The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-02 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PAIILIAMENT• --• ROOM OP LORDlL—Trisour, rit IL I. The Lam alumnus Ma Ids art oa the woolsack at 5 o'clock. COPVRIOHT IN WORKS OY ART BILL The Copyright in Works d An B wee need • first time. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Bradford Crepotutioa Water Bill, and the Gnat N.rtheru Railway (No. I) Bill wen read a second time. BLEACHFIELDN (WOMEN AND CHILDREN EMPLOYMENT) BILL. tin the mortals al Um Earl of Setarrearvaa this bill was teal a second time. The Marine Mutiny Hill ens read a emend time, and the Mutiny Bill was reed a third time sod peseed. The Auetrelien Camden tloveramest Act Amendment Bill ;owed through committee. 1 heir 101.1 ships oljoursed ate quarter past five. HOUSE OF 00MKONEL-TunDAT, Ai , Rn. 1. - - elrgAura gosh the their at 4 (Moth. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills win tad • Hid ties :—Loudon god sough weutoeu Railway (additional psgeors) (••w title) Aouth Molten Corporatios ; sad Wiwi/AIM" Road Rills. Mooned Radio, • —Wag Xidlsad itailarrq (Ifeethyr, he.. Railway lame) MIL - - ERFCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Mr. B COCHRANE IWO nodes that on Tuesday, the "fit► al April. M wank! strove for a Royal Commission to Uptake into the circumstances eoeseeted with the erection of public. buildiep daring the bet *years, with a view of weertainier whether greeter eareany d the public nominees could not be obtains& ESTIMATFII FOR FORTIFICATIONS. Mr. DILLS' TN gave notice that on Tuesday, 29th Amil, be would move that in the opinion of the house it was desirable that in sill muse where her Majarty's government isitended to erect fortifications distinct and separate from Qom already seactioned by parliament, the estimates for each mirke should be whinnied for the consideration of the house at a ...pante time from that at which the annual eitimatea fur current expenditure were submitted. I.l' N A l'1" It Et 1 "LATION BILL Mr. PH 11.1.11 N asked the Secretary of State for the Hoew liepirtment when he intended to introduce the Lunacy Regulation Bill; sod whether much bill would coo. Min any privieion for the purpose of facilitating the build ing of a lumdk a.yluin by counties united for that purpose. sir 11. GREV add he had to repeat the answer that he had already given, that .1 bill lad been prepared on the sub- Met, tousled in the main ou the report of the committee. He could not. however. state when it would be brought io, as several vuelt ions of an important character bad been received, soil were under consideration, which rendered further ..ummunii..itMe with the roorlaw Board necessary. The bill ,outeilied • cilium relating to the subject of the bon. gentleman's question. MANUFACTURE OF RIFLED ORDNANCE. Mr. H. RF:RKELEV asked the Secretary of State for War whether, adverting to the probability that gees of much meter calibre met sow he placed on our seaboard forts, and iron.plated ships. Sir William Armstrong was to have the exelosive manufacture of such gnus, or was their rottstruction to be thrown open to competition; and of what calibre was the largest gun completed as intended for Factual service as yet tirade for government by Sir William Armstrong. and proved without is cident to the breech, or bustles Sir C. LEWIS rid that the War.oftice had no con tract with Sir W. Armstrong. but had a coatmet with the Flawick Iron Compaay, which bad bees printed in the appendix to the report on military organisation. If that coetraet was referred to it would be emu that if the War Deportment should mar altogether to employ the Elswick Cceoptey for the manufacture of °tames, they were hound to commutate that company for the for of profit on their plant to the 'Meat of $5.0001. With regard to the second met ci the boa. gentleman's ipaestim, as the abject was new, and ci ours interest, he would read to the house a Mariam& ci the largest Om DOW in use or in the ~ o ne ci trial. The 110th. Armoring gun was the largest as vet actually introduced into the service, and • Isro number had been supplied to her Majesty's ships sad batteries at home and abroad. With respect to experi mental gum oar MM. goo had been Tided oa Arrnetaisee Patent, and firesl solid shot of labs. weight with • caws* of 2flike. of powder. The risperimenta with this gum had been highly satisfactory. A number of guns of this and • similar kind were in coots of manufacture, aid would be shortly ready for delivery. The next was a MOIL titled gun, which is undergoing a coarse of prelimWmp esperimeuts, and had fired with spherical form, with a ,I;arge of 40Ibs. of powder. A proposal been bro.ight forward by the Director-Geoeral of Ordnance for the manufacture of guns capable of firing a shot of MOM. weight, or ea a rifted gun of EAJOIIi. weight. In addition to these guns. a 1:301b. run on the Whitworth prieeiple and a 2001 b. gun by Mr. Lynam Thomas were ia course of coastruction. POOH RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL prove the possession of a pedantic education, but it could not show that a man would be an efficient public servant. Lord STANLEY said that the objections which had been made m the debate to the competitive system were not very formidable. He urged that as regards the teats of physical and moralqualities of candidates for the public servicesbeing Dot applied under the system, the same tests iu those respect* were as accessible now as they had pre vionaly been. The civil service examiners were not wholly uncontrolled or irresponsible ; nor was it the fact that practically the whole patronage of the service was in their hands ; and it was a fallacy to assert that the system of competition destroyed the self reliance at the candidates ; but the remit in the cue of a person who hail gone through au examination was likely to be the other war, and to foster his self.respsM and self reliame. The motion asked only an extension of an ex perimeat which had been tried in one department, and it seemed to him a reasonable proposition. Sir G. C. LEWIS urged that it was desirable that this subject should be allowed to rest while the system of corn petitices, is its present limited state, was going through the ordeal of experience ; and he thought that there was an ground for assenting to the motion. As to the criticism which had been exercised on the examination questa:els, nothing was easier than to throw an air of ridicule over isolated passages culled from examination papers ; and as to their pendantry and unnecessary difficulty, it would be useless to nudge examinations so easy that every candidate could be equal to them. If the amendment was last on a division, he should move the previous question on the Tbe dZ t o i* : . as continued by Mr. Maned. Mr. Bentinck, arid Mr. Morrison. Sir J. PAK INGTON said there was one pert of this system which was open to serious objection—namely, a practice of compelling :temporary clerks to go through a competitive examination before they were permanently appointed, thus laying them open to the danger of failure and the refusal of their certificaten He wished to know whether this 'yeses still prevailed. Mira. C. LEMIES mid the difficulty arose from a provi sion in the Suparaaau►tios Act, by which a clerk was not entitled to his superannuation without • certi6cate. The temporary clerks were appointed without examination, sod if they were made permanent without examination, they were not entitled to superannuation allowance. An arrangement had been made that the Civil Service Commis sioners should grant a certificate to such clerks on the re commendation of the head of a department. Mr. CLIFFORD argued in favour of competitive exami nation so far as regarded the higher and more intellectual officers, but ridiculed its extension to such functionaries as letter carriers and custom-house boatmen. He called at tention to the recondite nature of the examination papers set to candidates for appointment in the civil service in India. which he contended were not such as should be fairly put before the candidates. Mr. WAITEBIDE thought that men who came properly trained from universities were not thereby disqualified for the public serviere, and he could not understand the argu ment which Mined that such must be the CYO. Alter a diemasima, in which Mr. Marsh, Mr. A. Steuart, Mr. P. Urqviarti, Mr. Cease, Mr. Newdegute. Sir F. Smith, and Yr. Pugh tociatspart, Mr. Cochriuse's amendment was then put, and negatived without • division - • me bows them divided au the previous queetion : Ayes 1;4; No.. The motioa thanfore was not pet. FIRE INSURANCE. Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN, after resenting several peti tions on the subject, moved for leave to lens in a bill for the redeetioa of the duty on fire insurances. The hon. gentleman said hie meson differed from that he had pro le:esti last year ia an important particular. He no longer asked the home to reduce the duty at once from is, per cent, to le • bat Ise eked them to reduce it to 2a. now and to Is. after ihe bre of five years. At the present time the tax yielded about 1,500,000/. per annum. (If that a third arose from insurances where the premium exceeded fie. per cent, and with which he did not propose to meddle. The total lose, therefore, that owlet arise from his bill would at the most be the third of a million poem's, say *10,0004 From that, however, must be de ducted a certain sum for tbe natural increase of the impost Is 18:19-60, it yielded 1,300,000/. ; and in 1..061, 1,500,0007. • so that he thought he might safely reduce the loss by 100,0004 Then there was • large amount of pro. perky which the reduction would probably .t mos care to be insured ; sod he calculated that that would yield 50,0001. more. (In the whole, then, be did sot anticipate that the loos would exceed 180,0001. even in the first year ; and it certainly could not exceed 100,0001. Making allowance for the annual iocrease, be expected that the tax would in five years have recovered itself to the extent of 750,0001. ; in other words, it would have replaced the /10,0001. which he assumed might possibly be loot in the first instance, and would have provided a fund of 470,0001. to meet the second reduction. He believed, however, that the increase would in reality be much more ; for be had shows last yew that while there was in the country 2,800.000,000 f. worth of pro perty that could not from its nature be insured, and 1,000,000,009 f. worth of property that ideally wee gas protected, there remained 3,000,000,6004 worth of pro. p l aty that was insurable, but prevented, no doubt, to a great extent, by the duty, from being insured. (Hear, hem.) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to quote a number of all. thorities in support of his argument, including rood of tateziocirel offices, a petition signed in if' by 3,750 nta, bankers, sod other inhabitants of the City, and as opinion of Mr. Samuel Brown, the well-known actuary of the Guardian office. Another eminent authority on the subject, Mr. Lead Levi. said that the present high rate of duty encouraged the • of not insuring at all, and that that practice to be pining ground. The agents of insurance companies had promoted petitions against the duty, and be had • number of letters from egoista, showing the result of the duty in preventing parties insuring. Mr. HADFIELD 'mooted the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that no hon, esseateer would be justified in voting for the motion unless he were prepared to bold by these two propositions— first, that be meant to reduce that duty whether the public income and charge could afford it or not ; and secondly, that he meant to reduce (this duty in preference to every other claim that could be adduced. Every vote given for the hon. member's motion to-eight must mean to assert the affirmative of these two proreitions. Rut lie (the Chancellor the Exchequer) wished to record his sup port of the needive of either proposition. He would lay down what appeared to him to be an elementary principle of the case. The first question must be—Shall we have a surplus income! Now the bon. gentleman, he was sure, would not expect him —he would he the first to object to such a course—to anticipate the statement be (the Chancel lor of the Exchequer) must make before 4( hours were over. But it was essential. before they could test the principle fairly, that they should ascertain whether they should have a surplus income. Then earns the second question. Was this claim to precede all otheis on this subject This was a very grave matter, and it would not be very easy for the bore to decide without having the whole case before them. U the house considered bow many rates and taxes there were which were more or less emaciated with war—(hear, bear) be would not refer to the minor area, but speaking only of the major instances, be thought no prudent man who reflected calmly upon the proposition would wil lingly tie up his own heeds, and go with the bon. member into the lobby on this motion. He hoped in what he had said he might not be supposed to have disputed or denied that • largee increase of business would probably fol low from the allsolitioa or the reduction of the tax; that it would be a vary good thing, if they could do so, to liberate ioaunoces hem the tax altogether. But it was of no use to indulge themealves in vague declarations of financial beeevolenee. It wee their business to look their difficulties fairly la the face, and take care that they pee away nothing which they had not got, that they gave each claim its due precedeace, placing the first in it, order, and giving a secondary position to that which was only secondary. He hoped the house would not epee to the motion of the hon. member. Mr. MALINS maid the motion of the boo. member for Dudley was only for leave to bring in a bill, and nothing, he thought, could occur between that and Thursday that could in the slightest degree prejudice the position of the right hon. gentleman. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Melia) was so fully alive to the neoeseity of maintainini . ll i m public credit that if he found the bill pre' • • in that respect , he should be the first to all further proceedings upon the bill. But es this was a tax which in his opinion was unjustifiable, most inexpedient, and ineceeding on a principle which the right boo. gentleman had always been the first to condemn, be felt bound tosapport the motion, and not to act in opposi tion to the wimples of the right bon. gentleman. Mr. HAWKEY said the right hon. gentleman had assumed that because nobody had, prosier to himself, get up to speak, nobody on that side of the house intended to support the hon. member for Dudley. He believed the right hon. gentleman would find himself mistaken, as he (Mr. Heakey), for one, intended to vote for the motion, although lie did not consider that he thereby bound himself under any circumstances to support the second reading. Mr. ROGERS observed that the returns recently pub lished showed that the revenue had gone on iecressine, not , withateoding the reduction that took place last year, and preyed, therefore, that the finances were not in that decre lid condition which would justify the Chancellor of the EmMseier in restating the introduction of this bill. _ .llr. Noffitls suggested that the question of the intro desticso of the bill should be deferred till Thursday. There IMP is that house • number of gentlemen who thought the whoit rdmep tea there aaid n d ms ,weregerothersand tax upno isothers n fi n o favour anf d 1141. thieral didir a rf ., Cd , ut ; and all these would vote against the car somber ." for Dudley if he primal his motion to a diet. mien that night. He submitted, therefore, that the bill weld have a better prospect of success if postponed till after the home was in possession of the financial prow elltne• of the Chaocellor of the Excquer. Lei PALMEESTON—Before the bon. member replies, I whits In enlimit sae or two observations to the house. The aria salt that has been used in support of the mottos of my honourable friend has been that this tax is objectionable. I should like any honourable member to have the kindness to mention • tax to which some objection or other may not