The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. 'The report of the directors stated that the revenue account for the half•yeAr ending the 31st January showed that £47,700, or 6s 4d per train mile, had been received, and £17,456, or 2s 51d per train mile, had been expended in working, £325 rent of the Old Meldrum Junction Railway, and £4,932 for in terest and commission on loans, leaving a balance of £24,988, to which was added £3,015, the surplus from the preceding account, making £28,003. From this was deducted £5,532 for dividend on new shares, at the fixed rate of 41 per cent. per annum ; £10,916, the proposed dividend on the preference stock, at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum ; and £10,382, theproposed dividend on the original stock, at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum ; together £26,630, leaving a balance of £1,373. The results of the working afforded a dividend on the preference and original stocks of the company at the rate of 72 per cent. per annum, with a balance of £1,373, as compared with, a dividend at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum and a balance of £1,536 in the corresponding half-year. The working and other expenses amounted to 38 per cent. of the receipts, against 36 per cent. at the corresponding period. A long-pending arbitration between the company and certain traders on the Aberdeenshire Canal had just been concluded. The compensation claimed by tb ose traders, in respect of the closing of the canal during the construction of the railway, amounted to £16,898. The award, including interest and ex penses, amounted to £8,230, which had accordingly been pied. This payment, together with a balance of £1,300 still due by the company to the contrac tors, exhausted the company's liabilities on the ori ginal construction account. The report complained of the hostile course adopted by the Scottish North- Eastern Company in promoting a, bill in the present session of Parliament for authorising a line, about 22 miles in length, from Limpet-mill toKintore, instead of jointly promoting a bill next session for a junction line at Aberdeen to connect the Scottish North- Eastern and the Great North of Scotland railways for the mutual interchange of traffic between the two companies. With a view to protect the interest of the company, the directors had assumed the re sponsibility leasing the Deeside Railway at a rent in perpetuity equal to 6 per cent. per annum, and they also acquired an interest in the Deeside Ex tension Railway to the extent of £30,000. The capital account showed that £995,918 had been ex pended on the company's line and stations, and .£225,622 in the stocks of other railway companies, making £1,221,540, and leaving a balance of £88,077. NORTH BRITISH. The half 'yearly meeting was held at Edinburgh on Friday, Mr. Hodgson in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that the Border Counties section of the North British was now all but com pleted. In the course of a few days the railway extending from Hexham to Bellingham, a distance of 40 miles i would be ready for the inspection of the officer of the Board of Trade; In regard to the Borger Union Railway, a few weeks only were re quired for its completion. It would, he hoped, be ready for opening throughout before the let of May. On the completion of the Border Union the three- , tors would devote their attention to the construc tion of the Langholm branch, the Galashiels and Peebles Railway, and the Wansbeck Railway from Morpeth to Bellingham. He regretted that the bill for a railway to Dunfermline, and thence to Perth, had been thrown out on standing orders. A petition would be presented to the House of Gammons on Monday to allow the bill to be re vived, which he hoped would be successful, as this scheme had the support of the public and would be a bona fide through line. The bill for amalgamation with the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee the directors confidently expected . to carry against th e o p pos iti on o f t h e S cott i s h Central and other companies, seeing that it was exactly in accordance with those principles of amalgamation which Parliament had sanctioned in other cases. The directors had withdrawn their opposition to the amalgamation of the Newcastle and Carlisle with the North Eastern, having satis factorily secured over the Carlisle line open routes and through fares. He anticipated from the nego tiations now in progress more harmonious working with the North Eastern. He concluded by moving the approval of the report. Mr. SPROT, deputy chairman, seconded the mo tion, which was agreed to. tr Resolutions were then adopted, declaring a divi dend at the rate of 6 per cent. on guaranteed stock, 4 per cent. on Jedburgh stock, 3 per cent. on the consolidated stock, and 51 per cent. on the Border Union guaranteed shares ; approving the bills for leasing the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Port Carlisle Dock and Railway to the North Bri tish; and re-electing the retiring directors and auditor. SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The half-yearly meeting was held at Perth on Friday —Mr. Bruce in the chair. The report was held as read. The CHAIRMAN said there was a considerable in crease in the revenue, while other railway companies had deplored great loss of traffic from the depression of trade. The increase during the half •year, com pared with the corresponding period last year, amounted to £5,604, This enabled the directors to declare the largest dividend that the Scottish Cen tral had yet been enabled to pay, and he had great pleasure in announcing to the meeting that they were to pay a dividend of 61 per cent., which was the first time they had turned the corner over 6 per cent. He trusted that this would be satis factory to the shareholders. (Cheers.) He then adverted to the aggressive measure of the North British to promote a line north of the Forth to Perth. This company considered that such a line was not required by the public. They had there fore opposed it with the utmost vigour in their power, and had been so successful as to throw out the bill on the standing orders. Sisce that time an attempt had been made to resuscitate the bill in the House of Commons, but he was happy to say that the house did not see cause to allow the bill to be proceeded with, and therefore the bill was defunct for this session at all events. (Cheers.) The pre sent line to Perth by Burntisland was exceedingly well managed, and there was no occasion for a third line between Edinburgh and Perth. Mr. MACDUFF seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report, which was agreed to. The Marquis of Breadalbane and Mr. Wilson, retiring directors, were re-elected; and Mr. Mac duff and Mr. Falshaw were elected to all vacancies. MONMOUTHSHIRE. The half-yearly hda _. ____ meeting of this company was m. ,,:t .u N t ezvport . on Wednesday, Mr. C. Bailey, T r he l eu4 s tr chair. the satisfae to mAN . congratulated the proprietors, on directors rate of 6 per cent. per annum, the their :ors were enabled to recommend, and said was increasing. They had also a surplus o f £1 L f6 o ' ) This vi , after paying £l,OOO to the re serve fund. vast htraelerho'cioveraeaar' an addition to the 6 per cent. dividend of 183., - r all . ° ,11 1 other words, equivalent to a 7 per cent. dividend, less 2 (Hear.) Resolutions were then passed adopting t the report and declaring the divid en a . se a d . for the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, payable on that, , consi the 6th of April. It was als o dering the prosperous state of th e the income-tb of the officers of the co mpany should be paid for them. