The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-06 00:00:00

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Drupe de L'Heys (Lord Cie )l=a=rilltitarcsithret ;h o rror of fruit si resrm y was sell ish el suing te as eadristudiag.—l as. &a., " Da ilsorsorm." (n ot nil INT OP THI DLITT 111 M.) COPENHAGEN, Dec. 31. Colonel Andras, the now Minister of Finances, is specially appointed by the King for conducting all affsire relating to the carrying on the government Woe's with the parliament. The C oun t Wulf, of Scheel-Plessen, the newly appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, has declined accepting the portfolio, preferring to retain his pre sent appointmest of Danish envoy at Stockholm. The last British swallow in the Baltic, her Ma ty's steamer Magicienne, l6 , Captain Thos. Fisher, loft Elsinore for England, and if she escapes the dreadful storm from the N.W. raging here, may be expected to make her appearance is the beginning of the new year. TRADE OF HAMbURG IN 1864. (PlOl TIP COIItiSPORDZINT OP 711 DAILY imni.) HAMBURG, JAir. I. According to the official tables published by the liercantile•Btaciatial Board in the Homburg Corms atot, the year 1854 appears to have been a very favorable one for the trade of this city. The total umber of ships with cargoes from foreign parts annats to 4,896, with 903,200 tons, and crews num- Wag 40,694 men, or about one man to 22 tons (grime 4,174 vessels of 743,493 tons, and 34,149 ms in 1853, showing a general increase of 722 ves sels, sad 'best 160,000 tons of shipping, or about 21 pr sent). The ember of British ships arrived from all parts yes 1,345 spinet only 1,288 in 1833, whilst the ar rival of vessels of all nations from ports in Great Britain sad Ireland was 1,942 against only 1,690 is 1853. Classified wording to the national flags, the foi ble,' are the results :—Hanoverian, 1,375; Bri tish, 1,345; Hamburg, 746; Danish, 423; Dutch, 410; Oldcnburg, 122; Norwegian, 85; French, 95; Swedish, 6,5 S p anis h, 66; Prussian, 31 ; United States, 31 ; Berman, 25; and Portuguese, 24. The rent are divided amongst the other European flags. A most violent storm from the N.W. has been aging to-day, and driven back the water in the Lk with such force that one-half of Ham berg is under water. It is impossible yet to ascertain the amount of damage done to the shipping in the harbour, but there is reason' to her it will be very considerable. The fine old oaks on the ramparts that have withstood the storms' of a couple of centuries, have been torn up by the mots and carried off to a considerable distance, whilst tile, chimneys, and even whole roofs, are falling sleet in all direotious. It is feared that the dykes slag the banks of the Elbe have given way in many places and caused great inundations. We have it had so severe a storm here, nor such high water, dare the memorable hurricane and consequent inun kiwi in February, 1825, nearly thirty years ago.' As many of the inhabitants of Hamburg in the lower pit of the city live in the cellars of the houses, they us sem bringing up their goods and chattels up to tkir waists in water. A great many of the streets us impassable for waggons, bat the communication is kept op by means of boats. In shallow water a arrisge and a barge ran lota of each other. 7 p.m.—The ebb tide has set in and the water is tilling, but if the storm does not abate, the flood tide till inundate us again in the night. BRAZIL AND PARAGUAY. (nom TRH COILLSIIPONDINT OT THZ DAILY NZWIL) RIO DR JANEIRO, Nov. 30, 1854. Siam my last nothing new has transpired with but to the Paraguay question with the United %MI but Brazil is now at loggerheads with that $lO, The Brazilian Minister was insulted, and the town. A crisis in our ministry here grew Mot the affair, which threatened to lead to a dis- Illitisa; bat the matter was settled, and a squadron olds aleamees of war leaves this for Paraguay on 1164111 bat., to demand satisfaction, &c. However by way rail against the English, it is certain that bias learnt something from them, and evidently le imitate the older and bigger nation. The dild Paraguay is about to become the Sebastopol d this part of the world; for it is the general 'him that the fort with its half dozen of guns will luloskftl if satisfaction be not given. Sines the 13th our coffee and exchange markets hen been active. It the first about 120,000 bags lee Wend purchasers at a gradual declini in price. its destination was as follows : —United States, 5 ).000, Channel and North of Europe, 58,000; and *Attenuate, 12,000. One supp lie s have been Ibudent, and of good quality , ; and the total ship acts this month reach 200,000 bogs. Exchange is , declined, and 271 to 27t is now the ruling rata. 'estimate (including 40,0001. taken by the trea t/80 oboe 250,0001. to have been passed for this Piet. Superior coffee, 4.200 to 4.300; good first, 105 0 to 4.150; American assortments, 4.100 to 11)1 ); European assortments, 3,800 to 4.100; stock, 'Am 4g, SPAIN. be Madrid journals of the 31st ult. have arrived. QS Gazette contains a royal decree which suppresses "saber of unnecessary places in the department of Nast. The Diario says that the new Minister of .1 .: /taes intends to propose that the conversion of j l5O /ting debt shall take place in a different form Ise that est forth in the budget. One of the jour ,,lll egos that an Englishman resident at Ma- had. with part of his family, been arrested I b s ordered to leave Spain, on account of ,iont meddling in revolutionary projects. Lord nton. the paper adds, consented to the measure, mg /letter asserts that he knew nothing of it. The L _ 458 . 61 1 of the railway from Madrid to Annetta r lets fizedfor the Bth inst. The 31st ult. being .7_ 6 11 the Stock Ex c ha nge was closed. A letter Brentano, Minister of Finance, has even i t t° lll llary for clothi ng an d arm i ng t he national paid , "and. The democrats are getting up peUtions rill doe bill far a levy of 23,000 men. Thus far t h ei ssl lltoo on the Constitution has only agreed to ,Potats : I. Th e p roc l ama ti on of national - "" 11 111ty. 2. The declaration that the catholic Oleo Atli be the sole religion of the state, and t h. otate shall be obliged to provide for its sad wersigp. 3. The declaration that fano- C ai ll ti l=axes not voted by the Cortes shall ~....t rA it—Tho first locomotive engine over oon- T ia ____ - " . " 1 " 11 Ito l 7 , lo ft the factory at Soapier d'Anaa "mil, ea tits 30th alt. Its trials trip to Poundals** /414 tothfeetroy. Inurriort—The Senate of Hamburg has imilTisied Herr Gahm, a doctor of dull law, sad Inatoo for the free town, at Patio , to two , tltoir -.mimosa at the " Universal Ealubitioa." FRANCE. (mom Til DAILY IIIIRS.) PARIS, Fame: Remains. Great excitement was occasioned at the Bourse la dy bye the first telegraphic despatch from the Stook Exchange, quoting Consols at 91,1, I,p -whisk would have been a rise of I. It wu su posed that this rise must have been owing to the ribbed= of the revenue returns; but when the isms' illespabb, received an hoar later, brought Onsels at 901, it was taken for grante d that the Ira mast have been erroneous, and that in r e ality the 7 variation in the English fonds had b een • fall et . Such accidents are very much t o b e re vet . It is surprising that the Syndie of the Bourse does not, when a reasonable doubt is enter tained of the correctness of a despatch, send a shod signal to London, desiring the communication to be repeated. The answer might be received from