The Express. — London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

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I•han.- 1d [LWOW TKR THU 11011 LINT. Mx. Plasm, Kooks; Ms Wet Grumman at T. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T Da* — Manly, !L u 5............aft•rwea. Vior. Esausanvt—Esseas, Y. Menace. 41. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 23. I;vf:v under the prevailing despotism of the Dog- Star we sometimes meet with a portly gentleman of the old school tightly done up in the old costume. Ilia blue coat and brass buttons, buff waistcoat and old-fashioned boots may be tolerated; but those swathes of starched linen which envelop his neck seem to the modern devotee of the single-tie a needless torture. it is of course useless to attempt to argue the old gentleman out of the propriety of his costume. It is idle to hint vaguely at apoplexy, or to explain how that twenty-fold neckcloth is the surest means of catching cold. The venerable bigot is inexorable. Ho insists upon the coil of linen round his neck—it is essential to his existence. We don't know whether Lord ST. LEON %ADS adopts these ideas in his toilette, but the spirit in which he discussed various measures proposed to facilitate the transfer of land oa Tuesday evening shows that he is ani. mated with an analogous obstinacy in matters juri dical. Prrjudieed as he is in favour of all those legal technicalities by a knowledge of which he has achieved for himself • seat in the House of Lords, he is yet compelled to admit that the law of real property and the doctrines of conveyancers ars full of absurdities. He allows the necessity of reform, but the reform must, it seems, be as small as pos. aible—a mere matter of detail. He is shocked at the very notion of making the transfer of land— from • seller to a purchaser—perfectly simple. It had been somewhere said that a certificate of title ought to be as negotiable as • bill of exchange. " I hope," exclaimed the noble and learned lord, " I shall never see such facility for the transfer of property. If a man could carry his title deeds in his cigar-case no one would answer for the consequences. There is no necessity to render property so easily transferable." Why for if a man wants to raise money on his property be an— lialftage !" This is the starched neckcloth style of jurispru dence with a vengeance. Why, in the name of all that is absurd, should not a man carry about his title deeds in his eigar.cue, if he has nothing better to fill it with? Many Irish proprietors can Garry their titles ►bout in their waistcoat pockets, bet we have never yet heard that this fatal facility his been complained of as an injustice to Ireland. Why insult landowners, swathed, like Egyptian mammies. in skins upon skins of parchment—bound hand and foot by mortgages, and charges, and judgments, and settlements, and a thousand other legal complications—by telling them that if they want to borrow mosey they may—mortgage? Because Lord Sr. LEONAILD3 prefers the old compli cated system of real property—as his ancient friend at Bootite's prefers the cumbrous involutions of the prirateval choker—let not his lordship for a moment imagine that the public agree with him. They are prepared to adopt any plan which, whilst it leaves untouched the power of disposition, facilitates the eel* of land end the using it as a security for money lent. Nay, we aro even disposed to think that they would gladly accept the proposal--ehaddered Over by Lord Sr. LEON tans —that the Government should open a shop for the sale of good titles— which meal's, of course, a sort of Incumbered Estates Court ; and that so far from the scheme being unen durable, landowners and the public at large would hail it as a great boon. From the tone of Lord Sr. Lsoxssns' speech we should sac that his lordship regards the plan of re gistering titles advocated in the Bloc Book by Mr. WALPOLE and the other Commissioners SA not only practicable, but likely to command the sanction of Parliament—the spirit of his remarks is so bitter and the objections urged against the scheme are so grossly unfair, that we can scarcely suppose them to have been actuated by any other feeling than that of a panic MIS of danger. The object of his Lordship's remarks is uot, indeed, very clear. If his aim was to impreoi the public with the idea that he wan apprehensive of the effect of the proposed measure upon the profits of Conveyancers and Soli citors, he might have been more succeeeful had he been more direct. If, on the:other hand, he desired to prove that the proposed measure is not exposed to any serious objection, be could not have done better than to make objections and conjure up difficulties which, if he will only read the Report, he must see are totally groundless. One of the most characteristic parts of the great real-property lawyer's address was the arrogant disrespect which he evinced for the auderstandinga of his lay auditory. This eminest legal Peer condescended seriously to declare that the effect of the plan proposed by his learned and able friend Mr. WALPOLE would be to put Cr. end to their Lordships' power of making settlements upon their own estates. It may be as well to remind the lay Peers that this is simply not the case. If the pro posed plan were carried into effect to-morrow, every man with an acre of land would hare precisely the Mae power over that acre which he now has. He would be able to carve it out into as many estates, to subject it to as many obligations as at present. Nor is his Lordship less incorrect in saying that ander the new system it would be impossible for two persons to purchase an state together. We do not allude to these mis-statements so mach with a view to correct them as to express our regret that a lawyer so deservedly eminent as , Lord Br. Lrorraans should lend himself to what is little better than a fraud upon his brother Peas and upon the public. Of souse, if any man be once satisfied