The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The 300 - pounder Armstrong gun has been offi cially reported, after proof, as fit for service. The fl a w in the bore to which allusion has been made is represented as unimportant. The experiment against Captain Coles's cupola will take place as soon as the naval preparations are completed. After completing the inspection of the Devonport dockyard and Keyham steam-yard on Saturday, Prince Arthur re-embarked in the Port Admiral's barge, and was conducted by Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley to the iron-plated screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane,in Hamoaze. The Prince dined in the evening with Sir Houston Stewart, at the Admiralty house. To-day (Monday) his Royal Highness will probably inspect the Vic tualling-yard, and visit the Royal Albert Bridge, and other objects of interest at Plymouth, and to morrow (Tuesday) take his departure for the west ward. The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, Henry Goldsmith master, at Plymouth, is ordered to be put into commission, with a complement of 485 met,. The Duke 'of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, Is"..111 hold a levee on Thursday next at the Admiraity, Whitehall. Admiralty orders were on Saturday transmitted -to Deptford dockyard for the immediate commence ment of the Enterprise, which is to be proceeded with as rapidly as possible. The keel is in the hands of the shipwrights, and will be laid down in the course of a few days. The preparations of the frames will be carried out as fast as the moulds can be issued from the mould-loft. The Enterprise is to be a powerful sloop of war, armed with the heaviest Armstrong guns at present in use—viz., 110-pounders. Her dimensions are to be 180 ft. in length, 36ft. in breadth, 15ft. in draught of water. The timber frames,planking, shelf-piece, and water. -way of the vessel will be made to serve as " back ing" for the armour, which will be equal in resisting power to that of our largest ships. It is a remarkable fact that the offensive power of the new vessel, which will be of about 1,000 tons burden only, is even greater in pro portion to her tonnage than that of the Defence and Resistance. The entire superintendence of the Enterprise has been intrusted by the Admi ralty to the designer, Mr. E. J. Reed. Her Majesty's ship St. George, 86, commanded by Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, which left Portsmouth on Monday, arrived on Friday in the Firth of Forth -about 1 o'clock, and cast anchor in Burntisland Itoads. In coming up to the anchorage (having no local pilot on board) she struck upon a sandbank, and was not got off till near high tide in the even ing. The St. George is understood to be waiting for Prince Alfred, who accompanied her Majesty to Balmoral, and is expected to join the ship before she proceeds to the North Sea. The Adventure screw transport, Commander Lethbridge, has gone into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead for troop service. The following vessels have been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of military stores to India and the colonies, viz. :—The Helvellyn, 1,017 tons, for Kurrachee ; the John o'Gaunt, 859 tons, for Bengal; the Hanover, 1,045 tons, for Auckland; the Crystal Palace, 440 tons, for the Cape of Good Hope; and the John Romily, 210 tons, for St. Helena. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Capt. Rochfort Maguire to the Galatea, commissioned ; Henry Goldsmith, master, to the Galatea; Dr. E. H. Cree, surgeon, additional, to the Saturn; W. Johnson, paymaster, to the Galatea ; Charles Gribble, assist.-paymaster, to the Galatea ; and Edward F. Williams, clerk, to the Galatea, THE ARMY. The Secretary of State for War has withdrawn the regulations which interfered with free admis sion to the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. Instruc tions were on Saturday issued, notifying that hence forth, until further orders, visitors who are British subjects will be allowed to go through the entire establishment on Tuesdays and Thursdays without tickets, on presenting themselves for that purpose to the police officers at the entrance gates. Compe tent persons from each department will be in at- tendance there to escort them, in parties of 20 each. The visiting hours will be from 2 to half-past 4. Tho regulations relating to foreign visitors—viz., by tickets obtained from the War Department through the medium of their respective Ambassa dors and Consuls—will remain as heretofore. The ship Middlesex, 1,191 tons, Capt. Cammell, with troops for Calcutta, arrived off Falmouth on Siturday, and receiving orders, proceeded with a fair wind for Gravesend. She left Calcutta on the 25th January, and St. Helena March 23d. She has on board 300 men of different regiments and the following passengers:—Mrs. Moir and two Miss Moirs, Mrs. Bailey and two children, Master Dig nev, Mrs. Verity and child, Colonel Moir, Mr, Bailey, Captain Maxwell, 80th Regiment ; Captain Dalton, 19th Regiment ;Lieut. Smith, Roy al Horse Artillery ; Dr. Hodgson, Royal Horse Artillery ; Lieut. Handley, 19th Regiment ; Dr. Popplewell, 90th Regiment ; Lieut. Delme Radcliffe, 46th Regi ment, and Lieut. Clarke, Bth Hussars. Gen. Sir R. Daeres, commanding the garrison at Woolwich, terminated his half yearly inspection on S ltarday, on which day he went over the camp and barrack quarters occupied by the Military Train, the Royal Engineers, and the Coast Brigade, Royal Artillery. lie then inspected the troops on their different parades. The inspection, it is stated, was exceedingly satisfactory. The hospital and medical returns testified to the good sanitary condition of the garrison. The Ist battalion 10th Regiment, consisting of 28 officers, 839 men, 61 wo men , and 65 children, with five horses, will leave Shorncliffe camp at 9 a .m., on Wednesday, by special train from Ports mouth, where the regiment will embark on board her Majesty's screw troopship Adventure, Com mander T. B. Lethbridge, for conveyance to Dublin. The Echunga, hired sailing transp or t, C aptain Cooper (g r. Worsley, Master, R.N., Ad m i ralty agent on board), arrived at Spithead from China at an early hour yeste rday morning. She sailed fr om Hong Kong on the 29th of December, 1861 ; from the Mauritius on the 13 th of February, and f rom Ascension, her last port of call, on the 26th March. She has b roug ht home the following passengers and milit ary an d nava l invalids : —Capt. Ingham, 44th Regimen, in command of military invalids; Capt. Stokes and wife, Royal Engineers; Lieut. Somerset, Nth Regiment : Assist.-Staff -Burg. Ca veall ; Assist.-Surg. Mocluidge, R.N.: Mr. Mark ham, R.N. ; Messrs. Butt and Ingram, warrant officers, R.N. ; Messrs. Tempest, Cochrane, Or chard, and Gordon ; Mr. Smith, from Ascension ; 136 naval and 74 military invalids, the latter comprising.—from 6th Regiment, 3 sergeants and 21 privates; 99th Regiment, 6 sergeants, 3 cor porals,42 Privates ; A rmy Ho 't and _Hospital Corps, 1 sergeant, and 11 privates. The ship brought down to the Mauritius from Hong Ko ng 200 tons of salt provisions, w h ic h was disharged on arrival at the former port from China, detainin g the ship at the island 15 days, durin, o . which period, unfortu in the ship in so seve re a nately, cholera broke out form as to result in no less than 38 deaths, 23 o f 'which were among the naval, and the remainder the military invalids. This loss was confined to the soldiers and seamen, no fatal casualties occurring amon.. the officers or passengers aft. The naval invalids were transferred from the ship yesterday to her Majesty's ship Victory, flagship of the Port Admiral, and to the Royal naval hospital at Haslar. The ship received orders to proceed round to the Th,ames, and was to sail from Spithead last even ing, conveying the military invalids round in her. [ADVEATI 3 EMENT.] — RoIIowa -i— n Pleasure to the Healthy.