The Express. — London, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

INDIA AND CIIINA. TILE OVERLAND MAIL. TIIF: WAR IN BURNIAII. A • n try of the following appeared in part of out lave ....lon yesterday: We I Lee received our journals and despatches in sze mire - hin of the Overland Mail. The dates are :- 1 1 ,, mt h a e. 31.9 23 ; Calcutta, May 5 ; Hong Kong, April Jrum the letter of our own correspondent and the summary of the Orerlawl Bombay Times we obtain the hilloeing particulars of the occurrences which hoc taken place since the despatch of the previous mil : The Governor-General having, as formerly men cased, conceded to the Burmese some points in the tnety which were most obnoxious to them and im mittrial toes, they have been allowed thirty days to make up their minds on the remainder, at the termi c,tiaa of which it was expected they would be as unable to come to any conclusion as ever. All the lighter steamers meanwhile were being got in a state of preparation for ascending the river to Ava, an operation which, if performed ten months since, mould have closed at once the war, the second part M which we arc only now commencing. General G o dwin, it is said, has claimed and been allowed a sum of two thousand rupees a month piece April, ls:)2, in excess of pay anl allowances, to meet his pers.mal expenses. Had he been dealt with as the Chinese deal with their doctors, and had all his emoluments cut from the time the war ought to have been until that when it actually was concluded, we might have been, by the end of May, 1853, some what nearer the termination of hostilities than we arc. Since the affair of Heeling five thousand men are said to have been enrolled as a militia at Maulmein, to be called out in case of emer gency. Sir Frederick Currie, having terminated his five years' term of councillor duty, has left India for good, having been succeeded in council by Mr. Se cretary: Morin. General Sir Hugh heeler has also left ; and Sir Joseph Theckwell, having closed his term of' divisional employment, is about to leave, after an almost un precedented amount of severe field service in India, extending over a period of close on 20 years. India at present enjoys and endures its usual hot season tranquillity and discomfort. The Governor-General and Governor of Madras continue at the scene of their duties at their respective presidencies—the Governor of Bombay at his customary place of re creation on the hills. The report laid before the United States Congress on naval affairs some months since has just been published, from which it appears that America proposes relieving England of the bulk of her Oriental commerce by establish ing direct steam communication betwixt Cali foraia and China, with a railway from New York to the Pacific. We mentioned in our summary of the 2sth ult. that they had intimated their deter mination to force Japan to open its ports to foreign trade, and that the inevitable result of this must be a Yankee settlement, a fort, troops, and territories on the Chinese border—the germ, in fact, of another Anglo-Saxon empire in the cast. The whole matter has now become developed. America is determined to share with England in the products and traffic of India. and unless a more effective form of govern ment than that which we now possess is provided us, our Transatlantic brethren will speedily come to have the lion's share, and Manchester be left to cla mour not only fur cotton to supply her mills, but for customers to buy her manufactures. The absurdi ties of the furlough regulations arc once more for the twentieth time beginning to be agitated, with a view to their alteration, and an excellent illustration of the folly of the principle on which they are based has just been afforded by tho return of Professor Watson on sick leave to England, by which he vacates his appointment. The reader will recollect that a Company s officer on staff employ ment may obtain two or three years' leave when sick, and that in this time he may range from the Arctic to the Antarctic if he keeps between the maridiani of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape H&c ; if he goes westward of the former or east ward of the latter of these, he returns at once to his regimental rank. In Australia, where he can gain nothing but health—and that much less perfectly than in England—and where a letter might not reach him within six months of its despatch, were an emer-i gency requiring his services to arise—he is safe. In England, where he might be reached in twenty-six days, and from which he might be back in fourteen weeks after he was written for, and where three months would do him as much good as a twelve month anywhere else, ho sacrifices everything but his commession. Professors Girard and Peet fall sick—the one proceeds to the Neilgherries, the other to Australia—both receive part of their emolu ments during their absence, and resume their appoint. ments on their return. Professor Watson falls sick and is ordered to England—the moment he quits Bombay he vacates his chair, and on his return he finds his place occupied by another. The regulation was made before the introduction of the overland communication, when Australia was unknown to us, and return of post from England could not be de pended on in less than a twelvemonth, and the Cape was the only place of resort ; it was half-way, and was therefore preferable to the whole way home ; and in India we must be content if our arrangements are not more than half a century be hind the world. We have just received full parti culars of the loss of the brig Arienis, wrecked in the island of Engano, near Java, in January, 1432. Her crew were detained for a twelvemonth on the island, during which time the captain and first officer, the only Europeans of the party, died. Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy has made over 10,0001. to government. foe the purpose of endowing a school of design ; and a large donation is forwarded by this day's steamer, by Hamlet, the famous banker, to the funds of the London East India Reform Society. Our railway passenger traffic continues undiminished, from 800 to 1,000 natives proceeding daily along the line. Mr. Le Geyt, who was removed in March last from his seat on the Budder bench—for what reason no one knows—proceeds to-morrow to take his place on the bench at Poona, an appoint ment of similar responsibility but somewhat lower emoluments. An outline of the evidence taken before the committees on Indian affairs in March last, I, s just been published by the Madras Atha swum, and will probably reach the people of Eng land by this circuit of 16,000 miles. From the dim cussiocs in the newspapers up to the Nth April, it is quite clear that nothing was known in London of the revelaticms that had been made in the com mittee rooms in Westminster the month before. Sir Erskine Perry's appearance as champion of the far famed Nursoo Punt, of the Baroda Blue Book, has occasioned considerable astonishment to his friends. A great deal has been written in the course of the month oa the grievances of the Indian Navy—a ser vice the emoluments and honours allowed to which are being steadily decreased in proportion as its duties and responsibilities multiply, and which ought either to bo extinguished at once, or to be placed on that footing in -relation to the army on which it so groundlessly professes to stand. We have just beard of the death, at New Goa, of Mr. Stapylton, late of her Majesty's 10th Hussars, and of Mr. Gib son, at llhoolia, formerly of the King's Own, two melancholy illustrations of the