Corn hill in a few miaates. The Rente was very little affected by the supposed rise in Consols. It opened at 66fr. 10c., and, though for some time in consider able demand, did not rise higher. There was a slight fall when the second London despatch was placarded, but after inconsiderable fluctuations the Three per Cents, closed at 65fr. 95c., being se. higher than yesterday. Litters from London announce that the hagfish subscriptions to the French loan are very considerable. MM. Rothschild have opened a subscription in their own names, and MM. Baring another, as agents for the Credit Mobilier Society. The railways were very firm. Most of them rose sf. to Bfr. The Court of Caseation has just decided a point of international law, between France and England, of some importance. It will be remembered that Mr. Featherstonhaugh, the English Consul at Havre, was some time since convicted of embezzlement by the court of Havre, which oonvictioo was confirmed by the Imperial Court of Rouen. On appeal to the Court of Caseation by the prisoner, it was argued that the privilege of " extemtoriality " was a consu lar u well as a diplomatic privilege, and that, as British consul, Mr. Featherstonhaugh was not liable to be tried for a misdemeanour before the French courts. The Court of Cessation rejected the appeal, but founded its judg ment upon different reasons from those given by the Court of Rouen. The latter court proceeded upon the interpretation of existing treaties between France and England, but the Supreme Court has de aided that the convention of January 15, 1787, which declared that the consuls of the two countries should respectively enjoy the privileges of " the most favoured nation, " having been revoked by the war which followed he treaty of Amiens, has never been renewed, and that at this moment there is no ex isting treaty between the two countries on the sub ject. The rights of consuls must be determined on the principles of reciprocity, as understood by the law of nations, and according there to this is no foundation for the privilege claimed by the prisoner. On the let inst. the English residents at Pan pre sented a handsome silver gilt chased coffee service, purchased by small collections made among them selves,to Madame Baguet, the mother of the French general who so gallantly brought up the troops under his command to the aid of the British at the battle of Inkermann. This pleasing new-year's gift was pro moted to Madame Baguet, who resides at Pan, with an appropriate address in French by Major Phillott, Major Stephenson, John Steward. Esq., and the Rev. 8. Lysone, the deputation appointed for that purpose. The present was received by Madame Bos4ret with evident pleasure. This delicate attention has given much satisfaction to the fellow townsmen of the gallant general. M. Frossard, a protestant clergyman of Barmen de Bigerre, has been sent to the Crimea, to organise a body of protestant chaplains to minister to the spiritual wants of the members of the French army belonging to the reformed religion. ' The Presse says it is affirmed that the French go vernment has lately sounded the Federal govern meat of Switzerland, with a view to ascertain whe ' they the latter would be disposed to negotiate on the subject of the valley of Dapper, (contiguous to the canton of Vaud) which was assigned to Switzerland ' by the Congress of Vienna, but which has de facto remained ever since in the possession of France. The body of notaries of the department of the Seine, at an extraordinary meeting held yesterday, resolved on subscribing to the national loan fer a sum of 120,000 fr. of rents. _ The Echo Agricolo publishes an account of the sale of butcher's meat during the month of Dec. in 1164, 1653, and 1862, at Sceaux and Prissy. It re sults from the account that each market of the two , last months of 1854, was superior for beef to those of the corresponding period of the two preceding years; that there was nearly equality for calves, and that the number of sheep was equal for 1854 and 1852, but superior for 18.53 by about 1,000 each market. The average prices in November and, Dc cember, 1854, were for each ox 131 per . cent. higher than in 1863, and nearly 49 percent. higher than in 1852; for each cow 131 per cent. superior to the prices of 1853, and HI per cent. super►or to those of 1852 ; for each calf, 19/ per cent. superior to the prices of 1833 and 1852; for each sheep 8 per cent. above the prices of 1853, and 28 per cent. above those of 1852. _ _ _ _ M. Bibour, who has just been appointed bishop coadjutor to the Archbishop of Paris, is to have the title of Bishop of Tripoli in porlibua itofidelium. NAVAL .AND MILITARY. CODDIAI DER-11C-CIIIEeS OPPICE, JAN. 4.—The Military Secretary wiJ not have a list on Tuesday, the 9th inst. A DIMIALIT,JAN. 4.—APPOINTILENTL—Ciptiin T. D. Synoonrt, to the Pylades. Commanden P. Marten, to the Banouth, 90, screw steamship, at Devonpert ; and B. P. Priest, to the Himalaya, screw steamship, at Portsmouth. Lieutenant 1. H. Cheds, to the Waterloo, 120, flag ship, at Sheerness. Clerk in Charge H. Callaway (1847), to tho Athol!, 4, store ship, at Portsmouth. DEPARTEEE OF COLONEL WMIIRDO PON THE CILINEA.—We have learned that, in consequence of a sudden order from the florse•guards, Colonel ll'Mud°, who had been distinguished by his wartime under Sir Charles Napier in the memorable ftmpaiyn of &Sado, has left his residence near Blackrea, as roods for the Crimea, where, we have heard, he is to undertake an impotent post eonneeted with the Commissariat Depart ment.—Dubls Basing Post. Nleaszturs, JAN. 3.—The Livorno steam4thip , from this port,with troope,was loot *title point of Kamiewl, in the Black Bea, 18th Dee.: crew oared. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 3.—The Cycloop (Dutch war steamer), from Elsinore to Flatting, was stranded near Zaadvoort yeaterday ; mew (exorpt four men) saved. PORTSMOUTH, his. 5. The crew of the Imperieuse, 51, screw ship, Capt. R. B. Watson, were paid up wages to-day. The Ajas 60, 'mew ship, Captain Warden, was takes out of the fitting basin to-day, laviag undergone a tho rough re-fit sines her return from the Baltic. The Arrogant, 46, screw frigate, Captain Yelvertoa, was taken into the basin to-day to re-At. The Marley Hill, merchant steamer, arrived to-day from the river, is 611 up with storm for the Crimes. r, JAN. 6. The screw steamer Black Boy arrived here yester day, and Messrs. Cooksey Brothers received innnedista orders to Forbin her for Be'Mame. Bhe ememsesed taking ia huts at once, and will, it is a:pasted. alert early to-morrow. The Ealsdin is nearly ready to alert with huts for the French troops in the Crimea. A Rest of ships and steamsn is *spaded here shortly to take out stores to the Black Bea. The steam er Lady Joeelyo, which has just arrived from Australis, has been chartered by the French govarantant. The stainer Cremes, which hes been cher, tared by the Baglish government to proceed to the Black Bea will be ready to start by about the 16th inst. The °Mears and crew of the Royal West India mail steamer Solent, now is the Waft Indies, ban mat hems 371 17s. to wards the Patriotic Fund ; and the °Seen and crew of the Royal West India mail steamer Dee, also is the West ladies, have mat home 401. for the same object. DUBLIN, Jew. 5. 90 TH D3Po7.