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a question, Bad the directors wished to give ever y facility both to th West Midland and to th e London and Nort h - Western Company for running over their line dow n l to Newport ; but the former company wanted other powers as to the erection of stations, which he thought it was not desirable they should have, and which this company should oppose. SCINDE AND PUNJAB. The report of the directors states that every ex ertion had been made by them and their officers to make arrangements for the accommodation and de velopment of the traffic of the Scinde Rail w I Y. During 'the last rainy season the monsoon rains I had set in with unusual severity, and had affected t most injuriously the embankments of the railway, ' which had not been sufficiently consolidated in consequence of the rainfall of the previous seasons having been less than the usual average. The line was opened before it was sufficiently advanced and consolidated, and before an adequate supply of roll ing stock and other appliances had been provided. The amount of the traffic had greatly exceeded the expectations of the officers of the company and of the Government. The directors confidently stated that the Scinde Railway, in its present most imper feet state, did more than pay its working expenses. A viaduct of 1,000 feet in length would connect the railway with Keamaree, the landing-place in the harbour at Kurrachee, and every effort would be made to hasten the completion of this work. The financial statement showed that from the com mencement £1,441,316 had been expended. The interest account showed that £201,126 bad been received, and £199,827 paid to the shareholders, leaving a balance of £1,839. The report on the steam flotilla stated that out of eleven steamers in various states of preparation only one, the Stanley was running on the Indust, and four were ready for service; that seven barges of 150 tons each were afloat, two being towed by the Stanley. The directors had entered into arrangements with the Government for the purchase of the four best steamers of the Government fleet now on the Indus for £45,000, and an application had been made for the transfer to the Indus Steam Flotilla of the workshops and other property at Kotree and elsewhere belonging to Government. The price of the steamers was to be taken in shares or stock of the company. The expenditure on capital amounted for the flotilla to £257,804, leaving an available balance of £26,051. The report of the directors on the Punjab Railway stated that for the sec ti on be tween Lahore and Umritsur, 32 miles in length, much difficulty had been experienced in obtaining an adequate supply of sleepers and ballast for the permanent way, but it was expected that this sec tion would be opened for traffic in the course of this month. With regard to the section from Lahore to Mooltan, 220 miles, the permanent way materials for a distance of 27 miles had been deposited along the line, and there was a further quantity landed at Mooltan, and a still larger quantity ex. petted shortly to arrive there. A portion of the Mooltan section, it was expected, would be opened before the end of the current year, and every effort would be made to have the whole of the line opened for traffic before the close of 1863. The financial statement of the Punjab Railway showed that £940,207 had been expended on it from the com mencement leaving an available balance of £271,157 to the credit of the company. The interest account showed that £100,005 had been paid to the pro prietors, leaving a balance of £1,794 in hand. RAILWAY BILLS. The following fresh committees have been ap pointed, to commence their sittings on the Ist and 3d of April :—A committee, consisting of Mr. Has- Bard (chairman), Mr. Pilkington, Mr. Booth, Mr. Egerton, and Mr. Breen, on the Berwickshire, Bridge of Weir,Great North of Scotland ; Leadburn, Linton, and Dolphinton ; North British, Greenock, and Weymess, and Scottish Northern , and North- Eastern Junction Railways. A committee, consist ing of Mr. Mowbray (chairman), Mr. Kekewich, Viscount Newport, Sir E. Kerrison, and Mr. Ayrton, on the Abbey Holme and Bolton, Maryport, and Carlisle, Carlisle and Silloth, Same and North Bri tish, Furness, North British and Glasgow and South-Western, and North British and Pert Car- lisle Railways. A committee of the House of Lords has also been appointed to inquire into the merits of the following Irish railways :—Newry and Armagh, Waterford and Passage ; Waterford, Limerick, and Ennis ; Great Southern and Western and Limerick and Castleconnel, Dundalk and Enniskillen, and Great Northern and Western Railway of Ireland. RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH. The expedition of the Telegraph to India Cora pany which left this country about two months since for the purpose of repairing such portions of the Red Sea cable as are not too far gone in dilapi dation is, it appears from recent advices, progressing very favourably with the work, and it is hopedthat before long some of the most important sections will bo open to the public. It may be remembered that at the period of the failure of the Red Sea lines some sections were reported to be in comparatively good condition, and it is these portions which Mr. Latimer Clark and his electrical and engineering staff are now endeavouring to restore. This, how ever, is only one of the objects of the expedition, for so disastrous has been the experience of sub marine wires in the Red Sea that it is the inten tion of Sir C. Bright and Mr. Clark, the engineers of the company, to do away with a large portion of the sea route altogether by carrying a land line through Upper Egypt and Nubia along • the banks of the Nile, and thence crossing an arm of the Desert (about 90 miles broad) which separates the Nile Valley from the shores of the Red Sea. Mr. Latimer Clark's applications to the Pasha of Egypt to give this scheme his countenance and protection have been entirely successful, and, as the Pasha himself has a telegraph up the Nile for nearly 700 miles of the proposed route, there seems no doubt but that this important link in the line to India will soon bo completed. With a view to in sure the wires being thoroughly and efficiently pro tected throughout, Mr. Clark, with Mr. Rolfe and several of the Pasha's officers, has been up the Nile to arrange with th e Sh e ik s of the different tribes through which the lino will p ass . Th e confer :.nce with the Sheiks was most successful ' and they are now all pledged to th e protection of the wires. As they have previously been employed by the Viceroy, with great success, in looking after his telegraph, there is no reason to doubt their ability or willingness to do so in the case of the Indian line, especially as they are to be paid for it, and there is no inducement to a Bedouin like a promise of " backsheesh." In the mean time other portions of the expedition have been despatched to examine and report upon that section of the Cossier and Suez line that extends as far as the island of Shadewan, at the entrance of the Straits of Jubal. This portion, from tests taken by Mr. Laws, was supposed to be, if not absolutely per fect, at least in sufficiently good order to be capable of being worked for a considerable time. To corn plete the repairs of this section therefore Mr. Laws, with Mr. Brunton and Mr. Woods, was sent in the Egyptian steam sloop Gabari with a strong working electrical and engineering staff to carry the line as far as Jubal, and open a temporary station there to intercept and forward messages from the Indian mail steamer. The Gabari arrived at the scene of operations on the 14th Feb., when a very cursory examination was sufficient to show that the bottom was of the most unfavourable kind for grappling a cable, as coral reefs abounded on all sides. But before any operations could be undertaken the rough weather which seems to wait upon all telegraph operations set in in earnest, and the Gabari was obliged to retire to the doubtful shelter of the coral reefs to wait for an abatement of the gale. Ton days lapsed howeverbefore the weather mode rated. On the morning of the 24th operations were renewed, and, after a few casts of grapple, the line was hooked, but owing to its having been laid out quite tight it brake iu hauling it to the surface. A buoy to mark the spot was immediately let go, and seen after the end was brought on board from 57 fathoms water, and the lifeboat was sent to recover as much cable as would be sufficient to land the end on the island of Jubal, about five miles distant. The