The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-04 00:00:00

Mr. Bright as a Suffering Angel.

There is much about Mr. Bright that is pathetic
as well as poetical. No man is more thoroughly in
earnest, or more unfeignedly amazed at the opposi-
tion that he meets with, or more truly unable to at-
tribute that opposition to anything but wilful blind-
ness, or sheer malignity, or the instigation of the
Evil One. In all this he is like the orthodox be-
liever of the middle ages. He is, too, we believe, a
really warm-hearted, if not a tender-hearted man,
and loves his friends almost as fiercely as he hates
his enemies. But it is too much when he comes out
as he did on Wednesday at Rochdale, in the
guise of the suffering angel—the meek man who
turns his cheek to every smiter, who is always
sinned against and never sinning, and who, in very
truth, cannot comprehend what people mean by as-
sailing him. "Wondering (he says) at the various
and continued assaults to which I am subjected, I
ask myself why men should be so much more savage
in political than in religious, literary, or scientific
controversy ? No man living would in any other
line pursue an antagonist with that rancorous spirit
which is unfortunately introduced into political con-
troversy, and which has pursued me with unrelent-
ing animosity, not only for months, but for years
past." Is Mr. Bright really unconscious that he
brings all this upon himself, that he seldom opens
his mouth without giving the bitterest offence, and
that the anger and vindictiveness of which he
complains are due far less to the things he
does than to the manner in which he does
them ? Almost in the same breath—certainly
in the same hour—in which he utters the half
pathetic and wondering appeal we have quoted,
he denounces his opponents as " the miserable
writers and speakers of a miserable and hateful fac-
tion," and describes himself as the victim of " an
opposition conducted with a falsehood and a malice
which know no scruple." Mr. Cobden held opinions
nearly identical with those of Mr. Bright, and pur-
sued almost a parallel political course, yet he never
excited that bitter enmity which attends on nearly
every utterance of his coarser and rougher colleague,
and went to his grave mourned by supporters and
antagonists alike. But the member for Birming-
ham appears unconscious of the strange difference
and its simple explanation ; he reviews, with a pride
which is by no means unwarranted, the 25 years of
his political career, the glorious victories he has won,
the gallant exertions he has made ; but he adds,
with a want of self-knowledge and an obtuseness of
conscience which are almost surprising, that in all
he has done in the course of that career he can find
" nothing to condemn or to regret ;" he looks
back on what he has done and the fashion of his
workmanship, and " behold it is very good !" We
have neither space nor inclination for a detailed dis-
cussion of his discursive speech, which, as usual, was
full of vigour and empty of fairness ; but one or two
passages call for comment. What does he mean
when, after recalling the Indian mutiny and hinting
that it came because his advice had been neglected,
he adds parenthetically, " There will come another
event before long ? " We presume the illusion was
accompanied by some significant pantomime or ges-
ture which made it intelligible to his Rochdale audi-
ence, for it was greeted with loud cheers. Was he
foolish enough to mean nothing at all, or wicked
enough to mean what the juxtaposition of the sen-
tences almost irresistibly suggests. Parliament, says
Mr. Bright, " is paralysed for good." It cannot save
the public money, it cannot reform the Church, it
cannot reorganise the army, it cannot reconstruct
the navy, it cannot rectify the land laws of the em-
pire ; it cannot, in a word, do a great many things
that we, perhaps, as well as Mr. Bright, would wish
to see done. There is much truth in the statement,
only we read its teaching differently from the orator.
Mr. Bright maintains that it cannot do these things
because it is the creation of special classes, and that
the great mass of the people are not represented in
the House of Commons. We hold that it cannot
and will not do these things because the nation as a
whole—the majority of the influential, not merely of
the represented classes—is not yet prepared to wish
them done, because, in a word, the House repre-
sents but too faithfully the bigotry, the tardy move-
ments, the partial enlightenment of the country, its
prejudices, and its fears.—Pall-mall Gazette.

