Pontypool Free Press and Herald of the Hills

RYDE, Monday. For the last four or five days a gale has been raging. here, accompanied by very high tides, and great damage has been done to property. By far the greatest loss Wag occasioned yesterday, amI especially during the night. The sea-wall at Siner's Hotel was entirely destroyed, the waves hrnke the windows, and carried large pieces of the wall through 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 eipht feet deep in water, and the bottles were broken and their contents lost. The damage is estimated at over £500. The sea-wall in front of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club Honse was washed away, as were also large portkns of the wall along the esplanade and round the coast in every direction. Some trifling injury has been done to the town pier, and the bathing stage at the Victoria Pier was destroyed a portion of the latter being picked up in Portsmouth harbour. Messrs. Curtiss, railway carriers, have experienced the truth of the proverb, "Misfortunes never come alone." Their Portsmouth depot was a short time since burnt down and on Sunday one of their boats, the Rescue, was dashed over the basin walls on to the shipway, and greatly in- ured. I

CADGWITH, NEAR HELSTON, Saturday. The lifeboat, Western Commercial Tramller, of the Na- tional Lifeboat Institution, was launched yesterday to the assistance of a disabled vessel (says the Rev. F. C. J acksoll). The ship, which was in the offing, seemed very unmanageable, and had a flag flying in her main rigging, which was supposed to be one of distress, and if the wind shifted farther to the south she would he likely to go on the Manacles Rocks. 0n arriving alongside it appeared that she was an aban- doned brig which had been boarded the previous day off Scilly by three French fishermen, who after- wards became separated from their own vessel in the night during the gale, and were drifting past this place where they exhibited a signal of distress. The assist- ance of the lifeboat's crew was requested, and three men > were accorrlingly placed on board. Two steamers having arrived at the same time the lifeboat on four occasions suc- ceeded in getting warps from the vessel to one of he steamers, and she was towed into Falmouth, the three life- boat men remaining on board the brig. The boat was taken in tow of a revenue cruiser, which ran her into Helford-a creek about ten miles to the north-we-t, the heavy sea and contrary tide preventing all prospect of her beating back to Cadgwith.

WEYMOUTH. At Weymouth from about 11 o'clock on Saturday night to four or five on Sunday morning a heavy wind was blowing from 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 consequenoes 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 Badly 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 ahove 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 I Weymouth side of the harbour the overflow was even greater than on the Melcombe side At the Old Rooms Inn wave dashed against the front door and burst it open, the sea making a complete breach through the lower portions of the house, much property being injured or destroyed in conse- quence Hope-square, about 200 or 300 yards from the harbour, and lying rather low, was so fiooded that a good- sized bot might have salled about in it. In the neighbour- hood of Cove-row the water was so high that persolls could with difficulty leave their dwellings. At the ship building yard of Mr. Robert Ayles the timber was all afloat, and to keep the planks over the slipway from drifting they had to be made secure with ballast. A quantity of timber stored on the quay near the ballast ground and used for the Govern- ment works on the Nothe was floating about the harbour, and to Becure this several boats' crews had to put off. In Lower Bond-street there is an opening leading to the Back- water, and here the water made a considerable inroad, reaching as far as the "White Hart Inn," at least 300 yards distant. In this street are also a chapel and Sunday-school. About nine o'clock the water wa so high that all communi- cation was interrupted, and the schelars were compelled to remain inside until the tide receded. Two large lighters werc lifted from their mooring's, and when the water fell they were left high and dry on the quay. An extensive land- slip has happened on the Weymouth and Portland Railway, near 8andsfoot, Castle Throughout the whole of Sunday men were employed to watch it But on Monday morning the line was in such a weakened condition that traffic w s discontinued. The sea washed over the line and turnpike road as it had done on the previous day.

PORTLAND. At Portland, the effects of the gale were most severely felt. A heavy sea raged in the West-bay and the roadstead, and the water percolated through the Chesil beach to an alarming extent, inundatine the houses in the vicinity, and causing much destruction of property. The sea rughed from l under the foundations of some of the houses like large springs, and overflowed the road to such an extent that for several hours it was rendered impassable. At the railway statiull the water was above the wheels of the carriages, and, finding its way to the gashouse, put out the furnace fires, so that for at least two or three days the island will be without gas Near Chesil the seas actually met, an event which has never been known before. For about two miles the 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 Bridport, but the crew are stated to have been saved. In connexion with this wreck there was 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.