—Unless t a h - e l. , ..ent and Pills gestion be in good order, our spirits droop, and our bodies aeon become en fr'ebled. Holloway's remedies relieve at perfect health stoniach and restore the digestive organs once a die dcred rubbed an d vigour. The Ointment should be briskly twico a day over the pit of the stomach, and unoryithr'le side, that it may stimulate and regulate the . liver. right Pills act as gentle aperients, purify the blood, and c001 .1a4 the system. They subdue irritation, and remove all ob. structions in dropsy and diseases of the kidneys. Immense success has attended the diligent use of Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which will so adjust every function that happiness must result.—Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, and by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world, 771 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING MAY 12, 1862. THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE EXHIBITION. Among the persons appointed to give an account of the Great Exhibition in the Parisian press is M. Alfred Assolant. He acts on this occasion as special correspondent for the Courrier du Einaanche, to which he has been for some time a contributor. M. Assolant no doubt performs his duties to the com plete satisfaction of his principals, for we find the same tendency to caricature which marks his ordi nary lucubrations in the same journal. As it is to all appearance the first time M. Assolant has visited London, one must make allowance for the views he takes of men and things, as for the absence of any valuable information. " Decidedly," he begins,— " The opening of the Exhibition was very badly conducted. Such is the opinion of every one. Th e English understand everything except organization. The art of administering brought to such perfection among us (a little too much so), is absolutely unknown to them. Every one goes on wildly, lives as he can, works where he can, and spends prodi gious force with very little result. Though I was by chance and by my own exertions o n e o f th e b e st placed for seeing the cortege and the whole ceremony, I hardly heard any of the music, and the speaking not at all. I did not even see the speakers. A mass of trophies and ornaments, very much out of place on such an occasion, concealed from every eye half the gallery, There remained, it is true, the spectacle of the assembly, which interested me more than the official speeches. This is not the way things are done in Paris, and, in my opinion, we succeed much better. In Paris, at least, the whole of the spectators can hear and see the principal personage." M. Assolant has a very mean opinion of Lon. don : "It is far inferior to Paris or New York. Lon don is not even a capital. It is an immense and monstrous assemblage of big towns, which chance and the requirements of trade have brought together. As there was a river, people gathered on its banks. As the river was navigable, seamen from all countries met there. As there were no natural limits of mountains or hills, people spread out in all directions. As the inhabitants on the banks were Anglo-Saxons—that is to say, naturally laborious, intrepid, intelligent, and voracious, they hungered for other people's property, and went to seek their fortune in foreign countries. As an entrepot was wanted to contain the wealth which they acquired, by force or by labour, they pitched upon London, which was near enough to the sea to have a pert, and inland enough to be easily pro tected from invasion. As they were rich, they wished to be free—for liberty is an advantage in dispensable to the man who possesses all other advantages, and the rich man is always prouder than the poor man. They have had freedom. As the King was an inconvenience to them, they cut his head off. As they like old things, old traditions, old rubbish, and all that reminds them of their ancestors, they keep to the name of Royalty, but have kept to themselves its real power. As their country is full of fogs and wet (at least so it is pre tended, but for the last three days the 'sun is as bright in London as in Paris), they go to breathe fresh air in Jamaica, Canada, India, the Cape, Aus tralia, Malta, Gibraltar, the lonian Islands, and Ceylon, which has given them occasion to found a great empire, and to levy everywhere great tribute, the primary cause of every war and of every domi nation. As they are masters of a great empire, and intermeddle in all the affairs of the terrestrial globe, they think they are gods ; they give their unasked for advice on the conduct of Peter and Paul, of James and Philip. King Otho is a driveller, who violates the constitution, and will get himself turned out of the city of Pericles. Francis Joseph displeases the Venetians, and does not please the Hungarians. Alexander charges the Poles with his Cossacks, and sends too many people to Siberia. William wants to handle Prussia as he would a re giment, and will get himself into trouble. Our Holy Father the Pope ought to put himself at board and lodging at Victor Emmanuel's. The English being quite safe in their island, encircled with ships, from the 20,000 portholes of which issue as many Armstrong guns, they now and then defy some invisible enemy, and promise to grind them to powder. As the invisible enemy answers them in a friendly manner, they go through the military exercise, and proudly march past before the Queen. As the military uniform has ever been dear to the ladies, they are greatly applauded ; and, finally, as they are all heretics, except a few Irish, who piously read the works of M. Coquelle, they will go one day to the Devil—at least I firmly hope so." M. Assolant says he rather likes English society when once the " cold envelope" it is wrapped in is thrown off. He must, however, be greatly bewil dered when he walks abroad : " London is too big; it is an immense defect, which people have already begun to perceive. The distances are twice or thrice those of Paris. The communications are very difficult. The streets of the city are encumbered with carriages, foot pas sengers, and merchandise. It is a wonder that there are not more accidents, Is it not dangerous for a country that its capital should be so large, and so prodigiously peopled P Three millions of men for a nation of 30 millions ! It is the tenth part, or three times too much. So big a head on a body relatively so little crushes it. All the ideas, all *the sentiments, all the wealth of a nation - crewd to the centre, and the rest of the country looks a desert. Hence the languor of the provinces, the want of hands in the country, the low tone of the mind, the disgust of public affairs, and gradu ally the reduction cf the nation to servitude. Be but master of the capital, and you are master of all." The English, M. Assolant thinks, will be so struck with the beauty and regularity of Paris that " they will have in their turn in 10 years—in 20 years, perh o a p rg s— anie, a s Prefect of London of th e i r own, who will administer, cut throu g h, an d b u il d just like the Prefect of Paris. That day every mu nicipal liberty will be in pearl. May Heaven keep our friends the English from it, for they would re pent of it for ever." M. Assolant has seen but one fine thing in Lon don, though be adds that he has as yet hardly seen one-fourth of it, and that is the parks. "The Luxembourg and the Tnilleries do not ap proach them. They are vast prairies, where you Pell well among wome n see flocks of sheep browsin g and children, who are lying down on the grass, or playing on it. In this consists the real superiority of London, and I must admit that Paris has nothing like it." He is not so satisfied with the large squares, which it seems nobody but their inhabitants is thinallowed to enter i Thesaidsquares— " Are very sad lookin forbidden to the public —a cireuings B ; the entrants is ane i e quite worthy t n of an aristocratic nation , where each individual eats apart, shut up i n his bos ' i at the eating-house vicious horses in a stable. T he P ' like T oprietors near the square alone have the right to walk in them, and to all appearance do not much use the r . cm ' ight. At least, I have see n no one there." M. Assolant then alludes to the public amuse meats in London, such as music hall, concert caf e , ' &c., all of which, " excepting the great playh