THE SUE, LONDON, MONDAY EVEAING, FEBRUARY 4 1867.

deep, commencing a short distance above the dam,
and running nearly parallel to the river about a
thousand feet from its bank down to the valley of
the river St. Pierre. Mills are to be built along the
canal throwing their tail water into the river. Mills
would be built also along the valley of the St.
Pierre. It is calculated that the hydraulic power
thus controlled will be sufficient to drive all the
mills for whose location space can be found within
proper distances. It is intended likewise that the
water of the canal should supply increased pumping
power for the city water works, and, when needed,
fill docks for ocean going steamers. It is antici-
pated that the construction of the projected dam
will greatly relieve Montreal from the yearly dan-
ger and inconvenience arising from the accumula-
tion of packed ice ; as much of the ice packing takes
place on the rapids along the northern channel. To
accomplish this great work a company, with a pro-
posed capital of two millions of dollars, has been
formed, and has already given notification of its in-
tention to apply for a charter, or has made the re-
quisite application.— The Springfield Weekly Re-
publican.
General Longstreet lately related the following
incident in Texas On one occasion General Lee
called Colonel L., one of his staff officers, into his
tent, and commenced dictating while Colonel L.
wrote: Colonel L. had in his mouth a pipe, and was
smoking. The general inhaled the noxious vapour
until his patience became exhausted, and then said,
Colonel L. you can retire, and send me Colonel M.,
he does not smoke.' Colonel L. retired, and in a
few minutes Colonel M. entered, to whom the gene-
ral commenced dictating, but after inhaling the at-
mosphere of the tent for awhile, he discovered it to
be considerably impregnated, not with the perfume
of roses, but the odious smell of villainous whisky,
which he could not stand. Retire, Colonel M.,
and send me an officer who neither drinks nor
smokes ; I would rather endure the smoke of tobacco
than the smell of whisky."
The board of directors of the Louisville and Nash-
ville railroad, at a recent meeting held in Louisville,
declared a dividend of four per cent., from the Ist
of July to the Ist of January, payable on the Ist of
February next.

General Grant has gained his lawsuit at St. Louis,
getting a verdict of $l7O and $l6 66c. a month for
back rents of his late father-iu-law's farm, near that
city.

General F. A. Stratton, of Greenfield, has been
appointed chief constructing engineer of the Wash-
ington Navy-yard.
Judge Redfield, of Vermont, sailed for England
on Wednesday, January 9, to look after the United
States claims for indemnity for the deprelations of
rebel vessels during the war, sailing under the
British flag. Major George H. Chandler of Con-
cord, New Hampshire, went with him.
John L. Phillips, a well-known citizen of Boston,
died on Wednesday, Jan. 9, et the age of 86. He
served one term in the Legislature, and was a pro-
minent member of the Masonic fraternity.

Dr. John E. Dunnells, a prominent physician of
Portland, died suddenly of heart disease, on Thurs-
day, Jan. 10.
Oliver Ames, of Easton, has been elected presi-
dent of the Pacific Railroad, to hold the office while
General John A. Dix is absent as Minister to
France. The salary of the position is $15,000 per
year.
Governor Chamberlain, of Maine, has appointed
as his staff Generals Selden Connor of Fairfield,
George Varney of Bangor, Tbomas N. Hyde of
Bath, and John M. Brown of Portland.
The Confederate General Price has returned from
Mexico. He received the compliment of a public
dinner in New Orleans on the 4th instant. In the
same city, on the 6th, a dinner was given to John
Francis Maguire, Esq., editor of the Cork Examiner,
and M.P. Generals Hood and Buckner were among
the guests.

