The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

(fbtftwlMtiaX. One of the London magistrates has decided that Jews in the workhouse cannot be compelled to pick oakum on Saturdays. The Paris lIf rmde. suggests that in order to maintain Catho- tic supremacy Corsica should be made an inviolable refuge for the Pope. The scheme for the establishment of a bishopric for Mada- gascar has been revived, and it is likely that arrangements "Will shortly he made for the consecration of a bishop. M. Guibert, the Archbishop of Tours, has been appointed Archoishop of Paris, the appointment having now been signed by M. Thiers. M. Guibert is upwards of 68 years of age, having been born in 1802. He was formerly Bishop of Viviers, and has been Archbishop of Tours ever since the 4th of Feb- ruary, 1857. The vie irage of Badby, with the curacy of Newnbam, in the coun y of Northampton, and diocese of Peter- boiough, have become vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Green, aged 83, who had held the joint incum- bencies for 54 vears. The two livings whit'h are in the gift f the Ohristchurch College, are of the value of a little over £ 300 a-year, and together contain a population of about 1 200. C The question of re-building or repairing Sacred Trinity Church, Salford, out of the funds of Booth's Charity, was on Thursday before Vice-Chancellor Malins. His Honour de- °id'd against the proposal to re-build, remarking that it Would be as idle an expenditure of money as could be con- ceived to pull down this church and build another in its stead. The edifice, he said, had suffered from dccav, but not further than could be mended by mortar. The Vice- chancellor thought the expenditure 8f money in this litiga- tion was greatly to be regretted It is stat-d in the Nuova Roma that the health of the Pope Bas but little improved. He had been able to say mass two ays previously, but the exertion grcatlv fatigued him, and ae had another fainting fit. Th. medical men continue to Prescribe the most complete quiet, but the Pope often dis- "Deys their orders. According to the same paper the letter of "'e FoP'S prohibiting the reading of the Liberal Italian £ 4Pers, has produced a very unpleasant impression among the ~ZTJ: moderate members of the clerical party. Some of the amals have expressed their disapproval of'the letter. imnor? rSfty makes futhcrs of the Church as well as less Path-I w c.rPatures acquainted with strange beMellows. out in thlT\thQ and Dr I)ollin £ or bein^as it WCK, just now brilliant Fr^naturally 9^mpathize with each 'Ancr. The the followiuff te an has ^ritten of the learn,,a Genua* in assent to the (WimS: the fullest and most unreserved linger and his frie °n si^ned at Munich V Professor Dol- faith, knowledge » confident that this meritorious act of and centre of a r'efor ?.on9cicnce will he the starting-point will save the Catholi -c|°n raovenjent alone can and

The Communist prisoners tried at Marseilles- have been sentenced to vari us terms of imprisonment, varyiug from ¡ twenty years to one year. The annual speeches and distribution of prizes at Christ's Hospital took place on Wednesday, the 19th inst., when the Lord Mayor presided. The Liverpool School Board have, after a long discus- sion, decided not to admit the Douay version of the Bible into the schools of the Board. At a demonstration held by tenant farmers, at Kells, county Meath, July 23rd, to protest against the threat- ened evictions, all passed off peaceably. H.M.S. Cyclops, double turret, another formidable ad- dition to thQ royal navy, was launched on Tuesday, the 18th inst., from the Thames Ironworks, Blackwall. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland died at his seat, Killerton, near Exeter, on Saturday. He is succeeded in the baronet- h f., ac-,n Mr T. n- Acland M P. for North Devon. "'J JJ',J .s"J. J"&, ""0-'1. Mr Justice O'Brien, while purchasing a ticket at the Westland-row Station, Dublin, prior to going to the Ulster Assizes, was robbed of a valuable gold watch by a swell mobsman, who succeeled in escaping with his booty. Two new knight., are to be creatcd-Mr James Jell Chalk, on retiring from the secretaryship of the ecclesias- tical commissioners and Mr F. P. Smith, as an acknow- ledgment of the services which he rendered to the country in introducing the screw into the royal navy. At the Ilford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, the man Ren- nie, who was, on remand, charged with breaking down a portion ff the enclosure of Epping Forest in the late affray to mairjta n t'le commoners' right, was fined 5s. and 25s. cost. There is a strong movement among the people to resist anv further encroachments. On Tuesday afternoon, the 18th inst., two explosions of packages of what a e called mitrailleuse cartridges, used as toys took place in Manchester, and were attended with serious'consequence. The most destructive explosion took place in tie parcels office at the Victoria Station. Six persons were injured. The consignor of the packages has GAt the Lancaster Assizes, on Saturday, July 22nd, there were two triads for murder. John Arnold, charged with murdering a boy at Barrow, on the plea that he had been throwing stones at horses, was found guilty of manslaug- ter, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. Robert Hodgson, a bricklayer, for the murder of his mother with a hatchet at Hambleton, near Preston, in May last, was sentenced to death. The question of education has just been discussed in the Committee of Review of the Wesleyan Conference now sitting at Manchester. A resolution was carried, affirming that io view of the increase of schools, and the efforts made by other C lurches, there were strong reasons why the effi- cient inspection of Wesleyan day schools, especially in re- gard to religous instruction, should be p ovided for aa early as possible. The butchers .ho deliberately sell meat totally unfit for human food must be beginning by this time to "shake in their shoes." Magistrates are dealing severely with such offenders, and thereby gaining the respect and gratitude of the public. A sentence of exceptional severity was passed on a Manchester butcher, named John White- head. an Tuesday, July 18th. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment; and it is said that he seemed very much astonished. It will interest the public to learn that arrangements have been made between the representative advocates engaged in the Tichborne cause, to provide, as far as possible J against certain contingencies which might otherwise pre- vent the resumption of the trial. Serjeant Ballantine and Sir John Coleridge, on Wednesday, signed a forensic treaty by which both parties in the suit agree to the sub- joined termsIf, through any unforseen circumstance, Sir William Bovill should be unable to re-occupy his seat on the Bench, it is settled tha- another Judge may, with- out objection from either side, carry on the case and employ his predecessor's notes. Again, if one, or even two, of the jurymen, by the same chapter of accidents, should be removed from the box, the cause shall go for- ward, by mutual consent, with the diminished number. We may add, that reliable information has been received hy the solicitors of the plaintiff regarding the crew of the Bella; and, in consequence, Mr Jeune, the junior xransel for the claimant, has proceeded to Australia, to advise upon what evidence it may be necessary to bring forward. A case involving a point of very