The Express. — London, England, 1859-02-16 00:00:00

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NW Lags Cinelawi -THU roacc TROY TIM W. AMOS nicA -OOCK •ID ?NI 4.= or / r ![ & brds; lend. 1144.0apas NIGH NAT= Al' LONDON IRMO Tin D4T-11.r•Ift, tlk. e 15....-.......: p&. aol. twismay-Illania. a. a...-. a. 11. a. LONDON, WIDNUDAY, FIB. 16. THE cue of " DICKSON V. the Earl of WILTON," after occupying the Court of Queen's Bench for five days, hag terminated in favour of the plaintiff, the damages being assessed at 20M. This is Co. of those cases that never ought to have been brought into court at all. But after the charges against Colonel DICKSON had reached the War-office, it wee no longer Fallible to settle the matter privately; while some of those charges affected his profeeeia••l character so seriously, that it was quite natural bs should desire to exculpate himself as far as possible. This attempt has been in a considerable degree SOO cessfill. The grave accusations of misappropriating the regiment funds, and instigating its creditors to prosecute the Earl of Wttrox u its responsible bead, were not made out. Whether the lighter complaints of carelessness and neglect in keeping the accounts, and managing the affairs of the mess ; weer not established, the public is well able tejedre. The plaintiff and defendant in the action were, ee our readers will remember, respectively Lieutesmat- Coloul and Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Militia. Thu regiment, after having existed ea paper for some years, was embodied sad called out during the spring of lead. In Muck, Major DICKSON. a mili tary man of thirty yaws' steadier, who had sew sere ice in Ides, in Spain, and at the Cape, and bad been for several years connected with the regiment. was appointed its Lisetenant-Colosel. The fall Cole el, the Earl el WILTON, having had little experieees of military duty, rarely visited the hue, and lash ate uthe part in its managemeet. Colossi Mime had thus the whole SSW mead, and be seers t• h•ee exerneed his aatherity in a rather. summery and absolute meaner. Officers of the Line are asustonsed to leek down em their brethren of the Militia as as Lawler MOD; mad Colonel Dicxsoe mum to have early amerted his superiority. He sharply warned the ranger AWN against late hours, gambling, and other miss offences, which was of course proper neigh. Net satisfied, however, with general warnings of this kind, he proceeded, es more than one wane,' deposed, to covert threats, intimating that be had " • little bird in the corps that brought him " news of everything that took place," sad that he " knew bow to get rid of an officer without • court•martial." This, though scarcely • dignified or even justifiable way of enforcing discipline, seems, however, not to have much disturbed the peace or har mony of the regiment. It was is dealing with the funds of the regiment that Colossi DICKSON Bret excited dimetisfaction amongst his brother officers. For suss mouths after the regiment was embodied it had as mess of its own, the officers Inetaing with the Artillery quavered near it at Woolwich. In the mouth of October, bolsi Ter, the alteen of the Tower Ham lets Militia determined to establish a ems of their own. Orders were giventeffissers. SIT4IIPOS tosupply glue and china, and to Messrs. House sad Low. VAN to runtish the plate neesseary for this purpose. Who gave these orders is one of the points in dispute ; but after reading the evidence, we can not but feel that Colonel Dlcxsom fully managed the whole business. Ile says, indeed, they were ordered by the mess committee; but so far as we can discover, Colonel Inecoole was himself the mem committee. No mess meetings were ever held, either to issue orders or examine accounts, Colonel DICKSON himself says, "Mess meetings of accounts " are not necessary, and the officers knew nothing " about it. I managed ererythieg." But whoever gave the orders, the chief responsibility certainly rested on Colonel Biome. Aed the error com mitted at the very outset is manifest enough. The seas kit was far too expensive, and the Lieutenant- Colonel took no means for meeting the liability thus incurred. For a regiment of the Line which n costly kit may be all very well. But for • Militia regiment, whose active existence is eo brief and uncertain, the mess arrangements should ob viously be of the simplest description. The Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Militia not only incurred au" siderable expense, but neglected the ordinary MINIM of securing payment. The mess is usually ens nared by • committee, and supported by sabserip tions from its individual members. Meetings of this committee are periodically held, to examine the ac counts and determine the amount of the subsoriptiou Deeded. No such meetings were ever held during the time the 'NWT Hamlets Militia remised embodied. Several of the officer. wished the to be held, and requested Colonel Diet/sox to call them ; but he habitually refused, and actually allowed the refl. mein to be broken up without having made a single attempt to settle its accounts. la their complete ignorance of the actual state of affairs, many of the officers might naturally enough have supposed that Colonel Dwayne Ind enough money in hand to meet all liabilities. Complimentary entertainments given by the officen, instead of being defrayed by • private subscription amongst the officers, were paid for out oldie regimental purse. Colonel Iftceeie, in fact, received all the moneys of the force, both the general revenues and the private subscriptions. These moseys he mixed up with his own, keeping no separate account, and scarcely knowing what he paid or what he owed. It is very easy to see what the result of such a system, or such a want of eyes's, as this must inevit ably be. The accounts of the regiment were in a state of hopeless confusion, so that Colonel I lieesom could not prods°e them is a satisfactory form in any mess committee. This is the real uplanatiee of all the difficulties that afterwards awned. If the Cotoert bad made up hts accnnts,and brought them In regular form before a mesa committee, they might have been settled beefs ate reglpsest was disembodied. Instead of tie, be allowed the form to be disbanded and the officers to separate without making any effort to explain, mach lees to meet, the outstanding debts. the first neat of this natant'' , was that the creditors soon applied foe payment to Colonel DICKSON as the managing, and, in their view, the responsible head of the regiment. Colonel DICKSON had no funds —none, at least, at all equal to the demands ; and in his diffi culties he