BXMOUTH, At Exmol1t portion of the new docks WI! washed away- The Esk BightTishery works suffered severely by the storm. The oysterbø<ls are entirely covered with sand. Two hundred yards of the South Devon line, about a mile and a half from St. Thomas station, are submerged. The valleys of the Exe and the Creedy are flooded. Along the lines of the Exe extensive tracts of country are underwater. The rtwrm was accompanied by thunder and lightning. Destruc- tive wrecks off Torquay are also reported.

The Western Morning News contains accounts of terrible disasters caused by the great gale of Sunday morning. There was a fearful deluge of rain, accom- panied by the most appalling lightning and thunder. The tide in Plymouth and other ports of Devon and Cornwall was the highest known for thirty years. A considerable portion of Plymouth was completely inundated, and one of the Royal Marines was, lluhappily, drowned. In other towns the streets were converted into deep rivers by the unparalleled rain. The inmates had to leave their houses in boats, and there were some most exciting scenes, owing to the narrow escapes from drowning. The shipping in Plymouth Sound rode out the gale in safety, thanks to the Breakwater, although at the latter end of last week a portion of the wall of the Great Western Docks was washed away. At Falmouth several collisions took place among the large fleet of merchant vessels which crowded the harbour. The French brig Charles Emma sank the crew were, fortunately, saved. The barque Aldivalloch, of Sunderland, also foundered, and the crew in this instance, too, were saved. At Penzance, noted for its tremendous seaa, the scene was terrific, the great rollers from the Channel charging up over the Bands of Mount's Bay in a manner awfully grand. The schooner Padaran, of Abersthirsk, went down off the Start, and all hands were lost. The railways and telegraphs have suffered severely. Two hundred yards of the long wooden viaduct of the West Cornwall Railway, which skirts Mount's Bay between Marazion and Penzance, have been washed away, and the trains are unable to enter the town. This same viaduct was destroyed several years ago.

PLYMOUTH, Feb. 1. A heavy southerly gale and a high tide prevailed along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall yesterday morning. The tide reached higher than has been known for the last thirty years. Numerous minor accidents have taken place through the water rising over the low levels of seaport towns. Floods ¡o]ong the banka of the rivers have also occurred, through their overflowing their usual channels. Property on the banks at various places has been washed away. One hundred yards af sea-wall has been washed away, and n1ne yards of the oouth Devon Railway. At Dawlish, the railway and telegraphic communication was impeded throughout Sunday. The Ponsandane viaduct, West Cornwall Railway, near Penzance, has been washed away. The telegraphic and railway communication between l'cnzance and Marazion has been stopped.

PENZANCK, Sunday. Nicholas B. Downing, Esq., reports that the misehief done by the gale on this part of the coast is tremendous. The railway viaduct is carried away, and all telegraphic com- munication stopped At one o'clock yesterday morning the barque Choice, of Shields, went ashore on the Prae Sands; eíht of the crew were fortunately saved by the rocket apparatus from Porthleven and Prussia Cove, but the captain, second mate, and one seaman were unhappily drowned. The lifeboat belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution) stationed at Penzance, ten miles from the scene of the disaster, was got there in an hour and three quarters after the intelligence of the wreck was received. The boat was manned a second time at seven o'clock in the morning. She has been out all night.

Monday. In continuation of his report of yesterday Nicholas B. Downing Esq., now states that the Penzance I feboat re- turned to her station about five o'clock on Sunday morn- ing from the Praa Sands, where the brig Choice, of Shields, was wrecked during the hurricane, eight of the crew being saved by the rocket apparatus, the master and one man however, being unhappily washed away from the vessel and drowned, and the second mate having jumped overboard been drowned. About two hours afterwards a brig was seen in great peril in the bay, the sea being perfectly awful at the time. The life-boat was again manned, and proceeded so as t > be in readiness, but after a tremendous and doubtful eftort the vessel, which was managed with consummate skill, was got into harbour. In the afternoon another vessel was Heen inside the shoals, and quite close to the breakers between the Grebe Rocks and the Marazion, and she fired a gun as a signal of distress. In ten minutes the life-boat was on her way to her, but on arriving we were thankflù to find that, favoured by a change of wind, which seemed to have happened nlmost hy miracle, the vessel had got round, and was head- ing westward. She escaped the shoals and rocks, and when last seen was struggling bravely with the tempest. She was soon lost sight of in the dense mist. The promptitude of the life-boat crew and helpers was most admirable.

