The Aberystwith Observer

THE RECENT GALES. mSnW^V,«rh°le i°f Sat^day night and Sunday tinued tr> V1 swept over London, and con- (iav Th. r m F"st8' ram, throughout the (iZ'tv storm drum was hoisted on Saturday at Chunn^' gl?ng n?tice that a gale was raging in the and 'Warning vessels not to proceed to sea. RiDE, Monday. hprp1 ihe iast four or Ave days a gale has been raging > h». L ?mpanied by very high tides, and great damage m done to property. By far the greatest loss was occasIoned yesterday and especially during the night. The hr I tk Miner's Hotel was entirely destroyed, the waves till u wflldows, and carried large pieces of the wall tnrsugh the house into Pier-street, on the other side, com- mitting sad havoc among the furniture, and spoiling the carpets. The cellars were seven or eii/ht feet deep in water, 1 'Jle bottles were broken and their contents lost. The damage is estimated at over £ 500. The SM-wail m front of the Royal Victoria Yacht w'as washed away, as were also large portions of the wall along the esplanade and round the coast in every turectiou Some trifling injury has been done to the town pier, and the bathing stage at the Victoria Pier was destroyed i.o n>? latter being picked up in Portsmouth t'ti lTTi Messrs. Curtiss, railway carriers, have experienced ae tiuth of the proverb, "Misfortunes never come alone." ineir Portsmouth depot was a short time since burnt down, a! one of their boats, the Rescue, was dashed i 'ure'd wa^'8 011 to the shipway, and greatly in- j

WEYMOUTH. At Weymouth from about 11 o'clock on Saturday night to lour or Ave on Sunday morning a heavy wind was blowing irom the west-south-west, causing a tremendous sea. At nine the tide was at its height, and had the wind been from the south-east the consequences must have been very serious to the town, as the houses facing the Esplanade could no have withstood the violence of the waves. As it was, from Brunswick-buildings to Devonshire-buildings, the extreme length of the Esplanade, the sea beat violently, and when a wave broke against the sea-wall the spray often rose higher than the houses facing the beach. Tons of water were poured on this fashionable promenade, carrying with it immense quantities of shingle and sand. The Esplanade is sadly disfigured, and it will cost a considerable sum to put it into proper condition again. More than any- thing else, it now resembles a pebbly beach. The quay was inundated, there being about a foot of water above the harbour walL All the stores and houses were flooded, and the property in them was floating about. in one coal store the water was nearly 7ft. deep. On the 1 Weymouth side of the harbour the overflow was even greater ? °,n ^e. elcombe side. At the Old Rooms Inn wave dashed again-t the front door and burst It open, the sea making a complete breach tnrough the lower portions of the house, much property being injured or destroyed in conse- fIuence Hope-square, about 200 or 300 yards from the «^r,*an' • 1>ln* rather low, was so flooded that a good- S mi»ht have sailed about in it. In the neiglibour- i t.v, ,i;<«„0yrr,0VV t^le water was so high that persons could vard £ their dwellings. At the ship building yard of Mr. Robert Ayles the timber was all afloat, and to be made the shpway from drifting they had to on the ballast. A quantity of timber stored men* ar the ballast ground and used for theGovern- srnri on ^e Nothe was floating about the harbour, Tow B ,re 'hi3 several boats' crews had to put off. In wato Cond-street there is an opening leading to the Back- r) here the water made a considerable inroad earning as far as the White Hart Inn," at least 300 yarus SS In this street are also a chapel and Sunday-school. ^,1' nine o'clock the water was so high tint all communi- and the <wh#lar« were compelled to were mE i t,de. receded- Two large lighters thev wirBUft wlh „! J moorings, and when the water fell oi* r. lt-ft hi^h and dry on Jhe ousv. AN extensive ]a.nrl- near SandstVio^r °ntlie v^eJni"Uth and Portland'Railway, men were emnlov/dTfh,.°ughout the whole of Sunday thelitis wnfwT watch it But on Monday morning discontinued a condition that traflic w g road no it y! j j sea washed over the line and turnpike as 11 had done on the previous day.

PORTLAND. felt nland- effects of the gale were most severely and tho sea ra^ed in the West-bay and tne roadstead, alamimo Perc°lated through the Chesil beach to an causincr i?n.' inun(iatinK the houses in the vicinity, and under th»f "^ruction of property. The sea rushed from springe Iour>dat;ons of some of the houses like large several hnii7.o°^ ecl {'le road to such an extent that for station the w*ii^W« 8 rel?dered impassable. At the railway and fiMdinty was above the wheels of the carriages, Area so thnt <■ wjy to the gashouse. put out the furnace Without rrn. -5 or three dil>'8 *he island will be w hich i,a^,o ^ear Chesl1 the seas actually met, an event the tu™nik«ver^een known before. For about two miles tne turnpike road leading to Weymouth was under water It was more than knee deep to the Ferry-bridge On Saturday an English brigantine, name at present un- known, went ashore near isriciport, but the crew are stat'd to have been saved. Jn connexion with this wreck there W'as a melancholy occurrence. A gentleman ventured out too far on the pier to watch the ship, and a huge wave dash- ing over the pier swept him away.

At P u EXMOUTH. The Esk'w&Vit pE £ rtlon of,the new docks was washed away. The 0\ sttr y wo,lfs suffered severely by the storm. hundred yJrds of tbIeJn^y coyered with sand. Two half from St Thomue ^evon line, about a mile and a of the Exe and thTrw^ a«e "^merged The valleys the Exe extensive are fl°°ded. Along the lines of storm wa*acc 'mriBii^BK 4i50u,ltry are v»>d«r water. The tive wrecks off Tordulv ar« iUnder a"d ,1ghtninK- Destruc- xorquayare also reported.

terrible Morning News contains accounts of mornin J rf" Cau8ed by the great gale of Sunday panied K,r A Was a fearful deluge of ram, accotn- The tide in Pim0st aPP^giiKhtnin& thunder. Com«-„H Plymouth and other ports of Devon anrl coSallv,W;,s the known /or thirty Vea A A in n, ra 'le Porfcion of Plym°«th Was comXV 1 irTdat.ed' and one of the Royal Mar P y unhappily> drowned. In other towns f Wa8' inverted into deep rivers by the 11ri, S,t,r<;et18 w«re Jhe inmates had to leave their L, nPa.ralWed rain, th^re were some most Sxcitino- ln 90a^s> an(^ narrow escapes from drownin Sce2,e8' ow^.ri8 ,to the Plymouth Sound rode out +k 8hipping in the Breakwater, althon&v, P^l6 in safety, thanks to week a portion of the wn if ^atter end of last was washed away A Great Western Docks took place anlon y. At Falmouth several collisions which crowded thf> i. r^e fleet of merchant vessels Emma sank • tho ur* The French brig Charles barque ^/t/ir'r)7/„7freJvc,Were' ft-rtun-itely, saved. 'J'he the crew in +i; ■ Sunderland, also foundered, and -A-t Penzanf' § ln8^ance> to°) were saved. scene was *or tremendous seas, the chartritio- "le great rollers from the Channel banner r over the sands of Mount's Bay in a Abfro+v, •a i y grand. The schooner Padaran, of ^ere i > went down off the Start, and all hands 8evp ,8^ The railways and telegraphs have suffered viaH y' Two hundred yards of the long wooden jyr of the West Cornwall Railway, which skirts Uht s Bay between Marazion and Penzance, have the r Washed ayvay- and the trains are unable t. enter Thl8 8aine viaduct was destroyed several

PLYMOUTH, Feb. 1. col\tlea^foutherly Sale and a high tide prevailed along the re-oh A ,Devotl and Cornwall yesterday morning. The tide year, w gher than has been known for the last thirty the » Numerous minor accidents have taken place through alrmc-tv 'slllR over the low levels of seaport towns. Floods their 'lkg of the rivers have also occurred, through bunk-o #Te'ing their usual channels. Property on the yar.iif f varlous Places has been washed away. One hundred the • has been washed away, and nine yards of At n v lvon RaUway. Was railway and telegraphic communication throughout Sunday. The Ponsandane viaduct, a\vav ,^ay' aear penzance, has been washed I'fcnzannL o A V4grap^lc tnd railway communication between enzance and Marazion has been stopped.

v- PENZANCE, Sunday. Vthp Downing, Esq. reports that the mischief done part of the coast is tremendous. The ^earned away and all telegraphic com- *rfiup rh ? PPed At one o clock yesterday morning the fc'kht nfii, o £ Shields, went ashore on the Prae Sand-; aPt>arntL f were fortunately saved by the rocket T f0m porthleven and Prussia Cove, but the captain, lifahl! atld one seaman were unhappily drowned. st*tio„^y>at to the National Lifeboat Institution, o,. a Penzance, ten miles from the scene of the the int !,was there in an hour and three quarters after 'nan^i lgence of the wreck was received. The boat was ha» K ea a second time at seven o'clock hi the morning She °een out all night. In Monday. I:°»-'ii<in1ti5uatic)n of his report of yesterday Nicholas B. tailed ? n°w states that the Penzance 1 feboat re- irig .»lier station about five o'clock on Sunday morn- wi-o J Praa Sand», where the brig Choice, of Shields, S:ived h *v,li during the hurricane, eight of the crew being howevp v ? rocket apparatus, the master and one man, di'owneri' g unhappily washed away from the vessel aud ai,d bep fUd the second mate having jumped overboard seen in °wne.d- About two hours afterwards a brig was 'lie time^Th ?erri'in the bay, the sea being perfectly awful at t he in readlnes b°at was again manned, and proceeded so as ellort the vessel wh^v.1 after a tremendous and doubtful Was got into harbour Tfts managed with consummate skill, "•sen inside the shoals anri,the afternoon another vessel was Grebe Rocks and the ijiuite close to the breakers between siSiih.l of distress. In ten InrlOn, and she fired a gun as a J^y to her but on arriving ^e 8 the hfe-boat was on her poured by a change of wind, wht?ure thankful to And that, fhnost by miracle, the vessel had "ed to have happened ''K we8lward She escaped the a?d wa! hea(l" :4st seen was struff ling bravely with th ♦ rocks' and when fcl0"t sight (Sin the dense mist The iir^mnutnd^tT/19 hoat crew and helpers was most admirabi?p de

T LOOE (CORNWALL). Feb. 1. boat Oxfordshire,, belonging to the Lite-boat So- ',s 0fl yesterday to a large ship which wag in (Jan_ it was k x"nity to the land (writes Kobeit Thomas, ESq } tlii.k at'T^ea gale from the Bouth-west and was Verj! *'ev time. Before, however, the Boatcoud reach °od off safely, and made for witT trenieini e has ')een fearful, and still continues Xv,i-s sea- To-day we had information that g stoi)(i to the Polperro Sand, but after a time sn shore, and was lost sight of; no doubt both vess 'i'lici Reward bound, and were trying to make ou^ tn lie i- ."e life-boat is held in i-eadiness if her services should <lou 'red. On Friday last a small steamer was seen to go toilS erri foremost, about eight miles from here, but m ^Uence of a schooner and a Ply nouth pilot boat heing '}? berat the time, the coxswain and crew of the life- ^ou8ht it would be nseless for them to go off, as it 'lave taken them three or four hours at teast to have ..fo8? It appeais that they judged rightly, as the M'h,1 1<5 tne Bteamer were taken on board the 'ooner, and safely landed at Plymouth.