proceeds to the Earl of WILTON, the officially responsible head of the regiment. The Earl of WILTON, it was proved, had really nothing whatever to do with the mess expenses, beyond the men fact of being accidentally present one day when specimens of china were brought for the officers' inspection. As Colonel he had no concern with the expenses of the mess, and might, therefore, have said to Colonel DICKSON at come, " It's really your own business, and you most manage it in your own way." Being anxious, how ever, for the credit and character of the force, he conferred with the Lieutenant-Colonel on the best means of meeting its liabilities, suggesting a sub scription amongst the officers, and heading it with a donation of 1001. It was too late, however, to take this step ; the officers were scattered, and could not be collected for the despatch of business that ought to have been settled before they separated. Mean while, the creditors being importunate, and seeing no prospect of a settlement, issued writs against Colonel Dlcisoir and the Earl of WILTON. It is quite obvious that the latter never ought to have been stied at all. He was obliged, however, to pay Mears. Binartis' bill of 6801. for goods supplied to the meas. It then of course became necessary that the act counts of the regiment should be gime into, with a view to their final settlement. Cokesel DICKSON was accordingly required to make them up, and this he did for the first time a year after the disembodiment of the force, " at the Conservative Club," having no accounts by hiss. A Board was appointed to examine these accounts ; and we can scarcely be surprised, considering how they were prepared, that various discrepancies were disoovered—oome things being incorrectly stated, and other, altogether forgotten. None of the items were dated, so that it was rather l difficult work to verify them. Bat they were so it I accurate that on receiving the report tithe Board the Bari of Wthvox was obliged to ask Colonel Dlcx- 1 sots for an explanation. This explanation, after being delayed for six mouths, proved to be insuffi cient. The Earl of Witrox, being instructed that be we. bawd in duty to set in the matter, submitted it *Lord Comneacher, who felt it necessary to TO dosmassd Colonel Diceson's resignation. On refusing be do this he was dismissed by the War-office. The documents furnished officially by the Bari of WILTON to Lord Cox BMUS use constituted the basis of the present action for libel. The second count of the Wien, that of slander, arose out of a oonversa ties between the Earl et WILTON and Mr. T. 8. DIINCOMII, the member for Finsbury, who had on 'foreshow to ask a gamines is the Reese of Com mons about Colonel DICKSON'S dismissal frees his regiment. The Earl had charged Colonel Dictum with instigating the creditors of the regiment to take legal proceedings against himself. This odious sharp was certainly not established, and it is prehebly so this greeted that the jury assessed the damages for the deader at 2001., while those for the libel were fixed at the nominal sum of 6L The verdict will at least be • warning to the nominal heads of regiments not to trust too implicitly even to experienced Macon who may be second in com mand, but to investigate the affairs of the force for themealves, sad to see set only that good discipline impt up menet the men, but that accurate sesseests me kept by the dims. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EUNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1859. ELECTION INTBLLIGINCA -.-- GREENWICH. The loliewlag was the state of the poU at the close of the co?loot iaTomo= Angerstain 2611 Majority BB9 At the ClOlO of the poll Alderman &lemma end Mr. An gerstrin oddromed the electots at the anent paling booth; and It was rated by Mr. H. L. Taylor. that anoUtar 'Lotion would take place for Greenwich within a few cloys, as a new writ would be immediately ironed to elect a enoosasor to Gemmel Codrington. In antimpoion of this event, Mr. Angerstein's committees will continue their operations, it haring den publicly announced that Mr. Angerstein will be a candidate for the neat mummy. FOLKSBTONS, TUESDAY Ermatiao. Shortly after 12 o'clock to-day the election of a member to 611 the vacancy weakened by the retirement of 81r J. W. Hamden took place at the hustings erected at the Town-hall, Myths, in the presence of a fair number el e'ectore. Bruen Mayer de Rothschild was accompanied from Folkeimoe aced Beaderste by a mut caramels and tam kende, and just bef re reaching the town the hones mere taken from the carriage, and the candidate drawn by the In habitants to the hestiogr, where be was received with tier rat d ypu ndlta. He woe surrounded by a number of Minim 'lel friends, conspicuous among 'hem being Sir Noses Moutallere. The usual formalities having been gone ilu The Moron of Jim (toe returning edit er foe thre rough), Mr. Sasses Watts, called upon the gentlemen pat ient to nominate the ceurilditiaa Mr. Ww. Rennin thee nlttlasted M.ver Apache! de Roth-child ae a at sad proper parson to Beige as a rink for the town and pert aad borough of Hythe. (Cbesta) The Macon of FOLILISTONI (Captain Retaken, R.N.), seocaded the noroteation. _ Thera being no Wltar candidate, the Baron was deleted del, elected. Senn ROTSOCNTLD then add used the electors, sad SS received with repeated cheering. He expremed his tease of the honour they had ooeferrod upon htm ' sod afar some allusions to Meal tucks, he meld, the great duty I shall have to perform will be to watch what is now prosetdieg_in par liament, for if we counties. the mete of Mf.ire we sha g see le power MIS who have wheels opposed every Nerd measere that has ever been proposed. ("Jutdot wit he beg to power.") They opposed Mersa In every slime. (Mar.) They opposed reform of the fewe sentagen ; they opposed the repeal of the emu Uwe ;_ end they set their fame lumina a reduction in the twenties o the country; and various other measurer of a eiregm elmreeter. et But they will moo be out now.") It II be fey deity, thee, to vetch with a jealeue eye shah promise% end to see that they act in a liberal spirit. ( amer) - The great et the day that will have to be ecesidered will be— Tazettm—and Trench, of Lend. Those are not religiose gender ; sad I think I may go M the HOW' of Comities to consider well how State measeree may mot upon yen hero—to see hew far they will tend to the advancement of the Mee Interesb at the commary at large (Hem.) Th em there ere see at twe pits 'Eke may be . ooneidered In the Home of Clenimens which have ea intlmate coonrxica wi . h this aelgithenrinell—l emir more putieutarly to the ship ping