The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-19 00:00:00

THE NAVY. ' The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty, will held a levee (the last this season) on Thursday neat, at the Admiralty, Whitehall. Letters dated February have been received at Ply mouth from the screw steam corvette Charybdis, 21, Capt. the Hon. George D. Keane. She was then at Yokahamma, Japan, but in consequence of intelligence received from England in relation to the Trent affair was appointed to sail the next day, the 19th, for Vancouver's Island. On board the corvette it was supposed that her commission would he completed on the Pacific statical, under the com mand of Rear-Admiral Sir 'rhos. Maitland, K.C.13,, crew steam frigate Bacchante, 51. The Shannon, screw frigate, Capt. - Wainwright, resumed her experimental trials at Portsmouth on ;iaturday, steaming out of harbour at noon for the trial ground in Stokes Bay. The screw tested on this occasion was the double-bladed " Mangin." It was cast in the new foundry of Portsmouth dock yard, but copied from the screw now in use in the :French Imperial navy, into which it was introduced by M. Mangin, the inventor, some few years since. This screw was fitted to the Austerlitz and ether French ships of war at the time the Anglo-French fleets proceeded to the Baltic on the outbreak of hostilities with Russia; but it never attained a re putation, superior, if equal, to that of our common Admiralty pattern screw. It required a less aper ture, however, in ships' sterns when necessarily lifted. Other advantages were also claimed for it by its advocates. The weather on Saturday was in the highest degree favourable for developing the power of any propeller, the wind being light and the water perfectly smooth. The draught of water Rey the ship was within one inch of the previous day aft, and the same forward, being 20ft. tin, aft, and 21ft. gin. forward. On clearing the harbour channel the ship at once proceeded to the trial ground, and hilE runs were made at the measured mile. The time and speed were respectively —in the Ist, 5 Min. 9 sec., 11.650 knots ; in the 2d, 5 min. 36 sec., 10-714 knots; in the 3d, 4 min. 55 sec., 12 . 203 knots; in the 4th, 6 min. 2 sec., 9 944 knots ; in the sth, 4 min. 36 sec., 13.043 knots; and in the 6th, 6 min. 9 sec., 9.756 knots. In the fifh and sixth runs the number of revolutions was 531, in the other 53. Mean speed of the whole, 11.331 knots. At the con clusion of the runs of the measured mile the ship was taken off to a fitting position, and her time as certained in making a complete circle with the helm to port and also to starboard, the time being taken from the moment of giving the order. The same number of men (five)—in fact the same men—were at the wheel as were there on the previous day. The helm was first put hard:aport, and the rudder was hove over to an angle of 131 deg. in 28 seconds. The circle was completed in 7 minutes 14 seconds. The helm was next put to starboard, the rudder was hove over to an angle of 151 deg. in 30 seconds, and tale circle completed in 7 minutes 1 second. The engines during the time of making both circles ave raged 52 revolutions. It will be seen, therefore, by comparison with the trial of the Admiralty pattern, or common screw, of the previous day, that the Mangin screw on Saturday obtained a slight advan. tage, but very slight, certainly, in point of speed, and that the ship also came round in less time than she did on the preceding trial. Both these appa rently slight advantages were full accounted for by the peculiarly favourable conditions of wind and weather under which the Mangin screw was tried. On the other hand, the Mangin communicated to the ship a far greater vibratory motion than did the common screw, had an unusually violent beat in its revolutions through the water, and raised a column of water beyond what is usual in the screw well. The trials will be again resumed with a fresh pro peller to-day. Some interesting firing with the 68-pounder smooth-bore took place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, from the Stork gunboat, at armour plates on the side of the Sultan, target ship, at Ports mouth. With one exception, no armour plates pre viously tested at Portsmouth, whether experimen tally as targets, or merely for testing purposes, have exceeded 4iin. The exception alluded to was in the instance of Mr. Jones's angulated target, one-half of which was plated with 51in. plates. The plates lust fired at in Portsmouth harbour were all 51in., and comprised one plate from the Mersey Steel and Iron Works, 15ft. long and 3ft. 4in. in breadth; and three plates from the Thames Ship building Company ; Messrs. Brown, Atlas Works, Sheffield ; and Messrs. Beale, of Parkgate Works, Yorkshire ; each plate being 6ft. in length and 3ft. Sin. in breadth. 200 yards was the distance, and cast-iron shot was used with 161 b. of powder. The Mersey plate received 14 shots, Brown's and Beale's 9 each, and the Thames Iron Company's 10. The timber backing, or ship's side, behind the last three was not penetrated. All the plates were, of course, broken, but all were of a superior quality, and all proved by themanner in which they stood the pound ing of the 68 pounder that the additional inch of iron added to their resisting power sufficiently to compensate for the additional weight of armour, about 401 b. per square foot. There is one other im portant feature worthy of notice. The latest trials of armour plates have satisfactorily demonstrated that great improvement has been made in the all important matter of welding rolled plates within the last 12 months, The greatest and most active agent in the destruction of all armour plates, how ever perfectly they may be manufactured, or how ever costly the material, are the bolts by which they are at present fastened to their ships' sides. All fractures from sound plates, on being struck by shot, spring from or to a bolt hole, and a fracture ones started in a plate, the destruction of the latter be comes merely a question of time, dependent upon the quality of the iron used in its manufacture. The Imperial Russian frigate Oleg sailed from the Motherbank on Saturday evening for Copen hagen and Cronstadt. The Cormorant, 4, 690 tons, 200 horse power, and the Racehorse, 4, 200 horse power, both attached to the Chatham steam reserve, are to be immediately got ready for service on the China station. The screw steamship Sanspareil, 80, Capt. Le G. Bowyear, one of the Mexican expedition, which left Vera Cruz on March 15 and Bermuda April 24, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday. She brings home about 350 rank and file of Royal Marines, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Samuel Netterville Lowder, of the Plymouth division, — viz., belonging to the Plymouth division, 200 rank and file and the following officers :—Capts. Elliott, West, and Naylor; First Lieuts. Nurse, Herlut, Smith, Bouchier, and Westby ; and Second Lieuts. Brea and Harrison ; belonging to the Portsmouth division, 40 rank and file, under Capt. J. R. Ll o yd, and 28 Royal Marine Artillery, under First Lieut. Poore; belonging to the Chatham division, 20 rank and file, with Second Lieut. Menzies and Paymas ter Cooper ; and belonging to the Woolwich division, 40 rank and file, under Capt. J. B. Seymour. I hiring the absence of the expeditionary force 39 marines have died from fever and dysentery. Those now returned appear to have been much debilitated ev the climate. The Eastern division of Royal Marines will proceed to-d ay , in the paddle-wheel steam