The Express. — London, England, 1852-04-09 00:00:00

RAISING OFMET THE BLOCKADE OF THE OF BENIN. (Frost's Doily Nis%) A no tification, inserted elsewhere in this 'morn 1, el, Ifr i t Neies,shows that the blockade of the Bight o f Benin, first established by Commodore Baer% on stb Deo:oilier last, was partially roiled by t h a t caner on the 11th of February ; — the fact having ken notified at Sierra Leone on the 3rd of March, hist before the steamer left. The blockade originally established, however, by fetntoodore Hsrcr.. and notified a few weeks ago t o Fresh and neutral commerce in the London Gareftir, otendol mil,' from Irb ,lll ah to Lagos, the favoured of 11.idagry exceptjil. So far, therefore, as the kade b e tween there two points was co ncerned, Quel s', government was kept duly informed k the hlockading force of what it had done, and the ferrigri-othee. iu it. turn, gave the usual and proper polio . to our own and foreign traders. The Mifflin, ifulaischicvous to others and hurtful to ourselves; tot it had the forms of law about it, except, perhaps, th e important one that it was a blockade of the porta e ip,erple nab whom- -Lagoa excepted—we were not f gritAt. But our cruisers on the west coast of Africa have men eneoututred to assume a license and a liberty sal to take fictitious with their own government— s ith the ',amerce of their own and tither countries— sad with public his, which as 3 -et they have not b l urs to its o lie re. In the name of slave-trade safTn ...ion thee sit agger and bluster and roam . • Oust es this coast much as Nlonties used in end TOR' to do MI the Spanish main. So, Do i NCOId With the blockade from Lagos to Whydah i n the ), Commodore Barra subs& swath extended it from Whydah to Qttittah. But for istcnsion of a belligerent right, from the cans syecof whop not only the trade of his owu country but that .4 France and America, might suffer--and has largely suffered---the Commodore does sot Avila to have thought it worth his while to Itme asics , it the Admiralty of. For to this sour the rttlmio n has not been notified • snit the Q v . . government is now placed in the nib, u:•.ue position of having to announce the raking of a blockade between Whydah and Quittah, edwhwh tin. never notified the establishment. And that is a ea specimen of the liberties our officers on the west ,vast of Africa take even with their supe ran r of slut sort of freedoms they use to residents on tin let us also give an example. Tlie blockade, then, when in full operation, ex traded front Quittah—a fort at the very u o t snity of the (fold Coast, which we tinnily puniessl from the Danish government.— L. 1 41.4 a lways excepting Badsgry, the well helm i a distance of probably some 200 miles of roast. inside of which runs the extraordinary 'soon. that terminates at Benin. From the several ports of this seaboard are annually exported very large iptantitics. probably from 3,000 to 4,000 tons (Oahe oil. north tio,oflot. or 100,0001.; a proof that &rawly legitimate trade had fairly stimulated inter n! industiy. And if any other evidence were model that fair commerce had nearly expelled il- Lit trade, we have it in the fact that M. NIARTINS, the greatest dove dealer of Porto Novo, one of the spots blockaded. had fur several months previously to our buntlines been engaged in winding up his affairs, and in pre paring fur his return to Brazil. li. fain. our readers will bear in mind that, for the purpose of capturing slavers or of preventing the exportation of slaves, no such blockade of the coast so was lately notified could have been Deeded ; it then bit:units apparent that the blockade so established timed at influencing the native powers by interrupting Ireful commerce with them—by preventing British and foreign traders exchanging European commodi ties aganct their palm oil. So that every day , it lute' commerce suffered ; and now that it has been raised it leaves behind it " the 'greatest native dis satisfaction with everything English." The practical consequences to trade from this measure are serious looses, actual and prospective; for native animosity and jealousy once roused will not be easily allayed; and our foreign rivals will be quick to profit by our disadvantage. Nor politically has the blockade been more sue awful. It haii, no doubt, produced a string of treaties, to which are appended the marks of may minor and unimportant chiefs on the coast. But, as yet, in its main objects it has Lied. OAzo, King of Dahomi, has neither re v...aced hostilities against Aticeokuta, nor has he come to any anti-slave-tiade terms with his British tormentors. He still rerases to conclude any treaty fur the suppression of the slave-trade. We, there fare, persist in blockading Whydah. And he, in his tarn, is threatening to destroy the British fort there; for Whvilah is equally claimed by us and Quo. Ewald the King of l)anosot put his threat into ' I elevation, and attack the British factorial at Whydah, our °Seers will, of course, land a party of sailors sad taarines ; and, in that event, we may have accounts of a dons rate battle with his army of Amazons. Per haps—for really our cruisers seem prepared for any t0.4--even a march on Abomi, his capital. Nothing ought to astonish us from this quarter. Fur Captain Fututev is still " on particular service" at .kbeeukuta; hard at work, raising a British party there, to i9unterweight Lieutenant &MET, said to be farming a Fretich party at Abomi. Those two worthies and congenial mischief-makers are respect ',labouring away under a tropical sun, teachingthe tutinshowbuthrow up mud fortifications; how to point cannon, and how to move in compact bodies. As that terribk old en age Marshal BVGEACD told the Trappists Algeria —" The sword first and then the Bible" — so Captain FORIILA and Lieutenant Bete ET are deal ing with these Africans ; and probably we shall have the battle of Waterloo rehearsed somewhere between Abecokata and Abomi, Captain Fosses representing the Duke of WELLINortm, and the brave Bounz firtatuN. NOrisihe mischief brewing by Captain FOBBF.S at Atetokuta confined to that place it extends to badary—a port full of English property, against which the King of nano's!, in revenge for his no tine at Abeoukuta, contemplates en attack. And what sympathy Captain I , w:exit has with British residents or British property there the following litter from him to them will best show : To the British Merchants at Bedagry. Aka Abissokuta, lite. 28, 1851. firatkates,-11 the information prove correct that tbe Ilignoi army oiten , l to advance a division to Badagry, yea wdl aglitter at your duty at the time you desert year Itta.tt, in the event of a defeat, if they contain lam& boss of war, sad particularly muskets and powder, sad you bate wiehaase of saving this, to lay a train and blow all aP Imlay dace so, this is your authority that 1 will Min ted, 1., remuneration be H.*. government. If yolg foil I. • 1 Min authority I Asia roassder you 1,41101.118 of 444, A . lrdl4ll , sad qmaseiss year right to be remunerated w suit for Isom yen may sustain. I to, itatkostLirette iebeelatat servant. F. 0. Fosses, Corn. R.N. Oa Particular Service, Badafgry, te. , devir• that mai waseahast reatiar signs, sad takes • copy of 16. then dlewasd dl coms tar a =r f copy, with the :weal agastsess. F. O. F. Now what can we think of the temper, the skill, the understanding, or the fitness for " particular knit's," in any part, however barbarous, of the habitable globe, of a man who could address such a tommunicauen 1111 this to his fellow -countrymen eo gaged, in 'pestilential climate, and in an unprotected • spot. in the lawful pursuits of commerce, and effectually expelling thence, by its agency, the slave-trade? If they did nut, at hisUdding destroy their property, whit It leis pthreedings at Abeeokuta were endanger 4X. he would "consider them enemies of Great It:vain!" and of course, hang, draw, and quarter these his ..overeign's subjects, as he might deem swot advisable. And if they did humbly, obediently, 11114 cringingly obey his orders, and barn their pro late, the great man would condescendingly " inter- Wde 7 for remunenithm from her MAJCSTY'd govern rat n 11 1 in document is not, ho wever , a s p ee i a l or excel!. 