keesseet, end to the .miry of ron.i4ering the pre sent coodition and proms* of the mmaing trade, with the view uponommidinse ineesetres—(ebeste)Ch perm unduly Ws chefs et her Majeetje subjects. I shell go up to the Meese et COSMIOIIII Melly =Mitred, and shall snider these measures which the government *Mg terward with dee deliberates. If they era liberal ZOISSOSI. Sad ere brought forward with no sinister motive, I shall support them; but if they try, by any minas, to bring beet those impoMe which nave been abrogated by the maantryNen it will be my duty strecnotaly and firmly is appose them. (Cheers.) .44=ellerwards, Sir Mores Mostelere having briefly the &mime, a peaceseint was teemed, aad Bares Hatberhikl woe escorted to Folkestone, sone six miles, amidst lend cheering. Os arri at the Pavilion Hotel, the Home said a few words to the from the bekooy, and nettled the fact that the sailmeithe et the parfait church at POIkeSISID bad named to allow Nei bells to ; and the prooseethers, which were of a quiet eberseter were then tessett *to • does. DIA= OP FAR 1141.1QU12 OF IIIOTOL. W. lava to smarm las darn of Has Marquis at Mobil. The ftsisoble rsortpd. was is the sejoyerst of I& mai Webb up to iftftrisy lest, what be woo attacks' with .to to dr sesaisek Ss symptoms incesube is isms slAmts ems of his &Mk. Ile Nod at balks& two & skersoss, st Ids bows ft St. ussis-aquots. Tiede/al wee lows Oat. I, 1730 . add .69 l ew&IPRII9B7 the Ml year of his ups, sad tho oldest =mbar of the lifers ellises. The to. aireir, previous to bit wareelag to the haft boasuss, vapreeented Btuy 10.11ohassai tf tbs Hoeft of Contssess km 1796 to Joiy, 1903. Ho was Ihtake Boreetary t I daft tart Fondue Adair* lam Lord llawbft. bury (skereravis Mot of Livorpoot) was Reenstory of Imes, from TA.. IBM di Nov. IBM His I.wdship was arsovetive ti pike, bat supported the trio trails paw of the hve Mr Robert Peel, by whom be woo the lord-lieetosaney of Illsgelk, but which looftittp &rifted. Os the death of hi Isthow, to July, bo essarded ti earldom d ßristol; sad Is Zak 11111 f, wee further raised lb the ports by 1 mold Mamie of &I AA The kissing warpla was beredliary seared of Nay It. lehwarAs, a pram of KW. Oollert, • law of the Royal Ikably. sad of the &meaty of Asti. = 14 ,16. Hie ke lt* monied, P.S. 10, 1796, the Boa. Albs& Uplink metal &setter of Clotweethy, fret Vlsetutt Temploftws, by mina (.ho died In 1964), be lams tour sees tad Om daughters, wooly :—Tbs Eat Isms, M.P. (sow reargalo), sad Lade Arthur Chubs, sod Alked Horsy; Lady Angst., widow of Praire C. W. lloyesour; Lady Ikahlo Wyndham, or Lady Ma ber Ossegieas, MS•fillli to the Hum. end Rev. Jobs Orq. Tb suarebis marquis wes • eon older.* e end I.boral losoltrel to his tesaorry, Ned Imarrolest to the Apes.. by WINO kb death will be rad, berated. The Isrl Jona M.P. kw Bury fit. Edam* womb lo the • sad minor digsitift by dr drib of las falawr. The new postage " oboe" gives diesttielnotion is many quarts's. Cases he,. weaned la which letter. tow Whim Ith tructiona of peat commercial Import Mal have Oath Memel to the wader, owing to the Foeptfalseat, la baste, re of a eta s% yr he the lees at the •tamp &win the heemleMs. In the seas of a esnalry banker advising Wile, the somementhe night be very serkata, as It might he We We when the killer sewn Lek le prevent the Line helm dlebeammt. It le thearvek 100, that the rule w,ll testy use step t•e emlim ef annarylas Wenn, valentines ka., at the wri'er mewl say adept the Assam and *trim oldie perm be math the Meer teat to to haw It et test grab.. " far inetanee," stye a ceerseposthet. " I wall t t cows., this vary sots to pa tree at paha/a I have cal, to Gigs spar The wlthar of t►e —, and to atom it to I& now Macomb, without soy stamp steed, and It tali be eessei at the Pessoilko, awl, lb* 1111f60 and addrers the miter WM mortals*, it would be oof to you. 'snug • wet Moue he. the Past-sae r.venue might maw tram • wry gamma Myths at this dodge.•' EHTAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVEN'EGARDENTIIE =the QUOCO, the Prince C oast, the P l isse /Ms Princess Hess honoured the of ere of iliseseolle via their preens lest swing. ?be royal sae eessiela dimly Churchill, Mee Byeg, Lori Vaasa, Ca P. H. &Loos. al Caplan h ii.lOlClllOB AT EALHORAL.—By qmosisi com sat' of our (redoes QUISIS. the Uneasy ss as 113rtl sheen era tie r wise sad theelior, were sesenaga to a sal eseertadanost ead bell et Balmoral C.-tin se Water ,IlsomismisEthasitlx• birth Ss Psalm hi swa &deck the taseby end their la al arm IN, esesehled et the Coyle, of well. o i r . ,:elZegi a.reas pesaksa 411.1111 101146111111140, Obey aijsrced le the when las Nem Ea., of the Labs ter Distilbry,peeed that a esetoSifatory address (which was raadl deal be =lto the Pt ism Predeliek William of Pala. ea S 11.1 sad lovieg feels" of the teastry of Bal. seal et the ee, nt which hod estei Meat together. The a ds= vet 111^111 sethualoolcolly agreed tt. Alterwards the bealtbaaf the Queen, the Prtile - Coneoe, attd the Royal Family. were Meetly (busk to mid wh.le lbw As better to de eel lb* royal Matti soloy.d th, larlers, It was else mode known that the poorer Audi sot be eitboat as °nor amity of partaking is aimilsr refebalsgs. The ball then coal saseasS, said was t t ept sp grids pad girl' till ea early boar seat twerefes.—Atertivos Irta. _ LOW/ Citiiscaunes Oritcr., Fits IL—Notice le hooey OM that Iter Majtaty will hold lever at la. Imo?. Naas so the idlowiag dam at 2 ticket : Wed• aeolay, lbe 2M ism., and Wedneet.ay, the 2ad of lima CZTVIAL PALACIL Out SHILLING Day. Tviss6; Ailmbeks• 646; dine by sums Yds% .Wispy gbe Court. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Prinerse Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, visited the QSNII yesterday, at Buclitegbara Pasco, Ilejoi-Oenewal Peel had an audience of the Queer. TM Prime Consort reek on horsebsek, attended by Captata the Hoe. D. de Roe. The Princelier Alice and Helena rode is the Riding-hours. The Chien end Prince Coeaort, acc togianled by the Priet o:ewes Mite and Helena, honoured the t ccformance of the Eaillith Opera, Covent Garde., with their versa in the 'vetting. The royal cults coaristed of Lady Churchill, the Hon. Beatrice Bye', the Earl of Vernier, Coked F. H. Seymour, and Cap•ain the Hon. 1). do Rea. A depute' ion on the subject of the Mane, Docks bed en interview with the Right boa. J. W. Healey yuletide', _at the Aire of the Restrict Triode. The &parka amaseed of Sir Phillip Egerton, M.P., Mr. Tolanaolte, M.P., Id Orcevesor, Id.P., Mr. Town head Marmara!, 11. P, the Earl of Shelburne, and the Ron. P. Poesoeby (Great Waters Railway Company) ; hr. Salisbury, 