The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-12 00:00:00

2HE _NAVY. Vice-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., struck his flag at sunset on Tuesday on board the Indus, 78, Capt. Hall, at Plymouth. The Wasp, 13, screw-sloop, at Sheerness, is or dered to be commissioned immediately, with a com plement of 165 officers and men. Commander Charles Stirling, who has been appointed to her command, served as Lieutenant of the Queen, 116, in the Black Sea fleet, from March, 1853, until re appointed in July, 1855, Flag-Lieut. to the Win chester, 50, flagship of Rear• Admiral Sir James Stirling, in the East Indies, where he remained un til promoted to commander, June 16, 1856. The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. Tumour, flag ship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir H. Keppell, K.C.8., arrived at Spithead from Sheerness early yesterday morning, and at 8 a.m. exchanged the usual honorary salutes withthe Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief. The Forte has a few de fects to be made good. The Siren, 16, sailing sloop, Commander George M. Balfour, was paid off at Portsmouth yesterday. The Algiers, 91, screw, Capt. George D. O'Cal laghan, took out her powder awl shell yesterday at Spithead, and will go into Portsmouth harbour this morning for repairs. The Firebrand, 6, paddle steamer, Commander J. M. Bruce, went into Portsmouth Harbour yester day morning from Spithead. She is expected to proceed to the Channel Islands with troops. The disturbance on board a line-of-battle ship at Spithead, on Tuesday, and referred to in the Sun of yesterday, occurred on board the Edgar, 91, screw, Captain Baton, flagship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine, second in command of the Channel Fleet. It is stated that the Marines first displayed signs of insubordination relative to leave on the Monday, which was renewed on Tuesday, on which day a portion of the ship's company joined them, when there ensued the usual routine practised of late on such disgraceful occasions. Five of the ringleaders, comprising two Marines, one Marine artilleryman, and two seamen, were sent on board the Victory, where it is supposed they will be tried for their mutinous conduct. Various rumours are in circulation as to the cause of the disturbance and its extent. The Sprightly steamer was ordered to bank her fires, and the Marines on board her Majesty's ship Victory were to hold themselves in readiness during last night to proceed in her on board the Edgar, should their services be required. The screw steamship Hero, 91, Captain Seymour, having been fitted at Devonport Dockyard for the reception of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, received her powder on Tuesday morning. The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, 60, at Falmouth, left Plymouth on Tuesday morning for Salcombe, and returned to the Sound in the even ing. She has since taken in about 13 tons of pro visiobs, and will proceed to-day or to-morrow for the coast of Cornwall. The Howe, 121, was hauled off from Devonport Dockyard on Tuesday, and placed alongside the sheer hulk Kent, to be dismantled. She will be placed in the basin at Keyham to-day (Thursday). The screw steam frigate Phoebe, 50, was taken out of the north dock at Devonport on Tuesday and moored to the jetty. The vessel has been lengthened 60 feet, and the alteration appears to have been very successful. The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain Sotheby, C. 8., was taken out of No. 3 dock at Key ham Steamyard on Tuesday, and moored in the basin. The gunboat Redwing, tender to the gunnery ship Cambridge, in Hamoaze, has had defects made good, and will be taken outside Plymouth Break water to prove her machinery to-day (Thursday). Boats belonging to the Nile, Conqueror, Hero, Orlando, Avon, and several other ships at Plymouth, have been fitted with Capt. Kynaston's lowering apparatus. The paddle-wheel steam frigate Terrible, Capt. Glasse, in Plymouth Sound, discharged her powder on Tuesday. The iron paddle-wheel steam vessel Dover, late on service in the river Gambia, yesterday went down the Thames from Woolwich Dockyard on az engineer's trial of her machinery, after thorough repairs, prior to being handed over to the Colonial Department. Mr. Robert Taplin, assistant-inspec tor of machinery, accompanied the Dover for the purpose of rendering an official report to the Board of Admiralty. The chartered East India troopship Windsor Castle, 1,259 tons, Capt. Peare, which arrived at Gravesend on Tuesday from Bombay, having on board a large number of soldiers who have been sent home from the various cavalry and infantry regiments serving in Bombay, disembarked her troops on Tuesday afternoon, when they were for warded to Chatham, where they arrived on the same evening. The Windsor Castle sailed from Bom bay on the 3d of lan. last, touched at St. Helena on the 26th of Feb., and sailed three days after, the vissage to the Thames occupying 99 days. The number of troops who embarked was 207. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. IV. Gillett to the Wasp ; 1,. W. Moncrieff, midshipman, to the Mars ; Arthur Thomas, master, to the Wasp; J. J. Martin, surgeon, to the Implacable ; W. N. Ogilvie, sur. geon, to the Wasp ; W. L. Powell, acting assist.- . surgeon, to the Meg - era ; S. G. Tattersall, master's assistant, to the Aboukir ; T. Heard, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Wasp; M. B. Kelly, third elts9, and D. Wishart, acting third-class assist.- engineers, to the Wasp ; R. W. Drummond, acting third-class assist.- engineer, to the Asia, as super n• .nrnerary ; Thos. 'Hatton, acting third-class assist.- engineer, to the Pisgard, for service in the Bustler ; J. IT. Jackson., paymaster, to the Wasp ; and J. W. Featherstone, assist,-clerk, to the Euryalus. TILE ARllll'. Hi s Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac companied by Gen. Sir J. F. Burgoyne, G ot ie:B en " e i r h a e l Inspector-General of Fortifications; maj-G Sir R. Airey, K.C.B , Quartermaster-General; Major General Eyre, commandant of the garrison, and a number of other officers, was occupied until late on Tuesday evening in making a complete in spection of the fortifications and other works of defence connected with the garrison of Chatham. Immediately after the close of the inspection his Royal Highness made a complete circuit of the gar rison with the view of examining the several loca lities best adapted for the erection of works of de fence for the protection of the garrison. His Royal Highness also inspected the fortifications erected in the neighbourhood of the dockyard, which the Go vernment has decided on considerably extending by the formation of additional batteries and works of defence on St. Mary's Island, for the protection of that portion of the dockyard and garrison open to an attack from the sea. After spending several hours in the examination of the garrison defences, his Royal Highness, accompanied by the officers above enumerated, almost immediately proceeded through Chatham and Rochester, and inspected the line of country between the Thames and the Medway, where it is proposed that fortifications shall be erected, and in the neighbourhood of which the Government has recently purchased a Considerable district, for the purpose of a long range rifts practising ground for the troops be longing t o Chatham garrison, who are t o b e hutted near the spot during the time th e y are un d ergo i ng their instru c ti on. His Royal Hi g h ness returned to 7 Chatham garris on about o'clock t on T ues d ay even ing, and remained that night Eyre,at Gov ernment- house, the official residen ce guss ished di party of o fficers meetin g his Royal a distin al High ne at nner. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge yes terday paid a visit of inspection to Sh eerness.At 10.40 a.m. a Royal salute from all the ships in com mission Was fired as his Royal Highness p assed down the river Medway on board the Commander in-Chief's steam-tender Wildfire, under comma n d of Master-Commander George Brockman, A guard of honour, composed of part of the Norfolk Militia Artillery received his Royal Highness on landing at the Ordnance. chamber. His Royal Highness and staff proceeded to the residence of the Commander in -Chief, "Vice-Admiral of the Red Edward Harvey. The entire sea defences, fortifications, &c., were first inspected by his Royal Highness and scientific offi cers, accompanied by Major-General Eyre, Com mandant of Chatham Garrison ; Deputy-Adjt.