LOOE (CORNWALL), Feb. 1. The life boat Oxfordshire, belonging to the Life-boat So- ciety, went off yesterday to a large ship which was in dan- gerous proximity to the land (writes Robert Thomas, Esq.) It was blowing a gale from the south-west, and was very t hick at the time. Before, however, the boat could reach her she stood off safely, and made for Plymouth. The weather here has been fearful, and still continues so, with a tremendous sea. To-day we had information that a brig was close to the Polperro Sand, but after a time she also stood off shore, and was lost sight of; no doubt both vessels were homeward bound, and were trying to make out the land. The life-boat is held in readiness if her services should be required. On Friday last a small steamer was seen to go down, stern foremost, about eight miles from here, but in consequence of a sohooner and a Plynouth pilot boat being close to her at the time, the coxswain and orew of the life- boat thought it would be useless for them to go off, as it would have taken them three or four hours at least to have got to the spot. It appears that they judged rightly, as the crew of 13 men of the steamer were taken on board the schooner, and safely landed at Plymouth.

NORTH WALES.—(By Telegraph). On Sunday the sea washed away half a mile of the Cambrian Railway near Borth. When it occurred the mail had just passed. The traffic wag interrupted. There was an unusually nigh tide all along the coast of Cardigan Bay, and great damage was done to houses and stock. The tide returned at midnight, and further mischief was apprehended at the time our telegram was despatched. t

STORM AND FLOODS IN IRELAND.—DUBLIN, Monday. The tide yesterday rose considerably beyond the usual high- water mark. Along the Kingston railway it broke over the embankment, and the line was flooded and the adjacent lnnds. A strong wind prevailed, and the water rolled along the shore in large waves. At the north side the tide broke over the wall, and the Clontarf and Dollymouth roads i were deeply flooded in several places. In the city the river overflowed, and the line of quays on either side in many places was flooded. The wind blew in violent gusts, and persons found great difficulty in passing through the streets. We regret some injury was done to Mr Fmd- later's church in Rutland-square. A large piecei of rna- mentation near the entrance was carried away, shattering a very valuable lamp in its fall. In Digges-street a stack 01 I chimneys was blown down, and thenreatsr PorJ^°^ cUbHs fell into the street, but fortunately no wraw I inlured Slates were blown off several houses, and we learn 1 that iif Trhifty C^lege the roofs of the older square were,in many places bereft of large quantities, which, railing rendered walking in the courts most da,'<= £ c/event river considerable precautions had to be taken to prevent the vessels from dragging. No accident is reported a havinc occurred. Trees were uprooted in many places. At mid-day a large one fell in the People'3 Park (Phcenix ark), and shortly afterwards on the banks of the canal another gave way.

GALWAY, Sunday. It 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 m a great degree yesterday until towards evening, when, with the now of the tide it commenced to blow agani and continued muil eight o'clock this morning. The damage done along the shore is at present incalculable The new pier at Spiddal, which was only partIlly damaged by the gale on Thursday night and Friday, is altogether i 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 been 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 sea 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, bu ere 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.

