The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-25 00:00:00

THE NAVY. Oa Wednesday evening the Duke of Somerset and Rear -Admiral C. Eden, C. 8,, arrived at Ports mouth Dexkyard from London. The Duke pro ceeded to, Osborne in the Fire Queen steam tender, remair:tng there until yesterday morning, when he returned to Portsmouth in the Fire Queen, and was received on landing at the Sing's-stairs of the dock yard, by Admirals Sir H. Bruce, Hon. G. Grey, Eden, and Robinson. The Duke, accompanied by tke officers named, then examined the Royal Sove eign, converting to a shield ship, and afterwards paid a lengthened visit to the Defence, 18, iron fri gate, Capt. R. A. Powell, C. 8., in No. 10 Dock. The Royal Alfred, converting to an armour-cased srigate, was next visited, after which their lord ships went on board the Psyche, new Admiralty paddle yacht, in the steam basin. From the Pysche their lordships visited No. 11 Dock, just begun in its construction, and other parts of the yard. After visiting the Admiral-Superintendent's office, the Duke of Somerset and Rear• Admiral Robinson re turned to town ; Rear-Admiral Eden remained behind, and proceeded to Fort Cumberland, the head-quarters of the Royal Marine Artillery. The Zebra, 17, 200 horse power, Commander A. 11. Hoskins, will remain at Sheerness a few days longer, in order to have some defects in her ma chinery remedied. When taken out of harbour on her trial trip a few days ago, it was found almost impossible to get the requisite amount of steam from the boilers to the engines, although the former had a pressure of 201 b. It was also found that the screw would not back turn at all. These defects, together with the requisite alterations to the valves, are now being remedied, after which the Zebra will proceed to Spithead to await orders. She has her full com plement of officers and men on board. The Rhadamanthus, paddle, Master-Commander Sturdee, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Woolwich, laden with boilers and machinery. The Shannon, screw frigate, Capt. Wainwright, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spit head. She will be placed in dock to stop a leak in her bottom and for other purposes. In consequence of an accident to the machinery of H.M.S. Mullet, 5, Commander C. H. Simpson, after her return from the trial trip, she was removed from the Little Nore to the basin at Sheerness dockyard to be repaired, having first discharged her powder on board the flagship Formidable. The result is that the Mullet will not be able to proceed_ to her desti nation on Friday, as was report-,d in The 'Fun of yesterday, but will be dett;ned at Sheerness for some days. The Fidget stear-, gunboat, 20 horse power, after having under gt, ne very extensive repairs in her hull and r eeellip:ery, was taken out of No. 4 dock in Sh eerne';es dockyard and placed in the 3d division of the ;team Reserve at Sheerness. The Lizard, 3, paddlewheel tender, Lieut. and CommanderW. Spratt,has left Sheerness for Dover, to be employed irl laying down targets for practice from the gun . at the fort; The P.esistance, 18, iron-plated steamship, 3,668 tons ; 600 horse power, is being brought forward with great rapidity. Her masts are all fixed, and her rigging nearly completed. She will in a short time be ready for ccmmission. The following appointments were made yester• day at the, Admiralty :—George Simpson, of the Coquettr d , confirmed first-class assist.-engineer ; AdarA Young, of the Banshee, promoted to first clPAss assist.-engineer ; William Fraser, of the Im "perieuse, confirmed as second-class assist.-engineer; T. W. Dearden, of the Cumberland, in the Medusa, confirmed as second class assist.-engineer; and J. W. Owen, of the Dasher, in the Speedy, confirmed as second class assist.-engineer. Commander C. D. Bevan has been appointed an inspecting commander of the Coastguard vice Wasey. whose period of ser vice has expired; Cotpinamler E. Nares has been appointed an inspecting commander of the Coast guard, vice M'Donald, promoted to be Captain. THE ARMY. The Secretary of State for War, Sir G. C. Lewis, accompanied by Captain Caffin, R.N., C. 8., Direc tor of Stores, and Mr. G. D. Ramsay, Assistant Director of Stores, inspected the Army Clothing Establishment at Pimlico on Monday last. He was conducted over the establishment by the several officers in charge of the respective departments. Major-General J. Bloomfield, Inspector-General of Artillery, has left town for Yarmouth to inspect the Coast Brigade and batteries. The gallant Ge neral afterwards willpay official visitato Lowestoft and Harwich. Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, C. 8., Deputy- Adjt.• Gen. Royal Marines, yesterday inspected the Royal Marine Artillery, in their practice, with ship, field, and siege ordnance. The Major- General, accompanied by Col. Schomberg, Royal Marine Artillery, and Capt. Travers, Aide-de-Camp, arrived at the outerpractice ground at two p.m, and was received by Col.-Commandant Fraser and Staff. After some little delay, Rear-Admiral Charles Eden, C. 8., arrived, when the practice commenced from the gun battery with 32-pounders and 8-inch guns, firing shot at 500 yards' range. The first shot grazed the top of the target, but the second carried it clear away, and the remainder of the shots fired were directed merely at that portion of the sandbank where the target had originally been fixed. The time and precision of fire from these guns were all that coula'ne desired. The MOT tar battery, containin-4 seven mortars, 8 and 10 inch, was next v; :;:ted,•arid several rounds of dead shell fired (3; 600 yards. At the conclusion of the mortar practice the Major-General next proceeded t o ti de glacis on the south front of the fort, where a 'eicl-battery of 12-pounder A rmstrongs and a rocket field-battery of 7 and 12-pounders, with one 24- pound siege -rocket tube, were in position. These latter were, as usual, somewhat uncertain in their range and flight, but some excellent practice was made from the Armstrong at 1,500 and 2,000 yards' range. Excellent practice was also made from the 8-inch gun, smooth bore, mounted on the south-east angle of the fort, An inspection of the laboratory, and some further practice with Armstrong guns concluded the day's prcceedings. The men had been provioualy inspected in their broadside and pivot gun drills, and an inspection had also been made, in the strictest sense of the words, of the men's kits, barrack-rooms, regimental boots. &c. On Wednes day the men were paraded on Southsea-common for battalion movements, but the weather was so bois terous that it was impossible to convey the words of command along the line, and the greater part of the movements passed in dumb show. It is not impro bable that both corps, the Artillery and Light In fantrY, may be brigaded together previous to Mlor gen. Stransham leaving the garrison. The inspec tion of the. Light Infantry will be proceeded with to-day. Yestenlay Nedham, commanding the Royal Artillery in the Chatham district, resumed his in spection of the D field battery, 13th brigade, Royal Artillery, quartered at Chatham garrison. On the previous day the i n B l3ection was confined to a close examination of the •s a nd a & cc e o ., ut o r f em th en e ts ba o t f te t r h y e . men, and the harnee k : t , tt: Yesterday the entire batt etY, which numbers nearly 250 men of all ranks, Tgether with the horses and Bix of the Armstrong held g'illes proceeded to Cha tham Lines, under the command of Major N. M. Mackay. Each Armstrong gun was supplied with twenty rounds of blank c artrid ge , Colo ne l Ned ham, attended by his staff , arrived ow the g roun d , soon after the battery was formed, when he directed the officers and men to exec ute a variety of manoeuvres, many of which were of a highly irate_ resting description. They performed them in an exceedingly efficient manner. Colonel Nedham sub sequently inspected the battery, dismounted, on the parade ground of Brompton Barracks, and brought his inspection .to a close by the inspection of the official books and documents of the battery. The half-yearly inspection of the Royal and In dian Engineers at headquarters, Chatham, was