-Gen. Bingham, Royal Artillery; Col. Nedham, Royal Artillery, Commandant of Sheerness Gar...son ; Col. Montague, of Sheerness, Royal Engineers ; Colonel Laird and Capt. Boothby, of the Forfar and Kin cardine Militia Artillery, and the entire staff of the garrison. The Forfar and the Norfolk Militia Regiments of Artillery were then inspected on parade by his Royal Highness, after which they were inspected on the centre seaward battery at heavy gun drill. The soldiers' barracks and offi cers' quarters were minutely inspected by his Royal Highness. 'lhe principal objects of inspection by his Royal Highness and staff officers were the bat teries seaward, and the general fortifications sur rounding the fort, arsenal, &c. The examinations of candidates for direct com missions by the Council of Military Education com menced yesterday before Major-Gen. Rumley, the Vice-President, and other members of the Council. There were above 100 candidates. The whole of the troops in Woolwich garrison having been granted a general helyday since the morning of Friday last (Good Friday), the usual field exercises and drills were recommenced yester day morning. The four batteries forming the gar rison reserve of the 4th field brigade of Artillery, were yesterday served with 10 rounds of blank am munition, and assembled on the review ground in command of Col. Dick, when they were inspected and put through a course of active field exercises in the presence of General Sir Richard Dacres, com manding the garrison and staff. After the exercises the General proceeded to an inspection of the stables and barrack quarters. The battalion of Royal Ma rines was likewise marched to Woolwich-common in command of Col. Hopkins, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty, and went through a course of com pany drill. Yesterday morning upwards of 2,000 appli cants for employment again thronged the entrance to the Royal gun factories in Woolwich Arsenal, it having been announced that an addi tional number of artificers and labourers would be taken on in the department.. An attempt was made to organise the immense body into sectional columns or divisions of about 100 each, but the un ruly desire which they exhibited to be foremost for examination rendered the attempt abortive. 250 or 300 were, therefore, hastily selected and ordered for medical attestation, and the remainder were dismissed. As soon as the whole of the machinery now in course of erection is in working condition the establishment will be again increased to the number intended to be added. THE SLATE TRADE AS IT IS. The following is the letter of the special corre spondent of the New York Times referred to in our second article of Mon lay last. It shows the actual character of the traffic, the fleet engaged, and the machinery and mode of operations. We retain the subordinate headings of the writer : St. Paul de Loando, West Coast of Africa, Jan. 15, 1860. I had supposed previously to leaving the States that the assumed revival of the African slave trade was mainly greatly exaggerated to serve the pur poses of partisan politicians. A stay of a few months upon " the coast," however, has proved to me not merely that " the half has not been told," but that people on your side of the water know but very little of the real extent of the traffic as carried on at the present time. _ We need not go back to the days prior to the joint Anglo American treaty for the suppression of the traffic to read the record of middle passages and the other horrors of the trade ; we have at this time just such a record to read if we will only open the book. At no time since the provisions of that treaty were made known to the world has the traffic been as actively and successfully prosecuted as at the present. The seas on the coast swarm with vessels whose only and known object is to get (in slave coast parlance) a cargo of "live stock." Congo River and its immediate vicinity is a favourite place for the receiving of these live cargoes, and from this point alone, I may say, without overreaching the mark, there have been, within the last four months, at least 4,500 negroes carried off. Three out of four vessels clearing from the coast with live cargoes succeed in getting off safely ; 200 miles from the coast, and their chance of a safe venture is ton to one in their favour. Almost invariably this work is carried on under the cover of the American flag, and it is now notorious here that every merchant vessel seen in these seas flying that flag is a justly suspected craft. I may exempt from this sweeping assertion the single bi-monthly line of vessels plying between Salem, Mass., and this place ; the advent of any other legitimate traders is like angels' visits. I have thus above dealt in assertion ; for the whys and wherefores of these assertions look further along ; they will appear strange, but they will be true. The traffic is carried on in just the same style that it was in days of yore. Improvement in other things had not necessitated any change in the slaver or his vessel. The lot of the negro is rather worse if anything aboard of the modern slave ship than was formerly the case, before the trade was made piracy. The cargo is now taken aboard in two or three hours, not leisurely as under the old regime ; no regard, of course, is had f or th e i r com f or t un d er such circumstances. The water is got aboard as hur riedly as the cargo, and of course in insufficient quantities. Hence the fearful suffering and death, from thirst alone, so common in slave ships. The slave deck is laid as of old, and on a vessel of, say 300 tons burden, there will be 1000 human beings stowed away. Those slavers who save two-thirds of their cargo do well. Often one-half of a cargo is hove overboard before reaching the destined market. One sample will I give as being illustrative of the whole class of slavers, and the life in them. I al most fear to enter on my task for fear of being ac cused of a disposition to exaggerate ; but laying aside my scruples, here is the truth. A short time since RAI S. Viper captured the brig Tavernier, of New York, having a cargo of near GOO negroes aboard. When first seen she was flying American colours. Capture king inevitable, she threw her papers overboard and hauled down her flag. The scene between decks was shocking. Stowed in a sitting posture, with their knees drawn close up to their breasts, were over 500 human beings whose skins were black, mostly children and young persons, and some wom en . S o c l ose wer e ' they packed that they could not move, and could hardly b rea th e. In this suffocating condition they were struggling for life. The strong were killing the weak to make room for themselves, and that a lwitatslemore of God's a i r m i g h t b e had. Disease cially among ophtha i ln he i nl ia. in many other forms, and espe yuag for air andSewaatseharnel-house. B u t th e irc,k, t h h o es m e e poor sick , w sta re r t v o i h n e g s crowded thi s floating c, Cr d slaverswerewhen on merciful, wasreiful , for sok they o . d b helped ar the e f s e l r a e v c ol to e nigh unto d ea th, t h ey kindly- assisted him oriherovetb soul had left the b o d y. The i.aey sometimes ai ity of th e i r mercy would was not strained eith er, for th substitute another death f o drowning --the negro was knocked on the head with an axe breaking out, it was supposed t o be contagious, and the sufferers were made away witho u t any scruples ' of that troublesome thing , called conscience. A n idea of the mortality on board the Tavernier may be formed when I state that, after her capture by the Viper, upon her passage over to St. Helena, whither she was sent in charge of a prize crew, nearly one hundred of her negroes died. This w as during a run of only about ten days' duration. I