Sixteen thousand dollars have been subscribed in
aid of the families of the yachtsmen washed over-
board during the race from Sandy Hook to Cowes.
Funeral services in memory of Captains Hazleton
and Wood, two of the lost, took place ou Staten
Island on Sunday, 'January 6.
Mitchell, one of the negroes sent from Boston to
the Massachusetts Legislature, received the vote
for Speaker during the balloting on Tuesday,
January 8.
The medal purchased by the contributions of
30,000 Frenchmen to be presented to Mrs. Lincoln
as a token of respect for the memory of her hus-
band, was transferred to the widow, on Monday,
January 7, by the agent sent for the purpose.
The board of the Anglo-American Telegraph
Company in the exercise of the power conferred
on them by the articles of association, have ap-
pointed Mr. Cyrus W. Field, a director of the
comiany.
Mr. F. P. Onslow, barrister, of Lincoln's-inn,
has been appointed secretary to the Neutrality
Laws Commission.

Captain J. B. Castleman, of Kentucky, has
been permitted by the President to return to the
United States. lie was arrested in Indiana in
1864, and sentenced to death. This sentence was
afterwards commuted to banishment from the
United States during life.

Henry B. Humphrey, of Thomastown, has been
appointed State Commissioner to the Paris Exposi-
tion.li ewEasgyformerly United States consul to
Alexandria,
Onehundred and eighteen persons died at Provi-
dence (Rhode Island) last year who were over 70
years old, and of whom the eldest was 96.
Deacon John Harris, one of the prominent
citizens of New London (Connecticut), was found
dead in his bed on Tuesday morning, Jan. 8,
though he had retired in better health than usual
James M. Niles for the
the night before.
preTsehnetG. Howe, the
presidency of the National Exchange Bank of
sharpincumbent, contesta
nd between
eT
a
Hartford was decided on Tuesday, Jan. 8, by the
election of the former, by a majority of 1,229, in
a vote in which 9,757 of the 10,000 shares of the
bank were represented.
E. W. Pelton, of South Windsor, has just realised
$3,300 from the tobacco crop of less than two and a
half acres of land.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Norwich and Womester Railroad was held at Norwich,
on Wednesday, January 9, and the following officers
chosen for the ensuing year :—President, Augustus
Brewster ; treasurer, George L. Perkins ; supertn-
tendent,P. St. M. Andrews ; secretary, E. T. Clapp,
all of Norwich.

the ensuing year :7-President,
The Connecticut State Agricultural Society held
its annual meeting at New Haven, on 'Wednesday,
January 9th, and elected the following officers for
Ephraim H. Hyde,
of Tolland ; vice-presidents, Robbins Battell, of
Norfolk, and H. L. Stewart, of Middle Haddam ;
secretaries, T. S. Gold, of Cornwall, and Burdett
Loomis, of Windsor Locks ; treasurer, F. A. Brown,
of Hartford, and a board of directors, one from
each county.
Discussions were held on various
agricultural topics, and resolutions passed in favour
of holding a State fair next fall.
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The New Hampshire Republicans have nominated
General Walter Harriman for governor at their
convention, held at Concord on
Tuesday, giving
him 349 votes on the first ballot to 318 for Onslow
Stearns, and afterwards making the nomination
unanimous. In the third congressional district the
Republicans have nominated Jacob Benton, of
Lancaster, for Congress, to succJed senator elect
Patterson.

Railroad election
It is stated that at the recent New York Central
$4,600,000 of stock ; Henry Keep on $3,500,000,
and Cornelius Vanderbilt on $2,000,000—a11 stand-
ing on the books of the company in their own
names.