great commercial inter- est occupied the Liverpool County Court Judge, assisted w a jury, for a long ti m e en J uly 21st. A trader, named W. Hayes, had obliged another tradesman, named James Ser- jeant, by cashing him a cheque, of T. M. Mackay and 00. upon Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., London. The jheque was dishonoured, and Hayes instituted the suit [or the recovery of the money. For the the defence it was 3ontended that the money passed as an equivalent for the cheque which the plaintiff had- thus taken for what it was worth. On the other hand, it was put forward, on be- half of the plaintiff, that the money was really given in the character of a loan and that the cheque was merely held as a security. The jury took the latter view, in which the Judge expressed his concurrence. Subsequently a long argument ensued between counsel upon the point of law as to whether the defendant could not plead payment on account of the laches of the plaiwtiff in not presenting the cheque promptly fur payment. The plea was overruled by the Judge on theground that, as the cheque was not given in as a paymeut, the prejudice to the defendant could not be put forward. A novel device for aiding the revenue has just been pro- pounded by Mr W. H. Walker, of Bow. This gentleman proposes that the stamping instruments useW by the Post- office officials in marking letters should be made to answer a double purpose, by imprinting along with the post mark some brief advertisement, arranged around the margin of the ordinary impression. The same idea, with some modi- fications, is extended to the impressed stamp. It is stated that by a perfectly prac-icable arrangement, all the letters delivered in any particular district would be made to bear any specified advertisement, the words being, of course, few in number. Thus the Post-office authorities might engage with an advertiser to let his announcement appear on all the letters delivered in Brighton, or Edinburgh, er Dublin during a single day, or for a longer term or the London delivery might thus be utilized. It is thought that the mails for foreign countries might be made available in the same way. Supposing that a plan of this kind can be practically developed without intetfering with the effi- ciency of the Post-office, it certainly promises the advan- tage of a vast revenue in a form which will directly relieve the burden of taxation. The idea is, at least ingenious, and in clever and willing hands might be turned to good account. It is to be hoped that an account which appears in the Lancet of last week of the experiments tried on the body of one Skaggs, who was lately hanged at Bloomfield, in the United States, with a view to its resuscitation, will have the effect of attracting attention to our present barbarous method of capital punishment. In the case in question the doctors succeeded in restoring animation after the "corpse" had been cut down and Sk ggs would probably be alive at the present moment but for the interference of the sheriff. The par- tial success, however, which attended the experiment- shows, as we have before pointed out, the inequality of this punishment when not carried into effect on scientific principles. Very few, indeed, of our criminals who are hanged, are fortunate enough to have theirnecks dislocated the majority of them die from pure suffocation. There is no attempt to regulate the length of the drop according to the weight of the criminal. The light murderer, therefore, is denied the advantages gained by the heavier villain. It is really horrible to reflect how the dense stupidity of our arrangements causes punishment by death to be turned into torture. After the revelations made in the case of this wretched man Skaggs, who was hanged, brought to life, and then condemned to die over again, not a day should be lost in effecting that reform in the gallows which is so urgently requ 'ed. We have of late effected reforms in mwiy offices, and it is almost time that there should be some revision of that held by Mr Calcraft. The hourly increase of business at the Central Post-oflice Telegraph station in Telegraph-street, London, keeps the in- genuity of Mr Seudainore and his large staff continually on the stretch to contrive new devices with which the enemy" may be the more successfully contended against. A tele- grapic message which comes, say, from Sunderland, and the ultimate destination of which is Brighton, having been re- ceived in one part of the building, has to be copied there, and thence sent by hand to another, upon which devolves the duty of transmitting news, public and private, to Brighton and its dependencies. This had to be done until very re- centlv bv beys, and it was, of course, hard to avoid a wood" deal of noise, bustle, and confusion, not to speak of delay. To obviate the difficulty, Mr Culley, the engineer of the department, has been taken into counsel, and has contrived an apparatus something like the gearing of a cotton factory, but still more like the tapes of an American printing machine, which, going in and out along the walls and ceilings from the bottom to the top of the building, carries along with it the message which has just been received from one place, and has to be trans- mitted to another. The continuous sailing of these de- spatches along the ceiling has a very singular effect. There arc the necessary rows of small pulleys at the corners, and a simple but clever application of weights to keep the tapes at the proper tension in all weathers. The whole works with perfect certainty and rapidity, and pro- duces an immense economy of time and a great simplifica- tion of operati ins. The arrangements for the military manoeuvres in con- nection with the Camp of Military Exercise at L^ckinge, in Berkshire, in the early part of September, and in which it is decided that at least 3Q,000 men will take part, are approacumg completion. Nearly all the troops at A1'er- shot will be present, about 7,000 of the militia, 5,000 volunteers, and a large force of yeomanry cavalry. Mr Cardwell has made special arrange-nents for the attend- ance of th? Yeomanry and volunteers. The traveling expenses of volunteer3 will be paid to and from the camp of assembly, in addition to which they and the yeoman-v also will be paid for their attendance by the Government. The volunteer and yeomanry rations per day will consist of ljlbs. of bread or 1 j'0 biscuit, fib. of fresh meat or lib. of salt meat, or a[b. of Yeatman's beef sausage. Groceries will be issued free of charge, and will consist of tea, coffee, sugar, salt, and pepper; but vegetables and milk and butter will have to be purchased at the expense of the men at the markets which will be opened in the vicinity of the camp. Forage rations for hor,es will be issued free of charge to tke volunteers on the scale allowed for mounted officers of the line, and fuel will be issued at the rate of 31bs. of wood or coal per man. A sum of 10s. per head will be credited to the funds ot volunteer corps for each man (all ranks) who remains eight days of which six clear days are in camp, and the sum of £1 for those who remain ten days. No bands will be allowed to ac- company either the volunteers or yeomanry. It is under- stood that more than the full number of volunteers allowed to join the camp (5,000) have applied for per- rrsis-ion. The selection of the corps rests with the Secretary of State. Saturday, Sept, 4-tli, is named a& the probable date of assembly.

