The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-04 00:00:00

THE NA VY. _ The Vesuvius, 6, paddle, Commander R. G. Douglas, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning for North America and the West Indies, by the Needles passage. The Rhadamanthns, paddle, Master Commander Sturdee, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for Woolwich after discharging machinery for the ves sels fitting in the port. The Curacoa, screw frigate, Captain Augustus Phillimore, took out her lower masts in the old fitting basin at Portsmouth yesterday, and will be paid out of commission to-day. Orders have been received at Portsmouth to mount the large smooth-bore gun, known as the Horafall gun, now lying just above high water mark, on the beach near So'ithsea, half buried in sand and shingle, for the purpose of testing its powers upon iron plates. Commander Lysaght, R,N., her Majesty's ship Fic. , gard, flag ship of Wool w i c h d oc k yard, yesterday made arrangements at the Royal Arsenal pier for the mooring of the yacht belonging to his Highness Said Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, who is hourly ex pected. The Pasha and the principal personages of his suite will sleep on board during the three nights the yacht will be moored at Woolwich. The work of rigging and fitting the Racoon, 21, 400-horse power, is being hurried forward at Chat ham dockyard by all the available hands that can be spared from the Royal Oak, 51, and the other vessels building and fitting, and every exertion is uai.A to have her in readiness to be commissioned Within a month or six weeks, in order to convey his Royal Highness Prince Alfred on a cruise to the principal ports of Europe. By direction of the Admiralty the Racoon is to be fitted with two of the newly-invented machines for firing 24-pounder rockets. The 40-pounder Armstrong . gun employed for some time past in. Woolwich Arsenal in testing a new species of vent pieces, and loaded with a double proof charge of powder and shot, has at length yielded to the tremendous concussion and burst, the 'whole of the coils behind the trunnions having been shattered into fragments. The Black Prince iron frigate is filling up her coal bunkers alongside Poresmouth dockyard, and has a large number of bands still employed upon het completing her fitment and rig. H er pennan t of commission has not yet been hoisted. Her re duced bowsprit is in its position and fitted. With the bowsprit-cap scarcely reaching to the lower edge of the Prince's tunic, it becomes mere burlesque to call such a stick a " bowsprit." This reduction of the spar was intended to ease the ship in a sea way, but it has been carried out to the extreme. A removal of the foremast further aft would have been a far more effectual measure for easing the "pitch" of the ship, and would have improved her general appearance. THE ARMY. A circular memorandum has been received at Chatham garrison from the Horse Guards, announc ing that there will shortly be six vacancies to be competed for by candidates desirous of entering the normal school for the training of military school masters. Only non - commissioned officers will be allowed to compete, and all candidates must be unmarried, and under 25 years of age. Yesterday, besides the scientific section of the Japanese mission, several foreign officers of distinc tion visited the Royal Arsenal, accompanied by General Sir Richard Dacres, Major Milward, Major Shaw, and other officers of Woolwich garrison. Among them were the Marquis d'Andigne, Military Attache to the French Embassy in London; Gen. Goyon, late commanding the army of occupation at Rome; and several Russian, Swedish, and Swiss officers of high rank. PRINCE ALFRED AND THE CHANNEL FLEET. The Revenge, 90, bearing the flag of Rear-Ad miral Smart ; the Trafalgar, 90; the St. George, ieei ; the Emerald, 61 ; the Chanticleer, 11 ; and the Porpoise gunboat still remained yesterday in Great Yarmouth Roads, although the squadron is ex pected to quit the roadstead some time to-day. Prince Alfred has remained as retired as possible, although the townspeople have evinced every desire to make a lion of him. On Monday it transpired that two officers and a youth had left by train for Norwich, and although they travelled with second class tickets, it was supposed that this was done with a view to maintain a strict incognito. A rumour, founded on these facts, that Prince Alfred intended to visit old Norwich, reached that city long before the train conveying the supposed dis tinguished passenger, and the municipal authorities straightway bestirred themselves to make some suitable demonstration in his honour. A hospitable canon of the Cathedral, presuming that the Prince would visit that venerable edifice, went to the length of preparing a recherche lunch, but the Mayor, more cautious, telegraphed to Yarmouth to ascertain the truth of the reported visit. The reply was that the Royal stranger was still in Yarmouth, and of course the Mayor profited by his prudent inquiries. it had come, however, to be generally bruited about in Norwich that the Prince had actually visited the city, and hundreds went down to the Cathedral in the delusive hope of finding him there. All the while the object of this eager watchfulness was at Yarmouth, where he lunched with Mr. Manners Sutton at 3, Kimberley-terrace, afterwards visiting, at Trafalgar-house, Mrs. De Carlo, a relative of his tutor, Mr, Onslow. When ever his Royal Highness appeared in the streets ho was followed by an attendant crowd, and on more than one occasion the enthusiasm found vent in irrepressible cheering. Even up to half-past Bin the evening, when he embarked from the Britannia pier for the St. George, his Royal Highness had to endure those well-meant attentions. Yesterday morning he remained perfectly retired. The Ad miral of the squadron and a numerous party of offi cers were present at a ball at the Town-hall on Mon day evening; but the Prince, in consideration of his recent painful bereavement, abstained from joining in the festivities, which were prolonged to about three o'clock yesterday morning. About 160 ladies and gentlemen attended the ball, which passed off The cricket ma tch very agreeably. played on the Dem s on Monday between 11 officers from the fleet and an eleven from the Yarmouth Club terminated, as indeed it was expected it would, in favour of the visitors, who made 50 runs in their first innings and 86 in their second, while the Yarmouth side soured 56 and 30 respectively. The ships, which I.ave taken in large quantities of fresh provisions, vegetables, and water, were visited yesterday by considerable numbers, but the attendan ce of strangers would probably have been much larger if cheaper transport facilities had been afforded by the Eastern Counties Railway Company. It may be added with regard to the armament of the ships composing th e fquadron that it does not correspond with the nominal numerical equipment, Thus the St. George, although pierced for 90 guns, has only 86 on boa rd ; the Revenge, although pierced f or 90, only 70 ; t h e Trafalgar, although pierced for 90, only 73; and pierced f or 51 , only 35. the Emerald, altho u g h These discrepancies are occasioned by the substitu tion of Armstrongs for ordinary guns. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—..Th e second annual prize meeting of this association will be held at the Mapperley Butts, Nottingham, on Monday, the 4th of August, and several following days, when prizes to the amount of fully £l5O will be competed for. The council of the association has expressed its willingness to accept any additional prize which may be offered. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen passed their primary examinations in anatomy and physiology at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 3d inst., and, when eligible, will be admitted to the pass examination :—Messrs. Edward O'Sullivan, John Harkin, Arthur K. Wa lace, John B. Mulock, Thomas M. Maddin, and Anthony M. Hawkes, Students of the Dublin School ; John W. Taylor, John E. Eddison, and James S. Conyers, of Edinburgh ; James H. Wardle, Wm. Longbotham, and John T. Caldwell, of Manchester; John J. Saville and of King' s C ollege ; Edward B. Ran- Simnel H. Cartwright, doll an d John Robinson, of gt. Bartholomew's Hospital; Charles Perks and James S. Greene, of Birmingham ; in cent Richards, of Guy's Hos p it a l ; Wi n . J ones, of Glasgow; George T. A. Staff , o f St. Geor g o ' s ITonpltali TRot er t G. (ammage, of Newcastle ; and Arthur Muisiiiia',--of B'elfast.. CITY SEWERS C01117311,-SiON: At the weekly meeting of the Commiss'oners of Sewers, held yesterday at Guildhall, Mr, De Jersey in the chair, Dr. Letheby, the Medical Officer, re ported on the state of 176 houses that bad been in spected during the week, and he submitted a list of 53 places for sanitory improvement. He likewise reported that the officers had seized 2,1171b5. of meat as unfit for human food. It consisted of 4 sheep, 4 pigs, 19 quarters of beef, and 14 joints of meat ; 1,8021b5, of it were diseased, 1791b5. in a putrid state, and 1361b5. from animals that had died from natural causes. lie advised that proceed ings should be taken in one of the cases with a view of prosecution on a point of law. The mortality returns, he reported, were 65 during the week, which was much above the ave• rage (42) for the corresponding period of the last six years. About one-third of the deaths had been among young persons and another third among old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as follows:—phthi , is 3, scrofula and mesenteric disease 6, pneumonia 3, broncLitis 6, continued fever 4, scarlet fever 1, wh oo pi ng cough 2, croup 2, and measles 4, making together 9 deaths from tubercular diseases, 9 from inflamma tory disease of the lungs, and 13 from diseases of the zymotic class. Six - ty•tbree births were registered during the week, 40 boys and 23 girls. HEALTH OF LONDON _DURING THE WEEK. (From the Ilegtstrar-Gene?ee Weekly Return.) The deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,119. This number is con siderably less than that of the previous week. The mean temperature of the air in May was 55.7 deg. The average number of deaths derived from the returns of corresponding weeks in 1852-61, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,126. Therefore the actual result, as stated above, agrees very close:y with the mortality calculated on the basis of returns which have been made at the end of May in previous years. There were 41 fatal cases of scarlatina and 10 of diphtheria. Seven of the former complaint occurred in the two sub-districts of Lambeth Church. There were 73 of typhus, which is at present decidedly the most fatal of zymotic diseases. There were 47 deaths from measles. Three chil dren, the sons of an excavator, aged respectively 1, 3, and 8 years, died of measles at 7, Parman•cot tages, Deptford ; and three children of a wood carver, viz., two boys, aged 1 and 2 years, and a girl, aged 1 year, died at 30, Fellows-street North, Haggerstone West, of the same disease. Twenty eight children died of whooping-cough, five of these in the sub-district of Battersea. Five cases of murder or manslaughter were regis tered in the week. A waiter, aged 49 years, died in Woolwich "from the effects of ardent spirits." In this case conges tion of the brain was produced by drinking in about 10 minutes three quarterns of rum at the bar of a public-house. Last week the births of 1,010 boys and 976 girls, in all 1,986 children, were registered in London. In ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1,723. AFTER A BATTLE. A correspondent of the New York Times, describ ing the appearance of the scene of the recent battle at Williamsburg after the fight, says—" The battle field at this place, on the morning of the second day following, presented a most sickening spectacle. Hundreds of men, friends and foes, mangled and horribly disfigured, lay dead and even dying, heaped in groups of six or eight, awaiting burial, and scattered about promiscuously among the trees and brush. One, a rebel, hung :dangling in shreds in a tree-top, where he met his fate by a shell bursting as it entered his body from his own artillery. Large circles of clotted blood lay around the trunks of the trees, while close be side, the newly-filled grave marked the resting place of the victim. The enemy were buried with no preparation in trenches, while our own men were carefully wrapped in blankets and tents, and carefully laid to rest. Horses lay dead thickly strewn over the plain, killed by the bursting shells and bullets. In one of the forts was found a dying wretch, striving with his shattered arm to gather over him the mud in which he lay, spurning all ( proffered kindness, and hissing from his dis figured lips vengeance upon the Yankees. Forty dead rebels were found in and about the principal fort, Lieutenant-colonel Irwin, in command of the Bth Alabama Regiment, and formerly United States senator from that State, was found dead upon the field, pierced with bullets. Major Ireson, of the Eighth New Jersey Volunteers, who was taken pri soner after being wounded, was found upon the field. His brains had been knocked out by the mer ciless foe. Other acts of barbarous atrocity too re volting to record were practised upon our soldiers who fell into their hands. Among the rebel dead was a young Indian, of most beautiful features. He lay by the roadside, with his long black glossy hair waving in the wind, pierced in his naked breast by three buckshot and a ball, which is by far the most fatal of any musket ammunition used in the service. A great majority of those killed were found to have been shot in the head and breast. Two were found lying side by side, each having the other's bayonet plunged through his body. For nearly half a mile in the woods, which are remarkably clear of under brush, the soil is dotted with graves. The trees are scarred with bullet marks, and broken and shattered by shells and shot, while the ground is strewn in every directijn with clothing, knapsacks, havre sacks, cartridge boxes, and other trappings of the soldier. In one small sapling, no larger around than a man's wrist, I counted 12 distinct bullet i holes, within a ran ge o f s i x feet from the ground, 1 larger trees being perforated in proportion. Muskets and rifles lay loosely about, or were piled in huge stacks in hundreds, some of which l i were bent, and twisted, and shattered, and even pierced by cannon shot and bullet. Everything indicated that this battle was the most desperate , of any yet recorded in this campaign." SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.—The arrangements for this great meeting are now complete. The proceedings will be opened by a sr ecial service in Westminster Abbey, at 3 o'clock, on Thursday, when the Dean of Chichester will preach. It has been arranged that the members should assemble in the Jerusalem Chamber previous to the service and proceed in a body into the abbey. 7he opening meet ing will be held in Exeter-hall at 8 30, when the president, Lord Brougham, will deliver the address. We believe that it will be highly interesting, and it is likely to command the more attention as it is now many years since he deli vered an oration to the public in the metropolis. On Friday the departments will assemble at Guildhall, at 11 o'clock, fo r the reading of papers and for discussion, The evening (i i i ycussion sa t B ur li ng t on -h ouse on su bj ec t s o f s p ec i a l interest a p larranged as follows :—Friday, June 6.