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The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-27

COMMERCIAL.

SHANGHA.E.—
The hopes of importers as to the demand
for cotton manufactures have not been realised. The Iti-
verine and coast markets have exhibited little capacity for
taking off supplies. The enhanced cost of cotton goods at
Manchester naturally places British manufactures at a dis-
advantage with the native spinning wheel—especially in
coarse fabrics, which, doubtless, accounts for the unwil-
lingness of the Shanghae dealers to operate in imported
cloths beyond their immediate wants. The yield of native
cotton is good. The rate has advanced owing to shipments
whose supply from India having ceased, is
for
now dependent South,
on the North. Still the advance is but a
bagatelle, probably not discernible in the interior. In wool-
lens little has been done, and no alteration developed. The
stock of iron is much reduced, and lead is very saleable.
Coals continue to arrive freely and to fall steadily. Straits
produce seems to be in fair and steady request. Black
pepper scarce and wanted.

FOOCHOWFOO.—The bales of the fortnight are thus re-
ported :—T-cloths, 81b., 2,000 pieces, at 3 dols. 10e. Dyed
damasks, assorted, 250 pieces, at 7 dols. 250.

THE VIRTUE OF INTOXICATION.--Is drunkenness
a virtue? Are ruffians who get drunk and then commit
most brutal outrages, entitled to plead drunkenness in pal-
liation of their crimes, as they might put in a certificate of
previous good character ? Certain of our magistrates appear
just now to think so, and among them, we are quite sur-
prised to see, is Mr. Tyrwhitt. In sentencing a brute the
other day for an assault, this usually good judge forgot
himself so far as to say the nonsense following :—" He
should send the prisoner to hard labour for six weeks, and,
had it not been that the prisoner was drunk, he should have
sent him for a longer period." In future when a drunken
brute is taken up for an assault, it would be as well to
charge him not merely with the outrage but with the being
drunk. There is by law at present a penalty for drunken-
ness ; and a fine of five shillings, with the option of impri-
sonment, may be imposed on any one found tipsy in the
streets. Had the prisoner in this case been charged with
being drunk, Mr. Tyrwhitt would have been obliged to
take judicial notice of that which, so far from excusing,
aggravated the assault. Thus, being Called upon to punish
it, he could not have viewed the drunkenness as palliation ;
and while be proceeded to committal of the prisoner, he
would have spared his friends the pain of seeing him com-
mit half•
London, England, 1862-11-27

711 E G.REA7 EXHIBITION.

A meeting was held yesterday at the board-room
of the Horticultural Society for the purpose of pre'
minting to Dr. Lindley an address from the Colonial
Commissioners, expressing their thanks for the very
valuable services rendered by him during the course
of the Exhibition as Superintendent of the Colonial
Section. The address runs as follows :—" Before the
first closing of the International Exhibition of 1862
we, the undersigned Commissioners, beg to convey
to you our warm acknowledgments for the admirable
manner in which you have discharged the arduous
duties confided to you by her Majesty's Commis-
sioners. No small share cf the great success of our
department, to which his Grace the Minister for
the Colonies bore such gratifying testimony,
a testi-
mony echoed by the voice of public opinion, is due
to your advice and co-operation. Personally, We
have to thank you for many acts of kindness, Bllel
we shall not fail to convey to our respect Govern-
ments our appreciation of the valuable services you
have rendered to the agricultural, commercial, and
industrial interests of the British Colonies." This
document, which was signed by 30 Commissioners,
was presented to Dr. Lindley by Sir Daniel Cooper,
Commissioner for New South Wales, whose short
but eloquent remarks were cordially applauded by
his brother Commissioners. Among those present
were Sir William Holmes, British Guiana and
Trinidad ; Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, K.C.M.G"
lonian Islands ; Mr. Knight, Victoria ; Mr. BroWO
Chamberlain, Canada ; Mr. Cowper, New South
Wales ; Mr. Chitty, Jamaica. Letters of excuse
were sent from Sir Charles Darling, Mr.Delliscu'
and others. An address of a similar character Who
then presented to Mr. Simmonds, a gentleman wh°
has ably assisted Dr. Lindley in his duties. 'A re-
solution was then afterwards carried that the
address should be communicated to the Duke °b
Newcastle. This is not the first occasion on vvh'l
e
the Colonial Commissioners have testified their
respect and goodwill towayds these two gentlentee;
During the course of the summer a dinner was gl/e
to them at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich, and Ogle-
rously attended.
London, England, 1862-11-27

AMUSEMENTS.