brought:to a conclusion yesterday by Col. Harness, Ca, who inspected the 29th, 37th, and 38th com panies at Brompton Barracks, and afterwards exa mined the books and accounts of each company. Owing to the large arrivals of troops from India and the colonies at St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, it has been found necessary to remove the depot of the 51st Light Infantry, under the command of Capt. G. B. Macqueen, from that establishment to the Hut Barracks at Brompton, where t c 3d bat talion of Infantry, to which the 51st is attached, is quartered. The depot of the 51st is v( ry strong, the companies having been augmente I to 250 men by volunteers from other corps. The headquarters of the regiment are in India. The East India troopship Newcastle, 1,250 tons burden, Capt. C. Wiltshire, belonging to Messrs. Green and Co., London, 96 days from Calcutta, with a large number of troops from the regiments serving in the Bengal Presidency, numerous pas sengers, and a valuable cargo, arrived off Grave send on Wednesday evening, and yesterday disem barked her officers and troops at Customhouse-quay, Gravesend, under the direction of the officers of the staff from Chatham garrison. The Newcastle sailed on the 16th of January, and reached St. Helena (the only land touched at) on the 15th ult., sailing thence the following day. She brings home 57 men of the Royal Horse Artillery, six of the Roy al Ar tillery, nine of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, nine of the 34th, one man of the 35th, seven men of the 38th, two of the 48th, 11 of the 52d Light Infan try, 15 of the 54th, 29 of the 77th, one man of the 88th Connaught Rangers, two men of the 90th Light Infantry, four of the 97th, and three of the Rifle Brigade, with 31 women and 41 children, and the following officers—viz., Captain M. C. Farring ton, 51st Light Infantry ; Lieut. L. W.Desborough, 27th Enniskillens ; Lieut. A. Ford, Royal Artil lery ; and Staff- Surgeon J. Meane. Four deaths and one birth occurred on board during the voyage. The troops on landing at Gravesend yesterday were medically inspected by the staff from Fort Pitt Hospital, when 22 men were selected for admission into the hospital, and the remainder forwarded to the Chatham invalid establishment. The Royal Artillery on landing proceeded at once to Wool wich. The cargo brought home by the Newcastle consists chiefly of Assam tea, rice, and indigo. The troopship Holmcsdale sailed from Calcutta on the same day as the Newcastle, but took the ground on going down the river. The Lady Jocelyn, screw steamer, with upwards of 200 troops on board, from Calcutta, arrived at St. Helena on the same day that the Newcastle took her departure from that We have to record the death of Sir John Kin caid, senior Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard, and one of the few remaining officers who were present at the battle of Waterloo. The deceased was born in 1789, and was consequently in his 73d year. Having received his education at Polmont School, in Linlithgowshire, he entered the army in 1809 as an Ensign in the Rifle Brigade, and was present at the Walcheren expedition, and subsequently served in the greater portion of the engagements of the Peninsular campaign. He was one of the leaders of the storming party of the Light Division at the siege of Cuidad Rodrigo. He served also through out the campaign of 1815, and was present at the battle of Quatre Bras, the retreat on the following day, the battle of Waterloo (where his horse was wounded in five places, and killed under him), and capture of Paris. In 1845 he was appointed one of the - Exons of the Yeomen of the Guard, and on be coming senior Exon in 1852 received, according to usage, the honour of knighthood. In 1847 he was appointed Inspector of Prisons in Scotland, and in 1850 Inspector of Factories ther e . H® was the author of several works in relation to military mat ters, among which may be mentioned " Adventures in the Rifle Brigade," and "Random Shots from a Rifleman." In recognition of his military services he had received the silver war medal with nine clasps for the Peninsula, and also the medal for Waterloo. Sir John retired from the army in 1831, and was unmarried. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. There probably never was a more gigantic illus tration of the mere principle of work than is shown by the every day progress of the interior of the building. To be seen as an industrial exhibition it should be seen now, with its thousands of opera tives of every class, trade, and profession, from the bricklayer to the sculptor-artist, all hurrying, all striving to perfect their own individual tasks, all labouring or made to labour with such an unre mitting perseverance and economy of time as changes the aspect of every part of the interior with every hour that passes. Each visit shows a newer and, generally, better arranged display. What in the morning is only roughly prefigured as an exhibitor's stall is a trophy or a beautiful case before night, and from early dawn till dusk all the hive is busy, and there is such multiplied subdivision of labour as proves that even by Thursday next something like order will be worked out of the present chaos of packing-cases, straw, lumber, deal, barricades, bricks, and cordage. That the Exhibition will be complete in all its wonderful details of art and in dustry is literally almost impossible, but it will be as much more perfect in its arrangement for the opening than that of 1851 as the Exhibition itself will be superior in nearly all that relates to material progress. Every day shows more and more clearly that as an exhibition of arts and manufactures it will be one of such general perfection and complete ness as the world has not yet seen. Each class and .each country confesses itself surprised at what others have accomplished. Thus, France says, " We knew what we intended to do, but we had no idea that Prussia and Austria were coming out so strong." Pottery is surprised at hardware, machi nery at textiles, Sheffield at Birmingham, and so on through them all. Each is conscious of how they themselves have striven for perfection, though none seem to have thought that others were actuated by the same motives ; and the result of the combined Efforts is a general s.stonishment at the completeness and worth of all,even rivals. The foreign division of the building, in si its at the care and labour of its indefatigable superintendent, Mr. Owen, can not possibly be even half arranged by Thursday next. As a rule, most, though not all, of our foreign competitors are behind, and almost us much so in their picture galleries as they are in their courts. A day or two after the opening, however, will soon overtake this lost ground, when the English will have to look to themselves, for the continental courts being limited in space, and therefore in con tribution, show only their chef d'ceuvres in each class, and the general perfection of our own branches of manufecture may be lost sight of before the sur passing excellence of isolated specimens from abroad. Austria has sent some superb groups in marble to decorate the entrance from the dais leading to her court, though unfortunately, as most of these are evidently only intended to be seen from the front they lose half their effect when placed as central figures. Belgium has also sent some admirable bronze statues, but one of the best and most spirited came in from Sweden yesterday. This represents two men strapped together after the old Runic fashion of duelling and fighting to the death with knives. The story of the fatal encounter, from its first outbreak to the widow weeping before the un couth Runic stone which marks the grave of husband and lover, is simply but forcibly told in has relief beneath the groups, some of which are literally copied from the old Runic original. These fine statues are cast in zinc bronzed over, and, even allowing for some slight faults, which are probably due to the metal itself, the whole group is beyond a doubt the most spirited and lifelike in the build ing. Berlin is showing a very beautiful collec tion of porcelain works of art under the western