At New Orleans, on the 6th, a dinner was given
to Mr. John Francis Maguire, editor of the Cork
Examiner, and M.P. Generals Hood and Buckner
were among the guests.
POLYGAMY AT UTAII.—The abolition of slavery
seems likely to be closely followed by a move-
ment for the abolition of polygamy in the Re-
public, since the bill introduced by Senator
Howard aims at nothing less than the extir-
pation of the system in Utah, where it has so
long been permitted to flourish. We have been

sneered at not a little by foreign censors for allow-
ing this blot to remain unexpunged in the heart of
the national territory. But such critics have hardly
sufficiently considered the difficulties of reaching
the strong arm over a thousand miles of desert,
where neither railways nor water-course supply
the means for conveying troops or their need-
ful stores. Even now it is open to grave
question whether, considering the vast diffi-
culties and expenses of a forcible abolition of
polygamy throughout the Mormon territory, it may
be expedient to attempt it. Two or three hundred
miles added to the Pacific Railway will, of course,
put a different face on affairs. In the presence of
certain means to conquer opposition, opposition
would probably not be offered ; in the absence of
those obvious means it might, and doubtless would,
prove obstinate and bloody. It will be easy in a
short time to crush polygamy as well as to denounce
it. For the immediate present such fulminations
appear to smack, like Mr. Lincoln's first proposed
ban against slavery, of the dubious quality of a
" Pope's bull against the comet," and therefore, for
the sake of dignity as well as policy, might be better
kept in reserve.—The Round Table.
A correspondent of the Pall-Mall Gazette gives
us some idea what taxation means just now in the
United States. He takes a woollen manufactory
iu Massachusetts as an example. A woollen mill,
he says, is taxed from 10 to 50 per cent. on the
wool which it buys from England, Australia, or
elsewhere, and more than that on all the dye goods
imported for it. Then it pays a monthly tax of 5
per cent. on every yard of cloth which is manufac-
tured, even though it should be sold at a loss ; this
is for the benefit of the general Government. And
for the benefit of the State Government it pays
once a year a tax of 11 per cent. on its valuation as
a mill, and on all the capital sunk in it. A mill
employing 1,400 people pays to the Government in
direct taxes 400,000 dollars, or £BO,OOO, and when
the proprietors divide the profit of their business,
then they have to pay 10 per cent. on their in-
dividual shares of the profits as income-tax. At
present many mills are being closed.
MR. BEECHER'S PEW LETTING.—The annual let-
ting of pews in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, took
place on the evening of the Bth inst., before a very
large congregation, Mr. Pillsbury officiating as
auctioneer. The highest premium offered was
$550, but several choice pews fetched above $3OO
premium. The total receipts last year for pew rents
and premiums amounted tc, s43,ooo—this year they
will exceed $50,000. All but a few back seats were
disposed of at the auction.—New York Times.

SHEEP LANDS OF AMEHICA.--Dr. Norton S.
Townshend, of Lorain County, Ohio, contributes
au article to the Ohio Farmer on tho wool-growing
capabilities of the West: He says—" In Minnesota,
lowa, Missouri, Eastern Kansas, Arkansas, and
Texas, are lands well adapted to general cutlivation ;
but in all of these States are extensive prairies
which may much more profitably be devoted to
pasturage than tillage. In Nebraska, Western
Kansas, Western Texas, and New Mexico, is an itn-
inenst., range, of nearly a million of square miles in
extent, which has not rain enough for general
cultivation, but much of which is adapted to
wool-growing, having at thousands of points
water enough for large flocks, and grass without
limit. Unless the natural grasses or the immense
prairies and plains of the West can be utilised by
sheep a large portion of our country is for the
present nearly valueless. _ _ .

NAVAL.—noyal Alfred, 18, iron screw frigate,
Captain Francis A. Herbert, fitting for the North
America and West India station, was placed in No.
.11 dock at Portsmouth on Monday last for examina-
tion below water-line.

New Hampshire paid last year $3,424,917 in
internal revenue taxes, or $10,47 for each inhabi-
tant. Rhode Island, Alassachusetts, Connecticut
and New York were the only States in the Union
that paid a greater amount in proportion to their
population. _ _

Alaine lost 10,000 men in the war, and 25,000
had come home alive but hopelessly disabled for life.
lie number of men furnished was 580 in excess of
all calls.

