The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAY. The LORD C7t-I.NCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack At five o'clock. THE REVISED CODE. Lord EVERSLEY presented petitions against the re vised code. _ The Duke of MARLBOROUGH presented similar petitions. The Earl of ELLENBOROUH also presented petitions to the same effect. Petitions, with a similar prayer, were presented by Lord BEEPER, Earl ST. GERMANS, and several other noble peers. Earl DUCIE presented several petitions against the Revised Code from Tewkesbury and other places. The noble lord made a few remarks upon the provisions of the code, and expressed it as his opinion that, though like everything else it might require modification, yet in the end he believed it would produce the most satisfactory results. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed— the Brean Down Harbour and East London Water. WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS INTO HER MAJESTY'S POSSESSIONS ABROAD. This bill was read a third time and passed. OFFICERS' COMMISSION BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CONSOLIDATED FUND (£18,000,000) BILL This bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Bradford Corporation Water ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Additional Powers) ; Tranmere Improvement ; and Weston-super-Mare Pier. The following bills were considered, and ordered for third reading :—Berwick-upon-Tweed Harbour; Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction, and Dundee and Newtyle Railway ; Frosterley and Stanhope Railway ; and London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented against the modified Revised Code, and in favour of an amendment of the Irish Poor Law, EXCISE OFFICE, &c. Mr. C 0 CHRANE moved for returns showing the amount received by the sale of the old Excise-office and Govern ment property in Broad •street, in the city of London, and in what manner the proceeds were disposed of; whether paid into the Exchequer or otherwise ; and, the cost of the additional building at Somerset House lately erected for the Inland Revenue, stating whether it is large enough to contain the whole of that department, and, if not, the num ber of rooms occupied in Somerset House or elsewhere to meet the additional wants of the office.—Ordered. PH(ENIX PARK (DUBLIN). Sir E. GROGAN asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if any, and what, steps have been taken, or were intended to be taken, by the Government, for carrying into effect the prayer of the memorial presented to the Lord Lieutenant on the 10th May, 1861, relative to the planting of orna mental and ether trees and shrubs, and the making of walks and pleasure grounds, in the Phoenix-park, Dublin, as has been done in Kensington-gardens and in the Vic= toria and Battersea Parks ? Sir It . PEEL said that the subject had been wider the consideration of the Irish Government, and they had made an arrangement for the ornamentation of Phaaniz Park. The subject, however, was still under the consideration of the Treasury, and no grant of money had yet been made, ROYAL COMMISSION ON MINES. Mr. INGHAM asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he would lay upon the table of the house a copy of the Royal Commission recently issued to inquire as to certain classes of mines ? Sir G. GREY said he had no objection to produce the papers in question if the hon. member would move for them. TILE COLONIES. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. BAXTER called the attention of the house to the subject of colonial fortifications, and moved the following resolution :—" That, in the opinion of this house, the mul tiplication of fortified places in distant possessions involves a useless expenditure; that the cost of erecting and main tainingfortifications at places not being great naval stations, in self-governed colonies, is not a proper charge on the Imperial Treasury." The hon. member referred to commit tees that had sat on the subject, and said that the opinions of the members who composed these committees were ad verse to the system of fortifications that was being carried out from year to year. Some of the witnesses examined before the committee stated that certain fortifications erected in cur colonies were in situations in which they could not pos sibly be of any use, it is said that amongst the witnesses examined were the Duke of Newcastle, Sir John Bur goyne, Lord Herbert, and other distinguished autho rities on this subject, and he contended that the inference to be drawn from the whole evidence was that for the defence of our distant colonial possessions we should rely on our fleets and not on fortifications, It appeared even further, that in case of war, these fortifications would in many instances prove very dangerous. He alluded to the Mauritius and other self-governed colonies, and contended that their being called to construct forts, if necessary for their defence, out of their own treasuries, would not alienate their affections from this country, while it would render them self-reliant, which would form the greatest bulwark of their safety. (Hear, hear.) Mr. CHILDERS seconded the resolution. He thought it was necessary that a clear principle should be laid down on this subject, which he considered would be effected by the adoption of this resolution, which would be beneficial Trot only to our colonies but to ourse:ves. Mr. CAVE said that, while he agreed with the hon. member opposite (Mr. Baxter) as regarded some of our West Indian and other colonies, he thought the Mauritius should be viewed in adifferent light. At one time no less than between £7,000,000 and £8,000,000 of property in English vessels had been taken by the French when they possessed that colony, ani he regarded the Mauritius as valuable to this country as Gibraltar or Malta. The inhabi tants of that colony would view with no disfavour a return to French dominion, with whom their sym pathies were, and it must be the policy of this county to do all inits power to retain so important a posses sion. lie contended that if a single rock belonging to England were abandoned it would have the effect of weak ening the prestige of this country in our distant dependen cies. (Hear, hear.) Captain JERVIS opposed the resolution. He agreed that fortifications in cur colonies should be es few as possible, but he argued that this was a subject which should be left to the Government of the day, as the politi cal circumstances of the colonies might be altered, and con sequently a different practice introduced. Sir G. LEWIS said that the question of fortification of the colonies, and of the military defence of these colonies, could not be disassociated. The general question of de fending our colonies had been debated the other evening, and in dealing with this resolution they must consider the question in reference to the value of colonies to the mother country, leaving the mode in which they were to be defended to the execution of the Govern ment. He drew attention to the fact that the United States and great Britain were the two great Powers, who wanted to appropriate the largest portion of the surface of the world to themselves, and he pointed out the different modes in which they proceeded to show that the tendency of this country was to colonize, and not to conquer. He contended that it was impossible to lay down any arbitrary formula on the subject to which the Executive Government could possibly assent, and he pointed oui: that in certain cases the expen diture would not only be wise, but economical in averting disasters from any particular colony. He trusted, under these circumstances, that the hon. member (Mr. Baxter) would not press the house to a formal division. (Hear, hear, and cries of " divide.") ADDERLEY opposed the resolution, and contended that nothing would be more dangerous than extending einur f ortifications generally, He alluded to the fact th a t Ca nada the troops were un equa l t o th e d e f ence o f th at colony, and had the effect of rendering the Canadians un prepared fer their defence. The effect would have been that if an attack had been made on that colony without the of the troop s we had season, sent, and which, owin g t o th e m ild ness e to ruched their destination a t en ear l y per i o d, it must h ave fall the enemy. Lord H. N'Alit hope for montrose oped his hon. friend b e l ow him, the member would withdraw his motion. It was no doubt the duty of the otthhaer country to protect its colo nies, but, at the same time, ni principies t protection should be car ried out on judicious couldThesot hon. gentleman, how ever, having elicited what e ut ri b h e t regarded as a trusted'auhdi highly satisfactory declaration f rom s ho h n o . n g . efrnitelned man the Secretary for War, h e t h would be satisfied with that decl aration not think it necessary to press his motion to a