TRAMORF. (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 Club 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. home were blown away and broken, and 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 of 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 depth of water at the Victoria Dock-gates would not exceed 23ft., rose to 25ft. 6in., and so rough was the weather that ships under s al were unable to beat up the Firth and it was unsafe for the Newhaven fishermen to venture out in their boats. In Greenock the waters rose above the old quays, and several 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, £.224 14s. lod. clerks, for writing, &c., £46 8s. clerks, &c., on the polling day, £13 13s. messengers, porters, and for telegrams, £24 28.; postage-stamps, &c., £7 7s. 8d. rent, hire of rooms, &c., £29 6s. one-third of the returDlRg officers expenses, and the assessors' account, £85 4s. lid. agents, £137 10s. personal expenses, £120 Mr. Sergeant Cox's election expenses were £75; 10s., made up as follows:—Messengers, £22 Is. 6d.; clerks, &c., £46 18s. use of rooms, £51 3s. printing and advertising, £271 5s. 9d.; one-third returning officers' expenses for re- turn. j685 4s. lid. solicitors agents' &c., miscel- laneous expenses, £21 Is. 5d. 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 £.968 16s. 6d., made up as follows:—Incidental expenses, £2618. ftd. cleiks and readers, £38 lis. 6d. re- presentative and check clerks at polling booths, &c., £ 9 19s. messengers, JE30 18s. 6d.; printing, advertising, and sta- tionery, £373 0s. 7d. hire of rooms, £25 5s. 6d. one-third of returning officers' expenses, £79 19s. lid. agents and agent for election expenses, £235; personal expenses, £150. The Liberals repudiate the rumours about a mutual arrange- ment betweeu 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. Barclay. The formal account of the expenses incurred in the Black- burn election, which give 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, !\Jessr.. W. 11 Hornhy and Joseph Feilden (Con- servatives), are returned as havivg expended £ 1,200 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 Liberals is returned under the head of inspectors, check clerks, committee clerks, messengers, &c., at £ 85 28 6d. The professional agent's charge on behalf of the successful candidates is stated at £120, while the solicitor's charges for the LiberlLl candidates are £ 897 148. 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 Weniock have been published. In Shrewsbury Mr. Figgins, the Conservative member, against whose return a petition has been lodged, expended £1,4278s. 7d., of which £535 17s. 6d. was paid to agents, and 5d. incurred on account of "clerks, messengers, bill-posting, &c." Dr. Clements gained his elec- tion at an outlay of 3d., of which £230 9s. 10d. was for agents, and £110 for clerks, messengers, &c. Mr. Craw- ford, appearing in the field at the eleventh hour, as an oppo- nent to Mr. Figgins, expended JS544 11s., of which only JE48 9s. 8d. is for agents, and £36 10s. 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 J6854 3s. 6d., and Mr. A. II. Brown £857 18s. 5d. Opposition to 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 cpacity of returning officers, have just made public the expenses of the several Liberal candidates 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 £2,7591s. 6d. each while these of Baron Lionel de Reths- 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 lump sum of £12,038 10s.,—viz., professional charges, £2,583 3s. committee rooms, £1,267 12s. 9d; clerks, canvassers, &c., £2,615 12s. 2d.; printing and stationery, £2,338 lis. 9d advertising and bill-posting, £1,76088. 6d; petty cash, postage, and disbursements, £944 6s. lid. sun- dries, £.22113s. 5d. hustings, £307 Is. 6d. In Fins bury Mr. W, J1. M. Torrens expended £750 13s. Id., while the amount paid by Mr Alderman Lusk amounted to £1,960 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 election for Chelsea has been officially pub- lished in the following formBy, 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, £1,072 16s. jointly by or on behalf of Mr. C. W. DUke and Sir H. A. Hoare, from Nov. 4 to Nov. 18,1868, £1,740 14s. and the joint expenses of Mr. C. J. Freake and Mr. W. H. Russell, the Conservative candi- 7d. The expenses of Mr. Thomas Chambers, in Marylebone, are given at £.1,709 19s. lid., while those of Sir T. G. A. Parkyn, an unsuccessful candidate, figure for only JE543 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, £1,301 2s. 2d. These sums taken together give 8d. all 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 £5,14318s. 8d.