NORTH WALES.—(By Telegraph). 1UiwUndaj'the sea wftf,hr?d away half a mile of the Cambrian l':>ss»ri'fW.near K"rt,h. >Vhen it occurred the mail had just ta.i, [ The traffic was interrupted. There was an unusually Uahla aH along the coast of Cardigan JBiy, and great nii^6- Wa,s done t0 houses and stock. The tide returned tin^. n,eht, and further mischief was apprehended at the >ur i elf gram was despatched. The t T°RM AND FLOODS IN IRELAND.—DUBLIN, Monday. XVa,fcr in yesterday rose considerably beyond the usual high- Alon the Kingston railway it broke over the .^eiJt, and the line WHS flooded and the adjacent t>v »horp -lronK wind prevailed, and the water rolled along the to1 'arge waves. At the north side the tide bi oke e wall, and the Clontarf and Dollynaouth roads r~were deeply flooded in several places. In the city the river overflowed, and the line of quays on either Bide in many places was flooded. The wind blew in violent gusts, and persons found great difficulty in passing tnrough the streets. We regret some injury was done to Mr. iina- later's church in Rutland-square. A large piece of orna- mentation near the entrance was carried away, sir: •- the streets. We regret some injury was done to Mr iina- later's church in Rutland-square. A large piece of orna- mentation near the entrance was carried away, sir: •- very valuable lamp in its fall. Tn Digges-strcet chimneys was blown down, and the greater poition dtZbrm fell into the street, but fortunateJy 110 person was [ injured. Slates were blown off several ware jn that in Trinity College the roofs of the °lder *1 many places bereft of large qua.11,th ^„_ePous' In the r rendered walking iirthe courts most d^ to preVent river considerable precautions hai t t ig reported as the vessels from draggiiig. J° d ln mal)y place8. At having occurrea. Trees ^erheeu^ople.s Park (Phcenix Park), mid-day a large one fel banks of the canal another and shortly afterwards on tne gave way.

GALWAY, Sunday. Tt was hoped that the storm which raged with such fearful violence and did so much damage along the coast here, since Thursday evening up to yesterday (Saturday) morning, had lulled, as the weather seemed to moderate in a great degree yesterday until towards evening, when, with the flow of the tide it commenced to blow again and continued until eight o'clQck this morning. The damage done along the shore is at present incalculable. The new pier at Spiddal, which was only partially damaged by the gale on Thursday night and Friday, is altogether swept away by the violence of the waves last night. Several houses along the coast were flooded, and the inmates in many instances narrowly escaped with their lives. In one instance a man named King who keeps the baths at Salt- hill, together with his family, would have been drowned in their house if it had not b'jen for the providential interven- tion of some neighbours, who, seeing the water had reached such a height at the rear of the house where they slept, hastened to the front door and broke it open, and warned them of their imminent danger. for the last thirty years, since the memorable storm of '39, so fearful or destruc- tive a Ilea has not buffeted the shores of our western coast. The damage done to the property of poor people whose houses were flooded is very serious. Up to the time of writing no loss of life has been reported, except two at Claddagh, an old woman and child They were not quite dead when discovered, but died shortly after. Many persons escaped being drowned in their beds, but were providentially rescued by the aid of their more vigilant neighbours. When about closing this despatch there is a report that the bridge of Furbo has been swept away. As yet no intelligence of any wrecks on the coast of Connemara has reached, although several pieces of timber have been washed ashore here and around the bay for the last three days. Until the weather moderates the damage along the east coast cannot be ascertained.

TRAMOBF. (Ireland), Feb. 1. Edward Jacob, Esq., states that a most fearful storm and flood has just swept over Tramore. On Saturday night the sea rose and totally destroyed the road leading to the house in which the Cambridge University Boat Ciub life-boat of the National Iustitution is kept, and carried away a door of the house. On the following morning the tide was most fearful; it carried away the crest of the beach for upwards of a mile and covered the reclaimed land at the back of the boat house, and has done more than a thousand pounds' worth of damage. The doors of the I fe-boat house were blown away and broken, und for hours no one could approach the house, over the roof of which the sea was running. After hours of hard work the life-boat was fortunately saved, and is now lying on her carriage in the public road uninjured, but the house, I fear, cannot be saved, as at high water it stands a perfect island in the sea. The farmhouses in its neighbourhood are also quite destroyed.

CORK. A telegram from Cork informs us that the southern coast was visited by a severe hurricane on Saturday night, accom- panied by an extraordinary high tide. The greater part of that city was flooded, the water being from three feet to four feet deep in the principal streets. The traffic on the lines of railway on both sides of the river was stopped, the rails being submerged and several breaches were made in the Queens- town direct line. At Youghal the sea broke over the line ef railway, destroying a portion of the station, overturning waggons, and making serious breaches in the permanent way. A row of new houses on the beach was gutted, a por- tion of the town submerged, and considerable damage done. Part of Queenstown is also under water. Sunday Night. Much damage has been done to the Cork and Queenstown Direct Railway by the serious floods to-day. The line has been so injured in some places that traffic has been sus- pended. Ballast was washed away and many of the sleepers. Gangs of men are at work repairing damage.

In Scotland severe gales and high tides have likewise been experienced. At Leith on Saturday, when it was expected that the dep h of water at the Victoria Dock-gates would not exceed 23ft, rose to 26ft. 6in., and so rough was the weather that ships under s dl were unable to beat up the Firth, and it was unsafe for the Newhaven fishermen to venture out in their boats. In Greenock the w .ters rose above the old quays, and Beveral houses along the west burn were flooded from one to two feet both days. All along the Moray Firth the tide seems to have been unusually high, and a portion of the Findhorn Railway, which the Highland Company were to cease working on the 31st has been washed away.