vessels Geyser and Virago, to Portsmouth, Ch a th a m, -and Woolwich. The Sanspareil left on the Mexican coast Her Ms j est y' s s crew steam i n Mersey, 40, Capt. Henry Caldwell, C.B. , . gate the steam corvette Challenger, 22, Capt. John J. Kenn e d y , C.B. ; the paddle-wheel steam sloop Barraconta, 6, Commander G. J. Malcolm ; and the screw steam gun-vessel Plover, 5, Commander the Hon. A. L. Corry ; six French ships of war, including on e li ne _ of-battle ship, three frigates, and three steamers; and six Spanish ships—viz., three frigates and three steamers. At Bermuda the screw steamship Capt. E. K. Barnard, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir _Alexander Milne, K.C.8.; the screw steamsh i p Donegal, 99, Capt. Sherard Osborn (which is ordered home) ; the screw steamship Agamemnon, 89, Capt. Thomas Rope ; the screw steamship Hero, 89, Capt. A. P. Ryde r ; the screw steam frigate Orlando, 50, Capt. Franci s S cott, C.B ; the screw s team frigate Melpomene, 51, Capt. Charles J. F. S wart; the paddlewheel steam sloop Spiteful, 6, Commander W. C. F. Wilson; Paddle -wheel steam sloop Hydra, 6, Capt. R. V. Hamilton, and the steam gunvessel Landrail, 5, Commander T. iiM. Martin. The crews of all the ships on the Mexican coast and Bermuda were in a healthy state. The Sanspareil had strong winds from the eastward for the first 10 days, since which fine westerly winds, She spoke, May 2, in lat 41 18 N, log 53 47 W, the English ship Annette Gilbert, from Honduras for Quebec; Bth, in lat 45 54 N, long 48 56 W, the Danish bark Chieftain, homeward bound; and tha 11th, in lat 45 5 N, long 25 20 W, the English bark Jane, also homeward bound, Tho appointment of chief inspector of machinery to the Chatham steam reserve in the Medway has become vacant by the death of Mr. Price, which occurred on Friday last after a short illness. Pend ing the appointment of a successor to Mr. Price, the duties are discharged by Mr. G. Weeks, senior chief engineer of the steam reserve. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Commander Charles G. Lindsay, to the Galatea; Lieut. W. Farquhar to the Racehorse; Bernard B. Dowling, master, to the Racehorse ; W. T. Clifton, master, to the Cormorant; Sub.-Lient. Percy B. Nind, to the Forte, additional for disposal ; Leopold J. T. C. Scarlett, naval cadet, to the Shannon ; R. Ditchburn, first-class assistant engineer, to the Asia as supernumerary ; W. Town and John Dunlop, acting second class assistant-en gineers, to the Adventurer as supernumeraries. THE ARMY. No draughts of troops will be despatched to India this season from the depots at the camp at Col chester, some of the regiments which have been stationed in the East being now en route for Eng land, while the strength of others will be made up by -volunteers from such depots of the home regi ments as have their full complement. On Friday a detachment of sergeants and privates left Colches ter for the Hythe School of Musketry. The officers accompanying the detachment were Lieut. Lampen, 34th ; Lieut. Hume, 38th ; Lieut. Davidson, 88th ; Ensign Stanton, Ist battalion, 6th; and Ensign Bain, 44th Regiment. On Saturday a troop of the 14th Hussars, con sisting of 5 officers, 111 men, and 109 horses, under the command of Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. A. Todd, arrived in Liverpool from Dublin. They were brought in the City of Dublin Steampacket Com pany's steamer Windsor, and proceeded southwards by the London and North-Western Railway. The hired transport King Lear, with the 83d Re giment from Bombay, which arrived at Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning, having received orders, was towed out of the Sound in the evening, and left for Gravesend, where her troops will be landed. On Saturday detachments of Royal Engineers, the Army Hospital Corps, 2d battalion 10th, 2d battalion 11th, 2d battalion 13th (Prince Albert's Light Infantry), 67th, 85th, 99th, and Cape Mounted Rifles Regiments arrived at Chatham garrison from China and the Cape of Good Hope, having disem barked at Government quay, Gravesend, the same day from No. 7 Government transport the Echunga, Capt. Cooper, and the hired transport Sir George Grey, Capt. 'Wilkins. The Echunga, 1,007 tons burden, sailed from Hongkong on Dec. 29, having on board 238 naval invalids from the various vessels serving in China, 12 men of the Army Hospital Corps, 29 men of the 67th Regiment, and 61 non commissioned officers and men of the 99th Regi ment, together with the following officers :—Capt. G. Ingham, 44th Regiment, in charge of the mili tary invalids ; Mr. W. H. Warsfold, master ; of the Pioneer, 6, screw steam-sloop, in charge of the naval invalids; Capt. 0. H. Stokes, Royal Engi neers ; Lieut. C. B. H. Somerset, 99th Regiment ; Mr. W. C. Gordon, deputy assist.-superintendent of stores ; Staff Assist.-Surg. J. Carlaw, and Assist.- Surg. J. Mockridge, R.N. The Echunga arrived at the Mauritius on the 30th of January, and remained there 14 days to land stores, ammunition, &c., and to ship guns. During the time the vessel was there the cholera broke out on board, and 20 persons died from the disease. The Cape was rounded on the 9th of March, and St. Helena sighted on the 17th of the same month. The Echunga arrived at Ascension on the 2d of April, and, after landing and shipping stores, sailed thence on the sth. The passage to Gravesend occupied 138 days. During the voyage the vessel was in a very leaky condition, requiring pumping every four hours from the day she left Hong Kong. Owing to the protracted nature of the voyage, the troops were on short allowance of water for 3 , 1 days. During the pas sage there were 37 deaths on board, including 22 of the naval invalids, 10 of the 99th, and 5 of the 67th Regiment. After the troops had been medically inspected, on Saturday, 15 of the number were ad mitted to Fort Pitt Hospital for treatment. By direction of the Secretazy of State for War a number of men of the Royal Artillery, from Wool wich, together with troops of the line, assisted by a party of convicts, have been employed for several days past, under the direction of Capt. Dyer, Royal Artillery, in the examination of the whole of the smooth-bore guns lying on the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, in order that any gun in which the slightest flaw is to be detected may be at once removed, to prevent it being issued. Although several hundred of the largest 10- inch, 68-pounders, and 32-pounders have been examined, the number of guns discovered to be in the slightest degree un sound has only been three. The examination has been confined to the smooth-bore guns, the 110- pounder and other Armstrongs, proved only a few months since, not requiring to be examined. VOLUNTEER YIELD-DAY 42 EPSOM-. On Saturday afternoon a brigade field-day took place on the Epsom Downs, under command of Colonel M'Murdo, Inspector-General of Volunteers, attended by Colonel Luard and Colonel Morriss, members of his Staff. The force under arms, num- L bering in the aggregate little short of 2,000 men, was contributed by half-a-dozen of the principal Volunteer regiments of the metropolis, and the gathering was intended not so much for purposes of display as of work. In the regular service the occasion would have been known as a "private field-day ;" but from their very constitution Volun teers may be added to that class of humanity which cannot keep a secret, and accordingly there was a large though not inconveniently numerous atten dance of sight-seers on the Downs. The afternoon was beautifully fine, but with a dull heat that seemed