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London, England, 1858-11-13 00:00:00

SOCIAL SCIENCE'.

of the people—as that without -which all our
efforts at teaching, whether in . priinary schools
or in lectures, or giving them the means cf
instruction-by- opening libraries and reading-rooms
to them—that all these availed nothing if the beer-
shop and the gin-palace spread their pestilential
lures around them, and opened, their. doors to cor-
rupt them while we were opening our doors to re•
claim them and instruct them ; and without incul-
cating the absolute necessity on all ranks, but on
the working men especially, of temperance, we ao
absolutely and. positively nothing. (Cheers.) One
remark was made—a most important one—in a
paper which I read in the author's absence—viz.,
a paper written by that eminent philanthropist Mr.
Commissioner Hill, the Recorder of Birmingham—
a paper in which he gave the result of his inquiries
during the last summer on the continent,in Munich
and in Baden ; and. the result of those inquiries
proved, as stated in that paper, that in one of those
great prisons every one of the culprits, without ex-
ception, was in confinement, says the great gover-
nor—that most eminent governor Overmire, the
governor of a prison which presents one of the
brightest instances of wise humanity—that the
many scores of prisoners under his care were in
confinement entirely owing to beer and wine. The
prison in Baden gave nearly the same result, but
the one in Munich was the more remarkable case.
The gaol was much more crowded, and there was
there no exception to the fact that all the crimes
committed was traceable to intemperance. It was
a great accident that no report was made of this
paper, but I must say the reports were most accu-
rate of' the great Congress at Liverpool. Another
objection has been taken, and it has been taken by
persons, including some on the continent of the
highest rank of all—l mean some upon the throne
—ladies filling that high station—that we did not
sufficiently attend to the wrongs and hardships of
women in that congress at Liverpool ; and of the
two branches to which our attention has been
directed by those who chide us for the omission—
of tie two branches to which they particularly
point, one is somewhat cultivated in this country,
and one, I grieve to say, is not attended to at all.
The one that has been cultivated is the establishment
of what the French call " sisters of charity" among
us—persons who in that country, being a Catholic
country, are nuns, and. are bound by: vows which
are disliked in this country ; but in Protestant
countries, where there are no vows at all, the same
institution has taken place, and with the same most
happy—l will add, the most blessed result. They
are a great consolation in the prisons as well as in
the hospitals—they arc the persons who make up
and distribute all the medicine--they are, as I can
answer from my own knowledge practically in the
matter,'as well acquainted with the chymical pre-
parations as the professional men themselves, and.
they devote their time, neglecting rest, and utterly
regardless of reward—for reward they have none,
and cannot have by the rules of the institution—
all their time, by night and by day, is thus devoted
to the pious performance of these most pious works.
(Applause.) I will say that this has not been alto-
gether neglected in this country, though, unhap-
pily, our attention at the congress at Liverpool
' was not specially directed to it; but it has been
well discussed in a most able tract by Mrs. Jame-
son, which she has printed and. circulated very
lately. Another . objection has been taken with
reference to a subject which, I am sorry to say, has
received no ;attention . whatever in this country,
though abroad it has produced the happiest effects.
Nothing is so lamentable as the fortune of unhappy
ladies—gentlewomen even of considerable station
—upon the death of a parent, they by the accidents
of life not having been married ; or upon the death
of a husband, whence they come into widowhood
without ample provision—nothing is so wretched,
as those high authorities say, and they say justly,
as the lot of unhappy gentlewomen of that descrip-
tion. Well, then, they have established chapters
abroad, sometimes in Catholic countries, but just as
often in Protestant countries, and sometimes upon
loyal foundation, sometimes by the gift of
charitably-disposed humbler individuals, sometimes
by subscriptions judiciously levied, and sometimes
by a kind of insurance during the life of the parent,
or during the life of the husband, those ladies are
provided for at his decease. A presentation is
secured, and an entry into the establishment is pro-
vided. The happiest results have come from these
admirable establishments, and We at our congress
have, from these high quarters, been chid for not
having turned our attention thitherward. My
answer has been, that no sooner was it suggested
than I made it my duty
.to attend to it. 1 hay
acted lately in my sovereign capacity as president,
but my noble friend Lord J. Russell has been ap-
pointed. my successor, or, at all events, as a kind of
Regent. -I wished to abdicate, but I was not
allowed to abdicate, and. therefore I speak still
as president of that institution. (Applause.) The
chapter is receiving these communications from
abroad, and I deem it my duty to lose no time in
bringing the subject before my brethren, and I
hope very soon something like a plan will be drawn
up. Knowing the great difficulty that arises in
various quartet ts and among others from the nature
of our admirable countrywomen, who in some re-
spects are no better natured than any other women
—knowing there is a kind of self-will about those
who are in those establishments, as we of our sex
have occasion to know---r(laughter) —we don't
always find when we experiment on a small scale—
the managers have not found it always perfectly
easy to make them live entirely well together.
(Renewed laughter.) Those difficulties we don't
disguise, but we endeavour to meet them in the
front, and with the blessing of Heaven on our endea-
vour, we seek to give this great benefit and boon
to our countrymen. (Applause.) His lordship
then remarked, with respect to this institution, that
he felt deeply grieved. to perceive that there was
one class who had not taken the full benefit of it.
Ile then showed the small charge that was made
per annum for membership, and. referred to a con-
versation a friend of his had had with one of his
constituents at Sheffield, whom he urged to lay by
as much as would pay £lO per year, in order to
enable him to have a vote, but he found the man's
objection was that every penny of that kind would
come off his beer. Lord Brougham then stated the
delight he had experienced in hearing a working
man at Liverpool state that if a man does not choose
to stint himself of his beer to a small amount by
the week, in order to obtain the elective franchise,
it is a proof of one of two things, either that he
does not value the franchise, or he is not to enjoy it.
Lord Brougham next urged. that the members of
such institutions as these had no right even to
study for their own advantage and that of others
unless they had previously fully discharged their
duty to their employers, and he gave his own case
as an example, observing that lie had never devoted
himself to study until all his professional duties
had been to the last tittle fully, faithfully, and
zealously performed. Lord Brougham concluded.
hisladdress as follows :—lt were needless for me to
say one word in vindication of all those means that
are taken to elevate the human character, to raise
it by instruction, by improvement, by every species
of education that can be offered for the wholesome
acquisition, I hope, of sound. knowledge—it is
needless. to demonstrate a thing which is as clear as
the light at midday. What is it that raises and
makes us what we are, that raises us from the
level, I may say, almost of the lower animals? It
is not merely the outward form of man. As
Cowper, one of the greatest of our poets, has said—
" The outward form of man bespeaks control,
It borrows all its grandeur from the soul ;
liars is the state, the. empire, and the throne;
An intellectual kingdom all her own."