Fifteen thcusand mechanics are at present out of
work in New York city.
The cost of the buildings erected in Chicago last
year was, in round numbers, $8,000,000.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake have been felt
in Monroe and Livingston counties.
It is said that a society of smokers was formed at
Berlin two years ago, the members of which agreed
to preserve all the points of their cigars, instead of
biting them off and throwing them away. The
money procured by the sale of these bits is applied
to the maintenance and education of orphan children
and twenty-one are now supported by it.

Hamilton and Hobart colleges are having some-
thing of a dispute as to which institution can pro-
perly claim orange as their ribbon—both colleges
saying they adopted it first.
They have flying squirrels in California.
Pekin is going to have an American college.

The mouth of the Amazon is large enough to
take in the States of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island.

The city authorities of Memphis have ordered
the discontinuance of smoking on the streets, on
Sunday.

The tobacco crop in Missouri this year is
estimated at from twelve to fifteen thousand hogs-
heads.

The California end of the Pacific Railroad will
be higher than the passes of the Alps.
A man has been fined in Detroit for kicking a
dog.
Three hundred Scottish agriculturists are on their
way to Texas.
The largest piece of plate glass in the country
has been placed in the window of one of the alcoves
in the State House at Boston, Massachusetts, con-
taining the State battle flags. It measures 12ft. 4in.
by 7f t. Tin.

the Autobiography of the Rev. E.:Matthews.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The Rev. Edward Matthews has been fortunate
enough to associate his name with the most extraor-
dinary chapter of the world's history since the in-
troduction of Christianity. His illustrious kinsman,
Father Matthew, devoted the labours of a life to the
cause of temperance. He worked among his own
countrymen for the good of his fellow-citizens—for
a direct object, the result of which he could see and
appreciate on the spot. Mr. Matthews toiled in
the wilds of a new country, among a people hostile
to the cause he espoused, for the benefit of a race
who were kindred to him only as being of the same
human family. The exertions of the Roman Catholic
priest were attended with immediate effect ; those
around him recognised his efforts and appreciated
his motives ; he saw vast crowds moved by his
eloquence and stimulated by his example ; he saw
wretchedness and penury turn under his benign in-
fluence to happiness and plenty ; irreligion and
crime give place to religion and virtue, and a nation
steeped in the vice of drunkenness rise to sobriety,
morality, and order. This was a vast change, and
one worth a life's devotion. But great as it was, it
was still as nothing compared to the change wit-
nessed by the Oxford Baptist missionary. The in-
terest that attaches to the autobiography of Mr.
Matthews rests in his connection with the great move-
ment which finally gave liberty to 4,000,000 of slaves,
and revolutionised .the social relations of a conti-
nent. The efforts of the author of this book were
like the planting of the grain of mustard seed—
so small as scarcely to be noticed, yet growing
quickly into a tree, in which birds seek a place to
roost. From the days when he first lectured on
slavery as the sum of all villanies in the scattered
villages of Wisconsin and Illinois, and brought on
himself the hostility of the inhabitants—to the
period, when increased to great cities, they mar-
shalled their regiments to fight in the very cause,
whose apostle they then denounced a quarter
of a century had not elapsed. But what a change
had been wrought! The wild territories of his
early labours had become powerful, populous States
of the Union. The indifference, and even enmity,
of the people to the cause be had espoused had
changed into a fixed principle of national policy
and he who had gone forth as a minister of peace

