The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The following reinforcements, selected from the lst,l2d, and 3d battalions at Chatham garrison are ordered to embark at Gravesend this day on board the East India Company's steamer Benares, for Xurrachee, for the purpose of augmenting the corps serving in India, viz. :-51 men of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, 21 men of the 27th Fr►niskillens, 51 non commissioned officers and men of the 52d Light Infantry, Ensign Arthur E. Flood and 18 men of the 61st Regiment, 14 men of the 70th Regiment, Capt. W. Egerton Todd and 19 men of the 81st Regiment, and Ensign Caulfield French with 30 men of all ranks of the 94th Regiment. In • consequence of several cases of small pox h av ing - broken out among the troops belonging to the 23c1 Royal Welsh Fusi liers, who embarked on b6ard the ‘Abeona at Gravesend for Calcutta, all the men of that corps • have bees disembarkSd and returned to the depot . at Chatham, where they will be stationed until the . disease has disappeared. General Sir Ralph Darling, G.C.H., Colonel of the 69th Regiment, died on Friday at his residence at Brighton, at the advanced age of 83 years. He entered the army in May, 1793, as ensign in the 45th Foot, with which regiment he served in the West Indies until the peace of Amiens. Soon afte r his arrival there the slaves in the island of Granada, assisted by the French from Guadeloupe, revolted and murdered the Governor and many of the prin cipal inhabitants, when he was called upon with his regiment to quell the insurrection. In 1797 he volunteered in the expedition against Trinidad, and was present at the destruction of the Spanish ships of war, and was at the surrender of thatisland, and , in June, 1799, proceeded with the expedition against the Dutch settlement of Surinam, and was employed in the arrangements for the capitulation and present at the surrender of that colony. In April, 1801, he accompanied the expedition against the Danish and Swedish islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. Martin, and St. Bartholomew, and was present at their reduction. The deceased was placed on the Staff in 1806, but in Sept., 1808, his regiment (the 51st) being ordered on active service in Spain, he resigned his Staff employment as As sistant-Adjutant-General, and took the command as Lieutenant-Colonel of that regiment, and joined the army in the Peninsula under General Sir John Moore. He was under that distinguished General at the advance and retreat, the action at Lugo, and the battle of Corunna, after which be returned with his regiment to England. In the following year, July 1809, he was appointed Deputy-Assist ant-Adjutant-General to the force rent to the Scheldt under the Earl of Chatham, and was pre sent at the siege and surrender of Flushing. On his return he resumed his Staff duties at the Horse Guards, which he fulfilled up to 1818, when he was appointed to ocmmand the troops at the Mauritius, a command he held for five years, anti for 18 months of which he administered the civil government of that colony. In 1825 the gallant deceased was ap pointed Governor-in Chief of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for six years commanded the troops in those dependencies of the British' Crown. In 1835 he was nominated a Knight Grand Crows of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. The gallant General in September, 1857, had the colonelcy of the 41st (the Welch) Regiment of Foot conferred onhim, which he retained until February, • 1848, when he was removed to that of the 69th (the South Lincolnshire) Regiment, which becomes at the disposial of the Commander-in-Chief. Sir Ralph had received the gold medal for his services at Co runna. His commissions bore date as follows : Ensign, May 15, 1793: Lieutenant, Sept 2, 1795; Captain, Sept. 6, 1796 ; Major, Feb. 2, 1800; Lieut.-Colonel, July 17, 1801; Colonel, July 25, 1810 ; Major-General, June 4, 1813 ; Lieut.-Ge neral, May 27, 1825 ; and General, Nov. 23, 1841.. We unfortunately mentioned the services of the wrong officer yesterday in reporting the retirement' of Major 'Travers, the barrackmaster for 45 years of Portsmouth garrison ; but as there have been 37 " fighting Travers" in the services, several of whom are living, theerror is excusable. The gallant oft - cer whose services we mentioned yesterday is the barrackmaster of Parkhurst, Isle of Wight. Major Travers, of Portsmouth, served the campaign of 1799, iu Holland, as a Lieutenant, and was severely wounded in the body in the action near the Helder on the 27th of August. He was present when the enemy under Marshal Brune were defeated in their attack on the British lines on the 10th of Sept. ; be was also present at the battle of the 19th of Sept., and that of the 2d of Oct. at Berghen (and wounded), together with the actions cf the 6th and 10th of Oct. The Major is in the receipt of a mili tary pension in conseqtence of the severe nature of his wounds. On his retirement Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C. 8., Lieutenant- Governor of Portsmouth, issued a district order, expressing his sense of the uniform propriety with which Major Travers had discharged his duties, and the great benefit which had accrued to the service from the unremitting attention which had marked his career. The D battery of the Royal Artillery, which has been for some time stationed in Leeds, left that town yesterday morning for Woolwich. Major Newton's G troop of Royal Horse Artillery yesterday morning assembled on parade at Wool wich in heavy marching order, and underwent a final inspection by Gen. Williams, preparatory to departure for Dublin. Immediately after inspec tion the troop commenced their first day's march for Highgate, under orders to reach Liverpool on the 21st. They were escorted to the precincts of the garrison by the General and staff, and were preceded by the mounted band belonging to the corps. The following officers acccuppanied the troop, Major H. H. Newton, in command ; Second Captains Wilkinson and Sandilands, and Lieu_ tenats Brown and Sandharn. The Gl troop ba s been in existence little more than three months having been organised and_ established in December last. Generale Williams' likewise attended the " guard mounting" parade, and afterwards in spected the brigade of Horse Artillery on Woolwich common. The troopship Golconda arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning for the embarkation of troops and ammunition for the East; The freight Ship Birch Grove commenced shipping war stores yester day from Woolwich for Hongkong. His Excerency Count de Platen, Swedish Minister to the Court of St. James, visited Portsmouth yes terday to inspect the dockyard, &c. ; having been himself in the navy his Excellency takes much in terest in such establishments. Admiral Sir Geo. Bern Co Ur, the Commander-in-Chief, entertained the Count and his suite at the Admiralty-house. Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 60, Captain Fran & Scott, C. 8., was taken out of the basin at Ports mouth yesterday, and will now receive her crew from their hulk. She will proceed to her station (embraced in the cruising g round from the I s l e o f Wight to Salcombe) shortly after. The Renown, 91, Captain Forbes, the Diadem, 31, Captain Moorsom, C. 8., the Curacoa, 31, Captain Mason, and the Racoon, 21, Captain Paynter, at• present at Spithead, are expected to pat to sea in a few days, and another or two are re ported to join them, for a cruise to test their respec tive merits as far as Lisbon, where they will ren ezvous in time to honour the marriage of the King Portugal with a salute, &c. An Admiralty order has been received at Chat ham dockyard - by Capta'n G. Goldsmith, C. 8., directing that the pay of the seamen riggers em ployed at that establishment be increased to 1/. per week. Henry W. Molesworth has been appointed assis tant paymaster to the Eurvalus ; John A. P. Williams, clerk, to the Urgent; and Cuthbert B. Hodbam, clerk, to the Exmouth. .[ADVERTISIMENT J—Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —An Unparalleled Cure of a Bad Leg.—...p. 13; r d, gar dener, 50, George's-grove, Holloway, was afflicted for 20 years with 'a bad leg, ()awed by a blow on the shin, which ultimately formed itself into an angry; wound ; he consulted several medical men, and tried almost every thing recommended him by sympathising friends, with otit effect. As a last resource, he determined to give Holloway's Ointment a trial, and, atter persevering fur A few months , w as completely cured, and now enjoys the beet of health.