1' 441 4i paper; it simply breathes the spirit that 'm ull., our cruisers on the mast ; it is in this style and ni usner they slash, order, and net ; until at fiat te further fair trade can get from them the eater it a. And s hat we require, and shall never mem Ersm requiring until we are successful, is the chate au nt of thin spirit ; and the substitution of a policy and of proceedings and conduct more worthy of a furunurt in dignity, in commerce, and in ciput atiun. The notification referred to above is a follows: ( F.~10015017 NOTII I. Adverting to a notice anted from this office, by sok r of the Governor, uo the Bth lleciniber, 18.11. publish hie for general information the notice of blockade este ko,hed in the Bight of Benin by Commodore Bruce, cam easoler-hrehier of the British *quadrat on the west oast et Atries, the Celsuial fierestemry hes the nouseasts ol the Gootrase to publish, tor the ialbsuatko of all whoa it osy eimseent, the followiss sober, ofikielly transmitted to his Eaceliony by Cenallikell Brio, esatalabes the ISMS of then poets sail pleas which are win exempt from the operation of the blockade established by the commodore is the eat December but. By exnancaad of Ws Excellency the GovernoviteChief, J. F. Stumm, Colonial Secretary. Sonetary'rallee, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 3d March, 1852. Copy, signed W. Hickman secretary. Iler Britannic Maeesty's Steam Ship Penelope, W ydah, k'eli. 11, 1662. Notice is bemby given that the kings and chiefs of the pion sited hi the margin [Blockonse, Blaine Chico, Adage, nohow, Porto Segue°, Gemuluta, Little Popov, Ashwey, Oreat Popes, Porto Novo, Lagos] having entered inteengegemento with her Britannic Majesty's government far the complete abolition of the traffic in slaves, their era meat sad ports are to be exempt from the operations of the blockade established by me oa the 6th December last, and to bs coasidered free as heretofore fur the porpoises of legitimate trade. (Signed) B. W. BRUCE, Commodore, and Commander in Chief of her Britannic Mitioty's Naval Forces on the west coast of Africa." VD, COUtl. WINDSOR, Tavasusr. The additions to tho royal dinner party Tester day were, Prisee Leopold of Sete Coburg, Lady Caroline Barrington, and Col. lion. C. B. Phipps. The queen sod Prince Albert walked in the Home lark sad Slopes this morning. The Prince of Wales, the Priweese Role!, and younger memben of the royal family, took welkin,' and puny et• areas. Prince Albert rode oat on horseback this forenoon, at tended by Col. F. 11. Seymour. Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg left Windsor to-thy for town. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty today. Earl Somers had an interview with Mr. Secretary Wel- Clitelerday also a a n t tl i l e i r lz w e-o w g i licie k . the T i la g e h Duk t • efraßnek kle r itt tle rasa. A deputation from the Royal Flan Society of Ireland, had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. The deputation con sisted of Sir 1. E. Tenneut, M.P., Mr. Teraina, M.P., Lord .1. L. Chiehester ' M.P., Mr. Hancock, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Herdman, Mr. Macadam, and Lord Na.,. The Chancellor or the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli left town yesterday fur their seat, Brailenham, near High Wycombe. Mr. Colquhoun had an interview with Mr. ficsettary Walpole yesterday. Despatches were sent from the Colonial.olfice to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, the Governor of Csyleo and the Governor of Malta, yesterday. Her !Majesty's royal bounties were distributed on Monday and Tuesday to the usual number of aged and meritorious poor, and yesterday (Marmite,' Thursday) the royal ehari ties were distributed, in Whitehall Chapel, to 33 aged men and 33 aged women, with the customary formalities. At two o'clock in the afternoon a i p rocession, consistiug of a Yeoman Usher sad 12 Yeomen of the Guard (one carrying the alms on I a gold salver); the Rey. Dr. Jeff, Sub-Almoner; Joseph Hanby, Esq.. Secretary and Yeoman of the Almonry ; the Assistant, accompanied by ail children (three boy. and I three ads) from the National Schools in Westminster, who had been selected for good conduit to participate in this privilege, proceeded to the chapel. The procession was joined at the entrance of the chapel by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner ; also by the Sob-Dean, the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the Priests of the Chapel Royal, the gen tlemen, and choristers ; vie., Priests : the Reverends Hall, Clarke, Haden, Povah, Reptoo, and Belfuur. The gen tlemen : MMUS. Hobbs, Barnby, Bradbury, Shobridge, Chapman, Gray, and Benson. The clergy and officers hav ing taken their respective seat., the church service ap pointed for the afternoon commenced. Exhortation, con fession, absolution, Re. 41st Psalm. (The 3rand Chant.) First Lesson St. Matthew, 25th chap., from v. 14 to v. 31. First Anthem. (Itst Psalm.) " Bleared is he that con sidereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble." (Nam.) 21. 15s. distributed to each woman ' • to each man, shoes and stockings. Second Anthem. (A Prayer.) " Hide not Thou Thy lace from us O Lord, and cast not off Thy servants in Thy dispka. sure ; for we confess our sins unto Thee, and hide not our unrighteousness." "Fur Thy mercy's sake deliver are from all our sins." (Farrant.) Woollen and linen cloths distri bated. Third Anthem (61st Psalm, 6:h and 4th verses, and 18th verse of 132nd Psalm), "0 Lord grant the Queen • long life." (Mares.) Purees distributed, each red puree containing 21 10e, and each white purse silver pennies cor responding in number with the ago of the Queen. The Second Lesson (the 25th chapter of St. Matthew, beginning at the 31st verse). Fourth Anthem (the Island 16th verses of 63rd of Isaiah, and the 9th verse of 21st of Matthew, commencing with "Who is this that cometh from Edom," and concluding with " llosanuah in the highest! Amen." (Arnold.) The dispensation concluded with the two fol lowing prayers, composed for the occasion : " 0 lord, the sovereign of the world, we acknowledge that Thine is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine. Thine is the Odom, 0 Lord, and Thou art esilted as head above all; loth riches end:honour come of Thee, and Thou reignest weer all. In T►y band is power sad Wilt; andin Thy had it is to make great, and to give strews* unto all. Now, therefore, our God, we thank They end praise Thy glade= lame, that Thou host not only butowed greatness and modesty upon our Sovereign Lady Cress VMeria, but best gives her a heart also to take egmemoks as them that sea below her, and show mercy unto the peer tad seedy. Aempt, most gracious God, of this tribute, which she pays am Th ee, the giver of all good things, arid make her still mere fru itful and abundant in these and all other good melee, that by enemy and truth she may be preserved, and Warm up holden by mercy. And stir up the hearts of all these who have been partakers of her bounty to be truly tbenkful unto Thee for it, and both to Woes and praise Thee continue'', for setting such a pious Princess over me, and also pray most earnestly that Thou wouldst reinta her charity with a long and prosperous reign in this world, and with a heavenly kingdom in the world to mon, thumb Jesus Chriet our Lord and only Saviour. Anna." " Meet blessed God, who art good sad lost good, and Meet =siin Mee that fear Thee emil imitate Thy gemisees, dets her Heaves, the trim of Thy glory, ors as, Thy sensals, hen rarer brim Thee, who trald'elly ..Leer alie that we bane earlog but what stre her re solved has