—nearly £1,000 more than the 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 £2,600. The following are the expenses of candidates at the late elections in the principal north-eastern towns Newcastle- on-Tyne, the Right Hon. T E. Headlam, MP., and Mr. Alderman Cowen, who had a joint committee, £997 6s. 4d. Sunderland, Mr. Gourley, £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, £32 7s. lid- 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, llr. Thomas Richardson, £851 14s. 7d. IC The election expenses for West Somerset have just been published. Mr. Gore Langtons expenses amount to £ 428 2s. 4d., and Captain Hood s to £ 402 7s. 7d. Mr. F. M. Williams, the conservative member for Truro expended £513188. lid., and Captain Vivian, the Liberal member, £367 19s. 6d., while the expenses of Mr. Passmore Edwards, the unsuccessful working-men's candidate were £348 3s. 3d. The outlay by Mr. J. H. Scourfiela, M.P. for the county of Pembroke, amounts to £907 19s. There was no contest, which accounts for the smallness of the expenses. For the borough of Haverfordwest the expenses of Colonel ( Edwardes, the successful candidate, reached £1,34 2s. lid., the chief items being—agents, £512 lis. 9d, printing, ad- vertising, and stationery, £14G 12s. 3d.; committee rooms, £104 lis. 6d. tallymen and messengers, £340; proportions of returning officer's expenses, £80 17s. 4d., and agent for election expenses, At Carlisle Mr. Edmund Potter expended £518 2s. 4id. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, £385 10s. 4;d. and Mr. W. N. Hodgson, the unsuccessful candidate, £976 12s. 7d. The expenses of Mr. W. Slater, the fourth candidate at the same election, who obtained only 71 votes, were £.134 9s. 6d. Some of the items in Mr. Slater's accounts are remarkable. For example:—"J. Hargrave's expenses to Moffat and back, when he warned Ernest Jones of the folly of helping the WIngs, after spending his life in exposing and denouncing the cruelty and vlllany of that party, &c., l1s. Expenses incurred through Whig violence and brutality:—Glazing windows, repairing shutters and door, and paid for table broken by Whig rioters at Rigar-street meeting, October 6, £1128. paid for special peace officers to keep Whig rowdies in order at the Athenartim meeting, November 5 and 11, £7 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, j67 lis. ad. refreshment for said officers, iIi. 6d." The return for South Wilts shows the expenses of Lord ■ Henry Thynne to have been £ 254 12s. 9d., including items I of £ 92 18s. 6d., for professional agents, and printing and ad- vertising, £ 68 10s. 6d. Mr. Grove's expenses were £ 256 lis. 3d., including j647 5s. for agents' charges and JE140 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 £5,952 7s. 8d which are divided in the following proportions:— Mr. Lowthtr's expenses, £2,855 12s. 4d.; Mr. Westhead's, £1,55312s. 5t! and Mr. J. H. Gladstone's £1,543 2s. lid. consequently each vote that was tendered has cost at least 16s. The largest item in Mr. Lowther's account is £813 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 £1,17117, 4d. The agents' charges amounted to £727 10s.; committee and meeting lOd. printing and stationery, £130 13s. 6d. messengers and bill-distributors, £59 15s. share of returning officer's expenses, £41175. 6d. and bell-ringers, £11118. Mr G. Stratton's expenses, although his canvltss hsted only a few days, are returned at £224 lis. 5d. There is a sum of £1614s. lid. entered for refreshments for clerks and messen- gers, and Mr. Stratton, though defeated, paid the bell-ringers £55s. At Tynemouth Mr. E. T. Smith. M.P., who was from four to five months in the field, and had to canvass the borough against two conservative 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, £22058. 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 £374s. 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 £1,118 7s. 4d. For the Leith District of Burghs election the expenses were as follows :—Incurred by Mr. Macfie, the successful candidate, £2,881 15s. 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. Cd. In I 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. 5td. It is said that Mr. Horsman does not admit any of the claims against him, and that Done have yet beeD 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 county of Salop have been sent in, and if, as is probable, Mr. More's outlay equals that of his opponents, the elections will have been contested at an outlay of £30.000. Of this large sum, Mr. Ormsby Gore aud Lord 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." The conveyance of voters cost them £1,306. 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. 10d., of which agents received £ 4,030 10s., the cost of conveyances absorbing £1,769. An item not commonly seen in 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.