that an opinion expressed by Lord LEONARD!, if a lawyer OR a point of real pro- perty law is his honest opinion, he will be disposed to bow with deference to the authority of so great a jurist. It is, therefore, somewhat painful to see so distinguished a man using his vast influence to mislead people—to throw discredit on a measure which has been elaborated with the utmost care, and which, whatever be its imperfections, is certainly not liable to the objections urged against it. Perhaps, how ever, Lord Sr. LEONARDS, like Lord CAMPBELL, is not fully aware of the strength of the expres sions he uses; or, like the Loan CHANCELLOR, he is ready to express an opinion upon a measure before he has fully considered it. It is only a few days Inc. Lord CRANWORTH declared that he considered this plan chimerical. On Tuesday night, however, he told the House of Lords that though he had read it, he had not mastered its details, and in fact had laid it aside. We trust that Lord Sr. LEONARDP, for his own credit, will yet see fit to make the same apology. At all events let us hope that no time will be lost in laying the Bill promised by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL on the table of the House of Commons. The LORD CHAN CELLOR seems prepared for this. The ArroaNer- OXNUAL has promised more than one to do so. And Mr.W.u.rots mast now think himself bound to enter into some explanation of the plan which Lord Sr. LIONARDS treats so contemptuously. If Mr. WALPOLE, or some other of the Commissioners, will only take the trouble to explain the real nature of their recommendations to the House of Commons, not only will the injury likely to arise from Lord Br. LEONARDI' speech be neutralised, but some pro- gress will be made towards enlightening the public as to the real merits of this great legal reform. Txs House of Commons is this day asked to pronounce a definitive opinion on the claims of the Civil Servants. The questions is reduced to its sim plest form. The Act of 1834 for the first time in troduced that system of deductions against which that class of the Civil Servant" who are affected by it have never ceased more or lea strenuously to pro test. The 27th clause of that Act is the funs et origo mall. It is this clause which first divided the Civil Service into two clauses—those who had taken office before 1829, and those who had taken office since. On the first class it imposed no deductio ns ; :on the second it imposed a deduction of 2 1 per cent. on salaries under 1001. a year, and of 5 per cent. on salaries above that amount. The complaint of the Civil Ser vants affected by this rule is very simple. They say, first, that the deductions are levied compulsorily on all, in order to provide a superannuation fund, thei benefits of which are only enjoyed by very few; ', secondly, that the clear amount of salaries upon' which the deductions are imposed is not, considering the present expenses of living and the existing re muneration for skilled labour, at all more than an adequate equivalent for the value of the services they render to the public, while it barely affords the means of maintaining that decent respectability of social position which it is on all grounds so desira ble that the employ's of Government should be enabled to keep up. The views thus advanced have been repeatedly adopted by those who have from time to time been specially appointed by the Legislature to investigate into the merits of the case. The Report of the Civil Service Superannuation Commission, which appeared last May, announced in the most explicit terms that the Commiseioners had felt it their duty "to recom mend the total abolition of deductions for the pur pose of superannuation, without any eorresponding reduction in the salaries on which such deductions hare been charged." The Bill introduced by lord Na.ts is framed upon the principle of this recommendation. It consists of a single clause, and that clause is confined to a single object—the repeal of the 27th section of the Act of 1831, which first im posed the existing system of deductions. More than this the Civil Service do not require ; this, at all events, the House of Commons, we confidently trust, will not refuse to concede. The case made out fur the abolition of these deductions is totally unan swerable. The salaries, free from the deductions, are not one farthing more than a fair compensation for tie work done, at the average market price of the day for skilled labour of a similar kind. The tax has all the objectionable characteristics that any tax can poesibly have. It is levied under • false plea. It is exacted from all under the guise of an insurance premium, in order to pro vide • superannuation fund in the benefits of which it is absolutely certain that all cannot, and Basally certain that bat very few can, participate. It is peculiarly oppressive and unequal : it mulcts most heavily those who are least able to support it. On the highest class of salaries it is not levied at all : the tide-waiter and the poet-office clerk are vic timised—the judge and the ambassador escape soot free. It is needless, however, to recapitulate the long catalogue of anomalhe and hardships which, whenever the ease has been fully and dispas sionately looked into, even by those originally most prejudiced against the claims of the Civil Servants, has, without a single exception, produce' the result of establishing the justice of their complaints and the validity of their petitions for redress. The one objection which is urged on the other side is simply the cost of being jest In the first place, whatever the figures may be, we demur to the plea. Justice, above all things, is the true maxim for such a Government as ours. Justice, ob serve, not weakness. We would not, to avoid a clamour or to secure a majority, vote compensation to thine interested in the maintenance of au abolished monopoly, but we would allow no popular clamour to stand in the way of giving a fair remu