Thee, sad thenhuo ana give Thee ..thing but whet hairs own. Fill filer herb, we harsh Thee, with a lively mem of Thy fathodygeedases, whirr& berowed se may benefits upon we flat we re mot all. to mamba ties. mid likewise gives m Ice milselmad the bemires el delft peed with them ;• and mist es with the pewee of Thy hely spirit, that we may be fsithful ernesnis of Thy 'manifold gilts and graces, following the steps of ear Lord and Xmrcir Christ, whom Them best seat has the midi ft be • prom to r et Wore proses sate whir we pry Thee to riches us by die aeaaNmmtfia that we an bat Amgen and eo -1.41:as all new ashen were, our days on the earth be elgesebodow, emi there is no Whin: That so nothing reny km* ne tan be high minded, mss to trust is 'greeter Asir bat is They the living Oak who shod are all things richly to fogey, that we may de geed, sod be risk In good works, ready - be distribute, tenni imensmemisego„ laying up in store for ourselves_ a gond tenths he the time to co,at we may lay Mid am ohm' life. AM we meet beseech Thee hi a ',Mal manner, to bless her wheel Thee best lot ever us, keep thie err is the therlite of her boat, to endeavour to do MIA good with dig raw rash Thee has given her, sod drift nerdy Thee sessediegly ia the der a a ll the people of them ream, and bestow ors bee sash royal a**, es bath set bra ea lay pares behn her : AU whir we tieg he the she of Jesus Add or meet blamed Lag owl thersee, to thus with Thee and the Holy Obese he all hearse semi glory world wither sod. Amen." LETTERS POl NORWAY.—A notice, dated General Post-adhee, March, 1862, ishreas the public that helm : forward the mails him the United Kingdom for Nor way wM he orreard &oft by ma, between Denmark and Norway, wed will irentimes to be so forwarded until Mawr nodes. Tie rata of postage to be takes on lettere addremed to Norway will be Is. 4d. the sad on, oneeZj i t i o the male in operation in to i lt.:=llJael ea ows laiswiloloora. This rate sempeirm beds Ow Idea Aides pomp en the letters to dee pima of Omit arensanss, mai It rase In either pall in *dames or the lettees my be k.rwardeg unpaid, et th e arks of the mdse, enrage, bowever, as regards 'stored lest., the pestoge span whids, as well as the rs O tratlon Ise, must be - poidis whims. A SANCTIMONIOUS TUIF.Y.—On Monday laat a woman, of very respectable and ladylike appearance, was arrested at Croydon, upon the charge of rubbing her fur nished lodgings, and of stealing severs' Bibles aged l'rayer Books from the neighbouriag churches. Upon the police making inquiries into the matter, a wholesale system of plunder was revealed. It appears that the woman usually takes apartments at some lodging house, stating that they are for an old lady names Whitfield, and after stopping for • few days, decamps with any property she can lay her hands on. She professes to be a person of very pious habits, and under some excuse or other obtains an entrance to the houses of clergymen, and during the absence of the servant purloins any articles of value althea her reach. A carefully written list of the residences of • large number of the clergy was found upon her, and a quantity of pawnbrokers' duplicates. During the months of February and March last she mesas to have pledged between GO and 70 Bible*, Prayer Books, and medical works, shawls, six silver dessert spoons, several duan tea swans, a silver snuff-box, gold studs, two silver watches, a Myer pep boat, table spoons, and numerous other articles, no doubt obtained in the way described. It is supposed that the woman has for a long period been carrying on this system of plunder, as the pro perty is pledged in almost every district of the metropolis. Through the exertions of the police several of the owners have been discovered. THE ELECTIONS. * Bzwour.—On Monday morning Bewdley was aroused from its usual dosing state by the iatehigence that a candidate had really arrived, and opened Its eyes just in time to read the address, which was immediately idstlta fres J. Sanders, Es q.. le, Eaton-square, who is the preseat member for Greet Yarmouth. Ns addresses them as, "the elector* of Bewdley and Stourport," former dia. closures perhaps preventing the usual appellation of " free sad independent." After a short preamble, stating the numerous °Eon of support which had induced him to some forward, he proceeds to mate, with " perfect Can. doer. the principles he had advocated during the time he had been a member of the legislature, and the course he intends to pursue for the future." Impressed with the im portant.* of the agricultural interest, he will support any measure hrought forward by the present ministry to lighten the burde n s which press so heavily upon them at the present. At the same time he conaiders it uuedvisable, sad he would oppose any attempt to reverse our present ecininsereMl policy. But he does not anticipate fur a so meet any such attempt will be made. With this uuder standing he unhesitatingly declares himself " a decided : supporter of Lord Derhy'a general policy." A member of the church of England, and sincerely attached to her doctrines, he felt it his duty to support the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, to present a barrier to the pretensions of fureign ecclesiastics. He would not eonscut to any system of education which did not e testes° religion with secular instruction. Willing to reform " all proved abuses," he condemns the Reform Bill proposed by Lord John Russell, as uncalled for by public op inion, erro neous in principle, and unjust in its operations. The same afternoon be commenced a canvass of the borough, attended by Acton Pardee and H. Chellingworth, and continued his visits on the following day. The appear ance of the how member at this time would seem to be taking an unifier advantage of Sir Thomas Winnitigton, who, on account of his biother•in-law's death. cannot with propriety present himself in public. And it seems strange that such a "sincere and attached member orate church of England "as Mr. Sanders should have chosen Passion week (a time held so reverently by episcopalians) in which to commence ouch operations. The friends of Sir Thomas are, however, gathering round Abu, and arrangements are being made to forward his interest. On Tuesday morning his relative, Captain Winningtoa, accompanied by Wat son, Esq., Mr. Thomas Baldwin, and other influential gen tlemen, commenced a canvass on Sir Thomes's behalf in Stourport, and they were expected in Bewdley in the after noon.— IVoecestershire Chrosisele. _ _ Cnovrioilaw—hir. Craven Berkeley has nceeded to the requisition presented to him, and consented again to come forward at the neat election. The cunservativos during the past week have been getting up a requisition to Sir Willoughby Jones, which they state has been signed by between 700 and 80 0 electors: whether the hoe. baronet will consent to stand is not yet known. We cannot help r e M e itb.2 thatey bad ou r n opr eve nt permitted eeu t me m b er, to retain n Mr Ida O s 7at. Ile is a man of conciliatory and gentlemanly deportment, and fu politics is • consistent liberal and a staunch free trader. We have reason to know that the heads of the conservative party were willing to accept him ou wit • h e"; contest. However, we are now committed to a contest, and we must make the best of it. —Cdeffen/sons Examiner. DUBDEE.