work having to be carried on entirely by manual le.bourond without appliances of any kind, was necessarily slow and difficult, and at dusk the vessel had to be anchored and the end buoyed for the night. It had however been sufficiently long on board to prove w as in for all practical working purposes the ls ) i io good order. So much has been said about the instabilit y t ;,04 olailow water submarine lines laid in compara facet;the raising of this was looked forward t brought to the surfac e ereat interest wi t; yet, when after having been sub jected to the action ri er the coral rocks for three years, r i i ) t ea i aash -i,, e 7 i v aA e: o ( 1 ) : but Qlightl~ altered in outward a loser examina tion showed that in some places tlic w Irea were cor- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1882. *. roded slightly, but still the black coating of mud and oxide with 'which it was covered so closely re sembled tar that it see Ned at the first glans 'sl im possible to believe that the wire had been down more than a few months. The Gabari then con tinued to underrun the line till within a mile and a half of Jubal Island, and the accounts state that it is difficult to imagine anything more beautiful than the mass of zoophytes, of every tint and coloui, which had cased round the whole cable to the thickness of several inches. These being mostly of a soft tenacious nature would tend most materially to preserve the outside iron wires from decay. On the 26th the Gabari underran the shore end of the cable to Cosseir, in order to remove it and lay it to Jubal Island. Though this portion of the line had only been down some 14 months, yet it was found on raising to be completely encased in a protecting sheath of coral and zoophytes. The station on Jubal Island may now therefore be expected to open from day to day, and as the Peninsular and Oriental steamers, both outward and homeward, will call, news can be transmitted in anticipation of the over land mail by at least 12 or 13 days, and the same time saved on messages to India. Mr. Clark and his staff are now at Aden to meet the Sir James Duke, the vessel which has taken out the cable to repair or replace the Indian Ocean section as may found necessary. Though the season for the navi gation of these seas will be far advanced, it is yet hoped that much may be accomplished in the way of effecting through communication with India even this summer. established in this service seven years ago. In the second year of its operation 56 candidates were examined for 20 appointments, it 1861 the ap pointments had risen to 80, and the candidates to 171. One of the qualifications most desirable in competitors was a knowledge of Sanskrit, but that qualification at first was very rare. Out of an aggregate of 295 candidates examined in the first four years of the system, only six so much as professed any acquaintance with the language in question. Last year, however, as many as 36, out of the 171, offered themselves for examination in this subject; and the Commissioners record with satisfaction this marked improvement in special preparation. But there is another point of inte rest which should be mentioned. The successful candidates for these particular appointments are required, after approval, to devote a year to special studies connected with their future duties, and then to present themselves to the Examiners again. Now, so strictly is this supplementary examination conducted that last year a considaable percentage of those who had passed the first ordeal failed in the second, and were refused certificates. The Exami ners profess their due appreciation of general in struction, but they insist upon preparation for official duty as a sine qua non. We notice this fact for the warning and advantage of all con cerned, but it shows clearly enough that the Com petitive System can secure special qualifications as easily as general ability.—Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE,—March 22. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell and a Common Jury.) WALL V. WALL AND WYATT. This was a suit instituted by the husband for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, a solicitor, to which the respon dent pleaded, denying the adultery, recriminated the charge, and also alleged cruelty on the part of her husband. The co-respondent did not appear. Dr. Spicks, Mr. Joyce, and Mr. Serle were coun sel for the petitioner; and Dr. Phillimore, Q.U., represented the respondent. From the • statement of counsel it appeared that the petitioner was the son of a clergyman of the Church of England, and that the respondent was in an inferior station of life. The parties became acquainted while the petitioner was " walking the hospital," and were married in London in June, 1857, the petitioner at the time bein g under a g e. They cohabited in lodgings in University - street until November, 1856, when they separated in con sequence of the misconduct of the wife. The peti tioner allowed the respondent £2 a week until the commencement of the present proceedings, and the Court had awarded the same amount pendente lite. She was frequently visited at Bow by the co respondent, who ultimately took up his residence in the same house. These facts were deposed to in evidence. Dr. Phillimore said that after the testimony of the witnesses called Le could not deny the adultery charged against his client, but he should be able to establish a case of adultery against the petitioner, who had been seen to go home with a woman whom he met at a casino in Oxford-street. Mrs. Lofts, who said that she was a dressmaker, was examined, and said that•she had been employed by Mrs. Wall to make her wedding dress, but this was not until fter the marriage had been solemnised. (Laughter.) She had been asked by Mrs. Wall to look after her husband, and she had seen him dancing with some ladies at a casino. She witnessed no im propriety on his part, and she did not see him leave the casino in company with any female. Dz. Phillimore said he was instructed that the witness would be able to carry the case much fur ther, and under the circumstances he would leave it in the hands of the Court. The jury immediately found a verdict for the petitioner, and the Court made a decree nisi, with costs against the co-respondent. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, March 22. - Creel, COURT. (Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Special Jury.: CLOTHIER V. WEBSTER. This was an action by a baker, at Woolwich against a contractor, under the Metropolitan Board of Works, for injury caused to the plaintiff's oven, through the negligence of the defendant in excut ing certain works for the Board. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Prentice, and Mr. Lucius Kelly, were for the plaintiff; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. J. Brown, and Mr. Crawfurd were for the defendant. The defendant had, in making a sewer, made an excavation under the oven, which had afterwards sunk, so as to require it to be rebuilt, by reason of which the plaintiff was put to expense, and for some weeks disturbed his business, for whichl he claimed between £3O and £4O. The case for the plaintiff was, that this 'was caused by,the mode of making the excavation, which was denied on the part of the defendant. The evidence on that point of course was contradictory, and witnesses were called on the part of the defen• dant to show that every:proper precaution had been taken. Mr. M. Chambers, on behalf of the defendant, submitted that the works had been done in execu tion of the powers of the Act, and that, therefore, the only remedy of the plaintiff was by a proceed ing for compensation under the Act. The Lord Chief Justice—That is so, no doubt, except so far as concerned any negligence in the manner of doing the work, for which the contractor would be responsible. The excavation was made beneath the oven to effect a communication with the main sewer at some distance below. The contract provided for concrete when required by the engineer of the Board, and (in the usual way) specified that all works should be well done, &c., and concrete had