be applied. either that it is offensive to those who pa., that it IS not sufficiently general in its scope, or that it applies to some reticular article effacers acm e p articular class et the community. Ile dear it be as ozosodagly UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. • Mr. PoLl..t Erlbt . Kg l'H AHT asked tie Chid Secretary for Ireland whether he meant to reposed with the com mittee on the Poor Relief Unbind) Bill Ware the Easter recess; and whether he meant to proceed with the other lri.h measures before the Limier recera. Sir E. PEEL replied that he feared it would not be pcesi ble to proceed with the bill in committee before Easter. He would. however, take the first opportunity of bringing it forward. THE EASTER RECESS. Mr. DISRAELI inquired of her Majesty's government at ' , that day it was proposed the house should rise for the Easter vacation, and to what day it would stand adjourned? Lord PALMERSTON said he would answer the right hoo. gentleman's question en Thursday next. CIVIL SERVICE EX AMINATIONM. Mr. HENNEMSY, pursuant to notice, moved that the house was of opinion that the best mode of procuring com petent persons to fill the junior clerkehipe in the civil *ar mee would be through • system of competitive examination open to all subjects of the Queen who fulfil certain definite conditions as to este, health, and character; and that. with a view of establishing such a system of open competition, it wan deeirsble that the experiment first tried at the India House in 157.9 be repeated from time to time in the other departments of the civil service ; that an humble address be prevented to her Majesty upon the foregoing resolution. He add that in the year Iwo a select committee of the house Mid beep appointed to inquire into the system of nominating candidates for the civil service. That commit tee reported in effect that the system was • delusion and • fertile source of RiAlne, as responsibility ceased : and comp.. titioo was narrowed. The committee—over which the noble lord the member for King's Lyon presided—recommended a system of opencompetitioo, or that, sea preliminary test, ex andostion should he established. It appeared, how , ever, from a recent report of the civil service com missioners, that the same system still existed except in one deportrneet—namely, the Treasury. so far an the patronago system was concerned they were in .. worse position than they were years ago—Omar. heal — and so far as the efficiency of the service was concerned the house had been told by the committee that they were in a wore position than before. Under theme circumstsoces the time was come when the house might fairly Le celled upon to esprees their opinion upon the subject, sod he had there. for e ventured to ask them to do so in the language of the committee. (Hear, hear.) The bon. and learned member e..ncludel by moving the resolution as stated above. Mr. VANMITTART secooded the motion, Mr. e(S.MRA NE moved, an an amendment, to imbeti tote this resolution :—" That many of the qualities consti tuting a good public officer—good principles, good habits, Poona judgment, general intelligence, and energy—cannot be tested by any plan of public competition - the introduc tion, therefore, of such a system into all the departments ~4 the oublic service would be very injurious to their effi ciency." He urged, as an important point cow:meted with this question, the manner in which old and meritorious officers would sulfa by their sons losing the silventage of nominating. lie reiterated his objections to the mode of examination. and to the exiensiou of the system. Mr. PEALINIC seconded the amendment. pointing out bow little the eisteisatioo was calculated to secure the oe ces..,ry qualities for public offices. There wan tilt. FOleign 031ce, for instance, where the disclosure of a secret might be a national calamity. Did they think that ability to make Greek iambics, or a familiarity with the binormal theory would make a man more contiderdisd I Rut they had evidence that the system had caused the greatest die. content in the public departnienta, and he thought that any one who read the examination papers would not weeder at such a result. Ow queetion said, " Language was either living or amid ; if living, was subject to constant change and progression. Say how time, commerce, colonies. mid foreign relations had modified the English language 1" (L.,ngl i ter.) There was another question, which was still more ridiculoos ; it was on the same subject : --" The sightingale's thrill. the carpenter's drill, the soldier's drill, the Deere's wear drill —flaughter) —the home's nost=ril (loud laughter) : is there any even:44l(6oml conoexion be. terve thew week, and if so, what !" (Great laughter.) He confessed be eseld sot answer that qwelion, and be 4... tided if wee the Chaecellor of She Exchequer could answer it. The Cif .INCELLOtt el the EXCHEQUER—I did not bear it. Mr. PEACOCK wadi read it again. (The hoe. $lOll learned member reed it ergo with greet gravity, hut am id general laughter.) Hie reelly , lid o not tidbit it meson. stile to require • eks a public office to search for reef is le. rbedim which he believed would puzde the Chower,/ ineluequer. Menem seven , mestioee like ibis. sod lese esedidede was seqebed to answer them in three bows. Why, ft beeldtebe mire than three hours to uadersthed them (iber,beir.) gree in were questions in the tad paper :—' • at ie the title of f 'hau-er'is priaci poem !—who ea/led it 'The well of il Raglish uailefil ' and why! Wanto n compares Chaucer 14 • premature yin spring is the fact which Wastes isteeded to illustrate. and how do you amount for it! What are the titles of the poems written by the author known as Piers Plowman'. Who was the author of the Po:yell...ear (Great laughter.) Ifs isontiroded that aesiweriag such quietism, as he had quoted might THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1862. agreeable thing M the country could go ou without taxation at aIL If the army would be good euough to go on without pay, if the civil departments could be cerried on and justice administered without expense, and if ships guns and the services of seamen were gratuitously given, it would no doubt be exceedingly isouvt for those who have to pay taxes. But a errantry requires certain arrangements for the protection of property, for the maintenance of its in dependence, for the administration of justice, and for the maintenanoe of social order, and those expenses must be provided for by taxation. Every tax I, liable to some ob jection or other, and the country must submit to the Moon venieuce of taxation to obtain the great and inestimable advantage of having the order of the country pro- perly maintained. I therefore discard at once the arguments which apply entirely to the assertion that this tax is peculiarly objectionable. There are many gen tlemen who think that other taxes are still more objection. able than this, and if the house were to put up one subject of taxation to be be bid fur, 1 doubt whether t his tax is one that woull obtain the majority. But that is a quertion that might be discussed at any time. My great objection to the motion of the boo. member is as to the time at which he has brought it forward. I hold that it is a principle of our constitutional government that the Chancellor of the Eschewer, as the organ of the government of the day, should have left to him the discretion of proposing to paths went that financial arrangement for the year,which upon full consideration he thinks hest adapted for the interests of tbs country, and it is for the house to deal with it wises IS Is proposed according as they may think fit. 11 es* boos should think that the Chancellor of the Exchequer wpm& too greet a change one way or the other, it is noillobt err I potent, and his often been the case, for mosibm to date their objections and propose alterations in ibis sesinge. meats which the right hon. gentleman may soap* ; but there Lan be nothing so inconvenient as, before the budget is proposed, and when the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made his arrangements for the year and is about to propose them to parliament, for the house to pick out some tax for reduction without knowing to what, = cular they may by so doing totally • the arrangements which the responsible minister of the crown may have intended to propose, and disarrange them, perhaps, also in a manner injunons to the public interest. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and leagued member for Walling. lord gives the strangest of reasons for voting in favour of the motion of the hon. member. He says that be votes for it not at all intending to pledge himself to support it fina ll y. He says :—" I vote for the in troduction, but if I find upon the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the repeal of this particular duty will interfere with other arrange ments which I should prefer, I should object to the second reading." The hoo. and learned member is therefore prepared to (Five his vote for the introduction of the bill, which upon his own showing may be a nullity, and which he may be prepared pelt week to refuse to read a second time. (Hear, heat.) I hold that the natural course for this house to pursue is to allow the government to pro pel° their financial arrangements for the year, and to deal with those arrangements in the manner they may think best for the public interest, but not to introduce blindfold a particular arrangement which may or may not conflict with a better arrangement which the government may have to pro pose. If the vote for the introduction of the bill would be a resolution that the house would deem binding, it might be exceedingly inconvenient on some future occasion to have that vote on record. If it is not to be binding, if it is to be a mere nullity, then I humbly suggest to the house that they would do much better to dispense with this motion, and allow my right hon. friend on Thursday next to state, unfettered by any previous resolution, the arrangements which, upon the whole, the government may think fit to pres. After a few was* from Mr. SHERMAN in reply, taco intelltsnut, I N SOLV ENT DEBTORS COURT. -Amu. 1. TIM trirmung OPTRIC COURT. The sittings of the court are drawing to a doss. Cams have been appointed up to the Easter ream, and two oases have been fixed for the god May, with business in the interim. It is understood that a staff of °Moen will be retained, and there is nothing to prevent the Lord Clam miler sending a part of the business from the crowded courts in Hasinghalbstreet to one of the courts in Portugal street. (Before the Chief Commissioner.) IN Si CAPTAIN W. WOODLEY. This MU came before the Chief Commissioner on Mon day, when an application was made for the oasts of emend roles, on the part of Masan. Boddiegton. Upwards of ',mot. had been raid into court, and after paying a sum, there was a balanoe of 789/. in hand. His Honour made an order for the payment of the coda of Messrs. Boddington, and intimated that the next audit meeting should be not later than the 6th May. The court had lost the able eardwas of Mr. Ingpen, on amount of his health, and Mr. Web meld UM the next audit. il . l;l;usedi;ided, when the numbers were For the motion 127 Again* it ll6-11 Leave was then given to bring in the bill Mr. WH TTES I DE obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the law of judgments in Ireland, and a bill to authorise the bees of debentures chargeable on land in Ireland in con- sexion with sales made by the United Eaten. Court. Kr. BOUVERIE obtained a select committee to consider whether it wee practicable to provide a compendious record el parliameetary proceedings for the use of members. THDCSTRUL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES BILL. Mr. SOTHERON-ESTCOURT moved for leave to intro duce a bill to eeneelidate and amend the laws relating to in dustrial and provident seentles. He believed there would be no objeetion to the bill, sad on a future occasion he hoped be should have a better opportunity to explain the details of the onagers. Leave wag given, and the bill was subsequently read a first time. SUPPLY.—REPORT. . The report of the sums voted in committee of supply ( Monday evening was agreed to. THE RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH COM. The report of the ociatitiee on this bill was brought up sod limed to, and leave given to bring in a bill founded thereon. The house adjourned at live minute to 1 o'clock. CAMBRIDGE, Ann. 1. G /SMOOT. —An examination of the geological clue for certificates will be held in the Aria School on Saturday next, at 11 o'clock. NEW MUSEUMS, &c., AND SAINT MAIIT'S . CHUISCH.—There will be a special congregation on Friday next, at 12, whereat paces will be offered for the adoptiun of the last report of the Syndicate for the erection of new museums and lecture roans, and proposing the afilxion of the University , seal to a petition for a faculty authorising the proposed altera tions in the University Church. Mr. Salvin is the architect in the first instance ; Mr. Beat hi the mooed. k a THE NUMB MUSEUM. To obviate any misapprehension which may arises. to the areasegementa made for the admission of the public to the national collection during the approaching Exhibition samean, we subjoin a rerfeatini copy of the notice affixed yesterday, by order of the trustees, at the various entrances :—" In order to pro the public generally the utmost facilities for seeing the British Museum during the time of the International Exhibition at Kensington, the trustees have laid down the following special regulations :- 1. That the Museum, instead of being closed from the let to the 7th of May next, be closed ou Monday, the 28th of April, and re-opened the following Monday, the sth of May. 2. That from the sth of May to the 30th of August in clusive, the reading-room be kept open for readers as usual, daily, Sundays only excepted ; but not later than 5 o'clock. 3. That the Museum collections, including those pane of the library of printed books and manuscript' to which visitors are now admitted on publicdsys, be kept open daily, Thursdays and Sundays only excepted, from 10 o'clock in the morning till S in the evening, during the months of May, June, July, to the 16th of August. inclusive ; but till half-put 7 only for the remainder of next month. 4. That during the same months and days the readiog.room and a small portion of the libraries annexed to it, as well en the whole of the north Maury, with the exception of the western extremity, be open for the admission of the public generally only from 5 o'clock to 8, or half-put 7, as before mentioned ; and that from 9to 5 o'clock none but readers, for the purpose of study, be admitted to the readiocroom, or to any of the libraries!, except such of the moms as are usually acoemible to visitors throughout the year on public days 5. That atter 5 o'clock the reading-room and the library generally be not used for the purpose of study. 6. That Thursdays be reserved for cleaning the several de- MAMMAS, and that no visitors, except readers, be admitted into the Museum on this ray. —A. PANIZZI, Principal librarian. March 1862." THE CONTEST FOR THE COMMON COUNoILIIIII.. Yesterday, at 4 o'clock, the poll of the ward of Colman street, for the election of a common councilman, in the I room of Mr. Deputy Davies, was declared by the Alderman of the ward to have resulted in favour of Mr. Hobson. c s ,_ HEALTH or LONI)OI4.—IS appears from the aso gistrarGeserare return that thedeaths in London, which ; had fallen to 1,271 in the third week of March, rose to 1,360 in the fourth week (that ended last Saturday). But the mortality is not high relatively to the average mortality for the end of March in ten previous years, which when cor rected for Increase of population is 1,560. The deaths from typhus, which bad been 123 and 106 in the first and second weeks of the month, and had declined to 63 in the third, rose to 89 last week. Eleven of this last number m in the London Fever Hospital. Out of 25 deaths from measles, 4 were returned in the west sub-district of Mile-end Old Town ; out of 43 from scarlatina, there were 4 in the west sub-district of Islington, 4 in Peckham. Diph theria was fatal in 21 cams. In a family living at 249, Tot tenham-court.road, the father died of phthisis, two children of whooping-cough, slid whom, with a third child, have died within a week, and the registrar states that the four bodies will be buried together. On 27th March, at 18, Esa. ware-toed, the son of a jeweller, aged 5 years ' died of di - Iberia after 6 days' illness. Last week the births of 1, 1 boys and 1,663 girls, in all 2,124 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding week, of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 20111. AtTION AOILINST A RAILWAY COMPANY FOR NEm.inence.