—Orden have been received for a draft of sevesty-five men to bold themselves is readiness to prows& from Mailings+ to Pie the sank* sompsales in the Crimes. By Wars received from the re vilest gimes at Bale. klava we lee n that the sea ef this seeps are is the slue beet of health sad @virile; esti ISO death their arrival ist she Crimes. vis e Bergsma Bides, popular eirgeist. DEATHS AT scuren Subjoined is the official returns of death', aid ships arrived with wick, dm the 20th : Lieutenant and Adjutant Warren, 66th Regiment, fever, Dee. 22; Capt. Caaapbell, bth Dragoon Raub; dysentery, Dee. 23. NON-CONNLISIONID OPTIOIRS AND NEN. Sergeants Charles Low, 2nd Battalion of Rills Brigade, diarrhoea, Dee. 20 ; Willi a m Field, llth Hussars, diarrhoea, Deo. 20; Frederick Newman, 97th Regiment, fehris, Dec. 21; and John Mathises, 20th Regiment, wounds, Dee. 23. Corporals Martin Speechley, lit Battalion Rifle Lrigade diarrhoea, Dec. 23 ; William Redskin, Grenadier GUI*: dysentery, Dee. 22. Privates Geo. Crook, Royal Artillery, dysentery, Dee. 19; Wm. Anson Royal Artillery. wounds, Doe. 18; And. Cochrane, 79th lest , pleuritis, Dee. 18; John Einsells, 20th Regt wouads, Dec. 18; Thomas Tipple ' 49th Refit., wounds. Dee. 18; Micha e l D a ly, 88th Regt., dysentery, Doe. 20; Denis Donny, 28th Hest., wounds, Dee. 18 ; John Wud, Scots Fu. Gds., diarrhea, Dec. 18 ; Patrick Finnegan, 2nd Battalion Bits Brigade, diarrhei, Dee. 18; James Murphy, 30th Rest., dysentery, Dee 18 ; Peter Hunt, 46th Rest, febein Dee. 18 ; Isaac Stephens 97th Repot, diarrhes, Dee. 30 ; P a t r i c k O'M ara , 80th Rote., diarrhea, Dee. 20 ; JUNG Bannister, 95.13 Regt., daytime', Dee. 20; James Hiseock, Coldstream Guards, chronic rheumatism, Dee. 19; Thomas Stevens, 46th Regt., diarrhea. Dee. 19; James Whither'', 28th Regt., chronic rheumatism, Dee. 19 ; Rich. Robiason 62nd Rigs., diarrher. Dee. 19; Mich. Sullivan, 28th Riot., diarrhea Dee. 20; Rt. Eakins, 49th Begt., fracture. Dec: 20; George Chapman, 77th Regt., dianime r Dec. 20; Patriek Burke, 44th Rest. , CAreboil, D ec. 20; Thomas Riddle, 21st Regt., diarrheas. Dee. 20; Johnson Doubles, 6th Dragoons, febrile, Dee. 19; David Shoveler, Coldstream Guards, diarebrea. Dec. 20; John Magwick, Royal Artillery, diarrhass, Dee. 21; William Allen, 41st RIM., diem lima, Dec. 21; John Cluke,Coldstrum Guards, chronic rheumatism, Dec. 20; George Bailey, Coldstream Guards, ebitinie rhainestism, Deo. 20; James Hind, Scots Fusilier Guards ' chronic rheumatism', Dee. 20; Samuel Shelton, 63rd Reg., diarelmes, Dec. 20; Georro White, 83rd Regt., dysentery, Dee. 20; James Pa Ist Battalion Ma brigade, dysentery, ZO; Rubenßuben ge Co sbourne,Royal Artil.,dysentery.Dee. 21 ; Wes.olrin, 46th Regt.,diarrh Dee. 21; Thos. Sims, Coldstream Wards, disinter a, Dee.2l ; rheum Jones, 7th Rost. diarrhea Dee. 21 ; Thomas Meekridge, 33tle die:whoa, Doti. 20; James Knight, Coldstream Guards, diarrhea, Dec. 20; Thomas Risk, 7th Rept, dyseutery, Dee. 20; Jana 1101111iSS, Coldstream Guard., dysentery, Dee. 20; Daniel NSW, 23rd Rests, dysentery, Dee. 20; Thomas M'Ciregor, 21st Regt., dy watery, Dee. 20; Patrick Collins, 21st Regt., dysentery, Dee. 20; Charles Lewis, 68th Ent, diarrhoea, Den 20; Michael Connor, let Battalion Rids Brigade, dysentery, Dee. 20 ; Samuel Gaunt, 23rd Regt., diarehea, Dee. 20; Joseph Pryer, Biota Fluffier Guards, diarrhea, Dee. 20; George M'Cord, 46:h Regt., dysentery, Dee. 21; George Sampson, 11th Humus. Caritas+, Dec. 21 ; Jueb Little, 21st. Begt., wounded, Dee. 21; James Hold has, 4th Regt, eat his throat in delirium, Dee. 21 ; Tho mas Murphy, 4th Rest., amputation , D ee. 21; William Sewell, Ist bravos Gaud", dysentery, Dee. 21; Henry Wright, 2nd battalion Rifle Brigade, dierrhae I, Deo. 21; John Aubery, 7th Reit., diarrheas, Dee. 22; Thomas Jones,Royal Artillery, dysentery, Dee. 22. ' • Thomas Philips, Coldstream Guide, diarrhea, Dee. 23; Charles WillianNoo, 66th Regt., dysentery, Die. 22; William Smith, 93rd Rent., chronic rheumatism, Dee. 22; George Sapwell, Ist Dragoons, rheumatis m, Dee. 22; James Edwards, 79th Regt.„ ehroaie catarrh, Dec. T 2 ; Samuel Hitches, Coldstream Guards, dysentery, Dec. 22; William Heaney, 66th Regimest, &Writes, Dee. T 2; Henry Bargee, Suts Fusilier Guards, diarrhea, Dec. 22; William McMieken, 7th Regiment, diurhaes, Dec. 22; Morton Moore, 41st Regiment, dysentery, Dee. 22; Wm. Mahn, Royal Artillery, febris, Dee. 23; Robert Nsilor, 7th Regiment. diarrhea, Dee. 22; John Wadkln, Cold stream Guards, dysentery, Dee. 22 ; Henry Begley, 20th Regiment, dysentery, Dec. 22; John Mangibbon, 67th Re giment, dysentery, Dec. 23; Abraham Snell, 6th Dragoons, dysentery, Dec. 23 ; Lemmata M'Namara, 47th Regi ment, dysentery, Dee. 23; C. M.Carroll, 28th Regiment" dysentery, Dee. 23 ; Solomon Bartlett, Royal Artilra chroniccatarrh, Deo. 23; Arthor WArrison, 43th must, anabus Brighlii. Dec. 43 ; James liyland, 7th Rag* went, volute, Dee. 23; Thomas Cocoon, 67th litgimest, dianhres, Dee. 23; Wm. Primrose, 46th lirgt., diarrhea, Die. 23; Jos. Swetton, 49:h Regiment, diarrhea, Dee. 13; Horace Browm, 4th Light Dragoons, diarrhea, Dee. 23; Wm. Ryder, Scots Fusilier Guarde, diarrhea, Deo 23; Charles Brough, 33rd Regt., diarrhes, Dee. 22; Junes Wilkins, let Foot, dysentery, Dee. 72; Michael McCormick, 13th Rev., dysentery, Dee. n ; John McGee, 60th Regt , diarrhea, Die. 22; James Heron, 33rd Regt., diarrhea, Deo. 23 ; John Connolly, 47th Regt., dysentery, Dec. 24 ; Thomas Gear. 42nd Regt . dysentery, Dee. 24 ; Rohr. Petters, 20th Regt, dyer awry, Dec. 24 ; Bryan Lau, 33rd Regt., Mine, Dec. 24 ; Geo. Shaw, 38th Regt., diarrheas, Dec. 23; Edward Ghent, 23rd Regt., fracture of right thigh, Dec. 23; John Roberts, Grenadier Guide, aropu• tation, Dee. 24; Robert Gorman, 88th Regt.. diarrheas, Dee. 24; Patrick Kelly, 2lst Regt. dymmtery, Dec. 23; William Edwards, 67th Refit., diarrh eas, Dee. 23; Bellhop Lowe, 413th air., ulnae, Dee. 24; Edward Richards, Coldstream Guards, dysentery, Dee. 24 ; Patrick Fallon, 19th R.r., diarrhea, Dec. 24; James Jenkins, let Bat tailor' Rifle Brigade, diarrhea, Dee. 24. ISIIMBZIL IX HOSPITALS ON inn 24TH OP N, *facers and man Sick officers 7B Total DIED ox BOARD MB GOLDEN FLEacz.— Privates George Bustle, lath Rept., Dee. 19; Samuel Chatters, 46th Refit , Dec. 19; and J. Kelly, Royal Artillery, Dee. 20. DIED ON BOARD THE VICTORIA Sraamsa.—Sergeant Jas. Lawreaems, 9th Regt., diarrhoea, Dm. 22. Corporal Cocoon, 67th Hest., Dec. 20. Privates Charles Jacobs, 20th Refit, diarrheas, Dee. 21; Fredk. Eyrie, 60th Rept., diarrhoea, Dee. 21; Edvraed Peony, 20th Regt., diturbies, Dee. 22; and George Sherry, 47th Boit., diarrhoea, Dee. 22. SNIPS AZRIVZD WITS( SICK SINCE THE LAST imam No. of Died Sick. on Passage. Dee. 21. Tnmaader Dee 22. Ottawa l6l Dee. 2/. Gameles Dec. 22. Joseph Shepherd .... 67 DuD Ow BOARD Sexamextr OTTOWA of Passage from the Crimea to SentarL—Private J. Bertram, 4th Dragoon Guards, Dec. 20; F. Laff, 4th Dragoon Guards, Dee. 20 ; J. Toohey, 47th Regt , Dee. 19; W. M'Connell, Royal Artillery, Dee. 21 ; J. Stemma, 6th Dragoons, Deo. 21. DIED ON BOARD JOSEPH SHEPHERD, OR Passage from the Crimes.—Corporal J. Watson, 21st Regt., Dee. 22. Prints J. Bridgman, Ist Foot, Dee. 16; MacCtilleeh, 38th Regt., Dec. 13 ; J. Yeomans, 44th Regt , Dee. 11; J. Hob. son, 50th Rest, Dee. 17 ; Gale, 77th Raft, Doe. 11 ; Robert Noun, 47th Regt , Dec. 15. _ DIED 03f BOARD THE STDHZT.