The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1866.

MARKETS.--.This Day.

MARK LANE.

Scarcely any change took place in the value of wheat in
the country markets held on Saturday. Good and fine
qualities sold steadily, at full prices, but infericr produce
was a slow sale. Barley was firm, and changed hands at
fully late rates. For other articles the trade was quiet, at
about stationary prices.

On the continent the wheat trade is quiet, at about late
rates. For oats there is a steady export demand ; but
other articles are a slow sale. At New York the business
doing in wheat, flour, and maize, for export is very
moderate.

Tho arrivals of English grain, &c., up to our market
last week were very moderate. The imports from abroad
consisted of 8,663 quarters of wheat, 5,494 barley, 81,316
oats, 55 beans, 475 pass, 507 tares, 1,731 linseed, 2,393
rape and oilseeds, 630 maize, 1,138 sacks and 1,683 barrels
of flour.

Fresh up to our market to-day moderate supply of
wheat was received both from Essex and Kent, and, owing
to the more favourable state of the weather, there was a
decided improvement in the condition of tho produce.
There was no activity, however, in the demand either for
red or white qualities of English wheat ; nevertheless,
factors were firm in their demands, and last Monday's
currency was well supported.

The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat.
The trade for all qualities was firm, and the prices realised
were quite equal to Monday last. Tho total amount of
business transacted, however, was but moderate.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, and prices
ruled firm.

Tho supply of barley on sale was very moderato. Malt-
ing descriptions were in steady request at fully late rates.
In grinding and distilling barley only a moderate business
was transacted, but at quite previous quotations.
Malt was in fair demand at fully last Monday's cur-
rency.

There was a good supply of oats on the stands. On the
whole, the trade was steady at late rates.

Beans were in but moderato supply, and the trade was
steady on former terms.
The trade fur peas was quiet at late rates. The market
was very moderately supplied.
Most descriptions of flour moved off slowly at previous
quotations.

Sydney; 44,322, Victoria; 11,090, South Australia; 809
Swan River ; 196, Tasmania ; 384, New Zealand ; and
22,943 bales from the Cape of Good Hope. The attendance
of buyers has been large, and the biddings have ruled active
for all descriptions, both on home and foreign account. As
compared with last sales prices show an average improve-
ment of Id. per lb. In Port Philip Wool the advance is
2d. por lb. Privately, the market is firm, at fully late rates.

REGENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News)

The will of the Hon. William George Grey, her
Majesty's Secretary of Embassy at the Court of the
Tuileries, formerly Secretary of Legation at Berlin,
was proved in London, on January 31, by his relict,
the Hon. Theresa Grey, daughter of Major-General
Count Stedingk, of Sweden. The personalty in this
country was sworn under £5,000. The testator
was a son of the second Earl Grey, K.G., and died
at Paris, on Dec. 19, 1865, at the age of 46.
The will of Mr. Thomas Gardiner, of Newgate-
street, wholesale stationer, and of Highbury-crescent,
was proved in London, on the 17th February, under
£lBO,OOO personalty, the executors being his
nephews, Mr. Augustus Gardiner and Mr. Joseph
Gardiner Findlay. The will is dated September 15,
1861, and the signature is written in a bold charac-
ter. The testator died Jan. 30, at the age of 88.
The will of 'William Darling (father of the cele-
brated Grace Darling), formerly keeper of the Long-
stone Lighthouse, Fern Island, Northumberland,
but lately residing at Bamburgh, following no occu-
pation, was proved, in London on February 12,
under £4BO. The executors and trustees are the
Rev. Charles Thorp, of University College, (only
son of the late Archdeacon of Durham) ; William
Dickson, clerk of the peace for Northumberland ;
and the Rev. W. N. Darnell, Rector of Stanhope,
Durham. The will was made in 1847, and a codicil
in 1850 ; the testator's signatures thereto art very
good. To his wife he had bequeathed by his will
all his property, but she did not survive him, and
after her decease he executed a codicil, and has left
to his only surviving daughter, Thomasine, who was
living with him, all the furniture and effects about
his house, directing the rest of his property to be
divided into seven parts amongst the following
members of his family—namely, his daughter
Thomasine ; William Darling, lighthouse-keeper at
Coquet Island; W. B. Darling, lighthouse-keeper
at Longstone ; Robert Darling, of Alnwick ; Geo.
A. Darling, of North Sunderland ; his granddaugh-
ter, Georgina Dixon Carr, each an equal share, and
the remaining share between his grandsons :James
Walter and John Maude.