have not, above, taken an extreme ease: The Tavernier's case is the rule and not the exception. Less of the horrible would be the exception and not the rule. CHARACTER OF THE SLATE TRADERS. I have cruised around among this class of people upon whom this brand of piracy was fixed purposely to see what the cut of their jib was, and as may be supposed I have often found myself in bad company. I have come to the conclusion that there were different grades df society even among slavers. First, there is the genteel cut-throat. I mistake in saying that the brand of piracy is affixed to this class, for he is only indirectly engaged in the work. His vocation is, however, always expressed and understood. This class of cut-throats live high and in style, and as a consequence they are consi dered " respectable." Sometimes they aro dubbed " gentlemen ' by the parasites who partake of their wines and dinners. They exercise munificent hospi tality, are great sticklers for rank and distinction. Their guests are oftener naval officers than any others. Their process of working on the feelings of tis cl ass i s called " the dinner and old wine pro e ss." The second class of slave-trade society are the s mi-g en t ee l cut-throats. This class includes in its r nks c apta i ns, le law could make h these gent supercargoes and o a -hour between ry o ffi sc e i e l r l s at o e f fo sl r a h ve a r l s i around, their neeksehauvtenit d and earth, with a rope two - are a especially the first ,r,_on't. Out here they— well-dressed set, with plenty of money. auey k nock around in a devil- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 11.60. may-care style, drink plenty of liquor, are patro nised by cut-throat number one and his set, and are often labelled " first-rate fellows." They are not at all debarred from society here. Entirely unprin cipled they are, of course; and some of them look as though they would cut your throat for a trifle. At home, after a successful voyage, they revel for a season on the sweets of their labour, and in fast society they are often guns of heavy calibre. I have one case in my mind of one of these gentry who has made a large number of successful voyages as a captain, who, upon his return, flourishes as a very prince of good fellows in New York society. He spends his money freely, and, of course, classes some high birds of the ton amongst his friends. I have known persons assuming to be respectable, class this man amongst their friends, and speak of him as though they were honoured by his friend ship. All for a taste of the blessed influences of money. Class number three is the full-blown cut-throat. The looks of this class would damn them. The vilest of the vile, there is of course no occupation too bad for them. Slaving has become their legiti mate business only because piracy is unsafe. On all men-of-war there are some who go to fill the ranks of this delectable class. They are generally penitentiary and Australian convicts, and are fami liarly known among respectable sailors as " beach combers." Desperadoes, they are the very men sought for by slave captains, as being especially fitted for their mission. Here, in this trade, they have a full opportunity of gratifying their licen tiousness and giving full reign to their passions, which make them a curse on God's fair earth. So ciety would be blessed if this foul scum was skimmed off into our penitentiaries ; the miasma arising from it would not then get beyond their stone walls. Enough of the personnel of the slaver. If we cannot manage the fever with the success with which the English and French do it would be well to re-organise our naval medical corps, and fill its ranks with materiel professionally compe tent to deal with a disease which is not at all ter rible. The real reason of this absence from the post of duty has been kept in the background. It is to allow a large class of self-styled " chivalrous gentle men" to luxuriate in idleness and pleasure at their country's expense. Such a thing as returning an equivalent for salary received, in shape of duty, has not been thought of; two ideas on this score would probably burst the head of many of our naval magnates. "The Coast" station has been one rather sought after than otherwise by our naval officers. And why not ? Three months of each year were set apart for a stay at Madeira, and this timc was often prolonged indefinitely. Three months at that beauteous island would be an era in any person's lifetime ; it would be a bright spot in life's desert. Who would not bear a few months' exile to the dreary coast, for the privi lege of living a season in a clime of perpetual spring, in a land where the air is always fragrant with the scent of the ever-blooming flower, and the luscious fruit of the tropics and temperate climes are always to be had—a land of glorious scenery and associations, whose very name, like its own shining cascades, is most musical ? This, with the charms of fine society, would do much towards effecting a cure of the fever. Add to the yearly episode at Madeira the frequent calls and long stop pages at the Canaries, Cape de Verdes, and St. Helena, and it will be seen that the time spent by a vessel on the coast was very short indeed. Usually not more than two or three vessels were there at a time. _ - The loose and indeterminate nature of the instruc tions given to our naval officers goes for to render the treaty inoperative. The evil of discretionary power exerted in these men operates most injuri ously at times. It is oftentimes a mere matter of will with a commanding officer as to whether the effective force under his command shall or shall not render efficient aid toward suppressing the traffic. That will is too often exerted on the side of selfish inefficiency. Again, on the other hand, a willing officer is often kept in check by instructions from head-quarters, which arc of this nature—" Do so and so," saith the magnate, " but if you do so and so, look out for yourself." Unless positive convic tion follows the capture of a slaver, the officer cap turing that slaver lays himself liable to a civil suit and damages ; he is consequently afraid to take a vessel unless she has her cargo of flesh and blood aboard. Under the present very unsatisfactory laws (very satisfactory to the slaver) for the suppression of the slave trade, it is almost impossible to detect a slaver, unless she has her cargo aboard. Disguise is so easy that no difficulty is experienced in find ing avenues of escape. For instance, the palm oil trade is the great blind and favourite disguise of the slaver. Receiving his papers, say at New York (for five-sixths of the slave ships sail from that port), he takes in a large number of casks, for the osten sible purpose of having them filled with palm oil. These he fills at New York with water for ballast. The law requires only a certain number of water casks in vessels trading to the coast. But the slaver stands ready with his excuse; those casks are for palm oil. Now, it is a well-known fact on this coast that real palm oil casks are brought out in staves, put together, and whitewashed inside and out just before receiving the oil. This is what is called the " cask dodge." THE PALM OIL DODGE. A word as to this palm oil trade,for it bears strongly on our subject. Th e greatest i gnorance preva il s on th , subject i n common w i th ot h er African affairs. This is supposed to be in a most flourishing condi tion, and to employ a large amount of tonnage in its export. Such is not the case, and such reports onlyoriginate w ith th e s l ave -tra di ng i nterest, whose wish it is to mislead the public mind. A few large trading vessels per year could carry off all of the oil produced on the whole coast; and I may add, in this connection, that the English naval officers attached to this station know o f b u t th ree l ega l t ra d ers in this business. Contrary to supposition, there is no competition between the English and Americans in this trade, for there are few or no English vessels engaged in it. If palm oil be the principal article of export, and there arc but three legal traders on the coast engaged in that trade, and those traders are American, what