d?oUticat. Ms Shirley, M.P. for Monaglian, is seriously unweli, and is not expeetitil to resover. hhas been deeiAeii to erect a marble statue of the late Earl- of Clarendon in the Foreign Office. A special telegram from a correspondent at Madrid states- that a coalition Ministry has been formed by Mar- shal Serrano. We understand that Lord Penzance will be one of the paid- judges of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council under the new Act, and that the Attorney- General will succeed his lordship as7 Judge-Ordinary of the Probate and Divorce Courts. -Laiv Journal. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., a Conservative politi- cian of some note in the last generation, who took an active part in the debates, has passed away at the age of eighty-four. He was first elected in 1812, and, with the exception of two years, sat in Parliament as M.P. for Devonshirfi until the passing of the Reform Act of 1831. The county was then divided, and in 1837 he was elected for the northern division, which he represented until 1857, when on account of his advancing years he retired, and was succeeded by his son, the present representative, who is a supporter of the Government. Mr Maguire, M.P., writes to the Tilles to say thct he anticipates that his Home Rule motion, which he will submit next session, will receive a considerable amount of general support. The motion is as follows That this House do resolve itself into a committee to take into consideration the expediency of instituting such a federal arrangement between ihe d fftrent portions of the United Kingdom as would enable Ireland, through an Irish Parliament, to legislate upon all matters of a purely Irish nature, while reserving to the Imperial Parliament com- plete control over all questions of an imperial character. The Daily News says :—The House of Commons gave an example on Wednesday, July 19th, of the expedition with which it can get through important public business. In a single sitting it elaborated for all the boroughs, except the metropolis, a new and immensely improved system of electoral registration. Sir Charles Dilke's Registration of Voters Bill was got through Committee was ordered to be reprinted as amended and recommitted; and has every chance of becoming law this year. The principle of the Bill is the establishment of a public authority responsible for the registration, and the publication of the registers in the most available and useful form possible. These principles are carried out by the ap- pointment of a registrar in every borough, and by the publica- tion of the lists in such form that every elector will find his name on the register along with his neighbonrs. This latter point is one of the greatest importance, and we are glad to see that the principle of street Jis:s has been maintained. The Bill is not intended to come into operation this year, but it is needful to pass it this ve.-ir in order that next year's registra- tion may take place under its provisions. In th-i French Assembly, on Saturday, July 22, there was an animated discussion on petitions presented to that body in favour of the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope. A correspondent describes the debate as the most exciting and most protracted of the session, the number of members present being larger than on any previous oc- casion. The reporters of the committees by which the petitions had been examined echoed the views of the petitioners, and spoke of the Pope as a prisoner" in the Vatican. M. Thiers, however, while declaring that he was, as he always had been, a partisan of the temporal power, distinctly intimated that he had no intention of going to war in order to support that power. All the European Governments were on good terms with Italy, and it was a political necessity that France should be on good terms with her also. M. Thiers, in the course of his speech, said he had written no letter to the Pope, and had no advice to offer him. The Bishop of Orleans then spoke, and expressed the opinion that, without making war, France might yet do something for the Pope by taking the lead in a European intervention. M. Gambetta de- clared himself a supporter of the policy of M. Ihiers, aid an ultra-Catholic member thereupon caused considerable c mfusion by declaring that such being the case, the signi- ficance of that policy was completely change t. Ultimately the petition was referred to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Jarts and antits. I'll give you the slip," as the gardener said when he promised a friend a cutting. If a man gets up when the day breaks, can he be said to have the whole day before him ? Someone, describing a bad dinner to which he had been invited, said that the meat was cold, the wine was hot, and everything was sour but the vinegar." A Chicago sportsman's idea of heaven "I would have it a boundless prairie, with an et >rnal September, and I'd have with me an everlastio' gun and a never-dyin' dog." EATING AND FEEDING.—Farmer: Well, my man, and how much do you want a day ? Irish Labourer Shillin' a day and you ate me, or eighteen pence a day and I ate myself. A RASE INDUCEMENT.—A man may struggle for a life- time and yet fail to accomplish what he may readily achieve at the Wimbledon Camp—there he may appear in any position." A man in New Hampshire had become so used to matri- mony, that on the occasion of marrying his fourth wife, whex the minister requested the couple to stand up, he said, I've usually sat." Bob, where's the State of Matrimony ? "It's one of the United States. It is bounded by hugging and kissing on one side, and cradles and babies on the other. Its chief products are population, broomsticks, and staying out late o' nights." The great joiner—The lawyer he can replace a tenant. empannel a jury, box a witness, bore the court, chisel his client, auger the gains, floor a witness, cut his board, nail the case, hammer the desk, file his bill, and gouge the whole community. RESULT OF FORTY YEARS' IVOIIK. That maij," said a wag, "came to London forty yeats ago, purchased a basket and commenced gathering rags. How much do you suppose he is worth now ?" It was a conundrum we cowld not answer. Nothing," he continued, after a pause, and he owes for the basket!" AN OLD OFFENDER.—Country Gentleman (eyeing his gardener suspiciously): Dear, dear me, Jeffries, this is too bad! After what I sad to you yesterday, I didn't think to find you-" Gardener You can't shay- (hie)—I wash drunk yesht'day, sh-" Country Gentle- man (sternly): "Are y"u sober this morning, sir?" Gardener I'm—shlightly shober, shir! A Chicago man got into a row and had a quantity of his lungs shot out and his ear bit off, besides receiving a couple of stabs in the ril's, and a broken arm, in addition to which his left eye was put out of joint, and a hurricane deck was put on his head after his teeth had been knocked out and his hair pulled, and his throat cut, yet he refuses to expose his assailant, saying it is a mere trifle. He says if they think he is hurt much they ought to look at the other fellow.-New York Herald. A GERMAN OFFICER'S LOVE LETTER.—The Paris papers have played a Prussian officer of artillery a rather scurvy trick, in publishing a love letter which the gallant gunner recently addressed to the object of his affections. The name of this additional victim to Gallic attractions is per- haps improperly spelled Paul de Bedford Souprian, but what is certain is that Paul proposed marriage, and gave the following sketch of himself :—" I am twenty-three years old, middle-height, neither handsome nor ugly; I have a quick temper, a very tender heart, and sentiments worthy of my sword and my ancestors. As for my ex- terior, I have a high forehead, a delicate mouth, a large nose, brilliant eyes, thick chestnut hair, and aristocratic hands and feet." The letter is very long, but mademoi- selle is obdurate. A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—The following amusing incident is said to have occurred a Sundav or two since at the parish church of a village a short distance from Hanley:-An eloquent preacher had made an appeal on behalf of the Sunday Schools, and the churchwardens were making a collection from pew to pew. One of these functionaries came at length to a pew occupied by the wife of-a flourish- ing publican. Notwithstanding the stirring appeal which had just been made, D ime Quickly had been overcome by sleep, and did not immediately deposit her contribution, so the churchwarden gently nudged her with the plate, where- upon the good lady, being bi ought to a semi-wakeful state, coolly swept the contents of the plate into her lap with the distinctly audible remark—" All right, waiter five pints and three papers of tobacco." HENKY IV. AND HIS MISFORTUNES IN WALES.—Henry made one or two attempts to beard Glyndwr in his moun- tain den, but the Welsh climate was too much for English effeminacy. The march of Henry IV. into Wales in 1402 was a caution to Welsh tourists not to forget their um- brellas. Pennant says, The event of his invasion was very unfortunate. Glyndwr, who had too much prudence to hazard a battle against so superior an enemy, returned to the fastnesses of the mountains, and drove away the cattle and destroyed every means the English had of sub- sistence. The season proved uncommonly bad, for tke very elements seemed to have warred against them. A continued course of storms and rain, with the continual watching an enemy ever hovering over them, and ready to take every occasion of falling on them from the heights, wasted the army with sickness and fatigue and obliged the living once more to make an inglo'r ous retreat.' The Spirits from the vasty deep,' that Shakespeare makes the Welsh chieftain boast he can invoke, s emed this time to come when he'did call for them,'and a serious chapter might be written of Henry's misfortunes. We will give a comic one.' The following IS an extract from the one re- ferred to. After recounting the journey from Shrewsbury to the mountains, the writer says :— But alack and alas a change sad and extreme Came over the spirit, too soon, of their dream. One unlucky Friday (with sorrow and piin I proceed to record it) it came on to rain! It rained on the Sa'urdav, it rained on the Sunday, It rained every hour of the day on the Monday On Tuesday it rained cats and dogs, as they say, And Wednesday was also a very wet day. Ou Thursday and Fridav, especially the latter flay, It rained very hard but, my gracious, on Saturday The rain was most dreadful-a great deal more bad Than tint of the very worst monarch we've had And King Henry's hot thirst for destruction and slaughter Was quenched by this timely supply of coli water; And his gallants so gav, and his barons so bold, They couldn't catch lenrlwr-they only caught cold. The soldiers, with rainwater up to their k ees, Were very uneasy while standing sit ease And the "trHmpets grew hoarse, and would not sound their notes, And the tifes seemed all suffering from very sore throats. The cavalry's brilliant equipments were spoiled, And the horses all smoked, just as if they'd been boiled And the Scotch Fusiliers, with the captain thereof, Were extremely annoyed with a very bad cough And nothing was seen 'mid the Yeomanry bands But blowing of noses and wringing of hands And nothing was heard of the Shropshire Miltia, Night or day, but—attisha! atti&ha!! ATTISHA! II And a still more tremendous misfortune befel (Dreadful to hear and dreadful to tell)— King Henry himself became rather unwell t -Goniping Guide to, Wales.