The American Fieedmen.
—O--

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Will you oblige me by publishing the following
letter addressed to one of the secretaries of the American
Missionary Association of New York, and by him for..
warded to me. It is, he says, "from one of our most
judicious teachers," and it will gratify those who have
contributed for the relief of the American freedmen to
learn from it the effect of their benevolence. The associa-
tion alluded to is the oldest of the Freedmen's Aid
Societies in America, and I take pleasure in acknow-
ledging in their behalf the liberal donations which have
been made to it by individuals and co-operative societies in
Great Britain, especially the Friends' Central Committee
the London Freedmen's Aid Society, the Birmingham and
Midland, and the Manchester and Liverpool Freedmen's
Aid Societies. £l,OOO sterling was remitted to that asso-
ciation also last week by Rev. Dr. George Smith, secretary
of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, as the
first instalment of the avails of a general collection
taken by the churches of that denomination in this coun-
try. An additional £l,OOO will go this week, and more
hereafter. In conclusion, allow me to add that at the
request of some of the friends of the freedmen in this
country, and the earnest solicitation of the secretaries, I
have consented to remain in Great Britain until autumn
as the' representative of the American Missionary Associa-
tion, and hold myself ready to speak in behalf of the freed-
men, either at public meetings or in the pulpit, when
desired.—Yours very respectfully,
JOHN C. HOLBROOK.
11, Queen-square, London, W.C., Feb. 27.
The following is the letter referred to :
" Beaufort, North Carolina, Jan. 25,1866.

"Dear Brother,—With nine packages of clothing I re-
ceived that splendid lot of English blankets. God bless
the donors of that rich gift, which will very soon warm
the bodies of two or three hundred shivering freemen. It
will do more than this. These gifts, in many instances,
inspire the most grateful devotion to God, as well as love
to men. Last evening I hurried away to a distant portion
of the city with three of these blankets under my arm. One
old man, crippled in the cotton field, two aged women and
three children, lived in the shed to which I directed my
steps ; the little girl was reading the Testament by the
fire-light to the rest of the family. I knew how they
shivered and huddled together these cold nights, for I had
often been there. Dese yero blankets,' said the choking
voice of the old man, will warm soul and body.'
"Twenty-three of the freedmen were carried to the
pesthouse with the smallpox within the last ten days.
These blankets will cover all that survive of them when
their few rags they now possess aro committed to the
flames.

"Every one of these blankets will go into cheerless
cabins, where slavery has robbed and war desolated.
" Let me repeat the oft-repeated expression of the freed-
men, God bras dese yere men dat come to open our prison
doors, and cover our nakedness.'
"Rev. George Whipple."

"Jr. S. BEALS.