neration to thine in the efficiency and value of whose service the whole community has • very real and deep interest. It is an important public object that we should not deter able men from the public service by a niggardly scale of remuneration, or a vexatious system of deductions. It is an impor tant public object that we should not encourage dis abled men from lingering on in the public service by postponing superannuation allowances till too late a period, or fixing them at too inadequate a scale. If in order to secure these objects there should be re quired an additional sum of 75,0001. a year for the present, and probably 100,0001. a year for the future, who shall say that this is too large an amount to be expended by this great and wealthy community In procuring the moat efficient service from those to whom the civil bushier of the country is entrusted, and in removing from their minds that rankling same of injustice which the maintenance of the existing system is certain to perpetuate ? Let the House of Commons be well assured that in this matter the just and generous line of conduct is also the popular one. The following members are nominated to serve on the retort committee on the Chelsea New Bridge Bin Fir Francis Baring, Mr. Stafford, Viscount Duncan, Lord Orate Hazleton, Mr De Lacy Evans, Mr. Jackson, Captain Gray ,Mr. Patrick O'Brlns, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Monkey, Mr. The, Mr. C. Mewl, Sir Benjamin THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1857. 6De court. OSBORNE, JOLT 22. The Qaeen and tbs Prince Consort, drove:ontea terday afternoon, in an wen Hie Royal Higher, Lt Osborne t socesing, attendcd by Captain the Hoe. Dudley de Eon for fieliilitay, to to prevent at the meeting of the . Royal Agricultural Anauciation A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Ilarrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. A deputation from the parieh of Chiswick, rambling of Lord Robot Circevener, Mr. Jonathan Clark, and Mr. Wil liam Mills, churchwardens' Mr. F. Bich, and Mr. Robert Glendinning, evermore of the poor ; Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Robert Finnie, vestry clerk, had an inte rv iew with the Right lion. Sir Benjamin Hall, yesterday, at the °nice of Works, in Whitehall-place. Mr. Andrew, the Chairman of the Euphrates Valley Rail way, Major-Oenend Chesney, and Sir John kfaeneill, bad an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, at the Foreign office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Conseil sat neter dey. Judgment vas given in the appeal from the IJe of Man. Boardman and another v. Quayle and another." The petition, Bremer v. Freeman and Bremer " (Prerogative Court, Lettere of Administration= heard, and the Pad dington Estate petition wee pert The lords present were the Lords 'notice* Knight Brum, and Turner, Lord Wenaleydale, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir W. Made. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAT,—His Royal High ness the Prince Consort landed at the Southampton docks this seaming, from the Fairy yacht, attended by Captain Tie Rom, on his way from Osborne to Salisbury, to visit the Royal Agricultural Show there. The Prince was received at the docks by Messrs. Hedger and Levy, on the part of the Southampton Doe& Company, and by Messrs. Crumb* Scott, and Watkins, on the part of the South-Western Rail way Company. His Royal Highness returned from Selie ban, and embarked for Osborne on board the royal yacht Fairy, at the Southampton docks, at 5 p.m. Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and .11bert, Captain the Ron. Joseph Denman, will embark his Royal Highness the Prime Consort and mita on Sunday afternoon next, and convey him to Antwerp, to be present at the marriage of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria with the daughter of the Ring of the Belgians. Her Majesty late the Queen of the French em barked yesterday at Dover, In a special mail-pocket fur Oel end. The Doke of Devonshire has left Chiswick for his villa, in the neighbourhood of Spiel:dim, where Ids grace intends residing • few weeks, previously to going into Yorkshire. The Duchene of Wellington will give a dinner to b Majesty the Queen of the Netherton& at Maley House an Monday next. The dinner will be followed by • conceit, to which a small circle of the aristocracy have bean invited. The Duchess of &menet'. morning party at Wisubkdou Park, announced for Thursday, the 30th inst., will not take plus. The (luau will receive, 14 usual to- MOITOW. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, with the youthful Marquis of Douglas, have arrived In tusn from the Continent, after a protmeted ableure. The Earl and Countess Spencer and the Lady Barak Spume bars lift torn for Altborp Park, North►mp taaahbe. The Earl and Countess of Abergarenny and Lady Caroline Neville bare left their house in Portland-place fur Mirttair Manor, near Maidstone. Laid and Lady Lyndhurst and the lion. Miss Copley Weed to Isere town at the close of the parliamentary union for St Imoaard'aoa•Baa. His lordship has taken • manakin there for th►ee months. The Duke and Ducherd'Arnale were honoured with the presence of the Queen of the Netherlands yesterday, at aids AdrespFere given by their royal highnesses at Ortitles House, their beautiful villa at Twickenham. The Queen al rived about four o'clock, attended by the ladles and gentle men of her household. Her Majesty was introduced to the members of the es-royal family of France, of whom them vim prison; in addition to the Countess de Neuilly, the Duchess d'Oritems, secornpinied by her sone, the Count do Park and the Duke de Chartres, the Duke sad Duchess de Neuman, the Prim and Prisms de Jelnville, and the Duke sad Dueler dalteceferahr. The Merchione; of Aileabery's "dance." lest sewing, at the family resnaton In Pell-melt, eras hanoned retth the premare et the Duchers of Cambridp end the Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince and Primer Edward of ease Weisner, and Prince Frederick of Hohteln, His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Counters de Persigay were honoured with the pumas of the Duke of Cambridge at dinner at Albert-gate House last evening. The following were invited to meet his royal highness : Prince end Princess Edw it'd of Saxe-Weimar, the Austrian Minister and the Countess d'Apponyi, tho Duke de ()turnout, the Countess of Wilton and Lady Cathe rine Grey Egerton, the Earl Cowper, Daum and Daremees dllanteweree, Hon. Julian Fine, Mr. Lumley and Mr. Augastes Lumley. Col. the Iles. J. Macslousld was in ateendanoe on the Duke of Cambridge. The Earl and Countess of I krby entertained his EmeGracy the Premien Minister and the Countess Berm tar!, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Abercern nod and Ladles Louise and Catharine Hazoiltcm, the Earl of Liston!, the Countess of Joresy and Lady Clementine Vil liers, Loud and Lady Churildlk Lad Loughborough, Lord Dangannon, Lord litho Fitzgerald, Lord end Lady Emma Stanley, lest evening, at the leanly minion la St. James's square. The F.arl of Eglinton received the Nferquie of Salisbury, the F..rl of Coventry, Lord and Lady Poltimore, Lord and Lady Sondes and the Hoe. Mi.. Males, Colonel and Barmen North and Ma Doyle, Hon. Mr. North, lion. J. Pommes, Mr. Hamlike, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Campbell and Was Campbell, and @sleet party, et dinner on Tuesday evening, at hia resident* in St. Jantairequare. ;.-rj The Worcester Hera/rlgives currency toattondit that Lord Ward is about to many Mademoiselle riccolumfol. The Rev. Reginald Wynniatt, hes been in stituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the rectory olOskaey,Wßta, on the presentation of Rise Ryder, of Daley. LYCEUM TREATRE.—Msdame Riotori, who, pre vious to her aspoitara tram Ragland is giving a parka of dad predonnances in all he greatest characters, appeared yesterday evening on Lady Macbeth for the last time during bar quad easogoowat. The boom was crowded, and the audience were enthrisstla is their applause. Isrit Use or Pews.—The eeeleitiologist's bugbear, yiant Oen ualities n Its senses an , thproted scat, .in its form it Is and smith q, though it sib We peeves le mimed them to hie eloquent o invem kits have as mew eawasgles with each other, and meth CCEslired separately II we Weald arrive at any ersedad 00•0111WS 116/0161 6 / 4 1 the beet teethed of titling up Na chrecthe. Eash mods al in the congregation in hes ev applated seals, has its Own advantages ; bet we ethest idle be& It is to imsgine pious crew& sheath* Wm the &web, sad, la the fervour of their tlereelloa, ethersotthi wirer/elms they ore placed. Main ell tiers ',width we lath char records, alscollanseua ngem- Wee 1w the purpose of worship hays been liable to ehleetions of a we, serious character. On the other lisad mia devitioa l, le sr Med by the juxtaposition of kindred and sad the association of Ike with like, in the house prayer. Attention to ili.tracted by frequ ency of ebony sad weeny of position. The poor man's bembhil sue fe nuke r Msty to take alarm an the rich WWII pride, if the bblONOt lads hind/ elbowing his ma s t er; and if yet mere theregresthe sad nassmaly assoeiations are brought sheet by gismo, the esatissat they surgeet will not, we her, le dte theassualen of Wats "or the equality of all ba, g . Gat" The cpseetion, unfortunately, ia not how wo shall god room for these who are hurrying to come in, but how we shall attract those who are not sorry to have an ex cuse for staying away. Nothing to found tot:endow so mach to regular church 'Wisdom as the preeresion of a fixed place. We bare seen a half-empty church filled by allotting the enperfiuoua free seats; and the nominally tree seat. are MM. SO InlllllTl7 filled Me by occupon's to whom long maga seems to have paves a yresmiptive right. Nor is there any weight in the objection that yew, make people late for church. If the certainty of getting a seat snakes them unpunctual in setting out, the uncertainty of getting one would make them much oftener absent themselves altogether. —guar- Orly Amine, new number. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (not[ ova owe 00113SPONDS11174 PARIS, WED:4E4DAT Evans'. The English legal maxim—that every man should be presumed innocent until he be proved guilty—is very important to be borne in mind when reading the paragraph in the 3/orrigettr, which roundly charges Mazzini and Ledrn Rollin with being parties to a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor. The police reports upon which a Judge of Instruc tion acts so far as to submit a case to the Chamber of Accusation are often extremely loose, and it fre quently happens that the chamber does not found any indictment upon them. In the present instance the prosecution is only in a preliminary stage, and the proofs against the refugees in London may pos sibly turn out to be very weak. The plot in question was known to the government much longer ago than the month of which the Monileur speak,. I have reason to believe that as much as two or three months back representations relating to this very affair were made to the English cabinet, with a view to procure the extradition of Ledru Rollin and Mazzini, to answer a criminal charge, and the evidence was not then regarded as sufficient Tho three Italians, Tibaldi, Bartolotti, and Grilli, alias Sure, whose name% are now given as those of the persons em ployed to murder the Emperor, were not the only persons originally arrested on the charge. There were four more, who are at this moment, or at least very lately were, in Maze. Of these one is a woman, who, it has been already said, made very startling revelations, and another is a spy. Should the French government make out the case it now alleges there will be no occasion for any alteration in the law of England to comply with its wishes with regard to the individuals implicated. There