under the auspices of those whose abiding principle
it was to work only by the force of reason and of
public opinion (denouncing a resort to carnal
weapons as a crime), saw his cause blazoned on the
banners of mighty lines arrayed for battle, and
the fields of the Union drenched in the blood of
its inhabitants. Never was there a more pointed
illustration of the truth that man proposes,
but God disposes. Perhaps, throughout the
Union, no man would have been more sur-
prised than Mr. Matthews himself, could
the result to which his labours tended have
been unfolded to his view. Yet on calmly re-
viewing his career, it must now be apparent to our
author that the convulsion could not have been
avoided. The growth of Northern opinion in the
direction given to it by Mr. Matthews and other
missionaries of the anti-slavery societies, was, in the
end, certain to produce an explosion. The South
had determined to meet argument by force if neces-
sary. One by one they saw their safeguards broken
down. As they were beaten in_ the organs which
influence public opinion, they saw that the time
approached when they must either secede or fight.
They were not to be reasoned out of the domestic
institution ; yet they had to meet the feeling of the
North, every day growing more powerful and hostile
to slavery. Their antecedents showed, that, if
necessary, they would fight, but not yield an inch.
They were an aristocratic and haughty race, and
fight they did, with a gallantry worthy of a better
cause, and with a self-devotion which excited the
admiration of the whole world. The most interesting
portion of the book gives the account of the struggle in
the Church itself against the influence exercised in
the South over its ministers. When Mr. Matthews
appeared on the scene, the South ruled in the
Senate, in the pulpit, and in the press. They were
a compact and united body, with one object—to
maintain the institution of slavery. Such mis-
sionaries as Mr. Matthews were regarded as fanatics
and firebrands, and, in truth, they were firebrands,
engaged in piling up materials destined to produce
the greatest conflagration the world had ever seen.
It required no ordinary determination and spirit of
devotion to face the enmity then everywhere met.
Persecution, however, produced its usual re-
sult. From the ashes of one - martyr sprang
a dozen Reformers. The indignities offered
by a mob to one missionary roused the attention of
scores of earnest men. Steady perseverance and
unflinching courage, and meekness under suffering,
produced the desired end. A spirit of inquiry
was raised, fanned by lectures and satisfied by
widely-spread publications. By degrees slavery
became the great question, and as it grew in Pro-
portions the influence of the slaveholder was under-
mined throughout the North. The result was felt
in the pulpit, and in the press.
in the ballot-box,
There may be many minor causes which led to the
great Civil War ; but this fact, is certain, that
slavery was at the root of the conflict, and slavery
fell, with the triumph of the Northern arms. This
book is
,intended to throw a light on the rise and
progress of the great party who were the instru-
ments in accomplishing this downfal. Mr. Mandel
Cossham introduces the author in a preface, and
Mr. Matthews proceeds at once to show the objects
he has in view in publishing his autobiography.
His personal adventures are mainly selected, as
sketches and illustrations of the state of society in
connection with the objects he strove to accomplish.
To show the growth of the slaveholders' power, he
give summaries of the leading acts of the Presidents
he selects., To bring out their policy in the
strongest colour, he contrasts them with each
other. Thus Washington is contrasted with
Jefferson—the elder, with the younger Adams ;
Maddison with Monroe, and so on. He uses these
as his own history progresses, and thus we obtain a
general idea of the policy of the slave-holding power.
Mr. Matthews speaks plainly. lie writes in short
and concise sentences—almost abrupt—and neither
disguises nor palliates anything. At first he had to
fight what appeared to be a hopeless battle. Outside
the people were ignorant, indifferent, or hostile to
the movement ; inside, the ministers of the Church
were either openly or secretly arrayed in the inte-
rests of the slaveholders. One of his greatest
struggles was to und3 the work of the Rev. James
Mitchell, who had sent two young women from
Wisconsin into the South to slavery. He agitated
the matter with the greatest determination, and
finally succeeded in procuring at least the liberation
