wealthier inhabitants. Latterly,
however, he said, some dwellings erected there by
the Metropolitan Society had answered remarkably
well, but especially in tending to improve, by ex-
ample, houses in the neighbourhood occupied by
mechanics; but a great number of this class, who
could only afford to pay a limited sum for rent, and
also were yet obliged to settle near .their work,
were compelled to herd together in places which
were disgraceful.
Mr. GATLIFF, a gentleman long connected
with the Metropolitan Association, said there
was an impression which he wished to correct,
that the rents of working people were not easily
collected. He was able to state that out of £82,565
collected by the Metropolitan Association during,
the last 17 years, the bad debts had not amounted
to more than £4OO. (Hear, hear.) As to the
working classes availing themselves of this descrip-
tion of houses, he said the association had accomo-
dation for 414 families, and an average occupancy
by 410 families. They have 670 tenants, including
single men in their model lodging houses, who fol-
lowed 158 different trades. He referred to the be-
neficial effects of the association in inducing build era
to furnish conveniences to the new houses they put
up to compete with those of the association.
Lord STANLEY then read over, item by item, the
estimated capital and revenue accounts of the pro-
posed undertaking to erect 10 blocks of improved
dwellings for 200 families at a cost of 123,000. The
'calculations were based upon the actual experience
of the block of buildings already erected, and the
rents of which, during the three months they had
been occupied, had been regularly paid in advance.
Each item underwent careful consideration, and the
result was to satisfy the meeting of the fairness and
moderation of the calculations.

Mr. GATLIFF, returning to the proposed sinking
fund of £5O a year, mentioned as an indisputable
fact that £5O a year invested at 3 per cent. would
redeem £23,000 in 80 years.
Lord STANLEY said he remembered hearing it
stated that an investment of £3,000,000 a year
would pay off the national debt in 66 years. (A
laugh.)
Mr. S. MORLEY, speaking on the general ques-
tion, said that although personally he had not joined
the undertaking as a mere investment, he was con-
vinced, and desired to prove to the public that
money might be expended upon it with a good re-
sult. He did not think the great and noble object
they bad in view would ever be attained by compa-
nies. They desired to stimulate private individuals
who had money waiting for investment, they (the
meeting) setting an example as pioneers, de-
termined at the same time to manage their own
affairs in this matter as men of business. He ad-
vised them not to begin until the whole £25,000
was subscribed.

Lord STANLEY, alluding to the question of rent,
said it was really vital. They might let rooms at a
lower rental than was proposed, but if they did that
they would cease to be a self-supporting society,
and would fall into the old groove. He admitted
that the lower class of labourers could not pay a rent
of ss. or ss. 6d. a-week. What could be done for
them was a problem requiring solution, but which
the meeting did not undertake to solve. There was
however, a higher class which could pay the higher
amount, and for which it was now proposed to give
better accommodation for the same money than they
had at present.
A working or provisional committee was then
nominated for carrying out the undertaking, com-
posed of Lord Stanley as chairman, Alderman Wa-
terlow, Alderman Finnis, Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr.
Henry Edwards, Mr. Travers Buxton, and Mr.
Ellis, and at the close of the meeting the subscrip-
tions amounted to upwards of £13,000, including
one of £5OO by the chairman.