—Sold by all Medicine Vendors through out the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244. Strand, London ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. TBE WANE OP ELOQUENCE. The law, of demand and supply ought to insure us a never-failing succession of good speakers in this country. The love of listening to oratory is deeply implanted in the Englishman. Whenever an excuse can be found for it, the dinner table is turned into a tribune for the exchange of compli mentary addresses ; debating clubs are the delight of every class from the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge to the petty tradesman who has just put up his shutters ; no institution, whether patri otic ' o r educational, or agricultural, or charitable , can be inaugurated without an attempt at a set and formal speech. Why, then, do not great speakers abound t Previous education may be wanting, but in other departments the demand for a faculty, and the prizes which its exercise insures, make up for all deficiencies of instruction. Boys are not edu cated in civil engineering or the mechanical arts, and yet men of the highest ability in these pur suits appear at the call of' our new civilisation. Nor is there anything in our education which should rear judicious and temperate statesmen, yet it cannot be doubted that men eminently qualified for the task of government do spring from English soil, in numbers which any other country may envy. But, whatever the cause, it would seem that in the present day at least the faculty of eloquence is wanting. Never was there so much and so poor speaking. We do not refer now to the decay of pulpit 'oratory, though there assuredly is a vast difference between the sermons which roused the " hums" of a seventeenth century audience and the compositions which are nowadays demurely read to fidgety congregations. It is of oratory proper, of political eloquence, the object of which is to persuade men in matters of State go vernment, that we would speak, and ask why it is that with knowledge beyond the reach of any pre vious age, with patriotism and purity of motive which should elevate the style, with genius which success in other pursuits shows not to have decayed the country should still produce so few public men who are gifted with the power of dignified and at tractive speaking. The Houses of Lords and Com mons are, beyond all doubt, the most educated and refined assemblies in the world. They contain a comparatively large number of men who have won fame by literary or scientific achievements, and who one would think, would appreciate, and almost exact, oratorical excellence. And - yet theleaders of the British .Parliament are in effective oratory, many of them, below the level of an Old Bailey barrister or a popular Dissenting minister. Know ledge of men and things and books, official experi ence, long habits, of rapid thinking and extem pore speaking, have not taught them how to frame a sentence neatly, or to utter it with grace. The wonder is that , with such neglect of the proprietors of style they should be able to command and retain the attention of their audiences, and we can only account for it by supposing that the Houses have become accustomed to the peculiar involutions and repetitions of Par liamentary rhetoric, and that each member un consciously performs for himself the operation which the reporter performs for the world in gene ral—reduces the contorted and redundant phraseo logy of the speaker into clear and straightforward English. We would not, indeed, be supposed to imply that any of the great political chiefs stand actually in need of the house's indulgence, but still we must think that even among the highest there is a ten dency to certain deficiencies which in men lees able and full of matter becomes positive poverty of ex pression. Take, for instance, our late Premier. Lord Palmerston is probably the most instructed and experienced statesman in Europe. He has had nearly fit) years of official life and of personal inter course with the most celebrated personage s. He has the wisdom of age with the vigour of life's prime : he has the coura g e to think and act, and he possesses the knowledge by which to direct his ac tions. And yet, though often effective, sometimes powerful, Lord Palmerston owes his success more to his matter and the sprit with which he utters it than to atiy oratorical skill. He has, pro batly, never done himsel justice, or fitly embodied his thoughts and his impulses in language. A fluent delivery, an apt selection of words, and a scientific structure of sentences, have never been attained by a statesman who has spent 50 years of his life in addressing au diences of every kind. His speeches make an im pression on hearers who are accustomed to them ; but who can doubt that. their power would be greatly increased by those adventitious aids which it is the fashion to depreciate f Something similar may be said of lord John Russell, who, though more of an orator than Lord Palmerston, falls very far short of excellence. A cultivated mind, literary tastes, and a long acquaintance with the most edu cated society, have never compensated Lord John tor the wantof real oratorical attainments. But the most strikin g example of Una • defect is in the case of Sir G. C. Lewis, all who.- e inexhaiAtible learn ing, and ability, and applicatiAl are Ofteii neutral ised, in the opinion of his hea,rars, by'the tedious ness of his delivery. In fact, out of both louses it would be difficult to select a dozen men who really do justice to a great subject. Lords Derby, Ellen borough, and Lyndhurst, with the Duke of Argyll and the Bishop of . Oxford, in the one house ; Messrs. Gladstone, Disraeli Sir J. Graham, Mr. Bright, Mr. S. Herbert, and Mr. Roebuck, in the othery are indeed speakers who increase the attraction of their subject by the manner in which they treat it, but these are nearly all, and even these somet"m( s sink to the lower level of style which isprevalent in our public speaking. The fact probably is that we have fallen into a bad style, through too great a contempt for elabo ration and artifice. In the last century every ora tor attitudinised, just as a Frenchman does at the present day. Manner was - of more importance than matter, and a weak and superficial civilisation was certainly the consequence ; but it had its merit-. We may tire of the monotonous elevatio-i of Johnson and Gibbon, yet we may well wonder how they could write volume after volume of pointed sentence, while authors of the present day, if they begin a book with any pretensions to style, generally subside into slipshod after the first few Chapters. Burke and Pitt and Fox and Sheri dan were brought up in a rigid school of manner ism in the study of the " Spectator" and the "Essay on Man," and they were surrounded by the atmosphere of the "Rambler" and " Junius." Doubtless many geniuses were cramped by th&e circumstances, but those which broke through felt the benefit of the training. They were taught to respect art, to speak according to mks, to Le careful in the tonstruction of their sentences, to balance their periods, and to profit by the art of elocution. Now it seems to us that in our horror of artificiality and our affected love of earnestness and naturalness we have forgotten that people must learn to speak as well as to do anything else. Those pers,ns who must speak in order to live—such as barristers, lecturers, Dissent ing preachers, and the like—have managed to keep up the practice of at least fluent oratory but' amateurs, as our politicians chiefly are, seem to have forgotten the an of addressing an audience. They even appear to taken pride in their bad speak ing, as dist nguishing them from those who have been forced to cultivate their powers. It is really piteous to hear or read so many long common-place effusions, to find men of the greatest powers using over and over again the same hackneyed expres sions, adopting,' in short, the baldest and most worn-out diction of their predecessors. If the as pirants to Parliamentary fame, instead of inter preting the applause of agricultural or charitable dinners into a tribute to their excellence, would labour in their oratorical education as the great men of the past laboured, we have little doubt that not only the eloquence of Parliament, but, by the force of example, the power of the pulpit and the bar, would receive a healthy renovation. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN 1 NG, APRIL 6, 1868. jority of honourable members ' • and, secondly, on account of its greater simplicity as compared with the competing Bill. Now, respecting the first of these allegations, we can only say that it rests upon a most violent and untenable assumption. The division in which the house, by a majority of 150, passed the first reading of Lord Palmerston's Bill by no means expressed any approval of the scheme it contained, or even of the principles on which it was founded. How, indeed, was it possible for the Legislature either to approve or condemn a measure which they had not seen, upon such loose data as could be collected on the spot from the ministerial exposition of its provisions, and without time for any deliberate consideration? On this very ground it has become an accepted canon of Parliamentary usage, that no vote on a motion for leave to bring in any Bill shall pledge either the house collectively or members individually, as to their course with respect to its subsequent stages. Nor did the terms of the question, on which Lord Palmerston took " the sense of the house" when first laying his measure before the Commons, imply an opinion of any sort us to its merits. The division took place on Mr. Baring's amendment declaring that the time was unfit for legislation on the subject. The majority, whereof the ex-Premier's supporters make so much, decided no other issue than that of time. It was then ruled—so far as a single vote could determine anyquestion so important aud com plicated—that some new system of Indian adminis tration should forthwith beorganised. This decision was recognised by Mr. Disrael i as having prompted— it might almost be said compelled—the present Ministers to undertake the task of framing a bill for that purpose. But as regards the selection of any particular system or proposition for effecting the object in view, the House was left altogether unfettered ; and the so-much talked of " majority" could be as justly claimed by Lord Ellenborough in support of Bill No. 2, as by Lord Palmerston in approval of Bill No. I. These considerations are so obvious that we should not have ventured to recapitulate them were it not that we find the ex- Ministerial organs still dwelling upon the argu ment, that the House has actually committed itself to a formal sanction of the Palmerstouian measure. The second allegation, that of " simplicity," is more feasible. But the superior merits thus im parted to the Bill No. 1, would be far better ap preciated by the Ministers of a despotic Sovereign than the subjects of a free State. Lord Palmer ston's proposed " Council of Eight," all nominated by the Crown, is, no doubt, much more simple in construction than a body of eighteen members, all of whom must possess certain qualifications, while half of their number are to be elected by popular constituencies, variously composed, and differing considerably as to their numbers and condition. Just in the same manner must we allow that a sheer despotism is more simple than any form of constitutional government. There may be coun tries where this quality would be recognised as con ferring an incontestible superiority. We do nor, however, Fuspect that it Will obtain very extensive approval in the British House of Commons. It seems to be understood on all sides that the "trial point" between the two Bills will lie in their respective schemes for the composition, of a Council. for India. Oth-r provisions relate either to prin ciples on which every one is agreed—qich, for ex ample, as the appointment of a fourth Secretary of State for the Administration of Indian 'Affairs, with his official staff and parliamentary responsibilities or else to details which may be altogether left for determination by the House itself, when the clauses of the accepted measure are debated in committee. We are required, therefore, to examine, as the House will have hereaf er to discuss, not merely the original coes'itution, but also the subsequent functions and powers of this Council. When the framers of the Bills have got their respective Councils, what do they propose to make of them ? Here we find the real distinction between the two propositions. Lard Palmerston, when suggesting a body of only eight nominated members, evidently contemplatLs converting it into a mere " Board." The Council for India, under this system, would belong to the same class of adtniuistrative function aries as the Board of Admiralty, the Junior Lords of the Treasury, or the chiefs of Departments in the Colonial-office. The so-called Councilors wouli degenerate into mere Commissioners—differing from the officials above-mentioned only in the circumstance, that as they were forbid to sit in the House of Commons, they could never be subjected to inconvenient cross-examinations ; and as re tiring from office at certain prescribed intervals, they would always be induced to consult the varying aspects of the political barom -ter, so as to secure re-appointment at the end of their term, rather than address themselves independently and consistently to promote the well-being of our Indian Empire. With a Council thus organised, where would be the check on the Mtnister, or the responsibility to Parliament Who knows now, or knowing, could alter the proceedings of the Treasury, the Admir alty, or any matter of pracical detail ? Certainly not the House of Commons. Assailed on such points, the Minister is always able either to elude the difficulty, or to involve the question in such a cloud of official mystsry as to baffle the most per severing pursuit. Some curious carrespondence has, indeed, been lately published respecting the competitive plans for the construction of new public offices, showing that between two departments of the same Administration " my Lords" were able to defy the power and ignore the remonstrances even of a.Chief Commissioner of Works, Such, and worse, would be the position of Lord Palmerston's eight Councillors, since they would enjoy more com plete shelter from parliamentary interference, and at the same time be more subject to political in- fluences. In the Council of Eighteen, proposed by Lord Ellenborough, a very different principle is recog nixed. From its mere magnitude this body would exercise a far higher degree of influence over the Minister of the day. But, in addition to their personal imporance, nine members being elective, would wield the power conferred on them by their cnnstituencieg. This is a distinction whose value, we may add, does not depend on the actual num ber or prescribed qualification of the constit uen t body. It is a difference of kind rather than degrw... A. councillor nominated by the Crown has abso lutely no right even to remonstrate should his opinions be overset by an autocratic dictum from the Minister of the Crown. Where can he appeal —since the same power to which he owes his own appointment has also set a superior over his bead ? But an elected Councillor, under such circumstances, appeals to his constituents, be they many or few ; and, through his constituents, to public opinian. This is the principle ou which Lord Ellenborough's bill claims an essential pre-eminence over Lord Palmerston's scheme. The particular mode in which, or the electoral body by which, the nine members of Council shall be chosen, are matters for future consideration. The Government have pretty plainly intimated their perfect readiness to accept any modification in the proposed measure which the how() might think pr o p er t o i n di ca t e . In this deference to the opinion of Parliament, 114:r Majesty's Minister's cannot-be charged with tres passing on the boundaries of official consistency. Supposing, for instance, that it should be texpedieut to abandon the proposal for electing five members of Council by the 101. householders of five cities and towns, the change thus oocasioned would he far less important than that introduced into the Reform Act by the celebrated " °hairdos Clause," which the framers of that measure nevertheless felt it quite withintheir competenceto adopt rather than sure ender their bill or resign their offices. THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVICE.—A return show lug the time occupied by the Australian mail steamers in their voyage out and home has been printed, on the motion of Mr. Macartney, M.P. In the Suez and Sydney services there are five steamers of 1,538 to 2,754 tons, and of 300 to 750 horse-p )wer. Twe—the Emeu and the Simla —arechartered. To the Oneida new machinery is being fitted ; and the Tasmania is prepar ing for sea (not yet surveyed by the Admiralty). Last year it appears that the Emeu was four days behind tines on the voyage out (penalty 5001.) The Eke and European (which divided the voyage between South ampton and Alex'iudria an Suez and Sydney) so managed as to leave a default of nearly nine days, for which 1,8001. penalty was lvied. The Tamar and Colum bian were, in the same w?y, seven days in arrear on the whole of the outward voyage, and 1,4001, was the fine imposed. In the joint voyage of the Jura and Simla 14 day was saved, and a premium of :30/. was paid ; on the home voyages from Sydney there were two failures ; in one, where 11 days were lost, 3,3001. was imposed ; and iu another, although the voyage was peel need two days within the time, 2001. was abated from the contract as penalty, in consequence of a delay at Alexandria. In two other cases there was an excess of five days and one day, hut the penalties will not be deduced until the next quarterly payment. In the case of the failure cf the mill from Suez to Sydney by the acci dent to the Erneu, the penalty will ba deducted in t'.e same way. A correqcondopoe follow between tee European and Australian Mail Company, the Royal Steampacket Cempa,ny, and the •Government of her Makety, in reference to the arn4eernaeion of t'a) said companies, and for the future performance of mail services to and from Australia, the West L dies, and South America. The Royal Mail Company apprised the Admiralty on the 14th Jan. last that they bad acceeted tenders for two paddlewheel steamers of iron, of 3,090 tons and 800 horse-power; and for a third eteather of the same power and size, all of which they hoped to have ready for sea in twenty months from the date f the contract will the Government; these steamers are for the . West ledia Transatlantic mail service. One iron steamer of 1,000 tons and 250 horse-power is to les built by the same company for the mail service betWeee Rio de Janeiro and the. River Plate.. The contract of the Royal Mail Company has been extended to the let f January, 1864, and the acceleration of the Brazil rout is to commence on the 9th of May ensuing. A copy ( f a supplemental contract in November, 1857, relative to i he A ustralian mails is also printed. THE NEW GOTEBNMEIVT OF INDIA BILL. (From lee Morning Herald.) We proceed to redeem our pledge of instituting a comparison.between the two India bills submitted to Parliament by Lord Palmerston and the Earl of Derby. Both contemplate the same end, but the means of arriving at this are different. The East India Company are to be deposed, and the govern ment of the territories over which they hold sway is to be vested in the Crown. In both plans a council is to be established for the future direction and management of the affairs of India. Accord ing to Lord Palmerston, the council is to consist of a president and eight members : according to Lord Derby, of a secretary of state and eighteen mem bers. It is objected to both schemes that each contains the vicious element of divided responsi bility, the council being a screen for the president or secretary of state, in the same sense as the East India directors were a screen to the Board of Con trol. It may be asked of those who reason after this fashion whether there is any individual fit to be trusted with the government of 180 millions of people, speaking 75 languages or dialects, and scattered over a territory containing 1,300,000 square miles. Were any such man to present himself, and volunteer to undertake a task so ardu ous, most competent persons would pronounce him disqualified on account of the excess of his egotism. No other argument need be adduced to show the necessity of the chief of the department being assisted by able advisers. Whether the preferable number should be eight or eighteen is entirely one of degree, to be regulated by a comprehen sive review of all the circumstances of the case; but if it be maintained as a principle that com plete responsibility can only be secured where supreme and uncontrolled power is lodged in the hands of a single individual, then both Lord Palmerston and Earl Derby must be equally con demned, since both their plans involve a departure from unity. . The eight members of council, in the measure proposed by Lord Palmerston, are to be chosen from persons who have been directors of the East India Company, or who have been for ten years at least in India, in the service either of the Crown or of the Company, or who have resided at least 15 years in India. It appears strange that the selec tion of the future council should be made from the directors of a company which this bill is ex pressly designed to extinguish. They are con demned, and still they are to be trusted. If they are not fit to rule how are they qualified to advise? A residence of 15 years in India is certainly a strong presumption in favour of local knowledge, which is the basis of official aptitude ; but it is a serious de fect in the plan that the range of choice should be so narrowly restricted. Athough old Anglo-Indians may be fully conversant with the wants and wishes of the natives, it is highly probable they may have contracted inveterate prejudicesond Lord Palmer ston has not provided any check. In this respect his scheme lacks comprehensiveness. It may he presumed that his council would be all of one mind and view all subjects through one medium, and this unanimity would be fatal to the extension and sifting of ideas. Debateable topics ought to be dis ' cussed with a combination of European and Asiatic minds, but the former element is excluded. We will now place in contrast the composition of the council recommended by the Earl of Derby. It bas already been stated that it will consistof eighteen members, nine of whom are to be nominated by the Crown, while nine are to be elected by constituen cies ; but as the Crown will only be able to choose out of classes clearly defined, and possessing cert'*in qualifications, Mr. Disraeli declared, with truth, That the whole council would consist of " represen tative men." It has been object-d by professing Liberals that a body partly nominated and partly elected cannot work well together, but no r essous have been assigned for such a decision. It is simp'y cs.ptiens, and is hire only noticed to be dismissed, fur the combination is plainly in harmony wish the usage of the constitution, since an elected House of Commons and an hereditary peerage, the latter derived originally from Royal nomination, are co equal and co-ordinate institutions, and form the common council of the realm; while experience has shown that their united action, so far from throw ing the machinery of government out of gear, pre vents disturbance and maintains order. It may be that the querulous Whigs, aware of the frivolity of their argument, have been induced to urge it from vexation at the Conservatives having intro duced the elective element into the construction of the Indian Council. Any recognition of that prin ciple by the Conservatives must be to them gall and wormwood, for their past ascendancy was gained by falsely describing their opponents as sworn enemies to popular rights and rational progress. That de lusion has nearly passd away, and if it still linger on the minds of any earnest and candid politicians, we would recommend them to read carefully and compare Lord John Russell's "Essay on the Bri ti,h Constitution " and Mr. Disraeli's " Coningsby" and " Sybil." In our first remarks on the two India bills we expressed it as our opinion that the test of their relative merits was, which of the two was better adapted to confer benefits on the natives of India without injury to the rights and liberties of Eng land. Under that view, let us inquire into the qua lificsti , ns required in the nine members of the council to be nominated by the Crown. It is made a condition absolute that they shall have resided in India, and there been employed either in the civil or military service. * Here, then, at once, is a gua rantee for official aptitude, while none is afforded in the plan of Lord Palmerston. The North Western Provinces, Lower Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, will each have one representative mem ber in council, and no person. is to be eligible un less he bas been engaged in the civil service for ten years within the territories designated. It is plain that such an arrangement must be beneficial to the natives of India, since gentle Men so selected must be perfectly familiar with -their wants and wishes, able to point our grievances and defects, and recommend appropriate remedies. The . fifth member must also have resided ten years in India, in the service of the Government