111. P., Mt. Bancroft, Mr. Siam, Mr. Rosen, end Mr. Pedants (Mr !oilseed Railway Cosispaay) • Mr. la'rd (Birtealmed Im provement Commienioesr), M. Aldermen Eaton and Mr. Thomas Q. Roberts_porporation of Chester), sad Mr. Chas. Mailman*, M r.C. Terrine% and Mr.Panny(leedomere). The following deranging. harrodnesd by Mr. T. B. Rere- Mk M.P., sad Mr. J. C. Ewort, M.P. the mambas kr Liwirprel, bad en intreiser with Mr. Reeky yesterday, ea the ael.set of the Many Dock. end Harbour Bill, as Quid. Thrift and James B. Smith (Timber Assesalim), N. Jan Bibby and B. Allen (Steam Ship demander), Mean. Josiah Booker and Frauds A. Cilia (Shiparaer/ Ameciatioa), and Messrs. Chiles Saunders and George Melly (Clamber of Commerce). A deputed= le mane a memorial from the religious So- ciety of Friends bed an interview with the Berl of Derby yesterday, at hie Midst residence in Downing•streekantreat tog the gereremeat not to sena len er allow the ate of say West Indian L. Kiska» for the Importation of cooing, and to me th-ir aline 60 COUIIOIIIIIIO4 the injustice and meaty which remit from those now to operarlosi. The =t formed the d.peratien—Joelah leerier, Peter Robert Foram, Same' Pm, Divan Bratimeale, Hoary Sarry, Sensual &urge, Cooper, Rabat Aber, Thomas Briars, Jaelah Bare, Chaa.MaylemiL Lord Rabe had am teterview with the Camelia of tat Basthequer rowdily. Mr. J. Wilece, M.P., bad also an harram with the right hon. gentleman, et Ina atldd re sidence In Dowager-meet. A depelatioa from the MelMem, brewers, end Mewed victuallers of Soothed had an interview with Ike Lied Ad vocate of &Maud at h's official maideeee, 8 yesterday. The deputation cormsted of UMW& Stephen Coln!, Robert Thomann, and William Gabes (Cashman of the Scottish Lionised Victuallers' Aremelation ) A deputation m the subject of the Lyintegan Railway, consiasng of Mr. Mackiaam, M.P., Mr. Moon, and Mr. Peed (Parlianmeary Agent), had as Interview with the Right Bon. J. R. /Inky yesterday, at the Mike of the Board of Teethes Dte7lol — Were waled et the Colosis/-offiee yesterday trees tea Governor of Canada and the Governors of the Wadi Indio Isles& His Royal Highseas dr Deka of Oalateidga oaatrodaed a Wad circle at dhow ea Nasky wising, at Ms midges', is St. Jason Use*. The Dike mid Dash= of Argyll, accompanied by the Marc& of Lora and lezelly, arrived at their villa, at Camplan-hfil, Kensington, last ems*, from Tammy Candy N. B. The duke aid diadems ban bees detained is ecotlaad by Mamma in tbe family. Lady Colchester had La saeembly lut evening at her ruldasas 4 Bearladay-goer. Their Royal Hier DANIMMI the Durso of Cambridge sad the Priers Mary rowed bar ladyddp vtik their presence, arriving at II o'clock, attends! by Major Homo Parres. Previously to the sairrably Lord sad Ledy Calabria/ enteetared at dinar the Duke sad Dubin of Riolunoad sad Lady Grills Gordon Lassos, the Krauts sad Marchlosar of !Salisbury, the Earl rad Courant of Stbellield, the Ertl it Caesarean, the Earl aid Counters of Dolsonstrors, Lard end Ludy 5i.,!.., Lora Louise, Lied War, Lady GRAM Moray, Mr. WMbraliama Mertes sad Lady Mary Ivrea, Ate. Hie Excellency the Turkish Ambeseador and Kai Wee Momenta bate bawd cards for • Imp dingo, on TAW, at tie residence of Qs oonbaswy, is Bryan•los wpm. Illalaine Milan. will bays an onetobly in the wrowlsg. Tk;Doebees of Sutherland, who came to Stafford House, aemencersied by tbe Earl of Carlisle, oe Moeda'', from rNtfcg the Rigbt How. Henry and Lady Mary Labowchere, at St As Perk, MN Wisdom, left town yester day, to Join the dub at l'roadirs. Lord and Lady Blantyre IWO returned to Erskine Hem, Reakewditre,from visitleg Os Doke of Ow herland at Mathes. The Right Hon. Henry Labor/hare, M.P., and Lady Mary I.lb3oehere lava bees entertaining • kroily Girth et Mots Part, Voir sect, are Window. The eempany now at Brighton include Lady Illwarart, dir J, aumpbeD, Lady Calthorpe, Sir W. Mao- Imasze, Lady Odomlama &milky, Lady Caarlotto Errlos, air Tram& sad Lady Bering, Viscount aai Viscounts.* Berg, Admiral goon, tits Dachas of Leinster expired yesterday mam ba, at Carton Home, agar Dabhu, b the 66th yrr of her ass. Ths decored was third daughter of the third Earl of flatrlastos, nod married the present due in 1818. Mr. Higgins has now lost the appointment of Master in Limey and that of Reeler": in Baokruptoy. The Chancellor appointed his prineipsi eseretary, Mr. Sett, to the vacant registrarship, and Mr. Phillips to the office which the removal of Mr. Scott hod WI vacant. "We malsigasdly trust," lays the Post, "that the government will remedy the injury which untateatioaelly has been ie dieted upon Mr. Higgins, by placing his to a positi o n I n which bit abilities may fairly and legitimately to made available for the service of the polite." Mr. Baxter, M.P., in reply to a communication from the Montrose Shipoon^rs Society, says lam op posed to the Wed* of pr3tection in commercial matters. whether &psi ed to shipping*" es say otter interest ; nor do I bairn that retaliatory saws would either be wilt the shipowners of this country, or have the effect of inducing other nations to adopt hes trader• On Monday evening Mr. Robert Chambers gave a lactate, in the Merchant.' Ball, Edinburgh, on " Mennen sad Merchandise in Old Tines." ♦ large number of gen tlemen, representing newly all the yeritus profession an mercantile interests of in city, were present. On Tomday Mr. Adams will move for leave to introduce Into the Hon,. of Cotansoas s bill to insahle eoro. sere la England sad Wales to admit to bail pumas charged with the off, nee of manslaughter. Mr. Bunton will move in the Home of Commons as Tueoday me, for a aeltrit oronntittm to Inquire into the maidition of the Welt lad an sad Ma beet n e of pro moting ImorigraHos Into them. A return to the noose of Lords shows that between Jr. I, 1666, sad Dec. 12,116 modem, and 209 aon•tnlete, oppliod for preload°. to the Intohoot Carat. The death of Mr. Alexander Cowan, the Mier of the ramble for Minibus It (Mr. C. Cowen), tick plow ea Woodsy. The benevolence of the deemed wee mut able. It is only the other day the, in the moat mob tenger meaner, be enabiboted 4,0001. to the Iniraory, and on two former OCOLPiOI23 he relented the roanaione with two Ems, mach of 1,0004 A Baste° correspondent writes," Precisely a week before Mr. Pr...rotes death, I had reel and conversed with him la hie study at Burton, whets he sat eurromodoi by the mat. Hsi for his great History of Philip and enjoying apparently aedlr•t health. Ilia handsome featly.' pre sented no Irmo of the paralytic attack whir w►ich he had raihred shoat a year before, end the vivacity if his convene tion was no lees