—Mr. George Duncan it: again smodillate for the representation of this town, without we balm an oppositiob—certainly without the chance of any rsslssllal opposition. The following is the principal part N VIM address he has just issued : • During the long period Ibsen been in parliament many important and valuable meanings have been carried through the legislature, wherehy the condition of the middle and working dales has bee• greatly ameliorated and improved ; to all of which I have cordially lent a helping hand. It is beyond the limits dam address to recapitulate these measures. I may, lisnmear i , say, that in 1842, on the motion of Mr. Villiers, iers, "flag all duties payable on the importation of corn, grain, meal, or lour, do now cease and determine," I voted i n favour of the motion, and in a house of 488 I was in the small minority of Oft. I afterwards steadily supported this policy, in all its subsequent stages, until it resulted in the abolition of the taxes on bread and generally on the food of the people—the amendment of the general tariff—and, in • word, what is commonly called Free trade." On mari time questions I have followed the same line of policy; and I have endeavoured to procure for our shipping In terest the redaction of every burden it now labours under, and will continue to do so to the utmost of my power. On political questions I have always supported an exten• don of the suffrage, vote by ballot, the shortening of parliaments, and more equal representation of the people. All these ere, I think, requisite fairly to carry out and ensure the benefits and privileges to which we are entitled under our wise and happy constitution. There is another question in which I am swore many of you take a deep interest—l refer to the gra tto Maynooth. This aseesere I have at all times opposed, and am still pre pared to oppose on every occasion. From this matmesc, and many others, supported by Loed Jobe Russell ad the government, I have felt it my duty to dissent; sad, st your representative, have acted en indepeathat part —supporting on all occasions measures, not MS. There is now every probability of Ea early dismiss lion of parliament, with a government professing principles of protection, and on that occasion I hope I may be per mittcd;to solicit your suffrages, that I may again represent your interests in parliament in the impending struggle for the maintenance of those principles of free commer cial policy which have conferred so many bles s i n gs on thi s country." EAST SOkBaSET.—On Monday last, a mooting of the conservative cause took place at the White Lisa Sall, when a requisition was presented to Jobs Hippie bls Isa., of fitootostaa Home, soliciting Ws as beams a oandidase for the representation of East eoinamet. Mr. =Owed himself in the hands of the committee, Iftt his sole desire was to prostate the interests of r 111111111ervative same. After considerable discussion. frimaaw k was donna advisable to withdraw Mr. Hippie. isv Knatabhall, Fog., of Babington Home, having bait impoeted to hainase a candidate, promptly consented, ISIS UR of 2,71184 to defray expenses, was guaranteed br asolliose-4/111 Gimmick. • moolase.4lto osoorable Lord Panmnro is sot imposed to suroloo the protest dangerous attack. lu the event of his leitaft's decease, and the consequeut du ration of Mr. P..lrpls to the peerage, Colonel Lauder. dais Kaska is whim of as likely to become a candidate for tea. Ike tories have a candidate ready in Mr. ai Bab at laskira. -The following brief notice is eine lanid borough.—" Kr. Peter Rolt will be ataiiiime ler let suffrages of the electors of Ureenwich. I s a am personally solicit their votes, and ht the be will pnblieh an addres, in which he will stage telly his opinions on the various political and social with which the interests of the borough are - The first patio movement in Greenock in Weems to the sporoorisise general election was a meeting bid an Saturday of siggsaram, shimmers, and others, with • Wow to Magma mown lo moon the barrios of w_ mpsons*Wve " who will mg.* a policy e p = to gni lasquitablo stabstoneol row* wr Mif whisk Brif in the ersinon tish womb firtettibiawith the shipping of Anpteations." The soothihno hew at Lord Molsoni dogs not mot the rogninsoint Ibis told down. We ondossiond It is likely tlett Igo bold* will be in Onemit Oh melt, and no daubs the aggostenity will be tam of gibs ascertaining his views on She of ee trade. The soma of several ~geewwtlemoo so pewabie omlidatae for the segmentation of him tom molostod of lab, all of Om, so far as we Wow. wan* onilwrity. The =of shipowners appointed • dogsled= *wait no Or fillaw Stewart to toe if *would wino forward, bet he doethsed.—Greenock Advertiser. GUILDFORD.—Mr. Thurlow has come forward on amservative principles to eonteet this borough. lie de. dares, to his address, his determination " te oppose every grant fee the madowsent of Maynooth." is rumoured that a eon of Lad Oar and Bab will be brought forward in conjunction will M►. Caravirall Lewis as a woad candidate in the 'me tro& katereet. The canvass of Mr. Lewis is proceeding very atesseshilly, sad not a doubt is entertained of his re-elec. ties, though the contest will certainly be severe. The hon. Mr. Banbury seems placed by common consent as likely to attain the fable distinction of the " losing candidate." SUPPOLIL—Sir Charles Blois has addressed a Miter to the electors deeliningto come forward. Mr. Long, of Hunt Hall, has announced his intention of coming for ward. Tug An lineerta.—Mr. Campbell, of Inverawe has withisawn lambi as a candidate for the repreeenta dose de Ayr herghs, so as to have the field, ss far es the mrasanatiwe merest is cemented, to the possession of Mr. Dells. tilt ANGUS &MORI MID JOSEPH ROIL—A cor respondent made as the Islowiag:—Mr. Hume bas, in a helef adios% intimetel bh iateelem ef soliciting, et the apponsbleg_dhselethe. the selbegas !L prone oon stitessoy. T - he abbe. emedes waft earthy el por tholes orb, Mr. numb prledphe and il well hem that Ivegtheerd oapheetles eteud kai er•d b.ba St: pother weestemery. la oar Let aro pre extreme from the two limetrom_papers reopmfilleg as alleged threatened oppo sites is Mr. ams's Mart—e ',gabbles having been trairedated to Dr. James Den" of London, by certain anti-Mayeestbitos, advalefes Ow the reimposition of the nevigaties lews% and sham le Metros/. This opposition, we ham semi grime hr onsirg, will end in smoke— men talk Dr. BffieSOOMIS if holhardy enough to at tempt a mutest, would he a eertainty be defeated.—Soute. V; r IGATC—Mr. Francis Sharpe Powell has been very busily employed in canvassing the elector personally during the put and present week. THE LATE. WRECK OP THE RANDOLPII.—It will bo recollected that during the last summer the above vessel, while proceeding with Indian emigrants, was wrecked off the Mauritius, fortunately without loss of life chiefly owing to the exertions of Mr . Sheard, the eecond officer, to whom the inhabitants of that island have Just presented the fol lowing testimonial. It consists of a valuable chronometer, ' manufactured by Ald. Carter, of Crinthill. Upon a silver entablature, on the exterior of the ease, is the following in scription:—"The inhabitants of Mauritius present this chronometer to Mr. Samuel Bishop Shears!, late second cofactor of the ship Randolph, wrecked fm this island on the night of the 2.lth of June, 1851, to mark their admiration of his gallantry and humanity in repeatedly risking his life, under circumstances of peril and danger, in order to save the Indian emigrant passengers, in which he was eminently eaccirefal." ' .0 ,TTSITA • .frel'l - I,X7a Furr THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 9. 1452 THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND TILE RECTOS OF BOW. The dispute in which the Bishop of London his Involved hirmelf with Mr. Olmistone is Media( him Into contentions with others of his clergy. The following col roopmdeeft, with the emempeu)itig documents, his been heeded to as for publication : TUS VISNOF OF LONDON TO TUX DIV. O. N. DILIFTIELDe RECTOR OP ROW. "London House, 29th March, 18.52. "My dear Sir,—l have just seen an announcement of a sermon to be preached in your church on the 7th of April by the Rev. J. R. Gladsbene. I take it for granted that you are not aware of his having been formally inhibited by me from preaching in my diocese, as I cannot for a moment suppose that you ...fluid intentionally act in definer of my authority. 