CANTERBURY HALL.
GRAND SELECTIONS from VERDI'S " SIMON
BOCCANEGRA," MACFARREN'S CANTATA " MAY
DAY," LOCKE'S MUSIC of " MACBETH," and Mr.
BENNETT GILBERT'S NEW OPERETTA, "A NIGHT
IN FAIRY LAND." Conducted by Mr. JONGHMANS.
Full Band and Chorus.

PRINCIPAL ARTISTES.
Miss RUSSELL, Miss TOWNLEY.
Sig. Tivoli, Mr. Green, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover.
The Comic by UNSWORTH (the Oriainal Stump Orator,
" OR ANY OTHER MAN"), in conjunction with Eugene,
Du'ey, and Little Bob, forming the greatest Comic Quartet
in London.

Also, the following Comic Favourites :—Miss Georgina
Smithson, Messrs. E. Marshall, Hollingsworth, and Arthur
Lloyd, and the surprising Performance of " THE ETOILE
FAMILY."
London, England, 1862-11-27

POSTAL COMMUNICATION IN

SOUTHERN ITALY.

The following statistical report of the
progress
of postal communication in Southern Italy is of
immense value, as showing the great development
of mind and commerce under the Italian Govern-
ment :

On the Ist March, 1861, the number of post-offices in the
continental provinces of the old kingdom of the Two
Sicilies was
They are now •• 336

And the increase in 20 months is.
The receipts of the Post-office in the first six Lire.

months of 1860 were .

56'37292,52

Those of the rameperiod in 1862 were

Thus showing an increase in the postal revenue of 232,425,79
The correspondence of all kinds which passed
through the Neapolitan post-offices in the first

semestre of 1860 was, in number 3,981,331
In tho corresponding period of 1862 it amounted

to
Showing an increase in the number of letters,
journals, &c., posted, of

The great increase of the correspondence, which
is not in proportion to that of the revenue, is to be
attributed to the greater number of journals now
printed in the Southern provinces ; to the more fre-
quent relations with Upper Italy; and the new
postal treaties with France, England, and Switzer-
land, which, while they reduce the sum paid on each
letter, have sensibly increased the amount of corre-
spondence.

With the inauguration of the new order of things,
too, was introduced the system of post-office stamps,
which had not before been known. This interest-
ing branch of the service has assumed large propor-
tions, and has proved of the greatest advantage to
commerce and to the general public. In the first
six months of 1862 were issued by the Neapolitan
post-offices 131,177 stamps, amounting in value to
6,063,855.89 lire.

The mail communications by the seven "Consu-
lar" lines of the Neapolitan provinces, which for-
merly were not more than three times a week, are
now kept up daily, so that with the exception of a
very few country places which lie at a great distance
from post-offices, every commune of these
provinces
now enjoys the advantage of receiving and despatch-
ing its correspondence daily.

The maritime service, too, has been reorganized,
and placed in harmony with the natural relations
which these provinces have with other parts of

the kingdom. Before the new order of things the
postal sea service from Naples was occasional, and
ordinarily was not-more frequent than twice a week
to Sicily by means of merchant steamers. At pre-
sent Post-office steamers leave Naples for Genoo.
daily, and vice versa, touching at Leghorn. 1%1
Palermo and Messina they leave five times a week;

for Messina, Catania, Syracuse, and Malta once a
week ; for Cagliari, Tortoli, and Terra Nueva, twice
a month, and vice versa ; and, lastly, a steamer
leaving Messina and Ancona three times a months
touches at Manfredonia, Bari, Brindisi, Gallipoli,
and Cotrone.