can be no difficulty in giving up murderers to justice. But as the matter at present stands no one ought to think the worse of either Ledru Rollin or Mazzini on account of the company with which their names arc associated by the Moniteur. It is said that the long-talked-of restoration of the office of Grand Almoner of France is on the point of being effected in favour not of the Abbe Canino or the Bishop of Nan-y, both of whose names have frequently been mentioned, but of Cardinal Morlot, the Archbishop of Paris. The downward reaction hasi continued at the Bourse to-day with increased impetus. A certain sensation was created by the paragraph in the MOM . - tear about the plot, but great anxiety was felt about the Indian news,which may now arrive from one hour to another by telegraph from Cagliari. The Rente fell 53c. for cash, and 45c. for account, closing at ti6fr. 90e. and GM.. 9.7 e. Mobilicr Ml 40fr. There was heavy fall in railways. Orleans fell 17fr. 50c.; Northern, 20fr. ; Eastern, 12fr. 50c.; the Lyons fusion, 25fr. ; Southern, 20fr. ; and Western, 15fr. 1 1 The Bourse was extremely heavy at the close. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 18th have arrived. Two of tho spectators of the executions at Seville who were wounded, as already stated, bad died. The executions had caused a profound sensation in the town, all the shops being closed and the streets deserted. The number of persons killed in the recent affairs was 9R. The hand which had appeared near Ilaylen had formed the design of seizing Despenaferros, but had been dis appointed. At Badajoz, the authorities were taking precautions from the fear that the chiefs of the recent conspiracy at Lisbon might make an attempt to create disturbances there. Thu Criterio of Madrid, which had long been the organ of Marshal O'Donnell, had ceased to appear. The steamer' Pirono had sailed from Cadiz for Porto Rico with 60,000,000 reals, destined to replace the local money, the intention being to have for the future only the coins of the mother country in the colonies. This, it is stated, is the first time that silver has been so sent out. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (BY PUBMABINII AND BRITISH TELTORATN) CONSTANTINOPLE, JVLS 22. The following message, from our own correspon dent, has arrived here by the steamboat from Alex andria for transmission by telegraph: JOLT 14. The Simla arrived at Suez on the 12th instant, with thirty-five passengers and 40,31321. of gold. Her dates are—Sydney, May 23; Melbourne, May 30; King George's Sound, June 6; and Ceylon, June 23. The Oneida left Sydney on the oth of June for Europe, and left King George's Sound on the 14th June. The export of gold from the Australian colonies from 611 of April to 22nd of May wu to the value of 426,4301. In the Sydney market tallow is at from 401. to 561. Wool is higher, from Is. Sd. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Flour and freights are unaltered. With regard to exchange, sovereigns are at t per cent. premium. The amount of 206,6261. was received in enstom duties at Sydney from let Jan. to 22nd May. At Melbourne, Mr.O'Shaugbnessy's ministry having resigned, in consequence of a vote of want of confi dence, passed by 31 against 19, in the Victoria Le gislative Assembly, Mr. Ilaules is again Chief Se cretary ; Mr. M'Culloch is Commissioner of Cus toms; Mr. David More is President of the Board of Land and Works; Mr. Edden is Treasurer; Mr. Music is Attorney-General; Mr. Fellows, Solicitor- General; and Mr. Mitchell, Postmaster-General. In the Melbourne market the business done in im ports was very brisk, and confidence was re-esta blished. A duty of 10s. per pound has been levied on opium. The railway from Melbourne to St. Kilda has been opened. Gold is selling at Melbourne from 31. 17s. Gd. to 31.195. Gd. Exchange) on London is at 2 per cent. premium. Amongst the vessels sailing for London were the Indomitable and Bwiftsure, with 116,486 ounces of gold; and for Liverpool, the James Baines, Light ning, Summer Cloud, and Sardinian, with 112,482 ounces. The last weekly exports were not up to the average in Melbourne; the total shipments for the year were I,os 3,401 ounces of gold. UNITED STATES. r, WIDNZSD4T. The United States mail packet North Star, be longing to the Vanderbilt line, has arrived at Cowes, on her way to Havre. She left New York on the 11th inst. She has brought 16.5 passengers and specie to the amount of 184,886 dole. The New Fork Herald says that since the death of Mr. Marcy, Secretary Can has partially deter mined to make public the reply of the late Secretary of State to the French demand for indemnity for losses sustained by French citizens at the bom bardment of Oreytown. Everything in Kansas is peaceable. Two-thirds of the pro-slavery and free state men of Kansas, Missouri, and Mississippi Valley have endorsed Governor Walker's policy in Kansas. At New Orleans the cotton market wu firm, but little business doing. Nine hundred and fifty slaves were landed at Cuba on the 24th ult. The slavers started for the Brazils as soon as they had landed their cargoes. A British frigate from Jamaica is gone in pursuit of them. At New York the sales of cotton on the 10th em- braced nearly 800 bales Upland Midlands at about 141 c. to 14jc. Flour was in moderate demand, and prices were lower. Wheat was heavy, and lard was firm. Coffee firm, but quiet. Fifteen persons belonging to the Dead ltabbits party concerned in the 4th of July riots at New York have been found guilty of manslaughter by the coroner's jury. Two more persons have died of their wounds. None of the rioters have been appre hended. Ten vesseln were in quarantine at New York. Law proceedings have been taken by the owner of the alleged slave barque Panchita against the British officer who seized her, and an order of arrest was issued, and bonds fixed at 13,000 dole. Parot, concerned in the French railroad frauds, escaped from gaol, but was recaptured. Several wrecks have taken place in the Bahamas. IN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The European and American Company's steamer Jason has arrived at Cowes, on her way to London, from New York. She left New York on the Bth inst., and her news has been anticipated by the Persia. She has on board about 1,300 tons of cargo. THE MUTINY IN INDIA. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. This morning were issued, in the form of a return to parliament, a series of despatches, nineteen in number, relative to the late mutinies, and addressed by the Clovemor- General of India, in coned', to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. In the first despateh, dated Feb. 7. the Governor-General, in council, inform, the directors of a display of feeling on the part of the &pops relative to the nee of grease for the c►rt ridges. Ho writea "Fort William, Feb. 7. " We hare the honour to transmit, for the information of your honourable court, copy of a correspondence relative to en Unellaineall which first manifested itself amongst the men attached to the depot of musketry at Dum Duet, in con sequence of a report hiving reached them that the grease used in the arsenal for preparing the cartridges for the Enfield rifles was composed of the fat of pigs' and of cows.' " The men were appeased on being salved that the matter would be duly representtd, and, at the suggestion of the Inspector-Ociteral of Ordnance, we have, as a present immure, authorised the issue of tartridgen without grease, tho men being permitted to apply, with their own hands, whatere7eittore they may prefer. "A. It appears, however, that service-ammunition to quires to be bundled, and to be greased previously with • composition that should last for a emaiderable time without renewal, we hove requested bin Excellency the Commander in-Chief to cause some experiments to be made at Meerut, where the presence of a (tine Corps (her Majesty's 60th) offers means which do not exist at any other station, for the purpose of ascertaining the best ingredients to be used in greasing the cartridges, with reference both to the feelings of the native soldiery end to the requirements of the service. We hare desired that we may be favoured with his excel lency's advice on this subject as early as may be conveniently practicable. We would suggest to your honourable court the expediency of obtaining some information on this subject in Engltuid, where doubtless many experiments have been made. " Yonr honourable court will observe that the matter has been fully explained to the men at liarmckporo and at Dum Duni, end that they appear perfectly satisfied that there ex isted no Intention of Interfering with their caste; and also that proper matimuse will be taken to remove the came of their objection to the oempoeition of the material used for greasing the cartridges. "At the euggestlon of the Inspector-General of Ord name, we beg to recommend to your honourable court that no more ready-made ammunition for the Enfield rides be sent to this president 7." _ The directors, in reply, exprces their entire approval of this order, and add that—" No more cartridges will bo sent from this country. In making theta up in India there will not, we en persuaded, be any difficulty in your prescribing a composition which, whilst sufficient for the purpose, will be unobjectionable to any of the castes in our native army." In • dispatch, dated April 8, the Ouvernor-General men tions the expedient proposed to be adopted. He says " The chief objeCtinit on the part of the sepoys was to biting cartridges, which, it was eariently reported among them, were greased with fet of pigs and COWP. On this point our letter to the adjutant-general of the army, No. 116, dated the sth March, 11157, has conveyed full information. "It ;appean doubtful whether any composition free from grease of some sort, ea wax and oil, would answer the required purpose; and taking into coneideration the desir abloom of avoiding the practice of applying to the mouth anything which might be repugnant to the religions preju dices of the natives, we have adopted the euggeetion of Major Bontein, commanding the school of maaketry at Dum Dum, to abolish in tho platoon exercise the practice of biting off the end of the .'artridge, and with this object to alter the instructions so as to calm the tad of the cartridges to be torn off by the left hand. "Ilis Excelkncy the Commander-in-Chid has recom mended that the altered modo of loading should be appli cable to the ordinary percussion musket as well as to the ride musket, and we have authorieed this change to be carried into effect. t` We consider that the new mode of loading should be introduced in every regiment, European or native, in India, and we have instructed the governments of Madras and Bombay accordingly ; but we are unable to extend the alteration to her Majesty's infantry regiments serving In The tateceedin7 dispatches continue to record various de menetrations of a mutinous feeling on tho part of the Sepoys, the punishment decreed fur indi vidual offences, and at last the disbandment of whole regiments. On the 18th of May the Governor- General forwards to the directors a narrative of the dime. trona events at Meerut and Delhi, and of the mesaures taken to meet the emergency. In a despatch of the following day, the governor and council urge the necessity fur a material increase in the strength of the European troops. They write " The =comity for an increase of the substantial strength of the army in the Bengal eetublishment —that is to say, of the European troops upon this establishment—bee been long apparent to us; but the necessity of refraining from any ma teriel increase to the charges of the military department, in the present state of our finance., has prevented as hitherto from moving your honourable court in this matter. The late untoward occurrences at Berham pore, Fort William, Barrackpore, and Lucknow, crowned by the