dome. Conspicuous among these are two exqui site busts in Parian of the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, which are actual portraits in their minute resemblance to the originals. In this class also Dresden has entered the field in great force, and the works from the Royal Saxon manufactory at Meissen will be among the chief attractions in this Portion of the foreign side. Some of the Dresden c handeliers, mirror frames, and groups of figures, are real marvels of ceramic excellence, both as to colour ing and form of figures and eutline. Sevres, also, is a-n , • dleg some superb objects to the French court, be characteristic brilikio those of Dresden and Berlin, will of their own peculiar excellence; and, though in each branch it is said the English °rtiw ill, as a wh o l e , b e equa l to i ts many rivals, it t will not, as a national manufacture, be m an o y st th ee i . e rv g lie b i er i t n a d t i our of successful d, gilding of the trop a c n h d ar , a t c o t o er o is f t t i e e n, o a f l of others. The painting an hies in the d ',IA DIN, FRID EIVENIN(I-, APRIL 25, 1862. TILE SUN' nave is advancing very fast, and the result becomes more inharmonious every hour. The great mistake that appears to have been committed is in not having in the first instance restricted the erection of trophies to manufacturers only. Retail dealers, who manufacture nothing, but sell almost every thing, have therefore seized upon the occasion to erect their so-called trophies, and turn them into an advertising column uglier, if possible, than that celebrated French one which so long withstood the assaults of the Duke of Wellington in front of Apsley House. Had some rule of this kind as to manufacturers been laid down at first, there would have been no intrusion of tawdry vulgarities upon the nave, such as the execrable toy trophy, and which, in spite of its repainting, still remains so paltry that it would be utterly beneath notice, but for the offence it gives to everybody in the building, English and foreign. Though this unhappy in truder is the worst of its class, it is not altogether alone, for on the whole there is far from being an improvement in the art designs of English exhibi tors of cases and trophies since 18M. Then so little was attempted in the way of decoration of the cases that none were much shocked at failures, but now trophies are not only to be trophies of manufacture but trophies of decoration Els°, and it is evidently thought that the principal means to that end con sists in a profuse application of gilt and colour. When proper artists have been employed of course gold and colours are used sparingly and always with the best effects, but in the majority of in stances the cases and trophy-stands are strik ingly at variance with the good taste shown by the same exhibitors in the manufacture of the articles they themselves wish to dis play. Thus, Defries's great glass chandelier is a noble specimen of good taste and artistic manufac ture, and yet the ambitiously-designed framework from which it is to bang is conspicuously ugly both in form and decoration. Naylor and Vicars, of Shofnpld, havo put up a noblo peal of coot °tea bells, the largest of which weighs five tons. The belfry framework of this peal was most effectively decorated ; but, not content with this, the bells them selves have now succumbed to artistic treatment, have been painted ultramarine, varnished over, and gilt. All semblance of their real nature, and the cleanness of their casting has thus been completely hidden, and, viewed from the floor, they now look like so much papier-macbe work. In these matters, perhaps, every one has a light to his own bad taste, but there are some things which are so conspicu ously offensive and illjudged that the general manager will interfere to procure their mitigation, if not their removal, before the opening. The Commissioners have given notice that at the close of this day all empty packing-cases must be removed out of the building, and have issued posi tive orders to the various superintendents to see that this rule is carried into effect, whether the owners of the packing-cases are ready to receive them or not. But empty cases are not the only obstructions. It is those which are still full that are chiefly in the way. Exhibitors should come down to the building without loss of time, and see to the unpacking of their goods, for they may depend upon it that, after a certain date, the Commissioners will be compelled to issue a stringent order against more cases being unpacked until the opening has taken place. Cases, both full and empty, were for a long time an utter obstacle to progress in the an nexe for machinery in motion ; but since a party of the Royal Naval Reserve men, under Captain Maynard, have been sent down, the building has been cleared, and is now progressing fast towards its final adjustment and good order. At 10 o'clock on Wednesday next the building will be cleared entirely of all the exhibitors and their workmen. There will positively be no relaxation or depar ture from this rule. The building will then be swept out, dusted, and put in tolerable order, and the full rehearsal of the great musical programme proceeded with. All sorts of statements and mis statements as to the unfortunate differences which have arisen as to who is to conduct certain portions of the music have been afloat for some time. Into these we certainly will not enter. The musical world has long made up its mind as to the merits or de merits of the quarrel, and if it had not we should never attempt to guide it to a decision one way or the other. Where there are many musicians no one expects harmony ; so it is sufficient to say that this portion of the opening arrengements is complete. The majority of the places from which the coun try chorus were selected have been visited by officers of the Sacred Harmonic Society, and the musical qualifications of those engage d severely tested. As the committee reserve to themselves the right of similarly trying the capabilities of each performer, on arrival in London, from those districts which it has not been possible to visit, an amount of choral excellence will be secured far exceeding that at any former great musical ceremony. The places and stands in the great orchestra are all marked out. The band will occupy the front part of the great platform—the violins disposed on the right and the left, and the wind instruments in the centre, the whole being flanked by the 90 double basses and violoncellos, with the three sets of ket tledrums at equal distances in front of the chorus. A considerable echo having been found to exist under the dome, the orchestra will be covered at a proper height with a drumhead-shaped, oiled and hardened striped canvass awning, which will not only destroy the echo, but materially aid in pro. pelting the tone through the length of the nave and the transepts. All the music will be truly and entirely choral. Flom the outset it was foreseen that ; encum bered as the main avenues would be with lofty trophies and hangings, solo voices would be almost quite inaudible. Even the solo portions of " God save the Queen" will be sung in unison by all the voices ; and there is no doubt but that the effect of this large mass of voices pealing down the length of the nave will be immeasurably fine ; it will be sung at the opening and conclusion of the ceremony. The " Hallelujah Chorus" and the " Amen Chorus," from the Messiah, will also be performed. The remaining vocal music will consist of an Ode by Professor Bennett, the words by Tennyson. This work is also entirly choral, with full orches tral accompaniments. Written and composed for the occasion, and performed as it will be by nearly 2,500 carefully selected artistes, it will doubtless prove a most valuable portion of this great musical display. At the request of the International Com missioners, M. Sainton will be the conductor of Professor Bennett's Ode. The instrumental music will comprise an over ture by Meyerbcer, written for the opening. The parts are all engraved. It concludes with a well known English national air, and this coupled with the high repute of this distinguished