r gritutturn1. CROPS IN OOROPSHIRID. The crops in this neighbourhood are very variable. With very few exceptions, wheat will be far below the average, the plant being thin on the ground, and the ears generally small. It is, moreover, in many places con- siderably damaged by maggot, and some crops we have' seen are nearly smothered with- poppies and other weeds. A large breadth was either cross-sown or wa» ploughed-up early, and re-sown with April wheat or barley, with variable results. Barley presents generally a promising appear- ance, and will prove an average crop if we have fine weather, but in many places-it is laid with the heavy rain. Oats will be also an average, but are little grown in this district. Winter beans in general are a decided failure, in consequence of the severity of the winter, but spring-sown onef and peas will tarn out well. The hay crop is generally not a heavy one, except in low-lying situations. Sppfls n.rp. psnficiallv thin, thp. plrjvpr Knincr almost universally killed by the frost, &c. The weather has been wretched for securing this crop, which is con- sequently, much damaged. Turnips are generally very promising, not having been damaged by fly, but late-sown enes have suffered from the cold, wet weather we have experienced during the last month. Mangels are partially good in some places they are injured by grub. Potatoes are looking well, and, if the weather is suitable, will turn out a good crop.-W. D. P. West Felton, July 18.— in Agricultural Gazette. An Essex Farmer," in a letter to the Times, takes a very gloomy view of the prospect of the crops. The wheat is, he says, very much blighted. "Not only is there," he says, "an unusually large number of com- pletely blighted ears, which are plain enough to anyone who walks into a field of wheat, but partially blighted ears are in most fields that I have seen—especially where the crop is forward-the rule, and not the exception. Barley and oats are also affected by the blight, though less exten- sively. In barley it shows partly in the number of withered ears, but especially in the false kernels that may be seen on close examination of a considerable proportion of the ears. In oats the strips of white flight' in place of grain are plain enough to see, even from the road- side." Farmers long held the notion that the presence of the Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) in their hedges was preju- dicial to the wheat crops in the adjacent fields. As there seemed on the surface no good reason for this, botanists and scientific men scouted the notion. That the fungus so common on the berberis (iEcidiura Berberidis) should have anything to do with the uredo rubigo of the wheat, or with the puccinia, seemed too absurd a notion to be at all credible. Nevertheless, changes as strange do occur in other cases, and the forms and stages through which some of the fungi pass should at least lead us to give a fair hearing even to the enunciation of the most startling notions, provided they are made by persons whose attain- ments are such as to warrant us in placing some cosfidence in their judgment. Few things in Nature, for instance, can be more unlike than the fleshy orange-coloured fungus so often found on the savin (Podisoma Juniperi Sabinse), and the small crisp flask-like fungus which appears on the leaves of pears (Rcestelia cancellata), yet it was shown by Prof. Oersted, of Copenhagen, that the one is but a form of the other. The Danish Professor, as we have previously recorded, proved this by inoculating the pear with the fungus of the savin. Naturally the statement was received with incre- dulity, and requires the concurrent testimony of many witnesses before it can be definitelv accepted. One such witness is M. Roze, who repeated Oersted's experiments with success. Last May we had an opportunity of seeing in Paris another case of the same nature, in which the FreHch botanist just named had succeeded in inducing the the presence of the hawthorn of Roestelia (zEcidium) lace- rata, by placing on the young shoots the minute spores of another fleshy fungus commonly found on the juniper, viz., podisoma clavariaeforme. The method of procedure adopted by M. Roze was to detach from the juniper some of the fleshy tongue-like masses of the podisoma. These were just moistened with water, and placed in watch glasses, under a bell glass. After twenty-four hours the fungus had swollen greatly, from the imbibition of water, the sporangia of spore cases became erect, and from several of them proceeded fine threads, bearing the spo- ridia, or seeds. Some of these latter were removed by a camel's hair brush, and transferred to the leaves and young shoots of the hawthorn. The sporidia so sown imme- diately germinate, emit a filament which penetrates the epidermis of the young branches. Eight days after yel- lowish spots were observable on the hawthorn, and in a month's time the leaves of the hawthorn were more or less thickly covered with the rcestelia lacerata. Similar ex- periments made with the podisoma fuscum, an allied form, had only negative results. These experiments require to be repea'ed with the greatest caution by other observers but we think enough has already been done to show that the ridicule excited at the onset by the statements of the Danish botanist was ill-timed and out of place. -Agric-W- tural Gazette. We learn from the Journal of the Society of Arts that the Paris Academy of Sciences is occupying itself seriously with the question of the Cattle Disease, which has raged so fearfully in France since the war. M. Bouley, who is specially engaged on the subject, declares the disease to be endemic in all that part of Europe comprised between the Ural and Carpathian mountains; that it is permanent, and constantly perpetuated by contagion. In Paris the mortality caused by it has been terrible, nr¡t more than one to two per cent. of the animals attacked having sur- vived. In reply to those who have asserted that the disease in question arises in western countries from climac- teric causes, or want of care, M. Bouley cites the follow- ing striking fact :-The 4,000 bullocks and 220,000 sheep enclosed in Paris during the siege were placed in peculiarly unfavourable circumstances all suffeied, but not a single animal was attacked by the epidemic during the whole period of the siege. When the armistice opened the circle arcund the city, cattle were purchased from Pros-ian sources, and the disease immediately made its appearance, the stock was affected, and the animals died at the rate of 200 per day. M. Bouley declares the flesh of animals attacked by the disease to be perfectly innocuous. He protests against the practice which prevailed in the de- partment of the Nord, where even animals suspected of being attacked were killed and buried. He protests in like manner against what has been done in Brittany, where 800 diseased animals a-day had been placed on board old ships, and sunk by cannon shot in the Atlantic. Experi- ments are being made under M. Bouley's direction in the treatment of the disease with phenic acid, and M. Déclat is pursuing other experiments with an analogous sub- stance. M. Bouley expresses great hopes of the success of these modes of treatment, the results of which will be re- ported shortly. M. Dumas, the perpetual secretary of the Academy, communicated another mode which had been