ominous of a coming storm, and the lon g ascent from the station to the stand-house was con sequently rather a severe preparation for the move ments to be undertaken. But the regiments all bore it very well ; and when the line was formed, at half past six o'clock, the men looked in remark ably good ultlei. On the CaiTCMO r i g ht were t h e Inns of Court, whose punctuality —professional multiplied by military—brought them on the ground a good hour before anybody else. On the extreme left were the London Rifle Bii i gade ; and In termediately, in the order of their arrival, were the Queen's Westminsters, the London Scottish, the 38th (Artists), and Lord Radatock's corps, the 9th Middlesex. The plan of battle was of the ordinary suppositions and flexible :character, largely affected by the nature of t'le ground, and still more by the absence of either cavalry or ar tillery. For purposes of explanation, it is sufficient to state that the enemy was in force in the direction of Leatherhead, facing the grand stand, that he had got possession of a thicket of gorse and brushwood, and that his advanced posts held a farmhouse im mediately on the right of Col. M'Murdo's position. To sheke off these proximate assailants, the Inns of Court, under Colonel Brewster, were at once thrown out as skirmishers, and continued to act in that ca pacity during nearly the whole of the operations. In modern warfare it has become habitual to employ corps e that, inste a d o f h o ldi ng them in reserve. Louis Napoleon used up his Imperial Guards and won his Italian campaign at about the same moment. In the event, therefore, of actual invasion, the " Devil's Own" have before them a future more bril liant than pleasureable. While they were engaged in surrounding the farmh ouse t h e other battalions moved up a valley towards Tattenham-corner, th e London Brigade leading, in a dark solid column, like a patch of ink upon the grass. The Queen's West minsters, nearly double the strength of any other , reg iment upon the ground, wheeled very steadily, and followed in the same direction, and the line was closed by the London Scottish, the attire of whose flank companies Mr. O'Lynn himself must have com mended as " pleasant and cool," though penalties lurked in the thicket of gorse. At this point the THE SUN, NDON►, MONDAY, EVENING, MAY 10. 1862 miles in length, amounted for the week ending the 27th of Ftbruary to £1,455 against £1,050 for the corresponding week of 1861 ; Tor the week ending the 6th of March to £2,035, including monthly tickets, against £1,903 for the corresponding week of last year ; for the week ending the 13th of March to £3,437, against £1,277; and for the week ending the 20th of March to £1,227, against £1,209, making the total receipts for the four weeks £6,154 against £5,439, showing an increase of £715. The receipts for the four weeks averaged £307 per mile per week, against £271 per mile per week for the corresponding period of 1861. EAST INDIAN. The traffic receipts of the Bengal division of this company's line for the week ending the 9th of February amounted on 3203 miles to £7,861, and for the corresponding week of last year on 248 miles to £7,032, showing an increase in the mile age of 721 miles, and in the receipts of £829. The traffic receipts on the North-West provinces division for the above week amounted to 2431 miles to £4,141, against £3,601 on 123 miles, showing an increase in the mileage of 1201 miles, and in the receipts of £540. The total receipts on both lines amounted for the above week on 5641 to £12,002, or 21.2 per mile per week, against £10,633 on 371 miles, or to 28.6 per mile per week, showing an in crease in the aggregate mileage of 1931 miles, and in the receipts of £1,369. ability with which Col. M'Yfurdcrhandled . his small army was seen to much advantage. Standing near the farmhouse, one might have imagined th at there was not such a thing as a rifleman upon the grounl, the main body of the Volunteers was completely sheltered as well from sight as from the enemy's fire by the ridge behind which it was moving; the leading companies of the Inns of Court lay down be hind the small bank which they lined, waiting the order to commence firing, and the reserves and sup ports were also recumbent in sheltered positions. It was only by moviug nearer to them that the scar let collars and crowns of their caps could be seen, like heather-bloom above their gray uniforms. A second later, and they were keeping up that sharp skirmishing fire which resembles nothing so much as the conversation of a rookery, which is always on the point of dying away till " a last contradic tory croak" sets the whole tribe off again in full chorus. It is always a trying thing to young troops to advance in line over the crest of a hill, especially when, as in this case, some of the officers in com mand did not seem to have made up their minds which was the directing flank; but this movement on the part of the main body was, nevertheless, im posing, and the steady drill of the London Brigade in particular was conspicuous. The skirmishers had by this time dislodged the enemy from the farmhouse, and were driving him over the hill. The other battalions having come within range, the skirmishers lay down while a murderous file fire was poured over their heads from behind, and then rushed forward again with a cheer to secure the ground which the enemy had abandoned. They kept up the pursuit with great animation through the furze bushes ; the regiments which had pre served their compact formation moving through these by three different routes. Having reached the open ground at the other side, the skirmishers were in their turn driven in, and the line then did its part in repelling the enemy with vigorous file firing and occasional volleys. The foe, baffled in a direct attack, then tried to intercept the volunteers from the Epsom-station—a movement which, of course, necessitated a corresponding change of posi tion on their part. Darkness had now so far de scended that the motions of isolated battalions could not be followed, but the effect of the firing was much enhanced. The line of skirmishers, no longer attacking, but engaged in covering the new forma tion, protected the force with a belt or fringe of fire, whose hungry shooting tongues of flame darted hither and thither, and seemed to lick the edge of the line as waves do the base of a rocky shore. The fusillade from squares was more concentrated, but it lost in point of distance and extent what it gained in intensity. The firing, however, in a military point of view, was very creditable, especially from the small but well-disciplined battalion of Lord Rsdstock. Indeed, it may be said of the entire force that the manner in which it acquitted itself was deserving of high commenda tion. On occasions such as these, where the object is not merely to march past in good order, but to perform important manoeuvres with facility and promptitude, an insight is gained into the relative merits and deficiencies of different corps which at other times is rarely obtained. Thus a close ob server might have noticed on Saturday that the Westminster companies were by no means equal as to drill ; that some required a good deal of prompt ing ; that they were fidgetty about the muzzles of their rifles ; that the London Scottish, though they marched well and shot well, had a tendency to over run their coverers ; and that the 38th, while par donably conscious that they were artists, could not forget that they were critics as well. But minor points like these were more than counterbalanced by