ouses, which I have not yet seen," he pronunces " miserable." You will be surprised to learn how hard-hearted you all are, for M. Assolant affirms that " gentle ness and sympathy. towards each other are v i rtues which seem t o b e un k nown i n thi s country." He quotes forthwith an instance of which it seems he was an eye-wit ness :___ "This morning __. I met a mountebank who, with his face all painted, attracted the public with his jokes and tumbled in the middle of the street. While he perceiv e d a g tumbling young girl, poorly but He gave her a hard rd,:yceinngtlyhicinlad,oing along the pathway without any attention. kick, which made about a hundred people who were standing by laugh. The y oun g woman, surprised and frightened, tried to ru n a way weeping, but the mountebank, (ncouraged by the applause of th e crowd, and laughing at what he did, redoubled his tumbling, and pursued her with more kicks. : Th e public kept on laughing and applauding. I don't know whether such things are common in London, but I think that brutality of the kind would not be left unpunished either in Paris or New York," The conclusion drawn by M. Assolant from what he has seen is, that " The:Englfshman is brutal, and that this is his chief defect. The English workman is far inferior in appearance—and also perhaps in heart—to the French workman. Those one sees in the streets look soured and brutalised by ceaseless and hopeless misery. In France the workman is a man who esteems himself, and feels himself respected. He is poor, but always proud. He neither lowers himself, nor asks for alms. His grandfather was a soldier in the First Republic. He has entered as a master the capitals of Europe, and has seen more than once the backs of Kings. His father was at Austerlitz. He himself has burnt a cartridge in Africa. He knows that he is the equal of any one. He has seen the Revolution of 1830, and that of 1848. He is a man and a citizen, and if he still wants several things he knows that he shall have them sooner or later." I give the following extract from the correspon dence in the Opinion Nationale, with all the more pleasure as the Opinion Nationals is not habitually friendly to the English. After some preliminary observations, in which the writer regrets that the cotton manufacturers of Alsace and Normandy have abstained from competing with other nations, the correspondent continues : " The course of events is never stopped by refus ing to join in them. But although appearance, grandeur, power, and energy in every article are incontestably the character of the English, our ex hibitors have given proofs of invention and origi nality much greater. Everything which our neigh bours possess shows the accumulation of capital— the employment of force—the will to arrive at the object by the ordinary road at any cost. With us difficulties are turned by the most ingenious plans ; we expend more ingenuity and less money. For that reason our Exhibition, even in machinery, pre sents more novelties—more problems resolved. Nevertheless, we say it without hesitation, we see there the works of a great nation, which deserves respect and approbation. It has been said, and repeated in every tone, that the palace of the Exhi bition of 1862 seen from without is clumsy and inferior to the Crystal Palace of 1851. Ido not say the contrary, but when one has penetrated under the domes which cross each other—under all the galleries annexed—when one has walked for hours without passing before more than a quarter of the stalls, one is forced to admit that neither in London in 1851 nor in Paris in 1855 did anybody see any thing like this. Taken altogether, it is magnificent —splendid ! One's eyes are dazzled and one's senses filled with admiration. The palace of the Exhibi tion looks upon the gardens of the Royal Horticul tural Society, which are not yet quite finished. But although workmen are still employed in planting green turf, in laying out flower beds, in levelling the walks, in placing monumental fountains from the founderies of MM. Barbazet and Durenne, the effect is grand and fairy-like. Nothing like it was ever seen in France nor even in Oriental or Chinese palaces. It cannot be asserted that everything is yet arranged with that perfect familiarity with the requirements of human life which the English so very well understand. The installation is scarcely com menced, and yet the refreshment department is esta blished on a colossal scale. The world is convoked to the repast of Gargantua. Sideboards, which pre sent a surface of more than half a mile, ere loaded with provisions of every kind and suited to every purse, as well as to every palate, and for all classes of society. They are served ,by about 200 young women, whose places, it is said, were set up to a sort of competition. More than 5,000 candidates presented themselves. Young women with black eyes and black hair were chosen in the proportion of 90 to the 100. The Commissioners were deter mined to give a contradiction to the opinion that all Englishwomen are fair. • But black is so re markable here that a fair daughter of Albion ex claimed, " Oh, they are painted." THE GBEAT INTERNATIONAL CdT7LE SHOW IN BATTERSEA PARK. The Royal Agricultural Society of England are making extensive preparations for the International Cattle Show to be held in Battersea-park during the ensuing month. The ground on which the show is to take place is already staked out to the extent of some 25 or 26 acres, and workmen are engaged in making the necessary drainage and other require ments for so extensive an exhibition. Nor is it in tended that the exhibition of this year shall be merely confined to the cattle show and stationary engines to be exhibited at Battersea-park. The council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng land have secured 200 acres of land in the vicinity of the Farningham station of the Londcn, Chatham, and Dover Railway, where there will be a public ex hibition of every description of steam cultivators in action. In order to render it more attractive, ar rangements have been made by the council with the London, Chatham, and Dover Company to run frequent trains, at merely nominal charges, between Victoria station and Farningham. The programme of the arrangements for the forthcoming exhibition are as follows :—Monday, the 23d June, is fixed for the opening of the show. The Ist of May was the last day of entry, and the number of entries is very large. The Right Hon. Lord Portman is the pre sident of the year. Stewards of live stock :—The Hon. W. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Pain, and Mr. Mil ward. Foreign stock : Mr. Fisher Hobbs. Imple• meats : Lord Lf gh, the Hon. A. Vernon, Mr. Torr, and steward elect, Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., M.P. Other portions of the management devolve on the Hon. Col. A. Nelson Hood, Mr. Barnett, the Hon. A. Vernon, Mr. W. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. C. Wren Hoslryns, Mr. Milward, Mr. Torr, Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. Bramston, M.P„ Mr. Cantrill, Mr. Druce, Mr. Pope, Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Wells; whilst the general arrangements of the show are entrusted to Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the well-known and efficient honorary secretary of the Smithfield Cattle Club, and Mr. H. Hall Dare, the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society. The principle upon which the exhibition will be opened to the various classes of the public will be on the graduated scale, varying from the sum of one sovereign down to ls. Gover nors and members of the society are to be n dmitted to the show yards without payment, by tickets issued by the society, but which are not transfer able; and members of the Highland and Agricul tural Societies of Scotland are to be admitted upon the same terms as members of the society. The show of implements will commence on Monday, the 23d, and continue open Tuesday, the 24th, and Wednesday, the 25th of June exclusively, from 8 in the morning till 8 in the evening. Wednesday. the 25th, is also appointed as the day for the preli minary inspection