brief interval which usually elapses betwixt officers quitting the army under a cloud, and leaving the world. Beautiful specimens of a Goerat lion and lioness, presents from Sir Erskine Perry to the London Zoological Society, are now being exhibited at Bombay. Those who are fond of the great and wonderful had an op portunity of seeing, at the Asiatic Society's last mocthly meeting, the remains of at least seven species of elephants; the crania of the two existing species, the African and Indian elephants; parts of the skeleton and the great tusks of the Mam moth ; teeth and parts of the jaws of other species from the Island of Perim and the Sewalik Hills, as well as remains of mastodons—of the hexa protodon, or hippopotamus with six front teeth, and other animals whose races have long departed. Nor should we forget also the remains of another race who have a w ay—the Grecian sculptures. It is but a st i crr iP Mime since the society's museum was enriched by a number of beautiful specimens of Greek art from the nits of a Buddhist temple close to Pesbawur, and now there is a collection from a Buddhist building just discovered on the banks of the Indus close to lerruck, in Lower Seinde. Thus de WI trace the infusion of Grecian taste, if not of Grecian workmanship, along the course which Alex ander took, from the Attock downwards to the sea. Amongst the passengers who return to England by this day's steamer, we observe the name of Commander Campbell of the Indian Navy, who has just returned from Burmah, suffering from severe indisposition. Captain Campbell has now been for 24 years in India, and during this period few officers have shared more largely in survey or in general active service. Empl o y e d on the Euphrates, on the Indus, in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and China, and in all cases with distinction, he is one of the mot scientific and accomplished officers in the Com pany's employment. In ,larch, 1852, he proceeded in command of the Sesoetris to Burmah, and has there continued ever since. He distinguished himself in the destruction of the stockades on the Irrawaddy, which he assaulted with red-hot shot, being the first, we believe, who ever discharged those fearful mis siles from eight-inch guns from on board a steamer. With the largest and most arduous division of the duties imposed upon them, the Indian navy has here, as elsewhere, come off with the smallest share of honours and of requital, and we have been told that Captain Campbell, a man of the plainest and least expecsive habits, returns to Bombay fully a hundred pounds poorer than he left it. A second petition from the Bombay . Association and other native inhabitants of this Presidency goes home by this day's mail, praying for a committee on the spot, and for various other mattets, not referred to in their previous petition. It is marked by that tone of remarkable good Bence and moderation which has characterised all the Bombay proceedings ; and the astonishment of tho people at home must bo not that the natives ask so much, but that they demand so little—considering what they are entitled to ex pect from a country which pretends to govern India solely for the good of its inhabitants. The fact is eminently instructive, as demonstrative of the right feeling and proper appreciation of the question of our East India fellow-subjects, who clearly ask for no more power than they can be surely entrusted with, or than they mean to exercise for the good of their countrymen. Altogether the market is unusually inactive, even for this season of the year. CHINA. The Orerland Friend of China, in its general summary, thus chronicles and comments on the events which took place previous to the despatch of tho mail. We expressed an opinion in our lost overland paper to the effect that we thought the probabilities were that the Honourable Humphrey Marshall, United States Commissioner in China, would see that it was the best policy to allow things to take their course, and in no way to show to one side more favour than to the other. We have been disap pointed in Colonel Marshall, who has proved to his eulogists that "he is not a man to shirk responsi bility," and at the same time has given impartial observers reason to believe of his diplomacy that its exemplification savours of " raw Yankee." The Susquehannah, as before mentioned, reached Shang bee on Sunday, the 27th of March, and found his excellency Sir George Bonham exercising that laissez faire policy which, no doubt, while congenial to himself, will prove most acceptable to Downing street levers of ease. Whether or not the two en voys had an interview, we do not know. Commu nication any way will have been brief; for, on Tuesday, Sir George started for Ningpo, returning to Shanghae on Saturday, as the C o l one l was leaving in the Susquehannah on an intended trip to Nanking. For a week previous to this period rumours were rife in Shanghae that Nanking was in possession of the rebel army ; but although only distant some 150 miles or so, with a water communication to within five miles of the walls, nothing certain was, nor is there at the pre sent time, so far as we are advised, known on the point. One thing, however, was apparent, that the Shang hae Taoutae had led the Viceroy to believe that di rectly foreign war steamers arrived from the south they would proceed, as requested, to the assistance of the beleaguered city. The mere appearance, there fore, of the Susquehannah anywhere on the river above Shanghae, was calculated to raise the hope. of the imperialists, and to depress those of the insur gents ; who, if succeeding, will, with justice, be dis posed to feel ill will, without discrimination, towards all foreigners in the Celestial Empire. The exasperation of the insurgents at what they deem general foreign interference being currently believed at Shanghae, it became a measure of com mon prudence on the part of our Superintendent to intimate to the new government the exact pailtion in which foreigners stand , and on Saturday, the 9th inst., Mr. Meadows, interpreter at the Shanghae consulate, started for Suchow, there, we suppose, intending to take the grand canal and proceed direct into the insurgent camp. The action on Mr. Mea dows' part is bold, and will doubtless be properly appreciated by her Majesty's government. Two days prior to his departure the answer made by her Majesty's plenipotentiary to the Taoutae's applica tion for assistance wan thus notified to the foreign community : NOTIFICATION. British Consulate, Shanghai, April 8,1853, Iler Majesty's Consul is directed by her Majesty's Pleni potentiary to circulate, for general information, the an nexed copy of his answers to his Excellency the Taoutai's application for assistants in the defence of the city. (Signed) ECTITERPOILD ALCOCL, Consul. To the British community at Shanghai. British Consulate, Shanghai, April 7, 1853. Sir,-1 have the honour to report that B. E. Woo, Taoutae, paid me an official visit to-day in order per , smelly to urge the expediency of • declaration from the foreign consuls at this conjuncture, which would ' enable him to assure the people of Shanghai that the ships of war at present in port would protect them and lend effective assistance to defend the city from any I attack on the part of the insurgents. I told him it would be seceuary that I should take your excellency's instruc tions before I could give him any reply, and, in conformity with these I have now to state that I directed Mr. Inter preter Me adows to call upon the Taoutae, and inform him thee your excellency could hold