A large meeting was held at th-e Festival froncert
Room, York, on Thursday evening, in advocacy of
tie- Institute of Popular Science and Literature.
The Rev. Canon Hey presided, and among the
noblemen 'and gentlemen present were Lord
Brougham, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Hon. and Very
Rev. the Dean of York, Colonel Smyth, M.P., and
Mr. H. Pease, I.P. for South Durham.
The CHAIRMAN, in his opening remarks, said, he
rejoiced particularly that there vas present an illus-
trious man (Lord Brougham), to whom the cause of
education and the cause of general knowledge in
England owes.a deep debt of gratitude. (Cheers.)
He referred to the palmy days of his lordship as a
barriser of the Northern Circuit, when his voice
was so often heard in the assize courts at York, and
to the circumstance of his having represented the
whole of that great county in Parliament, and to
his being afterwards called to occupy the highest
station to which a subject of her IVI. ajesty can be
called. (Applause.)
. Earl FITZWILLIAM then moved, "That in the
opinion of this meeting the general diffusion of use-
ful knowledge is essential to the moral and physi-
cal well-being of the people." (Applause.)
Mr. 11. PEASE, M.P., seconded the resolution in
a practical speech.
Lord BROUGHAM, on rising, was greeted with
load cheers. He said,—Let me begin the few obser-
vations I am about to offer you by expressing the
hearty pleasure, the real, entire, cordial satisfaction
which I have in once more findin mself among
my. old constituents. (Cheers.) ) I never can
come to York without being lost in admiration of
those splendid monuments of antiquity which it
contains and which surround it—monuments of an-
tiquity of the classic age of the world which are to
be found in no other part of this island. But
it is not because York is amongst the most ancient
may say the most ancient city of England—it
is not because it was the birthplace of Constantine,
and at that time the centre of the nortion portion
of the Roman Empire—it is not because it contains
the most magnificent monuments of architectural
. genius which are to be found in all England—and
it is not because most full of taste—most admirably
judicious—of the planting out of the gardens of
which these remains of Roman times are surrounded
and intertwined—it is not on these accounts, or
any of them, that coming to York is now so inte-
resting to the observer. That does not form the par-
ticular interest which I feel in coming here. But it
is because of such a meeting as I now see gathered
before and around me—it is because in York thero
is to be found a body of your fellow-citizens of all
ages and of both sexes who are bent upon carrying
forward the best of plans, and for the most sacred.
of purposes—the elevation of the human mind—the
development of the human character by the pro-
gress of sound knowledge. (Cheers.) This it is that
;now gives York an interest which it never had in
times bygone and past, and that it is which will,
-by the increase of those exertions—by the greater
energy with which they are conducted—by the
greater success with which they are attended—
renders, and will still further render, a visit to, and
a residence in York, both interesting and edifying.
(Cheers.) It is said that ingratitude is a worse sin
than witchcraft. We don't believe in the existence
-of one of those sins; we hold its existence to be im-
possible. Would to Heaven I could say as much for
the other, and as there can be no witchcraft, so let
there be no ingratitude. I shall not be one to prac-
- tine that sin, and show ingratitude to the people of
.York, for I owe to their kindness—l would say un-
_connected as I was with the county —I owe to their
peculiar personal kindness towards me that which
ever have regarded, and to my dying day I
-shall regard, as by far the greatest honour
-which I have ever in my life received—(cheers)—
,an honour from Which I was severed most reluc-
tantly, and when I was so severed from that high
-and highly prized honour, it was with a bitter pang
that I gave it up. I would to Heaven I had the
means of testifying that gratitude more than by
mere expressions to which I attempt to give utter-
ance. But I think it goes a certain way towards re-
paying the never-to-be-repaid, but as far as I can
-repay it—repaying that debt which Yorkshire im-
posed upon me by that act of kindness, by making
one or two observations of a purely practical nature
connected with the object of our present meeting,
and connected generally with the interest of the
great county of York. And, now, I shall begin with
the last first, that I may get out of the way, as it
does not particularly apply to our present meeting.
We have lately had a most happy change in the
posture of our affairs in the East—l mean not
merely by the suppression of that unnatural and
execrable but ever deeply to be deplored rebellion,
which disfigured the face of our Indian possessions,
but by opening up relations with a part of the
world still further towards the rising sun than that
—I mean China and Japan, where the curtain has
been raised, the former, it may be said, interposing
itself between our commerce and those empires.
won't repeat the advice • which a noble friend of