—(NO dates given, HOT Christian names )-llukstt, 24 Dragoons; Davison, Ist Be. Rids Brigade • Whittle, 631 Regiment; Griffith, 19th Regiment ; Rble, '93th Regiment. . - DIRD OS BOARD MS JOARPR SRZPRIRD Is HARBOUR. —Hobert Batt, 4 ith Regiment, Dec. 22; James Orierson, 60th Regiment, Dec. 23. The burials on the 20th were 25. of whom one wu a Russian ; on the 21st, 19 ; on the 22nd, 22, of whom 1 was • Russian ; on the 23d, 60, the highest rate of mortality yet attained here, one being a sailor; and on the 24th, 32, one of whom wu as English officer. On the last-mentioned day there were 3,625 non-oommisaioned officers and privates in the hospitals, and 78 officers, making a total of 3,707. patients. THE Quartt v. Nairrox.— An application was msde to Lord Campbell on Thursday evening on the part of the two defendants in this eau, convicted of an assault on Mr. Ku, for leave to amend the record, with the view I of bringing a writ of *nor, so that the defendants could be admitted to bail. Notice of motion had been served on the other side, sad the point to be raised was, that the piece where the assault wu committed was at Beulah Spa, in the parish of Croydon, and not, as alleged, in the parish of Lambeth, and consequently it was not within the jurisdic tion of the Central Criminal Court. Lord Campbell re fused the application. The point should have been made on the trial. The defendants are undergoing the judgment of the court in Horsemonger-lane Gaol. BARBAROUS OuTam/E.—The Connaught Watch man has the following amount of a barbarous piece of villainy, aacompaeied by scarcely credible circumstances —A woman who, with her three children, lived in a bully dtustion near Croamolime, had received 301. from her hus band in Auntie& Oae night she was awoke by a loud knocking at the door, to which she replied that no one should be admitted at hat time of night. Being entreated, I however, for the sake of the Almighty, she consented to give a live coal to warm the weary traveller. No sooner did she opus the door than a man rushed in, and placing a pistol to her breast commended her to bring her money to him if she would avoid instant death. Terror strack, the woman came and placed tea pounds In the robber's hands. Not satiated, he demanded mere, and obtained another ten. This was not yet selecient. "You have yet ten (said he), bring then or you most now die." The woman parted with all rather than her life. With the treasure the MUM dumped, bet harlot tint he was smistalsod, inmedlstsly eslnemoll, and edam the woman that die she mask be eadsied her to ahem aces of three—death by = 4. llllgZett bandsg. The nor wouna feU down wren& to adjust a rape Se the mom% sea and the bum. Patriot, lowewor, shel tWOlensetMßile to hem the load, be reached op both Wei to net the hies, aid was !silently fasemoi there—whillier by sadden paralysis or etherwlse le not istawn—sall remained h ang ing by the Made to the midis of the sable. bliene the two Whin of the mom, living at some dhleons. MOW by dream sheet their deer, wore impelled to Ms and pro mei at ease Se bee dwelling whmo they Irma their sister is • 1.11•11. mil him intindmensuidesee sera& as above enwibilL Amionmee Wog masemoi, wretch war sewed, with port of the bunt Is his bandlo, and safely con veyed le ft god or Clasestar, whim, he new hes awaiting trial. Ho was at ewe rositelesd er Me woman's nearest indthboor, *NO desi dYftiW WI INDIA AND ITS THE NAVIGATION OF THE GODAVEBT. (Frost the Manchester Times and Exassiner-) The following letter from Colonel Cotton, late chief engineer at Madras, to Mr. Bright, M.P., has been forwarded to us for publication; we gladly give in sertion to it, and ask for it the attention which is due to the magnitude of the subject, and to the character and position of the writer: Westou-superMare, Janney 2,186 i. Dear Itir,—Assording to your &elle I now propose to She yes, sus paper, my views ea the subject ate. °Waver, navigation. My employment en the works lately and still under eon enaction for the Irrigation and n►vigation of the Delta of that river newest ily brought before me continually, for se veral years, ita value as a means of communication with so large a tract of eountry as the basin drained by it ; and I have now, I think, ample data to show that the subject is worthy of the closest investigation. The natation with me, for the thirty years that 1 have b een employed in public works in India, has been, how can money be upended with the greatest results—that is, with he greatest benefit to India? And I now feel confident that no work can be proposed in that country that would produce greater returns, both direct and indirect, than the navigation of the Godavery ; no project that I have beard proposed, or that has occurred to myself, seems to me likely to yield newly such profits or such benefit to the country as this, and for the following reasons: 1. There is now abundant evidence that the cotton of Serer is the most suitable to the manufacturers of Eng land of all that has been yet found, out of the United States; and, at the SOON time, its price on the spot (ltd. per lb.) is probably the lowest that cotton can be produced at in any country. I believe the supply of cotton for our manufactures is now allowed to be one of our greatest commercial questions, and one which most nearly affects oar national welfare. 2. This cotton is, at present, conveyed to Bombay by a Land journey of from 300 to 400 miles; or to Calcutta, by the came extent of land carriage to some point on the dams, and then by a voyage of 600 miles upon that river, at an expense of about W. per ton, exclusive of interest, risk, &G.; or, including all charges, at a oast of nct mush, if at all, under one penny per pound. 3. By the Godavery, supposing it rendered navigable ,by works such as I ma about to recommend, this cotton could be conveyed to the safe port of Coring', 400 miles of water carriage for about 10e. per ton, reolmoing at the ra t e a t which g oods are conveyed on the Ganges, but for much less than that, were the river improved as it may be, so as to become a far superior navigation to the Ganges in its present state. I may remark that the ratii of cost on the Indus, according to Lieutenant Chapman, is a little more than a farthing a ton smile, or about 9s. for 400 miles. 4. The quantity of cotton at present exported from Borer is, I believe, stated at 30,003 toss a year, which, at 61. pet ton, will wet for lead carriage alone 180,0031. a year. Were this quantity only tarried by the river Godavery at 10s. a ton, there would be a saving of 166,00 W. on the p of traffic in this one item ; and suppose only one-fourth part of this were taken as profit for the carriers, it would give 10 per cent. on the outlay of 480,0001. 6. Captain Fenwick, an excellent authority, having been employed for three or four years by the house of Palmer and Co. of Hyderabad, in purchasing cotton, and having been also fur many years resident in these countries, states that the cultivation of cotton would be extended in any degree, according to the demand, nadir the stimulus of a moderate nee in price. 6. There are many otter products of the Basin of the Godavery, among which the article of what may be men tioned, worth there about Is. 64. per bushel, or 12s. per quarter, that would be conveyed in large quantities to the coon. if cheap transit were provided. 7. The whole population of the Basin of the Godavery would be supplied with salt from the coast bytbat river. At present all that is consumed is conveyed by land at a cost which places it beyond the reach of a large portion of the Population. Probably abut ten millions of people would use salt brought by the river, and, using it at the rate of 141 b. per head, they would require not less than 60,000 tons per annum. 