on earth do the great number of vessels which crowd those seas, all flying the Ame rican flag? All of them are assumed traders in palm oil. VEssels supposed to be engaged in this trade, upon examination are generally found to have clear ance papers from New York for eight or nine months, when any one outside of the New York Custom-house ought to know that under the most favourable circumstances it would require from 15 to 18 months to get together a sufficiency of oil to freight an ordinary - sized vessel. The oil is obtained very slowly, and at the date of my writing is not to be bad. Let Government instruct its able officials at tie New York Custom-house to distinguish be tween oil cask staves and water casks, and it will have done one commendable thing. - - reception of her cargo: With this evidence against . Y her, the flag officer took her in charge, investigated her case, and released her. The sequel I have made known : shortly after she received her cargo, and had nearly made her escape. A sharp-eyed Eng lishman, however, knew the " nature of the beast," and was on his track, gave chase, and 200 miles at sea (an unusual distance to make a capture) over hauled and took her, making for the Englishman a nice pile of prize money. Multiply 888 by 25, the amount received per head for captured slaves, and you have the nice little pile which slipped through the hands of the Americans. It need not for a moment be supposed that the Americans got the laugh on them, for perhaps they did not. I omitted to mention that the sweet-scented captain of the Orion—a man, Morgan by name, the same indivi dual who was mate of her at the time of her cap ture on her former cruise—said to the boarding British officer at the time of his capture, " It is like a game at cards—we have played high, but you (the English) have beaten us:at our own game." I am most happy to state for the benefit of his New York friends that the gentleman Morgan and his equally gentlemanly associates, the first and second mates, are now in iron and provided with quarters on board of an American man-of-war. They will soon be on their way to New York, when an oppor tunity will offer to give them a public reception as martyrs to the principle of right of search. I be lieve it is claimed that there was a violation of that principle upon the occasion of the capture of the Orion. The nasty Britishers ought to be made to mind their own business. AFTER CAPTURE, we make the best disposition of the slaves captured, sending them to Liberia, and delivering them up to that republic, which converts them into passable colonists, who in time aid the work of civilising and redeeming West Africa. The English send their captures to the West Indies as " apprentices," and it is a discussed point as to whether their condition as such is any better than in actual slavery. The English say, " Yes, it is infinitely better ;" their haters say, " Nay, it is no better." But we have to do with the trade, and not with its afterclaps. The West Indies is near home, and people in the United States ought to be able to judge of the merits of the apprentice system. HOW IS IT DONE? Quite easily. A fair illustration we have in the recently captured American (of course) bark ONon, having a cargo of 888 live negroes aboard. This vessel, after numerous adventures about the mouth of the Congo—having been captured as a slaver and again released by the American flag officer— sailed quietly up said river and discharged her coppers at an understood point. From thence they were carried overland a distance of 60 miles, to the point at which she was to receive her cargo. This latter had been collected from various places along the coast, at such places as they could be procured. Her complement was to have been 1,200, but time and tide could not wait even for a slave cargo. On a dark night she stood into her place of shipment, and in one hour and a half had near 900 negroes aboard. In one hour more she was at sea, and had nearly got out of the range of the cruisers on the coast when she was overhauled by one of the ever-watchful British steamers, at a distance of some 200 miles at sea. The usual, and I may say more successful and respectable, mode of procedure, is for the slaver to get her regular papers at some port (usually New York) in the States, for some point on the coast, as a trader, generally in palm oil. These vessels gene rally carry out a partial cargo of notions, such as calico prints, rum, crockery, &c., to serve the double purpose of a cloak to their purposes, and to assist in paying for their cargo of live stock. With a Portuguese or Spanish supercargo aboard they sail for the point at which the cargo of flesh and blood is to be had, arriving at which, arrangements are made for the delivery of said cargo. A coasting voyage under pretence of trade is the next move, and it results in the engagement at different points of stoppage of portions of her cargo of slaves, who are to be delivered and on hand by a certain speci fied night. That night arriving, the vessel is on hand, and in a few hours has her cargo aboard and standing out at sea Cuba-ward. The shipment of the negroes is sometimes a troublesome job, there being always refractory ones amongst them. These are usually ironed or made stupidly drunk with rum, and thus got to sea. THE CHANCES, as I have said, for a safe andpratable venture, are three in the trader's favour to one against him. Here are a few items of evidence to substantiate the above assertion which have come under my own observation. There is a notorious slave-dealer here, who, a short time since, offered to wager a large sum of money with a captain of a certain British cruiser who is somewhat noted as a captor of slaves, that he would name three different points, at one of which, within a certain specified time, he would receive a cargo of slaves, and would safely carry that cargo to market without any hindrance from the British captain. It is enough to say that the slaver's challenge was not accepted. A suspected saver lay up the Congo River; two British steamers lay at the mouth of that river ready to nab her when she got her cargo aboard. For four months the slaver lay at her anchor, ap parently partially dismantled, until one dark night, having got a "good ready," she took in her full cargo of slaves, got under weigh, passed quietly and unseen between the two guardships, and was soon beyond the reach of pursuit. Recently a slaver was captured in this vicinity by a British steamer, having a full cargo aboard. Al most at the same hour of the capture, right before the eyes of the captors, sailed out from land two vessels loaded full of slaves. Being out of coal the steamer could not pursue, and of course the slavers escaped. Says a leading merchant of Loando, an American, " Out of 80 vessels clearing from this coast with slave cargoes, 25 out of these 80 would be the limit of capture ; that would be a large per tentage ; it would not reach that figure, perhaps." THE PROFITS of the traffic are so enormous that were the risk of capture and casualty thrice what it now is, there would not be found wanting numerous vessels manned by desperate men to engage in it. Although the law now makes the trade piracy, slave traders know full well that there is no risk of life attend ing their nefarious pursuit, if so done under the flag of the United States. Let a single instance be pointed out where the penalty due to piracy has been inflicted upon the slaver. And if there be no risk of life attending slaving, when the chances of gain are so great, why not risk a little money for the sake of that great salvation which lies in the root of all evil P If this be not scriptural or Whate- Han logic, it certainly is in accordance with the creed of a very large class of persons in our country. I may state with safety that the average profit, over and above all expenses, upon each negro landed upon the coast of Cuba, is between 300 and 400 dols. lam taking the average of a cargo. Let us put it at the lowest mark-300 dols. It does not require the intellect of a Newton to calculate the profits that must accrue to the safe landing of a cargo of negroes. One thousand negroes would give a return of at least 300,000 dols.