—Education De- Lay:m.o'llf, National Education; T ra d e an d I n t erna tional Belligerent Rights. Monday, June 9. — Punishment ; Social Punishrnsut and Reforn:aticn Department, Convict Sys- Econo T roy Department, Habitations of the Working Classe s went, Middle-class s Examination; June 10.—Education Depart pzaatimmation ; Public Health Depart ment, Effect of Occu on Health. Wednesday, June 11.—Workhouse Visiti n ° : s s Report of Society. Lord Ly ttel ton will take the chaiLr°elerrtf; g ' e nt u S s a d n a i y t z jane Statistics, i2 jur is prudence Department, Merrill% Laws of the United King- dom ; Public Health Depart SOUTH KENSINGTON M usEuu ur es collection to-morrow l a le t c t which and the two days following the art treasures has been for some months past collecting Kensington Museum will be open for private view. South Th collection consists entirely or objects contributed on . loan e and includes a very large proportion of the finest works of art of former periods extant in this kingdom. The collec tion includes goldsmiths' works, jewels, carvings in • ivory, decorative furniture, bronzes, porcelain and pottery, glass, enamels, ancient illuminations, bookbindings, embroidered vestments, miniatures, &c. Following the example of her Majesty the Queen, who has contributed without reserve many of the choicest art treasury of the CUM), almost all collectors of importance in Great Britain have lent their aid, and will have their collections represented by the most valued specimens. The c or p ora ti ons an d city companies, the universities in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and every important and public b o d y h ave contri b ute d ; Eo that foreigners and visitors from the provinces will have the op portunity of comparing the treasures that have been laid up in this country during past centuri es, with the products of modern art represented from all part s o f th e wor ld i n the International Exhibition. It may, indeed, s af e ly be said that no such gathering has ever before been brought top= , then in one building. THE SUN'. L'O,4IDON, WEDNESO,%:I I EVENING, JUNE 4, 1862, COMM OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Aldermen of the city of London, held at Guildhall, Alderman Finnis presiding, their attention was called by Mr. Wood thorpe, the town clerk, to an official communication addressed to him by the Commissioners of Sewers relative to the storing of American petroleum in premises No. 8, St. Mary-Axe. It enclosed an ex• tract from a recent report of Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health, stating that, complaints having been made to him on the subject, he had visited the house and found the ground floor used in storing petroleum. Some of the American oils, ho added, were exceedingly inflammable, and would take fire on exposure to flame at a consider able distance from the vessels containing them ; and, seeing how carelessly the oils were treated, not merely in the storage of them in places where they were likely to take fire, but also in their com mercial management, he was of opinion that some regulations should be agreed upon in respect of them. These, he stated, were necessary as well for the public health as for the public safety. Already regulations were in operation as to the storage of other inflammable commodities, such as gunpowder, phosphorus matches, and methylated spirit. The Commissioners of Sewall stated that they had deemed it their duty to bring the subject under the consideration of the magistrates of the city, with whom they were advised the power lay to issue such orders, and take such measures as they might think fit for the public safety with respect to the dangerous material in question. Alderman Cope land, M.P., observing upon the grave importance of the circumstances disclosed by the Commissioners, moved that the communication be referred for con sideration to the General Purposes Committee, and that in the summons convening them the subject be distinctly indicated, in order to secure as full a meeting as possible. Alderman Lawrence sub mitted that, having regard to the highly combus tibie nature of this material and to its storage in a populous part of the city, the Court should at once Froceed to frame regulations with respect to it, see ing that before the committee could meet, or while they were deliberating on the subject, an accident might posssibly take place. Alderman Wilson questioned whether the magistrates had any power to regulate the storage of this particular material, though they might do so in the case of gunpowder. Eventually, on the suggestion of Alderman Challis, the motion was modified, to the effect that the committee forthwith take such steps in the matter as might appear advisable in the opinion of the corporation, and in that shape it passed. Con formably to a request by the Executive Committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, the Court then, on the motion of Alderman Copeland, unanimously placed their chamber at Guildhall at the disposal of L3rd Brougham and the Council of the Association during its forthcoming election: The Court next proceeded to consider the petition of Mr. Joseph Gwyer Lovell, a merchant at Bristol, complaining of the conduct of Mr, Wm. Frederick Stanton, a broker in the city. The complaint turned upon an alleged contract made in the begin ning of December last for the sale to the petitioner of 50 tons of tallow, at the price of £2,564 odd. In this transaction Mr. Stanton had acted as broker, and the petitioner alleged substantially that he (Mr. Stanton) had substituted the names of Thomp son, Benner, and Co. for those of Colchester and Co., as the vendors of the tallow, and had, in con travention of the terms of his bond as a broker, not kept a book disclosing the names of his principals in the transaction and the terms of the contract. To these allegations Mr. Stanton replied in effect that he had named no other venders in the matter than Thompson, Bonner, and Co.,and that the petitioner called on him and inspected his book containing an entry of the sale and did not question the contract until a loss had arisen upon it. He added, he be lieved the petitioner's object now was to force him to bear a loss which he himself had wilfully incurred. Mr. Charles Pollock, barrister, was heard for the petitioner, and a mass of correspondence was read on the subject. The petitioner was called as a wit ness, and stated that in an interview he had with Mr. Stanton, in January, the latter mentioned Messrs. Colehester and Co. as the sellers, giving afterwards at another interview, in February, the names of Thompson and Bonner for the first time. In March he saw the defendant at his office, after waiting there for five hours, and asked to see his contract-book. The defendant on that occasion produced some loose papers and a small memoran dum book (produced) containing an entry of the transaction. At this stage of the proceedings the court was cleared on the motion of Alderman Chal lis, and on the readmission of strangers Mr. Russell Gurney, the Recorder, announced that the Court was of opinion that no sufficient case had been made out to render it necessary to take any further pro ceedings on the petition, which was dismissed. Alderman Challis, Chairman of the Gaol Committee, a presented a report from that body rec ommen di ng gratuity of £5O to Mr. Constable, chief warder of the Debtors' Prison, and an increase of salary of £5O a year, to be paid out of fees received at the prison.