composer renders it a work of great interest. The March by Auber, also written at the request of the Commis sioners, will be e qually interesting. The official outline of the programme of the pro cession appears in another part of our impression. Its great error—apart from those little inelegancies of composition which have been pec u li ar t o th e official notifications on this occasion—is that it limits the hours for the arrival of visitors from 12 to half-past 1 o'clock. This rule is simply ridiculous. Such a number of season tickets have been sold, and the sale is now increasing with such rapidity, that there will probably be not less than from 25,000 to 30,C00 spectators in the building on Thursday ne x t, and this number cannot possibly set down from their carriages and pass through the turnstiles in the specified time. None, certainly, can be admitted after half past 1, but, unless the Commissioners want to exclude a large proportion of the visitors whom from the mere sale of tickets they know are coming, they must open the building to the public at 11, instead of 12. [A DVEnTlSEMENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Inflammations of sensitive parts, piles, fistulas, and such like painful diseases, may, without consulting any one, be presently relieved and ultimately cured by the pi oper and diligent use of this cooling and healing ointment, whose action should in such cases be assisted by judicious doses which he first of Holloway's pills . Ere man y d a ys have elapsed th e anxious patient will experience a wonderful degree of ea se from this treatment. Doubts and fears will soon disap. pear, and the sufferer will bl ess t h e d ay on applied these remedies. They are equally suitable to both sexes, all ages, and any climate ; nor is their efficiency im•• paired by long keeping. Their action on the frame is soothing, safe, and certain, THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR. (From the _Mobile Register of March 18.) We annex below a communication sent into Con gress (Confederate) on Thursday by the President, with reference to this victory, and covering the official report of the engagement To THE SENATE AND HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES OP THE CONFEDEiRATE STATES. " I herewith transmit a letter of the Secretary of the Navy, of this date, covering the official report of the naval engagement between the James River squadron and the enemy's fleet at Hampton Roads on the Bth inst. The officers and men of the navy engaged in this brilliant affair deserve well of the country, and are commended to the con sideration of Congress. The disparity of the forces engaged did not justify the anticipation of so great a victory, and it is doubly gratifying that it has been won upon an element where we were supposed to be least able to compete with our enemy. Special aflention is called to the perfidious conduct of the enemy in hoisting, on the frigate Congress, a white flag, and renewing fire from that vessel under the impunity thus obtained. " March 11. " JEFFERSON DAVIS. " Confederate Screw Steam flattery Virginia off Sewall's Point, March S. " Flag Officer,—in consequence of the wound of Flag Officer Buchanan, it becomes my duty to report that the Virginia left the yard this morning at 11 o'clock steamed down the river past our batteries, and over to Newport News, where we engaged the batteries ashore and also two large steam frigates, supposed to be the Minnesota and Roanoke, and a sailing frigate and several small steamers, armed with heavy rifled guns. We sank the Cumberland, drove the Congress ashore, when she hauled down her colours and hoisted the white flag; but she firei upon us with the white flag flying, wounding Lieutenant Minor and several of our imen. We again openedAs upon her, and she is now in flames. The deal prevented our reaching the other frigates. This, with the approach of night, we think, saved them from de struction. Our loss is two killed and eightwounded. Two of our guns have the muzzles shot off. The prow was twisted and the armour somewhat damaged, the anchor and all flagstaffs shot away, and the smokestack and steampipe were riddled. The bearing of the officers and men was all that could be wished, and, in fact, it could not have been otherwise atter taie iwbic and dwrivs oo.atiot of tho ga s officer, whose wound is deeply regretted by all on boatd, who would gladly have sacrificed themselves in order to save him. We were accompanied from the yard by the Beaufort, Lieut. Parker, and Raleigh, Lieut, Alexander, and as soon as it was discovered up the James River that the .. .action had commenced we were joined by the Patrick Henry, Commander Tucker; the Jamestown, Lieut. Bar ney; and the Teazer, Sergeant Webb, all which were ac tually engaged, and rendered very effective service. En closed I send the surgeon's report of casualties, &c.—l have the honour to be, Sir, " Very respectfully, y,our obedient savant, - " CATESBY AP R. JONES, " Executive and Ordnance Officer. " 'Flag Officer F. Forest," The official report of the naval battle in Hampton Roads was read. The accompanying letter of the Secretary of the Navy states that Flag Officer F. Buchanan was disabled near the close of the engage ment by a painful wound, though not very dange rous. The report was made by the executive officer upon whom the command devolved, Lieut. Tones. The Confederate vessels engaged were the steam sloop Virginia, of 10 guns ; the Patrick Henry, Com mander Tucker, of six guns; the Jamestown, Lieut. Commander Barney, of two guns ; the Raleigh, Lieut. Commanding Alexander; the Beaufort,Lieut. Commanding Parker; the Teazel., Lieut. Command ing Webb, each of one gun. With this force (20 guns) Flag Officer Buchanan engaged the enemy's fleet, consisting of the Cumberland, 24 guns ; the Congress, 50 guns ; the St. Lawrence, 50 guns; the steam frigate Minesota, 40 guns ; the enemy's bat teries at Newport News, and several small steamers, armed with heavy rifled guns. The engagement sommeneed at half-past 3 p.m., and at 4 p.m. Capt. Buchanan had sunk the Cum berland, captured and burnt the Congress, disabled and driven the Miuesota ashore, and defeated the St. Lawrence and Roanoke, which sought shelter under the guns of Fortress Monroe. Two of the enemy's small steamers were blown up, and the two transport steamers were captured. The Cumberland went down with all on board, her tops only remaining above water, but many of her people were saved by boats from the shore. The flag of the Congress and the sword of the officer commanding at the time of her surrender are at the Navy Department. The report concludes as follows : "To the dashing courage, the patriotism, and eminent ability of Flag Officer Buchanan, and to the officers and men of his squadron, our country is indebted for this brilliant achievement, which will hold a conspicuous place among the heroic contests of noval history. " S. R. MALLORY, Secretary of the Navy," (From the Charleston Mercury.) The iron-clad steamer Virginia cost 185,000 dols. to fit her up,and in one day destroyed over 1,100,000 dols. worth of York property. She lost her prow in striking the Ericsson a slanting blow, and not by running against the Cumberland, This can be replaced in two day, and then she will be in as good, if not better condition than ever. We give an extract from a private letter from Mr. John L, Porter, the naval constructor of the Virginia. He writes : "I received but little encouragement from any one while the Virginia was progressing. Hundreds—l may say thou sands—asserted she would never float. Some said she would turn bottom side up ; others said the crew would suffocate ; but the most wise said the concussion and report from the guns would deafen the men. Some said she would not steer; and public opinion generally about here said she would never come out of the dock. You have no idea what I have suffered in mind since I commenced her; but I knew what I was about, and persevered. Some of her inboard arrangements are of the most intricate character, and have caused me many sleepless nights in making them; but all have turned out right, and thanks are due to a kind Provi dence, whose blessings on