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

SATURDAY REVIEW.—The French Government
is perhaps, on the whole, well satisfied with the
result of the elections. In the provincial towns and
country districts, the mass of the population has
once more illustrated the unfitness of a numerical
majority for active political functions. The pea-
santry of France, as far as it is capable of a
sentiment, retains that admiration for the dynasty
of Napoleon which Thiers and Beranger have sub-
stituted for all other national traditions. With
the legendary faith in the first Emperor there is
combined a well-founded belief that military des-
potism is distasteful to the upper classes, and
that its uniform pressure best seethes the perma-
nence of equality. On the whole, the constituencies
would probably prefer the official candidates,
although they might not be disposed to make any
strenuous exertion in their favour; and the prefects
and their subordinates take all the burden of the
elections on themselves, justly relying on the habits
of passive obedience in which ordinary Frenchmen
are trained. The people, if they ever think on the
subject, by no means desire that their representa-
tives should take any conspicuous part in the ad-
ministration of public affairs. A deputy is
appointed and paid, not to control the Executive
Government, bat to assist at the ceremony of legis-
lation, as ministers and officers of State are sum-
moned to be present in •the ante-Chamber when a
Royal or Imperial birth is expected. To foreigners
who are accustomed to superintend the transaction
of their own public business, the working of the
French constitution scarcely presents an edifying
spectacle ; but a certain admiration or surprise is
suggested by the successful ingenuity of a para-
doxical contrivance. When the present Emperor
before assuming his title, invented the machinery
' by which he still governs, it seemed difficult to be-
' lieve that a regular elective system could be per-
manently reconciled with absolute government,
Experience has shown that it was safe to rely on
the harmlessness of a promiscuous constituency, pro-
vided sufficient vigilance was exercised by the
Imperial functionaries; and there are great advan-
tages in the forms of representative government,
when they have been effectually reduced to the
condition of fictions. As - an ostrich retains the
character of a bird, though its wings arc not avail-
able for flight, the. French empire claims the
inanities and the credit'which are associated with
elective institutions. Perhaps the peasants of the
departments may be flattered with the belief that
once in five years they participate in the establish-
ment or renewal of the Emperor's unlimited power.
SPECTATOR.—The worst danger, perhaps, of the
present situation of the cotton trade is that, as
everybody knows, a sudden termination of the Ame-
rican war would suddenly reverse it. The sudden
confluence of the American stock with the increased
stock from other sources would reduce the price of
the raw material lower than it has been for many
years before the war, and stimulate the demand for
manufactured goods, which has been so much dis-
couraged by recent high prices, to a point that
would strain to the utmost the powers of the Lan-
cashire labour market, diminished as it is by the
present distress. It is the possibility of this influx
which,in fact, gives rise to any little speculative
increase of mills or machinery which may exist
beyond the range of the districts of which we have
spoken. That Mr. Edmund Potter, the member for
Carlisle, was right a few weeks ago in asserting that
the statements about the over supply of 1860 had
been at least absurdly exaggerated, is now conclu-

sively proved. What was the market which, as it
was then said, had been the most glutted with cotton
goods The Indian market. Now, it is remarkable
enough that even at the present very high prices it
is India which is increasing her consumption most
rapidly. The Board of Trade tables for April show
the following remarkable re turn of export cf cotton
goods to India :

DECLARED VALUE OP COTTON EXPORTS TO BRITISH

INDIA.

April.
1862. 1863.
Cotton yarns . X111,47.0 £296,857
Manufactures ...... 494,810 945,795