—At the Liverpool Assizes yesterday before Mr. Justice Mellor, en action of " Clementoon r. the hoodoo and North Westermitailway Company " woe tried. On the night of the 18th of December the plaintiff, a cotton broker, while en route from visiting his brother at Kooky. went to the station them to take • ticket for Ashtonuoder-Lyne. The Mosley station was at that time in process of rebuild ing, and, in the creek the plaintiff tripped over • railway sleeper and fell on MN fees on a pile of slates, severely M ier* his face and permarently in ( luring his powers of Inas thetiou. The plainti ff aimed the efendants with rem nag l*eeoe, they laying the We fault of the accident at the door of the plaintiff. The may. shot hearing medical and other evidence, awarded the plaintiff 200 i. demagog. la numberless instances of chronic bronchitis sad wilder Offset Dr. de Jamb's Light-Brown Cod Liver on has been red with esuroullimary vareese. M. Champouillon. the reeleeet plusleima to the hospital of Val de Grace, mart% " That this 0111 s Hod efficacious Iu curing all chronic affections of the resplratoey swim" No remedy so effectually allays the liwymmal Irritation which provokes haressing and prolendel cosghlog. bold only in emended bottles, 2s. ed., la 94., and r by the pole &gotta Anew, Harford. end 77. IMMtestl. Lesslia. eare thimt—lasiveeffilseeristi THE POLICE COURTS. MARLBOROUGH-STEEZT. 1 A young Freachwomea, with an infant in her arm', ore compauied by her Lae*, who undertook to interpret, as she was usable to speak English, applied for advice under these circumstances. Some months ego she wee engaged by a lady in Pads, who represented herself to be the Counter De la Mark, to attend her to England in the capacity of lady's maid. Just before their arrival in London, the countess, being short of money, borrowed of her the whole of her savings, about 700 francs, promising to tem the loan with interest as soon as the count, her husband made her remittances. The countess took lodgings in London, and was shortly afterward' confined. As soon as she was able to get about, the countess made an arrangement with her to take the infant to bring it up, and to be pakl eo much yearly for its maintenance. Fr= that time until the pre sent moment she had neither seen the mantas nor heard from her ; and the result was that she was wholly destitute, and had parted with her clothes, except those she stood upright in, to procure food for herself and the child. She wished to know what she was to do under these circum stances. Mr. Lindley, the chief clerk, was afraid that she could receive no effectual assistance at that court. The money borrowed in Paris was out of the jurisdiction of an English county court, and the amount due for wages and the main trainee of the infant could not be claimed, simply because the address of the counter was not known. Had the appli cant no clue to the whereabouts of the lady's husband! The applicant replied that from what had come to her knowledge subsequently, she had reason tobelieve the father was a pavan of an inferior rank in life, whatever might be the claim of her mistrals, the countess, to the rank she assumed. After some further converiation, it was migrated that the applicant should go to the French capsulate, and there make her statement ; and • small amount was given her from the poor-box, to relieve his present Necessities. THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT - HETIDON. Yenterda t z us a i f . t:rnoon Mr. Brent, deputy corone. for West and • jury, aasembhd at the Adam and Eve Inn Mill-hill, Hendon, to investigate the circum danoes of the death of Anne Cox, aged' 4 years, the un fortunate young woman who, was shot by James Lawrence, with whom she was keeping company, on the morning of Saturday last, and who, haven also attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself, is now an inmate of the Mid dlesex Hospital. The tragic occurrence has created a nein ful excitement throughout the usually quiet and respectable locality of Mill-hill, and although the scene of the murder is nearly a mile from the more thickly populated portion of the, hamlet, • vast number of per sons were attracted to the spot during the proceedings. The body lay is the cottage where the deed was paths= and presented a shocking spectacle. A. the gun was with small duck shot it is believed that Lawrence must have stood within six inches of hie victim when he discharged as the orifice in the neck on the right side is a/ =gy ia l i a:ne. The shot passed completely through the neck, s ring the lower jaw on the left aide. Sarah Barns examined—l knew the deoeased Anne Cee who resided next door to me. She was single, and waekd with her mother as • laundress. Was present at her death, which took place about 6 o'clock on Saturday morning. heard an explosion of a min twice in the next house. I got up, and ran out to see what it wain my night clothe*. The first 1 maw was the deceased, who was droned, lying down on the floor by the side of the copper, and bleeding from the neck. I removed her into the next room and sent for the doctor, but she expired about ten minute' before he came. After I had seen the deceased I saw James Lawrence leaning against the water-butt close by, and bleeding from the face. The water-butt is jest outside the kitchen, and the door was open. Some labourers who were pawing were called in, and they removed him to hie mother's cottage, which is next door on the other side. I sew a gun standing against the back cottage door BOW the water-butt, against which Lawrence was leaning. Jame Lawrence slept in the hones of deceased's mother for ten or eleven nights, a the lodger bad gone away to bury his mother. Lawrence had kept company with demee for several months. By the Coroner—l have no doubt but that deceased was killed by being shot by James Lawrence. I believe from what transpired a few evenings before he was jealous of her. The deceased was a highly respectable young woman. Wm. Savage„police •dable 297 S, deposed that he was informed that Jim Lawrence had shot his sweetheart and then himself. He went to Mrs. Betel's cottage, and saw het daughter (deceased) as desenbed, and on going to Law rence's cottage found him walking about. la answer to • question as to what he had been at, he mumbled oat, " I could not help it." Mr. W. Grow.., a i surgeon practising at geodes, pee evidence as to the state n which the deceased aad mewed were found. I said to the latter—" Ltwrthok you did di yourself ;" and he replied," " Yes, sir." I added, " had lea also killed that poor girl. To this be math so By the Coroner—There was no doubt tied ddddead from hemorrhage from • gun-shot wound by men thollnd not from a bullet. A bullet would have made a cleaner wound. The inspector of police said that no shot had been found, but he produced • hash with shot No. 4 or S and • powder flask, identified as belonging to Lawrence, and some wads and caps fitting the gun Wien from the accused's pocket when removed to the hospital. The witness, in answer to the coroner, said be bad seen Lawrence at the hospital on the previous day, and be was programing favourably. The Bev. Bartholomew Nicholls, incumbent of said—l have known the deceased and Lawrence from child hood, and heard they were keeping company. She was a respectable well-conducted young woman, and he a well conducted young man. On hearing that • woman had been shot, I went to the cottage and found she was dead. A letter was found unopened at the cottage, and I was asked to read it. The witness produced the letter, which was addressed to deceased's mother, and handed it to the coroner. Mr. Brent read the letter, which was to the following effect : " Dear Anne,—l did not think my love for you would come to this. I should not have thought anything about this if you had told me you did not intend to many me; but it is not your doing. I knew very well all about lt, when your mother and Harry laid their heeds Mmaker. I knew how china were to be done. Dear Anne, your mother and Jl r. Betel has pomaded you to this. You recollect your words when your mother asked you that night that Little Billy had his lip dressed, whether you was going to sleep with Jim ROAD, and you mid yes. Mr. Betel, this is all your fault, trying to keep this eo sly from me. She is in the family way by Jim Mann. And this is the cause why I have done so. Well, Mr. J. Mann, he is disappointed as well se me. So let your dear Anne be buried along with me. So good bye all, and bleu you. With beat love. Yon are the muse of this. Good bye, this has destroyed my mind.