distinguished than in former pars. On Friday, the 211t1, however, at a little after own, Mr. Pole cat; whet hat wawa his huh, was heard to promo by hie weretary, Mr. John Police Kirk. The latter trnmedisiely despatched a servant in quest of a phyaid,n, and with the help of some of the dorneetios broke open the door. The historian we. found issenelle, sod although ramtedles were on the spot, sad they were sdroloiiered with the almost promptems, they were of no avail, end death moyeevened Wont half-peat 2 o'cloek. His magnifieent and indeed wieqaalled library is bequeathed, I inderetand, to Harrod Colv.mi.y, at Cambridge, Mn.. ichaeetta, of which betrtstlon be was a ipsdnate." Ths Revisal Jarasa ma, a periodical published at Jerez, staos that the posers, dome, sad &Lippe. of sherry lass mammas Wised ths Pplaish govesnmeat, areal; a rodeo • Kos of the daty iron British siansfacuuss, s i as to isduce As English government to radios the seAtibitivs duties spas their sloes. A new open., by an American composer; handed ea Wahine.). Ireiog's " Rip Via bin peeper IWs a Civialiudes. . . .zlrox OF ZAST wascseria- SHill The following correspondents, La rstsropos to this eleotios, hr beim published 1 Tedderhy, Feb. 1p " My dew Isgesarre,—l take the liberty, to which I ma sure yos will mot apse!, to publish my Utter to you, sad poor aseme.—l remain yours simmesiy, "The Fisment lapses, M.P.' " BAVitentre. Tiolikalay,, Fab. 11. " My dear Ingssism—My enratio• has bees asiled to • paLagrspit la tie Daily to *be following Mint : • Laid Ingeorre sad Ilea. Lygoa sad Mit. Do formerly M.P. for Tswkesteray, addressed as aelre d ll;T el i farmers from a Mellow opposite the Corn Bach oestar on Saturday altemoos. In the reams aMd e lr t s: mem otrervalkas be mid that " the ward Mr. Cabers, so • rspresentstim 6 11 " grettraltvl- kl" sioa rf Worcestershire was hatchet by Lord EMbettmort his mot at Teddreley sad them roemunientel le Lard Word, who jars •th squirmier' to the seggestlee."' " pertly semi couverration I may have had with Lord Ward about the Bast Worcestershire ehrtioe, at • visit he paid me ham—just after Lord Northwieles deatu— la personocre of is engagement mules fortnight before, it is usnoismary far ma to rear.. Bat the stersumet that ' the Idea of bringing forward Mr. Celthorps as • reamesetativs of Bast Worcestershire was batched by ON at thin Oboe,' or any when a's., le without • .hadow of foundation. I never was mouthed, nor Ina likely to bet, about the choice of a candidata . and you pt ow httec from a customary corn apoudeat eosveag to me the informalioa that Yr. Calthope's Maude had ter 'lead to bring him forwar.l, of which I this beard for the first time, I never had with say one any ►lad of communkutios reapeotlog his 'ladles. " I am mire that after Una alwaroant, you will pucks my i equity whet►ar you have berm correctly reported in the &ben paragraph—wad if so—on what autoonty you h•ve nada such a atatemsed 1 remain yours alacarely, HAtlialletON. " The Viscount Ingestre Id P." higestre S'afford, Feb. 12, IMO. "Dear Lord Hallsertow,—The report of what I said at W.:reader is enbetantially tomer, w.th this exception : " What I said area, • the scheme was hatched at Load Ha thane's's, at Teridoslay to., not by Lord }Whereon. You oak me on what 'mood I mode thu statement. " I reply, I kaaw Lord Ward had b en at Teddeeley, I believed that Mr. Callus,* met him them, and, know's, the Memel yea take in po i i , al magma, as minced during the lam Stafford eleetioe, I thought it probable that the idea el starting Mr. Calthorpe for East Worn recibir, was bathed at your holm. If I have made any misstatement la this matter, I much regret It, but I ballevo the probsbUitim were andieket to boar me out la the mention that I seeds at Warm der. _ _ 'ileleTve las, dear Lord Hath , don, ainearely your". '• mltrza.. MARTLESONIL—The sudden announcement of the resignation of Vie vont Ebriop n of his seat for the bormigh of Marybibose 1 esteediy, mated no small amount of surmise se well as excitement la political circles throughout the borough. As might naturally be expected, the inquiry was everywhere as to who was likely to corn* to. ward se e .nYidates to suceend the aobls viscount, and large numbers of the electiral body, many of wham were on the lamer occasion winch supporter' of Lord Bbriegton when he contested the borough secomefully @pleat Mr. Jacob Bell, expo eyed a straw desire to know idiotism it was the in tention of Mr. Ben orals to ogee himself. In the aftemom the gaged= of Mr. Belts out ere was solved by a depu tation of electors welds/nem that patletnaa at his resideece in Imigbaorplees. Mr. B-11, who smeared to be gaffs lag serenely from bronahit le, was had soirely able to articulate. Be expreawd he grwitoation it would have afforded him again le haws agree forward I. the libity al laten st ; and that nothing bet the delicate state of his health would kart pre vented him from at once teaming an addrese, aging for the of his brother elemore. At the present time, how sour, wag reloragoly compelled to timbre. Augoopt other names enrion.d woe tame of Sir Rehm Welgoisy, Mr. Wilkinson, late member fee Lembeth, and Mr. Josiah Wilkinson, neater of the Metropolitan Board of Weeks he Se, Penmen Dezisg the day, bates the result of the Grasowieli 'leeks was blown, tarp numbers of the friends of Mr. Jamb Bell liediravd, Is the event of that gorleman deeliaisg M offer himself, sod the Hectic, at Otemerich Wag anus to Mr. Alderman Sll'ooooo, that they weal, en accusal of his being • resident chiefly, immediately pt ep a requisition to the Alderman to stoat tor klerylehow. MISR tbe remit at Greenwich wee, I °sever, known, Mr„ stein was spoke. of, as also Mr. Harry Chaster, of gate. Thaw appears, however., to be a aortal Seeing in the first place. that • reetlent candidata will be pained, sad vexedly, ea saggered by Sir B. Hall at the meeting at Wadi eve Mag, that whoever represents Maryleihens for the fames mast be a boa nese man and a waking toggeher of parliament. Csown•orncs, Fin. 14.—Memhers returned to serve le the present pediment. C.dirie et the Holy Trinity of Dolan : The Welt Hoe. James Whiteside, her Mr jetty's Attorney-Gemini for fralsnd, in the tom of George Alexander Hatolltoo, Esc., who has scoetted the office or elsward of her Mairsty's Muir of Northgead. Town of Chlway : Jobe Orton Lever, Lq., to the rein of Anthony 071abartL Esq., whose clinke ha, bleu declared void. U Id s-welly of Oxfad : TM Right Hon. Willies Ewsrt 01&4- sines, of Christchurch, Mester of Att., Itav:nf accepted the office of Lord High Commis Inter of the lon= Lalonde.