mine gave the day before yesterday at the Guildhall
on this subject—sound, excellent advice, not merely
Et to be followed, but necessary to be followed—not
that I need repeat it ; because you probably have
read it—and that advice was, that it behoves those
who are going to trade with those countries which
are open to our commerce for the first time—that it
deeply behoves them to beware of the character and
habits of the agents who are employed in conduct-
ing their business ; that next it behoves them, not
only through their agents, but all agents of Govern-
ment and others in those parts, commercially and
otherwise—that it deeply behoves them to beware
how they interfere with the rights and the feelings,
and even with the prejudices of the natives, and to
treat even those ignorant prejudices with allpossible
humanity and tenderness. (Applause.) But what I
go upon is a step, beyond that sound, and fit, and
proper advice. The besetting sin of Englishmen,
the besetting sin of English traders, the besetting
sin of speculators, in foreign traffic, and oftentimes
in home traffic, always is a reckless disposition to
speculation and overtrading. (Cheers.) lam not
now speaking in the West Riding or in the East
Riding of this great county ; but, assuming that
there may be some here from those great commer-
cial districts to hear my words, to them I give this
advice :—Beware of that reckless spirit of over-
trading which has often, as new sources of traffic
have been presented to the English public, been the
ruin of many, and well nigh often operated in pro-
ducing, general and wide-spread devastation in "die
commerce of this country. (Applause.) If it is pos-
sible to prevant that consequence from arising on
any new scene of commercial speculation being
opened, I onla hope and trust that the next time I
have the happiness of meeting my old constituents
in any part of Yorkshire, I shall find that this ad-
vice, which I humbly but confidently tender to
them, has not been thrown away. (Applause.) And
now, ladies and gentlemen, let me come to what
forms the prominent object on the present occasion.
The resolution which is put into my hand states
that, in the absence of any thorough and complete
system of national education, it becomes more im-
peratively necessary to resort to such a course as
this institute follows, and to give all manner of in-
struction by mechanics' institutions, apprentice
libraries, working men's libraries, all such means of
instruction as can be afforded. I will go one further
step and say, without any such qualification, that
even if there had been happily, as I trust we shall
soon live to see established, a national system of
education—of what is called elementary education,
a good system of school-teaching—I will say that
even if there had been such, this institution and
institutions of the like kind are not the less neces-
sary, but perhaps are the more wanted, because our
,worthy chairman has most justly observed, if you
put the means of instruction into the hands of young
people by teaching a course which is learnt at school,
that even then it becomes absolutely necessary to
urge them and to help them to go further, and to use
the tools you have put into their possession for in-
structing and improving their minds by the pursuit
of works tending to raise their moral, their religious
and their social character—tendince to make them
better men, better citizens, and better Christians
from that instruction. (Applause.) Lord Brougham.
then alluded toentltse
fferm ationofh e Association for
the Improvement of Social Science—an association
he said, had beend formed upon the model
which a right rev,
Raney most esteemed friend ofihis
then present (the
nagn_onhellnairecaonutrtti)ichatl
Britishthe
• greatest hand in estahli.sliCi
Association for the
to Advancementthfae of Science. His
Lordship also referred that
rloctialittai
cds an
t
hour or two before partaken of the
Bishopsthorpe, and then proceeded as
hope and trust that this new association alvsbe:—:;
perfect as the other which has latterly (as I stated
in my opening address at Birmingham) gone a little
further than physical science, and carried it a little
within the bounds of social science. Nevertheless,
• as has been/felt, it has been necessary to go a step
further, and to make a more general and systematic
association, which has been happily e
established
• during the last two years. Great 16 th advantage
from these ; and, though great errors have
resultingbeen conimitted and many mistakes have gone abroad
respecting what was done and what was left undone,
vast good has been effected, and still greater good
is in course of being accomplished. But there have
been objections made of omissions in the many pap ers
which were discussed a few weeks ago in the great
town of Liverpool. One objection made was this,
• that we did not sufficiently deal in any of those
papers on that prime Tirtue to all classes of the com-
munity, but most especially to the working. classes--
that prime virtue of temperance. Now, it is not cor-
rect to say that that important subject did not occupy
-our attention._ We dwelt upon it over and over
again, as absolutely necessary for the improvement