suggested, namely, to surround the animal with an anti- putrid atmosphere by means of a considerable dose of napthaline in the litter, to wash it with water contairing phenic acid, and to administer daily from ten to twelve litres of watr containing a one-thousandth pirt of phenic acid-this by way of prevenlative. In cases of positively diseased animals, a like course is recommended, but with an increase in the quantity of the acid to twenty-five trrammes (nearly an ounce) a-day. In case the remedy should fail to save the animal, the flesh, it was observed, would be impregnated with the antiseptic, and cease to be an element for propagating the disease. THE TENURE OF LAND. At a recent meeting of the Xotts Chamber of Agriculture, Mr Christopher Neville, of Thorney, said that although he professed to be acquainted with subjects as affecting landlord and tenant, he would not rise to speak on the point, except in the expectation that it would elicit some observations from gentlemen besides himself, and especially from tenants, because the parties who were deeply affected were the land- lord who let the land, and the tenant who took it. His notion was, that both parties had to be considered. With this little preface he would move a formal resolution, which he had hastily drawn up, to the following effect:—" That a yearly tenancy, with six months' notice to quit on either side, does not in all cases give sufficient security to the tenant for the investment of his capital in the due cultivation of his farm." This might be a matter of opinion but, as a matter of fact, he certainly did know many cases where the tenant had cultivated his farm very highly, and had invested a good deal of capital, and from some perhaps, accidental, circum- stances, had received notice to quit at six months, and could not possiblv get his capi'al out again. No man in his senses, who knew anything about farming, would disagree with him when he said that it was impossible, if a man received notice to quit in October to go out in April, that he could get his capital out of that farm, for he must leave a r-rrat amount of artificial manure and other things in it. He thought, there- fore, that it was unjust to the tenant and injurious to the countrv; and he maintained that it would be a good thing if an arrangement could be made by lease, tenant-right agree- ment or anything else, to render such an injustice an impos- sible occurrence. He, as a landlord, did not approve of the views of the democratic party in London, though he was a great Liberal, for they spoke of landlords as trying to rob the tenants, and that sort of thing. This was all a heap of rub- bish. The majority of landlords did nothing of the sort. He knew estates of 50.000 acres, where the landlord was as honest and liberal as possible, and did not want to do anything wrong. If any gentleman would show him one tenant who had been robbed by being turned out of his farm unjustly, he would show 50 or 100 who had never been robbed at all. Of course, if a tenant had been robbed of £1,000 or LI,500, it was no consolation for him to be told that there were others who had not been robbed at all: but, as a landlord, he de- clared he should be glad if some agreement could be hit upon to suit all parties, and to render it possible for the tenant to f^el that, in a* v event, hn would be fully compensated. The difficulties at first sigh's seemed enormoui, but when the Gov'Trment were obliged to do it, th v did it, for they granted a measure of great security to the Irish tenants. He did not approve of the whole of that Irish Bill, bat he ap- proved of the principle of it, and as an honest man he could not see whv, if the Irish tenantry were to be rendered secure from any casualty, the English tenantry should not have the same advantage. He had been all over Ireland three times, and knew a gtort denl about the country, but the only dif- Uo fnimH hptwpen the Irish and Enarlish was this, I that the Irish tenant farmed a great deal worse than the that the Irish tenant farmed a great deal worse than the English, that the Irish tenant shot his landlord, which the Ts*nglish'did not, and that the English tenant paid his rent a good deal better. These were, the only differences he could I see, and so far from sanctioning their going on year after year without trying to do anything, he thought that if land- lords had honour and honesiy about them, it was a reason lords had honour and honesiy about them, it was a reason why they should exert themselves more. The better their tenants behaved, the better they ought to try to behave to them in return; and for his own part be was very willing to bring forward the subject on which he had made a motion He had hoped it might receive some consideration at Work- sop, and he was glad to find Mr Foljambe, who was a larger landowner than himself, express his willingness to enter into any discussion of the sort so as to grant the tenant greater sectLrity.-Ag.ri,oitit?i rat Ga~ett(.

I ItJort_. CORN, &c. LIVERPOOL MARKET.—TUESDAY. There was,a more numerous attendance than usual, a goot many millers- appearing from the interior counties, and i healthy demand was experienced fur wheat, the decline noted on Friday being nearly recovered, and prices standing the SAME AS ON TUESDAY LAST. Flonr did not move freely, butl maintained Ithe rates of this day week. Beans, with an increased quantity offering, declined 2s per quarter for Egyptian. Peas unchanged. Oats and oatmeal barely sustained late rates. For American Indian corn there was a good s!Ù.e,:at an im- provement of 3d per quarter on the week. LONDON, MONDAY.—There were very heavy arrivals of foreign wheat and oats last week. English wheat 800 quarters, foreign 49,905 quarters. Exports 2,055 quarters. Scarcely any fresh samples were exhibited this morning from the near counties. With showers, bad local reports, and limited supplies of English, sales were made more readily than on last Monday, at fully that day's rates. The heavy arrivals of Russian wheat made this quality and some other red sorts Is per quarter cheaper, but fiae white maintained former values. Country flour 11,804 sacks, foreism 4,228 sacks 1,226 barrels. Those factors who had been holding out for high rates were obliged to give way Is per sack on Norfolks and other country sorts. Foreign sacks were also as much cheaper, and barrels down 6d. Maize 9,445 quar- ters. New American corn gave way 6d to Is per quarter, but sales were pretty free. British barley 71 quarters, foreign 2,400 quarters. The scarcity ef all sorts kent up prices to their former range. The malt trade was again dull, with prices nomin: Ily the: same. Exports SØ6 quarters. English oats 7 5 quarters, foreign 124,104 quarters. Exports 116 quarters. With more than 107,000 quarters Russian, this sort further gave way 6d per quarter, but Swedish and English corn was no cheaper. Native beans 83 quarters, fireign 159 quarters. The trade was dull, at the late decline. English peas none, foreign 1,501 quarters. With English sorts scarce, foreign maintained their value. Linseed 1,146 quarters, exports 136 quarters. With little doing prices were maintained. In seeds scarcely any busineas was passing; but ffclly late values were maintained. CURRENT PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK LANE. Shillings "gr. Wheat, new, Essex und Kent (whit«\ 66 to 59 Ditto ditto red 51 55 Wheat, Norfolk, Lincoln, aa". Yorkshire (red) .51 55 Bariey 36 42 Beans .37 88 Oats,T'npJish feed 23 26 Flour, per sack of 2801b, Town Households 47s. to 50s. WAKEFIELD, FRIDAY.