of one, and in showing up the reverend gentleman
in spite of the strong opposition of the Church. To
be pelted with eggs, to rise in the night, and
have to fly for his life from a pursuing mob,
were frequent incidents in his career. But
these were trials less difficult to encounter than
than the hostility of the ministers of the denomina-
tion to which he belonged. We do not intend
to lessen interest in the perusal of the autobio-
graphy by making extracts from the work. Our
object is simply to call attention to it as a plain
concise statement of the early struggles in forming
a party destined to produce such astonishing re-
sults. Graphic sketches are given of those wbo
became prominent in the movement, a body of
men who have excited a keen interest among the
influential party in England, who favour the
cause. Indeed self-devotion must ever influence a
strong effect in the Anglo-Saxon mind, and that
influence is increased where grand results are
achieved. Mr. Mathews was born at Oxford in
1812 ; he began his labours in the great West in
1838, and left America on a mission to England,
in 1851. Although the period which he spent in
the United States, was precisely that when the
power of the South seemed to have culminated to
its greatest strength, it was in truth the time when
the seeds were sown which afterwards produced
such an extraordinary harvest, ending in the down-
fall of the dominant institution it upheld. This
missionary made himself so prominent by his
labours that he was selected as the original of one
of Mrs. Stowe's characters in her story of "bred."
The autobiography before us gives another ex-
ample of what may be accomplished by the single
efforts of a man who becomes penetrated with one
absorbing idea—to benefit his fellows, and devotes
himself to its realisation. There are few so unsel-
fish as to act thus, but when they do their power
becomes almost invincible. It is thus that many
have attained to eminence in the world ; but the
Rev. E. Matthews's work is not yet complete. The
fabric of negro slaVery has been pulled down, but
the fabric of negro society yet remains to be
constructed. Ignorance and prejudice have to be
dissipated, labour and thrift to be encouraged,
social relations to be regulated, and, above all,
religious principles to be inculcated. The field of
labour is large, and there is room for the work of
many missionaries of Mr. Matthews's type.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—THE UNKNOWN NAMED.
—Soon after ten o'clock on Friday night Jem Mace called
at our office, as he had promised, and requested our advice
on what, appeared to him a great difficulty. It seems that
in :a former 'encounter with Joe Goss in tho prize ring
he sustained an injury, which though not of a very
serious character, yet made it very doubtful whether
the necessary training and its accompaniments for
a great fight would not be followed by a complete
break down. That he had then no alternative but to
name Joe Goss as the Unknown put forward by him to
contend with Baldwin, and that he had that day received
a telegram from Joo authorising him to do as he pleased in
the matter. Goss is, therefore, the man who will hence-
forth appear in these columns as the opponent of Baldwin
in the fight for the championship. It is only justice to Jem
Mace the world should know tkat on finking the match
he had no other competitor for Baldwin than himself ; in-
deed, up to the hour mentioned yesterday, ho could hardly
bring himself to admit the impossibility of getting fit by
the time, but necessity became his master, and at the last
moment ho named his friend and late antagonist to sup-
port those honours which he had' hoped himself to dis-
pute.—Bell's Life.
COMMENCEMENT OF TIIE SALMON-FISHING SEA-
SON.—On Friday night the " fence-time" on sal-
mon and trout streams expired, and on Saturday the open
season commenced. With this season the Amended Sal-
mon Fishery Act, passed last session, comes into full open
ration, and it is desirable it should be known that it is now
illegal to fish for salmon without a license, and that any
person so doing is liable to a penalty of double the amount
of license duty and £5 if he uses a rod and lino, and of
double the amount of license duty and £2O if he makes use
of any other instrument or device. The conservators of
the Severe fishery district have published a digest of the
principal offences against the fishery laws, and a scale of
the cost of licenses, which have been approved by the Sec-
retary of State. The latter range from 10s. for permission
io use a rod and line, up to £lO for license to catch sal-
mon by means of a woir-trap.