division. Mr. lIALIBUICION said that he purposed to deal with this question in a frien dl y s p irit, but he must say that the o bjections of the right hon. g entleman (Mr •Atiderley)i n rn spec t to the Canadians were w holl y uncalled f or. Ise, how_ ever, attributed the remarks of tho right hon. gentle ma n to his total ignorance of the feelings and views of the Cana dians. (Hear.) With respect to the observations made in reference to the fortifications at Quebec, he would observe that, while it was true that Quebec wris not a naval station, ypt it commanded the river St. Lawrence, and as they could n)t have any fortifications for 2,000 miles up the river, the fortifications at Quebec were consequently most necessary. The hon. gentleman then referred to the wording of the re solution moved by the hon. member for Montrose (Mr. Bax ter), and said that if it meant anything it meant this—that where fortifications were not wanted it would be a useless 7nuite of money to build them in such places. (A laugh.) He was sure the house would be much obliged to the hon. gentleman if he, in a formal manner, laid down a prin ciple the purpose of which wes to establish a truism ofthis' kind. He would only add another remark, and that was, that as Canada Was the vulnerable point in our North American colonies, it was desirable that they should club all the colonies together, so as to make them strong against any inroad from the United States. Mr. ADD ERLEY said that his observations in reference to Canada were based upon the hon. gentleman's own re marks. Mr. A. MILLS said that as his hon. friend (Mr. Baxter) had elicited a strong feeling in favour of his resolution, and as the Government had expressed views in accordance with the feelings of the house on the subject, he hoped his hon. friend would not press his motion to a division. He might add that the resolution of his hon. friend was in accordance with the report of a committee of the house on the subject. Sir G. GREY said he could not assent to the last obser vation of the hon. gentleman. The motion was then withdrawn. TIIE CASE OF THE RESERVED CAPTAINS OF THE NAVY. Sir J. HAY then rose to ask the Secretary of the Admi ralty to state whether it was the intention of the Board of Admiralty to continue to withhold from the captains on the reserved list the pay to which they were entitled under the Order in Council of 1851; and moved that an humble ad dress be presented to her Majesty, praying her to take into her most gracious consideration the case of the reserved captains of her Majesty's navy. The hon. and gallant member said that this was a question as to the legal cor aruction of an Order in Council under which certain offi cers in the navy were induced to accept a position which it appeared to them the order in council gave them, but which had never been carried into effect, and consequently a breach of faith had been committed by the Admiralty. The state of the reserved lists was one of inextricable con fusion, but as the bargains made under the order were entered into with their eyes open, these officers had no claim upon the house. But this was the case of the aggrieved captains of the navy, who were told that though their ser vices would not probably be required afloat, they should receive the same benefits and the same rewards as their brethren of the active list. There could be no doubt that these captains had a legal claim to the slight increase of pay of 2s. a day, but it appeared that through some error in framing the order, they had been cajoled out of it. If these officers had justice done to them, their increased pay would not cost the country more than the sum of £6 is. 6d. a day in the aggregate, and he hoped their claim would receive the attention of the noble lord the Secretary to the Admi ralty. (Hear, hear.) Admiral 14 ALCOTT, in seconding the motion, said he could confirm what his hon. and gallant friend had stated in reference to these captains, and he sincerely trusted that the noble lord the Secretary to the Admiralty would have the good sense to propose to secure to these gentlemen the additional pay to which they were justly entitled. He did not agree that any attempt had been made by the right hon. baronet the member for Portsmouth (Sir F. Baring) to "cajole" these officers, for he believed the right hon. baronet, at the time he drew up the order, had no intention that these officers should rise to an increase of pay and rank. He (Admiral Walcott) was sorry that that was so, for great injustice had been done to them. (Hear, hear.) He was decidedly of opinion that the officers were entitled in common justice to what they claimed. Lord C. PAGET agreed with the gallant officer the member for Christchurch in regretting that the hon. and gallant gentleman should have applied such a term as " cajole" to the right lion, baronet the member for Ports mouth, who had left the Admiralty with the good opinion of the whole navy for his fairness and ability. (Cheers.) Those were, happily, things that First Lords, at least at the present day, never did. (Laughter.) He believed that a great many of the officers referred to by the hon. and gallant member did conscientiously think that they had suffered a wrong ; but he (the noble lord) was positive that there was nothing, either in the form of their commissions, or in the hopes held out to them, or in the circumstances of the case, to justify them in the idea that they had a right to be considered in the same position as officers on the ac tive list. The fact was there were two classes of officers dealt with. In the first place, there were commanders who were not entitled by seniority to be placed on the captains list; in other words, who would have had to wait years and years before they attained to that rank. Those the right hon. baronet offered to promote at once, and to place them on the retired list, intending that to be in lieu of all future promotion. The other category consisted of commanderswhose removal to the reserved list had been compulsory, and who had certainly been promised that the step should not affect their prospects as to promotion. The position of the two classes was thus materially different; those of the re tired list being no longer liable to serve. It would with justice be felt a great hardship by those who were on the active list, if officers who were exempt from duty were en titled to rise with them pail passu. (Hear, hear.) He would really ask, therefore, if the hon. and gallant member knew what it was that he desired ? Ho world in fact be inflicting a great hardship upon the very persons whom Le was seeking to serve. It was perfectly true that the order in council had not been quite so distinctly worded as he could have wished—(hear, hear)—and the Board of Admi• rally had, in consequence of that ambiguity, considered what course they could take to satisfy these officers. Two years ago he (the noble lord) proposed a scheme to benefit them according to the length of Limo they Loa eipeut is active service. Those who had served more than a certain number of years received a considerable augmentation of pay ; and of the 90, upwards of 70 had thus been benefitted, soma of them actually receiving as much as 6s. a day more than they would have if they were on the active list. If the hon. baronet's proposal were agreed to, those officers would have to lose that advantage. Thus what was asked for,was to inflict a considerable damage on more than three fourths of them ; besides which, there could be no doubt that it would produce great discontent in the navy a large. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. HAY begged to explain that he had no wish what ever to charge the right hon. baronet (Sir F. Baring)--for whom he had the greatest possible respect— with intending to cajole any officers. What he meant to say was, that those officers had been cajoled by the way in which the docuMent was worded. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON was very glad to hear the hon. and gallant member's explanation, and he should like now to know what construction the noble lord meant to place upon the phrase "First lords, at least at the present day 1" (Laughter.) Lord C. PAGET intended it, of course, to include the right hon. baronet. (Laughter.) Sir J. PAKINGTON in that case entirely agreed with , the noble lord. (Laughter.) He believed that the right hon. baronet the member for Portsmouth was incapable of any such conduct, and he was glad that the hon. gentleman had by his explanation acquitted the right hon. gentleman of the imputation which his words seemed to imply. (Hear.) The order in council was admitted, however, to have been ambi guous; and he submitted that nothing could be more unsafe than to trust to the explanation which the framer of a public document might afterwards place upon it. The right hon. baronet might for instancelowe lost his seatfor Portsmouth, and then ho would not have been able to give the house that explanation at all. The proper course was to consider what the order in council expressed. (Hear.) He (Sir J. Pakington) had not only had occa-ion to study the instru ment himself, but he had high legal authority for saying that the true construction to be pl aced upon it was in favour 1 of the officers. He had heard with great regret, therefore, the noble lord arguing on the other side. These officers were the best judges of their own interests, and when they had thought fit to have their claims placed before the house it was not competent to the noble lord to meet them by a statement that to grant their request would be to inflict a pecuniary injury upn 70 of them. He appealed to the generosity of the noble lord to grant their request. (Hear.) Mr. B. COCHRANE protested against the noble lord treating the question as if it were a mere financial question. What the officers wanted was a recognition of their posi- , tion in the service. (Hear, hear.) Lord C. PAGET explained that he did not admit the wording of the order to be really ambiguous. Sir F. BARING admitted that even if the order did not perfectly carry out his intentions, those intentions ought not to interfere with any just rights which it might have confer/IA. Still, when there was any doubt as to the meaning of a public document, it was not unusual to refer to those by whom it had been framed. He denied therefore that the order made any promise whatever to the officers whose case had been brought before the house; There were, as the noble lord had explained, two distinct classes of officers with whom he proposed to deal, There were a certain number of old commanders to whom he had never any intention to give any further advantage than the promotion which they received on being placed upon the retired list of captains, and which, he was bound to say, they at the time gladly re ceived. The other class of officers he had merely moved fr( m the active to the reserved list ; and those he intended to reta'n all the advantages as regarded promotion which they possessed before. lie was obliged, therefore, to repeat that he could not admit that the officers of the former class had any claim upon the house whatever. (Hear, hear.) Sir F. KELLY said no one could doubt what the right hon. gentleman had said about his intentions; but that which the house had really to consider was what the order in council said. He did not wish to speak of it as a lawyer, for it. was not a lawyer's question ; but still he was satisfied that no court of justice would place on the document a con struction adverse to the claims of the officers. (Cheers.) He considered the case had been very fairly brought forward, and the scheme of promotion of the previous year could never be permanent or satisfactory. It was his intention to vote for the motion of his hon. and gallant friend. After an observation from Sir H. LEEK; Mr. WHITBREAD said these officers had last year get a rise over their normal half pay ten years sooner than they Could have otherwise expected it. Besides, it was posted up that the rise could only be given to the first 70 on the retired and theY much hundred o n th e ac ti ve li s t. Th e Ad m i r alty h a d .m"uch extendcd the benefit in the case of the retired c liotreat Th e house must und ers t an d th a t an o fficer could not ed et once on the retired and on the half-pay list. If, th erefor©, the house accepted the motion, it would deprive enjoyed in the retired officers of th e emo l uments w hi c h t h ey virtue of their Ayes . retirement . .................... Noes.. ......... 72 THE CIVIL SERV ... .. . STIMATES. ............ 66-6 Mr, AUGUSTUS SMITH resolution :--" That all the civil next fovea i the t followin g; e x c e g of Parlia that for the civil contingencies, ought tubeosltZuct of this house within one month after the meeting THE SUN, LOADON, SATURDAY EVENING- 1 , MARCH 22, k 1862. ment, and the estimate for civil contingencies within a month after the close of the financial year, the 31st day of March." He remembered that last year the house met early in Feb • ruary, and on a question being pnt by the hon. member for Norfolk to the First Lord of the Treasury as to when the civil service estimates would be laid on the table, that noble lord replied in about a fortnight. The fact was that they were not presented until the 19th of April. Now why should not they be laid on the table at the same time as the army and navy estimates, which occurred generally a week after the house assembled. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted the necessity of having the civil service estimates proposed and laid on the table in proper time; but it was attended with a great deal of difficulty, which was being gradually overcome. His hon. friend asked why it was they were not produced as soon as those for the army and navy, within a week after the house met. But he must remember that they were proposed within their own respective depart ments, whereas the miscellaneous estimates were varied and diversified, and spread over a vast number of items. Some of them, in point of fact, did not belong to any public department, such as the expenses of members of commissions, with whom, and with other bodies of a similar description, a great deal of correspon dence took place before the estimates were sent in. It was not, therefore, possible to present them with the same ac curacy or certainty 48 those for the army and navy. There was no fixed time for doing so, and they had been obliged on all occasions to take their chance, in consequence of the mass of public business which usually occupied the house. Besides there was a sort of provision required to know what the amount would be; and, under all the circumstances, he hoped no attempt would be made to bind the house or the department to any particular time, because if they were laid on the table of the house a fortnight or so after the house met, they would necessarily be in a very imperfect condition. The house then went into Committee of Supply pro forma. _ _ . The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the house re sumed. _ INCLOSURE BILL. This bill was read a second time. BLEACHFIELDS (WOMEN AND CHILDREN EMPLOYMENT) BILL. This bill, as amended, was considered, " young persons" having been substituted for children. i 2 MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. M. GIBSON said the object of this bill was to give effect to the recommendations of the Committee on Mer chant Shipping, and to give power to the Board of Trade to deal with acts of misconduct and others in connection with the shipping trade, and to withdraw certificates from captains in case of negligency or incompetency. :The act also had reference to what was called the rules of the road on sea in cases of collision. The French Government had agreed to the regulations proposed by the British Govern ment, and it was to be hoped that other Governments would do the same. One of the most important recommen dations of the committee had reference to the question of pilotage. At present the owners of ships were not answer able for the damages occurring from the conduct of the pilot, as under the present system pilots were serving in a compulsory manner. It is now proposed to abolish com pulsory pilotage under certain circumstances. Under stress of weather it was most improper to restrict a vessel from seeking shelter in a harbour without the assistance of a pilot. It was also proposed by this act, that in case of masters not carrying the lights already required, and which had been adopted nearly all over the world, it should be made a punishable offence, One of the most important recom mendations of the merchant shipping committee referred to pilotage. The present system was much complained of so far as it was compulsory in pilotage districts in this country. In the Merchant Shipping Act it was enacted that the ves sel in charge of a compulsory pilot might do any damage through the default or neglect of that pilot, and that the owners would not be liable for such damage because he was not their servant, but a compulsory pilot forced upon them by the regulations of the port ; if he were a voluntary pilot, then he would be held to be the servant of the owner, and any damage done through his default would fall on the owner of the vessel. They had endeavoured to deal with this without abolishing it directly by enactment. They had in their bill machinery by which parties int eres t e d i n pilot age might petition the Board of Trade, who might make a provisional order exempting any particular class of vessels in one or any pilotage district from such compulsory pilot age; but such orders would not have the effect of law until it had been confirmed by an Act of Parliament. They did propose to abolish compulsory pilotage in some cases, in accordance with the recommendation of the mer