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(Cheers.) That kingdom which we avow ourselves
to be some of us the subjects, others the ministers
of, and it is that kingdom which -makes the distinc-
tion from the grovelling nian--the mere human
being without mind—the man who is almost on a
level with the lower animals. (Cheers.) His Lord-
ship finally thanked his auditory for the attention
with which they had listened to his remarks.
Colonel SMYTH spoke of the usefulieforms which
Lord Brougham had accomplished, observing that,
as Lord John Russell said at Liverpool, in every-
thing that pertains to the well7being of the people
they could not go a step without seeing the hand
of roughain. (Cheers.) He fervently hoped that
his lordship, who cut asunder the chains of slavery,
might long be spared to this country, to help those
who guide publi2 affairs and- preside- over the
destinics of the nation, by his' experience and by
his counsel. (Renewed cheers.)' • • -
The Rev. Canon Harcourt, the Rev. Canon
Robinson, the Lord Mayor; and others, also ad-
dressed the meeing, and a cordial vote of thanks to
Lord Brougham, Earl Fitzwilliam, and the other
gentlemen who had taken part in the proceedings,
was carried amid enthusiastic cheering.
Lord BROUGHAM, in returning thanks, referred
to the struggles of Wilberforce and others for the
abolition of the slave trade,, and then spoke to the
following effect :—I cannot.make this reference to
that measure without feeling that his name,
borne by my right rev. friend the most able and
eloquent Bishop of Oxford, has lately been ex-
posed—l deeply grieve to say—l won't say to
insult, but to an attempt at insult, in one part of
this country, and thoughti it was put down by the
lt.tevme6mnecloe,oquence of my right
splendid and most
rev. friend, yet it
to find that leading6ae great gratification
both laymen and
toardcegations, to please
clergymen of theDissentino.
abhorre,nweeerae
and disgust
first
whom that absurd effort Zs
to express in writing their
of the treatment he experienced. (Applause.) dtsgust
put me in mind of what my veneratedtii
It
saiden once
on a similar occasion when he had been attacked
in the same way by utterly. false .statements, by
fabrications which bad not a shadow of foundation