of the cattle and live stock, and for the judges' examination and awards. The cattle, for which prizes are awarded by the Royal Agri cultral Society of England, amounting to the sum of £1,152, aro divided into 11 sections, comprising 63 classes, ciz., short-horned, Hereford, Devon, Sussex, long-horned, Norfolk, and Suffolk polled, North Wales, South Wales, Irish (Kerry), Channel Island~—Alderney and Guernsey. The horses are divided into seven sections and 26 classes as follows —hunter, carriage, roadster, Suffolk, agricultural, dray, asd ponies. The prizes awarded for horses amount to £865, and for the beat stud thorough horse, which, in the opinion of the judges, is most calculated to improve and perpetuate the breed of the sound thor oug h-bred horse for general stud purposes, a p r i ze o f £lOO an d go ld medal is appro priated, and a p r i ze o f £25 for the second. The sheep are to b e di v id e d i nto 12 sec tions and 36 classes, namely,Kentish, o r R omney Marsh, long-woolle d , I r i s h — pure native lon Leicester, Lincoln, Cotswold , g-woolled breads, South Down,Shrop shire, Hampshire, and West Coun try Down, Oxford shire Down, Dorset, and Mountain. The aggregate amount of money prizes awarded in the sheep classes rea ches £1,095. The Pi gs are d i v i ded into 15 c l asses , and money prizes are offered in these classes of £225. The prizes offered for foreign specimens amount to £750. Thus, in addition to eight gold medals and valious valuable prizes for improvements in agricul tural implements alone, the prizes to be awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of England for the various descriptions of stock exhibited under their auspices arc—For cattle, £1,152; horses, £865; sheep, £1,095 ; pigs, £225; and for foreign compe tition, £750; making - a total of £4,087 in money. The cattle to be exhibited under the auspices of the Highland and Agricultural Societies of Scotland consist of 24 classes divided into four sections, viz., polled (Aberdeen and Angus), polled (Galloway), Highland, and Ayrshire ; money prizes, 468, Horses—Clydesdale, divided into five classes; prizes in money £144, and five silver medals. Sheep (eight classes in two sections) : Blackfaced and Cheviot; money prizes £lOB and eight silver medals. The gross amount of prizes given by the Highland and Agricultural Societies of Scotland being 38 silver medals and £720 in money, this makes a gross amount of money prizes in cattle and live stock alone of £4,807, or with gold and silver medals a sum little short of £5,000 L iTV INTELLIGENCE.—May 10. EQUITY COURTS. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood.) WINDHAM V. GIUBILEI. This was a petition presented by Mr. Windham, of Felbrigg Hall, praying that the receiver might be ordered to give him possession, and that it might be declared that he was absolutely entitled to cer tain furniture, &c., at Felbrigg Hall, which were bequeathed by the testator as heirlooms. It was contended on the part of Gen. Windham that this furniture was to go with the estate, and that the petitioner was consequently not entitled to it as his own absolute property. Mr. Rolt and Mr. Bedwell were for Gen. Wind ham ; Mr. Giffard, Mr. Field, and Mr. Jervis were on the other side. The Vice -Chancellor said that the intention of the testator had no doubt been to settle this pro perty so as to go with the real estate. In fact, however, he had so expressed himself that by a rule of law they became the property, absolutely, of the first taker. The petitioner was therefore abso lutely entitled. BAIL COURT. Sittings in Banco—(Before Mr. Justice Wightman. EX PARTE REED-ARTICLES OF CLERKSHIP. Mr. Dowdeswell applied on behalf of Mr. T. B. Reed, that a preliminary examination now neces sary before:" a person could enter into articles of clerkship as an attorney, might be postponed with regard to one portion of it. By the late statute the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, and the Master of the Rolls, were authorised to make regulations for the examination of persons previously to their entering into articles of clerk ship in the curriculum laid down. _ _ Mr. justice Wightman—l don't understand that as signifying a legal term. Mr. Dowdeswell—No, my lord; but your lord ship will see that it has reference to an elementary knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, or Italian. It laid down that an elemen tary knowledge in one of the abovo languages was requisite, and that an examination should be gone through previous to persons entering into articles of clerkship. The applicant was for some years clerk to Mr. Bevan, solicitor, Cowbridge, who was so much pleased with him that ho recommended him to another solicitor. He had discharged his duties so satisfactorily that the latter offered him his articles of clerkship, which were accepted and executed without Mr. Reed having gone through the required preliminary examination. Mr. Reed was not an educated man, but he was capable of passing a satisfactory examination in all except the Latin language, and he asked that that part might be postponed to enable him to acquire it. Had a knowledge of Welsh been required Mr. Reed could have passed it. Mr: Justice Wightman—lt is important that he should know the English language. Mr. Dowdeswell—He is perfect in that. Mr. Justice Wightman said it was necessary that a person should pass the examination previous to his entering into articles of clerkship, but in this case Mr. Reed had executed the articles first, and had then come to this court for a dispensation. He would defer his judgment till Monday (this day). Judgment deferred. handkerchiefs, quilted petticoats, dresses—no end of them—handsome black Cashmere shawls, ele gantly trimmed with lace, pearl -white silk stockings, embroidered chemises, richly trimmed night dresses and,garters. The learned counsel said he should be able to prove the delivery of all the articles, and that they ,were supplied at moderate and rea sonable charges, considering the expensive charac ter of the materials supplied. Mrs. Ablett was called—She proved having sold to the defendant most of the articles in question, amongst others a steel petticoat for 255. ; gilt buckles, at 6s. 6d. each; cambric handkerchiefs trimmed with Valenciennes lace, 38s. ; an extra rich ditto, 755. ; a rich silk quilted petticoat, 41 guineas; opera glass, £3 13s. 6d. ; a black Cash mere shawl, 3 guineas ; muslin steel petticoat 255. ; a black Cashmere shawl, richly embroidered and trimmed with lace, £25. Witness saw the defend ant about three weeks or a month since, when she said that if time were given her she would settle the account. Mr, Baron Martin suggested, as a verdict must go against the defendant, whether it was not best to settle the matter by giving her time. The learned counsel having consulted together, it was arranged to take a verdict for the amount claimed and costs, to be paid by four equal instal ments of three months each, execution to issue in the event of default. Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and Justices Willes, Byles, and Keating.) NIXON V. RICHARDS.-A FRUITFUL LITIGATION. It was stated that the plaintiff in this case sued in the Sheriff's Court to recover the amount of a bill of exchange for £l3 10s., which he had taken in the way of his trade ; and after the plaint was issued the defendant paid to the plaintiff the amount of the bill, but no costs. The action was continued, as the costs were not paid, and pending that the defendant sued in the Queen's Bench in trover to recover the bill which remained in the attorney's hands, and obtained a verdict, damages one farthidg. When the action came on for trial in the Sheriff's Court, it happened that no one was in attendance on behalf of thr) defendant, and the plaintiff re covered a verdict. The court sat at eleven, the first case went off, and it was now disputed whether the defendant's party arrived at three or at five minutes after eleven ; but within those minutes the plaintiff got his verdict, and afterwards refused to part with it and have the case regularly tried. Subsequently this court granted a rule nisi for a new trial in the Sheriffs' Court, and the question was whether this rule should he made absolute. cause, added the addi tionilal Polloc k,factth in showing aith eQ o u w e i e n n g 's Bench had granted a rule for a new trial for misdirection in the action of trover, and that rule would soon be argued. The Lord Chief Justice—With power to tender exceptions and proceed to the Court of Error ? Could not the parties agree to let the matter stand as it was ?