—We have had some fine sunny days of late, and the appearance of the errr crops has materially improved. Owing to this, and the continued liberal supplies from abroad, the wheat trade remains very dull, and prices must be noted Is. per quarter lower than last Fridny. The business passing is almost exclusively confined to a little choice white wheat. Other articles dull and rather lower. LONDON, FRIDAY.—Market depressed, owing to continned fine weather. English and foreign wheat cheaper, and can be bought Is to 2s. lower on the week. Town flour unchanged, flountry markets dull, and rather cheaper. American, 6d. lower; oats heavy at a decline of 6d. to 9d. on the week maize, Is. lower; barley quiet; beans, Is. cheaper; peas firm. British wheat, 110; foreign wheat, 28,400; barley, 840; oats, 81,300; maize, 7,300; flour, 1,080 sacks; 1,020 barrels. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—White wheat was 1' and the general run f f red Id. to 2d. per cental lower on a moderate business, the trade closing a little more firm. Flonr In slow request and afcain rather easier. Beans in limited request at a decline of 6d. per quarter. Indian corn in good request, at nearly Tuesday's currencies. Other articles without change. PRICES (Tuesday week\ American Wheat lis. 9d. te 12s. 03. per 1001b Relish Flonr.393. Od. to 42s. Od. W 2801b English Barley 4s. 9d. to 5s. 3d. per 601b Wnrrlisb Oats 8s. 10b to 4s. 21. 451b Egyptian Beqns 853. 61. to 36s.Od. iP, 4801b SHREWSBURY. SATURDAY.—The fo'lowing were the ruling quotations White wheat made 80 9d to 9s 4d per 7-ilb, red, 8s Sd to 8s lOd; oats, per Use. 101b., 20s Od to 23s 6d barley fmaltinsK per 38 quarts, Os Od to Os Od beans, per 12 score, 229 6d to 23s 6d malt, per imperial bushel, 7s 9,1 to 8= (ld. Again a thin attendance of sellers, farmers being busy in the hay harvest, and trade was very limited. BRIDGNORTH, SATURDAY.—'There was a hetter attendance of farmers, dealer-, and buyers than has been for the last few weeks, but business on tho whole was verv quiet, and few samples of wheat were exhibited. The following were the prices: Very best samples of white wbeat. from 8s 9" to is 10d per bushel of 721bs.; best samples of red wheat. from 8s 6d to 8s 8d per bushel of 721bs.: barley, Os 0d to 0" per im. bushel; beans, from 19s Od to 20s Od per bag of 10 scores; peas, none offered; oats, from 15s to 18s Od per bag of 8 scores; Indian corn. from 16s 6d to 17s per bag of 12 scores. STAFFORD, SATURDAY.- Wheat, 31 per bushel down. Red quoted at 8s 6d, nnd white at 8s 10d to 9s per bushel of 72 lbs. Oats, 19s to 20s 6d per 10 scores, and beans, 24s ed per 12 scores. CEFN M\WR, SATURDAY.—Beef, nr1 to 8d: mntton, 8d to 9,1 Inmb, Si to 9d; pork, 7d to 8d veal, 7d to Sd p-r lb, eges, 16 for a shilling; cheese, 7d to 8d: bacon, 7d to 8d: potatoes, d per lh; hutter, Is 2d Tier lb; fish, none; strawberries, 8d per quart; onions Itid per lb. WALSALL, TUESDAY.—There waq a very thin attendance, and a short supply of English wheat. Business dull. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The supplies of English wheat continue exepedinply scarce, and for fine qualities last week's prices are rather exceeded other sorts are without chancre. Beans are Is cheaper; peas, oats, and barley without alteration. CATTLE. LIVERPOOL, "MONDAY.—TV re were at market 1,8R9 beasts, nnd 12.013 sheep nnd lambs. The stock on offer was less than last week, and prices were in favour of sellers. There was a very good demand for all kinds, and a good clearance wa- made. The following were the prices:—Best beasts. 8-1, (1 to :n per lb.; second best. 7d to 8d; inferior, ád to 5jd; sheep, 8d to 9Jd: lambs, 7d to Sid. METROPOLITAN, MONDAY.—'The tot.a"! importf of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 1fj.52 hesd. In the corre- sponding week in 1870 we received 10,171 in 1869.10.828 in 186°, 10,728; "and in 1867, 10,353 head. Considerable firmness has been noticed in the cattle trade to-day. The snpplies of stock have been short, and this circumstance, in conjunction with the cooler weather, has contribnted in imparting an improved ten- been noticed in the cattle trade to-day. The snpplies of stock have been short, and this circumstance, in conjunction with the cooler weather, has contributed in imparting an improved ten- dency to prices. The supply of beasts from our own grazing districts has been short. and with but few exceptions the quality has been indifferent. As regards foreign stock, the supnlv has not been extensive, but there have been more fnir-conditioned beasts on sale from Spain. Ia all breeds 11 eood business has been doinc, and prices show an advance of from 2d to 41 per 8 Ihs, compared with Monday last. the best Scots and crosses selling at 6s to 6 2d per S its. From Lincolnshire, Leicester- shire, and Northamptonshire we received about 1,150 short. horns: from other parts of Englard 451 various breeds; and from Scotland 10 Scots and crosses With sheep the market has been scantily supplied. The trade has been firm, and prices have risen 4d per 8 Ibs, For the best Downs and half-breds, 6s 8d to 6s lOd per 8 lbs has been paid. Lambs have been steady, at from 7s 6d to 8s per 81bs. Calves have been firm, and pigs have realized full prices. NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY.—There was onlv a small supply of beef on offer at our market, which met a rather heavy fllle. at prices the some as last week. Mutton in slow request, at 9d to 10d per lb. Not much doing for pork, at late rates. Veal scarce, and fallv as dear. PETERBOROUGH. SATURDAY.—The supply of beef at market was not large, and only a limited amount of business was done, at prices the turn in favour of te purchaser. Mvtton was scarce, and quite as dear. Pork and veal were disposed of at last week's currency. SALFORD, TUESDAY. The supply of cattle was about the same as last week, but of inferior quality. Trade was dull for everything. The show of sheep and lambs was less arid, with a good demand, there was as advance of ill per lb on shoep, and p lri per lb on lambs. A few foreign sheep of infTior quality were a drug on the market. A good business was done in calves. The following were the prices:—Beasts, 7d to Sld Spanish ditto, nd to 8id; English sheep. 8d to 9Jd; foreign, 7td to 8id; lambs, 81 to 10d; calves, 7J3 to 9d per lb. BIRMINGHAM. TUESDAY.—There was only a moderfite num- ber of beasts on offer to-day; the general quality good: trade quiet, at fully late rates. Shee> and lambs were a better snpply than on Tuesdav last; trade very quiet, with an upward tendency prices. Fat pigs a limited snpply. Beef, 7icl to Bld per lb mutton, 7id to 9d per lb.; lamb. 8d to 911 per lb.; veal 7d to 8d per lb.: bacon pics, 8s Od to 10s 3d per score; porket ditto, 10s Od to 10s 6d per score. WAKBFIELD, WEDNESDAY.