8. Besides many other products of the Delta of the Gude very, situated on the coast, and being so completely irrigated, the article of rice would be transported up the river in large quantities. It is sold in Rajahmandry, on the coast, at one- North of the price it costs in Bees?, so that probably the whole of the 11C11 consumed there would be conveyed by the river from Rajahmundry, if the navigation were established; and the people now employed in growing rice in Berra at such a cost, would be far more profitably engaged in grow in cotton for exportation. 9. There are thus good data for estimating a traffic by the Godavery in the great staple, of cotton, salt, wheat, and rice, besides =soy minor articles, the produce of the Delta, or imported; and to these may be added, as as important item, the @spoil of British manufecteres to the interior of the country. There cannot be grounds for judging of the traffic to be expected on any line than the difference in the price of articles at the two ends of that line ; if there is a great difference of price in bulky and staple articles, and the cost of transit is reduced to one-tenth part of that dif ference, there can be no doubt that so extensive traffic will spring up, even though there were none before. 10. Tue river Godavery rises not far front Bombay, but the mein river appears not to be capable of being made navigable much above the confluence with the Weida!), about 300 miles from the sea, as between that and a point 150 miles higher up, there is ascertained to be a great fall. But the Wordah has a moderate fall, and has been navigated by Captain Feawick to Woony, about 150 miles above its junction with the Godavery. How much higher up than Wooney the fall continues moderate, has not yet been as certained. The Weieguage a river at least as large as the Wardals, into which it flair, has also a moderate fall, and is stated by a gentleman who yod it to be navi gable for aernaiderable distance. The Wordah, however, flows throogh the midst of the cotton country, and is, therefore, of much more impost's's than the main stream of the Godavery alma its junction with the Wordsh. - 11. The Godavery is much more direct in its course than the average of large rivers. The distance by it, from the mouth of the Wordah to the sea, is probably not more than one-fourth greater than by a straight line. The Words& is more winding in its course, but much lees so than many rivers. The distance between Woony and its entrance into the Godavery . is about 100 miles in • direct line, and 150 miles by the river; this is by actual y, but • portion of the Godavery Itself has sot yet been surveyed—et least, • map of it has not yet been published. 12. The total distance from Woony, the point from which Captain Newish navigated it, to the sea, is about 400 miles. Probably 100 miles of the Weingunp, and the same dis tance along the Wordab, above Weeny, can be navigated, or made navigsble,besides part of the Indrawatty,a large branch which enters the Godavery from the north, about twenty mike below the Wordal. In all, about 700 miles of these riven may probably be rendered navigable of which 400 miles have been repeatedly navigated during the portion of the year from June to January. 13. Last year the Godavery was examined by an officer in • small steamer during the monsoon or rainy season, se far as the Indrawatty, and a rough estimate was made by' him for removing the principal rocks that obstruct the na vigation at a cost of only 6,000/. 14. There are only six rocky spots in the space between Woony and the sea, some more compost sod some more scanned, sad each from one to three silts in length. The east of cutting • broad channel through them would be altogether trilling, as the rock is • soft slate, and can, for the roost pan, be removed by the crowbar. 15. As a further test of the navigation of the river, an iron cargo boat of 60 tons was sent up, manned by twelve native, without say other help, and though they had nefer been op the river before, they seconded as far as the Wordab, and returned. The total cost of the trip was 301., including !stared, cite., while the present cost of sending 60 tons of cotton to Bombay is 3601. 16. Officers have been employed, during the late extra ordinarily dry season, in examining the bed of the river, and the governor-general beg lately directed that money and officen should be provided to carry on the examination, and to tenon the principal obstructions from the bed. 17. Large qoantitses of teak and other timber are Beau alie sent down the Godavery. and it is navigated by boats ae far as Brudrachellum, 130 miles from the sea, but it has been scarcely navigated by the natives above that. The principal reason is, that they have been left entirely at the mercy of the petty reninders located along the river, every one of whom has assumed the right of levying whatever toll he pleased, though, In the treaties with Nagpore and Hyde rabad, the two states that lie along the river, it was ex pressly stipulated that no duties should be levied. At one haant passed by the boats last year, a Reminder said he should ve demanded a sum equal to 30 per cent. on the value of the cargo. It is to be observed that none of these men are sovereign., but are all dependent on the above-named two dates. The governor-general has now issued a proclama tion that no duties that Do levied en the frontier of Hyde. rabad, and Negpore has been declared part of the British &Wakes. . . . . X lB. Wan the officers were up the river last year, they &wad the people everywhere most deeply interested in the question of the navigation, particularly with the hope of ob taining salt, the want of which is a moat grievous privation throughout these (nannies, for the long land carriages make it too 4:astir for the mw of the people. 19. The "resident" at Hyderabad has expressed his groat anxiety for the prosecution of this undertakiog, and es has the officer in charge of the Nagpore state._ 20. It is evideat that the question of the navigation is resolvable into two parts; t►at of the blossom navigation, and that of t►e dry season. With a trifling expenditure in clearing a." rocks, it will be a fair navigation for at lout months in the year, sad probably for boats of very light draft for eight swaths; Indeed one of the cams employed on the Wordah in building boats, came down this year (in the mouth of May, when the river is at t►e lowest, and in 1 the dryest meson known for many years) the whole way to the coast in his canoe. 21 To rendsrtbe;i;or navireblo for bossy boots through out the Tear, it will be necessary, first, to eat slur channel, tkroogh all the rocky barrien, which will be by no mesas as expeaeive operation ; and, secondly, to store warm in reservoiss during the monsoon, from which the summa supply can be kept up. There has been abundant expo. riots. in this hied of work from the old native tanks scat tered ever the whole country, many of which cantwin from 60 to 100 sillies' of cubic yards of water. We are, there . fore, in a peeitioa to make a tolerable estimate of the cost of retaining a certain quantity of water, and we a.n alga eseily calculate bow much water is required to keep up a certain depth at the fords. Thus we reck on th a t i s such a country as that of the Basin of the Godavery, at least 10,000 cubic yards of water can be secured at an outlay of one pound sterling, and hence to supply an addition of 100,000 cubic yards per hour, over an average of 10./ days, which would require 240 millions of cubic yard., would oast only 24.0001. And if this improved 700 mile, of navigation, It would be at the sat of only 351. per mile ; see that were ten times this quantity required, and it oat four times the above estimatej rate, it would still be only 1,4001. per mile, or not a tvilllth part of that which is the cost of the Biaggi railway. finch tanks may be constructed any where throughout the whole basin, wherever the meet advanta geous sites are found. 