chant shipping committee; it was proposed that a vessel passing a pilotage district, but not bound to any port in that rliatr;, , t is a plat.. a ii;.,, , i,s•e, should be exempt from compulsory pilotage. This was desirable, masmuca as it was said that vessels were deterred from going into harbours of refuge (and consequently sometimes lost) owing to the charges to which they would subject their owners for compulsory pilots. Where there was a central pilotage authority such as the Newcastle Trinity Mouse, which exercised a pilotage jurisdiction over Shields, Hartle pool, Sunderland, and some other places, they proposed to enable such places by applying for a provisional order to obtain for themselves the jurisdiction of their own pilots. They proposed, in accordance with the recommendation of the bon. member for Yarmouth, to make certain provisions with reference to salvage of life and property. It was also proposed to repeal certain clauses in the Customs Consolida tion Act with reference to timber ships, which clauses were found too nugatory, and to interfere with the fair competi tion of the British with the foreign shipowner. There was another point of considerable importance which they had felt it necessary to deal with, viz., the liability of ship owners. As the law at present stood, if a ship did damage, the personal liability of the shipowner was measured by the value of the ship and freight. This was simply a premium on bad ships; and the man who sent his ship to sea well found, and in all respects did his utmost to provide for the safety of the freight and contribute to the comfort of the passengers, was the man who incurred the greatest liability on account of any accident or misfortune. He contended that the owner of a good ship and the owner of an inferior ship should be on the same level ; and they had fixed the limit of liability in respect of sailing ships at £45 a ton— taking the exact figure recommended in the report to which he had already referred. In the case of steamships the mea surements would be so made that the same principle would be applied to them as to sailing ships. There was another question with which the bill dealt—it was with regard to the unshipment of cargoes and the preservation of the lien for freight on goods after they were landed. Under the pre sent law a great deal of irregular practice went on, because ships could not be discharged, whatever be the a zreement between the shipowner and the shipper, until after the ex piration of 48 hours after the arrival of the ship, if the owner of the goods availed himself of that delay. In these days it was perfectly obvious that, when continental and other steamers came and went with so much rapidity the existence of such a system must be an intolerable inconvenience, and the consequence was that in practice it was evaded, and this bill would .legalise the existing practice. If a consignee dld not enter and take delivery of I his goods on the arrival of the ship, the shipowner was to be at liberty to land the goods, proper provision for their safety being taken, and the lien on the goods for freight would remain. In the case of large sailing ships which went into the docks, the provision was necessarily some what different. The bill proposed to give for these large ships three days to enter and commence landing. At the aspiration of the three days, if the owner did not enter and land his goods, the shipowner was entitled to do so, and thus relieve the ship of its cargo and the docks of its ob struction. The bill was one dealing with many subjects, but he had thought if better as they all related to matters connected with merchant shipping, to combine them in one bill rather than to effect the same object by a number of small bills. Mr. LINDSAY expressed the great satisfaction which ho felt on the introduction of this bill by his right hon, friend, and he was glad to hear that her Majesty's Go vernment had entered into negotiations with France and other nations, with a view to establiAiing proper regulations in relation to that which was called " the rule of the road., at sea. With regard to pilotage, he regretted that the right hon. gentleman's bill did not go farther than he had stated. He regretted that the bill did not propose to abolish the system of compulsory pilotage, and leave shipowners at liberty to engage pilots whenever they thought it necessary to do so. Tho system of voluntary pilotage had been found by shipowners and ship captains to work well at Newcastle and other places, and he therefore hoped her Majesty's Government would re-consider the subject. With regard to the liability of shipowners, with respect to the question of discipline on board, he questioned whether it could be extended to such smell boats as fishing boats. He regarded the bill with great satisfaction, and should give it his support. Mr. G. BENTINCK quite concurred with his hon. friend who had just addressed the house, with regard to the change in what was called "the rule of the road." But he must remind the right hon. gentleman that what might appear well on paper in reference to that question, might not operate woll when put to the test. They should take care on this subject that men, in observing the rule of the road, did not fun the risk of losing their lives and for feiting their insurances. With regard to what his hon. friend the member for Sunderland had said in relation to pilotage, ho entirely concurred with him that captains of vessels should be at liberty to take a pilot when they thought necessary, and that compulsory pilotage ought to be done away with. There was another point, too, for considera tion. A pilot, for instance, was generally "a man of straw," and he thought that where a ship was injured by his running the ship in his charge in collision with her, the shipowner in whose vessel he was, ought to be responsible. What he (Mr. Bentinck) wanted to see was free trade in pilotage. Ho wanted to have that point settled; for it was of great impartance that when a person in command found his vessel in circumstances of danger, he should be at libe,t ty to avail himself of the best possible chance of obtaining the most competent pilot. He himself had seen vessels in circumstances of danger, and persons near who were corn potent of them, b u t w ho knew th a t on th e v cys el to runningtake v i r e rd s harbour, they would be turned out of her as not licensed pilots,by the Trinity House autho rity, What he wanted was that every man who could show that he was competent to take charge of a vessel should be at liberty to have the right to do so, (Hear, hear.) Sir H. STRACEY trusted that the right hon. gentle man had not the fear of the High Court of ?admiralty be fore his eyes in relation to that part of his bill which re ferred to the adjudication of claims. He thought it desir able that the right hon. gentleman should introduce a pro vision in his bill appointing a court of magistrates, who should be at liberty to decide on claims to the extent of £5OO. There was no such jurisdiction now vested in magis trates, and the consequence was that the owners were thrown into the High Court of Admiralty and subjected to the imposition of heavy costs. He hoped the right hon. gentleman would take that matter into conside ration with a view of further improving his bill. Mr. J. EWART congratulated the right hon. gentleman on having brought in this bill, and he trusted it would be regarded by the shipping interest as calculated, in its ob jects, to give satisfaction. Mr. A. SMITH said what he objected to was that ship owners, sunder any circumstances, were obliged to take licensed pilots. He found, on information which he had re ceived from St. Ives and other places, where there were no licences, that ships were far better served with pilots than they were in Penzance and other places where there were none but licensed pilots, He should have been glad, too, to have heard from the right hon. gentleman that it would be optional with captains of vessels to take any pilot they most approved of, or to take a Filot just as they deemed necessary. The house resumed, and leave was given to bring in the bill, which was accordingly brought in, and read a first time. hibitors explaining their backwardness in sending in their things, and attributing the fault to the delay of the Commissioners in allotting space. But we have the best possible reasons for knowing that the very few instances in which this excuse is admissible are rare exceptions to the general rule; and not only is this so, but some of those very few exhi bitors who might with justice have advanced this excuse as a reason for being behindhand have their cases now actaally in the building and their goods coming in this week. In some instances unfortunate delays and difficulties did arise in the allotments of space, and one most eminent London firm had the position given them changed at