— Omits. VONIIITITE OT COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.— Otimidarabis thanes hese newly amoral In the personas' et the Privy Counc I oaks. Mr. Harry Chester, alto • melee et marl, thirty- th se years it that ea* has retired treat the pea of ...mat-so 'wary to the Comakt• at Corral oe islatotles. Mr. Rin4LaNl los boxer the order salleart.ssereesra ; and Mr. Sykes, the esafor as lorry is oofed t 4 the poet et jostler a11ai11i14.116111111417, Via'4l4 pr lb. Sail Lid. MIBMW YISHJIOAGISS' AND POULTIRIRS' men- I Y1f77011. The friends and supporters of thie charity met last evening et the Alban, to celebrate its 24th anoiremety. The chair was taken by Mr. redeem Bingham, M.P. who was Mipported by Mr. A. W. Haglike for Brid water, end Mr. P. W. Keats, M.P. ler R ochester; Mr. Alderman Meal, Mr. Formby, Mr. J. Cession, the Rev. T. Hugo the Rev. A. Itome ll , and several influential members of the fish memo' and poulterers' trades. From the report, which warted by the remetary, it appeared that the society was Medalled in 1834, for the wpm ed mvidhag en asylum and meintenanos for the aged and deste members of the two trades, their widows and orphans, and for 'mating temporary and timely relief in the numerous came of distress so frequently occurring among the working class or men. Through the ellitiOna made by the committee e first end chief object was obtained in 1849, by the par rhea of freehold land, deliehifulty situate at Wood Otem, near Honey, sad the erection thereon of as asylum, consisting of twelve house,, which are at present occupied by 21 inmates, consisting of seven married coupes re:stein 10s. ed. per week, three single persons receiving Ta pot week, end two other married couples who, owing to the met of more ample fends, have necessarily bees admitted without pentiona. To the comfort and happiness of these Inmates the utmost attention la paid, and it is highly gratify leg that only two deaths have occurred since the opening of the asylum in 1549. To confines to maintain the. la mbent objects was the maim amp of the committee, end the gee %test efforts were now !Meg mule to raise the mane' biome toe poet that will usable them to allow portions to the whole of the ioznaha in the RVIIIIII without which, as before Mated, Is not the owe at present,t:o ° :i the houses, which Wog seensistad unoccupied, having been remedy tenanted with four aged people without pewit:ins The reading of the report was followed by an el sent and =pat appeal from toe caelrman for liberal eontribations to enable the committee to cony out the pod work so nobly begun. The interest felt in the Malty was fully evinced by the number sad respectability of the compaypremst, as well as by the hearty ash trac.ical ravage made to the appeal of the committee. The total amount rubearibed M. the occasion was Mont 1761., including ten guineas from the chairman and eve guineas from the following dr nors : Mr. P. W. Martin, 11. P, Mr. Alderman Meth', Mr. T. Pricker, Mr. John Freak, Mr. Fora s Stewart, Mr. Christopher Grove, Mr. Thomas Grove, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Hades, Mr. Bpi sine, Mr. Cameos, Mr. H. Blundell, Mr. John Bsoft, Mr. Thomas Charles, Mr. H. °item. and the Rev. G. Roberts. The mead atangemmta were under the direction of Mr. J. J. Hate, conductor of the English Orobeetal sad Choral Arm- Mans, the vocalists being Mies Salem end Messrs. Holmes, Hobbs, Mailer, and Thompson. 07 UWIIB. Yesterday the new oommission for the ensuing yea wee spend by Mr. Alderman Muni, is the alotenos of the Lord Mayor. The . __ l _ L_ lades bee rued by the Chief Clerk , en the melon of Mr. Di lamer, wreended by Mr. J. WATZIL• LOW, Kr. tatty tlitaterin was elected clubman for the following t dada. The walk, deputy having taken the their, the &out a of the lest court were red sad approved. SANITARY Dr. Lwri;;;;;;W:iiic:l4;w;tl;:iii;;;porte,a that the sessealby Marne foe the Lot week bditent a favourable rendition of the peddle health. The nanther of deaths (66) b a little below the avenge for the oomeepending weeks of the last three mare; end lathe coarsest the lest three works the death re's his fake from 132 to 92, and thence to 66, ebonies that greet improvement lies takes plus in the state of the publio health duriog that time. Neatly half of the bathe (26) have been among Wean, and only 11 among old person, of 60 and upwards. The chief mum of death were as follows :—Putmostary coneumpdon, g; tronebbie, p; pneuroonia, 4 ; tar, 2 ; and ler dreembehte end Mothing, 7. There were elm 7 deaths from hooping-tnegh, which le en nenelly prevalent ; 3 from meseles ; 1 from dysentery ; end 1 from infant il e climb:es. There WY no death from fever, or eosrtatlna, or small-pox. WONT ON tNII OILNAT CINITAL OA!. Dr. leatTeiii:p;iidait2lieif;3;6;J;oili. abatis sting power el this pt., se it is supplied to the City, bed bees made, and that the avenge Intensity of It was that when burning at the rats of five cable feet per hear from arpad harmers of 16 holes sad a ' , soma eirdeensy it gme the light of 12.98 standard sperm .media, or 14.118 was. This is nearly 24 par mat above lita regeirszeseti at th e act of pat Itiment, but the veriatlsa ha tha power has bean from that of 10 28 was emits te 21.16—• range that had caused leech dinatiefee- Ma honk le the mitapeny sad the &stoners, for by the ecermitmel supply of gee of unnecetearily high fateatity there had hem mO4 • desire far the 001111=11110O of it, and oom plaints maw often made when the pe fell from a high standard to one whirl was MIR a long way above the re ' gairesen.s of the mt. It is therefore meadiserly to the bit terest stall that the illuminating power should be kept at sae untikem standard. In the course been to tof the ear the a...rage ilhemiesting power of the gas has that of 12.68 semi red spina candles or 14.49 wee. T theskal quality hoe bean tersarkably good, for tl h e i spwith few eaceptiona, had been free from malphazettAd b en and from rime of =NNW* end Mary matter, w is the usual accompani ment of that impurity. TM mart, after disposing of moms other business of a de , rectar not sufliritat to justify a report, adjourned. HBALTE 07 LONDON DEMING Till WEEK. The return of births and deaths in London tamed by authority of the Bagistrer-Gemerel toe the week 'adios Saturday, February 12, statue that the deaths Registered in Loudon, which is the previous week had fallen to 1,942, were 1,274 in the week that ended last Saturday, shortages Increase, but sot of considereble .mount. Is t he ten years 1849-68 the avetage number of deaths fa the weeks curia epondlug with lest week was 1,180; bat as the deaths re tuned for last week occurred