ELECTION EXPENSES. The following additional returns of the expenses in- curred at the last Election will be interesting in the respective localities :— The expenses of Mr. A. C. Barclay, at Taunton, are re- turned as £688 6s. 5d.—viz., printing, advertising, and sta- tionery, J6224 14s. lOd. clerks, for writing, &c., j646 8s. clerks, &c., on the polling day, £.13 13s. messengers. porters, and for telegrams, £.24 2s.: postage-stamps, &c., £.7 7s. 8d. rent, hire of rooms, Ac., £29 6s. one-third of the returning officers' expenses, and the assessors' account, j685 4s. lid. agents, £137 10s. personal expenses, £120: Mr. Sergeant Cox's election expenses were £75:5 IUs., made up as follows:—Messengers, £ 22 Is. Cd. clerks, &c., £ 4G 18s. use of rooms, £ 51 3s. printing and advertising, £ 271 5s. Qd.; one-third returning officers' expenses for re- turn..685 4s. lid. solicitors agents' &c., £20313s miscel- laneous expenses, £21 Is. 6d. personal expenses, £52 2s. 5d. The expenses of Mr. Henry James, the unsuccessful candi- date, who now petitions against the return of Mr. Serjeant Cox, were £D68 16s. C-i., made up as follows:—Incidental expenses, £:1.6 Is. 6d. clerks and readers, £ 3S lis. 6d.; re- presentative and check clerks at polling booths, &c., .£.9 19s.; messengers, £30 18s. 6d.; printing, advertising, and sta- tionery, £ 373 Os. 7d.; hire of rooms, JE25 6s. 6d. one-third of returning officers' expenses, J679 19s. lid. agents and agent for election expenses, £235; personal expenses, j6150. The Liberals repudiate the rumours about a mutual arrange- ment between the petitioners against Mr. Cox and those against Mr. Barclay, which petitions are not cross actions between the members. Mr Henry James claims the second seat from Mr Cox, and the learned serjeant lodges a petition against Mr. Barcluy. The formal account of the expenses incurred in the Black- burn election, which gave rise to so much excitement in the borough, and brought upon it a notoriety, to say the least, unenviable, has just been published. The successful candi- dates, Messrs. W. H. llornby and Joseph Feilden Con- servatives), are returned as having expended £1,2()9 5s. 4d., and Messrs. J. G. Potter and Montague Feilden, £ 1,674 12s. 6jd. An important item in the Conservative accounts is that of £426 3s. 6d. for canvassers and men engaged in bringing up voters while the sum paid on behalf of the Uberals is returned under the head of inspectors, check clerks, committee clerks, messengers, &c., at £85 2s. 6d. The professional agent's charge on behalf of the successful candidates is stated at £ 120, while the solicitor's charges for the Liberal candidates are £897 14s. 6d. The cost to the corporation for the service of extra policemen, infantry, and cavalry is not yet known. The mayor some time ago paid £250 on account, and it is believed that the total amount will be a large one. Details of the election expenses of the several candidates for the boroughs of Shrewsbury and Wenlock have been published. In Shrewsbury Mr. Figgins, the Conservative member, against whose return a petition has been lodged, expended .61,427 8s. 7d., ef which £535 17s. 6d. was paid to agents, and £451 15s. 5d. incurred on account of derks messengers, bill-posting, &c." Dr. Clements gained his elec- tion at an outlay of £ 6 6 2s. 3d., of which £230 9s. lOd was for agents, awl £110 for clerks, messengers, Ac. Mr. Craw- ford, appearing in the field at the eleventh hour, as an oppo- nent to Mr. Figgins, expended £544 lis., of which only £48 9s. 8d. is for agents, and £36 lis. 4d. for clerks, mes- sengers &c. At Wenlock the expenses of the two members are singularly near in amount, Major-General the Right Hon. Cecil Forester having expended £854 3s. 6d., and Mr A. H. Brown £857 lis. 5d. Opposition t > General Forester was undertaken by Mr. Evans, of the Reform Club. but was with- drawn after a few days canvass. The Sheriffs of London, in their capacity of returning officers, have just made public the expellses of the Eleveral Libtlr/ll canùidates in the recent election for the city of London, those of Mr. Goschen, Mr R. W. Crawford, and Mr. Alderman Lawrence being equally apportioned at £ 2,759 Is. 6d. each white those of Baron Lionel ae Roths- child are slightly less, being £2,756 7s. 5d. The expenditure of the Conservative candidates in the city of London. Messrs. Bell, Gibbons, and Twells, is re- turned at the lumpsum of £12,038 10s ,-viz, profefsionul charges, £2,583 3s. committee rooms, j61,267 128 9d; clerks, canvassers, &c., £ 2,615 12a. 2d. printing and stationery, £ 2 338 lis. 9d advertising and bill-posting, £ 1,760 Ss 6d petty cash, postage, and disbursements, £ 944 6s. lid. sun- dnes, £ 221. 13s. 5d. hustings, £ 307 Is. 6d. In Fmsbury Mr. W T. M. Torrens expended j6750 13s. id., llfj I amount paid by Mr Alderman Lusk amounted to £1.9ö? Is. 4d. The expenditure on behalf of Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., is returned at £ 1,300 6s. lid.; but this is exclusive of "personal expenses" (hire of cabs and carriages), which stand for £5 10s. The statement of the expenditure of the several candidates in the recent e'ection tor Chelsea has been officially pub- lished in the following form:—By, or on behalf of Mr. C. W. Dilke, from June, 1867. to Nov. 4, 1868, £1,796 3s. Sir H. A. Hoare, to Nov. 4,1868, £ 1,^7'2 163. jointly by or on behalf of Mr. C. W. Dilke and Sir H. A. Hoare, from Nov. 4 to Nov. 18, 1868, jEl.740 14s.; and the joint expenses of Mr. C. J. Freake and Mr. W. II. Russell, the Conservative candi- dates, £ 4,716 6s. 7d.. The expenses of Mr. Thomas Chambers, in Marylebone, are given at £ 1,709 19s. lid., while those of Sir T. G. A. I'arkyn, an unsuccessful candidate, figure for only £543 4s. lid. The abstracts of the expenses of the four candidates who contested Glasgow exhibit some very remarkable results. The expenses incurred by Mr. Dalglish amounted to £1,425 19s. 2d.; by Mr. Graham, £1,629 10s. 4d. by Mr. Anderson, j61,301 2s. 2d. These sums taken together give £4.35611s. 8d. as the gross amount expended in the election of the three Liberal candidates. The expenses of Sir George Campbell, the Conservative candidate, reached the large figure of j65 143 18s. 8d.—nearly £l,OUO more than tne sum spent by his three opponents. The principal item in Sir George's heavy account is set down opposite "agents' ex- penses," and amounts to upwards of £ 2,G|!0. The following are the expenses of candidates at the late elections in the principal north-eastern towns :—Newcastie- on-Tyne, the Right Hon. T. E. Head lam, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Cowen, who had a joint committee, £997 6s. 4d. Sunderland, Mr. Gonrley, £4,652: Mr. Candlish, £410; these were the two successful candidates. The expenses of Mr. Thompson, the unsuccessful candidate, were £3,321 3s. 6d. Berwick-on-Tweed, Viscount Bury, £449 19s. Mr. Stapleton, £116 12s. Id. The expenses of the unsuccessful candidates were—Major Carpenter, £773 4s. 9d.; Mr Richard Hodgson, £322 7s. Hd. In Durham city, the expenses of Mr. J. R. Davidson, Q.C., and Mr. John Henderson, who had a joint committee, were £1,28117s. Id. The expenses of Mr. J. C. Stevenson, the successful candidate at South Shields, were £1,733 8s. 5d.; those of Mr. Ralph Ward Jackson, the suc- cessful candidate at Hartlepool, whose return has to be in- quired into by Mr. Justice Blackburn, were £1,948 8s. 4d., and those of his opponent, Mr. Thomas Richardson, £ i?51 14s. 7d. The election expenses for West Somerset have just been published. Mr. Gore Langton's expenses amount to £i28 2s. 4d., and Captain Hood's to £H.2 7s. 7d. Mr. F. M. Williams, the conservative member for Truro, expended £513 18s. lid., and Captain Vivian, the Liberal ^ember, £ 3C7 19s. 6d., while the expenses of Mr. Passmore S5ards. the unsuccessful working-men's candidate were 3s. 3d. PembroktIay hy Mr. J. H. Scomrfield, M.P. for the county of which a<vLaiPOUnts to £ 207 19s. There was no contest, For the w™, UtT the smallness of the expenses. vHwnrdes thTl. ot Haverfordwest the expenses of Colonel rhR (hief item3 iic-es8fl11 candidatc, reached £ 1,344 2s. lid., tarHsfng arid sta^ln? agents, £ 512 lis. 9d,; printing, ad- lis'6d tallvi?^' £ 140 12s- 8d.; committee rooms, t o111rnin2 o'fficersexnS?messengers, £ 340; proportions elVcU™« £ 2l ^Me9- Hs. 4d„ and agent for At urljf!im £ 385 10s ii0itter exPended £ 518 2s. 4}d. Sir Wilfrid Lar son ii385 l0s. 4Jd. atl(l Mr vv. N. Hodgson, the unsuccess.ul cand datiB> *9*8 12s. 7d. The expenses of Mr. W. Slater, th,e J vntes wel-l ^?^the same election, who obtained only 71 v°tes, were £ 134 98. cd. Some of the items in Mr. Slaters remarkable. For example:—"J. Hargraves expenses to Moffat and back, when he warned Ernest Jones 1of he folly of helping the Whigs, after spending his life in exposing and denouncing the cruelty and villany of that party, c., lis.; Expenses incurred through Whig violence and brutality:Gfiazing windows, repairing shutters and door, anli.pald for table broken by Whig rioters at Rigs-treet meeting, October 6, £112s. paid for special peace officers to keep Whig rowdies in order at the Athenajum meeting, November 5 and 11, JE7 9s. 4d.; paid city police for the like duty, 12s. 6d. the Democratic candidate and his friends being threatened with serious personal injury if they appeared on the hustings at the nomination, paid for an escort of special peace officers, £7 14s. 6d.; refreshment for said officers, 8s. Od." The return for SoutlTWilts shows the expenses of Lord 1 Henry Thynne to have been £ 254 12s. 9d., including items | of £ 92 18s. 6d., for professional agents, and printing and ad- of j692 18s. 6d., for professional agents, and printing and ad- vertising. dMS 10s. 6d. Mr. Grove's expenses were jE256 lis. 3d., including £,47 5s. for agents' charges and dS140 for printing, advertising, and stationery. The city of York has been distinguished for heavy election expenses, and those consequent upon the late contest are no exception to the rule. What may be called "legitimate" expenses amount, according to the official return, to j65,952 7s. 8d, which are divided in the following proportions:— Mr. Lowther's expenses, £2,855 12s. 4d.; Air. Westhead's, B1,553 12s. 6d.; and Mr. J. H. Gladstone's £1,542 2s. lid. consequently each vote that was tendered has cost at least 16s. The largest item In Mr. Lowther's account is JES13 6s. 7d. for professional services, and £665 16s. lOd. have been charged to each of the other candidates on account of dis- trict agents for professional and other services, charges for assistant canvassers, committee rooms, messengers, clerks, and district miscellaneous expenses in the conduct and management of the election. The expenses of Mr. Samuelson, the sitting member for Banbury, have been returned at £1,171178. 4d. The agents' charges amounted to £727 10s. committee and meeting rooms, £]12 12s. lOd.; printing and stationery, dEISO 13s. 6d. messengers and bill-distributors, £59 15s. share of returning officer's expenses, £ 4117s. 6d. and bell-ringers, jEll lls. Mr G. Stratton's expenses, although his canvass lasted only a few days, are returned at £.224 lis. 5d. There is a sum of jEf6 14s. lid. entered for refreshments for clerks and messen- gers, and Mr. Stratton, though defeated, paid the bell-ringers £55s. At Tynemouth Mr. K T. Smith, M.P., who was from four to five months in the field, and had to canvass the borough against two con-ervative candidates, Mr. Shaw and Mr Trotter, appears to have expended £ 1,654 16s. 8d. Mr. Trotter, who only came into the field a week before the elec- tion, incurred expenses amounting to £ 692 17s. Mr. Smith paid £ 690 5s. for professional services, £ 220 5s. 3d. to assistant agents, clerks, canvassers, &c. and £ 66 2s. lOd. for the hire of rooms. Mr. Trotter paid £ 161 10s. for professional ser- vices £104 15s. for assistant agents, canvassers, &c. and £37 4s. for committee-rooms and other rents The expenses incurred in connection with the election of a representative for the county of Edinburgh were as follows —On behalf of the Earl of Dalkeith £4,477 Is. 5d. Sir Alexander Gibson Maitland, £1,089 10s. lOd. The number of electors who voted for the Earl was 905, and for Sir Alexander, 1,146. In the election for the City of Edinburgh the united expenses of the two members-Mr. Duncan M'Laran and Mr. John Miller—amounted to £.1118 7s. 4d. For the Leith District of Burghs election the expenses were as follows :—Incurred by Mr. Maefie, the successful candidate, £2,881 15s. OJd. by Mr. William Miller, £2,316 8s. lid. In the Stirling Burghs election Mr. Camp- bell, the successful candidate, incurred expenses to the amount of £2,543 10s. and Mr. Ramsay, £1,863 17s. 6d. In regard to the Falkirk Burghs Mr. Merry's expenses are I stated at £2,885 6s. Id., and Mr. Horsman's at £.1.050 2s. 5!d. It is said that Mr. Horsman does not admit any of the claims against him, and that none have yet been paid. With the exception of those of Mr. Jasper More, details of the expenses of each of the candidates for the representa- tion of the coun y of "Ialop have he en sent In, and if as is probable. Mr. More's outlay eqna1s that of his opponents, the elections will have been contested at an outlay of £ 3O,Ov0. Of this large sum, Mr. Ormsby Gore and Lord I Newport, the Conservative members for North Shropshire spent £ 8,028. the principal item in their joint account being one of £ 4,531 for "professional agents'fees and disburse- ments." Ttie conveyance of voters cost them .61,306. the balance being made up of charges for rooms, clerks print- ing, &c. Mr. Jebb, who vainly contested the division in I the Liberal interest, spent £3,196 5s. lid., of which about one-third was for agents. In South Shropshire, General the Hon. Percy Herbert and Colonel Corbett expended £9,188 12s. lOd., of which agents received jE4,030 10s., the cost of conveyances absorbing £1,759. An item not commonly seen iu election expenses' returns is included in those of Herbert and Corbett— "special constables,' in conjunction with messengers post- age, and telegrams, figuring for £1,282 13s. lid. Th Rev. Dr. MILLER on the RECENT