been put in so far as required by him, and (as he said) so far as necessary. There was concrete, however, only so far as the crown of the sewer below, and the space above it, up to the oven, was filled up with chalk and clay, the oven being supported upon it by wooden " struts" or beams, There was strong evidence for the plaintiff that the ground had not been filled in tightly and closely under the oven, and had given way, so as to cause it to sink and crack. The clerk of the works was called on the part of the defendant, and stated that, in his judgment, all that was necessary had been done in the way of precaution or care. When pressed as to the cause of the sinking of the oven, he said he could not deny that it might not have sunk by reason of the works, but that no possible means would secure it from sinking (except perhaps a solid stone wall), that even concrete would not have been a perfect security, and that chalk, well rammed in, was as good as concrete. The jury asked if chalk was as good as concrete. The witness said he considered that it was if well rammed. The jury observed that it hardly could be under neath the oven, as the rammer could not be worked. The engineer of the Board, who had charge of the works, said he gave instructions from time to time ,to the clerk:of the works as to what should be done, and he considered that the precautions taken were sufficient, and that all his orders were carried out. He admitted, however, that it was necessary, in order to prevent subsidence of the soil, that the chalk should be very carefully rammed down. When asked en cross-examination how the oven could have sunk, supposing the chalk had been well rammed down, he said it was difficult to account for; it might have occurred from defect of construction, or foundation, or partly from one cause and partly from another ; but ho stated that, with every precaution, it was impossible to prevent such accidents. He admitted that if there had been any thing wrong in the construction of the oven it would have been the duty of the workmen to call attention to it, and that neither he nor the clerk of the works had heard, at the time, that it was so. His opinion, on the whole, was that the work had been done carefully and skilfully. Mr. Chambers, in summing up for defendant, con tended that as the contract required concrete only under the orders of the clerk of the works or engi neers—who were employed by th© Board, and as they were satisfied with what the defendant had done, the maxim of law respondeat superior applied, and that the board alone were liable. The Lord Chief Justice said he should rule other wise, reserving the point. Mr. Chambers then contended, on the evidence for the defendant, that, even assuming that he might in law be liable, he was not liable in fact, for that every possible care had been taken, a nd the chalk was rammed as c los e ly as it could be. Mr. Hawkins, in reply on the part of the plaintiff, contended that the ramming down had been badly done, and that for this the contractor was respon sible. The oven had snnk, and that was the b est proof the wo r k h a d no t been suffigient. Of course, the people who had done the wofle would say they had done it well; but the result was the best test, well filled in. and as tile ground gave way, it could not ha The Lord Chi e f J us ti ce , in summing up th e case -ie been to the jury, told them that if the contractor had been wanting in clue care and skill, he and not the Board would be responsible. The great question was whether the excavation bad been well filled in. And the point was very pertinent, how, if it was •••••••••••••-•••••••••• so, the ground came to give way ? It was for the ' jury to say whether , upon the whole of the evidence thee 'l3a, been a want of reasonable care OT in the filling up of the excavation ? If so, the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict; if otherwise, he was not. The jury consulted for a few minutes, and re turned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £35 Upon hearing this verdict the plaintiff exclaimed aloud, "Righteousness shall reign I"—au exclama tion which caused much laughter. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) LEWIS V. COLE AND ANOTHER. This was an action against the bailiff of the County Court of Tunbridge Wells and his officer, for entering the premises of the plaintiff, a riding master at that place, and taking a horse, under an execution from that court against a third party. The plaintiff had taken the premises of the execu tion debtor, and his name was put upon the livery stables; but the change was not known. When the horse was taken the plaintiff claimed it, and there had been an interpleader summons ; but as plaintiff refused to pay the appraised value into court (as he might have done tinder the County Court Act) in order to liberate the horse, the bailiff sold it under the execution, and paid the proceeds, £l2, into court, to abide the event of the inter pleader summons, which was in favour of the plaintiff, and the money remained in court, and could be taken out by the plaintiff; but had nut been taken out. The value of the horse, however, was £29, and the bailiff had been in possession six days ; and the plaintiff claimed to recover the value, and also compensation for the injury caused by the entry of the bailiff. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Butler Rigby were for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Shea and Mr. Honyman for the defendants. Mr. Justice Wightman ruled that the plaintiff could not recover in respect to the horse, since,under the County Court Act (passed in protection of the bailiffs), he could have liberated the horse by pay ing the value into court to abide the event of the interpleader summons, and could now take the amount of the proceeds out of court. Mr. Chambers—That is, take out £l2 out in satisfaction of a horse worth £29. Mr. Justice Wightman said the law was so. Mr. Chambers, in reply, contended that, at all events, his client was entitled to recover compensa tion for the injury which must have been done to him in his business by the presence of two bailiffs on his premises for six days. Mr. Sergeant Shee, on the part of the bailiffs, urged that they had merely made a mistake. The learned Judge, in summing up the case to the jury, said the bailiff was placed in a position of dif ficulty ; for he was bound to execute the warrant, and could not know whose the horses were ; and, whether the premises were the plaintiff's or not, he would be bound to take any property on the pre mises which belonged to the execution debtor. As, however, the horse was not the debtor's the entry into the stables could not strictly be justified ; and the question was what damages the plaintiff had sustained by reason of that entry. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—da mages, £lO. The learned Judge gave the plaintiff leave to move to increase the damages by the value of the goods, less the sum paid into the court (the county court) which the plaintiff was at liberty to take out of court. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--YORK, March 21 (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) GARRETT V. CROWE. Mr. S. Temple, Q.C.,and Mr. T. P. E. Thompson were for the plaintiff; Mr: Overend, Q.C., and Mr. C. Newton for the defendant. This action, for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter, was commenced yesterday, when Harriet Garrett stated that she was the daughter of a farmer lately residing at Middleton-on- the- Wolds, in the East Riding, was 24 years of age, and the eldest of seven children ,of whom two were sisters, whose ages were 17 and 7 respectively, and that she had known the defendant all her life. Daring the last 10 or 12 years letters and newspapers had come for the defendant to her father's house, which had brought him there three or four times a-week. In 1855 the defendant promised her marriage, and thereupon his visits became more frequent, though their purpose was not communicated either to her father or her mother until three years later, at which time he was looked upon by them and re ceived as a suitor. In October, 1860, an inter course took place, which resulted in the witness being delivered of a child on the 4th of July, 1861. On her informing the defendant of her condition, so soon as she knew it, she was told he could not before 18 months marry her in consequence of not being in possession of his property. In May the witness sent for him, he having lately discontinued his visits , and she ask ed him what she should do, and on his telling her they could not be married, she threatened to affiliate her child upon him. At his next visit an offer of £lO a-year was made by him, and by witness and her mother rejected. Subsequently the defendant and his sister called and saw witness and her mother, when the defendant denied the child was his. The witness admitted on cross-examination that she had never walked out with the defendant or spoken to his brother or sister, or even in his pre sence to any one, in reference to their intended marriage, and that at the interview, when the de fendant and his sister came, she " had not thought to tell" of his having promised her marriage. She further denied all familiarity with a number of young men about whom she was questioned. On re-examination, the witness stated it was the defendant's wish to keep their engagement a secret from his sister. The father of the girl was called and stated, the letters of the defendant received at his home related to betting transactions, and the newspapers to sporting matters, which the defendant was anxious shoald not be known to his sister. It further ap peared in the evidence adduced in support of the plaintiff's case that neither the father nor the mother had ever spoken to the defendant on the subject of the defendant's marriage with their daughter. Augusta Witty, the girl's cousin, stated she had once seen the defendant with Harriett on his knee, and regarded him as her cousin's suitor. The defendant was this morning examined in support of his case, when he stated that the letters which ho went to see at the plaintiff's house had re lation to transactions in which he and the plaintiff went halves, and that hehad never kept those trans actions a secret from his sister, that he had been an overseer and was now churchwarden, and for the last 14 years had been a parish officer. Had not gone to the plaintiff's to see Harriet. Had never courted the young woman, nor promised her mar riage. She had never sat on his knee, nor had he had intimacy with her, or taken indecent liberties with her ; that the subject of marriage had never been discussed ; that his first intimation of the girl's condition came from his sister on the 19th of June, when he went to confront the girl and question her respecting the report. The defendant's sister was also examined as to her knowledge of the betting transactions, and as to what took place at the inter view between her brother, herself, and the plaintiff's wife and daughter, when the daughter declared that if she should drop down dead the child child was the defendant's, and Mrs. Garrett had observed that Mr. Crowe had never acted as if he were going to marry, and that she (Harriet) was a fool. Some other witnesses were called, who de posed that the girl had represented that she had not given way to Mr. Crowe before December last. After addresses from the counsel, and a careful summing-up by the learned judge, the jury, after an absence of about an hour, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £4OO. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—DERBY, March 22. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams,) George Flint, a surgeon, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with shooting at Jane Flint, his wife, on the 19th of September last, with intent to kill and murder her, There were also other counts, varying the charge. Mr. Huish conducted the prosecution, and Mr. F. Stephen the defence. The prisoner had carried on a respectable practice as a surgeon in Buxton for some years, but lived very unhappily with his wife, and addicted himself to drinking. On Sept. 19 he went to his brother's house and borrowed a gun, which at first the brother refused to let him have, as the prisoner seemed to be in a state of very great excitement, whether from drinking or not the witness could not say. The prisoner said that he wanted it to shoot a cat, and that he must have it. He loaded the gun with a small charge of small shot, and took it with him. On his way to borrow it he met a man named Wheldon whom he told he was going to "shoot Jane." He was afterwards seen standing opposite his own door with the gun in his hand, and his wife was running away from him. When she was turn ing the street corner, about 20 yards from him, he pointed the gun at her and fired, wounding her very slightly with some of the shots. Thq only question raised by the learned counsel for the defence was as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time, which, it was contended, was such as rendered him irresponsible for his acts, and incap able of the criminal intent charged against him. The cross-examination elicited that his wife's mis— conduct had caused him great unhappiness, that she had used great violence towards him, and that over since the act he had been shut up in a madhouse. The facts that he had loaded only one barrel of the gun, which was double-barrelled ; that he bad put so small a charge into it ; and had fired it; not in COMPETITIVE E.XANINATIONS. The utility of Competitive Examinations has now been so generally recognised that comparatively little interest attaches to statistics on the subject. We are unwilling, however, to allow the Seventh Report of the Civil Service Commissioners to pass without notice, inasmuch as it furnishes incidental information on one or two points which were brought prominently forward at earlier periods of the controversy. Perhaps at this time of day it would be unnecessary to do more than recite the objections which were once urged against the scheme, of filling public appointments, not by favour, but according to the merits of the candidates. Some refuted themselves, others were obviously as applicable to the old system as to the new one, while those which appeared to carry greater weight have since been pretty well disposed of. We were told that these prizemen -would be so conceited with their success as to be insubordinate and impractica- ble, though it was obvious that, if this argument was valid in the case of the Civil Service, it was valid in all cases. Promotion for merit's sake should be eschewed, not only in Government offices, but in all other departments and professions, and advancement should be confined exclusively to the undeserving, who, being conscious of their unworthiness and want of claims, might be grateful for favour and obedient accordingly. It was said, again, that no managers of a private establishment would put the places of their clerks up to competition, though it ought to have been remembered that in a private establishment self-interest supplied motives for vigilance and inquiry which were lacking in public departments. We were further told that the quali- ties most desirable in a candidate did not admit o certification ; but, if that was the truth, the patron was just as helpless as the examiner, and there was, at any rate, nothing lost. More plausible objec tions, however, were taken on moral grounds. It was alleged that a candidate might be a proficient in all the branches of learning required, and might yet be impeachable in respect of character. A clever but dissolute man, for whose integrity no one would vouch, might be thrust into the public service, to the great detriment of the State; or a weak and sickly youth, exhausted by excessive study and precocious development, might be charged with duties for which he was practically unfit. Of course, it was easy to reply that these objections also were applicable to both systems alike, and that a patron was as likely to over look disqualifications, as an Examiner, and, in deed, more so, since his decision was notoriously based upon favour. In some way or other, how ever, it was believed or pretended that Examiners either would not or could not take cognisance of these collateral qualifications, and that whereas a patron would be able to survey the whole case, an examiner would confine, himself to book learning only. We need only turn to the report before us to see the fallacy of these assumptions. To what ex tent the test is applied in the case of competition for particular situations we are not informed, but that health and character can be inquired into, and that this inquisition has been effectually made is clear from some brief statistics given concerning non-competitive examinations for certificates only. Of the whole number of applicants for these diplomas since 1855, upwards of 10,000 received certificates, while nearly 3,000 (2,733) failed to obtain them. But of these 2,733 rejections, it ap pears that 287—that is more than 10 per cent.