- _ _ Mr. Francis (for the defendant) said he would consent to that. _ Vv After some discussion it was arranged that a stet processus should be issued in each case, and thus the litigation was at length brought to an end, the Lord Chief Justice saying that each party was understood to retire from the field of battle with all the honours of war. COURT OF EXCHEQUR. Sittings in Banco in Easter Term.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron and Barofls Martin, Bramwell, and Wilde.) TIIE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. ROWE. The object of this information was to obtain from the defendant, the sole executrix of the will of Ler late husband, Sir Wm. Carpenter Rowe, Knight, deceased, payment of legacy duty in respect of the testator's personal estate, and the question for the decision of the court was whether the testator was at the time of his death domiciled in England. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Locke, and Mr. Hanson appeared for the Crown, and Mr. Karslake and Mr. Welsby for the defen dant. The testator died at Colombo, in the island of Ceylon, in Nov., 1859. He was born in England, of English parents, and resided in England, practis ing as a member of the English bar down to the beginning of the year 1856, previously to which time he had been appointed one of her Majesty's counsel. In Feb., 1856, ho was appointed by her Majesty Chief Justice of the island of Ceylon, and he proceeded there with his wife and family, and continued to reside, in the island and to hold that office until the time of his death. He was appointed Chief Justice under letters patent, and he was to hold the office during her Majesty's pleasure. On the 15th of October, 1858, he made his will, describing himself as Chief Justice of Ceylon. Shortly after his death his wife found the will in the district court of the island. The defendant contended that the testator was not domiciled in England but in Ceylon, and in proof of his determination to make it his permanent place of abide, it was stated that he had lent up wards of £20,000 on mortgage upon real property on the island. Upon the ground that he was not domiciled in England the defendant refused to pay legacy duty. After hearing counsel on both sides, The Court would give judgment on Monday. Sittings at Nisi Prius.—(Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.) ABLETT V. D'ARCY. This was an action to: recover the sum of £3OO for goods suppli e d, & c . The defendant pleaded never indebted, &c. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. W. G. Harrison, were coaasel for the plaintiff; Mr. D. Keane and Mr. Cooke appeared for the defendant. Mr. Huddleston, in stating the case to the jury, said the plaintiff is a hosier, &c., carrying on busi ness in Regent -street. She brought this action to recover the above sum of money for goods, &c., sup plied to the defendant, commencing July, 1860, and extending down to July, 1862. Margaret Ellen Agnes Mary .Mrs. Angel, wa s one o f t h ose l a di es w ho derive a D'Arcy, or as she passed at one time, very considerable income in this country by the ac quaintances they make with gentlemen of fortune and position, and whose name they occasionally as sume, and they ought to be the last persons to com plain of the dressmaker or hosier, from whom they get credit for clothes with which to make a very at tractive and fashionable appearance. The defendant, at the time sh© contracted this debt, was living in Park-street, Grosv enor - squa re, and passing under the name of Angel. She was a person of consider able personal attractions—a very fashionable indi vidual. She luxuriated in a fashionable carriage, and she was addicted to a rather stylish character of dress. Amongst other things supplied to her were gilt buckles, very superior cambric pocket POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.--May 10. MANSION-HOUSE—Sarah Brett, a young married woman, was charged with having attempted to drown herself in the Thames at London-bridge. The prisoner had thrown herself into the water in a fit of passion, having had a few words with her husband in the morning. Alderman Rose told her she was liable to be im prisoned for two years, but he would discharge her. WORSHIP-STREET.—Elizabeth Wright, a young woman, was charged at the instance of the Post-office authorities with causing wilful damage to the contents of a letter-box. The prisoner had been caught pouring water into a post-box in St. John's-wood, whereby the letters were injured. Fined 20s, and costs. MARYLEBONE,—Arthur Walters and Henry Bryant were charged with stealing several articles of value from the house of Mr. Renshaw, of Finchley New-ros d. They were seen by a policeman to go into the front garden of the house under the pretence of selling mushrooms, when one of them got into the dining room through the window, and stole several valuable ornamental articles. The policeman fol lowed them till he met with assistance, and then took them into custody after a desperate resistance. Both prisoners had recently come from penal ser vitude. Committed for trial. SOUTHWARK.—John Wilson was charged with being concerned with others in stealing £2OO from David Fitzgerald. The prosecutor, in March, 1859, met the prisoner in Oxford-street, who entered into conversation with him about America, from which place he had recently returned. They went together to a public house, where they met other two men, and after being with them for some time one of the men said he had come into a laage sum of money, and would lend him £2OO if he could show him as much money himself. Complainant, who thought they were all honest men, and who was in want of some money to set him up in business, went home and procured £2OO, which he showed to the prisoner and his friends, and he was then induced by a trick to leave the whole amount with the pri soner while he went out for five minutes. The prisoner immediately escaped by a back door from the public-house, and he had never seen him again until the previous day in the Haymarket. The prisoner upon seeing him ran away, but he remained in the neighbourhood for some time, and saw him again, when he gave him into custody. The pri soner denied having ever seen the prosecutor before. He said he got his livelihood by selling horses on commission, but he could not say with whom he had dealt. He also did a little in betting. Remanded till Thursday next. On Friday last Mary Marshall and Caroline Praid were accused of robbery in an omnibus, and were remanded, but admitted to bail. John Page, hairdresser, of the Westminster-road, became surety in £4O for one, John Norfolk and Mr. Pritchard, of Walcot-place, Lambeth, being sureties for the other. The accused women had since absconded, and the sureties asked for time to pay the money and find the delinquents, as they had not sufficient goods to satisfy the warrants of distress that had been issued against them. Mr. Combo said he should not give them a mo ment longer, as they must have known what sort of women they bailed. In default of paying the £4O he committed Mr. Page to prison for two months, and the others for one month each. DEATH FROM DESTIT&TION. On Saturday morning, at 10, the adjourned inves tigation into the circumstances connected with the death of Mr. Thos. Russell, formerly a performer at Astley's, who expired in the streets through desti tution on the morning of thellth inst., was resumed at the Duke's Head Tavern, High-street, White chapel, by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner for East Middlesex. From the evidence adduced on the previous occa sion, it appeared that deceased had been for some time out of an engagemeet, owing to ill-health, and had