out no promise whatever of assistance in defence of the city if attacked by the insurij gent forces; bet that unquestionably you would defend the peoperty within the foreign settlement if any attack upon it were made. In regard to any danger to be apprehended from thieves or marauders within the walls of the city, you would naturally desire to assist the authorities In prevent ing the pillage of honest citizens; but that you must re serve to yourself the right to determine what course should be pursued when the circumstances which might call for any iatervention were before you." I have the honour to be, sir, your Excellency's most obedient bumble servant, • (Signed) RCTRZEEORD ALCOCK. To his Excellency Sir George Bonham, But., K.C.B. True copies, (Signed) FREDC. HOWL HALL Our last, of the 11th, brought down news of the rebellion from Shanghai to the 28th ult. We have now dates to the 12th inst. Previous to the Bth inst. the success of the rebel force had been rapid; the most current information was that the city of Nankin had fallen into their hands, and that Chinkeangfoo had been taken without opposition. On the Bth instant reports reached of the hostile intentions of the rebels against the foreign commu nity in particular, and that they intended advancing on Shanghai, which caused the greatest alarm and confusion, and the inhabitants of the city were moving into the country, and the united naval force and the whole community commenced to fortify and make preparations for the defence of the British settlement, and a volunteer corps was at once formed. Later accounts from Loochou had been re ceived, stating that something had checked the rebels' approach, and matters were more quiet. The rebel force had evacuated Chinkeangfoo, and were retreating upon Nankin. This has been confirmed by advice* received from Loochou on the 11th, from an enterprising volunteer of the British diplomatic department, who had reached there in disguise and in safety. The Tartar General, Heang Yueng, with the Grand Imperial army, was close to Nankin, and which, it was generally believed, he had taken pos session of. An engagement between the two forces was expected to take place about the 10th inst., and till the result be known, all will be intense anxiety and suspense. Applications had been made to the foreign powers for assistance, by the local authorities, but a strict neutrality seemed to prevail. HONG KONG. Since the departure of the last mail, the health of the European portion of the force has been very good, no death having occurred. Among the native troops there were three deaths, two in the Gun Lucars, and one in the Ceylon Rifle detachment, all from Ben Berl. Yesterday morning's statement THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1853, gave the following number of sick under treatment : Ordnance, 5 ; 59th regiment, 29 ; Ceylon Mies, 18 ; Oue Lucas, 6 ; total, 58. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's st. Pottinger came in last evening about sundown, bringing 1,214 chests Patna and 319 Be mires Opium. The Pottinger left Calcutta on the 31st ult., but owing to the displacement of some of her machinery, lost a couple of days drifting about in a calm whilst repairing. She left Singapore on the 12th instant—has had strong head-winds the last four days—and passed the Paoushun and Erin some three or four days ago. From Rangoon we have, per Straits Times, the following intelligence: Great Barron Pagoda, March 10, 1853.-1 hasten to give you the cheering news, arrived but last night from Prome, on the accuracy of which every reliance may be placed. Our commissioner arrived here last night, and will return to Proms, accompanied by the commodore, for the purpose of signing the treaty. The high officers from the court of Ava are expected at Prome by the 25th lust. They arc most anxious for peace; but whether they will swallow the large and bitter pill prepared for them by our politicale remains to be seen. The Berenice has been detained, I suppose to carry the above particulars for the information of the Governor-General. Tho people at Ava are literally starving from scarcity of grain. The heat continues unabated. _ All is well and quiet at Rangoon, Pegn, Hamada, and Promo. The land column under Brigadier•Geoeral Steel, C. 8., is getting on famously, by capturing the enemy's guns to any number. A rumour is prevalent that the old King, who was ?lOU eat inventus, is going to thrash his brother, whom our friends would have king. Should such be the fact, we must support our priAje, and with this view the general, with a strong force, will move for Ave, it is expected, on the 25th inst.—more anon. The heat continues unabated during the day, but the mornings and nights are cool and refreshing. Sichnesa, lam glad to say, is not prevailing to any alarming extent ; and small pox, according to mercantile phreseology, " on the de• cline." MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Casualty by death in India since thu departure of the mail on the 10th May.—Madras : Colonel Nepean, at Bom bay, on the 14th Way. Corrow Wes have been 1.180 bales. Prices are 1 dol. to 11 dol. lower. Nos. 16-24, 25 dole. to 271 dols.; Nos. 28.32, ze deli. to 321 dole. ; Nom. 38.42, 32 dole, to 37 dole. Lowe. Ctorus.—Low prices have induced large pur chases to be made. The Bales have been about 70,000 pieces. Greys quoted 1 dol. 65c. to 2 dole. 70c.; whites, 1 dol. 60c. to 2 dole. 80c.—being a decline on greys of 10c. to 20c., and on whites, 10c. to 16e. Woom.swe.—Sp. Stripes, assorted, 70e. to 96e. 300 pieces sold. Long ell., for an assortment, 6 dole. 26c. to 6 dole. 4k; about 3,000 pieces sold. MITALS.—Iron is firm. Nail rod, 2 dole. 30c. to 2 dole. 6.5 c.; bar square, 1 dot . 90 c . t o 2 d o l e . 10 c . ; fi st , 1 d o l. 90 c . to 2 doll. 10e. ; round, 2 dole. 10e. to 4 dole. 80c. ; hoop, 2 dole. 80e. to 3 dole. 80c.; tin plates are lower 70c. to 80s., and quoted 6 dole. to 6 dole. 20c. 'ft:WERT Orcvm, 36.5 dole. COCHINIAL, 95 dole. to 110 dole. ' SILL.—The small quantity in the market is held for Taatlee, Nos. 1-2, 480 dole. ; No. 3, 425 dole.; Tayeaam, 300 dole. Tart.—The remaining small supply is held at high rates, and there is little business to report. Prices are without alteration. The export from Canton from July 1, 1852, to April 22, 18.53, 31,200,0001 b.; the export from Shanghai tram July 1, 18.52, to April 12, 1833, 31,100,000; total, 65,300,0001 b. The export from Canton from July 1, 18.51, to April 22, 18.52, 34,090,0001 b. ; the export from Shanghai from July I, 18.51, to April 22,18.52, 26,800,0001 b.; total, 6o,890,0003). EXCHANGE ON ENGLAND.—American credits at six months, 61. 00. to Gs. Id.; on India Company's accepted p..per, Rt. 239 per 100 dole. FartunTa.—One vessel loading for London, at 3L 10s. t 3 31. 15.. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, MAT 21. There is little to remark on the state of the money mar ket since our last report. The speculative demand for go vernment securities that tease in the early part of the month has entirely subsided, and prices have somewhat re ceded. The transactions in bank shares have been very limited, and altogether our market is unusually inactive even fur this season of the year. Since the date of our last commercial report we have had large arrivals of shipping, and a fresh supply of goods having been thrown upon a market already dull, owing to the near approach of the close of the season, added to the anxiety shown by holders to realise before the monsoon, and the caution evinced by dealers in making purchases, have tended to reduce the pre vious value of manufactured goods. GRIT SHIRTINO6.