of India, and during five years at least of such period have served as political agent or resident in some one or more of the native States. This is a most im portant condition, and were we to move au amendment it would not be against the prin ciple involved, but in favour of its extension, for two suet. representatives might be preferable to one. It may be well here to observe that the native princes of India still govern with more or less au , horrity, over 717,000 out of the 1,30 ),000 square miles vvhich form the area of Hindostin, and rule 53,000,000 of the inhabitants. They are our allies, the relations between us and them being either sulridiary or protective. We have bound them down strictly to the exclusion of Europeans and Americana from their service. By the terms of alliance the native states relinquish the right of self-defence and that of maintaining diplomatic re lations among . each other or with foreign nations, while the arbitrement of all disputes among each other is vested in the Company as the paramount power. The aggregate revenue of the native princes (at least before the annexation of Oude) was ten millions sterling, and ;hey paid one-tenth of that sum as tribute to the• British Government, besides being bound to maintain a military contingent of 32 ; 311 men, commanded by British officers and available, on demand, by the Company. Their collective military resources are estimated at 12,962 artillery, 68,303 cavalry, and 317,653 infantry—a grand total of 698,918 men. These facts' abundantly prove the sound judg ment of Lord Derby in providing that one of the members of the council should be familiar with the usages of the native courts and the general character of their princes. The qualification of the sixth member is to have served for five years at least in her Majesty's army in India ; while the seventh, eighth, and ninth members respectively must have served for ten years at least in the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay armies. A distinction is here made which perhaps will be reconsidered, for unless some special reasons can be adduced it does not appear equitable or expedient to require only five years' service from a Queen's officer, and ten years from the officers of the company. On the whole, however, it is difficult to believe that any unprejudiced politician can raise a valid objection to the mode of appointing the first nine members of the council, or to the qualifications required from them ; moreover, with most honourable and unre served frankness, Mr. Disraeli has announced to Parliament the names of the nine gentlemen who Wind E., rain. will be the first nominated. We shall enter more er, from Jersey; Havre, fully into the merits of the elective portion of the A r rived.—Courier, steam steamer, Havre- plan on an early day. for New Y o rk; Norman, Alliance, steamer, Havre ; steamier, Despatch, Sailed s a S t p e a e s x m o ° f r G i o' j o e d s r t o H e e a y o m . p e e r ; LIVERPOOL, Tuesday vcrniug. Wind E. ; strong breeze. (Arrived.—Loochristie, from Ghent. 'Sailed, April 4.—Glengary, for Singapore. Sailed, April s.—Therese, for Sydney ; Woodfield, for Montreal ; Idas, for Ba,rbadoes. The Morning Light, from Melbourne, drove from her anchors at ten o'clock last night, an d grounded off Sea combs Point. Two steamtugs went to her assistance and towed her in safety into the stream. Wind at the time, E.S.E., a gale. LLOYD'S SMPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, April 6.—Wind this day at noon, E. by S.E.; fresh breeze, with rain. JERSEY, April 4.—Wind S.SE.— Sailed—Fib: tan , for West Indies. Drumm, April s.—Arrived Medina, from Porto Rico. MONTROSE, April s,—Wind S. E. —A rrived —East Lothian, from Callao. Sailed—Emigrant, for Quebec. Simi.ns, April s.—Wind S.—Sailed—Thomasine, for Montreal. . _ SOUTHAMPTON, April s.—Sailed--Norman (e), for Cape of Good Elope. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) BoutuAmProN, Tuesday Morning. (From the Morning Chronicle) Her Majesty's Opposition have at rength made up their minds what to do about the proposed mea sure for the Government of India. They intend to run through Palmerston's scheme against Lord Ellenborough's bill. The former, as it happens, stands for a second reading on Thursday, the E2d inst., that day having been fixed by the noble lord hiinselt previously to the introduction of the Mi nisterial measure. The latter takes nearly' a week's precedence on the notice-paper, the second reading being a; k, A l 16. S, 1 -.8 appointed for Friday week, __ pri. Jome (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) `Parliamentary contrivance will, however, easily GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.. i get over this technical difficulty, and place the two Wind S.E. ,• tide, three hours' e bb ; c l ou dy a nd fresh. y, -Arrived—Harriet, end Speedwell, from Antwerp; b i lls side by aide b e f ore t h e H ouse o f Com mo ns, . Sacbrimmer, from Dram. ' for discussion and judgment on theirnie,its. Sailed—Blackburn, for Calcutta; Adelaide, for Demo- Acceptance is challenged for Lord Palmerston's rare; Albion, steamer, for Boulogne. 1 proposition by the partisans of the late Minister, DEAL, Tuesday Morning. , chiefly on two grounds. First, that it has already as they allege, received the sanction of a large ma- Wind E.S.E., fresh. No arrivals. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 5. MANSION-HOUSE.—W. H. Chadwick was brought before the Lord A/Ivor, charged with having robbed his employers, Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., the extensive publishers, of No. 65, Corn hill. Mr. Wontner appeared for the prosecution, and stated that the prisoner had been in the service of the firm about two years-and-a-half, and had com mitted in the h else a series of robberies during that time ; that he had been treated most liberally, and that suspicions having been entertained tl , at he had abused the confidence 'reposed in him, Jarvis, the City detective officer, had been directed to watch him, the result of which was the discovery that plunder had been committed by him to a serious amount. The prosecutors having in their employ ment 150 persons, considered it to be necessary to make an example of any of their servants whom they found to be guilty of acts of dishonesty, and had determined to pursue that intention in the present instance. Mr. Henry Samuel King, a partner in the firm, said—From suspicions which I entertained of th prisoner's conduct, I gave directions to the police, and on Saturday night, at about seven o'clock, the prisoner was brought to me by Jarvis, the detective officer. I said to him, "I know why you were brought back, Mr. Chadwick; you have been robbing us." He said, " It's no use denying it, I have.". I said, " You have some of our property up-stairs." He said, " I have," and I went with him up-stairs, and he opened his drawer with a key and took out four or five books, and said, "Those are your property." I told him to get his bag and unlock it, and he took it from a cupboard and unlocked it, and took two more books out, and then he placed some othe r books down, and admitted that they were ours. The officer took a pocket book from him and the prisoner said "That is your property, I took it on Friday," and then the officer produced some postage stamps, and the prisoner said they belonged to the firm. He was then taken to the station-house. I have since that time ex amined a number of the books which are produced by the officer, which I believe to be our property. The prisoner said he had left some at his house, and also some at the house in King William-street. Jarvis (the detective ofEer) said—On Saturday night I took the prisoner into custody as he left the premises of his employers, and brought him to Mr. King. At the station-house the prisoner gave his address, and I went there, and found 54 printed books, which I now produce, and several parts of works. I found upon the prisoner's parson a pocket book, which I produce, and also 12s. 6d. worth of postage stamps. I saw him take from his drawer four books, and from his big four others, and from a shelf in the same room two others in a parcel. I have since obtained five other books from a house in King William street. The prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished to say anything, said, " No, no." Committed for trial. • James Winden was charged under the following circumstances : _ _ _ Polictman 101-:-At half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night I was in Leadenhall-street, and I saw two men