1 think it right to appriiie you of the fact, and to desire that you will not permit Mr. Gladstone to officiate In your church. " I am, dear air your faithful servant, (Signed) "C. J. LONDON." THE UT. 0. T. DRIFFINI.D TO THI6 atelier OF LONDON. " My Lord,— " Rectory, Bow, March 31, 18a. 1 have received your lo rdship's letter refer ring to the announcement that Mr Gladstone, of Long-ecre I Chapel, is to preach in my church on the 7th of April next. Permit me to mention under what circumstances I have in- Tiled him so to do. For the last five years I have hoiden evening service during the first four days of l'assion Week, as well as the wind services out Good Friday. It has been my custom to request some of my personal friends, whom views of doctrine were in accordance with my own, to occupy the pulpit on these occasions. I invited M r . Glad atone to the present instance as a personal friend of many years st ending, and as having by a sermon which ho preached at Bow last year rendered himself highly aeeeptalile to my congregation. From these considerations, and in purse' ante of a wish long previously formed, I some weeks ngo requested Mr. Glarlstone's services on th e 7th o f next mouth, and not from any intention of disregarding your lordship's authority. As, however, your lordship s letter renders it necessary to advert to the position in which it is understood that Mr. Gladstone is placed, I would simply say that the validity of your lordship's inhibition, as against that gentleman, being a matter of doubt, and form ing the aubjeet of legal discussion in the Court of Arches, I think your Lordship will agree with me that it is an open and consi.dent course to me, in a moral as well as a legal point of view, to admit Mr. Gladstone, under existing cir cumstances, into my pulpit. I would therefore hope that your lordship may not feel it necessary to remark furtber upon the arrangement which has been made. Regretting that incessant occupations have prevent:d my replying more promply to your lordship. " 1 remain your lordship's faithful servant, (Signed) " U. T. Dittrrixmi." The Bishop's reply:— " London House, April I, 1/152. " Dear Sir,—The question to he settler! in the Court of Arches is nut whether I have power to inhibit Mr. Glad stone, about which there in no doubt, but simply whether he has disobeyed my inhibition. As you appear to be deterre Med to set my authority at defiance, notwithstanding your oath of canonieul obedience, I have directed proceedings to be instituted for the purpose of enforcing it, and of recalling you to a sense of your duty. I am, dear sir, your faithful servant, (Signed) " C. J. Losmos. " The Rev. G. T. Driffield." MONITION TO THE DICTOR AND CHFNCHWAIDNNS OF BOW. " Charles James, by divine permanion Bishop of London. To the rector and churchwardens of the parish of Bow, in the county of Middlesex, and within our di o ce se o f Lon don, and to all others whom it may concern. Whereas we did, on or about the lfith day of January last put, by an instrument under our hands and seals , revoke an d make void a holm therefore granted by us to the Rev. John Eddowes Gladstone, clerk, Bachelor of Arts, for perform ing the office of minister of Long-acre chapel (being an un consecrated chapel), in the parish of St. Martin-in-the- 1 1 Pielda, in the county of Middlesex, and within our said din eese and jurisdietion, end did further prohibit the said John Eddowes Gladstone front officiating as minister or perform ing any ecclesiastical duties within the said chapel or else where within our diocese. Now we do hereby monish and require you by virtue of our authority, ordinary and epis copal, not to permit or seder the said John Eddowes Glad atone to preach, or otherwiseofficiate as minister or perform any ecclesiastical duties whatever in the church or parish of Bow aforesaid, under pain of the law ant contempt thereof. Given at London House, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, the twen•y•fourth year of our translation." Upon receipt of this notice the rector and churchwardens of Bow issued the following announcement : "At Mary Stratford, Bow.—Services In Passion Week.— In cosisequence of a monition leaned under the hand and l end of the Bishop of London to the rector and churchwar dens of Bow, prohibiting them from permitting the Rev. J. E. Gladstone to officiate in the church, they feel it their duty to give notice that that gentleman will not preach as announced on Wednesday Evening, April T. The sermon no that evening will be preached by the Rev. G. T. Drif field, rector of Bow.—Bow, April 6, 1862." Three days after issuing his monition, the following note was addressed by BIEIIOP TO TER REV. 0. T. DRIVVIELD. " London House, April 6, 1852. " Rev. Sir,-1 have to inform you that if my monition, which has been duly served upon you and the churchwar dens, be disobeyed, I shall feel it my duty to institute pro ceedings against you end them is the Ecclesiastical Court. —I am, rev. air, your faithful servant, (Signed)Lovnox." Next day the correspondence was closed by the subjoined note from the Rev. G. T. Driffield to the Bishop : " Rectory, Bow, April 6, lAi2. "My lord,-1 have the honour to acknowledge the re. ecipt of your lordship's two notes, dated the Ist and sth of April instant, and also a document addressed to myself sod the churchwardens of Bow, dated the 2nd of April, Triple , lug as not to permit the Rev. J. E. (Redstone to officiate under pain of the law. I have consulted the churchwardens on this subject, and have to inform your lordship that your lordship's monition will be complied with. I have, there lore, withdrawn my invitation to my friend Mr. Gladstone, to occupy my pulpit. In my letter to your lordship, of the 31st March, I thought it right to suggest that your lordship's interference Ives pretuaeure, as the Ecclesias tical Court had not decided on the legality of your lordship's proceedings against Mr. Gladstone. Notwithstanding your lordahip's statement that there no doubt about your' power to inhibit him, I feel bound to say, for my own justi fication, that Mr. Gladstone does consider that power as part of the question in dispute. I cannot, therefore, aben• don my opinion that it would be only just and fair that Mr. Gladstone should set be treated as guilty or incapaci tated until proved to be so before the proper tribunal. I will only, in conclusion, add, that after the psblic notice taken by rur lordship of the intimation that Mr. Gladstone would preach in this church, I shall feel at liberty to give publicity to the correspondence which has Vibes place be tween your lordship and myself. " I have the honour to b your lordship's faithful ser vant, ( Signe d) " G. T. BaII•FIELD." " _ The following letter was addressed on the same day to the Rev. J. 13. Gladstone, bg c he Rector of Bow : tory, Bow, April 6, 1852. " My dear Oladstotte,—lt is with much regret that, as I very hastily intimated to you yest erday, I am under the necessity of sating you to postpone The preaching at my church until some future occasion. The bishop's monition, • Dopy of which you have seen, appears to leave no alter native uto our course of proceeding. I send you also copies of the eiterespoadenoe which has taken place be tween the bishop and myself ; in which you will see that I have respectfully stated to hint my conviction that it is unfair, pendent* lite, to deal with you as with a conde mned person, or as with one legally incapacitated. Let me add, that I feel the hardship of the mine which his lordship hu seen fit to pursue to be great towards myself, is compelling me to relinquish a step which I contend it was open to me con scientiously to take, rather than be involved in tedious and expensive litigation, in conducting which the opposite party would be propiened of influence and resources in far beyond my own. Ide not presume to prejudge the ques tion between yourself and the bishop. I only trust that you will be wisely directed, and that it will please Almighty God to overrule the decision for the welfare of His church. Relieve me to remain, ever most sincerely yours, " G. T. Dairrnsu). " The Rev. J. E. Gladstone." MURDER.