shocking and alarming events of the past week at Meerut and Delhi, and taken in connexion with the knowledge we have lately acquired of the dangerous state of feeling in the Bengal waive army generally, strange and, at present, unaccountable as it ia, have convinced us of the urgent necessity of nut merely a pottiuve increase of our European strength, but of a material increase in the pro portion which our European troops hear to the native regular troop on the establishment. We are of opinion that the ' ' latb;r is now the more mewling necessity of the two. "We betiers that all these objccta, political, military, sad finansial, will be immediately attained in a very material degree by taldag adrautam of the present opportunity la the manner we bays now the honor respectfully to propose; and we am no other way in which .11 the male objects ma be asking iR three, now or prospectively. We recan mead that the six nadirs regiments which ere la offset no longer In existence should not be replaced, whereby the establishment of Regular Native Infantry would be reduced to sixty-right regiments; and that the European othoere of them late regiments should be used to officer three regiments of Europeans to be added to your establishment at this Presidency. we oCaltdently aferta.that that the government will be much etrongrr in respect of all important internal end external punning, with three additional European of the established strength, than it would be by embodying six native regiments of the established strength , Red rre anticipate no innmvenience _in respect of minor objects, comer °Nitta, in time of peaeo and tranquillity, from the consequiut imam, rical reduction of regular troop. Indeed, the financi a l result of the measure, ff carried out as we propose, will lesre a considerable surplus available, if it should be thought flt so to employ it, for en augmentation of irregulars, who, for all such minor objects, are much better, Liven Si much (beam than regulars of any description. "Your honourable court will observe that at present the relative strength of Europese% to Native infantry is th e Company'. Bengal army is dhcropprtienately amall la the Bombay array it is as I be 9 2-3rd4, and in the Madras army aa 1 to 16 2.3rds, while in the Bengal arms it is u Ito 24 2-3rds. If the propesed measure is adopter!, the pro portion in the Bengal army will be between those in the Bombay and Madras arnica, viz., 1 to 11 2-3rds." . . The court of directors, in % despatch of July N , prodite their best attention "at the earliest possible period," to the Governor-General's report of Ilia measures, and after appleod• iog his eivellero y and the officials for the judgment they have shown, add, " Wo confidently expect that the next deepatEbei we shall receive will apprise us of the complete maces of the measurm taken for the suppreadon of armed mistime to our governuient ; and we feel assured that the woe Energy and skill which have been displayed in making heed eo k e , t the most formidable danger to which the British Govern ment in India could be exposed will bo employed in taki ag precautions against the return of that danger, and in knee diately ascertaining and removing, so far as is preEtiE able, the causes which may have led to it." The papers close with a despatch fmm the Governor- General of India, in council, dated the .sth nit., containing apparently the latest official account of the rebellion, rt. oeived by ordinary way : " Fort William, June S. "Wo transmit herewith, for the information of your honourable court, a continuation down to the present date, of the narrative forwarded by the last mail, taken from messages by the electric telegraph, of what has occurred it different stations in this presidency, in connexion with the die affection prevalent in thenativearmy. A report received foam the Honorable Lieut.-Governor, North-western Pruinees, is transmitted herewith, but it brings events down only to the 22nd of last month. •" We regret that we are unable to forward reports from Agra of a later date, and detailed reports from other stations, bot we have received none. We have called on the civil sod military authorities to furnish us with reports of all that bee happened at the seven, stations, but the pressure upon all persons in authority has been so great that it is not to be wondered at that they have not found time to compile cm. nected statement. of occurrences. " Your honorable court will observe with ratidaction that the tidings now sent to you are not without an minas • tare of hopeful intelligemce. The 70th Regiment of Entire Infantry, stationed at Ilarrackpore, has come forward to declare its loyalty, and its dc4iro to emulate the European troops in punishing the rebellious regiments at Delhi. The Gorernor-Genersill proceeded to Barrackpore, and personally thanked the regiment at a general parade; and we have reason to believe that this act, while it has had a very beneficial effect in strengthening the loyalty of the 70th Regiment and others at Barrackpove, will have the happiest Influence on the minds of all well-divvied men in the native army. three companies of the 37th Regiment at Barrack• pore lost no time in following the good example of the 70th. "Meanwhile, we had already received a spontaneous decla ration of loyalty from the irregular cavalry of the Ramgher force, in which the infantry of that force participated. And it was further reported that the Remghur irregular ca valry had signally marked their sincerity by having, on that hearing et the outrage committed by the mutinous regi ments at Meeruut and Delhi, written to their comrades who were on leave in the district, to offer their services to the ge neral °Meer commanding the Meerut division. "The Gth Native Infantry at Allahabad 1111.9 also come for• ward with an aaaurance of its devotion to government, and en offer of its services against the mutineera. "We have publicly acknowledged these several declare. tione of loyal