This report requires no comment; it represents

the vast impulse which has been given to commerce
and to mental activity within the last 20 maonthe,
and leaves us to imagine the amount of pressure
which lay like a nightmare on the energies of the
people under the Burbons.
London, England, 1862-11-27

I%IISCEL.

Australian Agricultural
Bahia Steam (Limited).
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r'aln°t-11‘cr
11
Berlin Water (Limited)
Bombay Gas Limited.
B.
British American Land
'l27sriiiStin (t 1 d•
B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.)
Do. 8,7p.c.t1111852 (Lim )
Canada Land
China & Japan Coast
River Steam Naviga.
Cop.lllin.ofEng.&Smltg.
Do. Pref. 7i per cent
Crystal Palace . .....
Do. Preference
D.o Lp. act
0.
tPt e3rup eAt
enDeb.e
Agency
E.lndia & Lon. Ship A.
Do. B.
E.lndia Irrign. & Canal
Electric Telegraph
Do. New
& Aus. Copper
,en. Steam Navigate
rest Slip I ,imited)
Do 171 p ct Preference
Indian carrying (Lim.)
talian Irrigation Canal
Lon. District Tel. (Lim.)
L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.)
' on. & S.lrel.Dt.Tel.L.
Madras Irr. and Canal
Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim )
Do. 8 per cent. pref
National Dis. Co, (Lim )
NerbnCoal&lron (Lim )
Netherlands Lankl,Bp.c.
N. Br. &NovaScoti a Land
N.B.Australasi an (Lim.)
Oriental Gas (Limited).
Do. New
Orintl. In. Steam (Lim )
Ottoman Gas, Limited
,Peelß.Lnd.&3/lin.(Lim)
Pen. & Oriental Steam
Do. New
Quebrada Land,Rail,&
Mining (Lim.).....:
Rhyrattpy Iron

Do. Niw..., ... . . :
!Rio Janeiro City Impts,

do.

oyal Mail Steam
cot. Austin. Inv.(Lim )
outh Australian Land
übmarine Tel. Scrip
Do. do. Registered ..„
Do. do 1
Telegraph to Inla (L )
Trust and Agency ot
Austrlasia (lim)lst is
rr.. Ln.Co. at Upr.Ca
-a. N.' dom Tel. Co. (limi
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London, England, 1862-11-27

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 26.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alexandra,
Princess Louis of Hesse, mad attended by the Hon. Mrs.
Bruce, walked and drove this morning.
Prince Christian (of Denmark) arrived at the Castle yes-
terday, attended by General d'Oxholm.
The Duke of Neniours, Princess Marguerite, the Count
d'Eu, and the Duke of Alencon, visited her Majesty.
Madame d'Oxholm, the Danish Minister, and Earl Rus-
sell, also arrived at the Castle.
London, England, 1862-11-27

7HE ARMY.

By direction of the Duke of Cambridge a casualty
book is in future to be kept by each depot battalion
to be called the " Depot Battalion Casualty Book,"
in addition to the casualty book almady in use at
each depot belonging to a battalion, in which all
changes affecting a soldier are to be entered, and
the book produced at inspections. _ .

Lieut. Phipps, of the Royal Artillery, instructor
in gunnery to the Ist division of the depot brigade,
Royal Artillery, has commenced the delivery of a
series of practical lectures to the non-commissioned
officers and gunners of the brigade on the science of
gunnery. In order to assist Lieut. Phipps in the
delivery of his lectures,
the Secretary of State for
War has ordered the supply of several scientific in-
struments and treatises on gunnery and mechanics.
cin
command of
oirlebn,t:
to induce iziltllcaestibley
gtuhen
no
Every_emaenn_c_onujatgement is given by Lieut-Col. Talbot,
attend the lectures. officers