—On Saturday an inquest was bold on the body of Judith Dooley, who was found murdered on Friday morning, at the gate of a field on Mr. Townsend's property, at BaUystick, county Eilkenay.—William Bro phy, a labourer, and his wife, Margaret Brophy, in cus tody on suspicion, are persons of middle age, and by no means prepossesaing appearance. Evidence was given to the effect that the murdered woman, who was a pedlar, had been seen en Thursda evening going in the direction of Brophy's house; and that from the place where the body was found there were tracks of blood ideag the bead of the field and down a lane to the prisoners' house. In • room attached to the house, but used as a stable, there were several stains of blood covered with straw—and when the constable asked what occasioned the blood, the female prisoner replied that it war the blood of a horse ; and the male primmer, who was a-rested when at work in • field, said it was the blood of a hen which they bad killed the previous night. The constable found in the kitchen of rophy's house a spade having several marks of blood upon it, and long human hair, similar to that of the de l' ceased, attached to it —The unfortunate woman's skull was literally smarfited to pieces. The jury returned a ver dict of wilful murder aviinst William and Margaret Brophy. FIRE AT TILE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY GOODS DEroT.—Last evening, between the hours of seven and eight, considerable alarm was caused in the immediate neighbourhood of the Eastern Counties Railway Goode Depot, in Hare-street, Bethnal-green, in consequence of a cry of tiro being raised within the building. The report was strengthened from a number of persons being seen hurrying towards the spacious premises with buckets of water in their hands. This caused the inhabitants to send messengers in sundry directions for the aid of the firemen and engine.. In a very brief period the Brigade engines from Whitt-cream-street, Jeffrey-square, and Watling-street, together with that of the West of England office. were dispritehed to the scene, on reaching which the firemen were informed by the officials of the Railway Company, that whilst the men were employed sealing some packages, a light fell amongst some bales of hemp, but owing to the exertions of the employis on the premises, the damage was confined to the destruction of six bales of hemp. The ea siest of the Imam were, therefore, act segaired. WARMINO AND VENTILATION OF THE Romig OF COMMONS. MUT WORT 07 IL OOLDSWONTAT 00111 T ON TEI TISITILATION OF Till 11l itonet OF COMMONS. To the Honourable tbe House of Commons. Ia abedinsee to the order of your honourable house I doted the 12th day of Marsh, 1852, I b eg t o re p or t th a t am investigating the arrangements for the warming, ven- tilating, and lighting the new House of Commons; and, I having been given to understand by several members that It world be itereptahle to the house that I should make a first report ma the state of the ventilation as early as possible, I beg further to report as follows : That, although I have been interrupted in my investiga tions, and thereby prevented from making them as full and Complete as I maid have wished, I have seen sufficient to sati.ty rays. If of the causes of the great inconvenience cape rienced at this moment. _ 'Ant I Ilud the atmosphere of the house in a desiccated mud °premise state, ar.d subject to constant disturbance from initial and retrograde currents passing in ell direc tions, u if at random, and apparently without control, producing direct draughts in particular parts of the house, and oppression in others. I also find that from the same want of proper control, offensive vapours and effluvia (ems. noting from contaminated sources) are drawn into the house. That moat of these evils can be eorreeted by a simple ar rangentent, and at an expertise comparatively trivial and although thin is a common-sense qu e sti on , y e t it would be difficult to demonstrate it on paper unaccompanied by ac tual experiment, or to explain the facto and conditions on which this conclusion is arrived at. And Inasmuch as on ' former occasions all unfair advantage has, I think, been taken of the statements and evidence which I have given from time to time, and portions of my plans have been adopted without consulting me, I am induced to ask per mission to refrain from entering into details at present. The principles of ventilation- which have been recom mended by mr, and, to the bent of my belief, acted upon in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris, end now in operation in ' the Courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas in Weetmln *ter Hall (which courts were previously unsatisfactorily ventilated by a similar arrangement to that now applied to this house), and their success in every court of judicature, and other places in the provinces to which they hate been extended, affiird sufficient evidence (in addition to what I have seen in this house), to justify me in saying that tf the house be placed ceder the central of the ()thee of Winks for a short time, I vionld pledge myself, with their assist mice, to remove all the 'material evils that at prer:nt exist, at a very trilling expense; and, at the expiration of such control, to restore the ventilation, if required, to its present ' state within the finite of • few hours. Of course it will be understood that this report applies only to the house itself, and not to the entire building. April 6, 1t152. Geddiewouritx Onngar. QUEENS COLLEGE, BELFAST. Tho first triennial visitation of the Queen's Col lege, Belfast, took Om e in the Examination Halt or th a t building, on Tuesday. The visitors were his Grace the Duke of Leinster (who presided), the Right Hon. Maniere Brady (ex-Lord Chancellor), the Right Hon. Baron Greene, the Lord Bishop of 1/own and Connor, end the Rev. 1/r. Coulter, Moderator of the General Assembly. On seats arranged in the vicinity of the visitors' table, were Lord Viscount Massareene and Ferrard, Lord Dufferin and Clanhoye, the Vicar• General of Down, and Sir James Murray. The Deans of Residences, viz , Rev. Dr. Cook (Presbyterian), Rev. M. Murphy (Episcopalian), Rev. Mr. Porter (unitarian), and Rev. Mr. Lupton (Wesleyan), were seated to the right of the visitors' in front, and oppo site to them, the President of the College, Rer. P. S. Henry; the Vice-President, Dr. Andrews; W. .1. C. Allen, Eeq., registrar ; and further down, on either side, the profeseors ; the students occupying the spaces behind. All the officials, professors, and students wore their collegiate robes, and the red, blue, and white silk hoods 1 of the graduates of different degrees produced a good e ff ect. The roll of professors and students having been called over by the registrar, The Duke of Leinster proceeded, but in so low a tone as to he nearly inaudible to the reporters, to put the several questions enjoined by the statutes, regarding the internal state of the college, &c. These were snows-reel by the pre sident in an equally low tone. !tepee:wed from the replies of the president, that the number of students at present in the college is 119, being an increase of II over last year, and that the amount of fees received from the students was 1,4131., the amount received Lot year being 1,3201.; and the yesr before 1,212 f. The prtsident's statement with re gent to the discipline of the college appeared to he quite satisfactory, as also with regard to ths progress of the stu dents and the efficiency of the professors. The students applauded the replies of the president to the queries which I elicited these gratifying reports. The Deans of Residences were then severally questioned with regard to the religious and moral conduct of the stu dents of each religious denomination under