22. Prom the anima or weir that has been thrown across. the Godavery near Rajahmendry, there are three hoes of canal with lochs, 100 feet by 16 fest, and with about G feet of water over the lock sills, extending to the putt of Cor ing'. This port is the only shelter for vessels on the wool. eastern coast of the peninsula. It is so sheltered, that no vessel has ever been known to have been lost in it. 23. Coal has been found in three localities in the Basic of the Godavery, but none of good quality has yet been seen that came front those places. It is, however, a remark able fact, that on directing an agent employed in procuring timber, to obtain a specimen of coal from one of these three sites, • large block of very good coal was tent duwa, which, it was afterwards ascertained must certainly have been pro cured front some point much nearer to Rijahmundry than the one that had been named ; and it has not yet been ascertained where it was procured, no doubt from the fear of some Zemindar, that it would bring Europeans into his district. This circumstance seems to leave no roan for doubt that good coal is procurable in this basin. 24. Coal of excellent quality has been quarried by Capt. Fenwick, just beyond the northern limits of the Basic, but within the Basin of the Nerbudda, and conveyed by that officer to Bombay, where it was favourably reported open by the steamboat engineers. This site, which lies south of lioosingabad. on the Nerbudda, iv about 10' miles from the part of the Warden that may be rendered navigable. 25. There is excellent iron ore diffused over the Basin of the Godavery, but especially in the line of the Wein-gunge, about 70 miles south east of Nagpore, where it is eiten lively smelted by the natives. This, like most of the ether iron ores of India, is far superior to the common ores of England, and the iron manufactured by the natives is of excellent quality, and always used in preference to iron im ported from England when superior metal is required. The natives emelt it with charcoal, but this adds so cauCtlerably to the expense, that it is one of the great hindrances to pro gress in India. 28. The works now in course of construction by the government far the improvement of the two Deltas of the Godavery and Kistnah, which together form one vast area of the richest alluvial soil, have a material besting on the question of the Upper Godavery navigation, inasmuch as they will provide for the most abundant predne ion of all those things which are either uoprocursb.e, or, like rice, only to be obtained at a comparatively high price in the inland districts. These works will probably cost half a million sterling, equal in extent to works that would cost in England three millions. They consist of two weirs across the two rivers; one in four branches, of the united length of 4,000 yards, and the other of 1,300 yards, of masonry ; with naviga ble, irrigating channels of about 1,880 miles in length, with from 400 to 500 miles of river embank meats, and innumerable works of masonry for the regula tion and distribution of the water. At all the points where there are locks lathe channels there will be water power to the extent of several hundred horses, and these are scattered throughout the Deltas, so that all produce requiring power, such as what, site., may be manufactured, on its way, with out any extra carriage. The total quantitylof land thus em beaked, irrigated, drained, and pervaded by navigable chan nels, will be more than two millions of acres. The Goda very works have now been in hand nine years ; and such has been the somas of them, that, though not half of the land has yet been watered, the us has increased 30 per cent, or to the amount of 60,0001. a year, while the people have been greatly benefitted, as is &town by the ex ports having increased 100,0001.—the works having as yet only coot 200,0001 One continued line of channels connected with the two weirs on the Godseery and the Kistnah will extend 120 miles parallel with the coast ; and a canal extends from the city of Medias, 65 miles towards the Kistnah, leaving an interval or 130 miles, which the government is row Laving surveyed and its cost estimated. When this work is com pleted, Madras will be connected with the Godavery by a line of canals navigable by steamboats, giving a further im portance to the Gadgetry navigation. 27. There are boundless forests on the God every and its branches, the lmwatty and the gayety. These once con tained immense quantities of teak, but an indiscriminate destruction of that most valuable timber has bees car ried on from time immemorial, and it has not been ascer tained how much may yet remain. There is, however, abundance of other timber, useful for many purposes, and large qusntitiss are brought down the river, chiefly for boat and ship-building. 28. Wood fuel an everywhere be deposited on the r banks of the river at Is per too, equal to 2s. Gd. per ton r for coal. These seem to be the leading points in this question, so far aa our present information goes. Let us now make such a rude estimate of the sums that it may be advisable to spend upon the improvement and Llitigstion of the river, and of the probable results, as our present data will enable us to make. They must necessarily be rude in the prevent stage of the matter, but if, upon a close consideration, they afford a prima facie we, we may be contsLt to proceed further: pending degree, would enable them to import; that their imports, though including shoot all articles of Eoglish manufactures, would consist, for the largest pert, of the cotton manufactures of Lancashire; that the r of the Indian government would be Increased, net by increased tasation, but by greater prosperity among the people; and that the expenditure which I receetmend is to be de fended on grounds of isdivldusl prudence, a well as on those which rein to the interests of Lancashire and the nation at largo. I can only say, and Ido it with much confidence, and after long experience in public worts in India, that this is the one I select, among all I ha,. thought of, or heard proposed by other., as the one that promises the :ingest return,, direct and jaunt ct, for the ex penditure it will require. Nor need I eib.erve to you how gre.t will be the gain to India and to England, if one sue useful example is offered of Indian investment by English capitalists, unaided by any gavernment guarantee, and free from any goveroznent control beyond that to which an en terprising joint stock company would be subjected car rying ha its operations within the limits of the United There are many other points to which I might refer, were I not afraid of malting this letter too long. 1 have only to say, in eccolusion, that I shall rejoice if I am able to induce the manufacturers and merchants of Lancashire, or any English ethitelists, to take such steps as may be necessary to open up, to complete, and to carry on the navigation of the G G daTery . - 1 am, truly yours, A. COTTON, Commandant, late Chief Engineer, Madru. To