— Agreed to. A report from Sheriffs Cockerell and Twentyman was handed in, stating that the num ber of prisoners in the gaol of Newgate was 101, in the Debtors' Prison, 93 ; and in the gaol at Hollo way, 352. Of the whole number 18 only were in the infirmaries. Mr. M. Gore proposed the first resolution, to the effect that the conduct of those who had risked their own lives in the rescue of others R as deserving the approbation of the meeting. Sir W.lraser seconded the resolution, and in doing so remarked how small a proportion of the inhabitants on our coasts were able to swim. Ho thought that measures should be taken to force people to learn; in many eases the lives of swimmers were imperilled by their at tempting to rescue those who were unable to do so. The resolution was carried. The Chairman regretted that there were only two persons present to receive the rewards which had been granted by the society during the past year; the others, however, would be forwarded to their respective owners. He then presented the silver medallions to Mr. H. O'Dono van and to Mr. Ramsay, who both returned thanks. The other cases were W. Williams, Cap tain Henecge, Lieutenant Oxford S. Cameron, and Mr. M‘Farlane, of her Majesty's ship Isis. Mr. T. E. Baker then proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman, and observed that, although this was called the Royal Humane Society, it received no grant from Government, but was supported en tirely by voluntary contributions. Sir W. Stirling seconded the resolution, which was carried, and the proceedings terminated. THE EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE IN SHOREDITCH, Yesterday Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for Middlesex, resumed, at the London Hospital, the adjourned inquest respecting the circumstances attending the death of Hannah Smith, who unfor tunately lost her life at the explosion which oc curred in Church-street, Shoreditch, on Wednesday evening last. Some particulars of the occurrence and a report of the former inquest have already ap peared in this journal. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, instructed by Mr. Pugh, appeared for the Commercial Gas Company ; Mr. Kerslake, Q C., for Messrs. Brassey, the contractors for the sewer; Mr. Padmore, for the husband of the deceased; Mr. Moss, for several of the persons injured; and Mr. Fry, from the Commissioners of the Board of Works. The jury, and also the coroner, in the first in stance, viewed the body, and also the sewer. The Coroner said that his colleague (Mr. Wakley) whilst in Madeira was upset out of a boat and took cold, was seized with coughing, and by the exertion he ruptured a blood-vessel, and on the 15th became insensible from haemorrhage, and he died on the 16th. Previously to his becoming insensible he wrote several letters to his family, and drew up certain legal documents. Owing to his decease, he would not be able to go as fully into the case as he intended, as it was necessary that he should take two cases that afternoon in the western division of the county. He should therefore sit only during the morning, and then adjourn the inquiry until Monday next. Gee. W. Wright, a bellows maker, of Church street, Bethnal-green, said on Wednesday evening last my attention was called by a Mrs. Manning to the pavement, when I saw the pavement sinking, and in the course of a few minutes the explosion took place. The kerb and pavement were slanting towards the cutting, whilst men were employed in removing the weight from the arch of the pave.ment. By the Coroner—He should say that the weight of the stones piled upon the pavement had caused it to slant into the cutting. There were banks, and one or two of them kept up the water-mains. After the explosion the banks gave way. It would appear to any reasonable being that the banks gave way before the explosion, bnt he was not certain. There was confusion before the explosion by men shifting the engines. He had apprehended danger before, owing to the men placing such heavy weights of stones upon the pavement. He had spoken to one of the gangers, whose name he thought was Lund, upon the danger of placing so many stones on the footpath; but he only laughed at him, and said it was not his place to go and ask his neighbours where he should place the stones. He told him that his house was a heavy one, and he thought the men were not using proper precautions to protect it. The man then said if the house was waxed together it would fall, but if it was well built it would stand. John Brown, 22, Mark-street, Paul-street, Fins bury, said that he was at work for Mr. Brassey in the cutting, and noticed the earth giving way at 12 o'clock in the day, in front of the house blown down. The planks at the side did not go to the bottom of the cutting. The men were there busy putting boards up at the side of the cutting at that time. The ground at the same time was curving. The timber man and ganger were then busily employed in the cutting, endeavouring to keep the ground up, but the weight was too much, and it forced the ground down. There was a clerk of the works, but he did not mention to him what he had seen before the explosion, as it was not his place. He told Mr. Blunder, as he called him, but his name was Lund, on Thursday morning, that the earth was settling the previous day at 12 o'clock. He said " Don't open your mouth too wide. I don't do so myself." The day before the explosion took place the ground was settling towards the cutting, and he assisted in removing the engine. At the time of the explosion the engines was working. By a Juror—There wanted two or three frames in the cutting when the fall took place, When he mentioned what was the cause of the accident, he was told to keep his peace or Mr. Brassey would have to pay for it. At this stage of the proceedings the inquiry was adjourned. MYSTERIO DISAPPEARANCE OF A GENTLEMAN. Great and painful excitement has been caused at Wimbledon ever since Friday of last week, in con sequence of the sudden and inexplicable disappear ance of Mr. Dodd, a well-known solicitor, of the firm of Tate and Dodd, 32, Bucklershury, London. This gentleman has for many years occupied a cot tage belonging to Mr. William Bradfield, on the common, near the National Schools. There he resided in unusual privacy and retirement alone, scarcely any person ever being permitted to cross his threshold, although out of doors he was familiar with many, and possessed a genial flow of spirits, and was fond of instructive conversation and the arts and sciences. For some time previous to the above-named day Mr. Dodd had been unwell, and his medical adviser, strongly in opposition to his own wishes, ei.joinotl. a Relation of rest and medical regimen as being absolutely necessary. This was reluctantly acted upon, and returning health evinced itself so much, that for some days preceding Friday ho was enabled to take, with his attached dog, short walks upon the common, which afforded him great pleasure. On that day he went out at about ono o'clock, and as punctuality was one characteristic in which he at all times prided him self, his return was expected at three o'clock. That hour, however, arrived, and also four, still, how ever, ho did not return ; when Mr. Bradfield's family became alarmed, and immediate search was instituted. The only tidings gleaned, however, were, that he had been seen conversing with some gipsies, encamped on a portion of the common, during the afternoon. These- were interrogated, and at once admitted having seen him, and that lie bad conversed with one of the tribe, after which they saw him no more. Within a few minutes of this the gipsies in great haste struck their tents and pre cipitately decamped in various directions. The search, thus commenced, has been continued up to the present moment without, we are sorry to add;success. Every portion of the common has been explored, and the woods adjoining searched. Detectives have been down to Scotland-yard, and rewards of £5O have been offered for the recovery of the body if dead, and the same for information of Mr, Dodd's whereabouts if living, but all are unavailing. The whole matter is at present wrapped up in mystery. That the gentleman could have strolled off the common unperceived is out of the question, as he is well known, and so many per sons were working there, erecting the boarding for the forthcoming rifle competition. That foul play has ensued we ate reluctantly compelled to admit. This' is our fear, as Mr. Dodd had on his person a gold watch and chain, worth 60 guineas, and up wards of £25 in gold and silver, besides other valu. ables.