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TRIAL FOR

in fact, but which had been repeated within the
walls of Parliament, happily in his presence. He
then made an observation which was very effective,
verifying the truth of a remark made either by
Porson or some great wit, that every animal has
some peculiar cry—some braying loud and in an
offensive manner, others hiss in an equally offensive
I manner, and others, more powerful, and therefore
less contemptible, roar and bellow. (Laughter.)
Each has its particular cry, and therefore, said my
hon. friend, it no more offends me to be assailed by
a clamour indoors which is echoed by an outer-
door clamour, than it does when I go into the fields
and hear the bray, the hiss, or the roar of those in-
ferior animals. (Renewed laughter.) That was
the substance of my friend's happy and felicitous
answer to all those attacks, and which his eloquent
son, the Bishop of Oxford, might have repeated at
Bradford, had he been aviare of the fact. I share a
little with my right rev. friend, for in an address at
Liverpool on the subject of popular literature I said
the newspapers no longer wanted to drain into them
the slander of the slander-mongers by carrying over
the filth which used to be spread over the rest of
the press into one channel, as the good taste of lite•
rary men and of the public now made that drain
no longer necessary ; but I was grieved to find that
there were certain periodical publications which
were still undrained, which still required to be
drained, and among these there were those called
religious, but most falsely called religious journals.
Nevertheless, that was the case, and a remark was
made by a friend that if he was to have slander
served up to him he would much rather
have it common slander than smothered in religi-
ous thoughts. (Laughter.) Not the slightest allu-
sion was made by me to any one part of the press
—not the slightest reference to any individual or
to any journal. It was a mere general remark, but
it turned out that the cap thus thrown out was sup-
posed by some person to fit him, and he picked it
up and began attacking those whom, he supposed,
had been attacking him. The attack was that I
had always been in my dotage, and that I was
always a great enemy of the Evangelical portion
of the Church and clergy. That was well known,
it was said; and also that I was an enemy particu-
larly of the sect of Independents. Upon the ques-
tions relating to the abolition of the slave trade
upon the questions relating to West Indian slavery,
and upon the questions of education and the diffu-
sion of knowledge I had been the coadjutor of the
Evangelical party ; and alto that sect called the
Independents, most peoples heard of Mr. Smith,
the missionary's case in th. House of Commons.
and in 1824 I brought forward a motion which put
an end to the West Indian slave trade. (Applause,)
My defence of Mr. Smith, the missionary, was the
defence of an Independent clergyman, and I pre-
faced that defence by an elaborate penegyric—it
might have been very dull, but it was a very elabo-
rate panegyric of the Independents—a sect to whom
I said, the liberties ..-yf his country owed a debt of
gratitude that never could be repaid, in the 17th
century and ever since and that from that time
downwards, whatever difference in opinion I might
have on ecclesiastical or doctrinal points, they had
been more than any other sect the friends of uni-
versal toleration. (Applause.) It is the Indepen-
dents who made this attack on my right rev.
friend and myself, and this shows my hostility
to the sect of the Independents ! I mention
this as a sample of the degree of truth which
is to be found in' some quarters, though I only
saw it secondhand,—l did not see the paper itself.
It was said I had introduced Robert Owen to
the social congress at Liverpool, and I was well
known as a friend of his opinions. I introduced
him as the planter and founder of infant schools.
Lord Melbourne introduced him to the Queen, and
he was very much blamed by those who did not
know on what ground he was introduced. In in-
troducing him I expressly said, " As to his other
opinions they are his own, and not mine." (Cheers.)
My right rev. friend (the Bishop of Oxford) may
be quite satisfied, not with the course of proceeding
at Bradford, but with the course adopted by the
Dissenters of every denomination,,which did them
the greatest possible honour. I may add, from
having seen their correspondence and their publi-
cations—for they viewed that attack not only with
abhorrence, but with disgust—l may, add, that the
persons who were set on were not Yorkshiremen
—that was ascertained ; and it was also ascertained
that persons had been hired who were not English-
men at all. (Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
meeting.