my efforts I have many times in voked. I must say I was astonished at the success of the Virginia. She destroyed the Cumberland in 15 minutes, and in 30 more the Congress was captured. The Minesota would have shared the same fate, but she got aground, and the Virginia could not get at her. The Virginia steers beau• tifally, and her speed is three miles more per hour than it ever was. She is very comfortable ; there is not the least unpleasant sound from the guns, and all the officers are highly pleased." THE I'ELVERTON CASE. The celebrated case of Thelwall v. Yelverton was reopened in the Court of Common Pleas on Wednes day by the motion of Dr. Ball, Q.C., on behalf of the defendant, the Hon. Major Yelverton, to amend the bill of exceptions by omitting the finding of the jury upon certain collateral issues mentioned— namely, that a marriage, valid according to the laws of Scotland, was contracted between the de fendant and Maria Theresa Longworth or Yelver ton, in Edinburgh, in March, 1857, and that a mar riage, valid according to the laws of Ireland, was celebrated between them in the Roman Catholic chapel of Killowen in August, 1857. Mr. Ball said it was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover a sum of about £250 for goods, &c., sup plied to the defendant's wife. The defendant's pleadings denied that the goods, &c., were supplied to his wife • and the issues raised on those pleadings were, whether any goods were supplied by the plaintiff to defendant's wife, &c. When the case came for trial, at the sittings after Hilary Term, 1801, the plaintiff, to prove his case, produced Mrs. Yelverton as a witness, and in the coulee of her evidence she deposed to the celebration of two care monies of marriage bet wean bar and the defendant; one a contract in Scotland, in March, 1857, per' verbs de presenti, and the other the performance of a ceremony in Ireland by a Roman Catholic clergy man at Kilowen, iu the County Louth, in the month of August, 1857. This question of marriage did not arise on the pleadings but on the evidence. The Chief Justice charged the jury ' and pointed out to them that this question of marrge must determine the case. There might be a valid marriage either in Scotland or Ireland. The jury, as stated in the bill of exceptions, found that a marriae was en tered into, according to the law of Scotland, in March, 1857, and that a Marriage, according to the law of Ireland, was solemnised in Mardi, 1857, and that the goods :,are supplied to Mrs. Yel verton, &c. The defendant objected to this speclal finding upon questions collateral to the questions raised on the pleadings. These questions were, no doubt, proper ones to be put to the jury, but were not proper questions to be stated on the bill of exceptions. Judge Keogh—Were there (thy objections to these questions being put to the jury Sergeant Sullivan (with Messrs. Whiteside, Q.C. and J. F. Townsend)—No, my lord; they went to the jury by consent. Mr. Ball—Upon a bill of exception parties were not entitled to have a flew trial motion. In the bill of exceptions the verdict should not appear at all, or anything but the exceptions. Counsel then re fet red to the statute of" Edward the First" on the subject, and the case of "Davies v. Lounds," and other cases, in support of his argument. The object of the plaintiff was to have a bill of exceptions, and at the same time to have the advantage of a new trial motion, which was irregular. There were five exceptions altogether, two to the charge as to the Scotch marriage, and three as to the Irish marriage. The Chief Justice said that when his attention was called to the case he thought it doubtful whether this matter should not be introduced in the bill of exceptions ; and therefore he thought it bet- • ter to do so, and leave the defendant t 5 move to expunge it, as if he decided otherwise, and was wrong, the plain tff might have no means of setting him right. Sergeant Sullivan—All the questions were sub mitted to the jury by consent. Judge Christian—The jury, as it appears to me, might not have been unanimous as to either of the marriages, and yet the exceptions might have been taken. Six of them might have been in favour of the Scotch marriage and biS for the Irish marriage, which shows it is a collateral question. As . it happens, we know that they were unanimous as to both questions. Judge Keogh—l do not see how the jury could have compounded two half marriages in the way suggested by my brother Christian, in order to make one valid one. Mr. Whiteside—The jury must necessarily have been unanimous as to one of the marriages, or there could not have been a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr, Ball, in continuation, contended that upon the statute, and cases decided upon it, the Court should strike out the findings on both marriages from the bill of exceptions. The Court then adjourned. THE LATE FORGERY OF £445 ON COtTPS' BAAK. Mary Aylmer alias Gibson was brought up nt Bow-street, on remand, charged with being con cerned in forging and uttering a cheque for £445 on Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s bank in the Strand. Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the Bankers' Association, prosecuted; and Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-placei ap peared for the prisoner. Louisa Debenham, assistant to Messrs. Bradshaw, linen-drapers, Bishopsgate-street, deposed—On the 31st December a woman came to our shop and made some purchases. She was dressed in a dark dress, with a dark velvet mantle, and she had a lace fall over her bonnet. It was so thick a fall that I could not see her face. She made some purchases, and tendered a£s note in payment. She wrote on the back of the note " Claike, Windsor-terrace." I asked her if she meant Windsor-terrace, City-road? She said "Yes," and I added the words " City-road." In consequence of something that occurred Mrs. Brad shaw gave some instructions to the boy. William Gregory, a lad of about 15 or 16, deposed —I recollect at the end of the year being directed to watch a female. I saw her join a gentleman a little way down the street, and she went away with him. Cross-examined-1 should not know the gentle man or lady. Mr. Lewis asked whether the magistrate thought this was evidence against the prisoner ? Mr. Hall could not say, at this stage of the case. Mr.Mullens was sure the magistrate would allow him to coL duct his case his own way. Benjamin William Lloyd, assistant to Messrs. Masters and Co., drapers, Shoreditch—At the latter end of December a lady purchased some goods at our house, and paid them with a £5 note, now pro duced. I requested her to write her address, and she wrote the address, "5, Creed§-place, Green wich." I believe the prisoner to be the same person. Cross-examined—She had a veil on. It was not very thick. It did to some extent conceal her features. She did not raise her veil or fall. There were black spots on it. When I first saw her at this court I had my doubts, but now that I have seen her standing up I am sure she is the person. I did say at first that I thought she was not the woman. She was sitting down then. I saw her sitting down in our shop, but I noticed her more particularly when standing up. It was a fortnight since that I saw her here. I told Hay don that I could judge better if she were standing up. He did not tell her to stand up. He said that would do and I might go. I was not here this day week. John Hemmant, assistant to Mr. Tarn, draper, Newington- causeway—The note now produced is one which was paid to me by a female for some goods she had purchased. I know that from an entry on the note. I took down th© name and address which now appear on that note at the die. tation of tke lady. The name is " Groves," the Christian name having been torn off, and the ad dress is 4, Park-street, Greenwich. I cannot say when it occurred. Could not say whether it was Ist no. April, or whether it was this month or _ _ _ _ _ _ Mr. Lewis—Mr. Mullens thinks it was the Ist of April. I should say it was very likely. Mr.Mullens—lt was paid into the bank on the 2d. John Hester, assistant to Mr. Rabbits, of New ington-causeway, boot and shoe manufacturer—The note