—The market was very thinly supplied with all descriptions of s'ock, and high prices were realized. There were under 1.000 fat beasts, and the best beef. which was scarce, sold at lis per stone of 14 lbs. Sheep and lambs, of which about 4.500 were shown, were 2s per head dearer. Large pigs were dearer, hut small animals sold at lowei rates. MISCELLANEOUS. LOVDON PROVISION. :MODAY. Th.. arrivals last week from Ireland were 612 firkins butter and 3,636 bales bacon, and from foreign ports 24.398 packages butter, and 1,621 bales bacon. Foreign butter met a fair sale, with little change in value, excepting Dutch, which declined about 4s per cwt, the butter not bein? in good condition, owing to the heat of the weather. The bacon market was very firm, and a further advance cf 2s realized on Irish. Hamburg meat advanced 4s to 6 s. LIVERPOOL PROVISION, FRRDAY. Putter: Holders are willing to accept lower prices, in order to induce more business. Bacon continues much depressed. Lard unchanged in value, and the demand scarcely so good. Cheese is 2s per cwt. easier: the arrivals continue large. Beef and pork both rather in buyers' favour. LONDON POTATO, MONDAY.—Moderate supplies of potatoes have been on sale. The trade has been quiet at our quotations. The imports into London last week consisted of 1,360 boxes from Barfleur. English Sbaws 40j. to 50s. per ton. Regents 60s. to 80s. „ Kidneys 8n?. to l'Os. „ Jersey^ 60s. to 110s. „ WORCESTER IOP, SATURDAY.—There is nothing favourable to r 'port concerning the hop trade. The reported improvement in the plantations in the early part of the wees unfortunately turns out to be groundless. Some of the most intelligent planters in the market to-day assert that the fresh shoots put nut are mostly blind, and infested with vermin, so that the state of the crop is really no better than it was the previous week. "Tie market, however, is quiet, and there is no perceptible alter- ation in prices. There are no fine hops now on offer. *or middling qualities the pri'es range from 80s to 9c>s, and cuoic t are worth from -65 5s to X6. I LONDON HOP, Mi NDAY.—Our market maintains an ex- j tremely firm tone, and fine samples have realized | values; other descriptions are held flrmly at recenV?" tfttions•' No material improvement can be reported os our pla [ a few sections on the Weald of Kent and Sussex gi promise, but the largest portion of these grotin aigtr-cli, [ prov-d. The blight has progressed m the imp of M:d and East Kent, which are laPsln« renorts the worst -rounds in other. places attVbWf have be n received from the Comment, adviceg {rQm weather onlv a short crop is expeciea.. ^-—1 New York report the market firm, with a fair demand. A Mid and East Kent a"##* 4 o L L f S: tio -• 1 Susses 4 o. 4 K a r Farnham and Country q •• •• « Olds 1 11 RRAT>"FORT) WOOTJ MABKK1, LRFT KSDA\.— v\ OOL in poo•! dema^?th?fmorning, and again rather nearer, owing to higher prices rulin" in the country, and L^do^ aiid Liverpool sales. DeeD CTown wools most U favour, but domi-lustre Irish and soft woofs also inquired for. Sp^ners well employed, and quota- i- tnr worsted varus slightly advanced in prices. There 13 a sha'e more dolngf.r America and the East.. T TVERPOOL WOOL, FRIDAY.—Our market generally shows nnabated demand for all useful classes, but the interest of the trade his been ehiefly directed to the fourth series of auctions of East India which openel here on the 18th instant, and close ly altered fro-n the on Saturday. Prices generally are not quotably altered from the highest point of the May auctions, hut the tendency must be considered sligh \l.y ag?oiuat buyers. MisceHaneoas wool sale 9 wil be held here on the 26th and 26ta instant. The following £ lW India^hite. 9<i to lSd per lb.; ditto to,15d; ditto grey, brown, 4c., 4d to lOd. Persian S yellow, fawn, &c„ lid to 13d Donskoi fleece, 12d to 18M Platp H^A t0 17d' Pernvisn cashed, lOd to 14}d River ^-ohVSJwS.154' ™m,w'5d 1 .„HALIFA3S WOG;L AND WORSTED, SATUEDAY—With ahnost every sale of \rool an attempt is made to send up the price. The I tu continues very great It is said that in both'yarns + there is considerable speculation. Everybodv con- °i. busy in the yarn department, the demand b' home and abroad, but mere especially the latter, in yarns' pleces ls SO0d, but not perhaps as profitable as that 1?IoNjD^T-—The tone of the wool market been tran«apt^rm*^ Jn ia >at- a healthy business hag transacted, and fa 1 quotations havA CURRENT PRICES. „ J i'li Kent fleeces j i S, Sonthd'n ewes and wethers 15 1 2 Leicester ditto -i r f X* SORTS—Clothing, picklock 1 c 1 2 Prime i | } supir6: {• ? { g Combing, wether mat 1 t it? Picklock f) 1 4 j A Common M 1 H j S Hog matching ff 1 7i j g| Picklock matching 1 4i 1 3 Suner dittn 1 11 1 X? AB/EMSHAM MI)E AKD SKIN'MARKET, SATURDAY.- Hides: 951b. and upwards, 5gd to Od per lb; 851b. to 941b.. 5d to Od per lb.; 751b. to 841b., 5i to Od per lb.; 651b. to 741b 4Zd to Od per 561b to fi4lb, 4 jd to Od per lb.; 551bs and under, 41d per b.; cows, 44,1 to 41(1 per lb.; bulls, Sid to 4d per lb.; flawed and irregular, 4ld to Od per lb.; horse, 10s 9d to 16s Od each; Calf: 171b. and upwards, 6 £ d per lb.; 121b. to 161b.. Bfd per Th.; 91bs. to Illbs., Sid per tt).; lisht, 7d per Ih.; flaw, d an4 irrelulay, Bid. Pelts Is lid to 3s Sd. Lambs: Is lid to 4s 8d. Fat 21d to d per ib. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, TLESDAY. The toIJe of our market has relapsed. The improvement visible last week is gone, and the prices previously current do no* tend to much business. The tendency of prices is decidedly in favour of buyers. LONDON PRODUCE, SATURDAY. SUGAR.—The market continues quiet, at late rates. The sales for the week are 5,200 tons on the spot, and 1,09) tons for arrival. COFFRE,-There is a moderate inquiry, at the previous value. 1' 9? *8 *n mo^era^e demand. Good white Bengal bricga SALTPETRE firm, with a fair inquiry. COTTON is steady, at previous rates. METALS.—A small parcel of Straits tin sold at S133 10s cash, and some at X133 Ie's for foarteen days. Copper held lor laie advance. Spelter unaltered. OILS.—L'nseed dull: Lendon, 82s 6d to 32s 91 B ot; Hull, 41s 9d°spot se^ers last six months. English brown rape, 4h 9d spot. TURPENTINE firm, at 458 for Americas an 1 Frenoh. PETROLEUM.-S.W. oil on the spot, Is 6d. TILLOW.-The market is Hd, at 44s spot; 458 sellers last three months. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE—TUESDAY. he milrket8 for co'°nial produce generally have been Tery quiet, and there are no transactions to report in SUGAR, Mo" LA-SES, ColrEE, & Ru3i.-250 punebeons Demerara have been L;old at fall prioee. KICE. 1,364 bags, 1,000 half-bags, and 1,000 Dockets Bercal table passed at auction; 12s bid for the half-bags. 100 bags Itahan withdrawn; 15s 6d bid. Tt"^A-100 baskets Maranham taken in at auction; 2?d per ID bid. 4 SEEDS —Hempseed 96 bags passed at auction, with 40s per quarter bid. BenLiseed: 290 bags withdrawn; 61s Sd per quarter bid. COTTONSEED CAKE.—1,013 bags New Orleans passed a' auction, with t7 2s 6d to £7 7s 6d bid; sold subsequently at £ 7 7a 6d per ton. ASHES.—Small sColes of rots, at 34s 6d per cwt. T ade du I. NITKATE O* SODA quiet, at 14s 3d per cwt. GUM.—50 serons K;st India Arabic, at 62s 6d to fi7s 6d per cwt. 01, S.-Palm continues very steady. Olive: A fair business doing at rather hardening prices. Linseed steady, at 838 to 33s 6d per cwt. Rape: Refined 47s to 48s per cwt. Cottonseed: 10 tons American, at 35s 6d per cwt. Fish 5 tons crude Sperm, at R78 pnr ton. TALLow.-Markp,t quiet, at late rates. Ros N. —Sales of common American, at 5s per cwt. SPIRITS OF TUBPSKTINE, with arrivals, is easier American, 48s per cwt. • PETROLEUM.—200 barrels refined, at Is 6id to Is 6!d. Spirit la to Is Id per gallon.