— were based on defects of health or character. The Commissioners even add some remarks upon the subject. " The task, they say, "of inquiring into the character of candidates is by no means an easy one, and cannot bo satisiactorily performed with out the most confidential intercourse between those on whom the duty of deciding is imposed." There is no doubt of this ; but would the task have been any easier when it was performed by a patron ? Most readers know the difficulty attending all inquiries into character. It seems so hard to stand in the way of any candidate for employment that testimonials are seldom refused, and bad characters rarely given. We should infer, indeed, from the words of the Commissioners, that they have been rather successful than otherwise in. obtaining this kind of evidence, since they seem desirous of defending themselves against the charge of severity. " Although," they say, "it is our anxious desire to do justice to the candidate, we feel that the State has a right to the service of persons to whom lie reasonable suspicion attaches, and that the Order in Council which re quires proof, satisfactory to us, of the good charac ter of the candidate, rests upon the soundest princi ple." We need not add our assent to these proposi tions, withone class of candidates can be done with all, and that if the State can thus gain the services not only of well-educated men, but of men to whom " no reasonable suspicion attaches," the competitive system must be answering its purpose at every point. Another well-known objection to these examina tions was based upon the details of the examinations themselves. Certain critics took the questions proposed, applied them to the actual duties of the situations competed for, and turned the scheme into ridicule by contrasting the qualifications ex pected with the every-day work of the office. The simple truth was that, if there was any fault at all in this point, it rested, not with the system of ex amination, but with our system of education. A test of knowledge can only be applied with reference to presumed instruction. What examinations test is proficiency—that is to say, attainment of knowledge deliberately sought. The best scholar is he who has made the greatest progress in the studies of the school, and it is in these studies only that his pro gress can be tried. If the examiners did anything absurd in asking a candidate for a clerkship to answer questions in history and geography, the absurdity was commenced in the schools where his tory and geography were taught. If these studies are utterly useless in the work of every-day life, they should never have been pursued. The Examiners, in short, simply took the ordinary branches of learn ing as taught in schools, and inquired into the progress which the candidates had severally made. It was a perfectly reasonable conclusion that the lad who by his intellect or his industry had done best at school would do best afterwards, and that if he possessed the greatest amount of the in for mation usually communicated, he possessed the greatest amount of the knowledge generally found useful. The Commissioners, however, distinctly show in their last report that their attention is also fixed upon the sp ec i a l qualifications which par ticular offices may require, and we select the ex ample of the Indian Civil Service 11S one of the most i m portant. The systom of Compeiitive Eznininations was the house, house, but in the public street, when his wife I had turned the corner, were urged as showing that the illit49nEr di' not entrtnin the intent charged. Lord6llip having summed up, The jurT returner a verdict of guilty of unlawful wounding, and the prisoiipr was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. POLICE" IN2'ELLIGENCB,-111arch 22. MANSION-HOUSt.---On Saturday the public subscription at this court towards the relief of the wide= and families of the men who perished in the Hartley Colliery was brought to a close. It had then amounted to £20,435 13s. 11d. in the whole, including a small amount of interest on part of the money vyhich had been placed at a banker's at call. Of that sum £2,000 was some time ago sent to the local committee at "Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and by the pdst of Saturday evening the Lord Mayor forwarded to the Mayor of that town £17,967 8s 9d, the re maining balance, after deducting £468 5s 2d paid for advertisements, less a small sum for office work. There is no example, in the recollection of any one connected with the Mansion-house, of so large a sum having been sent there for any purpose of charity, or to mitigate the deplorable effects of a calamity, except in the cases of the Indian mutiny and the Indian famine, which were of Imperial rather than of local concern. For duration also, and for its spontaneous and universal character, the fund is equally without a parallel, On the 25th January, just after the fate of the 200 men and boys bad been revealed to the public in all its horror, the subscrip tion began here by a working man sending a shil ling to the Lord Mayor. In less than three days afterwards it amounted to nearly £2,000, and it went on accumulating day after day, as much as £1,600 and upwards having often been received in a single day—until it rose in round numbers to £20,400, in less than two months—a remarkable in stance of public sympathy and generosity spontane ously evinced on the occasion of a heartrending cala mity. In that feeling every class of the metropolitan community, including in some eases the poorest per sons, appears to have participated. The great mass of the donors and sympathisers, however, were of the middle and labouring classes. Merchants' and bankers' clerks, shopmen of all classes, people living by all kinds of manual and skilled labour, private families, public and private schools, and domestic servants made up the great bulk of the subscribers, and the result stands out as a memorable exemplifi cation of public benevolence. For full two months the Mansion-house has resembled nothing so much as a banking establishment ; a room had to be set apart for this special business, and a vast amount of labour and responsibility devolved upon two of the officers of the court, Mr. Pickering, the cashier, in particular, and Mr. Sewell, the swordbearer. GUILDHALL.