THE PRESIDENT MASTER OF THE SITUATION.—
The New York Herald rejoices over the late re-
sponses of President Johnson to the delegations.
The great mass of the American people, it declares,
cares nothing for obstructions ; they look at the
general situation, and act upon sentiment rather
than mere special pleadings. To this peculiarity
of the people the addresses of the President very
effectually applies. They realise, in the first place,
that they have just gone through a long war for
the preservation of the Union, and that the Presi-
dent is trying to secure to the country all the benefits
of that struggle by cementing the victories gained
in battle, and making them permanent and endur-
ing. They also see that his policy leads to the
immediate adjustment of all foreign complications,
the debt, the currency, and all the evils which they
now desire corrected, and, at the same time, adding
to the glory and increasing the power of the
republic. With this picture before them, in all its
vivid colours, what will the great mass of the people
care for the numerous abstractions daily presented
in Congress or elsewhere ? All that kind of talk
will be accepted and considered as a mere dodge to
delay restoration and prolong difficulties at home
and abroad for selfish purposes. Members of Con-
gress will find that the only question that they will
belcalled upon to meet will be, Are you for or against
the plan proposed by President Johnson ? All
efforts to shirk this direct question by side issues
and long essays on some abstract question about the
bravery of a negro soldier, the bitterness of this or
that Secessionist, will amount to nothing Andrew
Johnson has presented to the people stronger and
clearer arguments than any that have or can be
brought against him. At the best those on the
other side cannot rise above the title of special
pleading, while his have come in a solid mass. The
longer Congress persists in opposing his policy the
greater will be the unpopularity of those who com-
pose that body, and the more sweeping the re-
action against them which is sure to follow. The
President has furnished a practical mode for the
solution of the great and vital questions of the day.
Now let Congtess do its duty as well, and by the
return of another anniversary of the birthday of the
nation the people, from one corner of the land to
the other, can on that day not only celebrate its
birth, but the complete and perfect regeneration of
the nation.

GENERAL WEITZEL'S FALL.—The mustering
out of service of Major-General Weitzel, who
was in command on the Rio Grande at the
time of the foray upon Bagdad, is an evi-
dence that the United States' Government is dis-
satisfied with his proceedings. Weitzel has been a
good officer. His failure at Fort Fisher is to be as-
scribed to the interference of Major-Gen. Butler,
but otherwise he has done excellent service, and he
is specially noted as being a fine engineer. His
sympathies were, no doubt, with the Republicans of
Mexico, and he has allowed them to run away with
his judgment, almost to the point of involving the
United States in a war with France. Any officer
who permits his private opinions to sway hini from
the path of duty is unfit to hold a position which re-
quires fidelity and the exercise of sound judgment.
Weitzel is punished for his lack of sense very
severely. Ile loses the rank and emoluments of
a Major-General of iVolunteers, and goes back to
his rank in the army, which is, probably, no higher
than major or captain. The lesson was needed for
the benefit of others, who may take notice that they
must strictly fulfil the orders of Government, no
matter how high the rank they hold, and that they
will not be tolerated in the substitution of their own
policy for that which has been determined tipon by
their superiors.

The Fenians.

DUBLIN, Sunday Evening.

An ex-policeman was arrested the other day in
County Clare. He, however, succeeded in making
his escape, and has not been since recaptured.
Numerous arrests are mentioned in Clonmel,
Nenagh, and in Belfast, where a pensioner and an
alleged Federal officer have been taken.

The 92d Highlanders arrived here to-day in the
troop ship Simoom, from Portsmouth.
The gunboat Nightingale and the cutter Racer
were on duty in the bay Friday and Saturday nights,
overhauling vessels for Stephens.

THE CUSTOMS SERVICE.

We understand that the new scale of classifica-
tion proposed by Sir Thomas Fremantle for the
whole of the customs service has produced in all the
higher departments the greatest possible indignation
and dissatisfaction. And if the statement of the
increase (?) forwarded to us, as proposed for one
of the most important offices—the Inspector General
of Imports and Exports—be correct, we must in can-
dour admit that the indignation is justified and the
dissatisfaction not unreasonable. These gentlemen,
on whom rests the responsibility of preparing all
the statistics of the trade and commerce of the
country, petitioned for an increase in their salaries
on the very sufficient grounds that the expenses of
living had greatly increased, and that their pay was
very much lower than analogous offices in the In-
land Revenue department, and at the West End.
The answer of Sir Thomas has been a classification,
the minimum scale of which is actually £6OO less
than their present establishment, but giving a mean
increase of £45, to commence a twelvemonth hence.
mlteni which we trust the Parlia-
mentary will not allow to
tsarayn
friends
eal
of
these gentlemen
be played upon them with impunity.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Da,

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