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the ruptured ovary was the cause of death, still, if Lieutenant-Colonel . Lord Alfred Paget, Major half-pay chester, Nov. 26, and Dec. 17, at twelve, at the Manches-
it was a concomitant of the miscarriage, or if it Unattached. . ter District Court.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Smgleton, 11th Foot. Thomas Livingston, license/1 victualler, Homerton, Mid-
arcst-3 from a morbid condition set in action by the Licut.-Colonel Alfred F. W. Wyatt, Major Goth Foot. dlesex, Nov. 24, at twelve, and Dec. 27, at one, at the
miscarriage, but which might not have produced Lieut.-Colonel Richard Gardiner Major 760.1. Foot. Court of Bankruptcy.
death, the fatal result was to be attributed to the abor- Lieut.-Colonel IL D. Crofton, 17th Foot. Richard Thomas, shipbuilder, Conway, Carnarvonshire,
tion, though that might not have been the primary Lieut.-Colonel J. R. Blagden Hale, Captain half-pay Nov. 29 and Dec. 20, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
or sole cause.. No matter how many stages they Unattached. Court.
Lieut.-Colonel Arthur St. George H. Stepney, C. 8.,
might have to trace the cause of death—if it in
Coldstream Guards.
any way originated from the abortion, that was
Lieut.-Colonel Charles .Hind," Major half-pay Unat-
enough for the prosecutrix. His Lordship con- tached.
eluded by remarking that if the wounds caused
tachedLieut.-CTowoloneln M Augustus F.fax, AN nsell, Major half-pay Un-
death the first charge was proved ;if they pro- at, ajor, Hali.S.
Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Hooke Pearson, Major half-pay
duced abortion the second was proved ; and that if
Unattached.
their use, and intent was to procure abortion the Lieut.-Colonel Lawrence Fyler, 12th Light Dragoons.
third was proved. Lieut.-Colonel Archibald Campbell, Captain half-pay 2d
The jury retired shortly before 6 o'clock, and re- Ceylon Regiment, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
turned into court at 20 minutes before 7, when „.;Lieut.-Celonel James John Oraham, Major half-pay
their chancellor delivered the following verdict : U nif,titetuatc 11_ do,l
Lieut.-Colonel
Sir
rffiJames
f Pensioners.
Alexander,
14th Foot.
" The jury unanimously find the prisoner not guilty Lieut.-Colonel Perceval Brown, Capt. half-pay 62d Foot.
of the first charge ; and, with regard to the second Lieut.-Colonel Edward L'Estrang,e, Captain 70th Foot.
and third charges, find him guilty as libelled." Lieut.-Colonel R. H. Beaumont Beaumont, Captain Un-
The Lord Justice Clerk then passed sentence on attached.
Lieut.-Colonel William 11. Robinson, Captain half-pay
the prisoner of seven years' penal servitude.
Unattached.
The prisoner, who kept his eyes bent on the Lieut.-Colon:lßichard W. Bamford, Captain Unattached,.
ground during the address of the judge; betrayed Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
no sign of emotion on hearing his sentence, and was Lieut.-Colonel George Mylius, Captain half-pay Unat-
immediately afterwards removed. tached, Town Major, Lublin.
Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Josephus Deverell, 77th Foot.
Duity,„ the whole of the trial the court-room was
Lieut.-Colonel Edward Trevor, half-pay Royal Artillery,
Crowded to excess ; women were not admitted, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Henry Louis Wyatt, Major
11th Foot.
Lieut.-Colonel G. Herbert Frederick Campbell, Captain
half-pay Staff Corps, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Lieut.-Colonel Jasper Byng Creach, Captain half-pay,
48th Foot.
Lieut.-Colonel Edward A. G. Muller, Major' Depot Bat

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Parrock and Dawson, clothiers, Glasgow.
Daniel Menzies, grocer, Dunfermline.
Robert Nesbitt Riddell, Fort William.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL—Nov. 12.

To-day the transacted business in the leading articles of
wheat and flour was quite limited, and no change was made
in price, with much lukewarmness on the parts of both
holders and buyers.