and soldiedike feeling. "On the 30th of May Last, a part of the Meerut force was attacked near Ghazewoddea Nagger by a large body of ' • • " the insurgents from Delhi, with nee guns. The 'in 'urgent* were thoroughly beaten by our troops, and dispersed with much lose; and the five gun., with ammunition end a great quantity of intrenching tools, were taken from them. Our loss was 44 men killed and wounded, chiefly of the 60th Royal Rifles, but the greater number of theme were injured by the exploeion of a tumbril left by the fugitive insurgents at the bridge on the Hindu!, Nuddec, neer the place where the action 111/ fought. This victory will, no doubt, be of great value in proving to the mutineers, and to the whole army, the prowess of our European troops . , even in comparatively small bodies; and its occurrence just now is still wore im portant, when, owing to the difficulty in procuring sufficient carriage, sad in moving the siege train winch hie Excellency the Curiunszder-in-Chief was organising for We attack on Delhi,. delayof some days must take place before the attack ing force can reach that fortress. " But we deeply regret to say that the at tack will not be made by Gemini Anson in person. An allusion to his having died was received by us on the let inatant, end em the 3rd this was confirmed by tidings of his excellency's decease at Uratellah, on the morning of the 27th May, by cholera. General Anson west have preveded to Kumla some few days previously, for a message from his excellency has reached us dated Kurnaul, 25th of May. It is probable that he bad been obliged by illness, to return to Umbolleh where he died. We gst no timo after the receipt of this melancholy intelli gence, in transmitting to Umballah, by such means as maybe available at Cawnyore and Agra, and north-west of those plekee,our instructions to Maj.-Gent Sir 11. Barnard, K.C.8., commanding the Sirhind Division, to assume the controand of the force proceeding against Delhi; and we have urged upon that officer the neecreity of hi, attacking the insurgents and mutineers at that place at the earliest powible date• the continuance of coder and quiet, already much it:- wined by cxeitment at the most importont Madan of Allahabad, Cawnpore, bicknow. and Agra, end in the adjoining districts, being dependent on the early and signal discomfiture of ie rebels in arms at Delhi, and in its neighbourhood. Major-General Reed, CB., her Majesty'. service, cow mending the I'eebawur division , euemeda by right of seniority, and according to custom, to the command of the Bengal Army as Provincial Commander-in-Chief; but con sidering the emergency of existing cireunistancea, and the absolute necessity of committing the command of the army of this presidency townie officer of pre-eminent qualifications, in point of knowledge of the native troops and Indian experience, we have thought it right to request Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, K.C.B. the Com mander-in-Chief at Fort St. George, to come to Calcutta with aft convenient expedition, to assume the office of Ad* Commander fts-Chief of the Bengal Army. We trust that this important measure will be approved of by your honour able court. It is temporary only, and it will rest with the home government to appoint some officer to succeed to the high office of Commander-in-Chief in India and of the liengel presidency, in auccession to the late General the Honourable G. Anson, deceased. . . . . Every effort is being made to &watch European troops to Catenpore. The 84th Foot have been sent up almost en tire; a detachment of that regiment is expected by the Coronoondel immediately from Itongoou. Tito lot Madras European Fusilier, have been also sent up ty transit earriagiui, by the bullock train, and by steamers. _ _ _ . " Of the 64th Foot, who have just arrived from Bombsy j MO men will proceed on a steamer and flat immediately, an 4 the remainder of the regiment will be sent up by dawk car• riages and the bullock train. .The other regiments expected from Bombay and Ceylon will be pushed upward am expeditiously as pnmaible " We are now despatching instruction. to Rangoon to send round her Majesty'. 29th Foot, as soon so the curpe can be brought down from Thyetmew. "It is our confident hope that by :be next mail we shall have it in our power to report to your honorable court that signal retribution ham been inflicted on the mutineers and rebels at Delhi, and that the immediate recult has been s perceptible tendency in ell the dinricts to return, at no (EA. taut period, to quiet and good order." - - MR. JONAS WEBB'S RANN.—The annual letting of the celebrated Babraham rams bee just taken piers., and attracted • numerous attendance from all parts of the country. At the public letting 66 rams were hired, and the total amount realised was 1,8124 12e., or 2V. 17e. 7d. per head. This was a high average, although rather below that realised last year. In 1852 69 rams were let fur 221. 3e. Id. each; in 1863 71 for 221. Ga. 3d. each ; and in 1866 77 for 331. ls. aid. each. The highest price commended on the Croccasion by any single ram was 197 Owes, and this . largest stun Mr. Webb bas ever realised for the hire of one of hie aplendid breed: The hirer was Mr. Lindsey, of New York. The Earl of Leioesteir, the Earl of Yarborough, and atom noblemen were hirers of other rams, end 70, 60, 71, 100, and 52 guineas were realised in five instances. The heehaws trensected at the public letting does not convey, however, a complete idea of the extent of Mr. Webb's trans actions as • great deal of business is concluded with bins privately. About 300 gentlemen were present at the usual dinner ?: Jima by Mr. Webb to hie visitors. The chair was men by the Honourable Eliot Yorke, M.P., and the hon. gent men was supported by Mr. Adeline, M.P. for Cam bridgeshire, and Mr. Wynne, M.P. for Merionethshire. Among the foreign gentlemen present were Mr. Sa h, Rom Cobleatz, and the Marquis de opts, from France.