[Novristityr.l—l:::ll:74o3:'esnnOtnitglst,ent
cured
rlasevere their su;fve7
The
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till these It
One Hope yet 34
long continued their
Pill: opera let no invalid de-
fair have htadoutlt
Fills.—
disease, noweve—ern'inß•-- and Pills.— 1
b3tri purifyityig husaenocUegulating
i spair of beinn•
fair trial.
Ointment and 1
every function. These qte
themselves in various diseasestiali -ea
advantag
speedily removes
differ in seZerdatslaplay
digestion
all outwaarrd
rgestion and promote
tieulars. The Ointment s
wofeoll calculatedatc° to essentialpro-
duce to digestion,
blemishes. The Pills improve the
costiveness,
the formation of healthy bile, so
nehoee
purgativer fulnesacnadnN,-ibgeo;rre.s c
iiliiii:ssoes
duce the desired effect. They relax the bile•ducts, and
liberate the natural aperient of the system,
London, England, 1862-11-27

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN
HALIFAX."
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols,, 215.,
MISTRESS AND MAID.
By the Author of
"JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN."
Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
London, England, 1862-11-27

MISCEL

Anglo-Al e Rican Mint
Atlantic It. MI. Stm (1d)
Australian Agricultural
Bahia Steam (Limited).
Berlin Water (Limited)
Bombay Gas Limited.
British American Land
B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim,)
Do. 8,7p.c.11111852 (Lim )
Canada Land
China & Japan Coast &
River Steam Naviga.
Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg.
Do. Pref. 74 per cent.
Crystal Pa .
Do. Preference
Do. ti p et. Perpet. Deb.
E. Ind. Cotton Agency
E.lndia & Lon. Ship A.
Do. B.
E.lndia Irri &Canal
Electric Teleggnraph
Do. New
English & Aus. Copper
,(3ren. Steam Navigati in
great Ship Limited)..,
Do 174 p et Preference
Indian Carrying (Lim.)
Italian Irrigation Canal
Lon. District Tel. (Lim.)
L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.)
Lon. & S. Irel.D t. Tel L.
Madras I rr. and Canal
Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.)
Do. 8 per cent. pref..
National Dis. Co. (Lim.)
Nerbu.Coal& Iron iLim.)
Netherlands Lan (1, Bp.c.
N. Br.&NovaScotia Land
N.B.Australasian (Lim.)
Oriental Gas (Limited).

Do. ........
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peelß.l.nd.&llin.(Lim)
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' Mining
'llliyinney Iron

Do. Njtv ...
'Rio Janeiro City Impts

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Royal Mail Steam
cot. Austin. Inv.(Lim )
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Submarine Tel. Scrip 1
Do. do. Registered
Do. do
Telegraph to India (L )
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Austrlasia (lim)lst is
r. 4 Ln.Co.ai Upr.Can.
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Vaa.Ditmelf fa L .11C.
London, England, 1862-11-27

YHE ISLE OF SKYE.

The twenty thousand inhabitants of Skye have a
more precarious subsistence than the inhabitants of
almost any other part of the United Kingdom.
Their soil is barren, except in a few valleys, and at
the heads of the interior lochs ; and from the moun-
tains the traveller may see how scanty is the tillage.
There are strips of cultivation in the levels and by
the margin of the lakes, and patches here and there
on the moorlands ; and there are a few scattered
farms, very poor, and difficult to manage. The climate
is such that nothing is attempted beyond oats and
potatoes. These and the fishery constitute the main-
tenance of the country and shore people; and the
tradesfolk depend, of course, on the custom of their
neighbours. Everything that is reported is dear; and
almost everything is imported—even to butchers'
meat. Peat from the moorland is the fuel used.
The oats have almost altogether failed to ripen this
year ; and a considerable proportion has never been
cut at all, It lies swamped under the snow. The
potatoes are the main resource of the people, from
autumn to midsummer, and the potatoes are this
season a mere mass of putridity. The inhabitants
are sitting amidst their hurricanes, and hail, and
snow, without fire as well as without food ; for the
continual rains of this year have so flooded the
moorland that no peat could be got. The ministers
of Skye are in despair about saving the people
without immediate help; and already the
children are down in measles, and their parents
wasting away in low fever. The fever is creep-
ing on from house to house, and from village to
village. Such is the account which lies before
me, from the hand of the minister of Sleet. The
name will call up recollections in the minds of
tourists, who may perhaps feel that their summer
pleasures so far bind them to the place and people
as to constitute some sort of obligation to help them
in their fearful stress. In the absence of a Count
Rumford, we must use our own wits about how to go
to work : and we ought to have both wit and heart
enough to ship off some cargoes of potatoes, meal,
and fuel (peat if possible, to suit the island-hearths).
Unless this is done, there will be something worse
in Skye than we have been dreading in Lancashire.
Will some one go and cross that strip of stormy
sea, and learn the extent of the need, and show us
how to meet it, in the quickest and best way ? If
so, that explorer will look back, all his life, on that
winter trip with more satisfaction than on any
autumn touring, from the peaks of the Alps to the
I depths of Mammoth caves.—Once a Week.
London, England, 1862-11-27