there. There was some talk between them about skeleton keys. The prisoner joined-the men, amd. I went over and took him into custody with this baskA in his possession. I asked him what he had there,.. and he said his own clothes, and nothing belonging to me. I found that the basket contained two pieces of pork and two pounds of mutton chops. The prisoner then said he was going to take the chops to Messrs. Lockyer and Davis, and the pork to the same place, and that he was in the employment of Messrs. Bannister. Mr. Edward Bannister, partner in 'he firm of M« ssrs. Bannister, of Threadneedle-street, butchers, said—The prisofer has been in our emploment some time, and we never suspected him of dis honesty. We have pork like t, , ,at p"roduced. prisoner had to leave some chops at Messrs. Lock yer's, but no pork. I believe the p trk to be ours. The Lord Mayor—Had he any right to take the pork from your premises ? Witness—Not at all ; we have been watching two men who have been lately lurking about our premises. The prisoner is respectably connected, and always had an adequate allowance of money. The Lord Mayor said the prisoner had been de tected in very good Elie, and if the conversati in about the skeleton key were to beconsidered as an intimation of future operations, very probably Mr. Bannister had reason to congratulate himself upou what had.taken place. The prisoner—l was not certain whether it was pork or mutton that bad been ordered, and I took the pork at, tho same time to see which it was. The Lord Mayor—You shall go to the House of Corrcction for one month.—Committed. M A.RLBORO GJGH=STREET.—Mathew J Ales, a respectably attirrcl young c-nintryman, was charged wi h knowingly uttering a false note on the Leicester and Leicestershire Bank for 51., and thereby defraudlng one George Mason, of No. 6, Castle-street. The prosecutor said he was a turf commissioner and telegraph agent. On Saturday night last he was at the bar of a public-hous a, when the prisoner camein, and fc,roing himself into conversation, very much pre , sed him to lay the odds on a pat Ocular horse entered for the Newmarket Handicap. Mr. Leadley, the chief clerk, asked what the prosecutor meant by &scribing himself, among the rest, as a telegraph agent. ? Prosecutor replied that his telegraphic business was chixfly . of a sporting character; he transmitted bets ou turf matters for gentlemen, in a similar way to Stock Exchange affairs. The prisoner, having teased him very much to have a bet with him, fol lowed him out of the house, and still continuing . , offered a 30s. bet on the forthcoming race. He added, as he wa3 a stranger, he woul I stake the money with hinh. Prosecutor at I,, , ngth consenting, received from the prisoner the 51. country n to pro duced, and gave him 31. 10A. difference, and the prisoner went away. Pro-iecutor subsequently found the note was good for nothing. On taking the note theprisouer said, to prosecutor, "It is a Leicestershire note, but you will find it all right. I have three or four more of them in my pocket." Prosecutor, however, found it "all wrong," and gave information ,and a description of the prisoner to police, and the prisoner was in consequence traced out and taken int) custody. The prisoner, who said if the note was had he did not know it, was remanded till Wednesday next. Alexander Rose was on M-nday, _the 22d WT., charged, on the evidence of police-constable 0 71, with stabbing a woman in the head with some in strument whereby she was placed in great danger, and unable to make her appearance then in sup port of the charge. -The constable deposed that he was going his rounds through Princes-row, Solv.i, about half-pa 4 12 on the previous Saturday night when he met a woman known to him as Elizabeth Cullie, who was bleeding profusely from the head ; she was, in fact, covered with blood, and groaning as if in great pain and weakness. He raised her up, and she, as intelligibly as she could, told him she had been stabbed by a man. As it was close by he led her to No. 5, Princes-court, where she at once, on entering, pointed out the prisoner as the man from whom she had received the injuries. There was a vast deal of blood over the floor of the 'win. The prisoner was then taken into custody and the in jured woman to the l!ospital. This being the earliest day the woman could be pertnAted out to give evidence she wade ber ap pearance against the prisoner as the complainant. Her head was bound up and she was accommodated with a seat during the tune she gave her evidence because of the extremebodily weakness under which she was labouring. She gave her evidence with g; eat difficulty. Complainant, on being sworn, said—My name is Elizabeth Culla), and lam a widow. I had been living with the prisoner for three years on and off —the last; time for about three months. I had again left him for about a week before the assault. On Saturday, the 20th, last month, in the evening, I had occasion to go to him at his lodgings, in Princes-court. What took place on my reaching his room I cannot recollect. I had had something to drink, and sat down on the foot of the bed. What my forgetfulness arises from I do not know, but believe itto be from the injuries I received ; but cannot say positively. I received a violent blow from the prisoner on the held, and lost a large quantity of blood in consequence. I lost my consciousness, and on coming to myself found I was in the hospital. I do not know what instrument the blow was given with. The prisoner, who mode noremark, was r manded for another week, and the woman conveyed back to the hospital, of which she still 'remains an in-door patient. HAMMERSMITH.—Mrs. Lenningbarn, a lady residing at 43, Rutland-gate, Knightsbridge, was summoned to answer the complaint of Gto. Fore,t, a cab-driver, for refusing to pay 6c1., the remainder of a fare. Defendant did not appear, but was represented by her husband. Complainant deposed that he frequented the cab stand in Charles-street, Trevor-square, and was called off on this occasion. to tike up at No. 43, Rutland-gate. He drove defendant to the Oratory at Brocapton, and upon the lady alighting she gave him 6d. He told her the fare was Is,, but she answered that she never paid any more than 6d., and walked away. This was a common occurrence of the lady having cabs for that distance, and not paying more than Gd. He had taken her two or three times, and all the cabmen on the stand knew her. The distance exceeded a mile. Mr. Ingham askrd the driver if he had measured the distance. Complainant said he had, and found that it was 70 yards over the mile. Mr. Lenningham said he had made inquiries and found that it was a hard 6d. fur the distance, and he had given instructions for the ls. to be given in future, as it was the proper fare. Mr. Ingham then made an order for the payment of the 6d., with 7s. costs, being 2s. 6cl. for each day the cabman attended, and 2s. the summons. The money was immediately paid. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, MONDAY. By the establishment of certain new Stakes an im provement has been made in the list of sport for the meeting which commenced this day. Stll a fortuitous interest only was impartirl to the proceedings, and what ever success attended the racing was not attributable to the administrative capacity of the Jockey Club. The ruling authorities at Newmarket scarcely study the true interest of the town. Their conduct of racing affairs is regulated by an exclusive 'principle ; public opinion is rather defied than conciliated, and the inducements to gentlemen to send horses to the town are slender indeed in comparison with the considerations which produce a contrary effect. Public patronage is not solicited for the meeting ; it is rather discouraged, and, however pleasant it may be for the members of the Jockey Club to have a free range ~ f the Heath, and to preserve their courses from the in cursions of the mob, the innkeepers and tradesmen of the town scarcely find the absence of the people either agreeable or profitable. While at " provincial " towns meetings which are managed by committees flourish, those at the metropolis of the turf, with only three ex ceptions, maintain merely a doubtful vitality. Au eff,rt, however, is about to be made to arrest the gradual decay. On Wednesday next a meeting will take place to receive the report of the committee appointed to revise the rules of racing, and to take into considera tion other matters affecting turf pursuits. The Club, however, deprecate the interference of the public with their plans. The presence of the reporters