—Sussex Express. LORD DUND.REARY'S DERBY PROPHECY (From Punch.) Well, now, I don't know how to begin with my prophecy, and I almost wish that Mr. Punch hadn't asked mo to do it for him, I mean that I don't wish I had asked him to let me. For I never made a prophecy before, you know, except after it had happened, the event I mean, and that isn't exactly a prophecy, which means the foretelling of events that never happen. I think that Dr. Cumming might have done it, only you see that reverend doesn't at tend races, and so he could hot be supposed to be up in the horses, for you can't have races without horses, you know, except races of ginger, and it would be ridiculous to prophecy about ginger, you must see that, quite ridiculous, and you might burn your mouth like the man in the South eating the road to Norwich —no, he couldn't eat a road, could he ?—that's not right. Stop, doesn't Shakspeare—great creature, Shak speare—say something about seeming in running to devour the way ? Couldn't devour whey, you know, curds you might, though, but you can't rrophecy about curds, except so far as saying they arc very nasty. IVhat was I saying ?-oh, yes, ginger and curds and prophecies. Well, only one horse can win, that is quite certain, and he must be the win ner, unless he comes in after another; then he'll be second, or more than that—second-hand in fact —a second-hand horse. You wouldn't like that, would you ? Stop, though, all horses must be second-hand, unless you grow them yourselves. Grow them—is that right ?—do horses grow ? Of course they do, some are taller than others, and some of them must be shorter, it's ridiculous to say horses don't grow like trees. Certainly they do, and blow like trees also—will anybody tell me a horse don't blow ? I dare say that Miss Todd blew—at least her horse—she only blew up, when Lord Knox was had up before Essex—stop, that's not right. Essex is a county and has calves; this was a coachman, he hadn't calves,. footmen have calves though, which they stick—at least, they stick'em on behind. But Epsom is not in Essex, quite the reverse, Epsom is in the Downs, where the British fleet was moored when black-eyed Susan came on board. I like black eyes, you know—not such as you get fighting of course, but a lady's black eyes, though very few ladies have black eyes, I've remarked that, and a man that would strike a lady deserves to be hanged —but I don't mean that sort of eyes. All in the downs—though —how can that be ? ships can't be moored on dry land ; but you'll say Epsom isn't always dry. Anyhow, a ship can't sail there, ridi culous, Epsom salts are not the salt sea, you must see that. But about the horses, where's the list? List, as Hamlet says to the Ghost, because a ghost on the stage walks in list slippers, very proper. Ace of Clubs—that's a queer name for a horse—horses don't go to clubs—asses do though, I believe. He's to prepare the way for a Whitewall crack. What's the good of preparing for a crack in a white wall ; better stop it up, eh—stop, yes, quite proper ; then when the crack comes you won't jump. Well, he won't win, unless he's thrown down on the table, and you can't throw a horse on a table, though you can a pony. Next is a long ward. Argo—dessay it's a mistake forcargo, these papers are so ignorant —stop, Argonaut. Nought means nothing, and that's his chances. To be sure Wells rides him, if he don't ride something else, and Wells are deep you know. Wells ? Ah! when he's in the saddle he's Sadler's Wells, eh ? I'll send that to Punch. Stop, I can't do that because I am at Epsom, and Sadler's Wells is at Islington, ridiculous. Well, hero's Brighton ; I don't mean the place, Parklane super mare, you know, but the horse. I think he has done all he knows has Brighton, and it's very pleasant to go down and dine at the Bedford, and the asparagus is monstrous good—not monstrous asparagus, I don't like that ; it should be small and green like an amethyst—no, amethysts are not green ; my aunt wears one and she isn't green neither—quite the reverse. I suppose I mean an emerald ; but emeralds are not like asparagus —you must see that. Cat—cat—yes, Caterer, that's the comparative of cat, caterer, or more cat ; very good name, easily said— sounds like " flatterer ;" but I shan't flatter this cat—this comparative cat—a horse a com parative cat ! Comparisons are odious; so are cats to some people, not me, I like them, when they don't scratch. I don't think Caterer will scratch— horses don't scratch, you know—l think he won't be scratched, but I don't think he'll be the first to scratch against the winning post. Clarissa colt, she must be a daughter of Mr. Colt, who revolved pis tols in his mind. What would be the good of that, and what use is a pistol at a race, unless it's a pre destinarian race, and you want to startle the men— et least not startle 'em, or they would'nt run well, of course, but Clarissa—what a pretty name, rhymes to Harlowe—no, it don't neither, what made me think of that ? Well, she won't win—stop, it isn't a she, but a colt. Bat they are all colts ; it's quite ridiculous calling one by a she-Christian name, it's bigamy. No, it isn't quite that; but she won't win, whether her father fires a pistol or not. Cel larius, that's a good name ; there used to bo a polka called the Mazurka polka—what's that got to do with it ? Now what put polking in my head ? We don't come to Epsom to polk, do we ? When I was at school I learned a Latin word—l don't mean only one, heaps, millions, but one which I think was cellarius, and meant " very fast," and if this is a very fast horse the namo is good, which comes of having a gentleman's education. Everybody should know Latin, then we should all be gentlemen. Stop, I don't want that, though ; who'd clean the boots ? Boots must be cleaned, you know, but the Latins didn't wear boots, which accounts for it. The Latin horse won't win. Now here's a long one. I should like to sneeze before I try it, for I shall never be able to sneeze in the middle of that horse, like a Centaur. But it's no use, I can't—Caractacus. I've read of him, and how he envied Napoleon a humble cottage in Rome. Stop, was it Napoleon ? Yes, he was King of Rome, that's quite right; but it was ) ridiculous to envy a humble cottage, ho might as well have envied a humble bee. This horse—l can't say him again—he has been doing something at Bath, perhaps getting his head shaved, to make him run lighter, and he frightens some of them—l am not frightened, a nobleman ought never to bo frightened ; noblesse oblige, you know ; not that all the nobility is obliging—quite the reverse; my uncle isn't, for he won't