The 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 bearivg of the recent decision in the St. Alhan'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 I., 33rd verse, "For God is not 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 ta 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 change in the mode of conducting divine service. The congregation had had a sufficient 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 he had conducted their services. He hoped that these could neither be pronounced dull nor irreverent. The obiter dictum of a judge in pronouncing a definite judg- ment was properly regarded as of less importance than the judgment itself but the words of the learned dignitary who had recently occupied the woolsack, in pronouncing the judgment in question, were too important, distinctly enun- ciating, as they did, an important principle, to be regarded as a mere pasRing word; they should be accepted as a dfi- nition by all parties in the matter. It was alleged, respecting the Ritualists, that, as regarded rubrical service, they erred in the direction of excess in observance, and did too much they, in turn, retorted upon the Evangelical party that they were chargeable with omissions—that if the one party did too much, the other did too little. There was not a fair ara- logy between the two cases, inasmuch as the particular obser- vances of the Ritualists were avowedly 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 observaRee 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 atteuded 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 th;Î8 importaJ;1t matter on all 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 books, for instance, 120 sick, aged, and infirm persons entitled to visitation.- He confessed that with daily prayers iu 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 te work of the parish with aoy pretension to efficiency. Their hymn singing was objected to, bat he thought it would be a deplorable mistake to cut down that part of teir ser- vice, and estrange many of their worshippers, particularly of the industrial classes. There were chancres that could be made, possibly at once, and he might bt !1skerl what WR h J waiting for ere he made them ? He woula 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 011 the subject, and another report might 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 in 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 it. 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 religious phraseology, and let the spirit and motto of all be based upon the grand sentiment of Christian liberty—"j-In non-essentials liberty, in all things charity."