JUDGMENT of PRIVY COUNCIL. On Sunday morning, in accordance with a notice he had given upon the previous Sunday, the Rev Dr. Miller, the Vicar of Greenwich, addressed his congregation in St. Mary's Church upon the practical bearing of the recent decision in the St. Alban's case. A large congregation, as is usual, assembled, the many free seats being on this occasion quite filled. The rev. gentleman took for his text, or, more properly speaking, the motto of his discourse, the 14th chapter of Corinthians 1, 33rd verse, "For Qodisnot the author of confusion, but of peace, in all the Churches of the saints." He entered at once in medias res into his subject. In announcing it, he stated that it had not been his intention to attack the Ritualists, and in using this phrase, and the terms "Evangelical "and "High Church" parties, he was anxious to be acquitted of any intention te give offence; he used the terms merely because they were intelligible and convenient. The recent decision was of great practical importance to the Evangelical as well as the other parties in the Church, and he felt called upon to explain why, for the present, he did not intend to introduce any chans-e in the mode of conducting divine service. The congregation had had a sumcient practical exposition of his views in relation to the manner in which he thought that the service should be conducted during the period of nearly three years in which be had conducted their services. He hoped that these could neither be pronounced dull nor irreverent. The obiter dictum of a judge in pronouncii g a definite judg- ment was properly regarded as of less importance than the judgment itself; but tne words of the learned dignitary who had recently occupied the woolsack, in pronouncing the judgment in question, were too important, distinctly enun- ciating, a* they did, an important principle, to be regarded as a mere passing word they should be accepted as a defi- nition bv all parties in the matter. It was alleged, respecting the Ritualists, that, as regarded rubrical service, thev erred in the direction of excess in observance, and did too much they, in turn, retorted upon the Evangelical party that they were chargaable with omissions-that if the one party did too much, the other did too little. There was not a fair ana- logy between the two cases, inasmuch as the particular obser- vances of the Ritualists were avowed ly intended to convey dog- mas, and thus affected doctrine. The forms of service had in many respects been modified in the course of time by the altered condition and circumstances of the people and to revert to strict rubrical observance would necessitate some changes that eould be made without confusion or offence, but some others also that would be regarded as innovations that would be attended with great practical difficulty. Obedience was no trifle, even although.obedience was given in what might seem a trifling matter, and he desired that obedience should be cheerfully given in this important matter on a 1 sides. In the matter of daily prayer in churches, as required by the rubric, he felt that there was great practical difficulty. They had on Thursday last upon their hooks, for instance, 120 sick, aged, and infirm persons entitled to visitation. He confessed that wit;1 daily prayers in the churches, added to the duties of visitation, attention to district visiting, to schools, to the preparation of sermons, and other duties, it would be impossible to carry on the work of the parish with any pretension to efficiency. Their hynin singing was objected to, but he thought it would be a deplorable mistake to cut down that part of their ser- vice. and estrange many of their worshippers, particularly of the industrial classes. There were chances that could be made, possibly at once, and he might bt psked what WflS hj waiting for ere he made them? lie would answer, that he above all things deprecated isolated action and individual interpretation of the judgment and the course it suggested this could only make confusion worse confounded. There were several things to be waited for. The bishops would meet soon for conference on the subject, and another report mi"ht be expected from the Ritual Commission; and a modification of the rubrics might be agreed upon. It was greatly to be regretted, moreover, that the power for good of convocation had been so generally ignored—he meant convocation in which both clergy and laity would be truly represented. There was too much standing aloof from each other between the High Church party and the Evangelical party.. The obedience of both was an im- perative duty, and it was essential to common interests that they should regard each other with large-hearted candour. It would be suicidal 1ll Evangelicals to say, inasmuch as this judgment touches those to whom we are opposed, we approve of it, but in so far as it touches ourselves we will have none of )t Let Evangelicals and their High Church friends meet each other half way, making liberal allowance for the difference in each other's minds, tastes, and even religion3 phraseology, and let the spirit and motto of all be based upon the grind sentiment of Christian liberty—"tIn non-essentials liberty, in all things charity."

DEATH OF WILLIAM CARLETON. William Carleton, the Irish n. velist, died on Satur- day at his residence, in the suburb of Sandford, at the age of 75 years. He is the last of the cJass of writers who have devoted themselves specially to the illustra- tion of Irish peasant life, and he was probably the most successful, having besides his natural ability peculiar advantages in his early, associations. He was the eon of a small farmer living at Clogher, in the county Tyrone, and he mingled in the scenes which he depicted with such touching pathos and graphic power. He has worked up some of the incidents of his own career in his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, which first intro- duced him to the public as an author, and among the most striking characters in it are persons of a type familiarly known to him. He was educated for the priesthood under great difficulties, but changed his mind and his course in life, and, coming to Dublin with 2s. 9d. in his pocket, betook himself to literary pursuits. He became editor of the Christian Examiner, which pious periodical was his first source of per- manent employment, and contrasted rather strangely with the humorous tone of his works. He did not, however, very long remain in a position which was not quite in keeping with the character of his mind. He wrote a second series of Traits and Stories, and a number of novels upon a larger scale. The most popular were Fardonoagh, the Miser, The Fawn of Springvale, Valentine Al'Clutchy, the Irish Agent, The Black Prophet, and others of more modem production. His later works, commencing with the Agent, were intended to depict some of the features of the Irish question, and had a political tendency different from that of his first writing. He was allowed a pension of JB200 a year, and has left a numerous family utterly helpless, and dependent upon the hope of its continu- ance.

THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT SEA. Animadverting on the terrible drama so recently come to light, which was enacted on the wide ocean, and which, under the guise of "emigration" may possibly be enacted again, the Standard remarks Seldom have sailors survived to tell on shore a stranger story of the sea than that which has been ex- tracted with some difficulty from the coolies on board a nameless and mysterious ship, which lately found her way to Hakodadi in Japan. Into that far northern port some months ago there sailed a vessel bearing no colours at her mast-head, nor any name in letters on her stern. Boarded at once by consular authorities, she was found to be in the hands of Chinese coolies. There were no Europeans in command, nor any amongst the crew; there were no papers on board, nor any evidence to show whence the mysterious stranger had come, or whither she was bound. She lay upon the water an inarticulate floating mystery, a grim nautical riddle. What tragedy bad been enacted on her decks in the solitude of the sea before all traces of her civilised origin had thus been swept away? What port had she sailed from, and how long since what captain had ruled in her cabin before it became the prey of the savage mutineers, and what nameless fate had befallen him at their hands? Only one con- jecture might be made with oertainty. It was clear that the silent vessel had been the scene of one more terrible drama to be added to the long roll of those by which the Portuguese coolie traffic from Macao has been so deeply disgraced. The slave trade which is carried on from Macao, under the name of coolie emigration, is not very widely comprehended in this country. Some indis- criminate attacks which have been directed against all systems of encouraging emigration frwm China have been indignantly resented by the agents of British West Indian immigration at Canton, and those who promote at Hong-Kong the Dutch coolie trade with Surinam, Confuted by the agents of these under- takings, the philanthropists who have assailed the iniquities of the traffic have been sometimes discon- certed, and the public may have fancied that the charges brought against organised Chinese emigration sprang from a feeble minded antipathy on their part to any interference with inferior races. The truth is however, that the British and Dutch emigra- tion is surrounded by such careful check s, and is altogether so well managed, that no op- pressions or malpractices are possible in coolie ships under these flags. But the emigration carried on under Portuguese auspices from Macao is simply a slave trade. The regulations of the port respecting coolie ships are broken through in a dozen ways; the emigrants are notoriously kidnapped and purchased of the crimps at so much a head, imprisoned on shore in barracoons and shipped off, after a sham inspection, in vessels fitted up as floating gaols. The quarterdeck and forecastle are railed off from the maiudeck by massive barricades; carronades are planted at the stern so as to rake the ship in case of need, dogs of a savage breed are often chained to the cabin skylight, and the cabin itself is an armoury of cutlasses and revolvers. But down below hundreds of wretched coolies, men, women, and children are suffocating in misery and despair. Kidnapped from their native villages, their friends are vainly wondering what has been their fate. Unarmed, battened down, and crowded together like herrings in a barrel, what are they to do ? The terrible stories of coolie tragedies which the English papers in China are continually telling reveal some of the desperate measures to which they resort. In order that the living cargo may reach its destina- tion in Havannah or Peru alive and saleable, it is necessaiy that, part by part, it should be allowed on deck to breathe. Sometimes the gang, thus at liberty for the moment, taking their chance of being shot down by the crew, will burst open the hatches and set their companions free. In a few minutes the deck is slippery with blood, and the air sulphureous with gunpowder. The sailors, desperate in their turn, hack off hands and arms which grasp the combings of the hatchways from below, but numbers will tell, and the Chinese, grown brave in their hopelessness, murder the Europeans with handspikes and fragments of wood torn from their bunks. Sometimes, when all other means have failed, the coolies have set fire to the ship, to compel the sailors to come below in the hope of putting out the flames, and sometimes the crew, rather than face death at the hands of the furious slaves, have escaped in the boats, pitilessly leaving their victims to burn in the fire they had kindled or sink with the wreck of the ship. Sometimes the rising is crushed, and the ringleaders, or the first men that come to hand. are hanged, or flogged to death, to warn the rest, and the "emigrants "reach their destination in safety, to be worked off on Cuban plantations, or in the mines of Peru. It may, perhaps, be doubted whether any organised wickedness is now goingon in the world which is worse than the slave trade of Macao. It will readily be understood that where. all these facts were familiar the nameless coolie ship arriving at Hakodadi was an object of considerable interest. Many captains of various men-of war overhauled her without being able to make anything of the riddle, but at last some papers were found in a secret drawer which gave a clue to the mystery, and rendered it possible to question the coolies in such a manner as to elicit the history of the vessel. The coolies, 41 in number, were part of a cargo of 300 which had been ex- ported from Macao to Peru in a ship called the Provi- dmza. At Callao about eight and forty of them were transferred to the mysterious vessel, by name it ap- peared, the Cayolti, being destined for some plantations down the coast. On the third day out they succeeded in bursting open the hatches, and a fight of the usual kind ensued. The crew seems to have been over- powered with unusual ease. Some sprang overboard in terror and the Chinese lowered a boat and killed them with knives while they were struggling in the water. All were murdered except the ctptain, whose life was spared at the intercession of a native cook, and in consideration of a promise that he would take the ship back to China. The revolution was accomplished. The bodies of the slain floated away into infinity, the ship's head was put round to the westward, and in the hands of savages, with but one sailor on board, she began her voyage across the seven thousand miles of sea which lay between the victorious coolies and the. continent from which they had come. Often with all the re- sources of nautical scieiace at command, with efficient crews, and plenty of officers, ships succumb to those wild forces of nature which seem to break loose from her centrol at sea. What were the chances for the helpless Cayolti ? In due time, too, the mutineere, the savages, the heroes who had achieved their freedom— what are they to be called ?—fell in with their share of furious weather, which, for that matter, except along a part of the American coast, is just as likely to befall the voyagers in the Pacific as those who sail on oceans with less flattering names. Driven here and'there very much at the mercy of the gales they encountered, they floated about the houseless ocean's heaving held "for four months, and then they came to a land surrounded by ice, where the people were dressed in furs and rode in sledges drawn by dogs—Kamskatcha, it may be presumed. Here the captain was sent on shore to purchase provisions, but he never came back. He seems to have preferred to take his chance of escape in an unknown Arctic region, rather than prolong that dreadful four months' servitude he had already endured at the blood-stained hands of his Chinese companions. No doubt, more- over, the preservation of the helpless ship for those four months was sufficiently marvellous to him, and he had no desire to find out whether the miracle would be renewed. The Chinese, however, probably knew too little about their danger to fear much. They purchased fur robes and hoods from the natives and seemed to have had no idea of making any further efforts OIl their own behalf, but the winds and waves which had buffeted them about so long, and swept them from the southern hemisphere to the midst of northern ice, took the navigation of the ship again into their own hands. The Cayolti was driven from her anchorage by a gale, and swept out to sea once more, not only without having on board any one who could manage to direct her movements, but actu- ally without a soul in her who had the dimmest notion where she was going. All by herself, however, she made Volcano Bay, in the north of Japan, where she waited patiently for a fortnight, at the end of which time two Japanese pilots took charge of her, and brought her to Hakodadi—a marine Sphinx for consuls of all nations to wonder about till this tale that we have told was slowly brought to light. The coolies were imprisoned on shore, and the ship, which seemed from the papers found to bear an American nation- ality, awaited, at the last accounts from Japan, the decision of the United States authorities on her singu- lar case. There is no moral to be drawn from the history of her wonderful cruise. Her captain, if ever he emerges out of the Polar night into which he plunged, ought to have a thrilling account to give of his blind voyage over the Pacific, and of those four months of dreadful solitude in the midst of the Chinese mutineers. The voyage was simply one more romance of the deep, but the revolution scene off the Peruvian coast, and the massacre of the European crew, is yet another item added to the long account that all Governments participating in the shameful trade of Macao will have to settle one day with Providence, if nations meet with the reward of their sins in this world, as history seems to show.