—a sufficient sum to set all parties concerned "upon their legs." Well can those parties afford to born their fine vessels ; well can the Cuban, after such a magnificent return upon his invested capital, afford to go to New York and have a grand splurge; and the "merchant prince,"--he, too, can be more princely still. . . The bait of profit is certainly a tempting one ; where there is no penalty who would not bite ? THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES will necessitate somewhat lengthy explanations— will necessitate the utterance of truths that can but be most unpalatable to many. As they are truths, I trust that such persons will be able to digest them. To one class of persons, who are always seeking to find some new horror in the slave question to shriek about, I do not address those truths, even though in their mouths they may be as sweet as honey ; to another class, who dislike any revelation of the horrors of the traffic with an exceeding great dis like, I do not address myself, for the sweetness in the mouth of one may be bitterness in the belly of another. I wish a hearing with reasonable, mwle rate, thinliing people alone. Why-should the traffic be perpetuated ? Have we not for years kept a national police force standing before the very portals of Slave Land ? Yes, and no. Nominally we have, and in reality we have nsov out—why t.pressi o ye i Has t Greatss t . Britain, with her strong anti• hook proclivities, l lent h er h an d t o th e wor k o f slitovreldry's‘s name still on record Vh no t henbl o t in the the thing u e w oferinie ?Wesh A a Y I I I NG lIE see.T TRADE. ITlhEelclaSviNoNs for TAKEN FOR ST the suppression of the African slave trade are nearly valueless and inoperative. The com pact entered i n t o b etween Great Britain and the United States, in the year ton h 1842, t stipulates that a 80 guenitsedshsaltlatbeee have kep not useuaelolayskt.eptUstnhtaitl of late of eu t h complement. The Briti s h f orce has averaged for the past 15 years 19 vessels and 148 guns. Let it be e said, however, to the credit and h onour o f t h e Go vernment of our country of that d a y , that it fi rs t l e d the way by legislation to the abolition of the slave trade. It even went further—a proposal was made by the Secretary of State, by direction of the Pre sident, in accordance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, to even allow the right of search. This proposition was rejected by the British Government. but that force has not been efficiently W e have not only detailed an insufficient hereto fore,em- ployed. A large portion of the time of our national vessels, detailed for this service, has been spent by them in places of pleasantness foreign to their field of duty. Madeira, the Cape de Verdes, and the Canaries have been the favourite places of resort. I have now in my mind a late instance of a flag ship of the United States African squadron lying for eight months at a time at a port in one of the above-named group of islands. The great bugbear of African fever has been constantly paraded as a post o f duty. sufficient excuse for this absence from WHAT IS NOW DOING. Let the records of the past speak for us ;. they will say " almost nothing," and I can scarcely hope for anything better for the immediate future. We have heard of a slaver captured now and then by an American cruiser, but such a thing is like an angel's visit—a thing of many' fews and far betweens. Bah! out upon us—we are justly stigmatised as a nation of slave-traders ; for it is solely und er th e colour of our flag that a traffic is carried on which ought to damn any nation, tongue or kindred engaging in it. I can scarcely wonder that we are judged abroad with the harshness that we are; that we are begin ning to stink in the nostrils of decent nations as a very inconsistent people —a people which allows its flag to be prostituted to a base purpose. A spasmodic show of zeal has of late been made manifest by the present administration, and it has heralded forth to the world its magnificent declara tion of its determination " to put down the slave trade." A new squadron has replaced the old one, and it has entered upon the scene of its duties, and if its start is indicative of its future course, I would not give much for its efficiency. There has been a congregation of the new squadron at this place within the past two weeks, and we have witnessed the humiliating spectacle of an almost disorganised quarrels and disagree -luy workingti assigned them by Go c amicably in the dis csnlqiieuttnitse of r. So e N f iii rm n g ifso.o t ri o tna nt vern m cut, the only inference to be drawn is that these naval gentry are sent out here to, by their own pri vate animosities, thwart the aims of the service. To such an extent has this quarrelling been carried on that the flag officer of the squadron has had to make a complete shifting around of the personnel of the vessels under his command, not one of which has bten allowed to retain her original complement of officers. Upon one vessel there have been over 20 changes in her officers. Like the Kilkenny cats, they have to be separated. T wo o f th e vesse l s soon go to Madeira, leaving the work to devolve upon the other three. One steamer, just having arrived on the station (and she was supposed to be the best vessel on the station), has nominally broken down, and gone to the pleasant port of Cadiz, Spain, to recruit her exhausted energies, I mention these things reluctantly, solely because of the bearing they have upon the efficiency of our navy in doing the work of suppressing the slave trade. There is certainly something rotten in Den mark. It is a fact that the bulk of the work of captur ing slavers is done by the British. They take six slavers to our one. There is no rubbing this out ; all of the pseudo patriotism we may indulge in, and all of the highfaluting talk we may give vent to, would not make it otherwise. There is not a month but what one or more slavers, with cargo aboard, is captured by British cruisers. Furnished with a fleet ofsmall fast.sailingsteamers, manned by officers and men whose allotted time on this deadly coAst is four and five years, they make the capture of slavers a matter of work and self interest. And, indeed, they do work ; their steamers are constantly cruising and on the alert ; there is no sham about their movements. Lynx eyed they dog every suspicious looking craft which falls in their way. They are, of course, much beloved in this delectable community, where nearly everyone, aside from the black popu lation, is either directly or indirectly interested in the slave trade. In some things they have the ad vantage over us, and hence their greater efficiency. They have no discordant southern element in their - navy, whose wish is to perpetuate the traffic, and who would throw obstacles in the way of the cap tured slavers—who would wink at the traffic and rejoice in its success. They are furnished with a , set of admirably adapt e d vesse l s f or th e p rosecu ti o n of their work, and well do they use them. You have doubtless had the case of the notorious Orion before you ere this. The history of this vessel is a good illustration of the different ways of work ing adopted by the two nations. Falling into the hands of the captain of an American steamer, the captain and crew of the slaver successfully imitated sickness, and begged earnestly for assistance, both medical and to aid in getting their vessel into port. The want of sympathy spoken of by Talfourd with his dying breath may not, upon this occasion, be made manifest. The feeling Ame ricans were touched with compassion at the sight of the sufferings of their brother, and they with held not their aid. Medical assistance was fur nished, and the slaver was manned by an American man-of-war crew, and carried to a safe anchorage, quite near the place where she was to receive her cargo. Left alone there, her crew suddenly got well, and up anchor and off. Overhauled again, she was found with her slave deck partly laid, and things in a general state of forwardness for the THE REMEDY is one easily applied if we were