—Joins LAvnutecz." After some further evidence of an unimportant nature, The Coroner said, as the probability wee that this case would go before another tribunal, he must insist upon a post mortem examination and the most rigid inquiry. He ultimately, however, consented to leave the matter in the bands of the jury. The court was cleared, and after *time discussion the jury decided that the coroner's views were correct, and they wished for an adjournment and a post =them examination of the body. The inquiry was then adjourned for • week. ANOTHER FATAL At:cif/INT AT THE Gi/MAT Ex inarriox.—Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, shortly after the departure of the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary of Cambridge, who had visited the building, another unfortunate ma was added to the many who have lost their liver during the progress of the building of the International Exhibition. A man, named James Hillier, in the employ of Mans. Kelk and Lucas, the contractom was drawn up while sitting on a small slip of timber to the top of the eastern dome inside, for the purpose of removing the blacks and tackle used to raise and lower the timbers of the scaffolding, and, after having been engaged in this work for some time he slipped, fnlr headlong to the ground, a distance of upwards of 200 feet. He struck violently on some loose timbers, his head coming in fearful oontact with them. He was picked up, and conveyed to St. George's Hospital, bat life was extiook This ass which was witnessed by a large number of workmss, oast the greatest gloom around. Nearly all the accidents have taken plane in the eastern dome. rcAdvertimeingUEo.62—HOLLOWAY'l PILL& —Digoool- fo or Pain.—A Mlles of meanness with tyro lying pains through the body proms Me Montilla to be en bee s failing so ennui list few on ban they an sad have bees free from it. Mama salting the mute an tenable remedy no be premlbed llelloweje arse d overflow of bile, wa tt a or lad &Notice, vlballor sod. distal or hehltuel, Ile nen delicate invalid am) take these 111111061 Pills with ags assilokfety. rink e la= nab judicious see. erede adheing from unary sad haw elate eals that whenever they feel unwell or eat et sena their 1011, remedy is found to pleateel dean d ienewere Pas. THE CASE OP SHOOTING IN BIRMINGHAM. The inquest on the body of Charles Break well, a child about nine months old, who was shot through the body on Friday last, in Bissell-street, under circumstances mentioned in this journal of Monday, took place on Monday evening, before Dr. Birt Davis, the borough co roner, and a most respectable jury. Elizabeth Ruske, who lives in Bissell-street, stated that about 6 o'clock on Friday evening she heard bullets whizzing about for some time, and saw Mary Ann Barnacle with the deceased in her arms in the street, and told her to make haste home or she would be shot. shortly afterwards she beard some thing. whiz past her, and, on turning round, saw the girl with the child fall on the footpath. She picked the child up, and took it into her own house, and mot for Mr. Warrillow, surgeon. Thinking the child had a fit she undreamed it to put it in a bath, sod then found it had been shot. Frederick Webb heard the bullets, and saw the pri. loners Riley, Pinner. and Kimberley, coming off the field in t the direction of Bissell-street, after the children were shot. George Phillips heard the firing about 1 o'clock, and law a brick knocked off a Mr. Bennett's chimney by • ballet. He and Bennett then went up to the field to warn she prisoners, and saw Kimberley fire. Shortly after Webb came up, and said two children had been shot. The distance from where the prisoners stood to the spot where the children were struck was 668 yards. He had measured the distance that morning. Mr. Warrillow, surgeon, who had made a postmortem examination of the body, said he found a gun-shot wound which entered the body from the posterior pert of the chest, passed through the right lobe of the liver, and through the walls of the abdomen. In his opinion death resulted from the wound. The prisoners having been cautioned, John Riley said he bad been in the employ of Mr. Jackson about thirteen months, and he understood that Mr. Jackson had for fifteen year need the field in question as ashootmg-ground. On the first occasion when he went to try • gun Mr. Jack son's porter took him to the place. The gun they were 'hooting was a breech-loading rifle, and was only sighted to shoot 300 yards. He had no idea the Kan was so strong, or he should not have fired. He was exceedingly sorry far what had occurred. The prisoner at the ornels eon of his statement was completely overcome, sad his sobs and crying were for some time pitialge. The other primmer., William Pinner and Thomas Kimber ley, declined to make any statement. The jury then eca ndered their verdict, and after the lapse of about three quarters of an hour, returned • verdict of manslaughter against Thomas Kimberley, for musing the death of Charles Broakwell, and against John Riley and William Pinner, as eiders and abetters. The girl Barnacle is still alive, tho ugh there are but slight hopes of her ultimate recovery. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT RAILWAY. Yesterday the investigation into the cause of the death of George Waller, the guard of the train to which the accident happened on Thursday, the 20th ult., and when be lost his life, was resumed at the Town-hall, Gravesend, before Mr. G. A. Milder, the coroner for the borough. The room in which the proceedings took place was again filled with a number of anxious persons who seemed to take • deep interest in the inquiry. Captain Tyler, R.E., inspector of railways, was pre sent under the instructions of the Board of Trade ; Mr. Rees, solicitor ; Mr. Eborall, general manager ; Mr. Knight, traffic superintendent ; Mr Ashcroft, superin tendent engineer ; Mr. Cudworth, locomotive superin tendent, and other officials, were in attendance from the South-Eastern Railway Company. Captain H. W. Tyler was examined at considerable length as to the result, of his inspection of the line and the car riages and engine of the train to which the accident hap pened. He had had a portion of the line opened, and found thetslers were not very good, and the fastenings were very bad • they were the worst part of the line. The weather had nothing to do with the present accident, which would not have occurred if the fastenings had been good. He attributed the accident to the failure of the wooden fastenings between the chain and the sleepers. Unless the chairs were separated from the sleeper the engine-driver could not possibly detect the mis chief, oscillation only being caused by the motion of the chair on the sleeper. The bulges were the commencement of the giving way. The old toenails had been removed from that part. No doubt there was oscillation as the engine pissed over the line after the bulges. He had seen so =ay accidents from the the of trenaila that be had ad- TWA the use of iron spikes, and the engineer of the line had used • large number. He was sorry to see that new lines were being laid with trenaila. Trenails have an advantage over spikes in holding the chairs to the sleepers so long as they remain sound, but they were too treacherous to be depended upon. There was no objec tion to a new line being opened with tremuls, but if they were allowed to remain, as in this cue, for 14 or 15 years, they would be very bad, and the engineer would be re sponsible. The learned coroner summed up at great length, and The . jury, having deliberated for nearly an hour, returned • verdict of "Accidental Death," accompanied with a re commendation according to the government inspector's opinion. Mr. Eborall, on the part of the company, undertook to defray the expenses of the inquiry, which then terminated. MARKETS. TALLOW.