their care, and their answers were in the highest degree satisfactory. In reply to queries, the President stated that 4,0001. had been granted by government for the apparatus required in ditf,rent departments of,this college, and other matters re quiring outlay; but he was sorry to say that this sum was quite inadequate to supply the wants of the college. An opportunity would be afforded to the visitors of inspecting the departments alluded to, as also the apartments of the professors, which were very inadequately furnished ; and he was satisfied the view ho had takou of the matter was the correct one. It would be of the greatest importance if a statement, in accordance with those views, by the board of visitors should go abroad, in order that an annual grant for the support of the college might be obtained, as at present they did not receive a farthing beyond the fees received from the students. The buainess of the visitation having been brought to a close, The Duke of Leinater addressed the meeting as follows : Mr. President, Mr. Vice-President, and gentlemen, I desire, on the part of the visitors, to state the high gratification we feel at the result of the visitation which has just taken phee. You ere there has been no complaint made by anybody, saveone, and that has arisen solely from the misconstruc tion of a statute. (Cheers.) 1 must say, too, that I have been much pleased with the manner in which that young gentleman, Mr. M'Mahon, has brought forward his ease ; and there is not the least doubt, if any of the professors or students may hereafter think they have cause of complaint, that if he brings it forward calmly and quietly before the visitors they will give it their best consideration. (Ap plause.) I trust this time three years, when our neat visitation occurs, we will find you progressing in theism way as at present, and that then it will be my pleasing dot to return you thanks, as I now do, for the manner in which you have enabled us to conduct our visitation. (Cheers.) The President then announced that the term was at an end, and that the students might pmcced to their homes, to resume business in a fortnight. The Puke of Leinstor, the other members of the Visita tion Board, Lords Mumma.) and Dufferin, the Deans of Residences, Sir I. Murray, the VicarAieneral, C. Lanyon, Esq., C.E., and several ladies and gentlemen present, were then accompanied through the different ports of the' College by the president and professors, after which the president entertained the distinguished company to a dijeinter in his own apartments, after partaking of which, before the guests separated, the president gave " The Health of her Majesty the Queen," and " The Health of his Orace the Duke of Leinster and the other Visitors," which were drunk in full bumpers. His Grace briefy responded to the latter toast, and then gave " The Health of the President," to which Dr. Henry replied ; and thus terminated the first triennial visitation of Queen's College, Belfast. SPORTING. TATTERBALLI3--Tntitsaty. NEWMARK= MANDICAP. 4to 1 apt Mr. W diktat Nola to 1 Last Rafter iimmeim Rower ato 1 Mr. Mahmes of to to 1 Dukes. Miiswemffe The above were the offering prices at the elm. We did not hear a bet laid except against Bardolph, who left off anything but strong in the market. TWO TOM:SAND GUINEAS STAKES. 4 to 1 apt Duke or Rlebwona's lloroebeerre4 4 to I Lord Rlbblasrlate's Ltpldhot 0 to 1 Mr. Sourer Dank) O'Rourke 10 to 1 Mr. Marro nobbie Noble Offers to take 6to 4 about Hobble Noble with a start. Claverhouse is scratched:__ CHEST= COP. 13 to opt Mr. MethWWl, 'MUM* (t) WI to Mr. I . llMOMlghlliortl 23 to Doke of Mollorft Mow fee r, (t SO to 1) 25 to Mr. EL Mrs Modiorpe tt So to 1) 23 to Mr. MardsaMolltatay ft and oft off ) Ma bar Warrior (t 1000 to 1 Mr. L W wr% . Mem& Soshirmy ( It On this, so on the other events quoted, business was shoat at a standstill; Stilton, limey. and Hothorpe only were in request. MUM II to apt Mr. =BMW Maio (take 6Or 1) 13 to Lard 15 to Lard =l l trirsolioneo flake 16 to 1) IS to Laid take 16 to I) SO to Mr. S. Arsdes Lab 23 to Ottbd Illohmondit wed (t) SS to —11 r. S. WM% Maw (take 40 to I) 1000 to 1 Lord Orford% Lions (t) 1000 to I Lord Ittledrobles The Nab , * (t and oft °IN) The to tations, made chiefly from offers, show a slight decline in Hobble Noble, a dccided retrogression in Augur, who was ery weak in the market, and an improvement in Lapidist nd Claverhouve. Scarcely anything was done. DEATH OF A FEMALR FROM FlRE.—Yesterday morning while police-constable George Robinson, 231 T, was on duty in Kensington-park at one o'clock, he observed flames bunting from an uninhabited cabin in an adjoining brick field, and upon reaching the spot found three men dragging from the cabin • female enveloped in Are, which towered over her heed. Aided by the men, the police-constable pulled the poor creature on the grass, and rolled her upon it until the flames were extinguished ; after which the constable removal her in • cab to the hospital, where, although she had the most prompt surgical aid, she died soon after admission, Just before her death she declared that the men were wholly blameless, which was all she could say. Upon deceased being put in the cab the men made off, and have not since been heard of. Upon further inquiry it was ascertained the deceend came from Deptford, whither the police went to make inquiries con cerning her, and there found her mother, who informed them that her name was Mary Abbot, that her age was 22, and that • week ago she suddenly disappeared without the knowledge of her friends. The coroner has issued his war rant for an inquest, which will, it is hoped, unravel the motes.) , in which deoseoed'o des* is enveloped.. IRELAND. DUBLIN ! APRIL I. A requisition to the Lord Mayor is in course of signature, calling on his lordship to convene a meet ing of the citizens, for the purpose of taking mea sures for the return of liberal candidates for the city of Dublin at tho general election. As nothing what. ever has been yet done by the Dublin liberals in the matter, it is high time for them to take some step of this kind. Lord Milton has addressed his present constituents, the electors of Wicklow, stating his intention to seek their suffrages again at the next election. The liberal electors of Kilkenny have published their requisition to Mr. Greene and Serjeant for the purpose of showing by its formidable length the hopelessness of a contest on the part of any other candidate. The conservatives publicly boast that they will be enabled to return Mr. Lambert, their candidate, fur New Ito's. owing to the division of the liberal in terest between Sir T. Itediegtun and Mr. Dully. Sir Timothy O'Brien is threatened with rather a formidable opponent is Cashel,- -namely, Mr. Dar ; gan, the famous railway contractor. The conservatives, already speculating on Mr. Napier being forthwith raised to the bench, are suggesting Mr. 11. Holmes Jay, (J.C., as a successor fur him in the representation ut Dublin University. Yesterday, as the Dublin and London steamer, Peem, was proceeding out of this harbour on 'her voyage, the second engineer, named Att•ed Bristow, fell among the machinery, and was killed UNIVEI{SITY AND CLEItICAL. CAMBRIDGE., APRIL 8.-11. A. EXAMIN.ITION,IBS4. —ln addition to the heed subjects of examination for the degree of B.A. the following ate selected fur the year 1851: —I. The First Fourteen Chapters of the Acts of the Accost'. ;2. Rt. Pool's H e istle b. th e Rom.. ; 3 "Ivo°. dotes, Book 4. Virmirs Aiu.•icl IV. , The Second, Fourth, and Fifth Books of l'aley's Mural YALEYEKMENTn. Rev. Charles Joseph 'Jelin, to Wakesley Vicarage, North amptonshire, value 176/. ; patron, J. W. Wight, Es.l. Rev. Samuel John Ileatheote (and not the Iter. O. Ileatheote). Curate of Herdic, Hants, to be Chaplain to the Sheriff of Wiltshire. 