DEATH OF WILLIAM CARLETON. William Carleton, the Irish novelist, died on Satur- day at his residence, in the suburb of Sandford, at the age of 75 years. He is the last of the class 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 son 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 Fardonough, the Miser, The Fawn of Springvale, Valentine J\l'Clutchy, the Irish Agent, The, Black Prophet, and others of more modern 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 £200 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 had 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 certainty. 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 from China indignantly resented by the agents of .British West Indian immigration at Canton, and those ? Promote at Hong-Kong the Dutch coolie trade with Surinam. Confuted by the agents of these under- takings, tne 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 checks, 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 maindeck 11y 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 necessary 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 hatchwSys from below, but numbers will tell, and the Chinese, f own brave in their hopelessness, murder the uropeans 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 belowin 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 going on 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- denza. 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 captain, 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 science at command, with efficient crews, and plenty of officers, ships succumb to those wild forces of nature which seem to break loose from her control at sea. What were the chances for the helpless Cayoltit In due time, too, the mutineers, 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 field" 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 on 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 anyone who could manage to direct her movements, but actu- ally without a soul in her who had the dimmest notion where sbe was going. All ùy hE>11lo1f, however, she made Volcano Bayr 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 m the 7Fusiliers, 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 ahenff 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-buildingg, 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 agc,inst him.. It should be stated that in consequence of the escape the sheriff was fined the amount of the debt, and had to pay between £300 and JS400 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 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, Hefgham, 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 understoed from him that he had been living on St. Martin's Palace-pMn. He came at Michaelmas, 1851, and occupied the rooms. lie removed his furniture int them. He lived in the rooms alone. About six months after he first came to my house a 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. Sometime afterwards I found e was living in King-street. I called 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 seen 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-exl1.mined.-I had complained of what I had seen in rather streng 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 Li four other confinements since. It is about nine years since I nursed her with her third child. I fO\Ul.d that they were not married, and I asked why they lived in whoredom (as the first Mrs. Sheward had been dead a long time). He replied, "She might have 1?een marned before if shelhked." 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 relerred.-The wltness replied that it was. Elizabeth Lince, wife of the attendant at the Clerical Rooms, Norwich, deposed—I live on Mousehold-heath. I formerly lived in Tabernacle-street, St. Martin-at-Palace. I went to live there in 1860. I recollect a Mrs. Batson coming to live in Tabernacle-street. I do npt know the prisoner Sheward. I recollect a man and woman living in a house adjoining ours. When she first hired the house I did 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 ours. We afterwards moved quite away, into St. Margeret's. I remember the woman who hired the house next ours. She Wall a ladylike woman, with golden hair in curls. During the summer 01 1851 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 priseuer. Mother said it was the same man who had lived in St. Martin's-at-Palace, in the house next ours. I cannot recognÍ5e the prisoner aŠ the same man my mother pointed ont; it is so many years ago. Mrs. Ruth Swan deposed—I am the wife of Cottingham Swan, and live in Botolph-street, St. Augustine's, Norwich. I knew INlr. Christie's pawnbroking shop in St Clements. I1Í consequence of something my father-in-law said to me I went to the prisoner's house in St. ifartin-at-Palace. I bought some things from the prisoner it is about fifteen or sixteen years since, but I < annot give the exact date. The prisonprwas em- ployed at the time at Mr Christie's. I saw him there several times. My former husband died about thirteen years since, in Ssptember,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 I 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-hill, 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 have frequently seen 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, 1853, I 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 persons named Bunn lived in the house at the time. No other Mrs. Bunn lived in the house than my wife. Mr. K 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 24, 1853. Mrs. Bunn,—I am sorry to hear of Mrs. Fisher's death but your sister not beg 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 crowdtjd 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 cross, followed by. three choristers abreast, the centre one bearing a beauti- fully illuminated banneret, displaying, upon a glittering silver I1:round, 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 cross 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 white vestments embroidered in gold. Mr. Going was the celebrant at the communion service. The procession went down one 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 oi th« Gospel of the day (Sexagesima Sunday) Luke viii., v. 15, But that on the good ground are they which, in an 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 iu 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 wtre beating before the altar of their God in unison with many. Xor was theirs, as they had been told, an extraordinary worship, but one of reality iu that voice with which God had spoken to them, not from without but within, and hath told them of the reality of the 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 illlagilJatioli-it was not hope-it was a reality for them. The woehl 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 ihe resnrrection 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 UI 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? That 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, "Thy 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 knew there was not one of those little children who could say "Thy kingdom come," who would not 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 another 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 IsraeFunder- value the issue ? 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 of 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; aRd yet there were those faint-hearted persons amongst themselves who were ready either to echo the cry from 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 weapons were padded with wadding, not loaded with lead, were they to flyaway the moment they touched them, instead of arming themselves with double strength, which would "bring forth fruit with patience ?" Were they going to be faint- hearted? No. Let the enemies of God and his Christ come on. Let them come on consciously or 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 was 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 All Saints', Margaret-street. London, the High Cele- bration followed soon after the close of Morning Prayers, in which the sermon was made to follow the prayer for the Queen, The preacher, who crossed himself devoutly before commencing, at the words In the name of the Father, <fcc. took as his subject the persecution of the Children of Israel by Pharaoh, comparing the sufferings of the former with those of the Catholic Church from the world at the present time. New, 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 world 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 wa 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 anil was aiade 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 the customary prostration or glenuflexion at the words and was aiade 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 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 of 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 harto owed much of its attractiveness to lights and incense it was in their absence comparatively cold, and for a Ritualist church, somewhat dull. For, though it is a church 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 