fell into a state of extreme poverty, and that at length, being reduced to such a condition of weakness from want of food that he could scarcely stand, he applied to the Whitechapel union for a loaf of bread. In reply he was told that whatever he got he should work for, and upon his stating that ho was totally unable to do so he was sent before Mr. Champney, the union surgeon, who cer tified that he was fit for work, and he received nothing. He returned heartbroken to his wife, and said, "I must die, I have got no strength to work, and they will not give me a morsel of bread to eat." Since then he was frequently for days without a meal, and on the morning of the Ist of May he was seen lying on the pavement in Com mercial-street, where, Mrs. Russell said, he had fallen from exhaustion and want, and died while being carried to the hospital. Dr. Edmund proved that death had been caused by consumption, accelerated by want of the necessaries of life, and said that for a long time past deceased must have been quite incapable of any kind of labour. Mrs. Esther was recalled. The Coroner—You have made a charge of cruelty against the parish authorities. Was not the time at which he went to those authorities five months ago ?—Yes, sir. Was he then in a dying state P—He was not dying but drooping. Was he told to go into the stoneyard ?—No, but into the oakum room. Mr. A. Champneys, the divisional surgeon to the union, was then examined, and said that he had attended deceased for some years. In November last he came to witness with a note from Mr. Fin later, the relieving officer, inquiring if he was fit for work, and in reply to that witness wrote " that he was not fit to pick oakum." Mr. Finlator has that certificate at present in his possession. By the Coroner—He had seen Mr. Finlator since last Saturday. He had frequently given orders for comforts and fowl to be given to him. Mrs. Russell distinctly denied this, and said that it was to herself they were ordered when ill once. Mr. J. Finlator, relieving officer, said that on the Bth November deceased came for relief, and got two pounds of bread, and entered his name to go before the board, which he did, and was ordered to work. He was not then under a doctor. He left the room, and did not come baek to witness until the 18th. Witness sent him to Mr. Champneys to see if he was able to work, and the latter certified that he was incapable of picking oakum. The board saw that, and ordered him eight pounds of bread per week for two weeks. He got subsequently another eight pounds of bread, and was ordered by the board to go before Mr. Champneys, and witness did not see him again. The Coroner—At the time the board ordered him " work," (.1000aCQd VJASI actually under treatment by Mr. Champneys for consumption. Witness—Not at that particular time. Coroner—Did you order him to go into the oakum room ? Witness—He had come 30 or 40 times for neces saries for his wife, and I said to him "You are get ting a great deal of relief. Can you not go into the room and pick oakum for it ?" It was not laborious work. _ The Coroner—Yet, though he was certified to be unequal to laborious work, he never, by your own showing, received anything but dry bread. Mrs. Russell was recalled, and stated that her husband went on four or five occasions to the union, and got a 4lb loaf. Mr. Harris, the assistant reliev ing officer, called once and saw her at work upon two shirts for which she was paid 1 1 d., and he re ported that she had full employment and neededno relief. The Coroner having summed up, the jury re turned the following verdict, "That deceased died from natural causes, and that the jury recommended to the board of guardians that in future a more generous diet should be given to the poor who brought from the parish surgeon a certificate that they were unable °yea to pia oakum." THE ACCIDENT ON THE LOIVTiON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY. FAVERSHAM, SUNDAY. The scene of the recent fatal and alarming acci dent at Ospringo has been visited by great numbers to-day, and the interest felt in the melancholy occurrence remains unabated. The lino has been carefully inspected for a considerable distance, and the character of the permanent way accurately ascertained. The result will be communicated to the jury at their next sitting. It would appear from a further examination of the line, that the train, or a portion of it, first left the metals near the place where a temporary line leads to a ballast hole, some 300 or 400 yards from the spot where the carriages were dashed down the embankment, and along the whole of that distance the rails ap pear to have been relaid, and new chairs inserted. Various causes have been assigned for the accident, but most of them, more or less, of an improbable character. There is one, however, that is gene rally received, which certainly bears more the im press of reasonableness than any of the others that have been current in the neighbourhood. It is this —that the recent heavy rains having affected the permanent way, the goods train that passed over the line shortly previous to the accident somewhat widened the gauge, and then the speed of the mail train, coupled with its comparative lightness, caused he carriages to oscillate, and ultimately to get off the line. The sodden trenails, powerless against the extra pressure to which they were subjected, gave way, the rails easily became displaced, and the running off of the carriages was the inevitable consequence. Be this as it may, there is more pro bability in the suggestion, and it is worthy of the notice of the jury. Two of the injured men, David Mappleston (of the audit office of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway), and Mr. Thompson (barrister, of Dublin), are progressing satisfactorily, considering the nature of the injuries they have sustained. Those of Mr. Mappleson are entirely of an internal character ; but Mr. Thompson's are chiefly external. On the left side of his forehead there is a deep incision, some four inches in length, and extending down to the cheek bone, and there is another severe wound croseing the eyebrow. He has rallied considerably, and hai; been . able to con verse with his attendants. He was riJlngin one of the first-class carriages, and when founa the com partment was nearly filled with bricks, the aid of the carriage having been forced against the gardeiz wall at the bottom of the embankment. The other sufferer, Mr. Wm. Crockford, of Rochester, lies in a very preccarious state at the Anchor Inn, and is not expected to survive the day, His leg has been amputated just below the calf, and his fractured arm set. The severe contusions on other part of his body have also been attended to. He is perfectly resigned to what he believes will termi nate his earthly career. Mr. Crockford has been an active member of the Rochester town council, and is the ehainnln of the Medway Union court of guar dians, and for many years has filled the office of trea surer to the Wesleyan Missionary Society for the county of Kent. Being upwards of 60 years of age, the shock has necessarily affected the entire nervous sys tem, apart from the external injuries above men tioned, and renders the chances of recovery ex tremely improbable. The names of the deceased persons have been found to be Mr. James Stratton Plumber, of 34, Friday-street, City, and Wm. Harris, who was a porter in the store department of the company at Battersea, but has been mistaken for an inspector of the line bearing the same name. Information was sent to the Board of Trade as soon as the excitement consequent upon the accident had abated, and notification was received on Satur day that a gentleman from the railway department of the office would attend and make an official in spection of the line on an early day this week. A LIVERPOOL RUNA WA Y-WIFE CA P TUR ED AT BRISTOL. About a fortnight ago the whole establishment of a well-to-do wine merchant at Liverpool was thrown into a state of considerable consternation by the sud den disappearance of the worthy proprietor's better half, and the excitement was not at all allayed when it was discovered that one of the