now produced was paid to me three weeks back by a female for goods she had purchased. She gave me the address, which I wrote on the back of the note, Miss Mary Groves, 4, Park-street, Greenwich. Cannot speak to the prisoner. Elizabeth Monday—l am in the service of Mdme. Lechertier, 60, Regent-street. Tho prisoner is my sister. Her name is Mary Monday, or was till she was married. Her name is now Gibson. Mr. Lewis—Were you present itt the marriage ? Witness—No, I was not. Mr.Mullens—No doubt the young woman thought she was married. Do your parents live at 18, London-street, Brighton ? Witness—Yes. Michael Haydon, the City detective, deposed—A. few days since 1 went to 18, London-street, Brigh ton, and saw Mr. and Mrs. Monday. I received a letter from Mr. Monday, signed W. Gibson, which I produce. I searched some boxes which Mr. Mon day showed me, and in which I found a considerable quantity of papers. Amongst them are a number ()thins for lodgings, &c., against a person named Gibson, at 5, Creed's-place, Greenwich. Mr. Lewis objected to this as not being evidence against the prisoner. Mr. Hall could imagine a variety of ways in which it might be evidence, but at present the letters cer tainly were not evidence. A long technical discussion arose, in the course of which the question arose whether the prisoner was Gibson's wife, Mr. Lewis urging that the pro secution had opined that sho was not. Mr. Mullens—Her sister says she is. Mr. Lewis's case takes a strange turn when he thinks it neces sary to throw such an imputation on his client. Mr. Lewis—lt is your case. The sister said her name was Mary Monday. Elizabeth Monday, being recalled, said that she only meant that was the prisoner's maiden name. Believed the prisoner was married to Gibson. Mr, Lewis—Were you present at the wedding ? Witness—No. Mr. Lewis—Do you know who 13 they were mar ried, or when P PORTRAIT PAINTER'S STUDIO. The pictures which hung round the artistic din ing-room—and many of which had no frames— were ordinarily of elevated subjects :—Titania with Bottom wearing the ass's head, Ophelia hovering over the brook, Ugolino gaunt with starvation, Vir ginias sacrificing his daughter, and other exhila• rating companions to the dinner-table. There they hung, a perpetual monument to the want of taste of the British public, and there hung some of the portraits which the artist had been driven to paint, when he found that high art left his dining-table with nothing more eatable upon it than an army list or a number of Blackwood. Among these latter works would be included " Portrait of the Artist," painted evidently at the Ugolino period, glaring round at society out of hollow, sunken eyes. The artist's father, his mother, and a general officer, who bore a strong resemblance to the artist himself in a Nathanic red coat and epaulets. What wonder that one should go up from such a dining-room expect ing to hear in a soothing voice the words," Open a little wider," with an accompaniment of rattling instruments in a drawer P And what a place was the Studio itself when you reached it. That win dow was blocked up as to the lower half, so that there was no chance of seeing anything of the street unless it was the garret-window and the parapet of the house opposite, :with an old flower-pot, a dangling ',fragment of clothes-line, and a row of hideous distorted chimneys showing their gnarled and twisted arms against the dull grey sky. To spend an afternoon looking at such a prospect was not hilarious. Nor was the interior of the room much better. The half-finished pictures leaning against the wall, the studies from nature, or copies of the old masters—old enough to have grown up into misters by this time—the plaster casts of nude arms doubling themselves up so as to bring out the muscles in a very unnecessary manner, for nobody ever said they were not muscular, the antique heads, with noses on which the blacks and dust had gathered loweringly ; their hollow parts and sunken lines protected by the nobbier por tions relieving with a white and brilliant glare the bits of old tapestry, frenzy costume, and improbable armour, all these matters made up an interior which if it was picturesque (which it wasn't.) was infinitely dismal and disheartening. You were seated on a throne, too, which to persons not of the regal class was 'n itself disconcerting. Some ques tion of perspective, or o f p o i n ts of vi ew , ren d ere d it needful that you should be raised obi high, and so you were perched up on a green-baize throne. You sat on a cut-velvet old-fashioned chair, whose tim bers creaked responsive every time you sighed, and more old-fashioned chairs were placed about the room, which might have reminded one of ancient times, if they had not been so much more suf.7,,,mes the of Auction Marts and nosey brokers. What an afternoon's entertainment !—Dickens's " All the Year Round." witne o —I do not. I first heard about it two years Rg - el * tt said in some cases repute was sufficient Mr. lic‘i, presumption of marriage. ground fortt Gell, clerk to Mr. Butler, said he Mr. Samuel , ;tng of Gibson, who was formerly knew the bandwr , . i 'vs, Tie believed the endorse f. iiril.ls," to be in the hand a client of My,. Butt 1 s 0 a letter i, .om i‘producedd Monday ment of the naine, writing of Gibson, as a... . ~ Haydon, which he had received of which were The various notes produced, all , - , , part of whet had been given at the L' an ' G in Pay ell, and went of the cheque, were shown to Mr. his attention directed to certain endorselb,'elts," them, but he was not able to identify them as .u e Lng in Gibson's handwriting. Mr. Mullens said he had been instructed th,.7t Mr. Gell could prove the handwriting on these notes, or he should not have asked the question. As to the letter, bills, &c., he did not at present propose to read them. He would charge the pri -1 soner with being an. accessory after the fact to the forging and uttering. Mr. Lewis said it was quite clear that the pri soner was Gibson's wife. . Mr. Mullens said the prisoner's own statement that her name was Aylmer, and also her statement as to her mode of life, was quite consistent with the supposition that she: was living with Gibson, and not married to him. If Mr. Lewis could prove that she was Gibson's wife, the prosecution was at 1 an end. He had been astonished to hear the wit ness Monday say the prisoner was married. Mr. Hall— Quite so. A wife may be an acces- I sory before the fact, but not after. Mr. Lewis applied for an adjournment to the fol lowing (this) day, that he might produce evidence of the ni2rriage, which, after some conversation, was agreed to, and the prisoner was accordingly remanded. __ ---- suspEcTED AN.P ROBBERY L'OLBORN. Yesterday Mr. Payne, t coroner for the City of ie." Londonresumed and conclude an inquest at St. B art h olomOw'a Hospital, on the ../'ody of Thomas David Coade, a reader employed at 1`..11° ,Morning Chronicle office, who' came to his death un'ler very mysterious and unexplul ined circumstances. It appeared that deceaseJ and a number of Ober persons employed at the .31o)*.lng Chronicle offielei held a meeting at the Ben Joneon Tavern, Shoe'- lane, Fleet-street, on Saturday night,: the 6th inst., to consider what steps should be takeln in conse quence of the stoppage of that paper, and after attending that meeting the deceased left to go home, At the corner of Brook-street, Holborn, he was found the same night, under very extraordinary' and suspicious circumstances as stated in the follow ing evidence, his wife being unable to hear any tidings of him for a week, and then she found him in the above hospital. Thomas Gregory, a compositor, said on Saturday night, the 6th inst., he was, in the company of a woman, about 11 o'clock, coming from Gray's-inn lane towards Brook-street, when the female who was with him drew his attention to a man who was ree:- ing and staggering . at the corner of Brook-street. Another man had just left him, and was running in the direction of Leather-lane. Two or three persons had collected, and one of them asked witness to go after the man and bring him back. Witness pur sued him down Leather-lane, where he lost sight of him, and then