-40 in. 51 at 11b. ready for delivery, still command Rs. 3 7ans. ; 6at 611 b. Its. 3 Plans. to Rs. 3 14 ans. ; 7at 711 b. Its. 4 at Rs. 41 per piece, those of 8 at at 911 b. are with difficulty got rid of at Rs. 4 10ans. to Rs. 6/ per piece. Goods of 45 in. may be sold in small quan tities-61 at 71b. from Rs. 48 ans. at its. 4 Sans. ; 74 at 811 w. Rs. 4 7ans. at Rs. 5 per piece. Gamy MADAPOLAKS.—This class of goods of 21 at 311 w. are saleable at Its. 1 Hans. at Rs 2 per piece ; for these of 311bs. there have been less inquiry for at Its. 2 to Re. 2 lug. per piece. GREY JAccoNars.— The lower qualities of this class of goods are saleable at Rs. 1 3ans. at Rs. 1 Bans. for 40 in. ; 45 in. would meet with a ready sale at Rs. 1 Hans. it Re. 2 per piece. There is little or no inquiry fur the better qualities. BLEACHED Goons.—Low qualities are still saleable in small quantities ; for the higher qualities there is no in quiry. Laren's AND LArraz SCARES are still saleable. YAaNs having been brought in large quantities by the ship which have lately arrived from England, and the export season being now closed, very few transactions have been entered into, and those at a very material decline on the rates formerly quoted. ORANGE YARNS have arrived in large quantities, and some sales forced : the price may be quoted at 10 to 111 minas per lb. for the usual numbers. MALI. THREAD sells in small quantities at 81 to 12 arenas per lb., according to quality. CaowN GLASS is m request at Its. 121 for 200 feet. Quart bottles sell easily at Rs. 1 2 ans. to Its. 1 6 ans. per dozen. Pints, at 13 to 11 anus per dozen. Corks are difficult of sale at Rs. 2 per gross. MARINI STOIII.4.—CSIIVES IS in small demand at 11 to 16 Rs. per bolt. Cordage and twine are in demand, the fleet at lts. 20 per cwt., the latter at 9 anon per lb. Tur pentine and linseed oil are likewise wanted, the first at Rs. 2 to 21 per gallon; boiled oil at Its. 2, and raw oil Rs. 1-10 ans. to Its. 1 12 ans. per gallon. LINSEED is held at Rs. 3 10 ans. per cwt., although some was recently sold at a few minas lees. Corrox.—Ae freights fell holders raised the price so considerably as to hare restricted purchases to those who are compelled to fill up the Tussle loading. Prices may however be expected to fall shortly, as the new crop is arriving freely ; the stock in hand is heavy, and it will be steseasary to store all which may remain unsold previous to the setting in of the rano. The following are the prices last paid :—For Broach and Jumbooseir, R 5.106 to 111.108 ; for Dhollera, Rs. 100; for Oomrawutty, Rs. 98 per candy. At thee. rates, with other chwytes, it could not be laid down in England at lees than from 4.10 th d. to 4 6-10th d. per lb. Fautntrr.—Owing to the very lrge arrivals of shipping from England and Australia smee our last, the rates fell rapidly from 31. 15s. to 21. 104., at which rate tonnage was ales op briskly for Liverpool, and 21. 15s. per ton to Lon don; within the last two days freights have again advanced, and may now be quoted at 31. to 31. 21. 6d. to Liverpool ; for ready ships, 31. ss. per ton. In China freights there is no business doing, the rates beim, still further reduced since last, and may be quoted at re. Ili to M. 13 per candy. EXCHANOZ operations have been rather briskly entered into within the last few days; a few document bills were offering, and with a scarcity of China bills in the market, business was done at 2s. led., this rate has since declined, and may now be quoted tor first class credits, 2s. led. to is 6 months' sight. On 'Cana a. rs. 99; on China, ta. 228 to 227 per 100 dolly!' 60 days' sight. CALCUTTA, MAT 6. The shipments of indigo to date amount to 23,73.5 chests, containing 89,197 fy. mds., of which 12,623 chests have gone to Great Britain, 7,879 to France, and 1,303 to America. Sugar has been in good demand, and prices ere well maintained. The exports in March to Great Bri tain amount to the large quantity of 216,878 nrds. There is a falling off in the demand for hems shipments of salt petre, owing chiefly to the high rates of exchange ; the American demand keeps prices up to previous rates. The exports of rice to Great Britain have been larger than they were in the previous month. The market is ban of raw silk; the April buud has also failed is consequence of the drought, and our next important supplies must, therefore, come from the rainy bund. The stock of Corahs is limited, and holders demand impracticable micro. Shell lac is out of inquiry, and down 4 names per md. The inferior qualities of lac dye are quite neglected, but the superior marks maintain their place; the first arrival of the season of B Mirsapore has been placed at 53 re. per md. Hide continue in active demand, and the exports to Great Britain have been large. Lineesd has obtained a further advance of about 2 =Rai per md.; the demand continues particularly active for both the English and American markets. Jute also esntinues in good de mand. The minor staples present no feature important enough to require notice. We regret that we can only give a dull report of our market for cotton goods. Since the date of our last circular, the demand for almost all kinds of cotton piece goods has fallen off very considerably, with, is some in stances, a trifling decline in value. It must not, however, be forgotten, that this is usually the most dull season of the year, owing to the difficulty of navigating the Ganges between Calcutta and the Upper Provinces. The up country demand is very slack, but we hope to see a revival towards the end of the month, when dealers will require to commence their arrangements for laying in supplies against the opening of the rivers. Some of the larger dealers have been attempting to secure for themselves the whole freight of the river steamers during the rainy sea.con. The inquiry for mule twist is languid ; all counts have gone a little lower ; comwon 40s are barely saleable at annas 3 6 per month ; stocks in first and second lauds are estimated at about 6,500 bales, and are accumulating. The demand for coloured yarns is limited, and prices are some what easier. Metals, excepting lead, have improved. Copper has further advanced in value, and has still an up ward tendency. Iron is aloe looking up. Steel is in good demand. Spelter has advanced to 9.14. Salt has declined 2 to 3 re. per md., owing to a reduction made by govern ment in their prices. Money finds employment very readily, and the rates of interest are tending upwards. Govegiment have notified that they will pay off, or accept as subncription to the 4 per cent. loan now open. a portion of the Five per Cent loan of 1825-26, commonly called the second Five per Cent. loan. The numbers to be reduced are from No. 1,151 to 5,500, amounting, it is estimated, to about three crores of rupees. If the attempt to convert this slice of the loan into the Four per Cents. will prove successful, there is little doubt that the remainder will be subjected to the same process, and, in their turn, the remaining Five per Cent. securities. The above announcement sent the new Five per Cent. paper up to 110.12 and 111.0, but as many holders hastened to realise at those rates, the price speedily fell to 109.8, but it has again risen to 109.11 to 110. The Third Five per Cents. rose to 105.4, but have subsided to 104.8. The Four per Cents. remain at nearly par. Transfer Five per Cents. have come down from 6.8 to 5. The non-arrival of the mail has checked elevations in ex change. The rates are 2-11 credits, and 2 . 