barman in the em ploy of the husband was non est. The suspicious circumstances were yet made more suspicious by the husband suddenly remembering having received an anonymous communication from "A Friend," which intimated that more friendship existed between the barman and the landlady than was expected to exist between an assistant and his mistress. The dis tracted Benedict at once came to the conclusion that his faithless assistant and his yet more faithless wife were in league together and that they were probably at that moment miles away. From inquiries he made and from other circumstances the husband con cluded that the fugitives might have taken the nearest route to Bristol, and losing no time in his prepa parations. he also started by the next train for the same place. After arriving in that city he found refuge at the Terminus Hotel. He then made every possible inquiry respecting the fugitives, and, fail ing to find any traces of the pair, he thought it probable that they had gone to Southampton or London, to both of which places he went, bat meet. ing with no success he made an inglorious retreat to Liverpool. A few hours before the arrival of the Liverpool wine and spirit merchant at the Bris tol Terminus a good-looking young man,' escorting a lady, also arrived on the same platform, and shortly afterwards they were enjoying a comfort able cup of tea iu a snug parlour in one of the houses of St. Vincent-place, New-cut. Having told the lady of the house that they were man and wife, and that they intended to stay there a short time, they were accommodated with all the necessary re quirements for a married couple. On the follow ing day the gay Lothario made his appearance at the Daily Press office, and arranged and paid for six insertions of the following advertisement : ' Wanted, by a young man and his wife, from Liverpool, the management of a spirit vault.— Address, E. T., Daily Press Office.' In the meantime the husband, who had returned to Liverpool, was becoming gradually resigned to his fate, and almost giving up the hope of ever seeing his faithless wife again, when he was one day in formed that a letter had been posted at the Liver pool Post Office addressed to the fugitives in Bristol. Having thus gathered fresh hope he at once determined on making another and last attempt to recover his spouse. He arrived here on Thursday last, and, again fixing his head-quar ters at Hemmings's Terminus Hotel, he commenced a plan of operation which was, and deserved to be, more successful than the first. He first of all en listed the services of that cunning detective, Perrott, who, it will be hereafter seen, was instrumental in bringing the adventure to a successful and satis factory termination. At five o'clock the next morn ing the husband was up and doing, and not much later Perrott was also sauntering about the Post office with his hands in his pockets, on the look-out for, - the letter which had been sent from Liverpool. No traces of such letter were, however, found, and the injured swain, beginning to imagine that he was hoaxed, was seriously thinking of giving up the hunt as a bad job. Perrott who never lacks a word of encouragement to a poor fellow who is embarked in the most desperate adventure, now came forward, and by word and deed showed what he meant to do. Perrott with that extraordinary instinct for finding out, which perhaps characterises him above all the other members of our local police force, found out that a couple answering the description of the fugitive pair were located at a house in at. Vincent's-place, facing the river on the New-cut. The officer carried the glorious news to poor Bene dict, who received it with great joy and thankful ness, and both proceeded at once to St. Vincent's Place, and after tapping gently at the door of No. —, it was immediately opened, but the applicants were told that the gentleman and his lady' were out, and that they would be in in a short time. Perrott and his companion then went away, and stationed themselves on the opposite bank of the river, where they reconnoitred the ground before them, and kept a sharp look out on the door of No. —. They had not long to wait be fore the very identical couple were seen entering together, and Perrott and the wine merchant made the best use of their legs round the bridge, and ar rived in time at the house. The husband and the detective were instantly admitted, and the next moment the four were face to face. There was no outburst of grief Ul d.11...v 0. a ' . ',cut y r vv y Lo- and the countenance of the husband w the sl counte as alight have been name more of sorrow than of anger.. thario was not so discomposed expected and Perrott enjoyed the scene mo s t injunctions to go ab ou t hi s tions thoroughly. It was hastily arranged that the bar man' should be paid off,' and E). sum of money was gbuivseinnehssir,at:nwd never with strict e ct _vi n sit Liverpool. ing and, it is to be ho p ed, a lastin g rec onciliation was scon effected between the errin g wife and the n s er A gratify forgiving husband, and they remained together on very affec ti o nate terms at No. St. Vincent's Place, un til last Monday morni ng , w h en t h ey de parted for Liverpool by the 6.20 train, to all appear. ante a very affectionate and happy couple.—Somer set Herald. BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS..—" Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold watches, sto Ico guineas; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphlet, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construc tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with the greatest certainty the watch est adapted to their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of a remittance.—J. W. Benson, 83 and 84, Ludgate-hill, 46 and 47 , CQrahill i Logical XV.—EstalAlphed 170. THE PUBSTING ()I , A SLUICE IN 2HE ENS. On Saturday Mr. E. Fellow es, M.P., chairman of the Middle Level Drainage Commis, sioners, and other members of that body, visited the scene of the disaster which has happened to the great sluice at the outlet of the middle level drain into the river Ouse,, at St. Germains. Mr. Hawkshaw, C.E., had previously received a carte blanche to adopt all possible measures to secure the protection of the extensive tract of country • which is threatened with inundation, and all last week pi 'ecautionary measures were actively carried on. The irri tption of the tidal water threatened injury to the banks ot 'the drain, which, though substantially constructed, were me ver intended to sustain such a pressure, especially as the _soil of the fens is of a loose spongy nature. It was consic lered necessary, there fore, to take immediate measures for damming up the drain, and between 200 and 300 mu were up to yesterday working by shifts day and night, under the immediate superintendence of Mr. Lunn, who thas the assistance of Mr. Leather, contractor of Wisbezh. With the view of forming a dam, Mr. Lunn sel f;cted a spc:t about 300 yards above the outfall, upon which a, large number of men were at once set to work upon both sides of the drain. The re sident farmers have sent all the men they could, and a large quantity of earth has been collected and thrown ov ar I the sides of the banks to forma dam. A considerable number of sacks have also been filled' with earth, and sunk, as a portion of the loose earth is washo d away as fast as it is thrown in. Some lighters have also been sunk, as fasten and consolidate the formation of the darn ; but unless it is completed by to-day (Monday) great feats are entertained for the safety of the surrounding country, as the spring tides will be at their height on Wednesday. In order, in the meantime, to lessen the danger in the uwer part of the drain other sluices have been drawn, so as to allow the tidal water to pass freely to and fro. Some persons contend that it will not be possible to P top the drain by the mode now adopted, but that it will be necessary, commencing at a point higher up the drain, to construct a series of sluices one below the other, upon the " throttling" system. Even if the dam is successfully completed by the time required, the