THE STE„I3IERS CITY OF ANTWERP
AND CITY OF LONDON.

(Prom Liverpool Journal of Commerce.)
The steamship City of Antwerp, a new vessel
just completed by Messrs. Tod and M'Grcgor for
the Inman line, left the Clyde on Tuesday night,
and arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday about
11 a.m. She passed the Cloch Light at 5.15
p.m., and the Cumbrae at 6.15 p.m., making the
run against a head wind in a few secoßds over the
hour, at the rate of 132 knots, or 15:1 statute
miles per hour. The weather was very stormy,
and Ailsa Craig and the Calf of Man were passed
without being seen, the Great Ormshead, on the
coast of Wales, being the first point sighted. The
Bell Buoy was passed at 10.201 a.m., and the
Hoek Light at 10.53 a.m., the distance of nearly
10 knots being made in less than 33 minutes. She
will be at once placed on the station between this
port and New York. The dimensions of the City
of Antwerp are as follows :—Length of keel and
foresake, 320 feet ; breadth, moulded,
39 feet ;
depth, moulded, 271 feet; propelled by engines of
400-horse power, constructed on the horizontal
trunk pfinciple, with all recent improvements. The
addition of such a vessel to the Inman line is evi-
dence of there being no lack of that enterprise for
which the line has been characterised, in providing
first-class vessels to meet the requirements of the
ever-expanding Transatlantic trade.

The City of London, belonging to the same line
of Atlantic steamers, having gone to the Clyde to
have new engines and boilers from her builders,
Messrs. Tod and M'Gregor, her owners also con-
tracted with that firm to have her length increased
39 feet amidships. The process of launching the
forward half of the vessel was successfully accom-
plished on Tuesday, in Messrs. Tod and M'Gregor's
graving dock, in presence of W. Inman, Esq., of
the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia line.
The increase in length will now be built up amid-
ships in the vessel, the materials for which are all
prepared ; and her dimensions, when completed,
will then be—length of keel and forerake, 361 feet ;
breadth, moulded, 40 feet ; depth, 27i feet. This
perhaps is the largest vessel ever attempted to be
taken asunder ; and, considering the disadvantages
under which the operation was laid, on account of
the severe frost, it is matter of congratulation
to all concerned that the result has been so suc-
cessful.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORWICH- SATURDAY.

The supply of wheat at this market to-day was again
limited, and with dulness prevailing in the trade, prices
receded is to 2s even for the best qualities. The supply
of barley was fair, and the farmers demanding higher rates
than the trade will afford, checked business. The samples
which changed bands wero at a reduction of is to 2s per
qr. for both malting and grinding sorts. In other articles
not much doing.
White wheat (weighing 631 b), 70s to 725; old red aitto,
(weighing 631 b), 60s to 658 ; new red ditto (weighing
601 b to 631 b), 60s to 65s ; best malting barley (weighing
521 b to 531 b), 50s to 52s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 521 b),
46s to 48s ' • distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 36s to
40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, Ks to 39s ; peas (maple), 363
to 38s per qr. Flour, 45s Od per sack.

NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY.
There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, and except for
the finest sorts prices were is to 2s qr. lower. A moderate •
quantity of barley on offer, and prices were is per qr.
lower. Oats a limited show, and last week's rates were
with difficulty maintained. Beans and peas were rather
lower in price.

Old white wheat, 66s to 72s ; old red, 60s to 68s • nevi
white, 62s to 70s ; new red, 55s to 65s per 36 stone. 'Oafs,
old, 31s to 37s ; now, 24s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old,
55s to 608 ; new, 42s to 49s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 450
to 48s per sack.

LEICESTER—SATURDAY.
There was about an average supply of wheat at our corn
market. Business quiet, at a reduction of is to is per qr.
A fair supply of barley, and prices in favour of the buyer.
Prices for oats a shade easier. Beans sold at a reduction
of is per qr. *
New white wheat, 58s to 67s ; new red, 57s to 64s ;
white, 66s to 70s; old rod, 63s to 66s per 36 stone. Bar-
ley, for malting, 39s to 50s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 34s
per 30 stone. Oats, old, 34s to 3Gs ; new, 26s to 30s per 24
stone. Beans, old, 55s to 58s ; new, 48s to 52s per 38 stone.
Fine flour, 49s ; seconds, 46s to 49s per 20 stone.