1 documents. Freights to London stand at 31. 17s. 6 . saltpetre ; 41. sugar and rice. CHINA MARKETS. RUNG Kowo, Amu 22. We are glad to bare to report a large business in imports, but at low prices. Corrom has slightly improved, and about 11,000 bales sold. We quote Bombay Ts. 6.8 to 7 ; Bengal, Ts. 5.8 to 6.6; Madre, Ts. 5.8 to 7.1. The stock is estimated at 106,000 bales, against 68,000 bales in 1852. INSPECTION OF NUNNERIES. Yesterday a deputation from the Protestant Al liance had an interview with Lord Palmerston, at the Home office, to present an address to her Majesty from the general committee of that body in favour of the inspection of The deputation consisted of the following noblemen and gentlemen : The Earl of Shaftesbury (chairman), the Earl of Roden, Lord Henry Cholmondeley, M.P., Sir Hain Verney, Bart., the Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. E. H. Baldock, M.P., Mr. W. Miles, M.P., Mr. A. E. Fuller, M.P., Mr. 11. Gore Langton, M.P., Rear Admiral Hope, C. 8., Rev. Dr. Duff, Rev. Sir H. Moacreiff, Bart., and Rev. Dr. Candlish (Scottish Reformation Society: , ; Capt. John Trotter, lion. and Rev. Baptist Noel, General Mac lanes; Mr. T. H. Graham and Mr. G. H. Oliphant (Car lisle Protestant Alliance) ; Mr. R. C. L. Bevan, Rev. Dr. I Steane ; Colonel Alexander and G. Ponder, Esq, (Black heath Protestant Alliance) ; Rev. Dr. Marais, Mr. Brocas (Shrewsbury Protestant Alliance), Rev. Dr. Macbride (Principal of Magdalen Hall), Mr. T. Hamilton, Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, Rev. Dr. Bryson (Wolverhamp ton Protestant Alliance) ; Mr. P. F. O'Malley, Q.C. ; Rev. R. Parkinson, Lowestoft ; Major Little, Rev. Dr. Bunting, Mr. J. Lord, Mr. J. Partridge (Birmingham Protestant Alliance) ; Rev. Dr. Thomson, Mr. John Elliott and Mr. T. H. Croft Moody (Southampton Protestant Alliance) ; Mr. W. H. Freud, Durham; Mr. Thomas Thomson, Taun ton ; Rev. W. IL Rule, Mr. J. Cook Evans, lie,. Charles Kemble, Mr. G. Carrick Sleet (Clerkcnwell Protestant Alliance) ; Mr. W. Dugmore, Rev. W. Arthur, Rev. A. L. Courtenay, Mr. J. Braithwaite, Mr. J. Ballance, Mr. Harwood H. Harwood; Mr. T. Hickman, Mr. Wells, and Mr. Fidler (Newbury Protestant Alliance) ; Rev. W. Brace and Mr. E. Upfold (Bristol Protestant Alliance) ; Mr. Henry Hore (Norwood Protestant Alliance); Mr. D. Hazard and Bev. R. Maguire Islington Protestant Institute); Rev. Henry Robbins (East London Protestant Alliance) ; Mr. John Macgregor, honorary secretary ; Captain Osborne, secretary. I Th. Earl of SHAFTESBURY having read the address, Lord PALMERSTON observed that it he were asked for his own individual opinion upon the general question, it would agree very much with those which had just been indicated, and he added that the government would give all proper attention to the present memorial to her Majesty. The deputation having thanked his lordship for their reception, then withdrew. BIRMINGHAM PROTESTANT ALLIANCE. The following letter, with the memorial therein mentioned, has been sent to Hord Palmenton by the above society. A great number of petitions for the inspection of nunneries have been signed in Birmingham and the neigh bourhood, and are to be presented in time for the debate on Mr. Chambers' Bill. " Birmingham, June 17, 1853 . My Lord,—We have the honour to forward to yiur lordship, from the Birmingham Protestant Alliance, a ladies' memorial to the Queen for the inspection of nun neries. It is 124 yards in length, and bears 10,500 signs• tures. Had time admitted this memorial would have been much more numerously signed. If the inspection of nun neries is refused now, it will immediately become a grave question whether the people will rest satisfied with any thing short of their entire suppression.—We have the honour to remain your lordship's faithful servants, J. 0. Oldham, M.A., incumbent of St. Luke's, Julius Partrige, solicitor, Birmingham, Honorary Secretaries of the Bir mingham Protestant Alliance. " To the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston." °VERN EIGHT OF PASSENGERS' LUGGAGE. TO TIII EDITOR 01 THE ixruEss. SlR.—Some railway companies continue 'vexati ously to annoy the public, by demanding, when they anivo at their dcstinatior, if they have paid fur any overweight in their luggage; and unless they can produce a paper showing what they have been charged, they are detained till it is weighed, and they have paid for the excess, if any. I went last week to Gravesend by the North Kent Railway, and on arriving there was asked by an official if I had pad for my luggage ? I told him he had no right to ask the question, and that I should decline telling him whether I had or not. He was extremely civil, but said that Le must weigh it, to which I replied, "that whatever he charged me, I should assuredly recover back from the company, with costs." Eventually it was allowed to pass without any charge. The company hays au undoubted right to weigh the luggage, and charge for excess where the ticket is taken, but not at the end of the journey, and the passenger has the option of leaving a part if he has too much to come by a luggage train. I do not object to the demand, but only to the time and place of making it. I was charged a trilling_ sum a long while ago on arriving at London-bridge from Hastings, which was immediately returned on the ap plication of my solicitor, and I made the fact known at the time, but it appears the vexatious practice is still continued; the public ought therefore to know that it is an imposition which they are not obliged to submit to. I am, air, your obedient servant, THOMAS RAIKES. 41, Gordon-square, June 18, 18.53. TUE INDIA BILL.—A meeting was holden at tho 1 Town Hall, Manchester, yesterday evening, upon the pro priety of representing to parliament the necessity of securing , at this juncture the future development of the resources of ' India. Mr. Bailey, Mr. Henry Ashworth, and Mr. John Bright, M.P., were the principal 'peahen, and Mr. Bright was addressing the meeting when our report was despatched. MEETING AT TIIE INDIA-110USE. The adjourned Court of Proprietors was held yes. terday at the India-how, and was very fully attended. The chair was taken by Itneszu. ELLICE, En., chairman of directon. The Secretary having read the minutes of the last meet ing and the special notice convening the present, The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by announcing that the correspeadenee which had paned between the court and the government, together with the WI now be fore parliament, bad been printed for the perusal of pro prietors. Mr. Hosts wished to make one or two observations. He thought that any new hill fur the government of India, instead of destroying the popular check afforded by that court, should strengthen it, as, if that were not done, the proprietors would have little security for their dividends, and India little hope of good go vernment. (Heer, hear.) Every one in that court was of course anxious for the development of Indian resources ; but the company got no credit for what they had dent in promoting that development by the esta blishment of fre e trade, long before that question had become popular in England. But the great accusation against aerie was the ealt duty. People did not recollect how much that duty had been reduced, and that it and the laud tax were the only means left for raising a revenue. He mentioned all these circumstances to show that further inquiry was necessary. Let the proprietors recollect that their dividends were g teed on the revenues of India, and that all the railway guarantees rested on the same foundation. Ile looked