least twice—once after they bad nearly completed their case, specially made for the position they were to occupy. Yet, even this firm has its case in the building, though, as it is to be filled with plate and articles of great value, these, of course, will not be sent in till the last moment. But the great mass of exhibitors cannot pretend to any excuse of this kind. In three or four classes the courts have been ready for the reception of goods for the last month, and the superintendents of classes have been daily expecting their arrival since the Ist of this month ; but for these not a single packet has yet come in. This delay, as we have said before, is a cause of most serious anxiety to the Commissioners and all inte rested in our success in this universal competition. Packages are in the building from the most distant parts of Europe, workmen are busy over all the foreign departments erecting their handsome courts and counters, yet English exhibitors, who are virtually on the spot, have scarcely a thing in the building, and for them hardly a nail is being driven. Our countrymen may rest assured that they will have quite enough to do this time to hold their ossn against all corners, without being subjected to the still further disadvantage of showing to our most distinguished foreign visitors at the opening a mass of half-filled courts and hastily ill-arranged goods. From these observations we wish to exempt the exhibitors in classes 1,2, 3, and 4—viz., for mining and minerals, chemistry, food, and raw materials. These classes are to be placed in the eastern annexe, an admirable situation when completed, but which just now labours under the disadvantage of not being finished, and it appears impossible that it can be by the Ist of May. The contractors must look to this keenly, and we hope that the praise which was re cently very deservedly bestowed upon their care and energy will not turn out to have been prematurely awarded. They have shown great skill and perse verance, but now that the pinch is coming they must show still more. The public will not care to listen to excuses for delay, and, indeed, are never likely to know more of the matter, if there should be any shortcoming, than that the contractors under took to do the work and did not do it. The light wooden columns' of this eastern annexe are getting out of perpendicular, in some cases almost as much as those in the annexe for machinery in motion, the western side of which leans over 13 inches, and seems inclined to go still further. With these wooden sheds, however, this is a matter of very minor importance, as, being all of the lightest pos sible description of timberwork, they can be pushed back at once by a couple of shores. In the western annexe, however, this inclination has the disagree able effect of making the cast iron columns for the shafting seem totally out of plumb. The orchestra for the musical ceremony at the opening has been ordered to be erected and finished by the 20th of next month, and we believe that the suggestion we made that it should be retained for the repetition of the music during the two follow ing days will be acted upon. The indignation expressed at the ugly exterior of the building by our correspondent, M. Jules Pirer, has excited much amusement and comment at South Kensington. That the exterior is very ugly no one denies or ever attempted to deny. But, on the other hand, it must not be forgotten that if anything be yond bricks and mortar in their plainest forms , had been attempted with a structure covering up wards of 20 acres it would have cost nearly £1,000,000 instead of £350,000, and would have prevented our doing what no other country in the world has ever succeeded in doing, namely, making our exhibitions pay. If M. Jules Pirer had waited till he saw what was a fine interior he might have " saved his indignation," and bestowed it much more worthily upon his countrymen, who, by their colossal wooden box, reaching from the ground to the roof, in the very best part of the building, have contrived to ruin it most effectually. It is said that much of the hanging space on hoardings nailed across the upper galleries is wanted for the exhibition of instantaneous photographs of a horse life size! But it is very generally rumoured, though with what truth we cannot say, that these life-sized photographs are, after all, only obtained by the very common process known to all photographers of copying an ordinary photographwith magnifying lenses till the life size is attained. Yet no matter for what purpose these partitions are erected the strongest remonstrances against suffering them to remain have gone in from other foreign courts, some of which are much darkened by them. The Royal Commissioners have already succeeded in reducing the topmost screen by 2ft. Gin., and still require a reduction of 3ft. more. It is uncertain whether or not they will obtain this last concession, though even if they do it will be but a slight abatement of the whole disfigurement. The Belgians do not appear to be laying out their space to the best ad vantage, inasmuch as in the centre of some of the passages between their counters are columns with tie rods which almost bar all entrance. They, of course, will be the sufferers by this mistake. In our last notice of the eastern annexe we inadvertently stated that trophies of food and raw materials would be erected there. This was an error, as these, like all the other very handsome trophies, will be erected lin the nave. The food trophy will be an exceed ingly curious and beautiful one. The Illustrated Catalogue will this year be published in a different arrangement from that of 1851. On that occasion it was a private enterprise, and the volumes, though interesting in the highest degree, and beautifully illustrated, were necessarily high priced. Yet the sale of this edition was so large and profitable to those who undertook it that the Commissioners this time will publish it themselves, and, in all proba bility, will clear scme £5,000 by the transaction. Their catalogue is to be an extended form of the Industrial Shilling Catalogue, and will be printed in super-royal Svo., so that it may range with the catalogues of 1851 and 1855. One or more classes will form a separate part, which will be sold for the low price of a shilling. Exhibitors who intend to avail themselves of this catalogue are charged at the rate of 10s. for five lines or under, for a half page £5, and for a whole page £lO. They are allowed to insert minute descriptions of the works they exhibit on these terms as to length, and to provide their own woodcuts and engravings. So eager have been ex hibitors to avail themselves of this catalogue that enough to make three such volumes as the catalogue of 1851 has already been compiled, and is almost fit for printing. There are to be 13 parts in all, so that the cost of this work will not exceed 135., and Mr. Cundall, the superintendent, is labouring assiduously to render it as valuable and interesting as possible. The only disadvantage which it has is that, unlike a private enterprise, the illustrations, though as numerous as in the old catalogue, are, instead of being inserted on their own merits as de• signs and works of art, necessarily restricted to such illustrations as the exhibitors are willing to pay for. This slight drawback, however, might easily be obviated by the Commissioners issuing two or three supplementary parts containing descrip tions and designs of the chief foreign works in the building, which would render it complete. Mr. Whiting is also labouring day by day and hour by hour on that most ungrateful and difficult of all tasks —the compilation of the Shilling Catalogue, the highest recompense he can hope from which is to escape censure. We are sorry to say that the combination which we stated a short time since all the railways north of the Thames were about to enter into to avoid running excursion trains for the opening, or making any reduction of fares until after the middle of June, has been agreed to by the companies. greed displayed by Engli s h li nes i n t hi s The i es pect appea r s doubly odious when ,;ontrasted'Niith the liberality shown by the manager's of continental railways, who have made the most important re ductions both for goods and passengers to and from the international Exhibition.