£606,226 £1,242,652
showing (in value) a double demand as compared
with the demand for the same month in last year.
Indeed, while the total increase of the exports
for April 1863 over April 1862, is in value
£711,782—X636,426 out of this belongs to our
Indian trade alone. There could not be a more re-
markable disproof of the enormous glut of cotton
goods which some had assumed in the Indian market,
nor a more convincing test of the conviction of our
merchants that the present high prices are likely to
be maintained for some time, since they would
otherwise certainly hold back their purchases for
India at the present prices. We conclude, then, on
the whole, and while there are ample reasons for
expecting almost an unexampled stimulus to the
cotton manufacture whenever the American supply
may happen to be thrown on the market, and good
reasons for expecting a return to a very fair trade
within another two or three years in any case, the
prospect for next winter w:11, unless the war comes
to a premature termination, be still very gloomy ;
that next winter will be a time of trial, even physic-
ally not much less severe than last ; morally, in con-
sequence
of the great demoralisation of tt a la-
bourers, probably much more severe. Mr. Villiers's
bill for promoting such works under the Board of
Health Act, may, indeed, considerably alleviate the
misery to be expected, but the outdoor employment
thus found for the operatives will necessarily be
very limited during the winter months, more espe-
cially if the winter,should happen to be severe.
LONDON REVIEW.—The French Government
have talked so much about the affection of France
for the Emperor, and drawn so largely on it, that
they have killed their golden goose. M. Persigny
has exhausted the supply of Parisian loyalty for
the present, and must be content to subside into
the ludicrous position of a Minister who has exposed
himself and his Sovereign to a civic snubbing.
The success of the Opposition candidates throughout
the length and breadth of the capital will be a most
useful lesson to him and his successors in office not
to bore their countrymen. M. Theirs would pro-
bably never have been returned were it not for
official efforts to exclude him ; for M. Thiers is
neither politically nor personally popular. But when
it came to being egged on, and pushed, and nudged,
and kept up at heel by M. Persigny, Paris could not
stand it any longer. It was quite insupportable to
the electors to have the Minister of the Interior, and
all the Prefects, and all the Mayors, and all the
Police setting up a chorus of loyal directions about
the way in which every Frenchman who loved his
country was to vote. To have the Constitutionnel
actually thrust for nothing under their doorsteps,
crammed surreptitiously into their pockets, and
flung into their fiacres in the Bois de Boulogne, was
nauseous and insulting. Se perpetual a fuss about
the Emperor's virtues excited the most sacred in-
stincts of the French nature. They resolved to show
that Paris was not the Provinces, and that they
were not going to be driven up to the poll like pea-
sants by M. Persigny and the Prefect of the Seine.
M. Thiers has accordingly been returned by a re-
spectable, and the other Opposition candidates of
the capital, by an overwhelming majority. In Japan,
the moment would now have arrived for M. Per-
signy to put in practice the august institution of
the Happy Despatch. Even in France it is felt that
his retirement is to be expected. The Paris world
are preparing to bid him God speed on his way to
St. Petersburg. It is quite clear that he has made
himself ridiculous, and the Minister who makes
himself ridiculous in the eves of Paris, makes his
position there untenable. This serious and severe
lesson will not be thrown away upon so wise a man
as the French Emperor. It is not now a question
of a revolution or of a return to the barricades ;
and the soberer of the French know very well
that any attempt to cabal against the reign-
ing dynasty at present would be a failure
and a mistake. But the Emperor will see now
that a high-spirited city like Paris is not to be
overriden by a rather domineering and anxious Im-
perialist such as M. Persigny has shown himself.
The Parisians do not desire, by any means, to return
to the days of Orleanism, far less to the days of the
last Republic. But they have no fancy for being
continually lectured and tutored about how they are
to feel towards the Napoleons ; and how they are
bound to show their gratitude to the Emperor for
deigning to reign over them. They want to be left
alone and not to be worried by every excitable offi-
cial wf o chooses to inflict his pompous views about
Imperialism on them. The bow too long bent will
break, and by a long course of aggravation M. Per-
signy has succeeded at last in getting the French
eagle—which for some years has been the most
quiet and domestic of birds—to peck at his finger.
He has only to thank himself. If he had left well
alone, very possibly fewer of the Opposition would
have been elected. At all events, they would not
have been elected with startling eclat in the teeth
of a persistent, notorious, and unscrupulous an-
tagonism on the part of every Government officer.
His imprudence has converted into a political disas-
ter what otherwise might have been passed off as an
electioneering mishap.
EXAMINER.—It is not unworthy of note that the
self-same day which in Berlin saw the publication
of the royal interdict against the press, witnessed
in Paris the rejection by universal suffrage of every
supporter of the system of rule founded on the sup-
pression of free discussion and maintained thereby.
No doubt Count Bismark and his accomplices may
recklessly bid their master accept the omen, and tell
him, that as it has taken fifteen yeats for France to
recover from the stunning blow of the 2d December,
they fear no immediate consequences from a like act
of political garotting in Prussia. Reactionary
Prime Ministers are very apt to take little thought
far the morrow ; and when admonished to consider
the inevitable effects which sooner or later must
attend their evil counsels. It is their wont to shrug
their shoulders and to say that things will last their
time. But others naturally take a different view.
The King of Prussia is long past the meridian of
life, and at the very moment when the camarilla
that surround him are prophesying peace and speak-
ing smooth things to him, symptoms of declining
health render it expedient in the judgment of his
physicians that he should seek an exemption from
the anxieties and cares of state, and betake himself
for some time to the waters of Carlsbad. And thus
at the very juncture, when the executive needs to
have all its energies braced to the highest point of
vigour, and all the weight of its damaged authority
concentrated in the utmost degree, the at-happy
king is declared to be physically incompetent to
perform the duties of administration, and advised
for a time to delegate his functions to some other
member of his family. Which shall it be P The
Crown Prince cannot with any show of decency be
passed over; but as his tendencies and leanings are
not supposed to be in accordance with those of his
father, he will, it is said, be persuaded to decline
the odious and perilous responsibility of Regent.
His uncle, Prince Charles, is therefore looked upon
as the person most likely to be made use of by the
Ministerial conspirators on the occasion. Little is
known of his personal character in this country ;
but it is obvious that political experience he has had
none; and of his intellectual capacity nothing is
said. If he should prove to be possessed of that
rarest of rare qualities ironically termed common
sense, he may negatively exercise perhaps a Bahl.
tary influence over the mad and wicked course of
the Government; for inasmuch as his authority will
necessarily be temporary and limited, he may fitly
refuse to sanction further measures of violence which
the anointed head of his house would have no
scruple in adopting. In so far he may thus prove
somewhat of a drag upon the wheels of misrule as
they speed downwards to the brink of ruin.
THE QUEEN.—To-day, let ua hope that the
House of Commons will oblige us with another ex-
hibition of good sense, by refusing to pass the mon-
strous proposition to pay £484,000 for Captain
Fowke's hideous sheds and their site, which is to be
made them with all due gravity on this evening.
It is true that the sum to be asked for this year is
only £172,000; but then there is to be a nice little
addendum of £312,000 to follow, for the completion
of the purchase-money, and " for repairing, alter-
ing, and eventually completing the building," and
even this does not include the annual hundred
thousand or so with which the country will have to
be saddled for paying all the officers and hangers-
on and other expectant participators in this awful
job. The whole proposal is, indeed, so impudently
shameless that it fairly takes away one's breath.
We will not echo any of the commonplace senti-
ment which is afloat about the wickedness of spend-
ing so much money at the time of the Lancashire
distress. Our views about that calamity, in con-
nection with our finances, teach us to believe that
if some of the millions which we are annually
wasting upon mailed ships and fortifications had
been saved there would have been no distress at all ;
but what we do say is, that any proposition for
perpetuating that abominable sin against good
taste, which we had to endure all last year with
averted eyes, in the face of the whole world, is
nothing short of a national disgrace. All civilised
Europe raised a shout of derision at the fearful
structure when they beheld it, and now it is actually
proposed to purchase and perpetuate it—and for