upon the bill of the government as impolitic and unfair, and an aggravation of every present evil, in destroying the power of the directors, to put in their places nomi nees o f t h e crown. Let them recoil leet that in every colony where there was a nominee council, the people were up in arms against their authority. (Hear, hear.) With respect to patronage, the bill would tend to make it a politic el engine, the very point which had always filled the parliament with distrust. At the same time there were many reforms which the directors could effect for themselves, and which he should wish to see. He should wish to see some of the patronage dispensed to the children of old servants; he shou.d wish to see the secret committee compelled to keep minutes of its proceedings ; but fur all these purposes fur ther inquiry was necessary ; and therefore he hoped the court would assist him in preventing hasty legislation. He , advised them to come before the House of Commons by petition, show what they had done, and claim tho it rights, and bo not afraid, as they might depend upon it, if they did not help themselves, Heaven would not help them. (Loud cheers.) Mr. SULLIVAN affirmed the proposition, that the debt of India was mainly attributable to the recent ware, but declared his intention of confining himself mainly to the government bill. (Hear, hear.) Ile thought he had reason to complain of the conduct of the Board of Control in not submitting that bill to the directors MN tOtli to its introduc tion into parliament. (Hear, bear.) After some further observations, the hon. member concluded by moving, " That, having considerael the correspondence which has been laid before the court and the proposals of the government —this court confining itself for the present to querions that affect the constitution of the Court of Directors, and con fiding in the zeal and judgment of that body—deem it right and necessary to declare, in the first place, their full concurrence in the opinion expressed by the Court of Direc tors, ' That the presence in the administration of Indian affairs of a body independent of political party, and exclu sively devoted to the discharge of the duties entrusted to it, is essential to the good government of India.' " " That none of the changes proposed to be made in the constitution of the Court of Directors are, in the opinion of this court, calculated to improve it ; and especially that the proposal to substitute six directors, to be selected by the crown for twelve of that body elected by the East India Company, is calculated, by impairing the independence of the Court of Directors, to weaken the principal check which is now imposed upon the power of the Board of Control." "That the company's directors be authorised and re quested to urge the above views upon her Majesty's tees and upon parliament, at such time and in such manner as the court shall deem to be most expedient." Mr. Hoar MACKENZIE seconded the resolution, but was prepared to admit that in ordinary cases a very codsiderable amount of power rested with the court of directors. Sir J. Ilcioo complained of the speech of the Mover nu condemnatory of the present system, but admitted that his resolution in part reconciled him (Sir J. Hogg) to the speech. Their joint object—the general object—was to continue the present system with as little alteration as pos eible. (Hear, hear.) Mr. AYHTON rose to propose an amendment, feeling that the question had hitherto been discussed with reference to the public services in India It should be recollected that the directors were the persons principally attacked, and therefore he thought that the court of proprietors should take up en independent position, and not leave the question wholly in the hands of the directors. At the termination of a lengthy address, the speaker moved, as an amendment to the second and third resolutions, " That a committee of the court of proprietors be appointed to consider the pro positions of the President of the Board el Control and the bill introduced by her Majesty's government into parlia ment, and to communicate with the government thereon, and to promote the passing of an act in aocordance with the principle stated in the first resolution, the committee to be nominated by the court of directors." Serjeant GAZELEE seconded the amendment. Mr. JONES gave his opinion generally on Indian affairs, and attributed the present agitation against the company solely to " the Manchester men." Several proprietors called for an adjournment, and prac tically carried their motion by leaving in large detachments. After a few observations trom Mr. WEEDINU, The discussion was adjourned to this day. NAVAL. NATAL COURT OF INQUIRY. Poursuotrrir, JUNE 20.—A court of inquiry into the circumstances attending the Betting on shore of the Jdio, 16. steam frigate, Captain Y. Scott, on her leaving the Tagus on the evening of the 7th instant, was held to day on board that ship, at Spithead. The court consisted of Admiral Superintendent Fanshawc, C 8., Captain Henry Byam Martin, C. 8., of the Duke of Wellington, and Cap tain John Shepherd, of the Victory. Captain Scott, Lieu tenant Mould, Mr. Jago, the master, and Mr. Montague, mate, of the Odin, were witnesses. The inquiry was private, but the facts appear to be that the Odin took the ground at the north-east extremity of the Ketchup Bank—the tide in the Tagus at the time being half-an hour before low water. The captain was confined to his cabin from indisposition ; Lieutenant Mould and the master being in command of the ship, and both of them on the paddle-boxes at the time, the leads going, and every duty being properly performed. The primary cause of the ground being touched appears to have been the ina• bility of sighting a particular mark that of Mount Cordova, owing to a mist having sprung up, the navigation of the Tagus at this point requiring that the above-named mark should be brought into a straight line with Bugio Fort, which being on the shore was seen ; the other is in land. She remained on the bank about an hour, when the tide turning, took her off, and she resumed her voyage to Spithead without returning to Lisbon; it being considered that the injury was not sufficiently great to require her re turn to Lisbon, it not having been necessary to send ort a single anchor whilst she was fast. The Teviot, Brazilian mail steamer, was leaving the Tagus at the came time, but did not go to the Odin's assistance, apparently considering that she did not require any, which turned out to be the ease. Another cause of the accident appears to have been a trifling bend in the keel of the Odin at the centre, which is usual with steamers, for her draught of water was 15 feet 6 inches at the time, whilst both aft and forward trere actually were 16 feet of water. She seemed to hang by the keel at the middle, whilst fore and aft there was sufficient water to keep her afloat. On Wednesday last the Odin came into harbour to ooal, when the diver was seat under her bottom to exam.ne her keel, when the injuries received were found only to consist in a scratching of the copper, none, we believe, being rubbed off. The result of the court of inquiry has not transpired. Whilst it was sitting the Odin received orders to come into harbour, which she did this evening. To-day being the anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the throne, the ships in commission dresscd. tibigs, and at noon fired a genera royal salute of 21 guns each. The Oberon, 3, steam vessel, Lieutenant Wise, arrived at Spithead this afteraoen from Malta and Gibraltar. Sho left the first-named place on the 6th inst., and the latter on the 12th, in company with the Vulture, 6, steam frigate, Captain Glasse, which arrived at Plymouth yesterday. The Oberon's news is anticipated. She has brought home some invalids from the troops, and Captain Duff, 92nd Regiment, Captain Mtllean, 92nd Regiment, an 1 Mr. ltoss Lowin, of the 39th ltegiment, from Gibraltar, and Captain Pratt, 41st Regiment, and Dr. Davies, 19th Regiment, from Malta. The Vulture and the Odin were ordered front Malta in a great hurry, the first-named not even having time to procure hammocks and other con• veniences for the military invalids. The Banshee, steam packet, Lieutenant Commander Ilosken, arrived at Spit head in the night from her cruise in seerclt of hear-Ad miral Corry 's squadron, which she had not succteded in finding. She left Lisbon on the 16th inst. ARRIVAL OF ADMIRAL CURRY'S FLEET.