ESCAPING FROM THE SHERIFFS. In London, on Monday, Mr. Charles Levinson Lane, lately an officer in the 7th Fusiliers, surrendered at the Old Bailey to take his trial for misdemeanour at common law, in having unlawfully broken prison and escaped from the custody of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. The defendant, it appeared, was arrested by Mr. Slowman, the sheriff's officer of Chancery-lane, on a writ of ca sa for a debt of £400 and he was taken to a house in Bream's-buildings, where another gentleman named Payne was also confined for debt. On June 23 the person in whose custody the defendant and Mr. Payne had been placed went into their bedroom and discovered that an iron bar had been broken from the window and that both gentlemen had escaped. The defendant was afterwards discovered at Boulogne, in company with Mr. Payne, and after some negotiation he consented to return to England and the present charge was preferred agninst him. It should be stated that in consequence of the escape the sheriff was fined the amount of tbe debt, and had to pay between JE300 and JB400 to the detaining creditor. Mr. Metcalfe, who appeared for the defence, after the facts had been stated, contended that a charge of this kind could not be supported unless the prisoner, who was charged with the escape, was charged with some criminal offence, and there had never been an instance of a person who had merely escaped from civil process being indicted for an offence of this de- scription. The Recorder, after hearing Mr. Poland on behalf of the prosecution, ruled that the indictment could not be supported, and the jury therefore returned a verdict of not guilty.

THE NORWICH MURDER. The further examination of the prisoner, William Sheward, charged on his own confesssion with the murder of his wife, Martha Sheward, in June, 1851, was proceeded with on Monday, before the Mayor (Mr. E. K. Harvey) and other magistrates, at Norwich. Mr. Mendham, town clerk, again appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Stanley, solicitor, again de- fended the prisoner. John Bird deposed—I live In Park-lane, Heigham, and am a corn merchant and commission agent In 1851 I went to live in St. George's Middle-street. I knew Sheward, the prisoner. After I went to live in St. George's Middle- street, Sheward came to my house and had some conversation with me about hiring three unfurnished rooms; it was at about the half-quarter after Mid- summer. I understood from bin that he had been living on St. Martin's Palace-pl"in. He came at Michaelmas, 1851, and occupied the rooms. He removed his furniture into them. He lived in the rooms alone. About six months after he first came to my house ^female came to visit him. I saw her there a few times. One evening I and my wife returned home rather unexpectedly, it was in the summer of 1852. The female was in the house then, and, from what I saw, I gave Sheward notice to quit. Some time afterwards I found he was living in King-street. I if? at his house in King- street a few times. I saw a female there. I had seen her before at my house. It was on the night I have just pre- viously referred to. The first female who visited him in St. George's was not the same woman. Cross examined.—I think I gave Sheward notice to quit about Michaelmas, 1852. I had not Been the second female at my house many times. She had first commenced coming in the summer of 1852. When I gave Sheward notice to quit, he said he was sorry if he had given offence; but in conse- quence of what I had said he should leave. Re-examined.—I had complained of what I had seen in rather strong terms.. Mary Lee, a widow, of Magdalen-street, Norwich, deposed: —Years ago I was in the habit of going out nursing. I know the prisoner Sheward. I knew him when he lived in King- street. I knew his wife, and nursed her with her first child, thirteen years since. She was living in King-street. I have nursed her in four other confinements since. It is about nine years since I nursed her with her third child. I found that they were not married, and I asked why they lived in whoredom (as the fir§t Mrs. Sheward had been dead a long time). He replied, She mlgbt nave been married before if sh^liked." They were afterwards married to my knowledge. They were married at the regIStrar s office. I was with them. Mr. Mendham put in the certificate of the marriage of the prisoner with Charlotte Maria Buck, on the 13th of February, 1862 The prisoner was described as a widower, living in King-street, Norwich, and Charlotte Maria Buck was referred to as a spinster. Sheward's age was stated to be thirty-nine, and Buck's thirty. Mr. Mendham asked the witness whether this was the marriage to which she referred.—The witness replied that it was. Elizabeth Lince, wife of the attendant at the Clerical Rooms, Norwich, deposed—I U.ve on Mousehold-heath. I formerly livfd in Tabemacle-street, St. Martin-at-Palace. I went to live there in 1850. I recollect a Mrs. Batson coming to live in Tabernacle-street. I do not know the { prisoner Sheward. I recollect a man and woman living in a house adjoining ours. When she first hired the Rouse I did I not live there. I saw the woman there. I was living at the time with my mother and father. My mother always took the rents of the houses adjoining outs. We afterwards moved quite away, into St. Margeret's. I remember the woman who hired the house next curs. She was a ladylike woman, with golden hair in curls. During the summer of 1S61 I was passing through Magdalen-street, and my mother pointed out a man to me in Mr. Christie's shop. Cross-examined.—The man my mother pointed out to me was standing at a counter. I do not know that it was the prisoner. Mother said it was the same man who had lived in St. Martin's-at-Palace, in the house next ours. I cannot recognise the prisoner as the same man my mother pointea ont; it is so many years ago. Mrs. Ruth Swan depo-ed—I am the "ife of Cottingham Swan, and live in Botolph-street, St. Augustine's, Norwich. I knew Mr. Christie's pawnbroking shop in St Clements. In consequence of something my father-in-law said to me I went to the prisoner's house In St. Martin-at-Palace. I bought some things from the prisoner it is about fifteen or sixteen years since, but I cannot give the exact date. The prisoner was em- ployed at the time at Mr Christie's. I saw him there several times. My former husband died about thirteen years since, in September, 1855. 1 went to the prisoner before he died. The prisoner was selling off when I bought the things from him. I knew the prisoner and also Mrs. Sheward she had been at my shop many times. She was a light-complexioned woman with golden hair. I never saw her after I bought the things, nor did I see her when I bought them. I don't know where Sheward went to live after he left St. Martin-at-Palace. Cross-examined.—It was in the autumn time when 1 went to buy the things, but I cannot say what year it was. Mr. William Boston deposed—I am a pawnbroker, carry- ing on business at Orford-liill, Norwich. I know the prisoner. I was formerly in the service of Mr. Christie, pawnbroker, opposite St. Clement's Church. He had two shops—a pawn- broking shop and an old clothes shop. I attended to both shops. Sheward also attended to both shops, but principally to the clothes shop. I left Mr. Christie's about sixteen years since. I left Sheward there. I know Mr. Bird, the corn merchant, who has been examined. I believe Sheward had apartments at Bird's. I nave frequently feen Sheward write. I believe a letter produced, dated March 24, 1853. is in his handwriting. William Bunn, one of the former witnesses examined, was recalled, and deposed—I stated the other day my wife's aunt Fisher died about 16 years ago. She died March 1, 1S53, 1 believe. I don't know whether it was not March 21, 1853. I was living at Wymondham at that time at a house called the Folly House. No other persolJs named Bunn lived in the house at the time. No other Mrs. Bunn lived in the house than my wife. Mr. E C. Bailey, solicitor, stated—I am clerk of the peace of the city of Norwich. I knew the late Mr. J. Stephenson Cann, solicitor, of Wymondham. He was my brother-in- law. He has been dead ten years. Upon his death his pro- fessional papers came into my custody. I have found a small packet of papers relating to the administration of the late Elizabeth Fisher, of Rymerstone, Norfolk. Among the papers I found the letter I produce, dated March 24, 1853. It-bears the signature o William Sheward." Mr. Mendham read the letter, as follows:— "Norwich, March 34, 1853. "Mrs. Bunn,—I am sorry to hear of Mrs. Fisher's death but your sister not being in Norwich at this present time, I shall not take any part in the arrangement of affairs. There- fore you need not expect me nor send to me any more about it. "WILLIAM SHEWARD." The letter was directed to "Mrs. Bunn, Folly House, Wymondham, Norfolk." Mr. Mendham added—That is the case upon which I submit to the magistrates that there is ample evi- dence to commit the prisoner for trial The facts are fresh in your memory, and therefore I will leave the case as it is, and you will take what course you think justice demands at your hands. The Mayor.—William Sheward, you are charged upon your own confession with feloniously killing and slaying Martha Sheward, your wife, at the parish of St. Martin-at-Palace, June 15, 1851. Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge. You are not obliged to say anything, but whatever you do say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence against you at your trIal Do you wish to call any witnesses now you are at liberty to do so ? The prisoner, after consulting with his solicitor, said —By the advice of Mr. Stanley, I shall reserve my defence. Mr. Stanley I presume the magistrates have made up their minds in this case therefore I do not think it will be worth my while to trouble you with any observations. The Mayor, addressing the prisoner, said—You will be committed to take your trial at the next assizes, on the charge of wilful murder. The prisoner, who trembled slightly, was then re- moved.