TRADE INTELLIGENCE. THE WELSH IRON, TIN-PLATE, AND COAL TRADES. Not in any part of the district is there any complaint iaised of a want of engagements, the demand being such that every branch of the iron trade is fairly active. The trade may be pronounced in a satisfactory state, yet it carno be said that the anticipations of makers have been fully realized. In regard to Russian requirements at least, there is considerable disa, point- ment felt in this district, the engagements with that country not being yet anything like equal tu the lrast sanguine expecta- tions of the ironmasters. In the early part of the year it was confidently believed that Muscovite con-umers would hare placed large rai way contracts in this district; but, owing to some unforeseen circumstances, nearly all specifications of im- portance have gone to other iron-making distzi ts, and the Baltic shipping season has now so far advanced that there is little ground for thinking- that any very extensive orders will reach here this year. American purchases have. however, and still do compensate to a great extent for the continued absence of Russian business, and as the Col nies and some of the lead- ing Continental markets are now taking cousiderahle quantities of finished iron, there is altogethe a tolerably good business doing in most descriptions of make. SUc and iron rails, bars, plates, and other qualities of make, are in active request on home account, and prices obtained are reoorted as stili advancing slightly. Pig-iron is in good demand, and makers are continuing to extend their powers of production, with a view to meet a largely increasing consumption. There are no stocks in han i worthy of mention, which clearlv shows, after the vast production of several weeks past, that the pur- chases are purely legitimate. Quotations are advancing. The hot weather, which i-revailed the greater part of the week, interfered to some extent with operations at the blast and puddling furnaces. Tin-plate masters report an active demand, and thev expe- rience little or no difficulty in booking orders at the advanced rates. There is very little, if any, improvement in the steam coal trade. The demand is tolerably active, but owing to the strike, the coalmasters ar" unable to execute all the contracts offered, Improved prices are obtained. For hosse coals there is a good seasonable demand. BIRMINGHAM IRON TRADE.—Thursday. Thech;ef topi'.s at to-di y's meeting were th- recent extra- ordinary proceedings of creditors at the Lanesfield and BretteU Line Ironworks: the former in the occupation of Mr de Simen- court, and the litter worked by Mr Charles Onions. As the circumstances of both these firms have been well known to everyone connected with the iron trade for a long time past, their stoppage has excitd little surprise, but much astonishment is expressed at the high-handed course taken in b jth cases by the creditorF, in seizing the sto"kto secure their claims: a mode of proceeding, it is argued, which woulri place the credit of the most solveni firm at the mercy of a single impatient or malicious creditor. In Mr de Simencourt's case. the unsecured debts are estimated at £12,500. Mr Onions's liabilities are not known, but in all probabilitv will be small, as he only i ntere into possession of the works at March last, when he took them from their formar occupant, Mr Benjamin Wood, at a rental of .£500 a year, and the stock at a valuation of rather more than £4.000, for which payment was made by bills. One of the conditions of sale was that thi", stack should not be removed at a faster rate than the bills fell due; and it is owing, as alleged, to some infraction of this agreement that the recent disturbances took place. Bevond temporarily throwing some 100 men out of em- ployment, the stoppage of the Brettell Lane Works is not likely to i roduce any serious effect. If anything, the iron trade will be improved by the disappearance of another unsound firm, and the consequent curtailment of underselling. At to-day's market there was only a moderate attendance, but prices in all departments were very firm, aud the toDe was good. Mills and forges are nearly all well employed at prespnt upon quarter-day orders, which seem to have been quite equal to expectation. Bars, hoops, sheets, and boiler-plates are in esppcial request for export; and the home demand for strip, angles, rounds, rods, and general merchant iron is well sus- tained. There is nm change in pig, which eontinues firm at quarter-day qnotations.

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. (From the Mark Lmie Express.) After long waiting, a week of the finest summer weather has been experienced. Haymakers who were late have cut and carried in fine condition, and the discoloured heaps about in the meadows have at last got stacked in tolerable order but we hear that some good-coloured gatherings have been too hastily put together, and become hot. There will this year be accordingly some very different samples, but with a greater bulk than had been expected. As to the corn crops, they have just had the weather needed, and a marvelous change in their favour has been wrought, much of the wheat having had this fine week to perfect the blooming and fertilization. Red qualities, therefore, and some of the sprmg-sown are likely to show the best samples. The ram just stopped in time, for while the growth of the haulm was rampant there were but poor expectations for the yield. Of spring corn, the barley has greatly impra\ ec., the crops of beans a id peas are estimated as kkely to be heavy, nnd the rain has well suited the oats. The raised temperature will diminish the lateness of the gathering and this is of no slight importance, with our own growth of wheat nearly used up as the weekly deliveries continue to show, there bein- 9 000 quarters less returned than in 1870. The weather, too, has done wonders in France. Accounts, however, vary milch. but the continued decline there without foreign help shows that the wants of that country were set at too high a rate. In <; Tin any, too, the im- provement r_f rrospects is great, and rates are somewhat easier. In ^'here the S atherings have taken place, they are generally well satisfied with the weishf, quality, and"yield; bur there are local .ceptions, the'iw*n<i of Sicily having _lo-.g sufft-rer! fi oui drought. In the French colonies of Ainca much variety also appears, barley and linseed being verv short in some localities. In thus favourable passing ilie period of bloom we have now turned a corner ol very doubtful aspect, and the late frosts seem as yet to have been comparatively harmless in Great Britain, but in Finland much damage was done by them, and we may yet hear of mischief from parallel latitudes.

For some time past the question of cstablishi ig a system of insurance especially applicable to collieries has ben dis- cussed in the columns of the Mining Journal, the desirabi- lity of providing for the sufferers by colliery accidents, or. in case of fatal accidents, their representatives, being admitted alike by those immediately connected with collieries and by the public. But the great question has been how to carry out the project, existing companies being unwilling to undertake h e risk, and opinions being divided as to the best mode of securing the premiums. These little difficulties, however, have now been removed by the promotion of a Colliery Insurance Company, with a capital of £1,000,000, in share3 of £10 each, for the purpose of insuring owners or lessees of collieries against loss in collieries from explosion and fire; insuring individual interests when the colliery as a whole is not insured and insuring provision for widows, children, and dependent relatives of colliers killed by accidents in collieries, and as the business will be conducted by an influential board of directors, whilst Dr Farr has charge of the actuarial de- partment, it may reasonably be anticipated that the company's affairs will be "conducted with ability and success. Of the capital to be raised Sl per share is payable on application, £ 2 on allotment, and JE2 four Kionths after allotment, making S5 in all, beyond which no further call is contemplated, so I that there will be an uncalled capital of £ 500,0D0 to form a guarantee, which will be quite ample, to those assuring with the company.