in a ppedation which has in crew& they con only be competed wi , l2 the avenge 'shed proper io3r to the increase, namely 1,298. The earl somber of deaths lest week was therefore lather less than the number obtained bybye alculation. The Medea arising teem scarlatina and diphtheria matinee slightly fa the decrease, the numbers from the two diseases together in the last three weeks having lr ea 119, 92, and N. Ninnies death. from diphtheria occurred hat week in the fallouts; seb-distrkts ; one in St. John, Peddlers% one in Humverumare, one In Soignee, 2 in Christchurch, Maryletoos, ono in Kentish. town, 2 in Islington West, one Is lelingtoc East, one in Stanford-WV one In St. Clike North, one in St George, Holborn, one in Holywell, Slp • one b Ea. Leonard, Sbomditab, one ha Heston Now town, one in Naggerstone Wert, one In Spitalfielle, ate in Kent-road, sad one In Battereee. It appears that all, except two, occurred as the sortie side of the river. The indioa- Noes of en increase of smallpox which the n ports of recent wake heve contented we now wry decidedly confirmed, the deaths from this disease baring risen last week to 29. Tweety.four of these occurred in the ceseral sad out die- Wets, the per* chiefiy in'es ed being cheated in the sub date:cis of Finsbury, Whitemos-rreer, But mid West Heggerston. The Registrar of Finsbury reeordai no leas then six deaths free smallpox last week, 2 of these is • family st 19 Cowper street. He stet that en mama number of children are suffering from this complaint is Persdisapire and Cowper-an e that the locality Is 1,41 payed and drained, bat lies rather low, and that the habits of the peer pe lie who occupy It are very ditty. Weems nottagamarisna, whose deaths were regkand last week. 6 ware 90 and 91 years at age, sad a worm wu9B years. Lai week the births of 898 b ys and 856 nit* fa all 1.714 children, were reentered in London. In the ten oor responding weeks of the years 1849.38 the average number wee 1,718. PARLIAMINTAZT Hiroaa.—A nurnerousky at teteei meeting of the inhati•atta of Stratford, West Ham, Plat.tow, and adjamint dietticts welt held at Roksby-house, Stratford, on Monday evening. to er nadir the s: i• racy of petitioning the legislature for en amendment and intension of the frevaleee. Amongst those preset on the plated wore Mt. Wineleid, M.P. for South Bala, and leveret of the le idieg lehabitents of tte neighbourhood. Mr. R. Madam took the chair, and explained the objects of the meeting. Le doing so he raid the taros beg intelligence of the people ds mania a material estrasise of the fratichts., for the House of Commena. as at parent cots Patel, did not IMr'y represent them. They moults d • Ito's* of Commons to be formed of men defies's.% without say nudes proportion elan, peel wear late eat. It would also be ne:eeesry to have the balk*. At meat they gars a vote to • nun who often meld not use It conscientiously without indicting Injury upon Itlmeelf. What wss replied, therefore, was, that the voter clamed be protected ia the exerts. of bit eolith al egtit. The essettag was addressed by seers] gentlemen, and see s tencils NM adopted In favour of an exteadoa of tbo fran chise, sad of eleriarial districts, the at &Non of snail and atrairt bnroagt2s, and vote by ballot; and a peition to perliameet fun kd on the rewletions was adopted. Mr. Winnfield, M.P., gladly accepted the duty of proventeg the petition. He capreserd himwit hvomahle to as extension of Its hanch;s_ • but thought that all donator) from deb ex tension would be bet if the ballot were adopted. However, ho bad sleep acted in &demos to the wishes of Ids con stituent', and bad Inver rob d easiest ,the bola.. Ho nor steered that though Mr. Br igLt's was a rtnerrhst liberal, it um not jut in rewurd to the secant-4 intormt. He (Mr. Wiogeold) wan.d, however, deal with the questire of ref rut Is • fair and redouble *putt, when it *me to be dircuseed. _ _ tug CAMBRIDGE MIDDLE-CLASS EXAMINATIONS. —ln the Hat of reboot" ending seecemfal stadente to the i tdle elms imnilsatione pablieLed en Ilireday, we etetd that Mr. Templeton, of the Mensiombome School, gretrr, eentoaly one student In the second dam. Tb's wee ea erne, es tweet the students in that clan were rent boot Mr. Toe's eetablisbenent. Tal MIT= COVET or SISSION.—In the past = 6 1616, Inn were 1,420 mow enrolled in the Outer it dry first time before all the Lads Oratory. 466 &ewes* Is ahem% end 626 Gael Judgments pronmared le litlgaMi MOM I. the loner Homo, 319 hn.l Juan- Iffisamingis itiwated moms without the oweermmemerwr eseryoall treaq-flve causes were tried by 1 8 .1,0 . FRANCE. The letter of our Paris correspondent, dated yesterday evening, had not reached us at the time of outgoing to press. THE UNITED STATES. (110 N ova OWN NEW YORK, Fin. 2. The Pacific Railroad Bill, after hanging for a Meg time in suspense, has at last received in quietus, and has been thrown out, though it is difficult to my what wee the prevailing reason for its rejection. The one which actuated the Republican members in voting against it is, however, abundantly clear. It was proved beyond question that the scheme could not succeed on a commercial basis. Even if a private company could raise the amount of capital ncceuarg to carry It oat, it would be impossible for them to carry freights at rates which any known commodity, except silk, would bear. The lowest charge, so low as barely to pay expenses, would be three time' higher than the cost of transport round Cape Horn or acre's the Isthmus. As to the passenger traffic, it would, of course, be large for a line of railroad three or four hundred miles long, but for years to some was certain to be ridiculously small for a line two thousand miles in length. The commercial aspect of the cue being thus dis posed of, it remained to consider it as a military or political route, to be constructed by government. That it would be well to have such a road—that California and all the territory on the Pacific coast would thus be linked more firmly to the Union—that it would facilitate the protection of that region against the ravages of a hostile fleet in ease of a war with a great naval power, and that it woeld hasten the settlement of the intervening weenie, there was no question on any side. But then there prevailed, as I have said in a former letter, the widest difference of opinion as to the line which such a route should follow. The South claimed it for the sandy deserts of New Mexico—the North, for the fertile plains of Oregon ; but each with political objects in view, and each was despe rately tenacious of its own ideas. To end the stzei ihe there came the crowning and crushing