THE REV. A. H. MACKONOCHIE AT ST. PAUL'S, WALWORTH. An unusually crowded congregation attended the com- munion service at St. Paul's Church, Lorrimore-square, Wal- worth, on Sunday last, it having been announced that the sermon would be preached by the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, vicar of St. Alban's, Holborn. With the exception that lighted candles and incense were not used, the communion service was conducted in high ritualistic form, a procession up and down the church being added to the ordinary formula observed at St. Paul's. Shortly after eleven o'clock the procession issued from the vestry. It was headed by a chorister, carrying a processional oross, followed by three choristers abreast, the centre one bearing a beauti- fully illuminated banneret, displaying, upon a glittering silver ground, an oval picture, elegantly finished, of the Virgin carrying the infant Jesus. Between this and the clergymen two other banners were carried at equidistant parts Of the procession. One was formed of magenta silk, bordered with bright green, embroidered with leaves worked in gold. On the magenta ground was displayed a sword crossed by reeds, symbolical of the reed placed in the Saviour's hand, and surmounted by an ancient crown. The other bannaret had on it a cruss in the midst of silver stars, with the inscription, "Oh! cross, more lovely than the stars." After the choristers came the Rev. A. H. Mackono- chie and other clergymen, the last in order being the Rev. J. Going, the incumbent, and two of his curates, clothed in splendid whte vestments embroidered in gold. Mr. Going was the celebrant at the communion service. The procession went down øne side of the church, and up the nave to the altar, the hymn, Christ is made the sure foundation corner- stone" being chaunted all the time. After the Creed, The Rev A. H. Mackonochie, who wore a white stole and made the sign of the cross before he commenced his sermon, preached, taking for his text the concluding words of the Gospel of the day (Sexagesima Sunday) Luke via., v. 15, But that on the good ground are they which, in honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." He said that the occurrence of their Church's festival struck upon their ears much in the same way as the notes of Christmas had. It was not, as the ungodly world thought, a festival of outside pretence, because their hearts were beating before the altar of their God in unison with many. Nor was theirs, as they had been told, an extraordinary worship, but one of reality in that voice with which God had spoken to them, not from without but within, and hath told them of the reality of thb love, power, and forgiveness of Jesus. The world without hesitated to hold communion with Jesus, but they of the Church knew Him, had been with Him, and knew He had been with them. This was not speculation; it was not imagination—it was not hope—it was a reality for them. The world might tell them they were superficial; but if they were, then would Jesus forsake them. He was speaking solemn words because he felt strongly, and he knew those who heard him felt strongly, because their hearts and souls were stirred and moved up to the all-loving Jesus, in the light of whose countenance they all rejoiced. There was something of special interest in the festival of the Church at this time. It was because trouble had fallen upon them—had fallen upon them for Jesus. When the Apostles wept over the grave of Jesus, they did not do so simply because He had for the moment disappeared, but because their hearts realised the great truth of the resurrection which was so near at hand; and they wept because the world had triumphed over Him whose love and whose power they had experienced. And so it was that the personal experience of the love and power of Jesus on those who heard him now made them sorry at this time. He must ask them to let him speak plainly about that which was now in all hearts. He could not speak of anything else. They must not underrate the issues that were at stake at the present moment—at this particular period in the history of the world, and of the Church. What were the issues at stake: The issue was this Is the Gospel of the blessed Jesus, in its fulness, as it was delivered to us by our dear Church, once more to spread over this land, not stripped of all those blossoms which give it meaning; or is the coldness of centuries to become stereotyped upon the Church of England? 1 hat was the question before them, Was God's kingdom to be set up or was it not ? Was the whole Church of Christ to say, 1 hy kingdom come?" They could have no hesitation in giving an answer to these questions. Those he addressed and he himself might die before this struggle was over, or they might live it out, pray- ing and fighting, and strugglIng, and loving their lord Jesus more and more, but they all n°t one of those little children who could say Thiy 1ti:ngdom come," who would net leave some traces behind him when their suffer- ings for the rising up of the kingdom of God in the land was over. It was not a struggle between man and man, or between one faction and ,^ker faction—it was a struggle between God and his enemies. It had always been the fact that the efforts of God s enemies were not made by men professedly bound to reject His doctrines, but by those who, in spite of their love for Him, had become the unconscious instruments of His enemies. It was against God that hands were now being lifted up. How hard it was to love one's brethren in Christ if they saw them with their eyes open to great realities still resisting this great reaction of God's Church. Those people acted thus because there was a veil hanging over their hearts which he hoped time would draw away. Let them recollect that thirty-six of the host of Israel were smitten by their enemies. Did Joshua—did the people of IsraePunde)- value the issue 1 Did they say it was a simple defeat ? Did they say they did not mind or care for it ? No Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of the Lord, and cried out, Oh, Lord, what shall I say when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies (Joshua vii., 8). It was a defeat ot God's people. They turned their backs before the enemies of God It was like God being defeated. Though but thirty-six had fallen, still they were of God's people, and therefore the heart of all Israel was made sad—not for this small loss, but for the contradiction that seemed to have been involved in it. Therefore, those who now heard him must not undervalue this great issue, but they must take care not to overvalue the actual injury which had been done to the Lord's Church. Let them remember that God said to Joshua, Get thee up wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face." God to'd him to undo the mischief, to take courage, and that, although he he was quite right In not undervaluing the issue at stake, yet he was wrong in overvaluing the loss Israel had sus- tained. But Israel was as far from being defeated that light broke in upon her, and from it came new life and new strength. So he exhorted them not to overvalue the loss they had sus- tained, but take it from God, who would raise them up in his own time. There was something to be done while they waited. God had sent them these troubles, not to discourage, but to give them life. But there was faintheartedness amongst themselves, and there were some outside them who turned upon them and mocked them, and said, "Now you see you are defeated—now you see you have lost this or that—you must forsake the Ark which you thought was the Ark of God, but which is an unsafe ship, which will destroy you." But no-under Jesus, thanks to him-they thought better than that; and yet there were those faint-hearted persons amongst themselves who were ready either to echo the cry irom with- out, or to talk of one scheme or the other, all tending to the one point, that they should abandon the Ark and the pos- session God hath given to them. What did Paul say of people like this, when he rebuked them ? We have not re- sisted unto blood striving against sin." Well his (the preacher's) brethren had not yet "resisted unto blood." When they were called upon to give their blood for Christ, they might call it suffering; but when, in these days, the tveapons were padded with wadding, not loaded with lead, were they to fly awflBthe moment they touched tht-m, instead of arming themselves with double strength, which would bring torth fruit with patience ?" Were they going to be faint- I hearted? No. Let the enemies of God and his Christ come on. Let them come on consciously 8r unconsciously. They, were fighting a terrible warfare. Let them come on. Let a darker defeat come upon us. Let their enemies trample them in the mire of the earth: but, as long as Jesus waa with his Church, let them resolve to have the Church as their hopes. It was their fortress—their battle field; and only when Christ called them forth out of this world of battles would they be content to rest in peace.

At AH Saints', Margaret-street. London, the "High Cele- bration followed soon after the close of Mormng Frayera, in which the sermon was made to foUow ? f Queen. The preacher, who crossed himself devoutly before commencing, at the words" lathe name of the Father, &c. took as his subject the persecution of the Children of Israel by Pharaoh comparing the sufferings of the former with tnose of the Catholic Church "from the world at the present time. "N ew, as then, the powers of the earth," he observed "seem bent on attacking the people of God. Befoie the latter lies the great sea of the unknown future, as the Red Sea lay before the Israelites and he urged by a variety of arguments the duty of defying the powers of the werld and of darkness. The sermon was followed by a hymn and one or two prayers, and at the end of "Matins" the priests and a large part of the congregation left the church. After an interval of about ten minutes the former returned, three of them dressed in" vestments," as is the custom here: and acting as priest, deacon, and sub-deacon. Incense was not used, and the candles stood as usual on the altar, but they were not lighted. The Nicene Creed was sung, with the customary prostration or glenuflexion at the words and was made man." The Creed over, Mr. Upton Richards ascended the pulpit and delivered a short address, in the course of which he said that he was grieved and distressed te tell his people that from and after that day he should discontinue the altar lights, and so obey this" most unjust I Judgment," throughout which no Christian could fail to see that there was an intense desire to do despite to the Church of God. Their consolation, however, was that God was an avenging God, and would not tolerate injustice for ever, but in his own good time would make the cause of Himself and of truth to triumph. In protesting strongly against this "wicked and unjust law,"he would re- mind them that St. Peter and St. Paul both exhorted their readers to submission, even to injustice, for the sake of the faith, and that Christ had left us an example of suffering wrongs patiently. During the administration of the Sacra- ment, which followed, stringed instruments were played as well as the organ, and neither the consecrated bread nor the cup, so far as we could see, was unduly elevated.