—Anthony Dutlein, who recently absconded from the service of Alderman Wilson, taking with him a valuable set of scientific instru ments, a new suit of clothes, and £l2 lOs in money received on his master's account, was brought up for final examination relative to two charges of em bezzling £l2 lOs and £5, and a third charge of forging Alderman Wilson's name to a receipt for £5. The prisoner pleaded guilty to all the charges, and was then committed for trial. Louisa Wood, aged 49, was charged with annoy. ing and assaulting Mr. Robert Summers, a solicitor, of 5, New Bridge-street. Mr. Summers said, about 18 months ago the prisoner met with an accident on the premises of the Commercial Dock Company, and instructed him to bring an action against them for negli gence. The jury ultimately awarded the pri soner £2BO damages, subject to the decision of the full Court upon a point of law which was reserved. The full Court gave their decision against the pri soner, but they thought, as she had been put to great expense in the actions, and the company had not given her earlier information of their non liability, the directors ought to allow her something towards her costs. The company accordingly granted her £lOO, which was paid over to him (Mr. Summers) ; after deducting a sum of £B2, that being much below what the taxing-master would have allowed, he offered the prisoner the balance of £lB, but she said she would have all or none, and instructed a solicitor to recover the whole of the £lOO for her. He made out his bill of costs, and sent it to the solicitor, and beard no more from him ; but in the meantime the doctor who attended the prisoner for the injuries she received through the accident, not having been paid, sued out an attachment in the Lord Mayor's Court, and the balance, £lB, was in consequence paid over, so that he had nothing now belonging to the prisoner. She however, persisted in annoying him by frequent demands for the £lOO, sometimes remaining in the office for four or five hours at a time, and telling every client who came in that he would be swindled, as she had been, and at other times yelling and screaming at the clerk in such a manner as to obstruct the whole business of the office. On Saturday morning she came to the office, and on being removed assaulted Mr. Sum mers and broke his spectacles. The prisoner produced the newspaper report to show that £lOO was to be paid to the plaintiffs by the defendants, and that Mr. Suriimers had never offered her a farthing. Sir F. G. Moon required the prisoner to find two sureties in £lO each to keep the peace for six months, and in default committed her to prison. BOW-STREET.—Mr. Benjamin Hotine, a fish monger in Lime-street, Leadenhall-market, was brought up in custody of Sergeant Wallis, of the detective force, upon a warrant charging him, under the Act Gth and 7th William IV., for the registra tion of births, deaths, and marriages, with having made false statements of the particulars required by that statute to be stated to the registrar with reference to the registration of the birth of a child. The prosecution had been instituted by the soli citors to the Treasury, on the advice of the Attorney- General. Mr. Clerk appeared as counsel for the Crown, and the prisoner was defended by his soli citor, Mr. Skegg. In July last the prisoner sued as a petitioner in the Divorce Court for a dissolution of his marriage, in November, 1838, with Mary Anne Sanders. In that petition he alleged that his wife had left him in 1839, and had since been living in adultery with a person named Foxhall, the co-respondent. The Queen's proctor intervened in that suit, alleging that the petitioner had himself been living in adul tery for 20 years. Hotine then applied for and obtained permission to withdraw his petition. From the evidence in support of the intervention of the Queen's proctor it appeared that the defendant (then petitioner) had kept as his wife a woman named Robins, by whom he had six children, born respectively in the year s 1844, 1848, 1851, 1853, 1855, and 1857, all of whom he had registered as legitimate children. In each instance the entry in the registration-book contained the following par ticulars, the information being given by the priso ner, and the entry signed by him—that the father's name was Benjamin Hotine, and the mother's name Sophia Hotine, formerly Robins. These were the particulars required by the Act, and any misstate ment of those particulars was, under the same Act, visited with the pains and penalties of perjury. Mr. Clerk urged that at the time when the prisoner made these statements to the registrars he must have been well aware that the mother of the chil dren could not properly be described as Sophia Hotine. Formal eN-dence was given of the registry by the prisoner of the births of the six children in the abovementioned years in various parts of the metro polis, the registration-book being produced by the superintendent registrars of the districts, and the particular entries being proved by the registrars of the sub-districts. The prisoner's affiJavit above referred to, in which he deposed to his marriage with Mary Anne Sanders in 1838, to her leaving him in 1839, and to certain particulars relating to her cohabitation with Mr. Foxhall, was also put in. Richard Carter, a journeyman fishmonger, who was in the prisoner's service from 1857 to 1859, proved the handwriting of the prisoner's signatures to the various registrations and to the affidavit were Mr. Skegg contended t hat the proceedings too late. The prosecution ought to have been in stituted within three years of the commission of the alleged offence. It was true that there was no such restriction in the 6th and 7th of William IV., cap. 84, the Registration Act, under which these proceedings were taken ; but in the Marriages Act, 6th and 7th William IV., cap. 85, the Act imme diately preceding, and passed on the same day, there was a provision in section 44 that this Act was to be taken with the Reg is t r ation Act, cap. 86, and that the two were to be read as one Act, as if they had been incorporated; and in section 41 was a provision that all p roceedin gs must be taken within three years. He hel d that this provision must apply to the Registration Act, under which This question beforehad Lord Camp bell in the eh these proceedings were taken. b ee n raised by Sir Fitzroy Kelly " The Queen against Lord Dun jpb u o o ri y yn n t e ,o n ; p ' rtbfeue case a facts saiLordnectg first osf of Campbell a t h m et po case a e t sa l e l k ;ehatidienoot opinion ndeodf thethe acquitted Lord Dunbovno o n talincidm, as e thets there jury had a d been no decision o n the point of law. Mr. Clerk tho ug ht the. magistrate would hardly decide upon the do u btf ul point which had been so ably and ingeniously argued by Mr. Skegg. The incorporation c l ause was no t in the second Act, but only in the first, and though, from the portion of the clause which Mr, Skegg had read, it might Le supposed to apply to both, the latter part of the clause_ say, bore a contrary interpretation, for it went on to " and the provisions of the said Act (the Registration Act) shall be applied to this Act (the I,,, llarriages Act)," but it did not say " the prod- ....46. ""' sions of this Act (the Marriages Act) shall be a,"' plied to that Act (the Registration Act.)" M. Currie thought if Lord Campbell haa. considered the point to be so clear as Mr. Skegg-,- contended he would have stopped the case. But Lord Campbell reserved the po int and took th e o pinion of the jury on the facts. If Lord Campbell would not undertake to decide the point, neither should he (Mr. Currie). He should commit the soner for trial, and this question would be disposed. of by the judges. Tie should comm it uret th ies o f prisonerf 1100 for trial, but would takc bail in two s each, and his own recoguisances of £2OO. Two sureties satisf ac tory to the prosecution wer e provided, and the prisoner w i ts liberated. MARLBOR OUGH-STREE'f.— One guinea has been received for Camilla Rose frem " H. R., a Rus sian," which wiii be given to hel• with the other subscriptions when Arrangements are completed for sending her back to Brazil. --- MARYLEBONE.—Eci ward Villiers Crotty, re a - biding at 3, Oakley - terrace , Chelsea, appea hreatened red on sum mons to answer the charge of having t to pubiish a scandalous and defamatory libel upon a widow lady. Mr. Mansfield committed him fo:r trial Oil both charges, allowing bail, himself in £l,OO O , and two sureties in £5OO each. WORSHIP - STREET.