let me come into his title, which is nepotism. This horse may win, if he can —that I am nearly certain about. Now we come to The Marquis. What nonsense the Marquis, and not saying of where—not Marquis of Ware, I don't mean that, but of someplace, and Ware would do as well as anywhere. But perhaps a horse wouldn't like to be a Marquis, I mean a Marquis mighn't like to be a horse, and have his name in the mouths of all the legs. Stop ; do legs have mouths ? I suppose so —I have heard of gout in the gums, and that ac counts for it. Well, as The Marquis is a nobleman I —that is, a noble horse, he may have the blue ri band, which is the order of the garter, you know, and it is always given to the winner of the Derby, and Lord Derby is a Knight of the Garter, though he never won, but the mo ra l i s th e same. But a Duke's higher than a Marquis, though not higher than a marquee, or else he couldn't'go inside it, you must see that, and here is Duke Rollo. Some say Wells rosy ride him, but he can't ride him and Cargo together—unless he puts a leg on each and stands upright, and I don't think the Jockey Club would stand that. Anyhow a duke is more entitled to a blue riband than an anonymous Marquis, you must agree to that, Now, then Zetland, he's a freemason, at least Lord Zetland is, so Zetland must be a free and accepted horse, don't you see ? Fancy a horse a mason—wouldn't mind being fired, eh ? That's good, monstrous good. Now for ano ther. Lord Glasgow's e. What's Lord Glasgow's e. ? He isn't a bishop, is he ? Ridiculous, bishops don't keep racers. Dam—l don't mean that, you know, but a mamma, a mother in fact, a parent as it were. Dam by Orlando out of Brown Bess, also another by I3arbatus out of Brown Bess. Then that must be the uncle of the other ; come, I. do under stand a pedigree, if I don't understand anything else, which I do. Then an uncle and a nephew are to run against one another. That's mere nepotism. And E'tockweH is the father of one. That's a good father, but what the horse wants is a godfather, Why don't Glasgow name his horses? I suppose he's a Pcedobaptist. As for Warminster, if it isn't a mistake for Westminster, where the Abbey is, you know, and Parliament, only Parliament's all at :Epsom to-day. Warininster's a winning kind of name, only you don't win with your name, except when you aro a Lord, and want to be be married, and ac for an Ensign, why, my brother Bill's an ensign, and ,he can't run a bit. To be sure that right, because a British soldier—Bill's an officer, but the moral is the same—l say a British moral officer ought not to run, and then Exchequer, what a name. I've heard of runs on the Exchequer, but never of an Exchequer running, though Mr. Gladstone runs on any time. Fancy Mr. Gladstone running for the Derby, quite inconsistent, I should say, and he had better be taking off taxes than squan dering his time doNvn here, drinking champagne, which is sure to disagree with him, and make him fractions, like a baby when you give him rhubarb on your finger, though I dare say Mr. Gladstone's champagne is not of rhubarb, and indeed he is not here, which accounts for it, besides Exchequer be ing scratched, Neptunus is the same as Neptune, who was the god of the inferior regions, and, if so, he must be an inferior horse, and not likely to win, though he struck the earth, and carried off Porcu pine to be queen down there. Stop, was her name Porcupine or Prospero ? It could not have been Prospero, because I have seen Mr. Macready play that, but then, to be sure, it was a revival, which is different. Also, I think it was Plato, at least I know somebody reasoned well, and therefore ho may win after all, for there goes eggs to the roast ing of reason. No, you can't roast reasons, though you may bake raisins—something wrong there. Malek was the name of Mr. Coeta's opera, and I remember that did not run, so perhaps this will not, and if he does not run he can't conduct an opera, which Mr. Costa can, nobody better; and here is St. Alexis. Putting a saint in a race, what Puseyism ! I suppose that's in compliment to Mr. Gladstone, who has no business here at all, he hasn't, and indeed he is not here, for it would not do to have a horse-racing Lord Chancellor, who has quite enough to do to feed his seals. Stop, though, the seals feed him, I have heard—l must ask Dr. Solater the next time I see the theological gardens —they call'em that because fellows go there on Sunday. Well, that's about all, and I should like to sneeze. Eh ? But I haven't prophesied, after all. Well, that's ridiculous enough. Prophesy, let's see, I'm to foretell what is to come, that is, what is to come to the post, and come first. Well, noblesse oblige, don't you see? It wouldn't be the thing for me—living under his roof, don't you see, at least you don't see his roof, and I don't live under it, except when I'm acting, but the moral is the same. I mean that it wouldn't do, you see. Eh ? 0, why you must see that I only prophesy one way—it would be a bad compliment to our American cousins—at least, he isn't an American, nor my cousin, but performs that part, which ac counts .for it. I couldn't mention anybody but Buckstone. I want to sneeze. LATV INTELLIGENCE.—June 3. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Erle, and Justices Williams, Williams, and Byles.) TOWNE V. DANIELLS-LIBEL. The plaintiff in this case was a solicitor at Rams gate, and the defendant was a dissenting minister and lecturer in that town. In December, 1861, the plaintiff was employed by Messrs. Volckman, con fectioners in London, to collect a small debt due by the defendant for confectionery, which had been supplied upon his order to start a poor woman in business ; and the plaintiff first wrote a letter de manding payment, and having received no answer, issued a writ. The defendant before the service of the writ paid the plaintiff the debt, and ss. for the letter, and afterwards wrote to Messrs. Volckman saying what he had done, and referring to the plaintiff, added, "He has not had the civility to send me any acknowledgment, and, not being igno rant of his antecedents, I have felt it best to give you information that he has the money." The plaintiff claimed damages, contending that this was a libel upon him, but at the trial before Mr. Justice Keating a few days ago the verdict was for the defendant. Mr. Edward James now moved for a rule for a new trial, and stated that in addressing the jury he submitted to them that the words used imputed dishonesty to the plaintiff; and his lordship, in summing up, left it to the jury to say whether the words had this meaning, but did not tell them that even if the words did not mean this they might still be libellous. The jury, under these circumstances, might have been under the impression that it was only in the event of dishonesty being imputed that an action would lie, and it was submitted that this amounted to misdirection. The Lord Chief Justice said the judge left to the jury the question whether the words bore the meaning which the plaintiff's counsel contended for; and the great complaint was, that the defendant's counsel having contended for a more favourable con struction, the judge said nothing to do away with the effect of this. Certainly this did not amount to misdirection.—Rule refused. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell.) DYKE N. WILLIAMS. Dr. Wambey, on the part of the defendant, who claims to be nephew and next lawful heir to the late Mrs. Elmsley, who was murdered about two years ago at Stepney, applied to the court to direct the Queen's Proctor to allow his client to inspect cer tain documents in his possession. The papers in question had been transferred from the custody of the police to the hands of the Queen's Proctor, and this inspection was necessary to enable his client to establish the legitimacy of the deceased, and prove his own pedigree. Dr. Spinks opposed the application. Sir C. Cresswell said that this was a very vague application, as no particular papers were specified, and the object of the applicant appeared to be to have a roving commission to inspect the brief of the opposition side. He felt bound to refuse the appli cation. Dr. Spinks said that the papers in question were in the hands of the Court of Chancery. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY. Yesterday Earl De Grey end Ripon presided at the anniversary meeting of the above society, held at the Hanover-square Rooms. A large num ber of ladies attended the meeting, and among the gentlemen on the platform were—Sir W. Fraser, Sit-W. Stirling, M. de Chateauneuf, and M. de Ces ceau (who attended as a deputation from France), Mr. M. Gore, Mr. T. E. Baker, &c. The chairman stated that he had great pleasure in introducing to the meeting two gentlemen who had attended at the express direction of the Emperor of the French. M. de Chateauneuf then read an address congratu lating the Royal Humane Society upon its success during the past century, and thanking it for the aid it had rendered in the establishment of a similar society in France. There were several societies in France for the saving of life, and during the last nine years 3,100 persons had been saved on its coasts from shipwrecks and different sea accidents, 4,500 from accidents on river; 790 from fire, and more than 1,000 from other accidents. These societies had received the direct sanction of the Emperor of the French Government. After a few words from M. de Cesceau, who handed in a diploma and medal of the French society, the chair man said, he rejoiced to hear that a society similar to their own had been formed in France, and that they bade the deputation a hearty welcome to Eng land. He thought they did great honour to this society in coming such a distance to be present at their meeting. He regretted that his Grace the Duke of Argyll, the president, was not present, but he should feel great pleasure in handing to him the medal and diploma. Mr. y oung, th e secretary, then read the report, xt ra e t s D which n g the oe l followingpasear 221 c ases o f are a few brief immersion, attended with risk to the lives of 270 e persons, had been brought under the notice of the society, and of these 222 were successfully treated, the remaining 48 having been past recovery, of which 23 were cases of attempted suicide. During the same period the society conferred as rewards of gal lantry to whose who risked their lives to save th e lives of their fellow-creatures 23 honorary silver medals, 77 honorary breeze medals, 2 vellum and 5 7 parchment testimonials, besides 81 pecuniary re wards. In the past 12 months 369,139 persons had bathed in the Serpentine River without one fatal accident having occurred, notwithstanding that there had been as many as 52 casualties, including 11 other persons saved from committing suicide through the watchfulness and prompt exertions of the so ciety's boatmen. From the 19th of January to the sth of March, 50 k s eters and sliders who had been immersed by breaking through the ice in the parks and Kensingt on - d gar ens were recucd by the so ciety's men without a si • ngle fatal accident; besides which numerous cases of severe cuts and bruises, occasioned by falls, had received surgical treatment at the receiving -house and marquees in the parks.o WADDELL V. WADDELL. In this case the wife petitioned for a divorce on the ground of cruelty and adultery, and the case stood over for judgment. The facts have been already fully reported. Sir C. Cresswell now decided that the case had been fully made out, and pronounced the decree nisi, with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—.Tune 3. LAMBETH.—ANNOYING A PARISH DOCTOR. —Ann Bracklebridge, a decent-looking young woman, residing with her mother in Charles street, Oakley-street, Lambeth, appeared to answer to a summons charging her with having used abusive and insulting language to Mr. Walter Monday, one of the surgeons for the parish of Lam beth, residing in Moor-place, Kennington. Mr. Monday said that for some considerable time he had been subjected to the greatest possible an noyance from the prisoner, who, unfortunately for him, was a pauper patient in his district of the parish. It was her custom, he said, to spend hours in knocking at his door for her medicine, of which she could swallow an illimitable quantity, and on the last occasion she spent ten hours at his house, so that not only himself but his neighbours were an noyed. On one occasion she walked into his par lour, took possession-of a sofa, and swore she should not get off it until she had her medicine, and when the medicine had been brought to her, she would not leave until she had a wine-glass brought to her to take the medicine out of. (Laughter.) Defendant—Well, you know I have an internal disease, and require medicine and cannot do with out it. The Magistrate—What sort of medicine do you give her ? a n Mr. Monday—Well, Sir, some of it is of d it. anything but agreeable; but it is a ll the same to her. She will swallow, I may say, bucketfuls (Renewed laughter.) sub. scriber Defendant-1 work for M. r. Grove, and h o scoarnibgeirveto half-_dn ataickoezteto, and I shall i an hospital, nol,at bl s t h r e ou isa üb : e Mr. Monday again. a w s i l l m l lla b en Aeyer orde rs n a b i s t e lat too you c an, and by th a t means you c_l should recommend you to g e t a o o nugetdcannotl s m ha o l r lb e oe or allowed el ro t h ltv a he t adt o tt f oh v eans h un i c mo l y l mt y oh o ni u ss seem so fond. more, [ month to see ho w you go on. stand gentleman over ra fora e SOUTHWARK. — ROBBERIES ON THE RIVER.— It M oss,waterman,wz s bro ug h t b efore Mr. Burcham for final examination, charged with stealing a boat, the property of Robert F u ll er; also two bags of pepper, value £B, from a barge on the river Thames. John Ramsey, a journeyman lightertnan, in the employ of Mr. G ray, sa i d that on Tuesday morning, the 27th ult., at a very early hour, he was sent with a lighter to fet c h 140 b ags of pepper from the Vie- LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE . SUN Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex,--Wednesday, June 4, 1862, toria Docks to East-lane-stairs, Bermondsey. He took his cargo on board, and arrived at the latter place safe a little after five o'clock, and moored the lighter while ho went to partake of refreshments. On his return, about half an hour afterwards, he saw the police on board the lighter, and then he missed two bags of pepper, which he afterwards saw in the police-station. Robert Jones, a watchman at Williams's-wharf, Bermondsey-wall, said that between five and six o'clock in the morning in question he saw the pri soner row from East-lane•stairs towards Cherry gardens, in one of Mr. Fuller's boats. He had two bags in it, like the bags of pepper produced. William Pocock, 55, of the Thames Police, said he saw the prisoner in one of Mr. Fuller's skiffs ' between East-lane and Cherry-gardens, going towards the former. There was nothing in the boat then. Mr. John Judge, an inspector of the Thames Police, said, from information he had received from the witness Jones, he proceeded to a boat; at Cherry-garden-stairs, and found two bags of pepper. The boat was Mr. Fuller's, and had been stolen from his wharf. The vessel from which the pepper had been stolen was about three hundred yards from Cherry-garden-stairs. Timothy Hughes, a detective effacer of the M. division, said that he knew the prisoner as a com panion of thieves.'