7HE ISLE OF SKYE.

The twenty 'housand inhabitants of Skye have a
more precarious subsistence than the inhabitants of
almost any other part of the United Kingdom.
Their soil is barren, except in a few valleys, and at
the heads of the interior lochs ; and from the moun-
tains the traveller may see how scanty is the tillage.
There are strips of cultivation in the levels and by
the margin of the lakes, and patches here and there
on the moorlands ; and there are a few scattered
farms, very poor, and difficult to manage. The climate
is such that nothing is attempted beyond oats and
potatoes. These and the fisheryconstitute the main-
tenance of the country and shore people; and the
tradesfoik depend, of course, on the custom of their
neighbours. Everything that is reported is dear; and
almost everything is imported—even to butchers'
meat. Peat from the moorland is the fuel used.
The oats have almost altogether failed to ripen this
year ; and a considerable proportion has never been
cut at all, It lies swamped under the snow. The
potatoes are the main resource of the people, from
autumn to midsummer, and the potatoes are this
season a mere mass of putridity. The inhabitants
are sitting amidst their hurricanes, and hail, and
snow, without fire as well as without food ; for the
continual rains of this year have so flooded the
moorland that no peat could be got. The ministers
of Skye are in despair about saving the people
withoat immediate help; and already the
children are down in measles, and their parents
wasting away in low fever. The fever is creep-
ing on from house to house, and from village to
village. Such is the account which lies before
me, from the hand of the minister of Sleat. The
name will call up recollections in the minds of
tourists, who may perhaps feel that their summer ,
pleasures so far bind them to the place and people
as to constitute some sort of obligation to help them
in their fearful stress. In the absence of a Count
Rumford, we must use our own wits about how to go
to work : and we ought to have both wit and heart
enough to ship off some cargoes of potatoes, meal,
and fuel (peat if possible, to suit the island-hearths).

Unless this is done, there will be something worse
in Skye than we have been dreading in Lancashire.
Will some one go and cross that strip of stormy
sea, and learn the extent of the need, and show us

how to meet it, in the quickest and best way? If
so, that explorer will look back, all his life, on that

winter trip with more satisfaction than on any
autumn touring, from the peaks of the Alps to the
depths of Mammoth caves.—Once a Week.
London, England, 1862-11-27

StiARE MARKET...THIS DAY.

ORDINARY STIARES AND STOOKS.

R dlPnya.

• Closing Business
rad. Price. done.

131 Dir.. Wol., Red Str. Val
25 ! Blythe and Tyne.
10 liost.,S' eat.,aud Ifid.l o
st (Bristol and Exeter
st ;Caledonian
50 Cork and Bandon
20 Cornwall
I
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till 6p e.p an.has
I been paid to It.
50 'Dublin & Belfast Junc.
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st ;Edinburgh & Glasgow.
et lOlasg. and S. Western.
st Great Eastern, Ord. sik

8

CI 6.1
84 66
1131 114}i

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45 46
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st GreatNorthot Scotland I
st Great Northern..
st Do A stock
st Do /I do
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st !Great Western
st 1 Do Str Val g.ua. stock:
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st 'London and Blackwall
st 'Lon., Bright.,& S. CoastE
st {Lon., Chat., and Dover
st 'Lon. & North Western
st Lon. & South Western
st Han., Shef., & Lincoln.
50 irllaryport and Carlisle.
124 Do I shares
10 Nretropoli tan