At the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Munster-square, which was one ef the first to adopt both lighted altar- caudles and the vestments, as well as incense, when Ritual- ism first became prominently before the public* both altar lights and incense have been abandoned by the incumbent, Mr. Stuart. As the service at this church has hi liarto owed much of its attractiveness to lights and incense it was iu their absence comparatively cold, and for a Ritualist church, somewhat dull. For, though it is a c.'mich where extreme doctrines are taught, there has been here, owing to a variety of causes, an absence of ceremonial, such. as bowings, crossings and recrossings of celebrant and assistant priests, genuflections, &c. The six candles which stand on the altar, and which used to be lighted at allservices, and the two large ones in front of the altar, which were formerly lighted after the sermon and before the prayer for the Church mili- tant, remained unlighted throughout the service. The mixed chalice was nsed; but there was no elevation of the Sacrament in either kind, nor has it, as far as we know, ever t been customary at this church tu elevate the clements unduly. The acolytes who hitherto have been present near the altar, for the purpose of sprinkling incense, were not there on Sun- day, as their assistance was no longer required. In other respects the service was the same as it has been for some years past. The sermon, which was preached from the Fifth Commandment, treated of the difficulty of obeying earthly masters in heavenly matters. The accustomed vest- ments were worn; the number of communicants was small.

THE FAMINE IN INDIA. The Indian papers bring the unwelcome news that the famine so long dreaded is spreading fast in largely populated districts. The Government is making great efforts to deal with the distress inevitably occasioned, and to ward off its worst consequences. Private charity has been appealed to, but the general Govern- ment has made known to Sir William Muir its readi- ness to support the really helpless. The relief is to be administered, as far as possible, by providing the people with food aud employment, and, in pursuance of this policy, £10,000 has been lent to one native State on the security of the revenues. The hopeful feature in the case is that the scarcity is not likely to reach thePunjaub, and that Oudb, "which is like a garden, is exporting grain in large quantities into the afflicted districts." It is to be hoped, therefore, that the worst horrors of a famine will not fall upon the people whose crops have failed.

THE QUEEN v. PATTISON. This matter has again been brought forward in the Court of Queen's Bench, and was an application by Mr. Charles Hay Frewen for a criminal information against a Dr. James Pattison, late of Welbeck-street, London, for certain libellous letters, and for threaten- ing to publish certain libellous matter. The case was this:— Dr. Pattison had attended the late Mrs. Frewen, who had suffered under cancer, and subsequently died. He hid re- ceived 150 guineas for his services, but claimed 100 guineas more, and this being refused, he wrote a series of letters to Mr. Frewen of a very offensive character, and suggested that he intended to describe the case in a work he was about to publish, with all the details ot that cruel and painful disease. Mr. Frewen referred him to his attorney, and declared his full readiness to meet the claim in any fair and proper way. But an action which had been commenced to recover the money claimed was not proceeded with, and, instead of that, these letters continued to be sent. When Mr. Frewen re- turDed them others were sent open, so that anyone could read them; and the defendant threatened taat tbe next should be on cardboard and sent to Mr. Frewen's club. The Court had at once granted the rule, and there was no affi- davit In denial. Mr. Chambers now appeared on the part of Dr. Pat- tison to express his profound regret for what he had done, and to declare that he had published his book without including the case referred to. Under these circumstances, he hoped it would not be necessary to make this rule absolute. The Hon. G. Denman (with him the Hon. Alfred Thesiger) appeared for Mr. Frewen, and said the only object of that gentleman had been to rebut the painful reflections which had been irfStde upon him, and, hav- ing done so, he did not desire (unless the Court thought it was absolutely incumbent upon him to do so) to press for the criminal information. The Court, however, hesitated for some time before they could accede to the suggestion. Mr. Justice Blackburn observed that the case seemed to come within a recent Act, which provided that if any person should publish, or threaten to publish, any libel, or should offer to prevent the publication of any matter, with intent to extort money, such person shall be liable to be imprisoned, with hard labour, for three years. As the case stood, he could hardly conceive of a case more clearly within the terms and spirit of the statute, and he felt a great reluctance to acquiesce in the dismissal of such a case. Mr. Justice Mellor also remarked that he had never felt more disgusted in his life than he had been at the course taken by the defendant in this case, and it ap- peared really to have the character of a criminal offence. Mr. Chambers suggested that, supposing the case came within the criminal law, the party was liable to indictment. Mr. Denman observed that it was extremely dis- tasteful, and, indeed, positively painful, to Mr. Frewen to have to bring such a case forward and it would be still more so to have to prosecute it, though if the Court went so far as to say he was bound to do so he would not shrink from his duty. Mr Justice Blackburn, after some consultation and hesitation, said this was one of the numerous instances which arose to make him regret the absence of public prosecutors for he could very well understand that it must be extremely distasteful to a gentleman to have to prosecute such a case, and this Court could not forget that they had no power to bind him over to do so. To make the rule absolute for a criminal informa- tion, therefore, in the face of the fact that the applicant was satisfied, and was not desirous of pressing it, would be only to place this Court in a false position. He be- lieved there was no instance in which a rule for a crimi- nal information had been made absolute notwithstanding that the applicant had declared himself to be satisfied and the Court were not prepared in the present case to make a precedent. It appeared to him, however, that the case came clearly within the criminal law to which he had referred, and he was sorry the applicant had been satisfied with an apology; but he did not see that any good could be done by attempting to force him to prosecute the case against his will. The rule, therefore, might be discharged, as desired. Mr. Justice Mellor said he concurred in consenting to that course with very great regret; and, indeed, he could not help thinking that when a gentleman came for a criminal information in such a case he ought not to be satisfied with an apology, however ample and abundant. He confessed that in so extraordinary and abominable a case he felt extremely Ie- luctant to accede to a withdrawal of the charge but, as there was no precedent of an applicant being forced to prosecute a criminal information, he could not oppose the discharge of the rule, however much he might feel that a gentleman ought not to invoke the special interposition of the Court without being prepared to carry on the case to a. conclusion. Mr. Denman We were prepared to do so if there had not been an apology. Mr. Justice Hayes concurred. The rule was discharged on condition of payment by the defendant of all the expenses incurred.

THE LATE MR. ERNEST JONES. The remains of the late Mr. Ernest Jones were con- veyed to their last resting-place in Ardwick Cemetery, Manchester, on Saturday. The funeral corUgc left his late residence in Higher Brompton at half-past two o'clock, and traversed a distance of between two and three miles, through Strangeways. Market-street, and London-road to the cemetery, arriving there about a quarter to five o'clock. It was one of the largest public funerals that has occurred in Manchester for many years, excepting those of Dr. Dalton and Sir John Potter. First came the Deputy Marshalls, the mutes, six abreast, then a band of music playing the "Dead March," and after these followed the friends of the deceased, the Executive of the United Liberal Party, and the Executive of the Reform League. Next came the hearse, followed by two mourning coaches, and about fifty private carriages, the friends on foot who had joined the funeral on its way, six and eight abreast, closing up the procession. The funeral was nearly half an hour in passing any given point, and several thousand persons joined in the procession. The streets were lined by thousands of persons assembled to'see the procession, and at the Assize Courts, the Market-place, Infirmary- square, and Ardwick-green the crowds were very dense. Among the gentlemen recognised in the carriages, were the Mayor of Manchester and Captain Palin, Sir Elkanah and Mr. Benjamin Armitage, Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P.; Mr. Beales, Mr. Odger, and Mr. Howell (of London); Mr. Thomas Potter, M.P., and Mr. Francis Taylor. On arriving at the cemetery only the hearse, mourning coaches, and people walk- ing were admitted inside tne gates. The were Mr. Edward Hooson, Mr. Jacob Bright, Mr. Elijah Dixon, Mr. Edmond Beales, Air. Alder- man Heywood, Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., oir E. Armitage, Mr. F. Taylor, Mr. James Crossley, the Rev. H. M. Steinthall, Mr. H. Rawgon and Mr. Thomasson, of Bolton. The earners were Mr. Benja- min Whiteley, Mr. John Bowes, Mr. J. Cunliffe, and Mr. T. Topping (one of the Lhartists arrested like Mr. Jones in 1848). After the funeral service had been read, and the colfan deposited in a temporary grave (until a vaulchas been constructed), Mr. Beales, of London, delivered the following funeral oration:— My friends, I have been requested to address to you a few words on the present occasion, a request that 1 could not find it in my heart to decline to comply with. But if I had consulted my own feelings, I should have remained impression that when the Almighty in His wm has taken from amongst us a dear friend in the fulness of his power, his capacity, and his strength, the best testi- mony of our feelings is reverent respect and silence, leaving him, as it were, alone in his glory, with his God, however much our own hearts may thrillingly respond to the beauti- ful words that we have just been listening to. Death has ne sting and the grave no victory over him who sacrificed himself for the good of others. And also 1 should have been silent under the conviction that no words of mine could do justice to him who has been taken from amongst us. He could only himself, with his own fervid eloquence and deep pathos, have done justice to himself. Nor could any words of mine, I am convinced. Imprint the memory of Ernest J ones more deeply upon the minds and hearts and souls of the men of Manchester than it is imprinted at this moment. (Hear, hear.) It has been said we should speak nothing of the dead but what is good. It has been said on the con- trary by others, "Speak of the dead nothing but what is true, whether it be good or bad." Well, in this case we can obey—I can from my heart obey—both sayings. I have nothing -but that which is good to speak of Ernest Jones, and should I speak all that is good, I can say nothing but what is deeply true. In him Eng- land has lost one of her truest and purest-hearted patriots. (Hear.) The men of Great Britain and Ireland have lost one of their firmest, truest, most faithful, and most constant friends. The cause of freedom and of progress throughout all the world has lost one of its most eloquent and undaunted champions. (Hear, hear.) In him you have combined the erudition of the scholar, the genius of the poet, the fervid eloquence of the orator, and the courageous soul and fervid spirit of the undaunted patriot whom no persecution could'frighten from the advocacy of "nis principles, whilst no temptation or threatened loss of fortune could tempt him to betray them. (Hear, hear.) He was the same from the beginning to the end. His life was a life of beautiful con- sistency. He was the same when, in obedience to a boyish enthusiasm, he left the German home of his childhood, and was found in the depths of the Black Forest, plodding his way to help the Poles in their struggle for liberty He was the same when in the strength of his manhood, and after he had been—to the eternal disgrace of the Government that then existed—peisecuted for his politic hI opinions, and con- signed to the depths of a solitary dungeon, without pen, ink, or paper, he wrote n r>()nm with his own blood to solace his solitude and feed ii;e flame of his undying genius, He was the same again when, found half dying upon the floor of that cell from sickness and sufferini:. he was carried to the hospital and offered his freedom it he would abandon his political principles, and he refused the offe; g preferring martyrdom to dishonour lie was the sam, when, in later years, ever ready as opportunity offered, to raise the banner of rational freedom whenever lie, could, he was lubounug with us d the Reform League to advocate with hi3 matchless eloquence before hosts of his enthusiastic countrymen those principles which have given us a government the most favourable to freedom and progress which V have ever known in this country. lie was the same from the beginning to the end. We may have a feeling of sad regret lor the moment that he was taken from among us even at the very time when you, the men of Manchester, by th^result of an important ballot, gave a strong testimony as to how) Oil appreciate t his virtues and his talents, and when we might have hoped to have seen him and to have heard him within the walls of parliament giving utterance to those principles for the general welfare of his country and the human race, which he had so ably and so boldly advocated before enthusi- astic hosts of his countrymen upon platform after platform. et, we must remember that, whilst we survivors may deeply feel his loss, he had done his work. For, it we are now a very different nation from what we were even twenty yaars ago—if we cannot have such things done as were djne to Mr. Ernest Jones in 1S4B—remember it is to such men as him that we are indtbted f >r what we now possess. Hear, hear. It was said that when Sir John K tiott was dying by inches 'in the ,11 to which the tyrant l'har:cs had consigned him, that he was the noblest confessor for political freedom in tim country. My friends, you have lia i a noble confessor of political freedom present amongst you—only lately through the will of the great G"d, taken from amongst us, but as I have a perfect Christian conviction -to a glorious inheritance that i-' ever preserved for those who htl\ e lived fur the welfare of others. For the great and good he has left a noble example behind him. Though he is dead he still lives. (Hear, hear. He lives in the memory of all throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain and Ireland who loved honesty and freedom, and he lives in the memory of all throughout the world who could estimate the undaunted patriotism and the brilliant talents of our departed friend. Yes; he lives amongst us to bid those who admire him "Go and do likewise." (Hear, hear.) The whole proceedings were orderly, including the passage through the streets, and very impressive. Among the mutes who preceded the procession were four survivors of the memorable Peterloo massacre, as it was called. Besides the deputation above-mentioned were others from Ashton, Birmingham, Bolton, Bacup, Buxton, Bury, Bradford, Bollington, Carlisle, Derby, Glossop, Hyde, Huddersfield, Halifax, Holloway (London), Leeds, Liverpool, Oldham, Rochdale, Scar- borough, Stockport, and many other towns.

THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF WORKING MEN. On Monday night an interesting social meeting of working men, convened by Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., and the Rev. Christopher Neyill, took place at the City Terminus Hotel, in London. Mr. Samuel Morley presided, and aftei tea briefly expressed how deeply interested he was in the politi cal future of the working people of this country, the dis- cussion of which was the main object of the xoirce, and respecting which his rev. friend Mr. Nevill had promised to deliver a short address. The Rev. Mr. Nevill, after explaining that the credit of the present gathering of working people was owing mainly to Mr. Morley, who at his (Air. Mevill's) suggestion got up the soiree, the rev. gentleman pro- ceeded to deliver his address. It was taken as granted by a goed many persons among the upper classes, that working men were generally rough and in-suiting iu their manner. He was sixty-three years of age that day, a.nd he could say that during the whole course of his life he never received a single rough or ungentlemanly reply from a working man. His beuef respecting the asserted rudeness of the English working man was that it was generally brought upon those persons who excited such conduct. He considered that the more the classes were brought together and the differences that existed were discussed, the better for all classes. For instance, he had given, for three years running, dinners to persons entertaining quite opposite opinions on Church questions and the great cause of dissension was discussed in quite a friendly manner, and he believed with good results.. He had during his life- time associated with the aristocracy of the country, and he had sympathy with them. He had also mixed a good deal with the working classes, particularly with the agricultural, and he sympathised with them. He therefore could speak dispassionately on the relative interests of the two classes. The New Testament laid it down as a principle, with which he cordially agreed, that the welfare of the poorest was as dear in the sight of God as the noblest in the land but he could not believe the statement that had been put forward from time to time, that it was in the power of the Govern- ment to make everybody rich and happy. He at the same time fully admitted that the condition of the working people might be much improved through the instrumentality of good legislation. He considered that the welfare of the whole country was involved in the position which the working people held, and he therefore felt that it wa.s the duty of the rich to do their utmost to see after and endeavour to improve those below them in the social scale. No doubt, for instance, there was great cause of complaint on account of some few men possessing immense tracts of land which they would neither improve themselves nor let anybody else improve it. He thought that if any- thing could be done to discourage that system, and at the same time keep within the laws of property, it should be accomplished. The currency was another question of interest to the working people. He strongly disapproved of any change that would in- crease the circulation of paper. The great object to be attained was to make the prices of provisions. &c., as permanently uniform and low as possible. From his personal acquaintance with the affairs of agricul- tural districts he could add his testimony to the neces- sity of the ballot. The public-house question was a difficult matter upon which to express an opinion, but he thought that all would admit the evil they caused, particularly to working people. If retrench- ment was to be practised, he hoped the working people would not be made the sufferers. After le- ferring to some other matters, the reverend gentle- man went on to say that he had great faith in the political future of the working men of England. He believed they were at present quite as honest and well-intentioned as the classes above them, and, considering their circumstances, quite as intel- ligent. He desired, therefore, to do all in his power to promote their interests, and he earnestly hoped that other men of eminence, such as Mr. Morley, would consider it thell" duty to come foward to aid in the im- provement of the social and intellectual position of the working people. Recurring to the land question, Mr. Nevill testified to the disinterestedness and ability which characterised the treatment of this question by Mr. Bright, whose many public services the reverend gentleman remarked upon with enthusiasm, and con- cluding with that right hon. gentleman's memorable words m dealing with the question "We have the un- changeable and eternal principle of the moral law to guide us, and only so far as we will walk by that guid- ance can we permanently hope to be a great nation, or our people a happy people." An interesting and well-sustained discussion fol- lowed the delivery of the Rev. Mr. Nevill's address, in the course of which it was strongly urged that the Government should begin its retrenchment with salaries of public officials above £ 1,000 a year, and that the indulgence of strong drinks had much to do with the complained-of dependence and destitution among the working classes. It was averred by some of the working men themselves that the consumption of strong drink was the greatest evil that the r well-wishers of the working classes had to deal with in endeavouring to improve their position. The results of the recent plection petitions were re- ferred to, and it was advised that a law should be passed enacting that all election expenses should be paid by the constituencies instead of by the candidates and that polling booths should be kept open later in evening on a polling day to better enable working men to record their votes. Free trade in land, it was thought, would get rid of a good deal of the com- plaints arising from the present land system of the At the close of the discussion, votes of thanks were passed to the Rev. Mr. Nevill for his lecture, and to Mr. Morley for presiding.

THE MARKETS. MARK-LANE.—MONDAY. The grain trade to-day was in a very inactive state, and the quotations suffered a material reduction. The show of English wheat was only moderate, and the quality was inferior. There was a general absence of business, although both red and white produce was offend at a decline of 2s. to 3s. per qr. I he show of foreign wheat was tolerably good. The demand was very dull, and prices gave way about 2s. pel qr the floating grain cargo trade was quiet in tone. The market was fairly supplied with barley. Sales progressed slow ly, at barely previous quotations. Malt was I" t?rn.ls- Moderate supplies of oats were on sale, .for au descriptions the inquiry was limited, at (id. per qr. less money than on Monday last. Beans were neglected ana lower to sell. Peas commanded but little attention, at uroopmg prices. The flour trade was heavy. Town rates w ere unaltered, but country marks and foreign parcels were drooping in price Linseed and rapeseed were firm, but most agricultural seeds were quiet. No change took place in the value of cakes. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MONDAY. There was an average supply of foreign beasts 011 sale, the quality of which was generally inferior. Trade consequently ruled dull, and last week's prices were with difficulty sup- ported. From our own grazing districts the ani "als were very moderate, and, although there were some exceptionally fine arrivals on the stands, the general condition of stock was only middling. Really choice Scots and crosses changed hands at full quotations, say—5s. ,1d. to 63. 6d. per 81b. but inferior qualities were dull and drooping. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 860 Scots, etc.; from other parts of England, 420 of various breeds; from Scotland, 427 Scots and crosses; alld from Ireland, about 130 oxen, ite. The number of sheep in the pens was unusually small, and trade being fairly active prices advanced considerably. Some few prime Downs and half-bieds changed hands at 6s. per 81b., but the general top figure was 5s. 8d. to 5s. lOd. Prime small calves were steady in value and demand, but large animals were neglected The pig trade was quiet, at unaltered rates. HOPS. There has been a fair business doing. The few fine grades offered have found buyers, at very full prices. Other descrip- tions have been in moderate request. Mid and East Kente, 21. 10s. to 71. 15s. Weald of Rents, 21. Os. to 41. His.; Sussex, 21. Os. to 41. Os.; Farnhams, 41. Os. to 51. 15s. Country. 4Z. OS. to 61. Os. Bavarians, 21. 10s. to 41. 5s. Belgians, 2L Os. to 31. Os. Yearlings, 3i. Os. to 41. Os. WOOL. The demand for colonial wool has been quiet to-day, but prices h^ye ruled firm. The next sales will probabiv be corn menced about the 25th inst., when it is estimated that about 135,000 bales will be offered. English wool has commanded but little attention, at about late rates. — Current prices of English wool :— Fleeces.—Southdown hoggets, Is. 3d. to Is. 4d.: half-breds, Is. rd. to Is. Od.; Kent fleeces. Is. 4id. to Is. 61d.; Southdown ewes and wethers. Is. 2Jd. to Is. 3Jd. Leicester ditto, Is. 3d. to Is. 3Jd per 11.1. Sorts.— Cloihing, la. 2d. to Is. 7d. combing, la. Od. to 1.. 6ld. per lb. POTATOES. There is a fair show of potatoes in the markets, and the supplies are more than equal to the demand. Sales progress slowly at our quotations. English Regents, 60s. to 130s. Flukes, 70s. to 1408. Scotch Regents, 70s, to 130s.; Rocks, 60s. to 80s. French, 40B. to 80s. per ton