—Times. POLICE (SCOTLAND) BILL. Sir W. DUNBAR moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill to regulate the police in towns and populous places in Scotland. The bill was brought in and read a first time. The business on the paper having been disposed of, the house adjourned at 9 o'clock. ThE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL, Yesterday, at three o'clock, the committee re cently nominated by the Queen to advise her Majesty in reference to the design and mode of execution of the national memorial of the late Prince Consort proposed to be erected in the metropolis, held another meeting on the subject in the Council Chamber of the Fine Arts Commission in the Palace of Westminster. The members were all present— namely, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Cubitt, the Lord Mayor, and Sir Charles East lake, the President of the Royal Academy. Desirous of carrying out the wish of the Queen that the intended monument should be an obelisk, provided it be of sufficient grandeur, and that it should be erected on or near the site of the Exhibi tion of 1851, the consideration of the committee yesterday, as from the first, was principally directed to the probability of obtaining a monolith of ade quate dimensions, and, if possible, within her Ma jesty's own dominions. As Tet no stone has appeared to them more suitable for the purpose in all respects than that which lies in a granite quarry of the Duke of Argyll, in the Island of Mull, to which public reference has of late been made, though they have arrived at no decision on the subject, their primary object being to obtain a monolith which shall satisfy the condition on which her Majesty elected in favour of that form of monument, and which, with the artistic adjuncts that are contem plated as portions of the general design, shall be alike worthy of the country and the age, and best calculated to perpetuate the illustrious dead. They were informed yesterday that since their last meeting workmen have been busily engaged in un covering more of the stone at Mull than had been previously revealed, that they have now dug round one of the extremities, and that though the other is still uncovered, this block of granite is now cleared to the length of 115 feet, or eight or ten feet longer than it was supposed to be. The committee were further informed that all practical men on the spot concurred in the belief that the stone is sound and perfect, but that no absolute opinion could be pro nounced until it shall have been wholly detached and carefully sounded all round and throughout its entire length, which will be a work of time. A rough specimen, broken from the block itself, has but,' ALeeived in T,on don, and is about to be polished in order that a better judgment of its quality may be arrived at. Within the last few days a letter has been received from the proprietor of a granite quarry at Balmoral, stating that it contains a single stone about 100 ft. in length, and nearly bOft. broad. The letter la as accompanied by a polished specimen, but the colour is not thought to be so agreeable as that of the Mull granite, while the cost of convey ing it to the coast, it is said, would bo incalculably greater than that of removing the block at Mull, which is distant about 500 yards from the sea. Some conception may be formed of the magnitude of the work now in contemplation from the fact that in the partly analogous case of the Luxor, in Paris, upwards of five years elapsed in taking it down from its ancient site at Thebes, transporting it to Paris, and erecting it on the Place de la Concorde. The total amount of subscriptions received at the Mansion-house up to last evening in aid of the fund is £42,000. - - - -- THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Nothing positively decisive with regard to the opening ceremony has yet been arranged beyond that the Prince of Wales will not be present. His absence, though much to be regretted on this great occasion, appears now to be unavoidable, and it will rest with the five Royal Commissioners who are to be nominated to act for her Msjesty on the Ist of May to make up for this loss by invitations to illustrious personages from abroad. There is no doubt but that all the most distinguished Presidents of foreign Commissions will be invited, and that very many will come, including Prince Napoleon and the Crown Prince of Prussia. It would be premature just now to mention other names, though we think there is very little doubt that the efforts of the Commissioners will secure a most distinguished assemblage from all parts of Europe. There appears to be such a general and almost unanimous wish on the part of the season ticket holders that there should be reserved seats at the opening to be given to the holders, as we before stated, in accordance with the order of priority in which the tickets were purchased, that it has been decided to adopt this course. In coining to this de cision the Commissioners have been guided solely by the wishes of the season ticketholders them selves, and by their desire to promote to the ut most the convenience of visitors and the good order of the ceremony on the Ist of May. As far as the Commissioners themselves ore concerned, there is no doubt they would gladly dispense with reserved seats if they could, inasmuch as providing them and making their arrangements is addinga great deal to their trouble and expenses. But after long consi• deratiou they have come to the conclusion that they cannot do without them with safety to the convenience, good order, and comfort of the large concourse expected in the building on its opening. The wet and severe weather of this week has not been without its advantages, as affording unmis takeable proofs of there being places in the roofs of the glass courts which were not water-tight; many such unpleasant, though, as it turned out, beneficial discoveries were made during the heavy rain of Monday last. In nearly all cases they were found to proceed from hurried and ill-finished glazing, or from gutters and columns being choked with shav ings, dirt, and bits of wood. A thorough overhaul of the roofs was therefore made on Tuesday, and all these slight, though annoying defects, were made good. column Now a system has been a rrange d by w hich is lettered and numb ere d, so that on every the first discovery of any leakage, however trifling, a report is at once made and the plumbers stop it in an hour, though with the care that has recently been weather no fut ure t rou bl e i s apprehen d e d on this and the probable approach of better scor taken score. .All the rest of the building is being rapidly finished as far as regards the interior of the main structure itself. The present great obstacles to pro gress are the huge done scaffolds, which will not bo Grace =St hurry fo rwar d th e d ecora ti on o f the in etenrtiiorrelby removed before the end of this month. Mr. belt of the western dome as much as possible if he does not wish any delay which may arise in the removal of the frameworks to be attributed to him. The foreig n courts, excep t t h e F renc h, are half goods filled with offer a marked contra s t t o th e 'lie ge emp t y expan se oo and cases, and in this respect of floor allotted to English ex hibitor s , w hi c h is only dotted 1 h e re and there w i t h a f ew s h o w cases, appa rently put up as advertisements, and containing no goods what ever. We have received letters from some British ex. I ASSIZE INTEL LIC,BIV CE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—DERBY, 31A.Rcn. 21. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) Joseph Shaw, who was late yesterday evening arraigned upon 13 indictments, charging him with forgery and utterance of as many deeds of convey ance, pleaded guilty to each and all of the indict ments. Mr. Boden, Q.C., and Mr. Huish were instructed in the greater number of cases, and Mr. Stephen in others.: His Lordship postponed passing sentence until this morning, in order that he might, in the mean time, consult the Lord Chief Justice and lay the depositions before him in a case of so great import ance. Upon Mr. O'Brien's application, his Lordship permission to address the Court pre viously to senteiT Je being. passed. granted him ht up this morning, end, having been in due form askea Whether he had env- The prisoner was brob; thing to say why judgment shoula not be pro nounced against him, Mr. O'Brien rose and addressed the Court to this effect. He was not, he said, instructed to offer any remarks in palliation of the prisoner's guilt, but to express the sorrow and shame which he felt, and by which he was bowed to the ground, overwhelmed by the disgrace brought on by crimes into which he had been led by embarrassments, the consequence of imprudence in early life, and which had induced him to betray the confidence reposed in him by his clients. Day after day, and night after night, he had felt that the day of exposure would be to him a day of relief; the anguish and torture he had endured were the severest punishment that he could suffer. The learned counsel could offer no circum stances in mitigation, not even the circumstance that, having recently been appointed to a place of high trust and of considerable emolument, he had proposed to lay aside the larger portion of the pro ceeds for the payment of those to whom he was indebted. The resolution was in vain. As soon as it was known that he was in receipt of a good in come his creditors