the general aptitude and hearty good will with which each order was obeyed. The movements closed shortly before 9 o'clock with a final charge, in which the impetuosity of the Ist City of London carried them so far forward that they were only stopped by a pretty steep hill. Colonel 111‘Murdo then called the mounted officers to the front, and expressed to them his satisfaction at the manner in which the movements had been executed, regard being had to the difficult nature of the ground. He had not gone strictly by the book, but had conducted the evolutions in the manner that would be necessary in case of actual warfare. In doing this he had relied on the spirit and intel ligence of the volunteers, and he had not been dis appointed. The line had been formed with as much steadiness and rapidity as could be expected from regular troops in face of an enemy ; and he felt bound to notice particularly the manner in which the Inns of Court had charged up the hill in front of them, and the soldierly march of the London Brigade through the furze on their left. Colonel 111'11/Turd° gave a brief explanation of the move ments which had just been gone through, and re quested the commanders of the different brigades to express to the officers under their charge his great satisfaction at the manner in which they had been performed. RAILWAY iNTBLLIGENCE. SOUTH EASTERN. The gross traffic receipts for passengers, mails, goods, &c., for the four weeks ending the 26th of April amounted to £75,517, from which was de ducted £2,313 for collecting and delivering goods, &c., leaving £73,204. To this sum was added £1,718 for rents and sundries, and £3,740 for steam packet service, making the total receipts £78,662. From this was deducted £39,182 for rates, taxes, tolls, Government duty, and expenses of steam packet service, leaving a net balance of £39,480. The total receipts for the 12 weeks and one day, ending as above, amounted to £211,794, from which was deducted £119,552, being the total expendi ture, leaving a net balance of £92,242. BEDFORD AND CAMBRiDGE.' This line is fast advancing towards completion. In the course of last week one of the directors came from Bedford to Cambridge by the new route and returned by one of the London and North-Western engines. The line is to be opened for traffic on the 14th of June, and on the 10th it is proposed to place it at the exclusive disposal of the Duke of Devon shire, on the occasion of the installation of his Grace as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. SCOTTISH NORTH-EASTERN. A special meeting of this company was held at Aberdeen on Thursday, Mr. Stirling in the chair. On the motion of the Chairman the meeting -un animously approved the bill now i n P ar li ament to enablo the compc m y to r.;.. i.R5n Ann n f addition l capital to pay existing debts, and t o p rovi d e funds for the construction of the Northern Junction Rail way. FURNESS. A special meeting of this company 'was held on Friday at tha offices, Old Burlington -street ; the Duke of Devonshire in the chair. On the motion of the Chairman two bills were approved in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of Lords; one for enabling the company to make a branch railway to a certain quarry, to vest the Ulverstone Canal Navigation in the company, and to imahlo the latter to raise additional capital ; the other bill authorized the amalgamation of the Coniston Railway Company with the Furness' Rail way Company. DEESIDE. An extraordinary meeting of this company was held at Aberdeen on Tuesday ; Mr. J. Duncan in the chair. On the motion of the Chairman, a bill to enable the Deeside Railway Company to raise additional capital for their original railway, to maintain cer tain portions of their extension railway constructed beyond the authorized limits, and for other pur poses, was unanimously agreed to, A long discus. sion ensued regarding a proposal for leasing and working the Deeside railways to the Great North of Scotland Railway Company, and also respecting a like proposal from the Scottish North-Eastern ,Company. On a division the votes stood as fol- LOWE; 1,914: — vo F te o s r leasing the line to the Great North of Scotland the 8 Company, rthE 3 a , 2 s t s e s r votes ; n, l, 3 4 la votes;nd fo r leasing to majority, Scotland Railway of leasing the line to the Great North of Railway Company. MELBOURNE AND HUDSON'S BAY. The traffic returns on this company's line, five RAILWAY BILLS. On Friday, in Lord Stanley's committee, the bill of the Drayton Junction Railway was withdrawn. The bill to enable the London Railway Depot and Storehouses Company to abandon the making of the proposed new street and railway under it in con nection with the Metropolitan Railway and the new City meat-market, on the ground that those objects will be adequately accomplished by the Corporation of London and by the Metropolitan Company's proposed improved railway communica tion with the intended market, and the extension of their line to Finsbury-circus, has also passed through committee ; together with the bills of the South Leicestershire for deviations, and the Lon don, Chatham, and Dover, for an extension of eight miles between Walmer and Deal, and to raise a further sum of £200,000; and the Hatfield and St. Alban's. The bills passed in committees of the Lords in clude the Frosterley and Stanhope, for deviations and to raise £6,660 ; the Edgeware, Highgate, and London, for a line of eight miles from the Great Northern, at the Seven Sisters'-road, via Highgate, Finchley, and Hendon, to Edgeware, and to raise £293,000, the Great Northern subscribing £73,000 ; the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast and Dovey Re clamation Company, for an embankment in con nection with the railway along the estuary of the Dovey, and to raise £133,000; and the Waterford and Passage Railway. THAMES EMBANKMENT.—At the sitting of this committee on Friday, the Hon. Mr. Cowper in the chair, the chief witness examined was Mr. Pownall, land valuer, who stated that a large proportion of land to be reclaimed from the river by the construc tion of the embankment and the removal of the mud banks will be appropriated to public promenades and building purposes. Beginning at Whitehall stairs, where the land is of great value, it was pro posed to be lot off in building-leases ; but from Hungerford-market up to Cecil-street, Strand, it would be laid out for public purposes, as well as along the route to Waterloo-bridge. That in front of Somerset-house would be acquired by the Crown, who would likewise take a portion of the ground between Whitehall and Westminster-bridge. The wharfs between Waterloo•bridge and the Temple gardens and Blackfriars would be taken, and the owners compensated. The land to be reclaimed in front of the Temple-gardens would be given to the Temple, on condition that it should be devoted to promenade purposes. The site to be reclaimed on the properties of the Duke of Northumberland and the Duke of Norfolk would probably be built on and partly surrendered for the benefit of the public. In front of the City Gas Works and below the Temple towards Blackfriars-bridge docks would be constructed in conneetion with the embankment, and below Blackfriars-bridge it was proposed to carry a viaduct 70ft. wide, with dock accommoda tion for the numerous wharfs. The property along the river side, in witness's opinion, would be greatly enhanced in value by the embankment. THE FRENCH PRESS AND ME EXHIBITION. The following extracts from the Teneps will be found to have all the charm of novelty. The ar ticle from which they