was always deemed by oertain people an intriLion at Newmarket, and comments on the management of.afftirs at "bead-quarters," and the conduct of the proceeding, an impertinent meddling with matters which were de signed for the amusement and occupation of individual.: in high stations. Accommodation for the representatives of the press At Newmarket was never expected or solicited, but it was believed that no restrictions would be placed upon the exertions of those gentlemen whose duty it is to convey to the public faithful and accurate reports of the proceedings which come under their notice. V• xa clone obstructions have been placed in their way, anti an official order from the Jockey Club has debarred them from entrance to the " cabined, cribbed, canfiiie,d" rooms which serve the purpose of weighing stands at Newmarket. At every race meeting in the kingdom except at Newmarket special arrangements are made for the representative; of the pre , s, and the offiAala afford them every facility for the transaction of their bu4ines4. It Newmarket the reverse is the fact. The deliberations of the Jockey Club, their " commissions of inquiry". upon any dispute brought before them, have ;Away. been carried on with a seerecy worthy of a MaHoule lodge, and now even those matters on which the public have a right to Expect full and unreserved information are to be arranged in a kind of Sporting. Star Chamber. At Newmarket where horse racing is supposed to be conducted in all its purity—at the metropolis of the English turf—the reporters are to be excluded, and the information to be conveyed to the public taunt be ob tained casually by a stroll on the Heath. These circumstances compel us to state that, owing to the exclusion of the representatives of the press, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the weight 4, and the corr-ctness of the jockey's names at these m.etings. A. bitterly cold east wild marred the enjoyment of the sport, and the assemb:age of company was m Est meagr.• ; not eve so important an event as the maten f.r 3 0001 being a sufficient inducement for many people who were not directly interested in the proceedings to muster on the black heath. By putting on a special train in connection with the evening trate from Cambridge the Eastern Counties C mapany afford great accommodation to those per , ons who wish to return each evening The racing was decided as under:— The Craven Plate of 50 sove, for 3 yr-olis and up war , ls. Weight for age.. A.F. (1 mile 2 furl-'ngs 73 vards.)., Mr. J. B. Starky's Fisherman, 5 yrs, Bst 13,b (Hall) 1 Lord Gif , leri's Latitude colt, 3 yrs, 6s 61b (Bray) 2 Mr.J. Merry's Special License, 4 yrs, Bst 41b(Atdcroft) 3 Fly-by-Day and Gourd also ran. Betting—Even and 5 to 4 on Fisherman, 7 to 2 agst Special License. Won by a short head ; bad third. Tire Latitude colt slightly cannoned against Fisherman within a few strives of the chair, and Gourd bolted at the bushes amiss Fisherman, whom he nearly carried away. Handicap Sweepstakes, of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, fur 3 and 4-yr-olds. D.M. *(7 furlongs 201 yards.) Major Houstoun's Harry Stanley, 3 yrs, Est 1219 (Plumb) 1 Mr. Goodwin's Apathy, 4 yre, 84 121 b (Bray) 2 Mr. Hodgman's Bannockburn, 4 yrs, 7st 9Lb (Fnirdhain) 3 Duke of Bedford's Aster, 4 yrs, 8•t 41b ...(E. Sharp) 4 Betting-2 to 1 agst Apathy, sto 2 agst Bannock burn; 3 to 1 agst Aster, 4 to 1 agst Harry Satuley. Von by half a length, bad third. The Bennington Snakes, of 50 says each, h ft, for colts 88t 71b, fillies Bst 21b. C rtain allowances. D. M. (7 fhrlongs 201 yard.). 10 subs. Gen. Peel's F rerunner, 8 t 4113 (A. Day) 1 Mr. B iwes's Star of the East, Bst 41b (Wells) 2 Hr. Payne's Gleuluc- colt, 84 41b (Fls.tinaft) 3 Lord. W. Powlett's Brother to Scandal, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 4 Betting-2 to lon Star of the East, sto 1 agst Fore runner. Won by a length, three lengths between the second ,nd third. After going a short, distance the saddle of Brother to Scandal , lipped from under S. Rogers, who .as corni,eded to ride home barebacked. Handicap Plate of 100 sow!. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yaids4 Mr. Nicholson's Ils.rau , b;r ' 3 yi-= ' 64 11b (Parry) 1 lir. wari.'s Theodora. 5 yr., Bit 1211...(F0rdt-inl) 2 Lord Clifden'w colt by L0a,14 , ne, out Royalty, 3 5.t bib (carried 54 12 Ih) (Bray) 3 The Poll ,winz also ran :—Olympus, Flim4y, The, Poachr, Neva, Kdbride, Mt,ty MornG orgie, Sooth sayer, Brother to Farthingale, a,41 Be lefid‘l, Betting-7 to 2 a4st Theodora, 7 to 1 eget Misty Morn, 10 to 1 agst 01 impus, 13elletield, and Maratrier, 12 to 1 agst Gaorgie, 15 to 1 agst Brother to Far thingale.. Won by three-quarters of a length ; two lengths be tween the second and third ; Kilbride i Georgie, and 'Olympus were next, well up. Aatoh, 3,0001., h ft, B,t 7a3 eaels. A mile and a quar ter over the Fiat. Kr. F. Robinson's A nton, by Bay Middleton (A. Day) 1 Mr. S. Williams's Kent Betting-6 to son Anton. They took a wide berth, Kent going away with a lead of about eight lengths. In the cords Anton joined him, but within a f.:w strides of the chair showed temper and seemed inclined to bolt. Kent then appeared to be winning easily, but Alfred Day witli admirable tact recovered his bora°, and, hitting him over the head, gob him straight, and won on the post by a neck. Kent ap peared to "stand still" at the ft.:6h. The pace was good throughout. The Forty-fourth Riddlesworth Stakes, of 200 soya. each, b. ft., for 3-sr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bet 41b. Ab. M. 4 subs. Mr. S. Williams's Gourd, by Nutwitb, 84 7 , b, (Faulk nerl, walked over. Duke of Bedford's Aneroid withdrew his stake. BETTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 6 to 1 agst Monarque (taken). 7 t 1 apt Pavilion (takei.). 7to 1 Bg-it Worcester. 7 to 1 agst Wonvermans. 10 to 1 apt Etst Langton. Two THOUSAND. 9to 2 agst Clydesdale (taken) 11 to 2 agst The Peer (offered) 10 to 1 agst Toxophilite (taken) 12 to 1 art Mentmore (taken) 12 to 1 agst Brother to Bird-on•the-Wing (taken and offered) 100 to 8 art Happy Land 300 to 200 on Toxophilite agst Mentmore (taken) DURHAM RACES.-MONDAY. TRIAL STAKES. Bradley . Early Bird HOPEFUL STASES. Dutchman's Daughter Amazon DURHAM HANDICAP. Logie o'Buchan TALLY-HO STAKES. L , gie o'Buoban Phoßaix VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM. —On Saturday afternoon, a violent thunderstorm passed from the a est over Hsz , lly heath, near Brarrishill. At the :awe time a carter in the employment of Mr. John South, with fou r horses, was leaving a field i n wh i ch - t h ey had been ploughing, when a flash of lightning struck the poor fellow and all the horses to the ground. Two of the horses ipramediately got up and another solo afterwards, hut one of-them and the carter were ktll ,, d on the spot. The man's hat was lit era ll y in Areds ; he light' ing had s ruek.hitra on .the left side of the bead near the ear, burning the hair and skin under the ohm, al o severely scorching the breast, abdomen, loins , and the ithide of his right thigh and leg ; his flannel shirt was .also much burnt. WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP. The American bark Petrea, Captain Samuel Osborne, from Havre for New York, with emi grants to the number of 217, French and German, and a general csrg t, got ashore on Sunday morn ing, at abut half past 2 (as briefly related in the ',Sun of yesterday), on the shoals off the har bour of Cheihester,. or "Chichester Pool," wind at the time blowing fresh wed weather thick. On striking, the captain adopted the usual measures of hacking sail. &c., with the view of easing her off, but to no purpose, as she took the shoal at high tide and s ruck heavily, and , the fall left her more. embedded in the strand. On the vessel being discovered in her perilous position by the Coastguard at East Wittering, under the command of Lieut. VVellaston, R.N., every assist ance was rendered to that officer and his crew. •At about 3 p.m. a boat manned by twelve hands. was despatch- d by the cap ain to the CheValier Pappa hrdo, United Sates' consul at Portsmouth, inform ini.t, him of the disaster, and asking assistance. The Consul immediately emharked and returned in the boat to the wreck, distant about. twelve miles from Portsmouth. through a rough sea. On board? ing the bark he found the emigrants in a state of great alarm for their litres and property, although all had been done by the captain that he could to calm their fears and inspire confidence. M. -Pappalardo at once gave such directions as