WAKEFIELD—Nov. 12.

Rather higher rates were asked for wheat of all qualities,
and buyers operated cautiously. Good barley rather dsarer,
but no change in the value of other grain.
Averages for the week :
Wheat 4,622 qrs., at 43s .0d
8ar1ey......... 304 , 34s 20.
Oats —s Oil
_ -

Rye
Beans
Peas .

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20 „
20 „

EXETER—Nov. 5.

..--s Od
..43s 61
—Os Od

The market to-day continues' much' the same as last
week, with a small supply, at the following prices :
Wheat, white 58 3d to 5s 6d I Barley. .4s 6d to Os Od
Ditto red 5s Od to 5s 3d Oats ..... 38 Od to 3s 3d
Flour, fine, 30s to 318 ; seconds, 28s to 298 per sack.
CATTLE.—The market was fairly supplied with stock,
but business appeared to be small.
Fat beef, p score, 9s to 10s0d Ewes, per lb .... 6d to Od
Pork carcases, do SsOd to 8s 6d I Wethers, . 61d to Od
Lambs, per lb. Od to Od Fat calves, d0....6a to 61d
Rough fat, 4d per lb.

talion.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles F. Parkinson, Captain half-
pay Unattached, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Lieut.-Colonel Augustus F. Blyth, Captain half-pay 3d
West India Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Thomas Maitland, Captain half-
pay Staff Corps.
Lieut.-Colonel Richard Leckonby Phipps., Major, half-
pay Unattached.
Lieut.-colonel Thomas Tulloch, half-pay Unattached.
Comissions to bear date the 26th October, 1858.
TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN THE ARMY.
Major Michael Goold Adams, Captain half-pay Unat.
tached.
Major George F. Murray, Captain, 65th Foot.
Major Thomas Byrne, 10th Foot.
Major Edward Moore, 11th Foot.
Major Richard M. Best, 10th Foot.
Major Fitz William Walker, Royal Canadian Rifle Regi
went.
Major Robert Pitcairn, Captain half-pay, 6th Garrison
Battalion, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Major Donald Stewart, Captain half-pay 84th Foot, Staff.
Officer of Pensioners.
Major George Ponsonby Hume, 15th Foot.
Major Edward Osborne Broadley, Captain half-pay Un
attached, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Major Owen Lloyd Ormsby, Captain half-pay Unat
tached,'Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Major Henry Craigie Brewster, 76th Foot.
Major Charles Beamish, 35th Foot.
Major Henry Gahan, Captain, Saint Helena Regiment.
Major Collingwood Fenwick, Captain 76th Foot.
Major George Munro, Captain half-pay Unattached.
Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Major Robert Russell Harris, Captain half-pay 60th
Foot, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Major Francis Percy Nott, half•pay Ist Garrison Batta-
lion, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Major John R. Wheeler, 29th Foot.
Major A. T. Allan, 81st Foot.
Major Thomas Ross, 73d Foot.
Major Broadley Harrison, 10th Light Dragoons.
3lajor Albert Watson, half-pay Unattached.
Major Frederick J. Phillott, half-pay Unattached.
Major Charles D. Robertson, Captain Royal Engineers.
Major Wyndham E. Bewes, Captain 73d Foot.
Major Henry John Shaw, 45th Foot.
Major William Clarges Wolfe, half-pay Unattached.
Major John Miller, half-pay Unattached.
Major Jonas P. Hardy, half-pay Unattached..
Major John Johnston, half-pay Unattached.
Major Charles W. Green, half-pay Unattached.
Major Henry. Duke of Beaufort, half-pay Unattached.
Major Francis Peyton, 98th Foot.
Major John Francis Kempt, 12th Foot.
Major William T. Dickson llth Light Dragoons.
Major George B. T. Colman, half-pay Unattached.
Commissions to bear date the 26th October, 1858.
TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.
Captain Robert Michael Laffan, Royal Engineers.
Captain George Bayly, half-pay Unattached, Staff.
Officer of Pensioners.
Captain Thomas Edmund Mulock, 70th Foot.
Captain Arthur Henry. Freeling, Royal. Engineers.
Captain Hugh Smith Baillie, Royal Horse Guards.
Captain Charles F. Campbell, 87th Foot.
Captain Digby St. Vincent Hamilton, half-pay Unat.
tached, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Captain William Pilsworth, half-pay Unattached, Staff.
Officer of Pensioners.
Captain Hampden Clement B. Moody, Royal Engineers,
Captain William Anderson, 2d West India Regiment.