are taken is from the pen of M. Sherer, one of the leading contributors to that paper; and it records the impression made on him by the Great Exhibition. M. Sherer admits all that can be said about the vastness and irregularity of London, its sombre aspect, the want of quays, the ugliness of its public buildings and meanness of its monuments, and generally its deficiency in all those things with which Paris abounds ; but he adds : "This impression will wear off a little, and the stranger will not fail to be struck by the moral grandeur of the prodigious population of London. I do not allude merely to the numerical amount of the people, but to their activity, to the industry and labour which produces this vast wealth, and to the wealth which labour disseminates everywhere. The Thames may not have magnificent quays, but it is lined with warehouses in which are stored the products of a hundred nations; and it is covered with ships whose masts mingle in the horizon with countless chimneys and steeples. After some time this city, if it do not give us the idea of beauty, will inspire interest. In the absence of regularity it has a marked physiognomy,, and we should not be astonished if the stranger found in it a charm which he will look for in vain in more majestic and con summate symmetry." M. Sherer warns the visitor to the Exhibition that he will be disappointed if he expects to find military displays which form the grand feature of continental cities : " The Frenchman who goes to London will cer tainly see fewer uniforms than in Paris ; and the soldiers he may chance to meet, pacifically armed with a small cane, will seem to him contemptible by the side of our fine troops, our Chasseurs with with elastic step, and our Zouaves at once terrible and picturesque. Here again, however, reflection, without diminishing admiration for our incompata hla army mill onno -modify hi% Lord Palmerston estimated the other day the troops for the defence of the United Kingdom at one-sixth, at most, of those that in France maintain order and protect our territory. What does this mean ? And which of the two countries is the more highly favoured—that which, from its geographical posi tion, is obliged to keep up a great permanent army, or that which, protected by the ocean, can leave to agriculture and trade hundreds of thousands of hands which we take from them ? Our military force, perhaps, cannot be seriously diminished; but the necessity we are under of yearly drawing away from our fields and our manufactures 80,000 men in the flower of their age, may be a necessity we must regret though we reconcile ourselves to it, but it is not a cause of superiority and of pride." On the Volunteers M. Sherer remarks:— " We shall be surprised if the institution of Volunteers, after having, perhaps, suggested to the foreign spectat or some o f th o se jokes which our neightours themselves do not spare their citizen soldiers—if, we repeat, this army, springing up, as if by enchattment, from thd ranks of an in dustrious people, did not fill the hearts of our coun trymen with a fe(ling of respect and admiration. The motto adopted by the Volunteers, Defence, and not defiance,' indeed a noble device worthy of a high civilization. After the spectacle Ns hich France presented iY the great revolution, rising en masse, and rushing to defend her menaced fron tiers ; after the menory of those 300,000 men, who, with naked feet aid without bread to eat, deaf to base alarm, hurledback all Europe coalesced against us, we know no mere glorious example than that of the British Volunt)ers. They are not a mere Na tional Guard suc h Is we h ave ha d, t o do the duty of mountin g guaid. Th e vo l un t eer s constitute a real army. They Lama to military training. They learn to muceurcand to be skilful labarpshootere. us reflect a little on the tiresomeness and fa tigues of such-a service, on the time they take up, 'on the derangement they cause in business, on the perseverance they require, and we must admit that the example England gives to the world supposes the existence of the greatest civic virtues." The English possess more than even the French the material of a great army, from their early habits and their manly exercises "Every Englishman who respects himself begins his day by plunging into the Eurotus—we mean the cold bath, which fortifies the soul as well as the constitution. He would feel that he was wanting to himself if he did not give two or three hours to a walk or a ride across country. If his means and his occupation permit him ever so little, he will mount on horseback, hunt, or handle the oar. He has learnt from an early age how to fight, not as we do, with shut eyes, and flinging by chance his arms round his body, but in a rational manner, using his fists at once to parry and to attack. He is aware that in a contest with a cabman or a shoe black he will have the upper hand because he has more skill ; and he thus exhibits the pacific assur ance of a man who trusts only to himself. We have often thought that the noblest present our own France could receive, the most efficacious means to regenerate and strengthen our youth, would be the introduction among us of some national sports like that of the English cricket. It is an exercise that excites emulation, requires force and address, calls into play every physical aptitude, invites to whole some fatigue and to the open air, and prepares vigorous bodies for vigorous souls. Without frank ness,' said Walter Scott, 'there is no virtue; and without courage there is no frankness.' He might have added, ' and without force there is no courage.' We affirm it in the most positive manner, the Englishman is a magnificent specimen of human kind, and it is cricket which has made the English man what he is." M. Sherer admits that to a Frenchman the in equality of ranks is distasteful : "To be just, however, that feeling should bo tempered by these two reflections. The first is, inequality of rank does not in England imply inequality before the law. The highest peer in the realm may be brought before a police court just as a hackney coachman. Secondly, inequality of rank not only is compatible with liberty in Eng land, but the English aristocracy from the most remote times, as in the present day, have ever been the support and defence of the liberties of the na tion. Now, if liberty and inequality be not incom• patible, it is certain that of these two conquests of modern society the first is the greater, the more urgent, and the more indispensable. The people who from their passion for equality would sacrifice it to liberty, would moat assuredly give up the reality for the shadow." M. Sherer concludes thus : "England is the classic land of liberty ; and for this reason it is a holy land—a land which more than one exile has turned to with gratitude. We do not now speak of political institutions, but of civil liberty, of the respect for the rights of all— of independence of exertion, of the space left open for individual action, of the mildness of the laws, of the fewness of regulations. Elsewhere, regulations are the rule; elsewhere, liberty exists only where it is expressly stipulated; but in England it is liberty which is everywhere, and always supposed. Elsewhere civil life is encircled by a network, in visible but inextricable, of restrictions ; but in England every man speaks, teaches, prints, meets, associates, builds, travels, exercises his calling in industry and commerce, fills the professionii, carries out all his designs, without hindrance from any thing whatever but the equal right of his