restoration of the sluice will probably be a more pro tracted and expensive operation than its original construc tion ; and another difficulty will result from the present state of things, viz., that the drainage of the middle lever will be brought to a standstal utiless powerful pumping machinery is erected and another o utlet found for the water. The ruined sluice was erected about 15 years since by Mr. Brogden, of Manchester. It is stated that various altera tions have been made in it since it lefi the contractor's hands, and it probably suffered in conseque.rice. COUNTRY - LEICESTER-31,1Y 10. An average supply of wheat tO- day at market, which found buyers languidly at is to 2s ner quarter decline in previous prices. White, 62s to 65.. ; red, 59s to 62s ; old red, 50s to 57s per 36 stone. Barley was in short sup. ply—grinding, 32s to 34s ; malting, 39s to 42s per qr.; oats, 24s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans were a fair sale—.. new, 37s to 40s ; old, 42s t. 47s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 45s I Seconds, 42s I Thirds, 40s per sack. NOTTINGHAM—MAY 10. At this Corn Exchange to-day there was plenty of wheat shown, but trade ruled very dull at is under former rates —White, from 61s to 66s ; red, 42s to 60s. Barley was in small show, with a quiet trade • prices barely as high —malting, 37s to 42s ; grinding, 29s to 31s. Oats were steady at 30s to 355, old ; 24s to 28s new. Beans were sold at 40s to 50s per qr, Flour, 40s to 435. NORWICH—MAY 10. The supply of wheat to-day was tolerably fair, with a rather thin attendance of farmers. Sales were very slow, and sold at about is under the prices of last week.. Oats, beans, and peas unaltered. Four 6d to is per sack down. The quantity of barley shown was scanty, and prices were the same as last week. White wheat 58s to 61s Red wheat 64s to 57s Malting barley...4os to 41s Chevalier barley 39s to 405 New do .. .... .... —s to —s Oats.. 25% to 30s Flour, 39s 6d to ----s Od per sack from the miller. YORK—MAY 10. We had more wheat on offer to-day than has been tile case for some time past, both of red and white qualities. The demand ruled inactive, and late prices declined is to 2s per qr. Barley an inactive business:, and scarce ; former prices were not exceeded. Oats in demand, at extreme prices. Beans at late currences. Wheat, red 56s to 60s Oats..... . 22s to 24s .22s to 44 White do .60s to 64s Beans ....... . s Barley .32s to —s Peas .. • ....• .—s to —3 Malt, 66s to 68s per qr.:; rye, 34 s per qr. ; flour, 433 to 45s per sack. .FO.R.EIGN MAIL PACKET MT. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. May 19. via Marseilles May 1.3. .drazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. June 4.. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 1 . China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton May 19. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton May 191. via Marseilles May 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton May 26. via Marseilles May 20 . Lisbon May 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 14. Newfoundland ,,....May 11. Oporto and Vigo .. , U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... , May 14. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. May 14. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. 1v; ay 10. Bahamas, via New York Mexico .... May .QQ., All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I m — . it,. , California, and British Columbia. May TWENTY YEARS SINCE.—The census returns show that between 1841 and 1861 the population of the United. Kingdom increased by more than 2,000,000 —from 27,000,000 to above 29,000,000, notwithstanding the famine which de solated Ireland in 1847, and notwithstanding also that there left our shores 4,000,000 emigrants, the vast majority of them natives of this kingdom. An annual publication of the Board of Trade gives with official accuracy and autho rity an account of the progress of the country in these 20 years. Wars and rumours of wars have compelled us to add considerably to our national debt, but we have so far reduced the addition that the £790,874,608 of 1841 is no more than. £799,949,807 in 1861. The close of the 20 years sees ua better taxpapers than the beginning, The net revenue in. 1841 was but £48,084,359; in 1861 it was £63,905,884. The Customs' duties, notwithstanding the millions of taxatien repealed or reduced, actually rose from £21,898,845 to £22,765,338. The expenditure advanced from £50,185,729 to £66,120,092, and this although the interest of the debt was reduced from £29,450;145 to £26,090,260. The expen diture for the defence of the country had to be raised front £14,722,628 in 1841 to £28,317,341 in. 1861, nearly double the former amount; and the civil charges are also stated as rising from £6,012,956 to £11,712,491. Happily. with so much more taxation to pay, we are now doing a very much larger business. In 1841 the exports of British and Irish produce were of the value of £51,545,116, and in 1861 they were £125,115,133; the exports to foreign countries rose from £36,541,691 to £82,854,163, and to British possessions from £15,003,425 to £42,260,970. In 1841 we imported 487,992,3551 b. of raw cotton, in 1861, 1,256,984,7361 b. ; and the export of cotton manufactures, twist, and yarn rose from £23,499,478 to £46,836,749. In 1841 we imported 56,170,9741 b. of wool, and exported woollen manufactures and yarn of the value of £6,300,821; in 1861 we imported 147,172,8411 b„ and exported to the value of £14,687,316. In 1841 we exported iron and steel (in addition to f e s u 7t6 t h l . e e r y) value ee t r h do e af s v xh a le l , u r y2 e l7 o (, f b9e : ss 2 i) , d B ew 7 s 7 al , si 2 n 7 ee B xnp ; oa i rn n tde l ds B i : "l 1 i n I t B 7 l wn l au ; sfa i c n ltuo lB 3° 6 4B l it was £5,577,064. To carry all these piles of goods British and foreign vessels of the following ton nage entered and cleared from our ports :—ln 1841, British 6,790,490; foreign, 2,628,057. In 1861, Eritish, 15,420,532; foreign, 11, 175,109 tons. We imported in 1841 3,627,562 qrs. of grain and m.o. in 1001, 10,001,014 Lps. Tlie price. of wheat was 645. 4d. in 1841 ; Os. 4d. in 1861: The mar.. riages in England were 122,496 in 1841, and had risen to 165,250 in 1861; and the excess of births over deaths from 168,311 in the former to 260,232 in the latter. Between 1847 and 1851 our railways were more than doubled in length, and the number of passengers and the traffic receipts were more than trebled, These are a few examples of the figtres that show the progress made between 1841 and we nsay add with honest pride that the re are i tems w hi c h cann ot be put into figures. BIRTHS. LOCKWOOD.—Oa the 10th inst., the wife of Mr. Crosby Lockwood, of Stationers'-hall -court, Ludgate-hill, and Righbury-place, Islington, of a son. MENziEs.— On the 10th inst., at 78, Upper Stamford at., South, the wife of Dr. James I. Menzies, of a son, Toimmusr.— On th e 9th i nst., at Lee, K ent, t h e w if e o f J, Toulmin, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. IT t uRIS—JEFFREY—Oa the Bth inst., at the parish church, Swaffham, LNortoix Um Rey. vi;„. _ bath Ann, eldest daughter of Charles Jeffrey, Esq. STURTON—BELLEW.—On the 7th inst., at Crosby Hall, Lancashire, the seat of Nicholas Blundell, Esq., the Hon. Captain Everard Sturton, 10th Hussars, to the Hon. F. Bellew, daughter of Lord Bellow. DEATHS. BENTHAM.—On the 7th inst., at Rochester, Wm.' alker Bentham, Esq., aged 81. KEENE.—On the Bth inst., at 31, Upper Stamford-! treet, Alfred William Keene, Esq., M.R.u.S., late of Guild. ford, Surrey, aged 31. KiNosTorr.--On the 9th inst., at Horsham, Surrey, Valens tine Kingston, Esq., aged 75. NUGENT.—On the 18th ult., at Paris, the Dowager Lady Nugent, widow of the late Sir James Nugent, Bart. WILLIAMS.—On the 9th inst., at Dublcy, Gloucestershire, the Rev. Anthony Williams, M.A., vicar of Coaley, aged 28. YATES. -- On the 7th inst., at Maperton House,Wincanton, Somerset, the Rev. Samuel Wildman Yates, late vicar of St. Mary's, Reading, aged 68. LoNnox : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Wlale6o24—M9nday, May 12, 1862.