in a body came upon him, and the circumstances which led to the present prosecu tions became known. The sentences inflicted on different prisoners, though nominally the same, varied in their severity with the position in society which the individual might happen to occupy. Mr. Justice Williams said that though the elo quent and affecting appeal of the prisoner's counsel could not fail to make him feel as a mari great com passion for one who had fallen so low from the posi tion which he had held, yet, as a judge, he could not but mark the heinous crimes of which the prisoner had been guilty with a severe punishment. He had enjoyed and abused the confidence of his clients, and had persevered in a course of fraud, dishonesty, and forgery, which but a short time since must have closed his career upon a public scaffold. In con clusion, his lordship sentenced the prisoner to 15 years' penal servitude. (Before the Lord Chief Justice.) SHAW V. WOMBWELL. Mr. Sergeant Hayes and Mr. Manley Smith appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Merewether, for the defendant. The plaintiff in this case is the owner of about 40 small tenements, which he built himself, about Ilke-. ston, in this county, and the defendant is the pub lisher of a newspaper called the Ilkeston Pioneer. The action was for a libel brought in respect of certain articles which appeared in that paper in October last, reflecting on the plaintiff's property, and atributing a fever which prevailed in the neigh bourhood to the state of the drainage of the houses. The plaintiff called a great number of witnesses, and among others the county surveyor, who repre sented the plaintiff's property as superior to any of that class in the neighbourhood or in the towns of Derby and Nottingham, the drainage good, and the water excellent. The defendant, having with drawn all offensive observations, consented to a verdict for the plaintiff for 40s. . HALL AND OTHERS V. TAYLOR AND OTHERS. Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Hayes, and Mr. Field appeared for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Boden, Q.C., and Mr. Stephen for the defendants. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were owners of a mine called the Hill-top Mine,to use an ancient drain which they complained that the defendants had obstructed. In consequence of the length of time likely to be occupied in trying the above cause, which it is ex pected will last fully two days and of the amount of criminal business yet remaining, her Majesty's justices have availed themselves of their power under the 3d George IV., cap. 10, to postpone the commission day at Warwick until Monday next. That Act limits the power of postponement to 24 hours, but provides also that Sunday shall not be taken into the computation. A telegram has been sent to the High Sheriff of Warwickshire informing him of the postponement, and directing that the grand jurors be summoned for Tuesday morning. OXFORD CIRCUIT.-SHREWSBURY,MAB,2O, CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Channell and a Common Jury. LEWTS V. PLACEY; Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Gray appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. W. H. Cooke for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, G. W. Lewis, is a grocer and provision dealer at Broseley, in this county, and he sued the defendant, William Placey, a pork butcher at Stroud, in Glocestershire, to re cover damages for the breach of covenant in a deed of apprenticeship, in removing his (defendant's) son from the plaintiff's service before the expiration of the term. The defendant pleaded several pleas, alleging several grounds of justification, and among others, that the terms of the apprenticeship were that the plaintiff should exclusively employ the apprentice in the business of a grocer and pro vision dealer, but that the plaintiff entered into and carried on divers other trades and businesses, to wit, the trades and businesses of a builder, brickmaker, ironmonger, miller, and Methodist preacher, in which said trades and business exclusively he em ployed himself and his apprentice, and neglected to instruct the apprentice in the trade and business of a groees and provision dealer. It appeared the defendant's son was apprenticed to the plaintiff in June, 1860, with a small premium of £2O, and finally left in the beginning of the pre sent year. This arose from certain differences which had arisen between the young man and his master, who would not allow his apprentice to swear, and required him to go to the Methodist C ha p el tw i ce on Sunday, according to the understanding which the plaintiff said had been entered into when the deed of apprenticeship was agreed to. The trial occupied the whole day, the object of the plaintiff's evidence being to make out that the young man was taken away without any sufficient cause; and that of the defendant's to show that the plaintiff was too strict, and, on one occasion in par ticular, had gone out to fetch a policeman to give the young man into custody, merely because he had said " d—," and refused to come indoors and go to bed at ten o'clock at night. 4 In the result the jury found for the plaintiff— Damages, £35 10s. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TAUNTON, Friday. The commission for holding the assizes for the county of Somerset was opened in this town yes terday afternoon by Mr. Justice Blackburn, who immediately afterwards went to church. Mr. Justice Byles arrived from Cornwall in the course of the evening. This morning the courts were opened for business, Mr. Justice Byles presiding in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Blackburn sit ting at .Nisi Prius. The calendar contained the names of 80 prisoners. Nothing of interest occurred in the Crown Court before our parcel was despatched. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a Common Jury. WEBBER V. WILLS. Mr. H. T. Cole and Mr. Lopez were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Prideaux appeared for the defendant. This was an action for breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff was the daughter of a farmer, at Creech St. Michael, in this county, of about 30 years of age, and the defendant was a small farmer in the same neighbourhood. The plaintiff and defendant had been acquainted with each ether from childhood, and in the year 1860 they became e ngage d t o each other. They were very intimate, and it resulted in the plaintiff finding herself in the family-way. In May, 1861, the defendant wrote to her to say, "she was n o t t o mind the noise, she would find him as he h a d f o ld her, and she was to make herself happy. ), Some time after that the plaintiff's mother went to him, and he said, (I Do not trouble yourself about your daugh ter ; she shall have a husband and the child a father." After that arrangements were made for the wed ding, and the defendant procured a license and had thefi.c..ed, hut he wr o t e to say he could not per form day the engagement, and a few days afterwards he wrote the following letter : " Dear a:n very sorry that this should happen, as I cannot be no otherwise than I always told you. There is no more marriage love in me than when I w as six years old; so do not think anything about me marrying no more. I would sooner sacrifice any reasonable thing than think about marrying. If I was to marry you my happi ness would be lost, and if I did not marry you your happiness wauid be lost. There is but one thing that my mind thinks on, so do consider and think on future happiness, not because I love another better, or for money, for I have often told you rich ness Would not tempt me, but my mind does not - - lead' 3ne to married life. I ,am very scrry that it shoo 14. happen, and the .reason I have• kept it cu 5o long bps been praying G ad to change my mind, but t h e n , arer it came to uu irty I was against it. may ha ve reason to cutso married, but if I was to.the day that I was not help it, , s 0 do let me have' yciur mind as early es &die a vagabond I c annot possible." rho resu,lt was the engagem ern' was broken off , the plaintiff N :r.as delivered of a st,cil born child, and th e present act`tion was brought. Mr. Pride aux addressed the juvy on the part of the dtslendat it in mitigation of .daMoges. tusttc!e, Blackburn told the jury the question for them wa).; simply the amount of damages, and they found fo..r the 'plaintiff for £6O. COCN7RI 014111.KL:LoS. LivER.POOL—iNIAncif 21. We liaLl a fair attend.,nce of dealers to-day, but both wheat awl dour met a very dull donomd, the late advan ce being rednc,44, l - by ld per cental on ale former and 6d per sack and barre: on flu ur Sinc e Friday lv.st. Indian cor n is fair demand, at 1.4 per cir advance. Oats and oatmeal viero steady. Bemis ba.rley very dull. ,Peas wer e a shw a firmer. LD—MAuctr 21 The arrivals of wheat s ho." t. Business to-day was voll firm. In beans, oats, and olic i L ing very little doing. limited, and the sales to at:e N yore lower in price. Brley' EXETER —lAA --- um 21. Wheat, white.. 