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1251 1261
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st Do Birming. & Derby
50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland
25 Do. shares
25 Mid Kent
10 Do Cray Line
st North British
st Edin., Perth, & Dundee'
st Nth. Eastern—Berwick
25 Do, G.N.E. purchase
st Do Leeds
st Do York
st Do Carlisle...
st North London
10 Do New
16.4'North Staffordshire
10 N. and S. NV. Junction
st Scottish Central
st Scot N. E., Aber. stock
st Do Scot. Mid. stock
10 Shrews. and Welchpool
st Shropshire Union
sf 'South Delon
15 IS. Durham & Lanc.Un

544 554
26 28
99 995

56 67
88 fib}
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105 107
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118 120
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46 48
331 341

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it South Wales
;t S. York. and River Dun
Staines,Wok.,andWok.
Stockton & Darlington

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69 70
97 99
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104 p
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146 148
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15 Do
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.t Taff Vale.
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29 31
London, England, 1862-11-27

Conducted by Mr. F. Jonetmans.

Solos on the Flute, by Drew Dean—The Neapolitan Mins-
trels, Angelica and Arena—Mr. T, Maclagan's Kntertainment
-And the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes,
Messrs. W. Randall, Hollingsworth, Eugene, and Unsworth
(the great originai of "Or any other man.")
Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.
London, England, 1862-11-27

The Danish Minister and Earl Russell left to-day.

The Queen proceeded yesterday morning to the Flemish
Farm, for the purpose of planting an oak in memorial of the
Prince Consort, to be called the " Prince Consort's Oak."
Her Majesty was accompanied by the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, Princess Alexandra, Princess Louise, and
Prince Leopold, and Count Gleiehen; and was attended by
the Countess of Caledon, Baroness von Schenk, Lord
Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros
(Equerries in Waiting), Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey,
and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell.

Major-General Seymour and Major-General the Hon. A.
N. Hood were in attendance on the ground, as were also
Mr. Menzies, deputy surveyor; Mr. Cole, the head park-
keeper ; and others employed in Windsor Park and the
Royal Household.
The site was selected in consequence of its having been
that upon which the Prince Consort left off shooting upon
his last visit to the park.

The Hon. Messieurs Sicotte, Howland, Howe, and Tilly
had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at
the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day, and heard a petition for a prolongation of Burn's
patent for improved cotton gin. Lord Chelmsford, on the
part of their lordships, stated that no sufficient case for the
extension of the patent had been shown. A petition for a
prolongation of Bakewell's patent for electric telegraphs
TamDespatches
eJr.eCseonletridge.
was heard. Lord Chelmsford, on the part of their lord-
Lo
. tiLtuhae,Gliotznapor, Governors
ships, refused the extension. The Lords present were
rd Chelmsford, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and
yesterday from the Colonial-office
Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong
Australian 001911i001 and gibratitr.
London, England, 1862-11-27

CENTRAL C.RIIIIINAL COURT, N0v.26.

OLD COURT.
George Robert Kilsby, 40, clerk, was indicted
for feloniously shooting at Henry Cooke with in-
tent to murder him—and in other counts the in-
tent was bid to do the prosecutor grievous bodily
harm, and to maim and disable him.
Mr. Ribton prosecuted ; the prisoner was de-
fended by Mr. Langford.
The learned counsel for the prosecution briefly
opened the facts of the case, and said he believed
that the act of which the prisoner was alleged to
have been guilty was committed under the impres-
sion—for which, as he was instructed, there was
not the slightest foundation—that an improper in-
timacy existed between his wife and the prosecutor.
The only question, therefore, they would have to de-
oide was, with what intent the injury was inflicted.
Henry Cooke, the prosecutor, said—l reside at
No. 1, Ttiorsley-place, Battersea-fields, and am a
grocer. I have known the prisoner for two years,
and he had lived in my house until the Saturday
before he shot me. I had previously heard some-
thing about what the prisoner had stated, and I
asked him how he came to say that he had heard
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HEAT AND DIARRHOEA.