—PLY MOVIII, MONDAY, 11.30 A.M.—Admiral Corry's squadron is reported off the harbour. ADMIRALTY, JUNE 20. APPOINTMENT.—CIerk 0. A. Weld), to Terrible. DEATH OF THE DANISH MINISTER.—WC have to announce the sudden death of his Excellency Id. de Bills., Danish minister at this court. ilia Excellency expired at two o'clock on Saturday morning, at the residence of the Danish legation, from disease of the heart. Tne deceased was much respected by the diplomatic corps. Madame do Bille has suffered greatly front the shock, and remains in a very precarious condition. His Excellency attended the Queen's Drawing•room in Tuesday, and was out as usual on the day preceding Wss death. It is not a little remark able that the late Danish minister at the court of St. Tames's, . Count Reventlnu, died from a similar disease about two years since while on a tour in Scotland. CorYry OF EDINBURGH ELECTION.—The Sheriff has fixed Saturday, the 2dth inst., for the election of a mem ber for this county. Cpe Court. The Queen gave last evening at Buckingham Palace a concert, to which their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, the members of the royal family, and • large party of the nobility and gentry were invited. Their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover arrived at the Palace at 25 minutes past nine o'clock, attended by Baroness De:leen, Baroness Gabelents, Countess Bernstorff, Baron de Malortie, Lieut.-General Count Decken, Lord Elphinstone, Major-General Buckley, Baron Hedemano, Baron de Boddien, Baron do Heitzenstern, Baron d'lsecn durff, Baron do Wense, Dr. Kaufmann, Dr. Lea, and Mr. H. Fitzroy Somerset. Their Majesties were received in the Grand Hall by the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; L or d Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain ; and also by the Lady and the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen, and the Lords, Grooms, and Equerries in Waiting to the Queen and Prince Albert. The Duchess of Gloucester wee attended by Lady Geor gina Bathurst. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary arrived, ,attended by Lady Suffield and Baron Knells beck. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, joihcd the royal circle, attended by Baroness Oa Wangenheim, Baron Sebach, and Baron Treskow. The Herediiary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess and the Duchesi Caroline of Mecklenburg Straits, arrived, attended by Lady Caroline Cust,Baroneu Wenchstein, and Baron Lillie. The Duke of Cambridge was attended by Lord W. Paulet. _ The Princess Adelaide of Ilohenlohe was attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson. lien Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their august guests, and followed by the distinguished party honoured with invitations, entered the Pleture Gallery, which was fitted up for the concert, at a quarter before ten o'clock. The Queen and the assembled company being seated, the concert commenced. The following was the programme: PAZ= P 11111.4 - • Chorus, " WaeForfabrt," 6 the 7. 7 .01 -- ogno Choral Union wider the direction of Herr Funs weber Air, " Macht man ha Leber'," Herr Formes (Die Throne) Trio, "Utoeinetto ',miler," Mesdames Bodo, Cas teilan, a Viardot (II Cmciatu In Egitto)... Air. "Deli Tient non tardar," Madame Morelia pieta° di Figaro) Mourt. Ciaartetto, " Dail' °dente," Madarne,Bosio a Vier dot, Sig. Ciardoni e Hem Formes Rossini. Air, "Sighs iris," Sig. Romig Handel. Quoted and chorus " Die jungenmusikanten," by the Cologne Choral Union PENTII SECOND., Chorus, " Das Kirehlein," by the Cologne Choral Union Air, "Mi par the an lungo steolo," Madame Sado (Nina Paull) Duo, "Clue! sepolero," Madame Novelle a Signor Romani (Agnew) Paer. Rumania, "Della seas quad° e Pore," Signor Content (Euryanthe) Dao, . Vanne ae alberghe in petto," Mesdames Custelian e Viardot (Andronieo) Mamba% Chorus, "Liebe and Wei n," by the Cologne Choral Union Mendelesohn, Mr. Costa presided at the pianoforte The following had the honour of receiving invitations : His Serene Highness the Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and the Countess of Dornburg, the French Ambassador and Countess Walewski, and the First Secretary of the Em busy, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Russian Minister and Baroness do Brunnow, the Hanove rian Minister, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, the Spanish Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Greek Minister and Madame Triceupi, the Turkish Minister and Madame Musurus, the Netherlands Minister, the Portuguese Minister and Countess de Lavradio, the Sicilian Minister and Princess di Carini, the Austrian Minister and Countess Colloredo, the United States Minister, the Peruvian Minister, the Persian Minister and the Secretary Interpreter of Legation, the Saxon Minister, the Tuscan Minister, the Mexican Chargé d'Affaires and Madame Facio, Baroness Decken, Baroness Gabelenta, Countess Bernstorff, Baron de Malortie, Lieut. General Count Decken, Colonel Baron Hedemann, Major Baron de Boddien, Captain le Baron de Reitzenstein, Capt. Ic Baron d'lsaendorff, Baron de Wcese, Dr. G. Kaufmann, Dr. Lea, M. Pabst, Mr. R. Fitzroy Somerset, Miss Wil cocks, Dr. Spiridion Valsorite, Baroness de Wangenheim, Baron Seebach, Captain Baron de Treskow, - Baroness Weocbstein, Baron Lulu. . . . ARCHBISHOPS—Canterbury, York, Armagh. Dtraws—Norfulk, Sutherland, Wellington, Bedford, Argyll, Walton, Athull, Newcastle, Bumleach, Cleveland, Montrose. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ —....--. Di:cumin—Montrose, Norfolk, Bedford, Grafton, Cleveland, Buceleuch, Buckingham, Sutherland, Argyll, Atholl. _ -.