—TV DAY liams mo.—Tbe market was firm to-day. Prices closed as follows : -89o4 and all the mouth, 465. 6d. to 465. 3d. ; July to September, 475. ; October to December, 48e. 6d. to 48s. 3d. Delivery to last evening, 398 auks ; arrivals, 485 casks. COTTON.—LwritYOO4 Arm L —Our market to-day is extremely quiet, without change in prices. The sales are 2,000 bales, 'minding 1,320 American, at 94d. to 13441, ; MO Surat, at 76d. to 10 d. • 280 Egyptian, at 111 d. to 130. • 100 lianinham, at 12fd. to 120. ; of which 500 are for speculation and export. The week's import is 43,1551 WOOLLEN.—LEEDS, APRIL I.—The month hes opened withanother •ay quiet market ; there were few tniumetioas in either bell ; the small demand there being chiefly for meltons and tweeds in low qualities ; a few better tweeds also changed hands. The White Hall was very quiet. MANUFACTURES.—BUDDIESFIELD, Amu L 1 —Thonh a moderate number of buyers have been in the market, the amount of bulimia done is bolo wan average, and this no doubt is owing to a determination on the part of merchants to avoid heavy stocks ; they consequently purchase only such goodies are required to keep up an amortraent of those for which they are likely to bays an immediate cell. WOOLS.—HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL I.—A moderate quan tity of oolonials have changed hand. during the week. but flip demand today is slacker. Other eerie are more diffi wek to move. Pnces so far are without any atieratioo. CORR.-ROLL, APRIL 1.-At to-day's market • very small rawly of English wheat, which is taken off at fully last weaWs currency ; foreign in good request., but although demand is better there is no improvement in value. Barley of good malting quality in steady request at fully late rate; grinding unaltered. Beans, peas, and oats move off slowly at about former prices. The foreign imports last week are aa under :-n heat 4,839 qrs. • barley, 3,711 beans, 30 ; tans, 327 ; linseed and rapeseed, 414 ; oil aka, 40 tons ; bones, 221. LIZDS, APRIL 1.-The trade for wheat shows no signs of improvement; millers find such • slow demand for flour that they can scarcely be tempted to make a bid for wheat the little done is at declining prices. Barley fi rm at late rates. Beans and oats rather recede in value. Other articles unaltered. Liviaroot., APRIL 1.-With • good attendance of both town and country millets and dealers at this morn ing's market wheat has commanded a fair consumptive in quiry at . a anaemia of Id. per anal on Friday's rata. Flour ts still difficult of sale, and a decline of 6d. per banal and sack bad to be submitted to in most instances. A moderate amount of asinine was done in Indian corn at Friday's prices. Oats and oatmeal have each a fair retail demand at the recent decline. Egyptian beans steady at previous quotions. Peas and barley are without change. Th lia quota ti exhibits leas depreesion at the close than we have had to report of late. Lirn, APRIL 1.-Weather the part week has been very i stormy and wet. At to-lay's market we had • small show of wheat, beet samples 6d. to ls, per qr. higher, other de scriptioes as last week. Barley but little offering, and in demand for seed at ls. per qr. more money. Beans and peas -prices without alteration. Prices per imperial qr. to the grower;-Wheat, white, new, 621 b. le 641ba per imperial bushel, 575. to 635. ; ditto, red, 61lbs. to 64th..., 565. to Ms. ; ditto, old, 5811 a. to 621bs, 45.. to 55a. Ba r ley, beat chevalier mallimr, 531ba. to 541 a., 3135. to 40e. ,• ditto runs chevalier ditto, 521 a. to 531te., Mc to 375. flats, 36Iba to 421 a., 241. to 27.. Beau, old, 631 a. to Ohs., 42e. to 48s. ; new. 6365. to 641ta.. 425. to 465. NEWC•srLi, Aram 1.-The weather still continues wet and unsettled. At our market this morning we had a mo derate show of wheat from the growers, and havinicareely anything from the coast, fine new foreign met a better In quiry. New Stettin red not extra, commanding 585,; choice yellow Datil°, 50s. ; and medium mixed = 575., all per 504 lbs. res pectively. Flour 000 rather more attentkn, but cannot be written dearer. In other articles we have little variation to note. SLUMMY, APRIL 1.-Considering the wretched state of the weather to-day, there was • full attendance in the market; the supply was rather small, and the greater part of the samples were in very bad condition. Trade in wheat was in most instances confined to present requirements, and the few Food samples maintainedlast week's prices. No alteration in flour. A middling trade dons in barley, which fully maintained former quotations. Yak in ste ady demand, but very firm. In other deariptions of grain the trade was of a nominal character, at unaltered rata. Wheat, Ms. to 625. Barley, 31s. to 38e. Oats, 221. to 30s. Beane, 40s. to 48s. Peas, 40s. to 45.. Rya, 30s. to 35.. per qr. Flour, 435. to 48s. per mak. Malt, 81. to Bs. 3d. per bushel. CATTLE.-AALINBCRT, APRIL I.—The supply of beasts at this day's market was small, but the condition seas better, and there was a very good attendance of buyers. Notwithstanding the paucity of the supply, trade ruled tasiatsining full terms of last market. The number 'of sheep on offer was of the most limited ilansctel, all finding buyers ; but the beet Down sheep obtaintsl u. advance of about id. per lb. The supply of cxlre was considerably on the increase ; a good qua trade was done, prices varying as to quality, but not cheaper than last market. In the pig market there was also a large number of all sorts ; a large trade doing, prime re. mining unaltered. Best or beef, lie. bd. to pe, more; cow and heifer ditto, 10s. ild, to lie. ; best Don,. mutton, 84d. per lb. ; other breeds, 7d. to lid. ; veal, 7.1. to 70.• fresh pork, 7d. to 741. ; salted ditto, 7! ‘ d Bd., and Ws. 61score to Ils. per ; green banal, pe; lb. ; dry ditto, 10d. ; sweet pickled bums, 10d. ; Tarte, old store pigs, from 18e. to ' , Xe. each ; cows with ,slue, from 12/. to 1551. STEAM SHIPPING.—At the conclusion of Marcb w. have to report continued dulness in all that pertains to th , steam shipping interest ; the anticipations we enter...iced at the commencement of that month nothav log beetle &distil. Purchasing demand for steamers has been generally u..- tire, the sale of a few new and second-baud steamen,— principally of large tonnage--at satisfactory rates beiu the minor exceptions ; and the demand continues inanimate. Intending buyers, therefore, have now a favourable upper. tunity of supplying their requirements. Several steamer, have been fixed for time in the home trades ; but furtbet charters of the kind are not offering numerously. Medi terranean and Black Sea outward freights are somewhat firmer ; return cargoes remaining seine, and quotation,. nominal. Inquiry exists for suitable steamers for the Saltic trade, and as the navigation opens a better demand nay he expected ; from the lower ports the freights for grain are not plentiful ; the quotations in sympathy with the dm% ing prices of the corn markets are also low.—(Prom tin Circular of Mews. Alfred Brett and Co. STATE OF TRADE. MANCIIRSTRIL APRIL I.