only in earnest. Aro we so I believe not. Political chicanery fears to soil its pure hands with aught that smells of "nigger." Southern influence raises its potent voice and says, " Peace, be still !" The political deep is quiet, and its angry voice is sunk to a low unquiet moaning murmur ; it may be like unto a sound heard on the "middle passage." • • • Moneyed interest raises its note of alarm, and who dares to gainsay its influence ? Who pities Logan ? Not one. There is a need for the revision of the laws regu lating the suppression of the slave trade. The convention of 1842, which drew up the treaty called the Ashburton treaty, made the trade piracy, which of course affixes the death penalty to any one convicted as a slaver. Such a thing as capital punishment being inflicted upon any slaver was never and never will be heard of in our country. A lesser penalty would go far to ensure conviction, and men would be guarded about engaging in a business which would consign to labour in a state workshop for a term of years or a lifetime. It is now death or nothing, or, rather, it is nothing. I should even advocate the allowance of the right of search within a specified distance of the coast, say 200 miles. Of two evils let us choose the least. The exemption from search is the virtual safeguard of the slaver; under the cover of a flag which does not tolerate the right of search, he may pursue his traffic with impunity. For instance, a slaver be comes familiarised, after a short stay in African waters, with the different men-of-war in those waters ; he gets to know them and their nationality. Pursued at sea he knows his pursuer by sight, and hoists a flag which exempts him from search, and he is safe. An American vessel, with cargo aboard, having the American colours flying, might pasi under the very guns of a British man-of-war un molested. The latest instructions to the British cruisers on this coast from the commanding officer on this station run about as follows :—" Not to capture, visit, or in any way to interfere with United States vessels, whether those vessels have' sldves aboard or not." - I do not say that these instruc tions have not been violated ; I believe they have. I would extend the provisions of the law, and make those having capital invested, and those in directly interested in the traffic, equally amenable with those navigating the vessels carrying the live cargo. Let the number of casks, buckets, amount of food in the shape of rice, salt fish, farina, &c., be limited as well as the cooking apparatus, lumber, planking, &e. ; materials so handy for a slave deck. A viola tion of law relating to these things should make a prize of a vessel beyond the waters of the United Statea, where a mock trial and monetary interests secure a guilty triumph of the slaver. And finally, in the name of all that is sensible and reasonable, if we are going to be in earnest in wiping out this stain so foul upon us, let us signify our earnestness by sending to the West Coast a proper and adequate force. The idea of sending there, as chasing craft, a lot of old by-gone sailing vessels, is simply ridiculous, and an insult to the common sense of the age in which we live. Ten years after England and France, we begin to dis sever that an efficient arm of the naval service is small, light draught, swift screw steamers, and it is to be hoped that in imitation of those powers, in the course of time we will have there the only really effective vessels on the African station. Let us do something or nothing; take away a squadron which is costing us millions of money, or else ren der it really efficient. This we can do. Let us throw down the gates and say to the negro, " Get you beyond the waters and be the white man's slave ;" or let us say, " Arise and shine, for thy light has come; a new glory, even that of the star of the west, has risen upon thee." PRESENTATION TO LADY RATCLIFF, OF BIRMINGHAM. It will be remembered that when Sir John Rat cliff retired from the office of chief magistrate of Birmingham, to which he was thrice elected, the members of the cbuncil, in addition to eloquent expressions of high appreciation of the useful and dignified manner in which he had discharged the duties of his responsible position, determined in the month of November last to mark their sense of Sir John's many excellencies by a more enduring and tangible evidence. It was therefore decided that the testimonial should take the form of a por trait of Sir John, and that Lady Ratcliff should be presented with the same, as the most graceful mode of expressing the feelings of the council towards their late respected mayor. Accordingly Mr. W. T. Roden, a local artist of great eminence, was entrusted with the production of this work of art, which was privately exhibited in his studio a fewday ago, prior to its removal to the Royal Academy. The portrait is a full length, the canvas measuring about Oft. by 6ft. As a likeness it is remarkable for fidelity, whilst as a work of art it sheds new lustre on the genius of our local artist. The portrait represents Sir John in his Court dress, in which he received her Majesty the Queen when she visited Bir mingham, and knighted him in the Town-hall. The artist has made those colours in drapery sub ordinate to his purpose, which would, to mediocre talent, have proved the chief difficulty in produc ing a work of this kind, and has so preserved the tone of the picture as to secure a life-like portrait perfectly natural and easy, and a painting which must challenge the admiration of all true critics. The presentation of the portrait, richly framed and bearing the arms of Sir John Ratcliff, was pre sented to Lady Ratcliff on Saturday morning last, at the Wydrington, Edgbaston, by the testimonial committee, accompanied by Mr. Stanbridge, the town clerk. The deputation were received by Lady Ratcliff with marked consideration, and Mr. Palmer then read an address which referred to the principal events of Sir John's municipal career, eulogised his conduct as chief magistrate, the duties o e 'f which office he had discharged in a manner which re flected the brightest honour upon himself and the corporation. On behalf of the committee Mr. Palmer then presented the portrait, the frame of which bears the following inscription :—" Borough of Birmingham. This portrait of Sir John Rat cliff, Knt., thrice mayor of this borough, was presented to Lady Ratcliff, by subscription of members of the Council, 1860. Painted by W. T. Roden, Esq." Lady Ratcliff read the following re ply : Gentlemen,—l beg you will accept my grateful acknow ledgments for your valuable gift, and for the expressions of kind feeling and -respect towards Sir John Batch ff by which it is accompanied. I shall esteem it very highly on account of its intrinsic merits and the motives which have led to its presentation. I assure you it is most gratifying to me to receive so marked a testimony of approval of my husband's conduct, during the time he filled the civic chair of Bir mingham, from gentlemen so well qualified to appreciate his endeavours to promote the welfare of his native town. It is not within my province to advert to municipal affairs, and I shall therefore not allude to them further than to re mark that this, as well as every other department of public life, is necessarily accompanied by much toil and anxiety. This anxiety, however, is amply compensated by the testi monial with which I have been so highly favoured to-day. In Iced, gentlemen, any words of mine would fail to convey to you my feelings on this occasion. I will only add that from my heart I thank you. The deputation were then entertained at luncheon, after which several complimentary speeches were delivered. 1111 DDLES_EX SESSIONAS, April 11. (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant Judge.) A great number of cases, in which the prisoners for the chief part pleaded gnilty, were disposed of by the two Courts. Those who were old offenders were sentenced either to penal servitude or length ened terms of imprisonment. The committals of juvenile offenders this session was unusually large, and in every case where it was practicable the Court passed a sentence which would send the prisoner to some reformatory institution, the County Industrial School, or to Parkhurst. John Sewell, 40, describQd as a stableman, but who had been a master livery -stable-keeper, was in dicted for feloniously embezzling the sew ral sums o f £3 Bs., £5 10i. 6d., £5 145., and also other sums amounting in the aggregate to nearly £2OO. Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, inst:ucted by Mr. Wontner, and Mr. F. H. Lewis was counsel for the prisoner. _ _ - It appeared that the prisoner formerly was the proprietor of some livery-stables in Gloucester mews North, but having fallen into diffi cu lti e s which he could not meet, the Sheriff eventually went in under an execution for over £l6B, which the prosecutor, acorn dealer, in Praed-street, Pad dington, between whom and the prisoner there had been some business transactions, paid out, and as the prisoner, after making a compromise even, could not go on, the prosecutor bought the business, part of the consideration being the amount paid under the execution. The prosecutor, under the agree ment, took possession of the prisoner's stables and working stock (to which he considerably added on his own account), and a further agreement was en tered into, by which the prisoner became the ser vant of the prosecutor, at a salary of £1 2s. per week, in addition to what he would receive as " driving money," which would make his average pay from £2 2s. to £2 ss. per week, and it was especially stipulated that from the date of that agreement the prisoner was to be considered in every way in respect of the business the prosecu tor's servant, that he was to render a just, true, and accurate account of all orders received and exe cuted, and of all moneys received from customers, to the sole account of the prosecutor. After that the prosecutor found all the means required to carry on the business, provided additional horses and broughams, corn, &c., and made out his own bills, which he gave in some instances to the prisoner to receive the amount, and of course he was to account to him when he received the money. The prisoner, however, made out other bills in lieu of those given to him by Mr. Booth, the prosecutor, and received the money iu his own name, as though the business were still his, without Mr. Booth's knowledge, and did not account for it to his master. The bills were made out in the name of Sewell. These matters having come to the prosecutor's knowledge, the pri soner was questioned about them, and he admitted some particular instances . mentioned, and afterwards acknowledged that he had received money for which he had not accounted to Mr. Booth since the business changed hands, to the amount of £2OO at least. When asked what he had done with the money, he said he had been advancing loans to friends, and the rest he had spent in " gay life" with women. It should be stated that the prose cutor paid the sheriff out and took to the business in February, 1859, since which time the prisoner had been his paid servant. Mr. Lewis, in cross examination, put some ques tions upon his instructions, with the view of appa rently eliciting from the prosecutor that the agree ment for a service was a mere blind, that the pri soner remained a principal not withstanding, and that there were matters between them which jus tified his receiving and detaining this money for himself. Every one of these questions met with a direct negative from the prosecutor, whose evidence was given with the utmost clearness i , and who pro duced his accounts, books and papers, and the pri soner's own receipts for his wages from the date of the agreement. Mr. Lewis said he had cross-examined according to the instructions the prisoner bad furnished his attorney with, but after the evidence of the prose cutor, which could not be considered in the least impugned, he should simply say if the jury believed it—and he could not see the least reason why they should not—they would convict the prisoner ; if they did not, or doubted it, they would acquit. His instructions had entirely failed. The Assistant Judge said he thought the learned counsel had exercised a sound discretion, for a clearer case of em b ezz l emen t was never brought into a court of justice. The jury immediately found the prisoner guilty. The prosecutor, in answer to the Court, stated that up to the present time his actual loss of money received by the prisoner was £lB6 Bs. 4d. as far as he had ascertained. The Assistant-Judge said the offence of embezzle ment was at all times a serious one, but this case was not only of a serious description, but it had been scandalously aggravated by the defence the prisoner had given instructions to be set up. Not content with plundering a man who had been most kir d to him, he.made the most atrocious aspersions on him for which there was not the least foundation. The sentence upon him was three years' penal servitude. James Navin, 22, was convicted of stealing a gold watch, value 40 guineas, the property of James APS winey, from his person. He was well known to the police as the associate of thieves. Sentenced to three years' penal servitude. Edward Storey was convicted of stealing a hand kerchief from the person of George Leatham. Foulsham, the officer of the Westminster Bride well, proved that the prisoner had been twice con victed, and sentenced to nine months' hard labour and ten years' transportation. The Court sentenced prisoner to five years' penal servitude. POLICE INTEI,LIGENCE:- - April 11. CLERKENWELL.--SEmous CHARGES AGAINST THE PROPRIETOR OF TIIE RAGLAN MUSIC HALL. —Henry Hart., the proprietor of the Raglan Music hall, Theobald's.road, Holborn, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged upon a search warrant, which had been executed by Sergeants Smith and Robinson of the detective force, with having 39 lbs. of cigars in his possession, well knowing them to have been stolen, the property of Messrs. Morris and Co., cigar manufacturers, of Half• Moon-passage, Whitechapel. Mr. Lewis appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Sleigh, barrister, for the defence. Sergeant Smith said that on the 4th of the pre sent month he obtained a search warrant from this court, and then proceeded to search the prisoner's house. In the bar he, in company with Sergeant Robinson, and a young man from the prosecutor's, found a large quantity of cigars, which had been stolen on the night of the Ist of February, from Messrs. Morris's premises. When the cigars were identified the prisoner was asked how he became possessed of them, when he replied that he would tell that before a magistrate. On proceeding upstairs to search the prisoner's house, the prisoner said, " What a fool a man is in my position to buy such things as these, just to save a few pounds." While the prisoner was in the waiting-room of the court, he said he had bought the cigars from a band master, and told him the names of two other per sons who had also purchased cigars of a similar de• scription. He also said that if he had known the night before that he (Smith) was coming he would have cut his throat or his throat. Since then he had. had the cigars assorted. He found some of the cigars in glasses, exposed in front of the bar. Charles May said he was in the employ of the prosecutors, and on the Ist of February a burglary was committed on their premises, and between six teen and seventeen cwts. of cigars were stolen: The cigars produced are the property of the prosecutors. Some of the cigars produced were made for sale in this country, and were now sold in London—in fact, they had been in stock for more than four years. While he was examining the cigars in the waiting-room, the prison el said he had no doubt they were his, meaning the prosecutors'. The rib. bons round the cigars taken from the prisoner's bar were the same as those round the cigars that were stolen on the night of the burglary. It is the cus tom of the trade to send cigars out in boxes, but those that were found iu the prisoner's bar were mixed, good and bad together. Cross-examined—lie knew the cigars were his masters property, as some were made in January last. Evidence at some length was then given by the members of the firm and their workmen, showing that the cigars produced were the property of the prc seeu tors. Mr. Lewis said that was the whole of the evi dence in the first case, and the next charge against the prisoner was that of having a quantity of cigars in his possession which had been stolen from the warehouse of Mr. Schniff, of 16, Alie-street, Whitechapel. At the time the cigars were found iu the prisoner's bar they were damp, and had only bee❑ stolen about six or seven days. In this case, not having the whole of his witnesses, ho should ask for a remand. Sergeant Smith having proved that in company with Sergeant Robinson the cigars produced were found in the prisoner's bar, Mr. Sleigh, in an eloquent speech, contended that the charge against the prisoner, viz., that of receiving the cigars well knowing them to have been stolen, had failed, and therefore that the pri soner ought to he discharged. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the case was a difficult one, and full of suspicion. He should remand the pri soner for a week, but would take bail for the pri soner's appearance. Bail was then put in, the prisoner in the sum of £4OO, and one surety in the sum of £2OO. CO UN TR Y RKETB. NEWARK.-APRIL 11. At this corn market th. attendance of buyers and sellers was tolerable, and wheat, which was in moderate supply► sold firmly at 2s per qr advance on late rates. Barley Was in middling show, and inactive. Beans scarce. Peas as before. White wheat, new, 53s to 58s Barley, grinding 31s to 331 Red do. 49s to 53s Oats, old, .. 315 to 3 54 Old white s 2s t o 56s New do 21s to 31s Red do. 46s to 48s Beans.. 48s to 514 I Barley, malting.... 38 s t o 47 s Beans, new 42s to 451 BOSTON-APRIL 11. We had a limited supply of wheat from the grovrers to-day, the demand for which was good, at an advance of 2s on late prices. Barley a small show. Oats firm. Beall s tending upwards. Wheat, red .44s to 50s Oaf s .. . lBs to 253 White do .50s to 53s Beans 4os to 484 Barley .33s to 48s Peas ....383 to 42s HULL-APRIL 10. The market to-day was rather thinly supplied with wheat and sold at fully last week's prices; in foreign little doing. Barley, oats, beans, and peas in fair request, with little or no alteration in value. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr sos Od to 52s Otl Old red New white .. „ , 50s Od to 52s 04 Now red .... Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 42s Od to 51$ Od Dutch, Belgian, and French 46s Od to 66s Oa • Baltic and Hamburg, red St. Petersburg and Riga, old 39s Od to 44s 04 Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 42s Od Grinding 3os Od to 31s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 14s Od to 368 Od Grindin g Oats Fnglish, old Archangel and Riga, per a OB 10Id to lia Friesland and Dutch oBlld to 08110 Swedish and Danish oBlld to Osllfd Beans ....English, old, per qr 42s Od to 458 Oa New pigeon 4os Od to 42s Od New tick. 39s Od to 40s 0 4 Egyptian .. 37s Od to 38s Od Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Winter —s Od to —8 04 Indian Corn Linseed, feeding sos Od to 52s Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 10 0 to £lO 16 0 Foreign 715 oto 8 6 0 Rape cakes 415 oto 5 0 0 Bones MELTON MOWBRAY-APRIL 10. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, with a moderate business at the annexed prices :—White wheat, new, 48' Od to 52s Od ; red, 44s Od to 47s per 36 stone ; barley in small supply, at 38s to 46s for malting, and 30s to 34s per qr. for grinding ; oats, 25s to 35s Od per 21 stone; beans, 44s to 53s for old; new, 52s per 38 st. COAL MARK] (recce of Coal per Ton at g. d. I ST—APRIL 11. the close of the market.) Walla End. Byass's Bedside West Hartley . ... 15 9 Chilton Hartley Steam.ls 0 Hastings Hartley ..15.. 9 Davison's West Hart- .....,.... _. Acorn Close 18 9 Eden 18 9 Heugh Hall 18 9 Keiper Grange ..... l9 0 Kelloe l9 3 Gosforth lB 0 Sheriff Hill 14 0 ,. Eden Main Gibson 17 8 `Riddell lB ' 0 Hetton 2O 0 ley ....15 9 Holy well 15 9 Howard's West Hart- ley 15 9 Tanfield Moor 12 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 12 6' Wylam l6 0 Lambert's West Hart- ley l5 6 Walker Primrose 13 0 Braddyll'a Hatton l9 0 South Hetton 20 0 Whitworth 16 0 Haswell..... 2O 0 Thornley 17 0 Bell Hilda l7 9 Trimdon Hartlepool 17 3 Carway and Duffryn Malting ;,130—Sold, 94. Walls End. South Hartlepool l9 0 Brandon. lB 6 Russell's Hetton , 19 0 Shincliffe Hunwick Ships at market FOREIGN MAIL PAC, fn the following table E signifies that let by evening mails from London, and M DESTINA.TIONB. Despatch of Mails. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton 1 Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton 1 Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South- ampion Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto 1 Drafts, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles &Lexie° and Havana Newfoundland United States and British N I America (by British packet) Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe West India, California, Tene- 1 zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey-j town, New Granada, &c. ET LIST. tters are dei by morning Port of Despatch. April-,M! l AprillB, E' lAprill4, El April-, El May 5, E lApril2o April 26, E! April- Aprill7. M Southamp. April2o, M April 26, El !April-, AprillB, May 9, Af lAprill7,3ll (April-,M AprillS , E !April2l, Aprill4, E !April -,E, April 23 E !Aprlll7. MI [ Liverpool,. Devonport Southamp. Southamp. ISouthamp. Southamp. Southamp. Southamp. iStuthamp. Southamp. iSouthamp. Liverpool.. Liverpool.. Southamp. spatohed mails. 1161gL Mad due., overdue ,May 4 Liverpool.. April 12 April 11 May 3 Apri ll2 April AA'3APPPeririrridill uil l ea 542 !Southamp. overdue lApril.l9 May 5 ,April 11 [ overdue April 12 April 18 I - overdue April l 4 PROVERBS WORTH PRESERVING.—Hasty people drink the wine of life scalding hot. Death's the only mas ter who takes his servants without a character. A sour faced wife fills the tavern. Content's the mother of goo! 1 digestion. When pride and poverty marry together, their children aro want and crime. Where hard work kills ten, idleness kills a hundred men. Folly and crime walk side by side. He that borrows binds himself with a neighbouel rope. 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HALE—FOSTER.—On the 11th inst., in the Chapel of the Charterhouse, the Rev. John G. Hale, curate of Hasc,": well, Essex, second son of Archdeacon H a le, to 01°— Julia, youngest daughter of the Rev. K. F os ter, rect or of Dowsby, Lincolnshire. HUDSON—BONNELL.—On the 10th inst., at Old Windsor, Lieut. T. K. Hudson, R.N., third son of Capt. Hud son ' R.N., to Mary Jane Bonnell, niece of James Bonne'', Esq., of Yelling-place, Berks. DEATHS. Bitooxs.—On the 31st ult., at sea, Captain Martin Brooms,, of the ship Solent, a g e d 47. LAW.—At Suez, while on her way home from India, Auto. wifo of Colonel Law, of H.M.'s 66th R,egt. s G. c e e . M‘MAtioN.—O n th e 10th i ns t ., at 10, Great Cumberland street, ~ H C 3 o t en - pe a l tilk h G l en oo e t ral ag S e i d r Thomas M`Mahon , Bt., • O'GRA.DY.—On the 10th ins;., a t Dover-street, the R igh t . h Hon. Standi s h O'G ra dy, Vi sco unt Guillamore, in hia 27th year. PISCOE.—On the 7th inst , John Pascoe, Esq., of Bluth. House, Lewisham, aged 52. Ref' . PocutN.—On the 7th inst at Morcott, Rutlan d, the George Pochin, 8.D., aged 76. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOTTS(I2 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tha suts Office, No• 11 4 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count/ Middieser, Thursday, April 12, 1860. 8 :T I r u h ri c t S : 01 i In ‘fo.utrerpeesrt Coennt:9 pY and lst o Flans stal CI Offices, 33,1 SOUTH G REAT ME a4requent 191 Vauxhall Or dinary fai 441 . and up fri i toll Arn o cl s ' pa dE li ll i Se r or ni i c o ns t gt : i g n u c eini a ru rie l nB :: :T Ep s • S f r o'n from on t3 tram s P.m. ne to and fi To or fro' f or ' DeCiat Dil • R P;iom at 1 R. o .tettrn boats tnl4. ni) or dol :‘,11.,' t tio . ' o. ` lel . ht ~.limns. a may , G,.. Tat ei" l ,l l 'g, Green ir v ;•"rig-eross ; b 1 1, 1) Necks. 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