all services, 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 used but there was no elevation of the Sacrament in either kind, nor has it, as far as we know, ever been customary at this church to elevate the elements unduly. The acolytes who hitherto have been present near the altar, for the purpose of sprinkling incense, were not there en 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 diificulty 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 the Punjaub, and that Oudh, 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 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 of 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 wkich 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- turned them others were sent open, so that any one could read them; and the defendant threatened tkat the 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 made 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 th 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, mipposing 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 buch 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 crimina.llaw 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. Juctant 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 cortige 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 toTsee 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. I 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 the gates. The pall-bearers were Mr. Edward Hooson, Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., Mr. Elijah Dixon. Mr. Edmond Beales, Mr. Alder- man Heywood, Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., Sir E. Armitage, Mr. F. Taylor, Mr. James Crossley, the Rev. H. M. Steinthall, Mr. H. Rawson, and Mr. Thomasson, of Bolton. The carriers were Mr. Benja- min Whiteley, Mr. John Bowes, Mr. J. Cunliife, and Mr. T. Topping (one of the Chartists arrested like Mr. Jones in 1848). After the funeral service had been read, and the coffin deposited in a temporary grave (until a vault has 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 I couia not find it in my heart to decline to comply with. Hut if I had consulted my own feelings, I should have remained silent, under the impression that when the Almighty in His will has taken from amongst us a dear friend m 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 Ged, however much our own hearts may thrillingly respond to the beauti- ful words that we have just been listening to. Death has no sting and the grave no victory over him who sacrificed himself for the good of others. And also I 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 Jones more deeply upon the minds and hearts and souls of the men of Manchester than it is imprinted at this moment. (HeM", 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 Tost 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 iervid eloquence of the orator, and the courageous soul and fervid spirit of the undaunted patriot whom no persecution could frighten from the advocacy of his 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 eidsted-persecuted for his political opinions, and con- signed to the depths of a solitary dungeon, without pen, ink, or paper, he wrote a poem with his own blood to solace his solitude and feed the flame of his undying genius, He was the same again when, found half dying upon the floor of that cell from sickness and suffering, he was carried to the hospital and offered his freedom if he would abandon his political principles, and he refused the offe; I preferring martyrdom to dishonour. He was the same when, in later years, ever ready as opportunity offered, to raise the banner of rational freedom whenever he could, he was labouring with us of the Reform League to advocate with his matchless eloquence before hosts of his enthusiastic countrymen those principles which have given us a government the most favourable to freedom and progress which we have ever known in this country. He was the same from the beginning to the end. We may have a feeling of sad regret for the moment that he was taken from among us even at the very time when you, the men of Manchester, by thresult of an important ballot, gave a strong testimony as to how you appreciated 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. Yet, we must remember that, whilst we survivors may deeply feel his loss, he had done his work. For, if we are now a very different nation from what we were even twenty yaars ago—if we cannot have such things done as were done to Mr. Ernest Jones in 1848-remember it is to such men as him that we are indebted for what we now possess. (Hear, hear.) It was said that when Sir John Elliott was dying by inches in the cell to which the tyrant Charles had consigned him, that he was the noblest confessor for political freedom in this country. My friends, you have had a noble confessor of political freedom present amongst you-only lately through the will of the great God, taken from amongst us, but as I have a perfect Christian conviction to a glorious inheritance that is ever preserved for those who have lived for the welfare of others. For the great and pood 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 ot 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, Hollowuy (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 Nevill, took place at the City Terminus Hotel, in London. Air. 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 soiree, 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 (Mr. NevillVs) suggestion got up the soiree, the rev. gentleman pro- ceeded to deliver his address. It was taken as granted by a good many persons among the upper classes, that working men were generally rough and insulting in their manner. He was sixty-three years of age that day, and he could say that during the whole course of his life he never received a single r; or ungentlemanly reply from a working matt His belief 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 ChHrch 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 be could not believe the statement that had been put forward from time to time, that it was in the power of the Govern- men 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 was the duty of the rich to do their utmost to BCe 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 opiokui, 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 i e- 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 consideelt their 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 revel end gentleman remarked upon with enthusiasm, and con- cluding with that right hon. gentleman's memorable words in 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 21, 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 election 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 country. 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 offered at a decline of 2s. to 3s. per qr. The show of foreign wheat was tolerably good. The demand was very dull, and prices gave way about 2s. per qr. The floating grain cargo trade was quiet in tone. The market was fairly supplied with barley. Sales progressed slowly, at barely previous quotations. Malt was dull, on previous terms. Moderate supplies of oats were on sale. For all descriptions the inquiry was limited, at 6d. per qr. less money than on Monday last. Beans were neglected and lower to selL Peas commanded but little attention, at drooping prices. The flour trade was heavy. Town rates were 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 on 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 arrivals 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. 4d. to 5s. 6d. per sib. but inferior qualities were dull and drooping. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 860 Scots, itc.; from other parts of England, 4*) of various breeds; from Scotland, 427 Scots and crosses and from Ireland, about 130 oxen, &e. The number of shco > 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 6s. 8d. to 5s. lOd. Prime small calves were steady in value and demand, but large animals were neglected. ILe 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. Oilier descrip- tions have been in moderate request. Mid and East Kent*, 21. 10s. to 71. 15s. ftald of Kents, 21. 0s. to 41. lus. Su sex, 21. Os. to 41. Os.; Farnhams, 41. Os. to M. 15s. Cou try, 41. Os. to 51. Os. Bavarians, 21. 10s. to 41. bs. Belgians, 21. Os. to al. Os. Yearlings, 31. Os. to 41. us. WOOL. The demand for colonial wool has been quiet to-day, but prices have ruled firm. The next sales will probably be com- 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 pi iccs of English wool :— Fleeces.—Southdown hoggets, Is. :>.1. to Is. 4d. half-breds. is. 5d.. to 18. 6d.; Kent fleeces, Is. 4jd. to It. 6id.; Southdown ewes and wethers, Is 2id. to Is. 3icL Leicester ditto, Is. 3d. to is. Sld per lb. S- i-t,- Clothing, la. 2d. to Is. 7d. combing, Is. Od. to Is. t;id. per lb. POTATOES. There is a fair show of potatoes in the markets, and ilie supplies are more than equal to the demand. Sales progress slowly at our quotations. English Regents, 60s. to 130s. Flukes, 70s. to 140s. Scotch Regents, 70s. to 1808.; Rocks, 60s. to 80s. French, 40s, to 80s. per ton