.. He was tried at the Newing ton Sessions in February, 1861, and convicted of felony. The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the pepper, was committed for trial. THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A LABO URER. Yesterday Edward Gregory, but who is better known on the works by the alias of Higgins, a ganger of labourers, recently employed by Mr. Jay, the contractor, at the King's-cross station, was charged before Mr. Barker, at the Clerkenwell police-court, on remand, with feloniously killing and slaying James Driscoll, a labourer, by throwing him off one of the iron ribs now in the course of con struction at King's-cross for the passenger station of the Metropolitan or Underground Railway. The prisoner, it will be remembered, on the first occasion was brought to the court from the Royal Free Hospital by Inspector Brennan, who has charge of the case, and he presented a very sorry appearance. Since he has been at the House of Detention he has been attended by the surgeon, and now appeared perfectly recovered. Mr. Layton, jun., solicitor, attended for the pri soner, and Inspector Brennan watched the case on behalf of the police. The facts of this case have already appeared. It will be remembered that the prisoner and the de ceased were having some words on one of the iron ribs. They afterwards struggled together, and the deceased fell into the cutting below, a distance of 50 feet. Some of the witnesses said that the de ceased in the affray slipped and lost his footing, whilst others said that he was deliberately thrown by the prisoner into the cutting, and that he had been heard to say he would do so. Inspector Brennan informed the Court that ';.n inquest had been held by Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner for Middlesex, and that the jury, after a long consideration, had returned a verdict of " Man slaughter" against the prisoner, " and that under provocation." Mr. Mould (the chief clerk) having read over the whole of the voluminous depositions, Mr. Barker delivered the usual caution to the prisoner, and asked him what he had to say in answer to the charge, telling him at the same time that what he did say would be taken down in writing, and might be used against him at his trial. Mr. Layton said the prisoner would reserve his defence. Mr. Barker fully committed the priscner to New gate for trial on the charge of manslaughter. COUNTRY MARK.LS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. There was a limited business doing in English wheat, but the supply was rather small. Late prices were supported. Oats, beans, and other articles at late prices. LYNN-' 'UESDAY. A moderato show of wheat to-day, for which the demand ruled slow, at a further reduction in prices. Barley fiat at last week's rates. Oats and beans little changed. Old white 58s to 60s Barley 30s to 32s Re d . . Beans .40s to 44s I Peas 40s to 44S MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY. At this market to-day there was a pretty fair show of wheat, the demand for which was rather dull, at late rates, Barley was flat, at former quotations. Oats at late prices. White wheat, 60s to 64s ; red, 48s to 58s per 36 stone. Barley at 36s to 40s per qr., grinding 30s to 83s per 30 st. Oats, 24s"to 33s per 24 at. ; beans, 42s to 48s; new, —8 to —s per qr. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. Bed wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels 19s Od to 21s 6d , White 71 2ls Od to 22s Od New red , , 22s 6d to 24s 64 New white „ f f .2ls 6d to 24s 6d Beans 11 11 l7s Od to 19s 6d Peas, per qr 58s Od to 60s Od Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, „ 3Bs Od to 42s Od Oats 17 22s Od to 27s Od Millers' prices for fiour-2s Id," 2s 31, and 2s 5d per 141 b. MELTON MOWBRAY-TUESDAY. There was a very short supply of wheat to-day, and we had a quiet market, at about late prices. Barley was heavy, and late prices were supported. White wheat, 60s Od to 62s Od; red, 54s Od to 58s per 36 stone; beans sold at 42s to 45s for old; new sorts, -s per 38 at. ; barley, 32s to 37s for malting, and 28s to 31s per qr. for grinding ; oats, 22s to 26s Od per 24 stone. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton Juno 18. via Marseilles June 12. Airazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. June 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena., June 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 2. via Marseilles ..June 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 2. -- via Marseilles June 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton June 10, via Marseilles June 5. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Juno 2. via Marseilles Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet June 1. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet Juno —. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe June 10. Bahamas, via New York .... June 5. Mexico.. _ _ All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Juno ._. California, and British Columbia.. "AN ORGANIC CHANGE."—Somebody has fur nished us with the following Shaksperian variation, which, ho is surprised to observe, seems to have escaped the atten tion of Mr. P. Collier's sagacious, but impalpable corrector; it appears to us not only plausible but certain. Jessica never uttered the sentiment attributed to her in the " Men. cant of Venice" (act v,, scene 1, according to the ordinary editions), her real words were : " I am never merry when I hear street music." It would be strange, indeed, that she should be, but this honest avowal ought to advance her in the estimation of e f the world to select with the greatest c ertainty the watch est adapted to ve every reader or auditor who studies the.," character," BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS.--" Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold w atches, s to 100p-01i/was; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated tPloanmpothlweta, watch, enables e f n or ab t l w es o stamps , des a crip ry construc tion of their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of w . Benso n , 83 and 34, a remittance. —j. Ludgate-hill, 46 and 47, Cornhill, London C.—Established 1719. BIRTHS. BETHELL. —On the 2d inst., at 45, S t. G eorge ' s - roa d , t h e Hon. Mrs. Bethell, prematurely, of twins. CoL , B y._on the 2d i ns t ., at 24, Durham-terrace, West. bourne park, the wife of John Joseph Coleby, Esq., of a daughter. RAE.—On the 28th inst., the wife of J. Rae, Esq., of 9, Mincing-lane, of a son. RicitAnnsex..—On the 2d inst., at lludworth House, Castle Eden, the wife of Thomas Richardson, Esq., of twin daughters. MARRIAGES. BARNBY—AYLEN.—On the 29th ult., at Holy Trinity Church, Hull, Frederick William Barnby, Esq., of Hull, to Maria May, eldest daughter of Capt. Jonathan Aylen, R.N., of Welton, Yorkshire. WEBSTER—PnossEn.—On the 31st ult., at Saint Peter's Pimlico, Sir Augustus Frederick Webster, Bart., to Amelia Sophia, second daughter of Charles F. Prosser, Hastings. DEATHS. ANDREW.—On. the 2d inst,, at his seat, l3odrean, near Truro, Cornwall, Henry Prynne Andrew, Esq., dep.• lieut. and magistrate, aged 56. BRANSCOMBE.—On the 2d inst., at Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Honour, the widow of Mr. William Branscombe, formerly of Cadiz, aged 92. THOMAS.—On the 27th ult., at Ashford Bowdler, near Ludlow, Robert Thomas, Esq., Retired Commander R.N., aged 72. WILLIAMS.—On the Ist inst , Robert Vaughan Williams, Esq., late of 10, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 63,