what ? What but for the benefit of an already'
overgorged clique of jobbers, the art and science
gentlemen of South Kensington ? " Complete" the
building! " alter" it ! The only completion that
can be at all welcomed is that which puts an end to
it ; the only alteration at all seemly would be like
the reformation which Hamlet advised for toe bad
habits of the players. "Reform it altogether."
And yet the very manner in which the proposition
is to be brought before the house gives us hope. As
when the Government brought forward the pet
scheme for dividing the British Museum, and send-
ing the natural history collections to South Ken-
sington, all the naked deformity of the scheme
stands confessed ; they are going to tell the whole
truth at once, and confess the utmost item of ei-
pense. Let us hope that the omen is a happy one,
and that this scheme for inflicting Fowke's Folly
upon the nation in perpetuity will suffer the same
fate as Professor Owen's notable plan for spoiling
the British Museum.

A Man Lost for Four Days in a Coal Mine.

An extraordinary circumstance occurred last week at the
Mount Moor dolliery, in the Black Fell, in Derbyshire. The
works of the colliery had been suspended for a short time,
but with a view to preserve the ventilation a furnace was
kept burning below. One of the men engaged at this fur-
nace, named Thomas Brown, went down the pit on Thurs-
day morning to attend to it, and was left there by the
man he relieved ; when this man returned to relieve
Brown, he was not there, but on the seat near the fur-
nace he found his watch and knife, and part of his victuals,
he having evidently consumed part of the latter before
leaving. The furnace was still burning, but the fire was
very low. This man went in seat ch of the missing furnace-
man, but failed in finding any trace of him, when he gave
the alarm to the persons in charge. A party of men and
officers descended and commenced the search, but this proved
unavailing, although great exertions were made by relays
of men until Monday morning, at seven o'clock, when he
was found in a remote part of the workings, near the old
shaft, he having been then 91 hours in the mine, and 93
hours without food or drink. The sustenance he had during
this time was the oil from his lamp, which he had sucked.
up. Although much exhausted when found he soon re-
vived, and after a little food, &c., had been administered,
he walked home with little assistance. It appears that he
had left his post, which was very improper, to look for a
slope drift, which he had been told passed up from the
Maudlin seam, in which the furnace was, into the higher
seam through the main coal, and his light having been ex-
tinguished he was soon entirely lost and bewildered, and
was at length found, as described, after a search of nearly
four days.—Derbyshire Courier.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

4,-

NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY.

For the time of the year there was a moderate show of
wheat to-day ;an inactive demand was experienced, and in
some cases a fall of is per qr took place. Barley scarce.
—White wheat, from 43s to 555.; red wheat, 42s to 50$.
Barley—malting,; 35s to 39s ; grinding, 27s to 295. Oats
old, at 27s to 31s Od ; new, 22s to 255. Beans sold at 41s
to 45s per qr. Flour, 31s to 40s.

YORK- SATURDAY.

A limited show of wheat to-day, with a moderate demand
at former quotations for selected sorts— inferior a shade
cheaper. Barley a small show, but a firm trade. Other
articles unaltered.

Wheat, red 44s to 47s Oats.... 2s2 to 24s
White do .48s to 52s Beans 40, to 420
Barley .29s to 35s Peas ....—s to --0
Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; rye, 32s per qr.; flour, 34s
to 36s per sack.

THE DUNABURG and WITEPSK RAIL-
WAY C,)MPANY (Limited).
The LISTS of APPLICATIONS for SHARES will be
CLOSED on TUESDAY, the 9th June, at Four o'clock.
W. H. TRUMPLER, Secretary pro tem.
Offices, 21, Throgmorton-s,reer, E.C.,
June 4th, 1863.

This day is published,
A NEW VOLUME OF
CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD.
Containing—
THE RECTOR ; and
THE DOCTOR'S FAMILY.
Originally published in " Blackwood's Magazine."
In Post Octavo.
W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.