7s Gd tol7s 6d I Daa 'ley .. 3s 9d to 0 a Ditto new .0s Od to Os Cd I Oath '•• .. 2s 9d he 3 6 ° Flour, fine, 43s to 468 ; seconds., 418 to —s per sack. CATTLE. The market to-day - was moderately A and little business done. I supplied with sto Fat beef,p score,9s6d to 10sGd Ewes, Perk carcases, 9s Gil to lOs 6d Wetheis, A.0......7d toT. lA, rlb .... 6d to 6i ci Lambs, per lb ..... —d to —d Fat calves, d0...61d to 7 . ' :Rough fat, 3icl per lb, ,---- BRISTOL SIJOAR —MARaIt 21 " There have been some rattle,: e stocks• in hand at fill ° cargoes to arrive, but owing to til port being exhausted, or marl)/ so , i ,he salcs have been cosi' Deme raras, at 4 3° _,,g f°r fined to about 100 hhds crystalised - medium yellow. Refined goods quiet, large salt) tra.noetions 1,.0 negle,,ted. but steady. Pm .- ..is.. .RAILWAY LAT 1 ELLIGSN CE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE 'WI eiptq. tos 186 1 1861. Miles Opened. 1: 03, ys ___.."--.., ,-- Railwa. 1861. 1860. 1861. ----------- --- --• --- x Ballymena and Port Rush - -- - Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 1,847 Belfast and County Down 49 49 612 Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June - - - Blyth and Tyne 22 22 1,868 Bristol and Exeter lO6/ 125 5,603 Caledonian 2lzi . 4a 11,69 7 Cockermouth & Workington 84 280 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 3 19 Cork, Bla,ckrock, & Passage 6/ 61 162 280 Cork and Youghal , • 26 26 Cornwall 531 531 1, 203 Deeside l7 17 223 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1 , 2,04 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,560 Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 48/ 401 1,423 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath l7/ 1 7 1 635 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l S 1 1,062 East Anglian 685 68i 951 E.C o unties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 499 23,492 Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 85 85 3,511 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western ) 183/ 1831 7,233 Great Northern 330 330 24,434 Great North of Scotland l it.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) 329 329 7,140 Great Western 9641 943/ 51,012 Inverness & Aberdeen June 55 55 624 Irish South-Eastern 25 25 327 Lancashire & Yorkshire 395/ 395/ 30,259 Leominster and Kington Limerick and Ennis. ••• •• • • 24 241 153 Limerick and Foynes Llanelly 4 • 461 624 London & North-Western . 1058/ 1004 75,99 London and Blackwail....- 5 1 6 1 1,395 London & South-Western . 1 00 39 1 4 15,653 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 24 . 1/ 221/ 12,8u1 London, Chatham, & Dover . 7 41 56 4 1,594 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 45 45 970 Man.,Sheflield, & Lincohish 231/ j 234 13,464 Manch. S. J un. & A ltrincham i 94 1,059 Maryport and Carlisle ' 28 2. 4 1,007 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 614/ 6144 36,709 Midland G t.Westn. of Irind 192/ 1924 4,330 Monkland 56 56 1,579 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,528 Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 3,081 North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiels) North Devon 35 35 383 N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 789 764 33,734 North London 0 9 2,459 North Staffordshire , 246 246 7,2:34 Oswestry and Newton 3O 20 496 19/ 195 0. 38 St. Helens Canal & Railway 52 52 2,085 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 4,130 Shrewsbury & Birmingham - -- - Shrewsbury and Chester - Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union 2 785 South Devon 7 273 3 , 057 306 South-Eastern. 306 15 ,628 South Wales l7l/ 1711 - S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 - Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale 5l ~5 4 5,229 Ulster 5l 51 1 ,‘,.. Ulverstone and Lancaster Vale of Clwyd - Vale of Neatb Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 341 Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall 2 75 27 5 , iB7 W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail. 39 39 3,81: 5 West Midland. - - - W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 401 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 564 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 561 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL ) Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 963 Austrian B2B 673 33,960 Belgian Eastern Junction 265 26/ 275 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l/ 161/ 2,699 Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 1,564 Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,607 Eastern of France 1032 1032 48,958 East Indian , 244 123 4,744 Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O lu9o 10,512 Great Indian Peninsula... • 4371 297/ 4,848 Great Luxembourg 134 128 3,939 Great Western of Canada 345 345 9,802 Lyons and Geneva 142 142 4,793 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301 284 12,446 •••• 94 Northern of Canada .... 94 53 Northern of France 7Ol ' 623 - Norwegian Trunk 44 44 657 Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 87.9 90,094 Paris and Orleans 922 922 47,067 Pernambuco 36/ •- 881 Royal Danish 69 69 517 Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,402 South Austrian Southern of France 777 773 ",' Welland •• 25 25 West Flanders W. and N.W. of France 750 750 37,526 I SOO • '6LI 06 1 , f-9-1 iAi 7, 43° _. 7, 431 4 ,203 1.673 7,1! 85 , 2 0, 51,00 57 1 12tt 43,.66 , 21,3 e 1 34,4uu ....-- FO.R.EIGH MAIL PACKET LIST. • MAILS DUE. 0 Aur.ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton Mar. 16' via Marseilles ... Mar. ' :,-3razil and Cape Verde, by B r iti s h pac k e t . April 1,. Cape of Good _Hope, Ascension, an d St . H e l ena April ~-,1, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton A 191. ' 15. --- 7 via Marseilles A-la r '• c., Falkland Isl an d s .... April,A, Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Ma n o‘ via Marseilles... • Ma r ' 0. , India (Bombay), via Southampton Ma r ' 9,5. via Marseilles .. mar. „,, Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton M ar• 1 5 via Marseilles Mar' 0. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Mar' by U.S. packet... • ... mar. 10 , W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and byTeneriffeCanadian packet. Mar. ..„ Bahamas, via New York ... . Ap ril s', Mexico . 1 3 ' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I mar. , , California, and Briti s h Columbia.. The "Antiquary " would have stoutly maintained the possibility of a message being received in London few minutes of its being written in Edinboro'. But it is 11 % deniable. Equally so is the fact of grey hair being rest °r 4 to its natural colour, and neuralgia and nervoushead a %t cured by Herring's Magnetic Brushes and Co m bs. R ece- , improvem ents have made them a l most infallible.. 141 '"; t Coun terfeits are being made. Offices, 32, Basinghall - O tr ` e London. BIRTHS. t he CLERKE.—On the 21st inst., at 15, Eaton-place southLt r. wife of Sir Willi am Henry G Bart., erke, of a laug h o f HUGIIES.—On th e 2 0th inst., at Aldenhott, the vi rlw Major Spiers Hughes, 84th Regt, of a son. IA SCOBELL—On the 20th inst., the wife of Henry S . SO - Esq , of th e Abbey, Pershore, of a son. __.; of VINALL—On the 18th inst., a t N ew Ch ar lt on , thcc i vig,S. Thomas S. Vinall, E sq ., P a y mas t er , R,N., .r- t ' Fisgard, of a daughter. ARRIAGES. ;4 0 RENDLE—BENWELL M .—On the 20th inst., at the P s q,, church, Clapham-common, James Davy Rendle , f the of Brixton-hill, to Eliza Ann, second daughter o late Joseph Benwell, Es 1., of Clapham-common. t STUART—WILKINSON.—On the 18th inst., at BaYs!' i tlio Francis Stuart, Esq., to Amelia Harriet Wilkin,sn'or second daughter of the late Commander J. J. w 1 son, R.N. DEATHS. BARBER.—On the 10th inst., Joseph Barber, Esq., s°lici. tor, Brighouse. 11 CHILD.—OII the 21st inst., at Mason's-hill, Bromlef,: All „ ' Martha, widow of the late Coles Child, Esq., streatut" and mother of Coles Child, 1 , 1:1., Bromley, aged 75 ' - BRUMMOND.—On the 20th inst., at Linden -lodge P3Ja, water, the Hon. Mary Dulcibella, widow of th: Drummond, Esq., aged GS. BRUMMOND.—On the 20th inst., at Cheltenham. Georgl of Augusta, wife of Lieut.-General John Drtiraraan cl ' Boyce-court, Gloucestershire, aged 69. J. HUGHEs.—On the 21st inst., at Dalston, Captain ii• - • Hughes, R.N., aged 78 . TATTERSALL. —On the 17th inst., at 33, Sutherland-Pla Tatter Westbourne - grove , Bayswater, Mrs. George aged 42. late LorrnoN: Printed and Published by JOHN ClIA :S 1 1.12: of No. 112 , Strand, Printe r , a t T HE Surf Office, ./,°' o f Strand ; in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e C°lllltl lkliddlese4, — Saturday, March 22, 1862. ~' ~~,.