The Medical Times and Gazette says —During
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London as having occurred from various forms opt
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children. We will add another fact, which We
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All of these deaths come under the head of " pre'
ventible." Let us see if we can form a fair coiner
tion of the details. Some few were children of
single women put out to nurse, and their death nod
is not a matter of much consequence ; they were
meant to die, and sure to die somewhere; bronchitis
ts;
is the winter mode; diarrhoea, the summer; We
will let them pass. A few more died of sour food'
kept or prepared
in uncleanly basins or pap-boa
A few more of what our Yankee friends call co
il'
milk ; milk robbed of its most nutritious and diges-
tible
beaslildesprtohbiasbltyherheavies atnoothberriegmabtteeforrowlinict:
But portion, the cream, then diluted and coloured'
we eh
readers ere long, the preparation of tulll'
whether by heat or not; in
toA tmhiencoorntcaacutseof oefoiddigarh
it keep. Certainly
curdle rennet ; whether it will be more amenubls
to the digestive powof ' fill*
some susuchcha wmairkaswtiont:
power a sickly infant is doubt
of cold air. istee 1
draughts
re of $
influence of
cause diarrhoea skin—especiallyxpos.fu
unused
water and. the
ap—to . g• 130
But more than all put together, lu L.ii
doors, closien, foul
children.air. CAI
All our
aair h
oaulsoense:aril t
amore air, especially at night; and it is easy in goy)
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of
As for the houses with old rotten brick drains, t'
still exist by the hundred, they want no null
But it will be said, we leave out all mentiouse
wtter
d
fruit; we do not believe that good fruit ever cau_..ci,
diarrhoea: The water should come in for a ul
and we may express a hope that the organic inov.
which the rains of June and July brought d o:he
from the cultivated fields in the valley of the
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Thames, is not now fermenting
in unclean
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The Medical Times and Gazette says :—During
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London as having occurred from various forms of
bowel complaint, and of these sixty-seven were
children. We will add another fact, which we
assume without fear of contradiction—the sixty-
seven victims were children of the lower orders.
All of these deaths come under the head of " pre-
ventible." Let us see if we can form a fair concep-
tion of the details. Some few were children of
single women put out to nurse, and their death now
is not a matter of much consequence ; they were
meant to die, and sure to die somewhere; bronchitis
•
is the winter mode; diarrhcea, the summer; we
will let them pass. A few more died of sour food,
kept or prepared
in uncleanly basins
/hat our Yankee friends call swill
milk ;
milk robbed of its most nutritioours and
A few more of pap-boats
d ig e s _.
tible portion, the cream, then diluted and coloured.
But besides this there is another matter which
we shall probably have to bring before our
readers ere long, the preparation of milk,
whether by heat or not, in
such a way as to make
it keep. Certainly
of
such milk will not
curdle rennet ; whether it will be more amenable
to the digestive power of a sickly infant is doubtna
heated and perspiring l.
A minor cause
of d
of cold air. arti cea is the exposure of _
influence of Close,
to the contact skin—especially if unused
cold water and soap—to draughts
But more than all put together, is the
it a
in
nfohuilldraeinr.. CAlloisennarirn
oaulsoense
wwanilti
cause diarrh
more air, especially at night; and it is easy in going
along the
b streets to see where people of sense live,
S noticing where the fanlights over the front
doors are made to open. For sources of foul air,
look to the dustbins, full of fermenting cabbage
leaves, the dirty •water-closets, and untrapped sinks
Within houses, which are drained by pipes, and the
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send up their poisonous whiffs to the passers-by.
As for the houses with old rotten brick drains, that
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But it will be said, we leave out all mention of
fruit ; we do not believe that good fruit ever caused
diarrhcea. The water should come in for a word,
and we may express a hope that the organic matter
which the rains of June and July brought down
from the cultivated fields in the valley of the
Thames, is not now fermenting in uncleaned
Cisterns.