returned to the spot where he left the deceased. A policeman had come up, and the female witness was supporting the man's head, and her apron and hands were covered with blood. Wit ness suggested that the man should be taken to a sur geon at the corner of Castle-street, but the policeman conveyed him to the hospital. He should not be able to identify the man who ran away. but he was short and wore a cap. He did net observe whether or not he had his hands in deceased's pockets, but the reason he ran after him was that he was under the impression that the deceased had received some injury from him. He could not tell whether or not he had robbed him. The deceased was about a foot from a lamp-post when he fell. When witness got back to the deceased he was quite insensible. Isabella Perry, the Woman referred to, confirmed the evidence of the last witness. Mr. Moore, house surgeon, said the deceased was brought into the hospital on the night of the 6th of April, with a large lacerated wound on the back part of the head, and such as might have been in flicted by some blunt instrument, such as a stick. On the Sunday afternoon he had five fits. He went on well at first, but afterwards a change took place, and he died on the 15th inst. from the effects of the injuries. He had made a post - mortem exa mination and found a fracture of the skull four inches long from the base of the brain. The brain was highly congested, and large clots of blood were on its surface. The jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased died from injuries received, but how occasioned there is no evidence to show ;" adding to it—" The jury also express their regret that nearly a week should have elapsed from the time the deceased re ceived his injuries before his wife was enabled to obtain any information as to her missing husband, although she Inquired at Fleet-street and other stations, and notwithstanding that a pocketbook and its contents would have enabled them to dis cover his place of residence and friends:' SHOCKING DRATII OF A YOUNG W OMAN. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. Yesterday evening Mr. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held an adjourned Inquiry at the Druids Arms, Tavern, Greenwich, into the circumstances attend ing the death of Mary Heddie, who was drowned in the Thames on the night of Saturday, March 15. From the evidence taken at this and previous in quiries, it appeared that on the evening of the 15th March the deceased, who was 14 years of age, with a girl named Sophia Spencer, aged 16, had been drinking at several public-houses with Robert Richards, master of the steamtug Esther, and a lad named Mathew Ball, employed on board the same vessel. The parties all became intoxicated, and proceeded about 11 o'clock to the river-side, where they were mat by a woman named Webb, who en deavoured to induce the girls to return home. Richards however told Ball to place them in a boat and row them to the steam tug, and then return for him. The deceased and her companion were rowed to I he tug, on nearing which the boat upset, and the deceased was drowned. It was fully proved that the deceased wished to return home, but was forced into the boat by Richards, and both girls were so much intoxicated that they were unable to sit, and rolled about in the boat. The coroner recapitulated the evidence at length, and observed that Richards had endeavoured to pal liate his conduct by stating that he was so drunk as not to remember what took place. It must be ob vious, however, that drunkenness, instead of being an excuse, was rather an aggravation of his mis• conduct in putting the girl into the boat in oppo• sition to her wishes. A more disgraceful state of things he never heard of on the part of those who called themselves human beings, It was clear that ltichards was the party directly responsible, and his conduct was more reprehensible than that of Ball, as he was master of the steam-tug and directed the whole proceedings. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Robert Richards and Matthew Ball," who were subsequently admitted to bail to answer the charge at the Old Bailey sessions. Lb LIFER-MATCH MAKERS. Prodigious, almost incredible, is the extent to which these little affairs are now manufactured. Even as a question in the timber trade, the lucifer question is anything but a trifle. Let us take a case, for the accuracy of which our own eyes can vouch. There is an establishment in London where an enormous pile of the best yellow pine is always in store, expressly for the making of lucifer matches. It is literally true that this is the best pine—no refuse or inferior wood being admitted. And there is good reason for the selection. So intricate is the machinery, and so delicately sharp the implements, that knotted or irregular timber would inflict an amount of injury more than an equivalent to the difference in, the quality of the wood. The selected deals, three inches in thickness, are rapidly cut by circulars a a Into blocks about four inches long. These btoeite, ar :placed in a machine of most inge nious earmtrgAtion. Fifty or sixty very sharp knives or ane,ea rare ranged with their points in a row, and at flimances apart equal to the ordinary. thickness lucifer match. These knives, oy a slight movettatt of a frame in which they are fixed, ma,kes 0 jr 60 cuts in the surface of a block ; while a long, keen blade, descending in another direction, severs a complete slice from the bl oc k. The movements of the frame are so timed that the two series of cuttings succeed each other. Fi ve blocks are ranged in a row on a flat iron bed, with the grain of the wood horizontal; and these blocks, when pressed up against the machine, ar e cu t i n t o slices, and the slices immediately aft erwar d s cut up into splints. The celerity is astonishing. The knives make 120 reciprocating movements per minute; 250 splints are severed at each movement; as each splint is long enough fur two matches, there are 60,000 matches made in a minute. As the four inch splints are cut, they fall into a trough, whence they are conveye d to a drying room ; when dried, they are packed i nto bundles and sold to the lucifer who divide each splint into two dur imnagtethheiak subsequenters, operations. It affords a curious ill us t r ation of the extent of this manufacture, that . 60 or 70 full-sized deals are cut up every day, and t hat a tun of mo i sture i s d rawn ou t o f th e woo d during the drying. FEARFUL MU.RDE.I? NEAR B.EDDI2' CH ItEDDITCH, TEILUISDAY. A frightful and deliberate murder has :seen com mitted at a retired farmhouse, called Outhi,ll Farm, about five miles from this town, by a farm la.bastrer namer George Gardiner, his victim being a fellow servant named Sarah Kirby, a modest and well- - conducted girl. The following particulars are gleaned on the spot. The girl had been spending a few days with her friends, and returned to her master's on Monday. Gardiner had been out drink • befor: ing on Tuesday, and yesterday morning went to Plough accompanied by a boy. The boy did not &ease him, and he threatened him once or twice. t;:sce he told him " there would be m order done night." Mr. Edge left home abou t half-past i ti gm . morning to go and sell a cow, an d shortly 'aiter he' la :1 left the prisoner went to th,e house, and asked cas,.. -eased for her master's gun, a double barrel, which sv, as kept loaded in the kitchen. She gave him the gu:a . and proceeded with her work, on which the prisonet s deliberately took the caps off the nipples and cleatN , i them. He then proceeded to the back kitchen, wi'as. re the poor girl was, uncon scious of evil, proceedng vs, ' th her work, and deliber barrels at her. The shoe ately fired one or both of the. entered the back of the neck, and she fell a lifeless. ' uggle. Mr. Edge's corpse without a groan or a sta. usekeeer for her aunt (Miss Davis), who acts as he „,,, ent to Gardiner 1 nephew, hearing the explosion , a and expostulated with him for firin §. 