—John Lyons And Wra. ed Tremlett, the first a well know n thief, were charg on suspicion of having been concerned in a robbery., Mr. Thos. Shapcott, the p rosecutor, stated that he is a professor of music, residing in Pakingt6n street, Islington. Wishing to see a little East-enol life he, accompanied by a friend, at about half-past one irk the morning of Saturday, entered A public house called the Holy Well, in Shorediteh. thebar.T he found the two pri soners standing at Lyons said to him , wit hout being spoken to, "I know a man who will fi g ht you,' and witness modate re plied, " Well, lam perfectly willing to accom him or any other man." A third man then re t m s was orate that there were blackleg s present, and as hi evidently intended for wit ness and his friend, he knocked that man down. As s oon as he had done so the prisoner Lyons rushed forward, pulled him Off his antagonist, got his arm round his neck, and tried: to gouge out one of his eyes. The witness how ever, got colt of the h ouse with his friend.' Orr reaching the street he found that he had lost his scarf-pin from his neck, which he had seen from the looking-glass safe a few totesminues bef was ore, and which he attached much value the gift of a friend whom he should never see again. He lost no other property.. Going out with the ob ject ho had in view, he had put his gold watch, chain, and money carefully into his bootfor safety. as, in fact, ho always did when at andou would btful of the company he was likely to meet, lie placed the pin there too if it had struck him as likely to be stolen, for he would have much sooner lost his watch and. chain. In the street he stiw Tremlett, whom he warned not to follow him. AS he felt heated and excited, he and his friend then went to another house to procure some lemonade. On going into the secondhe f ound the two prisonere in conversation, and, feeling satisfied then that there was complicity between them, he gave them both into custody. A constable of the N division proved a forma conviction of Lyons for felony, when he was sea - tented to six months hard labour. Mr. Mapleson, the landlord of the house, descritca Tremlett, as a quiet, inoffensive man. The prosecu tor was boastful of his prowess, and said that he had come from the country, and wanted to see life as it was at the East End. The witness advised him his to take care of his property , and in particular f gold spectacles, or he would be likely to lose thews but he would not take his advice. Mr. Knox said as Tremlett was unknown to the police, he would accept his recogaisances for hi) future appearance, but the ease was different with Lyons, whom he should order to be remanded with -4.. bail. COUNTRY MA.RKLY)S". - ------ LEICESTEJI—MA.ncs 22. The supply of wheat today at market was mided'' 6IN linZ't and fresh-thrashed parcels were g enerally in poor o, tion ; trade dull, and late prices is do n• White 63s to w red, 53s to 63s per 3 6 stone. Barley' as t in 38s pe rates: fair sup , ply—grinding, 30s to 32s ; malting, gs o at former r qr.' oats, 25s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans new, 35s to 4-0 s:; old, 43s to 48s . per 38 s tone. Fine flour, 45s I Seconds, 43s 1 Thirds, 41s per sack. NORWICH—MARCII 22. 9.0 Wheat to-day was in compa rativel y limited supply' .. for the best samples the prices of l ast week were fully 11.11,0 tained ; inferior parcels were at a slight decline. __ ee l) qua ntity of barley was very sm all, and late prices " supported. Oats scarce. Beans and peas slow. 6 to - „,. AO 4 White wheat...... 59 s to 63s I Red wheat 55s to 3 u r Malting barley.... 36 s to 38s I Chevalier barley 0 New d 0...... .... — s:t o —s I Oats.. 25P to 30$ Flour, 40s Od to 41s Od per sack from the miller. NOTTINGHAM—M./atm 22. and There was again a scarce show of wheat to-daY , — Dr the trade ruled quiet—good samples at former rates 1 3 " 0 . sorts is cheaper—white, from 63s to 67s ; red, 42s to, Malting barley in good demand-34s to 39s ; grindinto to 31s. Oats were slow, at 26s to 355. Beans Were P ° at 38s to 50s per qr, Flour, 38s to 445. YORK--MAncx 22. We had a very small supply of wheat to-day from th„ e glowers. Trade dull, and previous rates declined ls. ' 0 moderate business was doing in barley, and, with a scar u _ supply, prices were a shade over last week's rates. Data t; limited sale, and former prices barely supported. Beaus dull trade, at about former currencies. Wheat, red 56s to 60 s O ats .... 228 to 246 White do Barley .60s to 64s Beans ....... 428 to 44: .32s to 37s Peas ......... .... --s to - -- 3 , Malt, 66s to 68s per qr.:; rye, 34s per qr,; flour: 3 to 45s per sack. $ FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. '. IS , Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... Aprii i ‘r,, via Marseilles ......... April ;: ilrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ....... April L . , April i,. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. April 4 via Marseilles ...April 4. Falkland Islands .. April 6. ............. _ _,. Gibraltar, via Southampton ...... India (Calcutta), sad Ceylon, via Southampton.. April •,i, -- via Marseilles ....Mar. 2v", P. India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ Mar. ~ via Marseilles ................ April 1 Lisbon Mar. --- e , Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. „ - 'l',' via Marseilles Mar. ."' April 'I" Newfoundland .' Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet Mar. :0' by U.S. packet W.C. of Africa, M- adeira, and T ' by Canadian vacket.Mar. 1: enernle Bahamas, via New York . . Apra . 1. Mexico .. mar. 31 ' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 . wf r. 31 ' California, and British Columbia.. i --fi .... April ilo. GREATYARMOUTFI, Friday.—lt has been blovireg hard last night and to-day, with much damage to s hipPO . 04 The brig Sarah Bell, of Arundel, was lost, with all ho t on the North Sand. To - night the wind has soinevo abated, but the weather is somewhat coarse and wild. z .,.1 80 [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Holloway's Pills.—Deterni...-„,t hi) of Blood to the Head, and Diseases of the Heart public public is constantly shocked by the immense number °,7 sudden deaths. These catastrophes originate from 0 0° , 0 irregularities of circulation, which g enerates disturboloa in the head and heart. Holloway's Pills are widely 11 '.. and everywhere esteemed for purifying the fluids, ancl,,';,, gulating the flow of the blood. They Rrevent palpitati v ia o oppression at the chest, and determination of blood to 1 4. . head; and they effectually remove congestion of the 1 1113 b - 4 liver, kidneys, and brain, by proportionally the blood to every organ. Holloway's Pills shoula,, taken without delay when feelings of faintness, giddit'Ablp turbance in the digestion, circulation, or respiration, distribue.,lll drowsiness, or other derangements warn us of some u' c li. of vital importance. -.1 BIRTHS. ATwooD.—On the 22d inst., at Blackman-street, South' wark, the wife of J osep h S. Attwood, Beg., of a so l 'o e . BLAKE.—On the 21st inst.,' at 13, Princes-square, 1 , 7 11 1 v, park, W. the wife of Colonel C. S. Blake, C.B . f of a daughter. SOMERS.—On the 20th inst., at 173, City-road, a. Lawrence, of a son. Louth, tile VILLIERS.—On the lotn inst., at Bishopwearml Lady Victoria Villiers, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ,_„ r el3l DOUGLAS—BUGG.-0 11 the 20th inst., at the parish otrofa' Spalding, William Douglas, Esq., Coldstream, to P, d ip't,7 bath, eldest daughter of Henry Bugg, Esq., SO' Lincolnshire. „ t il MILLER—EvANs.—On the 29th inst., at Edgy ooth Church, Warwickshire, Lieut.-Colonel Miller, latc/ the Hussars, to Sarah Dorothy, only surviving child pir late Thomas Moore Evans, Esq., of Wa rsaw a mingham. DEAT HS. T v roe BEAVAN.—On the 17th inst., at R oc he s t er , Thomas ' -9 Beavan, M.D , aged 54. ~,,o v i BROWN n, the 20th inst., at Ramsgate, Barth° l° „ — „ of Brown, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, eldest 8— B. T. Brown, Esq., of the former place, aged 25.0tt1 • e tly HART.—On Ile Ist inst., Francis TTari, ,Esq., o f ic ham, aged 87. Stoic ° HAnvEr. —On the 1 8 th i nst., Mr. William Harvey, Newington, and Monkwell-street, city, a ged 6 0 . ,:,. si. SEWELL.—On the 13 t h inst., at Florence , General o" Sewell, K.C.8., Colonel ofil.M.'s 79th Regt. , An lil t° TOMPSETT.—On the 21st inst , Eleanor relict oi ~,..- ... John Tornpsett, Esq. , solicitor, o f ii„tings, SUSSe>' aged 69. __.---•—•!---- AFL °' LONDO N : Printed and Palished by JOHN CU,o. 11.2, o f No. 112, Stra nd , Printer, at 'DIE SUN OiliC e, Of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C"‘" . Aliddleoez,—MvAday, Mira, 24 1562, ' . ' ' ) , i 1 , • I 1 1 / i 1 4., ‘,