neighbour. For the truth of what we say, we fearlessly appeal to all who have crossed the Channel. They may find England monotonous, its climate sombre, its towns ugly, its inhabitants stiff, its institutions Gothic ; they may grumble and find fault as much as they please, but there is one thing they cannot deny, and that is that it is in England the man who loves liberty can breathe most freely. France and England are two great schools open for the instruc tion of the world. In the one, more importance is given to the perfection of the product ; in the other more importance is given to the happiness of the producer. In France a more scientifically combined action attains with precision results more co-ordi nate. In England, power is less concentrated, but it is more energetic, and more full of life. What is great with us is the thing ; what is great with our neighbours is the man. In France, the State is everything, and the citizen little. In England, it is quite the contrary." LONDON ROADS AND RAILWAYS. As if to make amends for a long state of apathy, the employes of the Board of Works are pushing on their operations in regard to the formation of the new street from Blackman-street, Borough, to Blackfriars-road, with great vigour. At the Borough end of the new thoroughfare the results of their labours aro especially apparent. For a considerable distance the pavements are completed, and the pav ing of them with granite is in a fair way of being so. The value of this street when finished and opened will be great. The difficulty of reaching London-bridge from Stamford-street, Blaekfriars road, except to the initiated, has hitherto been im mense, especially as respects vehicular conveyance. There was nothing for it but to go up the road to Union-street, a sufficiently narrow line of communi cation, and through it, if found possible; or else to take Holland-street, and then tempt the " dark per plexed ways" of Bankside. The new street passes through hallowed ground, as some would term it, for the supposed site of the theatre where Shakespeare played in his own eternal dramas is in the line it takes. The site of the Bear Gardens, too—to step at once from the sublime to the barbarous,—of three hundred years ago, will be covered by the rapidly advancing thoroughfare. In close proximity are the works of the London, ' Chatham, and Dover Railway; and these are pro gressing with satisfactory spirit. The line will pass very close to the venerable and picturesque church of St. Saviour's, the appearance of which was not improved by the formation of the ap proaches to New London Bridge. Apropos of the Chatham and Dover Railway, it is to be lamented that the City authorities can come to no conclusion as to the kind of structure which shall supersede the ricketty, dilapidated, and dangerous bridge of Blackfriars. Their hesita tion on this point is a serious misfortune for the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, and retards their movements to a considerable extent. It seems to us that the proper solution of the question lies in the construction of abridge of sufficient width and stability to sustain both the ordinary and the railway traffic. One or two plans for such a construction were submitted, we believe, to the Bridge Committee, but so far, without inducing . then. concurrence. It would be difficult to conceive anything more incongruous or inharmonious than would be two bridges of a totally different character as regards architectural arrangement, spanning the Thames within a few feet of each ether; and we hope that the people of London will be spared so humiliating au exhibition. What with lines of railway in process of forma tion, the throwing of not particularly handsome bridges across the principal streets and roads, and the bustle contingent upon the anticipatory demo lition of dwelling-houses, the boroughs of South wark and Lambeth are in a constant state of con fusion. The landmarks of the " oldest inhabitants" are disappearing at the shrill summons of the com ing locomitive ; and the words of the poet-- "The presence of perpetual change is ever on the earth," are receiving literal illustration at the hands of the work-people of the two boroughs. Out of that chaos order will eventually arise, no doubt; and in the moral certainty that all the changes thus made will " work together for good," must be found con solation for the inconvenience arising from their procedure.—Building News. BENSON'S - 4 WATCHES AND CLOCKS.- —" Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold watches, sto 100 guineas; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphlet, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construc tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with the greatest certainty the watch est adapted to their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of a remittance. —J. W. Benson, 83 and 34, Ludgate-/1 1 11. 40 and 17, LQ114911 E.C.—E4t4/9Jitihed 1749. ; • _ • 7111? QUA DRTJPEE MURDER AT MAN- CHERTER. The inquest on the Into M-. Melier was adjourned from Friday to Saturday, when :Aso the prisoners were to be further examined before the nn The surgeon who examined one of the murdered children of the prisoners had not discovered what kind of poison was used, and was to make post mor • tern examination of the other bodies. It was thought some kind of narcotic was used. The offices where Mr. Mellon was murdered are entered from South King•steot. His office is on tho second floor, and on the same floor are two rooms occupied by Mr. Frederick Andrew, solicitor. The stairs leading to the offices are wide ; and there are four sets of steps numbering 28 in all, and four small landings, of which the uppermost is the land ing to Mr. Meller's office on the second floor. On this landing there are only ono or two drops of blood. This is the place where Mr. Meller was first struck. Drops of blood were found upon the steps leading to the next !landing, and there Mr Meller appears to have stumbled against the baluster rail, his bloop trickling down the rail and dripping on to the ground floor. Down eight more steps he stumbled, and then on the first floor landing. At the head of the next flight of stairs, he appears to have fallen, the spot being marked by a stain of blood on the floor. Mr. Meller struggled with his assailant, endeavouring with his hands to ward off the stabs, and his hands consequently were much cut. Mr, Meller was lying bleeding where he fell for the last time, when Mr. Letherbrow and his porter Hooley found the body, and were raising it up just as the prisoners came down the stairs. The male prisoner presented his revolver at the head of Mr. Meller, and fired ; the shot missed the deceased and, piercing the right hand of Hooley, lodged in his right knee. When the prisoners were safely locked up, they both expressed the greatest con cern for the safety of the porter Hooley. The male prisoner, after his apprehension, said he much re gretted that he had not been able to kill Mr. Meller's two sons. The dwelling occupied by the prisoners in Bri tannia-buildings, Great Ducie-street, is one of a number of very fine houses (with shop fronts), the rents of which are £5O a year. Fronting the street there is a lofty and spacious shop, which has been closed for some time, but was at first used by Taylor for the sale of general provisions. The house is fuur stories in height, and contains 10 rooms, be sides the shop and cellars. All the rooms are lofty, and have been fitted up with marble chimneypieces, and papered and ornamented in a superior style. The house is