7 le off t had a what gun in the house, not knowing at t he ttss bed at her, been its fatal effect. He at first lau g house his; but on her ordering him out of th,9. sretreated manner became alarming , and Miss Day.' where she locked herself is% Gardi to the parlour; ner endeavoure, 1 . to force the door, but did not succeed, and he th. n went e to the kitchen, an' with ( I tt coal hammer forced open Mr. Edge's desk, se ,here he usually keeps his n,:oney. It happened, howev er, that there was only 6fal anti some stam p s in the desk. These the prisoner fock, and then made IsiS way out of the house, taking t, he gun and ammuni tion with him. A hue and cry was raised by the police and inhabitants, and a larOe party set out int pursuit of the fugitive. They tram. I him to Wool tone where he sold the shot-pouch, and thence to Strat ford-on-Avon. Here he took a tick. et for Oxford b.y the West Midland line. On the jo. urney his bad to change carriages at the Strkttfnra kinrtical aTitla. the main line at Honeybourne, near Evesham, where" (he was captured by the police. In the meantime Mr. Edge had returned home, and Mr. Morris, bur g eon, of Studley, had been sent for. He found the girl quite dead, and in his opinion death had been ins tantaneous. The inquest is expected to be held to-m orrow. The motive for the murder is believed 'to has 'e been jealousy. The prisoner had attempted „nee or twice to take liberties wi t h the deceased, w h jell attempts she had always resiOted• ss RHOTOGBAPBIC SHADOWS. Of ever)'---- IVce in this town there is a v iew to be taken, and 1.,‘ .1 fight and shade to be selecte.'l, which will show it to advantage or disadvantage. To subject all to flit on all alike, and t same glaring light, descending f) all unbecoming, is scarcely tbe way to produce ag •reeable results. Yet we have known a photograph e r standing under his own lightf and most hideously d.lstorted. by that circumstance alone—without th ad, dittonal help of his instrument e —to argue with us, the w . retealied sitter, that we were none the worse lor his light - ! It is difficult to speak strongly enou g .O about this question of sha dows and their value. , Queen Elizabeth, in her igno rance, thought shadows unbecoming t o te glory of her Majesty, and wished ta be painted wit' hout any at all ; and, doubtless, there are people la , - ho now•a days think shade a smudg. v dirty thing s , the less of which comes upon their oc,lintenances thy' better. But light cannot be thrown out in its full brilliancy, nor forms shown in their vailty, without its aid. Why, one of the main differences between a line day: and a dull one lies in the shodows which pro claim the first, and are wanting in the other. Ow a wet, dull day, as you stand in the grey sickly light, you may look all round about in vain 1 for your shadow ; it is not to be found. A cheerless, monotonous glare is over all things. The sun comes out, and the first thing it does is to cast your shadow dark and clear and sharp upon the ground—your shadow and that of the' trees, the buildings, and all things else that come within reach of its rays. How different everything looks then; how solid , how bri g ht, how finished ! Those shadows al again as the day larger in the ea rl y mornin g and ,ieeli ne s, and it is one reason of our admiration of thc, ne two seasons that then t he rising or sinking sun t. 'etches but one side of every object, and leaves so large a portion of the scene lost in a mysterious and so toiled shade.—Dickene B "All the Year Round." .......... .. COUNTRY 111 AV A: L "5-• BIRMINGHAM—APRIL 4. There was a short supply of English why at) which sold slowly at barely the currency of this day wOok. Barley was 2s per qr higher. Oats, beans, and peas fir,'n. —APRIL 23. wheat and barley at market :e prices were about realised. Barley, grinding 29% to 31s Oats, old, .. oos to 355 New do 23s to 27s Beans. 458 to 478 Veans, new 44s to —s is s to 54s NEWARK. There was a fair amount of to-day ; business dull, and lab White wheat new, 60s to 63s Red do. 55s to 51s Old white 60s to 63s Red do. 46s to 56s i Barley, malting 32s to 39s : Pew, ....4 PLYMOUTH—AritTh 22. The market was fairly attended, with a tolerable demand for wheat and flour at about the last week's' rates. White ' wheat, 62s to 665; red, 63 s to 64 s per qr; F . rench do., 60s to 62s ; American, 58 s to 63 s ; Spanish, 74s to 768 ; Rus sian, 60s to 625. Barley at previous rates-341. 1 to 38s per qr for malting ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, 228 ,tO2BB ; and beans, —s to —a; flour, 43s to 44s 6d. EDINBURGH GRAIN—APRIL 23. Wheat on the top 2 s Od up. . average Os 8d up. Barley on the top is Od up. averae Os ld ,dowwu• n. Oats on the top Os 3d down..., average Os 2d cco average Os 10d up. Beans on the top 3s Od up. ~ .. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 9,9 qrs „ . Sold 691 qrs 8ar1ey........ 701 qrs g -ad 628 qrs 1600 qrs Soki 109 7 qrs Beans 146 qrs Sold 116 qrs CORK—APRIL 23. The following were the quotations this morning :---Itea wheat, 22s 9d to 24s 61; white, 26s 6d to —s Od; barley 20s1 Od to —s Od ; oats, lOs Od to 16s 9d. DERBY SMITHFIELV—AFRIL 22. There was a moderate supply of fat beasts to-day, and a brisk demand. Sheep in short su pply, at high prices. Beef 6d to 6,1 d Veal ... • Mutton .. . 6id to 7d Pork Lamb odtolOdßough 5d ~ fat, 4e p t s 3 ,6 d d Hides, 3d to 4d ; calf skins, . er stone. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Aus'aalia and Mauritius, via Southampton. May 19. via Marseilles May 13. brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. May 4; Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 2. via Marseilles April 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .April 25. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Al ay 2. via Marseilles April 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Aprij 2b. via Marseilles May 6 Lisbon April 211. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 25. via Marseilles April 27. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet.... by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Ari l 23. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe April 24. May 10. Bahamas, via New York May 8. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, California, and British Columbia.. 1 April 28 BIRTHS. CAMERON.—On tho 24th inst , at 43, Hortford-strootr Mayfair, Mrs. Cameron, of a daughter. DEWILURST.—On the 23d inst., at Lymm, the wife of Geo. B. Dewhurst, of a daughter. - - HAYNE.—On the 23d inst,, at Stamford-hill, the wife of Henry Wm. Bayne, Esq., of a son. TURNER. — On the 20th inst., at Turner Hall, Aberdeemt the wife of Captain Turner, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ARK WRIGHT--TELLEW.—On the 24th inst., in Norwich Cathedral, the Rev. Godfrey Harry Arkwright, of Sutton Scarsdale, Dorbrhiro, to Marian Hilare Adelaide, the youngest daughter of the Hon. George Pellew, D.D., Dean of Norwich. PEIsIGELLEY—BRYANT.—OR the 24th inst., at St. George's, Han Over-square, the Rev. Charles Pengelley, to Augusta D'Oyly, daughter of the late Major-General Sir Jeremiah Bryant, C. 8., of the Bengal Arrey. DEATHS. FARMER.—On the 22d inst., Miss Marian Farmer, of 3, Hollywood-grove, M est Brompton. FEAD.—On the 22d inst., at Woolwich, Caroline, widow of Lieut.-Culoncd George Fead, C. 8., Grenadier Guards, aged 75. KlNcAtn.—On the 22d inst., at Hastings, Captain Sir John Kincaid. TYLER.—On the 23d inst., at Handcomb Hall,West Ham._ Eastbourne, Sussex, Selma yler, Esl., form er ly of Little Bowden, Northamptonshire, aged 82. WATKINS.—On the 22d inst., Thomas Watkins, Esq., of St. John's-wood, agod 6 WILSON.—On the 28d inst., at Highbury, Martha, eldest daughter of Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. WALDRON.—On the 20th inst., at Theale, near Reading, Henry Waldron, Esq., aged 45. JOHN CHAPLIN, Lo o N f D N o o N . :11P2,risnttreadnict;:dr P r i u n b t e l r is , h a e t d l b u y E Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the S avoy, in the County o f bliddlesm—Yridah AP 111 . 25 1 1862, SI - 13 13. 13: 13] 13] 13] ,Se T Ti read Rece Al held cif £1 w Al :30th to 31 Thro 11t1 .11 Plre. 1 ( Ztri th e r alp ou on ff . , btu t Life -1 ( Poi 'otecl also 1 Qa t , in g a the It 111 and c for tl5 Dc Pere. Co. Jai n , Ai /4 The don, Pa (cros tary. 0 Glec II )'ric ra t tot last Ma! tilil INN bill It Du