11ev. Edmund Leopold Lockyer (and not the Rev. 0. Lockyer), to Bartoo•Westeott Rectory, Oxfordshire, value 1791.; patron, Mrs. Seagrove. Rev. John Martin, to Cuckfield Curacy, SU , SPX. Rev. Henry Paul ?demon, to Kingeton•upon-Thames Vicarage, Surrey ; patrons, King's College, Cambrid4... Rev. Joshua Seholefield (Vicar of Billesdon), to be Chap kW of Billesdon Union, Leicestershire. Rev. Thomas Norris Williams, to Aber Rectory, Career vonshire, value 3821. with residence; patron, Sir It. B. Williams, Bart„ ----- H • enry Brown, to be Colonial Chaplin in Western Australia. Rev. Joseph Cousins, to Cullen Rectory and Vicarage, diocese of Emly ; patron, Bishop of Cmhel. Rev. Joshua Elliot, to St. Bartholomew Perpetual Cu racy, Thornlcy, Durham; patron, the ReT.tor of WoleinQ- Cu ram, Rev. Edward James Hill, to Penfield Rectory, Essex; value, 2431., and residence; patron E. Hill, Eel. Rev. I'. G. Bartlett, to Kingstone Rectory, Kent; value, 500/., and residence; patron, Mir J. Bridges, B ert. Her. OMey Crewe (Rector of Astkur-y), to be Chaplain to the Sheriff of Cheshire. Rev. George Dowell, to Llanigan 'Vicarage, Elneknock shire ; value, 2021. ; patron, Lord Chancellor. Rev. Arthur Philip Dunlop, to Birdwell Rectory, Suf folk; value, 5971. and residence; patrons, St. John's Col lege, Oxford. Rev. Charles Griffith (Rector of Tallachdds), to be Chaplain to the Sheriff of Brecknockshire. Rer. William Price (Vicar of Llauarth), to be Chaplain to the Sheriff of Monmouthshire. VAC.t.NCIZS. RECTORIES.. — LIan-DinToicnCarmartlienshire, diocese Bangor, value 3031.; patron, L 4.1 Chancellor ; Rev. T. U. Whams, promoted. Tiverton (I'rior's Portion), Devon, dioctse Exeter, value 1411, and residence; patrons, King's College, Cambridge ; Rev. 11. I'. Meagan promoted. VlCARAGES.—Colchester, st. Mary Magdalene, Essex, diocese Rochester ; patron, Lord Chancellor ; Rev. J. R. Soaythies deceased. Harwell. Berks, diocese Oxford, value 2201. ; patron, Rev. G. Chetwode ; Rev. W. Fletcher deceased. _ reparum. CURACIES.—RUiShtOII, Somerset, diocese Bath and Wells, value 741.; patron, Rev. 0. E. Feake ; Rev. G. Dowell promoted. Butserwick, .% est, county and diocese Lincoln, value 47f.; patron, the Rector of Foxholes ; Rev. E. J. Hill promoted. Mittammmr. —oMldford Grammar School, Surrey; Rev. C. J. Belie promoted. CHAPLAINCY.—To the Duke of Buckingham ; Rev. W. Fletoher deceased. NAVAL. PoßTsmopra, APRIL B.—The officers and ships at this port have to-day subscribed a day's pay each towards the relief of the relatives of the unfortunate persons drowned in the Birkenhead steamer. Large numbers wished to in crease the amount to two days' pay. A meeting of the bo rough council has been called by the mayor for Saturday next, to consider the best measures necessary to be taken in reference to this mournful event. A number of convicts have to day been removed from the convict prison and the York, convict ship, to the Pestongce Bomanjee, convict transport, at Spithead, which arrived yesterday front Wool wich The Victory, flan ship, was removed from the Gos port moorings this morning to her own off the dockyard, which have been undergoing an overhaul. The Illustrious, 72, was taken up into ordinary this morning. The Win cheater, 60, Captain Lock, fitting for the flag• ship on the East Indian station, was taken into No. 2 dock to-day to be over hauled. The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell. was paid down wages yesterday. The Lightning, steam-vessel, Master commander Allen, sailed on Tuesday night for Plymouth. MILITARY. DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES GRANT, C.H. —Major-General Grant, C. 8., died on the sth instant. lie entered the malty service in 1797, became a lieutenant in 1801, a captain In 1803, a major in 1814, a lieut.-colonel in 1815, a colonel in 1887, and a major-general in 1816. He served five years in India with the 25th, afterwards the 22nd Light Dragoons, and was present at the battle of Mallevelly, the siege of Seringapatam in 1799, the action with Doondia, storming the Fort of Turnivnl, where he volunteered and led the assault with fifty dismounted dragoon., and was engaged in the reduction of various fortresses. In 1806, Captain Grant served with the 21st Fusiliers in Sicily ; In 1807, he again proceeded to India, where lie served with the 17th Light Dragoons from that year to 1811 ; after wards he served with the 18th Hussars in the Peninsular campaigns of 1813 and 1814, and was present at the action at the bridge of Croix d'Orade, end the battle of Toulouse. He was also present at Waterloo. Major-General Grant had received medals for Toulouse and Waterloo. Ile was in 1838 nominated a Companion of the Bath, and in 1851 was placed on the list of general officers receiving the re ward for distinguished services. THE LATE LIEVT.-GENERAL SIR JOHN HARVEY, K.C.H.-Bir John Harvey, whose death at Halifax, N.S., on the 22nd ult., was intimated in the Express of yestenlay, entered the army as an ensign in the 80th Regiment in 1794, became a lieutenant in that.ttfri ment in 1795, and obtained his company in it in 1504. Ho became a major in 1808, a lieut.-colonel in. 1812, a colonel in 1823, a major-general in 1837, and a lieut.-general in 1846. The late Sir John Harvey served with the 80th in the severs winter campaign of 1794-5 in Holland, under the Duke of York, and carried the colours of the regiment into action on the 31st December, 1794. In 1795, Lieutenant Harvey served on the *oast of France, at Isle Dieu and Quarron. The following year he proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was present during the short service which led to the surrender of the Dutch fleet at &Minh& Bay. In 1801, he pro ceeded from India to Egypt, under Sir David Baird. Afterwards, Lieutenant Harvey returned to India, and served the campaigns of 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, under Lord Lake, including the siege of bhurtpore, and the subsequent operations against the Idahratta chief, subsequently he served in Canada, and during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 was deputy adjutant general ; was present in the first action of Fort George, surprise and defeat of the enemy at Stoney Creek, defeat of the enemy at Chrystler'e }arm (medal), capture of various posts of importance, battle of Lundy's Lane, siege and assault of Fort Erie, and on the last occasion he was severely wounded. Sir John Harvey was in 1824 nomi nated a K.C.11., and in 1838 a K.C.B. He was formerly Lieutenant-Governer of New Brunswick ; in 1841 was ap pointed governor and commander in chief of Newfound land ; and in 1846 was removed to the Lieutenant- Governorship of Neva Scotia. By his decease this hitter appointment is vacated, as well as the coloucicy of the 59th regiment, which he obtained in 1811. IMPROVED BADGES VOX PUBLIC VEDIC LES.--The co;;;;;;;;; of ini;nd Revenue have commenced the Issue of new plates to the metropolitan hackney carriages, so constructed cc to render the numbers more legible, and prevent the system of " doctoring" practised by dishonest drivers, who, in order to escape their delinquencies, have been in the habit of altering their number piste', and thus defeating justice, by misliading the public end police who had occasion to summon them fur misconduct. This system has created great confusion in the police courts, where many innocent men have, through this " doctoring," been arraigned for others misdeeds. A WITNESS ON TIIE WATER QUESTION. On Tuesday, Mr. Isaac Smith, stable keeper and job master, was ezumined by Mr. James on the water supply of the West Middleacx.—Kept 2d horses, and had not found them poisoned by the West Middlesex water. Had always found it wholesome and good. Never found it hurt him, and had not the least desire to change his supply Did not drink neat water when he could get any othe-, and his ap pearance would tell that. Took it in " grog " and relished it. Never drank a glass of filtered water is hAi life. The water was good, but he never drank it " neat as imported" from the pump.