---. MARQUDlRS—Brearlabane Anglesey, Kildare, Win- cheater, Salisbury, Londonderry, Drogheda, Ely, Down shire, Blandford, Lansdowne. Mencitioxassis—Drogheda, Downehire, Londonderry, Kildare, Salisbury, Ely, Blandford, Breadalbane, Bath. EARLS—Beishorough, Mulgrave, Aberdeen, Arundel and Surrey, Granville, Clarendon, Shelburne, Ramo, Shaftesbury, Browolow , Bruce, S andwich, Bathurst, Carlisle, Cawdor, Chichester, Clanwilliam, Talbot, Vern lam, Yarborough, Zetland, Charlemont, Gainsborough, Desert, Derby, Ellenborough, Cowper, Forteacue, Mac clesfield, Morley, Mount Edgcumbe, Somers, Harewood, Jump, Howe, Listowel. Couxvissza—Charlemont, Gainsborough, Desert, Bess borough, Granville, Arundel and Surrey, Clarendon, Sandwich, Shaftesbury Shelburne, Brownlow, Bruce, Cawdor, Chichester, dianwilliam, Row, Yarborough, , Talbot, Yerulam, Ze tland, Dunmore Portescue, Cowper, Mount Edgcumbe, Somers, Harewciod, Howe, Listowel, Derby, Morley, Mansfield, Maccleafield, Mulvey.. VlSCOUFTS—Palmerston Drumlanrig, Sydney, Her dinge, Caallereagh, Ebring t on , Folkestone, Gough, Joce lyn, Canning, Hill, Mahon, Galwa VlSCOClNTlllBlll—Stratford de Radcliffe, Palmerston, Sydney, Ilardioge, Newport, Mahon, Ebrington ' Folke stone, Drumlanrig, Clough, Jocelyn, Canning, Galway, Hill, Castlereagh. BlSHOPS—Peterborough, Salisbury, Chester. Loans—Foley, Charles Wellesley, M.P., Truro, Dufferin, Lyttolton,Ern.st Bruce, M.P.,George Lennox, James Mur ray, A. Fateclarence, Cranworth, John Russell, Raglan, Wodebouse, Clarence Paget, Blantyre, Wbarncliffe, Col chester, Colborne, Cremorne, Feversham, Byron, Camoys, Portman, Robert Grosvenor, M.P., C. Fitzroy, Elphinstone, Lilford, Iladdo, John Manners, Ossulston, M.P., Redes dale, Riven. Bestotesea—Keith and Nairee. LADIES—G. Bathurst, C. Cut, C. Conley, Portman, Rokeby, E. rusty, C. Buckley, E. Murray,John Manners, Adeliza Howard, Foley, James Murray, C. Murray, Suffield, George Lennox, Charles Fitzroy, Bowater, Lyttelton, Dow. Lyttelton, C. Vernon Harcourt, E. Hervey , C. Ceu rtenay, Colchester, Olivia Ossulston, Camoys, E. Bulteel, Byron, Cremorne, Agaes Duff, Claud Hamilton, Haddo, C. Bar rington, Charles Wellesley, Colborne, Graham, Mary Wood, Molesworth, Lilford, Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Faversham, M. Vyner, Raglan, Clarence Paget, Couper, Truro, Cran worth, Wodehouse, A. Charteris, Rivers, Ernest Bruce, John Russell, B. Balfour, A. Baring, Wharncliffe, Anna M. Dawson, SeLmour, Blantyre, Cowley. CooNT—De Flabault. BARONESS—Do Speth. BIGHT lioNovannims—Sir D. Donau Sir R. Adair, Sir F. Baring, E. Strutt, M.P., W. E. Gl adstone, Sir W. Molesworth, Sidney Herbert, Sir J. Graham, Sir C. Wood, M. T. Baines, M.P., C. Shaw Lefevre, Spencer Walpole, M.P., B. Disraeli, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Lord Sey mour, M.P., Viscount Newport, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Forester, Sir G. Grey. HONOVDABLES—CoIoneI Liddell, Mrs. Liddell, Colonel C. B. Phipps, Mrs. Phipps, Mrs. Airey, Rev. G. Wellesley, Mrs. Sidney Herbert, F. Charteris, M.P., Mrs. Denison, Miss Canning, Henry Fitzroy, Mrs. Fitzroy, Captain A. Buncombe, Mrs. A. Buncombe, Mrs. Musgrave, Rev. C. L. Courtenay, Col. C. Grey, Mrs. Grey, Caroline Cavendish, Major. General Cavendish, Mary Bulteel, Flora Macdonald, Susan Pitt, Miss Lyttelton, Captain do Rol, Lady Middle ton, Mrs. G. W. Hope, Miss Mitford. SlDS—Edwin Landseer, Charles Lemon, William Mid dleton, R. H. Inglis, M.P., E. Bowater, J. Copley, George Couper. Puovnszon.—Sedgwick. BRVIDEND—BeIIry M. Birch. Mussireas—Gibbs, Glover, James Dun, J. M. Balfour, William Russell, F. Peel, M.P., Farquharson of Inver could, Vyner, Charles C. F. °ravine, Hope, R. Ormsby Gore, P. Pussy, H. Hallam. _ _ _ .... .. MISTRESSES—Baines, Shaw Lefevre, C. Raillia Hamil ton, Farquharson, Cornwall, Davys, Disraeli, R. Ormsby Gore, Strutt, Graham, Gladstone, William Russell, Wal pole. hitssus—Sumner, Vyner, G. Bulteel, M. Barrington. Rain-Aminua—Meynell. ONNERALS—Lord Sand's, Earl of Strafford, Buckley, Sir o—Bowlea. CoLonuLs—Biddolph, Cornwall, Harcourt, M.F., Lord Rokeby, Francis Seymour, R. Airey. MAJOR—Baron Knesebeck. CAPTAlN—Hamilton. Supper was served after the performance of the concert in the dinner•rcom. The Society of the Cologne Claoral Unioa attended at half-past 9 o'clock yesterday morning, in Buckingham Palace, and sang several of their vocal pieces, concluding with " God save the Queen." Their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover visited the Que.'s, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, where they arrived at 20 minutes past 3 o'clock, and were received on their arrival by her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting. In at tendance on their Majesties were Baronets Gabelentr, Lord Elphinstone, Major-General Buckley, and Baron de Bod dien, A.D.C. The Queen of Hanover left attended by Baroness oabelents. The King of Hanover accompanied the Queen and Prince Albert, at 10 minutes before 4 o'clock, to the St. James's Theatre, to honour with their presence the performance of the Cologne Choral Union, for the benefit of the German Hospital at Deleon. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, Lord Riven., Lord Elphinstone, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Major-General Buckley, Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, and Baron de Botleien. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, visited her Majesty yesterday. The Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, attended by Baroness de Wangenheim and Mr. It. Ormsby Gore, went yesterday to inspect the 'rawer of London. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. The Crown Prince and the Princesses of Hanover paid • visit to the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day in the Council Camber. The Lords present were the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Patteson, and Sr E. Ryan. The appeal from Bengal, " riPKeller v. Wallace " (part heard) was concluded, and an appeal from Hong Kong, Tromion v. Dent and others," was part heard. REPRESENTATION OF TIIE CITY OF LONDON.— Yesterday a private meeting of some of the leading City liberals was held, at which the present state of the representation of the City formed the topic of discussion, and a petition was agreed to, urging par. liament to pass a measure to enable Baron Rothschild to attend to City business in the Muse of Commons. THE ACCESSION OF THE QUEEN TO THE THRONE.— YeAterday being the anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the throne, peals were rung from several of the City and West•end churches, and flags were raised on the different government offices, as well as on many of the spires of the churches and other public buildings. The Park and Tower guns were fired, and there was an inspection of a portion of the household troops on the parade behind the Bosse Guards. TUE ROYAL CURISTENING.—This ceremony is fixed to take place on Monday text, the 27th lust, in the presence of the whole of the royal family, including the King and Queen of Hanover. The infant prince will be christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Arch bishop of York and the Bishop of London. The sponsors will be the Priaceu of Hohenlohe, the Princess of Prussia, and the King of Hanover. The names to be given to the prince will be Leopold George Duncan Albert. The Queen in the evening will give a grand banquet, at which the cabinet ministers and great officers of state who have been invited to the ceremony will be present. THE CAMP AT CUoBILAM.— Her Majesty Queen Victoria, accompanied by Field Marshal his Royal High ness Prince Albert and a brilliant staff, will arrive on the ground of the camp at Chohham at half-past 10 o'clock this day, when the troops will exhibit tho grandest military display that has been witnessed in this country for many years. AN EPISCOPAL RESIGNATION.—II is currently rumoured in clerical circles that the Bishop of Bath and Wells intends resigning his diocese, on account of his great infirmity, and the di ffi culties which have recently occurred, and which are beyond his power to control. DEATH OF WILLIAM ECCLES, ESQ.—We regret to announce in our obituary to-day the demise of William Eccles, Esq., the late member for Bluckburn. Mr. Eccles had for a coneiderabletime put been in declining health, but latterly his illness rapidly increased, and he expired at his residence, Spring-mount, yesterday morning. He was sixty years of age, and hie death will be mourned in a large circle of friends by whom he was much respected.— Preston Pilot. DEPUTATION TO LORD PALNIERSTON. x