oh s notorious corruption of the Admirustra tins. Ten millions of dollars would fall short of the sum required to construct the poorest line of rails from the Mississippi to the Pacific, establish posts along it for its protection, depots for food, fuel, re c-a...; and this enormous sum would all pass h the fingers of the Executive, and be expended la yon its favourites. The contracts alone would offer such facilities for jobbing es no adminis tration has ever enjoyed, and none was ever less fit to be trusted with them than the one now in power. When such acts of profligacy are committed with an empty treasury and scanty powers SS have been disclosed in reference to the recent saber, two moderate sired forts and in the beading of five war sloops, and the dealings of Mr. Buchanan with the public printer, what would not be done with an enormous credit in the public purse, and in the con struction of a work of such magnitude as two thou sand miles of railroad through a wildenten ? The news that the English and French admirals in the gulf are resorting to measures of coercion against - Vera Crux, to compel the appropriation of the customs' duties to pay the interest on the claims of English and French creditors, is exciting ernsatio* here, as being an interference in the "domestic affairs" of Mex ico. There is some truth in this, but it would be hard to tell how anybody is to be needs pay his debts without meddling witk his domestic arrangements. TEE OTTOMAN RAILWAY COMPANY. The investigation into the charge against the Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin) Railway Company, re hired to in our impreesion of yeaseday, has ter. 'ablated in the adoption by the eommittee of the Stock Exchange of the severe resolution that the shares be expunged from the official list. The com mittee consider the case a flagrant one, and have de• aided that their " resolution " shall be publicly posted ep in the Stock Exchange. It is well known that any company applying to the Stock Ex change for the appointment of a settling day in the shares and for their quotation in the official list must be in a position to prove that a certain proportion of the capital has been bona fide subscribed for, and the first payment duly made thereon. The Ottoman Rail way Company, the first announcement of which took play In May, 1867, satisfied the committee in theme respects, and their shares were consequently ad mitted. The investigation now instituted has eon shred the committee that the subscription was not of a bona fide character, and that the settlement was obtained by means of misrepresentation. It apposes from an examination of the bankers.' books and other evidence, that a certain amount of capital was paid in to the credit of the company , merely with a vie. to enable them to par the ordeal, and was subse quently withdrawn. A similar trick wee played some years ago by one, if not more, of the abortive gold mining companies, and the punishment, upon detection, was similar to that now de. creed. In the present instance, however, there is no doubt that a farther investigation will ensue, for the names compromised are highly re spectable. The board of this company consists of the following gentlemen, viz., Sir Macdonald Stephenson (chairman) ; Messrs. Philip P. Myth, Eric C. Smith, Wm. Gordon Thomeon, Captain Daniel Warren, and Major-General Tremenheere. The names of all these gentlemen likewise stand upon the original prospectus of the company. THE FATAL FIRE IN WHITECHAPEL. TO Till EDITOR OT THE EXPELS. Sri,—Mat people have ilonbtfeas Waif the ae cewit of the late ditaatrous fire in White( bagel ; bat I we ask bow many have aelmowkdged by aught but admiration the heroin a nduct of one ontnown risber et the Hared Guards or Admiralty—Rem Wood? This man (who thews years ego brought a woman in his arms down the ladder, holding her WU in his teeth) mei slx Hoes on the late eventful night, bat was frastra*ed in his attempt to mere two unhappy girls who perished in the flames. If the Victoria Cross wore obtainable .6 drew, Ins•md of w 5 widifern smarm, that (lotions memorial would adorn the breast of flan Wood. . 1114;11111 St;l7l7Fire Etteare Other, 47, I.ndgate-hill, this morning, regarding the 1111111$1a1 cr repeats they are correct to a fraatiaa.—l am, &e., R. C. United University Club, Feb. 16. THE LATE FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN WHITE. CHAPEL.—Irmt. May afternoon Mr. Wm. Baker, ths MOW for Rest MMdlevez lield an inquest at the L- Ilion Hospital on tbe bodies of COMiliette Low. aged 33, and Emily Williams. aged IS years, the two unfortunate panom who loot their lives is the em which occurred to the premiees belonging to Mr. J. Walton, tea merchant. No. 67. finth-socet, chapel, some particulars of which appeared in this journal of Monday bor. The coroner and pry baring viewed the hod* several witnesses were examined and depood to the faces already reportei. The jut) , returned a verdict that the diseased wen " Accidentally burnt to death in the are, but hew it weaseessiosad there was no evidesce to show." They added, that "the retreat puree wee doe to Samuel Wood, the Royal Society a coadoeter for hi. esettlons upon the melancholy occasion." A subMrlption for the le nefit of Wood bee bees sot on foot by the inhaMtants of Whitt chapel in recognition ef Ms services. THE CALCUTTA MAII.B.—The Pert arrived at floutharoptan yerterday with the Calcutta mail. She left Malta on the gth instant, and Gibraltar on the 10th. The Pere parsed off Caps do Gat, • large See of meads. She also fell in with the French schooner, the Emil Ernest, is distress. The latter wee thirty-two days out from Algkre to Bordeaux. Although a heavy ma was rolling, a toes with all men in It was lowered from the Para, with the utmost ease by means of (Millais patent, tt assist the French ship with what she teats& The Intl& mail packet Ripon arrived at Meq., on the 6th Mot., mini the Indian packets lades and Neptu l !arrived at °thanker ost the 10th. The lighthouse at Cave Rocks le almost c impletad. The Count de Para end Wee bed arrived at Algae rag from Wit Oavain lumina, dr Commander al the Para was presented with a beatheme pins of plate by the passengers on the =t weed purge. The Pees Its made the voyage from South ampton to Alesandels sad back, a distame of 6,000 ades.. cabals wet easpideig at lea pets—ice IS days. AMERICAN MAILS.— The Mosta-ship City of Bal. Moore will sell to-day (Wednesday) from Liverpool for NeM York with the Celts, States meth. Letters will be received et the Liverpool post-oaks till 8 30 ere.. with • late IN tIU 9.30 am., and as lbs landing stage till 10.50 am. a