Mr. Bright, M.P., Rochdale. THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ARCH DEACON DENISON. The court appointed to investigate the charges against Archdeacon Denison re.usemeded at haltpint ten yesterday morning, when Mr. Serel, of Wellr, bookselier, deposed to having obtained copies of the first cannon on the t. Real Presence," in the ordinary way of business, from Mr. Masters, the publisher. Heard that sermon delivered by Archdeacon Denison an Wells Cathedral, and when be , read the printed copy believed it to be the cams discourse as he hal heard in the cathedral. Applied to Mr. Masten, also, far copies of the other two sermons, and exhibited them alt is his shop in the usual manner. The Rev. Frederick Begot, vicar of Rodney Stoke, de posed that he hod received a copy of Archdeacon Denison's first and third sermons: had been monisbed to bring those copies a ith him, but they were not in his possession, he having lent them in October last, and they Lad not been ictura-d. Dr. 114yErd asked the witness to state the nature of the con Icon which he had observed peeling between Dr. Phillimore and himself during the examination of the pre ceding witness ; but Dr. Pnillicaore objected. Croat-examined by Dr. Phillimore—l have been residing in the diocese since 1817, and know pretty well the state of religious parties in the diocese. There are two parties, high church sod low church. The archdeacon is said to belong to the high church party, and the promoter of the suit to the low church party. The subject of the Holy Eucharist is a subject upon which these parties differ very much—that is to say, some hold a spiritual presence in that blessed sacrament, and others hold what is called a low view of it. Dr. Haggard thought it his duty to suggest to the com missioners that this line of COM examination was irrele vant. Dr. Phillimore said his defence would yrobably be di vided into two positions, one of which would be that the whole of there prtneedings were of the character of a con spiracy against the Archdeacon of Taunton, on account of the doctrines which he, in common with a large party in this diocese and kingdom entertained ; and an the r would be that, as at present advisee, no legal proof would be of fered to the comminioners of the publication or preaching of these sermons. Hereupon a ioag discussion arose, which resulted in the commissionen, under the advice of their assessor, stating that they objected to, and could not allow questions to be pat as to the views or party feelings entertained by parti cular individual,. Dr. Phillimore said that if he was excluded from proving that the archdeacon had not preached any heretical doc trines, it might, on consultation with his client, be judged expedient to cease from any further defence before that commission. The Rev. F. Bigot's cross-examination, by Dr. Phillimore, was then resumed, and the rev. gentleman stated that he had known Archdeacon Denison intimately for many years, and should have been swede if he had preached any heretical doctrines, irrespective of those alleged to be contained in the sermons: t J the best of his knowledge he has not dons so. The Reverends Thomas Ellison , Rural Dean ; Fitzhard inge Portman ; John Edwin Lance ; William Neville,Vicar of 13utleigh ; and 11. Thompson, Vicar of Chard, examined by Dr. Phillimore, gave similar evidence, and denied that Archdeacon Denison bad Romanising tendencies. Dr. Hayford proceeded with the case, and called the Rev. C. E. Pritchard, who deposed to having received a copy of • two of the sermons, and believed he had also received a • Copy of the third. lie wrote to Archdeacon Denise. thank • hag him for the copy, but mentioning seine reasons for dis agreeing with some of the statements the sermons con- I tamed. Toe archdeacon wrote in reply, stating that he did not wish to enter into the subject. Dr. Bayiard then stated that he had called all the wit nesse, he intended to present before the commission. S.A. k discussion ensued as to the course to be pursued by the advocates. s Dr. Phillimore renewed his objection to the commission P as a partial tribunal, and wished for leave to produce evi- I dance to show that °he of the judges in this cum recently , entertained such personal feelings towards his (Dr. Philli- I more's) client es to disqualify him as a judge in this matter. Dr. Haggard advised the connoinioners that this ought ' to hare been made the foremost part of the plea tendered yesterday, and that not having been then put for ward, it should be rejected. The Court having adopted this suggestion, the affidavit of Archdeacon Denison on the recent case in the Queen's Bench was read up to the point setting forth that the , matter raised under the present suit hal been siege ly before the lase and present Bishop of Bath and Wells, at which point Another discussion took place as to the mannerin which, supposing it to be groved that the Archdeacon of Taunton had published and preached these sermons, as charged, the conunissionen would deal with the question, whether the . doctrine contained in those sermons was or was not an ecclesisatical off ence. Dr. Livened remarked that it bad been suggested the sermons hearse before them would speak for themselves. , Dr. Bsylord said the commissioners could adopt two two courses, viz , either separately to argue the doctrinal matter contained in the sermons, or the commissioners t having the books before them might read them, and, having considered their content., they might say whether, in their , opinion, there were any matters in them which prima facie were unsound in doctrine. , Dr. Pnal:m're emphatically protested against such a course being pursued, contending that if the commiisionersi . were to decide without hearing arguments on the doctrine , contained in the sermon!, they might as well have decided also as to the preaching and publication of the sermons, without going through the inquiry which had been made on ; those points. , The court ultimately adjourned till the following day, , without giving a decision as to whether they would tear , argumeat on the doctrinal point from the Archdeacon's advocate. 1. Guinn through equal to two miles of solid rosin thirty g yards broad sod three yards deep, at le. per eubio yard. L Korth( water to supply ■ stream of 43,000 cold.: yards per hour, on an average of 10 days, at the cut of 20s. for 10,000 suns yards 60,000 3. Fire trains of boats upon the plan of Mr. Bourne, con sisting each of one steamer and fire iron boats of 200 tom each, at 23,0001. each tron, and allowing for a great power of steam 4. One hundred wooden boats, of 100 tons each, at 2001 per boat Building, surveying, 80, 20,010 '— £150,000 If the iron boats, conveying in all 5,000 tons, made 20 trips in a year towed both uo end down by the steamers, and the wooden boats, worked up empty be men and towid down by steamers, made 6 trips in a year, this would provide for 160,000 tons, allowing for the up trips. Tae rough estimate of the return may be given thus:-160,000 toss conveyed at a profit of 10s. per ton above the ripeness, would yield 80,0001., or 30 per cent. on the whole original expenditure. To show that this is not an extravagant supposition, I may state that the present charge for freight on the Ganges, in ' its present unimproved state, is about 3s. feL per ton per mile for boats worked by men, and on the Indus it is some thing lose than this, et which rata it would cost 12s. a ton from Wooay to the see. The cost of sending the iron boat up hut year was, as I have stated, 10s. per ton. With the river improved as now proposed, end using steam only if it diminishes the cost, we may safely allow 101. a ton for the expenses, or 80,0001. a year for the east of 160,000 tone. The total charge would then be 20i. a ton, including profit, while the lend carriage to Bombay is now 6/. ; and, if to the 20s. we add the cost of 50 miles of land carriage in bringing goods to the river, at 3d. per ton per mile, or 12,. Gd. per ton, we shall have a total oast of IL 12s. 64, per ton, icstead of 6L, besides • great saving is time, interest of money, risk, Re. LEEDS, JAN. s.