nevertheless in a most desolate condi tion. It does not contain a single article of furni ture of any kind—no table, chair, or stool ; no bed ding, not even straw ; and the cupboards were found completely bare, there not being a particle of any description of food. The house also bears traces of gross mistreatment. The marble chimneypieces were found defaced, the corners and edges having been chipped with some blunt instrument. The panels and jambs of the doors had been cut, and, judging from appearances, probably with the very knife that Mr. Meller was murdered with. The wainscotting in some of the rooms had been similarly damaged. In the shop there were no ar ticles of furniture or fixtures, either in the way of shelves, counters, or boxes, The baluster rail was chipped and hacked all the way from the ground floor to the top of the house. The front room imme diately over the shop had been prepared with a white satin coloured paper, but was smeared in every part with soot and water, and the door of this room was cut worse than any other, some of the panels having been cut completely through. When the detectives—Bateman and Watson — entered the house, they were prepared to find something of a dreadful nature, but when they came to the room where the three little dead children lay as though placidly sleeping side by side, they were completely overcome, and burst into tears. Each child had been washed and dressed, and lay the very picture of innocence and beauty, but in the "sleep of death. The children had white night-dresses on them ; round the waist of each was a black sash, and a bit of black ribbon was tied round the wrists and neck. The girls' hair, dark brown, curl naturally, but had been combed with unusual care. '1 he hair of the little boy was lighter than that of his sisters, and it had been combed after death, into tufts on the centre of the head. Tho bodies lay in a bit of carpeting, the only fragment in the house. The room in which the children were found is on the left-hand landing, a few steps below the first floor, The windows of the house have very large panes of glass, but not one of these had been broken. The staircase is lighted by a stained-glass skylight. There had been two executions put into the house by Meller and Sons, the prisoners refusing to pay rent on the ground of a set-off for £5O against the agents for loss arising out of alleged damage by the explosion before alluded to :in our report of the murder, and which set-off Messrs. Meller would not allow. MANCHESTER, SUNDAY EVENING. In endeavouring to gain some light upon the antecedents of the prisoners Taylor and his wife, the police have obtained possession of some MS. books, chiefly account books, which were among the articles seized the last time the murderer's goods were distrained by the house agent who has fallen a victim to his vengeance. The two prisoner's and their children appear to have lived in as much seclusion from all neighbouring intercourse as was possible for persons engaged in retail business, and, since the closing of their provision shop, their re tirement from all observation was so complete, that inquirers about their character or history were rather misled than answered by contradic tory versions of idle gossip. A statement that the female prisoner is now enciente, whether for the first time or not, is the assertion of neighbours ; and the belief that she is the step-mother of the murdered children seems to rest on a possible conjecture from her appearance and her own declaration that she was 25 years old, while the age of the eldest child was said to be 12. At the funeral of the child who was killed by the explosion of a kitchen boiler, some months ago, the undertaker says there was not a single relative of the prisoners present. By the books above referred to the police have an imperfect trace of the male prisoner's occupation as far back as April, 1860. Nothing of an earlier date is yet known of him here, but the nature of the entries may lead to further in f.rmation Tieing obtained. In the spring of 1860 Wm. Robert Taylor (or as he appears to have inva riably styled himself in business matters, " W. Taylor,") seems to have been a traveller in the south of England for a Mr. P. M. Hadley, for Messrs. Fraser and Thurkettle, and for other persons, ap parently spirit merchants. Among the places named as having been visited by Taylor in his accounts of travelling expenses, are Exeter, Yeovil, Taunton, Sherbourne, and Lyme Regis. Afterwards, for a few months, he must have kept a publichouse at Bide ford, North Devon. One of his books contains the names of persons by whom he was then supplied with liquors ; for instance. " Norman and Wood cock, City Brewery, Exeter, March 4, 1861." The visit of an excise officer is noted, with the date, "April 2 6,1861," in one of "Loftus's Spirit Books! " which is a rul e d account b oo k . N ot hi n g further is known of him before his coming to M a nchester, and when he c ame h as not b een ascertained. . He be lieved to have been living somewhere in the city or the neighbourhood nearly a year ago. Of his wife the only trace is what may be conjectured from a book which appears to have been used originally as an exercise book of some yout hful student in arith metic, whose progress is manifest through addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, when, th e book having been h a lf filled, in the latte r port i on there is an interval of blank pages, and the rest con tains a considerable number of pencil copies of short musical pieces. On the fly-leaf at the beginning is an elaborate and boy-like inscription--" Joseph Giles, 1856." Some pencil notes at the head of each of the sums (which aro in ink) seem to have been written by a feminine hand, and likewise the copies of music; and on a leaf at the end of the book, a female pen in some idle moment has written, among a number of apparently meaningless words and scratches, the following :--" Mi ss M. A. Giles, flatherleigh Farm, near Win maven, Somerset," and A below this three names, placed apart from one anctker :—" Martha Ann Giles," " Mrs. Taylor," "Hannah Mariah Taylor." The Lame peculiar spelli ng appears in the "Haanah Maric,l3. Taylor, 8 years of age," on the papers which were found attached to the bodies of the murdered chil dren. The names and ages on these papers were written in a feminine hand; while the inscription on the other side of each paper, " We are six, &c.,' is in a man's writing, bold, but rather rough. The name of the female prisoner is " Martha Ann" Tay. lor On one page of the exercise book is a rude childish drawing of a building which looks very much like a dissenter's chapel. Along with the books were found what seems to be an old daguer reotype likeness of a man and woman, unknown. THE DARING CASE OF HOUSEBREAK- ING AT TRANMERE. We are glad to state that the whole of the scoun drels who broke into the residence of Mr. John Arthur, Sea Bank Villas, Tranmere, on Wednesday last, and who murderously assailed Mr. Edward Corris, joiner and builder, are now in custody. The third man, who effected his escape at the time his accomplices were captured, was apprehended on Thursday evening, in Chester, by detective-inspec tor Egerton, of the county constabulary, and brought to Birkenhead. He is respectably attired in light cloth clothes, and has the appearance of a " swell mobsman." He gives the name of Stephen William Browning, 22 years of age, and describes himself as a salesman, residing at 52, Mansfield street, London. Yesterday, Browning was brought up before Messrs. Case, Derbyshire, and Younghusband, magistrates, at the Birkenhead police-court.