—The reports of the nuirket day are all of • gloomy and discouraging character. Then, has been very little business done in yarn o end the market is still in an unsatisfactoi7 state. There ha been a little inquiry for China and India, but the prior offered are too low, and it leas not led to any burner Prices are tolerably steady, especially for yarn from American cotton, which is rather KOZO& Yarns from Bursts cotton, which are in ether of demand, and rather premed on the market, are scarcely so firm, and spinners in some instances are willing to accept rather easier terms. Cloths are more difficult of sale, and the market generally is very inanimate. There were letters to hand yesterday from Judie giving more de tails than had been previously received by telegraph. The accounts both from Calcutta and Bombay are very discouraging. There was very little business in either market, and prices were without improve ment. Whilst the large regular shippers here to those markets have been withholding goods owing to their overstocked state of them, it is found that outsiders have consigned freely rather th an keep their stocks at home, and hence there seems to be little immediate prospect of any ad. vices of improvement. Under these circumstances buyers for India are holding back again. They were doing rather more business a day or two ago, but since those letters came to hand they are indisposed to operate. Manufacturers, therefore, cannot sell without making some concession, and this they are mostly unwilling to do, believing that with cotton at present rates they may do better by keeping their production back. It is only where sellers ore pushed for money, or take • more unfavourable view of our prospects, that they are willing to take lower rates, and generally speaking buyers can only be induced to operate by making a rather oonsiderable reduction. There is a further talk of short time, and in some cases manufacturers are dosing their mills altogether. One agent here dates that he has received notices from three mill owners to-day, announcing their intention to stop entirely. The condition of the working classes is the); getting from had to worse, and the suffering in some dis tricts is most distressing. The amount of mendicancy our pares anything OM recollected, the operatives going in companies about the country to farmhouse', the villas of the gentry, and to all abodes indicating • position above their own. Yet in the absence of political excitemer they are mostly quiet, and endure their !sufferings apps. rently with meekness. Here and there the regular mendi cants mingle with them, representing themeless to be operatives out of work ; and showing a different spirit are troublesome to deal with where there is not a police force to deal with them. The home trade market is very flat, the houses in that branch restricting themselves mostly to buying by samples, and showing • disposition to stock as little as possible. Mean& John Stagg and Co. report : Since Tuesday last the market has continued in the sa me dull and inanimate state. Buyers generally keep aloo as much as possible, and it is only at a considerable coo cession from our quotations that they can be induced to operate. On the other hand manufacturers adhere firmly to their prices, and there is consequently very little bur• new doing. It seems probable that as stocks, notwith. standing the diminished production, continue to annum. late, there will shortly be a further curtailment." TRAFFIC RE'TITRIfS. - - Mee Pas- Yu- Total, Total tatimAre open sear cbandise 1602 1801 Week maw March it, £ h Buffalo and Inks Mum 1911 —2,11 S Week ending March 29. Gingen & Boat& WOWS 7,801 7,727 Week ending Malan. Gnat Inranboang . ISt 914 2,484 4,308 2,800 North London Wrenn and Newtown 30 299 362 641 an SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CABS ALTI ES. Mohawk, from Cardiff and Bermudan: , New York, has foundered. Crew on board the Hyperion. which was off Bermuda on the Ilth of March.—Lirerpool, WIWI*, of and from this port for Mon tr Lon shore at souter rolat., and likely to be a wrecln—dunend. April 1. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Arita, from Calcutta for London, Jan. 14, let. 2.'15., Mu. 67 E. Annabelle, from Liverpool for Hong Kong, Feb. 12, lat. 3 N., lon. U W. Barred& Brothers, from Rangoon for Falmouth, Feb. 8, lat. 366. lon. 19 E. Breese, from Mauritius, for Queenstown or Plymouth, off Bt. Helena. Duke of Northumberland, from Akyab for Queenstown, Feb. S. lat. 33 S., lon. 91 E. Flying Cloud, from Hong Kong for London, Feb. 7, lat. 358., lon. 23 E. John Chisholm, from Trincomalee for Liverpool. Feb. 3, let II 8., lon. 36 E. Rapid, from China 63 (tape, off the Cepa of Good Hope. Rosenstein, from Akyab, Feb. 8, lat. 1 S., lon. 21 W. flydenhana from Calcutta, March 12, let. 18 N.. Inn. 76 W. Tatar. from Swan River for London. Feb. 21, let. 233., lon. i 8 Wild Plower, from London for Adelaide, March 27, lat. 49 N., lon. 9 W. THE Ngw CUNARD STEAMER SCOTIA. —The Royal Mail steamehip Scotia went out of dock at Liverpool os Monday for an official trial of speed, under the superintem deuce of Maas. Luke and Bloom, Admiralty Surveyors. formed Scotia was loaded to her average hied line, e and per. o the distance between the Bell Buoy and th North. West Light-ship at the rate of nearly 15 knots per hom— er upwards of 17 statute miles per hour. ARTISTIC DINIGNS FOR WATCH MA —" A Humber of new and artistic designs for the embellishment of watches have been invented and exhibited by Mr. J. W. Benson, o tarl f 33 and Si. Ludgste.hill, and 443 awl 47. Corlahrni who ll , * v himself with commendable PUCCeI , B to provide, in this partkular branch of manufacture, the union of taste and usefulness a. striking in the productions of the French artiticera. The recent progress in the art of watchmaking in England is o wing to the enterprise and industry of several gentlemen, who are use reaping a just reward for their ingenuity. Amongst these Mr. Benson holds a prominent position, and his designs may there' fore be recommended to the notice of the public."—llaily Tel. graph. Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, post free for too s tamps, is descriptive of every construction o watch now tmade. Waukee safe by post to all parts of the globe. f --(Advertiseent.) BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. BARKER,—]latch Ed, at Twkkenhms, the wife of J. Baker, Req., of a danghter. BARNET.—March 90, at Stamford-hill, Middlesex, the w ife of J. Barnett, Req., of a son. BRENDON.—March If, at Woodbuids-terrace, Blaelheath, the wife of Major firendon, Royal Artillery, of a son. BROOKE.—March ft, at the Lards, Cheshire. the wife of J. Brooke, EN., of a son. CAZENOVIL—Mareh ftl, at St. Mark's Parsonage, Retiree. the wife of the Rey. A. Cazenore, of a eon. FOX.—March SS, P oc h .caerset4treet, Klagadown, hrhto l . wife of Mr. 3. IL of a daughter. INGRAIL—Iferch 29, at Mldhurst, Sussex, the wife of N. G. Ingrain, Req.. of a daughter. PARKYNS.-11 , ft at Ruddington Manor near 78 ottiughs" the wife of Sir T. Parkyns, Bart., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BARRY-ILETTLEWELL—March 29, at St. Geor , sorra by the RAT. G. F. W. Mortimer, D.D., E. M. harry. Xelt. A.R.A., to lady, daughter of the late T. lieDienell„ kai• HID NBOTRAM—SLACK.—March 29, a the Cathedral, Ma' chest'', by the Rev. Canon Westmore, Mr. C. HO o bothsM. of Great Ruction, near 'Mermen, to Martha, daughter of Yr. P. Slack, of Wormhill, Derbyshire. RANKINO—SALMON.—March IS, at the parish church. Bo!. don, Cheshire by the Rev. W. Pollock , M.A., the Nev. Ranking. B.C.L, Vicar of Wimbish, Esser, to Harriet. daughter of the late L Salmon. Esq., of Altrincham. RYAN-110E119.—March 29, at St. Augustine's, Ertrton. hl!b c. Rev. L. Owens, J. T. Ryan, Esq., of Wakefield, to Mari " r ; garet, daughter of J. Rob'te, Jun., Foe., of Stanielni l • neu Bristol. DEATH/3. GABWOOD.—March 28, at LorrimorerosA Wa l wo rth. tine Emnuy_daaihter 14. Mr. H. D. Garwood, aged HAYMEL—Merch o 9 b, at Smithies, Hants, CaPO" d. Harms, B.V. LEEDHAIL—March 28, at Ceylon, Eater, Mr. J. LO AY. MAX—March Mr. J. 'Retinue, of fikelderote, V 0414 AOIIfAN: March 18, E. Norman, ER.. of Utatler-Ow. 1 ' 44 P& ST. L—Murk 18, Mr. 8. Peake, of Wiltonatreet, dirgj. street. Mancheetw, aged Mk Printed and Published by Miami Lae NAM of 1 4°. dis Lombard -street, In the Calir 01 Leedom, hinte. s. Oftlce In Lombard In tie Prectnet d Wbitehiste NVXDNIESDAT, APRIL I, 4