—The last market day in the old year With respect to the quantity of goods to be neried, when . and the first in the new year ere seldom of much business importance. They have been merely nominal market s thi s we consider that the prowt export of cotton is 39,000 toes, which, according to Mr.Aebbstrner. end Captain Fthwick, yf merchants , y ear. Oa both days there was only a very sli g ht e tt en d eoco would rapidly end indefinitely lacrosse, if the trade were lk e end the bueiness done was exc ee di ng ly Ugh general occupation is the important one of ascertaininging. opened—that 60,000 tons of salt would be e - sosumed. were The The trade in the warehouses has been very quiet thi s week. the whole population of the Basin supplied—that for feeding 100,000 people with rice from Rejthoiondry, would require the result of last year's trade. the transport of 20,000 tons, it will be evident that there is There has bun eery little in the state of the woollen every prospect of the trefae; speedily and greatly eieeeilieg trade during the salt year that caUs for special retrespeetivs remark. F rom the commencement of the y e a r unti l t h e 160,000 toss per annum. In giving these rough estimates, middle of November good and steady trade was eeeee it is only intended that they should really give a substan done. The home market furnished the principal g hy tially fah view of the cue.demand. It must be particularly observed that one of the main Early in the year it was evident that both the Australian the American, and Canada markets we re we ll su p p li e d, an d points of this scheme is, of course, this obtaining of an in- hence the shipping trade has been dull thro ug h ou t most o f creased supply of mitten eta moderate price ;so that, besides theme. But notwithstanding this, the prospero us sta t e the question of its suns' as a speculation, there is another of the country at the commencement of 1864 has been quite question, and one of first importance to our great manufac- suffloisat to keep up a steady and healthy trade throughout taring industry. But, as 'speculation, it has a rest advan- the woollen district. It has not been so large as the trade tags over -s che me for making a railway or a caul, inns- in 1853, b 2: it has been done on en equally sound basis, mush as that the whole line of 400 miles is now I. valable and hence there have been very few bed debts dunes one-halt the year, end traffic could immediately be made hitherto in Leeds. The mast important fail carried on; and also, whatever additional supply of water ore in which Leeds is involved is Meson. Swain was thrown in would effect the whole line of ecumuoiee- and Webb, of Huddersfield, and, with one exception, tion et once, while railways or canals must be formed the debts owing in Leeds arc not heavy, bearing in mind mile by mile, and their see is comparatively trifling till a the position of the parties effected. A meeting of the considerable length Is comlted. creditors of Messrs. Swain and Webbe was held at Hod- The Bengal Railway is, I believe, costing nearly 20,000!. dersßeld, on Tuesday, when it was agreed to wind-op the a mile; at which rate, the sum now proposed to be ex- estate under an assignment. The balance sheet shows that ?ended on 700 miles of water communication would execute there are debts owing to creditors, 127,6191. 17s. 10d , just 121 miles of railway. Which is likely to he the best less securities held by them, 9,5221. 8.. • total, bargain, and *be most profitable speculation, 121 miles of 118,0971. 9i. 10d. The assets are es follows:—In 'noddies railway, worked, es is Intimated by the engineers, at a field, 31,0301 9 6d. ; in Melbourne, 32,812/. 6.. 10d. i in penny a ton per mile, or 700 miles of river worked at a far- Sydney, 31,0771. 18s. 4d.; total, 97,9201. Hs. BJ. ; leaving thing a ton per mile, the total outlay in both cues being the • deficiency of 20,1761. 15s. 2d. The impression of the same, would seem to be a question easily answered. The meeting was that with time end care, a moderate dividend river can be worked by steamers, et a speed fully sufficient might be made out of the estate. he all purposes, for many years to come, in a country so The trade at the pretest time throughout the woollen dis pose as India L. trict may be considered in a satisfactory ata'e. The mills With respect to our means of investigating this subject, are generally in good work. I may mention that there are now in this country—Bret, full time, and the working Captain Feawiek, who has repeatedly navigated the But we believe the Maw Godavery, who hes resided many years in Berne, who hes tiously, watching the cool been engaged In the cotton trade, and who has worked the listing their operations ar coal Wait line of the Nerbudda, not far from the northern year have been on the • limit of the Godavery basin; second, Mr. Bourne, of Gies- the market is at present gow, who has himself visited India, and examined its There can be no doubt riven, with the practical eye of a boat end eogine contributed to keep up th‘ builder, and has for years given the most earnest wen- of Stansiagley, Ifeckmood , Lion to the subject; end, lastly, en officer of engineers, considerable employment hi who bu been employed on the Godavery, and has bed of army clothing; and t , thirty years' experience on Indian river works oa the vertised, the prob abili ties largest scale. There would seem, therefore, to be nothing tissue in this branch of t 1 wanting ia the way of reliable information to form the basis corn and other prov ision s of further proctedinis principal foreign markets I need hardly remind you that the completion of inch a and otherwise deranged, project as that which I have now outvoted, world have a possibly be either good or thee. great effect on the prodectivenus of a portion of India, in- Lion is that we may have a moderate trade ... daring the yea r im babied by more than ten millions of people ; that it would but it w ill probably be one of greet uncertainty, and su increase their exports to a large extent, sad, Is a tense- to many casualties. TILE WOOLLEN TRADE. rork. Most of them are running nearly king chasm are in lair employment. manufacturers are acting very - :own of passing events, a. • ~-1..., . i: btut rather ct wholeo h rd t accordingly . hoe g i l y dwia. er P ihl r u i el ; r e e: t ut. o t t h o tvel 7 . ci0,. . r,. . .. 7 rt , , ~, ~.' , ; :.r 5i.. . ;,. p the woollen trade ; i 3, ' : '.''t : ,i, nondwieke, Batley, O. ^ 1 , - .. . r et has been given in thspg :, ....t7P.A; .. 7 as there are some large s t., . ~ ' 4 e.:' • ; ice are that some sellers, ' 4. -: - d the trade. But whillp . '.' ~... r ho?"-' ens is at a very high r a te, .f . ' — ,..' e._' its ore glutted with our m enu • ' - d, the prospects of the trade cannot .or cheering. The general anticipe- TIIE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1855.