—ln spector Egerton stated that on the previous evening he went to Chester-street, and apprehended the prisoner in Mr. Roberts's Temperance Hotel, Eger ton-street.—James Sarson, assistant car-driver to Mr. Huntriss, of the Rock Ferry Hotel, stated that the prisoner called at the hotel about half-past three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. He appeared to be in a great hurry, and witness drove him in a hansom to the Coach and Horses public house in Chester, where they arrived at 20 minutes past five o'clock. The prisoner did not pay him his fare of £1 4s. 6d., but gave him ls., and after telling the ostler that witness was to be " well done to" said he would return in an hour. Witness waited until half-past nine o'clock at night, and as the prisoner had not then made his appearance he returned to Rock Ferry.—Mr. John Roberts, of the Temperance Hotel, Egerton-street, Chester, deposed that the prisoner and the other two men (whom he had pre viously identified in the bridewell) came to his house on Monday night last and engaged a double bedded room for the week, for which they paid two guineas in advance. On Wednesday morning the three men left the hotel about half-past nine o'clock, and the prisoner returned a little after five in the afternoon. On Thursday the prisoner paid for all they had had to eat. Witness had not the least doubt but that the three men were the persons who took lodging at his house on Monday. —The prisoner stoutly denied that he was in Birkenhead at all on Wednesday, stating that he was at the Chester races all day. He was then remanded until Mon day next, when he will be again brought up with his two accomplices. Mr. Corris is happily recovering, and it is ex pected that he will in a few days be able to leave his house to give evidence against the prisoners.-- Liverpool Mercury. COUN2.RY MdIREL IS. ... JA YORK—MAY 17. We had a small supply of , wheat on offer to-day, and the demand ruled inactive, late prices declining is to 2s per qr. Barley an inactive business, and scarce; former prices were not exceeded. Oats in fair demand, at late prices. Beans at late currences. Wheat, red 56s to 58s Oats.... 22s to 26s White do .60s to 648 Beans 42. , to 44s Barley .32s to —s Peas ....—s to —s Malt, 66s to 68s per qr. ; rye, 34s per qr.; flour, 43s to 44s per sack. LEICESTER-MAY 17. A limited supply of wheat to-dap at market, which sold as follows :—White, 62s to 655; red, 59s to 625; old red, 50s to 578 per 36 stone. Barley was in short sup ply—grinding, 32s to 345; malting, 39s to 42s per qr.; oats, 24s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans were a fair sale—. new, 37s to 40s ; old, 42s to 478 per 38 stone. Fine flour, 45s j Seconds, 420 Thirds, 40s per sack. NOTTINGHAM-MAy 17. --•- At this corn exchange to-day there was a fair attendance of dealers and millers, and an average quantity of wheat shown, but trade ruled very dull at Is under former rates —White, from 60s to 64s ; red, 42s to 60s. Barley was in small show, with a quiet trade; prices barely as high —malting, 37s to 42s ; grinding, 29s to 31s. Oats w ere active, at 30s to 355, old ; 24s to 28s new. Boars were sold at 40s to 50s per qr. Flour, 40s to 435. NORWICH-MAY 17. The supply of wheat at market to-day was fair, with a rather thin attendance of farmers. Sales were very slow, and sold at about is under the prices of last week. Oats, beans, and peas unaltered. Flour 6d to is per sack down. The quantity of barley shown was scanty, and prices were the same as last week. White wheat 57s to 60s I Rod wheat 53s to 56s Malting barley....4os to 41s I Chevalier barley 37s to 40s New do. .. to —s I Oats.. 25s to 30s Flour, 39s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. NORTHAMPTON—MAY 17. A limited supply of wheat to-d a y, an d th e trade was ra ther dull, but prices were the same as last week. Wheat, old, 57s to 60s, and GOs to 62s for superior lots. A good demand for barley, supply short —malting sorts 37s to 425, grinding 30s to 32s per qr. Oats quoted at 22s to 29s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 34s to 40s; peas, 36s to 445. -- - FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Auteoralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. May 19. via Marseilles May 13. .drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. June 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Soulhatnpton May 19. via Marseilles May 13. Falkland Islands June 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton May 19. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. May 26. via Marseilles May 20. Lisbon May 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 14. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo . . U. S. and British N. America, by B r it. p ac k e t May 14. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet May 14. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe May 10. Bahamas, via New York Mexico May 29, All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, California, and British Columbia.. .......... I May 14. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—All kinds of fevers are most successfully treated by purifying the blood and invigorating the nerves. Holloway's Pills happily effect these two objects with celerity and certainty; they cool the system, relax the skin, and mitigate the thirst. They re lieve the head, tranquilise the heart, and induce sleep. Their beneficial action is equally apparent in typhoid and inflammatory fevers ' • these pills extirpate that origin an d root of all fevers--bad blood— and substitute for it a clear renovating health—generating fluid, in face of which no fever can exist. Holloway's incomparable rills increase the appetite and improve the digestion, therefore while repel ling disease, they are really restoring strength, giving tone to the nervous system, and energy to the mind. BIRTHS. HAMMERSLEY.—On the 17th inst., at Kensington-gore, the wife of llugh Haminersley, Esq., of a daughter. HARRISON. —On the 16th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, the wife of Charles Harrison, Esq., of a daughter. RA.DCLYFFE.—On the 16th inst., at Beverley, near Fare ham, Hants, the wife of Charles Edward Radclyffo, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIAGES. HARVEY—LE MARE.—On the 15th inst., at St. John's, Angell•town, Brixton, Henry Harvey, j. Esq,, of Brixton, and G reat Tower-street, to Anne un &i ns, the second daughter of T. Lo Mare, Esq., Brixton. HILL — OwEN.—On the 15th inst., at St. Mary's, Haver fordwest, James Eardly Hill, Esq., eldest son of Sir H. Hill, of 6, Oxford-square, Hyde -park, London, to Alice Booth, eldest daughter of Wm. Owen, Esq., Hormon's llaverfordwest. DEATHS. ' BAKER.—On th e 16th i nst., at Thorngrove,Worcestershire, Samuel Baker, Esq., aged 69. BARCLAY.—On the 16th inst., at 67, Long-lane, Bermond sey, Mr. S amue l Mi l l s Barclay, aged 31. FILLINHAM.—On the 15th inst,, at 8, Hanover-street, Wallworth, John Joseph Ashby Fillinham, Esq., F.S.A, aged 77. OsmoNo.—On tho 16th inst., at 99, Lcadenhall-street, Mr. Robert Osmond, aged 69. PALMER.—On the 15th inst., at Sevington, near Ashford, Kent, Thomas Palmer, Esq., of St. Leonard's-street, West Mailing, aged 43. PARKER.—On the 15th inst., at Brighton, Joseph Parker, Esq.,Tr. O—On the aged 49. PLATT. l6th inst., at Brighton, Samuel Platt, Esq., of Belmont, Wimbledon-park, a magistrate and dep.-lieut. of Middlesex, aged 67. LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Nicidicom--Monclay,..May 191 1862.