Captain George Archibald Leach, Royal Engineers.
Captain P. J. Stapleton Barry, Royal Engineers.
Captain G. W. Raikes, half-pay 76th Foot, Staff-Officer
of Pensioners.
Captain James M. Brown, 93d Foot.
Captain George It. Campsie, Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
Captain Benjamin Bloomfield Keane, half-pay Unat-
tached, Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Captain H. A. Welman, Adjutant Depot Battalion.
Captain Lord Geo. John Manners, Royal Horse Guards.
Captain Thos. Andrew Rawlins, Staff-Captain, Chatham.
Captain Thomas Hare, Cape Mounted Riflemen.
Captain Frederick Campbell, Cape Mounted Riflemen.
Captain R. D'Oyly Fletcher, Ist West India Regiment.
Captain George Frederick Moore, half-pay Unattached
Staff-Officer of Pensioners.
Captain William Knox Orme, 10th Foot.
Captain Balcarres Dalrymple Wardlaw Ramsay, 75th
Foot.
Captain James Delamain Mends, 2d West India Regt.
Captain George Hughes Messiter, 69th Foot.
Captain Thomas Tydd, 76th Foot.
Captain Pearson Scott Thompson, 14th Light Dragoons.
Captain William Charles Vandespar, Ceylon Rifleßegi-
ment.
Captain Daniel Henry Mackinnon, half-pay, Unattached,
Staff Officer of Pensioners.
Captain Charles Monteith Hamilton, 92d Foot.
Captain Thomas Smith, half-pay, Unattached, Staff
Officer of Pensioners.
Captain Charles Pattison, half-pay 56th Foot, Staff-
Officer of Pensioners.
Captain John Edward Sharp, half-pay Ist Foot, Staff-
Officer of Pensioners.
Captain Thomas Teulon, 35th Foot.
Captain Charles W. Grange, Royal Canadian Rifle Regi-
ment.
Commissions to bear date Oct. 26, 1858.
The undermentioned officers to have the local and tem-
porary rank of Major :
Captain Saverio Gatt, Royal Malta Fencible Regiment.
Captain Felice Rizzo, Royal Malta Fencible Regiment.
Commissions to bear date Oct. 26, 1858.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 9.
With reference to the promotion of officers which ap-
peared in the London Gazette of 26th February, 1858, the
following officers have been this day promoted for services
at the capture of Canton ; such promotions to date from
the 26th February, 1858 :
To be Paymasters.—Mr. Charles Augustus Goodyer and
Mr: Frederick Thomas Robins.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 12.
With reference to the promotion of Officers which ap-
peared in the London Gazette 0 21st September, 1858,
the tmdernientioned Officer has been this day promoted for
general services during the operations in China; such pro-
motion to date from Sept. 17, 1858 :
To be Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets.—Dr.
William Richard Edwin Smart.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En-
sign Rowland John Lenthall to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson,
promoted.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Regi-
ment of Royal 'Lancashire Militia—Charles Ring. Gent.,
to bo Ensign, vice Albert Hardinge, Lynch, promoted.
(The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the sth inst.)
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
George Mallifont Lane, Gent., to be Ensign.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth. Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, tho 10th day
of November, 1853:

lAS UE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued Z 12,316,415 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 17,841,415
Silver Bullion

£52,316,415!
BANKING DEPAUTMENT
Proprietors' Capi- Government Secu-
• tal - £14,553,000 ritics (including
Rest
Public Deposits (in- unity) £10,808,501
chiding Excite- - Other Securities 14,697,722
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners ot Na- Coin
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 6,673,581
Other Deposits 12,290,682
Seven Day and
other Bills 837,750

Z 32,310,415

661,412

X 7,49 I £37,495,105
31. 31.A.1tSIIALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Nor. 11,1858.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 9th day
of Nov., 1858, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :
Per cwt.
From the British possessions in America 27s 141
Muscovado, the produce/of the Mauritius 23s 43/411
Muscovado,. the produce of the East Indies 31s 7'd
Average price of the foregoing 2Bs ltd