were necessary, and_ engiged aging of men to man the pumps and . endeay. , ur to keep her free from water, the eew being exhausted. . steamer had been sent to the atais ante of the ship in the cour s e of Sunday from Portsmouth, by the French Consul (Chevalier Vandenbergi.), a report having been made to him that .it was a - French ship, but the pow , r of the steamer was found too limited to admit of her assistance being • ffectivein moving the wreck, and she returned. Yesterday, at daybreak, the wind blowing a gale from the east-south-east, fearing i hat she would b-come a total loss, Consul Pap pal ardo r acti,g, in conj unction .with the captain, deemed it expedient no longer to delay attempting to land the passengers. Accordingly, he superin tended the hoisting over :the side all . heeds, by means of a barrel and a ". whip," the women and children being attended to first. A heavy surf was beatingunthe beach, but an o t her gang of Coastguard men and others by ropes helped to drag the.boats to laud, and these combined efforts were so success ful that all were landed to the number of 239 souls, without any accident of any kind, "the Consul and the captain being the last to quit the• wreck. They then saw all berthed /Iva building engaged for them by the Consul, and comfortably victualled and otherwise provided for. The Consul then proceeded per express bait] to P. rtiunouth, and applied to the naval authorities for a powerful steamtug to extri cate the ship froth her perilous position, ani lighters and hands to save as much as possible of her ea-go, should it be found impracticable to float her. The tug, &c., was promptly seut,laut there seems lit le hope for the stranded vessel, as the wind his freshened since, ant the tides are dead neap. However, the snip is a strongly built one, of about, 500 tons burden, and well fastened. Guailtr Aar th • CM/CHESTER— APRIL 1. • A short supply of wheat, the trade was firm, and en some saw plea is. per quarter advance was obtained. Barley for malting was rather dearer. Beans and peys were both the turn in favour of the seller. Prices to-day were as follow ;—Wheat; white, 46s to 50a; red, 42a to 465; barley, 36s to 43s ; oats, 24s to 32s ; beanp, Slazagan, 31s to As ; middle and small, 36s to 40s; peas, white, 40s to 42s ; grey, sOs to 448. CHELNISFuttp-Apim 3. The wheat trade was somewhat brisker than last week, and for better qualities a rise of Is, per quarter tuck place at the close of the rnaiket. , Everything else ruled the same as last week. Wheat., white, old, per s. qr. 44 new 44 red, old 41 new 39 Barley 34 a. S. B. 51 i Oats, per qr 24 29 51 i Peas, Partridge 40 .44 46 White 38 42 46 Boiling - 39 :44 40 Dun 38 .40 .. _ Chevalier • 38 41 1 Beans, Tick 35 ,37 Grinding 24 32 1 Harrow ticks 36 39 Malt 70 73 1 Mazagan •32 -35 Chevalier 72 73 1 Ditto, new... 32 3L KIRKCALDY—Aram 3. Here, to-day, we had small supplies of all kinds of grain. High prices were asked, which caused a slow sale, but ulti m,tely most things sold at last week's prices. . Wheat. Barley. oats. j B ean s. First ' iBs -Od I 36s Oa 30s Od 1 Os Od Second 32s 01 1 28s Od , Os O Third • 36s 0d 21s 01 I 22s 03 j Os Od COAL %ARS s4.—DIARoIi 31. Prices of Coals per ton at the close of the market _ a. Bebside's Hartley cL Wallsend. tso. - i 15 3 s - d. Davison's West Hartley 15 3 graddyll ... 16 6 tiolywell ..... ........ ..... .14 6, Framwollgate - .14 9 igt__ _ Howard's West Hartley Keiper Graisgo l7 0 Tyne Main 12 0 Russell's Hutton. 16 3 kaulield door l2 6 South Raton, 17 6 Fanfold Moor Butes 12 6 .shineliffe. ... 14 9 Walker Primrose ...12 3 Heugli ball 15 0 Wylam ... 13 6 Kelloe 16 9 South Hartlepool l6 0 Arallsend. Att Tees ' l7 6 Acorn Close l5 3 Thorp l6 6 Eden flostorth • - 14. 3 Cowpen. Hartley 15 3 Riddell •-... 21 6 Edell Main • .15 61Powell'a Duffryn Steam 20 9 Ships at market, 143 ; sold 125. . . . UAMBRIDGEI uNIVERSITY.—An important communi owdou` was received from the commissioners at the close of last week, and we believe we are correct in stating that, among other things, it intimates their intention to insist on the following noin . ts :—That the terms should commence earlier thau at present ; that a residence for t wo- , thirds •of a t, rm should be indispensable, instead of one-half; and that the Black :ROO' and Whits lilood Houses should be amalgamated into one.—Cambrid ge lndependent. • TRANSPOLTATION OF MUTINEERS. --The ships Rcimaa Emperor and Edward will leave this on Monday Morn ing tor the Andaman I .lands with the mutineers lately trought t,,Kurrachee. 176 of the mutineers embark thie morning onboard the Rbman •Emper and 142 on the ship Ed ward. The arrangements made for conveyance to tha bonder and reception of the vapbonds on board are very 'commendable. They will be removed .from the g aol at 6 o'clock in awls, under the escort of the Punivab police, who accompanied them from the Prinjaub,- The lower decks of the ships have been fitted np with cages on each side, with a passage in the centre for the guard. 'They are to be chained down to the deck, and are to ,attend to all their own wants on board, and .tobe • their own topa-ses The only thing to be done for them will be their provisions, which will be cooked by the vessel. The crew and officerseJe to be well armed, so there is no fear of their attempting to break out. On arrival at the Andaman Islands, their Jet... tees w ill be taken off, and they will be let loose amongst the t• vag eB. The government of Bengal we understand have ord..re'd' two years' pi °visions to be stored on the isliind for them,,and the steamer Semiramis-is to be sta tioned There to prevent any vessels removing: these scoundrels. The only remaining thing to be done no/ is, that the King uf Delhi. should be disposed ofin ex actly the same ma:dier, and left to propagate a kingdom among his pet lambs.— Sindian, Feb. 17. BIRTHS. LLOYD—On the ?d inst., at Aston Hall, near Oswestry, the Lady Francis Lloyd, of a daughter. LEARMONTH-70a the 9th Feb. last, at Ercildonn, near BAlldrat, Victoria, the wife of Thomas Learmonth, of a (laughter. CoNnaw—Oe the 31st March, at Ousden Hall, Suffolk, the wife of Captain Wm. Conran, of twins. LONERGAN — On the 23 inst., at No. 7, Old Bond-street, Piccadilly, the wife of Win. Lonergan, Esq., of a son. SINCLAIR On the 3d inst., at 25, Charlotte-square, Edin burgh, the wife of J. G. T. Sinclair, Esq., of Ulbstcr and Benmore, of a son and heir, MOWER-- On Easter-day, at No. 33, Hyde-park-square, the wife of George Trower, Esq., of a daughter. SMITR—Ou the 4th inst., at Highgate-rise, the2wife of Thomas Smith, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGIES. ODELL—LOMER—WaItair, Madras, Lieut. W. Odell, 43d Regiment, Madras N. 1., to Bertha Bishop, secon d daughter of the late Captain 0. Leiner, 21st Regiment, Bengal N.I. RUSSELL —Howi—On the 31st of March, at Lewisham road, by the Rev. Joshua Russell, minister of the chapel, and the Rev. S. Luke of Clifton, uncle of the bride, Jno. Addison Russell, of Fore-street, City, son of Mr. Jacob Russell, of Old Kent-road, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. T. H. Howe, of Dartmouth-grove, Blackheath. BUTT—KNIGHT—OR t ie 3d lu s t.; a t St. Paul's, Deptford, Mr. Charles Butt o Glocester, to Miss A. Knight, of New-cross. BARNETT—SIDDELEY— On the 3d iust.,,sa_tp*Barknu, ta t f o or K d, at b e y , b A i Ba r ne tt, g br t h Liver pool.Es q the Rev. R. °loaves, viesta,rid. Rd ß eeig o eye b n e , youngestit. A. M" 2 au daughter b er a o f y t r r . e DEATHS, GORT— On Friday, the 2d inst., at Petetsham, Surrey, Elizabeth, Dowager Viscountess Gort. Rkwnarr—On the 23d Jan, last, at sea, Ca, tain George H E . Bawtt en, eldest son of Tobias Bawden, late S ea rcher, &c., H. , 11.'s Customs, London. HA.N CORN—On the 29th M arc h, a t M ar y ok - roa d, Wool wich, Johu Harcorn, Esq , late of the Ordnance Depart. spent, Hard , Gosport. SnenETAN—On the :31st March, at Brentwood, Mr. John Thomas Secretan, of the Stock Exchange. RAMSAY—On the 31st March, at Whitehill, Midlothian, N. 8,, Flora Catherine, sixth daughter of Mr. and Lady Louisa Yardley Ramsay, aged 7 years. DARLING—On the 2d inst., at No. 39, Brunswick-Square, Brighton, General Sir Ralpk Darling, G.C.H., Colonel of the Mb Regiment. LovDoN Printed and Publiahed by ItiIIRDO J YOUNG, 0: Nc. il2, Btrand, Printer, at The Sun (Mee, No. 1.12, Stramd, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coituti of Uidcllesaz a Tuesday, April 6, 1855. ME] adm intro TILIM come Bac) sio: Atte: tlepa Prtv Libre E(1714 Run ance Eigh 31. 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